“I don’t know what heaven feels like, but if I had to guess, I’d say it feels like Stagecoach on Saturday night,” Jelly Roll shared midway through his headlining set at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival on Saturday, April 26 — a fitting description for a night that felt larger than life. Just one year…
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LOS ANGELES — Not all left-handed swings are created equal. The energy created simply in anticipation of a Shohei Ohtani at-bat is enough to prove how much the Dodgers’ left-side production matters. Yet, heading into Saturday’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, it had been the Dodgers’ left-handed hitters who had been creating wild swings of inconsistency…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now OJAI — University tennis player Rishvanth Krishna earned the nickname “King Slayer” last season, in part, due to a near-upset at The Ojai tournament. As a freshman, Krishna held match point against eventual champion and No. 1 seeded Niels Hoffmann of Corona del…
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Red-hot Journalism is the 3-1 morning line favorite for the 151st Kentucky Derby with a favorable No. 8 post position that has tied for the second-most victories in horse racing’s marquee event. Sovereignty is the 5-1 second choice of 20 horses and will start from the No. 18 post outside Sandman, who…
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5 Freeway corridor near Santa Clarita, Western San Gabriel Mountains/Highway 14 Corridor and Eastern San Gabriel Mountains are included in a winter weather advisory issued by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 7:59 p.m. The advisory is in effect until 11 p.m. The NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA said, “Additional snow showers likely this evening,…
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INGLEWOOD — This series! It might be dressed up as a first-round Western Conference playoff tilt, but the fourth-seeded Denver Nuggets vs. the fifth-seeded Clippers is a psychological thriller, one of those page-turners that will keep you up past your bedtime. That might even be studied one day, taught in classes – or at least…
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By VANESSA GERA VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of young people from around the world had come to Rome expecting to rejoice this weekend in the canonization of the first millennial saint during the Vatican’s Holy Year. They ended up bidding farewell to Pope Francis instead, with their exuberance giving an uplifting tone to Saturday’s…
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Dodgers starting pitcher Roki Sasaki throws to the plate during the first inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong) The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Oneil Cruz smiles after hitting a solo home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Dodgers in Los Angeles,…
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The National Weather Service issued an updated beach hazards statement at 9:48 p.m. on Saturday valid from Sunday 6 a.m. until Wednesday, Apr. 30 at 9 p.m. for Orange County Coast. “Elevated surf of 4 to 6 ft, with sets to 7 feet expected,” the NWS San Diego CA said. “A 2 to 3 feet…
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Prior to Sunday’s Game 4 of their opening-round series against the Oilers in Edmonton, the Kings were facing an unfamiliar question: Can you seal the deal? Closing out contests wasn’t an issue during the regular season, when the Kings went 35-1-2 while leading through 40 minutes and 12-0-1 with a second-intermission edge on the road.…
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