Coach discovered him in a slaughterhouse; residents reject $55,000

By Robert Murray Last updated May 6, 2023

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His future coach discovered Dennis Kasumba working in a slaughterhouse. The teenager was orphaned at a younger age and residing in poverty and despair. Now, a younger man, he has now discovered goal in pursuing his dream to change into Uganda’s first Main League Baseball participant. His coach and household are utilizing TikTok to get him there.

A diptych of barefoot person holding a broken shovel, left, and a baseball player running the bases barefoot

A young man is framed behind silhouetted netting.

Is a $55,000 cost sufficient to depart a rent-controlled house? A neighborhood of low cost-housing tenants says no to such a cash-for-keys supply. Because the Los Angeles rental market soars, such sums nonetheless put reasonably priced housing out of attain for a lot of working households.

A man is framed in the window of an apartment, with a downtown L.A. in the distance.

A boy hangs upside down from a bunk bed, while a man sits at the computer on the right

A woman sits at a kitchen table with plates of food in front of her. A picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe hangs on the wall.

After a 15 years of calm, talks between leaders of the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers reached an deadlock, triggering a strike by the WGA. On Tuesday, the writers picked up picket indicators and took to the pavement in entrance of all main film and TV studios in L.A. and New York to demand higher pay from streaming and improved working situations. Check out scenes from the strike and learn the way it might disrupt Hollywood. The present writers’ strike is simply the most recent in Hollywood. For the reason that Fifties, writers have gone on strike eight occasions.

Left, a group of protesters with picket signs, and, at right, a man with raised fist and chants holding a sign

A billboard for a Netflix show hangs on a building across the street where protesters walk a picket line along a building

WGA members walk the picket line on the first day of their strike in front of Paramount Studios in Hollywood

Most California schools don’t supply rape kits on campus and college students are demanding higher entry to care, lobbying politicians and placing stress on college directors to create extra on-campus therapy for sexual violence. A brand new sexual assault forensic examination website at UC Irvine is a possible mannequin for higher systemic entry.

Two students stand side by side, leaning against a stone wall behind them, looking at the camera.

Purple light reflects off a person holding a flashlight-like device in a darkened room.

Final Saturday marked the start of a brand new trout fishing season. Regardless of file snowfall that left some favourite areas inaccessible, anglers turned out earlier than dawn within the Jap Sierra to stake out their spots.

Frame in a low-angle a man bends over two hooked fish standing near trees, as sun rises on the horizon.

A woman casts a line in a lake surrounded by snowy mountains

Household, associates and fellow Los Angeles cops gathered on the LAPD’s Wall of Honor downtown on Wednesday for a commemorative ceremony honoring the 239 officers who’ve died within the line of responsibility.

Police officers, families and friends of fallen officers assemble near LAPD headquarters. City Hall is behind.

A woman cries while seated in a row of people; all wearing black.

Coachella who? Whereas the final notes of the favored music competition had been nonetheless echoing within the ears of concertgoers, the competition grounds — Indio’s Empire Polo Membership — had been once more stuffed with music. Final weekend, hundreds of followers attended the Stagecoach Nation Music Pageant, which is billed as “nation music’s largest get together.”

A man stands atop an RV raising an American flag as friends cool off in a portable pool with a Ferris wheel in the distance

Lighted by blue and magenta color a couple dances, holding hands, among other people.

At left, palms trees and two figure silhouettes are framed against sunset sky; at right, a young woman smiles

Three women in cowboy boots, hats and shorts ride an electric bike on the Stagecoach campground.

And eventually, a possibility to get pleasure from a second of peace, becoming a member of this couple having fun with aromatic heat breezes on a hike alongside a winding path by the plush hills of Chino Hills State Park.

A couple huddled together under sun umbrella past a windmill on stilts; walking on a winding path between lush hills