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LONG BEACH — UCLA did all it could to create a home environment inside of Long Beach State’s Walter Pyramid on Wednesday night. The Bruins’ top-ranked women’s basketball team brought its DJ and game operations crew. Blue lights shined from the ceiling and a blue “LA Strong” graphic stretched across the video board.The game between UCLA and Penn State was relocated from Pauley Pavilion to LBSU due to concerns about the ongoing wildfires across Southern California. It wasn’t the last of the adjustments for the evening – the Bruins had to lock down on defense in the second quarter to…
LOS ANGELES — During Bishop Fitzgerald’s visit to USC last week, defensive backs coach Doug Belk sat him down and compared clips of his to fellow safety Kamari Ramsey. One thing quickly became apparent: there were a lot of plays where Ramsey and Fitzgerald, a North Carolina State transfer, were doing the same thing.The similarities, though, went further, as Fitzgerald observed. Both were comfortable breaking from a third level to make plays on the ball. Both stood exactly 6-foot. Both wore jersey No. 7, even.“We kinda looked like we were the same player,” Fitzgerald told the Southern California News Group, on…
Air attack How firefighting the Palisades and Eaton fires is coordinated from the sky. Busy skies Cal Fire had more than 60 aircraft within its firefighting fleet in the effort to combat fires throughout Los Angeles. Cal Fire’s fleet of fixed and rotary-wing aircraft make it the largest civil aerial firefighting fleet in the world. If air traffic controller is one of the most stressful jobs and firefighting is one of the most dangerous, then you get an idea of what it’s like to be an air tactical group supervisor. Aircraft that douse flames with water and bright red Phos-Chek…
Chargers general manager Joe Hortiz speaks to reporters during a season-ending press conference on Wednesday at the team’s headquarters in El Segundo. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer) Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh speaks to reporters during a season-ending press conference on Wednesday at the team’s headquarters in El Segundo. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer) Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh speaks to reporters during a season-ending press conference on Wednesday at the team’s headquarters in El Segundo. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer) Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh, right, speaks to reporters as general manager Joe Hortiz looks on…
By MATTHEW LEE, AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYERWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump are both claiming credit for Israel and Hamas agreeing to a ceasefire deal in Gaza on Wednesday after the White House brought Trump’s Middle East envoy into negotiations that have dragged on for months.Trump wasted no time in asserting he was the moving force behind the deal. Biden, meanwhile, stressed that the deal was reached under “the precise contours” of a plan that he set out in late May.“This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November, as it…
Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh speaks to reporters during a season-ending press conference on Wednesday at the team’s headquarters in El Segundo. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer) Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh, right, speaks to reporters as general manager Joe Hortiz looks on during a season-ending press conference on Wednesday at the team’s headquarters in El Segundo. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer) Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh speaks to reporters during a season-ending press conference on Wednesday at the team’s headquarters in El Segundo. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer) Chargers general manager Joe Hortiz speaks to reporters…
Former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, for his nomination to be Transportation Secretary. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, for his nomination to be Transportation Secretary. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., arrives to testify before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, for his nomination to be Transportation…
“YEE YEE.” It’s a phrase that’s going to be heard a lot around the UCLA football facilities and seen online countless times in the near future. It’s assistant coach Demetrice Martin’s signature sound. Martin was hired as the pass game coordinator and secondary coach for UCLA football on Dec. 16, marking his return to the Bruins. He previously coached in Westwood from 2012-2017. “Coach Meat knows what it takes to win at UCLA,” head coach DeShaun Foster said in a statement. “He is an enthusiastic recruiter who consistently brings the best out of his players on and off the field.…
Comic-Con will stay in San Diego for at least three more summers.The organizers of the annual four-day convention that since the 1970s has grown to be one of the most anticipated events in popular culture announced Tuesday the signing of a new agreement to remain in San Diego through 2027.“We are excited to stay in San Diego for the next few years, which is made possible, in large part, to the many hotels that offer competitive rates and meeting space,” Comic-Con spokesperson David Glanzer said in a statement. Concerns about rising hotel prices and lack of sufficient accommodations for the…
By HILLEL ITALIE and CHRIS PIZZELLOALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch fire last week but suffered “minimal damage,” according to a statement on the cemetery’s web site.A spokesperson at the Mountain View cemetery confirmed the accuracy of the website’s announcement to The Associated Press, but would not comment on the status of individual markers. The grave of Butler, who died in 2006 at 58, is marked by a footstone etched with a quote from “Parable of…