Global Courant 2023-05-06 17:00:52
Hello, and welcome to this week’s selection of top stories in photos by Los Angeles Times photographers.
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His future coach found Dennis Kasumba working in a slaughterhouse. Orphaned at a young age, the teenager lived in poverty and despair. Now a young man, he has now found purpose in pursuing his dream of becoming Uganda’s first Major League Baseball player. His coach and family use TikTok to get him there.
Dennis Kasumba, left, shovels cow dung to earn money to feed his grandmother and siblings. At right, a player runs barefoot around the bases in Guyaza, Uganda
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Dennis Kasumba has ambitions to become a big leaguer and takes a break from batting practice. Kasumba exercises twice a day and sometimes only eats one meal a day.
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
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Is a payment of $55,000 enough to move out of a rent-controlled apartment? A community of renters of low-cost housing says no to such a ‘money for keys’ offer. While the rental market in Los Angeles is soaring, such amounts mean that affordable housing is still out of reach for many working families.
Pedro Villegas lives with his family in an apartment on Vin Scully Avenue. The residents of neighboring complexes near Dodger Stadium have received money-for-keys from developers, but they have refused.
(Christina House/Los Angeles Times)
Emiliano Rodriguez-Donantonio, 5, hangs upside down from a bunk bed while his uncle Salvador Donantonio works on a computer in the living room of their family’s Los Angeles home.
(Christina House/Los Angeles Times)
Elvira Rincon has lived in her apartment near Dodger Stadium for more than three decades, raising her children and now her grandchildren.
(Christina House/Los Angeles Times)
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After 15 years of calm, talks between the leaders of the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reached an impasse, leading to a strike by the WGA. On Tuesday, the writers picked up picket signs and took to the curb in front of all major movie and TV studios in LA and New York to demand better streaming pay and better working conditions. Watch scenes from the strike and learn how it could disrupt Hollywood. The current writers’ strike is just the latest in Hollywood. Writers have gone on strike eight times since the 1950s.
Striking Writers Guild of America workers demonstrate outside Hollywood’s Sunset Bronson Studios. Right, Cheech Manohar, a writer and actor, strikes outside NBCUniversal Studios in Universal City along with other members of the Writers Guild of America.
(Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)
A billboard for a Netflix show hangs from a building overlooking members of the Writers Guild of America walking a picket line in front of Bronson Sunset Studios in Hollywood, where Netflix leases production and office space.
(Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)
WGA members lined up in large numbers in front of Paramount Studios in Hollywood on the first day of their strike on Tuesday.
(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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Most colleges in California do not offer on-campus rape kits and students are demanding better access to care, lobbying politicians and pressuring university administrators to create more on-campus sexual assault treatment. A new sexual assault forensic investigation site at UC Irvine is a potential model for better systemic access.
UCLA students Georgia Lavery Van Paris, left, and Julianne Lempert want all college campuses to offer sexual assault forensic exams.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Nurse Malinda Wheeler at the UC Irvine Forensic Investigation Site demonstrates a special light used to identify bodily fluids in sexual assault investigations.
(Christina House/Los Angeles Times)
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Last Saturday was the start of a new trout fishing season. Despite record snowfalls that made some favored areas inaccessible, fishermen arrived in the eastern Sierra before dawn to stake out their swims.
Bill Waters fishes his second trout of the morning in Bishop as the sun rises over the White Mountains.
(Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)
A fisherman casts her line on an ice-free stretch of water at the outlet of Convict Lake on Saturday.
(Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)
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Family, friends and fellow Los Angeles police officers gathered at the LAPD’s Wall of Honor downtown on Wednesday for a memorial ceremony honoring the 239 officers who died in the line of duty.
Fellow officers, families and friends gather with roses in their hands at a ceremony honoring the 239 LAPD officers who died on Wednesday while working outside police headquarters.
(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
Claudi Membreno, center, and Jose Arroyos, second from left, parents of fallen cop Fernando Arroyos, at the ceremony.
(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
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Coachella who? While the last notes of the popular music festival were still ringing in the ears of concertgoers, the festival grounds – Indio’s Empire Polo Club – were once again full of music. Last weekend, thousands of fans attended the Stagecoach Country Music Festival, billed as “country music’s biggest celebration.”
San Diego’s Tyler Black stands atop an RV and raises an American flag as friends cool off in their annual Stagecoach camp pool at the start of the three-day country music festival in Indio.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Country music fans dance at the K-Frog & KSON Dance Party at the Dome at Stagecoach 2023.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
On the left, fans see Melissa Etheridge perform as the sun sets on the first day of the Stagecoach festival. Right, a concertgoer watches Parker McCollum perform on the final day of the three-day event at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Young women ride an electric bicycle around the Stagecoach campsite on Saturday.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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And finally, a chance to enjoy a moment of tranquility along with this couple enjoying a fragrant warm breeze as they hike along a winding trail through the lush hills of Chino Hills State Park.
A couple walks past a windmill to see the beautiful California poppies, black nut flower, and other wildflowers bloom in Chino Hills State Park.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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