With the Rams playing in the Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium, this should be a happy time for Robert Woods, the Gardena-born wide receiver who starred at Serra High and USC. But Woods is mourning the sudden death last month at age 66 of his father, also named Robert Woods, a receiver for Grambling and…
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While Brian Daboll tries to fix the Giants’ offense, Don Martindale will turn their defense into, well, a second offense. The Giants have hired Martindale as their new defensive coordinator, a source confirmed to The Daily News on Wednesday, landing a respected coach with a calling card for in-your-face playcalling and relentless blitzing. “Wink” Martindale,…
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Irvine leaders are considering dedicating about five acres of a proposed 125-acre botanical garden at the Great Park to be a veterans memorial. In rare agreement over what should happen with the corner of the Great Park known as the ARDA site, the City Council on Tuesday decided to incorporate the memorial park into a…
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A Newport Beach multimillionaire who spent years on the run after he was accused of strangling his wife and dumping her body in a trash bin pleaded guilty Wednesday to second degree murder and was immediately sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Peter Chadwick, a former real estate investor who was facing a…
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Top-level Orange County prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh was fired Wednesday from the District Attorney’s Office after an internal investigation into withholding evidence in a murder case. District Attorney Todd Spitzer said the withheld evidence forced him in August to request a new murder trial for a man convicted in 2010 of mutilating his victim in Sunset…
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“Roster building is very much ongoing.” That was Lawrence Frank, president of basketball operations, on Saturday, the day after the Clippers traded for Norman Powell and Robert Covington, proving themselves forward-thinking buyers – not satisfied sellers – even during this season in which they’ve been without either of their two injured All-Stars for much of…
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By ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — With even Democratic states moving to roll back mask mandates, the White House said Wednesday it is beginning to prepare for a less-restrictive phase of the national COVID response in the face of growing impatience to ease up and turn toward post-pandemic normalcy. President Joe Biden entered office promising…
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By CAROLYN THOMPSON As some of the last statewide mask mandates in the U.S. near an end, decisions about whether students and teachers should continue to wear masks in school are shifting to local leaders, who are caught in the middle of one of the most combustible issues of the pandemic. “Unfortunately, this is an…
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Analysis and predictions for the CIF Southern Section boys basketball playoffs that begin this week … OPEN DIVISION The field as seeded: 1. Centennial of Corona (26-1); 2. Sierra Canyon (22-3); 3. Harvard-Westlake (21-2); 4. Crean Lutheran (22-3); 5. Damien (26-2); 6. Mater Dei (25-2); 7. Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (19-4); 8. Bishop Montgomery…
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By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON (AP) — Following outrage on the political right, the Biden administration said Wednesday that a grant program to help prevent additional harm to people who use illicit drugs will not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth. “No federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of…
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