• Clayton Kershaw, Justin Turner among Dodgers criticizing slow free-agent market

    Clayton Kershaw, Justin Turner among Dodgers criticizing slow free-agent market
    GLENDALE, Ariz. — Dodgers pitchers and catchers reported for spring training earlier this week. Position players will join them for the first official full-squad workout Tuesday.
    Even country singer Garth Brooks has even been on the field with the Pittsburgh Pirates in Florida. But Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, Craig Kimbrel and dozens more major-league free agents do not have jobs.
    “It’s not great, not great for the game by any means,” said Dodgers left-hander Clayto
  • LeBron James talks chasing Jordan, kneeling with Kaepernick and last ride with Wade on All-Star Media Day

    LeBron James talks chasing Jordan, kneeling with Kaepernick and last ride with Wade on All-Star Media Day
    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Whenever LeBron James speaks, his words make waves. And he’s never short on things to talk about.
    This All-Star weekend, his 15th consecutive, was no exception, as the 34-year-old pontificated on a number of topics, including passing Michael Jordan on an important milestone, playing his last game with Dwyane Wade and where he stands on Colin Kaepernick. Here’s a sampling of the best of his responses from Saturday morning at Bojangles Coliseum:
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  • Angels end a cold free-agent winter for Dan Jennings

    Angels end a cold free-agent winter for Dan Jennings
    TEMPE, Ariz. — While major league pitchers were reporting to spring training camps across Arizona and Florida, Dan Jennings was at home in snowy Iowa throwing to high school players.
    It’s an understatement to say it was frustrating winter for Jennings, one of dozens of big leaguers who waited longer than expected to get a job.
    “It was a mentally exhausting process, for sure,” Jennings said Saturday, his first day in the Angels clubhouse after inking a minor-league deal. &
  • How Scott Niedermayer turned the Anaheim Ducks into champions

    How Scott Niedermayer turned the Anaheim Ducks into champions
    ANAHEIM — Scott Niedermayer sitting on the Ducks’ bench, laser-focused on the ice while chaos erupts all around him in the dying moments of Game 7 of a first-round playoff series against the Flames in Calgary, his teammates leaping to their feet and celebrating their upset victory.
    Purposefully sneaking into the slot while patiently awaiting a centering pass from Teemu Selanne in the final, frantic seconds of regulation play in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals. His q
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  • Kings defenseman Alec Martinez out 1 to 2 weeks

    Kings defenseman Alec Martinez out 1 to 2 weeks
    Kings defenseman Alec Martinez sustained an upper-body injury near the end of the team’s 4-3 loss to Vancouver on Thursday night at Staples Center and will be out one to two weeks, the club announced Saturday morning.
    Martinez missed several games earlier in the season with an upper-body injury, but interim coach Willie Desjardins said the injuries are not related.
    Martinez, 31, had played in 43 of the team’s 57 games ahead of Saturday’s against Boston. He has four goals and 11
  • Why more Academy Award controversies erupted this year — and why there’ll probably always be more

    Why more Academy Award controversies erupted this year — and why there’ll probably always be more
    As you’ve probably heard, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences can’t do anything right.
    At least that might be your impression if you believe the blitz of bad news that has jammed traditional and social media this year.
    As next Sunday’s91st Academy Awards broadcast looms, we’re being reminded that the Oscars organization:Tried to marginalize the likes of “Black Panther” in a proposed new Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film category;
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  • Homebuying’s sluggish 2018: Sales in Santa Ana drop 7%

    Homebuying’s sluggish 2018: Sales in Santa Ana drop 7%
    Homebuying in Santa Ana fell 7 percent in a year with the steepest countywide drop in sales in 11 years.
    Last year saw the fewest Orange County homes sold since 2014 and the 8.6 percent drop in sales vs. 2017 was the largest year-over-year percentage decline since 2007. Key culprits in the slowdown include higher mortgage rates; economic uncertainty; not to mention that homeowners seeking a new residences couldn’t unload their old home.
    Here’s what my trusty spreadsheet told me when
  • Santa Anita racing consensus picks for Saturday, Feb. 16

    Santa Anita racing consensus picks for Saturday, Feb. 16
    The consensus box of picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Saturday, Feb. 16 at Santa Anita.
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  • California’s laws will crush Gov. Newsom’s affordable housing hopes

    California’s laws will crush Gov. Newsom’s affordable housing hopes
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom has made getting housing costs under control his administration’s top priority, calling for a new “Marshall Plan,” and promising to spend $1.3 billion on new affordable housing. Whatever the merits of his proposal, however, the new money the governor wants to spend is not going to go all that far given how much it costs currently to build low-income housing in the state.
    Back in September 2018, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a r
  • Waldner: UCLA covets a basketball coach like Mark Few, but reality hits

    Waldner: UCLA covets a basketball coach like Mark Few, but reality hits
    It was a short visit for Mark Few and Gonzaga.
    Fly in from Spokane via charter, survive a 73-60 test Thursday at LMU, spend the night in a hotel, hop back into the charter, fly to San Diego, play again, fly home.
    UCLA basketball fans, desperate to land a marquee coach, can only groan that Few, one of the few (sorry about that) genuine marquee college coaches, is not about to stick around a lot longer.
    The Gonzaga coach provides a sample size of the steep uphill road ahead for the Bruins. The bes
  • The Green New Deal might be a little nutty, but climate change deniers are nuttier

    The Green New Deal might be a little nutty, but climate change deniers are nuttier
    This Green New Deal? It’s green the way the Blarney Stone is — mossy, messy, contaminated from getting kissed too many times by too many people.
    You have to bend over backwards to even get at it.
    But you know what? I’ll make out with it nonetheless, and take it to the malt shop, and so will tens of millions of Americans, because, while not a beauty, it’s smart, and even has some good ideas, and because its heart is in the right place. Because we’re sick of a mean an
  • $9.75 million home sale sets record in Newport Beach’s Corona Highlands

    $9.75 million home sale sets record in Newport Beach’s Corona Highlands
    The three-story house was designed by architect Chris Brandon and built by Patterson Custom Homes. Take a tour in the slideshow. (Photo by Jeri Koegel)
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  • Women on Money & Mindset: Who’s in your personal brain trust?

    Women on Money & Mindset: Who’s in your personal brain trust?
    The term “brain trust” is a term that was used by James Kieran, a New York Times reporter, to describe the group of leaders assembled by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his presidential administration. President Roosevelt brought these “brains” together to advise him, decode problems and design new solutions for America.
    When you think about it, having your own personal brain trust is a wise thing, no matter what our title or position. Life is complex, and those with who
  • Who will pay the MOST for your commercial real estate?

    Who will pay the MOST for your commercial real estate?
    Generally, as a seller of commercial real estate, you have three motivations — transact as quickly as possible at the highest price with the fewest conditions.
    Simple, right? In practice, it’s a bit more complicated. Your offering, if properly marketed, will appeal to a number of different buyers. Below is a recap of each buyer type you might encounter and their pricing expectations.
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    Motivated by the highest and best use the property can generate, a developer views a parcel
  • Kartje: Antonio Brown tests boundaries of NFL player power as labor unrest approaches

    Kartje: Antonio Brown tests boundaries of NFL player power as labor unrest approaches
    This week, in a video posted to his Instagram, Antonio Brown made his #NewDemands known. The four-time All-Pro receiver requested a trade. Brown is apparently done with Pittsburgh, in spite of the three years remaining on his $68-million contract with the Steelers.
    “Time to move on and forward,” he wrote in the caption, as the looping refrain of rapper Lil Uzi Vert’s “Do What I Want” played in the background. It was a biting bit of irony considering Brown seems to h
  • At shark workshop, lifeguards learn how to deal with bites and beach closures as shark populations grow

    At shark workshop, lifeguards learn how to deal with bites and beach closures as shark populations grow
    Lifeguards and other lifesavers listen to a presentation at Cal State Long Beach’s Shark Lab in Long Beach, CA, on Friday, Feb 15, 2019. The Lab is teaching people about how to save a person who has been bit, and other need-to-know info on the species, as part of a public education effort that will use state funds to educate as shark populations in Southern California increase.(Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
    The Shark Lab’s Emily Meese addresses lifeguards and o
  • 2 burn victims rushed to hospital after bedroom fire in Santa Ana

    2 burn victims rushed to hospital after bedroom fire in Santa Ana
    Two people were transported to the UCI Burn Center early Saturday after a fire broke out in a bedroom in Santa Ana, fire officials said.
    The burn victims were described as a man and woman in their 40s. The man had critical burns and the woman’s burns were moderate, said Orange County Fire Capt. Tony Bommarito.
    After a smoke alarm sounded, a 13-year-old boy in the house grabbed a garden hose to extinguish the blaze. Firefighters were summoned at 6:06 a.m., and the fire was out at 6:14 a.m.,
  • A shortcut could cost you time and money

    A shortcut could cost you time and money
    We’ve all taken shortcuts.
    Whether it’s taking the dirty back trail to school, leaving a few steps out of the math equation to get an answer quicker, or throwing a teenage boy’s dirty gym clothes in the closet as you tidy up for a buyer’s first visit to your house we’ve all cut corners.
    And often that short cut comes at a price.
    When it comes to buying or selling a house, taking a short cut is never a good idea, and usually comes with a cost. Here are a few examples
  • Mapped: Orange County homes sales plunge 31% — how’d your ZIP fare in mid-January?

    For the 22 business days ending Jan. 17, Orange County home sales fell 31.4 percent in a year as prices rose 0.1 percent, CoreLogic reported.
    Countywide, 2,102 homes sold vs. 3,064 a year earlier. Of 83 Orange County ZIPs tracked, sales rose in 12.
    The overall median price was $700,000 — up $1,000 in 12 months — with appreciation in 45 of 83 ZIPs.
    Here’s how key Orange County market niches fared in the past year …Existing single-family homes: 1,218 sold — down 25 p
  • What if my car just looks better with only one license plate?

    What if my car just looks better with only one license plate?
    Q. Hello Mr. Honk: I read Mr. Ball’s question and your reply last week regarding the state requirement for a front-mounted license plate, in addition to the one in the back. We recently purchased a new car and there is nowhere to mount a front plate other than to drill holes and/or cover the cooling fans. If we are pulled over for the lack of a front plate, is this a moving violation against the driver’s license or a fix-it ticket? When driving all over the Southland, I do notic
  • Prukop leads Mater Dei basketball to victory in rematch with St. John Bosco

    Prukop leads Mater Dei basketball to victory in rematch with St. John Bosco
    BELLFLOWER – Aidan Prukop scored 29 points to lead the way as  Mater Dei avenged a loss to St. John Bosco last month in league play with an 81-69 triumph in the Open Division boys basketball playoffs Friday at St. John Bosco High.
    The Monarchs (27-4), who lost to the Braves 77-74 in a Trinity League game on Jan. 18, had four starers score in double figures in the rematch that wrapped up pool play in the Open Division.
    Mater Dei won two of its three games in Pool A, but No. 1 seed Sier
  • CIF-SS girls basketball playoffs: Friday’s scores, matchups for the championship games

    CIF-SS girls basketball playoffs: Friday’s scores, matchups for the championship games
    Scores from the CIF-SS girls basketball playoffs Friday and the updated schedule.
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    OPEN DIVISION
    Pool play
    Saturday, 7 p.m.
    POOL A
    Bishop Montgomery (2-0) at Sierra Canyon (2-0)
    Troy (0-2) at Redondo (0-2)
    POOL B
    Windward (2-0) at Etiwanda (1-1)
    Rosary (0-2) at Mater Dei (1-1)
    Championship game, Feb. 23
    At Cal Baptist, time TBD
    Pool A winner vs. Pool B winner
     
    DIVISION 1
    Semifinals
    Chaminade 70, Keppel 46
    King 49, Long Beach Poly 37
    Championship game, Feb. 23
    Time and site,
  • Najera helps Hillcrest slip past Anaheim to reach first CIF-SS basketball championship game

    Najera helps Hillcrest slip past Anaheim to reach first CIF-SS basketball championship game
    Hillcrest’s Chiemena Nnorom and Anaheim’s Alondra Macias battle for a loose ball during a Division 4A girls basketball semifinal game on Friday February 15, 2018. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)
    Hillcrest’s Jada Reid is blocked by Anaheim’s Giselle Martinez during a Division 4A girls basketball semifinal game in Riverside on Friday February 15, 2018. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsHillcrest’s Ja
  • Stroud makes sure Santa Fe gets past Crean Lutheran, reaches first CIF-SS girls basketball final

    Stroud makes sure Santa Fe gets past Crean Lutheran, reaches first CIF-SS girls basketball final
    Santa Fe High’s Leah Saynes (#11), left, looks for a shot with Crean Lutheran High’s Allison Reed (#11) defending at the Chief’s Santa Fe Springs, Ca. campus gym Feb. 15, 2019. (Photo by Leo Jarzomb)
    Santa Fe High’s Jaden Hill-Massarotti (#1), center, drives downcourt with two Crean Lutheran High defenders in towat the Chief’s Santa Fe Springs, Ca. campus gym Feb. 15, 2019. (Photo by Leo Jarzomb)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsPlayers watch a shot by Santa Fe
  • Orange County scores and player stats for Friday (2-15-19)

    Orange County scores and player stats for Friday (2-15-19)
    Scores and stats for the Orange County games on Friday, Feb. 15.
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  • Orange Lutheran girls basketball rides dominant defense to 2AA title game

    Orange Lutheran girls basketball rides dominant defense to 2AA title game
    ORANGE – Defense has been a hallmark of the Orange Lutheran girls basketball team throughout the playoffs.
    In their CIF-SS Division 2AA semifinal Friday at Orange Lutheran High School, the Lancers all but shut down Village Christian’s offense in the second half and came away with a 44-31 victory.
    The Lancers (24-9), who entered the playoffs as the No.12 team in the division, will play No. 1-seeded Rolling Hills Prep in the final Saturday, Feb. 23 at a site to be determined.
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  • Goal-starved Ducks blanked by Bruins for 8th loss in past 9 games

    Goal-starved Ducks blanked by Bruins for 8th loss in past 9 games
    Ducks left wing Rickard Rakell, right, reaches in on Boston Bruins center Sean Kuraly during the first period of Friday’s game at Honda Center. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
    Boston Bruins center Joakim Nordstrom, right, falls as he tries to pass while under pressure from Anaheim Ducks right wing Troy Terry during the first period of an NHL hockey game Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsAnaheim Ducks goaltender Kevin Boyle
  • Oxford Academy smashes through semifinals obstacle with resounding win over Santa Margarita

    Oxford Academy smashes through semifinals obstacle with resounding win over Santa Margarita
    Oxford Academy’s Austyn Masuno, right, goes up for a basket under pressure as Santa Margarita’s Erin Biddiscombe defends her in the semifinals of the CIF-SS Division 2A playoffs at Santa Margarita in Ranco Santa Margarita on Friday, February 15, 2019. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)
    Santa Margarita’s Kaitlyn Hedge, left, shoots over Oxford Academy’s Brianna Rodriguez in the semifinals of the CIF-SS Division 2A playoffs at Santa Margarita in Rancho Santa
  • Orange County basketball highlights for Friday, Feb. 15

    Orange County basketball highlights for Friday, Feb. 15
    Highlights and top scorers from the Orange County basketball games on Friday, Feb. 15.
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    Saddleback’s girls basketball season ended Friday night in a 57-47 loss to Bishop Conaty-Loretto in a CIF-SS Division 5A semifinal at the winner’s gym. The Roadrunners finished 18-12, while Bishop Conaty-Loretto (20-12) advanced to the championship game next Saturday against Bloomington Christian (25-2).
     
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  • To Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma, Rising Stars MVP means a little more than the game

    To Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma, Rising Stars MVP means a little more than the game
    The Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma, holds the MVP trophy after he led the U.S. team past the World squad in the the NBA All-Star Rising Stars game on Friday night in Charlotte, N.C. Kuzma had 35 points in a 161-144 victory. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
    U.S. Team’s Donovan Mitchell, of the Utah Jazz moves to the hoop against World Team’s, Bogdan Bogdanovic, of the Sacramento Kings during the NBA All-Star Rising Stars basketball game, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burt
  • Adam Scott, Justin Thomas share lead at rain-delayed Genesis Open

    Adam Scott, Justin Thomas share lead at rain-delayed Genesis Open
    Justin Thomas and a marshal signal fore right on his drive on the 12th tee as rain-delayed first-round play continued in the Genesis Open golf tournament on Friday at Riviera Country Club. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
    Adam Scott, of Australia, hits his second shot on the 17th hole as first round play continues during the Genesis Open golf tournament at Riviera Country Club on Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Kang)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsJ
  • Comic book experts encourage more diverse, real-world tales at Long Beach panel

    Comic book experts encourage more diverse, real-world tales at Long Beach panel
    By Kat Schuster, contributing writer
    If you looked at some of the most well-known superheroes in pop culture, you’d see a few common, stereotypical ingredients: they’re mostly white, male and straight.
    This is a theme that is rapidly becoming undesirable in the comic book industry, according to Ivan Cohen, director of programming for Long Beach Comic Con and a former editor of both Marvel and DC comics. While such developments as the big-screen “Black Panther” phenom
  • Judge poised to unlock LAPD, LA sheriff’s police misconduct records sealed for more than 40 years

    Judge poised to unlock LAPD, LA sheriff’s police misconduct records sealed for more than 40 years
    A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge is poised to strike down challenges to a new state transparency law that requires police agencies to disclose misconduct records.
    Judge Mitchell Beckloff on Friday tentatively rejected separate requests by two police unions to extend temporary court orders now preventing two agencies from complying with the new law. The ruling — expected to be finalized by Tuesday — applies only to the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County
  • After heavy rains batter Orange County, crews work to clean and clear the mess left behind

    After heavy rains batter Orange County, crews work to clean and clear the mess left behind
    Cleanup crews got to work Friday, a day after heavy rains battered Southern California, flooding some areas and leaving behind a mess of mud, rocks, tree branches and other debris that led to road closures and other problems.
    In Orange County, crews with Orange County Public Works were out in Laguna Canyon and Trabuco Canyon, clearing up debris and developing a game plan to restore some of the affected areas, spokesman Shannon Widor said.
    The areas were “calm and peaceful” Friday mor
  • As he bows out as California’s GOP chairman, Jim Brulte claims ‘success’ amid the losses

    As he bows out as California’s GOP chairman, Jim Brulte claims ‘success’ amid the losses
    Jim Brulte, chairman of the California Republican Party and a former GOP leader in the state Senate and Assembly at his home in Fontana on Thursday, February 14, 2019. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
    Jim Brulte, chairman of the California Republican Party and a former GOP leader in the state Senate and Assembly at his home in Fontana on Thursday, February 14, 2019. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsJim Brulte, chairman of
  • Heisler: Unlike Magic Johnson’s first trip to greatness with Lakers, this one is no romp

    Heisler: Unlike Magic Johnson’s first trip to greatness with Lakers, this one is no romp
    A funny thing happened on the way to Magic Johnson’s second trip to greatness.
    The first was his decade-long romp in the 1980s when he seemed to laugh all the way to five titles and three league MVP awards with the “Showtime” Lakers.
    Everything worked naturally for him, even when he seemed too giddy to be serious, as when he threw himself around the neck of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who had hit the winning shot in Magic’s NBA debut … or too naive to know he was in over h
  • Emergency? Trump’s “I didn’t need to do this” line sets Twitter ablaze

    Emergency? Trump’s “I didn’t need to do this” line sets Twitter ablaze
    Anybody having an emergency?
    How ‘bout an emergency happy hour? Emergency skiing?
    And, of course, there’s always emergency golf.
    As President Trump announced his call for a national emergency Friday before jetting to Mar-a-Lago for a golf get-away, the public took to Twitter to question his choices.
    The Tweets were to the point.Anyone else out there playing emergency golf this weekend?
    — Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) February 15, 2019“Anyone else out there playing emergency
  • Homebuying’s dreary 2018: Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Laguna Niguel, San Clemente sales dip 10%

    Homebuying’s dreary 2018: Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Laguna Niguel, San Clemente sales dip 10%
    Homebuying in Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Laguna Niguel and San Clemente fell 10 percent in a year with the steepest countywide drop in sales in 11 years.
    Last year saw the fewest Orange County homes sold since 2014 and the 8.6 percent drop in sales vs. 2017 was the largest year-over-year percentage decline since 2007. Key culprits in the slowdown included higher mortgage rates; economic uncertainty; not to mention that homeowners seeking a new residence couldn’t unload their old home.
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  • Kyle Kuzma says he’s tired of talking about Lakers’ trade rumors

    Kyle Kuzma says he’s tired of talking about Lakers’ trade rumors
    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kyle Kuzma took every question, except one about a certain topic.
    He’s done talking about trade rumors.
    The second-year Laker was the team’s lone representative Friday morning at Rising Stars media availability in Charlotte for All-Star Weekend. Teammate Lonzo Ball had to bow out of the game because of his ankle injury, and LeBron James, who is playing in Sunday’s All-Star Game, had not yet arrived in town.
    That left Kuzma to parse with a few questions a
  • Landing gear failure prompts emergency landing at Ontario International Airport

    Landing gear failure prompts emergency landing at Ontario International Airport
    Landing gear failure prompted the pilot of a private airplane that took off from Los Angeles en route to Cabo San Lucas to make an emergency landing at the Ontario International Airport on Friday afternoon, officials said.
    Atif Elkadi, deputy executive officer with the Ontario International Airport, said one of the plane’s rear tires was displaced, an issue that was discovered after takeoff from LAX at around 11:05 a.m.
    The Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV made the emergency landing in Ontario at
  • Senior Juliette Clark strengths San Clemente’s underdog story

    Senior Juliette Clark strengths San Clemente’s underdog story
    IRVINE San Clemente’s girls water polo team will play the role of underdog Saturday afternoon in the CIF-SS Division 2 final but not only for the reasons floating at the surface.
    Yes, Coach Logan Powell’s Tritons are seeded second to the No. 1 Santa Margarita. And they lost the teams’ only encounter, a 14-10 decision at the Santa Barbara Tournament of Champions last month.
    San Clemente also faces one of its former standout players in Caroline Christl, a hard-shooting junior who
  • Gunman kills 5 people, wounds 5 police at Illinois business

    Gunman kills 5 people, wounds 5 police at Illinois business
    By CARRIE ANTLFINGER and AMANDA SEITZ
    AURORA, Ill. — A gunman opened fire at a manufacturing plant in suburban Chicago on Friday, killing five people and wounding five police officers before he was fatally shot, police said.
    Aurora, Illinois, Police Chief Kristen Ziman told a news conference that the gunman was 45-year-old Gary Martin and said he was believed to be an employee at the Henry Pratt Co. in the city about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Chicago. She told reporters that officer
  • No judgment: Your local county library branch will take back that overdue book without fines

    No judgment: Your local county library branch will take back that overdue book without fines
    Worried about what kind of fine you are facing for that library book you keep forgetting – and forgetting and forgetting – to return?
    OC Public Libraries is offering “Fine Free Library Days” through Feb. 24, so delinquent borrowers can return to their local county library branch without fear of having to pay for those overdue books, DVDs or other items.
    In the spirit of the county system’s mission of providing access and support to residents, the goal of the amnesty
  • Collie mix Princess Keona is searching for a royal family

    Collie mix Princess Keona is searching for a royal family
    Breed: Collie mix
    Age: 9 years
    Gender: Spayed female
    Size: 69 pounds
    Princess Keona’s story: The volunteers at I.C.A.R.E. Dog Rescue are baffled as to why Princess Keona hasn’t found her forever family. She is such a great dog. Although she is considered a senior, she is still quite active and would enjoy a family that will keep her busy both physically and mentally. Keona is super smart and wants to learn new things. She is good with kids and with other dogs her size, but
  • President Trump’s national emergency declaration an executive overreach

    President Trump’s national emergency declaration an executive overreach
    President Trump’s rush to declare a national emergency in order to fast-track border wall funding is inconsistent with the system of checks and balances our republic is predicated on. The American people should always reject executive overreach, regardless of who is president, or what the motives are.
    In recent months, Trump has repeatedly threatened to declare a national emergency on the southern border if he is unable to secure, through the legislative process, border security funding to
  • USC men’s basketball team coming up short in close games

    USC men’s basketball team coming up short in close games
    USC’s basketball season took another hit this week.
    When the Trojans stumbled 79-76 at Stanford on Wednesday, they suffered their third consecutive loss and fell among the logjam of .500 teams sitting in the middle of the Pac-12 Conference standings.
    It was only two weeks ago the Trojans, following a difficult nonconference stretch and splitting their first four conference games, had moved into second place in the Pac-12, sitting within range of first-place Washington.
    Amid their latest tr

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