Josh Rebholz, the UCLA senior associate athletic director and fundraising force whose 13 years at the school were tinged with controversy, has resigned to take a job with a real estate firm. Rebholz, who was recently away from UCLA for several weeks because of an unspecified matter, announced his departure in a tweet Thursday, saying he would become vice president of capital markets for a development, construction and property management company. “At this point in my life,” Rebholz wrote, “this...
Allen Media Group, the company owned by TV mogul Byron Allen, is set to undergo a significant round of layoffs that will affect all divisions of the business. "Allen Media Group is making strategic changes to better position the company for growth that will result in expense and workforce reductions across all divisions of the company," a spokesperson said Thursday in a statement to The Times. "Allen Media Group's brands continue to perform well and in many areas our revenue growth has greatly...
Two Buena Park police officers used excessive force when they fatally shot a 19-year-old man suffering from a mental breakdown, a Santa Ana jury found this week and subsequently awarded his mother $3.5 million in damages. Officers Bobby Colon and Jennifer Tran shot and killed 19-year-old David Sullivan on Aug. 19, 2019 when they confronted him after he stole a vehicle from his workplace, according to lawyers for the victim's family. Sullivan, who was shot multiple times, was unarmed. The...
Jerry Boylan, the captain of the Conception dive boat where 34 people died amid smoke and flame over Labor Day weekend in 2019, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for negligence that contributed to the disaster. U.S. District Judge George Wu said he found Boylan "incredibly remorseful" and that he had not "intended to do something bad." The judge called it "one of the most difficult sentencings I've ever done" and said he was taking the 70-year-old Boylan's age and health into...
After formally endorsing plans for an ambitious new Bay Area City in Solano County this week, Vacaville's vice mayor is in the hot seat after it was revealed that he had earlier sought to associate his home loan business with the developer's campaign for the project known as California Forever. Through his real estate license, Vice Mayor Greg Ritchie and owner of Citizens Financial Home Loans filed two fictitious business names or "Doing Business As" titles as "California Forever Home Loans" and...
“I Saw the TV Glow” is a claustrophobic mood piece that taps into the hollowness of growing up hypnotized by the screen. In 1996, a withdrawn kid named Owen (played as a seventh-grader by Ian Foreman and by Justice Smith in his barely matured adolescence and adulthood) becomes fixated on a late-night teen thriller called “The Pink Opaque” and, when the show gets canceled, fills his soul watching reruns in the fear that if he did anything else, he’d be forced to admit his existential choices are...
The timing was coincidental. But, on Shohei Ohtani’s first off day as a Dodger, the discourse Wednesday centered on the one big struggle of his 2024 season — a weakness that had cropped up once again the night before. When there hasn’t been a runner at second or third base season, Ohtani has been the best hitter in baseball. He is batting an MLB-best .398 in such spots. His .774 slugging percentage is more than 100 points better than all but two other players. When the Dodgers need to start a...
The online sleuths got to work within hours of violence sparking at UCLA this week. They grabbed videos of the mostly masked rioters who attacked the pro-Palestinian student encampment near the quad and tried to zoom in on faces. They pored over each frame, waiting for the moment masks slipped and faces were exposed to take screen grabs. Then, they uploaded those faces to X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and other social media platforms and beseeched the internet to do its thing. From across the...
Minds were blown when former Dodgers outfielder Jayson Werth agreed to a seven-year, $126-million free-agent contract with the Washington Nationals during the 2010 winter meetings. So much money! So many years! General managers gnashed their teeth. Another example of agent Scott Boras hoodwinking one of their own, they said. The precedent, the impact on the market, the insanity! New York Mets chief executive Sandy Alderson at least coated his response in humor: "I thought they were trying to...
Five days before pro-Israeli counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA, the university Police Department asked other campuses for additional police, according to the head of the UC police officers union. But the requests — which would have provided UCLA with more police officers as they dealt with the camp and a dueling area erected by pro-Israeli activists — were both quickly canceled, according to internal communications reviewed by The Times. UCLA officials did not respond to...
Eagle Rock resident Sally Juarez has a rental home that many in L.A. can only dream of. It's a five-minute walk from busy Eagle Rock Boulevard. Even better? Her two-bedroom is $560 per month, thanks to a city law limiting the size of rent increases in older buildings. But Juarez's life was upended a few months ago, when she and her family learned their rental and 16 others on Toland Way in Eagle Rock were targeted for demolition to make way for new affordable housing. A proposal for an...
Tiffany Haddish will come for you, if you come for her. The “Girls Trip” and “Haunted Mansion” star admits that she takes matters of online bullying into her own hands when it comes to her reputation — and sometimes gives her haters a real-world surprise. Given all the negative talk about the comedian — amid a short-lived but damaging grooming scandal, her repeat DUI arrests and her controversial trip to Israel in February — she's begun blocking certain phrases on Instagram, including “setback,”...