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SOUTH BEND, Ind. —  For weeks, his carry count remained confusingly stagnant. And so, as an even backfield split continued, the questions kept coming, as well: Why wasn’t Markese Stepp, USC’s redshirt freshman running back, carrying a larger load? On Saturday night, those questions were never louder, as Stepp averaged more than eight yards per carry, […]

Saturday’s results SOUTHERN SECTION CAMINO LEAGUE Camarillo 34, Bishop Diego 0 CITRUS COAST LEAGUE Fillmore 38, Hueneme 0 DEL REY LEAGUE Harvard-Westlake 27, St. Genevieve 21 FOOTHILL LEAGUE Golden Valley 31, Saugus 7 GOLD COAST LEAGUE Viewpoint 47, Campbell Hall 34 MISSION LEAGUE Bishop Amat 31, Chaminade 21 OLYMPIC LEAGUE Cerritos Valley Christian 20, Heritage […]

A look at The Times’ top 25 high school football teams in the Southland. Rk. SCHOOL (Rec.) Result | Next game (last rank) 1. MATER DEI (7-0) def. Servite, 56-11 | at Santa Margarita at Trabuco Hills, Friday (1) 2. ST. JOHN BOSCO (7-0) def. JSerra, 49-10 | vs. Orange Lutheran at Orange Coast College, […]

Disaster is no stranger to longtime Porter Ranch residents. The community has been battered by brush fires, earthquakes and four years ago the largest natural gas leak in United States history. Then on Thursday night another crisis appeared at the doorstep of the foothill community in northern San Fernando Valley. Out of nowhere, spot fires […]

Anaheim police have arrested a suspect in connection with a 19-year-old homicide case, officials announced this week. Leopoldo Vargas Serrano, 47, was arrested at his Houston residence Sept. 11, Anaheim police said in a statement. Serrano is a suspect in the fatal shooting of Luis Garcia Bucio, 21, a co-worker, after an argument Oct. 16, […]

All evacuation orders were lifted Saturday afternoon in the northwest San Fernando Valley as firefighters continued to make progress battling the 7,900 acre-Saddleridge fire that had shut down freeways and sent thousands fleeing from their homes. Slightly cooler temperatures and lighter winds aided crews on their third day fighting the fire, which blackened hillsides from […]

1/39 Jesse Stancarone receives help from his grandson, Jesse Lasher, as they move a grandfather clock that received no damage after the Saddleridge fire burned along Beaufait Avenue in Porter Ranch. The clock has been through three fires and one earthquake, Stancarone said.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 2/39 An Orange County firefighter pulls […]

Most Angelenos can’t see the Saddleridge fire, but they have been breathing it as a dirty blanket of smoke settled over much of the city and raised air pollution levels. The South Coast Air Quality Management District on Saturday issued a health advisory, urging people to limit their exposure to the smoke by remaining indoors […]

Click:filling high temperature lighter P.J. Lennon had a plan for his retirement: To pay his bills, he would rent out the one-bedroom house that sits alongside his home in the Hollywood Hills. He fixed it up with Buddha sculptures and artwork and began advertising it online through Airbnb and VRBO. Travelers paid up to $199 […]

No week can be without artistic controversy — and this week offers one over a popular desert biennial and another over the Nobel Prize for literature. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with everything that’s simmering: Desert X in Saudi Arabia Desert X, the Coachella Valley art biennial, is headed […]