Новости за 01.03.2016

Jamal Crawford juked, Chris Paul orchestrated, Steve Ballmer dunked . . .Wait, what? It's true.There was a massive twist on the usual highlights Monday night at Staples Center. The Clippers might have become the first professional sports team to have its owner dunk as part of the halftime entertainment...

As newsworthy developments go, the introduction of Chuck the Condor as the new Clippers mascot Monday night felt like a distant second in a surreal halftime scene. The condor featuring a pink head, a blue beak and a gray body covered by a Clippers jersey jumped off a trampoline for a dunk. Pretty...

The chants rang out, rhythmic and impassioned, as more than 200 people marched Monday night from a public park in Anaheim that was the site of a bloody brawl over the weekend between Ku Klux Klan members and protesters.

It was supposed to be one of the wettest Februaries on record. Instead, by one measure at least, it became the hottest.

A federal judge sentenced the head of a defunct Southern California real estate investment firm to 14 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that lost as much as $169 million for hundreds of investors, the U.S. attorney's office said.

Tribune Media, which last year put the historic Times Mirror Square up for sale, may be looking to divest a lot more than its real estate holdings.

Packed stands at Hart Park in Orange on Monday night provided a hint about the baseball game taking place. It was No. 1 Huntington Beach taking on No. 2 Orange Lutheran, and fans knew the atmosphere was worthy of the talent on the field.

The Lakers lost all three games through Week 18, winning just 11 of their first 60 games.

Spanish-language media star Mario Kreutzberger -- better known to audiences as “Don Francisco" -- is returning to television.

Blame Chicago Blackhawks General Manager Stan Bowman for turning Monday's trade deadline into a dud, with a nod to Florida Panthers GM Dale Tallon for also getting a jump on the trade action and diminishing the drama of the final hours.

Angela Gui always heard from her father on her birthday, even as he was busy running a booming book publishing business in Hong Kong.

Was all the diversity talk at Sunday's Academy Awards lacking in, well, diversity? While Chris Rock earned high marks from many critics for his performance as host, some observers are unhappy with the comedian for focusing on Hollywood's black-white divide at the expense of other underrepresented...

Sportscaster Erin Andrews broke down in tears on the witness stand Monday as she described how a stalker secretly recorded her undressing at hotel rooms and posted the videos online.

Apple won the latest round in its battle with the U.S. government over accessing iPhones in criminal investigations on Monday when a federal judge said he would not force the technology company to assist in a drug probe.In a New York case that mirrors the legal wrangling unfolding over the FBI...

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NCIS Personal plans are interrupted when errors are found in what everyone had thought to be a straight-forward, closed case. 8 p.m. CBS

The Voice Blind auditions continue. 8 p.m. NBC

The Muppets The show concludes its season with two new episodes featuring guest stars Willie Nelson and...

Longtime Los Angeles radio disc jockey Charlie Tuna, who not only hosted the morning radio show for popular and influential station KHJ-AM in the late 1960s but also went on to be a key player in the launch of latter-day powerhouses KROQ-AM and KIIS-FM, has died. He was 71.Tuna, whose real name...

It's championship week in high school basketball, and the Southern Section is feeling pretty good about its lineup for Saturday at Honda Center that will feature the Open Division boys' final between the nation's No. 1-ranked team, Chino Hills (30-0), and Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (26-3) at 6:30...

Three minutes into the Galaxy's first competitive game of the new year, left back Ashley Cole flattened Santos Laguna's Diego Gonzalez with a kick to the stomach.

It could be one of the great injury stories in baseball history.

Huntington Beach shortstop Chad Minato, bound for Harvard, has been sidelined since December with a shoulder injury to his non-throwing arm.

Asked how it happened, Coach Benji Medure said Minato suffered the injury playing Monopoly.

When the Ku Klux Klan showed up in Anaheim on Saturday for a rally that turned violent even before it got started, a question on many lips might have been: The KKK still exists? Yes it does, such as it is -- a ragtag bunch of misfits so woefully out of tune with the times that its only hope of...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx did not mince words. 

The future of Los Angeles and the West “looks crowded,” he said, conjuring nightmarish images of gridlock in the minds of the hundreds of Angelenos.

But over the course of more than three hours Monday, transit experts, business executives...

Javy Guerra used the words "ignorance" and "stupidity" to describe his mind-set last July, when he was suspended for 50 games for a second positive test for a drug of abuse.

It was supposed to be one of the wettest Februaries on record. Instead, by one measure at least, it became the hottest on record.

What we learned from the past week in the NHL:

• Could 20 NHL teams be wrong?

At least that many teams reportedly pursued defenseman Justin Schultz when he became a free agent in 2012 after refusing to sign with the Ducks, who had drafted him 43rd in 2008. The Edmonton Oilers got him; then-General...

Culminating a prolonged, wonky debate that has consumed the Capitol for months, legislators on Monday approved a new tax on healthcare plans that would help finance the state's public healthcare program for the poor. The package of bills - which await Gov. Jerry Brown's signature - would overhaul...