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Red isn’t just Santa Claus’ color. The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, host the Holiday Party at the Ballpark celebrating the team’s rebranding to red after rejoining the Los Angeles Angels’ baseball system. (Photo by John Valenzuela, Contributing Photographer) The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, host the Holiday Party at the Ballpark celebrating the team’s rebranding to red after rejoining the Los Angeles Angels’ baseball system. (Photo by John Valenzuela, Contributing Photographer) Riverside residents Danny Garcia, wife Johana Garcia, and sons Noah and Cruz pose for a photo with Santa and Mrs. Claus during…
Recently I was challenged to list what I would do, if elected governor of California, to fix the once Golden State. We know California doesn’t need another gubernatorial candidate. Since I’m a registered Republican, the voter registration demographics are not favorable, there is virtually no road to victory even if I wanted to run. As this is now a top-two “jungle election” state, another Republican entrant would only make the chance of two Democrats appearing on the November 2026 ballot more likely. (So, Honey, calm down.) Having said all that, I have served in Sacramento for nearly six years as…
This year has been full of major events. It began in January with the inauguration of a new president and the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles’s history. A trade war soon followed, sparked by increased tariffs, and in July, Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). In September and October, the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates, which preceded the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history. Despite these shifts, the U.S. stock market reached record highs in 2025. While we can’t control changes in tax law or the economy, we can take steps to manage our personal finances. With that in mind, here…
CYPRESS — Twenty-five-year-old quarter-horse trainer Xavier Rodriguez added a thrill to a whirlwind year when the 3-year-old gelding Fdd Dreams and jockey Luis Martinez scored an upset win in the Champion of Champions Stakes at Los Alamitos on Saturday night. It was a bittersweet moment, though. Major-race-winning 4-year-old Stanley Cartel fell after finishing sixth in the race and had to be euthanized, a Los Alamitos spokesman said. Details on the horse’s injury were not immediately available. Jockey Juan Pulido walked away from the fall. Fdd Dreams paid $13.30 after winning the $700,000 race in a photo finish over 9-5 favorite…
SEATTLE — Graham Ike had 25 points and five assists and No. 8 Gonzaga beat No. 25 UCLA 82-72 on Saturday night to improve to 9-1. Ike scored 15 points in the first half, highlighted by a tomahawk dunk with 8:02 remaining that gave Gonzaga a 23-19 advantage. The Bulldogs took their first lead shortly before Ike’s dunk on a 3-pointer by Adam Miller, negating a 7-0 deficit. Tyler Bilodeau led UCLA (7-3) with 22 points. He was 4 of 6 from 3-point range. UCLA trailed 45-40 at halftime, then had a 9-0 run — capped by Donovan Dent’s layup…
Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now MISSION VIEJO — Santa Margarita’s football program completed the final stage of a radical transformation Saturday at a destination many believed wasn’t possible before the season. The Eagles played for the CIF State Open Division championship one season removed from a 5-7 finish, and just more than a year since an alleged hazing incident surfaced. De La Salle wide receiver Trisshon Wright, center, is stopped and brought down by Santa Margarita defenders in the CIF State Open Division football championship in Mission Viejo on Saturday, December 13, 2025.…
LOS ANGELES — The Kings white-knuckled their way through regulation, taking the Calgary Flames to overtime, losing 2-1, at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday night. Adrian Kempe scored a rare first-period goal for the Kings, who couldn’t muster another the rest of the way. Darcy Kuemper made 36 of 38 saves. Blake Coleman tallied shorthanded and Morgan Frost won it in overtime. Local product Dustin Wolf came up with 20 of 21 stops. The Kings extended their points streak to four games but lost for the eighth time in their past dozen games while Calgary won for the eighth time in…
INGLEWOOD — A purple haze hovered like a metaphorical halo over SoFi Stadium. How many times could Jedd Fisch set the record straight? Washington’s head coach had already addressed Friday that he was planning on remaining with the Huskies beyond the Bucked Up LA Bowl on Saturday night. Fisch had been linked to jobs across the nation as openings appeared — UCLA and Florida in particular — and the question is sure to arrive postgame once again after Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham committed himself to the Sun Devils, denying Michigan, which fired former head coach Sherrone Moore on Wednesday…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, and police were searching for the suspect. University President Christina Paxson said she was told that 10 people who were shot were students. Another person was injured by fragments from the shooting, but it was not clear if the victim was a student, she said. Officers scattered across the campus and into an affluent neighborhood filled with historic…
LOS ANGELES — The No. 1 Connecticut women’s basketball team came to L.A. on Saturday and demolished No. 16 USC, 79-51 – and I’m so sorry, UCLA. I watched the Huskies – who came into the nationally televised non-conference showdown as 20-point favorites – run the Trojans out of their own gym and couldn’t stop thinking about the No. 4-ranked Bruins. The better-than-ever Bruins. The big-dreaming Bruins. The now-or-never Bruins who came into this season with a senior-stacked squad, healthier and hungrier and with extended range and improved floor spacing. And, yes, national player-of-the-year candidate Lauren Betts back at center…