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By MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Jurickson Profar hit a three-run homer, MacKenzie Gore struck out 10 over five innings and the San Diego Padres beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-5 Wednesday night. Gore (2-0) allowed a run on five hits as the Padres won for the seventh time in nine games. “He

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rob Kardashian testified Wednesday that he feared for his life on a night in 2016 when his then-fiancée Blac Chyna pointed a gun at his head, pulled a phone-charging cable around his neck and repeatedly hit him with a metal rod while under the influence

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A University of California, Berkeley student has been charged with threatening to shoot university staff members in an incident last week that led to an hourslong campus-wide lockdown, court documents obtained Wednesday showed. Lamar Bursey, 39, was charged Monday with two counts of felony criminal threats after he allegedly sent an

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a $300,000 lawsuit settlement for a man who lost part of a testicle after he was shot by a police projectile during a 2020 protest over the killing of George Floyd. The council approved a settlement of David Bond’s federal lawsuit alleging that

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Hits have been hard to come by for the Arizona Diamondbacks and probably will be all season, so they will need to find other ways to win games. Arizona certainly did against the Los Angeles Dodgers, winning with two hits a day after beating them with

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s one of the most recognizable outfits in American movie history, the blue-and-white checked gingham dress a young Judy Garland wore as Dorothy in the classic 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz.” For decades, one of the versions of the dress Garland wore in the movie

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of a woman killed when a 17-year-old driver crashed his father’s Lamborghini into her car in Los Angeles has reached an $18.85 million settlement in the case, attorneys announced Wednesday. Monique Munoz, 32, was on her way home from work at a hospital on Feb. 17, 2021, when the

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California’s gigantic water supplier has taken the unprecedented step of requiring about 6 million people to cut their outdoor watering to one day a week as an extended drought plagues the state following another dry winter. The board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A woman arrested in the kidnapping of a 3-month-old baby from his San Francisco Bay Area home is a friend of the family and was present when a man abducted the baby while his grandmother unloaded groceries, police said Wednesday. Yesenia Ramirez, 43, had driven the child and his grandmother

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Corey Gamble, a key witness for the Kardashians, insisted Wednesday that he saw Blac Chyna punch Rob Kardashian and whip him with a phone-charging cord, as Chyna’s lawyer tried to poke holes in his story. “I said that she attacked him,” Gamble, the longtime boyfriend

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and four others from out of state were named Wednesday as finalists to lead the UW-Madison flagship campus. UW-Madison Provost John Scholz was the only finalist from Wisconsin named by a special hiring committee. The others are Ann Cudd, University of Pittsburgh provost and

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System regents have released the names of five finalists for the open UW-Madison chancellor position. UW System Interim President Michael Falbo said Wednesday that a regents committee has picked Ann Cudd, University of Pittsburgh provost and philosophy professor; Marie Lynn Miranda, a Notre Dame statistics professor and

By BRIAN MELLEY and AMY TAXIN Associated Press ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Federal prosecutors announced a sweeping racketeering case Wednesday aimed at dismantling the leadership of the Mexican Mafia that controlled street gangs in part of Southern California. The indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court against three members of the group and 28 associates includes

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — At the first meeting of Walt Disney World’s private government since Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a measure to dissolve it next year, officials said Wednesday they were still confused about what the new legislation meant, even as some

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — May 27, 2016, was the day that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s marriage went from private misery to public, career-killing spectacle. Heard, who had just filed for divorce, arrived at a Los Angeles courthouse that day to seek a temporary restraining order, showing up with

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Max Comtois and Sonny Milano scored less than a minute apart in the second period and the Anaheim Ducks beat the San Jose Sharks 5-2 on Tuesday night. Trevor Zegras and Josh Mahura also scored and Zach Aston-Reese had an empty-netter for the Ducks,

MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Carlos Rodón had nine strikeouts in six sharp innings, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Oakland Athletics 8-2 on Tuesday night. Wilmer Flores homered and drove in four runs. Austin Slater also connected as the Giants won their first game back at Oracle Park following an

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban motorists from a popular road in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, making permanent a closure that started in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic when people needed space to exercise and distance socially. After a 12-hour meeting, the Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 for Mayor

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A locked-in Mike Trout and effective starting pitching is a difficult duo for any opponent to overcome when facing the Los Angeles Angels. Both are also huge reasons why the Halos have won three straight and are off to their best start since 2017. Trout