LOS ANGELES — After a lifeless performance on Sunday night, the Lakers needed some kind of sign to show they’re still kicking. On Tuesday night against the Dallas Mavericks, they ran the floor. They defended. They scored. A crowd that had booed them two nights before got back on their side as they led by…
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LOS ANGELES — As it built the best regular-season win total in program history, USC made a habit of winning games by dragging opponents into slugfests with its defense. The uglier, the better. Tuesday night’s game against No. 2 Arizona was certainly ugly, but not in the way the Trojans wanted to see. Through 13…
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In the end, it was false hope. Those devoted baseball followers who were monitoring the situation on Twitter on Monday night, as negotiators from management and the Players’ Association toiled until 2:30 a.m. ET, went to bed with the impression that a settlement wasn’t that far away and a new collective bargaining agreement could enable…
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The California State University’s Board of Trustees announced Tuesday, March 1, it will commission an independent investigation into former Chancellor Joseph Castro’s handling of sexual harassment complaints against an administrator at Fresno State when Castro was president there. The investigation will entail an in-depth review of how Castro and other Fresno State administrators responded to…
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Ivica Zubac interrupted the Clippers’ regularly scheduled whose-turn-is-it-today rotation by barging in for his second big game in a row Tuesday night. The 24-year-old center finished with 22 points and 12 rebounds (seven offensive) in just three quarters of work to lead the Clippers to a 113-100 victory over the Houston Rockets. For their fourth…
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A Torrance man suspected of being the “Green Gaiter Bandit” and accused of robbing several banks in Los Angeles and Orange counties was arrested, the FBI announced Tuesday. Christopher Paul Daniels, 55, was arrested on Sunday, Feb. 27, in Palos Verdes Estates and charged in a criminal complaint, authorities said. The complaint charges Daniels with…
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Each week, publications from the Southern California News Group’s 11 properties (Orange County Register, L.A. Daily News, Press-Enterprise, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Daily Breeze, San Bernardino Sun, Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts, Whittier Daily News and Pasadena-Star News) select the Athletes of the Week for their respective region. Each athlete is…
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Each week, publications from the Southern California News Group’s 11 properties (Orange County Register, L.A. Daily News, Press-Enterprise, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Daily Breeze, San Bernardino Sun, Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts, Whittier Daily News and Pasadena-Star News) select the Athletes of the Week for their respective region. Each athlete is…
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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO >> The San Juan Hills boys basketball team had its historic season come to an end Tuesday when it lost to Birmingham 64-56 in the first round of the CIF SoCal Regional Division II playoffs. San Juan Hills (27-5) beat La Mirada in the CIF Southern Section Division 2A championship game on…
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Lee Stonum and daughter Kennedy (Courtesy Lee Stonum) She was just 17, had her driver’s license and was loving her first job at Selma’s Pizza in Ladera Ranch. Kennedy Stonum, a junior at San Juan Hills High School, was in perfect health and spurned COVID-19 vaccines on the theory that, if she was ever infected,…
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