In May of 2023, Ducks goaltending coach Sudarshan Maharaj was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given a roughly one in five chance of survival. In May of 2024, the man affectionately known as “Sudsie” had been declared cancer-free. “It’s been an emotional year for my family and me, culminating with the incredible news that I am cancer free,” Maharaj said, in a press release from the Ducks. “There are so many people for me to thank – starting with Henry, Susan and Jillian Samueli, Aaron Teats, Pat Verbeek and the entire Ducks organization. The support I received from around the league is bey ..read more

PITTSBURGH — Angels manager Ron Washington doesn’t view losses and mistakes as failures. He prefers to think of them as learning opportunities. In that respect, the Angels are learning a lot about running the bases this season. Washington said from the moment he was hired, and he reiterated throughout spring training, that he wanted the Angels to aggressively run the bases. They have clearly done that, but with an efficiency that leaves something to be desired. The Angels have made 14 outs on the bases, which is tied for the third most in MLB. Their percentage of taking extra bases – going fro ..read more

If you think concert ticket prices are too high, this is the week for you. Concert Week, a Live Nation ticket sale, runs May 8-14 and offers $25 tickets to thousands of shows not just in Southern California but across the U.S. and Canada, plus for the first time in Australia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Here’s everything you need to know about Concert Week 2024. What is Concert Week? Concert Week is a promotion in which select shows are available for $25. The world’s biggest concert promoter, Live Nation/Ticketmaster, created Concert Week 10 years ago, and the event has grown to include ..read more

In a recent interview, Secretary of Transportation Mayor Pete Buttigieg lamented the supposed recalcitrance of consumers hesitant to buy electric vehicles: “I feel like it’s the early 2000s and I’m talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.” Last we checked, nobody ever thought to mandate cell phones. The reason the Biden administration and its allies in California are using coercive government force to compel electrification is because consumers correctly see that EVs aren’t ready for prime time. Nowhere is that clearer than with the current push to force ..read more

Nancy Clanton | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Hannah Johnson first went to Walt Disney World with her mother while still in college. After a brief break because of COVID, the Ringgold, Ga., resident has resumed their trips together as an annual event. “I decided (the annual trip) was going to be what I did for her,” Johnson said, “kind of as a payback for all the things she did for me. I could just see how happy she was and how much it meant.” According to Meghan Hayes, an independent travel adviser, adults taking trips with their parents is a growing trend. “This trend specifically i ..read more

Like jumbo shrimp or military intelligence, the Fairplex Garden Railroad is a study in contradictions. The beloved LA County Fair attraction is believed to be the oldest and largest such railway in the world outside a private collection, operating on nearly two miles of track. Yet this railroad is made up of scale-model trains running through miniature settings, through which its human operators stride like gods. And this year, the diminutive railway hits an oversized number: 100. 2024 is billed as the 100th anniversary of the Garden Railroad, counting from its 1924 debut. Of course that means ..read more

By Louis Jacobson | KFF Health News (TNS) “Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in an April 21 post on X ____ The National Institutes of Health is the federal government’s main agency for supporting medical research. Is it barred from researching mass shootings? That’s what presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said recently. Kennedy, whose statements about conspiracy theories earned him PolitiFact’s 2023 “ Lie of the Year,” is running as an independent third-party candidate against President Joe Biden, the presumptive Demo ..read more

Molly Crane-Newman and Josephine Stratman | New York Daily News NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels told a riveted jury Tuesday that sex with Donald Trump made her feel dizzy and had the room spinning as she wondered how she ended up half-naked in a Lake Tahoe hotel room with the then-reality TV star at the former president’s hush money trial. Her testimony sparked a demand by Trump’s lawyers for a mistrial – which was denied. In one of the trial’s more surreal moments, the porn star recounted her tryst with Trump in 2006 as the former president looked on with a scowl. “What could possibly go wrong ..read more

Lauren Sausser | KFF Health News (TNS) CHARLESTON, S.C. — When he recently walked into the dental clinic at the Medical University of South Carolina donning a bright-blue pullover with “In Our DNA SC” embroidered prominently on the front, Lee Moultrie said, two Black women stopped him to ask questions. “It’s a walking billboard,” said Moultrie, a health care advocate who serves on the community advisory board for In Our DNA SC, a study underway at the university that aims to enroll 100,000 South Carolinians — including a representative percentage of Black people — in genetics research. The goa ..read more

A man who allegedly stabbed a security guard at a Metro B Line Station in Hollywood on Tuesday, May 7, was fatally shot by a guard at the facility, according to authorities and Metro. Officers and paramedics were sent to the 1500 block of North Vermont Avenue at about 9:10 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Fire Department. Paramedics were directed to the station platform, and they learned about a second victim nearby at Vermont and De Longpre avenues. “This morning, Metro Contract Security encountered a trespasser during a routine security sweep of an anc ..read more