CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 27, 2012 | Mitchell Landsberg
Ashley Caswell had never been a believer in love at first sight. Then she met Army Sgt. Brian L. Walker, a fellow military policeman at Ft. Bragg, N.C., who hailed from Lucerne Valley, Calif. "He had me at 'hello,' " she said. Like her, he had blond hair and piercing blue eyes, and it turned out that they had a lot in common. "We could do anything together," she said. "We loved everything outdoors -- fishing, hunting, camping, hiking. " On Dec. 11, 2010, they were married in Las Vegas, and one year later they both deployed to Afghanistan.
SPORTS
March 30, 1991 | STEVE KRESAL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Brian Walker continued his torrid hitting with a home run and two singles as Saddleback defeated MiraCosta, 6-1, in a nonconference baseball game in Mission Viejo. Walker, a sophomore transfer from Loyola Marymount, has reached base in 18 of his past 26 plate appearences with 14 hits and three walks. He was hit once. Walker is batting a team-high .413.
NEWS
June 30, 2002 | J. MICHAEL KENNEDY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Rocket Guy is way behind schedule. If things had worked out as planned, he'd already be the first person to single-handedly launch himself into the stratosphere. He'd be making the talk-show rounds, telling audiences about how this slightly wacky toy inventor took a childhood dream and made it a reality. He'd be bragging about how he boosted himself 30 miles straight up in a rocket he made in his home workshop. Or, perhaps he might be dead. Rocketry, after all, is fraught with peril.
BOOKS
January 26, 2003 | Adam Bresnick, Adam Bresnick writes for several publications, including the (London) Times Literary Supplement.
Above all, the underground comix of the late 1960s and early 1970s were dirty. Unlike the newspaper strips of the era, which featured clean lines and obvious gags, underground comix were jam-packed with scuzzy, hallucinatory images, offering surreal plot lines that often veered toward incoherence.
SPORTS
April 29, 1988
Pitcher Brian Walker of Capistrano Valley High School has signed a letter of intent with Loyola Marymount University, Capistrano Valley Coach Bob Zamora said. Walker, a 6-foot 1-inch, 185-pound left-hander, is 3-4 this season with a 1.81 earned-run average and 46 strikeouts. He was 4-0 last season and helped the Cougars win the Southern Section 2-A championship.
SPORTS
April 5, 1991
In other Orange Empire Conference games: Saddleback 13, Fullerton 12--Brad Porter had a two-out bloop double to cap a five-run rally in the ninth for host Saddleback (12-15, 4-9). Brian Walker had four hits and two RBIs for Saddleback (12-15, 4-9). Darby Carmichael had five hits, including a home run, and Ed Garcia (a grand slam) and Sal Mancuso had home runs for Fullerton (19-12, 6-7).