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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Riot Games, the publisher behind esports giant “League of Legends,” agreed to pay $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging pay disparity, gender discrimination and sexual harassment. The suit was filed in November 2018 after gaming website Kotaku published a story detailing a sexist culture at Los Angeles-based Riot Games

By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — No. 7 Ohio State and No. 10 Utah visited Disneyland on Monday to celebrate their appearance in the Rose Bowl. But other events in the buildup to Saturday’s game have been called off amid rising cases of COVID-19 in Southern California. Four bowl games this season

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area health clinic founded four decades ago to screen refugees from Southeast Asia is part of the U.S. effort to resettle tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan. Most of the technicians, nurses and assistants at the TB and Refugee Clinic

By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Severe weather sweeping parts of the U.S. has brought frigid temperatures to the Pacific Northwest and heavy snow to mountains in Northern California and Nevada. Across western Washington and Oregon officials and private groups opened emergency centers for people to find refuge as forecasters said the extreme

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police shot and wounded a man suspected of shooting a bike rider in a Southern California beach city. Authorities say officers responding to reports of gunfire Monday in Huntington Beach immediately located the suspect and tried to apprehend him. Police say the man ignored commands and an officer opened fire.

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Indianapolis Cots have placed five players on the COVID-19 list as the virus continues to work its way through NFL locker rooms, even with the vast majority of players in the league vaccinated. The Carolina Panthers sent all of their players home on Monday

By STEFANIE DAZIO and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Video released Monday shows Los Angeles police firing at a man suspected of assaulting customers last week at a clothing store, a shooting that also killed a 14-year-old girl who had been hiding in a dressing room and was struck by a bullet

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes completed a fourth day of deliberations Monday without reaching a verdict. Holmes is facing 11 criminal charges alleging that she duped investors and patients by hailing her company’s blood-testing technology as a medical

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — The red zone painted in North Carolina State red is in front of the San Diego Padres’ dugout. The end zone painted in UCLA’s blue and gold is in front of the left field wall. The No. 18 Wolfpack (9-3) and the Bruins (8-4) will

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors have filed a murder charge against a man suspected of killing a good Samaritan who tried to detain him after an attempted carjacking and burglary near Los Angeles. Joey Casias was among several residents of Covina who confronted a man who police said broke into a parked BMW and then

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Jimmy Garoppolo injured his right thumb in San Francisco’s loss at Tennessee last week and his status for the 49ers’ game this week is in doubt. Garoppolo missed practice Monday because of the injury suffered in the first half of last Thursday’s loss at Tennessee and coach Kyle

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes started its second week of deliberations Monday. Holmes faces 11 criminal charges alleging that she duped investors and patients by hailing her company’s blood-testing technology as a medical breakthrough when in actuality it

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — To Indianapolis Colts coach Frank Reich, it was just a matter of time before his team would be adding a few players to the NFL’s reserve/COVID-19 list. The Colts placed safety Jahleel Addae, cornerback T.J. Carrie, linebacker Malik Jefferson, running back Marlon Mack and tackle

By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Ohio State wide receiver Garrett Wilson is skipping the Rose Bowl to enter the NFL draft. Wilson made the announcement in a statement on Twitter at the same time the Buckeyes were at Disneyland to celebrate their game on New Year’s Day against Pac-12 champion Utah.

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — More than a dozen one-of-a-kind Hermes handbags with an estimated value of about $1 million were stolen in a smash-and-grab burglary from a boutique store in South Florida. The unique luxury bags were taken when the window where they were on display was smashed in the middle of the night

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Members of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission are defending their months of sometimes chaotic work. Barring successful court challenges, their maps will govern congressional and legislative elections for the next 10 years. The maps they formally presented to California’s top elections official Monday form new jigsaw

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — More than a dozen one-of-a-kind Hermes handbags with an estimated value of about $1 million were stolen in a smash-and-grab burglary from a boutique store in South Florida. The unique luxury bags were taken when the window where they were on display was smashed in the middle of the night

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles police chief has pledged to release video of a shooting where a 14-year-old girl was killed after officers fired on an assault suspect and a bullet went through a wall and struck the girl as she was in a clothing store dressing room.

ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a homicide suspect was killed and a Southern California police officer wounded during a shootout after an hourslong pursuit. They say 39-year-old Roberto Salgado was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at a hospital in Escondido early Monday morning. The officer was shot in the left side of his

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer Henry Aaron made history with one swing of his bat. A year later, Lee Elder made history with one swing of his driver. They both overcame racist threats to reach milestones that will always be part of sports lore. “Hammerin’ Hank” supplanted Babe Ruth at the top of baseball’s