A former police officer who is facing a litany of felonies for allegedly faking a disability and then attending the Stagecoach Music Festival is now being civilly sued by the city that employed her. Riverside resident Nicole Brown, 39, is being sued by Westminster, the city announced on Wednesday, and local officials are hoping “to […]

Tim Myers, a founding member of the band One Republic, has entered the race for California lieutenant governor. “Tim is running for Lt. Governor to fix a broken political system dominated by career politicians and special interests and rigged against the working class,” his campaign said in an announcement. Myers is running as a Democrat. […]

On Wednesday morning, the Labor Department quietly reposted grants aimed at getting women workers into fields like construction and manufacturing, two months after DOGE sanctimoniously canceled the program. The move came as a shock to employees. DOGE previously eliminated dozens of the congressionally mandated Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) grants, which support recruiting and […]

Proving once again that anti-vax quack Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to public health, confirmed measles cases in the United States have hit a 33-year high.

Wilson went down hard halfway through the second quarter and spent several minutes on the ground surrounded by her teammates.

Dear Eric: My sister and brother-in-law live a couple of hours away. My wife and I get along with them but are not close, and we try to make an effort to see them when we are nearby (a couple times a year). We have a pre-school-age child, while they do not have kids. They are kind and generous to our child when they see him and bring him gifts from their travels when they do see him. Our son …

The poet and critic I. A. Richards once said he “didn’t think History ought to have happened”. It was because he hated the past for its suffering and cruelty that he turned to Philosophy and, later, to the newly emerging discipline of Literary Criticism, where he rejected the practice of backgrounding works of literature in […]

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I spent many hours of my teens and early twenties translating chunks of English prose into Latin. Each week, when I was an undergraduate, it took me several hours, and it felt like a lot more. You would be confronted with a paragraph or so of (usually) rather conservative, or rousing, English prose. Winston Churchill […]

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A 13-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly lighting the fireworks that started the Rancho Fire in Laguna Beach. The fire, which forced evacuations and grew to about 4 acres before firefighters gained control, had been linked by several witnesses to reports of fireworks in the minutes before smoke became visible near Morningside Drive and […]