Gustavo Arellano

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Gustavo Arellano

Benno Herz, Claudia Gordon and Oliver Hartmann inside the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades. The three help maintain the legacy of Thomas Mann, the German literary icon who fled the Nazi regime. On the morning of the Palisades fire, Claudia Gordon quickly accepted that there was only so much she could do to save everything under her watch.

2 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Gustavo Arellano |Camillo Barone

In 2021, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill to provide a two-year window to allow sex abuse survivors to file civil lawsuits, no matter the statute of limitations. It came in the wake of a 2018 state grand jury report that found more than 300 Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania had abused more than 1,000 victims since the 1940s. The legislation still had to pass through the state senate, then have voters approve it as a ballot initiative before it became law.

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Gustavo Arellano

Shohei Ohtani, center right, joins fellow Dodgers to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day before a game against the Washington Nationals at Dodgers Stadium on April 15, 2024.

2 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Gustavo Arellano |Michael Sean Winters

My wife is not a person of faith, but she nevertheless respects the devotion to saints we Catholics maintain. That's why when she opened Alta Baja Market, a restaurant in Santa Ana, California, Delilah (don't hold the name against her) made sure to fill it with them. Votive candles warm tables during the winter. A mural of St. Anne embracing the Virgin Mary as a child looks over customers eating.

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Gustavo Arellano

Then-assistant public defender Scott Sanders questions Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens during a 2017 hearing to probe the sheriff’s department’s use of jailhouse informants and its failure to turn over relevant evidence to defense in the case of mass shooter Scott Dekraai. Aerosmith, the Eagles and the Rolling Stones crooned from the speakers at Vacation Bar in Santa Ana last Thursday. The gift table was near the entrance. Pizzas and cheesecake sat toward the back.