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1 week, 2 days ago

Fact Check: NOT a drone in New Jersey! This video shows a plane crash in NY

Amid reports of mysterious drones hovering in the sky, Governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy wrote a letter to President Joe Biden on December 13, seeking answers about these alleged sightings. A person shared the video on Facebook writing, “Mystery drone down, and now we can find out whose they are and why they are flying in our skies?” India …

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1 week, 3 days ago

1 dead after plane crashes along Westchester highway, aviation gas spill reported

Hindustan Times

One person died after a small plane crashed on the highway in the northern suburbs of New York City Thursday night, December 12. 1 dead after plane crashes along Westchester highway New York State Police reportedly said that at around 7 pm, the plane came down in the median of Interstate-684 near Exit 2 in Harrison near the Westchester County …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Prep basketball roundup: Westchester survives rally to beat Brentwood

LA Times

Tajh Ariza of Westchester goes airborne during a 74-72 win over Brentwood on Tuesday night. Redondo Union 97, Oak Park 39: Brayden Miner, the son of former USC star and NBA dunk champion Harold Miner, scored 27 points for Redondo. St. Francis 67, Lake Stevens 58: Freshman Luke Paulus scored 21 points and Noah Henry had 20 points and 10 …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Prep talk: Celebrating 25 years as a basketball scoreboard operator

LA Times

Stuart Koos has been operating the basketball scoreboard for 25 years at Westchester High. Thank you all!🖤🏴‍☠️🦃👍🏼 @SPPirateFB pic.twitter.com/SdB950d1x6 — Coach Dom Costa November 28, 2024 It’s championship weekend in high school football Friday and Saturday for the City Section and Southern Section. pic.twitter.com/RDg43kmzEe — eric sondheimer November 26, 2024 South Gate coach Cisco Saldana said he knew this year’s …

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1 month ago

Prep talk: Weston Port, Noah Mikhail show you can stay home and be noticed

LA Times

Linebacker Noah Mikhail of Bonita High stayed for four years and is headed to Texas A&M. In an era when parents keep moving their sons looking for something, let’s salute two four-year starters in football whose high school careers are over. Linebackers Weston Port and Noah Mikhail became stars from their freshman year through senior seasons and never wavered in …

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1 month ago

Prep basketball roundup: Alijah Arenas vs. Tajh Ariza brings out James Harden to watch

LA Times

It was the battle of sons of NBA dads. Two of the top teams in the City Section led by the sons of former NBA players Gilbert Arenas and Trevor Ariza faced off on Tuesday night before a packed basketball crowd at Westchester. Clippers guard James Harden showed up, too, to watch Alijah Arenas of Chatsworth go against Tajh Ariza …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Column: Southern California has the best high school basketball anywhere right now

LA Times

If you’re a fan of amateur basketball, there’s no better place to spend the next four months than Southern California, where talent at the high school level has converged among the classes of 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 to create one of those “I can’t believe it” moments. Tyran Stokes of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, Brandon McCoy of St. John …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

High school girls’ volleyball: City Section playoff results and updated pairings

LA Times

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VOLLEYBALL CITY SECTION PLAYOFFS Tuesday’s Results OPEN DIVISION Semifinals No. 3 Palisades, 24-26, 25-22, 25-23, 25-23 DIVISION I No. 2 Grant, 25-23, 25-18, 20-25, 25-17 Wednesday’s Schedule Semifinals DIVISION II No. 2 Maywood Academy Note: Division V Final Nov. 8 at LACES, 5:30 p.m.; Division IV Final at LACES, 7 p.m.; Division III, Nov. 9 at CSUN, …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Jack Thomas leads Palisades to important Western League win over Westchester

LA Times

Harrison Carter scores a touchdown in the third quarter for Palisades during a 42-34 win over Westchester on Friday night. In the biggest game of the season so far for both teams, Jack Thomas threw three touchdown passes and scored on a one-yard quarterback sneak late in the fourth quarter as Palisades took a huge step toward defending its Western …

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5 months, 1 week ago

In one L.A. neighborhood, the prospect of losing ‘our little Vons’ hits hard

LA Times

A shopper exits the Vons market in Westchester, one of the stores that would be sold as part of a proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons. “It makes you feel like you’re a part of the community.” Affectionately dubbed “little Vons” by some of its regular customers, the store is one of 63 in the state that could be sold …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Jamaal Bowman's Defeat Highlights Major Challenges For Progressive Movement

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING What a difference four years makes. “If you have a million in the bank, that’s not nothing for when they’re trying to recruit a challenger,” said a former Bowman campaign aide who requested anonymity to speak freely. “I’ve seen Latimer, I don’t know how many times.” “In 2020, Bowman beat a 30-year incumbent by setting up a …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist, defeats Jamaal Bowman to win New York democratic primary

Hindustan Times

George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist, defeated U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Tuesday in a Democratic primary in suburban New York that highlighted the party’s deep divisions over the war in Gaza. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s political action committee spent nearly $15 million on the primary, filling airwaves and mailboxes with negative ads in an effort to unseat Bowman, …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Why Lauren Boebert will probably win her primary — and Jamaal Bowman will probably lose his

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While Bowman seems to care deeply about moving the Democratic Party’s policy significantly to …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Jamaal Bowman’s Quixotic Quest to Stay in Congress

Slate

Jamaal Bowman’s shot wasn’t sinking. The kids spoke glowingly of the congressman, whom no one referred to as “Congressman.” “He’s the candidate who’s inspiring young people,” said 21-year-old Ella Weber, of Protect Our Power, who had come up from Washington. “But he’s genuine.” Bowman spoke to some TV cameras and dapped up a guy who had come to the playground …

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6 months ago

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New York’s state primaries

Associated Press

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. WASHINGTON — Tensions within the Democratic Party about President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war are playing out in a key New York primary race on Tuesday. Rep. Jamaal Bowman faces Westchester County Executive George Latimer in Tuesday’s highly contentious Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District. The …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

'There aren't any' options: Without cash expert warns Trump he can't stop Letitia James

Raw Story

Donald Trump has apparently been unable to secure a bond to hold off enforcement of his $454 million fraud judgment, and a legal expert said Monday his options look bleak. The former president has filed notice that he would appeal the court order, but New York law requires defendants to put up 110 percent of the penalty to delay enforcement …

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9 months ago

Letitia James appears to eye Trump's Westchester golf club and 212-acre estate as properties she could seize as clock ticks to the deadline for him to pay $454 million

Daily Mail

New York AG Letitia James may be gearing up to seize Donald Trump's Westchester golf club and Seven Springs estate as the deadline looms for the ex-president to secure the $454 million bond a judge imposed after his fraud trial. New York Attorney General signals she could be preparing to seize Trump properties in Westchester County including Trump National Golf …

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9 months ago

Letitia James takes first step to seize Trump's Seven Springs resort and N.Y. golf course

Raw Story

New York Attorney General Letitia James is already making preparations to seize former President Donald Trump's properties in New York's Westchester County as the Monday deadline for him to post bond in the civil fraud judgment draws near. According to Bloomberg News, "New York state’s $454 million judgment against Donald Trump in a civil fraud lawsuit was formally registered in …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Westchester student sues L.A. Unified, alleges sexual abuse by assistant basketball coach

LA Times

A South Bay high school student has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District, alleging that she was sexually abused by an assistant coach on her basketball team. An L.A. Unified spokesperson said the district “does not typically comment on any and all pending or ongoing litigation matters.” Colon was arrested in early January and charged with …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Inside Lily Allen and David Harbour’s ‘weird and wonderful’ Brooklyn townhouse

CNN

CNN — Two and a half years after Lily Allen and David Harbour tied the knot in Las Vegas in 2020 — complete with an Elvis impersonator — the couple is opening the doors to their dream home in the tree-lined Brooklyn neighborhood of Carroll Gardens. Their eccentric abode has made the cover of Architectural Digest’s March issue, featuring the …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Kevin Hart’s new vegan fast-food restaurant in L.A. lures hundreds on opening day

LA Times

The last time we saw Kevin Hart grabbing fast food, it was a few years back at chili-burger joint Carney’s on Sunset. “As someone who has been preaching ‘Health is Wealth’, building Hart House felt like the natural evolution of my flexitarian lifestyle and my business ecosystem,” Hart said in a press release. “I’m beyond proud of this industry-changing restaurant …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Chief judge of top New York court to leave at end of August

Associated Press

The chief judge of New York’s Court of Appeals announced Monday she will step down after more than six years presiding at the state’s highest court and overseeing the state court system. She became New York’s second female chief judge. “he New York state courts not only remained open and functioning but were transformed from a massive, complex in-person operating …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Some L.A. schools face uncertain futures as student enrollment declines dramatically

LA Times

Teachers, parents and students protest Feb. 4 against the proposed closure of Pio Pico Middle School in Los Angeles due to declining enrollment. “We simply cannot operate a freestanding school at that site with the enrollment we have,” Frances Baez, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s central region, wrote to Trinity parents. “The school,” she said, “belongs to …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Leaked video shows illegal migrants landing at Westchester airport

Daily Mail

Leaked footage shows dozens of illegal migrants landing at a Westchester airport on a secret charter flight in the dead of night, just one of the dozens of such resettlements carried out by the Biden administration last year. The bodycam footage, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, shows migrants being flown …

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Fact Check: NOT a drone in New Jersey! This video shows a plane crash in NY

1 dead after plane crashes along Westchester highway, aviation gas spill reported

Prep basketball roundup: Westchester survives rally to beat Brentwood

Prep talk: Celebrating 25 years as a basketball scoreboard operator

Prep talk: Weston Port, Noah Mikhail show you can stay home and be noticed

Prep basketball roundup: Alijah Arenas vs. Tajh Ariza brings out James Harden to watch

Column: Southern California has the best high school basketball anywhere right now

High school girls’ volleyball: City Section playoff results and updated pairings

Jack Thomas leads Palisades to important Western League win over Westchester

In one L.A. neighborhood, the prospect of losing ‘our little Vons’ hits hard

Jamaal Bowman's Defeat Highlights Major Challenges For Progressive Movement

George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist, defeats Jamaal Bowman to win New York democratic primary

Why Lauren Boebert will probably win her primary — and Jamaal Bowman will probably lose his

Jamaal Bowman’s Quixotic Quest to Stay in Congress

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New York’s state primaries

'There aren't any' options: Without cash expert warns Trump he can't stop Letitia James

Letitia James appears to eye Trump's Westchester golf club and 212-acre estate as properties she could seize as clock ticks to the deadline for him to pay $454 million

Letitia James takes first step to seize Trump's Seven Springs resort and N.Y. golf course

Westchester student sues L.A. Unified, alleges sexual abuse by assistant basketball coach

Inside Lily Allen and David Harbour’s ‘weird and wonderful’ Brooklyn townhouse

Kevin Hart’s new vegan fast-food restaurant in L.A. lures hundreds on opening day

Chief judge of top New York court to leave at end of August

Some L.A. schools face uncertain futures as student enrollment declines dramatically

Leaked video shows illegal migrants landing at Westchester airport