Новости за 25.03.2016

Six points were on the table at the start of this week.

Two potential playoff opponents were on the menu and one lottery-bound team and the Kings came away empty-handed.

After clinching a playoff spot, the Kings have lost three consecutive games, culminating with Thursday's 4-1 defeat to Winnipeg....

Dodgers 5, Cleveland 5AT THE PLATE: A.J. Ellis tied the score in the top of the ninth with a safety squeeze to cap a three-run rally against Cleveland reliever Dan Otero. Trayce Thompson paced the offense earlier in the night, going two for four with an RBI double. Yasiel Puig also hit an RBI double....

Trailing by seven points with just a little more than two minutes left to play, the Clippers pulled out a much-needed victory Thursday night when J.J. Redick hit a jumper at the buzzer to defeat the Portland Trail Blazers, 96-94, at Staples Center.

In the world of professional baseball memorabilia, pedigree matters. A bat held by Yasiel Puig will always eclipse the value of one that merely carries his name.

Oklahoma's overall quickness, ball movement and outside shooting touch were the difference-makers in Thursday night's 77-63 win over Texas A&M in the NCAA West Regional semifinals in the Honda Center.

CIF STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Thursday

Boys' Div. I: Encino Crespi 68, Berkeley 53

Boys' Div. III: Manteca 60, Chino Hills Ayala 51

Boys' Div. V: Alameda St. Joseph Notre Dame 55, Playa del Rey St. Bernard 50

Girls' Div. I: Brea Olinda 64, Sacramento St. Francis 53

Girls' Div. III: San Francisco...

De'Anthony Melton has left the building, and Encino Crespi fans will never forget him.

The criminal trial of Paul Tanaka, a once-powerful figure in Los Angeles County policing, opened Thursday as the former undersheriff faces allegations that he deliberately thwarted an FBI investigation into jail abuses.

Grief, loss and love manifest themselves in metaphysical and mysterious ways in Guillaume Nicloux's "Valley of Love." Starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, the film is a reunion of sorts for the pair, who starred in Maurice Pialat's 1980 film "Loulou," especially since "Valley of Love"...

Projected starting defensive tackle Kenny Bigelow Jr. was carted off Howard Jones Field on Thursday during the USC's fifth spring practice.

Most biopics of musicians try to cover too much ground, telling artists' stories from birth to death while focusing more on their weaknesses than their work. In "Born to Be Blue," writer-director Robert Budreau doesn't shy away from jazz legend Chet Baker's addiction to heroin or his struggle to...

The questions about when Blake Griffin will return to play for the Clippers will be asked until he finally returns.

After a flight attendant allegedly tried to smuggle 70 pounds of cocaine through Los Angeles International Airport, authorities were unable to identify her until the next day even though her airline crew member’s badge had been scanned at a security checkpoint moments before she fled, federal officials...

Want to get from Los Angeles to Coachella Valley in less than an hour? Uber will take you — for $4,170 one way.

Kobe Bryant doesn't like the rule. Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski doesn't, either.

It's just about 100 days until the official start of summer. That means if you start dieting now and you lose a modest 2 pounds a week, you can hit the sand about 30 pounds lighter. Or maybe your goals have nothing to do with weight loss but instead achieving peak performance so you can crush your...

When in trouble, count on Brea Olinda to come through in girls' basketball.

In between attending two Los Angeles-area fundraisers, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton railed against the laxness of campaign finance laws on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

Tyler Skaggs went to catch one last glimpse of his idol Wednesday night.

Dodgers legend Maury Wills expects this to be his final spring as an instructor with the club, he told The Times on Thursday.

Earl Hamner Jr., the Virginia-born writer who created not only TV’s folksy, Depression-era family drama “The Waltons” but the California wine country prime-time soap opera “Falcon Crest,” died Thursday. He was 92.

SERIES

Sleepy Hollow An 18th century relationship between Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) and patriot-seamstress-spy Betsy Ross (Nikki Reed) is explored further. Nicole Beharie also stars with guest star Michael O'Keefe. 8 p.m. Fox

Grimm In the aftermath of a savage attack in the woods, Nick and Hank...

A West Coast teenager's coming-out narrative gets sidetracked by unexpected family secrets in "Take Me to the River," a confidently steered first-time feature from writer-director Matt Sobel. Oblique to a fault and buoyed by a persistent unease, the movie seems unconcerned with strained credibility...

After approving a controversial statement condemning anti-Semitism and other forms of bias, University of California regents plan to keep close tabs on how campuses respond to instances of intolerance. 

The owner of the Calexico home where authorities discovered a drug tunnel that stretched across the border into Mexico was arrested Thursday in Tucson and charged with drug trafficking and money laundering, federal prosecutors said.