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Bob Lanier, the former Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks center who averaged more than 20 points and 10 rebounds per game during a dominant Hall of Fame career, has died at age 73. The eight-time All-Star battled a short illness before his death on Tuesday, the NBA announced Wednesday. “For more than 30 years, Bob…
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WASHINGTON — Most of the Mets offense may be cold after a wacky schedule that saw them play on just two of the past five days. But Jeff McNeil is at least one hitter who hasn’t lost his mojo. McNeil, the Amazin’s best hitter and the only regular starter batting above .300, erased the lineup’s…
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For the last year, the rivalry has been building. The Blue Jays pushed the Yankees to the end of last season, just missing a chance to play them for a playoff spot. Tuesday night, they added some bad blood to the mix. In an intense and heated game that had three Blue Jays ejected and…
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The West Hills mother accused of killing three of her children over Mother’s Day weekend appeared in a courtroom for first time Wednesday, May 11, where she faced murder charges for all three of their deaths. Angela Dawn Flores, 38, hid in a corner just inside the door to the defendant’s holding area as she…
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By Michael R. Sisak | Associated Press NEW YORK — A New York judge said Wednesday he’s close to releasing Donald Trump from a contempt finding, but only if the former president meets certain conditions, including paying $110,000 in fines accrued for failing to turn over documents in a state civil investigation. Judge Arthur Engoron…
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Wednesday’s Chicago White Sox game against the Cleveland Guardians at Guaranteed Rate Field was postponed because of positive COVID-19 tests in the Guardians organization, Major League Baseball announced. MLB will provide a rescheduling update when it becomes available. More to come. ()

The arugula makes it sound fancy, but the cheeseburger at Oak in Laguna Beach is quite traditional: Swiss cheese, pickles, caramelized onion and a “secret sauce.” There are two secret sauces, really. One is a classic Thousand Island-style sauce. The other tastes remarkably like A1, or at least that’s what registers in my mind. I…
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Student elections going on this week at the University of California, Davis, include a referendum to make the campus’s mascot a cow. The aim of the so-called MOOvement is not to tamper with the Aggies name — that would remain — but to change the mascot from Gunrock the Mustang to a cow. Organizers of…
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When she transferred as a junior to CSUF in Spring 2020, Evelyn Pohle walked into her differential equations and algebra class and her male professor mentioned how there were several female instructors who taught math. And women of color, to boot. The concept was new to Pohle, who attended Trabuco Hills High School and spent…
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In its bid for year-round attention domination, the NFL is down to one final conquest: June. Because as of now, that’s the only month during which there is no unofficial league holiday. April, of course, featured the NFL draft, which came a little more than a month after the free-agency frenzy of March, which happened…
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