• Theyputthedriveintoydrive

    Theyputthedriveintoydrive
    ANAHEIM – For children who attend the Westerly School of Long Beach, giving starts in the classroom. On Friday morning, 65 kids and their teachers made their way to the Honda Center to donate toys worth $10 to $15 for the annual Stuff-a-Bus.“We...
  • Winter Olympics: Maxim Naumov dedicates short program to parents lost in last year’s D.C. plane crash

    Winter Olympics: Maxim Naumov dedicates short program to parents lost in last year’s D.C. plane crash
    Maxim Naumov of the United States competes during the men’s figure skating short program at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
    Maxim Naumov of the United States competes during the men’s figure skating short program at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
    Maxim Naumov of the United States competes during the men’s figure skating short program at the 2026 Winter Olympi
  • Immigrant rights groups seek to dismiss a Republican lawsuit to exclude noncitizens from US census

    Immigrant rights groups seek to dismiss a Republican lawsuit to exclude noncitizens from US census
    By MIKE SCHNEIDER
    Immigrant rights groups are seeking to toss out a Republican lawsuit that would prohibit the U.S. Census Bureau from counting people who are in the U.S. illegally during the 2030 census.
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  • LeBron James will not play against Spurs, missing 18th game and ending All-NBA streak

    LeBron James will not play against Spurs, missing 18th game and ending All-NBA streak
    LOS ANGELES — LeBron James will miss his 18th game of the season on Tuesday night, confirming that the 41-year-old Lakers’ star will fall short of 65 total games and therefore end his bid at postseason awards as well as his 21-year streak of receiving All-NBA honors.
    Players, albeit with some exceptions, must play 65 games to be eligible for end-of-season awards.
    James (left foot arthritis), who was announced as out against the San Antonio Spurs in the second game of a back-to-back a
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  • Lakers’ LeBron James will sit out vs. Spurs, ending his All-NBA streak

    Lakers’ LeBron James will sit out vs. Spurs, ending his All-NBA streak
    LOS ANGELES — LeBron James will miss his 18th game of the season on Tuesday night, which means the 41-year-old Lakers star will fall short of the 65-game threshold required to be eligible for the league’s annual awards, ending his 21-year streak of receiving All-NBA honors.
    James (left foot arthritis), who was announced as out against the San Antonio Spurs in the second game of a back-to-back after the Lakers dropped Monday night’s contest to the Oklahoma City Thunder, joins fo
  • Rams offseason primer: Offense must evolve after epic season

    Rams offseason primer: Offense must evolve after epic season
    How do you build on an offense that led the NFL scoring? That had one of the most successful run games in recent history? That produced an MVP and league leaders in two of the three Triple Crown receiving categories?
    As Rams head coach Sean McVay likes to say, you don’t build on it; you start over and find the next evolution.
    That’s the challenge the Rams will face entering this spring. How to not fall complacent as they try to build on the offensive success they enjoyed in 2025. How
  • Trump administration plans to hold back grant money for some Democratic-led states

    Trump administration plans to hold back grant money for some Democratic-led states
    By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press
    President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to withhold some public health and transportation money from a group of Democratic-led states.
    Full details have not been released, including whether the states could take any steps to avoid losing the funding. The federal government cited concerns over fraud and mismanagement of taxpayer dollars, but has not presented evidence beyond remarks from Trump and others in his administration.
    The approach ha
  • Gov. Tim Walz says federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota could end within days

    Gov. Tim Walz says federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota could end within days
    By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that he expects the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota will end in “days, not weeks and months,” based on his recent conversations with top Trump administration officials.
    The Democratic governor said at a news conference that he spoke Monday with border czar Tom Homan and with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Tuesday morning. Homan took over the Minnesota operation in late Janua
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  • Rams offensive tackle Rob Havenstein announces retirement

    Rams offensive tackle Rob Havenstein announces retirement
    Back in September of 2023, Steve Avila felt overcome with nerves. The rookie left guard was about to make his NFL debut, and his anxiety was written all over his face.
    Looking over at him, veteran Rams right tackle Rob Havenstein offered the kind of salt-of-the-earth wisdom that he specialized in.
    “‘Hey man, it’s just football. You’re doing it your whole life,’” Avila recalled. “And taking a step back and actually thinking about what he said, I was like,
  • Jon Coupal: Sacramento wants to hide information about the bullet train

    Jon Coupal: Sacramento wants to hide information about the bullet train
    No matter how much we wish we could avoid writing about California’s High Speed Rail Project, sometimes circumstances give us no choice. 
    The vampire sucking millions of dollars out of the pockets of California every day is back in the news. Here’s the latest.
    First, recall that the High Speed Rail Project is the granddaddy of all “bait and switch” ballot measures. What began as a $10 billion bond measure to fund a rail project that would travel from Los Angeles to S
  • UCI rings in the Year of the Horse with early celebration

    UCI rings in the Year of the Horse with early celebration
    Members of Hansori perform traditional Korean drumming in Irvine, CA on Monday, February 9, 2026. UC Irvine was celebrating the Year of the Horse during their Lunar New Year celebration. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
    Student Zihan Sheng does Japanese flower arranging during UC Irvine’s Year of the Horse, Lunar New Year celebration in Irvine, CA on Monday, February 9, 2026. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
    A student shows a finished origami hor
  • Honda profits take a 42% hit from Trump’s tariffs and EV moves

    Honda profits take a 42% hit from Trump’s tariffs and EV moves
    By Yuri Kageyama | The Associated Press
    Honda reported Tuesday a 42% drop in profit for the nine months through December, compared to a year earlier, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs hurt the Japanese automaker’s earnings.
    The carmaker faces a litany of challenges that “make it necessary to fundamentally reassess our strategy and rebuild our competitiveness,” it said Tuesday. Those include slowing EV growth, protectionist trade policies, heightened supply chain ri
  • Orange County boys basketball Top 25: Santa Margarita is No. 1 going into playoffs

    Orange County boys basketball Top 25: Santa Margarita is No. 1 going into playoffs
    The Orange County boys basketball rankings as of Tuesday, Feb. 10.
    Notable this week: Santa Margarita defeated St. John Bosco 57-56 last week in the final of the Trinity League Tournament.  JSerra defeated Mater Dei 87-66 in the third-place game. … San Clemente beat Tesoro, 69-65, to tie the Titans for the South Coast League championship. … Pacifica Christian beat Fairmont Prep, 50-46, to tie the Huskies for the San Joaquin League championship. … The playoffs begin Wedn
  • Why the words ‘Armenian genocide’ matter after Vance social media reference is deleted

    Why the words ‘Armenian genocide’ matter after Vance social media reference is deleted
    By BILL BARROW, Associated Press
    U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s team posted and then deleted a message on social media about the Republican’s visit to a memorial paying tribute to early 20th century Armenians killed by the Ottoman Empire.
    The issue was the post using the term “Armenian genocide,” a designation the U.S. government historically has not used for what happened, with a notable exception by the Biden administration. The White House blamed a staff mistake.
    Here
  • California housing advocates still waiting for state-ordered stair report

    California housing advocates still waiting for state-ordered stair report
    By Ben Christopher | CalMatters
    In the fall of 2023, the California Legislature tasked the state’s fire safety regulators with writing a report that some housing affordability advocates say could make it easier to build bigger, airier and better lit apartment buildings in California’s housing-strapped cities.The Office of the State Fire Marshal was given until Jan. 1, 2026, to come up with a report on single-stair apartment buildings — a type of mid-sized multifamily developmen
  • US’s largest public utility says it now doesn’t want to close two coal-fired plants

    US’s largest public utility says it now doesn’t want to close two coal-fired plants
    By JONATHAN MATTISE, Associated Press
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility says it now would prefer to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it had planned to shutter, changing course before a meeting of its board, which has a majority of members picked by the coal-friendly Trump administration.
    In new filings, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s signaled that it wants to ditch closure dates for the Kingston Fossil Plant and Cumberland Fossil Plant in T
  • Chargers offseason primer: Offense and Justin Herbert need help

    Chargers offseason primer: Offense and Justin Herbert need help
    There’s no doubt that Chargers general manager Joe Hortiz and coach Jim Harbaugh believe they built a strong offensive foundation in their two seasons together. But there are plenty of questions about its structural integrity in the wake of an unfulfilling end to the 2025 season.
    Harbaugh got the point quickly during his season-ending news conference last month, after the Chargers’ second consecutive 11-win season ended with their second consecutive one-and-done in the AFC wild-card
  • Republican lawmakers grill telecom officials over phone records access in Trump investigation

    Republican lawmakers grill telecom officials over phone records access in Trump investigation
    By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers decried Tuesday what they said were invasive tactics in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, pressing representatives from leading telecommunications companies about their role in providing prosecutors with phone records of certain sitting members of Congress.
    “I think what you’ve done here is outrageous. And I think the implications for the privacy of t
  • California union pushes work-from-home bill as Newsom readies back-to-office

    By Yue Stella Yu | CalMatters
    One of California’s larger public employee unions is pushing legislation to make remote work a permanent option for state workers as the clock ticks down on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s July 1 mandate for most employees to be in the office four days a week.
    The measure, authored by Assemblymember Alex Lee, a Milpitas Democrat, would require state agencies to offer work-from-home options “to the fullest extent possible” and provide written justificatio
  • Costa Mesa boy played young Bad Bunny during Super Bowl

    Costa Mesa boy played young Bad Bunny during Super Bowl
    A 5-year-old boy who portrayed a younger Bad Bunny during the Super Bowl halftime show hails from Costa Mesa.
    Lincoln Fox Ramadan, a child actor and model, appeared during the Puerto Rican superstar’s show, which drew 135 million viewers. One scene captured hearts across the nation: Lincoln, dressed in a striped collared shirt and khaki shorts, watching television footage of Bad Bunny accepting his Grammy award for album of the year, the singer then walking over to the boy and handing him
  • FBI search of Georgia offices tied to probe of possible 2020 election ‘defects,’ affidavit says

    FBI search of Georgia offices tied to probe of possible 2020 election ‘defects,’ affidavit says
    By KATE BRUMBACK and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
    ATLANTA (AP) — The FBI obtained a search warrant to seize hundreds of boxes of ballots from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a criminal investigation into possible “deficiencies or defects” in the vote count in the 2020 contest lost by President Donald Trump, according to an affidavit unsealed Tuesday.
    The affidavit provides the first public justification for an FBI search last month that targete
  • Los Angeles ‘takes’ Marilyn’s old house: a case study in property rights

    Los Angeles ‘takes’ Marilyn’s old house: a case study in property rights
    The Los Angeles government has developed a bad habit of taking private property for the good of the public, and not paying for it.
    This is a very old problem that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution attempted to solve in 1791. “Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation,” it commands.
    In Los Angeles, that and six dollars will buy you a cup of coffee.
    Owners of rental housing properties under L.A.’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance effecti
  • Border Patrol uninvited from Chino Hills job fair, San Bernardino County says

    Border Patrol uninvited from Chino Hills job fair, San Bernardino County says
    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is involved in a major recruitment drive, but you won’t see Customs & Border Patrol at a job fair scheduled for Chino Hills on Wednesday, Feb. 11.
    Local community groups sounded the alarm in late January.
    “Indivisible Inland Empire and the Cat Ladies for America Inland Empire condemn the decision to invite Customs and Border Patrol to the upcoming SB County Job Fair in Chino Hills,” a Jan. 28 Instagram post from Indivisible Inland Em
  • Love is in the air at Cabazon Dinosaurs as Valentine’s Day nears

    Love is in the air at Cabazon Dinosaurs as Valentine’s Day nears
    Decked out in messages of love with flowers, the Cabazon Dinosaurs greet passersby on the 10 Freeway and those who stop to visit.
    This time of year they are painted with flowers and Mr. Rex, the recognizable T-Rex’s message reads “Let Love Bloom,” as Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, draws near.
    “I think it’s really neat that they paint them,” said Phoenix resident Caryn Smith on Friday, Feb. 6. She and her husband Billy Smith were visiting the site for the firs
  • US-Canada bridge brouhaha deepens as White House says Trump could amend a permit for the project

    US-Canada bridge brouhaha deepens as White House says Trump could amend a permit for the project
    By SEUNG MIN KIM, Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump has the right to amend a permit for a new bridge between Canada and Michigan, prolonging the latest dispute between the U.S. and its northern neighbor hours after its prime minister signaled there could be a detente.
    The Gordie Howe International Bridge, which would connect Ontario and Michigan, would be a vital economic artery between the two countries and is scheduled to open in early 2026. B
  • Angels to have MLB distribute streaming TV broadcasts

    Angels to have MLB distribute streaming TV broadcasts
    TEMPE, Ariz. — The Angels answered one of the questions about their television coverage on Tuesday, by announcing that fans will be able to purchase a streaming package through MLB.TV.
    Fans who are in the Southern California market can pay $99.99 for the whole season or $19.99 per month to stream Angels games.
    The club is still working out details for who will produce the games and how they will be distributed to fans who still have cable or satellite television.
    The Angels also confirmed
  • US to expand passport revocations for parents who owe child support, AP sources say

    US to expand passport revocations for parents who owe child support, AP sources say
    By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Parents who owe a significant amount of child support soon could lose their ability to travel internationally as the Trump administration expands and steps up enforcement of a 30-year-old law that allows the federal government to revoke American passports until payments are made, three U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
    While passport revocations for unpaid child support of more than $2,500 have been permitted under 1996 federal leg
  • Trump administration takes down a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument

    Trump administration takes down a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument
    By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press
    NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument, angering activists who see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country’s first national monument to LGBTQ+ history.
    The multicolored flag, one of the world’s most well known emblems of LGBTQ+ rights, was quietly removed in recent days from a flagpole on the National Park Service-run site, which centers on a tiny park in Manhattan&r
  • Swanson: Clippers inspire by making basketball more accessible

    Swanson: Clippers inspire by making basketball more accessible
    TARZANA — Every basketball team is, of course, trying to get buckets.
    The Clippers are the most invested team I know in giving buckets.
    If you’ve shot hoops at a public basketball court anywhere in the city of Los Angeles since 2022, the Clippers’ logo was on the backboard. A ubiquitous reminder of the $10 million donation team owner Steve Ballmer made to the L.A. Parks Foundation for renovations at every one of Los Angeles’ public basketball courts.
    Savvy marketing, good
  • New details emerge about Six Flags Magic Mountain’s 2027 coaster

    New details emerge about Six Flags Magic Mountain’s 2027 coaster
    New details have emerged about the first-of-its-kind ride coming to Six Flags Magic Mountain that will take thrill seekers on an off-road motorcycle ride over rugged hillside terrain when the new roller coaster debuts in 2027.
    Roller Coaster Database recently added speed, height, length and inversion stats for the new Vekoma Thrill Glider coming to the Valencia amusement park.
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