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Column: LeBron James and Lakers showcase blueprint for team’s late-season revival

LOS ANGELES — Through all of their losses and injuries and turnovers in their first 60-plus games, despite all of their mighty and embarrassing struggles to find their rhythm and identity and a sustainable defensive scheme, the Lakers insisted they had the personnel and the heart to turn around a…

Los Angeles Times · Mar 6, 2022

LeBron James scores 56 points, his most as a Laker, as L.A. defeats Golden State

LOS ANGELES — LeBron James stood outside the paint during the first quarter Saturday night at Staples Center, the Lakers’ season in as bad of a spot as it had been at any point, as he slumped over at his waist. His right arm dangled from his shoulder like cooked…

Los Angeles Times · Mar 6, 2022

LA coronavirus cases continue decline but hot spots remain

LOS ANGELES — Coronavirus transmission continues to decline in Los Angeles County after the months-long surge driven by the omicron variant, with the county health department on Saturday announcing just 1% of tests performed daily are coming back positive. But some hot spots remain, with outbreaks reported at multiple correctional…

Los Angeles Times · Mar 6, 2022

Tim Cowlishaw: Cowboys don’t have to copy Rams, but they should learn something from their success

DALLAS — It feels like ancient history now, the story of how Jerry and Stephen Jones almost came to blows in The Mansion at Turtle Creek in 1995 when the younger Jones realized his father was about to pay an exorbitant salary to pry Deion Sanders out of San Francisco.…

Tribune News Service · Mar 5, 2022

How Ezra Hendrickson went from the Caribbean to Chicago Fire coach — as told by his MLS and high school teammates

CHICAGO — Kokomo was nothing like the small village Ezra Hendrickson emigrated from when he was 13.

Chicago Tribune · Mar 5, 2022

Angela Davis on the power of protest: ‘We can’t do anything without optimism’

In 1972, the former Black Panther was facing the death penalty. Five decades after the campaign for her release went global, she still believes people are the ‘motors of history’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2022

Long Beach school pauses gender-neutral locker room proposal amid anti-transgender climate

LOS ANGELES — For nearly two years, they gathered research. They listened to students. And in the end, the administrators of the Long Beach Unified School District drew a clear conclusion: Now was the time for a new kind of locker room, one that would give all students privacy in…

Los Angeles Times · Mar 5, 2022

Helene Elliott: Why can't the miserable Lakers be more like the gutty Clippers?

LOS ANGELES — Here's a question that might never have come to mind before now but was entirely appropriate after the Lakers' defensive malfeasance stretched their losing streak to four games and their latest slide to 11 defeats in their last 14 games:

Los Angeles Times · Mar 4, 2022

In a rare move, Los Angeles ex-deputy is charged in 2019 fatal shooting

Andrew Lyons is facing voluntary manslaughter and assault charges for killing Ryan Twyman while he was in his car

The Guardian - US · Mar 4, 2022

Killer of Jacqueline Avant pleads guilty

Aariel Maynor pleaded guilty in the fatal shooting of Avant and the attempted murder of her security guard at her Beverly Hills home in December, Los Angeles County prosecutors said.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 4, 2022