From deep and skilled to relentless and tenacious, life won’t get much easier for the Kings as they pivot from a loss to the Colorado Avalanche into a showdown with the also-formidable Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday. For the Hurricanes, it’ll mostly be business as usual, though they remain without their most lethal goal-scorer, Andrei Svechnikov.…
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PLAYA VISTA — If the Clippers are going to advance further than the first round of the playoffs this season, the defense needs to improve. It’s part of the mindset Coach Tyronn Lue is aiming to change during training camp. Bones Hyland, for one, has taken that challenge personally. He added 11 pounds of muscle…
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Looking for a job – next summer? Even as this summer season seems to be lingering, lifeguard agencies up and down the Southern California coast are already holding tryouts to fill lifeguard towers for seasonal positions for next summer, a shift in how recruitment has typically happened at most departments for decades. “Everyone is going…
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EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — Gio Reyna is likely to play his first match under Gregg Berhalter since their family feud began 11 months ago, though the U.S. coach did not detail the midfielder’s exact role in Saturday’s exhibition game against Germany. Reyna, a son of former U.S. captain Claudio Reyna and midfielder Danielle Egan, was…
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A Whittier driver was convicted this week of murder for a drunken three-car crash in Cypress that killed a La Mirada woman during the early Easter Sunday hours in 2017. An Orange County Superior Court jury on Thursday, Oct. 12, found Nicholas Sanchez-McCormick, now 29, guilty of second-degree murder and a pair of DUI-related felony…
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Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday spoke with the families of the Americans who remain unaccounted for in Israel after promising to speak with family members of those who are held hostage by Hamas. During a speech in Philadelphia Friday afternoon, Biden recounted the conversation. &#“;They&#’;re going through agony not knowing what the…
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More than 100 people gathered Friday, Oct. 13, to consider women’s health and equity at the OC Women’s Health Summit hosted by UC Irvine’s public health program and the OC Women’s Health Project. The event comes more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health…
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Three “foot soldiers” of the Orange County chapter of the Mexican Mafia were convicted Friday, Oct. 13, of killing a Costa Mesa-based drug dealer in the city of Orange allegedly at the behest of the reputed leader of the umbrella group for the local gangs. Kevin Trejo, James Mendez and Mike Escobar were the first…
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Imagine a game show where kids and librarians are the big winners – and instead of lifetime supplies of Turtle Wax, they can score free books and support for local libraries. Well, it’s happening, and you can take part. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” author Jeff Kinney is celebrating the publication of “No Brainer,” his…
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THOUSAND OAKS — The comparison has been running rampant since Rams rookie receiver Puka Nacua broke out at the start of the season. It’s only gotten stronger as he continued to put up big numbers, then didn’t show any letdown after Cooper Kupp’s return. Nacua, the comp goes, is in the Robert Woods role. Kupp…
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