TORONTO — Walker Buehler could take over the Triple-A Oklahoma City team lead in starts next week. The Dodgers have decided that Buehler needs one more rehab start before he is ready to join their starting rotation. Manager Dave Roberts said Buehler will start for OKC again on Tuesday – his sixth rehab start, fifth with OKC. Currently, no one has made more than four starts for OKC. Buehler has a 4.95 ERA in his first five rehab starts (including one two-inning outing with Class-A Rancho Cucamonga) with 19 hits and nine walks in 16⅔ innings. But the Dodgers’ concern is more about the length of ..read more

A student was arrested after he was accused of threatening to “shoot up” the Rose City High School graduation, authorities said on Friday, April 26. An 18-year-old male student is in police custody after he told a friend he was planning to commit the violence at the graduation ceremony, Pasadena Police spokesperson Monica Cuellar said. Cuellar said a search warrant was executed at the student’s home on April 8 after police were made aware of his threat over spring break. She said no gun was found. The student, who had been hospitalized since March, has been charged with a felony count of makin ..read more

HERMOSA BEACH — The Rams were not satisfied with one member of the Florida State defense after selecting Jared Verse in the first round on Thursday. To open the second day of the NFL draft, the Rams traded up to take Seminole defensive tackle Braden Fiske with the 39th overall pick in the second round. To move up 13 spots from No. 52, the Rams traded a 2024 fifth-round pick (No. 155) and their 2025 second-round selection to the Carolina Panthers. Fiske, 24, is a 6-foot-4, 292-pound prospect who started his career at Western Michigan before transferring to Florida State for his senior seas ..read more

The Stagecoach Country Music Festival is back at the Empire Polo Club in Indio and its first day included some unusual weather for the three-day event, with high winds and cooler temperatures. Festivalgoers often experience hot and dry weather throughout the weekend. The South Coast Air Quality Management District issued a windblown dust advisory on Thursday. The report warns that gusty winds are expected to cause periods of elevated particle pollution levels in the San Gorgonio Pass area and the Coachella Valley through Friday night. The strongest wind gusts could reach up to 40 to 60 miles p ..read more

COSTA MESA — The Chargers got their wide receiver, after all. They traded up to select wide receiver Ladd McConkey out of the University of Georgia with the 34th selection in the NFL draft on Friday, swapping two picks with the New England Patriots. The Chargers got the 34th and 137th selections and sent the Patriots the 37th and 110th picks. McConkey will be a key addition to a thin wide receiver corps that lost veterans Keenan Allen and Mike Williams as salary cap casualties last month. Allen, who set a franchise record for receptions in the 2023 season, was traded to the Chicago Bears. Will ..read more

By Josh Funk and Heather Hollingsworth | Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday afternoon, damaging hundreds of homes and other structures as the twister tore for miles along farmland and into subdivisions. Injuries were reported but it wasn’t yet clear if anyone was killed in the storm. Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska but the most destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into suburbs northwest of Omaha, a city of 485,000 people. Photos on social media showed heavily damaged homes and shredded trees. Video showed homes ..read more

Pasadena’s 15th postmaster raised his right hand to take the Oath of Office on Friday. Silven Zimmerman, a veteran of the postal service for 24 years, officially assumed his new role during a special ceremony that unfolded within the historic walls of the Pasadena Post Office, which was built in 1913. Guests look on during a swearing in ceremony for Pasadena’s 15th postmaster, Silven P. Zimmerman, April 26, 2024.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer) Silven P. Zimmerman talks with guests after being sworn in as new Postmaster in Pasadena April 26, 2024.(Photo by Andy Holzma ..read more

EL SEGUNDO — Even though the details in each game of the first-round playoff series between the Lakers and the Denver Nuggets differ slightly, the bigger picture feels the same. The Lakers start strong with defensive intensity and pace in both the halfcourt and in transition, helping them get out to first-quarter leads and have an advantage at halftime. But then the Nuggets come roaring back en route to a victory. It happened in Game 1, a 114-103 Nuggets victory last weekend in Denver in which the Lakers led by 12 points in the second quarter and three at halftime before getting outscored 32-1 ..read more

From the music to the fans, here’s everything we say during Day 1 of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Friday, April 26. Riley Accurso, of San Diego, line dances at Diplo’s Honkytonk during the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., on Friday, April 26, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Contributing Photographer) The L.A. Wranglers Dance Troupe performs at Diplo’s Honkytonk during the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., on Friday, April 26, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer ..read more

LOS ANGELES – As she watched proudly from the sidelines in Las Vegas in March, tears and confetti and hugs melding together on the postgame hardwood in one post-Pac-12-championship mishmash, JuJu Watkins’ mother Sari offered a definitive take on the coach who’d brought USC here. “I think Lindsay (Gottlieb),” Sari Watkins pondered, “is the best coach in the NCAA. Because she gives herself space to grow, and her approach is very open – in the development process between her and the player.” And USC is continuing to bet on that growth from Gottlieb, a coach who’s both honed the finer details and ..read more