SACRAMENTO — The Lakers, who have statistically had the league’s third-best best defense over the last 1½ weeks entering Thursday, knew they would be tested in their consecutive matchups against the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center. They passed the first leg of the exam, beating the Kings, 113-100, on Thursday night in the first…
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INGLEWOOD — What a response the Chargers mounted with their 34-27 victory over the Denver Broncos on Thursday night at SoFi Stadium. What a recovery. A wholesale turnaround from the Brandon Staley era, including that embarrassing 63-21 loss in last season’s Thursday night game against the Las Vegas Raiders, a defeat that dropped the Chargers…
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ALISO VIEJO — Segerstrom’s boys basketball team pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the season thus far by beating Aliso Niguel 53-42 Thursday in a nonleague game at Aliso Niguel High. Aliso Niguel entered the game with a 10-2 record, six straight wins and was coming off a win over Tesoro, which is…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Sonora girls basketball coach Melissa Barajas views mentorship as an important extension of her duties. “As a coach,” she said, “I’m driven to help empower these girls to reach their basketball goals and succeed beyond the court.” Barajas continues to rack up the…
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The Los Angeles City Council is hiking the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 an hour. It will turn out to be a five-diamond mistake. The vote wasn’t even close. By a 12-3 margin, the Council decided to give a raise to workers they don’t employ and bloated payrolls that will have…
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By Daniela Sirtori | Bloomberg The union representing Starbucks baristas plans to go on strike for five days from Friday after a final-stage bargaining session reached an impasse, the group said. Starbucks Workers United said its members are planning to walk out in unionized stores across Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle. The union, which represents…
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By ANTHONY SANFILIPPO The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Anze Kopitar and Kevin Fiala scored two goals each, and the Kings scored four goals in the third period to rally past the Philadelphia Flyers, 7-3, on Thursday night. Warren Foegele added a goal and an assist for the Kings, who won for the eighth time in…
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DALLAS — Norman Powell scored 29 points, James Harden added 24 and Ivica Zubac had 21 points and 15 rebounds as the Clippers beat a short-handed Dallas Mavericks team, 118-95, on Thursday night in the Mavericks’ first game this season playing without star guards Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving. Doncic sat out with a left…
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INGLEWOOD — Quarterback Justin Herbert threw two fourth-quarter touchdown passes and the Chargers overcame a halftime deficit to seize a 34-27 victory over the Denver Broncos on Thursday night at SoFi Stadium. The victory all but assured the Chargers of an AFC wild-card berth. Herbert rallied the Chargers from a 21-13 halftime deficit to a…
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In the 12 years since Austin Tice was abducted in Syria, his family and his coworkers at McClatchy have grieved at his absence, despaired at silence from the Syrian government and prayed that promises from three U.S. presidents would turn into actions that brought Austin home. Now, more than any moment since he was taken…
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