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FOOTBALL

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP BOWL GAMES

Friday

DIVISION I-AA

Mission Viejo 24, San Jose Bellarmine 0

DIVISION II-AA

Loomis Del Oro 16, Camarillo 13

LiAngelo Ball finished with 28 points, including two free throws with eight seconds left, to lift Chino Hills to a 91-90 victory over New York Thomas Jefferson is a first-round game of the City of Palms Classic in Florida.

Amid the drizzle, sorrow and disappointment of a 16-13 defeat to Loomis Del Oro in the CIF state championship Division II-AA bowl game Friday night, receiver Frankie Tostado of Camarillo refused to put his head down. There was too much pride and too much commitment expended during a 16-week journey...

The San Antonio Spurs improved their home record to 15-0 by defeating the Clippers, 115-107, at AT&T Center on Friday.

DeAndre Jordan looks momentarily bewildered when the reporter holding a microphone near the window of his car asks if Santa will start against the Lakers.

Here's a novelty: Instead of chasing Pacific Division rivals most of the season and being forced to make a late bid to secure a playoff spot — as they did successfully in 2012 and 2014 and not so successfully last season — the Kings are leading their division.

I am not a rich man. I am not an old man. I am not confined to my apartment. Yet every autumn, I spend countless hours poring over a high-end shopping catalog. The first issue arrives in late October. I read it cover to cover. I do not buy anything from it. The next week, a new catalog arrives....

The newborn child was a refugee. His parents had traveled a great distance from one jurisdiction to another in obedience to a political mandate they did not fully understand. Exhausted from a long day's journey, they sought lodging but were turned away, so they took shelter in a stable. Amid farm...

Immigration officials failed to sufficiently scrutinize Tashfeen Malik's petition to enter the U.S. to get married, allowing her in with an unverified assertion from her fiance and untranslated Arabic passport stamps as the only evidence that the couple had spent time together, congressional investigators...

Downtown L.A.'s Pacific Commerce Bank announced plans to buy fellow downtown lender ProAmérica Bank, a deal that marks a continued expansion for one bank and the end of a short, troubled run for the other.

Stormtroopers on Friday set foot in the White House.

Don't be alarmed. It wasn't only those who belong to the dark side who penetrated the nation's capital on the official opening day of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."

As this tweet from the first lady makes clear, the chirpy and charismatic droid...

Colleen Crosby, 48, saw the very first "Star Wars" movie at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in 1977.

California employers added just 5,500 jobs in November, according to federal data — a significant slowdown from more robust monthly gains earlier in the year.But the state unemployment rate continued its five-year-long decline, dropping to 5.7% in November, the lowest in eight years. The U.S. unemployment...

Since the second game of the season, UCLA assistant coach Duane Broussard has been a marked man.

The Anahim Ducks will continue to search for offense in-house unless they make an 11th-hour move before the NHL's roster freeze, which goes into effect Saturday and runs through Dec. 27.

My love for "Star Wars" has been going on for 38 years, 6 months and 22 days.

Followers of the Lakers are painfully aware of it: Their team is one of the NBA's worst.

With President Obama set to visit San Bernardino tonight, Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday declared a state of emergency in the county that was the scene of the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.

USC quarterback Cody Kessler was wearing a brace last week after suffering a thumb sprain during the Pac-12 title game.

A worker at a shuttered nuclear weapons plant in Washington state was contaminated with plutonium earlier this month, triggering a federal investigation into the transportation of potentially contaminated ventilation devices through three states, the Times has learned.The incident occurred during...

As a college quarterback, Tee Martin adeptly executed plays and won a national title. As a USC assistant coach, he helped Trojans receivers learn offensive systems.

There are moments when Jonathon Blum can forget he's 18 time zones away from home, wrestling with a new language and enduring 10-hour flights across the vastness of Russia, all in pursuit of a hockey dream born after Wayne Gretzky joined the Kings and inspired kids to scrimmage on suburban streets...

About 500 hours of video and audio secretly recorded during meetings of abortion providers will remain under court-ordered seal -- for now.

Loyola has caused problems for the Southern Section Division 1 soccer rankings after knocking off No. 1-ranked Paramount, 2-0, on Friday.

L.A. is now officially Philadelphia West, as the mismanaged Lakers fight the 76ers for the first pick in the NBA draft and the small-minded, small-market Dodgers brass seems to be rivaling the Phillies and aiming for the first pick in baseball's amateur draft. Andrew Friedman and Farhan Zaidi seem...