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PHOENIX — Tyler Bilodeau scored 17 points, Skyy Clark added 15 and No. 24 UCLA rallied from a 13-point deficit midway through the second half to beat Arizona 57-54 on Saturday.UCLA (9-1) won its eighth straight game, shaking off a poor shooting afternoon. Bilodeau was crucial down the stretch, making 6 of 12 shots on a variety of mid-range and post moves. Clark grabbed an offensive rebound with eight seconds left, was immediately fouled, and then made two free throws to set the final margin.Arizona’s KJ Lewis missed a potential game-tying 3-pointer in the final seconds.The Wildcats (4-5) opened the…

President-elect Donald Trump is famous for relishing an opportunity to make a deal. With the stunning collapse of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Trump now has the opportunity to make the deal of a lifetime.Indeed, Assad’s collapse – which also exposed the weakness of his backers in Russia and Iran – presents the chance for Trump to reshape the Middle East in a way that protects America’s interests, strengthens our allies, and weakens our enemies.Put another way, working with allies in the region – Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates – Trump can build a stable, peaceful Middle…

SkyPark at Santa’s Village in the San Bernardino Mountains is full of holiday cheer for the season, opening a new attraction and bringing back old favorites.For the Christmas season, guests can visit and take photos with Santa in his cabin, enjoy ice skating — and new this year, guests can adopt a plush reindeer baby after visiting with the reindeer moms and learning how to care for them.The B-Rail is the park’s newest ride that has guests pedaling among the treetops on the repurposed monorail track, which once had bee-shaped carts.The park originally called simply Santa’s Village, opened in 1955,…

By Web Staff and Rob McMillan Click here for updates on this story     OAK HILLS, California (KABC) — Authorities seized some 90,000 pounds of processed marijuana, valued at more than $100 million, from a property in San Bernardino County. County investigators served a search warrant around 7 a.m. Monday at a five-acre property on Honeyhill Road in Oak Hills. Inside a newly-built metal structure on the property they say they found a massive stash. There were more than 3,000 trash bags filled with weed, stacked 12-feet high from one end of the building to the other. Each bag weighed about…

Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by San Bernardino County health inspectors from Dec. 4 to Dec. 12. Cardenas, 16212 Foothill Blvd., Fontana Closed: Dec. 5 Reason: Insufficient hot water Reopened: Dec. 5 Lakeside Sports Bar, 26816 Blue Water Road, Helendale Closed: Dec. 5 Reason: Cockroach infestation Reopened: Dec. 6 Brew Bees Coffee Co., 1118 E. 19th St., Upland Closed: Dec. 4 Reason: Insufficient hot water Reopened: Dec. 4 Uranus 27, 555 E. Foothill Blvd., Suite 10, Upland Closed: Dec. 6 Reason: Operating without a valid health permit Reopened: Dec. 6 Stimulant, 1386 E.…

A 54-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges after wildlife inspectors at a Torrance mail facility intercepted packages containing protected eastern box turtles addressed to one of the defendant’s aliases in China.Sai Keung Tin, of Hong Kong, entered his plea in Los Angeles federal court to four counts of exporting merchandise contrary to law, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.According to the indictment, Tin illegally aided in the exportation of 40 eastern box turtles to be sent from the United States to China. Wildlife inspectors at an international mail facility in Torrance intercepted four packages addressed to “Ji Yearlong,”…

Rep. Katie Porter doesn’t necessarily want to be asked if she’s running for governor. Instead, she’d rather people tell her what they’re looking for in California’s next chief executive.Porter is set to leave Washington, D.C., on Jan. 2 after just three terms in Congress. She opted not to run for re-election this year; instead, she mounted a bid for California’s open U.S. Senate seat, losing in the March primary.For now, life after D.C. looks like a return to teaching at UC Irvine School of Law next month. Porter is excited, she said, to rejoin the institution where she’s worked since…

LOS ANGELES — The coronation came nearly a year ago, and the next member of Lincoln Riley’s king-making quarterback lineage was slaying Louisville in the San Diego night. USC’s Miller Moss arrived, then, in a glorious stepping stone for his program’s future, a six-touchdown performance in the Holiday Bowl that seemingly set him on a direct path to Trojan glory.It was as perfect a moment as any, across the last three years of Riley’s tenure at USC. The program’s future at quarterback seemed uncertain, after the graduation of Caleb Williams; here, suddenly, was a local kid who’d waited three years…

Here’s some free advice for politicians: Be sure to get the basics right when begging for attention on social media.Over the weekend, California’s Yale-educated Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is considering a run for governor, posted on X something that was designed to look tough toward incoming-President Donald Trump, but unfortunately just showed a cluelessness about things a person in his position should know, like elections, the Constitution and grammar.“President-elect Trump lost the popular vote (got Each time I read that post it hurts a little more. First, Trump didn’t lose the popular vote. The presidential candidate with the most…

Ronald Rochon, the newly minted president of Cal State Fullerton, didn’t have a typical sendoff to college.In the late 1970s, his parents dropped him off at Chicago Union Station where he began an 800-mile journey to Alabama to attend the Tuskegee Institute, a private, historically black land grant college.“I don’t think I had a choice. My mother made it clear. You’re going to college,” said Rochon, his family’s first-generation college student. “Everybody was crying that day.”His mother Alice, who died in 2009, “devoured books” and would have attended college herself had she the means and opportunities growing up in Chicago.…