Новости за 23.01.2016

St. Francis celebrated its first home victory in more than two years on Friday night when the Golden Knights rallied for a 48-44 win over Chaminade in a Mission League game.

I fell in love before I was out of grade school.

Every summer, we loaded up the family sedan and my dad drove us from the East Bay town of Pittsburg to Santa Cruz for vacation. The moment we began descending the mountain through the redwoods, I'd crane for the first glimpse of open sea.

Then we'd...

It was a messy night inside and around Madison Square Garden. There was a fracas on the court and snow swirling outside, but the Clippers persevered for a 116-88 victory over the New York Knicks, improving to 1-1 on their five-game trip. Here are five takeaways from the game:

"Teenage Jesus and the Jerks: Live 1977-1979" contains 29 songs recorded in the mid-'70s. The music sounds like next week. ("Baby Doll" could easily be on the new Savages album, "Adore Life," give or take a few choices.) These recordings were not available until now.

As you crawl down 103rd Street looking for a parking space, tooling past the Jordan Downs projects and the Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary School, it is not hard to spot Locol, the new quick-serve restaurant that is trying to transform Watts one spicy noodle bowl at a time. There's the line,...

The art of quilting has always had a social component in the form of bees and other gatherings, and the Modern Quilt Guild's QuiltCon is carrying on this tradition.

More than half of the players committed to USC’s 2016 recruiting class have enrolled in spring semester courses.

The Lakers (9-36) visit the Portland Trail Blazers (19-26) for a 7:30 p.m. game Saturday night at the Moda Center in Portland, Ore.

In a surprising development on the recruiting front, Velus Jones, a receiver from Saraland, Ala., announced Friday that he had withdrawn his commitment to USC and instead would attend Oklahoma.

Orange County Sheriff’s deputies are searching for three inmates charged with violent crimes who escaped from a Santa Ana jail, authorities said Saturday.

A valuable perk handed to Southern California from the bullet train project — a 2012 decision to build the first operating segment from Burbank north into the Central Valley — is being reconsidered by state officials.

The scientists who brought you "Planet Nine" want you — and your giant fancy telescope — to help catch the mysterious world in action.

What's hot for 2016? Here's your guide.

From Old World materials through 1970s and '80s styles to 21st century breakthroughs. From brash colors to vibrant, even vibrating, patterns. From the boudoir to the bathroom.

Here are some of our favorite home ideas and resources — many by local designers...

Rain chains, or kusari-doi in Japanese, represent design's holiest of grails — a utility both functional and beautiful.

Think of a sound bath, practitioners say, as a massage or a meditation, with sounds washing over you and running through you, sometimes feeling too big for the room.

Goosebumps

Sony, $30.99; Blu-ray, $38.99/$45.99

Available on VOD on Tuesday

A pleasant surprise all around, the big-screen adaptation of R.L. Stine's juvenile horror series does a lot more with the franchise than it has to, using the books as the basis for a complex piece of meta-fiction, about...

A La Cañada Flintridge man suspected of attacking his wife and killing two of his nephews in their Arcadia home has been taken into custody by authorities in Hong Kong, according to reports.

A stolen car containing a 300-year-old cello was recovered Thursday after Glendale residents noticed it had been parked in their neighborhood for a long time and called police.

WRESTLING

CITY

DUAL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS

DIVISION I

Quarterfinals, Monday/Tuesday as noted

Eagle Rock at El Camino Real, Monday, 6 p.m.

Carson at San Fernando, Monday, 6:30 p.m.

Van Nuys at Birmingham, Monday, 6:30 p.m.

San Pedro at Palisades, Tuesday, 7 p.m.

DIVISION II

Quarterfinals, Monday/Tuesday...

Boys Basketball

ACADEMY LEAGUE

Crean Lutheran 72, Sage Hill 51

St. Margaret's 66, Downey Calvary Chapel 56

AMBASSADOR LEAGUE

Woodcrest Christian 72, Aquinas 20

BASELINE LEAGUE

Chino Hills 92, Damien 65

BAY LEAGUE

Morningside 70, Mira Costa 66

Peninsula 68, Inglewood 62

Redondo 77, Palos Verdes...

The Lakers (9-36) lost their fifth straight game, falling to the San Antonio Spurs (38-6) on Friday night.

Former professional boxer Mike Tyson has added a new trophy to his collection: A 10,401-square-foot mansion in the Las Vegas suburbs.

At 42, Mario Lopez has compiled a unique body of work.

He hosts a celebrity TV news show ("Extra") and daily syndicated radio show ("On With Mario.") His show business career began at age 10 and has included acting ("Saved by the Bell"), dancing ("Dancing With the Stars" and Fox's upcoming "Grease:...

The soft tapping on the door awakened me. It took me an instant to realize that I was not on the overnight train from Rishikesh with a towel wrapped around my face to keep out the stench of an overflowing toilet. And I didn't hear the irritating man in the compartment opposite who had spent the...

Pierre Jazraoui felt more than discouraged. He had visited almost 120 homes in four months, sometimes viewing six properties in a day with Jack Dagher, his real estate agent.