Journalist Completes Walk Around World
- Share via
BETHEL, Ohio — A journalist who decided he wanted to see the world firsthand completed a four-year, 15,500-mile walk around the globe today, returning to his southwest Ohio hometown to deliver a kiss to his mother.
During his trip, Steve Newman said, he was attacked by bandits in Thailand, arrested as a spy in Turkey and almost washed away by a flash flood in Australia. But he said he was also welcomed by people around the world and stayed with about 300 families during his journey.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
