Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Dan Albano’s Diamond Club outstanding softball players last week, April 21-26: Bree Carlson, Huntington Beach, 1B, So. Carlson had four home runs and 15 RBIs as the Oilers went 2-2 at the Best of the West tournament in Santa Maria. Eliana Corona, La…
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Sovereignty gave trainer Bill Mott a second Kentucky Derby victory. This time there was no doubt about it and no asterisk. The 3-year-old colt outdueled 3-1 favorite Journalism down the stretch to win the 151st Derby in the slop on Saturday, snapping an 0 for 13 skid by owner Godolphin. Mott won…
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Late in the world premiere of fledgling playwright Noa Gardner’s compelling “The Staircase,” an 84-year-old Hawaiian mother confronts her middle-aged son with a universal truth about the generational burdens often handed down within families. In pidgin English/Hawaiian Creole cadences, she warns, “… cuz I can see dat you’re carryin’ something you don’t need to carry.”…
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A small plane crashed into two Simi Valley homes on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. Residents evacuated unharmed but an occupant on board the plane is believed to be dead. Ventura County firefighters at the scene of a small plane crash in Simi Valley on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (RMG News) Firefighters work at the site…
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ATLANTA — When Hyeseong Kim decided to leave South Korea and sign with the Dodgers last winter, it wasn’t to play in Oklahoma City. But that’s where the 26-year-old Kim has spent the first month of his career in the United States after failing to make the Dodgers’ roster out of spring training. But he…
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ANAHEIM — Perry Minasian is correct when he says that “good teams, teams that have been playoff teams in the past, go through stretches” like the brutal whiff-a-thon the Angels have been mired in for three weeks. But it seemed like a false equivalence for the general manager to use San Diego’s recent four-game losing…
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats plan to force a vote in the coming weeks on a resolution to require more transparency from President Donald Trump’s administration about deportations to El Salvador. The resolution, which Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine expects to introduce on Thursday, comes after two votes on Democratic…
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By THOMAS ADAMSON and YURI KAGEYAMA, Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — From Tokyo to Taipei to Manila, people across Asia marked May Day with marches and protests that spotlighted growing unease over U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies and fears of global economic instability. The holiday, also known as International Workers’ Day or Labor Day, honors…
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By SAMYA KULLAB, Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — After months of tense negotiations, the U.S. and Ukraine signed a deal that is expected to give Washington access to the country’s critical minerals and other natural resources, an agreement Kyiv hopes will secure long-term support for its defense against Russia. According to Ukrainian officials, the…
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She gazed out her window and saw nothing — everything was pitch black. Smoke from the Eaton fire hung like a curtain around her quaint Altadena home the morning of Jan. 8. Jeanina Quezada, 63, a pianist, piano teacher and director of Foothills Music Together, was later sent a video that showed her home of…
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