When Troy Thomas returned for his second stint as football coach at Anaheim Servite last season, one of the smartest moves he made was hiring Darnell Arceneaux as offensive coordinator. He coached quarterback Marcus Mariota at Honolulu Saint Louis and was entrusted with recharging the Friars’ offense.

“He’s a perfect match for the kids,” Thomas said.

Servite is making real strides, particularly on offense. With sophomore quarterback Noah Fifita passing for 265 yards and four touchdowns, the Friars (5-3, 1-2) moved into position to claim third place in the Trinity League after a 34-21 victory over San Juan Capistrano JSerra on Thursday night.

“This was a big win for our program,” Thomas said.

Servite had played No. 1 Santa Ana Mater Dei and No. 2 Bellflower St. John Bosco in the last two weeks. The Friars didn’t regress — they got better. They came up with two interceptions and recovered a fumbled punt to inflict a crushing defeat on the Lions (5-3, 1-2). One of the most impressive players continues to be 6-foot-4 sophomore receiver Tetairoa McMillan. He had 10 receptions for 74 yards and one touchdown, a one-handed catch in the end zone. Colleges will be lining up to recruit him because of his athleticism and hands.

“He’s very good and is only going to get bigger and stronger,” Thomas said.

Servite put together a more than six-minute drive in the fourth quarter that finished with a Kyle Bandy 26-yard touchdown reception after JSerra had pulled within 28-21 on a one-yard touchdown run by General Booty.

As Servite’s offense gains attention, Arceneaux is going to gain quite a following but he seems happy at Servite.

“I love it man,” he said. “It reminds me a lot of Saint Louis. I’m doing God’s work. I’ve changed a lot in the way I coached.”

Said McMillan: “He’s amazing. His play calling is diverse. He tries to create different opportunities for all of us.”

Servite took a 28-14 halftime after a one-yard touchdown run by Fifita on fourth and goal with seven seconds left. Fifita had touchdown passes of 21 yards to Zedakiah Centers, two yards to McMillan and three yards to Damien Moun.

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Once down 14-0, JSerra briefly tied the game on a 74-yard touchdown run by Sammy Green and a blocked punt by New Zealand Williams that turned into a touchdown by Max Carvalho.

About the only major issue for Servite continues to be special teams. The Friars gave up a blocked punt that led to a touchdown, missed an extra point and short field goal.

But the progress being made is real.

VANCOUVER, Canada — 

Eight hours before the Clippers played their final preseason game Thursday, guard Patrick Beverley jumped out of a courtside seat and jogged into shootaround.

“Last one!” he yelled. “Let’s be great!”

For much of their last tune-up before Tuesday’s regular-season opener, his team was anything but.

They needed six minutes and 26 seconds to make their first field goal, and made just one of their first 11 three-pointers, dooming the Clippers from the start of a 102-87 loss to Dallas at Rogers Arena that was played without several key contributors.

“We got four or five days to get right,” coach Doc Rivers said.

Montrezl Harrell scored a team-high 14 points, Kawhi Leonard added 13 in his first game in Canada since leading Toronto to June’s NBA championship, and Jerome Robinson and Patrick Patterson each scored 12. Dallas received a superb performance from Kristaps Porzingis (18 points, 13 rebounds), who personally added to the Clippers’ early shooting struggles by blocking or altering three consecutive shots at the rim.

The crowd loved that sequence, but they undoubtedly came to see Leonard. If there were any lingering disappointment from his decision to sign with Los Angeles in July’s free agency, it was not apparent in the warm, loud reception he earned during his pregame introduction. Cheers from a sold-out crowd of 17,204 spontaneously burst from pockets of the crowd whenever Leonard was passed the ball.

“It was great just to be back,” said Leonard, who played 22 minutes. “Just going around in the summer time, even after me signing with the Clippers, Canadians came up to me that are in America or vice versa when I was out there and they said ‘thank you’ for everything I’d done. Very nice people.”

One week after showing off his skills as a distributor in his Clippers debut, he concentrated his efforts on his shooting, making five of his 19 field goal attempts.

His performance was not without its highlights — the most vivid coming more than halfway through the third quarter. Leonard stripped the dribble of Dallas second-year star guard Luka Doncic and followed with a circus assist to Patrick Patterson for a transition dunk.

“It was awesome to see him in Canada and everybody gave him a warm welcome,” rookie guard Terance Mann said.

Before tipoff, Rivers made clear he did not see Thursday as a litmus test for his team’s readiness ahead of the opener against the Lakers, saying the team’s accumulated practice time since the opening day of training camp on Sept. 30 was more telling than any one preseason game.

With that in mind, Rivers rested Beverley, a regular starter, and bench spark plug Lou Williams, and was without two-way forward Amir Coffey, guard Rodney McGruder — who each nursed ankle injuries — and forward Paul George, whose surgically repaired shoulders continue to heal.

The absences made his lineups, particularly in the backcourt, resemble nothing like those that are expected to face the Lakers, Warriors and Suns in the season’s first week — let alone challenge for the Western Conference title in May, as league executives believe. A survey of NBA general managers, published by the league hours before tipoff, found that 46% believed the Clippers would win the 2020 NBA title.

Still, even if the Mavericks matchup was not an indication of the Clippers’ long-range potential, it was a performance that was mostly difficult to watch.

By the time Leonard made his team’s first field goal, a tough runner in the lane, more than half the first quarter had passed and Dallas led, 13-3. The Mavericks’ margin widened to as much as 22 points before taking a 20-point halftime lead. Maurice Harkless missed all but one of his seven attempts, and knock-down shooter Landry Shamet continued a preseason in which his shots have largely misfired to an unexpected degree.

Shamet, who made the fourth-most three-pointers by a rookie in NBA history last season, scored five points on 2-of-10 shooting. He made 5 of his 30 three-point attempts all preseason.

“Different guys playing with different guys,” Rivers said of the shooting struggles as a whole, shrugging off any concerns. “Just missed shots.”

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Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome to our horse racing newsletter as a lot has happened since we last visited.

Let’s get right to the news … and other stuff.

Hollendorfer loses in L.A. court

Hall of fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer had his request for a temporary restraining order turned down by L.A. Super Court judge Mary Strobel. If granted, it would have allowed Hollendorfer to race at Santa Anita. He lost a similar request to race at Golden Gate Fields. A San Diego court did give him a restraining order, which allowed him to run horses at Del Mar.

Drew Couto, Hollendorfer’s attorney, said he would likely file for a preliminary injunction which, if successful, allow Hollendorfer to run during Santa Anita’s Winter/Spring meet, which starts Dec. 26.

Hollendorfer was banned from all Stronach Group tracks, which include Santa Anita and Golden Gate Fields, after six horses—four at Santa Anita and two at Golden Gate—died under his care this year.

Hollendorfer, The Stronach Group and the California Thoroughbred Trainers have met to try and reach some sort of accord, but, so far, nothing has changed.

“You pick a circuit outside of TSG, and he’s being recruited to set up his base of operations there,” Couto said.

“After Jerry won the TRO [in San Diego] he stood in front of the press and said ‘If there is something I can do differently, I’m all ears. I’m listening and I’ll embrace. He made that same representation to Santa Anita. He said, ‘If there is something I can do differently, I will.’ So far, they have told him nothing.”

It’s still unknown if Hollendorfer will be allowed to run in the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita on Nov. 1-2.

“The Breeders’ Cup does not comment on the status of potential 2019 world championship entries,” Breeders’ Cup spokesman Jim Gluckson said.

Emtech had previous drug positive

Emtech, the 3-year-old colt who became Santa Anita’s first racing fatality of this meeting, had tested positive for a painkiller about a month before his death.

The California Horse Racing Board fined trainer Steve Knapp $1,500 earlier this week after Emtech had about 430 ng of Phenylbutazone, a commonly used pain killer and anti-inflammatory, in his system. The CHRB eliminated its threshold of 2000 ng in the spring for race-day medication.

The test was required after the colt finished second in a race at Del Mar on Aug. 28. Emtech also raced at Los Alamitos, and won, on Sept. 14 before his fatal injury on Sept. 28.

A screening panel, set up to evaluate the fitness of horses before they race, knew about the positive for “bute” and the horse’s history.

“Dr. [Tim] Grande is the official veterinarian on the panel and an examining veterinarian,” said Dr. Rick Arthur, chief equine medical director for the CHRB. “He had interviewed Knapp and discussed Emtech’s Del Mar NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory) violation as part of standard process prior to Emtech’s race on Sept. 28.”

It was Emtech’s sixth race. He won his first race, a claimer, but it was voided when the vet found him unsound and he was put on the Veterinarian’s List. He failed a subsequent workout and was taken off the track. Six months later he was removed from the list after a five-furlong workout. Emtech ran his first three races for Simon Callaghan and last three for Knapp.

Omaha Beach to the BC Mile

Omaha Beach, the Kentucky Derby favorite until he was scratched, will be running in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile. Trainer Richard Mandella made the decision everyone expected.

“We put our heads together and that’s the decision,” Mandella told Ed Golden of Santa Anita.”

Omaha Beach looked very sharp when he won the Grade 1 Santa Anita Sprint Championship on Oct. 5. It was his first race in about six months, since he won the Arkansas Derby.

We would ask what the Breeders’ Cup thought of his decision but as we learned: “The Breeders’ Cup does not comment on the status of potential 2019 world championship entries.” (And, if you don’t think you’ll see that quote resurface a few times in the next few weeks, then you are not a regular reader of this newsletter.)

And in other Omaha Beach news, horseracingnation.com reported that the plan is the colt will run in the Dec. 26 Malibu Stakes and Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 25 before heading to the breeding shed at Spendthrift Farm.

Where in the world is Tim Ritvo?

We doubt it will be as popular as that Carmen San Diego game, but let’s play Where in the World is Tim Ritvo?

When last we checked in with the COO of The Stronach Group, he was in Paris along with TSG president Mike Rogers. That’s where Rogers, after somewhat blaming the media for coverage of the deaths at Santa Anita on the Ron Flatter Racing Pod (listen here), made the unfortunate comment that if you throw out the cluster of deaths, (you can just throw them out like they never happened?) Santa Anita’s numbers were “no worse than it’s been the last 10 years.” (read here)

Sorry, off topic, Ritvo and Rogers were in France “recruiting” horses for the Pegasus in January at Gulfstream Park. Guess they had already locked up Omaha Beach while stateside.

Well, to everyone’s surprise there was a national TV sighting of Ritvo on Tuesday night in the front row, slightly to the right of home plate if viewed from the pitcher’s mound, at the Nationals-Cardinals clinching game. Did I mention front row? Man, he must have hit a mandatory payout on the Rainbow 6 to get those tickets.

We look forward to the next chapter.

Who goofed, I’ve got to know?

Me, who else? On Sunday, in one of those rare feel-good moods, I made it seem as if Glendora Girl Scout Troop raised $3,300 for CARMA, the horse aftercare program. I also said Santa Anita did an almost match of another $3,000. In fact, the Girl Scouts did present a check for that amount, but they raised $300 and it totaled $3,300 after Santa Anita’s contribution. But, if the Girl Scouts did not get the ball rolling, the extra $3,000 would have not come, perhaps. So, let’s give all the credit to the Girl Scouts, and no credit to me for my inability to read a news release correctly.

Santa Anita preview

The three-day racing week starts on Friday with eight races starting at 1 p.m. There are two turf races and I think you can declare that Santa Anita is protecting its turf course like a mother bear protects her cubs, no doubt saving it for the Breeders’ Cup. Let’s look at what the rail on the turf course has been set at:

Thursday, Oct. 10—30 feet

Friday, Oct. 11—30 feet

Saturday, Oct. 12—20 feet

Sunday,Oct. 13—10 feet

Monday, Oct. 14—30 feet

Friday, Oct. 18—30 feet

When the rail is at 30 feet, it’s almost as if there are two turf courses. Now, with all that said, if I were Santa Anita I would do the exact same thing. You want that turf course to sparkle when the Breeders’ Cup comes to town.

OK, back to Friday. The feature is the sixth race, 5 ½ furlong allowance/optional claimer on the turf for 3-year-olds running for a $51,000 purse. The favorite, at 9-5, is Carnivorous for trainer Doug O’Neill and jockey Abel Cedillo, who picks up the ride from the suspended Mario Gutierrez. He is three-for-nine this year and won two allowance races at Del Mar. He was fifth last out in an allowance.

Tiger Dad is the second favorite at 2-1 for Carla Gaines and Victor Espinoza. He was won two of four this year, including an allowance at Del Mar. He was third last out in an allowance.

Here are the field sizes, in order: 5, 6, 7, 8, 7, 7, 7, 8.

Ciaran Thornton’s SA pick of the day

RACE ONE: No. 1 Mongolian Legend (4-1)

Mongolian Legend is 4-1 and I am hoping for higher but we have won so much betting on Enebish Ganbat/Abel Cedillo on these Mongolian horses that this still represents good value. Racing protected Friday we see a sharp workout for this race and we have a major jockey upgrade as well. Top speed in the race and best late pace this is a very tempting value play single against some mediocre favorites. This horse should be the favorite which is why its my value play Friday.

Monday’s result: Asaro broke nicely and tracked in 3rd place and looked ready to make a move going into the turn but something happened and the horse pulled back and was eased to last place.

Ciaran Thornton is the handicapper for Californiapick4.com, which offers daily full card picks, longshots of the day, best bets of the day.

Golden Gate weekend preview

We resume our weekly look at the best racing going on at Golden Gate Fields. As with the last meeting, we’re delighted to have race caller and all-around good guy Matt Dinerman as our host for previews and other musings. So, take it away, Matt.

“The Golden Gate Fields Fall Meet began Thursday with seven races. The fall meet runs 36 racing days this year and concludes on Sunday, Dec. 15. We’ve got eight additional races Friday, 10 more on Saturday and another 10 on Sunday. First post each day is 12:45 p.m. with three exceptions: Thanksgiving (11:15 a.m.), Breeders Cup Friday (12:05 p.m.) and Breeders Cup Saturday (11:40 a.m.).

“We have nine stakes races during the nine-week season. The feature race of the meeting is Nov. 30: the Grade 3, $100,000 Berkeley Handicap for 3-year-olds and up going 1 1/16 miles. The Joseph T. Grace Stakes on turf for 3-year-olds and up, has been added and will be run for the first time on Nov. 2. Four of the nine-stakes races are for 2-year-olds: the Pike Place Dancer (Oct. 26) for fillies on turf, the Golden Nugget (Nov. 9), the Golden Gate Debutante (Nov. 29) for fillies and the Gold Rush Stakes (Dec. 7). The best sprinters in Northern California will meet on Nov. 16 in the Oakland Stakes while fillies and mares go on closing weekend in the Dec. 14 Bear Fan Stakes and the Dec. 15 Miss America Stakes on grass.

“Race three on Friday goes as Leg D of the $100,000 guaranteed Stronach 5 wager. A field of 10 maiden $25,000 claimers are race six furlongs. The morning-line favorite is No. 10 Cajun Bettor (5-2), who cuts back in distance and gets to sprinting after a poor effort going two-turns on the turf. He has run well at this level before and figures to be a major player if he can duplicate his best effort. My top pick is a mild price on the morning line, 6-1 shot Columbian Crusader, who makes his second career start after a five-length loss against maiden special weight company.

“A few interesting races on Saturday: a 12-horse maiden special weight for California bred 2-year-old fillies (race eighth) and a duo of allowance races: one for 2-year-olds (race six) and the other for older fillies and mares routing on the turf (race nine). The former race is a possible springboard for the Golden Nugget Stakes. Summer meet leading trainer Jonathan Wong has the likely favorite in Nov. 6 No Longer Silent, coming into this race fresh off a terrific effort on closing week of the summer meet. Maiden special weight winner No. 5 Foreign Protocol and undefeated No. 4 Little John are two other contenders.

“The Sunday program features a full field of California-bred maiden special weight 2-year-olds in race nine and a pair of allowance races (six and eight) on the turf. The eighth race has a field of 10 routing and one of the probable favorites is Give Me The Lute, claimed out of Del Mar by trainer Andy Mathis for $80,000. He makes his first start for Mathis.”

Los Alamitos weekend preview

It’s time to turn things over to marketing and meda guru Orlando Gutierrez, who will tell us about the upcoming weekend at Los Alamitos. Orlando, the floor is yours.

“It’s a big weekend of quarter-horse racing with the trials to the Grade 1, $1,009,650 Los Alamitos Super Derby scheduled for Saturday night and the trials to the Grade 1, $1,072,850 Golden State Million Futurity on Sunday evening.

“Racing begins with an eight-race card on Friday with first post at 7 p.m. It will feature the return of jockey Oscar Peinado, who has been out nearly 15 months with neck and back injuries. Peinado will ride Famous Foose in the seventh race. At the time of his injury in July, 2018, Peinado was among the leading riders, having won 25 quarter-horse races and the winners of over $303,000 during the meet. In his career, Peinado has 258 winners from 2,397 mounts.

“Grade 1 stakes winners Flash And Roll, Powerful Favorite and Tequila Sangria will be among the 33 sophomores that will race in Saturday’s trials to the $1 million Super Derby. The 400-yard trials are races five through eight. The horses with the 10 fastest times will advance to the Super Derby on Nov. 10. First post for the eight-race card is 6:05 p.m.

“Scott Bryant’s AQHA champion filly Flash And Roll will be in the opening trial in race five. She’ll face Heritage Place Derby winner Apollitical Pence and PCQHRA Breeders Derby third-place finisher Transcend. Flash And Roll, Apollitical Pence, and Transcend were in last year’s Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity, one of four races that Flash And Roll won during her undefeated 2018 campaign at Los Alamitos. Flash And Roll was named the overall AQHA 2-year-old champion and the champion 2-year-old filly.

“The second Super Derby trial will see Tequila Sangria, who defeated aged mares to win the Grade 1 Mildred Vessels Memorial Handicap on Sept. 22, facing top 3-year-old geldings Chocolatito, the runner-up in the Breeders Derby on Oct. 4, and Favorite Motion, the third-place finisher in the Golden State Derby on Aug. 18. The third trial is a wide open event led by Lethal Lil, third in last year’s Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity and winner of the $100,000 Mr Jess Perry Stakes at Ruidoso Downs.

“The final trial is likely between two of the best 3-year-olds in the nation. Powerful Favorite is six for six this year, including wins in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Derby, Grade 3 El Primero Del Año Derby, and Governor’s Cup Derby. Jess Macho Corona arrives at Los Alamitos after running second in the All-American Derby.

“A total of 72 quarter horses are in the nine trials to the Golden State Million Futurity on Sunday night. The hopefuls include Geothermal, the runner-up in the Ed Burke Million Futurity on June 23, and Runforyourlife and Cattail Cove, the second- and third-place finishers in the Governor’s Cup Futurity on July 27. The Golden State Million final is set for November 3.

“Rewinding to Sunday night, BH Lisas Boy won his 11^th career stakes race at Los Alamitos after outdueling 2018 champion aged stallion Tarzanito in the $125,000 Robert Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship. The win gave BH Lisas Boy a berth to the Dec. 14, $600,000 Champion of Champions, which is the only Grade 1 race for older horses that the 7-year-old gelding has not won at Los Alamitos.”

Ed Burgart’s LA pick of the day

SIXTH RACE: No. 1 Roxy Runs (5-2)

Filly has improved with each of her three starts and galloped out well in last third-place try vs. winner dropping down from a maiden $10,000 claimer. La Vita Dolce, the 9-5 morning-line favorite, is very quick from the gate but is winless in eight tries and doesn’t finish a race as strong as she starts.

Final thought

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Now, the star of the show, Friday’s entries.

Santa Anita Entries for Friday, October 18.

Santa Anita, Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California. 13th day of a 23-day meet.

FIRST RACE.

1 Mile. Purse: $50,000. Maiden Special Weight. 3 year olds and up.

SECOND RACE.

1 Mile. Purse: $21,000. Maiden Claiming. 2 year olds. Claiming Price $30,000.

THIRD RACE.

6½ Furlongs. Purse: $36,000. Claiming. 3 year olds. Claiming Price $40,000.

FOURTH RACE.

6 Furlongs. Purse: $28,000. Maiden Claiming. 2 year olds. Claiming Price $50,000.

FIFTH RACE.

5½ Furlongs. Purse: $28,000. Maiden Claiming. Fillies. 2 year olds. Claiming Price $50,000. State bred.

SIXTH RACE.

5½ Furlongs Turf. Purse: $51,000. Allowance Optional Claiming. 3 year olds. Claiming Price $80,000.

SEVENTH RACE.

1 Mile. Purse: $30,000. Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $35,000.

EIGHTH RACE.

5½ Furlongs Turf. Purse: $29,000. Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $25,000.

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Los Angeles police are investigating a homicide that took place downtown inside the upscale Watermarke Tower on Thursday night, authorities said.

The victim was a man in his 40s, according to preliminary information provided by LAPD.

Police could not comment further on the cause of death and offered few other details, citing the ongoing investigation, according to Josh Rubenstein, the department’s chief spokesman.

The incident took place sometime Thursday night, Rubenstein said.

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Watermarke Tower is a 35-story luxury high-rise in downtown L.A. near the Staples Center, according to its website. It has apartments ranging in price from $2,680 to more than $13,000.

Times staff writer Jaclyn Cosgrove contributed to this report.

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A body was found wrapped in a tarp in the trunk of a car Thursday near Gypsum Canyon Road in Anaheim.

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The Anaheim Police Department launched an investigation after receiving a suspicious-circumstances call, according to the agency.

KTLA-TV Channel 5 reported that the California Highway Patrol notified police about 10:45 a.m. about a suspicious car parked on Santa Ana Canyon Road, west of Gypsum Canyon Road, near the junction for state highways 91 and 241.

Detectives and forensics personnel were busy throughout the afternoon working the area as a crime scene. About 6:30 p.m., detectives finished processing the outside scene, and the car was towed to the coroner’s office for processing.

Later in the evening, authorities confirmed that they had discovered a body, and anyone with information about the incident was encouraged to contact authorities.

A magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported Thursday evening at 10:34 p.m., six miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake occurred 34 miles from California City, 63 miles from Tehachapi and 66 miles from Barstow.

In the past 10 days, there have been two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.

An average of 234 earthquakes with magnitudes between 3.0 and 4.0 occur per year in California and Nevada, according to a recent three year data sample.

The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.9 miles. Did you feel this earthquake? Consider reporting what you felt to the USGS.

Even if you didn’t feel this small earthquake, you never know when the Big One is going to strike. Ready yourself by following our five-step earthquake preparedness guide and building your own emergency kit.

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This story was automatically generated by Quakebot, a computer application that monitors the latest earthquakes detected by the USGS. A Times editor reviewed the post before it was published. If you’re interested in learning more about the system, visit our list of frequently asked questions.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Oct. 18, and I’m writing from Los Angeles.

Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which shook Northern California as Game 3 of the World Series was about to begin at Candlestick Park. The devastating quake killed at least 63 people and hospitalized hundreds. The shaking collapsed a portion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and flattened a double-decker section of Interstate 880 in Oakland.

The anniversary comes amid a week of earthquake headlines, beginning with the magnitude 4.5 quake that rattled the Bay Area late Monday night. The ground shook again in Northern and Central California on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the governor’s office announced that a statewide earthquake early warning app was, at long last, ready. The app was unveiled on Thursday, as Great ShakeOut drills took place across the state. Thursday also brought news that a major California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake had begun moving for the first time on record, a result of this year’s Ridgecrest earthquake sequence destabilizing nearby faults. And, as if on cue, there was a magnitude 3.8 quake near Ridgecrest on Thursday night and a magnitude 3.7 quake centered in Compton shortly after midnight.

So, amid the nonstop earthquake notifications, we’re interested to learn more about whether you’ve been feeling (or have ever felt) earthquake anxiety. How does it manifest? What do you do to cope? Shoot us an email and we’ll share some of the responses in a future newsletter.

And now, here’s what’s happening across California:

TOP STORIES

More on that newly active fault: The 160-mile-long Garlock fault is on the northern edge of the Mojave Desert. It has never been observed to produce either a strong earthquake or even to creep in the modern historical record. But new satellite radar images now show that the fault has started to move, causing a bulging of land that can be viewed from space. Los Angeles Times

A wind-driven 443-acre brush fire burning west of Santa Barbara prompted evacuations and a short closure of a section of the 101 Freeway. Los Angeles Times

L.A. STORIES

Light rail to Long Beach will reopen soon — but it won’t be called the Blue Line. We will now be expected to refer to it as the A Line, although the route will still be shown in blue on system maps. Los Angeles Times

Ed Buck, who has now been federally charged in connection with the overdose deaths of two men, was known for his abrasive behavior. But politicians still took his money. Los Angeles Times

See also: All the California politicians who took money from Ed Buck

The advice column answer that doubles as a thoughtful, lyrical meditation on living in L.A.: The advice-seeker moved to L.A., got her dream job in a TV writers’ room and is still miserable. “Ask Polly,” the advice-giver, responds with some wonderfully woven, unlikely truths about the Angeleno psyche. The Cut

How Los Angeles replaced New York as the NBA’s media capital: With the Lakers’ and the Clippers’ superstar-stacked rosters, L.A. has pulled the league’s center of gravity westward. The Ringer

In college football, UCLA’s losing streak against Stanford is finally over. The Bruins snapped an 11-game losing streak against the Cardinal that was their longest against any team in their 100 years of football. Los Angeles Times

An initiative to name a square in Tujunga-Sunland after Armenian American author William Saroyan has not been met with open arms by everyone in the community. There’s controversy between local residents who have claimed the initiative will overshadow the corner’s existing historical significance and those who believe the opposition is grounded in ethnic discrimination. Glendale News-Press

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IMMIGRATION AND THE BORDER

A San Bruno mother kept in ICE detention and denied bail for several months even after winning her asylum case earlier this year was freed Wednesday. San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Fresno has a new, full-time police chief. For the next year, anyway. Fresno Bee

CRIME AND COURTS

A Stockton woman who livestreamed a deadly crash was arrested again after another crash, police say. Merced Sun-Star

Two Los Angeles police officers face criminal charges over an off-duty incident at a restaurant last October. Los Angeles Times

HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

At least 25 students in the Coachella Valley were sickened by smoke from a dump fire that began on Monday. Federal authorities have since ordered the closure of the recycling center in question, which has seen a number of fires. Desert Sun

How Loma Prieta changed earthquake science: What happened in the days, months and years after Oct. 17, 1989, rewrote our understanding of how the ground moves and what we need to do to stay safe. KQED

CALIFORNIA CULTURE

Cheating, protests and outrage have upended the otherwise buttoned-up world of pharmacy in California. California officials have invalidated more than 1,000 pharmacists’ test scores because of cheating on a state exam, a move that has caused an uproar among pharmacists who say they have lost wages and job opportunities as a result. Los Angeles Times

The seminal San Franciscan designer experiencing an unlikely surge of attention at 91: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, who is primarily associated with the pioneering supergraphics she designed for Northern California’s Sea Ranch, is the subject of two new shows. Architectural Digest

Marin City was historically an African American enclave, but the African American population there has since dwindled to less than 30%. Oshalla Diana Marcus, a third-generation Marin City native, launched a membership-based arts collective to build community and provide support networks for African American artists with Marin City ties. Marin Independent Journal

How bad teeth and a lack of dental care can lead to discrimination and poverty: A deeply reported look at the challenges Medi-Cal patients face to getting adequate dental care, and the devastating consequences. Fresno Bee

A Napa synagogue celebrates the history and contributions of Jewish vintners. “There have been Jewish vintners since the early days.” Napa Valley Register

Weedmaps abruptly laid off a quarter of its workforce, two months after the online cannabis directory promised it would stop listing illicit marijuana businesses. Orange County Register

CALIFORNIA ALMANAC

Los Angeles: sunny, 78. San Diego: sunny, 74. San Francisco: partly sunny, 65. San Jose: partly sunny, 70. Sacramento: sunny, 74. More weather is here.

AND FINALLY

Today’s California memory comes from Bob Crittenden:

“We were driving north from San Diego in the early 1950s to spend the weekend with our immigrant Scottish aunts and a cousin who all retired from the textile industry and lived in South Central L.A. in a very small cottage. It was Friday night and we were driving north on the one lane each way 101, winding by a long line of headlights heading to San Diego and Tijuana and driving by the mission at San Juan Capistrano — and the next day walking around Aunt Emma’s neighborhood on a cool — almost foggy — L.A. morning.”

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SERIES

Hawaii Five-0 McGarrett’s (Alex O’Loughlin) team enlists imprisoned hacker Aaron Wright (Joey Lawrence) to help when a young girl is kidnapped in this new episode of the police drama. 8 p.m. CBS

The Blacklist Aram (Amir Arison) goes undercover to infiltrate a secret society of wealthy thrill-seekers who entertain themselves with spectacular acts of violence. James Spader and Megan Boone also star. 8 p.m. NBC

Charmed Macy (Madeleine Mantock) tries making sense of some very intense dreams, while Mel and Maggie (Melonie Diaz, Sarah Jeffery) struggle to accept their new roles in this new episode. 8 p.m. The CW

American Housewife Greg (Diedrich Bader) hosts a meeting of the Westport Historical Guild, and Katie’s (Katy Mixon) homemade lasagna is a hit. 8 p.m. ABC

Fresh Off the Boat Eddie finally introduces his girlfriend (Isabel Oliver Marcus) to his mom (Constance Wu) in this new episode of the family comedy. 8:30 p.m. ABC

Magnum P.I. Katsumoto (Tim Kang) suspects one of his fellow cops is dirty and has stolen evidence, so he asks Magnum and Higgins (Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks) for help in this new episode. 9 p.m. CBS

Dynasty Blake and Fallon (Grant Show, Elizabeth Gillies) face legal troubles in this new episode of the prime-time soap. 9 p.m. The CW

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20/20 “The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story,” a new episode of the news magazine series, documents the story of the actress and Playboy Playmate whose estranged husband killed her before killing himself. 9 p.m. ABC

Great Performances The new episode “Grammy Salute to Music Legends” is a tribute concert to the 2019 nominees and includes performances by George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Johnny Mathis, Dionne Warwick, Garth Brooks, Snoop Dogg, Patti Austin, Sheila E., Sam Moore and Julio Iglesias. 9 p.m. KOCE

Blue Bloods After the terminally ill wife of a friend, FBI agent Wilson Ortega (guest star Emiliano Dez), dies under circumstances ruled mysterious, Frank (Tom Selleck) takes a personal interest in Jamie’s (Will Estes) investigation in this new episode. Also, Erin’s (Bridget Moynahan) desire to work on more meaningful cases lands her a robbery that looks impossible to solve, while Danny and Baez (Donnie Wahlberg, Marisa Ramirez) get to the shocking truth behind a baffling assault claim. 10 p.m. CBS

Van Helsing Axel (Jonathan Scarfe) reconciles with Vanessa (Kelly Overton) in this new episode. 10 p.m. Syfy

Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… A new season of this comedy series launches with back-to-back episodes. First up is Jaboukie Young-White, a gay comic viewers may recognize from his appearances as a correspondent on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah.” In the second episode, comic and writer Vanessa Gonzalez takes the stage. 11 and 11:30 p.m. Comedy Central

MOVIES

Uncle Drew Pro basketball star Kyrie Irving takes his character from a series of Pepsi Max TV commercials to the big screen in this 2018 sports comedy, in which he is joined by former NBA players Shaquille O’Neal, Chris Webber, Reggie Miller and Nate Robinson. Lil Rel Howery, Erica Ash, J.B. Smoove, Mike Epps, Tiffany Haddish and Nick Kroll also star. 8 p.m. Cinemax

Sid & Judy Never-before-heard recordings by Judy Garland are incorporated into this new documentary from filmmaker Stephen Kijak about the singer’s stormy marriage to Sid Luft, her third husband and father of her children Sid and Lorna Luft. The film, narrated by Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh, chronicles the couple’s turbulent relationship, revealing how Garland’s vulnerabilities were exploited by the Hollywood film industry. 8:05 p.m. Showtime

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning Author Simon Sinek. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today A copper mine planned in Alaska; Angie Mar. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA

Good Morning America Leslie Mann; Sally McKenney, Wendy Kou and Julia Smith; Jon Pardi performs. (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. Megan Hilty (“Patsy & Loretta”); the Motels perform; Grae Drake. (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Live With Kelly and Ryan Michelle Pfeiffer; Julie Andrews (“Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years”). (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View Victoria Beckham; Common performs. (N) 10 a.m. KABC

Rachael Ray Gretta Monahan opens up about her battle with breast cancer. (N) 10 a.m. KTTV

The Wendy Williams Show Jeremy Parsons, People Now. (N) 11 a.m. KTTV

The Talk Regina King. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

The Dr. Oz Show Women share their skin-care secrets to look younger; what to know about retinol. (N) 1 p.m. KTTV

The Kelly Clarkson Show Sara Gilbert; Cyndi Lauper. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC

Dr. Phil A woman dies during a “Brazilian butt lift”; K. Michelle (“Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood”). (N) 3 p.m. KCBS

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Helen Mirren (“Catherine the Great”); Jenna Dewan (“Gracefully You”); guest host Sean Hayes. (N) 3 p.m. KNBC

The Real Gary Owen; Pam Grier. (N) 3 p.m. KTTV

The Doctors Visit to nail salon sends woman to hospital; company founders embrace integrative work lives. (N) 3 p.m. KCOP

The Wendy Williams Show The judges from “Hot Bench”; Eddie Jackson (“Game Day Eats”). 4 p.m. KCOP

The Real Joy Ann Reid; Tank performs. 5 p.m. KCOP

Washington Week Cease-fire in northern Syria; the impeachment inquiry; President Trump’s support from Republicans: Ashley Parker, the Washington Post; Jeff Mason, Reuters; Susan Davis, NPR; Vivian Salama, the Wall Street Journal. (N) 7 p.m. KOCE

Real Time With Bill Maher Former national security advisor Susan Rice; Neil deGrasse Tyson; Danielle Pletka, NBC; Sam Stein, Daily Beast; author Thomas Chatterton Williams. (N) 10 and 11:30 p.m. HBO

The Issue Is: Elex Michaelson Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin); Tomi Lahren, Fox Nation; civil-rights attorney Areva Martin. (N) 10:30 p.m. KTTV

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Taylor Swift; Chris O’Dowd; Angel Olsen performs. 11:34 p.m. KNBC

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Hillary Rodham Clinton; Chelsea Clinton; Wilco performs. 11:35 p.m. KCBS

Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tyler Perry; Sunny Hostin; Gina Brillon. 11:35 p.m. KABC

Amanpour and Company (N) midnight KCET; 1 a.m. KLCS

The Late Late Show With James Corden Orlando Bloom; Yvonne Strahovski; O-Town performs. 12:37 a.m. KCBS

Late Night With Seth Meyers Anna Kendrick, Kal Penn and Edi Patterson. 12:37 a.m. KNBC

Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC

A Little Late With Lilly Singh America Ferrera. 1:38 a.m. KNBC

SPORTS

NBA Preseason Basketball The New Orleans Pelicans visit the New York Knicks, 5 p.m. TNT; the Lakers visit the Golden State Warriors, 7:30 p.m. SportsNet

NHL Hockey The Ducks host the Carolina Hurricanes, 7 p.m. FS Prime

Customized TV listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes

‘Eli’

In the supernatural thriller “Eli,” Charlie Shotwell plays an 11-year-old suffering from a mysterious disorder which causes his flesh and innards to flare up painfully when he’s exposed to non-sterile environments. Eli’s desperate parents (Kelly Reilly and Max Martini) bring him to a risk-taking doctor, Isabella Horn (Lili Taylor), who detains him in a spooky “clean house” in the middle of nowhere.

As is often the case with these situations, the cure ends up being worse than the disease. Eli’s condition improves, but Dr. Horn’s treatments are excruciating, and her Gothic mansion seems to have literal ghosts lurking around every corner. The only good part of Eli’s day is when a neighbor girl, Haley (Sadie Sink), wanders by and talks to him through the institution’s big windows.

“Eli” was directed by Ciarán Foy, who made the similarly character-driven thriller “Citadel,” about an agoraphobe confronting his fears. This time, though, Foy’s working with a team-written screenplay that takes too long to get to the point. The movie kills too much time with atmospherics and insinuations before finally answering its two big questions: What’s wrong with Eli?; and, what’s the deal with this crazy house?

Foy’s cast is excellent, and he stages everything artfully, using foggy glass and deep shadows to trick the eye. “Eli” has a strong payoff too with a memorably intense final 15 minutes.

But that roaring finish feels like it should come much earlier in the picture. The story ends just when it’s finally going somewhere.

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‘Miss Virginia’

Uzo Aduba gives a fine performance in the otherwise flat “Miss Virginia,” playing real-life education advocate Virginia Walden Ford. The film follows Walden Ford’s early 2000s grassroots campaign, aimed at giving children in Washington, D.C., the opportunity to attend the best schools in their area, rather than being forced by zoning to suffer in failing, crime-ridden institutions.

The school voucher issue is fairly controversial, but “Miss Virginia” screenwriter Erin O’Connor and director R.J. Daniel Hanna have turned it into simplistic and preachy melodrama, with several broadly drawn villains — including do-nothing politicians and predatory drug-dealers — lined up against the heroine and the maverick congressman (Matthew Modine) she sways to her cause.

Aduba’s impassioned speeches about fairness and opportunity are undeniably moving. But the spotlight the film attempts to shine on a complicated subject ends up being blinding, obliterating all nuance.

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‘Trick’

A combination police procedural and slasher film, “Trick” is notable mainly for how many old horror movie ideas it crams into a single feature. It’s almost as though writer-director Patrick Lussier and his co-writer, Todd Farmer, were trying to make their “Halloween” and “Halloween II” all at once — plus the third, fourth and fifth installments too.

Set in a small upstate New York town, “Trick” is named for a pumpkin-masked monster who keeps returning every Halloween, ever since a houseful of high schoolers got hacked to bits in 2015. Omar Epps plays a police detective who, alongside a local sheriff (played by Ellen Adair), tries to get to the bottom of the mystery before more people die.

Lussier and Farmer fill their film with set-pieces: a daring hospital escape, an elaborate death-trap for the cops, a carnival-style “haunted maze” populated by potential murderers and so on. Some work fairly well; others are too preposterous.

One whopper of a plot-twist briefly gives “Trick” an original hook. But by the end of the picture it’s clear the filmmakers aren’t really interested in exploring any of the potentially interesting sociopolitical implications of their big surprise. In the same “instant franchise” spirit that infests this whole project, they’re just setting up a sequel.

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‘3 From Hell’

Rob Zombie’s “House of 1000 Corpses” and “The Devil’s Rejects” were jolting when they arrived in multiplexes in 2003 and 2005. At a time when mainstream horror films were becoming increasingly machine-tooled, Zombie’s return to ’70s drive-in nastiness felt vital, as a reminder that some of the best thrillers make audiences uncomfortable, forcing them to think about what they’re watching — and why.

“3 from Hell” — the belated third entry in Zombie’s “Firefly trilogy” — isn’t as essential. The saga of a thrill-killing family who drive decent people to unspeakable violence reached a natural end with “The Devil’s Rejects,” and there’s not much more to say with the characters of Otis B. Driftwood (Bill Moseley) and Baby Firefly (Sheri Moon Zombie), even with the addition of the always entertaining Richard Brake as Otis’ half-brother Foxy Coltrane.

That said, Zombie’s schtick still works. With its bifurcated structure — which sees the family executing a brute-force prison break in the first half of the film, then dealing with some vengeful Mexican gangsters in the second — “3 from Hell” finds room for plenty of colorful dialogue, references to old movies, gratuitous nudity and gonzo splatter. This one’s really for diehard Zombie fans … provided they weren’t hoping he’d hit them with something new.

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‘Gothic Harvest’

New Orleans is an ideal setting for a vampire movie, and director Ashley Hamilton tries to make the most of it in “Gothic Harvest,” a threadbare horror picture about a group of drunken co-eds who get lured into the nefarious designs of a demonic clan. But while the Big Easy atmosphere is strong, the film (written by Chris Kobin) never develops much of a plot.

The movie’s best assets are genre stalwarts Bill Moseley and Lin Shaye, who play, respectively, a shaggy local detective who helps the tourists navigate the city’s underworld, and the matriarch of a demented family. Whenever Hamilton lets these actors ham it up — or whenever the plot pauses for some kind of quirky comic interlude — “Gothic Harvest” shows some personality.

But the more eccentric moments are sparse. Most of this film consists of tedious scenes of partying and violence, with much of the latter being unpleasantly sexualized. Flashbacks and monologues attempt to explain the story’s roots in an ancient feud between vampires and voodoo priestesses, but no amount of lore — or bayou seasoning — can enrich this dull, derivative monster movie.

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Telecommunications giant T-Mobile has agreed to partner with Quibi, a Hollywood start-up that plans to distribute bite-size entertainment designed for millennials.

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Under the arrangement, Quibi’s upcoming streaming service will be part of a T-Mobile offering, giving it a broad distribution platform as it prepares to launch in April. T-Mobile, the third-largest mobile phone network with 83.1 million customers, plans to merge with Sprint, the largest wireless merger in the industry’s history.

“Quibi will deliver premium video content for millennials on a technology platform that is built exclusively for mobile, so a telecommunications partner like T-Mobile, with their broad coverage today and impressive 5G road map, is the perfect fit,” Quibi Chief Executive Meg Whitman said in a statement.

The pact marks a significant step in Quibi’s plans to deliver premium content viewed in 10 minutes or less to mobile phone users.

Bellevue, Wa.-based T-Mobile has been looking for entertainment partners as its rivals expand their footprints in Hollywood. Texas-based AT&T last year acquired Time Warner Inc. for $85 billion, and its entertainment division will launch a new streaming service, HBO Max, next year. Verizon has also delved into streaming, launching its Go90 video platform in 2015 only to shut it down three years later.

“Quibi is leading the way on how video content is made and experienced in a mobile-first world,” said Mike Sievert, president and chief operating officer of T-Mobile. “That’s why our partnership makes perfect sense — two mobile-centric disrupters coming together to give customers something new and remarkable.”

Details of the partnership, such as whether T-Mobile customers will receive discounts or whether the Quibi app will be pre-installed on their phones, have yet to be determined. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Launched by veteran film mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and Whitman, Quibi has made waves after raising $1 billion in financing from Disney, WarnerMedia and other major studios and investors. In the last year, it has gone on a hiring spree and made a flurry of announcements for upcoming projects with prominent filmmakers and news organizations. Company executives have said they expected to raise an additional $500 million this fall.

Quibi recently announced it will air a new six-minute “60 Minutes”-produced program, two English-language news shows from Telemundo, and two celebrity news shows from TMZ. This week, Quibi said the Weather Channel and Entertainment Weekly will also be providing programming.

But Quibi, which will charge about $5 a month with ads and $8 without ads, will face an increasingly crowded video streaming market when it launches next April. The space is already dominated by large subscription platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, as well as free, mostly ad-supported sites such as YouTube and Facebook.

Quibi’s target audience is people ages 25 to 35, and its larger demographic could include people ages 18 to 44.

Its videos fall into three categories: long-form narratives distributed to consumers in short chapters; alternative content, which includes reality, documentaries and food shows; and so-called Daily Essentials, which include daily news such as morning and evening shows from NBC News that target millennials.

The company plans to amass more than 7,000 pieces of content in its first year. Among the upcoming projects is a modern take on the 2003 romantic comedy “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” which is in development with Paramount TV. Quibi has also lined up major filmmakers including directors Antoine Fuqua, Guillermo del Toro, Sam Raimi and Steven Spielberg.

Quibi is using features on mobile phones to stand out from other streaming services and enhance the stories on its platform. For example, some shows may allow users to change their perspective by shifting how they hold their mobile phones. At least one program, “Spielberg’s After Dark,” is timed to appear on the service only after sundown.

The company aims to make money through subscriptions and advertising. It said that in its first year it will have an ad inventory worth $150 million and that such brands as Google, Walmart and Procter & Gamble have signed on.

Some analysts have been skeptical whether Quibi will be able to succeed where past efforts to delve into mobile-first premium content have had lackluster results. Last year, Verizon shut down its Go90 platform, which targeted millennials with programming that included short, episodic content. Analysts said a lack of a large enough audience led to Go90’s demise.