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The Southern California News Group (SCNG) has a large roster of reporters ready to take you through another exciting night of high school football action. There are previews for the top Week 9 games. Our reporters will be providing live updates from the games to keep you on top of the action. And at the end of the night there will be stories, a complete list of scores, photos and more. And we do that every week. Now, let’s get you ready for kickoff … Who to follow for tonight’s scores, updates Click on the game to see the reporter’s…

President Trump Thursday morning called off a planned deployment of federal immigration agents to San Francisco. He  said in a social media post that he had stopped action in San Francisco “at the request of friends who live in the Bay Area,” The New York Times reports, who vouched for the work of the city’s Democratic mayor, Daniel Lurie. The move came just as the agents were beginning to gather at the Alameda Coast Guard base in the bay. It’s all something of a feint, because earlier this very week, it wasn’t ICE agents the president was threatening to set…

Q: Can a California HOA have a “no rental” policy? Our HOA is small, and an owner recently expressed interest in renting out their unit. In my experience, renters don’t have the same commitment to the community as owners do. — J.R., Redondo Beach A: Civil Code Section 4740, enacted in 2012, provides, among other things, that rental prohibitions could only apply prospectively to owners who bought their HOA property after the prohibition was put in force. This reinforced the notion that HOAs could completely ban rentals, with such bans only applying to subsequent buyers into the HOA. In 2021, the…

By TIM REYNOLDS MIAMI (AP) — As a new NBA season opened this week, coach Rick Carlisle and the Indiana Pacers received their annual briefing on the do’s and don’ts of gambling. Betting in casinos is generally allowed. Betting on other sports, provided it is legal, is also allowed. Betting on NBA basketball is not. For veterans of the sport, it’s the type of training that can seem routine — almost boring, perhaps. But the potential repercussions for breaking the rules are now abundantly clear after Portland coach Chauncey Billups and Miami guard Terry Rozier were among nearly three dozen…

Public service is supposed to be about duty, not luxury. Yet Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem just signed off on the purchase of two Gulfstream G700s, luxury aircraft worth a combined $170 million. The Coast Guard had requested one replacement plane for an aging jet used for official travel. Somewhere along the way, that single, practical request turned into a pair of top-of-the-line aircraft awarded through a no-bid contract, without a clear explanation or a shred of humility. Secretary Noem says the planes are necessary for the mission of the Coast Guard, but that is not what the record shows.…

By JOSH FUNK, Associated Press The ongoing government shutdown continues to disrupt flights at times and put pressure on air traffic controllers who are working without pay. Flights were delayed Thursday at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, New Jersey’s Newark airport and Washington’s Reagan National Airport because of air traffic controller shortages. The number of flight delays for any reason nationwide spiked to 6,158 Thursday after hovering around 4,000 a day earlier in the week, according to FlightAware.com. Many Federal Aviation Administration facilities are so critically short on controllers that just a few absences can cause disruptions, and Transportation Secretary Sean…

With federal immigration agents continuing to roam neighborhoods in California, and multiple instances where U.S. citizens have alleged they were mistakenly or wrongfully detained, some voters say they have apprehension about casting their ballot in person during the special election on redistricting. For Latinos and others whose communities have been targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel in recent months, the fear of running into ICE agents — even if they are in the country legally — is real. According to a poll commissioned by the California-based Latino Community Foundation, 66% of the 1,200 registered Latino voters in California…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The stunning indictment that led to the arrest of more than 30 people, including Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and other NBA figures, on charges of illegal sports betting has drawn new scrutiny of the booming business of professional sports gambling across the U.S. Since widespread legalization, the multibillion-dollar industry has made it easy to place wagers on everything from the outcome of games to that of a single play with just a few taps of a cellphone. It’s just about impossible to go to a basketball, football, baseball or other…

SACRAMENTO — The upset is palpable. News reports that the Trump administration is planning to cut state grants to build permanent housing for homeless people has led state officials and homeless activists to claim that the likely decision will send thousands of people back on the streets just as California is turning the corner on this massive problem. The usually levelheaded CalMatters reported that the expected deep cuts are the “latest blow in a seemingly endless barrage of bad news for the California agencies tasked with fighting homelessness.” The “news has sent counties throughout California into a panic” and they…

By SAM McNEIL, Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Friday said Meta and TitTok had breached their transparency obligations after an investigation that could result in billions of dollars in fines. The inquiry found both companies had violated the Digital Services Act, the EU’s trailblazing digital rule book that imposes a set of strict requirements designed to keep internet users safe online, including making it easier to report counterfeit or unsafe goods or flag harmful or illegal content like hate speech, as well as a ban on ads targeted at children. “We are making sure platforms are…