Month: February 2020

Washington —  The Democratic Party establishment — what’s left of it, anyway — is hoping someone can stop Bernie Sanders and his progressive horde from capturing the party’s presidential nomination. “I don’t know how you win an election [at] 78 years old, screaming in a microphone about the revolution,” said James Carville, a former aide to…

SOUTHERN SECTION GIRLS’ SOCCER DIVISION 1 Second round, Saturday Upland 3, Cypress 0 Harvard-Westlake 4, Corona Centennial 0 Edison 1, Santa Margarita 1 (Edison advances on penalties, 5-3) Long Beach Poly 1, Los Osos 0 Corona Santiago 4, Corona del Mar 0 Villa Park 3, Garden Grove Pacifica 2 (OT) JSerra 4, Troy 2 Los…

Before Jairo Rivera of Birmingham walked onto the mat for the 182-pound division at Saturday’s City Section wrestling championships, he was informed by his coach that he needed to pin his opponent for the Patriots to win the boys’ team title. “There was a lot of pressure,” he said. Rivera came through with the pin…

Bam Adebayo, Buddy Hield and Derrick Jones Jr. discuss their careers. CHICAGO —  Anthony Davis drove by the church down the street from his old high school Saturday night. That’s where his team sometimes worked out because they didn’t have a gym. Earlier in the week he’d made a visit to Perspectives Charter School, and participated…

SOUTHERN SECTION BOYS’ BASKETBALL DIVISION 2AA Second round, Saturday St. Francis 46, San Gabriel Academy 38 DIVISION 3AA Second round, Saturday Westlake 83, Shalhevet 49 DIVISION 4A Second round, Saturday Loma Linda Academy 49, Lancaster 47 DIVISION 5AA Second round, Saturday Bishop Diego 65, de Toledo 58 SOUTHERN SECTION GIRLS’ BASKETBALL OPEN DIVISION Pool play,…

An attorney for three accusers of a Newport Beach doctor and his girlfriend, who have been charged with drugging and raping multiple women, filed a motion Friday suggesting the case be turned over to a special prosecutor or the state attorney general’s office instead of being dismissed. Matthew Murphy, a retired prosecutor in the district…

A teenager was killed and two other people were hurt when someone opened fire at a house party in Arleta on Friday night, police said. Officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 13400 block of Rangoon Street about 10:45 p.m. and found the male teen lying in the rear driveway area, Los…

The search continued Saturday for a 53-year-old Malibu woman who vanished a week ago. Julia Christine Snyder, who suffers from bipolar disorder and does not have her medications, was last seen near her home in the 4300 block of Ocean View Drive on the evening of Feb. 8, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said…

SAN QUENTIN —  A death row inmate died Saturday at a hospital, while the previous day another prisoner was killed after two inmates attacked him, California officials said. John Abel — who was sentenced to death row for killing a man in 1991 during a robbery at a bank in Orange County — died Saturday morning…

Here is a list of new plays, Critics’ Choices, etc., in L.A. for Feb. 16-23. Capsule reviews are by Charles McNulty (C.M.), Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.) and Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.). Openings Dirty Tricks w/ The New Bad Boys of Magic Daniel Donohue and Eric Siegel mix magic and…