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By Tomoki Chien
NEWSLETTER EDITOR |
Good morning, apologies for the delay in sending out this week’s summary. I had a wisdom tooth extraction the other day and have been generally moping about since watching our embarrassing loss to Tulane. |
Here are the 10 USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know from this past week. |
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Northern California is bracing for a brutal storm Wednesday, expecting more flash floods, mudslides and power outages after a brief respite on Tuesday from a New Year’s Eve deluge that killed at least one person. |
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A security guard was fatally shot last week at the off-campus Lorenzo apartments, a housing complex for USC students. A 31-year-old who trespassed on the property then shot the guard was charged with one count of murder and possession of a firearm by a felon. |
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USC football fell in an embarrassing loss to Tulane in the Cotton Bowl on Monday. It was a mess. A total defensive catastrophe. Complete humiliation. That’s all I’ve got for this one. |
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Rick Singer, the disgraced college admissions counselor at the center of the Operation Varsity Blues scandal, is set to be sentenced Wednesday in a Boston court. Singer pleaded guilty to blatantly rigging the admissions system for wealthy clients whose children sought to attend schools including USC, Yale and Georgetown. |
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Hundreds of former detainees in LA County juvenile camps and detention halls alleged they experienced horrific sexual abuse at the hands of detention officers over a period of five decades in a lawsuit last week. |
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy failed to secure the House speakership Tuesday, facing a humiliating mutiny from his party’s far-right clique. The Bakersfield Republican will hope for a better result in voting Wednesday. |
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California law enforcement seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill the entire population of North America twice over. That was a nearly sixfold increase from the previous year, marking an alarming rise of the synthetic opioid that’s 50 times more potent than heroin and often surreptitiously laced in other drugs. |
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Some California colleges have begun experimenting with restorative justice programs in cases of sexual assault and harassment. The programs consist of voluntary facilitated conferences where the perpetrator apologizes and takes steps that the survivor requests — like quitting extracurricular activities so the two don’t run into each other. |
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Negotiators representing Western states dependent on the Colorado River are increasingly struggling to work out water use agreements. One common goal: Keep water politics out of the national culture wars, lest “spite lawns” begin popping up in red regions. |
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An 18-year-old pilot made an emergency landing on a highway after his engine failed en route to Riverside Municipal airport with his grandma and cousins. The kid, who’s only had his pilot’s license for three months (and plans to keep flying), said the ordeal gave him “a little more confidence in those kinds of situations.” |
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You’re all caught up. Thanks for reading Morning, Trojan, and have a good day. Anna Hsu copy edited this newsletter. |
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