GLENDALE, Ariz. — Walker Buehler has been the Dodgers’ choice to start big games for the past four seasons. Now he will also be their choice to start first games. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Thursday that Buehler will start the team’s season opener April 8 in Colorado. The Dodgers will open with five games…
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The Miami Heat confirmed Thursday to the Sun Sentinel that it was the team’s decision, and not the decision of broadcast-rights holder Bally Sports Sun, to elect not to show the third-quarter altercation on the team’s bench during Wednesday night’s loss to the Golden State Warriors at FTX Arena. Lorrie-Ann Diaz, the Heat’s vice president…
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TEMPE, Ariz. — The public discourse about the Angels outfield has mostly focused on whether Mike Trout should play center, just how the Angels will handle aging Justin Upton and whether Jo Adell or Brandon Marsh are poised for a breakout season. And then, there’s Taylor Ward. Little has been said about Ward, which is…
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“Bubble Watch” digs into trends that may indicate economic and/or housing market troubles ahead. Buzz: As house hunters grapple with record-high home prices another financial blow hits — a sudden rise in mortgage rates pushed the average 30-year rate to 4.42% this week. It’s a stunning jump that harks back to the sharp loss in…
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It all started with a fire. The Australian bush burned red and the undergrowth glowed like lava as kangaroos fled through the night, their coats covered in soot. Later, volunteers would apply bandages to the scorched feet of bewildered koalas. Meanwhile, in Orange County, Justine Makoff’s son was working as a busboy. Not yet 20,…
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Winston Vickers might have one of the most suspenseful screen feeds in the state: His team has installed dozens of strategically placed cameras in the Orange County backcountry to track where mountain lions roam. As we speak, he is waiting for a mountain lion to approach the deer carcass one of the four biologists on…
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What if the worst thing you can imagine actually holds the seeds of opportunity for positive change? That’s what Scott Green saw amid the pandemic, when everything was closed up tight as a clamshell. Nonprofits across the region, which depend on galas and other in-person happenings to fund their work, were suddenly forced to try…
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When Iosefa Joey Alofaituli walks through the Oak View neighborhood in Huntington Beach, he doesn’t see the so-called “Slater Slums,” as some still call the area. Many associate the high-density community of apartment complexes, which has housed generations of Latino families, with crime and blight. But Alofaituli instead sees a tight-knit community burgeoning with opportunity…
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The body of a young San Diego man who was kidnapped in Tijuana, Mexico, nearly two years ago has been recovered, his mother said. News of the recovery of the body of Miguel Anthony Rendon, who was 19 when he disappeared, came from the FBI several weeks ago, said his mother,…
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Amid Vladimir Putin’s inhumane assault on Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky challenged U.S. President Joe Biden to be “the leader of the world” in a speech to Congress last week. Zelensky’s call to President Biden underscores an important truth: this conflict is much bigger than Russia versus Ukraine. Putin’s war is characteristic of the undying…
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