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They were arena mates, connected by a 100-foot hallway and a not-so-subtle dislike for each other. One team had banners; the other covered them. One team had stars and most of the victories; the other had little more than wishes.None of that mattered, however, when the teams played each other four times a year at Crytpo.com Arena in what affectionately became known as the “Hallway Series”, a nod to their unconventional shared space. No other team in the NBA shares an arena.The dynamic, though, changed this season.The Clippers moved to their own place, Intuit Dome, a state-of-the-art arena located 14.3…

More than 10,000 Southern California Edison customers remained without power Saturday morning, Jan. 18 as the utility scrambled to fix equipment damaged by the recent high winds. “I don’t have information specific to a city or a community, but I can tell you as of 7 a.m. this morning, there are 10,186 customers without power,” said SCE spokesperson Gabriela Ornelas. As winds throughout the region remained mild Saturday, the utility initiated no new public safety power shutoffs. Those are outages that the utility starts preemptively due to heightened wildfire risk. Still, the utility is considering public safety shutoffs to communities…

No. 4 RAMS at No. 2 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES When: Noon Sunday Where: Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia TV/Radio: NBC (Ch. 4), Peacock/710 AM; 93.1 FM; 1330 AM (Spanish); Sirius 225, 226 Line: Eagles by 6 Notable injury designations Rams: QUESTIONABLE: LT Alaric Jackson (chest/knee), CB Ahkello Witherspoon (thigh), NT Bobby Brown III (shoulder), OL Justin Dedich (illness). Eagles: OUT: DT Byron Young (hamstring). What’s at stake? Another game to play, a trip to the NFC title game, two wins away from a Super Bowl title. Who’s better? Look no further than the Eagles’ 37-20 win over the Rams in Week 12 to answer this question, and that’s fair.…

By REBECCA BOONE, GENE JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER, CLAUDIA LAUER and AMY TAXINThe first evacuation order covering neighborhoods closest to the start of the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire didn’t come until about 40 minutes after some of those homes were already burning, according to an Associated Press analysis of emergency communications and interviews with survivors.The wildfire, which would become one of the most destructive in California history, was spreading rapidly in ornamental plantings and burning homes by 11:27 a.m. on Jan. 7, recordings of scanner traffic reveal. So many people fled on their own, as wind-whipped flames raced over the…

Declan Durcan and his wife wept with relief when they got the call last Sunday telling them they could rent a three-bedroom house in Brentwood.It was a small but consequential bit of good news after a devastating, heart-rending week.Their Pacific Palisades home was transformed into rubble Jan. 7 when an inferno devoured their block. Then came a fruitless search for a nearby rental.“Everywhere we looked had like 50-60 people, people offering double, triple the rent, offering to pay six months rent up front,” said Durcan, 48, a network sales engineer who worked from his three-story hill house before the fire.…

MELBOURNE, Australia — Learner Tien and Alex Michelsen were born about 15 months apart and first crossed paths a decade ago when they were playing in Southern California tennis tournaments for kids.Tien, now 19, and Michelsen, 20, are close friends, frequently play the video game Fortnite together, trained with each other all offseason at the Tier 1 academy in Orange County and, once again, are competing in the same event — except this time, it is on a Grand Slam stage, and on Monday, they’ll both be participating in the fourth round of the Australian Open.It’s the first run for…

Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a webpage to combat “disinformation” about Los Angeles wildfires, but its usefulness is debatable. Referencing a tweet alleging such, Newsom wrote: “FACT: No fire stemmed from a satanic ritual.” Phew! I’m glad Newsom set the record straight there. Without his webpage, millions of Californians might still be wondering if satanists were behind the whole thing. I’m kidding. That’s not something anyone serious was considering. What’s funny about this though is that it’s still unknown what caused the fire, meaning Newsom’s website is spreading disinformation itself. Since the cause of the fire is not known, it’s factually…

“How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market. The pain: Southern California tenants last year hunted for housing in some of the nation’s tightest apartment markets. The source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a year-end report by RentCafe on rental availability at big apartment complexes nationwide. The data tracked 139 U.S. markets, including six in Southern California. The pinch The Los Angeles wildfires have dramatically pushed up demand for Southern California housing as 2025 starts. These apartment stats don’t include this new rush – nor does it include pricing. Still, the numbers provide clues to the challenges faced last…

The most fraudulent presidency in the history of the nation is about to come to an end.Joe Biden leaves office at 9 a.m. Pacific Time on Monday, Jan. 20. During the inaugural ceremonies, federal employees will remove every trace of the Biden administration from the White House. They should check behind the sofas and under the rugs to find everyone who has been making presidential decisions. Whoever they are, they have to leave now.Maybe they’ll all write books and blame each other for their catastrophic failures. The TV rights could be worth a fortune. It will be just like “The…

Politicians in red states such as Louisiana do a lot of stupid stuff, like politicians in California do.When a hurricane sweeps through the South, does that make politicians from California threaten to withhold much-needed aid to American citizens in peril?It does not.And yet after Altadena and the Palisades are devastated by fires in one of the worst natural disasters in our country’s history, somehow a grandstanding pol such as the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, can say that federal aid should be conditional: “It appears to us that state and local leaders were derelict in their duty in…