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By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James scored a season-high 56 points and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Golden State…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Juuse Saros made 20 saves for his third shutout of the season, Matt Duchene scored twice and…

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Jadon Jones drew a foul with less than a second remaining in overtime and made both free throws to give Long Beach State a…

By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte FC made a record-breaking home debut Saturday night, setting a Major League…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona’s McKale Center has been evacuated due to a fire after the men’s basketball game against California. Fire alarms…

DALLAS (AP) — Dorian Finney-Smith hit a 3-pointer from the right corner with 3.3 seconds left and the Dallas Mavericks, playing without All-Star…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Francisco Calvo scored the equalizer for the San Jose Earthquakes in a 3-3 draw with the Columbus Crew on Saturday. Calvo…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Oumar Ballo scored 16 points, Bennedict Mathurin added 13 and No. 2 Arizona became the…

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Ernie Els rebounded from a bogey on the par-3 17th with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 18th to take the lead in the…

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — DJ Davis had a career-high 24 points as UC Irvine narrowly defeated Cal State Bakersfield 66-61. Justin McCall led the…

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Forbidden Kingdom romped to a 5 3/4-length victory in the $400,000 San Felipe Stakes at…

LARAMIE, Wyo. — Xavier DuSell had 21 points as Wyoming edged past Fresno State 68-64 in overtime. Orlando Robinson led the Bulldogs with a…

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Senior Marreon Jackson scored 18 points in his final home game and Arizona State pulled away from Stanford in the second half…

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — An initial report on the fatal crash of a crop-dusting helicopter in central California last month indicates the pilot called…

BEAUMONT, Texas — Ty Rowell had a season-high 25 points as California Baptist defeated Lamar 78-66. Lincoln Smith led the Cardinals on Saturday…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The number-crunchers have vanquished starting pitching and brought a barrage of 3-pointers to…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The second wave of a late winter storm brought more scattered showers and snow to California, along with warnings for motorists…

DALLAS (AP) — All-Star guard Luka Doncic sat out the Dallas Mavericks’ home game against the Sacramento Kings on Saturday because of a left toe…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities are searching for suspects after 27-year-old woman was shot and seriously wounded while driving on a freeway near San…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A jury has decided that Southern California police officers did not use excessive force when they shot and killed a man…

HILLSBORO, Kan. (AP) — Officials at a private Christian college in Kansas are vowing not to forget two football players from California who were…

WINDSOR, Calif. (AP) — A Sonoma County mortuary is accused of storing unembalmed bodies for more than 24 hours without refrigeration and at an…

SEAL BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a man with sexually assaulting an 85-year-old woman suffering from dementia at a nursing home in…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT, AMY TAXIN, PHILIP MARCELO and JULIE WATSON Associated Press IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Afghan refugees who fled their country…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was one of the more high-profile targets of political violence when prosecutors say a…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A city order that required people to wear face coverings in indoor public spaces in Boston,…

PARADISE, Nev. — Moses Wood had a career-high 28 points as Portland beat San Diego 73-55 in the second round of the West Coast Conference…

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Justin Bean recorded 18 points and 11 rebounds to lead Utah State to a 75-52 win over San Jose State. Trey Anderson led the…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Nicolas Roy ended his 15-game goal drought with his first career two-goal game in the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mitchell Ryan, who played a villainous general in the first “Lethal Weapon” movie, a ruthless businessman on TV’s “Santa…

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Cameron Beckman eagled the par-5 18th for a 7-under 64 and the first-round lead Friday in the PGA Tour Champions’…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Maki, a ring-tailed lemur who made headlines when he was stolen from the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens in 2020 and then…

PARADISE, Nev. — Alex Barcello had 22 points as BYU rolled past Loyola Marymount 85-60 in the West Coast Conference tournament second round. Eli…

By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Haley Jones scored a game-high 17 points and No. 2 Stanford defeated Colorado 71-45 in a Pac 12…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Fire-plagued California has a new state fire chief. Joe Tyler, a 31-year veteran of the California Department of Forestry…

BORON, Calif. (AP) — Kern County sheriff’s deputies have shot and killed an armed man after an hours-long standoff in the Mojave Desert town of…

By NICOLE KRAFT Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Viktor Arvidsson scored four minutes into overtime to complete a hat trick and give the Los…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tim Considine, who played the eldest son, Mike, on the 1960s TV sitcom “My Three Sons,” has died. He was 81. Considine died…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers are hiring ESPN analyst Brian Griese as their new…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators have issued $55 million in fines against L.A. Care, the nation’s largest publicly operated health…

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford soccer star Katie Meyer’s death has been ruled a suicide. The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office confirmed…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California law enforcement officials say the gunman who killed his three daughters, a…

By AMY TAXIN, PHILIP MARCELO and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ukrainians in the U.S. are reacting to a move by President Biden…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered a review of state contracts in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld sweeping asylum restrictions to prevent spread of COVID-19…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ken Norton Jr. has returned to UCLA as inside linebackers coach. Norton was fired by the Seattle Seahawks in January after four…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Los Angeles man has been sentenced to life in prison for leading a large-scale fentanyl distribution conspiracy in St. Louis. A…

ATLANTA (AP) — Thirty-nine players on the American women’s team endorsed Cindy Parlow Cone for a full four-year term as U.S. Soccer Federation…

NEW YORK (AP) — Seattle’s Bernie Martinez was suspended for 80 games, and the Mariners’ Luis Baez and San Francisco’s Sonny Vargas were…