Month: February 2020

CITY BOYS’ SOCCERDIVISION VFirst round, FridayLakeview 18, East College Prep 0 CITY GIRLS’ SOCCERDIVISION ISecond round, FridayGranada Hills 3, Eagle Rock 0Birmingham 7, Marquez 0Los Angeles Hamilton 3, Taft 2El Camino Real 9, Narbonne 0San Pedro 2, Garfield 1 (OT)Cleveland 6, Bravo 2Chatsworth 2, Huntington Park 1Palisades 9, Grant 0 Quarterfinals, Thursday, 3 p.m.#8 Birmingham […]

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CITY BOYS’ BASKETBALLOPEN DIVISIONQuarterfinals, Friday unless notedFairfax 93, El Camino Real 48Birmingham 70, Gardena 58 (Thursday)King/Drew 73, Taft 57Westchester 71, Washington 51 Consolation semifinals. Wednesday, 7 p.m.#8 El Camino Real at #5 Gardena#7 Washington at #6 Taft Championship semifinals, Feb. 22, 6 and 8 p.m. at Los Angeles Southwest College#4 Birmingham vs. # 1 Fairfax#3 […]

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Hello, my name is John Cherwa, and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we have another handicapping lesson from Rob Henie. Newsletter Off to the races Get the latest news, analysis, results and charts with John Cherwa's definitive Horse Racing newsletter. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. It’s […]

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UNION CITY, Calif. —  Two teenage gang members have been arrested and charged in the November killings of two boys that stunned a San Francisco Bay Area community, authorities announced Friday. Jason Cornejo, 18, of Castro Valley, and a 17-year-old boy from Hayward were charged Thursday with the murders of Sean Withington, 14, and Kevin Hernandez, […]

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At least 17 people were arrested this week and picketing continued Friday as part of a wildcat strike by UC Santa Cruz graduate student workers who are demanding higher pay because they are overburdened by high housing costs. During the strike, which began Monday, graduate student workers have refused to teach, hold office hours, conduct […]

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The University of California is rolling out additional reforms of its admissions process after finding significant problems in how campuses track decisions to admit athletes, artists and students who do not meet minimum UC eligibility requirements, according to a review released Friday. The sweeping audit of UC’s nine undergraduate campuses, triggered by the national college […]

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SAN DIEGO —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took the rare step of serving four administrative subpoenas Friday to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department for information on four Mexican nationals wanted for deportation. The immigration subpoenas are the first of their kind in California, though they’re just the latest deployment of a new, month-old Trump […]

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SERIES California Cooking With Jessica Holmes This new episode samples modern Middle Eastern food with Sweet Pillar Food bloggers. Also, a visit to American Beauty steakhouse. 8 p.m. CW Seven Worlds, One Planet The new episode “Europe” explores some of the 12,000 limestone caves in Slovenia, home to a rare creature called the olm, a […]

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Thursday night, the Weimar gloves finally came off at Walt Disney Concert Hall. It was not a pretty sight or sound or sentiment. It wasn’t meant to be. Esa-Pekka Salonen began his Los Angeles Philharmonic Weimar Republic project last week by revealing how Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill, in their very different ways, sought order […]

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