AP California News

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — JuJu Watkins was so busy trying to help No. 7 Southern California extend its winning streak, the freshman sensation didn’t realize she had set a couple more records. Watkins scored 42 points in an 87-81 victory over 11th-ranked Colorado on Friday night for the Trojans’

By ERIC HE Associated Press STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — With the game tied late and a chance for Arizona to win on the road at No. 3 Stanford for the first time since 2001, Jada Williams got the ball off a dribble-handoff, went between the legs with a dribble and let it go. Her shot

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr agreed Friday to a two-year contract extension worth $35 million, according to two people with direct knowledge of the negotiations. The people spoke on condition of anonymity Friday night because Kerr hasn’t signed his new contract. ESPN first reported

By CLAY BAILEY Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Kawhi Leonard scored 24 points, Terance Mann had a season-high 23 points and 12 rebounds and the Los Angeles Clippers pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 101-95 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night. Paul George added 14 points for Los Angeles and

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dell Curry needed to work off some nerves, so he headed out for his typical three-mile pregame walk through San Francisco and grabbed a nice lunch, caught up with some friends and pondered a bit about the day ahead. For the first time, Curry had

MADERA, Calif. (AP) — Seven farmworkers traveling in a van and the driver of a pickup truck were killed Friday in a head-on crash in a farming area in central California, police said. The crash at 6:15 a.m. left the van almost completely crumpled among blooming almond trees near the town of Madera, about 25

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California socialite was found guilty Friday of murder and other charges in the hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers in a crosswalk more than three years ago. Authorities said Rebecca Grossman, wife of a prominent Los Angeles burn doctor, fatally struck Mark Iskander, 11, and brother Jacob, 8, while

By GENE JOHNSON and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A U.S. appeals court panel on Friday declined to delay Idaho’s scheduled execution next week of one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates. Thomas Creech was sentenced to death in 1983 for killing a fellow prison inmate, David Jensen, with a battery-filled

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California socialite found guilty of murder in 2020 hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers.

MADERA, Calif. (AP) — Eight men were killed Friday in a head-on crash in Central California near a farming area, police said. The California Highway Patrol said the crash happened early Friday near the town of Madera, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) outside Fresno. CHP Officer Javier Ruvalcaba told the Fresno Bee that seven of

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Christie’s was offered the chance to sell 13 pages of draft lyrics to the Eagles’ “Hotel California” in 2015, auction house executive Tom Lecky was “super excited.” But red flags started waving when seller Craig Inciardi said he had gotten them from a writer who

MADERA, Calif. (AP) — Eight people killed in head-on crash in Central California near farming area, police say.

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Receiver Demarcus Robinson has agreed to terms on a one-year, $5 million contract to return to the Los Angeles Rams, a person with knowledge of the deal tells The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Friday because Robinson has yet to sign

By GENE JOHNSON and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A U.S. appeals court panel on Friday declined to delay Idaho’s scheduled execution next week of one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates. Thomas Creech was sentenced to death in 1983 for killing a fellow prison inmate, David Jensen, with a battery-filled

By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer New York Mets owner Steve Cohen doesn’t anticipate a resolving Pete Alonso’s future with the team until after the season. The 29-year-old three-time All-Star is eligible for free agency after the World Series. He hired Scott Boras as an agent last fall and avoided arbitration last month by agreeing

By TY O’NEIL, JOHN LOCHER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Kayakers have been paddling in one of the driest places on Earth after a series of record rainstorms battered California’s Death Valley and replenished Lake Manly. Park Ranger Nichole Andler said Badwater Basin at Death Valley National Park,

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Undergraduate student workers at California State University voted to join a union to negotiate better pay, sick time, paid parking and other benefits with the university, creating the largest such union in the country, officials announced Friday. The California Public Employment Relations Board said 7,252

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Hundreds of migrants were dropped off Friday at a San Diego bus stop instead of at a reception center that had been serving as a staging area because it ran out of local funding sooner than expected, showing how even the largest city on the country’s

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United will have a three-game U.S. summer tour with matches in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Columbia, South Carolina. Organizers said it’s the first time the three Premier League soccer teams have played together in the United States. The series, called “Rivals in Red,” begins with Arsenal playing

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The explanation given for the source of 13 pages of drafts of lyrics to the Eagles’ “Hotel California” raised red flags to a prominent auction house, a former executive testified Friday at a criminal trial surrounding the handwritten pages. Former Christie’s manuscripts chief Tom Lecky was