The security guard in the lobby of the Los Angeles Times couldn’t help but ask the question. When he looked at the computer in front of him earlier this week, he saw the picture of a strapping blond man. The screen identified the employee: “Michael Penner, Editorial.”
But the person flashing the ID was a tall [...]

Drilling into the sea floor south of Haiti has uncovered conclusive ashy evidence that multiple massive volcanic eruptions occurred roughly 55 million years ago in the Caribbean Basin.
Those cataclysmic events appear to have caused abrupt inversion of ocean waters, triggering one of the most dramatic climatic changes ever, according to a geologist on the team [...]

A first-grader can have a stroke.
Tyler Cormany’s mother - a juvenile detention center supervisor who once worked in nursing - didn’t know that, but she recognized that’s what was happening April 18 when her son collapsed at Lakewood Elementary School.
Julie Cormany said she doesn’t usually walk into school with her 6-year-old son, but that [...]

It might not seem like a brilliant idea, allowing a frail 65-year-old paralytic to float free from gravity aboard a rising and plunging roller-coaster stunt flight.
But who’s to argue with Stephen Hawking?
The celebrated British astrophysicist and black-hole theorist, author of “A Brief History of Time,” paralyzed by Lou Gehrig’s disease and communicating largely through eye [...]

On April 27, 1947, “Babe Ruth Day” at Yankee Stadium was held to honor the ailing baseball star. (Go to article.)
1509 Pope Julius II excommunicated the Italian state of Venice.
1521 Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines.
1805 A force led by U.S. Marines captured the city of Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.
1822 [...]