19+ min ago   (607+ words) Christopher Higgins first rode Montezooma’s Revenge on Jan. 17, 1994 at age 12 — the same day as the Northridge earthquake. “The quake was in the morning before park opening, but we called Knott’s and they were gonna open that morning,” said Higgins, who…...

4+ hour, 7+ min ago   (382+ words) For 10 days, the center of the cinematic universe is the Toronto International Film Festival, whose closest geographical landmark is currently a ludicrous controversy. “Welcome to TIFF and welcome to the beautiful shore of — say it with me — Lake Ontario,” festival…...

4+ hour, 19+ min ago   (756+ words) The menu options around game time at Long Beach’s Legends Sports Bar include robust choices from sandwiches to burgers, nachos to ahi tacos, fish and chips and ribs. Yet, with the kickoff of the first NFL Sunday this season, longtime…...

4+ hour, 49+ min ago   (210+ words) FOFA would offer proactive forest management to address wildfire risk by removing regulatory barriers to expedite critical forest projects while preserving core environmental safeguards. The bill implements forest thinning and removal of dead and diseased trees to reduce fire intensity,…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago   (1790+ words) The 11th in an occasional series of profiles on Southern California athletes who have flourished in their post-playing careers. Curtis Pride was born deaf, and when he started playing baseball he was doing it mainly for himself. But the closer he…...

6+ hour, 34+ min ago   (311+ words) Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High has been known for years as the school for kickers, with the likes of kicking guru Chris Sailer and NFL kickers Nick Folk and Kai Forbath among a long list of standouts. Notre Dame coach…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago   (704+ words) Taking your peers into battle every week requires leadership that inspires respect and admiration. Orange Lutheran High’s star offensive lineman Lucas Rhoa has figured out the perfect formula to achieve that. The senior Texas commit is easily noticeable before, during…...

7+ hour, 49+ min ago   (380+ words) Carl Sbarounis was flying his plane over the ocean, scouting for fish as a commercial fisherman, when a friend called him with news of a rare sighting: A giant whale shark cruising through the blue Pacific waters. It took him…...

7+ hour, 49+ min ago   (1695+ words) California prison towns made a grim bargain decades ago. They built their economies around an industry that relied on an ever-growing prison population, mostly from California’s major metropolitan areas. Then, about 15 years ago, legislators changed sentencing laws in ways that…...

7+ hour, 49+ min ago   (771+ words) Fourth-grader Landon Gonzalez and one of his classmates ran the 5K at the L.A. Chinatown Firecracker Run last year. They plan to do it again in the spring — only this time, they have a new place to train at their school in…...