WORLD SERIES EXTRA A TIMES E-NEWSPAPER EXCLUSIVE :: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2024

6 3 GAME 1
DODGERS LEAD, 1-0
W: TREINEN
L: COUSINS
GAME 2: AT DODGER STADIUM
SATURDAY, 5 P.M. TV: CH. 11

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1988

Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times

THE DODGERS’ Freddie Freeman starts the celebration after he realizes he hit a grand slam into the right-field pavilion in the 10th inning to beat the Yankees.

Freeman stirs memories of Gibson blast with walk-off slam

Final score: Dodgers 6, Yankees 10th, Gavin Lux got the rally batting cage. floating,” Freeman said. “Those
By Jack Harris 3. started with a walk. Edman singled Focused on a new mental cue in are the scenarios you dream about:
A World Series of epic propor- on a ground ball that Oswaldo Ca- the box — one in which he tried to two outs, bases loaded in a World
A clash of the titans. A meeting tions kicked off with a moment brera couldn’t field cleanly at sec- imagine “stepping out” with his in- Series game. For it to actually hap-
of Goliaths. An old-fashioned, that will be remembered for ages. ond. Then, both runners advanced jured lead foot, more as a mental pen and get a home run and walk it
heavyweight bout. The 10th inning began omi- when left fielder Alex Verdugo trigger than anything — Freeman off to give us a 1-0 lead, that’s as
In the buildup to this World Se- nously for the Dodgers, with the sprinted to catch a fly ball from timed up a first-pitch fastball over good as it gets right there.”
ries, there was no cliche too exces- Yankees jumping in front on the Ohtani but flipped over the short the inner half of the plate. The sequence made everything
sive for the moment. No superla- back of Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s aggres- wall in foul ground and out of play. The ball found the barrel. A 109- else about Friday feel like a foot-
tive too grand to oversell the sive baserunning. That presented the Yankees mph drive soared through the note. The early pitchers duel be-
matchup. After lining a one-out single off with a decision. Let left-handed night. Freeman raised his bat in tween Jack Flaherty (51⁄3 innings,
Dodgers versus the New York top Dodgers reliever Blake pitcher Nestor Cortes, who was the air, as more than 50,000 at Dod- two runs, six strikeouts) and Ger-
Yankees. Shohei Ohtani versus Treinen, Chisholm broke for sec- making his first appearance of the ger Stadium erupted around him. rit Cole (six innings, one run, four
Aaron Judge. Baseball’s Fall Clas- ond with Anthony Rizzo at the postseason after missing the first The ball disappeared into the strikeouts).
sic, under a spotlight like few oth- plate and stole the base with rela- two rounds because of an injury, right-field pavilion, not far from The sixth-inning, two-run ho-
ers in the history of the sport. tive ease. After the Dodgers inten- pitch to Mookie Betts. Or inten- where Kirk Gibson, playing mer from Giancarlo Stanton that
And then, in Game 1 on Friday tionally walked Rizzo in a 3-and-0 tionally walk Betts with first base through his own leg injury 36 years put the Yankees ahead 2-1.
night, it gave us the most dramatic count, Chisholm was on the move open, and set up a matchup of left- earlier, landed his iconic walk-off Even Ohtani’s eighth-inning
ending possible. again, getting a huge jump off handers with Freeman. home run in Game 1 of the 1988 double — a line drive off the wall
With one 10th-inning swing, the Treinen’s slow delivery to steal Yankees manager Aaron Boone World Series. that ended with him at third, after
Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman etched third without a throw. chose the latter. He didn’t have to “Everything was the same,” a cut-off throw got away from sec-
his name in October lore. With runners on the corners, wait long to have the decision back- Roberts remarked. “Outside of the ond baseman Gleyber Torres —
His team trailing by a run, Free- manager Dave Roberts elected to fire. fist pumps.” that set up Betts for the tying sacri-
man came to the plate with the draw the infield in against Anthony Despite being limited by a se- Instead, Freeman met first base fice fly.
bases loaded and two out. He got a Volpe. The move didn’t pan out, verely sprained right ankle all post- coach Clayton McCullough with a In a series that seemed almost
first-pitch fastball over the inner with Volpe hitting a sharp ground- season, and finishing the National low-five. He flexed his arms as he impossible to live up to the hype,
half of the plate and delivered a his- er up the middle that shortstop League Championship Series in a rounded second. By the time he Freeman delivered a moment that
toric and remarkable swing, Tommy Edman bobbled from his one-for-15 slump, Freeman had reached the home stretch, his won’t soon be forgotten. “For us to
launching a walk-off grand slam knees, getting only one out at sec- started feeling better this week — teammates were waiting, arms get that first win, especially like
into the right-field pavilion. It was ond as Chisholm scored the go- benefiting from a four-day break raised and mouths agape, for a cel- that, that’s pretty good,” Freeman
the first walk-off grand slam in ahead run. before the World Series, as well as a ebration at the plate. said, forever understated. “But
World Series history. No matter. In the bottom of the breakthrough with his swing in the “It felt like nothing, just kind of we’ve got three more to go.”
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WORLD SERIES GAME 1: DODGERS 6, YANKEES 3 (10 INN.)

Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times
FANS WATCH AS A fleet of F/A-18 Hornet aircraft fly over while singer Brad FERNANDO VALENZUELA'S wife, Linda, is comforted by family members
Paisley performs the national anthem before Game 1 at Dodger Stadium. during a pregame moment of silence to honor the late Dodgers pitching great.

Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times

KIKÉ HERNÁNDEZ slides safely into home ahead of a tag by Austin Wells to post the Dodgers’ first run, scoring on a sacrifice fly by Will Smith in the fifth inning.

Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times

SMITH tags out the Yankees’ Aaron Judge, who struck out
in the third inning. Judge had one single in five at-bats.

Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times

MOOKIE BETTS gets high-fives after his sacrifice fly in
the eighth inning drove in Shohei Ohtani to tie the score.

Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
THE YANKEES’ Giancarlo Stanton celebrates with teammates after his two-run home run in the THE DODGERS’ Freddie Freeman celebrates after hit-
sixth inning gave New York a 2-1 lead over the Dodgers. It was Stanton’s lone hit in five at-bats. ting a triple in the first. Freeman was stranded at third.
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A TIMES INVESTIGATION

USC courted
donors, took on
rich youths as
walk-on athletes
Internal records show how school
provided an alternative path with
an acceptance rate of up to 90%
By Harriet Ryan and Matt Hamilton

Energy and telecom mogul Sarath Ratanavadi, one of

the richest men in Thailand, wanted his son to attend the
University of Southern California a decade ago. The ad-
missions officer who reviewed his file, however, termed
him a “mediocre student at best” with grades at a
Photographs by Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times Bangkok private school that USC equated to four Ds and
IN THE OWENS VALLEY , Republican residents hesitate to display Trump flags as progressive activism two Fs.
grows with the influx of Democratic newcomers, leaving many uncertain about the widening political divide. But after Ratanavadi donated $3 million to the Trojan
golf team, USC found a spot for his son. A special admis-
sions committee for sports recruits admitted the teen as a

Purpling politics transforming walk-on golfer.

“I don’t think there is any way he will contribute to us
winning or losing,” then-golf coach Chris Zambri emailed
a colleague months after Ratanavadi’s son was admitted

life in quiet, rural Inyo County in 2015. But, he added, “his dad is now a huge supporter of
USC Athletics …”
Getting into USC is a daunting feat, with about 9% of
undergraduate applicants making the cut. For years,
though, the university quietly offered wealthy and well-
This red region flipped to Biden by 14 votes. What about this election? connected families such as the Ratanavadis an alterna-
tive path with much lower academic expectations and an
acceptance rate of 85% to 90%, a Times investigation
found.
By Hailey Branson-Potts Ratanavadi’s family spokesperson told the newspaper
that his donation was “completely separate” from the ad-
BISHOP, Calif. — The last time ru- mission of his son and that, “If any inappropriate conduct
ral Inyo County had backed a Demo- took place behind closed doors at USC, the family was un-
crat for president was in 1964, when vot- aware of it.”
ers chose Lyndon B. Johnson. Thousands of internal university records reviewed by
But in 2020, Joe Biden beat Donald The Times show how an array of administrators manipu-
Trump. By 14 votes. lated the admissions system meant for athletes to tip the
Considering Trump carried Inyo scales in favor of the young relatives of real estate devel-
County by 13 percentage points four opers, financiers, CEOs, sports team owners, auto deal-
years earlier, it was quietly one of the ers and others who were prominent or had the potential
most dramatic red-to-blue flips in the to make large donations. [See USC, A5]
country.
While California almost certainly
will vote for Vice President Kamala
Harris over Trump, once deep-red Inyo
County — home to some 19,000 people
between the Eastern Sierra and Ne-
vada state line — is a toss-up.
How a Berkeley
upbringing steeped
Unlike other rural places that over-
whelmingly vote Republican, Inyo
County “is more of an outlier,” with its
mountain and desert towns appealing
to “rednecks and hippies,” gun-toting
hunters and backpacking environmen-
[See Inyo County, A8]
IN BISHOP , Lynette McIntosh, right, is frustrated over the influx of
liberal residents, calling them “radicals” infiltrating the community.
Harris in politics
free speech and anti-war
By Mackenzie Mays movements, helped shape

The rivalry reborn? Fuhgeddaboudit! BERKELEY — Wearing a

T-shirt that reads “First but
not the last” — a phrase Ka-
Harris early on.
Her ambitions bloomed
at Thousand Oaks Ele-
mentary, where she was
mala Harris has used to de- among the first bused to a
Beyond baseball, New scribe herself as the coun- new school as part of Berke-
Dodgers and Yankees York still held cultural domi- try’s first female vice presi- ley’s voluntary desegrega-
nation. Despite going broke dent — a 9-year-old named tion program while other
battle for a title again and struggling with crime, Violet stood outside her ele- parts of the country resisted
after time transforms the Big Apple strode atop mentary school, one the merging districts.
the world as the city, an elec- Democratic nominee once “Because the students
L.A. and New York. tric place where anything attended, and worried about came from all over the area,
could happen. the future if former Presi- we were a varied bunch;
By Noah Goldberg And some New Yorkers dent Trump is elected next some grew up in public hous-
loved to mock Los Angeles, month. ing and others were the chil-
When the Los Angeles from the New Yorker maga- “It’s scary how abortion dren of professors,” Harris
Dodgers and the New York zine cover showing L.A. as a could not be a thing any- wrote in her 2019 memoir,
Yankees last met in the dot from the view of 9th Ave- more,” said Violet, who won’t “The Truths We Hold.”
World Series in 1981, there nue to Woody Allen dismiss- be eligible to vote for nearly a Just minutes from the
was no question which city ing L.A. as a city whose “only decade. famed UC Berkeley campus,
was top dog. cultural advantage is that A lot has changed since nestled on a quiet street
The Yankees had beaten you can make a right turn on Harris, 60, was a little girl near a charming plaza with
the Dodgers in humiliating a red light” (which is, to be growing up in Berkeley, but vegan cafes and “zero waste”
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times fashion in 1977 and 1978 and fair, a large cultural advan- progressive activism re- shops, the Thousand Oaks
FANS stream into Dodger Stadium on Friday for the jumped out to a 2-0 lead in tage). mains central to the city’s Elementary schoolyard fea-
start of the World Series against the hated Yankees. the 1981 Fall Classic. [See Rivalry, A10] DNA and for many is a nor- tures a colorful mural of
mal part of childhood. The li- alumna Harris and other
beral Bay Area city, known barrier-breaking women.
MORE: See Game 1 coverage at latimes.com/sports and in a World Series Extra at latimes.com/enewspaper for its hippie counterculture, [See Berkeley, A8]

Stafford shines in Rams’ upset win

Veteran quarterback is up to his old tricks in L.A.’s
30-20 defeat of Minnesota on Thursday. SPORTS, B12
As Israel hits Lebanon, some see echoes of Gaza
ple, including the mayor. lages across the south in ern border against rocket at-
Rapper held in Ferris wheel to By Nabih Bulos Then a neighborhood in the what officials at the United tacks by the militant group
plot to slay rival rise in San Pedro city’s west was leveled. More Nations, in Lebanon and at Hezbollah.
Officials say Lil Durk’s Entertainment complex NABATIEH, Lebanon — strikes followed. human rights groups warn But multiple visits to
hit team killed target’s to feature rides and The Ottoman-era arches of After this month’s bomb- appears to mirror some of Lebanon’s south, the Bekaa
cousin in 2022 ambush shops on former Ports this city’s Old Market had ing campaign on Nabatieh, the patterns of destruction Valley and parts of Beirut —
in L.A. CALIFORNIA, B1 O’Call site. BUSINESS, A9 stood witness to the many 40 miles from the border and displacement seen in Is- all areas where Hezbollah
conflicts that have plagued with Israel, more than 33 rael’s attacks in the Gaza holds sway — reveal that the
Printed with soy inks on Lebanon’s south. people were dead and large Strip. attacks have affected more
Weather partially recycled paper.
Partly sunny. They tumbled, along with swaths of what was once After Israel severely in- than a third of the country.
L.A. Basin: 83/60. B8 the rest of the market, in an southern Lebanon’s second- creased its bombardment of Israel’s bombardment
Israeli airstrike in Nabatieh. most populated city had Lebanon last month, it sent has uprooted one of every
For the latest news, A few days later, another been flattened. troops across the border in five people in Lebanon, emp-
go to latimes.com. airstrike hit the city’s munic- It is a scene that is what it called a “limited in- tying out much of Lebanon’s
ipal building, killing 16 peo- playing out in cities and vil- cursion” to secure its north- [See Lebanon, A12]

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PERSPECTIVES

Why Harris turns politics of joy to focus on fear

for Clinton’s event with
Can the Democrat’s Black leaders in Phoenix,
where he, West and former
warnings about Trump national security advisor
sway some undecided Susan Rice exhorted the
crowd to redouble their
voters, maybe even efforts to mobilize support-
‘soft Republicans’? ers and win over the unde-
cided.
“More than 50% of the
By David Lauter people know that President
Trump shouldn’t go back to
PHOENIX — In the days the White House, and about
following her sudden ascen- 45% of the people think he
sion to the Democratic pres- can do no wrong,” Clinton
idential nomination, Vice said. “There’s a sliver out
President Kamala Harris there that have to make up
energized supporters by their minds.”
what her running mate, Gov. That sliver includes a dis-
Tim Walz, called “bringing proportionate number of
back the joy.” young voters. Among regis-
But as the race against tered voters under 30, 9%
former President Trump said they didn’t know how
screeches into its final week, they would vote, according
joy has taken the back seat. to a poll released Friday by
As Democrats try to consoli- the Harvard Institute of Pol-
date their vote and win over itics.
the last few undecided Overall, Harris leads
Americans, they’ve increas- Trump 53% to 33% among
ingly pitched their appeals registered voters younger
to a more primal emotion — than 30 and 60% to 32%
fear. among young likely voters,
The election is “critical,” the poll found.
Harris’ brother-in-law and Compared with where
advisor, Tony West, told a Biden stood in the spring,
crowd of Black elected offi- Harris has made strong im-
cials and community leaders provements among young
in Arizona’s capital on white men and women and a
Wednesday. dramatic gain among young
“Some folks are saying women of color, the poll
it’s the most important elec- found. Among young men of
tion since 1860,” he said, add- John Locher Associated Press color, however, her margin
ing, in case anyone missed KAMALA HARRIS speaks at a town hall shown on a large screen during a Las Vegas campaign rally for Don- has slightly eroded.
his reference, “since the Civil ald Trump on Thursday. The Democrat is increasingly going after the Republican as a threat to democracy. Black community lead-
War.” ers at the event here offered
A few minutes later, for- Harris would do to improve second-guessed if she fails. Targeting ‘soft Biden’s victory in 2020. differing theories about why
mer President Clinton fol- it. Over the last week, she Harris aides have wa- some young Black men re-
Republicans’ ...
lowed suit. This camp warns that has campaigned through gered their campaign can main distant from Harris.
“I’m out here not because President Biden repeatedly Pennsylvania, Michigan and Harris’ closing argument squeeze even more juice “It’s a matter of our doing
I’m running for anything, talked about Trump as a Wisconsin, three of the seven targets two significant from these areas this time, more outreach to these
but because I want to pro- threat to democracy, and a crucial battleground states, groups of voters — so-called especially with women vot- younger Black men” to ex-
tect my grandchildren’s fu- lot of voters tuned him out. with Liz Cheney, the Repub- soft Republicans and those ers. Suburban women accel- plain Harris’ economic
ture,” he said. The share of voters with a lican former congresswom- Democrats, including many erated their turn against Re- plans, said Corey D. Woods,
“I’m really worried about favorable impression of an consumed with Trump young voters, who haven’t publicans after the Supreme mayor of Tempe. “It’s just a
our democracy, but right Trump rose throughout the over the threat he poses to yet committed themselves Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, matter of their hearing
now, people are so preoccu- spring and early summer de- democracy. to turn out. which overturned Roe vs. more.”
pied with their own difficul- spite Biden’s attacks, they Harris said Wednesday The vast majority of Re- Wade’s longtime right to Cloves Campbell Jr., a
ties, and they think, ‘Oh, I note. during a CNN town hall in publicans will vote on party abortion nationwide. Their former Arizona legislator
saw Trump before. He was The other camp counters Pennsylvania that Trump lines, as partisans almost al- shift powered Democratic and the publisher of the Ari-
trying to do all these bad that persuadable voters would be “a president who ways do. But Trump lost a wins in that year’s midterm zona Informant, a Phoenix-
things, but he didn’t do it. So didn’t heed Biden’s warn- admires dictators and is a slice of GOP voters to Biden elections in those three based newspaper, offered a
he couldn’t do it next time,’ ” ings due to the messenger, fascist.” in 2020, and Harris’ cam- northern swing states. somewhat less rosy view.
Clinton continued, adding: not the message. This group On Friday, she held a paign has made a huge effort Cheney, who had a “We still have some men
“This crowd ought to know says concern about the pres- campaign rally in Houston, to expand that slice enough strongly antiabortion voting who don’t want to vote for a
that he’s dead serious.” ident’s age and apparent de- featuring Beyoncé. Why? to get them over the top in record in Congress, was even woman. And we’ve got oth-
cline caused many voters to Texas has little likelihood of key swing states. willing to help Harris on that ers who are undecided. Mix
set aside fears about Trump. voting for Harris, but the That’s the point of the issue, telling voters in Wis- them together, and you get a
Playing up abortion events with Cheney, who
Some argue that Harris venue focused attention on consin and Pennsylvania close race,” he said.
rights, Jan. 6 attack has gained about as much the state’s abortion ban, joined Harris in referring to that voters who consider Jevin D. Hodge, who at 30
The threat they see in ground as possible toward among the most restrictive the former president as cru- themselves “pro-life” could would just miss the age cut-
Trump has always formed a evening the race with in the nation. el, unstable and “unhinged.” justify voting for Harris due off for the Harvard poll, re-
big part of the Democrats’ Trump on economic issues. Harris has repeatedly Their effort got a recent to the draconian nature of counted what he heard at a
message. But the party has An intensified focus on warned that if he is elected, boost from onetime Trump abortion bans like Texas’. closed-door event he re-
constantly debated over Trump in these final days of Trump will seek similar bans aides, including former “I think there are many of cently participated in with
where to strike the balance the campaign can remind nationwide. Some of her re- White House Chief of Staff us around the country who other young Black men:
between that theme and voters why they disliked cent campaign ads have fea- John Kelly. In interviews have been pro-life, but who “My vote doesn’t matter,”
promoting Harris’ plans for him, they say. tured women who suffered with the New York Times have watched what’s going some participants said.
the future. In the closing phase of under the Texas law. and the Atlantic, Harris re- on in our states since the “The Democrats have ne-
One side argues that vot- the race, Harris has clearly The former president has ferred to his former boss as a Dobbs decision, and have ver done anything for me,”
ers consistently put the placed a heavy bet on that denied he would approve a “fascist” who had talked watched state legislatures said others.
economy at the top of their side. It’s a fateful choice nationwide abortion ban, about wanting military sub- put in place laws that are re- “He’s a businessman;
list of priorities, and calls for which will, no doubt, be lau- but has avoided answering ordinates like “Hitler’s sulting in women not getting he’ll do things differently,”
more specifics about what ded if she wins and endlessly specific questions about generals.” the care they need,” Cheney still others said, referring to
what restrictions he might On Thursday, Harris said in Pennsylvania. Trump.
support. launched two new ads fea- “That’s not sustainable for “A lot of Black men feel
On Tuesday, Harris is turing Kelly’s words. us as a country, and it has to forgotten,” said Hodge, who
scheduled to speak at the El- Harris and Cheney held change.” narrowly lost a congres-
lipse in Washington, the site their events in precisely sional race here in 2022. “But
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General evidently didn’t get the law firm WilmerHale Trump had solidified the abortion recorded and re-
the memo.” brought on behalf of a group Supreme Court’s conserva- ported.
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THE WORLD

Israel raids Gaza hospital, strikes residential area

killed more than 42,000 Pal-
Palestinian officials estinians, according to
Gaza’s Health Ministry,
say attacks killed 38 which does not say how
people in southern many were combatants but
says women and children
Gaza, including 13 make up more than half the
children in one family. fatalities. The Israeli mili-
tary says it has killed more
than 17,000 fighters, without
By Wafaa Shurafa providing evidence.
and Bassem Mroue

Strikes in Lebanon
DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza
Strip — Israeli strikes on kill 3 journalists
residential areas in southern A rare Israeli airstrike in
Gaza killed 38 people Friday, southeast Lebanon hit a res-
Palestinian health officials idence where journalists
said, including 13 children were staying on Friday, lev-
from the same extended eling the building and killing
family. three media workers sleep-
In northern Gaza, health ing there. Thick dust
officials reported that Israeli churned up by the bombard-
forces had raided Kamal Ad- ment coated cars marked
wan Hospital, one of the few “PRESS” parked outside the
medical facilities still func- ruins of the guesthouse.
tioning in the area. Israel has Al Manar TV, operated by
renewed its offensive against Hezbollah, and the Beirut-
Hamas in the north in recent based Al Mayadeen TV, an
weeks, and aid groups are outlet seen as aligned with
sounding the alarm over dire the militant group, said its
humanitarian conditions. staffers were among those
In Lebanon, Israeli killed.
strikes on the country’s The Israeli army said it
southeast killed three Mahmoud Issa Anadolu was aware of reports that
journalists working for news PALESTINIANS along the border of the Jabaliya refugee camp make their way after being forcibly displaced the three journalists were
outlets that are considered by the Israeli army to southern areas of Gaza. Many traveled with the belongings they could carry on Friday. killed in the airstrike, which
to be aligned with the Leba- it said had targeted a
nese militant group Hezbol- in Khan Yunis and to the Eu- was its eighth worker to be without specifying how Gaza’s Health Ministry Hezbollah military struc-
lah and its patron, Iran. ropean Hospital, where re- killed since the Israel- many. said two children who were ture. “The incident is under
cords showed at least 15 Hamas war started more The Palestinian Civil De- on life support in the inten- review,” it added, without
members of the Al-Farra than a year ago. fense said that Israeli forces sive care unit died after the elaborating.
Dozens wounded family had been killed. Six arrested two of its workers, hospital’s generator cut out Imran Khan, a senior cor-
in Khan Yunis members of the Abdeen including a local rescue coor- and Israeli fire hit the oxy- respondent for Al Jazeera
Reports of raid at
The Health Ministry in family were also killed, dinator and a firefighter. gen tanks. It said that Israeli English who was among the
Gaza reported that Israeli health officials reported. pediatric hospital The Israeli military did not soldiers were conducting journalists in the Hasbaya
airstrikes and shelling Saleh al-Farra, who lost In response to reports immediately respond to a re- searches in the hospital, Village Club guesthouses,
pounded the southern city of his 17-year-old brother and that it had stormed Kamal quest for comment on the sparking panic and chaos in said the airstrike hit about
Khan Yunis, wounding doz- 15-year-old sister in the at- Adwan Hospital, the Israeli arrests. the complex full of some 600 3:30 a.m. without warning.
ens in addition to the 38 tack, said that shaking from military said only that it was The World Health Or- patients, medics and dis- “These were just journal-
killed. the bombardment sent his “operating in the area” of the ganization said Friday it had placed people. ists that were sleeping in bed
The Israeli military said family members running to hospital based on intelli- lost touch with its staff at The U.N. has said hun- after long days of covering
its troops were dismantling the middle of the house for gence that indicated the Kamal Adwan, where some dreds of thousands of people the conflict,” Khan posted
militant infrastructure and shelter. The next thing he presence of militants and had been the night before to have been trapped in north- on social media, adding that
killing Hamas fighters in the knew, he said, he was waking militant infrastructure. deliver supplies and help ern Gaza with little food or he and his team were un-
southern town. It said the up in the rubble of what had The pediatric hospital is transfer patients to Shifa supplies as Israeli forces hurt.
casualty figures from Gaza’s been his home. one of the area’s three medi- Hospital in Gaza City. The close in on the town of Ja- Lebanon’s health min-
Health Ministry “do not “I started screaming and cal facilities to remain some- Israeli military body that baliya. The U.N. human ister said Friday that 11 jour-
align with the information” screaming until my brother what operational during the oversees aid distribution in rights chief, Volker Turk, nalists have been killed in
it has, but did not offer its and father came, and they war. Since the Israeli mili- Gaza, COGAT, said it facili- said Friday that Israeli mili- Lebanon and eight wounded
own estimates. started trying to pull me tary ordered the evacuation tated the United Nations tary actions in the north since Israel and Hezbollah
Palestinians said the out,” he said. “I didn’t know of the hospitals amid its re- health agency’s efforts to de- “risk emptying the area of all group began trading cross-
neighborhood was hit with anything about anyone.” newed assault against liver aid and fuel to Kamal Palestinians.” border fire in October 2023.
no warning. The medical organiza- Hamas militants in north- Adwan and evacuate pa- Since the Hamas-led at- On Friday, at least two
Video from the Palestin- tion Doctors Without Bor- ern Gaza, doctors have tients. tack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 people in northern Israel
ian Civil Defense showed ders said that one of its staff warned that dire shortages Kamal Adwan Hospital — in which Palestinian mili- were killed by shrapnel dur-
rescuers pulling the blood- members — identified as 41- of food, medicine and other Director Hussam Abu tants killed some 1,200 peo- ing a rocket barrage from
ied bodies of nine children year-old Hassan Sobh, a fa- supplies had triggered a hu- Safiya could not be reached ple, mostly civilians, and Lebanon, according to Ma-
from the Al-Farra family out ther of seven who had manitarian emergency. Friday. In voice messages dragged 250 others into gen David Adom, Israel’s
of the ruins. worked with the charity for The Gaza-based Min- sent late Thursday, Abu Gaza — many hospitals in emergency service. The
The victims were taken to five years — had been killed istry of Health reported that Safiya described calamitous Gaza have come under at- rockets struck in Majd Al-
the Nasser Medical Complex in the attack. It said Sobh Israeli troops Friday conditions. tack. Kamal Adwan was be- Krum, an Arab town in the
rounded up medical staff “Patients are still lying on sieged and raided by Israeli country’s north, hitting a
and displaced people shel- the floors of the reception forces a year ago. gym.
tering at the hospital and and emergency areas, with The Israeli military ac-
forced the men to strip, a many in critical condition. cuses Hamas fighters of us- Shurafa and Mroue write for

‘Relentless’ pedophile common practice that Israel

says is meant to ensure de-
tainees do not conceal weap-
There are no resources, sup-
plies or specialists to save
these children’s lives,” Abu
ing hospitals, and tunnels
beneath them, as bases.
Hamas and Palestinian doc-
the Associated Press. AP
journalists Mohammed
Zaatari in Hasbaya,

in N. Ireland convicted ons.

The ministry said some
Palestinians were detained,
Safiya said in his voice mes-
sage. “We appeal to the
world to intervene.”
tors have repeatedly denied
that claim.
Israel’s attacks have
Lebanon, and Adam
Schreck in Jerusalem
contributed to this report.

in U.S. girl’s suicide

associated press
“Working closely with po-
lice, the prosecution team
was able to establish to the
5 killed in attack on Turkish defense firm
LONDON — A “relent- criminal standard that Mc-
less and cruel” online preda- Cartney’s actions had
tor who blackmailed girls caused the girl’s death and The banned Kurdish
around the world was sen- he had a case to answer for
tenced to at least 20 years in manslaughter,” said Cather- militant group PKK
prison on Friday after being ine Kieran, acting head of claims responsibility
convicted of the manslaugh- the Northern Ireland Public
ter of a victim who took her Prosecution Service Serious for assault on TUSAS’
own life. Crime Unit. Ankara headquarters.
Prosecutors say 26-year- Police have identified vic-
old Alexander McCartney, tims in 30 countries, includ-
associated press
from Newry in Northern Ire- ing the United States, Aus-
land, pretended to be a tralia and New Zealand.
teenage girl and carried out McCartney pleaded BAGHDAD — A banned
“catfishing” attacks on 3,500 guilty to 185 charges involv- Kurdish militant group on
female victims he contacted ing 70 children, including the Friday claimed responsibil-
on online platforms includ- manslaughter charge. At ity for an attack on the head-
ing Snapchat. Belfast Crown Court, judge quarters of a key defense
“Catfishing” refers to us- John O’Hara sentenced him company in Ankara, Turkey,
ing a fake online identity to to life with no chance of par- that killed at least five peo-
deceive victims. Authorities ole for 20 years. “To my ple.
said McCartney encouraged knowledge there has not A statement from the
his victims to send intimate been a case such as the pre- military wing of the Kurdi- Ali Unal Associated Press
photos or engage in sex acts, sent where a defendant has stan Workers’ Party, or PKK, TURKISH SOLDIERS attend a funeral at an Ankara mosque for three of the
then extorted from them by used social media on an in- said Wednesday’s attack on people killed in an attack on a defense company, in which two assailants died.
threatening to share the im- dustrial scale to inflict such the aerospace and defense
ages. terrible and catastrophic company TUSAS was tack on the PKK and im- the People’s Defense Center, side the Sinjar Mountain
A 12-year-old in West Vir- damage,” the judge said. carried out by two members mediately launched a series said, however, that Wednes- area.
ginia killed herself in May Detective Chief Superin- of its “Immortal Battalion” of aerial strikes on locations day’s attack was not related A local official and a secu-
2018 during an online chat tendent Eamonn Corrigan in response to Turkish “mas- and facilities suspected to be to the latest “political rity official said the bomb-
with McCartney as he de- of the Police Service of sacres” and other actions in used by the militant group in agenda,” insisting it was ings killed five Yazidis. The
manded sex acts. The vic- Northern Ireland said out- Kurdish regions. northern Iraq or by its affili- planned long before. officials spoke on condition
tim’s father died by suicide side court that McCartney A man and a woman ates in northern Syria. It said TUSAS was cho- of anonymity in line with
18 months later. was a “relentless and cruel” stormed TUSAS’ premises The attack on TUSAS sen as a target because regulations.
Prosecutors said they be- pedophile. on the outskirts of Ankara, came at a time of growing weapons produced there On Friday, Turkish police
lieve this is the first time “We cannot underesti- Turkey’s capital, setting off signs of a possible new at- “killed thousands of civil- detained 176 suspected PKK
someone has been convicted mate the devastation that explosives and opening fire. tempt at dialogue to end the ians, including children and members in operations
of manslaughter in a case in he has caused and the child- Four TUSAS employees more than four-decade-old women, in Kurdistan.” across Turkey, the Interior
which victim and perpetra- hoods he has stolen,” the of- were killed. The assailants conflict between the PKK TUSAS designs, manu- Ministry said.
tor never met in person. ficer said. arrived on the scene in a taxi and Turkey’s military. factures and assembles civil- Police also detained a
that they had comman- Earlier this week, the ian and military aircraft, un- man who hurled rocks at the
deered by killing its driver. leader of Turkey’s far-right manned aerial vehicles and entrance of the head-
More than 20 people were in- nationalist party that is al- other defense industry and quarters of Turkey’s pro-
jured. lied with President Recep space systems. Its products Kurdish Peoples’ Equality
A female assailant took Tayyip Erdogan raised the have been credited as key to and Democracy party, or
her own life by detonating an possibility that Abdullah Turkey gaining an upper DEM, Anadolu reported.
explosive device after being Ocalan, the PKK’s impris- hand in its fight against DEM spokeswoman Ay-
injured in an exchange of fire oned leader, could be Kurdish militants. segul Dogan said on the me-
at the entrance of the com- granted parole if he re- On Friday, an Iraqi secu- dia platform X that the en-
plex, Interior Minister Ali nounces violence and dis- rity official said Turkish war- trance door and windows
Yerlikaya said. A male at- bands his organization. planes intensified their were broken in the attack.
tacker hurled hand Ocalan, who is serving a strikes on sites controlled by The PKK has been fight-
grenades at approaching se- life sentence on a prison is- the PKK and other loyal ing for autonomy in south-
curity forces, then also blew land off Istanbul, said in a forces in northern Iraq’s Sin- eastern Turkey in a conflict
himself up in the restroom of message conveyed by his jar district. The intensive that has killed tens of thou-
a nearby building, “realizing nephew Thursday that bombing targeted tunnels, sands of people since the
Brian Lawless Press Assn. there was no way out,” the he was ready to work for headquarters and military 1980s. It is considered a ter-
OUTSIDE COURT, police official Eamonn Corrigan minister said. peace. points of the PKK and the rorist group by Turkey and
called the online sex predator “relentless and cruel.” Turkey blamed the at- The PKK’s military wing, Sinjar Protection Units in- its Western allies.
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THE NATION

Obama rallies with Harris in election’s final days

they’re not with him this principles dear: Kamala
Former president joins time.” Harris.”
Harris and Obama high- Springsteen was the lat-
Democratic nominee lighted new comments re- est entertainer to appear at
in Georgia as White ported by the New York a Harris rally. Other artists
Times that retired Marine who have recently joined the
House hopefuls court Gen. John F. Kelly, Trump’s Democratic nominee in-
voters in swing states. longest-serving White clude Usher and Lizzo.
House chief of staff, warned Earlier Thursday, word
that Trump would govern spread that Beyoncé would
By Seema Mehta like a dictator if he won elec- appear with Harris at a rally
tion, praised Adolf Hitler in Houston on Friday.
Presidential rivals Don- and wished his generals The singer, a Houston na-
ald Trump and Kamala Har- were as loyal to him as tive whose song “Freedom”
ris campaigned in battle- Hitler’s had been. is frequently played at Har-
ground states on Thursday, The Trump campaign ris events, has an enormous
urging voters to cast their called Kelly’s claims untrue. following, notably among
ballots in a tight election “I want to explain that in Black people and young peo-
that is less than two weeks politics, a good rule of ple, two critical voting blocs
away. thumb is, don’t say you want in the election. She has not
The Democratic nomi- to do anything like Hitler,” officially endorsed Harris,
nee appeared for the first Obama said. “That’s just but did grant permission for
time publicly with former good political advice.” Harris to use her song dur-
President Obama, who has Bruce Springsteen ing campaign events.
been hitting the campaign opened the Harris rally in Willie Nelson is also re-
trail on her behalf and urg- Atlanta by singing “The portedly planning to attend
ing supporters to vote early. Promised Land,” “Land of the rally, during which Har-
Obama introduced Har- Hope and Dreams” and ris is expected to focus on re-
ris at a rally in Clarkston, “Dancing in the Dark.” productive rights and the
Ga., and the pair embraced He urged the crowd to aftermath of the Supreme
warmly before raising their Mike Stewart Associated Press join him in voting for the Court ruling that over-
clasped hands in front of a FORMER PRESIDENT Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris campaign Democratic ticket. turned federal protection for
boisterous crowd. Harris re- Thursday in Clarkston, Ga. Bruce Springsteen also urged voters to support her. “I want a president who access to abortion.
called traveling to Spring- reveres the Constitution, Trump was introduced
field, Ill., 17 years ago, when a urging the wife to drag her the U.S. withdrawal from Af- his advisors. who does not threaten but Thursday in Tempe by Vivek
then-underdog and first- husband to the polls. ghanistan and the economy. “Over the last years, and wants to protect and guide Ramaswamy, a millennial
term senator from Illinois, “Jane, your husband’s sit- He also labeled Biden a in particular, the last eight our great democracy, who entrepreneur who ran in the
Obama, announced his ting on the sofa, watching “stupid fool” and former years, Donald Trump has believes in the rule of law and GOP primary early this year
presidential campaign, and something. He doesn’t even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi become more confused, the peaceful transfer of and endorsed Trump after
knocking on doors for him in know what he’s watching. of San Francisco “crazy as a more unstable and more an- power, who will fight for a he dropped out; Florida Sen.
snowy Iowa on New Year’s Tell him, ‘Jimmy, get up. bedbug” and a “nut job gry,” she said. “You see it ev- woman’s right to choose, Marco Rubio, whom Trump
Eve, days before the state’s You’re getting up, Jimmy. who’s crooked as hell.” ery day. He has become in- and who wants to create a dubbed “Little Marco” dur-
caucuses. Let’s go. Let’s go, Jimmy,’ ” Harris said the dangers creasingly unhinged. But middle-class economy that ing the 2016 Republican pri-
“All these years later, Trump said. “I’m not gonna of a second Trump presi- last time, at least, there were will serve all our citizens,” mary; and Stephen Miller, a
Barack Obama, I say to you, use foul language. ‘Get your dency far outweigh prior people around him who Springsteen said. “There is Santa Monica native who
your friendship and your fat ass out of the couch. years because there would could control him. But do only one candidate in this was the former president’s
faith in me and in our cam- You’re going to vote, Jimmy. be no guardrails created by notice in this election, election who holds those senior advisor.
paign means the world,” the You’re going to vote. We’re
vice president said. “Thank gonna save our country,
you, Mr. President.” Jimmy.’ ”
She emphasized that Both of the presidential
only 12 days remained in
what she deemed “one of the
most consequential elec-
nominees said their rival
represents an existential
threat to the nation’s future.
President apologizes to Native Americans
tions of our lifetime.” Trump focused on Har-
“And I’ll need to tell you, ris’ role in President Biden’s
voting has already started, administration, notably her Biden says boarding
and everybody here knows assignment to tackle the
it’s going to be a tight race root causes of an influx of school policy that
until the very end,” Harris migrants from Central forcibly separated kids
said. “So we have a lot of America as he falsely labeled
work ahead of us. ... And the vice president as the na- from parents was a
make no mistake, we will tion’s “border czar.” ‘blot’ on U.S. history.
win.” “Kamala Harris has or-
“Or as a certain former chestrated the most egre-
president would say, ‘Yes, we gious betrayal that any By Aamer Madhani
can,’ ” Harris said, repeating leader in American history
one of the statements that has ever inflicted upon our PHOENIX — President
became a hallmark of Oba- people. She has eradicated Biden on Friday formally
ma’s 2008 presidential cam- our sovereign border, and apologized to Native Ameri-
paign. she has unleashed an army cans for the “sin” of a govern-
Trump, who has been of migrant gangs waging a ment-run boarding school
skeptical of early voting and campaign of violence and system that for decades
mail ballots in particular, terror against our citizens,” forcibly separated Indian
urged supporters to vote by he said, adding that her children from their parents,
mail, in person early or on “gross incompetence dis- calling it a “blot on American
election day, and reminded qualifies” her from being history.”
supporters of the deadlines elected president. “We can’t “It’s a sin on our soul,”
for the three options as he let that happen. No person said Biden, his voice full of
stood in front of a banner who is responsible for so anger and emotion. “Quite
touting early voting at a rally much bloodshed and death frankly, there’s no excuse
in Tempe, Ariz. on our soil can ever be al- that this apology took 50 Manuel Balce Ceneta Associated Press
“So as you know, early lowed to become the presi- years to make.” PRESIDENT BIDEN greets people at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
voting, oh, we’re finally here. dent of the United States,” It was a moment of both on Thursday on his way to the Gila River Indian Community’s land near Phoenix.
We just saw we can’t take Trump said. contrition and frustration as
this any longer,” the Repub- During a nearly hourlong the president sought to rec- the Interior Department in- occasionally on the cam- mination,” Harris said.
lican said, later saying that speech at Arizona State Uni- ognize one of the “most hor- vestigation that called for paign trail for Harris and The White House says
the day of the election, versity’s Mullett Arena, the rific chapters” in the na- the government apology. other Democrats since he Biden and Harris have built
Nov. 5, will be called “Libera- former president repeated tional story. Biden spoke of At least 18,000 children, ended his reelection cam- a substantial track record
tion Day” if he wins. his oft-stated criticisms the abuses and deaths of Na- some as young as 4, were tak- paign in July. with Native Americans over
Trump later mused about the Biden administra- tive American children that en from their parents and But analysts say Biden the last four years.
about a fictional couple tion’s decision-making on is- resulted from the federal forced to attend schools that could help Harris in her ap- He designated the sacred
named Jane and Jimmy, sues such as border control, government’s policies, not- sought to assimilate them. peal with Native American Avi Kwa Ame, a desert
ing that “while darkness can Democrats hope Biden’s voters — a group that has mountain in Nevada, and
hide much, it erases noth- visit to the Gila River Indian trailed others in turnout Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-
ing,” and that great nations Community’s land will also rates. Ancestral Footprints of the
“must know the good, the provide a boost to Vice Presi- In 2020, there was a surge Grand Canyon in Arizona as
bad, the truth of who we dent Kamala Harris’ turn- in voter turnout on some national monuments and re-
are.” out effort in Arizona, a key tribal land in Arizona as Bid- stored the boundaries for
“I formally apologize as battleground state. en beat Trump and became Bears Ears National Monu-
president of United States of “President Biden de- the first Democrat to win the ment in Utah.
America for what we did,” serves credit for finally presidential vote in the state In addition, the adminis-
Biden said on the Gila River putting attention on the is- since Bill Clinton in 1996. tration has directed nearly
Indian Community’s land on sue and other issues impact- Harris and her running $46 billion in federal spend-
the outskirts of metro ing the community,” said mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim ing to tribal nations. The
Phoenix. “The Federal Indi- Ramona Charette Klein, 77, Walz, met with tribal leaders money has helped bring
an boarding school policy — a boarding school survivor in Arizona and Nevada this electricity to a reservation
the pain it has caused will and an enrolled member of month. And Clinton, who that never had electricity,
only be a significant mark of the Turtle Mountain Band has been serving as a surro- expand access to high-speed
shame, a blot on our record of Chippewa. “I do think that gate for Harris, last week internet, improve water san-
history. For too long, this all will reflect well on Vice Presi- met in North Carolina with itation, build roadways and
happened with virtually no dent Harris, and I hope this the chairman of the Lumbee more.
public attention, not written momentum will continue.” Tribe. Thom Reilly, co-director
about in our history books, She added that whoever The Democratic Na- of the Center for an Inde-
not taught in our schools.” the next president is must tional Committee recently pendent and Sustainable
Biden, whose presidency follow up with concrete ac- launched a six-figure ad Democracy at Arizona State
is winding down, had prom- tion and begin making campaign targeting Native University, said Harris’ and
ised tribal leaders nearly two amends for the devastation American voters in Arizona, Trump’s campaigns — and
years ago that he would the boarding schools North Carolina, Montana their allies — have put a huge
make a visit. wrought on tribes. and Alaska through digital, amount of effort into micro-
“He made commitments The moment gave Biden print and radio ads. targeting in Arizona.
to Indian Country, and he a chance to spotlight his and Democratic Rep. Ruben Harris, Reilly noted, has
has followed through on ev- Harris’ support for tribal na- Gallego, who is locked in a also focused on whittling
ery single one of those com- tions, a group that histori- competitive race with Re- away at Trump’s advantage
mitments,” said Interior cally has favored Demo- publican Kari Lake for Ari- among Mormon voters in
Secretary Deb Haaland, a crats, in a state he won by zona’s open Senate seat, has the state, a group that his-
member of Laguna Pueblo only 10,000 votes in 2020. visited all 22 of Arizona’s fed- torically has favored Repub-
in New Mexico. The race between Harris erally recognized tribes. licans. Trump, meanwhile,
Biden’s pick of the former and former President Harris started a recent has put special focus on
New Mexico congresswom- Trump is expected to be campaign rally in Chandler, young men as the campaign
an made Haaland the first similarly close, and both near where the Gila River tries to narrow Democrats’
Native American to be ap- campaigns are doing what- reservation is located, with a advantage with younger vot-
pointed to a Cabinet posi- ever they can to improve shout-out to the tribe’s ers.
tion. She, in turn, ordered turnout among bedrock leader. “They are pulling out ev-
the review of the troubled supporters. She also reminded the ery stop just to see if they
Astrea legacy of the federal govern- “The race is now a turn- crowd that she was the first could wrangle a few more
Armchair, designed by Sacha Lakic ment’s boarding school poli- out grab,” said Mike O’Neil, vice president to visit the votes here and there,” Reilly
cies. For decades, federal a nonpartisan pollster in Ar- reservation. She and hus- said. “The Indian communi-
boarding schools were used izona. “The trend lines band Doug Emhoff visited ty is one of those groups that
to assimilate children into throughout have been re- the community last year. Harris is hoping will over-
white society, according to markably steady. The ques- “I strongly believe that perform and help make the
the White House. tion is, which candidate is the relationship between difference.”
At least 973 Native going to be able to turn out tribal nations and the
American children died in their voters in a race that United States is sacred ... Madhani writes for the
the U.S. government’s abu- seems to be destined to be and that we must honor trib- Associated Press. AP writer
sive boarding school system decided by narrow mar- al sovereignty, embrace our Graham Lee Brewer in
over a 150-year period that gins?” trust in treaty obligations, Norman, Okla., contributed
ended in 1969, according to Biden has appeared only and ensure tribal self-deter- to this report.
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[USC, from A1]

AN ALTERNATIVE Comisar’s son had
The records pertain to
scores of applicants whom
administrators represented
as potential walk-on players
for Trojan teams between
PATH INTO USC AS dropped out of Southern
Methodist University in the
fall of 2013 without complet-
ing a single course, let alone
amassing the strong college
2008 and 2018. Though they
had played the sport in high
school, most were not at the
elite level of USC, a storied
program that boasts
A WALK-ON ATHLETE transcript USC expected of
transfers. Heinel noted in an
email that his resume was
“very thin,” with high school
grades that had fallen below
Olympians, national 3.0 his senior year.
champions and future pro- “Will be hard to overlook
fessional athletes. Once ad- for a spring admission,” she
mitted, many of these pur- wrote in an email to a USC
ported walk-ons never ap- colleague.
peared on team rosters. Nevertheless, athletic de-
The university’s entire partment employees helped
admissions apparatus came strategize online courses he
under intense scrutiny in could take to bolster his re-
2019 with the Varsity Blues sume.
scandal, in which a rogue At one point, a Santa
college counselor helped cli- Monica City College profes-
ents cheat and lie their way sor emailed Reisman, who
into USC and other schools. as a fundraising officer was
The federal case threatened ostensibly uninvolved with
to expose USC’s long-run- admissions, about the teen’s
ning walk-on system for rich progress in a microeconom-
applicants, and the uni- ics class.
versity and some employees Comisar and his son met
involved took steps to keep with Heinel on campus in
the unseemly details hidden, November, where emails in-
an effort that continued dicate there was discussion
through at least 2022, The of admission as a walk-on for
Times found. volleyball, his sport in high
Before the Varsity Blues school. A follow-up message
scandal even became public, to Heinel hinted at ambiva-
USC staffers accompanied lence on the teen’s part.
by university lawyers told “Just to be clear, nothing
FBI agents and federal pros- would make me happier
ecutors in interviews that than to play volleyball at
those admitted as walk-ons USC,” he wrote. “If you
were legitimate prospects. heard something different
In federal court filings in from me, it was only in the
Boston, USC and its employ- context that I am prepared
ees denied the walk-on sys- to work hard, get the grades
tem was ever used as a fund- I need and do whatever it
raising tool. The university takes to be accepted to USC.
fought to keep its records Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times It does not have to be on the
sealed and individuals in- THE DAVID X. MARKS Tennis Stadium at USC. The daughter of Jim Thomas, a La Jolla real estate devel- back of volleyball.”
volved in the system fought oper, was accepted in 2016 as a tennis walk-on but never played for the team. The family denies wrongdoing. But his contacts at USC
to stay off the witness stand. seemed to view the walk-on
Five former USC adminis- ‘Jersey Mikes wrote. Heinel responded, ment that he should have a quarterback who later route as his best way in.
trators ultimately refused to copying their boss, USC street in Orange County played for the Rams, Haden On the day Heinel was to
coming through’
testify under oath, citing Athletic Director Pat [California] named after had spent decades as a part- present the teen’s packet to
their 5th Amendment right USC often learned of Haden, “Yahoo. It was all him for all the kids he se- ner in the private equity firm Subco, Comisar emailed her,
against self-incrimination. deep-pocketed applicants worth it.” cured admissions for as Riordan, Lewis & Haden. Al- “Good luck today in your
That universities shower through word of mouth. Cancro did not respond walk-on student athletes,” though a novice to collegiate meetings.” After reviewing
the children of donors with Such was the case in 2014 to messages. Heinel’s attorney wrote in a administration, he was at his academic record, the
special treatment is not new, when a Newport Beach exe- 2022 sentencing memoran- ease in country clubs and committee rejected him.
but the documents reviewed cutive passed along an in- dum. boardrooms, and he had a The athletic department
triguing tip to two USC A panel to evaluate
by The Times provide an un- Martin, now athletic di- network of entrepreneurs and his father were unde-
precedented level of speci- fundraisers. prospective athletes rector at the University of and investors, some eager to terred. On New Year’s Day,
ficity and detail. At a time “The founder of Jersey Much of USC’s identity is Missouri-Kansas City, dis- have their children attend Comisar asked Heinel for an
when college admissions Mike’s - Peter Cancro is com- wrapped up in its success on puted Heinel’s account, say- USC. update, noting, “I am actu-
decisions are debated in the ing to show his son USC…at the playing fields. The uni- ing that walk-on applicants Fundraising became a ally on vacation with [bil-
U.S. Supreme Court and 1pm,” Kristi Seiter Sim- versity pursues the coun- he presented to Subco were priority for Haden during his lionaire financier and USC
state legislatures, the inter- mons, the chief financial offi- try’s top high school ath- “true athletes and legiti- second year when then- trustee] Tom Barrack. He
nal emails, spreadsheets, cer of a company that owned letes, and it is willing to ac- mate.” President C.L. Max Nikias asked whether he can help in
applications and other ma- franchises of the hoagie cept lower grades and test Whenever the practice announced a $6-billion any way.”
terials reveal how one uni- chain, wrote in an email. “I scores to get them. began, USC was not alone in campaign, then the most Barrack did not provide
versity turned the angst and said I would see if anyone At one time, faculty using athletics in this way. A ambitious in higher-educa- an answer to questions
aspirations of moneyed par- could meet with them and members handled the vet- 2020 state audit conducted tion history. By the cam- about Comisar sent through
ents into an enterprise that give them a little usc pep ting of recruited athletes for in response to Varsity Blues paign’s completion in 2018, a representative.
fueled its fundraising ef- talk. He would be a major big admission, but around 2002, found that the University of Haden and colleagues in Comisar’s son was admit-
forts. donor.” the process moved to a sub- California “falsely desig- athletics had chipped in $730 ted less than two weeks later,
The Times found that in Ronald Orr, then-head of committee within the ad- nated” at least 22 applicants million. according to an email an ad-
some cases, USC employees athletic department fund- missions office, known as as athletic recruits between In those years, “well in ex- missions officer on Subco
explicitly linked admission raising, and a colleague ar- Subco, according to an FBI 2013 and 2019 “because of do- cess of 200 college appli- sent to colleagues in athlet-
to large financial donations, ranged their schedules that summary of an interview of a nations from or as favors to cants” whose families were ics and an internal spread-
such as with the daughter of day to give the sandwich USC admissions supervisor. well-connected families.” rich or had connections at sheet later filed in federal
Jim Thomas, a La Jolla real chain CEO, his wife and The dean of admissions, the Some donor children the university were admit- court.
estate developer, who was stepson a campus tour, ac- director of undergraduate considered by Subco had ted through the athletic de- His name never ap-
accepted in 2016 as a tennis cording to an email memori- admissions and a handful of impressive credentials that partment, according to a peared on any volleyball ros-
walk-on. She never played alizing the visit. The discus- their deputies reviewed might have gotten them in pretrial filing by Heinel’s ter. A representative for
for the tennis team. sion turned to how the ath- packets of information each through normal channels. criminal defense lawyer. Comisar said in a statement
“Was there any talk of a letic department could help year for about 200 recruits But the walk-on route of- That number does not in- that the son “attended prac-
donation if we got her in?” the stepson bypass the regu- submitted by the athletic de- fered a near-guarantee in clude Singer’s clients who tices for a few weeks” but
USC fundraiser Scott lar admissions process, partment. The applicants the unpredictable and went through Subco. stopped “after concluding
Jacobson wrote in an email where his 3.3 grade-point av- put forward included poten- highly competitive admis- Even with other duties that he did not have a realis-
to a colleague. erage might prove an obsta- tial recipients of full or par- sions process. As a Las that ranged from overseeing tic path to playing time.”
“Yes, I spoke to them cle. the renovation of the The statement said
“Planning to try walking
about a ‘gift [of] gratitude’ if
we got her in,” replied Karen
Bowman, a fundraising offi-
on with tennis team as dis-
cussed,” Cancro emailed
‘I don’t think there is any Coliseum to firing football
coaches, Haden kept close
tabs on the admissions pro-
Comisar’s son had dropped
out of SMU for personal rea-
sons unrelated to academics
cer in San Diego. “I told him
6 figures. He understood
senior associate athletic di-
rector Donna Heinel after way he will contribute to us spects of donor children.
“Crap,” he emailed Hei-
and that “the Comisars had
absolutely no knowledge of
the meeting. (Heinel was lat-
and seemed ok with this.”
Most families in this story
declined interview requests,
er charged in the Varsity
Blues scandal and pleaded
winning or losing.’ nel after learning about the
admissions officer’s dim
view of the Bangkok energy
USC’s behind-the-scenes
development
ations.”
consider-

including the Thomases, guilty to wire fraud in con- — C HRIS Z AMBRI , then-USC golf coach, in an email to a heir’s academic record. “Got “Prior to his admission,
who disputed through a law- nection with her handling of colleague months after energy and telecom mogul Sarath to get the Thai kid in.” USC did not ask for a gift
yer the USC administrators’ clients of Rick Singer, the Ratanavadi’s son was admitted in 2015 After Subco admitted the from the Comisars, nor did
account. “As a USC alum- counselor convicted of son of Palos Verdes the Comisars say anything
nus, Jim Thomas regularly masterminding the scam.) tial scholarships and legiti- Vegas real estate agent pur- businessman Sandy Durko, to suggest that they would
donated to his alma mater. At the time, USC men’s mate walk-ons for whom suing admission for his son a former USC football great, provide one,” the statement
He never made a donation tennis was the most domi- coaches lacked scholarship explained in a 2016 email for- as a baseball walk-on in 2015, said.
approximating a six-figure nant team in the country, slots but wanted on their warded to USC, “I believe Haden instructed his fund- Comisar gave $20,000 to
sum and never suggested having won five of the previ- teams. that [he] will be admitted on raising chief to reach out for USC in the year and a half af-
that he would,” said the law- ous six NCAA team champi- The focus of these bi- his own merits, however, we a donation. ter his son’s acceptance, a
yer, Jeffrey Wiesner. onships. Cancro’s stepson weekly Subco meetings was both would appreciate a “I already spoke to him period in which he served on
The Ratanavadis’ had played tennis for years not the sports prowess of the sense of security.” and he is expecting [y]our USC Marshall School of
spokesperson disputed the but never ranked higher students, which was largely At USC, the approxi- call. Got son in,” Haden Business’ board of leaders,
USC admissions officer’s as- than 362nd in his age group, assumed, but their academ- mately half dozen people wrote. the statement said.
sessment of the son’s aca- according to a resume he ic records. USC could poten- who participated in Subco Durko’s son did not ap- Heinel, who served four
demic record, saying the submitted to USC. tially overlook a transcript of meetings operated with dif- pear on the team roster. months in prison for Varsity
transcript contained “inter- In the following weeks, Bs and Cs for a lineman who ferent levels of knowledge Durko did not respond to Blues, declined to speak to
im grades, not final marks.” Heinel worked with the step- ran a 40-yard dash in 4.8 sec- about which candidates messages. The Times about Comisar or
The spokesperson added of son to prepare a one-sheet onds or an ACT score of 27 were relatives of donors or other applicants. She said of
the $3-million donation in summary of his tennis ac- for a pitcher with a 98-mph prospective donors. Some her role in Subco, “I did my
complishments that she Concierge service
the year before his admis- fastball. But some grades admissions officers had little job the way I was instructed
sion, “Any claim that this would present to a subcom- and test scores were so contact with USC’s fund- for a wealthy family to do my job and taught to do
support was transactional mittee of admissions officers abysmal that the committee raising operation and were Under Haden, the ath- my job.”
or quid pro quo is false.” checking athletes for basic doubted the applicant’s abil- largely unaware. letic department added five
USC and its employees academic qualifications. ity to function in a university Others, such as Dean of additional fundraising ad-
Giving his application a ‘Geez they like to
refused interview requests classroom. Mainly for this Admissions Tim Brunold, ministrators. One was Al-
and did not provide answers last read before the commit- reason, Subco rejected had greater insight. Al- exandra Bitterlin Reisman, make people dance’
to a list of questions from tee meeting, Heinel stum- about 10% to 15% of cases, ac- though he oversaw a team of the daughter of one of Whether families had dis-
The Times. A statement bled upon a complication. cording to testimony by a about 80 people who han- Haden’s USC classmates. cussed donations with USC
from a university spokes- “In his essay he states USC admissions officer in dled more than 65,000 un- “I have a very wealthy before their child’s admis-
person did not address the that he became tired of prac- the Varsity Blues cases. dergraduate applications family whose son wants to sion, the records suggest
conduct of USC employees ticing tennis from 5-9 Pm ev- It’s unclear when Subco each year, Brunold carved leave SMU. He hates it al- that administrators ex-
and attorneys in the Varsity ery night so he quit playing became a vehicle for fund- out time in his schedule to ready and wants to be closer pected money.
Blues litigation. It did ac- tennis,” Heinel emailed his raising. The university re- meet personally with poten- to home [from Palisades],” Three young members of
knowledge fraud and other stepfather on Feb.12, 2015. “It cords reviewed by The tial donors and their college- Reisman wrote to a col- the extended Spanos family,
problems in the past in how is hard to present a candi- Times show that, as early as age relatives recommended league in October 2013. “He’ll the owners of the NFL’s
students were admitted date as a walk-on tennis the mid-2000s, teens with by the athletic department, apply of course, but could Chargers, got in as walk-ons,
through the athletic depart- player when he states in his thin athletic resumes from including Ratanavadi and [h]e get in in January?! They including a golfer whose
ment. The university said it essay that he quit playing.” some of Southern Califor- his father, according to cor- will donate big.” undistinguished high school
could not discuss individual The records do not re- nia’s wealthiest enclaves respondence memorializing A glance at the USC ad- record in the sport featured
cases because of privacy flect how Cancro responded, were admitted as walk-ons. the visits. He also regularly missions website would indi- a 19-over-par score at a jun-
laws. but the committee approved Heinel has said in court pa- received spreadsheets of ap- cate the answer was no. ior tournament. USC had
“This fraud involved a the teenager for admission pers that she was intro- plicants favored by athletics, Transfer students generally hoped for a $5-million gift
limited number of employ- two weeks later. His name duced to the system around such as a 2015 list that dis- applied by Feb. 1 for admis- from the family, according to
ees exclusively in Athletics does not appear on any USC 2006 by then-senior associ- played Ratanavadi’s son’s sion in the fall. a proposal prepared by
who are no longer with the tennis roster. ate athletic director Bran- SAT scores and GPA with But for the son of Peter fundraising staffers, and
university,” the statement Cancro and his wife made don Martin, her supervisor, the notation, “$3mil to Men’s Comisar, the vice chairman when a gift failed to materi-
asserted. It noted new safe- a $500,000 pledge after his who had a particular apti- Golf-Thailand.” and head of West Coast in- alize, administrators re-
guards in place since 2020 admission, according to an tude with applicants from The connection between vestment banking at acted as if they had been
and stated, “We are glad this email from the couple that upscale communities south USC’s sports program and Guggenheim Securities, duped.
matter is in the past and that Orr forwarded on to col- of L.A. the very wealthy grew when USC offered virtually conci- “Their reputation across
we have learned from it in or- leagues. “Martin’s success at this Haden took over as athletic erge service so that he could campus is terrible,” Reis-
der to ensure it does not hap- “Good news … Jersey practice started a running director in 2010. gain admission halfway man erupted in a 2016 email
pen again.” Mikes coming through,” Orr joke in the athletic depart- An All-American Trojan through the freshman year. [See USC, A6]
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[USC, from A5] about Subco. It brought on a

exchange in which she called team of lawyers from Gibson
the situation “the worst I’ve Dunn & Crutcher, led by for-
ever seen. $0.” mer U.S. Atty. Debra Wong
Orr agreed, writing, “Ge- Yang, who had handled a
ez they like to make people previous USC scandal in-
dance.” volving drug use by a medi-
Ryan Stonerock, an at- cal school dean.
torney for two of the Spanos With Yang or her col-
children admitted to the uni- leagues at their side, USC
versity, confirmed in a letter employees sat for interviews
that their branch of the fam- with federal prosecutors and
ily did not give money to agents in 2019 and assured
USC and said, “Neither they, them that outside of Sing-
nor their family, did any- er’s corruption, things were
thing improper whatsoever done on the up and up.
in connection with their ap- “USC would not allow a
plications.” quid pro quo because they
An attorney for the third do not do business that way.
Spanos relative, the golfer, Donors do not get things in
said relatives had “given to exchange for a donation,”
USC for years well before Reisman told agents, ac-
and after” his time at the cording to an FBI summary
university. The attorney, of her interview. “It would
Vincent Farhat, said in a let- destroy USC’s reputation.”
ter that the family “would Sarah Trudell, a senior
never make gifts in ex- fundraising administrator,
change for admission.” asserted that “gift conversa-
Administrators even tions were only if the student
contemplated rescinding was admitted, not while they
the admission of a New York were in the application proc-
investment banker’s child ess. Otherwise, this would
over money. After Subco ap- be a conflict of interest,” ac-
proved the son of Thomas Gary Friedman Los Angeles Times cording to the FBI’s summa-
Michaud as a water polo IN 2014, Ronald Orr, then the head of USC athletic department fundraising, worked with others to help the ry.
walk-on in 2014, fundraisers stepson of the chief executive of the Jersey Mike’s sandwich chain to bypass the regular admissions process. Steve Lopes, the athletic
in the athletic department department’s chief financial
learned their counterparts
at the Marshall School of
‘She knows I have done various things to help her, officer, insisted to agents
that walk-ons “are selected
Business and USC’s Man- to join the team because the
hattan outpost were already
courting the family for a do-
but I also don’t want her to think that’s the only reason coach believes the student is
a qualified player,” accord-
nation of $1 million to $5 mil-
lion. she got in.’ ing to an FBI summary.
USC did not respond to
Worried that athletics questions about assertions
— JAMES K IM , a donor who had been an All-American golfer at USC, in an email to the school’s golf coach about his daughter
would be cut out of a wind- made in the law enforce-
fall, Heinel told Orr, “If this is spot” for his daughter, who nity to be a part of this leg- student-athlete.” the students and their par- ment interviews. Yang de-
not working out the way you he said was talented and endary facility and in no way Undeterred, the coach ents, the records show. clined to comment.
planned, I can have Admis- hardworking. depended on [my nephew’s] told her that Solomon was After a 2018 meeting with USC announced in 2020
sions pull the approval.” “She went to every single admission.” The internal prepared to donate $150,000, staff at Oaks Christian in that it had conducted its
“Really sucks,” he agreed. practice there was, every 6 USC discussion connecting pleading in an email, “It Westlake Village, Kirk Bren- own internal investigation in
“Don’t pull we will guilt them a.m. weightlifting session,” the admission of his nephew would help us tremendously. nan, USC’s director of un- connection with Varsity
…” he said. She left the team in to his giving “surprised” ... Please let me know when dergraduate admissions, Blues and was parting ways
Orr told The Times he her first season after break- him, he said, adding, “I never can he be presented?” agreed to change the rejec- with three senior athletics
was referring to guilting ing an ankle in a longboard- linked the two in my mind.” Heinel wouldn’t budge. tion of one female student to administrators, Orr, Lopes
other departments within ing accident. Jovan Vavic, the legend- Months later, Solomon a “contract” to allow her en- and Jacobson. Orr told The
USC and not the family. In 2014, the Trojans foot- ary USC water polo coach, was back, this time with the trance to USC after a period Times USC did not accuse
Michaud did not respond to ball apparatus, from head was kept in the loop about help of USC’s fundraising of- in which she might attend him of any misconduct when
messages. coach Steve Sarkisian on some students being admit- fice in San Francisco. For a classes at another institu- terminating him. Jacobson
His son was a backup down, was put on alert when ted for his team, but not oth- third time, Heinel refused tion, according to an email said he “was not involved in
goalie on the water polo the nephew of a San Marino ers. (He was convicted in and warned a colleague in an he wrote to his boss, the Subco process,” had
team for two years. It’s un- portfolio manager showed 2022 of accepting bribes to email to stay away, writing, Brunold. nothing to do with Varsity
clear whether the family ever an interest in playing for the secure the admission of “Basically this guy was try- “Thanks, man,” the dean Blues and resigned volun-
donated to USC. team. Singer’s clients. The case is ing to buy admission.” of admissions replied. “I tarily. Lopes declined to
Not all students accepted Andrew Barth was an es- on appeal.) Solomon’s son did not at- have changed the VIP comment.
as walk-ons fully understood tablished donor whose After Subco admitted a tend USC. [spread]sheet to reflect Though the university
how they had been admit- nephew was a talented foot- young member of the He told The Times that this.” did not release a full report,
ted. ball player, though not of the Spanos family, the Chargers’ he followed the instructions Rob Black, the head of it posted a statement on its
The daughter of James top tier USC recruited with owners, as a water polo walk- USC employees laid out and school at Oaks Christian, website that it had uncov-
Kim, a donor who had been scholarships or promises of on in 2016, Vavic spotted her never promised $150,000 in told The Times, “I am un- ered an average of about 12
an All-American golfer at playing time. name on a list of incoming exchange for a spot. aware of any improper students a year admitted
USC, entered the university “Our coaches are on water polo players. “There is no way I would ‘pushback’ of any specific through Subco who “ulti-
as a volleyball walk-on de- him,” Haden assured Barth “Who is … Spanos?” Vavic ever spend that kind of mon- applicant’s admissions ap- mately were not on a team
spite a stature — 5 feet 5 — in October 2014. “Will keep asked his staff in an email. ey for a kid to go to USC — on plication, and we do not roster.”
unusual for the setter posi- you updated.” An assistant coach replied, top of tuition,” he said. challenge any college or uni- Some were Singer clients,
tion listed on her applica- In the following months, “No clue.” versity’s admissions deci- some had legitimate reasons
tion. She never played for administrators conveyed to She went elsewhere for sion.” for not playing and some
The ‘University of
USC. Barth that they considered college. The president, the pro- “were falsely presented to
“She knows I have done his nephew a serious With other applicants, Spoiled Children’ vost, deans and trustees the Office of Admission as
various things to help her, prospect. Among them- Vavic was leading the As it has transformed it- could designate an appli- athletic recruits due to the
but I also don’t want her to selves, they discussed the charge. The then-CEO of self from a solid local uni- cant as a VIP. About 37% of past giving and/or potential
think that’s the only reason teen in terms of his uncle’s GoFundMe, Rob Solomon, versity to a highly competi- VIPs gained admission in future generosity of their
she got in,” Kim wrote in a past and future largesse. reached out to Vavic in tive international research 2018, about three times the families …,” the 2020 state-
2014 email to the golf coach, “Very important. $10-mil March 2018 about his son, institution, USC has tried to rate of regular candidates, ment said.
Zambri, a longtime friend. opportunity. Plus the kid who had not applied to USC shake off its reputation as according to USC data re- USC subsequently rolled
“Let’s keep the specifics can help us,” Haden told but decided late he wanted the “University of Spoiled viewed by The Times. Those out what it termed “best-in-
from her … hope you under- athletic department col- to attend. Children.” VIPs marked for rejection by class controls,” among them
stand.” leagues. He instructed Mark He “has a lot more to offer It touts itself as a wel- admissions officers would certification of applicants by
“No worries,” Zambri Jackson, the department’s to USC than the tale told by coming home for undocu- get a second read by head coaches, and recently
replied. “I’ll keep my big chief innovation officer who his transcript,” Solomon mented immigrants, foster Brunold, the admissions told The Times it had “suc-
mouth shut.” oversaw the football pro- told Vavic. “While [he] likely youths, veterans and first- dean. cessfully prevented any fur-
Zambri did not respond gram, to “jump on this.” will not pursue competing in generation students. More Admitting the rich and ther abuse of our athletics
to messages seeking com- Jackson told Sarkisian in a college, he loves the game than two-thirds of under- famous was a point of pride, admission process from tak-
ment. Kim declined an inter- January 2015 email that and is very interested in graduates receive financial at least internally. In an ing place.”
view request. Barth’s nephew was “an ex- team manager, analyst, vi- aid, and many families with email from Brunold in Au- The 2020 statement, lack-
tremely important admit for deographer, sports com- incomes under $80,000 pay gust 2017 with a subject line ing any specifics, might have
us via football.” mentator, etc., opportuni- no tuition at all. “for the nosey folks among been the end of discussion
What the
“Indeed it is. ... Have a big ties.” University records re- us ...,” he listed “interesting” about the walk-on path, ex-
coaches knew ask to Andy,” Haden chimed Vavic immediately asked viewed by The Times show incoming students — the cept for a handful of Varsity
The stated purpose of in, later telling the group, Heinel to present him to that, even with this focus on children and grandchildren Blues defendants who re-
Subco was to help Trojans “Once he is admitted, I will Subco as a walk-on, telling equity and merit, USC ad- of politicians, television per- fused plea deals and insisted
coaches field the best teams be visiting his uncle for a her, “This could be a great ministrators gave deference sonalities, business leaders on their day in court.
possible, but coaches did gift.” donor for us and USC in gen- to affluent families. and academics — organized In filings, their lawyers
not attend committee meet- Haden phoned Barth lat- eral.” Tony private schools by the field of their bold- homed in on the special
ings and might never know er that month to personally But Heinel declined after such as Harvard-Westlake, faced parent or relative. treatment USC gave the
that donor children were ad- deliver word of his nephew’s she reviewed his file. the Buckley School and children of donors and po-
mitted as walk-ons for their acceptance, according to an “He has never even re- Marymount High School got tential donors. In their view,
Scandal puts USC
squads. Unlike scholarship email Barth wrote describ- ceived an A in an academic a special advance notice of Singer’s clients were not
athletes, who would lose ing the call. The nephew was course,” she explained to admissions decisions so in the crosshairs that different from the
their tuition subsidy if they on the football roster for five Vavic. “This would be a chal- guidance counselors there For years, the practice of donor families USC fund-
did not compete, walk-ons years, redshirting his fresh- lenge for a high scholarship could emotionally prepare admitting children of donors raisers courted directly, they
were under no obligation to man season. He played in and would-be donors as argued.
try out or attend practice. one game in 2018, according walk-on athletes remained “USC itself channeled
Some coaches openly to stats published by USC. little known outside a circle candidates for admission
promoted the system of Barth said his nephew on of boosters and rich alumni. who had donor support
donor walk-ons. Jason Ken- the football team was “abso- One person who thoroughly through the Subco, the VIP
nedy, then assistant volley- lutely at the level of other understood the walk-on sys- process, and sometimes
ball coach, wrote in a 2016 USC players” and noted that tem was Newport Beach col- both, just as Singer himself
email that his roster was full, he was named in his final lege counselor Rick Singer. did — regardless of whether
but he said he would make year the top defensive player Singer, the architect of those applicants actually
an exception for the daugh- on the Trojans’ scout or the Varsity Blues scandal, had athletic talent,” lawyers
ter of Bob Gries, a Tampa- “service team,” the backup exploited and further for four Varsity Blues par-
based investment fund squad starters play against distorted the existing sys- ents wrote in one pretrial fil-
founder. at practices. tem by pocketing exorbitant ing, adding: “It appears the
“If [Gries’ daughter] is in After his nephew’s ad- fees to get children with no Athletics Department
a position [where] she can mission, Barth continued athletic ability into USC as sometimes used the Subco
walk on and her family can fi- making large donations to walk-ons, sometimes using for donor applicants with es-
nancially support the pro- USC and seeking special ad- fake test scores, doctored pecially poor academics.”
gram since USC is a private mission treatment for at photos and fabricated Parent Robert Zangrillo
school and privately funded, least four other applicants, sports statistics. demanded the university
there are always consider- including a second nephew. Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times Federal prosecutors in database of VIP applicants
ations for those sorts of Those students were not ad- TIES between USC athletics and the very wealthy Boston brought charges with a list of contributions
situations,” Kennedy wrote mitted as walk-ons or grew when Pat Haden took over as athletic director. against Singer in March 2019. that parents made before
to the teen’s club coach, add- through Subco. Prosecuted alongside him and after acceptance.
ing: “USC will basically “I was planning on mak- were 38 of his parent clients, USC refused, with Yang
grant us a roster exemption ing my next $100,000 pay- half of whom stood accused telling the court that “ad-
and fast track [her] to a spot ment towards the Endowed of conspiring to bribe their missions decisions are
on the team …” Scholarship Club seats,” he children’s way into USC. based on a wide range of fac-
Kennedy did not respond wrote to Haden in May 2015. “I’m shocked by it,” tors … not because of money
to written questions. A sentence later he asked, USC’s board chairman, Rick their parents may have do-
Subco admitted Gries’ “Any idea on how my neph- Caruso, said at the time. nated.”
daughter a month later and ew[’s] ... transfer application What USC did not say Brunold, the admissions
her father pledged $1.5 mil- is looking?” was that Singer’s crimes dean, backed up the claim in
lion to the university. Gries Barth told The Times played out in a larger system a declaration, writing, “If I
told The Times that a USC that he considered the top- for donor walk-ons. The had known that a prospec-
administrator asked him for ics in the email “separate most high-profile of his cli- tive student’s family had do-
money in the phone call in- and unrelated items” and ents, “Full House” actress nated $50,000 or $100,000 to
forming him of his daugh- that he didn’t expect or re- Lori Loughlin, for example, USC, it would not have af-
ter’s admission, or in one ceive promises of admission had two daughters admitted fected the Admissions De-
shortly thereafter. He said in exchange for his dona- through Subco for crew. partment’s decision
he had a long record of phi- tions. Even before the indict- whether to admit the stu-
lanthropy, including in The $10-million pledge to Steven Senne Associated Press ment was public, the uni- dent.”
youth sports, and did not see USC, Barth said, repre- DONNA HEINEL, a former USC athletics adminis- versity took steps to control A magistrate judge who
a contribution as “buying a sented a “historic opportu- trator, enters federal court in Boston in 2019. what information got out had reviewed some of USC’s
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How purpling politics are changing rural county

[Inyo County, from A1] church called the cops on
talists, said Kim Nalder, di- them, alleging that their dog
rector of the Project for an was running amok and scar-
Informed Electorate at Sac- ing children. There were no
ramento State. kids around at the time, said
“Our politics are so di- Muchovej, who believes the
vided right now, but I have a real issue was “walking while
little glimmer of hope that gay.”
exposure to each other as In his first City Council
humans will break through race, Muchovej defeated the
that at some point,” said incumbent, a former Bishop
Nalder, a former wildland police chief. He ran for re-
firefighter who has spent election in 2022 unopposed.
much time in Inyo County. “I “A lot of people — clos-
think the best opportunity eted liberals — are realizing
for that kind of future heal- that they’re not in the mi-
ing is in small towns where nority, and that conserva-
there’s no way to avoid peo- tives nationwide have been
ple from the other side.” skewing so far to the right
Alas, Inyo County’s pur- that [liberals are] not willing
pling has been uncomfort- to sit in the shadows any-
able for the politically in- more,” he said.
clined, who have grown Indeed, in 2022, the re-
more vocal, and more suspi- gion’s increasingly visible lo-
cious of their neighbors, cal LGBTQ+ community or-
whether they are ultra- ganized its first-ever East-
MAGA or never-Trump. ern Sierra Pride, complete
And just about every- with an all-ages drag show —
body blames the changes on over the objections of reli-
newcomers — remote work- gious conservatives who
ers and “the invasion of L.A. vowed to “reclaim the rain-
Sprinter vans,” as one bow.”
Democrat put it, who during One of the event’s found-
the pandemic fled their ex- ers was Deena Davenport-
pensive, locked-down cities Conway, who married her
for the Eastern Sierra, and Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times wife at San Francisco City
never left. BISHOP MAYOR Jose Garcia said that in Inyo County, he has experienced kindness that rises above partisan Hall in 2013, the year the U.S.
(The city folks left so conflicts. The Republican registration lead has narrowed from more than 10 points in 2016 to 4 points this year. Supreme Court cleared the
much trash and feces in the way for same-sex marriages
forest that locals distributed she felt about Trump. “Oh, owns much of the county’s tives “got lulled into a false Lanphear, a 21-year resi- to resume in California — af-
stickers promoting proper God,” she said, putting her land. sense of security” and were dent of the Owens Valley and ter Harris, as state attorney
camping etiquette, includ- face in her hands and shak- This is a place where peo- surprised by the political the wife of a law enforcement general, refused to defend
ing one with a smiling piece ing her head. ple still brag about then- flip. He noted that the GOP officer, said many people are Proposition 8, the state bal-
of poop that reads: “Pack it Like McIntosh, Hunt, 65, Gov. Ronald Reagan being still wins down-ballot races nervous to display Trump lot initiative that banned
out! We care where you go!”) is a grassroots political ac- grand marshal of the Mule here, and that in the 2022 gu- signs and flags because of same-sex marriage.
Lynette McIntosh, who tivist. She still attends pub- Days parade in 1974. bernatorial race, Inyo the county’s growing politi- Davenport-Conway, 58,
describes herself as “very, lic meetings and protests in When Trump ran in 2016, County voters backed Re- cal divide. fears Trump will roll back
very MAGA” and has lived a face mask to guard against just over 41% of registered publican state Sen. Brian After Trump’s 2016 elec- hard-won rights for women
for nearly five decades in COVID-19, drawing eye rolls voters in Inyo County were Dahle over Democratic Gov. tion, marches were organ- and LGBTQ+ people.
Bishop — the county’s big- from McIntosh, who pro- Republicans — a 10-point Gavin Newsom. ized for liberal causes. But from her beauty sa-
gest town, population 3,800 tested mask and vaccine advantage over Democrats. Blacker, who lives and “All of a sudden we see lon on Bishop’s Main Street,
— has a dark view of the in- mandates earlier in the pan- This year? Republicans works in Death Valley Na- women’s rights protests, she tries to be upbeat about
flux. She believes there has demic. hold a 4% registration tional Park, said the econo- anti-Trump protests, pro- the county’s political divide.
been a coordinated effort by Hunt is a proud Demo- advantage. my is voters’ top concern in immigrant open-border pro- Since moving to Inyo County
well-connected progressive crat who is, yes, retired from Newcomers have almost Inyo County, which relies tests,” she said. “Locals are in 2016, she has made a lot of
groups like the Sierra Club the Sierra Club. She helped certainly had an impact. upon tourists’ financial abil- like, ‘What is going on?’ That conservative friends and
to infiltrate and divide small, organize Inyo350, a chapter In 2020, when the county ity to vacation in its public creates division.” neighbors. They have em-
conservative communities of the international activist went purple, 10% of regis- lands. Biden-era inflation, braced her — and she, them.
all over the country, to take group 350.org, which focuses tered voters had moved to he said, has been brutal. :: “There’s a lot of sophis-
over school boards and city on environmental and social Inyo County from another “All the people I’m talk- tication in compromise,” she
councils, and to turn resi- justice issues. county in California since ing to now, they’re saying Even before the pan- said. “Hopefully our country
dents against Trump. Hunt and her wife — the 2016, according to an analy- they’d rather have mean demic-era newbies moved can get back to that. The
In another sign of differ- daughter of a tungsten mine sis of voter registration data tweets and a vibrant econo- in, local progressives aghast Owens Valley, and Inyo
ing views here, McIntosh worker who grew up in for The Times by Eric my than continue the way at Trump’s 2016 victory were County in particular, is a
charged that a new public Bishop — moved here from McGhee, a senior fellow at we’re going,” Blacker said. becoming more visible. They perfect cross section of
artwork depicted the Washington, D.C., in 2014 to the Public Policy Institute of Trump appeals here, he restarted what had been an America.”
horned demonic deity be near family. She is horri- California. said, because Democrats in inactive Inyo County Demo- Bishop Mayor Jose Gar-
Baphomet. Local artists say fied by the possibility of an- Statewide, just 5% of reg- Washington and Sacra- cratic Central Committee. cia, a healthcare interpreter
it is just a fanciful mashup of other Trump presidency. istered voters in 2020 had mento “don’t understand They organized a women’s and former dentist from
animal images, including a “He’s threatening a dicta- moved from a different rural communities” and pri- march and Black Lives Mat- Mexico City who moved here
bear and bighorn sheep — torship,” she said. “He’s county since 2016. oritize things like electric ve- ter protests in Bishop. in 1989, said that in Inyo
with wings in the rainbow threatening to prosecute his In Inyo County, about hicles — which do not work In 2018, progressives County he has found kind-
colors of the Pride flag. opponents. Mass deporta- 34% of the newcomers came well in far-flung places with helped elect Stephen ness and grace that tran-
“We’re a real conserva- tions. He’s threatening cha- from Los Angeles or Orange few charging stations. He Muchovej, the first out gay scend partisan bickering.
tive community, but there’s os in a country that is full of counties, according to the said he has to drive at least member of the Bishop City “We’re less than 4,000
this whole barrage of left- guns. Where does my worry data. Eleven percent came an hour to the grocery store Council, who said he got into people. Are we going to di-
wingers that have come in — list stop?” from the Bay Area. Most — and across the Nevada politics because he believed vide ourselves because of
I mean, radicals. Radicals,” Hunt is heartened by were Democrats and inde- state line to buy cheaper gas. Trump was stoking anti- politics? No,” he said.
said McIntosh, a 73-year-old Inyo County’s recent liberal pendents. Emily Lanphear, vice LGBTQ+ sentiment. Garcia, who was elected
Presbyterian church elder tilt. But what’s sad, she said, The only other California chair of the local Republican Muchovej, a 44-year-old in 2020 and is running for re-
who favors bedazzled, star- is that “we may be more blue county to flip blue after vot- Central Committee, ran a Brazilian immigrant and election, last month did a
spangled ball caps and — or more purple — but we ing for Trump in 2016 was booth last month at the astrophysicist, moved here substantive interview on the
drives around with a are more divided.” mostly rural Butte County — county fairground — com- from New York City around podcast Butt Hurt Owens
“Trumplican” bumper which saw massive displace- plete with a giant photo of a 2007 to work at the Owens Valley, named after a red-
sticker. :: ment after the deadly Camp bloodied Trump raising his Valley Radio Observatory leaning Facebook group
McIntosh, who happily fire destroyed the town of fist after a July assassina- near Big Pine. where locals gossip and
credits Trump for the over- The politics of Inyo Paradise in 2018. tion attempt. She said she Around the time Trump gripe.
turning of Roe vs. Wade, says County, a place roughly the was pleasantly surprised by was elected, Muchovej and He read aloud a recent
the former president is size of Massachusetts, have :: how many kids and teen- his husband were walking comment from the Face-
“called by God” to lead the long been tinted red by resi- agers came up to ask ques- their dog — a black lab nick- book page: “Democrats stay
country. dents’ distrust and resent- David Blacker, chairman tions and pose with a card- named Prince Valium “be- off my property!!! and Mr.
Fran Hunt, a fellow ment of liberal big cities like of the Inyo County Republi- board cutout of the former cause he was so chill” — Garcia you’ll never have my
Bishop resident, also men- Los Angeles, whose Depart- can Central Committee, said president. “They think he’s through a public field when, vote!!!”
tioned God when asked how ment of Water and Power that, in 2020, local conserva- such a badass,” she said. he said, members of a nearby It made him laugh.

Growing up in Berkeley means early exposure to politics

[Berkeley, from A1] activists on soapboxes on stopped at a swanky fund- date’s first name.
As a group of girls danced UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza; raiser at the Fairmont Hotel Emmie Feeley, who was
to TikTok trends on a clear marching alongside pro- in San Francisco. He caught wearing a Thousand Oaks
blue October day, fourth- testers of the Vietnam War; her eye and she waved him Elementary T-shirt and
grader Arie Van Trump was and hearing the Rev. Martin over, he said. Secret Service dangling yellow duck-
quick to clarify that she is Luther King Jr. speak. agents made a path, and the shaped earrings, recently
“NOT related to any presi- Harris spent many of her old schoolmates exchanged wrote Harris a letter.
dents.” early days at the Rainbow a hug. Emmie’s neighbor had
“I think it’s just really cool Sign, a Black cultural center “I thought to myself, told her that he was Harris’
to just be in a place where it’s in Berkeley where singer ‘How cool is this?’ ” he said. art teacher when she was
like: Everyone unite, Black Nina Simone performed “My kindergarten pal.” around her age, and she
lives matter, and all this when Harris was 7, and State Sen. Nancy Skin- wrote in pencil to the politi-
stuff,” she said of the home- where famous authors Maya ner (D-Berkeley) was anoth- cian, saying: “You are my
town she shares with Harris. Angelou and Alice Walker er politician molded by the hero,” and “Ever since I was
Between lessons on Cali- held book signings. passionate city. She moved five, I’ve been looking up to
fornia’s missions and Ruth At the Rainbow Sign, “I there from Palos Verdes in you.”
Acty, Berkeley’s first Black could begin to imagine what the 1970s to study environ- Emmie told Harris in the
teacher, Arie has heard con- my future might hold,” the mental science at the uni- Peter DaSilva For The Times letter that she’s a pescatar-
cerns from her classmates future vice president wrote. versity and said she had no CHILDREN at Harris’ elementary alma mater now ian and likes to bake. But the
about Project 2025. She is “It was a citizen’s up- political ambitions. But play by a mural of her and other female role models. girl had carefully weighed
rooting for Harris, hopeful bringing, the only kind I soon, she was drawn in by whether to mention that
for more humane solutions knew, and one I assumed ev- the fight over Roe vs. Wade election. But Berkeley has cal group that disbanded she’s Jewish. She knows that
to immigration and home- eryone else was experienc- and was persuading others certainly embraced her. decades ago; his father was a Harris’ husband, Second
lessness. ing, too,” she said. to vote for Shirley Chisholm, Campaign signs for Har- social justice advocate who Gentleman Doug Emhoff, is
“I hope she makes history Berkeley is “where it all the first Black person to run ris and running mate Tim fought for affordable hous- Jewish, too, but she worries
by becoming the president. began” for Harris, said for a major party’s presi- Walz are everywhere. The ing; and his uncle was the about antisemitism.
It would be like showing the Aaron Peskin, a member of dential nomination. school district and the city’s groundbreaking U.S. House “If the letter accidentally
other countries we’re ready the San Francisco Board of “There was this fervor, tourism bureau have web Rep. Ronald Dellums of Cal- got dropped somewhere on
to not be racist or sexist,” the Supervisors who is running this pride, a deep discourse” pages honoring her child- ifornia. the way to the White House
9-year-old said. for mayor. Peskin was a said Skinner, who before be- hood here. And many tout “It’s a very community- or wherever she lives. ... what
Harris has described her classmate of Harris’ at ing elected to the California long-ago connections to the oriented place, so you can if it got in the wrong hands?”
formative years living in a Thousand Oaks Elementa- Legislature had served on history-making presidential talk politics on the sidewalk she wondered.
Berkeley duplex as an ideal ry. A black-and-white photo the Berkeley City Council candidate. with people. And we do, we Emmie told Harris any-
place for a child of immi- in her memoir shows him sit- while still a student. “Grow- Skinner once lived on definitely do,” Bartlett said. way. She has a plan to make
grants and an influential in- ting, legs crossed, in their ing up I didn’t even know Bancroft Way, just a few “All of us have contributed to sure the letter grabs her at-
troduction to Black leader- first-grade classroom near a who my congressman was, blocks from Harris’ yellow this place as being a place of tention: She’s going to color
ship. tiny Harris wearing pigtails. and now everywhere you childhood home, which city freedom.” it hot pink and neon green so
Her parents had come to His mother, an Israeli im- went there were signs about officials have considered Standing outside Harris’ that it stands out from all
Berkeley from abroad — fa- migrant who railed against political forums and recruit- making an official landmark. former elementary school the other mail the vice presi-
ther Donald Harris from Ja- Ronald Reagan at the family ers trying to get you to regis- Berkeley City Council- earlier this month, a gaggle dent receives, presumably in
maica, and mother Shya- dinner table, formed a spe- ter to vote or walk member Ben Bartlett said of informed fourth-graders boring white envelopes.
mala Gopalan from India; cial friendship with Harris’ precincts.” Harris once babysat him were ecstatic about the pos- “I hope that she can help
they “met and fell in love” at mother, he said. Harris has not exactly when she was in junior high sibility that one of their own people that need it the most
the university “while partici- “A lot of that seminal, embraced the further-left while he spent time at his could be the nation’s first fe- — people who are sick, peo-
pating in the civil rights really important American politics of the city (where aunt’s house in Oakland. male president. ple who don’t deserve to be
movement,” Harris wrote in activism initiated out of just 3% of voters are regis- Bartlett’s story is quint- “We’re all feminists, in jails,” the girl said, envi-
“The Truths We Hold.” Berkeley and San Fran- tered Republicans) as she essential Berkeley: He said right?” one girl asked to re- sioning a Harris presidency.
She describes her moth- cisco,” Peskin said. aims to appeal to moderate his mother was an early sounding nods. Another cor- “And can protect the envi-
er’s life-changing experi- Peskin reconnected with swing-state voters in the member of the Black Pan- rected her classmate’s pro- ronment and animals. Espe-
ences watching outspoken Harris in August when she high-stakes presidential ther Party, the radical politi- nunciation of the candi- cially penguins.”
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Ferris wheel to grace West Harbor in San Pedro
will be big enough to serve
Amusement park 1,600 people at a time with
live and fresh fish for sale. It
rides, restaurants and will operate for about three
bars will be part of years.
After that, the Fish Mar-
the project replacing ket will open in another loca-
Ports O’ Call. tion at West Harbor that can
seat 3,000 and would be one
of the largest restaurants in
By Roger Vincent the country, Ungaro said.
Currently the market is
The Port of Los Angeles operating with mobile
will get an amusement park kitchens in temporary out-
with a large observation door quarters in the parking
wheel as part of West Har- lot next to its former site,
bor, the attraction being where it served 450,000 din-
built to replace Ports O’ Call ers and grossed $16 million
in San Pedro. last year, Ungaro said.
With the project’s $155- “It’s a testament to their
million first phase, which brand, and their product,
will include restaurants, and the fierce loyalty of their
bars and shops, set to open clientele,” Johnson said.
late next year, its developers Ports O’ Call, a kitschy
announced plans to ex- imitation of a New England
pedite construction of the fishing village, opened in
next phase, which calls for 1962. It was a major regional
more food tenants as well as attraction where thousands
an array of outdoor pickle- came every year to stroll
ball and padel courts. among quaint shops, take
Developers also struck a boat rides and dine by the
tentative deal with the own- water. For a period in the
ers of popular San Pedro 1970s, the mast-like Sky-
Fish Market to forgo plans to tower lifted visitors 30 sto-
build an expansive $140-mil- ries high to show them giant
lion restaurant and enter- tankers, cruise ships and
tainment complex nearby fishing trawlers navigating
and instead remain at West the port.
Harbor. The Fish Market is But in the late 1980s,
one of the top-grossing Ports O’ Call Village faded
restaurants in the country Studio One Eleven and grew shabby, a victim of
but had to move from its AN ARTIST’S RENDERING of the West Harbor food and entertainment complex depicts some attractions, changing tastes in enter-
longtime home on a wooden including a Ferris wheel, carousel and wave swinger, planned near the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro. tainment and dwindling in-
pier to make way for con- vestment in its upkeep and
struction of West Harbor. swinger and other carnival with Crème & Sugar, Oak- Among the tenants will Harbor Breeze Cruises improvement. Despite a
The West Harbor Wheel, rides operated by SkyView berry Acai and a park set be Yamashiro, a Japanese- will remain and the Los An- last-minute, nostalgia-fu-
as the Ferris wheel will be Partners of St. Louis. aside for new pop-up restau- themed restaurant that has geles Maritime Institute’s eled community outcry and
known, will be as high as 150 The public courts will be rant and beverage concepts been a Hollywood destina- wooden tall ships will dock lawsuits from merchants
feet — about 50% higher operated by the King of to test the waters. tion for decades and plans to at West Harbor. and restaurants, all but the
than the Pacific Wheel at Pa- Padel, which will manage six The second phase will open a second branch on the Future phases are ex- fish market was demolished
cific Park amusement cen- padel courts and 10 pickle- cost about $45 million, waterfront. pected to include a hotel and in 2018 to make way for dram-
ter on Santa Monica Pier, he ball courts, which will be bringing the total cost for Other announced ten- a 6,200-seat amphitheater atic redevelopment, first
said. Riders will occupy en- available to the public as well the first two phases to $200 ants are Bark Social, an off- now undergoing an environ- proposed by the Harbor
closed gondolas that will as for club and league million, said Eric Johnson, leash membership dog park mental review. The venue is Commission five years be-
provide views of the working games. The San Diego com- president of Jerico Devel- and social club, experiential being developed with music fore.
port, the USS Iowa battle- pany puts on tournaments, opment, which is co-devel- art gallery Hopscotch, Mike and theater impresario Ned- San Pedro company
ship, the Vincent Thomas glow-in-the-dark events and oping West Harbor with Hess Brewing, restaurants erlander Organization. Jerico Development and Los
Bridge and cruise ships. social mixers. Ratkovich Co. Tenants will Poppy + Rose, King and San Pedro Fish Market Angeles developer Ratko-
Other attractions in the Other phase two tenants spend another $75 million Queen Cantina, and Mario’s will also expand in phases, vich Co. were selected by
amusement park will in- will include San Pedro pizze- building out their spaces, he Neighborhood Butcher Chief Executive Mike Un- port officials to perform the
clude a carousel, a wave ria Miller Butler and Coffee estimated. Shop & Delicatessen. garo said. The first phase makeover of the 42-acre site.

CNN facing defamation trial over report on Afghan war profiteers

from the web version of the tions as to whether the story gued, unsuccessfully, that
A judge found story after Young com- was ready to air. (The seg- Young’s actions violated
plained, and CNN issued an ment got approved after go- Taliban law and it was thus
evidence of malice in on-air apology, clarifying ing through the network’s accurate to use the phrase.
a 2021 report on firms that he was not involved in il- vetting process). The 2021 report by CNN
legal activity. CNN will also be asked to chief national security corre-
charging to help But Young, a Navy veter- present financial data dat- spondent Alex Marquardt
people trying to flee. an, asserts that the story’s ing back to 2021. The net- said private operators were
global exposure on CNN’s work is owned by publicly charging exorbitant sums to
channels and digital plat- held Warner Bros. Discov- Afghans desperate to leave
By Stephen Battaglio forms damaged his reputa- ery, but information on the their country after the U.S.
tion and destroyed his Flor- unit’s business performance withdrawal. Many of those
CNN could soon land in a ida-based consulting busi- is not broken out in earnings looking to leave believed
Florida courtroom as it faces ness, Nemex Enterprises, reports. they were in danger of being
a defamation lawsuit from a which served multinational Right-wing media watch- targeted by the Taliban, the
security contractor who corporations. dogs and commentators report said.
took payments to evacuate A photo of Young ap- have seized on the case as ev- Marquardt’s only named
people out of Afghanistan peared onscreen above a Mike Stewart Associated Press idence that CNN and other example of such an operator
after the U.S. military’s 2021 graphic that read, “Afghans CNN issued an on-air apology, saying that a contrac- mainstream outlets are not was Young, who advertised
withdrawal. trying to flee Taliban face tor in its report was not involved in illegal activity. to be trusted. that he could facilitate
The contractor, Zachary black markets, exorbitant CNN declined to com- evacuations from Af-
Young, was included in a No- fees, no guarantee of safety impasse. On Monday, Judge mony on the internal work- ment on the matter. In a ghanistan online to Ameri-
vember 2021 segment on war or success.” William Henry Scott ruled ings in the news organiza- court filing, the network said can and European multina-
profiteers charging high The case has been wind- that Young did not act il- tion. the segment presented “only tional corporations and
prices to assist people in ing through the legal system legally, but held off on decid- Evidence in the case in- what it knew to be true.” nongovernment organiza-
fleeing Afghanistan after the for two years. A Florida ap- ing whether the term “black cludes text messages from CNN never described tions.
U.S. exited. The report used peals court ruled in June market” in the story implied CNN journalists describing Young’s activity as illegal The story cited posts by
the term “black market” in that there was enough evi- criminality. Young as a “s—bag” and and argued that the term Young on LinkedIn that said
an onscreen graphic and in a dence of negligence and ac- A two-week jury trial has “a—.” There was also a text “black market” was used to he charged $75,000 for a car
spoken introduction, which tual malice by CNN to allow been scheduled for Jan. 6. If that said “we gonna nail this describe an unregulated sys- from Kabul to Pakistan and
Young says falsely portrayed Young to seek punitive dam- it goes forward, CNN’s jour- Young mf—.” tem to get Afghans out of the $14,500 for flights to the
his activities as illegal. ages from the network. nalists and producers will There are also emails country, according to court United Arab Emirates.
The term was removed Settlement talks hit an have to give public testi- from editors raising ques- filings. The network also ar- Young told the network
in a text that he asked
Afghans who wanted to
leave to have sponsors cover
them.

Judge rejects prosecutor’s bid to reopen Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ case CNN said in one court fil-
ing that concerns editors ex-
pressed about the story
“had to do with their percep-
wrote in her five-page order. search and prepare argu- available to Baldwin’s de- Arizona. Teske was sched- tion of the quality of the jour-
A New Mexico jurist “The State disagrees ment.” fense attorneys for inspec- uled to be a witness in nalism,” not its accuracy.
with the Court’s analysis Marlowe Sommer also tion. Instead, the rounds Gutierrez’s trial in early The company also argued
says Kari T. Morrissey and intends to appeal the wrote that Morrissey’s mo- were put in evidence storage March, so he brought the that harsh language about
failed to raise factual ruling,” Morrissey said Fri- tion was untimely, noting under a different case num- bullets with him to Santa Fe Young in internal messages
day in response. the prosecutor missed an ber than the one for the in case they could be useful. by its journalists does not
or legal reasons to Morrissey, in recent mo- Aug. 30 deadline to file the “Rust” shooting investiga- But Gutierrez’s defense at- demonstrate that they pur-
retry the actor. tions filed with the court, motion. tion. torney decided not to call posely published false infor-
has defended the state’s In addition, the judge Baldwin’s attorneys ar- Teske to testify. mation.
handling of the case and dis- said Morrissey’s 52-page gued that the actor-pro- Gutierrez was convicted “Few things are more
By Meg James puted evidence — rounds of motion exceeded the num- ducer was denied his right to in March of involuntary common in newsrooms than
ammunition turned over to ber of pages allowed by state a fair trial because the state manslaughter in the journalists using tough and
A New Mexico judge has the Santa Fe County Sher- rules. was obligated to turn over all Hutchins shooting. indignant language to refer
refused to revive Alec Bald- iff ’s Department earlier this Baldwin was facing an 18- evidence that could be help- After her conviction, and to persons whose misdeeds
win’s manslaughter case in year that may have matched month prison sentence if ful to his defense. before leaving Santa Fe, they believe they are in the
the “Rust” movie shooting, the bullet that killed “Rust” found guilty of involuntary The judge agreed and Teske turned over the am- process of exposing,” CNN
denying a motion from the cinematographer Halyna manslaughter for Hutchins’ dismissed the charges munition to the Sheriff ’s De- attorneys said in a court fil-
prosecutor who had asked Hutchins three years ago. Oct. 21, 2021, death during against Baldwin with preju- partment. ing.
the judge to reconsider her But the judge appeared the production of “Rust.” dice, meaning they cannot The judge was chagrined In 2020, CNN settled a
decision to clear Baldwin of troubled over the prose- But just as the trial was get- be refiled. to learn that three of the lawsuit filed by Kentucky
criminal liability. cutor’s attitude toward ting underway in a Santa Fe Morrissey tried to argue rounds appeared to match high school student Nicho-
First Judicial Circuit Baldwin’s defense attorneys’ courtroom, Marlowe Som- the judge’s actions were too the fatal bullet in the “Rust” las Sandmann, who was at
Court Judge Mary Marlowe arguments in July that the mer tossed out Baldwin’s severe because the rounds movie set shooting, contrib- the center of a viral video
Sommer late Thursday de- actor had been denied his criminal case after the new had no bearing on Baldwin’s uting to her decision to dis- controversy. The lawsuit
nied special prosecutor Kari right to review all the evi- evidence came to light. case. miss the charges against said CNN falsely accused
T. Morrissey’s motion to re- dence against him. Months earlier, a former The disputed rounds Baldwin. Sandmann and other stu-
consider the dismissal of the Marlowe Sommer said police officer who lives in Ar- made it to sheriff ’s deputies Separately, Gutierrez dents of “engaging in racist
felony charge against that during a July 12 hearing izona had delivered nearly in a roundabout way. failed in her bid this fall to conduct” after a rally.
Baldwin, star of the troubled over the disputed evidence, two dozen .45-caliber rounds The retired police officer, have Marlowe Sommer Several conservative me-
western movie. Morrissey “elected not to to the Santa Fe County Troy Teske, is a friend of throw out her conviction, al- dia outlets have settled defa-
“The Court concludes make any argument follow- Sheriff ’s Department, say- Thell Reed, a noted Holly- leging that the prosecutor mation cases related to false
that the State does not raise ing the introduction of evi- ing the ammunition might wood armorer and father of also withheld evidence in her voter fraud claims made
any factual or legal argu- dence ... and chose not to ask have been related to the “Rust” weapons handler proceedings. Gutierrez is during the 2020 presidential
ments that would justify the the court to recess the hear- “Rust” shooting. Hannah Gutierrez. In 2021, serving her 18-month sen- election, including $787 mil-
grant of a motion to recon- ing to allow additional time But sheriff ’s deputies Teske stored ammunition tence at a New Mexico wom- lion paid by Fox News to Do-
sider,” Marlowe Sommer for the state to conduct re- failed to make those bullets for Reed, who also lives in en’s prison. minion Voting Systems.
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L.A. faces MARKET ROUNDUP

Wall Street’s mixed finish

New York ends a six-week win streak
in rivalry associated press
that stocks have become too
expensive. Higher Treasury

renewed NEW YORK — U.S. stock

indexes gave up early gains
yields added more pressure.
Company earnings re-
ports, which have been
and drifted to a mixed finish mostly solid, continued to be
[Rivalry, from A1] Friday, helping give the mar- a key focus for investors. The
Los Angeles had recently ket its first losing week since latest round of corporate
passed Chicago to become early September. profit reports could give
America’s second city, but it The Standard & Poor’s Wall Street a better sense of
still felt far behind with its 500 closed little changed af- whether the high stock
puny skyline, suburban ter having been up 0.9% ear- prices are justified.
sprawl and relative lack of lier in the day. The bench- Capital One Financial
cultural sophistication. mark index closed the week rose 5.2% after beating Wall
“We were in this very 1970s 1% lower, ending a six-week Street’s third-quarter finan-
mindset. Everything car-ori- winning streak. cial forecasts. Ugg footwear
ented, smog everywhere,” The Dow Jones industrial maker Deckers Outdoor
said Paul Haddad, a Dod- average fell 0.6% and posted climbed 10.6%. In the tech
gers historian. Haddad re- Ed Jones AFP via Getty Images its first weekly loss after six sector, L3Harris Technolo-
members going to Dodgers A COMMUTER waits for a train in Brooklyn within New York’s subway system straight gains. The Nasdaq gies rose 3.5% and Western
games, and even if he didn’t in 2021. The Dodgers and Yankees will wage war once again in the World Series. composite rose 0.6%. It ex- Digital rose 4.7%.
bring a radio, he could hear tended its winning streak to McDonald’s lost an addi-
the voice of Vin Scully as he the 2024 World Series be- Yankees owner George from its own City Hall scan- seven weeks. tional 3% as the deadly out-
walked through the crowd gins. But others are less op- Steinbrenner, who ran the dal from 2022, when an audio The S&P 500 and the break of E. coli tied to its
because so many other fans timistic about the current team with an iron fist, push- recording featuring Latino Dow generally have been Quarter Pounders ex-
had their transistors turned New York state of mind. ing out managers and gen- council members making falling from record highs set panded. The stock fell 7.6%
on. “The Yankees really do eral managers only to reel racist or insensitive last week. The market has this week, its worst weekly
In a sign of things to come carry the hopes and dreams them back in, then push comments was leaked to the been cautious amid worries loss in more than four years.
for both cities, however, the of many New Yorkers, since them out again. He spent media, leading to the resig-
Dodgers rebounded from they are one of the only more than any other owner nation of Council President 43,360
the 2-0 deficit to win the ’81 bright spots we have now as in baseball and transformed Nury Martinez. Dow Jones industrials
championship. The two we watch the mayor and his the Yankees in the minds of “The divide on the City 42,700 Close: 42,114.40
teams are again meeting at coterie indicted by federal many purists into the Evil Council reflects real divides Change: -259.96 (-0.6%)
Dodger Stadium for the authorities,” said Evan Roth Empire. on the streets of L.A. as well,” 42,040 10 DAYS
World Series, and the civic Smith, a New York City poll- The pugnacious owner Martinez said.
power dynamic has shifted. ster and campaign consult- even claimed to have gotten While the city is not in a 44,000
Fans can look out from ant. into a fistfight with Dodgers moment as fraught as 1992, 43,000
the stadium parking lot to a Roth Smith said the com- fans in an elevator in the Hy- when riots broke out in the
different Los Angeles, dot- ing World Series reminds att Wilshire Hotel in 1981 af- streets following the acquit- 42,000
ted with skyscrapers New Yorkers of a different ter the Dodgers won three tal of the officers who beat 41,000
spreading out across the time, when the Bronx straight in L.A. to take the Rodney King, Martinez said
basin. L.A.’s cultural cachet Bombers seemed to reach lead in the World Series 3-2. there is a tension in the air. 40,000
has also increased dramati- the World Series every year, No one knew whether to be- There’s a homelessness
39,000
cally in those 43 years. There when they were part of New lieve the fight was real. crisis intertwined with a fen-
is even a subway — though York’s post-9/11 comeback “I showed up [at work] tanyl crisis on the streets, re- 38,000
New Yorkers would accu- story. the next day with one of my tailers are locking away
37,000
rately argue that it does not After winning the World hands bandaged saying, ‘I more merchandise to deter M J J A S O
compare. A recent video re- Series in 2009, though, the don’t know what happened shoplifters, metals thieves
leased by L.A. Metro, seem- Yankees fell into a long but I had to deck the guy,’ ” are making off with whole
ingly without irony, showed championship drought, said Mike Lupica, a longtime streetlamps, and sometimes Major stock indexes
it’s a 25-minute walk from “and the trajectory of the New York Daily News sports destructive, sometimes Daily Daily % YTD %
Dodger Stadium to the near- city seemed to change over columnist who covered the deadly street takeovers are Index Close change change change
est Metro station. In New that time as well,” Roth 1981 World Series. “Just proliferating. Dow industrials 42,114.40 -259.96 -0.61 +11.74
York, the train is about 100 Smith said. “That’s when cheap New York humor.” All these issues Los An- S&P 500 5,808.12 -1.74 -0.03 +21.77
feet from Yankee Stadium. the face of New York started Tuesday’s death of one of geles is preparing to manage
Nasdaq composite 18,518.61 +103.12 +0.56 +23.36
And New York? It is still to change — [increasing] the stars of the 1981 World as the Olympics come to
New York, but these days it’s cost-of-living issues, declin- Series, Dodgers pitcher Fer- town in four years, with the S&P 400 3,107.51 -20.21 -0.65 +11.72
a bit humble. The city is in a ing quality of life.” nando Valenzuela, threw World Series serving as a Russell 2000 2,207.99 -10.93 -0.49 +8.93
state of chaos: Mayor Eric Still, Roth Smith said, into sharp relief how much sort of mini dress rehearsal EuroStoxx 50 4,943.09 +7.64 +0.15 +9.32
Adams has been indicted for he’s not sure New Yorkers Los Angeles has changed for for the international specta- Nikkei (Japan) 37,913.92 -229.37 -0.60 +13.30
allegedly taking bribes in ex- look to the other coast with Latinos, said Ruben Mar- cle to come. Hang Seng (Hong Kong) 20,590.15 +100.53 +0.49 +20.78
change for favors for Turkish envy — or at all. tinez, a professor of litera- Mayor Karen Bass noted
businessmen and di- “I think a lot of New York- ture and writing at Loyola that the same situation oc-
plomats. Many of his top ers don’t think about any- Marymount University. curred in 1981, when the 1984
aides have resigned or been where other than New York,” “It’s poignant to think Olympics were just three Interest rates
pushed out as multiple fed- he said. about how much his pres- years away. Daily 6 month 1 year
eral investigations loom. Die-hard Angelenos feel ence crystallized something “Maybe it’s Olympic Treasuries Yield change change change
Adams — who says that the same way, in reverse. that was in motion and that magic adding to spirit of the T-bill: 1 year 4.30 +0.03 -0.91 -1.10
every week is a hard week “L.A. has long since would emerge more clearly time. It’s the same type of ex- T-note: 5 year 4.07 +0.04 -0.63 -0.69
when you’re the mayor of passed the point where it across the 1980s, which was citement,” she told The
T-note: 10 years 4.24 +0.03 -0.47 -0.60
New York City — told The needs to care at all about the political and cultural Times.
T-bond: 30 years 4.50 +0.03 -0.31 -0.51
Times that the biggest dif- what New York thinks. L.A. presence of Latinos in this Mayor Adams said he is
ference between the 1981 is a complicated, world-class city. He was the harbinger of ready to bet on the Yankees
Week 6 months 1 year
World Series and 2024 in city on its own terms,” said that,” said Martinez. again, this time against Bank & mortgage rates Rate ago ago ago
New York is public safety. David Ulin, a historian of Los There were barely any Bass.
6 Month CD 2.31 2.34 2.30 2.33
The last time the two teams Angeles who grew up in New Latino politicians at the “It will be more than the
faced off was in the midst of York City. “There was more time, Martinez said. The two dollars I did with my 1 Year CD 2.62 2.64 2.61 2.63
the crack epidemic; murders of that sense in 1981 of Los eviction of Latino families classmate. We’ll come up 2 Year CD 2.55 2.58 2.53 2.52
in 1981 were the highest on Angeles wanting to prove from Chavez Ravine in 1959 with some friendly item we 30 Year Fixed 7.15 6.96 6.72 7.56
record at the time. something. Partly that had to build Dodger Stadium could exchange,” he said. 15 Year Fixed 6.45 6.37 6.08 7.02
Adams remembers the to do with the fact that the was still relatively fresh. “She’s invited here for our 30 Year Jumbo 7.33 7.17 6.94 7.76
battles between the Yankees same team had lost two con- Forty years later, things are victory parade.”
and Dodgers in the 1970s, secutive World Series to the different. Mayor Bass agreed, at
watching Mr. October — Yankees.” “We’re by no means a per- least on the part about wa-
Reggie Jackson. For Ulin, and for many fect, multicultural paradise. gering. “What we’re going to Commodities
“Watching him hit those others raised in New York, We’re riven by class and race bet, we’re working that out,” Delivery Close Daily 1 year
home runs out of the park, hating the Dodgers was in- divisions. But look at City she said. Treasuries date in $ change change
that’s the one I remember grained in the mind, like hat- Hall. Now we can have cor- As for those strong Oil: Barrel Dec 24 71.62 +1.43 -13.92
the most,” he said, referring ing an ex. The Dodgers had rupt Latino politicians like enough to brave the Friday Gold Ounce Oct 24 2,740.90 +6.00 +752.30
to Jackson’s three-home- abandoned them, aban- we had corrupt Anglo politi- traffic with a World Series Silver Ounce Oct 24 33.60 -0.01 +10.83
run game in 1977. doned the city. cians back in the day,” Mar- game, a Lakers game and
He bet a classmate $2 “They broke my grand- tinez said. numerous other events in Associated Press (Bank and mortgage rate figures from Bankrate.com)
that the Yankees would win. father’s heart when they If New York is mired in in- Los Angeles, Bass had a
Smart. left,” Ulin said. vestigations orbiting City message. Online updates
Adams argues that New The city’s swaggering Hall, Martinez said, Los An- “I would say go Metro,” For current market coverage plus stock prices and
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educators, an unwieldy complication

for even the most adept political
leader, easily overwhelmed the bum-
bling Quisling. By the end of 1942, most
of the roughly 1,300 teachers who had
been arrested and shipped to concen-
tration camps were sent back home.
But Nødtvedt never taught again;
he didn’t even survive the teachers’
strike.
His refusal to enable fascism ex- Paul Vernon Associated Press
tended beyond thwarting educational EARLY VOTERS cast their ballots at the Frank-
indoctrination. After he walked off his lin County Board of Elections in Columbus, Ohio.
job, he was caught sheltering two
resistance operatives on his property.
As my grandfather’s family and the
history book tell it, the Gestapo ar-
A California-style
rested Nødtvedt that May, and he soon
turned up in a local hospital showing
obvious signs of torture. There, on
national primary?
June 7, 1942, the teacher who mentored Re “Here’s why the race looks so impossibly close,”
Paul Thornton Los Angeles Times a generation of children at the farm Opinion, Oct. 23
A MEMORIAL to two teachers who were killed during the Nazi occupa- died, murdered by his Nazi captors.
tion of Norway. Conscientious educators walked off the job en masse. The precise details of Nødtvedt’s onah Goldberg offers some salient observations on

LETTER FROM ...

resistance to fascism and occupation
in Norway — how long he was involved
and the extent of his activities — are
difficult to pin down, given the limited
J the reasons for the closeness of the 2024 presidential
election, but he fails to highlight what many centrist
voters believe lies at the heart of our deep political di-

Lessons from a
vide.
historical sources. What we do know is The two major political parties have too much of a
that Nødtvedt was a teacher who
stranglehold on the nomination process. For many
followed his conscience. Records paint
centrist voters, that stranglehold essentially sidelines
a picture of a dedicated, peaceful pub-

teacher murdered
them completely at the primary stage if they no longer
lic servant, the kind you see every-
where in the world — except where register as a Democrat or a Republican.
fascism declares them to be “the ene- The impact can be similar, however, for someone like
my within” and forces them out or me who has remained a registered Democrat but would

for resisting the Nazis worse. have crossed over to vote for Republican Nikki Haley in
My grandfather and an entire gen- our March primary had I been given the opportunity.
eration of local children grew up know- Instead, the only non-laughable option I had as a regis-
ing that their teacher had been taken tered Democrat was to vote for President Biden or not
and murdered for resisting fascists — vote at all.
ably loud. for heroism against small men like Finding a solution will not be easy, but perhaps it is
In 1940s Norway, as in today’s As it happens, I visited the family Quisling, who truly are “the enemy time to begin exploring the possibility of a single,
farm (known as Mostraumen) last within” as they seek to dismantle the nationwide presidential primary in which voters would
United States, reactionary summer, and I was keen to learn more foundations of truth and democracy not be limited by their party affiliation or lack thereof.
politicians tried to rewrite about the life of the teacher, Lars through warped curricula. This sort of This is akin to what California now does at the state
Nødtvedt. The tiny schoolhouse where experience made such a mark on Nor-
history for their own ends. he taught still stands on the property; wegians that 70 years later, my grand-
level.
Russ Swartz, Granada Hills
during its prewar heyday, children in mother was still impressing the
this remote corner of western Norway lessons upon me.
would take a boat to school at Nødtvedt had taught in one of the

“T
hey took Knut’s
teacher, you know.” Mostraumen, a prosperous farm for its most peaceful settings imaginable — a The subheadline for gence-generated fake
It was something time. tiny schoolhouse on a fjord, next to a Goldberg’s column was, images when helping with
my late grandmother According to a local history book narrow strait where the water flows “This election reflects the his daughter’s school
often said when, as a published in 1990, Nødtvedt started swiftly in whatever direction the tide fact that Republicans and project couldn’t have been
child, I asked about life in Norway teaching in the small municipality of dictates. Today, that part of Norway Democrats have both better. I just finished up a
during World War II. Sometimes she’d Modalen in 1915. Though he is honored retains its old-country character, become minority parties.” few lessons with students
talk about sawdust-laden bread ra- in the area today as a teacher, the book though with a lot more tourists. In the Reading this, I believed he about the need to deter-
tions and sharp-dressed thugs out and describes him as something of a Ren- closest town to Mostraumen, a memo- would write about inde- mine if websites, photos
about for the five years Nazi forces aissance man: A pioneer in fur trading, rial to Nødtvedt and the other local pendents such as me. and other online resources
brought Norway’s democracy to heel, he was “the first of the teachers in teacher killed during the war, Knut But he did not mention are real or fake.
but she seemed especially intent on Modalen to get a car,” an oddity for an Otterstad, stands in the churchyard independents once, so I Common Sense Media
getting across what happened to the area that had limited road access until cemetery where generations of my will. is a great starting point for
educator who taught my grandfather recently. family are buried. Independents became educators to help students
(whose name is pronounced “kuh- Nødtvedt continued teaching The memorial, as Norwegian the largest voting bloc learn the ins and outs of
noot,” not “newt”) at his childhood through the Nazi invasion of Norway in monuments tend to do, draws atten- because voters got tired of how to use critical think-
fjord-side farm. May 1940, but he quit in early 1942 — tion with its simplicity — a granite seeing both Democrats ing skills to determine if
Now, with my grandmother 10 years along with thousands of other educa- boulder sitting on the grass, the names and Republicans being information or photos and
deceased and my grandfather more tors. At the time, the Nazis’ puppet of the two men carved into the flat end, controlled by Big Business videos have been altered
than 30, we face an election in which government led by Vidkun Quisling inscriptions noting that they were and Big Money. Generally, using manipulation or
one candidate threatens reprisals was maneuvering to force a Nazified teachers killed by the German occupi- we are fiscal conservatives deception.
against his critics and has floated curriculum on schools, but the teach- ers. (don’t spend more money My students are learn-
plans to certify teachers based on their ers weren’t having it. So, at grave risk Looking at this memorial from 1996, than you take in) and ing about the importance
patriotism and yank funding from to their lives and freedom, they walked it’s obvious what the community wants liberal on social issues of not always believing
public schools he dislikes. That refrain off the job en masse. you to know: They took these teachers. (pro-choice, pro-gay mar- what they see or read
of my mor mor, “They took Knut’s Remarkably, their collective act of — Paul Thornton, riage and so forth). online. Much has changed,
teacher, you know,” rings uncomfort- resistance worked: A society without letters editor Hopefully, a candidate especially in the last 10
will emerge one day who years, but as one instruc-
reflects America’s largest tional video noted, we all
voting bloc. should use an important
Vaughn Hardenberg tool when going online: our

‘Trump economy’ robs from Papers implicated some world leaders,

including the prime minister of Ice-
land, who resigned. Putin and some of
Westwood

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brain.
Valerie Belt
Pacific Palisades

the people to enrich the elite Russia’s oligarchs are mentioned. The
Paradise Papers, a similar data leak
made public in 2017, implicated Trump
Goldberg writes as if
this election is simply a
::

Cabinet members, advisors and major political battle. This ig- What a sad article on
economic growth. donors. Perhaps the former presi- nores the Trump cam- young children wasting
If he regains power, the former And in the first year of the pan- dent’s pending trials and his 34 felony paign’s culture war pos- time on fake AI pictures.
demic, when tens of millions of Ameri- convictions tend to eclipse those finan- ture and pandering to a Young students should be
president would serve his cans were losing their jobs? That’s cial troubles in Americans’ minds. “Christian” electorate; encouraged to first devel-
billionaire buddies like Elon when hundreds of American billion- I’m not sure why poor Americans ignores his criminal be- op their own critical think-
aires got $1.2 trillion richer. would believe Trump’s economic poli- havior and still-unresolved ing skills without using
Musk and Vladimir Putin. Taxes are a big part of this story. cies would help them in any way. criminal accountability in computers.
Reportedly Musk, ranked as the Maybe some Americans think of multiple cases; and it How about developing
world’s richest person, paid roughly rising incomes and credit Trump for ignores the stoking of fear their vocabulary and
LZ GRANDERSON 3% in taxes from 2014 to 2018. The aver- those. But the increase in wages that and anger by constantly social skills by interview-
age American pays more like 15%. workers currently enjoy largely came lying about history, cur- ing their own families and
Believing Donald If you think Trump would be good about because of work stoppages led rent events, his non-solu- friends for information on
Trump will be better for the economy, you just might be a by unions and a supportive Biden tions to those events and whatever subject? How
for the economy than billionaire. White House. Trump and Musk do not his own past behavior. about learning to use
Vice President Kamala Not that Trump’s billionaire fans want union workers. They talk openly This is not political. books to research the
Harris is like thinking are fixated only on American taxes. about their disdain for paying over- The Republicans do this topics? How about using
you’re a dinner guest The ultra-rich around the world are time. In fact, Project 2025 — the blue- by using race, religion and their own handwriting to
when you’re actually thriving since Trump’s wealth transfer print for how a second Trump admin- gender as wedges driven record the report in their
the main course. began, with the richest 1% grabbing istration would reshape the govern- into the fabric of our soci- own words? How about
There’s a reason three billionaires two-thirds of the new wealth that was ment around him — would make it ety. drawing their own illustra-
— including Elon Musk — poured $220 created between 2020 and 2023. easier for corporations to avoid paying This is no longer a tions rather than wasting
million into Trump’s re-election bid They’ve helped Trump beyond just workers extra for longer days. sun/moon or a moon/moon time wondering if the
this summer, and it’s not because they campaign donations. Maybe some Americans recall political battle; it is a images they found online
felt the pinch when the price of a gallon According to the Wall Street Jour- direct assistance from the federal man-made assault on the are fake?
of milk went up a few years ago. It’s nal, Musk has been regularly chatting government early in the pandemic and country’s democratic Would developing good,
because the former president has a with Russian President Vladimir Putin imagine Trump was behind those principles and institu- basic critical-thinking
proven record of helping the ultra-rich since 2022, just as Trump is reported to checks. He wasn’t. The three rounds of tions. The handicapping of skills at this young age
get richer at the expense of average have had many private phone calls stimulus relief — including the infa- this race is close because help them in later years to
Americans. with the dictator since leaving the mous check that has Trump’s name on the corporate-owned see differences between
Trump’s 2017 tax cuts were crafted White House. Operatives for Putin — it — came about because Democrats in media has sane-washed true information and
to mostly benefit the wealthiest 20%. whose hidden assets have been esti- Congress pushed to help struggling Trump’s authoritarian disinformation?
Those at the very top really cashed in. mated to rival Musk’s fortune — used Americans, not because of Republican leanings and mental de- We should strive to
America’s 748 billionaires reaped $2.2 fake social media accounts to help compassion. When the American cline. develop our young stu-
trillion after the cuts went into effect. elect Trump in 2016. (The Justice De- Rescue Plan passed the Senate 50-49 David Echt dents’ minds so they even-
When Trump slashed the corporate partment said last month that Russia in March 2021, every single Republican Torrance tually use computers and
tax rate, his Council of Economic Ad- is at it again, by the way.) voted against it. artificial intelligence only
visers promised American workers We don’t get many glimpses into the The U.S. economy endured the as a side tool and not the
would see at least $4,000 added to their
bottom line — the old “trickle-down
secret dealings of billionaires, but
there was a data leak in 2016 that re-
pandemic despite Trump’s mishan-
dling, not because he steered the ship
Don’t outsource first go-to in a project. Isn’t
that what education is
economics” sales pitch again.
It didn’t work under Ronald
flected poorly on them. The Panama
Papers exposed a network of shell
well. American workers are finally
seeing some gains, and inflation has
your brain to AI really about?
Mary Sikonia
Reagan, and it obviously didn’t hap- companies used by the world’s ultra- slowed back to normal levels. That’s Re “A second-grader gets a Manhattan Beach
pen under Trump. rich to avoid paying taxes in their only because Biden and Harris have lesson in deepfakes,”
In 2018 alone, one analysis of S&P countries. Although the U.S. sen- been able to undo some of the damage Opinion, Oct. 22
500 companies found more than 80% of tenced one taxpayer to prison in 2020 the previous administration did.
HOW TO WRITE TO US
the money corporations received in tax for related fraud, money laundering Trump campaigns as if he’s an As a tech instructor in a
breaks was paid out to owners of the and other crimes, 28 people charged in Everyman, but when he was in office he public elementary school, Please send letters to
companies, and only 20% was rein- Panama were acquitted just this sum- showed who he really looks out for — I believe the timing of letters@latimes.com. For
vested into the business. mer. and it is not the American worker. editorial writer Tony Bar- submission guidelines, see
Surprise — the tax savings didn’t The fallout from this and other data boza’s piece on his experi- latimes.com/letters or call
trickle down to workers or encourage leaks may not be over yet. The Panama @LZGranderson ence with artificial intelli- 1-800-LA TIMES, ext. 74511.

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As Israel hits Lebanon, some see echoes of Gaza

[Lebanon, from A1]
Shiite heartlands and de-
stroying infrastructure —
according to Lebanese lead-
ers, U.N. officials and ex-
perts — that preclude resi-
dents’ timely return. Places
like Nabatieh are rapidly be-
coming unlivable.
“Israel is targeting econo-
mic infrastructure, the agri-
cultural sector — all that is
required for normal life,”
said Howaida Turk, the gov-
ernor for the south Leba-
nese governorate of
Nabatieh. “This is more than
just a response and a
counter-response between
Israel and the resistance,”
she said, referring to Hezbol-
lah. “We’re seeing places
where life is unsustainable
now.”
One of the most recent
attacks in Nabatieh, which
has been under evacuation
orders since early this
month, was another strike
on the remains of the Old
Market. Hidden in the rub-
ble were the falafel restau-
rant whose owner learned
his trade over the border in
Acre, Israel; the sweets
shop; the stationery store
that was a one-stop shop for
kids returning to school.
“This is our history, the
most beautiful days of our
childhood — we’re seeing
them turned to rubble,” said
Hussein Jaber, 30, who Nabih Bulos Los Angeles Times
heads Nabatieh’s fire serv- MUCH OF NABATIEH, once southern Lebanon’s second-most populated city, has been reduced to rubble in a series of Israeli airstrikes.
ices.
“And for what? These are least 28 water facilities serv- price.” on the municipal building who leads the Free Patriotic shoulder blade and a punc-
shops, civilian areas. All ing more than 360,000 peo- “The devastation is be- came as the mayor and other Movement, a Maronite tured lung. He panted as
they’re doing is destroying ple, the United Nations chil- yond belief for all people in members of the city’s crisis Christian party allied with Mroueh sewed up an inci-
livelihoods.” dren’s agency, UNICEF, said Lebanon as it is in Gaza. We team were assembling aid Hezbollah. sion by his shoulder.
Israel says it is targeting in a statement last week, and can’t let this happen again,” packages for the remaining “Israel specializes in Mroueh remembers the
“terrorist infrastructure six hospitals are out of serv- he said. residents. population transfer. … And city in previous bouts of con-
sites, Hezbollah command ice. A further 15 hospitals, 70 Israeli officials have said “There are no rockets, no this transfer is being waged flict, like in 2006, when Israel
centers and weapons stor- primary healthcare centers they are aiming to degrade ammunition here. Bring po- against the Lebanese, and and Hezbollah fought in a
age facilities … embedded by and several schools have Hezbollah and return to lice dogs if you want; they especially the Shiites,” he hugely destructive 34-day
Hezbollah adjacent to civil- sustained damage. UNICEF north Israel residents who won’t find gunpowder, just said in an address last week. war.
ian infrastructure” and “ex- said the true extent of the fled amid Hezbollah missile bread,” said Abbass Sal- Nabatieh — once a noisy, “It’s already worse than
ploiting the civilian popula- damage is “likely higher.” and rocket attacks, which loum, an administrator in compact city of 120,000 fa- that for us here. Ten times
tion as a human shield.” Meanwhile, thousands of began a day after Palestin- the municipality’s com- mous for the market and its worse,” he said.
But the level of destruc- Israeli airstrikes reaching ian militants from Hamas plaints section who had yearly 10-day gathering for The hospital still had suf-
tion has prompted calls for deep into Lebanon, along attacked southern Israel on spent hours finding the scat- Ashura, when Shiite Mus- ficient medical supplies, but
restraint from world bodies with extensive evacuation Oct. 7, 2023. Hezbollah said tered remains of colleagues. lims commemorate the 7th it was getting harder to se-
and rights groups. warnings from the Israeli it was seeking to aid Hamas On a piece of wrapping century martyrdom of the cure the 500 gallons of fuel it
“Over the past days, we military, have left wide and force Israel to fight on paper he reverently carried prophet Muhammad’s needed every day for the
have witnessed increasingly swaths of the country a no- two fronts. in his hand was a charred grandson — is now ghostly generators — no one was
severe impact on civilian in- man’s-land. The Biden administra- piece of flesh he was taking quiet. Only a skeleton crew willing to make the drive to
frastructure and civilians That includes the tion has warned Israel about for DNA analysis. “All this is of volunteers and medical pick up more. Staff had re-
across Lebanon due to Isra- Dahieh, the cluster of subur- the breadth of Israel’s happening because the Isra- and municipal workers re- sorted to sleeping in the hos-
eli airstrikes,” Imran Riza, ban neighborhoods south of bombing campaign. When elis want us to leave.” main, along with residents pital with their families
the U.N.’s humanitarian co- Beirut where Hezbollah asked about the strike on Nadim Houry, director of too old, poor or infirm to rather than risk the back
ordinator for Lebanon, said dominates. One of Israel’s Nabatieh and the destruc- the Arab Reform Initiative leave. and forth on the roads. It felt
in a statement following the strikes in a residential neigh- tion of villages, State De- think tank who once led Hu- Outside one of two hospi- like the city was being stran-
strikes on Nabatieh. borhood in the Dahieh last partment spokesperson man Rights Watch’s Beirut tals still open in Nabatieh, gled, he said.
“Healthcare facilities, month killed Hezbollah’s Matthew Miller said that he office, said the attacks on nestled on a hill overlooking Mroueh said he believed
mosques, historical mar- longtime top leader, Hassan didn’t know what Israel’s Nabatieh were of a piece part of the city, ambulance the timing of the strike on
kets, residential complexes, Nasrallah. The area once “intent was or what they with Israel targeting politi- crews sat outside a court- the city offices, hitting when
and now government build- held more than 700,000 resi- were trying to accomplish,” cal, educational and social yard, smoking and drinking residents were expecting aid
ings are being reduced to dents, many of whom now but that Hezbollah operates institutions affiliated with coffee. Every so often, a loud deliveries, was a message
rubble.” sleep in makeshift shelters from underneath and inside Hezbollah or that operate in thump would hit somewhere from the Israelis.
In recent days, Israeli across Lebanon’s north; or, civilian homes. its areas. in the distance, and they “They’re telling people to
army troops demolished for the more desperate, “Obviously, we do not “Israel has long been would crane their necks try- get out. Doesn’t matter who
buildings en masse, in vil- Beirut’s squares, parks and want to see entire villages thinking about Hezbollah’s ing to see smoke and identify it is — no one should stay.”
lages including Muhaibib, seaside boulevards. destroyed. We don’t want to civilian infrastructure, but where it might be coming Mroueh said he had re-
Ramia and several others “We are seeing the same see civilian homes de- there’s a very deliberate mili- from. Soon after, an ambu- ceived a phone call a few
along the Lebanese border, patterns that we saw in stroyed. We don’t want to see tary doctrine to target what lance would peel off, sirens days before from a Danish
all but razing them, accord- Gaza, the same means and civilian buildings de- Israel has defined in its own ripping through the silence. number; it was someone
ing to Lebanese army methods of warfare that are stroyed,” he said. He added intelligence writings as ‘the Mukhtar Mroueh, a gen- named Tony, who, speaking
sources and video released being used,” Jeremy Lau- that Israel has the right to go resistance society,’ ” he said. eral surgeon, was operating in broken Arabic, claimed he
on social media. The Leba- rence, spokesperson for the after legitimate Hezbollah The displacement — in on a victim of one of the day’s was with the Israeli military
nese army has remained U.N.’s human rights com- targets, “but they need to do which some Lebanese have strikes: a man injured along and was warning residents
neutral in the Israel-Hezbol- missioner, said in a news so in a way that protects ci- had to seek new shelter mul- with his wife in a nearby vil- to get out. Mroueh said he
lah conflict. briefing this month, adding vilian infrastructure, pro- tiple times — evokes the lage. The man, his clothes was going nowhere.
Israeli bombardment in that civilians are the ones tects civilians.” mass evacuations seen in dusty and his arms streaked “We can’t leave the hospi-
the south has destroyed at who “pay the ultimate In Nabatieh, the attack Gaza, said Gebran Bassil, with red, had a broken tal.”

Storm leaves 82 dead in Philippines; a U-turn is possible

With backhoes and shov- volcano in Albay province,
Trami heads toward els, police scrambled to dig black mud and other debris
into 10 feet of mud, rocks and cascaded toward nearby
Vietnam but could debris and found a part of a towns as the storm hit, en-
head back because of head and a foot that appar- gulfing houses and cars.
ently were those of the miss- More than 2.6 million
high-pressure winds. ing woman and child. people were affected by the
“He’s simply devas- deluge, with nearly 320,000
By Jim Gomez tated,” Malinao said of the fleeing to evacuation centers
and Hau Dinh villager, a fisherman who or relatives’ homes, officials
was away tending fish cages said.
MANILA — Tropical in a lake when the landslide The government shut
Storm Trami blew away struck Thursday amid tor- down schools and govern-
from the northwestern Phil- rential rain. ment offices for the third day
ippines on Friday, leaving at “He’s in shock and on Friday on the main north-
least 82 people dead in land- couldn’t speak, and we’re ern island of Luzon. Inter-
slides and extensive flooding only asking him to point to island ferry service was also
that forced authorities to where their bedroom was lo- suspended, stranding thou-
scramble for more rescue cated so we can dig in that sands.
boats to save thousands of part,” Malinao said. In Vietnam, state fore-
trapped people, some on The storm was last casters warned of heavy
their roofs. tracked Friday afternoon rains in the central region.
But the onslaught may blowing 255 miles west of the Prime Minister Pham Minh
not be over: State forecast- northwestern Philippines Chinh ordered coastal prov-
ers raised the rare possibil- province of Ilocos Sur, with inces to stay vigilant, closely
ity that the storm — the 11th sustained gusts of up to 78 monitor Trami’s course and
and one of the deadliest to mph. brace for contingencies.
hit the Philippines this year It was moving northwest Last month, Typhoon
— could make a U-turn next toward Vietnam, which is Aaron Favila Associated Press Yagi battered Vietnam,
week as it is pushed back by forecast to be lashed by A RESIDENT of Cainta in the Philippines’ Rizal province navigates flooded killing 323 people and caus-
high-pressure winds in the Trami starting Sunday. streets caused by Tropical Storm Trami, the 11th to hit the nation this year. ing extensive damage esti-
South China Sea. The Philippine weather mated at $3.3 billion, accord-
A Philippine provincial agency said it’s possible that A government forecaster Philippines to help track the dumped unusually heavy ing to a Vietnamese govern-
police chief said Friday that high-pressure winds and told him Trami could turn storm. rain in some regions, includ- ment report.
49 people were killed, mostly other weather factors in the toward the western Phil- The 82 storm deaths in- ing some that saw one to two Each year, about 20
in landslides set off by South China Sea could force ippines early next week, but cluded 26 villagers who died months’ worth of rainfall in storms and typhoons batter
Trami, in Batangas province the storm to turn back it’s more likely to blow away in floods and landslides in just 24 hours, inundating the Philippines, a Southeast
south of Manila. That toward the Philippines. from the Philippines hard-hit Bicol, an agricul- communities with flash Asian archipelago that lies
brought the overall death President Ferdinand again without making land- tural region and tourism floods. between the Pacific Ocean
toll from the storm to at least “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., fall. destination southeast of Officials in Naga city, and the South China Sea.
82. sounding exasperated, in- “It doesn’t have to make Manila that is popular for where 11 people died by In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan,
Eleven other villagers re- quired about that prospect landfall for the damage to Mayon, one of the country’s drowning, and the outlying one of the strongest record-
main missing in Batangas, in an emergency meeting occur,” Marcos said. 24 most active volcanoes provinces of Camarines Sur ed tropical cyclones, left
Col. Jacinto Malinao Jr. told Friday with Cabinet mem- State forecaster Jofren that has a near-perfect cone. and Albay pleaded for more more than 7,300 people dead
the Associated Press by tele- bers and disaster-response Habaluyas told the AP that At least 27 remain miss- rescue boats at the height of or missing and flattened en-
phone from the lakeside officials about the response Trami’s possible U-turn has ing in several provinces, in- the onslaught to reach peo- tire villages.
town of Talisay, where he to the widespread devas- drawn interest among gov- cluding 17 in Batangas, ac- ple trapped on the upper
stood beside a villager tation. ernment weather experts in cording to Malinao and the floors of their homes or on Gomez and Dinh write for
whose wife and child were “What is the forecast for Asia, including those from Office of Civil Defense. their roofs as floodwaters the Associated Press and
buried in a deep mound of that? Is it possible it would Japan, which has been pro- Although Trami did not rose. reported from Manila and
mud, boulders and trees. return?” Marcos asked. viding information to the strengthen into a typhoon, it In the foothills of Mayon Hanoi, respectively.
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CALIFORNIA S A T U R D AY , O C T O B E R 2 6 , 2 0 2 4 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L I F O R N I A

Rapper
arrested
in plot to
slay rival
in 2022
Officials say Lil Durk’s
hit team killed target’s
cousin in an ambush
near Beverly Center.
By Matthew Ormseth
and Karen Garcia

Grammy Award-winning
rapper Lil Durk was ar-
rested by U.S. marshals in
Florida on Thursday on
charges of conspiring to kill a
rival artist in a murder-for-
hire plot, authorities said.
The 32-year-old rapper,
whose legal name is Durk
Devontay Banks, was ar-
rested near a Miami airport
and booked at the Broward
County Jail, where he is be-
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times ing held without bail, ac-
FORMER PITCHER Fernando Valenzuela, who died at 63, is being honored with a mural celebrating his career, in which he ignited cording to federal officials.
“Fernandomania” and led the Dodgers to a World Series victory. He’d stepped back from broadcasting this season to focus on his health. Banks is accused of or-
dering the murder of

Dodgers mural now a sacred altar

Tyquian Bowman, a Georgia
rapper called Quando
Rondo, whose cousin was
killed in a botched ambush
near the Beverly Center mall
in Los Angeles in 2022.
relationship with as I’m In an affidavit filed in fed-
Fernando Valenzuela about to paint this. eral court, FBI Special
“Now it takes on even a Agent Sarah Corcoran al-
died Tuesday, the greater meaning. It’s still a leged that Banks put a
same day an artist celebration of a remarkable bounty on Bowman after an
life, but it also now becomes associate of Bowman killed a
started his painting. an altar.” rapper affiliated with Banks’
The Los Angeles-based music group.
By Chuck Schilken artist found that out im- Dayvon Bennett, a Chi-
mediately upon returning to cago artist who performed
Robert Vargas had barely his work site at an apart- [See Arrest, B2]
wrapped up his first day of ment building a block west
work on a Boyle Heights mu- of Mariachi Plaza.
ral honoring Fernando “There were news crews
Valenzuela on Tuesday already there,” he said. “ And
night when he heard the there were even friends who
news that the beloved Dod- came by with marigolds,
gers pitcher had died at age which are the flowers for the
63. Day of the Dead altars.”
“I still had my harness Valenzuela came from a
on,” Vargas said early small town in Mexico and be-
Wednesday. “I wasn’t very came an MLB sensation
far away [from the mural with the Dodgers in 1981,
site]. I was having dinner af- when he sparked the cultur-
ter leaving there, so I re- al phenomenon known as
turned to the wall just to feel Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times “Fernandomania” and
connected to the space that ARTIST Robert Vargas learned of Valenzuela’s death Tuesday after his first helped L.A. defeat the New Richard Shotwell Invision/AP
I’ve already developed the day of work on the mural. “Now it takes on even a greater meaning,” he said. [See Valenzuela, B4] LIL DURK is being held
without bail in Florida.

Garvey had better luck in ’81 than he will next month

GEORGE SKELTON seconds later during the wild cele- ued, catcher Steve “Yeager picks up Game 3 that Fernando [Valen-
Jurado
in sacramento

Steve Garvey
bration.
Garvey was the Dodgers’ first
baseman. Reliever Steve Howe was
Howe, pulls him around and Howe
slams his elbow into my head. My
hat flies off onto the mound. I gath-
zuela] pitched,” Garvey said. The
inspirational Mexican immigrant
tossed 147 pitches — unheard of
questioner
vividly remembers
the final out of the
1981 World Series
pitching. Center fielder Ken Lan-
dreaux caught a fly ball for the last
out. “We all run to the mound.
ered myself and got to the dugout,
then went in to the obligatory cere-
mony with champagne.”
today when managers freak out as
hurlers reach 100 — and gutted it
through the full nine innings for a
a De León
when the Los
Angeles Dodgers
beat the New York
That’s when your dream comes
true,” Garvey recalled.
“Winning a championship is the
The Dodgers routed the Yan-
kees 9-2 that day, Oct. 28, at Yankee
Stadium. They won the Series in six
5-4 victory.
I interviewed Garvey, 75, the day
after Valenzuela died Tuesday at
staffer
Yankees. He calls it ultimate — whether it’s the World games, 4-2, in an improbable come- age 63. “He was phenomenal,”
the highlight of his All-Star base- Series or the Super Bowl or the back after losing the first two in Garvey said. “Very special to us and
ball career. Stanley Cup.” New York. the history of the Dodgers.” By David Zahniser
Even if he did get clobbered But on the mound, he contin- “The most significant was [See Skelton, B4] and Dakota Smith

In a room full of students

at Cal State L.A. last week, a
young man told Los Angeles
CRIMES OF THE TIMES City Council candidate Ys-
abel Jurado that he sup-

L.A.’s most notorious unsolved murder ports the idea of abolishing

the police and wanted to
know where she stood on the
issue.
Jurado’s reply, which in-
cluded the phrase “F— the

The killing of Elizabeth Short, dubbed the police, that’s how I see ’em,”
drew sharp criticism this
week from parts of the East-

Black Dahlia, has inspired endless theories side, where she is seeking
to unseat Councilmember
Kevin de León.
Blue Dahlia.” often described as an aspir- On Wednesday, De León
By Christopher After Short’s mutilated ing actress, and her death confirmed that Martin
Goffard body was found Jan. 15, 1947, played as a cautionary tale Perez, one of his staffers, is
in a weedy lot in South Los parents might tell daughters the Cal State L.A. student
At the Long Beach drug- Angeles, cops and reporters who dreamed of taking a bus who posed the question.
store counter where she found her hangouts and to Hollywood to find star- De León declined to say
liked to linger, a jobless learned her nickname. It dom. whether Perez, who handles
young woman named Eliza- made her sound like some The myths continue to constituent services in his
beth Short acquired the kind of rare, poisonous swirl around Elizabeth office, made the recording of
playful nickname that would bloom, a night creature on Short, whose death at 22 has Jurado’s remarks, which
fuel her long, macabre after- intimate terms with death. spawned endless byzantine first appeared Monday on
life. She dyed her hair jet There’s no proof she even theories. As with Jack the the website of the Westside
black, matching the funereal knew of the nickname. It de- Ripper, an evocative moni- Current.
hue of the clothes she fa- rived from noir fantasy and ker, an undercurrent of sex, But he commended his
vored. The Black Dahlia, helped transform her into outsize savagery and a lack aide, saying Jurado has
people called her, riffing on a noir fantasy. Writers tailored of resolution combined to RL Oliver Los Angeles Times been sidestepping ques-
Raymond Chandler noir her story to fit a femme fa- fuel enduring fascination. It ELIZABETH SHORT’S dismembered body was tions about police abo-
motion picture called “The tale archetype. She was [See Black Dahlia, B2] found in a weedy lot in South Los Angeles in 1947. [See F-bomb, B5]

SPORTS ON THE BACK: Rams’ Stafford up to his old tricks, Sam Farmer writes. B12
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Black Dahlia
killing fueled
an L.A. myth
[Black Dahlia, from B1] was already obsolescent.”
remains L.A.’s most famous Webb’s book, published
unsolved murder. in 1958, suggested Short’s
Short was born in Bos- hold on the imagination a
ton, a child of the Depres- decade after her death.
sion. She came to Southern “To the sociologist, she is
California not to pursue film the typical, unfortunate de-
stardom but a paramour. pression child who matured
When that affair ended, she too suddenly in her teens
drifted between neighbor- into the easy money, easy liv-
hoods and temporary ing, easy loving of wartime
friendships. At one point, America,” Webb wrote. To
she had an aspiring actress the criminologist, “her tor-
for a housemate and appro- tured, severed body is an
priated that woman’s anec- eerie blend of Poe and
dotes as her own. She in- Freud.”
vented endless stories to Short’s murder high-
gain sympathy. Sometimes lighted attitudes about the
she was a war widow; some- transformation of American
times she had lost a child. women, who had found inde-
She liked military men pendence in the World War II
and dated officers, not en- economy and expected to Associated Press

listed men. She used candle keep it. GEORGE WHEELER of the LAPD fingerprint unit examines evidence on Jan. 25, 1947, 10 days after Elizabeth
wax to fill her cavities. She “One of the biggest char- Short’s body was found. Retired detective David Lambkin said it is unlikely Short’s killing will ever be solved.
cadged meals and rides and acters that influences the
slept in an all-night movie mythos of this case is post- ives had missed: Short had a
theater. war Los Angeles,” said Anne connection to the neighbor-
She had no permanent Redding, who teaches the hood. Her sister knew a sur-
address when a traveling case at Santa Barbara City geon named Walter Bayley,
salesman picked her up in College. “There was a back- whose estranged wife lived a
San Diego in January 1947 lash to the whole Rosie the block from the crime scene.
and drove her to the bus sta- Riveter movement. Women Bayley was 66 and suffer-
tion in downtown Los Ange- were supposed to go back to ing from a brain lesion that
les, where she dropped off being wives and moms. I had dramatically changed
her suitcases. He then left think that heavily influ- his personality. His office
her at the Biltmore Hotel — enced the misogyny.” was blocks from the Bilt-
she had lied and said she was Redding sees a sign of more.
meeting her sister there. Short’s independence in the Maybe a destitute Short
Her body was spotted a rose tattoo on her leg — an had emerged from the Bilt-
few days later by a woman uncommonly daring gesture more that night and sought
pushing a stroller down Nor- in the 1940s. “There was a lit- his help … maybe she told
ton Avenue in Leimert Park. tle bit of edge play going on,” the sob story about losing a
At first, police thought it was she said. Short was “striking child, not knowing that Bay-
a mannequin. The mouth out on a whim without much ley’s own son actually had
was sliced ear to ear, and the of a plan.” L.A. Times been killed by a truck … may-
body was naked, posed flat Redding tries to show ELIZABETH Short was be this enraged him.
on her back, drained of students the ways that called the Black Dahlia. Bayley died a year after
blood and in two parts, Short’s past made her vul- Short’s murder. The Times
neatly severed between the nerable. How her father crap. It’s fabricated.”) was unable to locate any liv-
second and third lumbar abandoned her family when In Donald H. Wolfe’s “The ing relatives.
vertebrae. The lead detec- she was 6. How asthma cur- Black Dahlia Files,” the “Bayley had the skill to do
tive suspected a practiced tailed her education. How killer is gangster Bugsy what was done to her,” Har-
surgical hand. she never recovered from the Siegel, acting at the behest nisch said. “He’s not a per-
At the time, four Los An- 1945 death of a military pilot of L.A. Times publisher Nor- fect suspect, but he checks
geles newspapers competed she loved, which seemed to man Chandler, who (alleg- more boxes than anyone
fiercely for scoops. The Ex- initiate a “progressive de- edly) impregnated Short else. I always hedge.”
aminer transmitted the vic- generation of her ability to and wanted her out of the Harnisch is at work on his
tim’s fingerprints to the FBI cope with the world and take way. (“Ridiculous, painfully own Dahlia book. It’s 156,000
to determine her name. care of herself.” stupid.”) words and growing.
(Short’s prints were on file Short had worked as a Associated Press In another book, a wom- David Lambkin, a retired
because she had been ar- waitress and cashier, but LESLIE DILLON, a 27-year-old bellhop, was among an claims she saw her father detective, said the physical
rested in Santa Barbara for “there’s no record that she those rumored to be the killer in books on the case. kill Short but repressed the evidence was nearly non-
underage drinking a few ever had another job” after memory for years. Another existent by the time he ex-
years earlier.) To elicit back- his death in a plane crash. world’s top authority on the searching the case seriously author fingers filmmaker amined the case as head of
ground information, an Ex- “Her nomadic nature accel- case. The battle for accuracy in the late 1990s, for a 50th Orson Welles (linked to the the LAPD’s Cold Case Unit
aminer reporter then called erated,” Redding said. against the “true crime in- anniversary story. He does slaying because he sawed an in 2001. He said it is unlikely
Short’s mother with the cru- When Short left the Bilt- dustrial complex” is never- not believe there is a single assistant in two in a magic ever to be solved. He is famil-
el ruse that her daughter more Hotel, it’s possible she ending. It would be easy to factually reliable book about act). iar with the books and the
had won a beauty contest. was heading back to the bus spend all day, every day, it. “People are so nuts,” Har- suspects they propose.
Police learned that Short station, where it was safer to fighting off the crackpot In Piu Eatwell’s “Black nisch says. “People don’t “Very few have anything
had had brief encounters pass the night on a bench theories of what the novelist Dahlia Red Rose,” the killer want the record set straight. going for them,” he said. “My
with many men, who almost than on the streets. James Ellroy has called is a bellhop named Leslie People want this grab bag of favorite is Larry Harnisch’s
unanimously maintained “Wherever she went, she “Dahlia freaks.” Dillon. (“He didn’t do it,” noir tropes.” theory. Harnisch could actu-
the encounters had been was alone. She was literally In myth, Short was an as- Harnisch says. “He was in Harnisch has his own fa- ally connect his suspect to
nonsexual. The lead detec- homeless. She had no one,” piring starlet “sleeping her San Francisco. If [Eatwell] vorite suspect. John Doug- that location.”
tive would describe her as “a Redding said. “She was a way across Tinseltown ... the had talked to me for five min- las, the former FBI profiler,
tease,” adding: “She prob- relatively attractive young starstruck moth who comes utes, I would have said, told him there was meaning
ably went too far this time, woman. She was a compul- to Hollywood and gets ‘That’s bulls—.’ ”) in where Short’s body was
and just set some guy off into sive liar. She was known to burned by the Hollywood In John Gilmore’s “Sev- found. The killer could have
a blind, berserk rage.” approach strangers for fa- flame” and “finds in death ered,” the killer is Jack Wil- dumped the body in the
The admixture of disap- vors. Whether you could call the fame she didn’t find in son, a Skid Row alcoholic. desert or the mountains but
proval and disdain extended her intentionally manipula- life,” as Harnisch puts it. (Harnisch calls the book chose a much-traveled
to popular accounts. “She tive, or, to be more generous, In reality, Harnisch says, “25% mistakes and 50% fic- stretch of Norton Avenue. In this series, Christopher Goffard
was a lazy girl and irrespon- dangerously trusting, she she never took an acting tion.”) Probably the killer had a link revisits old crimes in Los Angeles
sible,” Jack Webb wrote in was a high-risk victim in a class, never registered in In Steve Hodel’s “Black to the area and wanted to and beyond, from the famous to
“The Badge.” “At twenty- high-risk situation.” Central Casting and never Dahlia Avenger,” the killer is “put the fear of God” in its the forgotten, the consequential
one, when she should have Larry Harnisch, a retired lost the Boston accent that the author’s father, George residents. to the obscure, diving into
been starting married life or Los Angeles Times copy ed- would have limited her roles. Hodel, a doctor who ran a ve- Harnisch found some- archives and the memories of
maybe a modest career, she itor, is now arguably the Harnisch began re- nereal disease clinic. (“It’s thing generations of detect- those who were there.

Rapper Lil Alaska Air sued over

Durk held in dog’s death in coach
2022 plot employees wanted them to

to kill a rival By Summer Lin

It was a seemingly rou-

sit, also was more crowded,
the suit said.
The employees then in-
[Arrest, from B1] tine cross-country trip from sisted that Contillo and his
as King Von, was gunned New York to San Francisco. father move with the dogs,
down outside an Atlanta Last November, Michael and they complied because
nightclub in 2020. Bennett Contillo and his father, the flight was about to take
was a close friend of Banks Michael Sr., took Contillo’s off, the suit states.
and affiliated with his music two French bulldogs, Ash Ash, almost 4, started
group, Only The Family. and Kora, on a two-month “breathing very quickly and
Corcoran described Only trip to New York, according heavily, with noticeable anx-
The Family, or OTF, as a “hy- to a lawsuit the younger iety,” according to the suit.
brid organization” that blur- Contillo filed Wednesday in Contillo was told that the
red the line between a music San Francisco County Supe- carriers must remain closed
collective and a gang. rior Court. during the flight. When Ash
Citing unnamed wit- A veterinarian had con- stopped moving, he couldn’t
nesses and “open-source re- Amy Harris Invision/AP firmed that the dogs were check on him until the plane
porting,” Corcoran claimed FEDERAL AUTHORITIES say rapper Lil Durk, shown onstage in 2022, set up a healthy enough for air travel, reached a certain altitude.
that Banks put a “monetary five-man hit team to kill artist Quando Rondo near the Beverly Center that year. and Contillo had bought By the time the plane
bounty” on Bowman’s head. first-class tickets so his pets landed, Ash’s body was stiff,
On Aug. 18, 2022, OTF stayed the night before they man departed in a black and raided their homes on would be more comfortable Contillo says in the suit.
members learned Bowman tracked down Bowman, ac- Cadillac Escalade with his Thursday. in the roomier cabin, he said He asserts that the flight
was staying at a hotel in L.A., cording to the agent’s affi- cousin, Saviay’a Robinson. Subsequently, the FBI in the lawsuit. crew was unsympathetic
Corcoran wrote. Five men davit. Banks stayed at a The two cars tailed the Es- got an alert from U.S. Cus- But when the men were and that he still hasn’t heard
booked one-way flights from rented home in Encino. calade to a marijuana dis- toms and Border Patrol that heading back to San Fran- from the airline regarding
Chicago to San Diego. According to an indict- pensary and then a clothing Banks had booked one-way cisco with the dogs in Febru- Ash’s death.
According to Corcoran, ment, Grant bought ski store on Melrose Avenue. flights to Dubai and Switzer- ary, Alaska Airlines employ- “I’m loudly weeping,”
someone using Banks’ masks at a sporting goods After Bowman pulled land scheduled to leave that ees asked them to move from Contillo told the Mercury
iCloud account wrote in a store and distributed weap- into a gas station near the night, Corcoran wrote. He first class to coach “for safety News of the incident. “They
text message to the person ons to the hit team, includ- Beverly Center, three gun- was also listed as a passen- purposes,” the suit states. see our dead dog. They see
who bought the tickets: ing a gun that had been men stepped out of the In- ger on a private plane bound Contillo replied that his me crying. Not a single one of
“Don’t book no flights under modified for automatic fire. finiti in ski masks. Robinson, for Italy. dogs’ pet carriers complied them stops to offer any help
no names involved wit me.” He allegedly also supplied who was standing outside In an indictment that with the airline’s policy and or condolences.”
Banks flew on a private them with a rented BMW the Escalade, was shot to was unsealed Thursday in warned that moving them Contillo seeks unspeci-
jet from Miami to Los Ange- sedan and an Infiniti sedan death. Bowman survived. U.S. District Court in Los would be dangerous — po- fied damages, claiming neg-
les with a man named Kavon with fake license plates. A few hours later, the five- Angeles, OTF members tentially fatal — to his pets ligence, emotional distress
Grant, Corcoran wrote. Traveling in both cars, man hit team was on a flight Kavon London Grant, Dean- because it could make them and breach of contract by
Grant used Banks’ credit the hit team tracked Bow- back to Chicago, Corcoran dre Dontrell Wilson, Keith anxious and lead to breath- Alaska Air.
card to book a room at the man the next day to a hotel wrote in her affidavit. Jones, David Brian Lindsey ing and heart problems, ac- An airline spokesperson
Sheraton Universal Hotel, in downtown Los Angeles, Agents arrested the al- and Asa Houston were cording to the suit. Aisle 11 of told The Times it doesn’t
where the five-man hit team the indictment says. Bow- leged shooters in Chicago charged in the plot. the plane, where the airline comment on litigation.
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CITY & STATE

Thieves target ATMs, taco trucks in Valley

County district attorney’s
Police seek help with office.
Nevarez, who was ar-
IDing more suspects, rested on suspicion of rob-
victims in heists over bery, has not been charged.
On the same day that the
the last three months. four suspects were taken
into custody, Los Angeles
By Ruben Vives Police Department investi-
gators were also making an
Thieves in the San Fer- arrest in another case in the
nando Valley have been Valley involving several
yanking ATMs out of liquor armed robberies of taco
stores and emptying the truck businesses and a 7-
pockets of taco truck work- Eleven convenience store.
ers over the last three LAPD Capt. Warner Cas-
months, and police believe tillo, commanding officer of
there may be additional vic- the North Hollywood area,
tims or suspects. They are said the eight armed rob-
calling on the public for as- beries occurred between
sistance. Sept. 8 and Sept. 21.
In an afternoon news He said in each of the taco
conference at the LAPD’s truck incidents the suspect
North Hollywood station brandished a gun and took
Tuesday, detectives said an unspecified amount of
multiple arrests had been money, mostly from the food
made in two cases. truck workers.
In the case of the snatch- Castillo said the suspect
ed ATMs, Police Lt. Samer targeted taco trucks in
Issa said four suspects were North Hollywood, Foothill,
recently arrested in a series Mission Hills and the Van
of robberies and burglaries Nuys area, where at least
that removed the machines one of the robberies in-
with brute force at liquor cluded the 7-Eleven.
stores in the Mission Hills Michael Blackshire Los Angeles Times Castillo said video from
and West Valley area. The LAPD LT. SAMER ISSA, left, Det. Timothy Kirkpatrick and Capt. Warner Castillo attend a Tuesday news security cameras helped de-
crimes, he said, occurred conference on the arrest of suspects including Jesus Garcia-Sotelo, 22, who is facing charges in eight robberies. tectives identify the suspect.
from Aug. 16 to Oct. 16. He During a search warrant
said at least one crime in- chain around the ATM the scene.” said the damage to the Oct. 16, he said, investigators in the Mission Hills area on
volved a carjacking. machine,” he said. “The sus- The ATMs, Issa said, stores had cost business served search warrants at Oct. 16, he said, police inves-
“In all incidents, the sus- pects then use their vehicle were discarded once the owners thousands of dollars. several homes in Sylmar and tigators arrested Jesus Gar-
pects forced open the front to pull the machine out of money was removed. He Among the businesses Canyon Country, where they cia-Sotelo, 22, in connection
door of the business, entered the business, load it to the could not say how much targeted was Village Market recovered numerous items with the armed robberies.
the premises and tied a back of the vehicle and leave money had been taken but & Liquor near Eldridge Ave- connected to the crimes in- During the search, he
nue and Sayre Street in Syl- cluding money and three ve- said, a vehicle and clothing
mar, police said. hicles. worn by the suspect during
The early-morning bur- Police also arrested four all eight robberies were
glary on Sept. 25 was cap- suspects. seized.

Locals fight arrival of rapist tured by the store’s security

cameras.
According to footage ob-
tained by CBS News, two
They were identified as
Los Angeles residents An-
thony Cacho, 22, Stephany
Gonzalez-Jimenez, 24, and
Prosecutors
charged Garcia-Sotelo with
have

eight counts of robbery with

a handgun, two counts of at-
people in dark clothing used Richard Nevarez, 24, and tempted robbery and 10
at the Juniper Hills Commu- corporated area near Lan- a chain tied to a white SUV to Luis Angel Rodriguez-Ar- counts of assault with a
By Andrew J. Campa nity Center beginning at caster. pull the metal security doors royo, 40, of Santa Clarita. deadly weapon.
noon. They have two stated In the case of Grassmier, out. The suspects face felony Garcia-Sotelo, who was
Red signs dot Pearblos- goals: bring awareness to residents protested upon his The thieves are then seen charges including conspira- on probation at the time of
som Highway, marking part sexually violent predators arrival in September 2021. using a crowbar to force cy to commit burglary and his arrest, remains in county
of the route sexual predator being “dumped” in the area, Some wore masks of Heath open the glass door before commercial burglary. jail without bail.
Christopher Hubbart prob- and prevent it from happen- Ledger’s depiction of the entering the store and Additionally, Cacho is Police detectives are ask-
ably will take when he moves ing again. Joker with exaggerated chaining the machine to the facing one count of pos- ing anyone who may have
into the Antelope Valley in Jeters said local repre- bloody smiles and held signs car to pull it out. session of an unregistered been a victim or has infor-
the near future. sentatives, including Palm- reading, “Sexually violent Issa declined to provide assault weapon, and Rodri- mation about other sus-
The signs — featuring dale’s mayor and City Coun- predator not welcome further details about the guez-Arroyo is facing one pects to call (818) 838-9810;
graphics of two pairs of cil, are expected to attend, here!!!” and “Keep our com- case because it was still an count of carjacking, accord- anonymous tips can be
hands and the phrase, “We along with a few hundred munity safe from SVPs.” open investigation; but on ing to the Los Angeles made at (800) 222-8477.
need your help!” — were residents. Cynthia Farrow lives di-
placed by advocate Mary Je- This is the second time rectly across from Grass-
ters and a group of local resi- Hubbart has been placed in mier and said she monitors
dents still fighting Hub- the Antelope Valley. In 2014, when he attempts to leave
bart’s court-ordered place- he was housed in the Lake the property, even when tak-
ment in their community. Los Angeles area near Palm- ing out the trash or checking
“I’ve had a few people ask dale under a conditional re- the mail.
why we’re doing this after lease program. He lived “I scream at him to ‘get RELIVE THE HISTORIC JOURNEY OF
the judge’s decision, and it’s there for two years before he over to your side,’ ” said Far-

SHOHEI OHTANI
because this fight isn’t over,” was remanded back to Coal- row, who lives with her hus-
Jeters said. “We want to inga State Hospital after vio- band, Gary. “These are vi-
push to stop the further en- lating the terms of his re- olent individuals who make
croachment of sexual preda- lease. our homes and neighbor-
tors.” His placement then was hoods much less safe.”
Two weeks ago, Los An- fiercely contested by pro- Jeters and Farrow said
geles County Superior Court testers, who later celebrated they will consider similar
Judge Robert Harrison his return to custody. protests whenever Hubbart WITH THIS HARDCOVER COLLECTOR’S BOOK
ruled that Hubbart, known In 2021, an L.A. County is moved into Juniper Hills.
as the “Pillowcase Rapist” Superior Court judge re- Until then, Jeters is at-
for his brutal sexual assaults leased convicted sex offend- tending court hearings re-
on women in the 1980s and er Calvin Lynn Grassmier garding the terms of Hub-
‘90s, would be placed into into the town of Littlerock, bart’s release.
the small community of Ju- despite local opposition. “We’re going to continue
niper Hills. Lawtis Donald Rhoden, who to monitor and fight,” Jeters
Jeters and her group, No sexually assaulted multiple said. “Even if it seems like us
SVP’s in the Antelope Valley, underage girls, was placed screaming into the wind,
are hosting a rally Saturday that same year in an unin- we’ll be out there.”

PRE-ORDER
Walmart agrees to settle suit over AND
SAVE 15%
medical, hazardous waste dumping
bursements, according to a erside County, disposed of
cover not final

By Jasmine Mendez news release from the Riv- hazardous waste in regular
erside County district attor- trash bins, according to the
Walmart will be liable for ney’s office. “The settlement lawsuit. More than 70 waste
millions of dollars in civil also imposes injunctive audits between 2015 and 2021
penalties and costs for alleg- terms, which will require were conducted across the
edly dumping hazardous Walmart to hire an inde- state.
waste and sensitive cus- pendent third-party auditor Other counties involved $38.00 reg. $45.00
tomer records in California to conduct three annual were Alameda, Fresno, Mon- plus tax & shipping • ofer expires Nov. 3, 2024 • books ship Dec. 9, 2024
landfills, according to a rounds of waste audits at its terey, Orange, Sacramento,
stipulated judgment filed facilities throughout Califor- San Bernardino, San Diego,
this week in Alameda nia during the next four San Joaquin, Solano, Tulare
County Superior Court. years,” the office said. and Yolo. Witness history unfold in “Ohtani’s Journey,” a hardcover collector’s
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Walmart by California Atty. posed of aerosols cans, spray protect our environment Angeles Dodgers and his relentless pursuit of baseball’s first 50-50
Gen. Rob Bonta and the dis- paints, rust removers, from toxic waste,” San Diego
season. Award-winning Los Angeles Times journalists take you behind
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retailer will be required to permitted to receive such tions and settlements are a
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the company did not admit “Walmart’s illegal dispos- quiring the company to pay
to any wrongdoing. Accord- al of hazardous and medical $27.6 million for disposing of
ing to the stipulated judg- waste not only violated Cali- hazardous waste in San Di-
ment, the company “has fornia laws, but, if left ego County. The retailer also Pre-order online at
compliance programs in unchecked, posed a threat agreed to halt its unlawful
place to reasonably comply”
with state laws regarding the
to human health and the en-
vironment,” Bonta said.
waste disposals.
Jacquelyn Cook, a Wal-
shoplatimes.com/ohtanibook
generation, storage and dis- “This settlement will ensure mart spokesperson, did not
posal of hazardous waste. that Walmart takes the nec- respond immediately to a re-
If an Alameda County essary steps to ensure that quest for comment. She pre-
Superior Court judge ap- its hazardous waste is han- viously called the 2021 law-
proves the settlement, Wal- dled and disposed of as re- suit “unjustified,” saying
mart will have to pay quired by law.” that the company adhered
$4.3 million in civil penalties More than 300 Walmart to obligations to better man-
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B4 SAT U R DAY , O C T O B E R 2 6 , 2 0 2 4 L AT I M E S . C O M

Garvey won’t fare as

well on election day
Judge, Weaver, Volpe and
as he did in ’81 Series Holmes? Rooting for L.A.
[Skelton, from B1] balls hurled by Donald
Garvey hit .417 in that Trump, who loves to throw
series, the highest of any beanballs at opponents’ By Noah Goldberg
Dodgers regular. heads.
We spoke as the Dodgers Garvey hasn’t formally Breaking News: Luke
and Yankees prepared to endorsed Trump, but ac- Weaver will not be pitching
meet Friday to resume their knowledges voting for him for the New York Yankees
legendary World Series three times, including in during the World Series.
rivalry, the 12th time they’ve this year’s primary election. First of all, he’s blind.
played each other in the Fall He also plans to vote for Second, he’s a lifelong Dod-
Classic — but the first since Trump against Democrat gers fan who remembers go-
1981. The Yankees have won Kamala Harris. ing to sleep to the sound of
eight times — twice when “I will vote for Trump,” the games on the radio.
Garvey was a Dodger, in 1977 Garvey told me. “I think he’s Weaver is not to be con-
and 1978. That’s what made the best person to move the fused with Yankees closer
the 1981 victory so sweet. country forward.” Luke Weaver, whose star has
But Garvey doesn’t need But how about Trump’s risen this year as he mows
to worry about being inad- crappy character? down batters and screams
vertently belted during a “I never judge people,” on the mound. This Luke
victory celebration on elec- Garvey replied. “I decide Weaver is just a guy.
tion night Nov. 5. He’s the based on substance — like Dodgers fans like Weaver
Republican candidate for a on border policy. That’s the with namesakes on the
U.S. Senate seat. And he has existential crisis in our Bronx Bombers are in a bit
absolutely no chance of country right now. The of a pickle this fall, caught
beating Democratic Rep. border has to be closed.” between the team they sup-
Adam B. Schiff of Burbank. What prompted him to port and the American
Garvey has been on the enter this sure-loser race? League stalwart whose Los Angeles Times photo illustration; Photos via Adam Hunger Getty Images
losing side in four World “I saw a dysfunctional name they share. Fandom
Series — as a Dodger and a Washington,” Garvey said. seems to win out. Holmes is pulling for the softball really prepared me Dodgers in the World Series.
San Diego Padre. So defeat He recalled being invited “I hope he gets destroyed Dodgers to bring the Com- for the big leagues,” he said. But he’s still wishing his
is no stranger. by President Reagan to a in the World Series,” Weaver missioner’s Trophy back to Judge is from Montana, a younger namesake well.
I asked if he was pre- small dinner at the White told The Times. “I wish him Los Angeles. free agent when it comes to “I am wishing him a great
pared to lose his Senate House in 1984. At the table, well. I wish him a good ca- Angeleno Clay Holmes choosing a major league Series. I know he’ll play his
playoff against Schiff. Republican Reagan and reer. But you know, I hope he sort of understands what it team to root for. His father best. He’s a great player and
“I’m never prepared to Democratic House Speaker has four blown saves in the is like to be a professional traveled to Los Angeles leader. I do hope the Dod-
lose, because that takes Tip O’Neill “joked with each World Series.” athlete — he supplements when Judge was a child, so gers prevail, but I won’t say,
away my thinking about other, bantering back and Weaver, who lives in his income playing competi- Judge decided to be a Dod- ‘Oh my gosh, I hope the Yan-
winning,” he replied. “Like forth. They couldn’t have Palmdale but used to live tive poker — though he says ger fan. kees lose.’ I think they’re
the Dodgers being two been more opposite politi- half a mile from Dodger Sta- he doesn’t really break a “It was Steve Garvey both great teams.”
games behind in the World cally. But they worked to- dium, is a retired messenger sweat doing it. when I was a kid,” he said. “I Anthony Volpe — not the
Series. Maybe something gether for the best of the who delivered gifts and If the Dodgers are down would have been playing Yankees’ young shortstop —
will happen.” country.” checks to celebrities before 6-5 in the ninth inning, T-ball or Little League is also rooting for the Dod-
But not even Valenzuela That inspired Garvey going blind 12 years ago. He would Holmes mind if his then.” gers, even though he lives in
could change the outcome and prompted him to ulti- still listens to Dodgers namesake comes in and gets About once a month the Bay Area.
of this contest. mately run for the Senate, games on the radio and sup- knocked around a bit? Judge will receive a com- “Yes, I’m aware there is a
A poll of likely voters he said. ports his favorite team, even “I would have no problem ment from a waiter or a player on the Yankees that
released Wednesday by the “I knew it was going to if he can’t watch them play with that if it meant a Dod- cashier who looks at his has my name,” he said. “But
nonpartisan Public Policy be hard. But I love the state anymore. About seven years ger victory,” he said. credit card and notes that he I’m a Californian, so I’m
Institute of California and the people needed ago, he heard about a player In fact, on the diamond, has the same name as the rooting for the Dodgers.”
showed Garvey trailing far another choice. Obviously in the league with his name Clay Holmes wishes Clay big leaguer. “I can root for Volpe indi-
behind Schiff, 63% to 37%. it was a very narrow path- and bought a bunch of Luke Holmes nothing but the “It’s never annoying. I vidually but the Dodgers as a
The campaign season way. But maybe somebody Weaver cards. worst. just kind of laugh it off,” he team,” he said.
hasn’t made any difference. like me could run in this “I think he pitched for the “Shohei, Mookie, Fred- said. Volpe noted that the
The poll standings were state. Schwarzenegger Diamondbacks back then, die. I hope they bring in a Tougher are the texts name is not terribly uncom-
virtually the same in April. had a recognizable name and I got all his baseball couple runs and have a walk- and phone calls he gets from mon among Italian Ameri-
In L.A. County, where he and voice. And I had a cards in case he became fa- off [game-winning hit] off kids who think they’ve cans. It means “fox” in Ital-
was a Dodgers star for 14 recognizable name and mous,” Weaver said. him,” he said. reached the 2022 American ian, said Volpe, who has dual
seasons, Garvey was win- voice.” Clay Holmes, a lifelong The situation is a bit dif- League MVP, only to realize citizenship in America and
ning only 28% of the vote Garvey was a terrific Venice resident, hasn’t ferent for Aaron Judge — not they’re connecting with a Italy.
against Schiff ’s 71%. ballplayer. He made 10 All- played much baseball since the record-setting Yankees different Aaron Judge. Judge hears the teasing
Garvey’s main problem Star teams. And he holds his time as a catcher for Pali- slugger, but the Dodgers fan Though he’s rooted for from family.
is that he wears the wrong the National League record sades High School last cen- who served in the U.S. Air the Mariners and the “My kids will call me and
uniform. He’s a Republican. for most consecutive games tury. Unlike the relief pitcher Force. Phillies in intervening years, say, ‘Hey, I see you hit a home
And the California GOP played, 1,207. for the Yankees, this Clay “Intramural Air Force this year he’s backing the run today. Nice job.’ ”
isn’t in the same league with In politics, however, he
Democrats in this blue never got out of the Instruc-
state. It’s in the low minors. tional League.
No Republican has won a Garvey recalled that I
U.S. Senate seat in Cali-
fornia since Pete Wilson was
reelected in 1988. Wilson ran
as a moderate. And no
once wrote that he was a
“deer-in-the-headlights
rookie.” It seemed to have
upset him a bit.
Mural now a shrine for Dodgers icon
Republican has won any “I was not a deer in head-
statewide office since 2006 lights,” he told me. “It was [Valenzuela, from B1] Times on Wednesday. “I was els, so Vargas will paint three and intention for the greater
when global celebrity Ar- the steely-eyed look I’d give York Yankees in the World really anticipating possibly separate images of Valen- good and to represent the
nold Schwarzenegger — to Bob Gibson or …” And he Series. him seeing [the mural]. I zuela pitching for an overall community here, it’s like a
also a moderate — was named some other famous “I was a kid when all of just feel like a part of my mural he estimates will be stream of consciousness.”
reelected governor. pitchers. this was happening and I childhood is gone.” more than 50 feet tall and 70 Early Wednesday, Vargas
Garvey calls himself a Garvey plans to attend just know that he is someone He added: “I’m just feet wide. said he hoped to have almost
“moderate conservative,” the first two World Series that is inspiring to not only putting all the emotion into “So now the 1st Street a third of the mural done by
which I guess means he’s a games at Dodgers Stadium. the Latin culture, but many that wall.” bridge is metaphorically the the end of the day, stating
mainstream Republican, His prediction? “Dod- cultures,” said Vargas, Vargas said he conceived unity bridge because these that Valenzuela’s death only
not a right-wing kook. But gers in six.” whose mural is titled “Fer- of the idea of a Valenzuela two murals bookend each “amplifies its importance.”
that’s still too far right for Maybe an ’81 replay. nando Mania Forever.” “He’s mural in Boyle Heights earli- other and face each other,” “I’m seeing it through in a
California. In politics, Garvey at just an inspiring figure that er this year while painting a Vargas said. “If you are on way that is healing now —
Meanwhile, Schiff has least stepped up to the plate did some amazing things no mural of current Dodgers the 1st Street bridge and you not only for myself, but I ac-
been hitting big league — something lots of pro matter where he came superstar Shohei Ohtani on are looking in both direc- tually believe for the city to
pitching in Washington for politicians lack the courage from.” the side of the Miyako Hotel tions, you can see both mu- have this image up,” Vargas
years, including nasty spit- to do these days. A member of the Dodgers in Little Tokyo. Located just rals.” said.
broadcast team since 2003, a little more than a mile from The unveiling will be Nov. Vargas is inviting the
Valenzuela was absent each other, the two murals 1, a date Vargas originally public to come to the site
from the Spanish-language are connected by the 1st chose because it is Valen- Wednesday after 1 p.m. to
broadcasts near the end of Street bridge, as well as the zuela’s birthday and it falls help construct marigolds
the regular season. On Oct. stories of the players and the on Día de Muertos. It also out of fabric and make the
2, the Dodgers announced communities they repre- just so happens that if Game mural “the largest ofrenda
that Valenzuela had sent. 6 of the Dodgers-Yankees ever.”
“stepped away from the “It’s my way of promoting World Series is necessary, it “I’m going to have these
Dodger broadcast booth for and advocating for unity and will take place at Dodger symbolic marigolds all the
the remainder of this year to representation where these Stadium that evening. way around the building on
focus on his health.” communities can see heroes That doesn’t leave Var- the surface of the wall, like
In a video filmed Tuesday that look like them,” Vargas gas much time to complete you would see in an altar-
night at the future mural site said. “At the same time the piece, especially consid- piece for the Day of the
and later posted on his In- under the umbrella of the ering he’s doing all the paint- Dead,” Vargas said.
stagram stories, an emo- Dodgers, the whole city can ing. “And that will frame the
tional Vargas struggled to get behind this, because it’s “I’m painting it com- wall or the surface while I
come up with words to ex- all about advancing the col- pletely freehand,” said Var- paint the inside of that with
press how he felt about the lective forward, which is gas, who plans to work from the original design idea. It
passing of such a significant really oneness.” 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day un- will be something that even-
Associated Press figure for himself and so The Ohtani mural is til it’s done. “My process is tually will be removed. Peo-
STEVE GARVEY slides safely past Yankees third many others. larger than life, to say the no grids, no projections, all ple can come and help con-
baseman Graig Nettles in the 1981 World Series. “I really was hoping that least, and Vargas has similar with a brush, so it’s com- struct them. I think that will
he would come out of his sit- plans for his Valenzuela trib- pletely free form. But when be also a form of healing for
uation,” Vargas told The ute. The wall has three pan- you’re painting with passion people.”

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July 3, 1960 -
Kiyoko Okada, 110, born
October 12, 2024 in Riverside, California and
Deirdre Harris passed a longtime resident of West
on October 12, 2024, at her Covina, CA, passed away
home in Redondo Beach, peacefully on October 1,
California. Deirdre was born 2024.
in Inglewood, California, to She is survived by son,
Tedd Beecher Harris, Jr. and Satoshi Okada; daughter,
Suzanne Harris. An elemen- Evelyn (Rober t) Sasaki;
tary school teacher in the granddaughters, Carolyn and
greater Los Angeles area for Charlene (Byron Shinyama)
over 35 years, she taught Sasaki; great grandson,
at several schools from Bel Zachary Martin and great
Air to South Central. In her granddaughter, Cassidy
more recent years with the Shinyama.
Los Angeles Unified School
District, she served as a union Honoring her request, a
representative for United private funeral service will be
Teachers of Los Angeles. She held on a later day.
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JOSE BANUELOS prays at a Dodger Stadium memorial for pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, who died Tuesday
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LeBron James, son sued in 2022 crash

Gillen was the driver, but the “Does” as possible defend- more than two minutes
By Chuck Schilken vehicle is owned by Lopez. ants. A hearing has been Tuesday night during the
The Antelope Valley of- scheduled for Feb. 19. Lakers’ season-opening win
Hours after they became fice of the California High- LeBron James is in his over the Minnesota
the first father-son duo to way Patrol was unable to 22nd NBA season and is the Timberwolves. LeBron fin-
share an NBA court to- find a report filed on that league’s all-time leading ished the game with 16
gether, LeBron and Bronny date regarding an accident scorer. His oldest son, points, five rebounds and
James were sued for their al- at that location. The lawsuit Bronny James, was a sec- four assists. Bronny missed
leged involvement in a 2022 does not indicate whether ond-round draft pick for the both shots he attempted but Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
car crash in the desert town CHP was notified. Lakers this offseason. grabbed a rebound. TWO PLAINTIFFS seek unspecified damages from
of Littlerock in the Antelope The lawsuit states that They played together for L.A. Lakers star LeBron James, left, and son Bronny.
Valley. the plaintiffs “sustained per-
A lawsuit filed Wednes- sonal injuries which caused
day morning in Los Angeles and will continue to cause
County Superior Court pain, discomfort and phys- Name Change Name Change Name Change
claims the Lakers team- ical disability,” and they
mates “negligently owned, have “employed and will em- NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
controlled, repaired, en- ploy in the future physicians, Isis Wissa Estafan
trusted, maintained and op- surgeons and others for ex- CASE NO. 24STPB11580
erated an automobile as to amination, treatment and To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and
cause it to, and it did, be- care.” persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or
Business Names Business Names both, of: ISIS WISSA ESTAFAN
come involved in an accident The plaintiffs are seeking Collectibles and A Petition for Probate has been filed by MICHAEL R. BISHARA
or collision” that caused in- unspecified damages. They
Fictitious Business Name Statement NO.: 2024
Memorabilia in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
jury to the plaintiffs and are represented by the Law 2024206458 The Petition for Probate requests that MICHAEL R. BISHARA
damage to the vehicle they Offices of Larry H. Parker, The following person is doing business as: Baseball Cards be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate
Fictitious Business Name(s) Traffic Management Cash paid 4 pre1975. Buying of the decedent.
were in. which did not immediately International 4900 Airport Plaza Drive, Suite 300, all SPORTS CARDS of any size The petition requests authority to administer the estate under
According to the com- respond to The Times. A collections. (310) 614-3312 the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will
Long Beach, CA 90815. Registered Owner (S): Traffic
allow the personal representative to take many actions without
plaint, plaintiffs Kiara Mc- representative for LeBron Management, LLC 4900 Airport Plaza Drive, Suite 300,
Gillen and April Lopez were James also did not immedi- Long Beach, CA 90815 DE. Business is conducted Estate Sales obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important
by: a Limited Liability Company. The registrant actions, however, the personal representative will be required to
in a car on Pearblossom ately respond. commenced to transact business under the fictitious give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice
business name or names listed above on 10/2024.
Flea Market this or consented to the proposed action.) The independent adminis-
Highway near 87th Street on In addition to LeBron Sunday - Oct. 27th, tration authority will be granted unless an interested person files
I declare that all information in this statement is
Nov. 13, 2022, when the al- and Bronny James, the law- true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true 2024 - 7AM-3PM - an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court
leged incident occurred. Mc- suit includes multiple information which he or she knows to be false is guilty should not grant the authority.
of a crime) REGISTRANT/CORP/LLC NAME: Traffic
Santa Monica Airport A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:
Antique & Vintage Date: 11/12/2024 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept.: 11
Management, LLC. Signature: Jonathan E. Spano/ Address of court: 111 N. Hill Street
CEO . This statement was filed with the County Clerk Market Los Angeles, CA 90012
of Los Angeles County on 10/3/2024. NOTICE- in Victorian to Mid-Century - Branch Name: Stanley Mosk Courthouse
accordance with subdivision (a)of section 17920 A Denim to Lace. Dealers you If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear

Student in brouhaha Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the

end of five years from the date on which it was filed
in the office of the County Clerk except, as provided
in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40
know & new Designers to
Meet.
You can Furnish a House in a
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with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in
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tion for Decorators, Design-
ment pursuant to section 17913 other than a change ers, Boutique Owners, Fami- personal representative appointed by the court within the later
in the residence address of a registered owner. A new lies with their Friendly Dogs of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters
fictitious business name statement must be filed and Collectors of all Ages. to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b)
before the expiration. The filing of this statement does Free On-Site Parking - $5. of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of
not of itself authorize the use in this state of fictitious Admission - Shoppers Under mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052
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greet have delivered an un- “The only person with the NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
expected jolt to the cam- motive to do that would be Emil Wissa Estafan
paign for the 14th District, him.” CASE NO. 24STPB11582
which takes in all or part of Avila contended that Ju- To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and
downtown, Boyle Heights, rado’s full response to the persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or
both, of: EMIL WISSA ESTAFAN
El Sereno and Eagle Rock. abolition question was actu- A Petition for Probate has been filed by MICHAEL R. BISHARA
De León has been struggling ally “centrist.” After using in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
to emerge from a two-year- the phrase “F— the police,” The Petition for Probate requests that MICHAEL R. BISHARA
be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate
old scandal over a different Jurado pointed out that of the decedent.
recording — one that fea- some of her constituents The petition requests authority to administer the estate under
tured crude and racist re- want more police and said the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will
allow the personal representative to take many actions without
marks — and is facing a the LAPD needs to focus on obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important
fierce opponent in Jurado, a violent crime. actions, however, the personal representative will be required to
give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice
tenant rights attorney who “She was meeting or consented to the proposed action.) The independent adminis-
has never run for office be- [Perez] where he was at, but tration authority will be granted unless an interested person files
fore. then walking back to a more an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court
should not grant the authority.
Councilmember Monica centrist, pragmatic posi- A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:
Rodriguez labeled Jurado’s tion,” Avila said. “I would Date: 11/12/2024 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept.: 79
Address of court: 111 N. Hill Street
use of the phrase immature, have liked for her to go much Los Angeles, CA 90012
while Councilmember Bob harder against the police.” Branch Name: Stanley Mosk Courthouse
Blumenfield called it “in- Perez has been an aide to If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear
at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections
credibly offensive.” The Los De León for about a year and with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in
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30-second attack ads criti- brant East L.A. punk scene” of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of
cizing Jurado. while also working as a secu-
“Her plan for public safe- rity guard, the profile says.
CNUEO mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052
of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and
legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may
ty starts with an F-bomb,” Perez has been volun- want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California
the ad states. teering for De León’s reelec- law.
In recent weeks, Jurado tion campaign, door-knock- You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person
has pushed back on as- ing, phone banking and cre- ANPKR interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for
Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and ap-
sertions that she intends to ating “art for tote bags to be praisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided
defund the police, while also used by other staffers,” his in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form
is available from the court clerk.
arguing that too much mon- profile states. PETITIONER: PAUL C. FRANCO SBN: 203899
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7473 N. INGRAM AVENUE, SUITE 106 , FRESNO, CA, 93711,
LAPD, putting the city on as an abolitionist — some- 5593895853
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On Monday, she down- tion of police and the “prison
played her use of “F— the po-
lice,” saying it was “just a
industrial complex” — in a
questionnaire she submit-
SUFEDE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
Albert Wissa Estafan
lyric” from a rap song. Al- ted to the Democratic So- CASE NO. 24STPB11581
Now arrange the circled letters
though she didn’t say which cialists of America-Los An- ©2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC to form the surprise answer, as
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and
persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or
song, her wording parallels geles. All Rights Reserved. suggested by the above cartoon. both, of: ALBERT WISSA ESTAFAN
parts of N.W.A’s “F— Tha Po- De León has assailed A Petition for Probate has been filed by MICHAEL R. BISHARA
lice” and Kanye West’s “All that stance, saying it would Print the answer here: in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
The Petition for Probate requests that MICHAEL R. BISHARA
Falls Down.” leave neighborhoods from be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate
(Answers Monday)
Jurado declined to com- downtown to Boyle Heights Jumbles: YOKEL POUCH UNTRUE FIBULA
of the decedent.
ment about Perez on vulnerable to violent crime. Yesterday’s The petition requests authority to administer the estate under
Answer: The book club was discussing “Walden,” which the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will
Wednesday. But she de- This week, he described Ju- they enjoyed — “THOREAU-LY” allow the personal representative to take many actions without
scribed the police union ad rado’s use of the F-bomb as obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important
as “just noise.” “irresponsible,” saying actions, however, the personal representative will be required to
give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice
“Our community is fo- wealthy neighborhoods will or consented to the proposed action.) The independent adminis-
cused on how they’re going
to put food on the table and
pay their rent on time — not
always have the ability to
hire security personnel.
“Poor neighborhoods,
Your exclusive tration authority will be granted unless an interested person files
an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court
should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:
song lyrics,” she said in a low-income neighborhoods, Date: 11/12/2024 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept.: 44
statement. “That’s why
we’re more determined than
neighborhoods that strug-
gle every single day to make
guide to SoCal Address of court: 111 N. Hill Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Branch Name: Stanley Mosk Courthouse
If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear
ever to lift up their needs and ends meet, they deserve at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections
be their champion in City
Hall. This campaign is about
delivering results, not dis-
public safety as well,” he told
KTLA-TV.
Jurado has pushed back
real estate listings with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in
person or by your attorney.
If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent,
you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the
tractions.” on the idea that she plans to personal representative appointed by the court within the later
Perez declined an inter- defund the LAPD, saying of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters
to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b)
view request from The she wants officers to focus of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of
Times. In the recording of on gangs, drugs and violent mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052
the meet-and-greet, he be-
gan his question by noting
crime. On the campaign
trail, she has also argued
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district and is “a punk from public safety “isn’t working,” interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for
East L.A.” saying that more money Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and ap-
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More than a dozen people
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COMICS

SUDOKU BRIDGE
West’s lead. If West’s clubs make it if partner’s hand is
By Frank Stewart were, say, A-K-J-8-2, he unsuitable, but if he holds
surely would have led a high J 6 3, 5, A K J 10 7 3, A K 2, you
Simple Saturday col- club. But West opened the may make an overtrick.
umns focus on basic tech- bidding, and if East has the
nique and logical thinking. king of clubs, he can’t have West dealer
You’re today’s South. much more. Neither side vulnerable
When West opens one club Don’t finesse with the
NORTH
and North doubles for take- queen of trumps. Take the ♠AKJ7
out, it would be a grave error ace and lead a low trump. ♥9763
for you to bid only one heart. When West’s king falls, you ♦ K J 10 7
Since North asked you to can draw East’s jack with ♣9
bid, you would make that your queen later and make WEST EAST
♠ 10 6 3 ♠842
call with no points and poor your game with careful play. ♥K5 ♥ J 10 8
hearts. When you have 10 You hold: ♠ Q 9 5 ♥ A Q 4 2 ♦A42 ♦8653
useful points, game is pos- ♦ Q 9 ♣ 7 6 4 3. Your partner ♣AQJ82 ♣ K 10 5
sible. Jump to two hearts, in- opens one diamond, you bid SOUTH
vitational. one heart and he jumps to ♠Q95
North raises to four three diamonds. What do ♥AQ42
hearts — maybe he likes the you say? ♦Q9
way you play — and you need Answer: Partner’s jump- ♣7643
to justify his confidence. rebid suggests a good six- WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
West leads a low spade, and card suit with about 16 high- 1♣ Dbl Pass 2♥
you win in dummy. How do card points. Bidding is not Pass 4♥ All Pass
you play the trumps? an exact science, and calcu- Opening lead — ♠ 3
Try to place the cards, lated risks are often neces-
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top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be ASKING ERIC
repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.

Dear Eric: My parents di- their wills in whatever ways My dilemma is should I
vorced when I was 5 and my they’d like, but it’s very not allow her to bring her
brother was 3. He went with telling that they didn’t make dogs for the next visit or
our father and I with our the big change until after make a visit that includes
mother. We saw each other your parents were gone. bringing the dogs contin-
on holidays and summers. Despite the machina- gent on my sister-in-law al-
Both parents remarried and tions with their estates, you lowing me to teach her how
had two more children. still get to decide what you to address the dogs’ behav-
My brother and I were want from them. They were ior? She does not seem bo-
treated less like family and brought into your life at a thered by the relentless
more like a resentment. tender moment, and they barking and yapping.
Thankfully, we had loving weren’t kind. It may be most Dog Tired
grandparents who created freeing to say, “I deserve bet-
safe places for us when we ter than this; I’m leaving this Dear Tired: Though your
were with them. relationship in the past.” experience is with children
Fast-forward to today, we Alternatively, you can and dogs, it seems the be-
10/26/24 are both retired, have fam- say, “I want to have a rela- havior you most want to
ilies and have done well. We tionship, and this feels one- modify is your adult sister-
worked hard to build and sided. What can we do to in-law’s. That’s going to pre-
maintain a relationship with change that?” And see what sent a problem.
HOROSCOPE our parents and step- they come up with. But I It’s fine for you to tell her
parents/siblings. I thought honestly don’t know if that’s that the dogs made too
than is called for, do it. start, “No judgment but...” progress had been made. worth your time. much of a ruckus the last
By Holiday Mathis Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Statements of offense start, Both parents passed time and ask her to leave
If you had a single wish for “No offense but...” Should within a two-year period. Dear Eric: My sister-in- them behind for the next vis-
Aries (March 21-April 19): your love, it would be to live you hear, “No disrespect...” Both stepparents redid law, who I love and have it. This, of course, makes the
Are you forgetting some- in emotional sunshine. Irra- it’s a cue to walk away. their wills, writing us out of known since she was a child, visit less hospitable as she’ll
thing? Whatever it is, catch tional confidence will pay off. Pisces (Feb. 19-March them. I was surprised. Less recently bought two small need to find a suitable dog
it before sundown to avoid Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): 20): Take stock of where you for me, but for my children “doodle” dogs. She brought sitter. And she may opt to
any headaches later. A quick You’ll ask thoughtful ques- are. It couldn’t have hap- and their grandchildren. them with her for an just stay home. If you’re OK
check-in could save the day. tions with the tone that pened had you not stuck I am left with an angry re- overnight, weekend visit. with that possibility and
Taurus (April 20-May makes people want to open with it. Today you’ll feel sidue of past resentments They barked at every lit- won’t resent her for it, great.
20): “It’s complicated” may up to you; then you’ll seek grateful as you take your that have resurfaced. This tle sound. My sister-in-law’s It’s also fine for you to of-
be the only honest way to de- understanding by listening place in a winner’s circle. isn’t about money; there response to her dogs was in- fer to teach her a better way
scribe any relationship. Let without judgment. Today’s birthday (Oct. isn’t much, I know. I just effective. The weekend with to handle her dogs. But mak-
it be a reminder of ordinary Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): 26): Your playful spirit don’t know how to move for- her dogs made me anxious ing it a prerequisite for
human complexity. It’s hard to say why some makes you a star at work and ward. Do I ghost them? Stop and it was difficult for me to spending time with you? I
Gemini (May 21-June 21): work so well together, but in your personal life. Com- calling, writing and visiting enjoy my visitors. can’t see how that wouldn’t
Pain distorts the memory. take the gift when it comes. manding your talents and because it feels very one- It was worse for me to tol- cause resentment. Talk to
People may recount things Sagittarius (Nov. 22- creating a desired effect on sided? I have done most of erate as I have experience her in a nonjudgmental way.
that didn’t happen exactly Dec. 21): For whatever you an audience gives you wings the work and effort to main- both professionally (with Communicating clearly,
as they recall. Give others are offering, give them three to lift your confidence and tain a relationship. children) and personally without trying to control
the benefit of the doubt. options. More is overwhelm- career. You’ll take bold risks Slighted Stepchild (with dogs) in the analysis her, will make planning the
Cancer (June 22-July 22): ing, and fewer makes them with your money and your and modification of behav- next get-together easier.
You’ll dive into projects that feel limited and controlled. heart and say yes to what Dear Slighted: What petty ior problems. It is very easy
fit your schedule, feel right Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. you really want, even if the people your stepparents for me to see what was rein- Email questions to
and seem worth the time 19): You came to life’s buffet odds don’t seem favorable. seem to be. They can adjust forcing the dogs’ behavior. eric@askingeric.com.
and sacrifice required. Pass and filled your plate. If it’s Taurus and Virgo adore you.
on any project that doesn’t there, it’s because you Lucky numbers: 5, 13, 49, 2, 7.
fulfill all three requirements. wanted to taste it. But you FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): are not obligated. You can Mathis writes her column
When you feel the impulse to say “no thanks” at any time. for Creators Syndicate Inc.
be enthusiastic, reveal your Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. The horoscope should be
heart or be more generous 18): Statements of judgment read for entertainment.

CROSSWORD
Edited By Patti Varol
By Adam Aaronson © 2024 Tribune Content Agency

ACROSS
1 Genre embraced by
Miles Davis in the late
1960s
11 Intel on a political rival
15 Speaker of the house?
16 Einsteinhaus city
17 Bottom of a pie
18 Quantity of strontium
in an award-winning
2018 photograph
19 Professor’s domain
20 Throng
21 Insect that collaborates FREE RANGE By Bill Whitehead MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
through stigmergy
23 “__ de Funk”: Horace
Silver composition
24 Postop prescription
25 Narrow channel
28 __ musubi: meat-and-
rice snack
29 “__ Mubarak”
31 Hestia’s domain
32 Didn’t divulge
33 “Dumb Money” star
Paul
34 Extremities
35 Check
36 Stallone role
37 Checked at the door
38 Cap
39 Decidedly non-vegan 5 Spots for soft landings 41 __ ear
6 Crude 44 Performed in a
kid-lit character
7 Jokic and Jovic of the Shakespeare play?
40 Airport code that
NBA, e.g. 45 Talib who rapped “My
encompasses EWR,
8 Hosp. area name is in the middle of
JFK, and LGA
9 “You’re too much!” equality”
41 Boatloads
10 Tablet 46 Smack
42 “The Twelve Days of
11 “Becoming” memoirist 48 First name in art
Christmas” musicians
12 French girlfriend 49 Military group
43 Dress part BLISS By Harry Bliss SPEED BUMP By Dave Coverly
13 Energy consumption 50 Material for a
45 Some Barbieland
unit? scrimmage pinny
residents
14 “Your money’s no good 53 CEO’s direct reports
46 Upper class, often
here!” 54 Sass
47 Unite
48 York mother 22 Perimeter ANSWER TO
51 Placed, as bets 23 Spent time on the lake, PREVIOUS PUZZLE
52 Made a solo say
arrangement? 25 Fast-fashion giant
55 Rainbow forms based in Singapore
56 Bright green cocktails 26 Loveable sorts
57 Furtive summons 27 Crudely drawn cartoons
58 Walkway created by foot expressing frustration
traffic 28 Shakes
30 Makes toast?
DOWN 33 Makes wet
1 Zinger 35 Like some tomatoes
2 During 36 Outdoor concert
3 Bird voiced by John contingency
Oliver in “The Lion 38 Yard sale sign,
King” essentially
4 “Bo-o-oring!” 39 Likely ticket holder? 10/26/24