By JOHN NICHOLSON AP Sports Writer RANCHO MIRAGE — Hinako Shibuno’s first impression of Mission Hills Country Club was far from confidence-inspiring – and, in hindsight, mistaken. “It was a hard course for me. I couldn’t even imagine I could play here,” the 23-year-old from Japan said through a translator on Friday, recalling the initial…
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LA HABRA – Sonora had six infield singles Friday. As Sonora baseball coach Rich Lodding said with a wry smile, “Tomorrow they’re line drives.” Those ground ball base hits that never left the infield were as effective for the Raiders as line drives to the outfield in their 13-4 win over Fullerton in a Freeway…
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Orlando area high school scores and top performers from Friday. You can go to SentinelVarsity.com for more news and look here for previous nightly scores collections: Boys basketball GEICO HIGH SCHOOL NATIONALS At Florida SouthWestern State College in Fort Myers Montverde Academy 62, IMG Academy 57 Buzz: Dariq Whitehead had 21 points for the Eagles…
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By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister | Associated Press NEW YORK — A U.S. judge refused to throw out Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction Friday, despite a juror’s failure to disclose before the trial began that he’d been a victim of childhood sexual abuse. Maxwell, a British socialite, was convicted in December of helping the…
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Fans could be forgiven for seeing the Clippers’ and Milwaukee Bucks’ injury reports on Friday morning and wondering whether they were April Fools’ Day pranks. Between the two teams – both of which played overtime games in different cities the previous night – 14 players missed Friday night’s game, for a whole bunch of reasons,…
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks to the media to announce the launch of a new Clean Truck Fund rate at 4Gen Logistics in Long Beach on Friday, April 1, 2022. The new fee is expected to generate up to $90 million in its first year and will allow the ports to accelerate the development…
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By Becky Bohrer | Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska — Sarah Palin on Friday shook up an already unpredictable race for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, filing paperwork to join a field of at least 40 candidates seeking to fill the seat that had been held for 49 years by the late-U.S. Rep. Don Young, who…
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Every hero has an origin story. Growing up in L.A.’s Boyle Heights and spending weekends watching movies with her grandparents, Kayden Phoenix says she wanted to see a superhero that looked like her. That didn’t happen, so eventually she created a whole team of heroes herself. Phoenix is the writer-creator of an all-Latina superhero comics…
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ANAHEIM >> The Orange Lutheran softball team handed Villa Park, the No. 1-ranked team in CIF Southern Section Division 1, its first loss of the season Friday in the third round of the Michele Carew Classic at Peralta Park. The Lancers defeated Villa Park, 3-2, however, the Spartans were without Arizona-bound pitcher Sydney Somnerdike, the…
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Two California Highway Patrol vehicles and a half dozen unmarked vehicles blocked off the parking lot of Super Clinik, a licensed cannabis store in Santa Ana, just after the shop opened at 8 a.m. on the morning of March 18. With an agent from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration looking on, several…
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