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ARCADIA — With Eclipse Award winner National Treasure retired, and runner-up vote-getter Full Serrano off for the winter, auditions are under way for the role of leading older male horse from California.Saturday, they took place on both coasts, Katonah winning the $200,000, Grade II San Pasqual Stakes at Santa Anita after Mixto ran the best of the California horses in the $3 million, Grade I Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park in Florida, making it a doubly encouraging day for trainer Doug O’Neill.O’Neill also has J B Strikes Back, winner of the Laffit Pincay Jr. Stakes at Santa Anita…
MORENO VALLEY — Two Moreno Valley residents were killed in a two-vehicle crash in that city that also left three other people with serious injuries, authorities said Saturday.It happened around 11 a.m. Friday at the intersection of Ironwood Avenue and Heacock Street, north of the 60 Freeway, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.Deputies from the Moreno Valley station arrived at the scene and located an Infinity and a Mercedes that were involved in the crash, officials said.A passenger in the Mercedes suffered significant injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. The drivers from both vehicles and a passenger…
RANCHO CUCAMONGA — Denied his moment at a World Cup, Maurice Edu acknowledges that the game has given him so much more than he could have imagined.Former Etiwanda High School sccoer player Maurice Edu holds his retired #9 jersey during a pregame ceremony in the stadium in Rancho Cucamonga on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. Maurice Edu was the No. 1 pick in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft, was the MLS Rookie of the Year and made 46 appearance with the United States Men’s National Team. He was on the 2010 World Cup squad. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Former Etiwanda…
LOS ANGELES — Chae Campbell won the all-around and came in clutch when she was needed most in No. 8 UCLA gymnastics’ 197.200-194.700 win over Illinois on Saturday afternoon.Campbell scored 39.400 across all four events. The graduate student tied for first in vault with Jordan Chiles in the Bruins’ home opener and second Big Ten Conference meet of the season at Pauley Pavilion.The team score against the Illini (3-2 overall, 1-1 Big Ten) ran UCLA’s streak of exceeding 197 to three meets. The Bruins (5-2, 2-0) scored 197.550 in their last two meets after recording a 195.250 in their season…
PHILADELPHIA — Take a look at the Eagles since October — en route to 16 total wins for the second time in three seasons — and all the hallmarks of a dominant Super Bowl favorite are checked.A 10-game winning streak.Saquon Barkley rewriting team record books and finishing on the cusp of the NFL single-season rushing record. The top-rated defense in the NFL. Six Philadelphia players in the Pro Bowl. They even made a little-known author a best seller.The Eagles are 14-1 since October — and that includes two straight home postseason victories.It’s that “1” that troubles the Eagles a bit…
For a president who is widely analyzed for his rhetoric — with acclaim or acrimony, depending on your politics — it will be President Donald Trump‘s actions in the aftermath of devastating fires that will matter more to the Los Angeles region and its people.And for that matter, it will be Trump’s actions that are remembered more.The Republican president, just a few days after his inauguration, traveled to Southern California to survey the catastrophic devastation left by the Palisades fire, which broke out Jan. 7 amid extreme winds in the region and was just one of the fires that tore…
The Los Angeles Football club on Saturday confirmed the transfer of Polish midfielder Mateusz Bogusz to Liga MX club Cruz Azul.Bogusz, 23, joined LAFC in the spring of 2023 as an underperforming player from Spain’s second division, where he was loaned by Premier League club Leeds United in 2020.With LAFC, Bogusz flourished.His ascension prompted suitors to inquire about the native of Ruda Śląska, Poland, whose athleticism, agility, quality on the ball and finishing ability ultimately netted a record transfer fee north of $10 million for LAFC, a source confirmed, making his stint in L.A. a successful bit of business for the…
By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s first week in office isn’t over yet, but already it offers signals about how his next four years in the White House may unfold.Some takeaways from the earliest days of his second term:He’s emboldened like never beforeWithin hours of being sworn in, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people who were convicted or charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by his supporters. Those pardoned include people who attacked, bloodied and beat police officers that day. The Republican president’s decision was at odds with earlier…
The world according to Jim:• Before you ask, no, I was not the Hall of Fame voter who didn’t vote for Ichiro Suzuki. (More on that later.) …• USC and UCLA play in men’s basketball Monday night at Galen Center, and if something about that statement seems off – well, it is. …• Maybe we just got too used to the old Pac-12 model, which seems now like scheduling sanity: Games on Thursdays and Saturdays (and a rare Wednesday) for the men, Fridays and Sundays for the women. Travel partners, for which the conference was perfectly positioned with the L.A.…
By THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated PressPete Hegseth was sworn in Saturday as the nation’s 29th secretary of defense, quickly joining President Trump’s Cabinet after a dramatic late-night vote in the Senate installed him as the Pentagon’s leader.Hegseth took the oath from Vice President JD Vance in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer Rauchet, at his side and Republican senators looking on. The ceremony came less than 12 hours after Vance broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate to narrowly seal Hegseth’s confirmation.In brief remarks, Hegseth outlined what he said were his guiding principles: “Restore the warrior ethos in everything…