Trae Young again delivered the coup de grace. Silencing the boos with a fantastic showing at his favorite arena, Young dropped 45 points, including the highlight dagger, and essentially cut the final thread to the Knicks’ playoff hopes. Young’s final field goal arrived with one minute remaining, when he sent defender Taj Gibson sprawling to…
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LOS ANGELES — It was only about 30 feet. But the visual spoke 1,000 words. UCLA star forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. took roughly 15-16 steps from the side exit of the team’s practice facility to the team bus on Tuesday afternoon as members of the media caught video of the fourth-seeded Bruins (27-7) gearing up…
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Los Angeles Unified School District students and staff will officially be permitted to remove their masks indoors starting tomorrow, as the district aligns with the state and county COVID-19 guidance on face coverings. LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho told the Board of Education Tuesday conditions had improved enough to allow for the “significant relaxation of existing…
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — It was a sparse mid-week crowd at Camelback Ranch on Tuesday – boosted by an eight-member contingent from the Freeman family – but they did their best to welcome Freddie Freeman to the Dodgers. His first at-bat in a Dodger blue uniform prompted a “Fred-die! Fred-die!” chant. When he carved out an…
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An Anaheim Police Department sex crimes detective said her supervisor altered data in the city’s sex offender registry she was in charge of maintaining to keep up a campaign of harassment he was waging against her, according to a lawsuit the detective filed against the city last month. The lawsuit, filed Feb. 28 in Orange…
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You’ll almost certainly hear it Friday evening on the CBS broadcast when UCLA and North Carolina square off in the NCAA East Regional semifinal in Philadelphia: “Bluebloods vs. bluebloods.” It oversimplifies things, perhaps, when it comes to the 2022 men’s basketball versions of the Bruins and Tar Heels. “The No. 4 and No. 8 seeds?…
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LONG BEACH — Reeling from questions about the handling of sex-harassment complaints and responses to administrators accused of wrongdoing, the Board of Trustees of the Long Beach-based California State University System on Tuesday, March 22, called for the development of system-wide policies on such matters. The board formalized previously announced plans for an independent assessment…
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Six men were arrested on suspicion of illegal possession of assault rifles when law enforcement officers heard gunfire and then found an illegal shooting range operating off of Glen Helen Parkway, near the 15 Freeway and the Cajon Pass north of San Bernardino, authorities said Tuesday, March 22. The discovery happened Sunday, March 20, when…
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The federal rule that requires air travelers to wear face masks, which the Transportation Security Administration first imposed more than a year ago, was scheduled to expire. But the TSA extended the requirement for at least another month, for reasons that are even harder to understand than the original rationale for the mask mandate. That…
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Associated Press SEATTLE — Baristas and other employees at a Seattle Starbucks have voted to unionize, the first such vote in the city where Starbucks originated and the latest in a nationwide push to organize the coffee shop chain. The unanimous vote announced Tuesday by the National Labor Relations Board is also an especially symbolic…
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