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RIALTO — For a quarter and a half Wednesday night, the Summit girls basketball team kept Rialto within reach.Summit Dahlia Bradford C #22 fights for the rebound with Rialto forward La’Mya Johnson #24 in a Sunkist League girls basketball game in Rialto on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Summit center Makayla Battles #32 and Rialto center Lyza Ortiz #25 fight for a rebound in a Sunkist League girls basketball game in Rialto on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Summit center Makayla Battles #32 pulls down the rebound from Rialto forward…
LOS ANGELES — When it came to the Lakers’ declining defense, “connected” was the buzzword ahead of their matchup against the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.Because in their eyes, when they’re in sync and playing defense as a unit, they can compete with any team in the NBA, Coach JJ Redick said.And in their 117-108 victory over the Heat, they showed exactly what that meant.After a pedestrian first-half defensive performance, the Lakers turned up their defensive execution and attention to detail, flipping a 12-point halftime deficit into a nine-point victory to end their three-game losing streak.“There was nothing we changed…
INGLEWOOD — Two days earlier, Clippers star Kawhi Leonard said he was content to take his comeback slowly, patient to play limited minutes while continuing to get his game in order after a lengthy layoff. He missed the first 34 games of the season while tending his right knee.On Wednesday night, he showed what he could do if the restraints came off.Leonard scored a game-high 23 points on 8-of-11 shooting in his first significant minutes since returning to the lineup three games ago. After averaging 20 minutes in his first three appearances, the six-time All Star stayed on the court…
I received this letter on the second day of the Palisades Fire, the largest of five fires burning in Southern California:“You f—-ing moron. You stupid republcans (sic) have denied climate change — and now you want to blame democrats? You are an anti intellectual idiot. … F—k OFF.”Here are the grim numbers: 24 dead; 12,000 structures, including homes and businesses, completely or partially burned; 300,000 people have been evacuated, with nearly 83,000 still under evacuation orders; nearly 100,000 are without power; and the two largest fires are not contained. As to the financial cost, estimates range from $50 billion to…
LOS ANGELES — Two more people were behind bars Wednesday for allegedly setting small fires in Los Angeles amid high fire-danger conditions as crews continued efforts to contain two major blazes that have killed over two dozen people and destroyed thousands of structures.Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said officers responded at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday to Glenoaks and Van Nuys boulevards, where a resident had detained a suspect who allegedly set fire to a tree. The resident was able to douse the fire and call police. When officers arrived, the suspect admitted setting the fire, saying “he liked the smell…
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…