Kurt Streeter
Kurt Streeter wrote news features, covered transportation and crime, and was a columnist for the Sports section during his tenure at the Los Angeles Times. The most recent of his honors came from the California Newspaper Publishers Assn., which gave him its Best Feature Writing award in 2013 for a series chronicling life inside a hospice for hardcore prisoners. Two of his stories – a series about a girl boxer from East L.A. and her struggling father, and the tale of an elderly boxing timekeeper – appeared in the Best American Sports Writing anthology in 2006. An accomplished athlete, prior to his career in journalism he was world ranked by the Assn. of Tennis Professionals for three years.
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In a restaurant near Phoenix last weekend I looked up and there was Muhammad Ali, slowly easing past my table.
Aug. 5, 2015
New York state police, after recently reopening a 19-year-old investigation into the disappearance of the wife of a prominent East Coast developer, were attempting to arrange an interview with author Susan Berman just before she was found shot to death in her Benedict Canyon home late last month.
March 15, 2015
After moving to Los Angeles in the late 1970s, Dr.
Jan. 3, 2015
Leonard Beerman, founding rabbi of the Westside’s Leo Baeck Temple and a pacifist who often stoked anger with his vocal criticism of Israel, died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Dec. 24, 2014
“Uh, I’m not exactly sure about all this,” Ryan Bell said as he scanned the scene inside a darkened Las Vegas convention hall.
Dec. 22, 2014
Racked by pain, the 93-year-old rabbi walked shakily to the lectern to give his sermon on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year.
Nov. 26, 2014
The big morning had finally arrived.
Nov. 22, 2014
The bullet screamed out of the barrel of a silver-plated handgun, tearing through his left eye, his nasal canal, the optic nerve in his right eye.
Nov. 14, 2014
A United Methodist pastor who was temporarily defrocked after officiating at his gay son’s wedding will be able to stay in the ministry, the denomination’s highest court ruled Monday.
Oct. 27, 2014
A United Methodist pastor who was temporarily defrocked last year after he officiated at his gay son’s wedding will retain his ministry after a final ruling Monday by the denomination’s highest court.
Oct. 27, 2014