BETH HARRIS
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The bullpen gate swung open and out trotted ... Max Scherzer? Yep, Washington's ace surprised the Los Angeles Dodgers and even a few teammates in the eighth inning Friday night.
"All the chips are on the table right now," Scherzer explained.
"We weren't expecting that," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
Stephen Strasburg turned in...
CHICAGO (AP) — Retiring U.S. Soccer women's national team coach Jill Ellis already knows she'll be emotional on Sunday at Soldier Field.
The two-time FIFA women's coach of the year will lead the World Cup champions in the final game of their six-game victory tour when the U.S. team faces South Korea.
"We built the best team in the world," Ellis...
TEMECULA (CNS) - Firefighters on Saturday knocked down an attic fire at a single-story home in Temecula.
They were dispatched at 3:47 a.m. to the 39000 block of Calle Contento
and had the fire contained at 4:43 a.m., the Riverside County Fire Department reported.
No injuries were reported and a cause of the fire was under investigation.
ADAM BEAM
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three laws Friday in response to a college admissions scandal where more than 50 people have been arrested and accused of using bribes to get their children into elite schools.
The laws tighten rules on when colleges can admit students who don't meet standard eligibility requirements; require schools to...
PHOENIX (AP) — The founder of scandalized blood-testing startup Theranos is now being accused of skipping out on bills owed to the lawyers defending her against fraud charges in a civil lawsuit.
Elizabeth Holmes, who ran Theranos until its 2018 collapse, hasn't paid her Palo Alto, California, attorney John Dwyer and his colleagues for the past year, according to documents...
CLAUDIA LAUER and MEGHAN HOYER
Associated Press
Nearly 1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living under the radar with little to no oversight from religious authorities or law enforcement, decades after the first wave of the church abuse scandal roiled U.S. dioceses, an Associated Press investigation has...
AMANDA SEITZ, BEATRICE DUPUY and ARIJETA LAJKA
Associated Press
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the real facts:CLAIM: So-called "climate change" is mostly driven by factors unrelated to...
HEMET (CNS) - A brush fire erupted on Friday, Oct. 4 on a hillside just east of Hemet, scorching about three acres before crews got it partially contained.
The non-injury blaze was reported at 2:40 p.m. in the area of Highway 74 and Grant Avenue, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.
Multiple engine crews were sent to the location and...
A man accused of causing a June crash on Interstate 15 in Temecula that left a woman dead pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and other felony charges.Javier Caldera, 26, of Auburn, Washington, is also facing felony counts of driving under the influence of drugs and hit-and-run causing property damage in connection with the crash, which took place just...