Southern California homebuying got off to a slow start in January with both prices and sales dipping. The pace of closed transactions cooled from December, according to DQNews data released Wednesday, Feb. 16. The median sales price in the six-county region also fell slightly to $687,000 from an all-time high of $695,000. Rising mortgage rates…
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Scores from the CIF-SS girls basketball playoff games Wednesday and the updated matchups and schedule for Saturday’s games. CIF-SS GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS OPEN DIVISION Wednesday Pool A Etiwanda 83, Rosary 35 Mater Dei 50, Windward 44 Pool B Sierra Canyon 81, Orangewood Academy 43 Corona Centennial 74, Bishop Montgomery 66 Saturday, 7 p.m. unless noted…
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Scores from the CIF-SS girls soccer playoff games Wednesday and the updated schedule for Saturday’s games. CIF-SS GIRLS SOCCER PLAYOFFS DIVISION 1 Second round, Wednesday Corona Santiago 2, Brea Olinda 0 Etiwanda 3, Santa Margarita 0 Newport Harbor 3, Capistrano Valley 2 Villa Park 1, Claremont 0 Harvard-Westlake 2, Moorpark 0 Los Alamitos 1, Millikan…
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By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer BEIJING — Canada’s Captain Clutch, Marie-Philip Poulin, delivered at the Olympics again. Poulin scored twice, including her third gold-medal clinching goal, and Canada reclaimed its place atop the women’s hockey world by capping its run through the Beijing Games with a 3-2 win over the defending champion United States…
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SAN CLEMENTE >> San Clemente goalkeeper Emily Sanchez had a standout performance to lead the Tritons to a win over Mater Dei in the second round of the CIF-SS Division 1 girls soccer playoffs Wednesday at San Clemente High. The two teams were tied at two goals apiece at the end of regulation and two…
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LA HABRA – Sonora’s girls basketball team played like what should be expected of a team that had not played in 13 days. The Raiders were offensively out of sync at times, sometimes even sloppy. Sonora mostly, though, played more than well enough to win. The Raiders defeated Downey 47-33 on Wednesday in the second…
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer BEIJING — Mikaela Shiffrin came to the Beijing Olympics as one of the biggest stars of Alpine skiing – or any sport. She will leave without any individual medals after managing to finish just two of the five women’s races. Shiffrin’s latest mistake of the Winter Games came Thursday…
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CYPRESS – Before Wednesday night’s game, both coaches said what their team lacks in size, they make up for with speed and physical defense. And they weren’t lying. With the game close all night, it came down to whoever had the last possession and Calabasas freshman Jocelynn Townsend came away with the game-winning shot at…
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LOS ALAMITOS >> It was one of the better strikes Millikan girls soccer coach Tino Nunez has seen this season. Unfortunately, for Millikan, the goal was scored by Los Alamitos senior Marisa Salazar with less than 25 minutes to go. “I got the ball wide and took it in and I saw a little opening…
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Rickard Rakell misfired on a shot from close range while the Ducks were on a power play in the opening minutes of their 6-2 loss to the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Then he missed the net on another try moments later from even closer range. Ryan Getzlaf had a point-blank…
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