By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer JUPITER, Fla. — Major League Baseball has extended its deadline for reaching a labor deal to 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday for salvaging Opening Day on March 31. Locked-out players and team owners engaged in a series of intense negotiations that began Monday and stretched into early Tuesday morning…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Dan Albano’s Fab 5 outstanding girls basketball players last week, Feb. 28: Isabel Gomez, Sage Hill, Sr., G: The Penn commit scored a game-high 20 points, including five 3-pointers, and added four steals and seven rebounds in a 66-61 loss at top-seeded Orange…
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LOS ANGELES — Boston winger Jake DeBrusk might not have been part of the original “perfection line” for the Boston Bruins, but there were few if any flaws in his game as his natural hat trick ignited their 7-0 rout of the Kings on Monday night at Crypto.com Arena. DeBrusk, who has been skating with…
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The news broke Monday morning, hours before the deadline – was it really a deadline, or merely a negotiating tactic? – to determine whether Major League Baseball would indeed play an Opening Day as scheduled on March 31. Derek Jeter, Hall of Famer and player turned owner, stepped down from his position as CEO and…
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Jessie Boeckmann was in a Ukrainian hospital room with her newborn baby when she was awakened by the sound of explosives. She roused her husband, Jacob, and climbed out of bed to look through the window. “What are you doing?” “I just heard bombs go off.” “Are you sure?” he asked. Seconds later, more explosions.…
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Over the past year, classroom masking requirements sparked intense debate online and at school board meetings, led to a lawsuit against the governor and prompted protests across Orange County and the state. So on Monday, as local school districts started preparing plans to go mask-optional in less than two weeks under newly announced changes to…
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A public records website inadvertently published 260,000 confidential attorney discipline documents due to a security glitch within the State Bar of California’s case management system, not as a result of a malicious computer hack, officials said Monday. The State Bar, in what was initially described as a “breach,” first discovered Friday that judyrecords.com had published…
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A suspect in an attempted homicide in Alhambra led authorities on a lengthy pursuit Monday that ended in Costa Mesa, then bailed out of a vehicle and hopped over a fence in a bid to evade capture. But he soon was surrounded and arrested. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in Bellflower spotted a gray sedan…
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday, Feb. 28, it will hear oral arguments in a case challenging a 44-year-old law that gives preference to placing American Indian children in state foster care with American Indian adoptive families. A ruling could determine the fate of the Indian Child Welfare Act, which has withstood challenge since its…
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Natalie Nakase has always been big on speaking her goals into existence. Sometimes, though, opportunities arise almost unbidden. File her new job as the lead assistant coach for the Las Vegas Aces in that category. After spending the past 10 years as a coach in the Clippers’ organization, last week Nakase joined Becky Hammon –…
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