On Jan. 23, Verastegui and the student were in the gym at Taft High School when he struck a student with autism, speech impairment, and intellectual disability, an affidavit supporting Verastegui ...

Mark Drucker was honored by Taft High on Monday for 50 years of coaching basketball at the Woodland Hills school. "It was beautiful," he said of the moment in the school gym, where former players ...