Day: March 16, 2021

What began as a few people sleeping outside El Centro Cultural de Mexico in downtown Santa Ana has, in recent months, grown to more than 40 homeless living in tents in the non-profit’s parking lot, pitting center operators against the city and neighborhood residents who complain of filthy conditons. The people who run the cultural…

The Clippers tried something new Monday in Dallas. They sent forth a fresh starting five whose makeup was motivated by injuries and, likely, by history of the recent and less recent variety. L.A. was without starting guard Patrick Beverley, who remained in L.A. tending to a sore right knee. Also Serge Ibaka, usually the starting…

Losing four straight is not an ideal way to enter the NCAA Tournament. Being bounced out of the Pac-12 Conference in one game isn’t either. But now that the UCLA men’s basketball team is officially in the big dance, all that matters is Thursday’s tilt with Michigan State. The No. 11-seed play-in game will be…

Joseph Mejia’s phone will not stop buzzing. It’s early January, and as the 31-year-old CAL FIRE firefighter battles a vegetation blaze in the San Diego area, his pregnant wife is in a distant doctor’s office sending him videos of their first child’s heartbeat. Four long hours pass before the father-to-be can revel in the moment.…

By Sarah Kwon, Kaiser Health News Contributing writer For a decade, Jennifer Crow has taken care of her parents, who have multiple sclerosis. After her father had a stroke in December, the family got serious in its conversations with a retirement community — and learned that one service it offered was the COVID-19 vaccination. “They…

By Sarah Kwon, Kaiser Health News Contributing writer For a decade, Jennifer Crow has taken care of her parents, who have multiple sclerosis. After her father had a stroke in December, the family got serious in its conversations with a retirement community — and learned that one service it offered was the COVID-19 vaccination. “They…

By Sarah Kwon, Kaiser Health News Contributing writer For a decade, Jennifer Crow has taken care of her parents, who have multiple sclerosis. After her father had a stroke in December, the family got serious in its conversations with a retirement community — and learned that one service it offered was the COVID-19 vaccination. “They…

When you first install Facebook Messenger, the app asks if you’d like to sync it with your phone’s contacts as a feature of convenience. However, once you activate this feature, it stays on ‐ meaning whenever you add a new contact in your phone, Facebook will automatically know about it. Well, it’s common knowledge that…

When you first install Facebook Messenger, the app asks if you’d like to sync it with your phone’s contacts as a feature of convenience. However, once you activate this feature, it stays on ‐ meaning whenever you add a new contact in your phone, Facebook will automatically know about it. Well, it’s common knowledge that…

When you first install Facebook Messenger, the app asks if you’d like to sync it with your phone’s contacts as a feature of convenience. However, once you activate this feature, it stays on ‐ meaning whenever you add a new contact in your phone, Facebook will automatically know about it. Well, it’s common knowledge that…