Diana Nyad, 61, abandoned her 103 mile swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage Tuesday morning at 12:45am. Nearing the halfway point, Nyad made the call to stop at hour 29. more ›

The exhausting stretch of ocean from Cuba to Florida totals 103 miles and is estimated to take 60+ hours. Nyad began her venture around 7:30pm on Sunday night. To put your minds slightly at ease, she is accompanied by two boats armed with shark shields, transmitting an electric shark field into the water. more ›

Local radio personality Diana Nyad, 61, is getting ready to finish something she started 30 years ago: a swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys, reports the Washington Post. Nyad, who hosts sports show "The Score" on KCRW, has been a long-distance endurance athlete for most of her life. In 1978, when she was 29, she attempted to swim the distance between a point on the shore in Cuba all the way to Florida. more ›

In the wake of the big Fidel Castro seemingly-non-news of him stepping down as president (meanwhile the US recently bombed Pakistan without notice or permission), it's interesting to look back at the impact of the man on Los Angeles. The divide between those who wanted to work with Castro's Cuban government and those who vehemently opposed it led to violence -- eleven such terrorism incidents occurred in the Los Angeles area alone according to Cuban Information Archives, a site dedicated to "source materials pertaining to Cuban Exile activities as they pertain to their struggle to wrestle Cuba from Fidel Castro." more ›