There were so many breaking news stories on Thursday regarding the opening round of the Southern Section baseball playoffs that one story hardly is enough. Three No. 1 seeded teams -- Mater Dei in Division 1, Bonita in Division 3...

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On the second pitch in the bottom of the first inning on Thursday, Jake Bauers of Huntington Beach Marina sent the ball flying over the right-field fence against Norco. It was one of those moon shots seen at a big-league...

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Who would have thought that the son of Biff from the 1985 movie classic, “Back to the Future,” might become a high school pitching star? Tommy Wilson, a junior pitcher at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and the son of actor...

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San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has ordered the Children's Pool beach in La Jolla closed at night after viewing a surveillance video of people "harassing, taunting and causing stress" to mother seals and their pups on the beach under the...

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Dale Haney reminisces about presidential pooches over recent decades.

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Gardena Serra Coach Scott Altenberg got away for a brief vacation in Hawaii. Let's hope he told college football recruiters he was taking a break, because he has been taking calls nonstop about his players. Defensive back Adoree' Jackson is...

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If there's anything that the Christopher Guest-directed mockumentary "Best in Show" taught us, it's that the relationship between a dog and their human is complicated. With that in mind, when photographer Nicola Buck took this photo of a pink wi

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Pacific Coast Highway north of Santa Monica is open again after a landslide forced crews to close the northbound lanes while they cleared away the debris. The closure Thursday blocked northbound PCH traffic in Pacific Palisades between Temescal Canyon Roa

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The two Pasadena police officers who fatally shot unarmed Azusa college student Kendrec McDade during a robbery investigation one year ago acted “within departmental policy,” an internal review of the incident has determined. Findings of the Pasadena poli

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Last week these 57 United States. Now, Obama calls a professional journalist "Sweetie." Small gaffes?

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The Los Angeles Police Department is cracking down to try to avoid incidents that have marred previous Black Fridays. The department plans to deploy dozens of extra officers around the city Friday to make sure frantic shoppers don't get out...

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In baseball, the dogpile is what teams do after winning a championship, and even though it can lead to unfortunate injuries, a photo says it all about the thrill of victory. On Friday night, Crescenta Valley rallied in the seventh...

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San Fernando, the Valley Mission League champion with a 29-3 overall record, has received the No. 1 seed for the City Section Division I baseball playoffs. Cleveland is No. 2, Chatsworth No. 3 and Banning No. 4. City Section Division...

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Get ready for some interesting tales ahead about the St. John Bosco football team if Coach Jason Negro lets his 300-pound junior center, Elijah Zabludoff, continue to practice his writing and blocking skills. Zabludoff loves football and writing almost as

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Diamond Bar's golf team showed off its superior depth in winning the CIF-SS Ford Western Division championship on Monday at Sierra La Verne Country Club. All six players shot 78 or better, led by Jefferson Kao, who had a 69....

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It's the final week of the regular season in high school baseball, and lots of league championships are still on the line along with competition for playoff seeds. In the City Section, Narbonne and Banning are both 8-0 in the...

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There's still three games left in the Trinity League season, but Santa Ana Mater Dei has already clinched the championship after a 2-1 win over Orange Lutheran on Tuesday night. The Monarchs scored the winning run on an error in...

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