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LOS ANGELES — The parents and six children of a man who died of a heart attack during an encounter with California Highway Patrol officers are suing the state and two CHP officers for wrongful death, alleging officials misled them by saying his death was accidental.The relatives of the late Dominick Alvarado, 33, who lived in Beaumont, all live in Riverside County: his father and mother, Filiberto Alvarado and Shalymmar Pool, as well as his half-dozen minor offspring. Their Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit also alleges excessive force, failure to summon medical care, interference with parent/child relationship, negligence, battery of…

LOS ANGELES — He bent in a stance approximately 90 feet from the basket, nodding his head at a Michigan guard, Wesley Yates III attempting to bend the very concept of momentum to his own youthful will.He’d never played a minute of collegiate basketball before this season, yes, spending an injury-plagued season at Washington before transferring to USC. He was prone to mistakes. He’d turned 60-year-old head coach Eric Musselman’s hair grey, at times. But his energy had changed the dynamic of USC’s program since he was inserted into the starting lineup, across a four-game win streak, and USC needed him in…

LOS ANGELES — The first time Lindsay Gottlieb called, Beth Burns said no. Burns had lived several lifetimes in basketball already, a 30-plus-year coaching career with head-coaching runs at San Diego State and Ohio State. She was perfectly happy in simplicity, an associate strength and conditioning coach at Louisville.But Gottlieb kept calling, and in 2022, Burns found herself packing up a moving van for Southern California – with one caveat. She was into her mid-60s. She wanted little to do with the nuts-and-bolts burdens of being an assistant coach at USC, preferring to be given the freedom to work extensively…

LOS ANGELES — Kyren Williams knows what the narrative was about him after dealing with injuries in his first two NFL seasons. He knows what the narrative is about running backs in general in recent years, that the position wears down players that makes them difficult investments.“I wish people who say that could feel how I feel right now,” Williams said. “Because, bro, when I tell, and I don’t want to jinx nothing, but when I tell you I feel better after games than I did after camp this year, it’s a different feeling.”For the first time all season, Williams…

ARCADIA — Bob Baffert’s unmatched experience at judging Kentucky Derby prospects has taught the Hall of Fame trainer that no matter what a young horse shows in his first race, he reveals more in his second.“That’s when you know,” Baffert said in the Santa Anita winner’s circle.After 3-year-old Barnes’ second race, Baffert knows he has another potential star in his barn.Barnes and jockey Juan Hernandez dominated a small but solid field in the $200,000, Grade II San Vicente Stakes on Saturday, passing front-runner McKinzie Street on the turn for home and powering away to a 5½-length victory in a fast…

LOS ANGELES — Even as his team was in the midst of a 13-game stretch of statistically performing as one of league’s worst offensive teams, Lakers coach JJ Redick was seeing signs of better days.“I would say I like where we’re headed offensively with the process, and I like where we’re headed with our organization,” he said ahead of the team’s Dec. 23 home loss to the Detroit Pistons. “And there certainly was a stretch there where I didn’t like much about offense. [Austin Reaves] being out kinda hurt for that stretch of [five] games. But in terms of the…

LINCOLN, Neb. — If the UCLA men’s basketball team thought it was cold arriving to Pinnacle Bank Arena, it was in for a rude awakening at the 3-point line Saturday.While temperatures hovered about 20 degrees outside, the No. 15 Bruins found no source of warmth from the arc Saturday, firing a season-worst 14% from 3-point range in a 66-58 loss to Nebraska.The Bruins played their worst offensive game of the season in their first Big Ten game not played on the West Coast. UCLA (11-3, 2-1) was 4 of 28 on 3-pointers, its most frigid performance from beyond the arc…

When artificial intelligence cameras spotted a wildfire in a remote canyon in early December, it was the first time the Orange County Fire Authority received an alert from AI without getting an emergency call from a person, authorities said.OCFA announced the discovery in an X post on Friday, Jan. 3.The University of California San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia camera network’s AI alerted the OCFA of an “anomaly” seen on video footage around 2 a.m. on Dec. 4. The network has several cameras located in wildfire-prone spots around Southern California.The anomaly turned out to be a vegetation fire in Black Star Canyon, east…

RIVERSIDE — Woodcrest Christian senior Eyan Turk had already won a CIF State Cross Country title as a junior, but he had one thing to cross off his high school cross country bucket list: make the Nike Cross Nationals by getting one of the top five individual times at state among non-qualifying teams.Woodcrest Christian senior Eyan Turk has been chosen the IE Varsity Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year for the third time in a row in Riverside on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Woodcrest Christian senior Eyan Turk has been chosen the IE…

Camp Pendleton has tightened access to the sprawling Marine base in North County in the wake of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people.“Commander NORTHCOM has directed all military installations to implement heightened security measures at all entry gates to include 100% ID CHECKS, random inspections, and the suspension of the Trusted Travel Program until further notice,” Camp Pendleton said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.The message was referring to the U.S. Northern Command, a branch of the Defense Department that protects the U.S. homeland and surrounding waters.As of noon Saturday, the agency had…