Новости за 10.03.2016

Officially, the game, UCLA's season and probably USC's stint in NCAA tournament purgatory, ended at 8:08 p.m. Wednesday.

Sheltered beneath a white tent, they waited patiently at the edge of a sun-baked parking lot in Simi Valley.

Hillary Clinton's embattled status as the Democratic presidential front-runner, dented Tuesday by a surprise defeat in Michigan, faced new challenges Wednesday during a debate with Bernie Sanders that often delved into the vulnerabilities that have complicated her path to the nomination.

It's the year of the guard in high school basketball, and Wednesday night's double-overtime thriller between Fairfax and Eastvale Roosevelt on the opening night of the state playoffs only validated the quality and quantity of the guard play in Southern California this season.

UC Berkeley officials said Wednesday that the university's law school dean, Sujit Choudhry, will be taking an "indefinite leave of absence" after he was sued for sexual harassment by his former executive assistant.

CIF STATE BASKETBALL

BOYS

SOUTHERN REGIONAL

OPEN DIVISION

Regional quarterfinals, Friday, 7 p.m.

#8 Reedley Immanuel at #1 Chino Hills

#5 El Cajon Foothills Christian at #4 Santa Ana Mater Dei

#6 Los Angeles Westchester at #3 Torrance Bishop Montgomery

#7 San Diego Cathedral at #2 Chatsworth Sierra...

Community groups and environmentalists filed suit Wednesday over Southern California air quality regulators' adoption of oil industry-backed smog regulations, saying the measures are so weak they violate state law and will hurt public health.

Call it a breather, the nature of a rugged spot on the schedule, or a hiccup.“It's an excuse,” Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf said Wednesday, something he was in no mood to accept after the Colorado Avalanche beat the Ducks, 3-0, at Pepsi Center.The loss ends Anaheim's 12-0-2 run that dated to a Feb....

Belinda Bencic opened the email she received in late December from the World Anti-Doping Agency, aware that it contained the annual updates of banned substances and eager to remain current on the subject. "We all got a new email," said the Swiss teenager, who is ranked No. 7 in the Women's Tennis...

The opening night of the state basketball playoffs produced some thrillers.

Burroughs Coach Craig Sherwood used to be the top assistant to Crespi Coach Scott Muckey, who died over the weekend at age 63.

A Los Angeles Times photographer was arrested Wednesday in Simi Valley while transmitting photographs of former First Lady Nancy Reagan's funeral motorcade.

They slept tight and the bedbugs didn't bite. The Clippers wouldn't let them.

SERIES

60 Days In This new docu-series follows seven volunteers who agreed to go under cover as inmates in order to probe allegations of corruption at a county jail in Indiana. 9 p.m. A&E

Elementary In this new episode, Holmes and Watson (Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu) probe a case inspired by Arthur...

A Mexican man accused of killing five people in the Midwest this week was a convicted felon living in the U.S. illegally, and he had not been deported despite being arrested at least twice in recent years, federal officials said.

The secretive Skunk Works in Palmdale has over the years spawned such sleek aircraft as the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane and the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter.

A sprawling Central Valley water district run by some of the state's wealthiest growers papered over its drought-related financial struggles and misled investors, federal regulators said Wednesday.The Westlands Water District shifted about $8.3 million in expenses and other obligations to the revenue...

The pop-culture generator that is Bad Robot, the production company led by J.J. Abrams, has not been averse to mixing and matching genres over its history. This is the outfit, after all, that gave us “Lost” and “Alias.”But its creative free-for-all may have never been so willfully anarchic as in...

California State University trustees named two women to lead its Chico and Channel Islands campuses, paving the way for the nation’s largest university system to have more women serving as presidents than at any time in its history.

The two intoxicated women blasted music from a "boom box" on board the Spirit Airlines flight Wednesday morning from Baltimore to Los Angeles. When passengers complained, the loud-music lovers held the boom box in the air.

What confident trespassers, the works of Frances Trombly. Sculptures, weavings, installations -- they meander into all sorts of territory, straddling genre lines and tunneling through hierarchical divides. They make a quietly defiant case for the complex richness of multiplicity, simultaneity.

The Lakers wonder if Kevin Durant has been watching.

They hope Hassan Whiteside has taken notice. DeMar DeRozan too.

Few teams will have the salary cap space of the Lakers when free agency begins June 30, and you have to wonder who has seen their late little imprint on the 2015-16 season.

Beat...

Some students with disabilities in Los Angeles County are getting shortchanged by the bureaucracy that is supposed to ensure they receive a good education, according to a consultant’s report discussed on Tuesday.

A 51-year-old man was charged Wednesday with posing as a police officer, threatening three women with a handgun and sexually assaulting them, San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said.

Dennis O'Neill arrived at Keeneland's November breeding stock sale last year with several missions, but one in particular. There was a lightly raced 3-year-old colt with no graded stakes wins who looked as if he had a very good future.