Southern California Boys Athlete of the Week Athlete: Denzel Hines School: Colony Sport: Basketball Noteworthy: Hines, a 6-foot-7 forward, averaged 23.3 points and 11.5 rebounds per game in helping the Titans win the Beaumont Tip-Off Tournament last week. He had 29 points and 14 points in the championship game, as Colony cruised to an 80-52…
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Southern California Girls Athlete of the Week Athlete: Aurora Elder School: Riverside Poly Sport: Basketball Noteworthy: Elder averaged 13 points, eight rebounds and 3.5 blocks over four games to help the Bears win the title at the Redlands East Valley Wildcat Invitational last week. She had 14 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks as Poly…
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Each week, publications from the Southern California News Group’s 11 properties (Orange County Register, L.A. Daily News, Press-Enterprise, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Daily Breeze, San Bernardino Sun, Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts, Whittier Daily News and Pasadena-Star News) select the Athletes of the Week for their respective region. Each athlete is…
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The Lakers’ LeBron James gets free for a dunk during the second half of their game against the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night at Crypto.com Arena. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) The Lakers’ Austin Reaves, left, scores as the Boston Celtics’ Malcolm Brogdon defends during the first half on Tuesday night at…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Dan Albano’s Fab 5 outstanding girls basketball players last week, Dec. 13: Celine Castaneda, Tesoro, Sr., guard Castaneda scored 26 points in a 64-60 win against Westminster and recorded 26 points and 22 rebounds in a 79-45 victory against Segerstrom. Allison Clarke, Rosary,…
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By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer Star shortstop Carlos Correa and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $350 million, 13-year contract, according to multiple reports. A person familiar with the negotiations confirmed the deal to The Associated Press on Tuesday night. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement was subject…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now This week’s CIF-SS high school girls soccer polls, released Tuesday, Dec. 13 CIF-SS GIRLS SOCCER POLLS (Selected by the CIF-SS Girls Soccer Committee) DIVISION 1/2 1 Temecula Valley 2 Santiago/Corona 3 Oaks Christian 4 Millikan 5 Santa Margarita 6 Los Alamitos 7…
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For the third election in a row, California voters wisely rejected a costly ballot initiative (Prop. 29) that would have had disastrous consequences for the state’s 80,000 dialysis patients. Dialysis typically lasts four hours per session, with many patients needing three treatments a week. Missing even one treatment can be fatal. Had it passed, Prop. 29 would have required dialysis…
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From the outside, Twitter’s content moderation decisions look haphazard at best. From the inside, they look worse, especially because government officials play an unseemly and arguably unconstitutional role in shaping those decisions. The internal communications that Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, has been gradually revealing to a select few journalists show that the company’s former…
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A 36-year-old Santa Ana man was sentenced on Tuesday, Dec. 13, to 15 years to life in prison for killing an escort seven years ago in a Newport Beach office building where he was a janitor. Nain Isaac Nieto Hernandez, 36, had been convicted of second-degree murder in the Dec. 18, 2015, killing of 23-year-old…
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