Rosarito police extorted money from Orange County lawyer Elliot Blair and his wife less than two hours before his mysterious death at a Mexican beach resort, but the couple did not have the amount initially demanded by the officer, a source close to the family said Wednesday, Feb. 8. According to the source, Blair was…
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An Encino chiropractor has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years behind bars for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme involving former NBA players to defraud the basketball league’s health plan, according to court papers. Patrick Khaziran, known to players as Dr. Pat, was also ordered this week by a federal judge in New York City…
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Angel City Football Club’s second season will kick off March 26 at what is now known as BMO Stadium. ACFC will host NJ/NY Gotham FC (6 p.m.) in the first of 14 home games this season. The National Women’s Soccer League released the 2023 schedule Wednesday. The new-look season will get underway March 25. What’s…
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Two bodies were found inside a Lake Forest residence on Tuesday, Feb. 7, with authorities revealing little so far on the details. At 11:22 a.m., sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of “unknown trouble” in the 2200 block of Bywater Road and discovered the bodies, a male and a female, inside the home. A weapon…
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By Ashley Killough and Holly Yan | CNN Patrick Crusius plead guilty to all federal charges on Wednesday, nearly three and a half years after the 2019 mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas — one of the deadliest attacks on Latinos in modern US history. Crusius, 24, had pleaded not guilty in…
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Angels owner Arte Moreno, who had not spoken to the media in any detail in nearly three years, told the New York Post on Wednesday that he would like to re-sign Shohei Ohtani, and he believes it’s an achievable goal. “I’d like to say we have as good a chance as anybody,” Moreno told the…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Pacifica softball coach Tony Arduino directs a team with a plethora of talent and a track record of success. But the Mariners’ postseason aspirations have remained unfilled the past two springs, so he decided to make an important change. The fourth-year coach ramped…
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic found this trip to Australia far less complicated, and far more successful than that of a year ago. Unable to enter his best event in 2022 after being deported from the country because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19, Djokovic accomplished all he could…
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Can he get away with it? President Joe Biden is, depending on your perspective and your news sources, fully engulfed in a scandal or minimally bothered by an insignificant filing error. On Nov. 2, Biden’s personal attorneys notified the National Archives that they found documents with classified markings in a locked closet at the Penn…
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Kevin de León’s attempt to ride out the storm does not seem to be going well. The Los Angeles city councilman’s career has been in a tailspin ever since audio recordings leaked of him having a racist conversation with two then-fellow councilmembers and a then-labor leader and strategizing about how to dilute Black voting power…
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