There’s a new employee in The Towers in Laguna Woods, and he’s a big hit with the residents. His name is Pancho, he’s a server in the Crystal Dining Room, and he softly hums when he walks – or make that glides – among the tables, delivering dinner to hungry diners. Pancho is a robot,…
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Anaheim broke its daily high temperature record Sunday, Aug. 7, as seasonally high heat dominated Southern California, with triple-digit marks throughout the Inland Empire, meteorologists said. In Anaheim, thermometers peaked at 98 degrees, breaking the previous daily record of 97 from 2018, the National Weather Service said. One record high today: #Anaheim hit 98 degrees,…
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WASHINGTON — Brittney Sykes scored 21 points. including a driving layup in the closing seconds, and the Los Angeles Sparks kept their slim playoff hopes alive Sunday with a 79-76 win over the Washington Mystics. Los Angeles (13-20), which snapped a six-game losing streak, are one of five teams within two games of each other…
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LOS ANGELES – It is a roster makeover maybe unprecedented in college football history, in not only the numbers and the quickness but the sheer star power involved. The eight months between Lincoln Riley’s hiring at USC – itself speedy and stunning – and this past Friday’s first day of fall camp have been a…
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SEATTLE — Tucker Davidson’s debut with the Angels demonstrated one of the issues that’s haunted him throughout his brief big league career. Davidson walked five batters in four-plus innings, including one just before giving up a grand slam that sent the Angels on their way to a 6-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Sunday…
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Jesús Luzardo allowed one hit over seven innings for his first win since April, and Jacob Stallings and Peyton Burdick hit back-to-back home runs as the Miami Marlins beat the Chicago Cubs 3-0 on Sunday at Wrigley Field to prevent a three-game sweep. Yan Gomes singled with two outs in the fifth off Luzardo (3-4).…
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LOS ANGELES – Two weeks into his throwing program, Walker Buehler says he knows nothing yet. Playing catch most days for approximately 25 throws out to 120 feet or so has not been taxing enough, Buehler said this week, to notice any difference in his elbow from the surgery eight weeks ago Monday that removed…
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Hawaiian surfer Ezekiel Lau didn’t need the victory-lap wave in the final moments of the Vans US Open of Surfing, but the powerhouse surfer didn’t waste the moment to wow the crowd as he rode toward shore, his fists in the air as fans rushed him on the sand. “It feels great. It’s definitely been…
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By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, a hard-fought compromise less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets deep-rooted party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations. The estimated $740 billion package…
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The symbolism at Citi Field on Sunday afternoon was a little too obvious. Before the Mets’ 5-2 win over Atlanta, a tarp covered the infield, the sky having just burst open to pour buckets of biblical rain on the stadium. The start of the game was delayed by 20 minutes to wait out the weather,…
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