Praised by his bosses as a “local success story” after growing up in a neighborhood entrenched in gang warfare, was gunned down Saturday outside his boyhood home in Cypress Park as he left for work.
Escalante’s wife and mother rushed to the deputy, who was not wearing his uniform, the neighbor said.
Los Angeles Police Chief William [...]
FEDERAL Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek has given the thumbs down to tax breaks on loans for first home-buyers.
Aussie Home Loans boss John Symond has said the measure would help ease the housing affordability crisis.
But Ms Plibersek said it wasn’t the fairest way of helping first home buyers.
What needed to be done was to make sure [...]
Gao Ping’s arms are still bruised and scratched from scrambling over boulder-strewn roads and dodging rain-slick landslides.
The 43-year-old migrant worker wasn’t here when the earthquake struck on May 12. Instead, he is one of millions who had left their hometowns for better jobs in their country’s white-hot economy, only to race back on a wrenching [...]
JUSTIN MARSHALL wants to quit his bumper contract with the Ospreys and return to his native New Zealand, according to reports in his homeland.
The scrum-half great negotiated an early release from the Welsh region in a bid to play in the Air New Zealand Cup for Canterbury from this August onwards.
Marshall also wants to play [...]
Its actually a festival more than 1000 years old, for martyred Saint Valentine, which has somehow evolved into a modern celebration of love.
It%26lsquo;s true, some blokes act like martyrs when the day comes around, moaning about the pressure. They don %26lsquo;t know what to get. The worst of them, paralysed by fear, do absolutely nothing.
Other [...]
Refugio Ramirez has a pioneer spirit, roaming his unfenced ranch, tending to his livestock and enjoying the stomach-dropping views from the cliffs of this wide-open country.
Nearly four decades ago, as an immigrant in Chicago, Ramirez blazed a path that would transform his hometown. While working as a dishwasher at the Congress Plaza Hotel, Ramirez [...]
In the movie Office Space, the character, Peter Gibbons, muses that “Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms, and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements.” If you’ve experienced Peter’s plight personally, you may desire to go into [...]
There is scientific evidence that explains this phenomenon of everyday life. Self regulation, our strength to inhibit impulses, make decisions, persist at difficult tasks, and control emotions can be spent just like a muscle that has been lifting heavy weights. When we spend our strength on one task (trying to control your emotion around a [...]
During the first visit of a reigning monarch to New Zealand, young Queen Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, are touring the country, and the Bowan boys are demonstrating sheep shearing in McLean Park, Napier.
Black woollen singlets are tucked into loose tweed trousers, paired with sacking moccasins.
And there they are, captured in a [...]
During the first visit of a reigning monarch to New Zealand, young Queen Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, are touring the country, and the Bowan boys are demonstrating sheep shearing in McLean Park, Napier.
Black woollen singlets are tucked into loose tweed trousers, paired with sacking moccasins.
And there they are, captured in a [...]