Day: August 7, 2023

Newport Beach City Manager Update: Junior Lifeguards, Mayor’s Youth Council

Grace Leung By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager Congratulations to all the participants and instructors upon the successful completion of the summer 2023 Junior Lifeguard program! This year’s program wrapped up on Thursday, August 3 with a graduation ceremony at Balboa Peninsula Park attended by hundreds of program graduates Read More

William Friedkin, director of ‘The French Connection’ and ‘The Exorcist,’ dead at 87

William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning director who became a top filmmaker in his 30s with the gripping “The French Connection” and the horrifying “The Exorcist” and struggled in the following decades to match his early success has died. He was 87. Friedkin, who won the best director Oscar for “The French Read More

Tory Lanez expected to be sentenced for shooting Megan Thee Stallion

Rapper Tory Lanez could get a long prison term at his expected sentencing Monday after felony convictions for shooting and wounding hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet. Los Angeles prosecutors are asking a judge to hand down a 13-year sentence to the 31-year-old Lanez, whose legal name is Read More