Nearly three years after a Bay Area man died when police pinned him facedown, in a case that drew comparisons to the killing of George Floyd, the Alameda Police Department officers involved have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, authorities announced. The charges in the death of Mario Gonzalez, 26, came Thursday. Gonzalez died after an altercation with police on April 19, 2021. No charges were filed against the officers at the time. An initial autopsy cited "physiological stress of...
Corona High's baseball team did what it was supposed to do Friday — clinch the Big VIII League championship with a 2-0 win over Corona Centennial, completing a three-game sweep of the Huskies. Ethan Schiefelbein, tuning up for the pressure of the Southern Section Division 1 playoffs, gave up five hits, struck out four and walked one. Corona is 22-2 overall, 12-0 in league and expected to be the No. 1 seed for the Division 1 playoffs when pairings are announced a week from Monday. Eastvale...
Taylor Swift wrote so much “tortured poetry” over the past two years that she didn’t know what to do with it all. In true TSwift fashion, the pop star surprised fans with 15 bonus songs two hours after releasing “The Tortured Poets Department” on Friday. The second installment, titled “The Anthology,” was not a true shocker to eagle-eyed Swifties who had observed the singer dropping hints about the number two since she announced the album in February at the Grammys. With 31 tracks across the two...
After the Lakers’ last practice before their playoff series begins Saturday night, LeBron James praised Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, calling him “one of the best players to ever play this game.” “He does everything. Does everything. The most important thing is he changes the way his teammates think about their own play,” James said. “When you're able to inspire your teammates to play at a level that sometimes they don't even feel like they can play at, that's the true testament of a great...
In a special meeting of the Ventura City Council nearly a week ago, the council voted unanimously to oust its city attorney. Ventura Mayor Joe Schroeder said in a written statement that the firing of Andrew Heglund was “due to a personal matter.” But now it appears that the low-profile firing was in response to a police investigation into an indecent exposure incident at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in the city that involved Heglund, according to authorities, his attorney and local media reports....
Writers Guild of America members employed by Sesame Workshop have struck a tentative contract deal with management, averting a strike after negotiations stalled over compensation and union representation for the nonprofit organization's animation and social media staff. The bargaining unit of 35 — which includes the "Sesame Street" writing staff — and Sesame Workshop settled on a new five-year contract Friday, the day their previous agreement expired. The new deal includes jurisdiction and...
USC called off an appearance from director Jon M. Chu and other commencement honorees in the wake of growing controversy over its decision to cancel valedictorian Asna Tabassum's graduation speech amid security concerns, the university announced Friday. In a letter posted on its website, the university wrote that "given the highly publicized circumstances surrounding our main-stage commencement program," it made the decision to "release our outside speakers and honorees from attending this...
Taylor Swift just can’t stop. Two hours after she dropped her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” late Thursday night, the pop superstar revealed that the LP’s 16 tracks represent just half of what she described as “a secret DOUBLE album.” The other half, she added, comprises 15 more songs and completes a massive collection called “The Anthology” that’s all but certain to take up nearly one-third of Billboard’s Hot 100 when its tracks hit the charts. On first listen, the bonus...
Giancarlo Esposito knows — people think everyone who is on TV or in the movies is rich, and will always stay that way. But it's not always so, by a long shot. In fact, the "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" villain's imagination went pretty darn dark when his own times were tough. It was a while back, before those two Vince Gilligan series cemented him as a famous face, and there wasn't much money coming in, he said on a recent episode of the "Jim and Sam Show" podcast with comic Jim Norton...
Eric Braeden, the actor who has spent 40-plus years playing self-made businessman Victor Newman on "The Young and the Restless," has just been honored with his 10th Daytime Emmy nomination — two decades after his first win. Braeden, nominated for lead performance in a daytime drama series, hasn't been recognized for his role since 2004, as he has routinely declined to submit himself for the Emmys in the years since. He has collected 10 Emmy nods for his role in "Y&R," including a 2002 dual...
Warning: The following contains spoilers from "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." Although the events of World War II have been extensively studied, details are still emerging. In fact, documents concerning an essential mission, dubbed Operation Postmaster and undertaken by the British War Office, were only recently declassified. The mission, carried out by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), is the unlikely subject of Guy Ritchie’s latest film, “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.”...
Two men accused of taking part in a bizarre home invasion robbery of a Newport Coast mansion that ended in gunfire this week were armed with a firearm, zip ties and a rope, according to Orange County Superior Court records. Authorities allege that Andrew Miguel Rosas, 24, was one of the men who entered the gated-community early that morning intending to commit a robbery on Vista Luci. Rosas, of Pomona, along with another man who has not been identified, were wearing dark clothing and masks when...