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NEW YORK — Just one hour after picking up one of their biggest wins of the season, the Lakers made a far bigger move off the court with one of the most shocking trades in NBA history.The Lakers are acquiring five-time All-Star Luka Dončić in a trade that sends nine-time All-Star big man Anthony Davis to the Dallas Mavericks, a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to the Southern California News Group on Saturday night.ESPN’s Shams Charania was the first to report the trade, just an hour after the Lakers beat the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.The…
LONG BEACH — An 18-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting another man in Long Beach was taken into custody Thursday. Officers responded to the 900 block of Via Camelitos at around 1:15 p.m. Dec. 10 to reports regarding shots fired, according to the Long Beach Police Department. The victim, later identified as 32-year-old Dwayne Walton of Los Angeles, was pronounced dead at the scene. Homicide detectives identified the suspect as Mario Amarion Jennings of Rancho Cucamonga and, with the assistance of Special Investigations and San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department SWAT personnel, arrested him Thursday in Rancho Cucamonga. Jennings was booked…
NEW YORK — After having unfavorable results in their City Edition jerseys leading up to Saturday, the Lakers made a uniform change a few hours before their marquee road game against the New York Knicks.The Lakers were scheduled to wear their purple and black “California Destiny” jerseys – the first jersey in franchise history to say “Lake Show” across the chest – on Saturday at Madison Square Garden before opting to play in their purple Statement Edition jerseys.The last time the Lakers wore their City Edition uniforms was during Tuesday’s blowout road loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, which continued an…
By PAUL ANDERSONSANTA ANA — A 65-year-old Hemet man was sentenced Friday to 15 years and eight months in federal prison for collecting thousands of images and videos of child pornography and manipulating a 12-year-old girl into sending him explicit photos of herself and a 5-year-old girl.John Mathew Piecuch pleaded guilty July 26 to a count of production of child pornography. Piecuch has been in custody since August 2021.U.S. District Judge John W. Holcomb said the sentencing guidelines range was 262 to 327 months, but he honored terms of a plea deal, noting the defendant had shown remorse and suffered…
Los Angeles Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper (35) snares a shot by the Carolina Hurricanes during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker) Carolina Hurricanes’ Mikko Rantanen (96) controls the puck in front of Kings’ Tanner Jeannot (10) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker) Carolina Hurricanes’ Taylor Hall (71) and Kings’ Trevor Moore (12) chase the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker) Kings’…
By FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON — The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems, according to two people familiar with the situation. The move by DOGE, a Trump administration task force assigned to find ways to fire federal workers, cut programs and slash federal regulations, means it could have wide leeway to access important taxpayer data, among other things. The New York Times first reported the news of the group’s access of the massive federal payment system.…
Thousands of fans during the annual DodgerFest fan event in the parking lots outside of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Orange County Register/ SCNG) Construction continues as thousands of fans attend during the annual DodgerFest fan event in the parking lots outside of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Orange County Register/ SCNG) The Toscano of Lakewood shows off their World Championship trophy poster they made during the annual DodgerFest fan event in the parking lots outside of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles…
The Galaxy moved another piece of their championship-winning team with forward Dejan Joveljić going to Sporting Kansas City for $4 million.It’s the first trade in the league under the new MLS initiative allowing clubs to trade for cash within the league.According to the league, the trade-for-cash initiative: “creates additional opportunities for top players to remain within MLS, while further incentivizing player development and creating more pathways for MLS clubs to generate revenue on player movement.”Joveljić, who scored 21 goals across all competitions last season, joined the Galaxy late in the 2021 season under the U-22 Initiative on a 4 1/2-year…
LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Gottlieb has known about this reunion with Caitlin Clark since the summer, since the former Iowa superstar first put her number into Gottlieb’s phone, perhaps the only person in the world who could possibly truly understand the weight on JuJu Watkins’ shoulders.“I’ll see you guys,” Gottlieb remembered Clark telling her, months ago, “when you come to play us.”Indeed, Clark will return to the Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday afternoon for USC’s Big Ten clash with Iowa, a celebration of both the immediate past and the immediate future of women’s basketball. In December, Iowa announced it would retire…
LOS ANGELES — The chants rained down as Wesley Yates III stepped to the free-throw line with six minutes to play, rattling from the crypts of the Galen Center to its upper decks, a sobering reminder that USC was somehow playing this Saturday afternoon in a hostile environment on its own home floor.“Go green! Go white!” a legion of Spartans fans chanted, bloodthirsty for a miss, some behind the baseline rising and waving in an attempt to distract Yates.The Trojans had no home-court advantage. They hadn’t all year. They were dealing with a lot, as a weary Musselman reflected after Monday’s…