Five Days Before News Today

Faith briefs from area churches.

For the fourth time ever and the second time at the Honda Center, the city of Los Angeles will home yet another arena football team.

The following story, which was a finalist in LitMags Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, is excerpted from Laura Newmans latest short story collection The Franklin Avenue Rookery for Wayward Babies , about ordinary people struggling against extraordinary events. Newman founded the "Heroin Committee," a group that produces and runs commercials to educate parents about the drugs their kids are most likely to be exposed to. She lives in Reno, Nevada. Lake Tahoe, Nevada Late Summer I pulled ope...