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February 26, 2021 at 9:51 pm

‘Meyers Manx’ dune buggy creator dead at 94

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bruce Meyers was hanging out at Pismo Beach on California's Central Coast one afternoon in 1963 when he saw something that...

Business

February 26, 2021 at 5:32 pm

‘Meyers Manx’ dune buggy creator dead at 94

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bruce Meyers was hanging out at Pismo Beach on California's Central Coast one afternoon in 1963 when he saw something that...

February 11, 2021 at 3:06 pm

Pandemic fever got you down? Smash up stuff at the rage room VIEW

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. (AP) — After nearly a year of being trapped in pandemic isolation, some people just want to pick up a sledgehammer and...

February 10, 2021 at 10:27 pm

Hustler founder and First Amendment battler Larry Flynt dies VIEW

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry Flynt, who turned his raunchy Hustler magazine into an empire while fighting numerous First Amendment court battles and flaying politicians...

Entertainment

February 10, 2021 at 4:08 pm

Hustler publisher Larry Flynt dies at 78

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Porn purveyor Larry Flynt, who built Hustler magazine into an adult entertainment juggernaut that included casinos, films, websites and other enterprises...

Entertainment

February 4, 2021 at 9:05 pm

2 nurses: Her mom battled 1918 pandemic, she fights this one

SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — She’s 76 years old but nurse practitioner Sigrid Stokes is in no mood to retire. Stokes is too busy working to...

February 1, 2021 at 2:31 pm

Famed San Francisco private eye Palladino dies after attack

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jack Palladino, the flamboyant private investigator whose clients ranged from presidents and corporate whistleblowers to scandal-plagued celebrities, Hollywood moguls and sometimes...

Chaplain Kristin Michealsen holds the hand of a deceased COVID-19 patient while talking on the phone with the patient’s family member at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. “I have never seen this much of death and suffering,” said Michealsen, who has been a chaplain for 13 years. “I often tell families that I’m holding their loved one’s hand when they can’t and that I am with them when they are dying when they can’t be.” (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) CAJH208 CAJH208

January 18, 2021 at 9:04 pm

Exhausted hospital chaplains bring solace to lonely, dying VIEW

Inside hospitals across America, where the sick are without family to comfort them, the task of offering solace falls to overworked and emotionally drained hospital...

December 30, 2020 at 5:21 pm

Man called most prolific serial killer in US history dies

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man authorities say was the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, with nearly 60 confirmed victims, died Wednesday in...

December 18, 2020 at 8:26 pm

California town says no to tough virus rules, then yes

The little California town of Solvang would normally be jammed with tourists now, strolling a main street bedecked with 100 brightly decorated Christmas trees or...