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$3.66 DESIGNATED AREAS HIGHER © 2023 D SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 latimes.com Looking around Gloria Molina’s home, you wouldn’t know she was one of the most consequential politicians in Los Angeles history. The outside is tía chic: purple hearts at the teal front gate, baby angel statues near the swimming pool, potted flowers throughout the front yard. A giant glass cabinet filled with quilts Molina has, well, quilted, occupies most of one wall of her small living room. A black-and-white photo of a 1991 swearing-in ceremony, when she made history by becoming the first Latina on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, is lost in a sea of family portraits and Chicano art. What grabbed my attention when I stopped by recently was a painting of Molina and her daughter Valentina propped up on the floor. “It was from one of those stands there at Self-Help [Graphics],” Molina said when I asked about it. “Was done in 10 minutes.” “That’s very accurate!” replied her longtime chief of staff, Alma Martinez, who reclined on a couch while Molina sat bundled up in a wheelchair, a strand of hair dyed purple peeking out of a purple flapper-style chemo cap. Molina continued, “And Valentina goes, ‘Man, we’re GUSTAVO ARELLANO GLORIA MOLINA, the first Latina on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, has terminal cancer. Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times Her farewell prod to L.A.: Be ethical [See Arellano, A5] OLANCHA, Calif. — For more than 100 years, the Los Angeles Aqueduct has endured earthquakes, flash floods and dozens of bomb attacks as it wends and weaves through the canyons and deserts of the eastern Sierra Nevada. But earlier this month, record storms accomplished the unthinkable when floodwaters undermined a 120- foot-long section of aqueduct in Owens Valley, causing its concrete walls to crumble. “We’ve lost the aqueduct!” a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power inspector told his suTHE DWP’S Ben Butler checks repair work on a drain that feeds into a canal Wednesday in Bishop, Calif. Photographs by Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times ‘We’ve lost the aqueduct’ WATER FROM the Lower Owens River floods a highway in Lone Pine, Calif. Storm damage shows the challenge facing L.A.’s aging water lifeline By Louis Sahagún [See Aqueduct, A6] DUNNIGAN, Calif. — On the heels of one of California’s wettest winters on record, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced that he will roll back some of the state’s most severe drought restrictions and dramatically increase water supplies for agencies serving 27 million people. Among the rescinded items is Newsom’s call for a voluntary 15% reduction in water use, issued amid drying conditions in July 2021. He declared a statewide drought emergencythat October. The governor also rescinded a March 2022 order requiring urban water suppliers to activate Level 2 of their water shortage contingency plans, which indicates a shortage of 20% and prompts increased conservation actions. Newsom made the announcement at a ranch in the green Dunnigan Hills in Yolo County, north of Sacramento, where rice and almond farmers were celebrating the wet winter and have been able to recharge some groundwater supplies this season for crops. But Newsom stopped short of declaring that the drought is over, saying some parts of his drought emergency order remain important as California adapts to volatile weather patterns and the looming possibility of another long dry spell. “It’s incumbent upon us to continue to maintain our vigilance and maintain some provisions of the executive order to allow for fast tracking of groundwater replenishment projects, stormwater capture and recycling programs here in the state of California,” he said. Provisions around wasteful use will remain in place, including prohibitions on watering lawns within 48 hours of rainfall and using hoses without shut-off nozzles. A ban on watering nonfunctional turf at commercial and industrial properties is also unchanged. The remarkable turnaround comes after California’s driest three years on record left reservoirs drained and water supplies drastically reduced. A series of drenching storms at the start of this year helped ease some of the most extreme drought conditions in the state, refilling rivers and reservoirs and delivering near-record snowpack in the Sierra Nevada. State water agencies — which were girding to receive only 35% of requested supplies from the State Water Project this year — will now get 75%, officials from the Department of Water Resources said. The State Water Project is a vast network of reservoirs, canals and dams that Newsom eases drought rules after wet winter Governor rescinds toughest restrictions but keeps provisions around wasteful use. By Hayley Smith and Mackenzie Mays [See Drought, A6] Two juvenile halls warned of closure State board will make a final determination on the troubled L.A. County facilities in mid-April. CALIFORNIA, B1 U.S. responds to strikes in Syria President Biden pledges to defend Americans after one was killed and six were injured in a drone attack. WORLD, A3 LAPD officers sue website owner Lawsuit accuses him of publishing their photos on killercop.com and putting a “bounty” on them. CALIFORNIA, B1 Weather Sunny and cool. L.A. Basin: 66/44. B8 The trial of Mark RidleyThomas over the last two weeks offered ample evidence about the longtime Los Angeles County politician’s close dealings with a USC dean. From the words of former Dean Marilyn Flynn, it is clear she was eager to secure business and partnerships with county government and made specific requests of Ridley-Thomas. Some of these requests closely mirror later motions at the county that then-Supervisor Ridley-Thomas voted on, among other actions, and that benefited USC. It is also not in dispute that Ridley-Thomas’ son Sebastian benefited from this relationship. Emails show that Flynn was instrumental in awarding a full-tuition scholarship to Sebastian before he’d even formally applied, hired him as a USC professor, and later accepted a $100,000 check from Ridley-Thomas days before sending the same amount of money to Sebastian’s nonprofit. At the time, Sebastian had resigned from his state Assembly seat amid a sexual harassment inquiry that would become public only much later. The jury must now decide MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS, center, arrives at the whether all this amounted to federal courthouse in Los Angeles with his attorneys. Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times Suspended council member could land in prison if convicted of bribery, conspiracy. By Matt Hamilton [See Jury, A5] Ridley-Thomas’ fate in jury’s hands A tentative agreement reached Friday between the Los Angeles Unified School District and the union representing support staff won raises of about 30% or more for the lowest-wage workers, one day after the end of a strike that shut down schools for three days. If approved by union members, the agreement — achieved after mediation with Mayor Karen Bass — could prevent campuses from being closed again to 420,000 students and spare workers from job actions that would have been difficult to bear. Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union — which represents about 30,000 employees and includes bus drivers, teacher aides, special-education assistants, custodians and food service workers — led the strike that began Tuesday and ended Thursday. Also on strike in solidarity were members of United Teachers Los Angeles, which represents about 35,000 teachers, counselors, therapists, nurses and librarians. UTLA remains in negotiations over its contract. The deal with Local 99 is not an across-the-board increase but spread out over time and also affected by length of service and current salary — so that some workers will receive less than 30% and some more. “Here in California this agreement will set new standards, not just for Los Angeles, but the entire state,” Max Arias, executive director of Local 99, said in a joint news conference at City Hall with Bass and L.A. schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho, who called it “a historic day.” Hinting at the acrimony of the rhetoric during the dispute, Bass said the agreement would move the parties toward collaboration. “Executive Director Arias and Supt. Carvalho stepped up in such a big LAUSD, union reach tentative deal Agreement comes after Bass intervenes to mediate dispute that led to closures. By Howard Blume, Dakota Smith and Debbie Truong [See Schools, A10] Southern Sierra snowpack hits record After years of drought, California’s remarkably wet winter has left region at 286% of normal — eclipsing its benchmark of 263% set in 1969. CALIFORNIA, B1

A2 SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 LATIMES.COM www.latimes.com/b2bpublishing Thursday, May 4 | 6PM - 8:30PM The Beverly Hilton Scan to reserve your spot today! IN HOUSE COUNSEL LEADERSHIP AWARDS Platinum Sponsor Gold Sponsor Waymaker LLP Business magazines (print and digital) are produced by the L.A. Times B2B Publishing team and do not involve the editorial staf of the L.A. Times. PERSPECTIVES WASHINGTON — Eric Garcetti is officially the U.S. ambassador to India. The former mayor of Los Angeles was sworn in on Friday by Vice President Kamala Harris, a fellow Californian. The ceremony capped Garcetti’s dramatic, nearly two-year fight to fill one of Washington’s most crucial diplomatic posts. Grinning, Garcetti raised his right hand while Harris performed the ceremony. Family members cheered when the two longtime friends shook hands. “It feels great. Can’t wait to serve,” the newly minted ambassador said, flashing two thumbs up after the ceremony in Harris’ ceremonial office, located in a building next to the White House. “I’m so honored the vice president did this today.” The Senate voted 52 to 42 to confirm Garcetti earlier this month after his nomination had stalled for nearly two years over concerns about whether the former mayor knew, or should have known, about sexual harassment allegations against a former top aide. In an unexpected plot twist, seven Republicans crossed the aisle to help Garcetti secure the post, while three Democrats opposed him. President Biden, a close political ally of the former mayor, first nominated him in July 2021. Garcetti cleared his first Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in late 2021 by a unanimous vote, but his pathway was soon blocked by the allegations against the former aide, Rick Jacobs. Garcetti has denied any knowledge of the alleged misconduct. Biden refused to name a new nominee, and renominated Garcetti on the first day of the new Congress in January, sending an unmistakable message that he was sticking with his choice. Garcetti sought to convince skeptical senators. The former mayor’s parents — former L.A. County Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti and Sukey Garcetti — hired lobbyists to help secure his confirmation, spending $90,000 in 2022 alone, according to federal filings. “I checked in with [the president] to make sure he still wanted me,” Garcetti told The Times after he was confirmed. “I can tell you, unequivocally, he said, ‘Eric, I’m still 100% behind you.’ ” The U.S. has been without an ambassador to India since January 2021. Biden has sought to bolster economic ties with India as he looks to counter China’s growing influence in the region and shore up support for Ukraine against continued Russian aggression. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not explicitly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has continued to buy cheap gas from Moscow, shrugging off U.S. and European sanctions aimed at cutting off Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ability to fund the war. The ceremony in Harris’ office on Friday also marked a personal moment between two politicians who ascended the California political world together. Harris and Garcetti’s relationship spans more than 15 years, during which she served as California’s attorney general and later as a U.S. senator for the state. During Biden’s successful run for president, Garcetti, as the Biden campaign’s national co-chair, recalled trudging through the Iowa snow with Harris in 2008 to knock on doors for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. He has also spoken about their bond over their mixed heritage: Harris is of Indian and Jamaican descent and Garcetti is Jewish and Mexican American. Garcetti’s parents, his wife, Amy Wakeland, and Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, stood next to the former mayor to mark the occasion. Garcetti’s daughter, Maya, held the historic Hebrew Bible on loan from the Library of Congress for the ceremony. Asked when he plans to travel to India, Garcetti said: “Hopefully as soon as I can.” Garcetti sworn in as ambassador VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris, a fellow Californian and old friend, administers the ambassador’s oath of office to Eric Garcetti in Washington on Friday. Kent Nishimura Los Angeles Times Former L.A. mayor will represent U.S. in India after a lengthy fight for confirmation. By Courtney Subramanian TAIPEI, Taiwan — The latest U.S.-China clash over the popular social media app TikTok is likely to worsen the already deteriorating relationship between the two countries, as Beijing and Washington tussle over software bans, technology exports and concerns about espionage and national security. Last week, the Biden administration renewed Trump-era efforts to allay security concerns about TikTok, created by Chinese tech giant ByteDance Ltd., by demanding that the wildly popular app be sold from Chinese ownership or face a possible ban in the U.S. On Thursday, TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew underwent a bipartisan grilling by a House committee whose members asked pointed questions about data security, alleged racial bias toward content creators and the platform’s mental health effects. The Chinese government, which is intent on turning homegrown tech companies into world champions, has said it would oppose any sale of TikTok. Here’s where the dispute stands. How is China responding? Hours before Chew began his testimony before the congressional committee Thursday, Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Shu Jueting said China resolutely opposed demands from U.S. officials that TikTok be sold, adding that any change in ownership would need to comply with Chinese regulations. A forced sale “will seriously damage the confidence of investors from all over the world, including China, in investing in the U.S.,” Shu said. In Chinese state and social media, commentators accused U.S. lawmakers of biased statements and questions at Chew’s hearing. Others dismissed the event as political theater, or accused the U.S. of trying to steal the technology that powers TikTok’s addictive short-video recommendations. Last week, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Wang Wenbin said the U.S. has no evidence that TikTok is a threat to national security and should stop discriminating against foreign businesses. “China has always maintained that the issue of data security should not be used as a tool for certain countries to generalize the concept of national security and abuse state power to suppress other countries’ companies unreasonably,” Wang said. But some analysts question how far Beijing will go to protect TikTok. While the Chinese government has taken measures to prevent TikTok and its underlying technology from being sold without its approval, it’s less concerned about a U.S. ban on the app, said Angela Zhang, director of the Center for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong. “The ban on TikTok can do little harm to China’s national core interest to become a technologically advanced country,” Zhang said. “TikTok will have to fight this battle on its own.” Can the U.S. force a sale or ban? China’s declaration that it would obstruct a sale complicates any U.S. effort to push a deal through, particularly since Beijing added export restrictions on domestic technology in 2020 that necessitate government approval. Absent divestment, the Biden administration may be left with few choices besides pursuing an outright ban on the app. The U.S. has already barred TikTok from being downloaded and used on some government devices because of national security concerns. This month, the White House endorsed a bill that would allow President Biden to ban the social media app. The move renewed pressure that harks back to 2020, when the Trump administration threatened to ban TikTok and WeChat, another popular Chinese app, used for social messaging and communication. ByteDance had explored a potential sale of an ownership stake in TikTok to Oracle, which was never finalized. Then-President Trump’s attempts to block the app a few years ago were also challenged by federal courts. That year, India banned more than 50 Chinese apps, including TikTok, after an escalation of border skirmishes and heightened concerns about Chinese military aggression. Governments in Britain, Canada and New Zealand have also limited TikTok on government-owned devices. Just what is the problem with TikTok? According to TikTok, the app has about 150 million monthly active users in the U.S. But its broad popularity has exacerbated suspicions among U.S. officials that user data collected stateside could be transferred and used for espionage in China. Both Republican and Democratic politicians in favor of a TikTok sale or ban have cited concerns about the security of user data and whether that information could be acquired by the Chinese government. They have also taken aim at TikTok’s record of content moderation, potential to spread disinformation and harmful effects on youth, the app’s biggest user base. “To the American people watching today, hear this: TikTok is a weapon by the Chinese Communist Party to spy on you, manipulate what you see and exploit [it] for future generations,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) said during Thursday’s hearing with TikTok CEO Chew. Additionally, Chew, who is Singaporean, faced questions over accusations of human rights abuses in China and of spying, based on a Forbes report that ByteDance planned to use TikTok to monitor the locations of some U.S. citizens. In China, many U.S. tech platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Google are banned as part of the country’s stringent online censorship. Instead of TikTok, Chinese users have a sister version called Douyin, which is moderated more strictly than its overseas counterpart and limits the time that young users can spend on the app. Has TikTok addressed these concerns? In his appearance before Congress, Chew rejected the notion that TikTok was a tool of the Chinese Communist Party or a threat to U.S. national security. “Let me state this unequivocally: ByteDance is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government. It is a private company,” Chew said in his opening statement. He assured the panel that TikTok would prioritize teenager safety, protect U.S. user data from unauthorized foreign access, ensure freedom of expression and provide access to independent monitors to guarantee transparency. Chew also outlined the company’s proposal to mitigate concern over Chinese government influence. He said the company has spent roughly $1.5 billion on executing the plan, called Project Texas, which involves using cloud computing company Oracle to route and store U.S. user data, providing the Austin, Texasbased firm access to some of its technology. “Under this structure, there is no way for the Chinese government to access it or compel access to it,” he said. But his five-hour-long testimony did little to assuage lawmakers’ qualms about the app. David Shen of The Times’ Taipei bureau contributed to this report. Behind the U.S.-China clash over TikTok PROTESTERS demand a ban outside the Capitol. A House panel on Thursday grilled TikTok’s chief executive about data security, alleged racial bias toward content creators and the platform’s mental health effects. J. Scott Applewhite Associated Press PARENT firm ByteDance “is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government,” CEO Shou Zi Chew said. Jose Luis Magana Associated Press By Stephanie Yang ‘The ban on TikTok can do little harm to China’s national core interest.’ — Angela Zhang, director of the Center for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong

LATIMES.COM S SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 A3 THE WORLD KYIV, Ukraine — Russian long-range strikes killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 20 others in several areas of Ukraine on Friday, Ukraine’s presidential office said, as a senior Kremlin official warned that Moscow’s forces were prepared for an expected counteroffensive in the coming weeks. Five people died in Kostiantynivka, a town in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province, when a Russian missile hit an aid station. Ukrainian authorities last year had established hundreds of socalled points of invincibility where residents hardpressed by the war could warm up, charge their cellphones and get snacks. Local prosecutors said the Russians attacked Kostiantynivka with S-300 antiaircraft missiles. The civilians who died were refugees, according to Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko. As the mostly artillery war of the recent winter months stretched into spring, Russian forces also used air-launched missiles, exploding drones and gliding bombs in their attacks on several regions early Friday, Ukrainian air force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said. Two civilians were killed and nine were wounded in the Sumy provincial town of Bilopillia by a nighttime rocket and artillery barrage and airstrikes, the administration of the northeast region said. In the southern Kherson region, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Thursday, Russian shelling killed one person in the main city, also called Kherson, and killed another person and wounded four others in the town of Bilozerka. On Wednesday, a Russian drone attack struck a high school and dormitories south of Kyiv, killing at least nine people. Kyiv’s forces are poised to use the improved spring weather and the arrival of modern weapons supplied by its Western allies, including tanks, to launch a counteroffensive aimed at dislodging Russian troops from occupied areas of Ukraine. Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and now the deputy head of its Security Council, said the Russian military was ready to repel a counterattack. “Our General Staff is assessing all that,” Medvedev said. He also said that a Ukrainian attempt to seize Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, could trigger a nuclear response from Moscow. “An attempt to split part of the state away means an encroachment at the very existence of the state,” he said. “Quite obviously, it warrants the use of any weapons. I hope our ‘friends’ across the ocean realize that.” Although he is known for his bombastic pronouncements, Medvedev’s warning stems from the Russian security doctrine that envisages the use of nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear attack or an attack with conventional weapons that threatens “the very existence of the Russian state.” Medvedev also said that Western experts operating weapons, such as the U.S.- made Patriot air-defense missile systems supplied to Ukraine, would be legitimate targets for the Russian military. Ukrainian soldiers have received training in the U.S., although Russian officials have frequently claimed that foreign instructors are present in Ukraine. “If Patriot or other weapons are delivered to the territory of Ukraine along with foreign experts, they certainly make legitimate targets, which must be destroyed,” Medvedev told reporters in video clips he posted on his messaging app channel. “They are combatants, they are the enemies of our state and they must be destroyed. “They must understand that as soon as an American or a Polish soldier shows up there, he must be killed,” he added. The Kremlin’s goal is to “create a sanitary cordon” of up to 60 miles around Russian-held areas so that short- and midrange weapons can’t strike them, Medvedev said. Moscow may even set its sights on grabbing a bigger chunk of Ukrainian territory, stretching all the way to the border with Poland, he said. Russian strikes kill 10 in Ukraine RUSSIAN long-range rockets streak across the sky in Kharkiv, Ukraine, early Friday. Russian strikes killed at least 10 civilians, including refugees at an aid station, and wounded 20 others, Ukrainian officials said. Vadim Belikov Associated Press Attacks on civilians come as Kyiv’s forces are poised to launch a counteroffensive. associated press ‘They must understand that as soon as an American or a Polish soldier shows up there, he must be killed.’ — Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council military operations. On Friday night, two Syrian opposition activist groups reported a new wave of airstrikes on eastern Syria that hit positions of Iranbacked militias. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said in a statement that the American intelligence community had determined the drone in Thursday’s attack was of Iranian origin, but offered no other immediate evidence to support the claim. The drone hit a coalition base in the northeast Syrian city of Hasakah. The wounded included five American service members and a U.S. contractor. Austin said the strikes were a response to the drone attack “as well as a series of recent attacks against coalition forces in Syria” by groups affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Biden, speaking during a news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, expressed his “deepest condolences” to the family of the American killed and well wishes for the injured. Iran relies on a network of proxy forces through the Mideast to counter the U.S. and Israel, its regional archenemy. The U.S. has had OTTAWA — President Biden said Friday that the U.S. would respond “forcefully” to protect its personnel after U.S. forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard following an attack Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone that killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria. “The United States does not, does not seek conflict with Iran,” Biden said in Ottawa, where he is on a state visit. But he said Iran and its proxies should be prepared for the U.S. “to act forcefully to protect our people. That’s exactly what happened last night.” Activists said the U.S. bombing killed at least four people. Though it’s not the first time the U.S. and Iran have traded strikes in Syria, the attack and the U.S. response threaten to upend recent efforts to de-escalate tensions across the wider Middle East, where rival powers have recently made steps toward detente after years of turmoil. According to U.S. officials, two simultaneous attacks were launched at U.S. forces in Syria on Friday. Officials said that based on preliminary information, there was a rocket attack at a Conoco gas plant that has a base housing U.S. troops, and one U.S. service member was injured and is in stable condition. At about the same time, several drones were launched at Green Village, where U.S. troops are also based. One official said that all but one of the drones was shot down, and there were no U.S. injuries there. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss forces in northeast Syria since 2015, when they deployed as part of the fight against Islamic State, and maintains some 900 troops there, working with Kurdish-led forces that control about a third of Syria. The U.S. airstrikes hit targets in three towns in eastern Syria, activists said. Overnight, videos on social media purported to show explosions in Syria’s Dair Alzour, a strategic province that borders Iraq and contains oil fields. Iran-backed militia groups and Syrian forces control the area, which also has seen suspected airstrikes by Israel in recent months allegedly targeting Iranian supply routes. According to a defense official, the U.S. counterstrikes were conducted by F-15 fighter jets flying out of Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations. According to a U.S. official, the U.S. F-15s struck three locations, all in the vicinity of Dair Alzour. The activist group Deir Ezzor 24 said the American strikes killed four people and wounded a number of others, including Iraqis. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor based in the U.K., put the death toll from U.S. strikes at 11 Iranian-backed fighters — six at an arms depot in the Harabesh neighborhood in Dair Alzour and five others at military posts near the towns of Mayadeen and Bukamal. Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the observatory, said three rockets were fired earlier Friday at Omar oil field in Dair Alzour, which houses U.S. troops, in an apparent retaliation for the American strikes. An official with an Iranbacked group in Iraq said the strikes on eastern Syria early Friday killed seven Iranians. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. The Associated Press could not immediately independently confirm the activist reports. Iran and Syria did not immediately acknowledge the strikes, nor did their officials at the United Nations in New York respond to requests for comment from the AP. Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard has been suspected of carrying out attacks with bombcarrying drones across the wider Middle East. The exchange of strikes came as Saudi Arabia and Iran have been working toward reopening embassies in each other’s capitals. The kingdom acknowledged efforts to reopen its embassy in Syria, whose president, Bashar Assad, has been backed by Iran in his country’s long civil war. U.S. Army Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, the head of the American military’s Central Command, warned that U.S. forces could carry out additional strikes if needed. “We are postured for scalable options in the face of any additional Iranian attacks,” Kurilla said in a statement. Addressing the U.S. House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Kurilla warned lawmakers that the “Iran of today is exponentially more militarily capable than it was even five years ago.” He pointed to Iran’s arsenal of ballistic missiles and bomb-carrying drones. “What Iran does to hide its hand is they use Iranian proxies,” Kurilla said. Iran has launched 80 attacks against U.S. forces and locations in Iraq and Syria since January 2021. The vast majority of those have been in Syria, officials say. Diplomacy to de-escalate the crisis appeared to begin immediately. The foreign minister of Qatar spoke by phone with U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan as well as Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the Qatari state news agency report. Qatar has been an interlocutor between Iran and the U.S. recently amid tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program. Austin said he authorized the retaliatory strikes at the direction of Biden. “As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing,” Austin said. “No group will strike our troops with impunity.” The U.S. under Biden has struck Syria previously over tensions with Iran. The president ordered attacks on Syria in February and June of 2021 and in August 2022. Dareen Khalifa, a senior Syria analyst with the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, said that while Thursday’s exchange of strikes came at a sensitive political moment because of the “overall deterioration of U.S.-Iran relations and the stalling of the nuclear talks,” she does not expect a significant escalation. “These tit-for-tat strikes have been ongoing for a long time,” Khalifa said, although she noted that they usually do not result in casualties. While “the risk of an escalatory cycle is there,” she said, “I think the Biden administration won’t be eager to escalate in Syria now and will instead have a relatively measured response.” Since the U.S. drone strike that killed Revolutionary Guard Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani in 2020, Iran has sought “to make life difficult for U.S. forces stationed east of the Euphrates,” said Hamidreza Azizi, an expert with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. “Iran increased its support for local proxies in [Dair Alzour] while trying to ally with the tribal forces in the area,” Azizi wrote in a recent analysis. “Due to the geographical proximity, Iraqi groups also intensified their activities in the border strip with Syria and in the [Dair Alzour] province.” The strikes come during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Syria’s war began with the 2011 Arab Spring protests across the Middle East and toppled governments in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen. It evolved into a regional proxy conflict in which Russia and Iran have backed Assad. The United Nations estimates that more than 300,000 civilians have been killed in the war. Those figures do not include soldiers and insurgents killed in the conflict. Boak, Mroue and Gambrell write for the Associated Press. Biden vows to ‘forcefully’ protect personnel in Syria PRESIDENT BIDEN, in Ottawa, expressed sympathy for the U.S. contractor killed when a drone believed to be of Iranian origin hit a base in Syria. Andrew Harnik Associated Press Warning comes after suspected Iranian drone kills American contractor, injures six. By Josh Boak, Bassem Mroue and Jon Gambrell MIAMI — A convicted drug trafficker pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court Friday to participating in the assassination of Haiti’s president in 2021. Rodolphe Jaar, 50, pleaded guilty in Miami to conspiring to provide material support, providing material support and conspiring to kidnap and kill President Jovenel Moise, according to court records. Jaar, who is Haitian and Chilean, is the first of 11 defendants charged in the United States to be convicted in the plot. His sentencing is scheduled for June 2. Dozens have been arrested in Haiti, but the cases are at a virtual standstill amid death threats against local judges. Moise was shot 12 times at his private home near Haiti’s capital, Port-auPrince, on July 7, 2021. Though the assassination occurred in Haiti, prosecutors believe most of the planning and funding occurred in south Florida. Authorities said the original plan was to detain Moise weeks earlier and whisk him to an unidentified location by plane, but that fell through when the plotters couldn’t find a plane or sufficient weapons. According to court documents, Jaar provided weapons, food and lodging for Colombian commandos and others. As part of a deal with prosecutors, Jaar has provided information to help federal agents build stronger cases against the other 10 defendants in U.S. custody. Jaar was convicted of cocaine trafficking in 2013 and sentenced to four years and three months in prison. Guilty plea in Moise slaying associated press

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New York City police and environmental protection officials isolated and removed the suspicious letter, and testing “determined there was no dangerous substance,” Bragg spokesperson Danielle Filson said. The substance was sent to a lab for further testing, police said. “Alvin, I am going to kill you,” the letter said, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about an ongoing investigation and did so on condition of anonymity. The discovery, in the same building where a grand jury is expected to resume work Monday, came amid increasingly hostile rhetoric from Trump, who is holding the first official rally of his 2024 presidential campaign Saturday in Waco, Texas. Hours earlier, Trump posted on his social media platform that any criminal charge against him could lead to “potential death & destruction.” Trump also posted a photo of himself holding a baseball bat next to a picture of Bragg, a Democrat. On Thursday, Trump referred to Bragg, Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, as an “animal.” The building where the letter was found wasn’t evacuated, and business mostly went on as usual, with prosecutors coming and going and bicycle delivery workers dropping off lunch orders. Security has been heavy around the court buildings and district attorney’s office in recent days as the grand jury investigates alleged hush money paid on Trump’s behalf during his 2016 campaign. After Trump called on people to protest his possible arrest, Bragg sent a memo telling his staff: “We do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York.” The grand jury, convened by Bragg in January, has been investigating Trump’s involvement in a $130,000 payment made in 2016 to porn actor Stormy Daniels to keep her from going public about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump years earlier. Trump has denied the claim. Powder sent to D.A. in Trump probe associated press WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee is admonishing Sen. Lindsey Graham for soliciting campaign contributions inside a federal building after a Fox News interview in November in which he asked viewers to donate to a GOP candidate. Graham (R-S.C.) violated Senate rules and standards of conduct when he made the request during the interview from a Senate office building, the bipartisan leaders of the ethics panel said in a rare public letter released Thursday. “The public must feel confident that Members use public resources only for official actions in the best interests of the United States, not for partisan political activity,” Ethics Committee Chair Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Vice Chair James Lankford (R-Okla.) told Graham in the letter. “Your actions failed to uphold that standard, resulting in harm to the public trust and confidence in the United States Senate. You are hereby admonished.” Coons and Lankford wrote that Graham had solicited contributions for Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign “five separate times” during the Nov. 30 interview on Fox News. They noted that Graham reported himself to the committee after the interview. In a statement Thursday, Graham said: “It was a mistake. I take responsibility. I will try to do better in the future.” It is unclear whether he could face criminal penalties for his actions. Coons and Lankford said this was his second violation, after he similarly solicited contributions for his own campaign during an unplanned hallway interview in 2020. The Ethics Committee dismissed that complaint, notifying Graham in a private letter, Coons and Lankford said. The panel did not publicly reveal that violation until now, having determined at the time that his conduct in that case was “inadvertent, technical, or otherwise of a de minimis nature,” the letter said. The prohibitions on campaign solicitation in federal buildings and the use of federal resources for campaign activity “have been consistent and clear throughout your years of Senate service,” Coons and Lankford wrote, adding that Graham had sought contributions in the Fox News interview “despite the Committee’s specific guidance following [his] violation in October 2020.” Ethics panel admonishes Sen. Lindsey Graham SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM said “it was a mistake” to seek donations to Herschel Walker’s campaign from inside a Senate building, adding: “I will try to do better.” Alex Brandon Associated Press The Republican from South Carolina sought campaign funds from inside Senate building. associated press SALT LAKE CITY — Children and teens in Utah could lose access to social media apps such as TikTok if they don’t have parental consent, among other restrictions in two first-in-thenation laws designed to shield young people from the popular platforms. Two laws signed by Republican Gov. Spencer Cox this week prohibit anyone under 18 from using social media between 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m.; require age verification to use social media; and open the door to lawsuits on behalf of children who are allegedly harmed by social media. The measures are intended to prevent children from being lured to apps by addictive features and from having ads promoted to them. The companies are expected to sue in an effort to block the laws before they take effect in March 2024. The crusade against social media in Utah’s Legislature, which has a GOP supermajority, is the latest reflection of how some politicians, including typically pro-business Republicans, have changed their perceptions of technology companies. Tech giants like Facebook and Google have enjoyed unbridled growth for over a decade. But amid concerns over user privacy, hate speech, misinformation and harmful effects on teens’ mental health, lawmakers have made attacks on Big Tech a rallying cry on the campaign trail, and have begun trying to rein the companies in once in office. Utah’s law was signed on the same day TikTok’s chief executive officer testified before Congress about, among other things, the platform’s effects on teens’ mental health. But federal legislation on such issues has stalled, prompting some states to step in. Lawmakers are advancing proposals similar to Utah’s laws in other red states including Arkansas, Texas, Ohio and Louisiana, and blue states including New Jersey. And California enacted a law last year requiring tech firms to put kids’ safety first by barring the companies from profiling children or using personal information in ways that could harm them, physically or mentally. The new Utah laws require that parents be given access to their children’s accounts. The measures also outline rules for people who want to sue over harms they claim the apps cause. If such lawsuits involving kids under 16 are allowed, the burden of proof will shift to the social media companies, requiring them to show their products were not harmful rather than making plaintiffs show that they caused harm. Social media companies may have to design new features to comply with parts of the laws that prohibit promoting ads to minors or showing them in search results. Tech companies such as TikTok, Snapchat and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, make most of their money by targeting advertising to their users. The wave of legislation and its focus on age verification has garnered pushback from technology companies — and from digital privacy groups known for criticizing the companies’ data collection practices. The Electronic Frontier Foundation had demanded that Cox veto the Utah bills, saying time limits and age verification would infringe on teens’ rights to free speech and privacy. Moreover, verifying users’ ages would give platforms more user data, including the government-issued identification required for verification, the digital privacy advocacy group said. In a statement, the foundation said that if the laws are implemented, “the majority of young Utahns will find themselves effectively locked out of much of the web.” Tech industry lobbyists decried the laws as unconstitutional, saying they infringe on people’s right to exercise the 1st Amendment online. “Utah will soon require online services to collect sensitive information about teens and families, not only to verify ages, but to verify parental relationships, like government-issued IDs and birth certificates, putting their private data at risk of breach,” said Nicole Saad Bembridge, an associate director at NetChoice, a tech lobby group. What’s not clear in Utah’s new laws and those under consideration elsewhere is how states would enforce such regulations. The federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act already prohibits companies from collecting data on children under 13 without parental consent. To comply, social media companies already ban kids under 13 from signing up to their platforms — but children can often get around the bans. Cox said studies had shown that spending time on social media leads to “poor mental health outcomes” for children. “We remain very optimistic that we will be able to pass, not just here in the state of Utah but across the country, legislation that significantly changes the relationship of our children with these very destructive social media apps,” the governor said. The Utah laws have won support from some parents groups and child advocates. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit focused on kids and technology, hailed the effort to rein in social media’s addictive features and set rules for litigation. Chief Executive and founder Jim Steyer said the move “adds momentum for other states to hold social media companies accountable to ensure kids across the country are protected online.” But Steyer also said that giving parents access to children’s social media accounts would “deprive kids of the online privacy protections we advocate for.” Age verification and parental consent may hamper kids who want to create accounts on certain platforms, but does little to stop companies from harvesting their data once they’re on, he said. The laws Cox signed on Thursday are just the latest effort from Utah lawmakers to protect minors from technology. Two years ago, the governor signed legislation that called on tech companies to automatically block pornography on cellphones and tablets sold in the state. Arguments about the dangers pornography posed to children resonated with many Utah lawmakers, the majority of whom are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Amid concerns about enforcement, lawmakers ultimately revised that legislation to prevent it from taking effect unless five other states passed similar laws. The regulations come as parents and lawmakers grow more concerned about minors’ social media use and the effect it can have on their mental health. The effect of social media on children is also emerging as a focus for trial lawyers, who are filing lawsuits throughout the country that claim minors have become addicted to the platforms. Metz and Ortutay write for the Associated Press. Utah laws target kids’ use of social media YOUNG PEOPLE’S heavy use of social media has several states working on legislation similar to Utah’s, which is set to take effect in March 2024. But tech companies and digital privacy advocates are resisting. Robert Alexander Getty Images First-in-the-nation measures aim to limit minors’ access, give parents more control. By Sam Metz and Barbara Ortutay Daytime drama: In the March 23 Calendar section, an article on “The Young and the Restless” referred to the actor who plays Nikki Newman as Melody Scott Thomas. Her name is Melody Thomas Scott. FOR THE RECORD

LATIMES.COM SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 A5 ugly.’ ” Valentina rolled her eyes. Martinez’s jaw dropped. I chuckled. Molina didn’t miss a beat. “I said, ‘I think we’re real.’ ” Molina, 74, has held court here in Mount Washington with some of the most powerful people in town ever since her announcement a week and a half ago that she was dying from cancer. Mayor Karen Bass called. Former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former state Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez stopped by. So did current Supervisor Kathryn Barger. Zev Yaroslavsky, who served with Molina on the City Council and Board of Supervisors for nearly a quarter-century, gave her a bottle of kosher vodka. Lifelong friends are traveling from across the country to spend one final afternoon with her. “First of all, they apologize that they didn’t know, and I said, ‘Oh, you don’t need to do that,’ ” Molina said, when I asked what her visitors wanted to talk about. “I’m pretty happy [with] where I am and what I did. And you know, that part is over. And then I thanked them for what our relationship was.” Even former rivals have paid their respects, including Lou Moret, a member of the Eastside machine that long clashed with Molina because she kept running against their favored candidates — and beating them. “He’s always told me that I’ve been independent and strong, and nobody else could’ve done it but me,” Molina said. “And now, of course, he says, ‘It’s a good thing [you ran]. You served with the kind of dignity we needed.’ And he was no longer intimidated by anything I have said or done.” Molina accepted my interview request after I wrote a column praising her as a chingona — a badass woman. I had half an hour for our chat, with a hard out: whenever her toddler grandson, Santiago, showed up. The Molina I spoke to is the Molina you remember: feisty, indomitable, funny. Her voice and spirit remain strong. Her memory is impeccable. Why, she even threw a jab at our coverage, as she has done to any Times reporter within her eyesight over the last quartercentury. I told Molina I knew the details of her career — first Latina in the state Legislature, the L.A. City C ouncil and the Board of Supervisors, fierce defender of her constituents, a champion of women in politics. There was one thing I still didn’t get: Why? “Because I had to,” she replied plainly. “If you were a Chicana in the Chicano movement, things had to change. And the guys were still very sexist. So, very frankly, we had to push and push.” She talked about how, whether she was a student activist in the late 1960s and 1970s, a legislative assistant in Sacramento or working for the Carter administration in Washington, D.C., men kept dismissing the contributions of her and other women. “We did everything from mimeograph to walk door to door,” Molina said. “So I thought it would be respected, and unfortunately, it was not. The guys don’t go looking for a woman [to enter politics]. And that’s OK, because the women look for women.” I brought up her first campaign, a 1982 run for the Assembly in which she defied two Eastside assemblymen: her former boss, Art Torres, and her ally, Richard Alatorre. She ran against their chosen candidate, Richard Polanco — and won. One of the first people she approached was Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles), who was also an Assembly member back then and had worked alongside Molina during the 1970s in their effort to boost more women of color. Waters gave Molina her first big donation of $5,000. “And she said, ‘You got to be sure — gonna be tough,’ ” Molina said. “And I was sure. I had to open the door. That was my responsibility. That was my duty.” So what does she think about L.A. politics right now? “Uck,” she said. Uck, indeed. Her fellow former supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomasis awaiting a jury verdict in a corruption trial. Ex-Councilmember Jose Huizar, against whom Molina unsuccessfully ran in 2015, pleaded guilty to bribery. City Hall is still dealing with the aftermath of a leaked tape in which some of the most powerful politicos in Los Angeles made all sorts of nasty and racist remarks against basically everyone. “Very frankly, I’m still disappointed in the corruption,” Molina continued. “I’m still disappointed in the lobbyists. I’m still disappointed in politicians. It’s not that hard to say no, but I’m a good example of someone who said no.” Why does she think more politicians don’t say no? “Because! They get money!” Molina snapped. “Election time: Call up a couple of people, and you get what your budget is!” L.A. politics reminded her of how her grandmother described politics in Mexico. “She could hardly wait for elections, because she’d get a bag of beans and a bag of rice. And I said, ‘But abuelita, you shouldn’t take it. And she goes, ‘Why not? Everybody takes it.’ “So when I walked around, I found the same thing,” Molina continued, now referencing her campaign against Huizar. “ ‘Oh, he gives our senior citizens a television every year so we can raffle it off and make some money. Oh, he gives us this every single year. … Oh, le dió mijo un trabajo [he gave my son a job].’ ” She could’ve just as easily been referring to Huizar’s successor, Kevin de León, who keeps posting videos of himself on Instagram handing out goodies to constituents. He was one of the people speaking on the City Hall tape leak and has ignored calls to resign. “So it’s hard to fight against those kinds of things,” Molina concluded. “Corruption works, unfortunately.” Is there anything that gives her hope, politically? “I certainly would like to get more women in the process,” she replied. “There’s something about women. They’re just a little bit more honest. ... But there’s no easy solutions. Everybody has to roll up their sleeves.” What about the new generation of Latino politicians, like City Councilmembers Eunisses Hernandez and Hugo Soto-Martinez, who are pushing the same populist policies Molina championed for so long, albeit with a more progressive slant? “Great,” she replied. “But if they’re going to be same old, same old, who needs ’em?” Martinez gave her a sip of water. “So I’d like to challenge them to become more ethical,” Molina continued. “I’d like to challenge them to become more concerned to what’s going on in the community. We get told things that are not true, and there’s so much power available that they should take advantage of it and challenge it.” I asked how she felt about a political world where L.A. County’s supervisors are all women and Latinas represent the Eastside as a supervisor (Hilda Solis), an Assembly member (Wendy Carrillo) and a state senator (María Elena Durazo). “I am followed by unbelievable women,” Molina said. “Some of them are not my first choice, but at the same time, they’re powerful. And hopefully, they’ll get the message that they can do things and that they don’t have to accept what lobbyists say, and they don’t have to accept what the guys say, but move forward.” I could tell Molina was tiring, so I wrapped up by asking if she had made a difference. “Oh, I think so,” she said. “And I don’t want to take a bow for it — that’s not necessary.” “Hold on,” Martinez interrupted. “What about your family?” Molina beamed. “Aren’t I lucky?” She raved about her grandson, then looked at Valentina, who’s expecting a baby girl. “I’m so proud of my daughter. Thank you, mija.” “Yeah,” Valentina said softly. “I am one of the most fortunate women there is,” Molina continued. “Even with this cancer, it’s sort of an opportunity. It was sort of, I don’t know, planned I could talk to people. ... It’s amazing, right?” “A lot of what people are telling me, Gloria, is that you have brought grace to the ending of life,” Martinez told her. “Really?” “Yeah. That you were able to just give dignity to something that’s very hard for people.” “Yeah.” “You were a lot of firsts in everything, even to the end.” Suddenly the front door squeaked open and a squealing little boy came in. “Hey, mijo!” Molina said. “Say hi!” Valentina placed Santiago on Molina’s lap, but he became fussy. “¿Por qué vas a llorar?” Molina chided, the way only a grandmother could. Why are you going to cry? I got flashbacks of the Molina whose scoldings of political incompetents made her feared and loathed. She then repeated herself, this time in a softer tone. “It takes him a while to warm up,” Molina said apologetically. “He’s had to be around a lot of people. A lot of strangers, lately.” She hopes to make one final quilt for Valentina, filled with Frida Kahlo quotes. She’s recording messages for Santiago and his future sister. She was taking painting classes, but her hands are beginning to weaken. Molina asked if I had any children of my own. I don’t. “They are so beautiful. And they are so wonderful.” She paused. “We’re having another. Hopefully, I’ll be here for that.” ‘I had to open the door. ... That was my duty’ [Arellano, from A1] WHEN asked if she made a difference, trailblazer Gloria Molina says: “Oh, I think so. And I don’t want to take a bow for it.” Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times ‘Very frankly, I’m still disappointed in the corruption. I’m still disappointed in the lobbyists. I’m still disappointed in politicians. It’s not that hard to say no.’ — Gloria Molina a crime. On Friday, a panel of 12 jurors drawn from a wide swath of Southern California began deliberating whether to convict RidleyThomas of 19 counts, including bribery and honest services mail and wire fraud as part of a corrupt conspiracy. If found guilty, the 68- year-old lawmaker could spend years in federal prison — a shameful denouement to his political career. The verdict also has farreaching consequences in Los Angeles politics. If acquitted, Ridley-Thomas will return to his seat on the L.A. City Council after a 17-month suspension, ousting Heather Hutt, his district’s appointed interim replacement. If convicted of some or all charges, his seat would be considered vacant — potentially leading to a special election or the reappointment of Hutt. It remains to be seen whether the jury will find him a corrupt politician accepting handouts from a contractor or a concerned dad who took actions to help a troubled son. Before the jury entered the deliberation room Friday, a federal prosecutor delivered a comprehensive rejoinder to Ridley-Thomas’ defense and urged the panel to assess the evidence “by the facts, the law and common sense.” “It is not a defense that any actions taken were good for the community or were actions that the defendant would have taken [without a bribe],” Assistant U.S. Atty. Michael J. Morse said. Politicians do not get to monetize their office, he said. “The only question for you is: Was the defendant doing these things for Marilyn Flynn so that she would do things for him?” The politician is accused of accepting bribes from Flynn for his son. In exchange, prosecutors say, he presented or voted on certain L.A. County agenda items and advised county officials to do certain acts regarding the issuing or amending of contracts. The conspiracy charge accuses Flynn and RidleyThomas of the unlawful scheme to engage in fraud and bribery. Each of the 17 counts of honest services mail and wire fraud is tied to an email or FedEx sent in late 2017 or 2018 as part of the alleged scheme. His co-defendant, Flynn, pleaded guilty to bribing Ridley-Thomas and is awaiting sentencing, but jurors have not been told that she was charged or entered a guilty plea. Ridley-Thomas did not testify in his defense. What his lawyers did offer, Morse said in his 90-minute rebuttal argument at the close of trial, was a number of “distractions.” “They want to make it about everything except the defendant,” he said. Among the red herrings: vilifying the lead investigator, FBI Special Agent Brian Adkins; casting aspersions at the motives of Flynn’s underlings who sounded the alarm about her dealings with the Ridley-Thomas family; suggesting that USC had cooked up a criminal referral into Ridley-Thomas to serve an unspecified institutional agenda; and putting RidleyThomas’ support for key county votes in the case as less about his actions and more as the near-predestined outcome of a report that recommended how L.A. County could better serve at-risk children. What was missing from Ridley-Thomas’ defense, he said, was a credible explanation for major episodes in the case, especially the $100,000 donation that was routed through USC. On Thursday, RidleyThomas’ lawyer Daralyn Durie told jurors that the $100,000 donation’s handling was more or less Flynn’s fault: She put the money in one bank account at USC, but the outgoing money that went to Sebastian RidleyThomas’ nonprofit came from another account at the university. In all of this, Durie said, her client was unaware. “That explanation completely ignores that all of this was done at the direction of the defendant,” Morse said, showing jurors the “sham” donation letter Mark RidleyThomas included with his check to USC. Morse outlined the start of the alleged conspiracy: in May 2017, when RidleyThomas reaches out to Flynn seeking a phone call, leading the two to chat for 37 minutes. The next day, Sebastian Ridley-Thomas emails Flynn, to which the dean replies: “I am glad to hear from you — and so quickly.” The prosecutor emphasized what Flynn stood to gain: having one of the Board of Supervisors’ most powerful members in her corner. “Flynn wasn’t the only one asking for things of the defendant,” Morse said. “She needs to get to the front of the line. ... This is her ticket to the front of the line.” Much of Mark RidleyThomas’ defense depends on the idea that there was no chance of bribery — that the motions voted on by RidleyThomas were long-running policy goals that would inevitably come before the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. His lawyers brought in a slew of former aides and bold-faced names in local government, including Supervisor Janice Hahn and former Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, each offering a view of the county programs as needed and devoid of controversy. Morse, pointing to emails in which Flynn makes noise about a “stalled” amendment and other desired actions, asked why the dean was nevertheless pressing so hard for action: “If the cake is baked, why is she still in the kitchen?” Defense attorneys have sought to highlight the absence of L.A. County figures from the prosecutors’ case, contending it was proof of an investigation that had blind spots. Morse argued it was the politician’s former staffers and colleagues who had blind spots. If convicted, Ridley-Thomas could spend years in prison [Jury, from A1] AN ACQUITTAL would return Mark Ridley-Thomas to his council seat after a 17-month suspension. Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times

A6 SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 S LATIMES.COM acts as a major component of California’s water system. “We’ve been able to do this because of the series of winter storms that have really provided robust flows throughout the system,” said John Yarbrough, assistant deputy director at DWR. At a 35% allocation, the agency would have delivered about 1.4 million acre-feet of water to its 29 member agencies, Yarbrough said. The increase will “more than double that amount” to about 3.1 million acre-feet. An acrefoot is approximately 326,000 gallons. The allocation could increase even more in April, Yarbrough said. However, he and other officials stressed that the governor’s emergency proclamation was being modified — not removed. “We’re modifying it as opposed to eliminating it because first, there are portions of the state that continue to experience acute water shortages,” said California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot. That includes the Klamath Basin in far Northern California and portions of Southern California that depend on the Colorado River, he said. “We’re also maintaining yet modifying the proclamation because there are continued emergency impacts and drought conditions across the state, including ... communities and households that lack drinking water coming out of their taps,” Crowfoot said. Assemblyman Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield) said the Newsom administration should go further to make more water available to communities and fund water infrastructure. “More restrictions must be removed to maximize water supplies to Californians,” he said in a statement. “It is time for the Governor to prioritize funding for water storage, conveyance and other necessary water infrastructure, while also expediting much needed flood protection to safeguard our communities in the future.” Still, the change was welcome news after a grueling, bone-dry three years wrought devastation on the lives and businesses of millions of Californians. In 2022, significant cuts in water deliveries saw irrigated farmland shrink by 752,000 acres — cutting crop revenues by $1.7 billion and costing an estimated 12,000 agricultural jobs. The number of dry wells soared, particularly in the Central Valley, as farmers continued to suck supplies from the ground to make up for reduced allocations, often leaving the state’s most vulnerable residents with little water and even less recourse. Urban areas also saw unprecedented water restrictions that led to oneand two-day-a-week outdoor watering limits for 7 million people in Southern California, among other rules. The region’s massive water wholesaler, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, lifted some of its restrictions last week, but local water suppliers may still have regulations in place. Newsom administration officials said provisions centered on groundwater supplies will also remain in place, including those that enable the state to assist communities with dry wells and respond to emergencies as needed. The provisions reflect that “we continue to have a groundwater drought, a groundwater deficit,” said Joaquin Esquivel, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board. Despite the surface water surplus, deficits in groundwater won’t be remedied by a single wet year, he said. Crowfoot said removing the 15% voluntary reduction is part of a larger goal to move away from numeric targets and focus on a “more durable approach” to making conservation a way of life. “It’s not about going back to normal anymore — it’s really adjusting to a new normal, and that is intensifying extremes,” Crowfoot said. He said he would not declare the drought over. “If we declared the drought over and removed any emergency provisions, we would be unable to quickly and effectively provide support where those conditions still exist,” he said, such as providing bottled water supplies to communities whose wells have run dry. Such “climate whiplash” behavior — or swings between extreme wetness and dryness — was exemplified by the recent storms, including deadly blizzards in the San Bernardino Mountains and devastating flooding in Monterey County and the Central Valley. The flooding — driven in many places by levee breaches — shined a spotlight on the state’s aging infrastructure and drew criticism from communities left in harm’s way. Swelling rivers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta area, Los Angeles and other parts of the state this winter also drew criticism of California’s ability to capture stormwater at state and local levels and to adequately manage flows for humans and the environment. Water managers said they are working to boost the state’s ability to capture and store water and to modernize infrastructure under the governor’s Strategy for a Hotter, Drier California, unveiled last August. Those efforts include recent moves to divert more than 600,000 acre-feet of water from the swollen San Joaquin River to help replenish groundwater basins in the Central Valley. “I take a back seat to no governor in the United States of America in terms of my environmental stewardship and passion,” Newsom said. “But we have a responsibility to one another to also recognize the nature of change,” he added. “Things are not static. They’re not the way they were 20, 30, 40 years ago, and we have to be more nimble and we have to be more flexible.” State officials also acknowledged that Southern California’s other major source — the Colorado River — remains in dire condition. The river is a water lifeline that supplies about 40 million people, but drought and overuse have left its reservoirs dangerously low, with water managers warning that Lake Mead could soon drop below its lowest intake valve and effectively cut off supplies for the American West. Federal officials have ordered California and six other statesto drastically reduce their use of that river, but so far no agreement has been reached. California, meanwhile, has received a bounty unlike any in recent memory. Nearly 65% of the state is no longer in drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor shows. Just three months ago, almost 100% of the state was mired in some form of dryness. By Friday, statewide snowpack was 228% of normal for the date. Snowpack in the southern Sierra was 286% of normal — an alltime record. California’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville, were at 78% and 82% of capacity, respectively. “It’s a milestone,” Newsom said. “We’re not fully out of the woods, but none of us could have imagined a few months ago that we’d be where we are today.” Yet another storm system could drop more rain and snow on the state early next week, forecasters said. Times staff writer Ian James contributed to this report. Newsom eases drought rules after winter storms A HOUSING tract last April where outdoor watering was limited to one day a week in Rancho Cucamonga. Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times [Drought, from A1] periors by cellphone. As he spoke, chocolate-colored runoff and debris undercut the aqueduct just west of Highway 395 and the community of Olancha. It was the first time in history that the 200-mile aqueduct had been breached by extreme weather, threatening water deliveries to 4 million ratepayers in Los Angeles. It was also an indication of just how difficult it would be to defend the waterway against torrential runoff from a winter of near record snowpack. For weeks, DWP crews had been using heavy equipment and other means to control the anticipated spring runoff, but even longtime aqueduct workers were shocked by the suddenness of the break. Among the first to arrive on the scene that morning March 10 was a team led by Ben Butler, senior aqueduct and reservoir keeper. “Floodwater was coming down hard, creating a large, deep pool that pressed against the aqueduct’s walls,” he recalled. “We drove in as far as we could, then put on waders and headed for the breach.” For the next five days, rescuing L.A.’s water lifeline became the DWP’s highest priority as all hell broke loose in Owens Valley. Traditionally dry rocky arroyos and ditches were overrunning their banks; irrigation diversions and culverts were buried in mud the consistency of peanut butter. At Pleasant Valley Dam, about 8 miles north of the city of Bishop, stormwater laden with sediment was surging over its spillway and into the Owens River at a rate of 1,000 cubic feet per second. “We were already in an all-hands-on-deck mode when we learned that the aqueduct was in serious trouble,” said Adam Perez, deputy manager of aqueduct operations. “By 3 p.m. that afternoon, we came up with a game plan to prevent further deterioration, patch the breach and maintain service.” As an emergency action, the DWP opened aqueduct spill gates 25 miles north to drain the damaged section and make repairs. Those massive releases were not without consequence however. Freed water flooded ranches on the valley floor, as well as a halfmile stretch of state Highway 136, just south of the community of Lone Pine, and surged toward spreading grounds in Owens Lake, where it caused more problems. The lake, which was once navigated by steamboats, had evaporated into dusty salt flats after the aqueduct was completed in 1913. In recent years, the DWP has spent $2.5 billion on projects designed to prevent the lakebed’s health-damaging particulate matter from becoming airborne. But as aqueduct inflows washed over the playa, they dissolved alkaline minerals there, creating a vast corrosive brine pool that could ruin some of the dust control projects, officials said. Over all, it took more than 100 DWP personnel working nonstop for nearly a week to repair the aqueduct. Their work included replacing damaged concrete walls and coating them with a special mix of cement, sand, fibrous material and adhesives that dry faster and harder than conventional concrete. “It wasn’t easy managing that many boots on the ground in a short amount of time amid unfavorable conditions,” Perez said. “Ultimately, the damage did not affect any communities in the area.” Nodding appreciatively toward the cargo of Sierra snowmelt flowing high and fast through the repaired section of channel on Thursday, he added, “Our crews did a great job.” Looking ahead, he said, DWP inspectors will be stepping up daily patrols of its aqueduct systems and dams in Owens Valley. In the wake of the crisis however, critics are pointing to the breach and subsequent flooding of the valley floor as signs that the DWP is losing control of its massive and complex aqueduct infrastructure amid climatedriven weather extremes. A singular feat of civil engineering and deception, the aqueduct has both spurred the phenomenal growth of Los Angeles and inspired deep-seated suspicions about the city’s motives that linger to this day in Owens Valley. Most of its water is diverted from the Owens River, which ran through a valley that was inhabited for thousands of years by Paiute Indians before white settlers occupied their lands. In 1905, city of Los Angeles agents posing as ranchers and farmers acquired most of the land and water rights in Owens Valley and construction of the system of tunnels, conduits and reservoirs began in 1907. By the early 1920s, tensions seethed in the area over the city’s continuing acquisitions. Over a three-year period, the aqueduct was dynamited more than a dozen times. On Sept. 15, 1976, a dynamite blast ripped apart one of the Alabama Hills aqueduct gatehouse’s five gates, flushing 100 million gallons of water into the valley floor. Today, the chatter at local cafes and watering holes is over whether the DWP will be up to the task of managing levels of flooding expected this spring and summer. Some residents are encouraged by the sight of caravans of DWP-owned earth movers and dump trucks loaded with boulders and mud rumbling to and from flood zones. “We’ve had a lot of rain, snow and temperature swings lately,” said Dan Siegel, owner of the Merrygo-Round restaurant in Lone Pine. “I think the DWP has been doing a fine job when you consider how many places are in need of its equipment and manpower.” As for predictions of potentially massive flooding when temperatures climb into the 80s and 90s, “We won’t know how much trouble we’re in until we know how fast the snow is melting,” Siegel said. The DWP’s system is starting to show signs of age. In recent years, several stretches of the aqueduct system have been drained to allow replacement of cracked and bulging sections of century-old concrete. Since severe storms began lashing the eastern Sierra region in January, the DWP has been relying on tactical strategies developed during epic rainfall that ended a five-year drought in 2017. DWP crews are racing to clean out clogged culverts, divert excessive runoff into pasturelands and sage plains, and build berms to steer flood water from small towns straddling U.S. Highway 395 including Olancha, Cartago, Lone Pine, Big Pine and Bishop. Gazing at snow-clad Sierra peaks to the west, Perez said, “If all that snow comes down hot and heavy when the weather warms up, the challenge will be to protect Owens Valley’s communities from flooding.” There is a silver lining to the situation, however: For the first time in six years, Los Angeles can expect to receive a majority of its water from the aqueduct at least through late fall, Perez said. Only a year ago, at the tail end of the worst drought in 1,200 years, the aqueduct was delivering about 13% of the city’s water supplies, with much of the rest purchased from the State Water Project and the Colorado River. REPAIR WORK on a concrete-lined section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in the Owens Valley on Wednesday. Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times Amid flooding, workers struggle to maintain water lifeline for L.A. [Aqueduct, from A1] L.A. Aqueduct breached near Olancha L.A. Aqueduct breached near Olancha Los Angeles Los Angeles Fresno Bakersfield akersfield Lancaster Lancaster CALIFORNIA ALIFORNIA NEV. Santa Barbara Santa Barbara 30 miles © OpenStreetMap contributors State of California Paul Duginski Los Angeles Times

LATIMES.COM SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 A7 BUSINESS But critics say Amazon hasn’t done enough to root out blind spots in the data it collects. Online merchants have complained for years that wrong-headed or malicious customer feedback can get them booted off the company’s web store. A Bloomberg investigationin 2021 revealed that Amazon algorithms were failing to capture real-world conditions — weather, bad roads, traffic — and punishing delivery drivers for delays over which they had little control. The racial bias alleged by contractors is subtle and difficult to detect in any individual response. When a customer metes out a thumbs-down, a list of checkable options pops up, including such vague choices as “driver did not follow my delivery instructions” and “driver was unprofessional” that don’t require any substantiation. But when Amazon aggregates the feedback to calculate scores, the racial divide is undeniable, the business owners say. This kind of feedback is prone to “implicit bias” from customers who may be more forgiving of minor mistakes from people who look like them and judge those perceived as outsiders more critically, said NiCole Buchanan, a psychology professor at Michigan State University. “It’s rarely someone overtly racist trying to do harm,” she said. “It’s all done very subtly.” Dallan Flake, a law professor at Gonzaga University, said it’s also difficult to hold employers accountable because you have to prove the feedback is having a disWhen an Amazon.com delivery driver drops a package at someone’s home, the customer can give them a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down — feedback the company uses to help determine how much to pay the driver’s employer and whether they keep their job. In doing so, Amazon is trusting the customer to provide an honest rating. But what if the person is biased against the driver? That possibility is a matter of growing concern for Amazon delivery contractors who employ Black, Latino and Asian drivers. Time and again, they say, their employees of color get worse customer feedback than their white counterparts. Because the phenomenon affects some of their most productive employees, the delivery company owners suspect racial bias is to blame. The delivery contractors say they’ve raised their concerns to multiple Amazon managers. The topic has also been discussed on Ignite, an online forum Amazon set up for delivery contractors to swap advice and discuss challenges. Amazon personnel monitor the forum and sometimes participate but have never engaged in the conversations about possible racial bias, according to the contractors. Nor has the company taken steps to address the issue, they said. In interviews, eight current and former Amazon delivery contractors operating in Los Angeles, Seattle, Georgia, Northern California and the Northeast all described the same pattern: lower ratings for drivers of color, especially when deployed to neighborhoods where their race or ethnicity stand out. The contractors’ suspicions dovetail with decades of academic research documenting how racial, gender and age bias all influence customer impressions of service workers, from waiters to taxi drivers. Companies have been accused for years of doing too little to prevent bias from affecting customer feedback but are harvesting more of this kind of data all the time. “To give your customer that much power over the delivery process itself, you’re assuming that customer is coming from a good-natured position,” said an Amazon contractor in Northern California, who, like other delivery company owners, requested anonymity to avoid harming his relationship with Amazon. “That’s the flaw.” Amazon spokesperson Maria Boschetti didn’t deny that racial bias is affecting customer reviews of drivers but said the company hasn’t ignored the issue. “We take any such concerns seriously and investigate every credible complaint — reviewing all available information, then taking appropriate action based on the facts available to us,” she said in an emailed statement. Boschetti said Amazon stops delivering packages to customers who abuse or may pose a threat to drivers. She also said the company doesn’t collect or store any demographic data about drivers. Amazon isn’t the only tech company accused of letting racial bias affect its operations. Uber Technologies was sued for allegedly firing minority drivers based on how they were rated by customers. A federal judge in March 2022 said the plaintiffs failed to prove discrimination but gave them time to amend their complaint. Airbnb has struggled for years to stop hosts from discriminating against Black people looking to rent vacation properties. After being sued by a Black man alleging such prejudice, the company implemented a range of measures, including preventing hosts from seeing a photo of would-be renters until after they had accepted their business. proportionate effect on drivers of color. Moreover, he said, the law doesn’t provide for punitive damages. “Amazon isn’t immune to litigation, but they’re probably not worried about facing a big classaction lawsuit,” said Flake, who has studied bias in consumer feedback for years. “They have no motivation to do something that in the end could end up costing them if driver feedback scores improve.” Amazon launched its “delivery service partner” program in 2018, inviting entrepreneurs to start their own businesses. Globally, the program has grown to more than 3,000 contractors with about 275,000 drivers. Amazon doesn’t employ the drivers but monitors them with cameras, vehicle sensors and smartphone apps. It keeps track of how many times a driver stops short or speeds, whether they wear a seat belt and whether they turn off the engine at each stop. Amazon scores each delivery business based on metrics such as the number of deliveries completed, safety records and customer reviews. The problem with relying on customer feedback to help determine overall scores, according to the delivery contractors, is that most people don’t provide a review. Feedback rates of 1% or less are common, contractors say, so a business that delivers tens of thousands of packages each week will receive reviews from just a few hundred customers. As a result, they say, a small group of people has outsize influence over scores. The scorecards play a crucial role in how much delivery contractors earn. Good marks are required to receive bonuses, which often determine whether they make a profit. Poor marks can be devastating to the bottom line, according to the contractors, who say Amazon has little incentive to change the process because it saves the company money. Besides, the contractors say, they have no power to compel Amazon to make changes. “You can’t tell an 800-pound gorilla they didn’t think this through when they put it together,” said one delivery business owner in the Atlanta metropolitan area. “They don’t want to hear about it because it works in their favor.” The scorecards also help determine whether drivers are promoted, retained or fired. Fear of Amazon canceling their contracts could prompt some delivery companies to punish drivers with poor ratings, even if they suspect racial bias is at work, four contractors said. Delivery businesses worried about their overall scores could even fire drivers or avoid hiring people of color, they said. Amazon contract drivers don’t know which customers leave reviews so they have no way of knowing how their performance is being assessed. But several drivers of color told Bloomberg they’ve encountered varying degrees of hostility during their rounds. Veronica Saxon worked as an Amazon delivery driver for about a year in Michigan until she was injured during a collision in December. The job was the first time she experienced racism, said Saxon, who is Black. At one home, she said, a man and his son pulled guns on her as she walked down the driveway to put a package on their doorstep. Saxon’s employer assured her that such instances were rare, so she continued the job and the dispatcher never sent her back to that neighborhood. Several months later, she said, a white woman followed her for four hours. “She said she was just making sure everything was OK,” Saxon said. “After four hours, I took a photo of her license plate and told her I’d call the police if she kept following me.” The woman backed off. It’s hard for drivers to know why customers give critical feedback because there are so many variables, she said. Some might be racist and others might be mad you asked them to leash their loose dog, said Saxon, who said she was bitten twice while making Amazon deliveries. “It might be racism and it might not be,” she said. “When I started the job, people warned me about delivering to homes with Trump flags, but they turned out to be some of my nicest customers who talked to me and gave me snacks and drinks.” Another Black driver who has been delivering Amazon packages for three years in Atlanta said racism is a constant concern among drivers, especially in predominately white, gated communities. “Amazon knows what’s going on,” said the driver, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is still working for an Amazon delivery business. “It works out in Amazon’s favor if we get more negative feedback than positive because they can use that to deprive us of bonus payments and raises.” Some white customers get upset when he takes a photo of a package on their stoop, as required by Amazon to verify a completed delivery. Some homeowners loose their dogs as he’s approaching, and he’s been bitten twice. Others ask to see his identification. Such interactions don’t happen in Black and Latino neighborhoods, he said. The driver said his boss has discussed racism with employees and encourages them to chronicle every incident so they can provide details to Amazon. “We expect racism and we deal with it on a daily basis, so it becomes the norm,” he said. “When you deliver in a white community, you can feel it. People just stare. They don’t smile or wave or anything.” A former Amazon employee said the company could do more to respond to bias in driver ratings, including designing the feedback system to focus on constructive input and tamping down on potentially racist or useless commentary. “If Amazon’s going to score people, discipline people and fire people, they’ve got to make sure that the product’s right,” said this person, who requested anonymity to protect professional relationships. Rooting out biased customer feedback isn’t easy. But given Amazon’s expertise in consumer behavior, said Purdue University computer science professor Aniket Bera, it should be in a better position than many to address the issue. “The company has enough data to at least partially fix the problem,” he said. For now, delivery companies are trying to work around the more blatant racism that their employees experience. They give drivers routes where they’re less likely to stand out. They report incidents of pulled guns and other intimidation to Amazon. At a training session conducted at a company facility in Los Angeles, a delivery contractor said instructors — fellow owners — emphasized safety and told newbies to understand the ethnic and racial makeup of their areas and to assign personnel accordingly. Soper and Day write for Bloomberg. Do Amazon delivery reviews reflect bias? Black, Latino, Asian drivers often get worse feedback than white ones, contractors say DELIVERY contractors say they’ve raised their concerns about racial bias in customer reviews of drivers to multiple Amazon managers but the e-commerce giant hasn’t taken steps to address the issue. Above, an Amazon fulfillment center in San Diego. Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times By Spencer Soper and Matt Day Amazon has ‘no motivation to do something that ... could end up costing them if driver feedback scores improve.’ — DALLAN FLAKE, law professor at Gonzaga University The winner of the $2-billion Powerball jackpot bought his second multimillion-dollar home in recent weeks, dropping $3.98 million on an Altadena house not far from where he purchased his life-changing lottery ticket. Edwin Castro, who came forward last month as California Lottery’s first billionaire winner, closed on the Altadena home not long after purchasing a $25.5-million home in Hollywood Hills. He bought the second house through a limited liability company, public records show, as he did with the Hollywood Hills mansion. Since Castro collected his prize — choosing a lump sum of nearly $1 billion — he has returned once to the Altadena gas station where he bought the Powerball ticket, said Joseph Chahayed, the owner of Joe’s Mobile Service. “He just came to tell me, ‘Thank you. This changed my life,’ ” Chahayed said in an interview Friday. Although Castro declined to speak publicly after accepting his prize, he said in a statement that he was “shocked and ecstatic” about winning, and was glad to learn that California public schools would also receive a large check from the deal. In their brief conversation, Castro told Chahayed that he was hoping to find a way to help unhoused youth with his newfound fortune, the gas station owner said. “I encouraged him to be generous,” Chahayed said. “I hope he [doesn’t] waste it; he can use it for good.” The single-story Altadena house Castro bought was built in 1953 and sits on almost three-quarters of an acre. It includes five bedrooms, five bathrooms and a saltwater pool, according to the listing.Described as Japanese-inspired modern, the 4,361-square-foot home is only about three miles from the gas station on West Woodbury Road where he bought the winning Powerball ticket in November. Chahayed said Castro used to come into the gas station regularly to buy coffee, a pastry and a lottery ticket, but after the Powerball winner was announced, he seemingly disappeared. “He got the lucky one,” Chahayed said. And now, others in the area are hoping the luck at the gas station will continue. “The lottery sales [have] increased, like triple time,” Chahayed said. Times staff writer Jack Flemming contributed to this report. Powerball winner buys another multimillion-dollar home By Grace Toohey

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Although the job market has remained remarkably solid, other parts of the economy have already begun to weaken under the weight of higher rates. On Friday, reports on the economy came in mixed. One showed orders for longlasting manufactured goods were slower last month than economists expected. A second report, though, suggested the fastest uptick in business activity for almost a year. The preliminary report from S&P Global topped economists’ expectations. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell said worries about a pullback in lending helped push the Fed to raise rates by only a quarter of a percentage point this week, instead of a more aggressive half point, in its campaign to battle inflation. Higher rates can undercut inflation by slowing the entire economy, but they raise the risk of a recession. They also hurt prices for stocks and other investA late-afternoon turnaround on Wall Street left stocks higher Friday as the market shook off a weak start amid worries about banks on both sides of the Atlantic. The Standard & Poor’s 500 rose 0.6% after slipping for most of the morning. The benchmark index marked its second straight weekly gain. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.4%. The Nasdaq composite ended 0.3% higher. The upbeat close to the week came as markets have been turbulent on worries that banks are weakening under the pressure of much higher interest rates. That’s led to rising concerns about a possible recession and uncertainty about what the Federal Reserve and other central banks will do with interest rates. “There are concerns out there about, obviously, a more severe bank crisis, both domestically and in Europe, and yet somehow markets are looking past that,” said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab. On Friday, much of the focus was on Deutsche Bank, whose stock tumbled 8.5% in Germany. This month, shares of and faith in Swiss bank Credit Suisse fell so much that regulators brokered a takeover of it by rival UBS. Credit Suisse faced a relatively unique set of longstanding troubles. But the second- and third-largest U.S. bank failures in history this month have cast a harsher spotlight across the entire banking industry. Other big European banks also fell Friday, including a 5.5% drop for Germany’s Commerzbank, a 5.3% decline for France’s BNP Paribas and a 3.5% loss for UBS. Bank stocks ended mixed on Wall Street. JPMorgan Chase fell 1.5%, while Bank of America rose 0.6%. In the U.S., the hunt by investors has primarily been for banks that could face a debilitating exodus of customers, similar to what helped cause the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. Investors have zeroed in on smaller and midsize banks, the ones that aren’t “too-big-to-fail” banks and seen as greater risks. First Republic Bank closed 1.4% lower. It’s down 90% for the year. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen has said that in cases in which the government sees a risk to the overall system, it will guarantee deposits for bank customers, even those with more than the $250,000 insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. That’s what regulators did for both Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. But Yellen this week also stopped short of a blanket guarantee for all depositors at all banks. Cash-short banks were still lining up this week to borrow money from the Fed. The Fed said Thursday that emergency lending to banks fell slightly in the last week — to $164 billion — but remained high. A big worry is that all the pressure on banks will cause a pullback in lending to ments. For Silicon Valley Bank and other banks, that meant hits to the super-safe Treasury bonds they owned. The Fed has raised its key overnight interest rate to a range of 4.75% to 5%, up from virtually zero at the start of last year. It’s hinted it may raise rates one more time before holding them there through the end of the year. Traders are more skeptical, though. The rising possibility of a recession has them betting heavily that the Fed will have to cut interest rates as soon as this summer to release some of the pressure on banks and the economy. Such speculation has added to an increased drive by investors to pile into anything seen as safe, which together have caused huge, sometimes violent swings in the bond market. On Friday, yields fell further. The 10-year yield, which helps set rates for mortgages and other loans, fell to 3.38% from 3.42% late Thursday. It was above 4% earlier this month. The drop has been even more dramatic for the twoyear Treasury yield, which more closely tracks expectations for the Fed. It sank to 3.77% from 3.83% late Thursday and from more than 5% earlier this month. All told, the S&P 500 rose 22.27 points to 3,970.99, the Dow climbed 132.28 points to 32,237.53 and the Nasdaq gained 36.56 points to close at 11,823.96. Small company stocks outgained the broader market. The Russell 2000 index rose 14.63 points, or 0.9%, to 1,734.92. Choe and Veiga write for the Associated Press. AP writers Elaine Kurtenbach, Matt Ott and Paul Wiseman contributed to this report. 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LATIMES.COM/OPINION S SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 A9 HOW TO WRITE TO US Please send letters to [email protected]. For submission guidelines, see latimes.com/letters or call 1-800-LA TIMES, ext. 74511. OPINION LETTERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A letter writer criticized teachers for striking in solidarity with SEIU workers. I doubt that person has ever been a teacher. I am a retired teacher. Support staff is essential for us to do our jobs. Without support staff, who will clean the classrooms, sanitize the desks, clean the bathrooms, feed the students, bus the children to school or keep our schools secure? These people need a living wage, full-time work and benefits. Vicki Lynch Oceanside :: The purpose of a strike is to make things uncomfortable and show how essential workers are in the running of an organization. Union workers are supposed to support one another. The more support they receive from others, the more power they have in negotiations. Organizations have lost sight of the importance of their workers, who are paid as little as possible while the managers, presidents and shareholders receive much better compensation. I worked for years in the clerical workers union at the University of California system. Some of our employees relied on food stamps. At our strike, all of the unions at UC respected picket lines. So again, yes, the teachers did and should have supported their fellow employees. Rita Skinner Riverside What has Israel become? Re “Israeli lawmakers pass judicial law to protect Netanyahu,” March 24 I recently came across a certificate for a donation to the Jewish National Fund for a tree planted in my honor in 1945 in today’s Israel — then, it was called Palestine. On several visits to Israel I went to the wall at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, where my father’s name was placed after his death in 1958. My grandmother was actually in Israel lobbying the government to build the new Hadassah Hospital at the time my father (her son) died. I remember putting money in the little blue box for Israel every Friday night at Shabbat dinner. I attended Jewish summer camps with a very Zionist bent. I grew up in a very Zionist family and have been amazed at and proud of how Israel has turned a piece of desert into a thriving democratic country. While I have frequently been angered by some of Israel’s actions, until now I have never been totally and completely disgusted. I weep for what has become of the “only democratic country in the Middle East.” My grandparents are turning in their graves. Barbara Rosen Fullerton :: Despite the hysterical claims of the left here and abroad, Israel is not “turning from democracy.” Allowing the democratically elected Knesset, or parliament, to overrule a non-democratically elected judiciary is embracing more democracy. If Israeli citizens don’t like it, they can vote in new members to the Knesset to change it. The left uses the term “threat to democracy” to hide its real concern: threats to its progressive agenda. P.J. Gendell Beverly Hills :: I am a proud American Jew who has visited and lectured on law in Israel. I am completely horrified and ashamed of its current attempt to subvert its judiciary and to promote even more settlements. While I firmly believe there is more than enough blame for both Israelis and Palestinians to share, Israel’s current behavior is beyond abhorrent. The people who barely survived the Holocaust should know better. American Jews donate millions of dollars to Israel each year. All donations should stop until Israel’s right-wing government desists from abandoning democracy and further marginalizing Palestinians. Then, maybe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will listen. Betsy Handler Pacific Palisades Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times STRIKING LAUSD workers and supporters rally at Los Angeles State Historic Park on Thursday. Re “Did teachers have to strike too?” letters, March 23 H ere we go again. The idea that Service Employees International Union Local 99 went on strike, and that United Teachers Los Angeles joined in solidarity, for anything other than the long-term benefit of families and students in L.A. public schools misses the mark by a mile. Many people who carried signs in the rain fought the same battles four years ago. Promises were made in 2019 that went unfulfilled, causing a lot of this mess. We can’t get people to fill our missing teacher assistant positions, and the same goes for many other positions that the union serves. These workers are taking up the slack and are barely making enough to eat. If the district had offered regular, sensible raises earlier, we wouldn’t have to keep coming out in force. People in the district or those writing opinions far away from the classroom don’t see what we see every day. We see the need, so we stand together to fight for what our schools and students deserve. And yes, that includes compensating workers with a fair wage. The strike ended Thursday, and Local 99 and UTLA did not back down until the Los Angeles Unified School District did what was right. Misti Kemmer, Cypress The writer was LAUSD Teacher of the Year in 2017. Teachers don’t doubt: We were right to strike OP-ED --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Chairman Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong News: Executive Editor Kevin Merida • Senior Vice President, Content Business Strategy Julia Turner • Managing Editors Shani O. Hilton, Sara Yasin • Editor at Large Scott Kraft • Deputy Managing Editors Hector Becerra, Shelby Grad, Sharon Matthews, Christian Stone • Creative Director Amy King • Assistant Managing Editors John Canalis, Steve Clow, Angel Jennings, Kimbriell Kelly, Iliana Limón Romero, Samantha Melbourneweaver, Ben Muessig, Craig Nakano, B.J. Terhune • General Manager, Food Laurie Ochoa • General Manager, Latino Initiatives Angel Rodriguez • Opinion: Editorial Page Editor Terry Tang • Deputy Editorial Page Editor Mariel Garza • Business: President and Chief Operating Officer Chris Argentieri • Chief Human Resources Officer Nancy V. Antoniou • Chief of Staff; Head of Strategy and Revenue Anna Magzanyan • Chief Information Officer Ghalib Kassam • General Counsel Jeff Glasser • V.P., Communications Hillary Manning FOUNDED DECEMBER 4, 1881 A Publication W hen I think of Ramadan, I do not actually think of the hardest part — the long daylight hours without food or water. I think instead of the communal aspects of it: waking up in the darkest hours with the other people in your house who are fasting, being with them during the daytime while you are sharing this experience, and the best part of all, preparing the evening meal, then taking those first bites at iftar together to break the fast. Since Ramadan (or Ramzan, it depends on what part of the Muslim world you are from) began this week, people have greeted one another with “Ramadan kareem” or “Ramzan mubarak.” It may sound odd to congratulate someone on the arrival of a month of austerities, but fasting is not meant as an austerity, but rather as a chance to experience the body and the mind both in new ways. And the very point of it is not to go through all of this alone as an individual but to participate in it as a community — not just the community in your house or in your town, but in a real way with Muslims around the world. Like many members of the LGBTQ+ Muslim community, however, I have felt the pain of exclusion with our identities not always being accepted by our families or mosques. I have had to build my community in my own way and in the way I knew how. The solitude of fasting was nothing new to me, and neither was the notion that my body might exist in a larger community in a way that no one else’s does. When I fast, I am reminded how individual I am, how my own life is like no one else’s. When people ask me if I am a “practicing” Muslim, I often do not know how to answer. What they want to know usually is, do I eat “halal” or do I pray five times a day, the answer to both of which is no. They may also, by implication, be asking me if I am a “compliant” Muslim. But there is no “original” Islam. Immediately upon its founding there were variants. After some core basic beliefs, different communities had different approaches. It was not a “schism” but a natural flow from a source. My answer to the “practicing” question is usually “yes, but not in the way that you think.” It’s an answer that surprises people. I haven’t always felt part of conventional Muslim spaces, but I’ve learned to create my own communities during Ramzan. That includes hosting iftar, with my partner, to cultivate a place where I can both feel a sense of belonging and extend that to others. One year I held iftars for all the Muslim students at the college where I used to teach. Word slowly spread, and our dinners of five or six grew to 20 to 30 people. One day a visiting scholar from Indonesia came. She was wearing traditional dress but had all her hair tucked up under a baseball cap. My partner and I thought it humorous, but no one said anything. The next week she came back, this time wearing a hijab. She said to me, “When I first arrived in the United States, I wasn’t sure how people would respond to my hijab, so I wore my hair under the cap. But when I came to your house and saw you and your partner serving everyone food, I realized that there are a lot of different ways of being Muslim, and I knew that people would accept me.” Without even knowing it, I had made a space for her to be the type of Muslim she wanted to be. And that’s what Ramzan is for me, even more than feeding oneself and others with generosity and kindness: making others feel at home. To me, Ramzan means family. I still remember those early morning hours waking with my mother and sharing time in the twilight. I remember the panoply of fruits my aunt Jaffery would set on the table, the year of my first fast at age 9, for us to break our fast in advance of the feast meant to follow. I was too young then to start fasting, but I insisted on doing so along with my girl cousins. I have fasted in India, in Paris, in the cold winters of Buffalo, N.Y., and the hot summers of the Canadian prairie city of Winnipeg. One summer I fasted in Ramallah, high in the West Bank hills, and drove into Jerusalem to go to Al Aqsa Mosque for the Friday prayers. When friends ask me questions about fasting, I tell them to try it for a day. See what it is like. It is experiential and it is meant to bring you closer to yourself, to your communities and to the world around you. Kazim Aliis the author of “Fasting for Ramadan” and the forthcoming collection “Sukun: New and Selected Poems.” He is a professor and chair of the Department of Literature at UC San Diego. @KazimAliPoet How LGBTQ+ Muslims like me create community during Ramadan By Kazim Ali Coming together to break our fast during this holy season helps many of us to feel at home as well as connected to the rest of the Muslim world. H aving a child is the most emphatic statement of hope a person can make. I have three young kids, and yet I have trouble remaining optimistic about the world they and their children will inhabit in 2100 and beyond. The world 77 years from now is likely to be far hotter and more unstable, warmed in a way that depopulates entire metropolises and renders farmland nonarable. It’s a world the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns will become reality unless we make dramatic, immediate reductions in our fossil fuel use. We’re not on track to make those changes in time to prevent a world in which animal and plant species will die off at an alarming rate. And yet, kids deserve to have hope. But not false hope. That was emphasized to me by Peter Kalmus, one of the climate scientists I called a few months ago to discuss the dissonance of raising children in a world we know to be headed for breakdown. In fact, “Earth breakdown” was the term he used to describe the ecological collapses and natural disasters that would be brought about by the global warming we face. Kalmus told me his children, both teenagers, don’t talk to him much about climate change. “I think false hope is a dangerous thing in general because it contributes to a lack of urgency, when we should all be feeling extreme urgency instead,” Kalmus told me. He said he doesn’t try to fill his children with pessimism, but “what I emphatically would not do is lie to my kids in any way.” So he gives his children hope by actually trying to prevent Earth breakdown. And Kalmus is trying, arguably as hard as anyone. He and three scientists were arrested last year for chaining themselves to a Chase Bank in downtown Los Angeles to protest JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s industry-leading fossil fuel investments. More recently, he chained himself to the door of a private-jet terminal in Charlotte, N.C., saying the climate emergency requires ramping down aviation. His civil disobedience is getting the attention of young people. He is the only climate scientist whom any of my children have mentioned to me by name. Kalmus’ “be the change” ethos dovetails somewhat with what Melissa Burt told me. She’s an atmospheric science professor at Colorado State University who also helped found Science Moms, a climate advocacy campaign aimed at parents. “Climate change literally affects everything, and that’s why people need to know,” Burt said. “What is one thing you love to do? Well, we can have a conversation about how that will be different.” Parents taking concrete action can indicate to their children that they actually care about the problem, she said. On that front, we’ve made progress in our home. For much of my life I’ve been an enthusiastic cyclist and transit commuter, so my children have grown up using sustainable transportation. We’ve also had an electric car since 2018, and early in the pandemic we stopped eating meat (animal agriculture is the second-biggest human-caused source of greenhouse gas emissions). That last change was the easiest to make, as our kids never could morally square the idea that animals needed to die so they could eat. Plus, cutting out meat right before inflation spiked was good timing. Above all, it’s important for parents not to avoid discussing climate change. Children have a much stronger sense of impending calamity than adults give them credit for, and we owe them the benefit of honest guidance. Burt mentioned the December 2021 wildfire near her in Boulder, Colo. She said her daughter has asked her, “Mommy, why am I smelling smoke?” Kalmus, who until recently lived in Altadena, cited the 2020 Bobcat fire as a traumatic event for his family. My children notice the forest that once shaded a favorite hike has been reduced to blackened, dead tree trunks by wildfire. And they ask why. My older children have learned the basics about climate change in their classrooms; I try to relate some of that to what they see when we’re out in nature. They’ve asked about fires and water restrictions, and even why I’m so reluctant to turn on the heater. Each conversation is an opportunity to discuss not only climate change, but also what we’re doing at our house to not contribute to the problem. Action and example give hope. So does knowing that scientists, such as Kalmus and Burt, are working on the problem for us and their own children. — Paul Thornton, letters editor IT’S IMPORTANT for parents not to avoid discussing climate change. Above, children watch from Monrovia as the Bobcat fire burns in 2020. Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times LETTER FROM ... Yes, you can talk to kids about climate without being bleak Convey urgency, not false hope. The key is to steer the conversation toward decisive action.

A10 SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 S LATIMES.COM NASHVILLE — Four of five former Memphis police officers charged in the killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who was handcuffed, brutally beaten and ignored by first responders for crucial minutes despite being barely conscious, can no longer work in law enforcement in Tennessee. The Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission voted Friday to decertify Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith. The state panel also approved the decision by Desmond Mills Jr. to surrender his certification. The former officers have 30 days to appeal. Nichols, 29, was beaten during a late-night traffic stop Jan. 7. The commission subsequently released documents showing that Haley dragged Nichols from his vehicle and never explained why he was stopped, and that he took photos of Nichols slumped against the car after he was pummeled by officers and sent the pictures to colleagues. Nichols died at a hospital Jan. 10. Early police accounts minimized the violence of the traffic stop — accounts since disproved by witness statements and police and surveillance video — and their specialized unit was disbanded. Two Memphis Fire Department emergency medical workers and a lieutenant were also fired. The five former police officers charged with seconddegree murder have all pleaded not guilty. The Memphis Police Department requested the decertification of seven of the former Memphis officers involved, including one who retired before he could be fired. None of the fired officers or their attorneys attended their hearings before the commission Thursday or its vote Friday. Mills’ attorney said his client had been wrongly indicted and was “focusing on his freedom.” “It’s a waste of time,” attorney Blake Ballin said of the decertification attempt. “It is meaningless to him at this stage in his life.” An attorney for Haley declined to comment on the decertification vote. Attorneys for Martin and Smith did not immediately respond to phone messages seeking comment. In a letter included in the file seeking his decertification, Smith defended his conduct, stating that Nichols was “violent and would not comply.” The fifth former officer charged, Tadarrius Bean, has not yet had his decertification hearing before the commission. Neither have two former officers who were not charged: Preston Hemphill, who was terminated after firing a stun gun at Nichols during the traffic stop; and Dewayne Smith, the supervising lieutenant who arrived on scene after the beating, who retired before his potential firing. A seventh police employee who was fired has not been publicly named. During Nichols’ funeral, Vice President Kamala Harris urged lawmakers to approve the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a broad package of reforms that includes a national registry for police officers disciplined for misconduct, a ban on noknock warrants and other measures. 4 officers in Nichols’ death barred from law enforcement Tennessee panel votes to decertify ex-cops for violent traffic stop in Memphis on Jan. 7. associated press HUNDREDS GATHER Jan. 29 in Oakland to protest the police beating of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tenn. Tayfun Coskun Anadolu Agency way,” she said. “I am hopeful that is the beginning of a new relationship that will lead to a stronger LAUSD.” A broader context All three leaders talked of a strike and a settlement that was bigger than Los Angeles and the school district and emblematic of the problems affecting working-class families. “The fact of the matter is, the majority of SEIU 99 workers don’t just work in our schools,” Bass said. “They are LAUSD parents as well. And today for too many hardworking people, working full time is just too hard — to put a roof over their heads and put food on the table. This is about the high cost of living in Los Angeles. Los Angeles, as everybody knows, has become virtually unaffordable.” Said Arias: “I want to appreciate the 30,000 members that sacrificed three days of work, despite low income, to raise the issue to society, that we as a society need to do better for all workers, all working people, for everyone.” Carvalho said the agreement was ultimately forged by common understanding. “I’ve said since I arrived in Los Angeles that impossible conditions faced by many of our employees, many of our children and their families are real,” he said, “whether it is the unaffordability of housing, whether it is the unhoused nature of many of our children or their parents — or in some cases, members of our workforce.” The Local 99 strike is part of a larger context of assertive union activism across the country largely over widening financial inequalities, said William B. Gould IV, a Stanford law professor emeritus, author and former chair of the National Labor Relations Board. “There is, in general, a greater willingness on the part of organized labor to stand up for workers in the last year or so — a greater audacity,” Gould said. The three-day walkout was “an attempt to reach an equitable settlement but also an attempt to get the attention of the public,” he added. Gould was not surprised that UTLA honored the picket lines: “What is unusual about this is the fact that these [Local 99] workers, who are so marginalized, are willing to establish picket lines.” Joy and relief At the grassroots level the deal translates to Erika Rioverde moving from about $15 an hour to the district’s new minimum of $22.52. The raise will provide much-needed relief and security for her family, said Rioverde, who works as a community representative at Parmelee Avenue Elementary School. She hopes to be able to buy ingredients for meals her son wants to eat, rather than buying only food that is on sale. “You don’t even know how happy I am,” said Rioverde, who has worked in L.A. Unified for nine years. “Finally, something is changing.” Veronica De La Paz, a campus aide and parent representative at Hobart Elementary School, said she did not expect the strike would lead to a resolution so quickly. De La Paz said she plans on socking away the money from raises in savings. She hasn’t been able to build an emergency fund with her current salary of about $1,100 a month, and often worries about how her family would weather a layoff or unexpected expense. Because she will lose three days of pay, she’d started mentally calculating how she would stretch her next paycheck. She said she was grateful for the backing from the teachers union. “I thought: ‘We have to fight for this.’ The three days were worth it,” she said. For Carmen Carbajal, who works as a special-education assistant at Bandini Elementary School in San Pedro, the extra money will go toward paying off more than $4,000 in credit card debt she accumulated to pay off utility bills and put gas in her car. She also hopes to repair the leaky roof in her garage. “I will be able to breathe a little bit,” said Carbajal, who has worked in the district for more than 25 years and earns $22 an hour. Details of the deal The general raises include retroactive payments for workers employed at the time: 6% as of July 1, 2021; 7% more as of July 1, 2022; and 7% more as of July 1, 2023. Workers active in 2020 also will receive a $1,000 bonus. And on July 1, 2024, all workers will receive $2 an hour more, which will most benefit those at the bottom end of the scale. Arias had once said he wouldn’t return to the table unless L.A. Unified was prepared to offer 30%. The deal allows him to get to that number for many employees — and well past it for some. The deal also guarantees health benefits for all workers and their families if the employees work at least four hours a day. And some workers will get the increased hours they said they needed. Carvalho had warned that demands from the Local 99 and the teachers union could put the district on the brink of insolvency. But on Friday, he said the deal was structured in a way that staggered the spending, making it affordable. Those watching from the outside expressed cautious optimism. “It is a historic day in L.A. public education that wouldn’t have been possible without the sacrifice of students, families and workers, as well as the leadership of the mayor and cooperation from both sides,” said Ana Teresa Dahan, managing director of GPSN, a local education advocacy group. “There’s no question that the workers deserved the raise,” said Pedro Noguera, dean of the USC Rossier School of Education. “My hope is that this deal won’t create financial instability for the district. If that happens everybody loses.” Among those less impressed with the outcome was Lance Christensen, a union critic who recently ran unsuccessfully for state superintendent of public instruction. “What happened wasn’t a negotiation, it was a hostage exchange,” Christensen said. “One need not to be cynical to realize that the union used the children of LAUSD to get the deal they wanted while the district caved to a fiscally imprudent deal. UTLA is bound to leverage the students for a similar deal soon.” Mayor enters fray The end of the strike — which had a fixed duration — did not end the contract dispute, and hanging over negotiations was the possibility of future job actions. An important breakthrough was the intervention of Bass, who stepped in Wednesday to mediate. Early word of Bass’ involvement came Wednesday, posted on social media by Los Angeles school officials. This announcement and subsequent comments from those on both sides were intentionally spare on details, to avoid exacerbating tensions. For Bass, the strike was the most high-profile emergency to hit L.A. since she took office in December. The mayor told reporters Friday that she was engaging with the opposing parties even before workers walked off the job. She invited both LAUSD and union leaders to City Hall because it was a “neutral space.” The parties met for long sessions, going back and forth into different rooms, she said. The union had defined the walkout as a three-day protest of unfair labor practices, which typically involve allegations that an employer has interfered in legally protected, union-related activity. L.A. Unified challenged this rationale in a filing with state regulators in a lastditch attempt to prevent the strike. The district said that the alleged labor violations were a pretext to launch a strike before the conclusion of a legally mandated negotiation process. District and union reach agreement MEMBERS of Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union picket at Los Angeles State Historic Park on Thursday. Photographs by Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times THE DEAL will provide raises of 30% or more spread over several years to LAUSD’s lowest-wage workers. [Schools, from A1]

CALIFORNIA S ATURDAY , MARCH 25 , 2023 :: L ATIMES.COM/CALIFORNIA D B SPORTS ON THE BACK: Shohei Ohtani turns focus to making Angels champions. B12 After years of extreme drought and dismal snowpack, California has had a remarkably wet winter and is now veering into record-setting territory for snowfall. As of Friday, the snowpack in the southern Sierra Nevada was at 286% of normal — the highest figure ever, easily eclipsing the region’s benchmark of 263% set in 1969. In a tweet, the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab said this year recently surpassed 1982-83 as the second-snowiest on record since measurements began in 1946. “We’ll get closer over the next week” to the top spot on the list, the lab said. Its measured season total was 677 inches of snow, or 56.4 feet, so far. In the central Sierra, snowpack was at 230% of normal. In the northern Sierra, the figure was 182%, trailing the 1983 level. Statewide, the snowpack is at 228% of normal, hovering near the record level set in the April 1 survey of 1952, 237% of average. The level during the annual April 1 snow survey in 1983 was 227%. The average snow-water equivalent across the state was 58.1 inches, or nearly 5 feet, of water stored in the snowpack. While the 1952 survey still takes the cake, the process then included fewer survey measurements, making it difficult to compare to today’s figures, said Sean DeGuzman of the California Department of Water Resources. That means that, statewide, snowpack measurements are currently “higher than any other reading since the snow sensor network was established in the mid-1980s.” Comparison issues notwithstanding, “this year will certainly be in the top three or four snowpack years since the 1950s,” DeGuzman said. And more snow is likely on the way. The National Weather Service’s Sacramento office said on Twitter that “heavy snow is expected Monday PM - Wednesday, heaviest Tuesday.” With floods already an issue in much of the state, a record snowmelt is now a real concern. “There’s more water in the Sierra than these facilities can handle,” DWR Director Karla Nemeth said of the state’s reservoirs. The agency will take steps to “minimize and mitigate flood damage” during what is expected to be a “very long duration snowmelt.” Reflecting on a wild winter in California, she said the state is “unique across the western U.S.” in its capacity to “move from very, very wet to very, very dry and back to very, very wet.” A SNOWY Mt. Whitney on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, as seen Thursday from Whitney Portal Road in Lone Pine. With floods already an issue in much of the state, a record snowmelt is a real concern. Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times Snowpack in southern Sierra hits a record 286% of normal By Terry Castleman Political divide hits high schools California campuses experience conflict as much as other states do, study finds. B3 Aurora visible in N. California Powerful geomagnetic storm made Arctic light show evident unusually far south. B3 A recall backed by the dead? Petition to remove Gascón had 367 signatures of people not alive at the time. B3 Lottery ...................... B4 Three Los Angeles police officers are suing the owner of killercop.com, accusing him of publishing their photos on his website and putting out a “bounty” on them. It is the first legal action stemming from the Los Angeles Police Department’s release of the names and photos of almost every sworn officer — more than 9,300 officers, including some who work undercover — as part of a public records request. A police watchdog group posted the images online last week. The lawsuit, which was filed Friday by the Los Angeles Police Protective League on behalf of Officers Adam Gross, Adrian Rodriguez and Douglas Panameno, asks that the photos and other identifying information be taken down from the killercop.com site. In a tweet mentioned in the lawsuit, Steven Sutcliffe, who posts under the handle @KillerCop1984, allegedly wrote, “Remember, #Rewards are double all year for #detectives and #female cops.” The tweet included an image of a monetary reward for killing an LAPD officer, the lawsuit says. According to the suit, a later tweet allegedly included a link to a database of officer photos, along with the caption, “Clean headshots on these #LAPD officers. A to Z.” In an interview Friday, Sutcliffe said of the lawsuit, “It’s malicious. It’s retaliatory. It is vindictive and frivolous. Their motion is filled with lies.” He added: “They are trying to silence my free speech. The truth cannot be retaliatory. It is 1st Amendment protected speech.” The information about the officers was turned over by LAPD officials in response to a public records request by a journalist with the nonprofit newsroom Knock LA, then posted by Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a group that wants to abolish traditional law enLAPD officers sue owner of anti-cop website They accuse him of publishing their photos and placing a ‘bounty’ on them. By Libor Jany and Richard Winton [See ‘Bounty,’ B2] State regulators have warned Los Angeles County officials that they will probably shut down the county’s two long-troubled juvenile halls — an unprecedented order that would further destabilize the nation’s largest juvenile justice system and leave officials scrambling to find suitable places for hundreds of youth in their care. In a letter Thursday to Interim Probation Chief Karen Fletcher, the California Board of State and Community Corrections said it would decide in three weeks whether Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar and Central Juvenile Hall in downtown L.A. — two facilities the board has repeatedly found out of compliance with state regulations — should be closed. The board has determined the county’s juvenile halls were “unsuitable” to house youths in the past, but gave the Probation Department time to submit a “corrective action plan” to comply with state regulations. But the most recent plan submitted by the Probation Department lacked specificity or a timeline for improvement, according to the letter, which said this time there will be no opportunity for the county to course-correct after the vote. “If the board determines that the facilities are not suitable for the confinement CLOSURE LOOMS FOR TWO JUVENILE HALLS Corrections board will make final decision on troubled L.A. County facilities in mid-April. By Rebecca Ellis and James Queally [See Juvenile halls, B2] When Sheriff Robert Luna was sworn into office in December, he inherited an embattled department prone to scandal and turmoil. There were lawsuits, investigations, consent decrees and deputy “gangs” to contend with — not to mention repairing the discord sown during the tenure of his truculent predecessor. “There are, unfortunately, fractured relationships that need to be fixed,” Luna told The Times last year. “Sometimes,” he added, “the way you approach governing makes a huge difference.” True as that may be, the steady stream of problems he’s facing has hardly slowed down: Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge to hold the county and the sheriff in contempt for failing to fix deteriorating conditions at the jails. Two days later, the Civilian Oversight Commission released a scathing report detailing the history of gangs within the department’s ranks. One week after that, questions surfaced about whether LOS ANGELES County Sheriff Robert Luna, pictured in January, recently told The Times, “I’m going to be recognized as a sheriff who follows the law.” Jason Armond Los Angeles Times 99 days in, sheriff talks policies, ‘gangs,’ tattoos Sitting down with The Times, Robert Luna also discusses oversight of Los Angeles County’s jails By Keri Blakinger and Connor Sheets [See Sheriff, B4] Four years ago, when Alejandro Giammattei was elected president of Guatemala, immigrants living in the United States were able to vote for the first time. In that experimental election, 734 votes were counted among the four polling stations that were installed in Los Angeles, Houston, New York City and Silver Spring, Md. — a tiny fraction of the more than 5 million votes cast. But in this year’s presidential contest, scheduled for June 25, there will be voting centers again in Los Angeles and Houston — the two U.S. cities with the largest number of Guatemalan immigrants — as well as in 13 other locations including Miami, Atlanta, Raleigh, N.C., and Chicago. The deadline for Guatemalans living in the United States to register to vote is Saturday. Both in Guatemala, a country racked with violence, corruption and economic inequalities, as well as in expatriate communities in the U.S., the upcoming election is stirring up a host of anxieties. For Alicia Ivonne Estrada, a Guatemala native and professor of Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge, it gives rise to fear and mistrust deriving from her experience in 2019, when she went to the local consulate to vote but wasn’t A WORKER processes registration data of Guatemalans in L.A. who’ll vote in their nation’s election. Soudi Jimenez Los Angeles Times On U.S. soil and a voice back home Guatemalans can vote for their country’s next leader, but time’s almost up to register. By Soudi Jiménez [See Guatemalans, B4]

B2 SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 S LATIMES.COM of youth, the county must vacate the juvenile halls within 60 days following the determination,” wrote Allison Ganter, the board’s deputy director. The probation department did not answer an emailed list of questions on Friday. County officials initially believed they had until the state regulators met in midJune to fix the myriad problems the agency highlighted within the two facilities at the start of the year. Between Central and Nidorf, the state board found 39 areas of noncompliance — many of them stemming from the department’s staffing crisis. Problems included youths being confined in their rooms for too long, not being given enough time outdoors, and staff not having proper training in the agency’s use-of-force policy. On March 14, the county submitted an eight-page plan to the state agency, which officials hoped would steer the facilities back into compliance. But Ganter wrote Thursday that the board found the plan “inadequate” as it failed to fully address the critical staffing issues. She said the board now planned to decide on April 13 on whether to order the facilities vacated, leaving the Probation Department just three weeks to outline an overhaul dramatic enough to persuade regulators to keep the facilities open. A spokesperson for the county’s chief executive office said the county is working quickly to craft a “supplemental action plan” that responds to the agency’s concerns and is anticipating receiving “technical assistance from the state in achieving a timely turnaround.” The threat of shutdown is the latest in a long string of calamities for the Probation Department over the past two years. Chief Adolfo Gonzales was fired earlier this month after a Times investigation revealed he overrode the decision to fire a supervisor at the center of a controversial video that showed officers dogpiling a teen and bending his legs over his head, despite the fact that he did not appear to be resisting them. That case is now the subject of separate investigations by the L.A. County district attorney’s office and the Office of the Inspector General. Last November, a Times investigation detailed months of chaos inside Central and Nidorf. Fearful of rising violence in the halls, officers began calling out en masse, leaving the halls severely understaffed and prompting the widespread use of lockdowns. The paper-thin staffing situation often left youths isolated and with limited access to schooling or therapy. Last month, a probation officer and a youth recently transferred back to the county from the state Division of Juvenile Justice were both stabbed in separate incidents at Nidorf’s Secure Youth Track Facility, which houses juveniles charged with serious felonies, including murder and sexual assault. Raymond Bradford Jr., who turned 18 while in custody, has been charged with multiple counts of attempted murder of a peace officer, records show. He pleaded not guilty. Several officers were listed as victims in the attack, but it was unclear how seriously they were injured. The union that represents rank-and-file probation officers declined to comment. In the second stabbing, probation officials were warned that some youths might be plotting to hurt the victim, according to Sam Lewis, a member of the Probation Oversight Commission. Lewis said he asked probation officials not to house the victim near the youth who ended up attacking him, but his concerns were ignored. “I wanna say this with emphasis: We have been lucky that no one has been killed,” Lewis told the commission last month. “When you have a director or a supervisor that wants to tell you, ‘Do not move a youth into this facility it will cause harm to that youth and it will cause harm to staff,’ and you override that anyway that tells me either you’re incompetent, you don’t care, or you’re insidious in some way.” The Probation Department has not answered questions about either attack. On Friday afternoon, the county’s Board of Supervisors met in closed session to discuss next steps after receiving the letter from the state. Board Chair Janice Hahn said in a statement the session was held to “figure out a path forward to keep both the young people in our halls and our staff safe and supported.” The private meeting comes just three days after the board votedon three motions aimed at overhauling the troubled department. The motions asked the Probation Department to work to reduce the number of teens in the department’s care and find suitable places to house young offenders arriving in the county from the state’s youth facilities, among other requests. After the nearly threehour closed session Friday, Supervisor Kathryn Barger said in a statement the board had asked Fletcher to “find solutions that will offer youth the appropriate care and rehabilitation while they’re under the county’s supervision.” “We have to get this right,” she said. If they don’t, the county will have just two months to find places for the roughly 380 kids housed in the two halls. This number could grow in the next few months as California closes its Division of Juvenile Justice and sends more youths in state facilities back to their home counties. While it is presumed the youths would go to Nidorf’s Secure Youth Track Facility, or SYTF, the lack of programming at the facility and recent violence have raised concerns about housing those returning from state facilities at Nidorf. Wende Julien, the head of the Probation Oversight Commission, said the department watchdog group had repeatedly recommended the department move these youths at the Secure Youth Track Facility to Campus Kilpatrick in Malibu or Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, which closed in 2019. It hasn’t happened. “The Probation Department has made very little progress, including that only 11 youth have been moved to Kilpatrick and the rest remain at Barry J. Nidorf.” Julien wrote in a statement. “... While the youth dispositioned to SYTF make up only approximately 20% of the population of the juvenile halls currently, the Probation Oversight Commission has recommended moving them to a more appropriate and rehabilitative location for their benefit and to address the recurring issues at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall.” She said the Oversight Commission has not received a plan from the probation department regarding vacating halls. State warns two troubled juvenile halls of closure [Juvenile halls, from B1] BARRY J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar has repeatedly been found out of compliance with regulations. Kent Nishimura Los Angeles Times TIME TO SOAK UP THE SUN Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times Josh Collins and Shauntale Johnson exercise on the Culver City Stairs on Friday. After a dreary start to the week, Southern Californians can expect sunshine and warmer temperatures this weekend. Antisemitic incidents involving harassment, vandalism and assaults surged in Southern California and the rest of the state in 2022, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League. The Jewish civil rights organization counted 237 antisemitic incidents reported in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Kern counties, a 30% increase from the previous year. Across the state, the ADL tallied 518 incidents last year, up 41% from 2021. California ranked No. 2 in the number of incidents in the United States, behind New York’s 580 incidents. Across the country, the ADL found 3,697 incidents of antisemitism last year, a 36% increase from 2021. The organization said it’s the highest number of incidents since it started tracking anti-Jewish hatred in 1979. “In a year when antisemitism found mainstream acceptance like never before, antisemites were emboldened to act on their animus,” Oren Segal, vice president of the ADL’s Center on Extremism, said in the report. “From the antisemitic ‘Great Replacement’ theory to Ye’s claims about Jewish power, these conspiracies fueled realworld incidents of hate.” Holocaust Museum LA said it received antisemitic threats on social media after Kanye West publicly rejected an invitation to a private tour of the museum in October. The institution wanted West, who now goes by Ye, “to understand just how words can incite horrific violence and genocides” after the rapper’s inflammatory remarks about the Jewish community. West espoused antisemitic conspiracy theories in social media posts and TV interviews. In October, a well-known hate group demonstrated in support of West on a 405 Freeway overpass in Los Angeles. Demonstrators gave Nazi salutes to passing motorists and unfurled a banner that read, “Kanye is right about the Jews,” according to images collected by antidiscrimination organizations. At UC Davis in August, campus police searched for four white men in black clothing who displayed Holocaust denial banners over a bicycle overpass, according to Chancellor Gary May. Antisemitic incidents on U.S. college campuses have increased by 41%, with 219 incidents reported at more than 130 campuses in 2022, the study found. “It’s deeply troubling that there was such a sharp increase in school- and college-based antisemitic acts,” Jonathan Greenblattm, the ADL’s chief executive, said in a statement. “This is a reminder of the need for more targeted education efforts aimed at rooting out hate and teaching acceptance,” Greenblatt added. “Holocaust education is increasingly important, which is why we are advocating for the passage of state laws mandating Holocaust education so schools are equipped to teach that history and ensure its lessons endure.” Reported antisemitic propaganda materials were distributed in the U.S. at a higher rate in 2022 than in previous years, with 852 incidents, compared with 422 in 2021, according to the ADL. Antisemitic fliers were spread across multiple neighborhoods in 2022, including in the San Gabriel Valley, at the start of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, authorities said. In May, a group of people dressed in clothing reminiscent of the Nazi brownshirts drove a rented truck displaying hateful messages down Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, according to watchdog group StopAntisemitism. The organization said the Goyim Defense League, which has been identified as a hate group by the ADL, was behind the incident. The ADL report claims that antisemitic activities from organized groups have surged in recent years. Nationwide, harassment jumped 29% from 2021, with 2,298 reported incidents in which antisemitic slurs, stereotypes or conspiracy theories were recorded, the ADL said. The report claims that a Jewish-owned restaurant received a call from someone who asked for the “Kanye special” and then said, “Death to all Jews.” On the first night of Hanukkah, a Texas man was arrested on suspicion of carving antisemitic, Nazi symbols into the base of a large menorah in Beverly Hills. That was one of 1,288 reported vandalism incidents across the U.S. in 2022, an increase of 435 from the year before, according to the ADL. Swastikas appeared in 792 of these incidents, up 37% from 2021. Antisemitic incidents surged in California in 2022, report says LAPD OFFICERS patrol after two Jewish men were shot in the Pico-Robertson area of L.A. in February. Christina House Los Angeles Times By Nathan Solis forcement but in the interim has pushed for radical transparency. The “Watch the Watchers” database includes each officer’s name, ethnicity, rank, date of hire, division/ bureau and badge number, as well as a photo of the officer. After the site’s launch, department leaders revealed that they inadvertently released photos of officers working in an undercover capacity, and they began an internal investigation to determine how the mistake occurred. Sources have said that the undercover officers whose identities were compromised in the release number in the dozens, if not hundreds. LAPD Chief Michel Moore said in an interview on Friday that he supports the league’s efforts to have the photos taken down from Sutcliffe’s website. He added that the department was investigating whether the “solicitation for violence against officers” was criminal in nature. “The posts, the nature of the posts, they’re not just intimidation. They’re threatening, and they may constitute a crime,” he said. “This is one of those things that I worried about and feared when we released these photographs ostensibly to be transparent, that others were going to use them to threaten our officers.” The chief said he has taken steps to address the safety concerns of those whose photos were released. “We erred in the sense that there’s photographs that are in there that should not have been in there ... but that ship has sailed,” Moore said. “All those photographs are out here. What I find concerning is that as I feared ... actors or individuals who are now taking this information and attempting to intimidate or scare and frighten.” Asked whether he knows of any officers whose covers have been blown or whether any sensitive operations had been disrupted, Moore said, “I’m not aware of any to this point.” Still, he added, the damage has been done. “It’s impacting us from a morale standpoint significantly, and from that, it’s very unfortunate,” he said. The release of the photos has rocked the LAPD. Sources said that it has spurred some officers to consider retirement. Tom Saggau, a spokesperson for the Police Protective League, which is the union representing rankand-file officers, said the league plans to pursue legal action against the city and the LAPD. Dozens of undercover officers are expected to bring a class-action lawsuit against the department, according to attorneys representing those officers. Saggau said the union is more concerned about the city’s “colossal blunder” than with the journalist who first received the photos or the watchdog group that published them. “They obtained their info through a [public records request],” he said. “It’s the city’s screw-up that disclosed information that should have never been disclosed, and other sites are exploiting that information and putting bounties on cops’ heads.” The plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Sutcliffe claim that the alleged threats, combined with their photos being circulated online, have caused them emotional distress. The three do not work in undercover assignments. Saggau said that Panameno works in the department’s Motor Transport Division. The assignments of the other two officers were not disclosed. On Monday, the union filed a formal complaint against Moore and Lizabeth Rhodes, director of the LAPD’s Office of Constitutional Policing. Moore has asked the inspector general to take over the probe to avoid a conflict of interest. Multiple LAPD sources not authorized to discuss the photo scandal said Rhodes, who oversaw the photo disclosure, should have ensured that any officer working in an undercover capacity was excluded from the information release. In a letter to Moore on Thursday, the union’s board of directors said it had lost faith in Rhodes, asking the chief to put her on home assignment. Moore said that he could not discuss the demand because it was a personnel matter. Sutcliffe has run into legal trouble before for online threats. In 2003, he pleaded guilty in federal court to eight felony charges of using a website he had created to threaten executives at Global Crossing Ltd., a fiberoptic network company in Beverly Hills from which he was twice fired. First legal action after release of photos LAPD CHIEF Michel Moore supports efforts to remove photos from an anti-police website. Allen J. Schaben L.A. 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LATIMES.COM SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 B3 CITY & STATE University of Washington senior Anthony Edwards was headed back to Seattle from a spring break road trip to the San Francisco Bay Area when a friend mentioned he might be able to see the northern lights from as far south as California late Thursday. From his hotel in Yreka — not far from the Oregon border — Edwards drove a few minutes east to try to escape any man-made light that could interfere with his view of the phenomenon, scientifically known as the aurora borealis. Before he made it even a few minutes out of the small Siskiyou County town, he said he began to notice a green hue along the horizon. When he stopped a little farther out, he said the green light was really noticeable, and his camera was able to pick up some of the purple. “I wasn’t expecting it yesterday,” said Edwards, who describes himself as a weather enthusiast and is studying meteorology and journalism. “Seeing it for the first time this far south is crazy. … It was awesome.” Space weather experts had predictedthat a “severe geomagnetic storm” Thursday evening might make the northern lights — typically seen only in regions close to the North Pole — visible to a much larger geographical area, as far south as Northern California and even northern Alabama. “We really haven’t had anything like this in several years,” said Bill Murtagh, program coordinator for the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colo., part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “The aurora was indeed visible in the mid-latitude states.” Though he called the southern showing of the northern lights “fairly rare,” it’s not unheard of. The most recent such display occurred in 2017, he said. Photos of Thursday’s spectacular showing were shared across social media, from Idaho to Wisconsin, and even farther south in Colorado and Virginia. Highly sensitive cameras can often capture the display even farther south when it can’t be seen with the naked eye, said Murtagh, who noted the skies have to be clear to view the phenomenon. As a Seattle native, Edwards said there have been a few times the northern lights were visible in his area, but it’s always been too cloudy for him to catch them. The northern lights are the result of electrons streaming from the sun and colliding with gases in the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere, typically following the magnetic field toward the North Pole, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center. But when space storms occur — as they did Thursday — the spectacular lights can extend farther toward the equator, the center said. This week, there were some eruptions on the sun, which created a geomagnetic storm, disrupting Earth’s magnetic field — and in turn initiated the display of the northern lights, according to Murtagh and his team. Over the next two to three years, as the sun enters a period of its greatest activity within its 11-year cycle, he said he expects additional eruptions as well as sun spots, which will probably cause more frequent geomagnetic storms. “As we approach the [solar] maximum, we’re going to see a lot more of these,” Murtagh said. “We could have more magnetic storming in the next 12 months.” He said his team is also monitoring “increased solar winds” — part of an unrelated but similar magnetic disturbance — that could make the northern lights again visible at unusually southerly locations Friday and Saturday, though not as far as California. “The Aurora viewing opportunity has not ended,” he said. “The more spectacular part has ended, but we may see Aurora in more northerntier [areas] over the weekend.” He said the show could be seen Friday and into the weekend in more northerly states such as Wisconsin or Idaho. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA was treated to a showing of the aurora borealis on Thursday, seen here from Montague Road just northeast of Yreka. The phenomenon was visible even in northern Alabama. Anthony Edwards Northern lights in rare display Geomagnetic storm made the aurora borealis visible in California By Grace Toohey An Uber driver was shot dead by one of his passengers in a 7-Eleven parking lot in Lynwood early Friday, authorities said. The man, Aaron Orozco Figueroa, 38, had picked up two men and stopped at the store in the 2800 block of East Imperial Highway around 1:30 a.m., according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. At the 7-Eleven, Orozco, believed to be in his late 30s, got into a fight with his passengers, according to the Sheriff’s Department. During the altercation, one of the passengers took out a gun and shot Orozco, authorities said. The two then stole the car and drove off. Police found Orozco suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper body. He died at the scene. The car was found nearby and the two men remain at large, the Sheriff’s Department said. “Our hearts are with Mr. Orozco Figueroa’s family as they cope with this unfathomable tragedy, and we have reached out to offer our condolences. We banned the rider’s account and are working with police on their investigation,” an Uber spokesperson said in an emailed statement. The family is eligible for survivor benefits, according to the ride-hailing app. Uber said it was in close contact with detectives working the case. Orozco was a married father of two, according to a GoFundMe set up for the family. He served in the Marine Corps from 2001 to 2005 and did three tours in Iraq, according to the fundraiser. Times staff writer Taryn Luna contributed to this report. Uber driver fatally shot by client By Noah Goldberg California is often cited as a bastion of left-leaning politics, with an electorate that voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump by a nearly 2-1 ratio in 2020. But a study of the state’s high schools shows that California campuses are just as likely to experience political strife as those in other, more polarized states. “The surprise here is not that California is different, it is that our public schools are experiencing similar levels of political attacks and conflict with what we have seen across the nation,” said John Rogers, a study co-author and director of the UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education and Access. The study, by researchers at UCLA and UC Riverside, polled 150 principals from California high schools in “blue” congressional districts, where Trump received less than 45% of the vote in the 2020 presidential election, and “purple” districts, where Trump received from 45% to 54.9% of the vote. Trump received greater than 55% of the vote in only two California congressional districts, which were not included in the study. The study was conducted as part of a nationwide survey of high school principals. The results showed that California campuses were not immune to political strife; school leaders in California’s purple communities were far more likely than leaders in blue districts to report that “community conflict” arose over issues affecting LGBTQ students and teachings about race and racism. “About two-thirds of schools in the state are experiencing some level of political conflict, mirroring what we have seen in other states,” Rogers said in a news release. “The level of conflict impacting schools would seem to reflect the intensive and pervasive nature of what is happening nationally.” According to the report, incidents of discrimination against LGBTQ, Black and Latino students have increased. “More than threequarters (78%) of California principals reported that their students had made hostile or demeaning remarks to LGBTQ classmates,” the report stated. Two-thirds of principals reported that racist statements had been directed at Black students, and 50% of principals said that racist remarks had been directed at Latino students. “That African American students are the recipients of hostile and demeaning remarks more often than any other group of students is particularly striking given that African Americans make up only 5% of all students enrolled in California public schools,” the report said. “Moving forward,” Rogers said, “we need to redouble our commitment to ensuring that all California students feel safe and respected in our public schools.” In purple districts, 64% of principals reported that “the level of intolerance” among students had increased. No principals in purple districts said that that level had decreased. Additionally, more than 70% of principals reported that students had made “demeaning or hateful” remarks to pupils on the opposite end of the political spectrum. California school leaders in purple districts were just as likely to speak out about the importance of LGBTQ student rights as leaders in blue districts, compared with being 22% less likely nationally. Political strife is a reality at high schools Study says conflict is as likely in left-leaning California as in more polarized states. By Christian Martinez The tornado that swirled through Montebello for minutes on Wednesday recorded winds of 110 miles per hour, the strongest twister to touch down in Los Angeles County since 1983, according to the National Weather Service. The Montebello tornado cut a path nearly half a mile long, leaving 17 buildings damaged and 11 structures red-tagged, according to the National Weather Service and local officials. The tornado was 50 yards wide. The tornado registered an EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which measures the weather events based on wind speed. An EF1 tornado is any that records winds between 86 and 110 mph and is considered a “weak” tornado. The most powerful tornadoes — with designations of EF5 — have wind speeds over 200 mph. The last time a tornado hit at least an EF1 in Los Angeles County was just over 40 years ago, on March 1, 1983, when an EF2 tornado tore through a residential area in South-Central. That tornado injured 25, mostly from flying glass, and destroyed 37 homes and severely damaged more than 100 others. Wednesday’s tornado injured just one. On Tuesday, the Santa Barbara County city of Carpinteria also was hit by a tornado — though less severe than the Montebello twister. The tornado that hit the coastal city had winds of just 75 mph, though it was enough to damage 25 mobile homes at Sandpiper Village as well as surrounding trees. One person was injured in the Carpinteria tornado. A LARGE portion of the roof on the Royal Paper Box Company is left broken Wednesday in Montebello. Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times Tornado this week was strongest to hit county since 1983 By Noah Goldberg than a last-ditch effort by Dean Logan to cover up the improper disqualification of thousands of valid signatures, which we ultimately intend to expose and challenge in court once the review is complete,” the campaign said in a statement. “To be clear, if paid circulator fraud did occur to any extent, the Recall Committee, survivors of crime, and residents of Los Angeles are the victims, and the paid circulators should be held fully accountable.” In its review, the county office said it found “commonality in the circulators” of the petition campaigns to recall Gascón and the 1935 initiative. Although such cases may be referred to the district attorney’s office for investigation, the registrar’s office referred the cases to the attorney general’s office because Gascón would be an “interested party” in the recall. The registrar’s office has also reached out to the California secretary of state’s investigative unit. A spokesperson for the office said it isn’t uncommon for individuals to gather signatures for multiple organiMore than 300 signatures in a petition to recall Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón last year belonged to dead people, according to the county’s Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office. Now the agency has called on the California attorney general to investigate the possibility of fraud in the failed attempt to recall Gascón, whose reformminded policies have become a target of Republican and conservative critics. According to the registrar’s office, a review of the petition found 367 signatures of people who had died before the recall effort was launched. The findings were similar to a review of another petition, statewide Initiative 1935, in which county officials found 344 signatures of dead petitioners. That initiative was meant to limit the ability of local governments and the state to expand, enact or modify taxes and fees. “My office has identified irregularities that suggest the possibility of fraudulent signature submission that I believe warrant investigation,” Registrar-Recorder/ County Clerk Dean Logan said in a statement. But the Recall District Attorney George Gascón campaign, which has accused the registrar’s office of wrongly invalidating tens of thousands of signatures, called the decision a “coverup” to keep the campaign from reviewing the signatures that were invalidated by the county. “This is nothing more zations and campaigns. The attorney general’s office did not respond to requests for comment. Elected in 2020, Gascón immediately faced criticism and an effort to remove him from office after he announced changes to the prosecutors office that included ending the use of sentencing enhancements, limiting when defendants would be held in lieu of bail, and no longer seeking the death penalty in the county. The changes put Gascón at odds with many of his own prosecutors and local law enforcement officials, and made him a target of Republican and conservative figures on the national stage, who suggested that progressive prosecutors, derisively dubbed as “woke,” were to blame for increases in crime. A first recall effort failed in 2021 largely because of a lack of fundraising and organization. A second effort failed last year after about 715,000 signatures were submitted by the recall campaign. A total of 566,857 signatures, or 10% of eligible voters, was needed to put Gascón’s job back on the ballot, but the registrar’s office said roughly 27% of the signatures submitted were not valid. Most of those were found to be duplicate signatures or from people who were not registered to vote. The recall campaign followed by filing a suit against the registrar’s office, saying many signatures were wrongly invalidated. The campaign has alleged that the office has not given it adequate access to review the petition and the invalidated signatures. Gascón recall petition had 367 signatures of dead folks By Salvador Hernandez DIST. ATTY. George Gascón at an August rally after surviving the 2022 recall attempt. Jason Armond Los Angeles Times

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Last week, on his 99th day in office, Luna sat down with The Times to talk about his first few months in office, and how he plans to move forward. Here are excerpts of that conversation, edited for length and clarity: When you came into office a few months ago, you took over a department that had come under a lot of criticism. Did you come across any wrongdoing going on when you came in, anything that offended you as a public servant? As the new guy, I had my priorities of what I wanted to at least start my term with. But when I walked in here, that changed a little bit because I realized that organizational stability was just as important as anything else that I was working on. Part of the stabilization strategy was to be different than my predecessor. That’s not to say he was wrong or right. But I told everybody, “Hey, we’re looking forward, we’re not looking backwards.” So that immediately set a different tone. At the same time, we had different people coming to us and saying, “Hey, we think this was going on, we think that was going on.” And if we find there’s anything that even smells like it’s criminal, all bets are off, that’s going right to the appropriate authorities. I’m going to be recognized as a sheriff who follows the law. About two weeks ago, the Civilian Oversight Commission released a report on deputy “gangs” and how to eradicate them. Are there particular things in that report that you see as a top priority? One that comes to mind — and I don’t know if I can say this is my top priority, but it’s up there — is the policy relating to tattoos and emblems. I think that is something that we can look at and work with our labor partners and try and figure out: Where have we been, where are we at today and where should we go now? But you don’t know what that policy will look like? Not yet. Because if I did, I’d be getting ahead of myself. I’m going to get people’s input before we put this in black-and-white writing. It’s going to be several, several weeks out. If we want it to be long term, we have to do it right. One of the things in the news recently was the undersheriff’s tattoo. Have you asked your other top command staff whether they have tattoos? There were questions posed. We were very careful about the way we asked them. And there’s legal aspects to it in regards to having tattoos. Generally — and you guys may get a little bit of a laugh out of this — the question goes something like this: “If we were to promote you, and the L.A. Times finds out that we promoted you, what story are they going to talk about? What’s going to come out about you?” Now, have I asked everybody if they have a tattoo? I have not. Would I like to know? Yes. And I think as the processes go on, we’ll figure out how to do that together as we move forward. The Civilian Oversight Commission report also suggested that gang symbols should be removed from stations and jails. Are you aware of any there now, and have you talked about plans to evaluate if they exist or remove them? The new policy is going to deal with tattoos and symbols. It’s all together. As we’re moving forward, they’re together. Eventually, through the meet and confer process and legal research, we may have to separate them. But as much as we talk about tattoos, I don’t think you could have one conversation without having the other. The Los Angeles Police Department recently banned public displays of the “thin blue line” flag. Is that something you’ve discussed as part of that policy as well? I think when you’re talking about emblems, it gets tricky when you allow some and not others. I know it’s a controversial issue within law enforcement. I’m just gonna tell you this: You will not see a flag in here with a blue stripe, not in my office. In the past, you’ve spoken publicly about how bad the conditions are in the Inmate Reception Center. Do you have any plans that would help solve that? I’m looking at every option. As you know, the ACLU is taking the court action, and I don’t blame them for doing it. There are some unacceptable conditions there. We want to do everything we can to improve them. At the end of the day, my vision — our vision — is that we need upgraded facilities. The facilities we have are not conducive to our client and inmate population in 2023. One of the recommendations in the Civilian Oversight Commission report was assigning new deputies to patrol instead of starting them in the jails. Is that something that you’re exploring? I’m taking every recommendation they gave us very seriously. But if it’s very different, or unique from anything we’ve done before, I have to look at the history [and ask] why is it this way? Sometimes you get the answer, “Well, we’ve always done it this way.” That’s not a good answer. Coming in here as the outsider, people said, “How are you going to change that culture?” Well, for things that need to be changed, you want to change it for the right reason. But you also want long-term change, and how do you make long-term change? You make longterm change by figuring out what happened, how we got there, and then getting the people who work there involved. And then we make the change together. And what I’m finding is there’s a lot of people here — the majority of people — who are great people who want to see changes. 99 days as sheriff: Luna talks policy, ‘gangs,’ emblems ‘I’m just gonna tell you this: You will not see a flag in here with a blue stripe, not in my office.’ — ROBERT LUNA, L.A. County sheriff, speaking on displays of ‘thin blue line’ flag Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times [Sheriff, from B1] allowed to cast a ballot. “There was an endless amount of bureaucracy that was invented” at the last minute, “and they did not allow the population that wanted to vote from abroad to do so,” said Estrada, a specialist in her country’s diaspora. Delegations from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, or TSE, of Guatemala have been holding registration events on U.S. soil with the aim of expanding the electoral rolls and promoting participation among the migrant population. “The importance of the vote lies in the power of the people to seek the changes they want,” said Ingrid Soto, head of the TSE’s foreign vote. Soto said that Guatemalans living in the United States who still are registered as voters in Guatemala will need to update their addresses, a process that can be done in person during the registration or through the TSE’s web portal. To update an address or register for the first time, voters will need to produce a personal identification document, which can be processed at any of the 23 Guatemalan consulates in the United States. According to the Pew Research Center, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2017 there were 1.4 million people of Guatemalan descent living in the United States. But in the 2019 Guatemalan presidential elections, only 63,043 of those were registered to vote. As of March 6, the TSE website reported 86,703 registered voters, a figure that reflects both a continuing lack of engagement as well as the limited information that has been released about the election. “I didn’t know the truth,” said Gloria Méndez, a Los Angeles resident who 25 years ago emigrated from Villa Nueva, a few miles south of the capital, Guatemala City. “The people who are here, if we don’t know anything, we can’t vote.” Like many Guatemalans, Méndez takes a skeptical, even cynical, view of politics in general. “All governments promise, they never deliver,” she said. “Whether I vote or not doesn’t matter anyway.” Despite the apathy among many of her compatriots, Elizabeth Urrutia registered in January. The young mother, who came to California three years ago, said that before leaving Guatemala she studied legal sciences. Later, after setting up her own business, she became a victim of one of the extortion rackets that plague the Central American country, forcing her to emigrate. “I was just asking my country for a chance, but there wasn’t one,” she lamented. When she fled Guatemala with her first child, Urrutia was pregnant. With the election approaching, she has been thinking of the loved ones she left behind. She believes that the ongoing problems that will confront the new government — job scarcity, the increasing cost of basic foodstuffs, the insecurity driven by drug cartels — make it important for Guatemalans to register. “We all have the right to choose and cast our vote,” she said. In Los Angeles, 29 registration tables have been distributed across four voting centers. Guatemalans in San Francisco, San Diego, New York City, Atlanta and Houston also will be able to vote at polling centers close to their homes. “We still have to see the last count of the registration,” said Hugo Mérida, who has been lining up voting centers and recruiting volunteer staffers. “For every 600 people there must be an additional table. In Los Angeles we want to set up 29 tables because there are around 50,000 people on the registry.” Mérida said that since Feb. 13, when he took office, he has been working double time to set up and staff the centers, which are being supervised by regional election boards. The organizers of the electoral event say they will need about 900 volunteers. “Our mission is to bring the polling stations as close as possible,” said Mérida. After voting ends June 25, each vote will be counted by the election boards under TSE personnel supervision. That information then will be sent by computer personnel to the TSE headquarters in Guatemala City. Estrada emphasized that the TSE and the management of the election are under the control of a corrupt system, and that Guatemala’s elections historically have not been transparent. Whether that ever changes may hinge in part on this year’s outcome. “In these elections, it is at stake to return to the 1980s, where massacres, disappearances and military repression were seen,” Estrada said. “Voting is important, but we have to keep organizing and fighting for justice in Guatemala,” she added. A PROTESTER in Guatemala City. There will be voter registration centers in L.A. and other U.S. cities for Guatemalan immigrants planning to vote by June 25. Moises Castillo Associated Press Push for diaspora to sign up and vote [Guatemalans, from B1]

LATIMES.COM SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 B5 To place an obituary ad please go online to: latimes.com/placeobituary or call 1-800-234-4444 Stories live on. Tell theirs. placeanad.latimes.com/obituaries In partnership with September 8, 1947 - March 21, 2023 KELLEY, William (Bill) E William E. Kelley (Bill) of Redondo Beach, Calif., unexpectedly passed away on March 21, 2023. Bill was born September 8, 1947, in Los Angeles, CA to William and Doris Kelley. Bill Kelley graduated from John Marshall High School in Los Angeles, CA. Along with playing high school football and having the opportunity to play at the Rose Bowl, Bill enjoyed participation in rugged sports – particularly rugby and ice hockey. He was a cameraman in the US Air Force, following in his father’s footsteps. Bill then graduated from USC Film School. He joined the film department of Northrop Corporation (now Northrop Grumman) in the 1970s, where he documented military aircraft and many highly classified government programs. Bill was among the few selected to fly as a civilian in the photo chase role in the back seat of high-performance fighters to photograph other aircraft. His gifted skills as a photographer and cinematographer found him on marketing teams and traveling worldwide. He photographed air shows in the UK at Farnborough and the Paris Air Show. He was exceptionally skilled at “long lens” filming, where very long telephoto lenses are mounted on the camera, bringing the aircraft “up close and personal.” This skill with telephoto film cameras brought Bill into contact with Hollywood director Tony Scott and executive producer Bill Badalato as they were working on the 1986 film Top Gun. The iconic Top Gun opening scenes aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and the exciting training sequences between the A-4 Skyhawks and F-14 Tomcats flying over mountain tops were filmed by Bill Kelley. Bill went on to manage the NGC Film and Television unit and eventually retired in 2004 to pursue his interest in vintage car racing with his son, motorcycles and traveling. During retirement, Bill maintained contact with many friends and coworkers, always ready with a war story or three because he had been there and done that. He enjoyed spending time with his son, restoring vintage cars and motorcycles in his spare time. Bill is survived by his son, Michael Kelley; Daughter-In-Law, Eleanor Kelley; cousins Tina Newman, Tom Kelley and Tanya Rodriquez; longtime friend Beverly Martin; and many close friends he called family. Bill is preceded in death by his father, William Kelley, his mother, Doris Kelley and maternal aunt, Ruth Barnes. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made to The Wounded Warrior Project in memory of Bill. Mount Sinai Memorial Parks Hollywood Hills 800-600-0076 www.mountsinaiparks.org DINKIN, Lori OBITUARY NOTICES Place a paid notice latimes.com/placeobituary Search obituary notice archives: legacy.com/obituaries/latimes August 21, 1941 - February 28, 2023 PEARSON, Jack O Jack Pearson, beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother, passed away on February 28, 2023 in Santa Monica, CA. Born in Artesia, New Mexico on August 21, 1941 to Oscar Pearson and Ruth Bjorkholm Pearson, Jack and his twin brother Edward “Ted” Pearson, grew up in Artesia and graduated from Artesia High School in 1959. Jack moved to the Midwest and earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1964, where he was in the marching band. Jack moved to California to begin his aerospace engineering career at Hughes Aircraft Company, where he was awarded a fellowship and earned his PhD in engineering from UCLA in 1971. Jack also completed UCLA’s Graduate School of Management Executive Program in 1986. Jack met his wife Rebecca Cooper at the First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica playing Volleyball. They were married in 1970 and have two daughters, Ruthie Pearson-Smith and Jenny Mattesich. Jack and Becky celebrated 53 years of marriage. Jack was an expert airborne radar technologist and spent his 38-year career at Hughes Aircraft Company and later Raytheon. He applied system engineering skills to develop very advanced performance radars for military aircraft needs and problems. Jack was a leader in the development of stealth radar for stealth aircraft and managed the largest and most profitable Hughes Aircraft radar product line (F/A-18). Jack worked on top secret programs that took him to locations with test fields, to the Pentagon, Washington D.C., to meet all branches of the military, and traveled to many foreign countries for the manufacture and sale of fighter airplanes and for air shows. Jack worked on Pave Mover, radar on Tacit Blue, the B-2 radar programs, as the radar system engineering manager and later radar system program manager for F/A-18. Jack retired from Raytheon in 2003 after seven years as the Vice President and General Manager of the Air Combat and Strike Systems business unit in El Segundo, having spent his career working on radar and technology for programs such as F-4, F-15, F/A-18, AV-8B and B-2. Jack continued his work after retirement as an independent consultant, working to develop reliable technology to assure unpiloted air vehicles avoid collisions with other aircraft. Jack was a respected leader at Hughes/Raytheon and will be remembered as a smart, respected man, mentor to many, with a calm and rational demeanor, and amazing manager and friend. Jack was a member of professional organizations IEEE (Institute of Electric and Electronics Engineers) and Founders of Stealth, and in addition was active in his church community as part of the FUMC Trustees and Alders Gate Board of Trustees. Jack spent much time researching his family’s genealogy and documenting in books for his family. He enjoyed reading, continuous education, history, photography and travel, always creating photo albums to remember his journeys and special memories. He supported the arts and frequented museums and Broadway shows, was a collector of coins and special issue stamps, loved gardening his roses, watching old movies, loved the southwest, was known for always drinking Pepsi or Coca-cola, and most of all, loved spending time with his family. All who knew Jack appreciated his kind and caring disposition, his quiet leadership, his love for learning, and his sense of humor. Jack is survived by his wife Becky, their daughters Ruthie (& RJ Smith) and Jenny (& Jeff Mattesich), and four loving grandchildren: Bailey and Cooper Smith, and Henry and Russell Mattesich, brother Ted (Georgia) Pearson and sister-in-law Martha Merritt. Jack was dearly loved by his family and will be greatly missed by all who cared for him. Memorial Services will be held May 12, 2023 11:00am at the First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica at 1008 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90403. Reception following. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: John Wayne Cancer Foundation (www.donate.johnwayne.org) The FUMC Sharingers Scholarship Fund (1008 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90403) A federal judge in Orange County this week blocked key provisions of a California law that drastically restricts the sale of new handguns in the state, saying parts of the legislation violate the 2nd Amendment. A lawsuit challenging the law was filed last year by the California Rifle & Pistol Assn. and other gun rights supporters following a landmark 2022 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that set new standards for evaluating firearm restrictions. The ruling left many laws aimed at regulating and limiting the sale and use of guns — in California and nationwide — at risk of being struck down. U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney, sitting in Santa Ana, wrote Monday that California’s requirements for new handguns are unconstitutional and cannot be enforced. Because of these restrictions, Carney wrote, no new models of semiautomatic handguns have been approved for sale since 2013 and Californians are forced to buy older and potentially less safe models. He issued a preliminary injunction to take effect in two weeks, meaning that the state would have to stop enforcing the law. The delay gives the state Department of Justice time to appeal. “The fact of the matter is, California’s gun safety laws save lives, and California’s Unsafe Handgun Act is no exception,” Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said in a statement. “We will continue to lead efforts to advance and defend California’s gun safety laws,” he added. “As we move forward to determine next steps in this case, Californians should know that this injunction has not gone into effect and that California’s important gun safety requirements related to the Unsafe Handgun Act remain in effect.” In California, state law requires new handguns to have three components: a chamber load indicator, which shows whether the gun is loaded; a magazine disconnect mechanism that will stop the gun from firing if the magazine is not properly inserted; and microstamping capability so that law enforcement can more easily link spent shell casings to the guns they were fired from. “No handgun available in the world has all three of these features,” the judge wrote. “These regulations are having a devastating impact on Californians’ ability to acquire and use new, state-of-the-art handguns.” Older handguns have been grandfathered into what’s known as the “roster,” or a list of guns that pass a safety test under the Unsafe Handgun Act. “Californians have the constitutional right to acquire and use state-of-theart handguns to protect themselves,” he wrote. “They should not be forced to settle for decade-old models of handguns to ensure that they remain safe inside or outside the home.” Previous attempts to challenge the state law, filed before last year’s Supreme Court ruling, failed. Chuck Michel, head of the California Rifle & Pistol Assn., said the three requirements were “impossible to satisfy.” “For decades this ‘roster’ law has deprived law-abiding citizens of the right to choose a handgun appropriate for their individual needs,” he wrote in a statement Monday. “If we can hold on to this great Second Amendment win, people will be able to choose from among thousands of the latest, greatest, and safest handguns made today,” Michel added. Only New York also has a similar microstamping requirement, according to the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety. A JUDGE found that California’s requirements for new handguns are unconstitutional and thus cannot be enforced. Above, a line at a gun store in Culver City. Francine Orr Los Angeles Times Key provisions restricting new gun sales are blocked Judge in O.C. issues injunction, says parts of legislation violate 2nd Amendment. associated press A 42-year-old man who had been declared braindead days after a violent confrontation with Montclair Police Department officers this month has died, the family’s attorney said. Antonio Ibanez was on life support after officers allegedly used a Taser and batons to detain him March 5. Humberto Guizar, an attorney hired by Ibanez’s family, said Ibanez died Wednesday at Montclair Hospital Medical Center. A claim seeking damages for Ibanez’s death was filed with the city the following day, Guizar said. Montclair police officers responded to the 4100 block of Mission Boulevard after receiving a call from a woman about a man armed with an object who was threatening her. The woman, who rented a room in her home to Ibanez, was in her vehicle with her children when police arrived. Officers contacted the suspect in a bedroom and used force to detain him, police said in a statement. Medical aid was requested shortly afterward by officers after the suspect “began to exhibit symptoms of a medical emergency,” according to police. But Ibanez’s family and its attorney have questioned the police account of what happened. Guizar said attorneys have interviewed the woman who called the police, and she informed them Ibanez was not armed. Guizar also questioned why police have not released additional details and information about the incident, including body-camera video. He called on city officials to release the video. Family members have received little to no information regarding the incident, Guizar said. Montclair police said they handed over the investigation to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Man dies 2 1 ⁄2 weeks after violent police encounter ANTONIO Ibanez had been on life support since he was arrested March 5. By Salvador Hernandez A former deputy U.S. marshal from Brea was convicted Thursday of framing his ex-girlfriend for sexual assault in an attempt to gain control of a condo they purchased together in Anaheim, the Department of Justice said. Michelle Hadley spent almost three months in jail because of the scheme that Ian R. Diaz, 44, operated with his then-wife, Angela Diaz, prosecutors said. They posed online as Hadley and sent themselves harassing and threatening messages, according to the indictment. Ian Diaz was convicted of conspiracy to commit cyberstalking, perjury and obstruction of justice. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Angela Diaz has not been federally indicted, but she was sentenced to five years in state prisonafter pleading guilty in October 2017 to 10 felony and 22 misdemeanor charges, including kidnapping, false imprisonment and falsely reporting a crime to a peace officer, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office. “[Ian] Diaz’s egregious actions and lies to law enforcement stripped a woman of her freedom and liberty,” said Harry Lidsky, special agent in charge of the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office of cyber investigations. According to the indictment, Ian Diaz and his exgirlfriend, referred to in court documents as Jane Doe, purchased the condo in June 2015 but broke up two months later. Hadley moved out, but Diaz remained and began dating Angela in January 2016. A month later, they got married, according to court documents. Ian Diaz and Hadley fought over the condo, and in May 2016, he began conspiring with his wife to “to interfere with Jane Doe’s interest in the property,” according to prosecutors. Using fake email and user accounts for websites such as Craigslist, Diaz and his wife posed as Hadley and sent themselves messages with links to photographs of aborted fetuses and decapitated bodies, according to the indictment. “Some of the messages contained express or implied threats to harm” Angela Diaz, prosecutors wrote in the indictment. The couple also put personal ads on Craigslist to lure people to the condo to engage in a “rape fantasy,” to give the appearance that Hadley had tried to arrange the sexual assault of Angela Diaz. Hadley was arrested, charged and jailed for 88 days. The Diazes have since divorced. Guilty of framing his ex for assault By Christian Martinez LA MESA, Calif. — A woman who filed a lawsuit against a San Diego County city in 2020 after she was hit —and partially blinded — by a beanbag round an officer fired during a protest has settled with the city of La Mesa for $10 million. Leslie Furcron said Wednesday that she was glad the lawsuit settled in her favor but that money couldn’t return her life to normality. Now, blistering headaches have forced her to drop out of college, said Furcron, 61. Doctors told her she would need to undergo reconstructive surgery to properly seal the hole the projectile left in her skull, she said, and she will never regain vision in her left eye. “I wish that it had never happened,” she said tearfully from her lawyer’s office. “I thank God that I’m living, right? I thank God that I’m living, but not every day is a good day for me.” Still, when asked if she would attend the protest again, she said, “Yes.” “I’d do it again,” Furcron said. “Because I’m not OK with police brutality. I have a voice. I have a 1st Amendment right.” Eric Knudson, then a La Mesa police detective, shot Furcron with the round during a large protest on May 30, 2020, outside La Mesa Police Department headquarters. The rally came days after the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd. The La Mesa protests were also prompted by the controversial arrest of Amaurie Johnson near a trolley station in the city a few days earlier. Video of the incident — in which an officer can be seen repeatedly pushing the 23-year-old man down onto a concrete bench — went viral. During the demonstration, which carried over into the next morning, some people in the crowd hurled bottles and large rocks at police officers, who deployed tear gas and fired beanbag rounds to get them to disperse. Fires were set inside City Hall, and there were break-ins at some businesses. At least two buildings were burned to the ground. Knudson fired on Furcron after he thought she threw a rock at officers, police reports say. Investigators determined later that she actually threw an empty can of Red Bull. Furcron filed her lawsuit in San Diego County Superior Court months later, alleging Knudson had violated both her 1st Amendment right to protest and standard law enforcement practices. The case was later moved to federal court. Dante Pride, who represented Furcron, said the settlement was reached in December and approved by the La Mesa City Council the next month. City officials said in a statement last week that they were glad there was “resolution to this very unfortunate incident.” Pride said it was one of the largest known settlements to be delivered in a police use-of-force case in San Diego County. Although Furcron’s lawsuit settled in her favor, neither the San Diego County district attorney’s office nor the La Mesa Police Department found Knudson had committed any wrongdoing. In January 2021, the district attorney’s office announced it would not file charges against Knudson in criminal court in connection with the incident. In a 25-page letter sent to La Mesa’s acting police chiefs, Dist. Atty. Summer Stephan wrote that her office had concluded, after a review of the evidence, that Knudson acted reasonably in defense of himself and others when he fired the round. The review also stated there was “no evidence Detective Knudson intended to aim at Ms. Furcron’s head.” The La Mesa Police Department did not discipline Knudson, saying in February 2021 that the then-detective had not violated any significant department policies. “From an administrative standpoint, it is determined that Detective Knudson reacted reasonably within California law and Department policy when he discharged the less lethal shotgun in order to prevent injury to other law enforcement officers,” department officials said in a report. Knudson was later promoted to sergeant. Furcron now lives in Nevada near her relatives. She said the settlement made her feel as though she took a stand against police brutality. “I consider myself an advocate and I can speak up for lives that matter,” she said. Winkley writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Woman injured by police at protest will get $10 million LESLIE FURCRON is partially blind after police fired a beanbag during a 2020 La Mesa rally. Adriana Heldiz San Diego U-T By Lyndsay Winkley

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Your lucky numbers: 2, 29, 4, 48 and 16. Mathis writes her column for Creators Syndicate Inc. The horoscope should be read for entertainment. HOROSCOPE By Holiday Mathis “Simple Saturday” columns focus on basic technique and logical thinking. I have had beginners ask me whether I can tell what everybody has right after the cards are dealt. An experienced declarer can visualize the defenders’ hands, based on the bidding and play. Today’s South reaches four hearts after West has tossed in a passed-hand overcall of two diamonds. West cashes the K-Q of diamonds, then leads the ace. South ruffs, draws trumps and takes the top spades. How should declarer proceed to attack the clubs? Declarer cashes the ace and leads the four. West plays the three and 10. South knows that West, who didn’t open the bidding, has shown nine points in diamonds, so he won’t hold the king of clubs. South plays low from dummy and makes his game when East must play the king. “Card reading” is within the grasp of any player. Most of the inferences an expert draws are simple. You hold: ♠ Q 9 ♥ K Q J 10 2 ♦ 9 4 ♣ A 7 5 4. Your partner opens one spade, you bid two hearts, he rebids two spades and you try three clubs. Partner then bids three diamonds. What do you say? Answer: Partner has something in diamonds; he could have bid 3NT but must have doubts about notrump. Bid three spades. Your spades could be no better when you didn’t raise earlier. If he has A K 10 6 5 4, 7 6, A 8 2, Q 3, he’ll be happy to hear about your support. West dealer N-S vulnerable NORTH ♠ A K 7 ♥ A 9 5 ♦ J 3 2 ♣ Q 8 6 2 WEST EAST ♠ 10 8 2 ♠ J 6 5 4 3 ♥ 7 3 ♥ 8 6 4 ♦ A K Q 8 6 ♦ 10 7 5 ♣ J 10 3 ♣ K 9 SOUTH ♠ Q 9 ♥ K Q J 10 2 ♦ 9 4 ♣ A 7 5 4 WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH Pass 1♣ Pass 1♥ 2♦ Pass Pass 3♣ Pass 3♥ Pass 4♥ All Pass Opening lead — ♦ K Tribune Content Agency BRIDGE By Frank Stewart Dear Amy: “Looking for Grief Etiquette” wrote to you about her grief after experiencing a miscarriage. As a retired obstetrician, I have had considerable experience with this. One point I discussed with patients early in pregnancy was the fact that pregnancy loss is much more common than most people realize. I suggested they carefully consider whom they tell about their pregnancy until after the first trimester, when pregnancy loss is less common, thus avoiding the problem of telling many people the bad news. I also found advice I was given 15 years ago, when my wife died, very helpful. The insight was that people who asked, “What can I do?” of a grieving person really are asking because they don’t know how to be helpful. My answer, at that difficult time, was: “Invite me to dinner.” I think it was win-win. It helped me, and I think they were glad to do something that I appreciated. This woman who had miscarried had her answer: “Send me some flowers.” She should not have hesitated to ask this of her friends. Neil Kochenour, M.D. Dear Dr. Kochenour: Thank you for your helpful wisdom. Regarding miscarriage, I agree that it is most judicious to wait to announce a pregnancy, but even when couples haven’t announced their pregnancy, they often still choose to disclose a miscarriage to their circle of friends and family. Dear Amy: “Scammed” wrote about the increasingly popular scam of being contacted by a supposedly reputable company that asks you to purchase gift cards. You suggested that store clerks selling gift cards should be trained to be on the lookout. I purchased several hundred dollars’ worth of gift cards at my local Giant grocery store, and the clerk did ask me if a third party had asked me to buy the cards. Out of curiosity, I asked if anyone has ever answered “yes” to that question, and he said that, indeed, they had stopped many people from falling prey to this scam. Store employees are certainly a great weapon against these scammers. Faithful Customer Dear Customer: I am very happy to learn that store clerks are helping to educate customers on the danger of gift card scammers. Dear Amy: Thank you for discussing the importance of funerals and memorial services. I was someone who never attended funerals — the person was already dead and wouldn’t notice, I reasoned. The value for the family never entered my mind. And then my husband died. We have six children and our youngest was just 6 at the time. I can’t tell you what it meant when people came pouring into the church. Their presence said: “I’ve dropped everything to honor this man and to be with you today.” Now I drop everything to go to funerals of someone I knew, even casually. After all, surely everyone is important enough for us to take an hour to honor them, and to provide the family with matchless comfort. Show Up Dear Show Up: Unfortunately, experiences with grief and mourning are our greatest teachers. Email questions to Amy Dickinson at askamy@ amydickinson.com. ASK AMY Ask for the help you want

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B8 SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 LATIMES.COM Pressure: L Low Cold Front Jet Stream H High Warm Front Trough –0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+ Rain T-storm Snow Ice Temps ◗ ▲ Monterrey Monterrey 86/61 Chihuahua Chihuahua 76/49 Los Angeles Los Angeles 66/44 Washington Washington 64/51 New York New York 47/45 Miami 87/72 Atlanta Atlanta 83/56 Detroit Detroit 52/32 Houston 84/55 Kansas City Kansas City 58/37 Chicago 38/29 Minneapolis Minneapolis 43/27 El Paso 66/45 Denver 40/18 Billings 31/24 San Francisco San Francisco 57/43 Seattle Seattle 47/35 Toronto Toronto 44/34 Montreal Montreal 37/34 Winnipeg 28/6 Monterrey 86/61 Chihuahua 76/49 Los Angeles 66/44 Washington 64/51 New York 47/45 Miami 87/72 Atlanta 83/56 Detroit 52/32 Houston 84/55 Kansas City 58/37 Chicago 38/29 Minneapolis 43/27 El Paso 66/45 Denver 40/18 Billings 31/24 San Francisco 57/43 Seattle 47/35 Toronto 44/34 Montreal 37/34 Winnipeg 28/6 Good Moderate Unhealthful for: All Not Available Sensitive people South Coast Air Quality Management District forecasts air quality Air quality Today in Southern California Today in North America 5-day forecasts High/low temperatures are average forecasts for entire zone. L.A. Basin Valleys Beaches Mountains Deserts Surf and sea POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO California cities Tides Almanac UV index Sun and moon City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet. County Height Period Direction Temp Friday Downtown readings Minutes to burn for sensitive people Temperature Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura Today’s rise/set March 28 April 5 April 13 April 19 Los Angeles Co. Orange Co. Ventura Co. VENTURA CO. LOS ANGELES CO. RIVERSIDE CO. SAN BERNARDINO CO. SANTA BARBARA CO. SAN DIEGO CO. ORANGE CO. Santa Barbara Ventura Oxnard Ojai Camarillo Santa Paula Westlake Village Woodland Hills Santa Monica Torrance Long Beach Newport Beach Santa Ana Laguna Beach San Clemente Mission Viejo Irvine Oceanside Escondido Poway Ramona San Diego Temecula Hemet Palm Springs Fullerton Chino Riverside Ontario Pomona/ Fairplex San Bernardino Yucca Valley Hesperia Whittier Hills UCLA Simi Valley Chatsworth Burbank Monrovia Santa Clarita L.A. Downtown Key: Su sunny; Pc partly cloudy; Cy cloudy; Fg foggy; Prcp precipitation; Dr drizzle; Hz hazy Sh showers; Ts thunderstorms; R rain; Sn snow; Sf snow flurries; I ice; Rs rain/snow; W windy; Tr trace. Notes: National extremes exclude Alaska and Hawaii. Missing data indicated by “xx”. Friday’s readings as of 5 p.m. U.S. cities City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Sky City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Sky World Sun 6:51a/7:08p 6:49a/7:07p 6:55a/7:12p Moon 9:14a/11:50p 9:13a/11:49p 9:17a/11:55p Anaheim 70 48 -- 66 43 68 44 Avalon/Catalina 54 46 -- 55 43 54 47 Bakersfield 57 42 -- 58 37 58 38 Barstow 62 45 -- 61 37 60 36 Big Bear Lake 41 22 .01 39 17 41 16 Bishop 58 28 -- 49 26 51 25 Burbank 64 50 -- 64 44 65 41 Camarillo 63 40 -- 63 40 64 37 Chatsworth 63 46 -- 61 42 63 40 Chino 66 40 .01 64 39 66 38 Compton 64 47 -- 67 45 67 42 Dana Point 60 47 -- 60 46 62 46 Death Valley 74 53 -- 70 55 67 53 Del Mar 62 48 -- 58 47 59 45 Escondido 66 49 .02 63 39 64 36 Eureka 50 36 .11 51 32 51 37 Fallbrook 64 48 -- 63 38 65 38 Fresno 60 45 -- 60 37 62 37 Fullerton 71 49 -- 69 43 69 44 Hemet 62 42 -- 63 37 64 35 Hesperia 54 37 -- 56 29 55 29 Huntington Beach 66 46 -- 63 44 64 47 Idyllwild 48 28 xx 48 31 51 31 Irvine 66 46 -- 65 43 67 44 L.A. D’ntown/USC 67 53 -- 66 44 68 43 L.A. Int’l. Airport 63 53 -- 64 48 64 47 Laguna Beach 64 45 -- 60 45 62 45 Lancaster 52 43 -- 55 32 57 26 Long Beach 70 50 -- 67 46 68 45 Mammoth Lakes 39 17 -- 34 11 34 13 Mission Viejo 64 43 .02 61 41 64 44 Monrovia 64 41 -- 64 42 67 44 Monterey 55 47 Tr 56 39 55 41 Mt. Wilson 48 28 -- 37 31 37 33 Needles 71 51 -- 67 44 66 43 Newport Beach 59 49 -- 62 45 64 47 Northridge 62 48 .01 64 44 65 42 Oakland 59 43 -- 58 39 58 40 Oceanside 62 46 -- 64 41 65 39 Ojai 66 38 -- 62 39 62 32 Ontario 64 43 Tr 62 40 65 41 Palm Springs 73 48 -- 72 50 70 51 Pasadena 64 50 -- 63 43 66 43 Paso Robles 58 39 -- 60 33 59 32 Redding 58 33 -- 57 35 58 36 Riverside 61 41 Tr 62 37 62 34 Sacramento 60 37 -- 61 36 59 35 San Bernardino 63 43 .02 63 41 64 41 San Diego 63 50 Tr 63 49 62 48 San Francisco 57 46 .02 57 43 57 43 San Gabriel xx xx -- 66 43 69 43 San Jose 58 41 Tr 59 38 58 38 San Luis Obispo 61 42 -- 61 38 59 40 Santa Ana 64 50 -- 63 43 65 44 Santa Barbara 68 45 -- 66 43 64 40 Santa Clarita 58 44 .10 61 39 64 39 Santa Monica Pier 63 51 -- 62 47 63 45 Santa Paula 67 41 .01 63 38 65 34 Santa Rosa 59 38 -- 62 33 60 33 Simi Valley 63 40 -- 62 41 63 39 Tahoe Valley 33 19 .02 32 9 34 14 Temecula 63 47 -- 65 36 64 36 Thousand Oaks 62 43 -- 62 39 62 37 Torrance 64 52 -- 63 48 64 47 UCLA xx xx -- 64 47 65 45 Van Nuys 65 51 -- 66 47 66 43 Ventura 61 44 -- 60 43 60 40 Whittier Hills 70 46 -- 66 42 68 43 Woodland Hills 67 xx -- 64 44 64 41 Wrightwood 45 29 .02 42 27 43 25 Yorba Linda 70 45 -- 64 40 66 41 Yosemite Valley 49 31 .01 42 19 41 19 Mostly sunny 68/43 Mostly sunny 67/46 P.M. rain 64/46 Showers 56/47 Mostly sunny 62/43 Mostly sunny 66/46 P.M. rain 61/44 Showers 55/42 Mostly sunny 63/45 Mostly sunny 62/46 P.M. rain 58/46 Showers 55/45 Cold 41/16 Mostly sunny 41/25 Cold 44/30 Windy, cold 34/22 Mostly sunny 70/51 Sunny 72/55 Partly sunny 78/51 Windy 69/51 Sunny and cool Sunny and cool Sunny Cloudy; cold Sun and windy Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Today Inner waters: Wind westerly at 10-20 knots. Wind waves at 3-5 feet with a westerly swell of 4-6 feet at 10 seconds. Surf zone: The risk of dangerous rip currents remains high at S.B., Ventura, L.A., and S.D. county beaches and moderate at Orange County beaches. Santa Barbara 3-5’ 6 sec W 55 Ventura 3-6’ 6 sec W 55 Los Angeles 2-4’ 7 sec W 57 Orange 2-4’ 7 sec W 57 San Diego 2-4’ 8 sec W 58 Friday Today Sunday Friday Today Sunday Friday Today Sunday Today 1:01p 3.3 Hi 6:46a 0.0 Lo ------ Hi 5:56p 1.8 Lo Sun. 12:23a 5.2 Hi 7:49a 0.3 Lo 2:29p 2.8 Hi 6:13p 2.4 Lo High/low 67/54 71/49 61/44 Normal high/low 71/53 72/52 67/47 High/low a year ago 79/56 86/55 71/52 Record high/date 94/1988 87/2008 82/1988 Record low/date 37/1898 42/2011 35/1964 24-hour total (as of 5 p.m.) 0.00 0.00 0.00 Season total (since Oct. 1) 26.09 19.47 24.54 Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 10.51 5.80 9.56 Season norm (Oct. 1 to date) 12.64 10.41 14.18 Humidity (high/low) 52/27 89/31 96/57 Precipitation Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura Las Vegas, 45 Los Angeles, 30 Phoenix, 30 San Francisco, 30 66/44 62/43 62/47 39/17 72/50 66/43 62/39 60/43 59/41 63/38 63/40 62/41 64/44 63/48 67/46 62/45 60/45 61/44 64/41 63/39 63/43 63/49 61/35 65/36 61/41 65/43 63/43 62/47 66/42 69/43 64/39 63/37 72/50 62/37 66/44 64/47 61/42 62/41 61/39 64/44 64/42 56/29 63/40 62/40 63/41 58/38 Forecasts by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2023 High 101 in McAllen, Texas Low –8 in Moorhead, Minn. Friday Today Friday Today Albany 51 35 .01 39 38 Sn Albuquerque 46 31 .03 46 28 Pc Anchorage 37 25 .03 31 26 Su Aspen 37 10 Tr 21 5 Sf Atlanta 78 61 -- 83 56 Ts Austin 86 69 .09 83 47 Su Baltimore 56 52 .41 61 48 Ts Boise 44 29 .06 40 25 Sf Boston 53 44 Tr 40 37 R Bufalo 44 31 -- 55 35 R Burlington, Vt. 43 35 .01 37 34 Sn Charleston, S.C. 84 63 -- 77 64 Ts Charlotte 84 60 -- 80 53 Ts Chicago 45 35 -- 38 29 Sn Cincinnati 52 48 1.44 60 34 Ts Cleveland 41 36 -- 62 34 R Columbia, S.C. 86 58 Tr 80 56 Ts Columbus 43 38 1.04 67 33 Ts Dallas/Ft.Worth 76 63 .38 77 47 Su Denver 52 25 .02 40 18 Sn Detroit 44 34 Tr 52 32 R El Paso 63 50 -- 66 45 Pc Eugene 50 36 .33 49 33 Ts Fort Myers 88 62 -- 88 69 Pc Hartford 55 38 Tr 40 37 R Honolulu 85 69 -- 84 73 Pc Houston 83 71 .01 84 55 Su Indianapolis 45 41 1.13 52 31 W Jacksonville, Fla. 88 61 -- 87 67 Ts Kansas City 54 35 .10 58 37 Pc Knoxville 79 64 -- 76 48 Ts Las Vegas 63 44 Tr 55 41 Cy Louisville 65 55 1.45 62 40 W Medford 46 33 .08 48 29 Sf Memphis 78 62 .84 69 49 Su Miami 85 70 .03 87 72 Pc Milwaukee 41 32 -- 39 27 Sn Minneapolis 44 21 -- 43 27 Cy Nashville 75 65 .12 72 46 Pc New Orleans 80 69 -- 86 67 Su New York 54 44 -- 47 45 R Norfolk 79 65 .02 79 58 Cy Oklahoma City 54 44 .41 62 37 Su Omaha 56 22 -- 54 30 Pc Orlando 88 59 -- 92 68 Pc Philadelphia 51 45 .26 54 46 R Phoenix 70 53 -- 72 47 Su Pittsburgh 45 36 .11 68 35 Ts Portland, Ore. 47 36 .50 47 34 Ts Providence 56 41 -- 42 37 R Raleigh/Durham 87 59 -- 80 55 W Reno 46 30 Tr 41 20 Sf Richmond 77 58 -- 77 55 Ts St. Louis 45 39 2.01 55 41 Pc Salt Lake City 38 34 .27 36 22 Sf Acapulco 86 68 -- 86 68 Su Amsterdam 55 50 .39 53 41 R Athens 70 50 -- 67 54 Pc Bangkok 99 82 -- 97 81 Su Barcelona 68 52 -- 65 54 Pc Berlin 62 48 .16 55 43 R Cabo San Lucas 81 54 -- 80 59 Hz Cairo 90 65 .07 71 59 Sh Dubai 79 65 -- 81 69 Su Dublin 55 45 .25 55 43 Pc Havana 88 67 -- 88 67 Su Ho Chi Minh City 95 77 -- 94 77 Su Hong Kong 78 73 .35 78 66 Ts Istanbul 57 43 -- 60 47 Su Jerusalem 74 53 -- 65 53 Sh Johannesburg 70 57 .10 71 57 Sh Kuala Lumpur 89 76 .99 89 75 Ts Lima 81 71 -- 81 71 Pc London 55 46 .24 59 43 Sh Madrid 68 45 -- 71 45 Pc Mecca 99 71 -- 99 70 W Mexico City 82 55 -- 82 54 Su Montreal 41 32 Tr 37 34 Sn Moscow 46 42 .14 53 38 R Mumbai 88 77 -- 88 74 Su New Delhi 82 65 .35 84 63 Hz Paris 61 52 .14 59 46 Cy Prague 63 50 .04 55 42 Sh Rome 63 43 -- 66 47 Pc Seoul 64 43 -- 65 42 Pc Singapore 88 77 .20 87 76 Ts Taipei City 79 70 .06 74 61 R Tokyo 66 63 1.19 52 49 R Vancouver 48 36 .04 47 34 Pc Vienna 68 48 .13 60 45 Sh Seattle 47 37 Tr 47 35 Pc Tampa 83 65 -- 86 71 Pc Tucson 64 43 -- 69 43 Su Tulsa 50 45 1.29 62 39 Su Washington, D.C. 59 54 .38 64 51 Ts Wichita 54 40 -- 58 33 Pc FRIDAY’S EXTREMES FOR THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES Mostly sunny but still unseasonably cool: Dry weather will be the rule across Southern California today through Monday. Temperatures will remain on the low side of the historical average, although we will see more sun than clouds. The jet stream will start to dip to the south Tuesday, with wet weather spreading from north to south. Showery, cool weather will last into Wednesday. Downpours in the Southeast: A stationary front will stretch from South Carolina westward to Louisiana. Along this front, showers and thunderstorms will occur throughout the day. Any of the thunderstorms could lead to flooding and travel disruptions. Turner and Justin Turner to free agency, and Gavin Lux to a knee injury. It’s not so much Muncy’s solid numbers — he entered the final weekend of exhibition play with a .250 average (nine for 36), .803 OPS, one homer, three doubles and six RBIs in 15 games — it’s the way he looks in the box. “This is as good as I’ve seen Max, body and mind, since he first came over here, and I think a lot of that is because he’s healthy,” manager Dave Roberts said. “He’s more free and easy. He’s able to get that extension, to stay through the baseball much better than he did last year. With that elbow, he wasn’t able to do that.” Muncy’s 2022 struggles were rooted in the torn elbow ligament he suffered during the final regular-season game of 2021. Playing first base and attempting to field a throw up the line from catcher Will Smith, Muncy couldn’t pull his left arm back before Milwaukee’s Jace Peterson, who hit a dribbler in front of the plate, ran through it. Muncy spun to the ground in pain and walked off the field clutching his nonthrowing arm. He was knocked out of the playoffs and had surgery. He returned after the lockout ended last March but couldn’t find a comfortable swing. Two months into the 2022 season, the left-handed-hitting Muncy was a shadow of the slugger who hit in the middle of the order from 2018 to 2021, batting .150 with a .591 OPS, three homers and 14 RBIs in 41 games. He was put on the injured list in late May and sent to the minor leagues for a brief rehabilitation assignment. That didn’t help. Muncy returned to the Dodgers on June 9. On July 27, he was hitting .158 with a .612 OPS, nine homers and 31 RBIs. “The elbow was a huge issue,” Muncy said. “It didn’t want to move how I wanted it to move. It wasn’t cooperating. And even when it got healthy, it wasn’t moving [right] because of all the bad habits I created while trying to get healthy.” Muncy was in the batting cage before a July 28 game in Colorado when he and the Dodgers hitting coaches recalled an unorthodox timing mechanism used by former Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado, who was traded to St. Louis in 2021. Taking a half-step back with his left foot as the pitch was delivered helped Muncy get his body into a position where he “wasn’t working so uphill and so down underneath the ball,” he said. “It was a radical way to do it, but I said, ‘Let’s try it.’ ” Muncy singled sharply to right-center field in his first at-bat that night. He followed with three hard-hit grounders and a strikeout. “I only had one hit, but I was hitting a lot of low line drives, was on time with everything and was above the ball,” Muncy said. “That was a turning point. I found something that could work, that I could stick with.” Muncy hit a more acceptable .245 (50 for 204) with an .842 OPS, 12 homers, 13 doubles and 38 RBIs during his final 57 games, but once the season ended, he hit the delete key on those final two months. Though he had success with the step-back move, he knew it wasn’t sustainable. “I needed to forget everything that I did, because I didn’t want to do that going forward,” Muncy said. “Even though it worked for me last year, I know that it’s not going to be the best solution for me. I had to revamp my swing last year, and now we’re unrevamping it to get it simpler again.” Muncy hasn’t watched a replay of the first-base collision that cost him the 2021 postseason and marred 2022. “It’s too painful,” he said. But he has put the injury behind him. The move to third base, a position where he made 80 starts last season and has grown more comfortable with this spring, has helped. The feeling in the batter’s box has as well. “The swing and the bat path, I’m 100% there,” Muncy said this week. “I’m still working on timing, but I feel like I’m right where I want to be. You don’t want to be 100% locked in during the spring. You want to save that for the season, right?” Between the anxiety of the injury and slow start and the drastic midseason swing adjustment, Muncy never felt right in 2022. But a normal offseason, he said, allowed him to “kind of reset mentally and reset my body,” which leads the Dodgers to believe they’ll get the Max out of Muncy in 2023. “I see him getting back to who he was as a baseball player,” Roberts said. “He’s an All-Star player. He’s not blind to people, in his mind, writing him off for 2023. He works better when he’s got a chip on his shoulder. I think he feels like he’s the forgotten man. So that’s a good thing for the Dodgers.” MAX MUNCY had a rough 2022 but increased his production during the latter part of the season. This spring, he has adjusted his swing to avoid any bad habits. Ashley Landis Associated Press Healthy Muncy ready to prove himself [Muncy, from B12] But that experience, he explained, didn’t alter how he’s approaching this season. “It doesn’t change what I do,” he said. “Even if I hadn’t played in the WBC, my intensity toward the season would be the same. To be able to experience that kind of atmosphere before the season is special, but it doesn’t fundamentally change the fact that I want to do my best.” Ohtani said he wasn’t sure exactly how the WBC atmosphere compared with playing October baseball or in a World Series. “It was my first protracted battle in some time. The atmosphere was like, ‘Now, this is baseball,’ ” he said. “Honestly, I haven’t been to the World Series, so I can’t even imagine. But my hunger to play in a short competition heightened. “It was equally fun to [October baseball],” he added later. “It also wasn’t that. People who are baseball fans and people who said it wasn’t [equal to the playoffs] got into it. I think that’s No. 1. I was nervous, but I had just as much fun.” Ohtani, who can become a free agent at the end of this season, was asked whether winning in the WBC affected his outlook on free agency. “Not especially,” he said. “First, I want to get to the World Series with the Angels and win. That reinforced those thoughts. That’s all I’m thinking about. We have another week. I want to recover and approach the season in the best condition possible.” Ohtani’s start Friday represented some of his final pitching preparations before starting for the Angels on opening day Thursday. He went into Friday focused on readjusting to the pitch clock, using the PitchCom device and fine-tuning his offspeed pitches. He was asked afterward if it was difficult to adjust from the intensity of playing in the WBC to pitching on the lower fields of the Angels’ Tempe facility. “Today was a game, but I went into the game prioritizing what I wanted to work on,” he said. “Today, I threw the number of pitches I wanted. I’m ready to go.” Ohtani threw 81 pitches, striking out eight and also gave up a solo home run to Diamondbacks’ prospect Gavin Conticello. Asked whether he thought that home run, coming days after he struck out Mike Trout on the international stage, made baseball a strange game, he laughed. “There are players with good swings,” he said. “They’re just young. But more than the pitches, I wanted to check the PitchCom and pitch clock.” Ohtani returned to the Angels’ facility Thursday, which was a day off for the big league team, though there were still big league players around getting some work in. After being away from the team the last few weeks, he was happy to see his Angels teammates again. “Everyone congratulated me, and that made me happy,” he said. “I saw everyone’s face for the first time in a while and it made me feel again that I wanted to win a championship with this team.” Times columnist Dylan Hernández contributed to this report. Ohtani refocuses on Angels’ quest ‘First, I want to get to the World Series with the Angels and win. ... That’s all I’m thinking about.’ —Shohei Ohtani [Ohtani, from B12]

LATIMES.COM S SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 B9 TODAY’S GAMES Favorite Line Underdog Time at CLIPPERS 5 New Orleans 7:30 p.m. at Atlanta OFF Indiana 2 p.m. at Miami 51 ⁄2 Brooklyn 5 p.m. at Denver OFF Milwaukee 6 p.m. at Sacramento OFF Utah 7 p.m. at Phoenix OFF Philadelphia 7 p.m. FRIDAY’S RESULTS LAKERS 116, Oklahoma City 111 Boston 120, Indiana 95 Washington 136, San Antonio 124 Toronto 118, Detroit 97 Memphis 151, Houston 114 Charlotte 117, Dallas 109 Milwaukee 144, Utah 116 Golden St. 120, Phil. 112 Chicago 124, Portland 96 Sacra. 135, Phoenix 127 SCORING LEADERS Through Thursday’s games G FG FT PTS AVG Embiid, Philadelphia 59 652 593 1958 33.2 Doncic, Dallas 58 640 469 1909 32.9 Lillard, Portland 58 556 510 1866 32.2 Gilgeous-Alexander, OKC 62 646 599 1945 31.4 Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee 57 637 461 1781 31.2 Tatum, Boston 68 665 494 2044 30.1 Mitchell, Cleveland 63 611 287 1731 27.5 Morant, Memphis 54 513 342 1453 26.9 Young, Atlanta 66 558 507 1770 26.8 Brown, Boston 61 612 253 1631 26.7 Markkanen, Utah 64 557 332 1643 25.7 Fox, Sacramento 65 614 310 1648 25.4 Randle, New York 75 647 398 1907 25.4 DeRozan, Chicago 66 597 424 1657 25.1 LaVine, Chicago 68 590 327 1694 24.9 Jokic, Denver 65 619 320 1614 24.8 Edwards, Minnesota 71 636 290 1755 24.7 Siakam, Toronto 63 554 330 1524 24.2 Brunson, New York 65 553 315 1546 23.8 George, CLIPPERS 56 459 256 1332 23.8 Porzingis, Washington 62 477 342 1424 23.0 Standings have been arranged to reflect how the teams will be determined for the playoffs. Teams are ranked 1-15 by record. The top six teams in each conference qualify for the playoffs. Teams seven through 10 will participate in a play-in tournament with the topseeded play-in team meeting the lowest qualifying play-in team. The next-lowest qualifying team would play the second, etc. Head-tohead competition is the first of several tiebreakers, followed by conference record. (Western Conference divisions: S-Southwest; P-Pacific; N-Northwest; Eastern Conference divisions: A-Atlantic; C-Central; S-Southeast). WESTERN CONFERENCE Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk. 1. y-Denver 49 24 .671 5-5 N1 2. y-Memphis 46 27 .630 3 8-2 S1 3. Sacramento 44 29 .603 5 7-3 P1 4. CLIPPERS 39 35 .527 101 ⁄2 6-4 P2 5. Phoenix 38 35 .521 11 4-6 P3 6. Golden State 39 36 .520 11 5-5 P4 7. LAKERS 37 37 .500 121 ⁄2 6-4 P5 7. Minnesota 37 37 .500 121 ⁄2 5-5 N2 9. New Orleans 36 37 .493 13 5-5 S2 10. Oklahoma City 36 38 .493 131 ⁄2 7-3 N3 10. Dallas 36 38 .486 131 ⁄2 3-7 S3 12. Utah 35 38 .479 14 4-6 N4 13. Portland 32 41 .438 17 3-7 N5 14. San Antonio 19 55 .257 301 ⁄2 3-7 S4 15. Houston 18 56 .243 311 ⁄2 3-7 S5 EASTERN CONFERENCE Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk. 1. x-Milwaukee 53 20 .726 8-2 C1 2. x-Boston 51 23 .689 21 ⁄2 6-4 A1 3. x-Philadelphia 49 24 .671 4 8-2 A2 4. Cleveland 47 28 .627 7 8-2 C2 5. New York 42 33 .560 12 4-6 A3 6. Miami 40 34 .541 131 ⁄2 7-3 S1 7. Brooklyn 39 34 .534 14 4-6 A4 8. Atlanta 36 37 .493 17 4-6 S2 9. Toronto 36 38 .486 171 ⁄2 5-5 A5 10. Chicago 35 38 .479 18 6-4 C3 11. Indiana 33 41 .446 201 ⁄2 5-5 C4 11. Washington 33 41 .446 201 ⁄2 3-7 S3 13. Orlando 31 43 .419 221 ⁄2 4-6 S4 14. Charlotte 24 51 .320 30 4-6 S5 15. Detroit 16 58 .216 371 ⁄2 1-9 C5 x-clinched playoff berth; y-division STANDINGS Celtics 120, Pacers 95 INDIANA Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Mathurin ...........25 1-4 0-0 0-1 2 2 2 Nesmith ............19 1-5 1-2 0-2 2 3 3 Turner ...............24 9-13 1-3 0-6 0 2 20 Haliburton .........28 7-13 5-6 0-6 9 2 20 Nembhard .........23 3-5 0-0 0-2 3 0 6 Hield ................25 2-9 3-3 1-8 4 1 8 McConnell .........22 5-10 0-1 1-4 1 1 10 Jackson.............22 5-10 2-2 2-6 0 3 12 Nwora ...............18 2-5 0-0 0-4 0 1 4 Brissett ...............7 2-3 1-3 1-1 0 0 6 Hill .....................7 0-1 0-0 0-1 2 1 0 Johnson ..............7 2-3 0-2 0-1 1 0 4 Smith .................7 0-3 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 Totals 39-84 13-22 6-44 24 16 95 Shooting: Field goals, 46.4%; free throws, 59.1% Three-point goals: 4-26 (Brissett 1-1, Hield 1-4, Turner 1-4, Haliburton 1-5, Hill 0-1, Johnson 0-1, Mathurin 0-1, Nembhard 0-1, McConnell 0-2, Nesmith 0-2, Nwora 0-2, Smith 0-2). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 4 (McConnell 2, Jackson, Turner). Turnovers: 17 (Haliburton 5, Mathurin 3, Nesmith 3, Hield 2, Jackson, McConnell, Nwora, Turner). Steals: 9 (Hield 3, Nembhard 2, Brissett, Haliburton, Hill, Johnson). Technical Fouls: Haliburton, 2:55 first. BOSTON Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T J.Brown .............33 10-23 4-6 1-7 4 2 27 Tatum ...............32 13-24 5-6 0-7 2 3 34 Horford .............28 2-7 0-0 1-9 4 1 6 Smart ...............26 2-3 2-2 0-1 5 1 6 White................37 7-17 3-3 0-4 9 2 22 Williams ............29 5-10 0-2 4-6 1 2 12 Hauser ..............23 3-5 0-0 0-5 1 1 9 Williams III.........15 2-3 0-0 2-8 1 2 4 Kornet ................6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Muscala ..............4 0-1 0-0 1-2 0 1 0 Davison...............2 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Totals 44-93 14-19 9-49 28 15 120 Shooting: Field goals, 47.3%; free throws, 73.7% Three-point goals: 18-42 (White 5-9, Hauser 3-4, J.Brown 3-6, Tatum 3-9, Horford 2-6, Williams 2-6, Muscala 0-1, Smart 0-1). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 6 (Williams III 3, Horford, Muscala, White). Turnovers: 14 (Tatum 6, J.Brown 3, Horford 2, Williams 2, Williams III). Steals: 11 (Smart 3, Williams III 3, Tatum 2, Hauser, Horford, White). Technical Fouls: None. Indiana 32 23 21 19— 95 Boston 34 26 32 28— 120 A—19,156. T—2:05. LAKERS 116, THUNDER 111 OKLAHOMA CITY Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Dort..................30 5-12 0-0 4-6 1 4 15 Jal.Williams........38 3-10 3-3 2-5 2 0 9 Jay.Williams .......26 2-7 0-0 0-3 1 4 5 Giddey ..............38 12-24 1-1 4-18 7 3 27 Gilgus-Alxndr......35 9-22 8-9 0-5 8 4 27 Joe ...................19 0-3 2-2 0-1 1 1 2 Waters III...........18 2-4 0-0 0-0 1 2 6 Robinson-Earl.....17 5-6 2-2 1-3 0 0 14 Wiggins.............12 2-3 1-2 1-4 0 0 6 Dieng..................1 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 Totals 40-92 17-19 12-46 21 19 111 Shooting: Field goals, 43.5%; free throws, 89.5% Three-point goals: 14-36 (Dort 5-8, Robinson-Earl 2-3, Waters III 2-4, Giddey 2-6, Wiggins 1-1, GilgeousAlexander 1-3, Jay.Williams 1-5, Dieng 0-1, Jal.Williams 0-2, Joe 0-3). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 5 (Dort 2, Giddey, Gilgeous-Alexander, Jay.Williams). Turnovers: 10 (Giddey 2, Gilgeous-Alexander 2, Wiggins 2, Dieng, Jal.Williams, Jay.Williams, Joe). Steals: 6 (Giddey, Gilgeous-Alexander, Jal.Williams, Jay.Williams, Joe, Wiggins). Technical Fouls: None. LAKERS Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Brown Jr. ...........26 2-10 0-0 0-2 2 0 6 Vanderbilt ..........27 0-5 1-2 3-9 0 3 1 Davis ................36 15-21 7-11 4-14 1 1 37 Reaves..............38 3-12 4-4 3-6 9 3 11 Schroder ...........36 8-14 3-4 1-3 6 2 21 Walker IV ...........23 7-12 2-4 1-4 0 1 20 Beasley .............18 4-11 0-0 0-2 1 0 10 Gabriel..............17 2-4 2-2 2-8 0 2 7 Hachimura.........13 1-1 1-1 0-3 1 2 3 Totals 42-90 20-28 14-51 20 14 116 Shooting: Field goals, 46.7%; free throws, 71.4% Three-point goals: 12-34 (Walker IV 4-8, Schroder 2-4, Beasley 2-6, Brown Jr. 2-7, Gabriel 1-2, Reaves 1-5, Davis 0-1, Vanderbilt 0-1). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 4 (Brown Jr. 2, Schroder, Vanderbilt). Turnovers: 11 (Reaves 3, Schroder 3, Beasley 2, Brown Jr., Davis, Hachimura). Steals: 9 (Walker IV 3, Beasley 2, Schroder 2, Davis, Hachimura). Technical Fouls: Lakers, 4:27 third. Oklahoma City 25 41 26 19— 111 LAKERS 41 33 19 23— 116 A—18,997. T—2:09. Wizards 136, Spurs 124 SAN ANTONIO Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Bates-Diop ........27 8-13 0-2 1-7 0 0 20 Johnson ............30 11-17 5-9 3-10 4 0 30 Mamukelashvili...28 5-8 0-0 3-5 3 2 10 Branham ...........29 7-15 0-0 1-5 0 3 15 Jones................28 5-9 0-0 1-2 12 3 10 Graham.............21 2-8 0-0 0-1 6 0 5 Barlow ..............19 2-3 0-0 0-4 1 5 4 Wesley ..............18 0-6 0-0 1-3 8 1 0 McDermott.........18 6-14 3-3 1-1 1 5 18 Champagnie ......18 5-8 1-1 0-3 0 2 12 Totals 51-101 9-15 11-41 35 21 124 Shooting: Field goals, 50.5%; free throws, 60.0% Three-point goals: 13-38 (Bates-Diop 4-5, Johnson 3-5, McDermott 3-8, Champagnie 1-4, Branham 1-6, Graham 1-6, Jones 0-1, Wesley 0-1, Mamukelashvili 0-2). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 4 (Barlow 2, Champagnie 2). Turnovers: 5 (Wesley 2, Graham, Johnson, Mamukelashvili). Steals: 4 (Jones 2, Graham, McDermott). Technical Fouls: Champagnie, 11:53 second. WASHINGTON Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Avdija ...............33 9-14 0-1 0-11 6 4 21 Porzingis............27 7-11 7-7 1-9 5 0 23 Gafford .............31 4-5 1-2 0-3 1 3 9 Kispert ..............36 9-14 2-5 0-5 2 2 26 Morris ...............19 5-8 0-0 1-2 4 0 10 Goodwin............30 6-11 4-5 2-5 5 1 17 Wright...............28 9-14 3-3 1-7 3 0 24 Gill ...................18 1-3 2-3 1-1 2 2 4 Davis ................14 1-5 0-0 0-0 1 4 2 Totals 51-85 19-26 6-43 29 16 136 Shooting: Field goals, 60.0%; free throws, 73.1% Three-point goals: 15-30 (Kispert 6-9, Avdija 3-6, Wright 3-6, Porzingis 2-3, Goodwin 1-4, Davis 0-1, Morris 0-1). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 3. Blocked Shots: 9 (Porzingis 4, Gafford 2, Gill, Kispert, Morris). Turnovers: 7 (Avdija 2, Gafford 2, Davis, Kispert, Porzingis). Steals: 3 (Goodwin 2, Avdija). Technical Fouls: None. San Antonio 26 36 36 26— 124 Washington 33 33 33 37— 136 A—17,004. T—2:01. Raptors 118, Pistons 97 DETROIT Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Bagley III ...........29 5-10 4-4 3-9 0 3 14 Livers................30 4-8 3-3 1-4 2 1 12 Wiseman...........23 7-13 0-2 0-4 1 1 14 Hayes................28 1-6 3-3 0-5 7 2 6 Ivey ..................41 7-13 4-4 1-3 8 3 20 Omoruyi ............32 3-10 3-5 2-7 1 2 9 Duren ...............24 3-4 3-4 0-5 4 1 9 Hampton ...........21 4-8 3-5 0-0 0 3 13 Rhoden...............8 0-1 0-0 1-2 0 2 0 Totals 34-73 23-30 8-39 23 18 97 Shooting: Field goals, 46.6%; free throws, 76.7% Three-point goals: 6-25 (Hampton 2-6, Ivey 2-6, Hayes 1-3, Livers 1-4, Rhoden 0-1, Bagley III 0-2, Omoruyi 0-3). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 4 (Omoruyi 2, Hampton, Wiseman). Turnovers: 22 (Ivey 9, Bagley III 3, Hayes 3, Omoruyi 3, Wiseman 2, Hampton, Rhoden). Steals: 8 (Hayes 4, Omoruyi 2, Duren, Ivey). Technical Fouls: None. TORONTO Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Anunoby............24 7-11 0-0 2-3 2 2 17 Siakam .............38 12-19 6-10 0-5 9 3 32 Poeltl ................28 1-2 2-2 2-11 1 3 4 Barton ..............24 3-10 2-2 1-3 2 1 9 VanVleet............29 5-16 5-5 1-3 4 3 18 Boucher ............29 7-14 3-3 6-13 1 3 19 Dowtin Jr. ..........28 3-7 2-3 0-3 4 2 9 Koloko ..............19 2-5 1-2 3-3 2 5 5 Flynn ................17 1-8 2-2 0-2 0 2 5 Totals 41-92 23-29 15-46 25 24 118 Shooting: Field goals, 44.6%; free throws, 79.3% Three-point goals: 13-37 (Anunoby 3-4, VanVleet 3-10, Boucher 2-5, Siakam 2-6, Dowtin Jr. 1-2, Barton 1-4, Flynn 1-6). Team Rebounds: 11. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 9 (Koloko 4, Boucher 2, Poeltl 2, Flynn). Turnovers: 11 (VanVleet 4, Flynn 2, Siakam 2, Anunoby, Boucher, Poeltl). Steals: 12 (Dowtin Jr. 3, Koloko 2, Poeltl 2, VanVleet 2, Barton, Boucher, Siakam). Technical Fouls: Raptors, 10:02 second. Detroit 26 26 21 24— 97 Toronto 38 34 20 26— 118 A—19,800. T—2:13. Hornets 117, Mavericks 109 CHARLOTTE Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Hayward ............32 9-15 6-6 0-3 9 0 25 Washington........29 11-22 4-4 2-6 3 1 28 Richards............26 5-10 0-3 0-11 1 2 10 Mykhailiuk .........36 3-6 4-5 1-3 3 5 13 Smith Jr.............29 4-9 3-4 0-5 9 3 13 McGowens.........22 1-6 0-0 2-3 0 1 3 Williams ............21 6-9 1-3 1-8 2 0 13 Maledon............21 0-4 0-0 0-1 4 3 0 Thor..................18 4-8 2-2 0-3 1 2 12 Bouknight............1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 43-89 20-27 6-43 32 17 117 Shooting: Field goals, 48.3%; free throws, 74.1% Three-point goals: 11-28 (Mykhailiuk 3-5, Smith Jr. 2-4, Thor 2-5, Washington 2-8, Hayward 1-2, McGowens 1-3, Maledon 0-1). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 4 (Thor 2, Washington, Williams). Turnovers: 8 (Mykhailiuk 2, Washington 2, Hayward, Smith Jr., Thor, Williams). Steals: 7 (Thor 3, Washington 2, McGowens, Smith Jr.). Technical Fouls: Hornets, 8:49 first. DALLAS Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Bullock..............34 2-4 0-0 0-6 0 2 6 Kleber...............19 2-5 0-0 1-2 0 2 4 Powell ...............20 7-7 0-0 2-5 2 2 14 Doncic ..............37 12-23 8-10 0-10 8 0 34 Irving ................38 6-16 5-7 3-9 7 0 18 Wood................26 5-10 3-4 1-6 2 3 14 Ntilikina ............21 3-6 1-1 0-1 3 4 8 Green ...............21 1-3 1-2 0-3 1 1 3 Hardy................20 3-8 0-0 0-3 2 3 8 Holiday ...............0 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 Totals 41-84 18-24 7-45 25 19 109 Shooting: Field goals, 48.8%; free throws, 75.0% Three-point goals: 9-36 (Bullock 2-4, Hardy 2-4, Doncic 2-9, Ntilikina 1-3, Wood 1-3, Irving 1-8, Green 0-1, Holiday 0-1, Kleber 0-3). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 4 (Doncic, Irving, Ntilikina, Wood). Turnovers: 10 (Doncic 5, Green 3, Irving, Powell). Steals: 3 (Green, Irving, Powell). Technical Fouls: None. Charlotte 37 32 26 22— 117 Dallas 26 29 32 22— 109 A—20,347. T—2:11. Warriors 120, 76ers 112 PHILADELPHIA Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Harris................37 10-12 2-3 0-6 3 0 23 Tucker ...............25 0-5 0-0 0-2 1 3 0 Embiid ..............37 13-23 19-22 1-9 8 2 46 Maxey ...............39 7-16 3-3 0-4 5 4 21 Melton ..............35 3-9 2-2 1-6 2 4 8 Niang................29 1-4 2-2 0-3 0 2 5 Milton ...............23 2-5 0-0 0-3 4 3 5 Reed ..................5 1-2 0-2 2-4 0 1 2 Korkmaz..............5 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 1 2 Springer ..............0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 38-78 28-34 4-38 23 20 112 Shooting: Field goals, 48.7%; free throws, 82.4% Three-point goals: 8-29 (Maxey 4-8, Harris 1-1, Milton 1-2, Niang 1-4, Embiid 1-5, Melton 0-4, Tucker 0-5). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 1 (Embiid). Turnovers: 10 (Embiid 3, Niang 2, Maxey, Melton, Milton, Reed, Tucker). Steals: 8 (Melton 3, Embiid 2, Tucker 2, Maxey). Technical Fouls: None. GOLDEN STATE Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T DiVincenzo.........18 0-2 0-0 1-3 0 3 0 D.Green.............34 5-11 0-0 1-7 10 3 10 Looney..............30 3-3 0-0 3-10 7 5 6 Curry ................38 10-18 7-8 0-8 3 2 29 Thompson..........36 7-17 1-2 0-6 2 1 21 Poole ................32 10-19 7-8 0-3 3 0 33 Kuminga............15 1-7 1-4 2-2 2 3 4 J.Green..............13 4-5 2-2 3-6 0 1 12 Lamb................11 1-4 0-0 0-1 0 1 2 Moody ................8 1-2 0-0 0-3 0 2 3 Totals 42-88 18-24 10-49 27 21 120 Shooting: Field goals, 47.7%; free throws, 75.0% Three-point goals: 18-50 (Poole 6-11, Thompson 6- 13, J.Green 2-3, Curry 2-7, Moody 1-2, Kuminga 1-5, DiVincenzo 0-2, Lamb 0-2, D.Green 0-5). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 0 Turnovers: 11 (D.Green 5, Curry 2, Thompson 2, DiVincenzo, Poole). Steals: 3 (D.Green, J.Green, Looney). Technical Fouls: Warriors, 6:04 second Philadelphia 27 26 35 24— 112 Golden State 23 32 24 41— 120 A—18,064. T—2:21. Kings 135, Suns 127 PHOENIX Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Craig.................25 1-6 0-0 1-4 1 2 2 Okogie ..............20 1-2 2-2 1-4 2 3 4 Biyombo............16 3-4 0-3 2-3 2 2 6 Booker ..............33 10-16 12-14 1-8 5 4 32 Paul..................31 5-12 4-4 3-6 13 1 15 Warren ..............28 7-13 0-1 1-3 1 5 15 Ross.................26 11-16 2-2 0-5 1 3 30 Landale.............24 8-11 1-1 3-6 3 3 17 Shamet .............15 2-4 0-0 0-1 0 1 5 Payne................15 0-5 1-2 0-3 5 1 1 Totals 48-89 22-29 12-43 33 25 127 Shooting: Field goals, 53.9%; free throws, 75.9% Three-point goals: 9-29 (Ross 6-10, Shamet 1-2, Warren 1-4, Paul 1-5, Booker 0-1, Okogie 0-1, Craig 0-3, Payne 0-3). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 7 (Craig 3, Biyombo 2, Okogie 2). Turnovers: 12 (Payne 3, Biyombo 2, Booker 2, Craig, Okogie, Paul, Shamet, Warren). Steals: 2 (Warren 2). Technical Fouls: Booker, 8:35 third SACRAMENTO Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Barnes..............34 7-12 7-9 0-1 1 1 23 Murray ..............27 5-7 0-0 1-4 2 4 13 Sabonis ............37 10-15 7-8 2-9 9 4 27 Fox...................20 7-15 4-4 1-1 2 3 19 Huerter..............32 10-18 3-4 0-9 5 2 29 Mitchell.............27 1-4 0-0 0-4 6 3 2 Monk ................18 2-7 3-3 1-3 3 1 8 Lyles.................15 1-4 4-4 0-0 0 0 6 Edwards ............10 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 3 2 Metu.................10 3-4 0-0 0-2 0 2 6 Davis ..................4 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 47-89 28-32 5-33 29 23 135 Shooting: Field goals, 52.8%; free throws, 87.5% Three-point goals: 13-39 (Huerter 6-12, Murray 3-4, Barnes 2-5, Monk 1-4, Fox 1-6, Davis 0-1, Edwards 0-1, Sabonis 0-1, Lyles 0-2, Mitchell 0-3). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 3 (Edwards, Fox, Huerter). Turnovers: 4 (Fox 2, Huerter, Sabonis). Steals: 6 (Barnes, Edwards, Huerter, Lyles, Metu, Sabonis). Technical Fouls: None. Phoenix 30 37 26 34— 127 Sacramento 24 32 45 34— 135 A—18,151. T—2:20. Grizzlies 151, Rockets 114 HOUSTON Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Martin Jr. ...........30 4-6 2-2 0-3 2 3 10 Smith Jr.............29 9-16 0-0 3-8 0 2 20 Sengun .............25 3-6 1-3 1-5 2 3 7 Green ...............30 6-15 1-2 1-2 5 0 13 Porter Jr.............29 7-12 5-7 0-6 7 1 20 Eason ...............29 9-13 2-3 1-4 3 0 21 Nix ...................20 3-8 1-2 0-2 1 1 9 Garuba .............19 1-2 0-0 2-3 0 3 2 Christopher ........16 3-6 1-2 0-0 3 0 8 Marjanovic.........10 2-3 0-0 2-5 2 1 4 Totals 47-87 13-21 10-38 25 14 114 Shooting: Field goals, 54.0%; free throws, 61.9% Three-point goals: 7-23 (Smith Jr. 2-4, Nix 2-6, Eason 1-2, Porter Jr. 1-2, Christopher 1-3, Garuba 0-1, Martin Jr. 0-1, Sengun 0-1, Green 0-3). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 3 (Christopher, Martin Jr., Smith Jr.). Turnovers: 15 (Marjanovic 4, Porter Jr. 3, Sengun 2, Christopher, Eason, Garuba, Green, Martin Jr., Nix). Steals: 7 (Porter Jr. 2, Christopher, Eason, Green, Nix, Sengun). Technical Fouls: None. MEMPHIS Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Brooks ..............17 4-7 1-2 0-1 1 5 11 Jackson Jr..........25 5-13 8-9 1-7 2 3 18 Tillman..............21 4-4 0-0 1-4 0 2 8 Bane ................20 10-13 0-0 2-4 1 4 25 Jones................23 4-8 0-0 0-3 9 0 11 Aldama .............26 2-2 2-2 1-6 2 1 8 Roddy ...............24 2-5 0-0 0-2 2 2 4 Kennard ............23 10-11 0-0 0-0 3 1 30 Morant..............19 8-12 1-1 0-2 8 0 18 Konchar ............18 1-4 0-0 0-3 2 0 3 Chandler ...........10 2-5 0-0 0-1 3 0 4 Lofton Jr. ...........10 5-9 0-0 0-2 3 1 11 Totals 57-93 12-14 5-35 36 19 151 Shooting: Field goals, 61.3%; free throws, 85.7% Three-point goals: 25-42 (Kennard 10-11, Bane 5-7, Jones 3-4, Aldama 2-2, Brooks 2-3, Lofton Jr. 1-1, Morant 1-2, Konchar 1-4, Chandler 0-1, Roddy 0-3, Jackson Jr. 0-4). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 7 (Jackson Jr. 2, Bane, Brooks, Konchar, Lofton Jr., Morant). Turnovers: 10 (Aldama 2, Jackson Jr. 2, Bane, Jones, Konchar, Morant, Roddy, Tillman). Steals: 12 (Bane 2, Jackson Jr. 2, Lofton Jr. 2, Tillman 2, Aldama, Brooks, Kennard, Konchar). Technical Fouls: None. Houston 30 22 32 30— 114 Memphis 42 41 36 32— 151 A—17,851. T—1:59. Bucks 144, Jazz 116 MILWAUKEE Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T G.Antetknmpo ....24 10-13 3-6 1-6 11 3 24 Connaughton .....29 8-12 0-0 1-5 3 2 22 Lopez................26 8-15 0-0 3-14 2 3 17 Allen.................21 8-14 4-4 2-4 1 1 25 Holiday..............24 6-8 2-2 0-3 8 0 18 Matthews ..........23 1-3 0-0 0-2 1 1 2 Portis................22 2-9 1-2 1-8 2 4 5 Ingles ...............21 2-5 0-0 0-1 6 0 6 Carter ...............15 5-9 0-0 1-2 4 2 13 T.Antetknmpo .....11 2-3 0-0 0-2 2 1 4 Beauchamp .........9 2-4 0-0 0-2 1 2 4 Wigginton............8 1-4 2-2 0-1 1 1 4 Totals 55-99 12-16 9-50 42 20 144 Shooting: Field goals, 55.6%; free throws, 75.0% Three-point goals: 22-50 (Connaughton 6-10, Allen 5-9, Holiday 4-5, Carter 3-6, Ingles 2-5, G.Antetokounmpo 1-2, Lopez 1-3, Beauchamp 0-2, Matthews 0-2, Wigginton 0-2, Portis 0-4). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 11 (Lopez 7, Connaughton 2, Carter, Matthews). Turnovers: 12 (G.Antetokounmpo 4, Holiday 2, T.Antetokounmpo 2, Allen, Connaughton, Lopez, Wigginton). Steals: 6 (Allen 2, G.Antetokounmpo 2, Holiday, T.Antetokounmpo). Technical Fouls: Bucks, 10:01 first UTAH Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Fontecchio.........25 9-16 4-4 0-2 0 2 26 Olynyk...............21 5-10 4-4 1-7 3 1 16 Kessler..............16 3-6 1-2 3-8 2 4 7 Agbaji ...............25 1-8 4-5 2-2 2 2 6 Horton-Tucker .....26 5-17 3-7 5-5 8 1 13 Dunn ................27 1-8 0-0 0-2 6 3 2 Azubuike ...........21 4-7 1-4 2-9 0 0 9 Juzang ..............19 3-12 2-2 0-5 2 0 10 Toscno-Andrsn....17 2-4 4-4 1-2 2 0 8 Jones................17 2-7 0-0 6-6 0 0 5 Brantley ............12 2-4 2-2 0-3 2 1 7 Potter .................9 3-5 0-0 0-0 1 1 7 Totals 40-104 25-34 20-51 28 15 116 Shooting: Field goals, 38.5%; free throws, 73.5% Three-point goals: 11-40 (Fontecchio 4-7, Olynyk 2-4, Juzang 2-10, Potter 1-2, Brantley 1-3, Jones 1-3, Toscano-Anderson 0-1, Dunn 0-3, Horton-Tucker 0-3, Agbaji 0-4). Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 5 (Azubuike 2, Kessler 2, Brantley). Turnovers: 11 (Horton-Tucker 4, Olynyk 2, Agbaji, Brantley, Dunn, Fontecchio, Jones). Steals: 6 (Olynyk 2, Agbaji, Azubuike, Horton-Tucker, Jones). Technical Fouls: None. Milwaukee 40 32 43 29— 144 Utah 25 33 27 31— 116 A—18,206. T—2:09. Bulls 124, Trail Blazers 96 CHICAGO Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Caruso..............16 2-2 1-2 0-0 1 0 6 Williams ............26 3-12 2-2 1-3 0 1 10 Vucevic .............30 10-13 2-2 2-15 4 3 23 Beverley ............23 1-5 2-2 0-6 4 2 4 LaVine ..............30 12-20 3-4 2-4 8 2 33 White................31 7-9 1-1 1-4 9 3 19 Jones Jr. ............26 4-7 0-0 2-2 2 2 8 Dosunmu...........24 5-6 0-0 0-1 2 1 13 Terry .................17 3-4 0-1 1-4 3 3 6 Drummond ........12 1-6 0-0 2-8 0 2 2 Totals 48-84 11-14 11-47 33 19 124 Shooting: Field goals, 57.1%; free throws, 78.6% Three-point goals: 17-28 (LaVine 6-9, White 4-5, Dosunmu 3-4, Williams 2-4, Caruso 1-1, Vucevic 1-1, Drummond 0-1, Jones Jr. 0-1, Beverley 0-2). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 8 (Williams 3, Jones Jr. 2, Beverley, Drummond, LaVine). Turnovers: 16 (Vucevic 5, LaVine 3, Dosunmu 2, Drummond 2, White 2, Williams 2). Steals: 6 (White 2, Beverley, Drummond, Vucevic, Williams). Technical Fouls: None. PORTLAND Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Thybulle.............14 2-3 0-2 0-0 1 0 5 Watford .............27 5-10 5-5 0-6 3 2 15 Eubanks............24 5-7 2-2 1-7 1 1 12 Arcidiacono........21 0-5 0-0 0-0 6 0 0 Sharpe..............38 9-20 2-2 2-4 2 1 24 Johnson ............26 4-9 3-3 1-2 6 4 12 Walker...............23 6-13 2-2 1-3 1 4 14 Reddish ............22 1-6 2-2 2-4 2 2 4 Knox II ..............17 3-8 0-0 0-2 1 0 6 Little.................16 2-5 0-0 1-2 0 0 4 Butler Jr...............7 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Totals 37-86 16-18 8-31 23 14 96 Shooting: Field goals, 43.0%; free throws, 88.9% Three-point goals: 6-31 (Sharpe 4-11, Thybulle 1-2, Johnson 1-4, Walker 0-1, Arcidiacono 0-2, Watford 0-2, Knox II 0-3, Little 0-3, Reddish 0-3). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 2. Blocked Shots: 5 (Butler Jr., Eubanks, Little, Sharpe, Watford). Turnovers: 12 (Sharpe 3, Johnson 2, Thybulle 2, Watford 2, Arcidiacono, Eubanks, Walker). Steals: 10 (Johnson 4, Arcidiacono 2, Eubanks 2, Thybulle, Walker). Technical Fouls: None. Chicago 26 35 33 30— 124 Portland 26 19 27 24— 96 A—19,393. T—1:58. Gio Reyna started in his first match with the U.S. after his parents disparaged then-coach Gregg Berhalter for his lack of playing time at the World Cup late last year in a 7-1 rout of 173rd-ranked host Grenada in the CONCACAF Nationals League on Friday. Reyna started in central midfield rather than his wing role under Berhalter and played until the 64th minute in the first competitive U.S. match since the World Cup. Ricardo Pepi and Weston McKennie had two goals each for the No. 13 Americans, who had never won by a 7-1 score and did not field at least one Major League Soccer player for the first time since MLS launched in 1996. ETC. Doncic fined for gesture at refs Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic was fined $35,000 for directing a money sign toward officials in the final seconds of a loss to the Golden State Warriors. Doncic walked toward officials while rubbing his fingers together in a 127-125 loss Wednesday night, apparently upset that a foul wasn’t called on a missed layup. Luke Kennard made a franchise-record 10 threepointers to match his career high with 30 points and the host Memphis Grizzlies clinched a playoff spot with a 151-114 victory over the Houston Rockets. Right-hander Miles Mikolas signed a two-year contract extension with the St. Louis Cardinals. The Baltimore Ravens agreed to a contract with wide receiver Nelson Agholor. ... The Cleveland Browns agreed to a one-year contract with free-agent wide receiver Marquise Goodwin. ... The San Francisco 49ers agreed to acquire kicker Zane Gonzalez from the Carolina Panthers in an exchange of conditional lateround picks in the 2025 draft. ... The Panthers agreed to a deal with free-agent receiver DJ Chark. Columbus Blue Jackets forward Patrik Laine is out two to four weeks after straining a triceps muscle. ... Arizona Coyotes minority owner Andrew Barroway was suspended indefinitely by the NHL following his arrest at an Aspen, Colo., hotel on a felony strangulation charge, according to the Aspen Daily News. Arizona State’s Leon Marchand broke his record in the 400-yard individual medley in 3 minutes, 28.82 seconds at the NCAA men’s swimming and diving championships in Minneapolis, becoming the first swimmer to break 3:30 in the event. Kaori Sakamotobecame the first Japanese woman to defend her title at the figure skating world championships, in Saitama, Japan. American teenager Isabeau Levito was fourth. Utah State redshirt freshman wide receiver Josh Davis was in fair condition, one day after collapsing at spring football practice following sudden cardiac arrest, the university announced. Memphis basketball player Jamirah Shutes was charged by Bowling Green campus police with assault after allegedly punching Bowling Green’s Elissa Brett in the handshake line following a Women’s NIT game, according to the Bowling Green athletic department. Jerry Green, a Detroit sportswriter who covered 56 consecutive Super Bowls, has died at 94, the Detroit News said. THE DAY IN SPORTS Reyna starts for U.S. in rout of Grenada associated press “Kudos to our guys, just staying the course, continuously being competitive,” Darvin Ham said. The Lakers blitzed the Thunder early, bolting to a 17-point lead led by Davis’ dominance and lightningquick ball movement. They made six of their first 13 threes, teasing a blowout. But after that hot start, the Lakers cooled. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, one of the fastest-improving stars in the NBA, and Josh Giddey kept attacking the Lakers’ interior while the Oklahoma City shooters confidently hit open threes. The Thunder scored 41 points in the second quarter and held the Lakers to just 19 in the third, using runs at the end of each to tighten the gap. They finally tied the score for the first time since the first quarter midway through the fourth when GilgeousAlexander’s slicing jumper made it 102-102. The Lakers, though, scrapped to the finish, Davis and Schroder making huge plays down the stretch on both ends, fighting their way to just enough stops. The Lakers are now tied for seventh in the West with Minnesota. It also gave them the season head-tohead tiebreaker with Oklahoma City. The last time the Lakers were .500 was Jan. 25, 2022. It all came with them, once again, shorthanded, and forced to employ their next-man-up mentality. With D’Angelo Russell (again) the latest Laker to land on the injury report, an opportunity for seldom-used Lonnie Walker IV presented itself. So when the ball popped to Walker in front of the Lakers bench where he’s spent each of the last three games, he didn’t hesitate. Swish. The hope, Ham said pregame, is that Russell’s sore right hip is a dayto-day injury. “It’s not too serious,” Ham said, “but serious enough where we need to manage it.” With backcourt minutes suddenly available, Ham turned to Walker and the former starter responded with 15 points in 11 first-half minutes. He finished with 20. “He didn’t have to come out and worry about getting ready,” Ham said after the win. “He’s been staying ready.” Walker started in each of his first 32 games this season before a knee injury sidelined him for a month. He slowly lost minutes in the Lakers’ rotation as Austin Reaves took on a bigger role and after the team added Russell and Malik Beasley at the trade deadline. His first half Friday against Oklahoma City was the most he scored in a game this month. Ham stuck with Walker in crunch time, where he made another huge three and grabbed a game-sealing rebound. Russell’s injury happened in the Lakers’ win against Phoenix on Wednesday, a game in which he scored 26 and energized the crowd. “’It’s unfortunate, no doubt, but it’s professional sports and it’s a reality of our business here in the NBA. So you have to just manage it as best you can in terms of rearranging your rotation, but we have capable guys,“ Ham said. At the front of that line has been Reaves, the hottest player in the locker room save for Davis. Over his last nine games before Friday, Reaves averaged 19.8 points and 6.1 assists on 57.3% shooting from the field. Wednesday, Ham moved him into the starting lineup for Beasley. “He’s clearly a huge focal point for them, which makes him a huge focal point for us,” Oklahoma City coach Mark Daigneault said pregame. That meant the Thunder used Luguentz Dort as a primary defender on Reaves for long stretches. Dort, a 6-foot-4 guard with strength, locked up Kawhi Leonard and kept him from attempting a game-winner in the Thunder’s victory over the Clippers on Tuesday night. Reaves struggled to score efficiently Friday, a hallmark of his offensive game, early on, a trend that began when he had to side-step to force up a contested three with Dort covering him to beat the shot clock on the Lakers’ second possession of the game. “I mean Austin is a kid who is highly intelligent, and just goes about his business,” Ham said. “He’s not gonna force — he’s gonna be aggressive — but he’s not gonna force himself into a bad play.” Still, Ham didn’t deny that Reaves was going to see different looks from the opposition. “He’s gonna be a priority, no doubt about it,” Ham said. “But it all comes down to just playing the right way, and like we saw with [Anthony Davis] a couple nights ago, teams just doubling him on the pass, and doubling him on the dribble, doubling him from the top and on the baseline. He just continuously made the right play, he didn’t try to force the issue. “And that’s all you have to do.” LAKERS GUARD Austin Reaves, who finished with 11 points, six rebounds and a game-high nine assists, shoots as Oklahoma City guard Luguentz Dort tries to contest the shot in L.A.’s 116-111 victory. Mark J. Terrill Associated Press Davis scores 37 to fuel Lakers [Lakers, from B12]

B10 SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 LATIMES.COM NCAA TOURNAMENT Caitlin Clark scored 31 points and No. 2-seeded Iowa shook disappointments the last two seasons and reached the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA tournament with an 87-77 win over Colorado in the Seattle 4 Regional semifinals on Friday night. After two straight tournaments where Clark’s season ended in the round of 16 and the round of 32, the Hawkeyes (29-6) will play for a chance at just the second Final Four berth in school history Sunday. Clark was the catalyst for Iowa’s big second half, and the first-team All-American finished 11-of-22 shooting with four three-pointers and eight assists. It was her 11th game this season scoring at least 30 points. But Clark had plenty of help. Monika Czinano added 15 points, including a key basket in the paint with 1:10 left, and Kate Martin scored 16. Frida Formann led Colorado (25-9) with 21 points, but 19 of those came in the first half when her shooting carried the Buffaloes. But Formann was shut down in the second half and fouled out with 6:37 remaining. Louisville 72, Mississippi 62: Hailey Van Lith scored 21 points to help the fifth-seeded Cardinals (26- 11) defeat the eight-seeded Rebels (25-9) to advance to the final of the Seattle 4 Region. It’s the fifth straight year that Louisville reached at least the Elite Eight. Mississippi, led by Marquesha Davis and Myah Taylor with 19 points apiece, hadn’t advanced this far since 2007 when the team made its fifth Elite Eight in program history. They were looking to become only the second No. 8 seed to reach a regional final, joining Southwest Missouri State, which did it in 1992. Miami 70, Villanova 65: Jasmyne Roberts scored a career-high 26 points — including a put-back for the go-ahead, three-point play with 38.8 seconds left — to help the ninth-seeded Hurricanes (22-12) overcome blowing a 21-point lead and beat the fourth-seeded Wildcats (30-7) at Greenville, S.C., for their first trip to the Elite Eight. All-American Maddy Siegrist, the nation’s scoring leader, had 31 points, 13 rebounds and five steals for Villanova. It marked her third 30-point outing in as many tournament games, pushing her to the No. 2 single-season scoring total in Division I history. Louisiana State 66, Utah 63: Alexis Morris hit two free throws with 10 seconds left as the third-seeded Tigers (31-2) reached the Elite Eight for the first time since 2008, beating the second-seeded Utes (27-5) at Greenville. LaDazDazhia Williams scored a season-high 24 points and Angel Reese had her 31st double-double of the season with 17 points and 12 rebounds for LSU. Gianna Kneepkens led Utah with 20 points. Alissa Pili, a second-team AllAmerican, had 14 points, but took only eight shots as LSU denied her the ball. WOMEN’S ROUNDUP Clark, Iowa get over the hump, beat Colorado associated press ter into a nine-point win against Oklahoma. Confidence earned from repeated scrimmage victories helped the Bruins turn their Achilles’ heel into a strength at the right time. For the final period of practice, Close will make up a score. Early in the week, the Bruins will trail at the start of the scrimmage against male practice players. They may be tied the next day. Close might spot them a one-point lead toward the end of the week. No matter the situation, the Bruins have to figure out a way to win. “Our focus and intentionality with those drills in practice has really ticked up to a new level,” freshman guard Kiki Rice said. “I think that’s what’s helped us translate our success into the games.” Close implemented the strategy after UCLA lost three consecutive heartbreakers during the Pac-12 season. UCLA made just one shot from the field during overtime in a 73-70 loss at Colorado on Jan. 27. Two days later, the Bruins blew an eight-point lead with 6:25 remaining to Utah and allowed the Utes to win the game on a layup with 0.8 seconds left. They squandered an 11-point lead with 4:49 left in the fourth quarter against Arizona on Feb. 3 and lost by five points in overtime. It felt like UCLA “imploded” at the end of each game, Close said. “All three of those games, we had made enough winning plays to win and we didn’t do it,” the 12-year head coach said. “So we needed to get really good at finishing.” Stuck in the difficult stretch that might have broken other teams, the Bruins relied on their mental training that teaches them to treat each game as a learning opportunity. They studiously watched the film of each loss. The work paid off starting in a home sweep against Oregon State and Oregon in which the Bruins outscored the Beavers 18-7 in the fourth quarter and beat the Ducks by 10. “I don’t think we’d be right here in the Sweet 16 without losing those three games,” Brown said. “I’m glad those three games happened because it taught us what we need to do in those last four minutes of a game. Who we have to lean on and become in the last four minutes of a game.” The South Carolina game will be a test of how far the Bruins have come. On Nov. 29, UCLA led the defending national champions by four at halftime and was tied going into the fourth. Playing in front of more than 12,000 fans in Columbia, S.C., the Bruins cut South Carolina’s lead to two with 3:41 left, but the Gamecocks responded with a 7-0 run. The Bruins revisited the game film this week. Close felt encouraged by how they handled South Carolina’s switches for most of the game and battled without freshman forwards Christeen Iwuala, who missed the game with an injury, and Lina Sontag, who fouled out in 10 scoreless minutes. UCLA, which lost 73-64, is one of five teams to hold the Gamecocks to a single-digit margin this season. South Carolina coach Dawn Staley admired UCLA’s rebounding and purpose on offense. She told Close after the game they would meet again in March. The Bruins believed it, too. “We weren’t able to finish the job in the fourth quarter the first time, so to get another shot at them when we feel like we’ve gotten so much better is a great opportunity for us,” Rice said after UCLA’s win over Oklahoma. “We’re not scared that they’re the No. 1 seed. We have no doubt in us.” Bruins work on their end game [UCLA, from B12] WOMEN’S SCHEDULE All times Pacific FRIDAY’S SWEET 16 GAMES SEATTLE REGIONAL 4 2 Iowa 87, 6 Colorado 77 5 Louisville 72, 8 Mississippi 62 GREENVILLE REGIONAL 2 9 Miami 70, 4 Villanova 65 3 Louisiana State 66, 2 Utah 63 TODAY’S SWEET 16 GAMES GREENVILLE REGIONAL 1 2 Maryland (27-6) vs. 3 Notre Dame (27-5)..........8:30 a.m. 1 South Carolina (34-0) vs. 4 UCLA (27-9) ...............11 a.m. SEATTLE REGIONAL 3 2 Connecticut (31-5) vs. 3 Ohio State (27-7)............ 1 p.m. 1 Virginia Tech (29-4) vs. 4 Tennessee (25-11) ...... 3:30 p.m. “Hoop Dreams” ends with heartbreak, not championships, its humanity in documenting crushed hopes amid injuries and setbacks making it perhaps the greatest sports movie of all time. Some might feel the same way about UCLA’s senior class. No, they didn’t get to raise banner No. 12, but these guys weregoing to give you everything they had every time they took the court while restoring the fabric of a proud program. There was Jaime Jaquez Jr. late Thursday night inside T-Mobile Arena, powering through fatigue that would have rendered others unconscious to spark a late comeback. There was Tyger Campbell, fearlessly weaving through players a foot taller to find space for his floating jumpers. There was David Singleton, making two three-pointers in a bid to slay this NCAA tournament Goliath. The toughest part of injury-depleted UCLA’s 79-76 loss to Gonzaga on another crazy shot by the Zags in a West Region semifinal wasn’t the end of a season. It was the end of an era. These seniors fought through serious injuries. They built a culture centered on toughness and accountability. They made it to one Final Four and three Sweet 16s. And now they won’t take the court together as Bruins again. They won’t hear the roars of the fans who fell in love with UCLA basketball anew because of them. They won’t feel the admiration of the old coaches they lured back to the program, Ben Howland now a regular at Pauley Pavilion and Jim Harrick watching from several rows behind the team bench Thursday. Even if Campbell decides to come back for a sixth season and Jaquez stuns everyone by returning after becoming Pac-12 player of the year, Singleton has played his record 164th and final game as a Bruin. As he sat in front of his locker a half an hour after the game Thursday, his eyes puffy, Singleton had not grasped the finality of it all. “I’ve still got the jersey on,” he said, “so no, it hasn’t really sunk in yet.” On the other side of a locker room whose silence was pierced only by reporters’ questions, Campbell sounded a similar refrain when asked whether it was impossible to process not playing another game with this group. “Uh, yeah,” Campbell said. “Yeah. Yes, sir.” Wearing a stunned expression, Jaquez couldn’t begin to describe the hurt he felt. “Yeah, I don’t know,” he said. “I’m still processing it, I guess, the game and everything right now.” Their coach found the words his players lacked, Mick Cronin telling his team he was proud it didn’t flinch despite being down two starters. “I mean, you lose two of the best players in the Pac-12, defensive player of the year, freshman of the year,” Cronin said, referring to Jaylen Clark and Adem Bona, “we still expect to win.” They had a chance until the final second thanks in large part to the seniors’ loyalty and their relentless drive to maximize their abilities. “I have great respect for those three because when you watch them play you don’t think, well, he should be better than that,” Cronin said. “When you watch Dave Singleton and you see he’s limited athletically, and you see that he gets everything he can out of his body and his talent. “Tyger Campbell, unbelievable career. You can’t get any more out of his body and his God-given things that he has that he can’t change. He totally maxes it out. “And Jaime Jaquez, same thing. Came in to us as a human turnover the first two months. And I just played him because he was as crazy as me. We were losing, he was pissed. I said, ‘I can build a program with this guy because he’s got heart.’ Now look at him.” Jaquez is probably headed to the NBA after passing Bill Walton on the way to moving into the No. 8 spot on the school’s all-time scoring list with 1,802 points. When Jaquez said he didn’t know what to say about overtaking the legendary Bruin last weekend, Cronin patted him on the shoulder and added, with a smile, “Come back for a fifth year.” Nice try, coach. Campbell is No. 2 on UCLA’s all-time assist list with 655, trailing only Pooh Richardson (833). He walked with Jaquez, Singleton, Kenneth Nwuba and Russell Stong IV on senior night but has not indicated whether he might return next season. Campbell, Jaquez and Nwuba each have one more season of eligibility remaining because of the COVID-19 interrupted season of 2019-20. UCLA’s roster for the 2023-24 season could look almost identical … or drastically different. Clark (lower leg) and Bona (shoulder) are recovering from significant injuries that could entice them to return for another college season to show NBA teams they are ready for the next level. Freshman Amari Bailey could come back even after his recent breakthrough, becoming a supercharged version of Johnny Juzang with a constant green light to shoot. There’s also a freshman class that includes Sebastian Mack, Devin Williams and Brandon Williams (no relation) that is completely on brand for what its coach wants. When Cronin told Mack, a 6-foot-3 combo guard from Las Vegas, that the Bruins needed his shooting, Mack responded, “I’m coming to play defense and win, coach.” A few more players could arrive through the transfer portal or an increasingly deep pool of international prospects, bolstering the Bruins in their bid to remain a top-10 team. They’ll just never be this team again. UCLA seniors restore pride TYGER CAMPBELL, looking to shoot against Gonzaga, is second on UCLA’s career assists list. Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times They won’t raise a banner, but Bruins showed heart, grit to raise program’s level. By Ben Bolch Darrion Trammell and San Diego State used a dominant defensive performance to knock top overall seed Alabama out of the NCAA tournament Friday night, bottling up All-American freshman Brandon Miller in a 71-64 victory in the Sweet 16 in Louisville, Ky. Trammell scored 21 points while Miller, whose outstanding season was marred by off-the-court complications, was held to nine points on three-of-19 shooting and had six turnovers. “Alabama’s a great team. They have a lot of talented players and individuals,” Trammell said. “We knew it was going to be hard. It was a dogfight. Very physical.” San Diego State trailed 48-39 midway through the second half before going on a 12-0 run and controlling the game from there. The Aztecs finished with eight blocked shots — five by Nathan Mensah — and forced 14 turnovers. The March Madness run of Alabama (31-6) was clouded by its response to the Jan. 15 fatal shooting of a 23-year-old woman in Tuscaloosa, which led to capital murder charges against a then-Crimson Tide player, Darius Miles. Miller was at the scene of the shooting and has not been charged, but police have said in court documents that Miles texted Miller to bring him his gun. Authorities have said Miller is a cooperating witness, and he did not miss any playing time. Miller has received armed security protection during the tournament. Mark Sears had 16 points and Jahvon Quinerly and Charles Bediako scored 10 each for Alabama. Miami 89, Houston 75: Nijel Pack and the Hurricanes (28-7) hit shots from near and far against the stingiest defense in the country to beat the Cougars (33-4) in Kansas City Mo., leaving the tournament without a No. 1 seed among its final eight teams for the first time since seeding began in 1979. Fellow No. 1 seeds Purdue and Kansas lost during the tournament’s first weekend. The fifth-seeded Hurricanes reached a regional final for the second straight year just a few hours after Miami’s ninth-seeded women’s team hung on to beat Villanova and advance to the Elite Eight for the first time. Miami and Connecticut are the only schools with teams remaining in both tournaments. Creighton 86, Princeton 75: The sixth-seeded Bluejays (24-12) used size, threepoint shooting and a swarming second-half defense to end the 15th-seeded Tigers’ run in Louisville, Ky. The Bluejays advanced to their first regional final since they were part of an eight-team NCAA tournament in 1941 while Princeton finished 23-9. Ryan Kalkbenner, the two-time Big East defensive player of the year, scored 22 points to lead the Bluejays to their sixth win in seven games. Baylor Scheierman made five threes and finished with 21 points. Texas 83, Xavier 71: Tyrese Hunter scored 19 points, Marcus Carr and Christian Bishop had 18 apiece, and the secondseeded Longhorns (29-8) rolled past the third-seeded Musketeers (27-10) in Kansas City, Mo. Sir’Jabari Rice had 16 points and Timmy Allen added 11 for the Longhorns, who kept Souley Boum and the rest of Xavier’s perimeter threats in check while making life miserable for Jack Nunge down low. Adam Kunkel hit five three-pointers and led the Musketeers with 21 points. MEN’S ROUNDUP Aztecs shock top-seeded Tide SAN DIEGO STATE’S Keshad Johnson flexes during the Aztecs’ win over Alabama, the tournament’s top overall seed. Johnson had eight points in the victory. K.C. Alfred San Diego Union-Tribune associated press SAN DIEGO ST. 71, ALABAMA 64 SAN DIEGO STATE—K.Johnson 3-11 2-2 8, Mensah 1-3 2-6 4, M.Bradley 2-9 2-2 6, Butler 1-7 2-4 4, Trammell 9-16 0-0 21, Parrish 2-8 3-4 9, Seiko 3-4 0-0 7, LeDee 5-9 2-4 12, Arop 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 26-69 13-22 71. ALABAMA—Clowney 1-6 1-1 3, Miller 3-19 2-2 9, Bediako 5-7 0-0 10, Jah.Quinerly 4-13 1-3 10, Sears 4-11 8-9 16, Gurley 3-3 0-0 6, Griffen 1-7 0-0 3, Pringle 2-2 1-3 5, Burnett 0-2 0-0 0, J.Bradley 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 23-71 15-20 64. Halftime—San Diego St. 28-23. Three-point goals—San Diego St. 6-17, Alabama 3-27. Fouled Out—Arop, Clowney. Rebounds— San Diego St. 42 (Mensah, Parrish 8), Alabama 50 (Miller 11). Assists—San Diego St. 10 (Butler 4), Alabama 10 (Miller, Jah.Quinerly 3). Total Fouls—San Diego St. 19, Alabama 22. MIAMI 89, HOUSTON 75 MIAMI—Omier 5-10 2-2 12, Miller 5-7 2-2 13, Pack 8-12 3-4 26, Poplar 5-13 0-0 11, Wong 5-11 9-11 20, A.Walker 3-4 0-0 7, Beverly 0-1 0-0 0, Joseph 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 31-60 16-19 89. HOUSTON—Roberts 1-2 0-0 2, J.Walker 4-16 6-6 16, Mark 4-13 4-4 14, Sasser 4-12 4-4 14, Shead 6-11 2-4 15, Sharp 3-8 0-0 8, Chaney 2-2 2-2 6, Arceneaux 0-0 0-0 0, Francis 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-64 18-20 75. Halftime—Miami 42-36. Three-point goals—Miami 11-25, Houston 9-31. Rebounds—Miami 34 (Omier 13), Houston 33 (J.Walker 11). Assists—Miami 16 (Miller 4), Houston 16 (J.Walker, Shead 5). Total Fouls—Miami 16, Houston 16. CREIGHTON 86, PRINCETON 75 PRINCETON—Evbuomwan 10-22 2-2 24, Kellman 2-3 0-0 4, Pierce 2-5 0-0 4, Allocco 2-10 2-3 7, Langborg 11-17 0-0 26, Peters 3-7 1-3 9, Martini 0-1 0-0 0, Lee 0-0 1-2 1, Byriel 0-0 0-0 0, Kiszka 0-0 0-0 0, O’Connell 0-0 0-0 0, Scott 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-65 6-10 75. CREIGHTON—Kaluma 3-7 4-6 10, Kalkbrenner 9-12 4-4 22, Alexander 6-11 4-4 19, Nembhard 4-10 1-2 9, Scheierman 8-11 0-0 21, Farabello 1-3 0-0 3, King 1-1 0-0 2, Mitchell 0-0 0-0 0, Miller 0-0 0-0 0, Osmani 0-0 0-0 0, Shtolzberg 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-55 13-16 86. Halftime—Creighton 47-43. Three-point goals—Princeton 9- 21, Creighton 9-24. Rebounds—Princeton 23 (Evbuomwan, Allocco 6), Creighton 36 (Scheierman 9). Assists—Princeton 13 (Evbuomwan 9), Creighton 18 (Nembhard 8). Total Fouls— Princeton 17, Creighton 11. TEXAS 83, XAVIER 71 XAVIER—J.Hunter 1-3 1-2 3, J.Nunge 6-19 2-4 15, Boum 4-11 4-4 12, Jones 7-15 0-0 15, Kunkel 8-10 0-0 21, Claude 1-4 1-2 3, Edwards 1-2 0-0 2, Craft 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-64 8-12 71. TEXAS—Allen 4-7 2-4 11, Disu 0-0 0-0 0, Mitchell 0-0 0-0 0, Carr 7-16 2-2 18, T.Hunter 7-11 2-3 19, Bishop 8-12 2-2 18, Cunningham 0-2 1-2 1, Rice 6-10 3-6 16, Morris 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 32-61 12-19 83. Halftime—Texas 42-25. Three-point goals—Xavier 7-17, Texas 7-12. Rebounds—Xavier 33 (J.Nunge 11), Texas 30 (Bishop 9). Assists—Xavier 12 (Jones 6), Texas 16 (Carr 6). Total Fouls— Xavier 15, Texas 16. MEN’S SCHEDULE All times Pacific THURSDAY’S SWEET 16 RESULTS EAST REGIONAL 3 Kansas State 98, 7 Michigan State 93 (OT) 9 Florida Atlanta 62, 4 Tennessee 55 WEST REGIONAL 4 Connecticut 88, 8 Arkansas 65 3 Gonzaga 79, 2 UCLA 76 FRIDAY’S SWEET 16 RESULTS MIDWEST REGIONAL 5 Miami 89, 1 Houston 75 2 Texas 83, 3 Xavier 71 SOUTH REGIONAL 5 San Diego State 71, 1 Alabama 64 6 Creighton 86, 15 Princeton 75 SATURDAY’S ELITE EIGHT GAMES EAST REGIONAL 3 Kansas State (26-9) vs. 9 Florida Atlantic (34-3) .....3 p.m. WEST REGIONAL 3 Gonzaga (31-5) vs. 4 Connecticut (28-8) ...........5:45 p.m. SUNDAY’S ELITE EIGHT GAMES SOUTH REGIONAL 5 San Diego State (30-6) vs. 6 Creighton (24-12)...11:15 a.m. MIDWEST REGIONAL 5 Miami (28-7) vs. 2 Texas (29-8).........................2 p.m.

LATIMES.COM SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 B11 SAT SUN MON TUE WED 25 26 27 28 29 LAKERS CHICAGO 12:30 SpecSN at Chicago 5 SpecSN CLIPPERS NEW ORLEANS 7:30 BSSC CHICAGO 7:30 BSSC at Memphis 5 BSSC KINGS WINNIPEG 1 BSW ST. LOUIS 7:30 BSW at Calgary 6 BSW DUCKS ST. LOUIS 7:30 BSW COLORADO 7 BSW GALAXY at Portland 1:45 Ch. 11 LAFC DALLAS 7:30 Apple TV ANGEL CITY GOTHAM FC 6 Paramount+ DODGERS: Today vs. Kansas City (Glendale), noon, SNLA* ANGELS: Today vs. Cubs (Tempe), noon, BSW, AM 830* Shade denotes home game. *Spring training in Arizona. PRO CALENDAR Segundo. “The way the game’s going, you want to be able to help offensively, especially because of the offensive defensemen we have in the league right now. I feel I can complement them well but it’s something I want to continue to improve on and help the team out if I’m able to.” Coach Todd McLellan ranks Anderson among the NHL’s elite shutdown defenders and is impressed Anderson is trying to scale higher heights by enhancing his point production. “I think he’s always been a really solid, checking, defend-first individual, but he’s worked really hard on his shot and has a better sense of timing of when to jump in. He’s much more confident offensively now,” McLellan said. “That’s the on-ice skill part. “What you don’t get to see is his leadership on the bench, even in practice. There’s a lot of guys that have stepped up but he’s one that I notice on a regular basis using his influence on the group. And he does have an impact.” For a still-evolving defenseman, Anderson is in a good place in his career — and in the locker room. Doughty sits to his right at the practice facility. Veteran Alex Edler sits to his left. Anderson has found his voice on the ice and in the room, but he knows the value of listening. “Getting to learn from these two, it’s awesome,” he said. “They have 2,000-plus games’ experience between the two of them. They’re great guys to be around. They’ve done it and on teams that have had a lot of success, they’ve had big parts in it, so for a younger guy you couldn’t ask for much more.” Defense has lately been a strength for the Kings, who cleaned up their act after some early-season stumbles and will take an 8-0-2 points streak into their game against the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday afternoon at Crypto.com Arena. In their last nine games the Kings outscored their opponents 36-16, excluding the team goal awarded to Nashville and Vancouver in shootout losses to those teams. Their renewed focus on defense began after they beat the Jets 6-5 in a shootout at Winnipeg on Feb. 28. McLellan followed that by showing players a video emphasizing the value of small details such as coverage after a faceoff and defensive zone positioning. That hit home for a team that’s scoring in bunches but still bases its identity on preventing goals. “I think over the years we’ve realized what works for our group, and part of that is being a good defensive team,” Anderson said. “We did it a lot last year and that’s something we didn’t have so much at the start of the year and we’ve slowly found it. As time has gone on, we’ve gotten more comfortable doing it. We’ve trusted it. Everyone’s kind of bought into it. It helps that we’ve got goalies that are making saves when we need them to. “Maybe with our breakdowns, we’re not making five or six a game like we used to at the start of the year. Now, it’s one or two. But they’ve been able to help us out when we need them. All in all I think it’s been a group effort and a good improvement from everyone.” As for being called “Mikey” instead of Michael — his real name — or Mike, he said it’s the only name he’s ever known. “Some people get mad, like, ‘When are you going to change? 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EASTERN CONFERENCE Metropolitan W L OL Pts GF GA x-Carolina 46 16 8 100 233 181 New Jersey 45 19 8 98 251 198 NY Rangers 42 20 10 94 243 195 NY Islanders 37 27 9 83 219 203 Pittsburgh 35 27 10 80 231 233 Washington 34 31 8 76 233 227 Philadelphia 27 32 12 66 192 236 Columbus 23 41 7 53 194 277 Atlantic W L OL Pts GF GA x-Boston 55 11 5 115 269 153 Toronto 43 19 9 95 245 196 Tampa Bay 42 25 6 90 252 228 Florida 36 29 7 79 252 247 Ottawa 35 32 5 75 228 233 Buffalo 34 31 6 74 256 267 Detroit 31 31 9 71 209 235 Montreal 28 38 6 62 203 268 x-clinched playoff berth. NHL STANDINGS Sixteen teams qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs. The format is a set bracket that is largely division-based with wild cards. The top three teams in each division will make up the first 12 teams in the playoffs. The remaining four spots will be filled by the next two highest-placed finishers in each conference, based on regular-season record, and regardless of division. RESULTS AT BUFFALO 5 NEW JERSEY 4 Alex Tuch had two goals and Tage Thompson scored his 44th goal as the Sabres kept distant playoff hopes alive. AT COLUMBUS 5 N.Y. ISLANDERS 4 (OT) Boone Jenner won it with a deflection in overtime and Kent Johnson scored a “Michigan” goal for Columbus. AT COLORADO 3 ARIZONA 1 Cale Makar had a goal and two assists in his return to the lineup and Alexandar Georgiev recorded a 17-save win. TODAY’S GAMES St. Louis at DUCKS, 7:30 p.m. Winnipeg at KINGS, 1 p.m. Detroit at Philadelphia, 10 a.m. Tampa Bay at Boston, 10 a.m. Seattle at Nashville, 11 a.m. San Jose at Calgary, 1 p.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders, 2 p.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 2 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Florida, 2 p.m. Columbus at Montreal, 4 p.m. Ottawa at New Jersey, 4 p.m. Toronto at Carolina, 4 p.m. Vancouver at Dallas, 4 p.m. Washington at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Vegas at Edmonton, 7 p.m. SUNDAY’S GAMES St. Louis at KINGS, 7:30 p.m. Colorado at Arizona, noon Boston at Carolina, 2 p.m. Toronto at Nashville, 3 p.m. Vancouver at Chicago, 3 p.m. DOUGIE HAMILTON, left, commits a holding penalty on the Sabres’ Dylan Cozens in Buffalo’s win. Adrian Kraus Associated Press Matt Kuchar has a place in the record book with Tiger Woods. Equally pleasing Friday was getting a spot in the weekend at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. Kuchar had an easy time at Austin (Texas) Country Club with a 7 and 6 victory over Si Woo Kim to win his 36th match in tournament history, matching the mark held by Woods. “I still find it hard to comprehend that I’m saying that, that I tied one of his records,” Kuchar said. “So I’m hugely proud. There’s 300 more records, I’m sure, to go. But it’s a fun one to be able to say you’ve got something you tied Tiger with.” The final session of group play was all about getting to the knockout stage on the weekend, and a record number of top seeds survived. Defending champion Scottie Scheffler (1), Rory McIlroy (3), Patrick Cantlay (4), Max Homa (5) and Xander Schauffele (6) each won their groups. That’s the highest number advancing among the top eight seeds since the Match Play switched to group play in 2015. McIlroy had no trouble against Keegan Bradley in a rematch of their Sunday singles match in the 2012 Ryder Cup at Medinah. Scheffler won his eighth consecutive match dating to last year. He lost the opening two holes to Tom Kim and then won four of the next five holes to pull away in a 3 and 2 victory. Scheffler also has a chance to join Woods in the record book. Woods is the only player to have won golf’s most fickle tournament two years in a row. “I’m not overthinking things,” Scheffler said. “I haven’t thought about last year once this week. Just glad to get through my group and focus on tomorrow.” Next up for Scheffler is J.T. Poston, one of 12 players who won all three of their matches in stroke play. Wallace has strong finish at Puntacana Matt Wallace birdied his last three holes for a sixunder 66, giving him a oneshot lead going into the weekend in the Corales Puntacana Championship. Wallace had missed six out of seven cuts on the PGA Tour until he was in the mix last week in the Valspar Championship. He tied for seventh, and it looks as though he has carried some of that momentum to the Dominican Republic. He had a one-shot lead over Sam Stevens and Wyndham Clark, who each had a 65 on a breezy day that wasn’t quite as strong as the opening round. Shin, Jutanugarn, Szeryk share lead Jenny Shin had a run of five straight birdies to close out her front nine on the way to a five-under 67 and shared the lead with Maddie Szeryk and Moriya Jutanugarn after two rounds of the LPGA Drive on Championship in Gold Canyon, Ariz. Jutanugarn raced up the leaderboard, following an opening 67 with a bogey-free seven-under 65 that included an eagle and five birdies. Szeryk pieced together a round that included an eagle and six birdies, including one on her final hole, while Shin used seven birides to offset two bogeys to get to 12-under 132 at Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club in the LPGA’s first full-field event of the year. Lilia Vu shot a six under and was a stroke off the lead, while Na Rin An and Alison Lee were tied for fifth place at 10 under. No. 3-ranked Jin Young Ko, a winner two weeks ago in Singapore, was among eight players tied for seventh place at nine under on the crowded leaderboard. Elsewhere David Toms birdied three of his last four holes for a one-stroke lead over Kevin Sutherland at the PGA Tour Champions’ Galleri Classic in Rancho Mirage. Toms matched his season-low round with seven-under 65 at Mission Hills Country Club. Sutherland shot a bogey-free 66. ... Nick Bachem led at the halfway stage of the European Tour’s Jonsson Workwear Open after a second-round 66 took him one shot clear at 13 under par. Bachem made a run of five birdies in six holes on his second nine and had eight birdies in all. GOLF Kuchar equals Woods’ record wire reports MATT KUCHAR hits from the fairway on the sixth hole at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. Eric Gay Associated Press $20-MILLION DELL TECHNOLOGIES MATCH PLAY At Austin, Texas—Par 71 Austin Country Club—7,108 yards Third-round results (Seedings in parentheses) Nick Taylor (55), Canada, d. K.H. Lee (35), South Korea, 3 and 2. Victor Perez (51), France, d. Adam Svensson (44), Canada, 5 and 4. Viktor Hovland (8), Norway, d. Chris Kirk (28), 4 and 3. Scott Stallings (52), d. Denny McCarthy (48), 1-up. Shane Lowry (21), Ireland, d. Jordan Spieth (12), 2 and 1. Mackenzie Hughes (50), Canada, d. Taylor Montgomery (47), 6 and 4. Max Homa (5), d. Hideki Matsuyama (18), Japan, match conceded. Kevin Kisner (42), d. Justin Suh (63), 2-up. Sam Burns (13), d. Seamus Power (30), Ireland, 2 up. Adam Hadwin (53), Canada, d. Adam Scott (33), Australia, 3 and 2. Patrick Cantlay (4), d. Brian Harman (25), 2 and 1. Jason Day (32), Australia, d. Collin Morikawa (9), 4 and 3. Matt Kuchar (59), d. Si Woo Kim (34), South Korea, 7 and 6. Sungjae Im (16), South Korea, d. Tommy Fleetwood (24), England, 4 and 3. J.T. Poston (43), d. Maverick McNealy (58), 3 and 1. Scottie Scheffler (1), d. Tom Kim (17), South Korea, 3 and 2. Alex Noren (38), Sweden, halved with Davis Riley (54). Sahith Theegala (26), d. Matt Fitzpatrick (11), England, 2 and 1. J.J. Spaun (61), d. Min Woo Lee (41), Australia, 2 and 1. Xander Schauffele (6), d. Tom Hoge (32), 1-up. Cam Davis (64), Australia, d. Aaron Wise (40), 1-up. Russell Henley (31), d. Tyrrell Hatton (14), England, 3 and 2. Lucas Herbert (46), Australia, d. Ben Griffin (62), 3 and 1. Rory McIlroy (3), Northern Ireland, d. Keegan Bradley (20), 3 and 2. Kurt Kitayama (19), d. Tony Finau (10), 4 and 3. Adrian Meronk (45), Poland, d. Christiaan Bezuidenhout (60), South Africa, 5 and 4. Ryan Fox (29), New Zealand, df. Will Zalatoris (7), match conceded. Andrew Putnam (56), d. Harris English (37), 4 and 3. Cameron Young (15), d. Sepp Straka (27), Austria, 5 and 3. Corey Conners (36), Canada, d. Davis Thompson (57), 2 and 1. Billy Horschel (22), d. Jon Rahm (2), Spain, 5 and 4. Rickie Fowler (49), d. Keith Mitchell (39), 1-up. CHAMPIONS TOUR $2.2-MILLION THE GALLERI CLASSIC At Rancho Mirage—Par 72 Dinah Shore Tournament Course—7,112 yards 18-hole leaders David Toms....................................34-31—65 -7 Kevin Sutherland ............................33-33—66 -6 Richard Green ................................34-33—67 -5 Padraig Harrington ..........................35-32—67 -5 Rocco Mediate ...............................33-34—67 -5 Rod Pampling ................................33-34—67 -5 Brett Quigley ..................................34-33—67 -5 Vijay Singh ....................................34-33—67 -5 Steven Alker...................................33-35—68 -4 Fred Couples..................................35-33—68 -4 Brian Gay ......................................32-36—68 -4 Brandt Jobe ...................................35-33—68 -4 Tom Lehman ..................................33-35—68 -4 Michael Allen .................................36-33—69 -3 Alex Cejka .....................................35-34—69 -3 Jim Furyk.......................................33-36—69 -3 Jerry Kelly......................................31-38—69 -3 Bernhard Langer.............................33-36—69 -3 Dicky Pride ....................................36-33—69 -3 Steve Stricker.................................36-33—69 -3 Mario Tiziani ..................................33-36—69 -3 $1.8-MILLION LPGA DRIVE ON CHAMPIONSHIP At Gold Canyon, Ariz.—Par 72 a-Prospectors Course—6,690 yards; b-Lost Gold Course—7,350 yards 36-hole leaders Moriya Jutanugarn .....................67a-65a—132 -12 Jenny Shin................................65a-67a—132 -12 Maddie Szeryk ..........................67a-65a—132 -12 Lilia Vu ....................................67a-66a—133 -11 Na Rin An ................................67a-67a—134 -10 Alison Lee ................................65a-69a—134 -10 Celine Boutier ...........................69a-66a—135 -9 Georgia Hall .............................68a-67a—135 -9 Eun-Hee Ji................................69a-66a—135 -9 Jin Young Ko .............................70a-65a—135 -9 Annie Park................................70a-65a—135 -9 Emily Pedersen .........................69a-66a—135 -9 Xiaowen Yin ..............................68a-67a—135 -9 Ruoning Yin ..............................68a-67a—135 -9 $3.8-MILLION CORALES PUNTACANA CHAMPIONSHIP At Punta Cana, Dominican Republic—Par 72 Corales Golf Club—7,670 yards 36-hole leaders Matt Wallace................................67-66—133 -11 Wyndham Clark ............................69-65—134 -10 Sam Stevens................................69-65—134 -10 Akshay Bhatia ..............................73-63—136 -8 Tyler Duncan ................................71-65—136 -8 Brice Garnett................................66-70—136 -8 Nicolai Hojgaard ...........................71-65—136 -8 Rafael Campos.............................72-65—137 -7 Brandon Matthews ........................70-67—137 -7 Ricky Barnes................................68-70—138 -6 Austin Cook .................................70-68—138 -6 Thomas Detry...............................70-68—138 -6 Austin Eckroat ..............................69-69—138 -6 Brent Grant..................................69-69—138 -6 Ben Martin ..................................66-72—138 -6 D.A. Points...................................68-70—138 -6 SCORES

S S ATURDAY , MARCH 25 , 2023 PORTS :: L ATIMES.COM/SPORTS D B12 When Mikey Anderson was initially paired with Drew Doughty to form the Kings’ top defense duo, Anderson was more inclined to ask Doughty for an autograph than to ask for a pass. “I was a little starstruck,” Anderson said of Doughty, a leader on the Kings’ Stanley Cup championship teams, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and winner of the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s top defenseman in 2016. “He’s a guy I grew up watching on TV, playing with in video games,” Anderson said. “And then you come in here and you’ve got to play with him, it’s a little intimidating.” Doughty’s support helped Anderson shed his nerves and become a solid defender with a hard-hitting edge. Anderson’s confidence and strength have grown exponentially, helping him blossom this season at both ends of the ice. With every game he plays, the eight-year, $33- million contract extension he signed last month looks like more of a bargain for the Kings. The 23-year-old Minnesota native is a future captain in the making, and he was willing to give up several years of free agency to stay in Los Angeles. “Ever since I’ve gotten here it’s felt like home,” he said. “It’s a place I fit in very well, or at least I feel I do. From a living standpoint it’s a place I can see myself staying for a while, starting a family and everything here. And the team’s in a good place. I like the way things are going as a group. I like the group of guys we’ve got here and I want to be a part of it.” Anderson, who leads the team with 150 hits and ranks second to Matt Roy in blocked shots with 125, has produced career-best totals of five goals and 19 points in 71 games. That’s not overwhelming, but it’s a dimension that Anderson, who played on the power play at the University of Minnesota Duluth, can continue to explore. “Obviously the defensive part has been my strength, what I’ve kind of built for myself. I don’t want to lose that,” he said Friday after the team practiced in El Once in awe, he brings the edge for Kings HELENE ELLIOTT [See Elliott, B11] It wasn’t the big late-season game the Lakers would’ve expected once the schedule was announced last summer, but here it was anyway Friday in Los Angeles. The Lakers, desperately trying to get to .500 for the first time all season and pick up valuable ground in the Western Conference playoff race, had another chance to build momentum. The Oklahoma City Thunder stood in their way, one of the youngest teams in the NBA, playing with relentless effort and tons of confidence. It was a huge game — one of the biggest of the Lakers’ season — and after 48 minutes, it was also a wellearned 116-111 Lakers win. Anthony Davis finished with 37 points and 15 rebounds and Dennis Schroder scored 21 in the win. THUNDER GUARD Shai Gilgeous-Alexander tries to shoot over forward Anthony Davis in the first half. The Lakers prevailed 116-111 for their third straight victory and are tied for seventh in the West. Photographs by Mark J. Terrill Associated Press It took a while but Lakers reach a break-even point Los Angeles gets to .500 mark for first time this season LAKERS 116 OKLAHOMA CITY 111 By Dan Woike DAVIS HANGS on the rim after scoring two of his game-high 37 [See Lakers, B9] points to fuel the Lakers, who led by 16 points after the first quarter. GREENVILLE, S.C. — For UCLA, the saying is true. Practice does make perfect. After a string of heartbreaking late-game collapses, coach Cori Close changed UCLA’s training regimen to finish practice two or three times a week with a must-win scrimmage. Two minutes and 30 seconds on the clock. A random score. Win and practice is over. “Trust and believe,” senior guard Camryn Brown said, “we have stayed here before quite long times trying to win a two-minute and 30-second game.” Once plagued by fourthquarter meltdowns, the Bruins are now winning their tight games to keep their season alive. They exorcised their crunch-time demons on the way to their first Sweet 16 since 2019 and will face No. 1 South Carolina (34-0) on Saturday at Bon Secours Wellness Arena at 11 a.m. PDT. No. 4 UCLA (27-9) outscored opponents by an average of just one point in the fourth quarter and overtime during the regular season. It was the team’s smallest margin of any quarter this season. But in six postseason games, the Bruins have a 41⁄2-point advantage in the fourth quarter and overtime. They showed their mettle in the second round by turning a one-point deficit entering the fourth quarBruins’ work on end game pays off Close puts her players through crunch-time scenarios to improve chances in postseason. By Thuc Nhi Nguyen [See UCLA, B10] PHOENIX — The chip on his shoulder that fueled Max Muncy’s early years with the Dodgers — implanted during the month he spent out of baseball after being released by Oakland in 2017 — remains, though it has been reprogrammed. Proving he belongs in the big leagues is no longer the main driver for Muncy, who established himself as a perennial All-Star by hitting at least 35 homers with an .889 on-base-plus-slugging percentage or more during each of his first three full seasons. What’s motivating Muncy this spring is a burning desire to show he’s not the bum he suspects many felt he was last season, when his slow recovery from leftelbow surgery caused his swing to malfunction and his production to plummet. “You feel like you get forgotten a little bit,” said Muncy, who had a careerworst .196 average, .713 OPS, 21 homers and 69 RBIs in 2022. “You have a bad year, and suddenly no one thinks you’re a good player anymore. So I feel like I have a lot to prove this year, and I like it that way. That’s how it’s been my whole career.” The Dodgers are confident that Muncy, after a healthy winter with a normal workout regimen and a trip to Driveline to increase his bat speed, will return to presurgery form, which would help ease the loss of Trea Motivated Muncy vital for Dodgers MAX MUNCY says he’s “100% there” when it comes to his swing as he looks for a bounce-back season. Ashley Landis Associated Press Finally healthy after a major elbow injury, he’s out to recapture his All-Star form. By Mike DiGiovanna [See Muncy, B8] TEMPE, Ariz. — Shohei Ohtani was back in a game setting, pitching against the Arizona Diamondbacks’ High A club on a practice field at Angels spring training Friday. It was a different setting from the one he pitched in just days ago, closing for Japan in the World Baseball Classic final. His experience after winning it all with his national team culminated in a most valuable player award and being named as a pitcher and batter to the all-tournament team. Ohtani started two games for Japan — its poolplay opener in Tokyo against China and quarterfinal against Italy — and closed in the final. He finished the tournament giving up just two earned runs, five hits, two batters walked and had 11 strikeouts during the 92⁄3 innings he pitched. As a designated hitter in all seven of Japan’s games, he logged 10 hits, four doubles, one home run, eight RBIs and one stolen base. On Friday, Ohtani was asked whether his experience during the tournament increased his desire to win with the Angels this season. “I thought that,” he said in Japanese. “I thought the intensity of a protracted battle like the WBC or the playoffs was special.” Ohtani refocuses on Angels’ quest WBC star for Japan says his desire to take MLB team to a World Series is now priority. By Sarah Valenzuela [See Ohtani, B8] WOMEN’S NCAA TOURNAMENT 4 UCLA vs 1 South Carolina AT GREENVILLE, S.C. Saturday, 11 a.m. TV: ESPN UCLA seniors raise the level They won’t hang a banner, but Jaquez, Campbell and Singleton restore pride to the program. B10

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J2 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING HOT PROPERTY This advertising supplement is produced by the LA Times B2B Publishing team. This did not involve the editorial staff of the LA Times. CASTILLO DEL LAGO Carolwood Estates Castillo del Lago is one of the most sensational iconic Hollywood Hills landmarks with rich history, architecture and location situated below the Hollywood sign. Designed by John DeLario circa 1926, this home stands as one of the most significant Spanish estates ever built in Southern California. Set behind private gates, a winding drive leads to this extraordinary 3-acre ridgetop home with breathtaking 360-degree views over glimmering Lake Hollywood, the Hollywood sign and vast downtown-to-ocean vistas. The sprawling lush grounds are an oasis with a lap pool, fountains, expansive lawns, rose gardens, and sculpted hedges as well as citrus and mature specimen trees. This is a rare opportunity to acquire one of the most spectacular trophy Hollywood Hills estates. Brett Lawyer, DRE#: 00897489 310.623.3638 / [email protected] Carolwoodre.com Linda May, DRE#: 00475038 310.623.3650 / [email protected] Location: 6342 Mulholland Highway, Hollywood Hills 90068 Asking price: $21,000,000 Year built: N/A Living area: 10,513 square feet, 9 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms Features: Architectural highlights include coffered ceilings; custom wrought iron features; terracotta flooring; vibrant period tile; hand-painted artistry; grand fireplaces; exposed wood-beamed ceilings; Spanish archways; vintage wood-paneled elevator. The Details 1055 SHADOW HILL WAY Sotheby’s International Realty Nestled behind grand gates in one of Beverly Hills’ most prestigious neighborhoods lies a Mediterranean estate of unparalleled grandeur. The compound, with its manicured landscaping, offers the ultimate in privacy and seclusion, allowing for the full enjoyment of the custom pool, spa, sports court, and tended garden. Upon entering the doubleheight foyer, one is immediately struck by the opulence of the mahogany wood-paneled library, formal living and dining rooms, and the grandeur of the eat-in kitchen complete with a full-size butler’s pantry. The estate also boasts a gym and wine cellar, catering to the tastes of the most discerning individuals. Marc Noah 310.968.9212 [email protected] marcnoah.com DRE#: 01269495 Location: 1055 Shadow Hill Way Los Angeles 90210 Asking price: $20,995,000 Year built: 1990 Living area: 13,350 square feet, 10 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms Features: There are five additional en-suite bedrooms upstairs, along with an upstairs family room. Completing this idyllic compound is a detached guest house with a full kitchen, two bedrooms, one bathroom, and a rooftop cabana offering panoramic views of the estate. The Details

J3 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING HOT PROPERTY This advertising supplement is produced by the LA Times B2B Publishing team. This did not involve the editorial staff of the LA Times. MODERN HILL SECTION SANCTUARY Compass Architect Lisa Little of Vertebrae Architecture + Design created a modern sanctuary inside and out on an oversized Hill Section corner lot. Completely remodeled in 2010, the exterior is sleek, understated and sophisticated with custom black encased windows and beautiful mature landscaping. A pebbled zen walkway surrounds the house, taking you from one outdoor living space to the next, seamlessly exposing places to relax, entertain and enjoy – with ample room for a pool, sport court, vegetable garden or all three. There is a large deck above the yard and off of the kitchen great room with views over the Hill Section and of downtown and the mountains beyond. Lauren Forbes 310.901.8512 [email protected] LaurenForbesGroup.com DRE#: 01295248 Location: 800 North Poinsettia Avenue, Manhattan Beach 90266 Asking price: $4,999,999 Year built: 1967 Living area: 3,300 sf (7,201 sf lot), 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms Features: Custom black encased windows; walnut & cork floors; wood-beamed ceilings; European-style kitchen; Caesarstone counters; Ann Sacks designer tile backsplash; private ground level deck; oversized 4-car garage The Details 861 CAVANAGH RD GLENDALE Hilton & Hyland A breathtaking 1930s Spanish Mediterranean pays homage to Glendale’s rich architectural heritage. The private, gated residence offers sweeping views of Downtown Glendale and the Los Angeles skyline from almost every room. The lower level features a grand living area with beamed ceilings and a cozy fireplace, an elegant dining room, a chef’s kitchen with marble countertops, a home office, and a den. The upper level offers an opulent primary suite with a private view patio and a rear courtyard with a magnificent fountain. Outside, multiple view decks, dining and seating areas, and a garden for yearround enjoyment. Celebrate the magic and romance of this one-of-a-kind view home. Ben Kruger 310.600.4500 [email protected] hiltonhyland.com DRE#: 01904455 Location: 861 Cavanagh Road, Glendale 91207 Asking price: $2,495,000 Year built: 1931 Living area: 3,285 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms Features: Stunning architecture; sweeping views; original hardwood The Details floors; three oversized bedrooms; outdoor balconies and decks

J4 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING CHRIS CORTAZZO 310.457.3995 [email protected] DRE 01190363 Compass is a licensed real estate broker (01991628) in the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale, or withdraw without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. Exact dimensions can be obtained by retaining the services of an architect or engineer. This is not intended to solicit properties already listed. 33740 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $275,000/month | 6 Bed | 8 Bath 23402 MALIBU COLONY ROAD $250,000/month | 6 Bed | 7 Bath 6672 ZUMIREZ DRIVE $6,995,000 | Approx. 1.18 Acres | Rendering SOUTH FOOSE ROAD $950,000 | Approx. 5.05 Acres 30099 HARVESTER ROAD $3,495,000 | Approx. 0.414 Acres | Rendering 22407 CARBON MESA ROAD $13,500,000 | 5 Bed | 5 Bath 32453 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $10,500,000 | 7 Bed | 11 Bath 33332 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $8,995,000 | 3 Bed | 4 Bath 1396 ANDERSON LANE | SANTA BARBARA $8,700,000 | Approx. 17.36 Acres 22040 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $29,995,000 | 5 Bed | 6 Bath 23826 MALIBU ROAD $36,995,000 | 5 Bed | 6 Bath 0 TRANCAS ROAD $30,000,000 | Approx. 24.88 Acres 7052 DUME DRIVE $19.995,000 | 6 Bed | 8 Bath 21424 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $11,450,000 | 3 Bed | 4 Bath 31240 BROAD BEACH ROAD $16,000,000 | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 28034 SEA LANE DRIVE $55,000,000 | 3 Bed | 4 Bath 31630 SEA LEVEL DRIVE $13,995,000 | 4 Bed | 6 Bath 32232 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $14,995,000 | Approx. 2.216 Acres 7015 GRASSWOOD AVENUE $10,995,000 | 5 Bed | 7 Bath 21 PARADISE COVE ROAD $1,100,000 | 1 Bed | 2 Bath 28837 SELFRIDGE DRIVE $23,995,000 | 5 Bed | 8 Bath 28980 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE $32,500,000 | 6 Bed | 5 Bath 30718 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $18,450,000 | 5 Bed | 5 Bath 6238 BONSALL DRIVE $25,00,000 | 8 Bed | 9 Bath 23816 MALIBU ROAD $39,995,000 | 6 Bed | 6 Bath 22368 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $250,000/month | 9 Bed | 14 Bath 440 ENCINAL CANYON ROAD $6,450,000 | Approx. 30.172 Acres | Rendering 23917 MALIBU ROAD $35,000,000 | 5 Bed | 10 Bath 499 HALVERN DRIVE | LOS ANGELES $155,000/month | 8 Bed | 16 Bath 6702 WILDLIFE ROAD $10,000,000 | 5 Bed | 5 Bath 499 HALVERN DRIVE | LOS ANGELES $26,000,000 | 8 Bed | 16 Bath 30962 BROAD BEACH ROAD Winter Rate: $100,000/month, Summer Rate: $200,000/month 7 Bed | 7 Bath 32852 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $100,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 28936 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE $200,000/month | 5 Bed | 4 Bath 18233 COASTLINE DRIVE $5,850,000 | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 32852 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $25,000,000 | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 7319 BIRDVIEW AVENUE $10,850,000 | 3 Bed | 4 Bath 28936 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE $43,500,000 | 5 Bed | 4 Bath 25236 MALIBU ROAD $125,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 24800 PIUMA ROAD $4,995,000 | Approx. 72.83 Acres | Rendering

CHRIS CORTAZZO 310.457.3995 [email protected] DRE 01190363 Compass is a licensed real estate broker (01991628) in the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale, or withdraw without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. Exact dimensions can be obtained by retaining the services of an architect or engineer. This is not intended to solicit properties already listed. 33740 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $275,000/month | 6 Bed | 8 Bath 23402 MALIBU COLONY ROAD $250,000/month | 6 Bed | 7 Bath 6672 ZUMIREZ DRIVE $6,995,000 | Approx. 1.18 Acres | Rendering SOUTH FOOSE ROAD $950,000 | Approx. 5.05 Acres 30099 HARVESTER ROAD $3,495,000 | Approx. 0.414 Acres | Rendering 22407 CARBON MESA ROAD $13,500,000 | 5 Bed | 5 Bath 32453 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $10,500,000 | 7 Bed | 11 Bath 33332 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $8,995,000 | 3 Bed | 4 Bath 1396 ANDERSON LANE | SANTA BARBARA $8,700,000 | Approx. 17.36 Acres 22040 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $29,995,000 | 5 Bed | 6 Bath 23826 MALIBU ROAD $36,995,000 | 5 Bed | 6 Bath 0 TRANCAS ROAD $30,000,000 | Approx. 24.88 Acres 7052 DUME DRIVE $19.995,000 | 6 Bed | 8 Bath 21424 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $11,450,000 | 3 Bed | 4 Bath 31240 BROAD BEACH ROAD $16,000,000 | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 28034 SEA LANE DRIVE $55,000,000 | 3 Bed | 4 Bath 31630 SEA LEVEL DRIVE $13,995,000 | 4 Bed | 6 Bath 32232 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $14,995,000 | Approx. 2.216 Acres 7015 GRASSWOOD AVENUE $10,995,000 | 5 Bed | 7 Bath 21 PARADISE COVE ROAD $1,100,000 | 1 Bed | 2 Bath 28837 SELFRIDGE DRIVE $23,995,000 | 5 Bed | 8 Bath 28980 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE $32,500,000 | 6 Bed | 5 Bath 30718 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $18,450,000 | 5 Bed | 5 Bath 6238 BONSALL DRIVE $25,00,000 | 8 Bed | 9 Bath 23816 MALIBU ROAD $39,995,000 | 6 Bed | 6 Bath 22368 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $250,000/month | 9 Bed | 14 Bath 440 ENCINAL CANYON ROAD $6,450,000 | Approx. 30.172 Acres | Rendering 23917 MALIBU ROAD $35,000,000 | 5 Bed | 10 Bath 499 HALVERN DRIVE | LOS ANGELES $155,000/month | 8 Bed | 16 Bath 6702 WILDLIFE ROAD $10,000,000 | 5 Bed | 5 Bath 499 HALVERN DRIVE | LOS ANGELES $26,000,000 | 8 Bed | 16 Bath 30962 BROAD BEACH ROAD Winter Rate: $100,000/month, Summer Rate: $200,000/month 7 Bed | 7 Bath 32852 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $100,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 28936 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE $200,000/month | 5 Bed | 4 Bath 18233 COASTLINE DRIVE $5,850,000 | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 32852 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $25,000,000 | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 7319 BIRDVIEW AVENUE $10,850,000 | 3 Bed | 4 Bath 28936 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE $43,500,000 | 5 Bed | 4 Bath 25236 MALIBU ROAD $125,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 24800 PIUMA ROAD $4,995,000 | Approx. 72.83 Acres | Rendering J5 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING

J6 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING CHRIS CORTAZZO 310.457.3995 [email protected] DRE 01190363 Compass is a licensed real estate broker (01991628) in the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale, or withdraw without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. Exact dimensions can be obtained by retaining the services of an architect or engineer. This is not intended to solicit properties already listed. 23901 MALIBU KNOLLS ROAD $40,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 28899 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE $60,000/month | 6 Bed | 5 Bath 31646 SEA LEVEL DRIVE $50,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 31952 1/2 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $55,000/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath 26901 SEA VISTA DRIVE $68,000/month | 6 Bed | 9 Bath 23614 MALIBU COLONY ROAD $75,000/month | 5 Bed | 5 Bath 24230 MALIBU ROAD $49,900/month | 3 Bed | 4 Bath 3000 DECKER CANYON ROAD $40,000/month | 5 Bed | 6 Bath 27082 MALIBU COVE COLONY DRIVE $49,900/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 6750 FERNHILL DRIVE $29,500/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath 28873 BONIFACE DRIVE $30,000/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath 28711 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY #22 $6,300/month | 2 Bed | 2 Bath 5868 ZUMIREZ DRIVE $74,000/month | 5 Bed | 8 Bath 27727 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $35,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 7157 BIRDVIEW AVENUE $40,000/month | 3 Bed | 4 Bath 24314 MALIBU ROAD $60,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 29122 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE $65,000/month | 2 Bed | 3 Bath 30718 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $75,000/month | 5 Bed | 5 Bath 32453 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $60,000/month | 7 Bed | 11 Bath 27445 WINDING WAY $60,000/month | 6 Bed | 8 Bath 23018 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $65,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 24600 SKYLINE VIEW DRIVE $17,750/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 22407 CARBON MESA ROAD $50,000/month | 5 Bed | 5 Bath CHRIS CORTAZZO $8B+ Total sales volume $1B+ Sales for 2021 29 Years in real estate 28943 GRAYFOX STREET $16,995/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath 32554 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $85,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 6959 DUME DRIVE $40,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 28926 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE $85,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 27348 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $85,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 31504 VICTORIA POINT $90,000/month | 4 Bed | 6 Bath

CHRIS CORTAZZO 310.457.3995 [email protected] DRE 01190363 Compass is a licensed real estate broker (01991628) in the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale, or withdraw without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. Exact dimensions can be obtained by retaining the services of an architect or engineer. This is not intended to solicit properties already listed. 23901 MALIBU KNOLLS ROAD $40,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 28899 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE $60,000/month | 6 Bed | 5 Bath 31646 SEA LEVEL DRIVE $50,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 31952 1/2 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $55,000/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath 26901 SEA VISTA DRIVE $68,000/month | 6 Bed | 9 Bath 23614 MALIBU COLONY ROAD $75,000/month | 5 Bed | 5 Bath 24230 MALIBU ROAD $49,900/month | 3 Bed | 4 Bath 3000 DECKER CANYON ROAD $40,000/month | 5 Bed | 6 Bath 27082 MALIBU COVE COLONY DRIVE $49,900/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 6750 FERNHILL DRIVE $29,500/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath 28873 BONIFACE DRIVE $30,000/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath 28711 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY #22 $6,300/month | 2 Bed | 2 Bath 5868 ZUMIREZ DRIVE $74,000/month | 5 Bed | 8 Bath 27727 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $35,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 7157 BIRDVIEW AVENUE $40,000/month | 3 Bed | 4 Bath 24314 MALIBU ROAD $60,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 29122 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE $65,000/month | 2 Bed | 3 Bath 30718 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $75,000/month | 5 Bed | 5 Bath 32453 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $60,000/month | 7 Bed | 11 Bath 27445 WINDING WAY $60,000/month | 6 Bed | 8 Bath 23018 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $65,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 24600 SKYLINE VIEW DRIVE $17,750/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 22407 CARBON MESA ROAD $50,000/month | 5 Bed | 5 Bath CHRIS CORTAZZO $8B+ Total sales volume $1B+ Sales for 2021 29 Years in real estate 28943 GRAYFOX STREET $16,995/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath 32554 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $85,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 6959 DUME DRIVE $40,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 28926 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE $85,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath 27348 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $85,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath 31504 VICTORIA POINT $90,000/month | 4 Bed | 6 Bath J7 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING

J8 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01991628. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. This is not intended to solicit property already listed. Nothing herein shall be construed as legal, accounting or other professional advice outside the realm of real estate brokerage. John Hathorn [email protected] 310.924.4014 DRE 00960182 Loraine Silver [email protected] 310.261.1595 DRE 00800114 Charles Pence [email protected] 310.403.9238 DRE 00670728 OPEN HOUSE SAT & SUN 2-5PM TUESDAY 11-2PM OPEN HOUSE SAT & SUN 2-5PM NOT ALL REAL ESTATE AGENTS ARE THE SAME WHO YOU WORK WITH MATTERS 319 14TH STREET - SANTA MONICA $7,988,000 | 5BD 8BA | 7,539 SF LOT 453 SHERMAN CANAL - VENICE $5,700,000 | 3BD 4BA | 3,961 SF 1212 HILL STREET - SANTA MONICA $2,399,000 | 3BD 2BA | 1,316 SF 844 16TH STREET #1 - SANTA MONICA $2,100,000 | 3BD 3BA | 2,158 SF 325 GEORGINA AVE - SANTA MONICA $8,995,000 | 5BD 6BA | 20,899 SF LOT IMAGE DISPLAYS VIRTUAL RENDERING OF BACKYARD OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2-5PM TUESDAY 11-2PM OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2-5PM OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2-5PM

J9 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B The 2B PUBLISHING Hideaway 52635 VIA DONA, LA QUINTA 5 Beds | 5 Full + 2 Half Bath 4,879 Sq Ft $3,875,000 | Furnished compass.com Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01991628. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. Valery Neuman Founding Partner 760.861.1176 [email protected] valeryneuman.com DRE 01138184

J10 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING The Marketplace LOS ANGELES 34°3'12"N 11 41°8 '34"W BY MICHAEL J. LIBOW Celebrating 38 Years in our Westside Market Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. DRE 01991628. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. This is not intended to solicit property already listed. The Hardest Working Man in Real Estate. Michael J. Libow 310.691.7889 [email protected] michaeljlibow.com DRE 00863172 Wilshire Corridor 10380 Wilshire Boulevard Unit 602 $2,675,000 Pristine lite-filled NE crnr unit. Near 3,200 sq ft. 3BD 3.5BA Beaut drk wd flrs. Hi clngs. Glass walls. 2 balconies. City/ hillside vus. Great rm. Coveted full srvc La Tour. BY APPOINTMENT 438 S. Bedford Drive $2,995,000 Lovely 1929 Spanish Duplex. Each unit 3BD 2BA. Wd flrs. Hi clngs. Updated kitch and baths. W/D in units. Dining rms/dens. Rear gardens/patio. Quiet rd. DO NOT DISTURB OCCUPANTS Beverly Hills Beverly Hills 463 S. Beverwil Drive $2,749,000 Authentic Deco-era 1.5sty Spanish Hacienda. 1st time avail in 48yrs. Huge inner courtyard. 3BD 3BA. Sunlit. Wd flrs. Beams. Outdr office. Curb appeal! JUST SOLD Beverly Hills 305 El Camino Drive $4,295,000 Spacious dramatic 2sty Spanish. Wd flrs. Hi clngs. Huge 2sty liv rm. 5BD 4.5BA. Paneled den. Big yrd w/patios/lawns/fp. 60ft wide lot. Curb appeal. JUST SOLD Beverly Hills 423 S. Bedford Drive $3,295,000 Spacious Deco-era Spanish Duplex. Each unit 3BD 3BA. Updated kitch & baths. Hi clngs. Wd flrs. W/D in units. Prime quiet road. Curb appeal DO NOT DISTURB OCCUPANTS JUST SOLD Beverly Hills 711 N. Oakhurst Drive $10,800,000 Custom remodel in 2006. 1.5sty Euro Villa. Lush 20,000sqftlot.5BD5.5BA.Greatrm.Motorcourt.X-deep grounds. Lawns/patios/pl/spa/privacy. Quiet road. Beverly Hills 505 N. Roxbury Drive $5,995,000 1st time avail in 51 yrs! Older 1sty 4BD 3BA+ outdoor guest unitw.kitch/ba. Sunlit rms.Openplan flows to reargrounds w.mature foliage/cacti. Uber prime block moments to all. JUST SOLD Beverly Hills NEW X | OPEN SUNDAY 2-5 245 S. Oakhurst Drive $3,495,000 Beaut updated spacious 2sty modern Spanish. 4BD 3.5BA + den. Hi clngs. Wd flrs. Huge cook's kitch. Big yrd w/pergola. Curb appeal. Uber prime quiet road. Beverly Hills JUST SOLD 608 N. Linden Drive $8,800,000 Charming redone 2sty 4BD Trad with a modern flair. Huge great rm. Dark wd floors, beams, glass walls. Fab kitch. Priv yrd w/pl/spa/deck/BBQ/lawns.

J11 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING JUST SOLD OVER ASKING Culver City 3556 Helms Avenue $1,295,000 Older 1sty 2BD 2BA + den + outdoor bonus spaces. Uber potential on 5,400 sq ft R2 lot. Prime quiet rd. NE Culver City. Moments to the best. Trust sale. Century City 2331 Century Hill $1,399,000 Fab 1-level 2BD 3.5BA 2nd flr unit. Over 2,300 sq ft. Great room. Lg balcony. Peek-a-boo vus. Updated granite kitch. Primary ste w/2 baths/walk-ins. Quiet! JUST SOLD The Marketplace LOS ANGELES 34°3'12"N 11 41°8 '34"W BY MICHAEL J. LIBOW Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. DRE 01991628. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. This is not intended to solicit property already listed. Michael J. Libow 310.691.7889 [email protected] michaeljlibow.com DRE 00863172 Beverly Hills 406 N. Oakhurst Drive, Unit 205 $995,000 1st time avail in 44 yrs! Spacious older unit. 2BD+ den 2.5BA. 1,471 sq ft. Lg covered balc. Quiet sunlit rear location. Low HOD's. Side x side prkg. JUST SOLD 318 N. Maple Drive Unit 304 $1,495,000 Sunlit spacious older 1-level SW front corner unit. Coveted steel /concrete bldg. 2BD 2.5BA. Great rm. Side x side prkg. Pl/spa/on-site supervisor.Potential!t JUST SOLD Beverly Hills 11227 Cashmere Street $9,900/mo Beaut redone 1sty 3BD 2.5BA Tradit. Sunlit open flow. Gleaming wd flrs. Chic newer kitch/bas. Mstr w/walkin. 2 level resort yrd w/waterfall/patios/kitch/views. NEW X | BY APPOINTMENT Westwood Hills Beverlywood 9600 Lockford Street $7,750/mo Charming spacious 1sty Trad. 3BD 2.5BA Huge lot. Big fam rm. Updated kitch. Wd flrs. Lawns/patios/pool. Quiet cul-de-sac in northern Beverlywood HOA. NEW PRICE | BY APPOINTMENT Beverly Hills 622 N. Canon Drive $19,950/mo NEW PRICE | BY APPOINTMENT Beverly Hills 301 S. Roxbury Drive $14,500/mo Stunning sunlit redone 2sty spacious Spanish. 3BD. 4.5BA. Great rm. Hi clngs. Gleaming wd flrs. Top quality new kitch & bas. 2 Primary suites. Lg grass/patio yard. JUST LEASED Beverly Hills 608 N. Alta Drive GH $3,950/mo Newly redone 1BD 1BA ADU. Spectacular location in prime quiet BH Flats. Over 700 sq ft. All utilities included. Use of pool/spa. Priv washer/dryer. Long term. NEW PRICE | BY APPOINTMENT Celebrating 38 Years in our Westside Market The Hardest Working Man in Real Estate. Fab redone 1-level grand warm Contemp. Huge deep 19,000 SF lot. 5BD 5.5BA + lg outdoor guest suite Major great rm. Pl/spa/lawns/patios. Moments to all.

J12 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING $65,000,000 | 9 BD | 14 BA | 30,000 SF 133 SOUTH MAPLETON DRIVE | HOLMBY HILLS $36,995,000 | 7 BD | 13 BA | 16,424 SF 1460 LAUREL WAY | BEVERLY HILLS $68,000,000 | 9 BD | 12 BA | 20,000 SF 1859 BEL AIR ROAD | BEL AIR $27,995,000 | 7 BD | 14 BA | 12 ,130 SF $23,999,000 | 7 BD | 13 BA | 11,360 SF 917 LOMA VISTA | BEVERLY HILLS Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01991628. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. THE FRIDMAN GROUP Tomer Fridman & Isidora Fridman [email protected] 310.919.1038 DRE 01750717 | 01192964 1806 PALISADES DRIVE | PACIFIC PALISADES $1,790,000 | 3 BD | 3 BA | 2 ,081 SF CO-LISTED WITH JENNIFER SAGINOR | DRE 01379187 $22,495,000 | 5 BD | 8 BA | 9, 508 SF 1041 LAUREL WAY | BEVERLY HILLS OPEN SAT & SUN 1-4PM $19,999,000 | 7 BD | 9 BA | 12 ,000 SF 1024 SUMMIT DRIVE | BEVERLY HILLS $17,750,000 | 5 BD | 7 BA | 6,147 SF CO-LISTED WITH TONY BRUNO | DRE 02052462 1510 LOMA VISTA | BEVERLY HILLS $21,500,000 | 7 BD | 11 BA | 11, 246 SF 1740 BEL AIR ROAD | BEL AIR JUST LISTED 1166 SAN YSIDRO DRIVE | BEVERLY HILLS $9,750,000 | 5 BD | 6 BA | 5, 207 SF JUST LISTED 24930 EL DORADO MEADOWS | HIDDEN HILLS $5,300,000 | 4 BD | 4 BA | 3, 874 SF $13,500/MO | 4 BD | 2 BA | 1, 898 SF 6058 SHIRLEY AVE | TARZANA OPEN SUN 1-4PM $29,999/MO | 5 BD | 7 BA | 6,000 SF 1125 SAN YSIDRO | BEVERLY HILLS OPEN SAT 1-4PM 1035 STRADELLA ROAD | BEL AIR $21,900,000 | 6 BD | 9 BA | 9,680 SF 1317 DELRESTO DRIVE | BEVERLY HILLS UNIT C-34 | $3,500,000 | 3BD | 4.5BA | 2 ,260 SF 23500 PARK SORRENTO UNIT C-34 & C-42 $4,475,000 | 3 BD | 4 BA | 2 ,754 SF CO-LISTED WITH ANTHONY BARILLO DRE 01991628 9 VICENTE TER | SANTA MONICA $14,999,000 | 5 BD | 7 BA | 12 ,988 SF CO-LISTED WITH LAUREN RAUSCHENBERG | DRE 01881132 996 VISTA RIDGE LN | WESTLAKE VILLAGE 10250 W SUNSET BOULEVARD | HOLMBY HILLS $65,000,000 | 17 BD | 19.75 BA | 30,000 SF

J13 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING compass.com Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01991628. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. OPEN SAT. & SUN. 1-5PM | NEW LISTING PALOS VERDES ESTATES 2008 Via Visalia $7,995,000 5 Beds | 5.5 Baths | 6,280± Sq Ft Tony Accardo 310.855.3557 Carly Potter 310.427.2155 DRE 01863340 | DRE 02143673 # 1 LUXURY BROKERAGE IN LOS ANGELES SOURCE: MLS VIA TERRADATUM’S BROKERMETRICS. LUXURY FOR LA COUNTY IS DEFINED AS TRANSACTIONS $10M+. # 1 BROKERAGE IN THE U.S. | CLOSED SALES VOLUME SOURCE: REAL TRENDS, 03/16/2022. PROPERTY SPOTLIGHT Abby Waddell 310.753.0770 DRE 00892590 PROPERTY SPOTLIGHT OPEN SAT. & SUN. 1-4PM BY APPOINTMENT BEL-AIR 638 Siena Way $36,950,000 7 Beds | 11 Baths 638siena.com Sally Forster Jones Tomer Fridman 310.579.2200 DRE 00558939 | 01750717 OPEN SUN. 2-5PM | NEW LISTING CULVER CITY 4037 Tilden Ave $2,495,000 4 Beds | 4 Baths 4037tilden.com Sally Forster Jones 310.579.2200 DRE 00558939 OPEN SUNDAY 1-4PM HAWTHORNE 12922 Union Ave #302 $995,000 2 Beds | 2 Baths 12922unionave302.com Bindu & Sam Xavier 310.866.7598 DRE 01818247 | 01449986 RANCHO PALOS VERDES 5732 Capeswood Drive $1,795,000 3 Beds | 2 Baths | 1,908± Sq Ft NEW PRICE SANTA MONICA 120 Ocean Park Bl #611 $3,595,000 2 Beds | 2 Baths 120oceanparkblvd611.com Sally Forster Jones 310.579.2200 DRE 00558939

J14 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING ©2023 Carolwood Estates Inc. Broker does not guarantee the accuracy of square footage, lot size, or other information concerning the condition or features of the property obtained from various sources. Equal Housing Opportunity. DRE 02200006 ESTATES RENDERING $155,000,000 | 594 S Mapleton Dr, Holmby Hills Drew Fenton 310.623.3622 DRE 01317962 $48,500,000 | 55 Beverly Park Way, Beverly Hills Linda May 310.623.3650 DRE 00475038 $21,500,000 | 1501 Tower Grove Dr, Beverly Hills Linda May 310.623.3650 DRE 00475038 $21,000,000 | 6342 Mulholland Hwy, Hollywood Hills Brett Lawyer, Linda May 310.623.3638 DRE 00897489, 00475038 $12,495,000 | 5811 Murphy Way, Malibu Cooper Mount 310.351.9002 DRE 01956287 $16,750,000 | 222 Palisades Ave, Santa Monica Nichelle Robinson, Barbara Robinson 310.854.4130 DRE 01519968, 00632913 OPEN SUNDAY 2-5 $7,995,000 | 4670 Balboa Ave, Encino Bjorn Farrugia, Alphonso Lascano 310.998.7175 DRE 01864250, 01723550 $6,995,000 | 1155 Sunset Hills Rd, Sunset Strip Andrew Rhoda 213.915.8879 DRE 01879250 $6,995,000 | 810 Devon Ave, Little Holmby Jonathan Nash, Ben Malka, Stephen Resnick 424.230.6088 DRE 01943888, 02085112, 01241282 $6,495,000 | 1448 Queens Way, Sunset Strip Justin Huchel 310.617.4824 DRE 01375793 OPEN SUNDAY 2-5 NEW PRICE OPEN SATURDAY 2-5

J15 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B Open Sunday 2-5 2B PUBLISHING carolwoodre.com | @carolwoodrealestate THE PENTHOUSE | 9440 SANTA MONICA BLVD | BEVERLY HILLS, CA. 90210 $42,500,000 | 1492 Stone Canyon Rd, Bel Air Brett Lawyer 310.623.3628 DRE 00897489 $34,500,000 | 10702 Levico Way, Bel Air Linda May, Guy Levy 310.623.3650 DRE 00475038, 01374536 $23,500,000 | 1211 Stradella Rd, Bel Air Linda May, Drew Fenton 310.623.3650 DRE 00475038, 01317962 $25,500,000 | 831 Stone Canyon Rd, Bel Air Shane McCoy Fermelia 310.868.5741 DRE 02092572 $14,950,000 | 9444 Sierra Mar Pl, Sunset Strip Jonathan Nash, Stephen Resnick 424.230.6088 DRE 01943888, 01241282 $12,900,000 | 946 Rivas Canyon Rd, Pacific Palisades Nick Segal, Jane Dorian 310.623.3600 DRE 01013548, 01320230 $23,500,000 | 1211 Stradella Rd, Bel Air Linda May, Drew Fenton 310.623.3650 DRE 00475038, 01317962 $21,500,000 | 1501 Tower Grove Dr, Beverly Hills Linda May 310.623.3650 DRE 00475038 $8,449,000 | 13600 Bayliss Rd, Brentwood Bjorn Farrugia, Alphonso Lascano 310.998.7175 DRE 01864250, 01723550 $6,995,000 | 1155 Sunset Hills Rd, Sunset Strip OPEN SATURDAY 2-5 Andrew Rhoda 213.915.8879 DRE 01879250 $6,999,500 | 401 Ocean Ave #4, Santa Monica Bjorn Farrugia 310.998.7175 DRE 01864250 $4,795,000 | 1330 San Remo Dr, Pacific Palisades Bjorn Farrugia, Alphonso Lascano, Spencer Mow 310.998.7175 DRE 01723550, 01864250, 02141673 $3,995,000 | 338 Entrada Dr, Santa Monica Bjorn Farrugia 310.998.7175 DRE 01864250 $3,499,000 | 222 S Gramercy Pl, Hancock Park Alphonso Lascano, Bjorn Farrugia, Spencer Mow 818.800.8848 DRE 01723550, 01864250, 02141673 $3,295,000 | 17140 Rancho St, Encino Aren Afsharian 310.200.9323 DRE 01928144 $5,950,000 | 1698 Marmont Ave, Hollywood Hills Drew Fenton 310.623.3622 DRE 01317962 OPEN SUNDAY 2-5 $3,499,000 | 222 S Gramercy Pl, Hancock Park Alphonso Lascano, Bjorn Farrugia, SpencerMow 818.800.8848 DRE 01723550, 01864250, 02141673 $3,295,000 | 17140 Rancho St, Encino Aren Afsharian 310.200.9323 DRE 01928144 OPEN SUNDAY 2-5 OPEN SUNDAY 2-5

J16 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING 910 N Alpine Drive, Beverly Hills 910Alpine.com ©2023 Carolwood Estates. Broker does not guarantee the accuracy of square footage, lot size, or other information concerning the condition or features of the property obtained from various sources. Equal Housing Opportunity. DRE 02200006 111 N Mapleton Drive, Holmby Hills Mapleton-Traditional.com 594 S Mapleton Drive, Holmby Hills At-The-Manor.com 2333 Mandeville Canyon Road, Brentwood 2333MandevilleCyn.com $12,895,000 638 Siena Way, Bel Air 638SienaWay.com RENDERING $155,000,000 126 Mabery Road, Santa Monica Sten-FrenkeResidence.com $12,695,000 9240 Robin Drive, Bird Streets Villa-Robin.com $12,500,000 $35,000,000 $34,999,999 25142 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu VillaPCH.com $75,000,000 $36,950,000 NEWLY LISTED

J17 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING CAROLWOODRE.COM DRE 01317962 310.623.3622 | @DREW.FENTON Drew Fenton 9440 SANTA MONICA BLVD, BEVERLY HILLS THE PENTHOUSE 1211 Stradella Road, Bel Air 1211Stradella.com $23,500,000 OPEN SUN 2-5PM 1250 Bel Air Road, Bel Air 1250BelAirRoad.com $38,500,000 OR LEASE $175,000/MO 1374 Laurel Way, Beverly Hills PO 1374LaurelWay.com $12,000,000 $5,995,000 | 9445 Eden Drive, Beverly Hills PO Eden-Modern.com $5,995,000 602 Mountain Drive, Beverly Hills 602Mountain.com $28,150,000 1006 N Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills 1006Crescent.com $45,000,000 OR $80,000/MO LEASE 10250 W Sunset Blvd, Holmby Hills HolmbyHills-Traditional.com $65,000,000 722 N Camden Drive, Beverly Hills 722Camden.com $23,500,000

J18 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING 277 ST. PIERRE ROAD, BEL-AIR $52,000,000 or $150,000/MO Lease | 277StPierreRoad.com 146 GROVERTON PLACE, BEL-AIR NEWLY PRICED $9,750,000 | 146Groverton.com 722 MAPLE DRIVE, BEVERLY HILLS NEWLY PRICED $75,000/month | 722NMaple.com CASTILLO DEL LAGO, HOLLYWOOD HILLS $21,000,000 | 6342Mulholland.com 55 BEVERLY PARK, BEVERLY HILLS $48,500,000 | 55BeverlyPark.com 310.623.3650 | [email protected] | LINDAMAY.COM LINDAMAY.COM | CAROLWOODRE.COM | LINDA MAY DRE 00475038 | GUY LEVY DRE 01374536 ©2023 Carolwood Estates Inc. Broker does not guarantee the accuracy of square footage, lot size, or other information concerning the condition or features of the property obtained from various sources. Equal Housing Opportunity. DRE 02200006 RENDERING 206 N. CAROLWOOD DRIVE, HOLMBY HILLS $45,000,000 | 206Carolwood.com 10702 LEVICO WAY, BEL-AIR $34,500,000 | LevicoWay.com | Co-Listed with Guy Levy 1211 STRADELLA ROAD, BEL-AIR $23,500,000 or $55,000/MO Lease | 1211Stradella.com 1501 TOWER GROVE DRIVE, BEVERLY HILLS NEWLY PRICED $21,500,000 | 1501TowerGroveDr.com OPEN SUN 2-5PM OPEN SUN 2-5PM

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J20 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING AKG | Christie’s International Real Estate is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01527644. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to the accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footage are approximate. If your property is currently listed for sale this is not a solicitation. AKGRE.COM 4 BD | 5 BA | 7,500 SF $20,000,000 YAWAR CHARLIE | KAREN SANCHEZ DRE 01843002 | 01441648 510 ARKELL DR 4 BD | 6 BA | 8,751 SQ FT $9,500,000 AARON KIRMAN DRE 01296524 1654 BLUE JAYWAY 6 BED | 8 BATH | 7,513 SQ FT $13,495,000 AARON KIRMAN DRE 01296524 11548 THURSTON CIRCLE 1021 CHEVY CHASE DRIVE 24186 CASE CT 5 BEDS | 8 BATHS | 10,527 SQFT $69,995,000 AARON KIRMAN DRE 01296524 2304 DONELLA CIR 7 BED | 11 BATH | 11,624 SQ FT $16,995,000 AARON KIRMAN DRE 01296524 792 LINDA FLORA DR 11630 MORAGA LN 2321 CASTILIAN DRIVE 4 BD | 5 BA | 7,500 SF $20,000,000 YAWAR CHARLIE | KAREN SANCHEZ DRE 01843002 | 01441648 510 ARKELL DR J A S P E R J O H N S ( B . 1 9 3 0 )

1654 BLUE JAYWAY 510 ARKELL DR 11548 THURSTON CIRCLE 5 BD | 7 BA | 7,030 SF $8,495,000 HALEH MAHBOUBI GABBAY | MARIA MAHBOUBI | AARON KIRMAN DRE 01894619 | 02001512 | 0 12 9 6 5 24 1021 CHEVY CHASE DRIVE 24186 CASE CT 2304 DONELLA CIR 4 BD | 5 BA | 4,546 SQ FT $8,900,000 ADISA ADITHEPAROT | HOLLAND ASHRAFNIA DRE 02162517 | 01345982 792 LINDA FLORA DR 11630 MORAGA LN 5 BEDS | 8 BATHS | 9,000 SQFT $10,995,000 MERSE KOLLO | DAVID BABAJOONI DRE 02043366 | 02129093 2321 CASTILIAN DRIVE 510 ARKELL DR OIL AND CHARCOAL ON CANVAS PRICE REALISED USD 11,840,000 J A S P E R J O H N S ( B . 1 9 3 0 ) USUYUKI ART SPOTLIGHT CHRISTIES.COM J21 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING

J22 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING AKG | Christie’s International Real Estate is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01527644. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only and is compiled from sources deemed reliable but has not been verified. Changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal may be made without notice. No statement is made as to the accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footage are approximate. If your property is currently listed for sale this is not a solicitation. AKGRE.COM 510 ARKELL DR 4 BD | 5 BA | 7,500 SF $20,000,000 YAWAR CHARLIE | KAREN SANCHEZ DRE 01843002 | 01441648 9 BD | 14 BA | 20,841 SQFT $150,000,000 AARON KIRMAN DRE 01296524 10721 STRADELLA CT 6 BED | 9 BATH | 8,854 SQ FT $12,895,000 AARON KIRMAN DRE 01296524 150 ESPARTAWAY 15217 DE PAUW ST 23800 MALIBU CREST 7 BD | 10 BA | 15,500 SQ FT $34,990,000 AARON KIRMAN DRE 01296524 5727 JED SMITH 8 BEDS | 10 BATHS $17,900,000 DAVID EMANUEL DRE 01825239 735 BONHILL RD 6 BED | 10 BATH | 8,500 SQ FT $19,950,000 DALTON GOMEZ DRE 01980961 INVISIBLE HOUSE 11630 MORAGA LN 1101 STRADELLA RD R E N É M A G R I T T E ( 1 8 9 8 - 1 9 6 7 )

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J24 H O T P R O P E R T Y L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 2 5 , 2 0 2 3 W S C E B2B PUBLISHING HOT PROPERTY This content is produced by the B2B Publishing team of the LA Times. It does not involve the reporting staff of the LA Times. I t’s been said that we are a product of our environment. That axiom can also be true of home interiors, which can creatively reflect the sociocultural traits of your surrounding community or distinctive geographical locale. So when it’s time for a room upgrade or whole-home facelift, look to your local area for design and decor inspirations. “People often live in locations that are in one way or another a representation of who they are, even if it’s small. For instance, city people live in cities, and country people live where horses are at arm’s length,” says Alexis Peters, an interior designer with Home Styling by Alexis in Nashville. “I believe it’s beneficial to continue carrying out the particular style to which you are drawn because when you love where you live, it can make you feel thrilled every time you walk in your front door.” You can increase that thrill by implementing visual elements that replicate common, popular, and beloved characteristics nearby. “For example, if you live near picturesque rolling grassy hills, why not bring that feeling inside by painting your walls similar colors, or incorporating natural materials like granite and wood into furniture, walls, or fixtures that reflect the surrounding landscape? By allowing yourself to look around for aesthetic inspiration from your local environment, you can truly make your home feel invitingly beautiful without ever having to leave the comfort of your neighborhood,” suggests Martin Orefice, CEO of Rent To Own Labs. Nadine Vogel, an interior designer with Sweetgrass Living, LLC, is a big fan of this approach. “Let’s say you live on the ocean and find the colors and scents of the water relaxing. You can use coastal colors for your cabinetry, furnishings, and fabrics that will not only blend your interiors with the exterior but will contribute to your mental health,” she recommends. “You could choose to keep your flooring light in color via white oak, which wears well near saltwater and where sand might be regularly tracked into your home. Perhaps you want to remodel your home and remove walls for more open, interconnected spaces, or add a special entrance that includes a shower for when you come in from the beach.” Artem Kropovinsky, the founder of Arsight, an interior design studio based in New York City, suggests several ways to draw influences from your surroundings. “Look to your local architecture for inspiration. The style of your surrounding buildings can inform your own interior design choices. Also, use natural materials from your local area, such as driftwood if you live near a beach,” he says. “Take into account your climate and incorporate elements that will enhance it, such as light and airy fabrics for hot climates or heavy textiles for colder climates. Consider the cultural influences in your area, too, by incorporating traditional patterns, textiles, or artwork that reflect the local culture.” CTW Features Contact us with comments or questions at [email protected]. LET SURROUNDINGS INSPIRE YOUR DESIGN Blending local flavors into your interior design is a fantastic way to bring vibrancy, color, and personality to a space. Photo courtesy of Content That Works

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