Новости за 21.03.2016

There are things Zhang Feng likes about Japan: the service, the quality products, the immaculate restrooms, even in malls and highway rest stops. There are things she dislikes, such as sashimi and left-hand traffic.

To offset greenhouse gas emissions from the massive Porter Ranch leak, Southern California Gas Co. could pay to plug abandoned wells, install methane-gobbling digesters at dairy farms and help people buy more efficient furnaces and water heaters, state regulators say.

Welcome to California Inc., the weekly newsletter of the L.A. Times Business Section.

Say goodbye to productivity: There’s a seriously addictive game of basketball going on via Facebook messenger, complete with celebratory emojis every time you score.

Tilt an ear toward the East, and you can almost hear the chant emanating from the opposite seaboard: "A-C-C, A-C-C!"

A frustrated Danica Patrick walked away from a hard crash Sunday after her No. 10 Chevrolet collided with Kasey Kahne's No. 5 Chevy in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Fontana.

Angels 5, Texas 1

AT THE PLATE: Yunel Escobar doubled, singled and walked, raising his spring average to .486. …Daniel Nava hit a solo home run, his first of spring training. …Outfielders Kole Calhoun and Craig Gentry each doubled and singled. Calhoun also walked. …C.J. Cron doubled and walked...

The season has been a struggle, but the Lakers' last four games — all losses — ranked among the most difficult to watch.

Jered Weaver did not throw demonstrably harder Sunday than he has throughout this spring, but he felt better.

Playing two games in a 22-hour span left the Clippers with tired legs. It enticed them to continually take three-pointers instead of opting for more physically challenging drives to the basket.

For its musical Palm Sunday TV spectacular take on a Christian passion play – the theatrical retracing of the last days and hours in the life of Jesus – Fox, Dick Clark Productions' and "Glee" music producer Adam Anders, enlisted the city of New Orleans, Tyler Perry and a passel of pop songs and...

The directives were spelled out in red and black on a whiteboard inside the Clippers' locker room before the game.

Ranking the top 25 high school baseball teams in the Southland:

Rank, School (W-L), Comment (last week's ranking)

1 JSERRA (7-0) - Sidearmer Collin Quinn is off to great start (1)2 ORANGE LUTHERAN (8-1) - Pitching depth is superior (2)3 SHERMAN OAKS NOTRE DAME (7-0) - Three-game series with Harvard-Westlake...

1. JSERRA (7-0); Sidearmer Collin Quinn is off to great start; 1 2. ORANGE LUTHERAN (8-1); Pitching depth is superior; 2 3. SHERMAN OAKS NOTRE DAME (7-0); Three-game series with Harvard-Westlake; 3 4. REDONDO (8-0); Top of the lineup is very good; 13 5. BONITA (7-0); Let’s see who can beat A.J....

UCLA basketball Coach Steve Alford apologized for a season he called “unacceptable” and announced in a letter to fans Sunday evening that he would return a previous one-year contract extension.

Only on Fox could viewers be introduced to a trendy Jesus who picks up loaves of bread for the Last Supper from a food truck before launching into a performance of Creed's "With Arms Wide Open."

According to Raymond Moore, chief executive of Indian Wells Tennis Garden, Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams should have taken a position other than at the baseline in the women's final of the BNP Paribas Open.

Novak Djokovic arrived at the BNP Paribas Open a day and a half later than he had planned and in a state of exhaustion, the result of a busy schedule that included playing for Serbia in the Davis Cup, and his concern about an eye injury that forced him to retire from a tournament in Dubai last...

There are moments in Southern California prep sports history that people never forget.

Nine days after he sprained his left knee, Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager took the field for a light workout with his teammates Sunday morning at Camelback Ranch.

If the venue Apple chooses for its product announcements is any indicator of the magnitude of the products themselves, the gadgets unveiled Monday will be modest, at least by Apple standards.

When Apple in 2014 released its largest-ever iPhones — the 6 and 6 Plus — it followed a trend set by Samsung and other Android phone-makers.

A Los Angeles County Jail inmate died early Sunday, shortly after fellow inmates reported that he was having a seizure.

This was the opposite of 2012 when the Kings cut it oh-so-close, making the playoffs on April 5.

Jakob Silfverberg scored with 58.6 seconds left in overtime to help the Anaheim Ducks open a five-game trip with a 3-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday.