State utility regulators on Thursday, March 21, rejected Norco’s request to make Southern California Edison bury transmission lines for a long-awaited Riverside power project that will run along the Santa Ana River. Norco is now eyeing a legislative fix. City manager Lori Sassoon said they’re working with Assemblyman Bill Essayli, R-Riverside, to introduce a bill…
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Arizona scored 16 straight points over a five-minute stretch Thursday to pull away for an 85-65 victory in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and end Dan Monson’s coaching tenure at Long Beach State. Kylan Boswell scored 20 points for the second-seeded Wildcats (26-8), who made 13 3-pointers, the…
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Ariana Arghandewal | (TNS) Bankrate.com If I had a point for every time I got asked about the best way to use points for travel, I’d have enough to fly around the world — twice. After over a decade in which I turned an interest in loyalty programs into a full-time job, I know how…
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Christmas comes twice a year for the UCLA women’s basketball team: once in December, and again in March. “It feels like Christmas,” Bruins graduate student guard Camryn Brown said. “It genuinely does when tournament season comes around. You play all these games throughout the season to be your best in March for a tournament like…
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SANTA ANITA LEADERS (Through Thursday) Jockeys / Wins Juan Hernandez / 46 Flavien Prat / 41 Antonio Fresu / 38 Frankie Dettori / 28 Hector Berrios / 20 Umberto Rispoli / 20 Trainers / Wins Doug O’Neill / 27 Mark Glatt / 22 Phil D’Amato / 22 Bob Baffert / 21 Steve Knapp / 19…
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An escalating wave of Starbucks worker victories continued this week when baristas at a Seal Beach store voted to join Starbucks Workers United. Their 9-3 vote marks the 32nd California location to unionize. Workers at the 12470 Seal Beach Blvd. store join more than 400 Starbucks stores nationwide that have unionized in their fight for…
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Showers, cool temperatures and windy gusts may have you double-checking the calendar this weekend. “It will feel like a cold winter day in the middle of March,” National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Moede said. After a cool, partly cloudy Friday with temperatures in the 60s, about a tenth to a third inch of rain is…
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Horses vying to qualify for the Kentucky Derby have more than usual to prove in the upcoming three Saturdays of major, pivotal, final preps for the May 4 classic. It’s natural for fans to measure this year’s prospects not only against one another but also against the Bob Baffert-trained horses who aren’t eligible for the…
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By Matthew Lee | Associated Press CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken huddled Thursday with top Arab diplomats in Cairo to discuss post-conflict plans for Gaza as relations between the United States and Israel soured further over Israel’s war against Hamas, notably its intent to mount a major military operation against the southern…
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By Hanna Arhirova and Anton Shtuka | Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Russia fired more than two dozen missiles at Kyiv before dawn on Thursday, attacking the Ukrainian capital for the first time in six weeks and sending panicked residents flooding into the relative safety of the subway system in a scene reminiscent of the…
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