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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Justin Herbert says he’s more concerned about rehabbing his left shoulder than a contract extension. The Los Angeles Chargers quarterback said during the team’s draft party on Thursday that he is hoping to be on the field for the team’s organized practices in less than

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s navy seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday heading to the U.S. amid wider tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program, the latest-such capture in a waterway crucial for global energy supplies. The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet identified

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury has awarded $10 million to the family of a man fatally shot by a Southern California sheriff’s sergeant who was trying to arrest him for attempting to attack people with a club and baseball bat seven years ago. The lawsuit filed by relatives of Clemente Najera-Aguirre accused Riverside

By BEN ROSS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alec Burleson and Paul DeJong homered, Miles Mikolas pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Francisco Giants 6-0 on Thursday to avoid a four-game sweep. “That’s what Cardinal baseball is supposed to look like there,” St. Louis manager Oliver Marmol

SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — An 11-year-old girl was shot and killed Wednesday in central California, police said. The Salinas Police Department says detectives “do not believe this was an intentional act” and there is no ongoing threat to the community. No arrests have been announced. Authorities were called to a home in Salinas on Wednesday

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard has a meniscus tear in his right knee, although his surgically repaired right ACL is intact. The team had said Leonard sustained a right knee sprain after playing in the first two games of the Clippers’ first-round loss to

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A woman who was molested for years by her stepfather has been awarded $2.28 billion by a California jury in a lawsuit that also implicated her mother and the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which both parents were active, her attorneys announced. The panel in Riverside County

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California approved Thursday a first-in-the-nation, ambitious rule limiting rail pollution to aggressively cut greenhouse gas emissions in the state’s latest move to establish itself as a global leader in the fight against climate change. The rule will ban locomotive engines more than 23 years

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Every day, locomotives pull rail cars filled with food, lumber, oil and other products through railyards near neighborhoods in Oakland, Commerce, San Bernadino and other California cities. They run on diesel, a more powerful fuel than gasoline, and burning all that diesel produces pollution

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Notre Dame transfer quarterback Tyler Buchner committed on Thursday to Alabama, where he will be reunited with former Fighting Irish offensive coordinator Tommy Rees. “Sometimes life brings opportunities that are beyond anything you can imagine and that is what has happened today,” Buchner said in a Twitter