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Sean McVay's Wife Grabs Attention With Recent Vacation Photo
Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay is currently working through NFL training camp before the 2024-25 season. While McVay is staying busy preparing his team for the NFL season, his wife, Veronika Khomyn-McVay, shared a picture from her time on vacation. While the location of the photo ...
Lakers may already be paying the price for catering to Bronny James
Bronny James, son of NBA superstar Lebron James, was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 55th pick of the 2024 NBA draft. Immediately, the spotlight shone even brighter on the 19-year-old as he entered the league in his father's shadow. In college at USC, Bronny did not impress...
KTLA5 Wins Emmy Award for Live Special Events News Coverage of WeHo Pride
KTLA5 won an Emmy Award Saturday night in the category of Live Special Events – News Coverage for the WeHo Pride Parade in West Hollywood. Actress Marlee Matlin presented the 76th LA Area Emmy award at the ceremony. The WeHo Pride coverage was up against LA Pride by ABC7 News.
Gail Lumet Buckley, Author and Daughter of Lena Horne, Dies at 86
Gail Lumet Buckley, the daughter of the late Lena Horne and a journalist and author, who wrote two books about the history of her Black middle-class family, died on July 18. She was 86.Pat Heywood, the Nurse in Franco Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet,' Dies at 92 Her daughter Jenny Lumet, a screenwriter and producer, told The New York Times she died at her home in Santa Monica, California, due to heart failure. Born on Dec. 21, 1937, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Buckley grew up in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Rather than follow her in her mother’s footsteps in Hollywood, she went on to...
Newport Beach water polo star cheered on by her husband at Olympics as he deals with lung cancer
Pat Woepse smiled. He cheered for his wife, Maddie Musselman. He hung out with a buddy at the Paris Olympics.It was a very special Saturday. A few precious moments away from the reality of lung cancer.Woepse was on hand as the U.S. women's water polo team cruised to a 15-6 victory over Greece. Musselman scored in her return to the Olympics after she was the tournament MVP when the U.S. won its third consecutive gold medal at the Tokyo Games.Woepse, 30, set a goal of making it to the Olympics to watch Musselman play after he was diagnosed in September...
76th Los Angeles Area Emmy Winners Announced
The 76th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards were presented tonight from the Four Seasons Hotel Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, hosted by award-winning journalist Michaela Pereira. This year's awards ceremony, produced by Bob Bain and Bob Bain Productions, honored locally produced programs in the categories of Live and Breaking News...
Takeaways from AP's story on inefficient tech slowing efforts to get homeless people off the streets
Los Angeles is the nation's epicenter of homelessness, where more than 45,000 people live in weather-beaten tent encampments and rusting RVs. But even in the state that is home to Silicon Valley,
Four-star defensive end Xavier Griffin commits to USC
Coach Lincoln Riley and USC landed the program's highest-rated commitment in the 2026 class Saturday evening with a pledge from four-star defensive end Xavier Griffin, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound pass rusher who is the No. 21 prospect in the ESPN Junior 300.
Pasadena Water and Power unveils Clean Energy Tracker
Pasadena Water and Power has launched an online tracker to provide information on clean energy targets and milestones, the city announced Thursday. The Clean Energy Tracker is available at PWPweb.com/CleanEnergyTracker. According to PWP, the tracker is part of the effort to attain the City Council’s goal established last year of...
USC Saturday Buzz: A Suitable Opponent For Lincoln Riley
The Seine River is nothing more than a glorified Los Angeles River–Paris’ charms made the Seine famous. –I affectionately call the women’s gymnastics team ‘the little pixies’ as they go 4 ft 8, 4 ft 10, and 5 feet. Seriously, it could be argued that...
Reversed call lifts Athletics to win over Angels
Seth Brown went 3-for-4 with a homer, and his sixth-inning RBI single on an overturned umpire’s call snapped a tie and lifted the Oakland A’s to a 5-4 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday in Anaheim, Calif. The A’s entered the top of the sixth down...
California fire scorches through land the size of Los Angeles as blazes burn across US West
Thousands of firefighters were battling a wildfire in northern California on Saturday that exploded in size, scorching an area about the size of Los Angeles — one of several blazes tearing through the western United States and Canada amid dry, hot and windy conditions.
Premiums for Covered California Health Insurance Set to Rise 8% in 2025
Premiums for health insurance sold through the state’s marketplace will increase by nearly 8% in 2025, Covered California officials announced this week. That’s a smaller increase than this year’s 10% hike, which was the biggest jump in Covered California insurance costs since 2018. Covered California Executive Director...
Hunter Biden lawyers threatened with sanctions for false statements in tax case
Hunter Biden‘s defense attorneys are facing the prospect of sanctions after a judge in California accused them of lying in a court filing about when special counsel David Weiss brought charges against the first son. Judge Mark Scarsi demanded in an order this week that Abbe Lowell and Mark Geragos, who are leading Biden’s defense […]
Federal grand jury charges short seller Andrew Left in $16M stock manipulation scheme
A federal grand jury in California has charged short seller Andrew Left with multiple counts of securities fraud for a $16 million stock market manipulation scheme. The Department of Justice said in a statement on Friday that Left, who was a securities analyst, trader, and guest commentator on television channels including CNBC and Fox Business, is charged with one count of engaging in a securities fraud scheme, 17 counts of securities fraud, and one count of making false statements to federal investigators. As a short seller, Left would make money betting stocks would fall. The Justice Department said that Left conducted business under the name Citron Research, which had a website that published investment recommendations. He published research on companies ranging from Tesla and GameStop to Grand Canyon Education and Peloton. If convicted, Left faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison on the securities fraud scheme count, 20 years in prison on each securities fraud count, and five years in prison on the false statements count.
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