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Q: Why are so many freeway lights out on the 91 and 55 freeways? As a senior citizen, after 5 p.m. I am forced to put on my bright lights to see the freeway signs. – Virginia Zlaket, Anaheim Hills A: Those outages are likely tied to a tiresome problem – thieves. For perhaps decades, such riffraff have snipped out copper wiring to sell, and in recent years freeway lights – and us, of course – have been victims. “Many street-light outages on the highways are due to copper wire theft,” Nathan Abler, a Caltrans spokesman, told Honk in an…

Clippers guard James Harden looks to get around the Portland Trail Blazers’ defense during the second half on Thursday night in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) Portland Trail Blazers forward Toumani Camara, left, tries to get around Clippers center Ivica Zubac (40) as he goes to the basket during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) Clippers guard Kris Dunn drives to the basket against Portland Trail Blazers guard Scoot Henderson, right, during the first half of a game, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)…

SAN BERNARDINO — The Yucaipa boys basketball team is chasing history.The program has not won a league title since 1971. The Thunderbirds took a big step in rectifying that Thursday night, defeating chief rival Cajon 43-42 in an important Citrus Belt League game.Point guard Malik Young scored 21 of his game-high 22 points in the second half. That included two clutch free throws with 11.1 seconds left that stood up as the game winner.Young said he was not nervous.“Pressure makes diamonds,” he said.Cajon had a chance to take the lead, but Yucaipa’s Jake Lane drew an offensive foul to give…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Alex Turcotte scored twice and added an assist – all in the first 10 minutes – as the Kings thumped the struggling Vancouver Canucks, 5-1, on Thursday night.Adrian Kempe and Kevin Fiala each had a goal and an assist, Warren Foegele also scored and Darcy Kuemper had 20 saves for the Kings (25-12-5), who avoided what would have been their first three-game losing streak since Oct. 12-16.Turcotte’s first goal came 51 seconds into the game. And before the midpoint of the first period, the 23-year-old winger had helped stake his team to a 3-0 lead. The…

SANTA ANITA LEADERS (Through Thursday) Jockeys / Wins Juan Hernandez / 14 Flavien Prat / 12 Umberto Rispoli / 11 Tiago Pereira / 5 Frankie Dettori / 5 Kazushi Kimura / 5 Trainers / Wins Bob Baffert / 7 Mark Glatt / 6 Phil D’Amato / 5 Michael McCarthy / 5 Jeff Mullins / 5 UPCOMING STAKES SANTA ANITA Saturday • $175,000 Unusual Heat Turf Classic, 4-year-olds and up, 1⅛ miles (turf) • $175,000 California Chrome California Cup Derby, 3-year-olds, 1-1/16 miles • $175,000 Leigh Ann Howard California Cup Oaks, 3-year-old fillies, 1 mile (turf) • $125,000 Don Valpredo California Cup…

By ERIC OLSON AP College Football WriterOhio State and Notre Dame have reached the same destination with rosters built much the same way.The teams set to play in the College Football Playoff national championship game on Monday night in Atlanta sign elite high school recruiting classes year after year. That has been and continues to be their foundations.While many teams relentlessly mine the transfer portal in hopes of finding gems, Ohio State and Notre Dame have used the portal judiciously, equally and with great success while putting together their current teams.Both are college football royalty and can offer NIL riches…

The office of the presidency of the United States is not an easy role to fulfill. It comes with the almost unbearable burden of making decisions about highly impactful matters that most of us would never even think about. If done to the best of one’s ability, it should be emotionally and intellectually exhausting. You might forgive presidents for not always making what we would judge to be the best decision in hindsight – when circumstances were ambiguous, when their information was incomplete, or when time pressures rule out a thorough measure of the costs and benefits. Often though, they are in…

By ERIK ERLENDSSON The Associated PressTAMPA, Fla. — On a season-long road trip that has not gone the way the Ducks had hoped, they salvaged a point by reaching overtime for the 12th time this season.Jake Guentzel scored the only goal for either team in the shootout and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Ducks, 4-3, on Thursday night.Brayden Point, Anthony Cirelli and Guentzel scored for Tampa Bay during regulation, while Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 34 saves and stopped one more in the shootout, when the Ducks missed the target twice. Tampa Bay (24-6-3, 51 points) improved to 4-1-1 in…

LOS ANGELES — After undergoing the first surgery of his life, Rams left guard Steve Avila found himself in an unfamiliar setting. Not on the practice field, but in the training room, going about the small tedious tasks of rehabbing a knee injury. But there was a role model. Veteran tight end Tyler Higbee, seven months removed from surgery to repair a torn ACL, MCL and meniscus in his knee, went about his routine with the same intensity as if he were preparing for the coming game on Sunday, providing the example Avila needed in that moment. “The way he…

A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who was educated at UC Berkeley has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography, authorities said.Detectives arrested 49-year-old Darrin Bell on Wednesday morning, according to a statement from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. The arrest came after a brief investigation brought on by a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.Bell creates the comic strips “Candorville” and “Rudy Park.”The Sacramento Valley Internet Crimes Against Children task force conducted the investigation. According to the sheriff’s office, the tip related to the uploading of 18 files of child sex abuse material. Authorities said they…