Southern California home prices continued a 1 ½-year, double-digit climb last month, setting a record for the 11th time in just over a year. Meanwhile, home sales dipped from a year ago, but still had the second-highest tally for the month for the last 15 years. With the 2022 spring homebuying season just getting started,…
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Jonathan Isaac will miss the remainder of the Orlando Magic’s 2021-22 season, the team announced Tuesday morning. Isaac hasn’t played since tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the “bubble” on Aug. 2, 2020, after the league returned from a four-month hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He had just recovered from…
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By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and ASHRAF KHALIL NEW YORK (AP) — Police said early Tuesday they arrested a suspected gunman who has been stalking homeless men asleep on the streets of New York City and Washington D.C., killing at least two people and wounding three others in less than two weeks. Law enforcement arrested the…
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No player on the Nets roster has stepped up more in the aftermath of the James Harden trade than utility playmaker Bruce Brown. Brown has scored in double digits in all but two of the Nets’ 13 games since the Feb. 10 trade deadline. He is averaging a hair under 14 points on 53.5% shooting…
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By SUSIE BLANN and ELAINE GANLEY LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — They are idealists who abandoned their jobs for the battlefields of Ukraine, looking for a cause or simply to fight. The Ukrainian president’s call for foreign volunteers to join an international brigade to help bolster his country’s defense with a new layer of resistance to…
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By RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI and JAMEY KEATEN PRZEMYSL, Poland (AP) — While tens of thousands of people have fled Ukraine every day since Russia’s invasion, a small but growing number are heading in the other direction. At first they were foreign volunteers, Ukrainian expatriate men heading to fight and people delivering aid. But increasingly, women are…
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By ANDREA ROSA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s relentless bombardment of Ukraine edged closer to central Kyiv as a series of strikes hit a residential neighborhood Tuesday, while the leaders of three European Union countries planned a bold visit to Ukraine’s capital and the number of people the war has driven from the country passed…
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By JOE McDONALD BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities on Tuesday tightened anti-virus controls at ports, raising the risk of trade disruptions after some auto and electronics factories shut down as the government fights coronavirus outbreaks. Stock prices in China and Hong Kong sank for a second day following the shutdown on Monday of Shenzhen, a…
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Q: Ira, with everyone back, give us your Heat rotation. — Wes. A: Well, with Caleb Martin still out with his hyperextended left knee, not everyone is back. So that still makes it difficult to pinpoint where this might be headed, especially since Caleb can factor into several roles, from power forward to shooting guard.…
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Steve Fryer’s list of outstanding baseball players last week: Zach Brown, Villa Park, Jr., P/Inf: He pitched a three-hitter with 11 strikeouts in the Spartans’ 5-0 win over Yorba Linda. Brown is 2-0 with a 0.89 ERA. He has 18 strikeouts with two walks in 15 2/3 innings. Bobby Gray, Trabuco Hills, Jr., Inf: He…
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