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  • Cruz available for finale despite bone spurs in elbow

    ATLANTA -- Dodgers infielder Luis Cruz said he was available to play Sunday after being unavailable Saturday night because of a bone spur flare-up in his right elbow. Cruz said he has three spurs in his throwing elbow, and they occasionally pinch a nerve. "Since I was 11, I can't straighten my arm, and once in a while, this happens, and I just have to let it rest," said Cruz. ...

  • Jansens pitch selection with Gattis baffles Mattingly

    Email ATLANTA -- Dodgers manager Don Mattingly was still shaking his head in dismay Sunday over reliever Kenley Jansen's decision to challenge Braves pinch-hitter Evan Gattis, who slugged a two-run homer Saturday night on an inside cutter. The plan of attack against Gattis was not to throw inside, but that's what Jansen did in an eight-pitch at-bat that turned the game around and was ...

  • Gordons baserunning gaffe frustrates Mattingly

    Email ATLANTA -- Dee Gordon heard about it from Don Mattingly Saturday night. He met with baserunning coach Davey Lopes in a meeting Sunday morning. He even heard about it from father and former All-Star closer Flash Gordon. "Don't steal third," Dee Gordon repeated, "unless you know you'll be safe. I felt it was 100 percent, but I got thrown out." Gordon was ...

  • Some Lipstick Lip Gloss Products Contain Lead

    Scientists were concerned that overexposure to the metals could lead to health problems in the long term, and asked government officials to take a closer look at regulations. Women who applied lipsticks several times each day were particularly at risk of ...

  • Meeting Calendar Be informed get involved improve your San Fernando Valley

    Search for retired Providence Holy Cross nurses: A newly formed committee will hold a meeting of active and retired nurses to form a Nurses Alumni Association, noon today. Providence Holy Cross medical Center, north conference room, 15031 Rinaldi St., Mission Hills. Dee Sandjian, ...


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Movie Review

Big Trouble

Following the big-budget debacle of 1999's Wild Wild West, director Barry Sonnenfeld apparently felt the need to downsize for his next film, opting to helm an adaptation of syndicated humorist Dave Berry's novel Big Trouble, which finds the paths of a gaggle of oddball characters, from a miserable housewife, to a tree-dwelling hippie, to a pair of New Jersey hitmen, chaotically inte ... ...

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  • San Pedro High students get good news from wetland experiment

    Students in an honors biology class at San Pedro High recently conducted an experiment that produced two pieces of good news. First, the small wetland at 22nd Street Park in San Pedro is not contaminated from all the nearby trappings of urban living, such as a storm drain, litter and, last but not least, air pollution from cars and ships. Second, their project won first place for a contest on ...

  • Rolling Hills Prep students receive highest Girl Scouts honor

    Seven girls at Rolling Hills Prep School in San Pedro were recently awarded the Girl Scout Gold Award - the highest achievement within the Girl Scouts of the USA. The girls, who will graduate June 14 from the private high school, have been members of the same Girl Scout Troop since kindergarten. Brooke Provinchain created a website for a new nonprofit organization that seeks to help newly ...

  • Great hall at LAXs new Bradley terminal to be named for Antonio Villaraigosa

    The new international terminal championed by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa won't be finished by the time he leaves office next month, but it will carry his name in a prominent place. The airport plans to call the great hall of the Tom Bradley International Terminal the Antonio R. Villaraigosa Pavilion - a name the city's Board of Airport Commissioners is expected to approve ...

  • Chris Brown Death Threats LAPD Investigating After Multiple Death Threats Sent

    Rihanna and Chris Brown at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 10, 2013. Chris Brown has received death threats through the office of his attorney, according to reports out this week, sparking a police investigation to find the culprits.Authorities were brought in after numerous threats were made via phone to the offices of Brown's attorney Mark Geragos, ...

  • Actor Edward Furlong arrested in West Hollywood for violating protective order

    FILE - This Jan. 10, 2011 file photo shows cast member Edward Furlong arriving at the premiere "The Green Hornet" in Los Angeles. ``Terminator 2'' actor, Furlong was in custody following his arrest May 16, 2013, on suspicion of violating a court order involving his former girlfriend, authorities said. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, ...

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