Day: March 16, 2022

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA A late-day rally had U.S. stock indexes bouncing back from an afternoon fade Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced its first interest rate hike since 2018. As Wall Street largely anticipated, the central bank announced it was increasing its key short-term rate by 0.25 percentage points. The Fed,…

Colorado Avalanche goaltender Darcy Kuemper, center, makes a save against the Kings’ Blake Lizotte during the second period on Tuesday night at Crypto.com Arena. Kuemper shut out the Kings, 3-0. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) The Colorado Avalanche’s J.T. Compher, left, moves the puck as he is followed by the Kings’ Jacob Moverare during the first…

ANDREWS, Texas (AP) — A vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest’s golf teams collided head-on with a pickup truck on a two-lane road in West Texas, killing multiple people including some students and the teams’ coach, officials said. The vehicles crashed Tuesday night in Andrews County and Sgt. Steven Blanco of the…

By LISA MASCARO and AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy summoned the memory of Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 terror attacks Wednesday in an impassioned video plea to Congress to send more help for Ukraine’s fight against Russia. Lawmakers stood and cheered, and President Joe Biden later announced the U.S. is…

By JILL BLEED and ANITA SNOW Nine people died in a fiery, head-on collision in West Texas, including six students and a coach from a New Mexico university who were returning home from a golf tournament, authorities said. A pickup truck crossed the center line of a two-lane road in Andrews County, about 30 miles…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer INDIAN WELLS — Rafael Nadal is still perfect in 2022. The Spaniard defeated 27th-seeded Daniel Evans, 7-5, 6-3, Monday in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open, improving his record to 17-0 this year in pursuit of an ATP Tour-leading fourth title. Nadal tied Roger Federer (2018) and…

By ANDREA ROSA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces destroyed a theater in Mariupol where hundreds of people were sheltering and rained fire on other cities Wednesday, Ukrainian authorities said, even as the two sides projected optimism over efforts to negotiate an end to the fighting. There was no immediate word on deaths or injuries…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV, EVGENIY MALOLETKA and LORI HINNANT MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The bodies of the children all lie here, dumped into this narrow trench hastily dug into the frozen earth of Mariupol to the constant drumbeat of shelling. There’s 18-month-old Kirill, whose shrapnel wound to the head proved too much for his little toddler’s…

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now BOYS SWIMMING Sea View League Capistrano Valley 86, El Toro 84 South Coast League Tesoro 96, Aliso Niguel 74 San Clemente 126, Dana Hills 44 Wave League Edison 95, Laguna Beach 68 Nonleague Los Alamitos 96.5, Mater Dei 73.5 200-yard medley relay (1:43.9)…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is returning to lead the company on an interim basis after the coffee giant’s chief executive announced his retirement. Starbucks made the announcement Wednesday ahead of its annual meeting. Kevin Johnson said he will retire next month after five years as president and CEO and 13 years…

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now BOYS SWIMMING Sea View League Capistrano Valley 86, El Toro 84 South Coast League Tesoro 96, Aliso Niguel 74 San Clemente 126, Dana Hills 44 Wave League Edison 95, Laguna Beach 68 Nonleague Los Alamitos 96.5, Mater Dei 73.5 200-yard medley relay (1:43.9)…

ANDREWS, Texas (AP) — A vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest’s golf teams collided head-on with a pickup truck on a two-lane road in West Texas, killing multiple people including some students and the teams’ coach, officials said. The vehicles crashed Tuesday night in Andrews County and Sgt. Steven Blanco of the…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer INDIAN WELLS — Rafael Nadal is still perfect in 2022. The Spaniard defeated 27th-seeded Daniel Evans, 7-5, 6-3, Monday in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open, improving his record to 17-0 this year in pursuit of an ATP Tour-leading fourth title. Nadal tied Roger Federer (2018) and…

Colorado Avalanche goaltender Darcy Kuemper, center, makes a save against the Kings’ Blake Lizotte during the second period on Tuesday night at Crypto.com Arena. Kuemper shut out the Kings, 3-0. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) The Colorado Avalanche’s J.T. Compher, left, moves the puck as he is followed by the Kings’ Jacob Moverare during the first…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is returning to lead the company on an interim basis after the coffee giant’s chief executive announced his retirement. Starbucks made the announcement Wednesday ahead of its annual meeting. Kevin Johnson said he will retire next month after five years as president and CEO and 13 years…

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Jonathan Isaac will miss the remainder of the Orlando Magic’s 2021-22 season, a league source told the Orlando Sentinel. The Magic are expected to announce that Isaac will be ruled out for the season Tuesday morning. Isaac hasn’t played since tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the “bubble” on Aug. 2,…

By LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cited Pearl Harbor and the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 on Wednesday as he appealed to the U.S. Congress to do more to help Ukraine’s fight against Russia, but acknowledged the no-fly zone he has sought to “close the sky” over his country may…

High-Efficiency Image Format (HEIC) is the new image format that Apple is now using as a replacement for JPG with the iOS 11. As compared to JPG, HEIC images have smaller file size and higher image quality. However, JPG is still more widely-used and for sharing your images on apps that don’t accept HEIC format…

Each week, publications from the Southern California News Group’s 11 properties (Orange County Register, L.A. Daily News, Press-Enterprise, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Daily Breeze, San Bernardino Sun, Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts, Whittier Daily News and Pasadena-Star News) select the Athletes of the Week for their respective region. Each athlete is…