Stocks fall on Wall Street as crude oil prices climb again

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Wednesday, giving back nearly all of the gains they made a day earlier, as crude oil prices rose sharply again. The S&P 500 lost 1.2%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.3% and the Nasdaq fell 1.3%. Technology, health care and financial…

How a panic at a wedding turned into the horror-comedy ‘All My Friends Hate Me’

Hungover at a wedding reception, Tom Stourton started to panic. Stourton had been close with the newlyweds at university, but it’d been years since they’d spent much time together. As the wedding toasts began, Stourton started to dread that something awful was about to happen. “I got into a panic, basically, that I’d been invited…

Huntington Beach softball edges Los Alamitos, continues to rally for teammate

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now HUNTINGTON BEACH — It’s been an emotional few weeks for Huntington Beach’s softball team, especially senior Rachael Arnold. The catcher’s boyfriend Joshua Page, 18, and his brother Jeremy, 17, were killed in a car accident earlier this month in Huntington Beach, not far…