Casino Insider is a weekly newsletter with all the best bets for food, entertainment and fun at Southern California’s casinos. It’s delivered to your inbox on Thursdays. Subscribe now. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians Chairman Doug Welmas, 44, oversees operations at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio on Thursday, March 3, 2022. (Photo by Will Lester,…
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Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin officials have destroyed the rifle Kyle Rittenhouse used to shoot three people during street protests in Kenosha in 2020. WISN-TV reported Friday that the state crime lab destroyed the rifle on Feb. 25. The station posted video showing technicians unboxing the gun and feeding into a shredder. Rittenhouse’s attorneys…
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Festival Pass is a newsletter that lands in your inbox weekly. But during prime festival season you get bonus editions, too! Subscribe now. I looked at the calendar. It says it’s March 2022, but a shocking amount of my conversations this week sound like they could have been from 2002. An example: On Wednesday, three…
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Getting back this week to my series on days that stand out as special in my zillion years of surfing – 67 and counting as we speak. My plan is to weave these little tidbits in with my normal coverage of surfing and surf culture related topics and reviews. Today I stuck my finger into…
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SACRAMENTO — Democratic lawmakers have agreed to legislation that could let the University of California, Berkeley accept thousands more students this fall after a judicial freeze on enrollment in a dispute with residents over growth. The decision by California’s high court last week to cap enrollment at one of the world’s most prestigious universities stunned…
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Katie Robertson, left, joins the Sage Robotics team from Sage Hills School, as they work on their robot in the pits during practice at the Orange County Regional FIRST Robotics Competition at the OC Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, CA, on Thursday, March 10, 2022. 1,500 competitors, in 42 teams, are competing in the FIRST —…
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CIF STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS SATURDAY BOYS BASKETBALL DIVISION II Foothill (31-3) vs. Elk Grove (27-6), 4 p.m., Golden 1 Center, Sacramento Live coverage: Spectrum SportsNet Outlook: Foothill and Elk Grove make their CIF State Championships boys basketball finals debuts. Both teams lost in the semifinals of their CIF section playoffs. Foothill lost to Long Beach Poly…
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MEMPHIS — It’s the most surprising success story of this Knicks season. Mitchell Robinson began this campaign still recovering from a fractured foot, having added too much weight during a longer-than-expected rehab. The Knicks passed on giving Robinson an extension in the offseason, instead handing $30 million to the other center — Nerlens Noel —…
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Alex Caruso could be back on the court in a Chicago Bulls uniform within the next week after participating in all team activities Friday, including contact scrimmages during practice. Caruso underwent surgery in late January after suffering a right wrist fracture Jan. 21 against the Milwaukee Bucks. He said the fracture is completely healed, which…
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NEW YORK — When he was the general manager of a Stanley Cup contender, Bob Murray began locking up key players with expensive, long-term contract extensions in order to increase the chances of a second championship in less than a decade, starting with Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf in 2013. It made sense then, but less…
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