Angel Reese leads Sky over Fever despite Caitlin Clark’s franchise-record 13 assists - Anaheim news - NewsLocker (2024)

CHICAGO (AP) — Angel Reese scored a career-high 25 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to help the Chicago Sky beat Indiana 88-87 despite 17 points and a franchise-record 13 assists for the Fever’s Caitlin Clark on Sunday.
Reese has posted a double-double in eight consecutive games, extending her WNBA rookie record. She is the first rookie since A’ja Wilson with 25-plus points and 15-plus rebounds in a single game. She joins Wilson as the only players in the WNBA this season with mu

2 men plead guilty to setting off illegal fireworks in Garden Grove in 2021, injuring 9 people

SANTA ANA — Two men pleaded guilty Wednesday and were immediately sentenced to time already served in jail for the detonation of illegal fireworks in Garden Grove three years ago that injured nine people, including 4- and 8-year-old brothers.
Frank Lazcano Lopez, 49, of Santa Ana, pleaded guilty to use of a destructive device causing bodily injury and dissuading a witness by force, both felonies, as well as a misdemeanor count of malicious damage to personal property. As part of the plea d

Vice President Kamala Harris fundraises in LA County’s Bradbury, a tiny town with big wallets

Vice President Kamala Harris swooped into the San Gabriel Valley on Wednesday night, June 26, attracting major campaign donors and supporters at a fundraising event hosted at a Bradbury mansion one day before the first presidential debate.Harris arrived at 6:43 p.m. to speak at the “Biden Victory Fund” fundraiser event hosted at the Bradbury home of Dr. Asif Mahmood, tucked away in an affluent gated community in the small San Gabriel Valley city.
Bradbury, a small city at the base of

Dodgers ride Gavin Stone’s shutout to complete sweep of White Sox

CHICAGO — Last weekend as the Dodgers were splitting a two-game series with the Angels, Manager Dave Roberts said he thought his team was poised to get on a roll heading into the All-Star break.
If that’s the case, teams like the Chicago White Sox could be the wind beneath their wings. In their last 24 games before this year’s break (on July 15), the Dodgers play just six games against teams with winning records (three each against the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillie

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NBA draft: Lakers select Tennessee’s Dalton Knecht with 1st-round pick

EL SEGUNDO — The Lakers selected Tennessee wing Dalton Knecht with the No. 17 pick in the NBA draft on Wednesday night.
The 6-foot-5 Knecht, 23, spent the last season with the Volunteers after playing at Northern Colorado (2021-23) and Northeastern Junior College (2019-21).
The 2023-24 SEC Player of the Year, Knecht averaged 21.7 points (45.8% shooting), 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 36 games with the Volunteers. He shot 39.7% from 3-point range on 6.5 attempts per game.
He is considered

NBA draft: Former Corona Centennial star Jared McCain picked 16th by 76ers

Two years after leading Corona Centennial High to a CIF Open Division state title, Jared McCain is headed to the Philadelphia 76ers after the team selected him 16th overall in the first round of the NBA draft on Wednesday night.
After a standout career at Centennial, where he was named the Gatorade California Player of the Year following his junior and senior seasons, McCain starred for one season at Duke.
McCain averaged 14.3 points, 5 rebounds, and 1.9 assists per game for the Blue Devils, ear

Disneyland simplifies Genie+ ride reservation system

A simple name change to the Genie+ ride reservation system will hopefully make the paid Disneyland front-of-the-line service a little easier to use and less confusing to understand.
Disneyland will drop the Disney Genie+ and Individual Lightning Lane names on July 24 in favor of Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Lightning Lane Single Pass.
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Bill Cobbs dies at 90; prolific character actor had roles in dozens of films, TV shows

By Jake Coyle | Associated Press
NEW YORK — Bill Cobbs, the veteran character actor who became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as an older man, has died. He was 90.
Cobbs died Tuesday at his home in the Inland Empire, California, surrounded by family and friends, his publicist Chuck I. Jones said. Natural causes is the likely cause of death, Jones said.
A Cleveland native, Cobbs acted in such films as “The Hudsucker Proxy,” “The Bodyguard” and “Night at

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‘Funk’ leads to more time off for Dodgers’ Will Smith

CHICAGO — The schedule has eased up on the Dodgers this week, offering them three off days in an eight-day span (through Monday).
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has given catcher Will Smith three more – last Wednesday in Colorado, Friday at home against the Angels and again Wednesday night in Chicago. Roberts at first characterized it as ‘load management’ for the team’s primary catcher but acknowledged Wednesday that there was more behind the down time now.
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NBA draft: France’s Zaccharie Risacher, Alex Sarr go 1-2 to Hawks, Wizards

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer
NEW YORK — The Atlanta Hawks took Zaccharie Risacher with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft on Wednesday night, the second straight year a player from France was the first player selected.
Risacher doesn’t come with the enormous height or hype of Victor Wembanyama, the towering center who went to San Antonio last year and went on to win the Rookie of the Year award.
But the Hawks saw him as the best choice in what has been viewed as a draft absent

Suni Lee: ‘Proving it to myself’

Gymnastics is a game of precise angles, six degrees of separation between Simone Biles and disaster.
Suni Lee has spent thousands and thousands of hours working to perfect a handful of gravity- and imagination-defying moments with the world watching.
The problem is no one told her what to do after she stuck the landing.
Lee was the most surprising winner of the Tokyo Olympic Games, capturing the all-around gold medal, arguably the most storied title in all of women’s sports, after overwhel

Olympic gymnastics champion Suni Lee: ‘Proving it to myself’

Gymnastics is a game of precise angles, six degrees of separation between Simone Biles and disaster.
Suni Lee has spent thousands and thousands of hours working to perfect a handful of gravity- and imagination-defying moments with the world watching.
The problem is no one told her what to do after she stuck the landing.
Lee was the most surprising winner of the Tokyo Olympic Games, capturing the all-around gold medal, arguably the most storied title in all of women’s sports, after overwhel

Six Flags-Cedar Fair merger won’t force sale of Magic Mountain or Knott’s Berry Farm

The U.S. Department of Justice won’t force the sale of Southern California rivals Six Flags Magic Mountain or Knott’s Berry Farm in approving the $8 billion merger of the two parent companies into a North American amusem*nt park juggernaut.
Six Flags and Cedar Fair have met the regulatory conditions and will be permitted to merge on Monday, July 1 following a review process by the Department of Justice, according to a joint statement issued by the companies on Wednesday, June 26.
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Santa Clarita swimmer Abbey Weitzeil qualifies for third Summer Olympics

By TIM HADDOCK
Swimmer Abbey Weitzeil from Santa Clarita is headed to the Olympics in Paris and preparing for her third Summer Games as a member of Team USA.
Weitzeil, who set national records while on the Saugus High School swim team 12 years ago, qualified for a spot on the women’s 400-meter freestyle relay team.
She has already won four Olympic medals — one gold, two silvers and one bronze — in two previous Summer Games. She won a gold medal as part of the medley relay team

Biden-Trump debate: Where and when to watch it

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are set to meet on Thursday, June 27, 2024, for the first of two debates planned for the 2024 General Election campaign.
The 90-minute debate is set to begin at 6 p.m. Pacific time on CNN, CNN Headline News and the streaming platform CNN Max. For non-subscribers, the debate will be available on CNN’s website.
There will be many more options for debate-watchers. That’s because CNN is offering its broadcast feed and live stream to o

Surfers Healing shares the stoke at Doheny State Beach

As the surfers glided on the ocean waves, smiles splashed across their faces and cheers filled the salty air on the sand as spectators watched in awe.
This was no ordinary surf session, but a “perfect day” to take kids on the autism spectrum out on the water. The gathering Wednesday, June 26, at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point was put on by nonprofit Surfers Healing.
Luca Caputo and his instructors head out through the surf break during a Surfers Healing event at Doheny State Beach

Santa Ana gets $25 million from feds for bridge project separating cars from rail crossing

Federal transportation officials on Wednesday announced Santa Ana will get a $25 million grant toward the construction of an underpass on Santa Ana Boulevard to separate the road from train tracks.
Officials say the bridge will make the roadway near downtown safer by separating cars from trains.
Santa Ana Boulevard’s six lanes currently cross with the tracks just to the north of the city’s train station and near the 5 Freeway, forcing commuters and pedestrians to wait for passing tra

NHL draft: What will the Kings do with their first-round pick?

The Kings maintained ownership of their first-round pick for the first time in three years, and they will need to make good on No. 21 overall if they expect to maximize a crop of players that presently projects to include just four prospects.
The Kings don’t possess a second-round, third-round or fifth-round pick in this year’s draft, leaving them with a selection on Day 1 on Friday and just one above the sixth round on Day 2 on Saturday. In a draft renowned for its scintillating, to

Angels take advantage of mistakes to complete sweep of A’s

ANAHEIM — A large Christmas tree sits outside Angel Stadium, a part of the team’s annual “Christmas in June” celebration.
Even though the promotions don’t begin until this weekend, the Oakland A’s brought the gifts early.
The Angels took advantage of a handful of gaffes to beat the last-place A’s, 5-2, on Wednesday afternoon, sweeping the three-game series.
The Angels (33-46) have been out of contention all season, but they are still six games ahead of t

Orange City Council to consider sales tax ballot measure at special meeting Friday

The Orange City Council will hold a special meeting Friday afternoon to decide whether to ask voters to approve adding a local sales tax – Friday is the deadline to add such a measure to November’s ballot, according to the city clerk.
The new fiscal year starts on Monday, and, after weeks of deliberation, the City Council finally signed off on a budget Tuesday. Still, the approved budget projects a roughly $8 million general fund deficit.
The shortfall remains even after officials ag

USC and Eric Musselman welcome Kevin Durant, James Harden for summer work

LOS ANGELES — He ambled into the Galen Center about as inconspicuously as his stature would allow, a knit beanie cozied atop his head and black compression tights tucked into his socks, and yet there was no mistaking Kevin Durant from his nearly seven-foot-frame.
As Eric Musselman led the USC men’s basketball team through a flurry of a summer workout Wednesday morning, Durant perched in the lower seats at Galen for a few moments, the Phoenix Suns star intently watching the Trojans&rs

Euro 2024: Georgia shocks Portugal to reach last 16

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany — Georgia pulled off one of the biggest upsets in European Championship history on Wednesday, beating Portugal 2-0 and advancing to the last 16.
The Georgians needed a win to reach the knockout stage at Euro 2024 and got their opening goal after only 93 seconds. Georges Mikautadze intercepted a poor pass and set up Khvicha Kvaratskelia to score with a low shot.
António Silva gave away the ball before the first goal and gave away a penalty for the second, tripp

Supreme Court seems set to allow emergency abortions in Idaho, a prematurely posted opinion says

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk, according to a copy of the opinion briefly posted on the court’s website Wednesday and obtained by Bloomberg News.
The document suggests the court will find that it should not have gotten involved in the case over Idaho’s strict abortion ban so quickly. By a 6-3 vote it would reinstate a lower court order that had a

Spark from tractor clearing grass ignited Corona fire, authorities say

The brush fire that burned several cars, a garage and 11 acres in Corona on Monday, June 24, was ignited when a person using a tractor to cut dry grass created a spark in the brush, the Corona Fire Department said on Wednesday, June 26.
The Fire Department will not seek any charges against the person because the fire was accidental, said Daniel Yonan, a department spokesman.
The fire was reported at 2:42 p.m. near Corona Avenue, with flames burning uphill in trees and bushes toward homes on Via

Hermosa Beach resident hosts Turner Classic Movie series in July

Tara McNamara’s career path as an entertainment journalist, reviewer and movie historian started with watching Turner Classic Movies with her son in the early 2000’s.
Cole McNamara was around 8 years old at the time when Tara McNamara felt there was not a lot of television children and parents could watch together. And, that’s where TCM came in. Many of the films on TCM were filmed post 1934, the years following the implementation of a production code, a precursor to the curren

McDonald’s says McPlant burger test in California, Dallas didn’t pan out

By Daniela Sirtori | Bloomberg
A test of McDonald’s McPlant burger in San Francisco and Dallas “was not successful in either market,” Joe Erlinger, the chain’s US chief, said at the Wall Street Journal’s Global Food Forum in Chicago. That test wrapped up in 2022, the company said following the remarks.
Erlinger reiterated that the burger chain’s diners don’t go to its restaurants for salads.
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Ducks’ new uniforms go orange and embrace ‘classic’ logo

While the “Mighty” not be back in their name, the Ducks went retro with a “brand evolution” that brings back the classic masked duck logo with a new, more expressive styling and no shortage of bright orange to enliven both the road and, particularly, the home sets.
“As our organization enters a new chapter of Anaheim Ducks hockey, we are proud to reveal our new, refreshed logo and uniform kit that identifies with the Orange County community,” Ducks owners Henr

Angels’ Ben Joyce uses new pitch to generate ground balls

ANAHEIM — Ben Joyce was in a jam Tuesday night, holding a two-run lead in the eighth inning with runners on the corners and one out.
The Angels right-hander had one thought in his mind though.
“I feel like I’m one pitch away in that situation,” Joyce said Wednesday.
That “one pitch” was his new sinker, which he used to get a ground ball. Shortstop Zach Neto fielded it by the bag and started a double play.
So far opponents have put 10 balls in play against Joyc

We rode America’s new tallest waterslide in Wisconsin Dells, and it was wild

Simon Peter Groebner | (TNS) Star Tribune
The new tallest waterslide in North America is dubbed the Rise of Icarus, after the mythical Greek guy who flew too close to the sun, then plummeted into the sea.
That was not lost on me as I sat alone at the top of the 145-foot tower, high above the commotion of the Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park and the treetops of the Wisconsin Dells region, mentally preparing to launch my body feet-first into a long, serpentine tunnel.
I had already climbed some

Bill advances that would make Google, Facebook pay news companies whose stories appear on sites

A bipartisan bill to make Google and Facebook pay news companies whose stories appear on their platforms to help the struggling media industry faced its first test in the state Senate Tuesday evening when it passed 9-2 out of the Judiciary Committee.
If approved by the Senate and signed into law, Google and Facebook either would have to agree to pay negotiated annual, lump-sum fees into a fund for news outlets, or be forced into mediation or arbitration to negotiate paying a share of their digit