LOS ANGELES — Two days after her 27th birthday, Azurá Stevens, happily signed a free agent contract with the new-look Sparks, with her eyes set on the biggest role of her WNBA career. Stevens, who is entering her sixth season in the league, is excited about playing for her newContinue Reading
Anyone who has experienced turbulence aboard an airplane has likely looked out the window, wondering how the aircraft stays intact through the sometimes bone-rattling bumps. Tucked on a 15-acre complex in Anaheim’s industrial district is a company that helps to keep myriad plane parts from coming unglued. Solvay, a Brussels-basedContinue Reading
By Matthew Lee | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Monday was supposed to be a day of modest hope in the U.S.-China relationship. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was going to be in Beijing, meeting with President Xi Jinping in a high-stakes bid to ease ever-rising tensions between the world’s twoContinue Reading
By Anne D’Innocenzio | Associated Press NEW YORK — When the pandemic threat eased, Maureen Holohan was eager to scale back her online shopping and return to physical stores so she could more easily compare prices and scour ingredients on beauty and health care products for herself and her threeContinue Reading
Los Angeles County health officials reported 30 new COVID-19-related deaths from a three-day period that ended Monday, Feb. 6, along with 2,201 new cases. The new fatalities — 12 from Saturday, 10 from Sunday and eight from Monday — gave the county an overall COVID-19 death toll of 35,355. WithContinue Reading
Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now. The Granada Hills Charter girls basketball team received the No. 1 seed in the City Section’s Open Division playoffs, but the team won’t be able to host its opening-round playoff game Thursday night against San Fernando dueContinue Reading
LOS ANGELES — Two days after her 27th birthday, Azurá Stevens, happily signed a free agent contract with the new-look Sparks, with her eyes set on the biggest role of her WNBA career. Stevens, who is entering her sixth season in the league, is excited about playing for her newContinue Reading
Anyone who has experienced turbulence aboard an airplane has likely looked out the window, wondering how the aircraft stays intact through the sometimes bone-rattling bumps. Tucked on a 15-acre complex in Anaheim’s industrial district is a company that helps to keep myriad plane parts from coming unglued. Solvay, a Brussels-basedContinue Reading
By Matthew Lee | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Monday was supposed to be a day of modest hope in the U.S.-China relationship. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was going to be in Beijing, meeting with President Xi Jinping in a high-stakes bid to ease ever-rising tensions between the world’s twoContinue Reading
By Anne D’Innocenzio | Associated Press NEW YORK — When the pandemic threat eased, Maureen Holohan was eager to scale back her online shopping and return to physical stores so she could more easily compare prices and scour ingredients on beauty and health care products for herself and her threeContinue Reading
Los Angeles County health officials reported 30 new COVID-19-related deaths from a three-day period that ended Monday, Feb. 6, along with 2,201 new cases. The new fatalities — 12 from Saturday, 10 from Sunday and eight from Monday — gave the county an overall COVID-19 death toll of 35,355. WithContinue Reading
By Paul J. Weber and Acacia Coronado | Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Like thousands of other Austin residents, Darin Murphy began a sixth day Monday with no power in his home, wrapping his head around the city’s latest demoralizing update: Getting the lights fully back on may take anotherContinue Reading
Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now. The Granada Hills Charter girls basketball team received the No. 1 seed in the City Section’s Open Division playoffs, but the team won’t be able to host its opening-round playoff game Thursday night against San Fernando dueContinue Reading
EL SEGUNDO — One of the many things LeBron James said during an ESPN interview on Monday morning: He thinks the Lakers can compete for a championship as is. If so, the 38-year-old has a funny way of showing it. The more notable comment from his interview with ESPN’s MichaelContinue Reading
Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian believes that any redistricting commission for the city should be decided by Angelenos, not by state lawmakers who may not even live in the area. A resolution he introduced last week, stating council opposition to a proposed state bill that would do justContinue Reading
Eighty-one firefighters from an elite unit within Los Angeles County Fire Department, known as USA-2, packed their bags to get on a plane headed to Turkey as part of a massive relief effort in the wake of the massive earthquakes that struck Monday morning. L.A. County Fire Department Interim ChiefContinue Reading