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Early in the Rams’ 27-9 wild-card playoff victory over the Minnesota Vikings on Monday, it felt like tight end Tyler Higbee was trying to carry his team to victory single-handedly. He caught five passes in the first quarter for 58 yards and three first downs, accentuating each of them with an arm-waving celebration.But a hit to his chest at the end of the quarter ended Higbee’s night. He still led the team in receiving for the night despite the abrupt exit, but he had to follow the rest of the game from a local Arizona hospital because he was spitting…

Gov.  Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order that removes bureaucratic red tape to help displaced students, families and campuses impacted by fires in L.A. County.The order, signed on Tuesday, seeks to: Suspend multiple state rules to allow displaced students to attend school outside of their district; Ease the way for schools damaged or destroyed in the fires to use temporary facilities; and Enables schools to avoid penalties for not meeting minimum school-year attendance requirements. The order also directs state agencies to work with schools with destroyed or damaged schools to develop a plan for serving displaced students and rebuilding,…

By PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. wholesale inflation rose last month on higher energy prices.The Labor Department reported Tuesday that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it hits consumers — rose 0.2% last month from November, down from a 0.4% gain the month before. Compared to a year earlier, producer prices rose 3.3%, biggest jump since February 2023 and up from a 3% gain in November.A 3.5% November-to-December increase in energy prices — led by a 9.7% increase in gasoline prices — pushed the overall index higher. Food prices dipped 0.1% in December.Still, the overall increases…

At the Gray Dragon toy store, where owner Adele Heydenrich’s long vision bloomed to life for one year in the Palisades, her 9-year-old son was her head employee.She was a single mother, and she wanted to set up young Grayson as best she could. So she hired him. Never mind that he spent six days a week tottering around the Gerry Blanck’s Martial Arts Center next door; he had a W-2. He’d go to trade shows. He’d help curate toys. This was their life.The folks nearby, nestled in a retail space on the corner of Marquez Avenue and Sunset Boulevard,…

By SARAH PARVINI, AP Technology WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to ensure the infrastructure needed for advanced AI operations, such as large-scale data centers and new clean power facilities, can be built quickly and at scale in the United States.The executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate large-scale AI infrastructure development at government sites, while imposing requirements and safeguards on the developers building on those locations. It also directs certain agencies to make federal sites available for AI data centers and new clean power facilities. Those agencies will help facilitate the infrastructure’s…

LOS ANGELES — A year ago, as he professed to the world in early December, Eric Gentry thought football wasn’t going to work out.Then Matt Entz came along, and – as Gentry wrote on Twitter – changed his “whole perspective.”The senior linebacker, through preseason and a blistering start to 2024, didn’t much attempt to hide his true feelings on USC’s defensive staff upgrades last winter. When asked in early September why USC’s defense was better against the run, he smirked: The coaches, he responded, simply. And that began with Entz, the former North Dakota State head coach who’d taken a…

Garden Grove-based Harbinger Motors Inc., a medium-sized EV cargo truck chassis maker, has raised $100 million to fuel the next stages of its growth of its privately held company.Harbinger said on Tuesday, Jan. 14, that it will use the venture capital funding to buildup production capacity at its Knott Avenue plant to meet demand for a flurry of chassis orders received in recent months.Harbinger said it also will use the funds to expand its sales and parts and service operations for the nationwide rollout of its EV chassis.“These funds catalyze significant revenue generation,” said John Harris, the chief executive officer of…

The dire wind forecast for northern Los Angeles and eastern Ventura counties that warned that new wildfires could be spread extremely rapidly was downgraded Tuesday, Jan. 14, when those wind  speeds failed to materialize.“Winds starting off generally a little lighter than expected as previous models were a little heavy handed for today,” the National Weather Service said in its forecast discussion. “Winds are mostly under 30 mph and confined to a corridor that runs from Acton to Oxnard and about 20 miles either side. That does not include the Palisades fire area.Residents are still urged to be careful with fire…

By COLLEEN LONGWASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Joe Biden packed up and left office, he took with him thousands of papers from his decades in public service — including some classified documents that should have gone to the National Archives for safekeeping.That move spawned a federal investigation into whether Biden had knowingly broken the law and a damaging Justice Department report that referred to Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory,” igniting public concerns over his mental acuity that eventually led Biden to drop out of the race.The discovery also watered down the significance of the criminal…

LOS ANGELES — I don’t know what I expected, and maybe that’s the point. There isn’t a play you can draw up for people to process the pain and strain that wildfires have brought our way.The only way through is through, though. So on Monday, after the ongoing disaster postponed games for both of L.A.’s NBA teams, they got back to business.The Clippers proclaimed “L.A. Strong” and pushed around the Miami Heat for a 109-89 victory in front of a crowd of 13,119 in Inglewood. And I had a seat up the road to watch the Lakers operate under the…