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July 11, 2023 at 10:08 pm

The Manson ‘family’: A look at key players and victims in the cult leader’s killings VIEW

In 1969, Charles Manson dispatched a group of disaffected young followers on a two-night killing rampage that terrorized Los Angeles.

FILE – Mike Nesmith of The Monkees singing group appears at press conference at Warwick Hotel in New York on July 6, 1967. Nesmith, the guitar-strumming member of the 1960s, made-for-television rock band The Monkees, died at home Friday of natural causes, his family said in a statement. He was 78. (AP Photo/RH, File) NYET533 NYET533

December 10, 2021 at 11:18 am

Michael Nesmith, the Monkee for all seasons, dies at 78 VIEW

Michael Nesmith, the wool-hatted, guitar-strumming member of the 1960s, made-for-TV rock band The Monkees, has died at 78. After the group broke up in 1970,...

June 28, 2021 at 6:06 pm

Legendary big-wave surfer Greg ‘Da Bull’ Noll dies at 84

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Greg “Da Bull” Noll, who became a surfing legend by combining a gregarious, outsized personality with the courage and skill to...

Entertainment

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...