ANAHEIM — Before this season began, one veteran scribe sat beside Kings captain Anze Kopitar and pondered if perhaps it wasn’t time for another skater to lead the club in scoring. It seemed like a valid question given that he’d paced the Kings in points for 14 of the previous 15 campaigns and the team…
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An appellate court has revived a lawsuit challenging the Orange County district attorney’s unregulated DNA program, which offers leniency to low-level defendants who “volunteer” to give their genetic material. The suit by two professors at UC Irvine, was rejected earlier on a technicality by a lower court, but revived Tuesday, April 11, by a three-member…
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A $4 million request for federal funding has been made to help the Orange County Transportation Authority with a study on relocating coastal sections of a key rail line further inland, U.S. Representative Mike Levin announced Thursday, May 13, during a tour of ocean threats to the stretch of tracks. He was in San Clemente…
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The NAMM show kicked off Thursday morning, April 13, with its annual Breakfast of Champions event and a changing of the guard. The session offered attendees breakfast, live music and was hosted by Joe Lamond, the president and CEO of NAMM, who had a message about his retirement. “This is bittersweet for me because, as…
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The CIF Southern Section Track and Field Championships are only a month away, and that should add to the intensity and intrigue at the Orange County Championships on Saturday at Mission Viejo High. The meet starts at 8:30 a.m. with the freshman girls 1,600 meters. The final event is the boys varsity 4×400 relay at…
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A state oversight board is giving Los Angeles County another month to fix its troubled juvenile halls, but board members warned the county must demonstrate real progress in that time frame or the facilities would still be declared “unsuitable” and shut down. Though the Board of State and Community Corrections unanimously approved the delay, board…
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Orange Unified School Board members did not, as a group, violate California’s open meeting laws during a special session in January when it ousted the superintendent, concluded the Orange County District Attorney’s office following a two-month investigation. But there is “significant evidence” that one trustee, Kristin Erickson, violated the Ralph M. Brown Act by disclosing…
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ANAHEIM — Ideally, Lukas Dostal would be playing games well into the spring at the World Championships, which are scheduled for May 12-28 and co-hosted by Riga, Latvia and Tampere, Finland. The Ducks’ rookie goaltender has answered the call when asked to play internationally for his native Czech Republic at the junior level and made…
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LOS ANGELES — When Shane Lee came to USC last winter, he was immediately heralded by his new teammates for his leadership. He was an important piece of Lincoln Riley’s efforts to change the culture at USC, and he was rewarded by being elected team captain in his first year in L.A. Given Lee’s standing…
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Two Torrance police officers were indicted Thursday, April 13, in the fatal shooting of a Black man sitting in a suspected stolen car in 2018, a killing that sparked months of protests in the community by Black Lives Matter activists, according to a defense attorney for one of the officers. Attorney Tom Yu confirmed that…
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