Category: Top Stories

Candidate Cheyenne Hunt Secures Spot as Top Democratic Fundraiser in the Race to Represent California’s 45th District

A Diverse Coalition of Donors Raises Over $170,000 In Support of Hunt’s Run to Become the First Gen Z Woman Elected to Congress LOS ANGELES, Calif. /California Newswire/ — Attorney and Activist Cheyenne Hunt, a first-time Gen Z candidate running to represent California’s 45th district, announced today that her campaign Read More

Corona del Mar Resident Molly Lynch Brings Renowned National Choreographers Initiative to Irvine Barclay Theatre

Scene from “Mass Hysterical” by Emily Adams at the 2022 NCI program Corona del Mar resident Molly Lynch has been a dancer, teacher, choreographer, and Artistic Director for Ballet Pacifica from 1988 to 2003. She’s currently Professor and Chair of the Dance Department at the Claire Trevor School of the Read More

Billy Baldwin went to same high school as suspected Long Island serial killer, he says: ‘Mind-boggling’

(NEXSTAR) – “Backdraft” actor Billy Baldwin said Friday that he and Rex Heuermann, the suspect accused in a string of murders on Long Island, had attended the same school in the late ‘70s-early ‘80s. “Woke up this morning to learn that the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect was my high Read More

Why a handwritten will found in Aretha Franklin’s couch got R‑E‑S‑P‑E‑C‑T from a jury

(The Conversation) – A handwritten will in a spiral notebook found wedged between couch cushions months after Aretha Franklin’s 2018 death is valid, a jury in Pontiac, Michigan, has decided. The July 11, 2023, verdict ended a yearslong legal dispute among three of the soul singer’s four sons over which of three informal Read More

Movie and TV stars join picket lines across Hollywood, New York

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Ted Lasso” star Jason Sudeikis, Rosario Dawson and other top movie and TV actors joined picket lines alongside screenwriters Friday on the first full day of a walkout that has become Hollywood’s biggest labor fight in decades. A day after the dispute brought production to a standstill across the Read More

Newport Beach Resident Donates $25K in Gift Cards to Newport Beach Police Department

NBPD Chief Joe Cartwright and Newport Beach resident Dotty McDonald, who donated more than $25,000 in gift cards to the Newport Beach Police Department. By Megan Forrester | Special to the NB Indy When Newport Beach resident Dotty McDonald first started volunteering at the Newport Beach Police Department back in Read More