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CONCORD — When the Ontario Christian girls basketball team lost to Archbishop Mitty on Dec. 21, the No. 2 nationally-ranked Knights were looking forward to another shot at No. 1 Mitty that was already on their schedule.But they didn’t want the Monarchs like this.After Mitty lost their best player, 6-foot-2 junior forward McKenna Woliczko, to a second-quarter injury, Ontario Christian pulled away in the fourth quarter and recorded a 61-44 victory Saturday afternoon in a game that was part of the Sabrina Ionescu Showcase at Carondelet High School.Ontario Christian sophomore point guard Kaleena Smith scored a game-high 23 points as…
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A blast from an improvised explosive device killed one person and wounded 35 others on Saturday in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Turbat, a police official said.Footage from the scene showed vehicles moving through the city before an explosion and flames engulfed one of them.Police officer Roshan Baloch said that eight of the wounded were in critical condition, and that the rest were stable. Most of the casualties are soldiers. The device was in a car parked on the side of the road and was detonated remotely, Baloch added.The chief minister for Balochistan province, Sarfraz Bugti, condemned…
Actress Jaime Gertz, left, with her husband and owner of the Atlanta Hawks Tony Ressler during a NBA basketball game between the Clippers and the Atlanta Hawks at Intuit Dome in Inglewood on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Orange County Register/ SCNG) Kawhi Leonard #2 of the Clippers reacts from the bench against the Atlanta Hawks in the second half of a NBA basketball game at Intuit Dome in Inglewood on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Orange County Register/ SCNG) James Harden #1 of the Clippers drives to the basket against the Atlanta Hawks…
CLAREMONT — Claremont police Saturday arrested a man believed to have burglarized six businesses over three nights, along with a woman who allegedly possessed stolen property.The commercial burglaries occurred during nighttime hours between Thursday and Saturday, according to a statement from the Claremont Police Department.Four burglaries occurred in the 800-900 block of west Foothill Boulevard, near Mountain Avenue. The other two happened in the 700 block of south Indian Hill Boulevard, at San Jose Avenue, police said.Detectives and officers followed leads they obtained while investigating each burglary, which led them Saturday to identify the suspect as a 30-year-old Covina resident.…
PITTSBURGH — Joe Burrow passed for 277 yards and a touchdown, Cade York kicked four field goals and the Cincinnati Bengals kept their slim playoff hopes alive with a 19-17 win over the floundering Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday night.Burrow also threw an interception and his NFL record streak of consecutive games with at least 250 yards passing and three touchdowns came to an end. But he did enough to propel the Bengals (9-8) to their fifth straight win and keep them in the mix until the season’s final day.Cincinnati will earn the seventh seed in the AFC if Denver loses…
A 22-year-old is suspected of shooting and killing another man in Temecula on Saturday, according to investigators. Around 5 a.m., Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call for an assault with a deadly weapon in the 32900 block of Josheroo Court, south of Highway 79 and west of Redhawk Parkway. The caller, identified as Micah Harris from Temecula, said he had just shot another man in the residence, according to a Riverside County Sheriff’s Office news release. Upon arrival, deputies located a dead man inside the residence. Several other people were also located at the property, according to the…
LOS ANGELES –– The Kings have been pedestrian in some areas but they’ve been magical in others, specifically in the third period and at Crypto.com Arena, where they won their ninth straight home game by defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-1, on Saturday evening.Mikey Anderson and Adrian Kempe each lit the lamp for the Kings, with Kempe breaking a 1-1 stalemate that spanned most of the match. Darcy Kuemper turned in a superb performance with 34 saves, including several with a high degree of difficulty. Trevor Moore and Trevor Lewis both returned from injury, with Lewis skating in his 1,000th…
LOS ANGELES — The parents and six children of a man who died of a heart attack during an encounter with California Highway Patrol officers are suing the state and two CHP officers for wrongful death, alleging officials misled them by saying his death was accidental.The relatives of the late Dominick Alvarado, 33, who lived in Beaumont, all live in Riverside County: his father and mother, Filiberto Alvarado and Shalymmar Pool, as well as his half-dozen minor offspring. Their Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit also alleges excessive force, failure to summon medical care, interference with parent/child relationship, negligence, battery of…
LOS ANGELES — He bent in a stance approximately 90 feet from the basket, nodding his head at a Michigan guard, Wesley Yates III attempting to bend the very concept of momentum to his own youthful will.He’d never played a minute of collegiate basketball before this season, yes, spending an injury-plagued season at Washington before transferring to USC. He was prone to mistakes. He’d turned 60-year-old head coach Eric Musselman’s hair grey, at times. But his energy had changed the dynamic of USC’s program since he was inserted into the starting lineup, across a four-game win streak, and USC needed him in…
LOS ANGELES — The first time Lindsay Gottlieb called, Beth Burns said no. Burns had lived several lifetimes in basketball already, a 30-plus-year coaching career with head-coaching runs at San Diego State and Ohio State. She was perfectly happy in simplicity, an associate strength and conditioning coach at Louisville.But Gottlieb kept calling, and in 2022, Burns found herself packing up a moving van for Southern California – with one caveat. She was into her mid-60s. She wanted little to do with the nuts-and-bolts burdens of being an assistant coach at USC, preferring to be given the freedom to work extensively…