Girls' basketball: Southern Section playoff results and updated pairings
SOUTHERN SECTION GIRLS’ BASKETBALLDIVISION 1First round, ThursdayHuntington Beach 53, Aliso Niguel 48Rolling Hills Prep 64, Orange Lutheran 40Brentwood 53, La Canada 49Glendora 61, Rancho Verde 35King 70, Sonora 17JSerra 45, Downey 44Redondo 73, Gardena Serra 58Chaminade 60, St. Mary’s Academy 47Eastvale Roosevelt 61, Riverside North 39Camarillo 72, Alemany 40Keppel 66, Chino Hills 41 Second round,…
Horse racing newsletter: Jon White’s Kentucky Derby rankings are here
Hello, my name is John Cherwa, and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we really hope all of our readers are back getting the newsletter or getting it on time. We’re trying to get things fixed. Fingers crossed. Newsletter Off to the races Get the latest news, analysis, results and charts with John…
Garcetti calls himself an 'older, straighter' Pete Buttigieg
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s dream of a 2020 presidential run may be over, but he’s still comparing himself to the field of Democratic candidates. Garcetti, 49, quipped that he’s an “older, straighter Pete” Buttigieg during a speech Thursday, likening himself to the former South Bend, Ind., mayor because they both served in the Navy…
O.C. moves to clear backlog of unprocessed rape kits
The Orange County Board of Supervisors this week took a step toward processing the county’s substantial backlog of rape kits when it approved a $612,000 contract with a third-party forensics tester. Virginia-based Bode Technology will test 1,500 of the county’s 1,700 untested rape kits. The O.C. Crime Lab will test the remaining kits. “It’s a…
Cal State San Marcos audit shows cross-country road trip, Guns N' Roses show and phantom dinner guests
SAN DIEGO — A former Cal State San Marcos dean submitted dozens of fraudulent hospitality claims, filed duplicate expense reports and made up dinner guests to collect improper reimbursements, a long-awaited investigation released Thursday concludes. On one day he attended an NFL game and watched a Guns N’ Roses concert, calling it college business, the report…
Patient charged with murder in beating death of 73-year-old hospital roommate
A 37-year-old man has been charged with murder after authorities said he beat a 73-year-old patient he shared a hospital room with so severely that the older man later died from his injuries. Reginald Daniel Panthier was charged Thursday with one felony count each of murder, elder abuse resulting in death, elder abuse with infliction…
What the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' post-credits scene means
[Warning: This story freely discusses the plot of “Sonic the Hedgehog.” Readers wishing to avoid spoilers should go see the film before proceeding below.] In “Sonic the Hedgehog,” the live-action adaptation of the beloved Sega video game series, the lightning-fast titular character goes on a road trip to collect some gold rings and finally has…
Happy Valentine's Day. Play a video game about breaking up
I’m no statistician but my guess is that for as many people who are thinking of their partner on this Valentine’s Day, there are just as many ruminating over an ex. Or perhaps even a compendium of exes. Or maybe they are simply trying to fight back any thoughts of any exes and past Valentine’s…
Review: William Vollmann returns to the Tenderloin with another uncut gem
“The Lucky Star” is a seedy, overlong and glorious ode to community Everything about William T. Vollmann is writ large. Over the course of an intensely prolific career, he has written lots of genuine literary doorstoppers — enough , in fact, to hold open (or closed) all the doors in any moderately sized home in…
California Sounds: L.A.'s Kamasi Washington goes 'Live at the Apollo'
Kamasi Washington, “Live at the Apollo” (Amazon Prime) Last year when the saxophonist Washington brought his overpowering band to the Apollo Theater in Harlem for the first time, a crew was there to document it. The resulting 90-minute film, which came out last week on Amazon Prime, captures the energy that has made the Los…