Mayor Bass expands use of city’s land to build housing and break up RV encampments
Los Angeles Daily News
by City News Service
42m ago
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Thursday, March 28, expanded her policy to use publicly-owned land to build more housing faster and to address RV encampments by increasing the city’s capacity to tow, store and dismantle surrendered vehicles. “We are building on our progress and adapting our approach to bring more people inside, increase housing and save lives,” Bass said in a statement. “We will work closely with our public sector partners to build housing on underutilized lands to urgently confront the homelessness crisis.” According to Bass, through the changes to her Executive Directive No ..read more
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Dodgers’ big bats lead the way in home opener against Cardinals
Los Angeles Daily News
by Bill Plunkett
42m ago
LOS ANGELES — If the Dodgers are playing “checkbook baseball,” Miles Mikolas suffered the penalty for early withdrawal. The top three in the Dodgers’ lineup – Mookie Betts, Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman – combined for five hits, including two home runs, drove in four runs and scored six as the Dodgers beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-1, in their first game of the season on Thursday afternoon at Dodger Stadium. The Cardinals’ season-opening starter, Mikolas criticized the Dodgers’ big-spending ways this offseason as “checkbook baseball” and said he hoped the collection of “Midwestern farmers ..read more
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With fate of groundbreaking JPL Mars mission on line, Sens. Padilla, Butler amp up pressure on NASA
Los Angeles Daily News
by Collin Blinder
42m ago
California’s U.S. senators have now joined a chorus of area lawmakers in an effort to fully fund the Mars Sample Return mission in NASA’s fiscal year spending plan. If it’s not, they say billions in contracts and area jobs are at stake. In a letter to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Wednesday, Sens. Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler allocating the full $650 million necessary to fund the Mars Sample Return. The mission — planned jointly with the European Space Agency — proposes robotic systems to collect rocks, soil and atmosphere from Mars and send samples back Earth in the 2030s for study. T ..read more
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Angels blown out by Orioles on Opening Day
Los Angeles Daily News
by Jeff Fletcher
42m ago
BALTIMORE — After years of underachieving and then months in which they didn’t do enough to satisfy their fans that they were moving in the right direction, the Angels began the 2024 season by sending a message that things were going to be different. Then, the bottom of the first inning started. After Mike Trout’s homer put the Angels on the board in the top of the first, Patrick Sandoval failed to hold the lead for even three outs, sending the Angels on their way to an 11-3 Opening Day loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday. “We didn’t do a good job on the mound and we didn’t supply any of ..read more
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No sign that controversy is distracting Dodgers or Shohei Ohtani
Los Angeles Daily News
by Bill Plunkett
2h ago
LOS ANGELES — A big piece of the mythology surrounding Shohei Ohtani is his laser focus on baseball. Even apparent betrayal by a close friend, his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, and the gambling scandal surrounding it doesn’t seem to have rocked that focus. “He’s handled it with flying colors,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “I just don’t think it’s going to affect performance. I really don’t. I kind of touched on it the other day, just watching his engagement with his teammates the last handful of days. It’s been fun for me to watch. “But yeah, I don’t think it affects him.” Roberts sai ..read more
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UCLA dancing through March thanks to an unlikely but legendary source
Los Angeles Daily News
by Haley Sawyer
2h ago
UCLA royalty of all eras has adorned the seats of Pauley Pavilion throughout the women’s basketball team’s regular season and NCAA Tournament run. Basketball alumni like Jordin Canada, Earl Watson and Nina and Russell Westbrook have come out. Alyssia Brewer, Darxia Morris, Debbie Willie Haliday. Softball coach Kelly Inouye-Perez and countless current student-athletes. The list goes on. But one Bruin has come into the fold to unexpectedly impact the women’s basketball team this season: former UCLA gymnastics coach Valorie Kondos Field, known to most as Miss Val. “She knows how to bring the best ..read more
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Horse racing: Santa Anita Derby shapes up as intriguing
Los Angeles Daily News
by Kevin Modesti
3h ago
As Santa Anita prepares for the biggest race of its winter-spring season, the Santa Anita Derby a week from Saturday, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that horses don’t read the bad news. Undeterred by the burdens of us mere bipeds, an intriguing field of 3-year-olds will venture out of their stalls for the $750,000, Grade I race April 6. Nominations will be revealed Friday and the field will be set Wednesday. Trainer Bob Baffert is expected to choose two or three horses from among Imagination, Maymun, Wine Me Up, Wynstock and Coach Prime; he said Thursday he’ll know who he’s r ..read more
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Easter 2024: egg hunts and religious services in the Los Angeles area
Los Angeles Daily News
by Holly Andres
3h ago
  Easter services, including sunrise services, are scheduled for March 31, 2024. In the file photo: Kindred Community Church in Anaheim held an Easter sunrise service at the cross on the hill overlooking the 91 Freeway on Sunday, April 9, 2023. (Photo by Contributing Photographer/Michael Goulding)   Easter — March 31 this year — is the holiest day on the Christian calendar. The celebration of Easter is the culmination of Holy Week which began on March 24 with Palm Sunday. Depending on an individual church’s tradition, its congregation may hold services each day after Palm Sunday incl ..read more
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Horse racing notes: Big ‘Cap winner takes on the world
Los Angeles Daily News
by Kevin Modesti
3h ago
SANTA ANITA LEADERS (Through Thursday) Jockeys / Wins Juan Hernandez / 50 Flavien Prat / 42 Antonio Fresu / 40 Frankie Dettori / 28 Hector Berrios / 22 Trainers / Wins Doug O’Neill / 28 Mark Glatt / 25 Bob Baffert / 23 Phil D’Amato / 22 Steve Knapp / 20 UPCOMING STAKES AT SANTA ANITA Thursday, April 4 • $100,000, Grade III Wilshire Stakes, fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 1 mile on turf • $100,000 American Stakes, 4-year-olds and up, 1 mile on turf DOWN THE STRETCH • Newgate (Frankie Dettori riding) tries to top his win in the March 3 Santa Anita Handicap when he runs in the $12 million ..read more
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USC’s JuJu Watkins has become a ‘beacon of light’ for young fans
Los Angeles Daily News
by Luca Evans
3h ago
LOS ANGELES — For nearly two hours, 10-year-old Izzy Lao stands in anticipation, patient beyond her years. Her tiny arm wriggles through the metal guardrail set up outside the Galen Center, holding out a foam finger in the shape of a three symbol. Her eyes fixate on the glass doors on the south side of the arena. She waits for one woman to emerge, the bun-sporting 18-year-old rapidly changing life in Los Angeles. It is senior day at USC, and the postgame celebration runs long this Saturday afternoon, after a loss to Utah at a noon tip-off. Eventually, a security guard emerges — players will be ..read more
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