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What is the ‘magic potion’ fuelling Novak Djokovic?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:32 GMT

There is a certain aura that follows Novak Djokovic around. For many, that can come across as a cloak of invincibility.Many have tried, and failed, down the years to pierce the Serbian superstar’s impenetrable armour. For plenty of rivals, he has become an unmovable object.Djokovic is now the best-decorated tennis player of all time in the men’s game, with the promise still there for more major silverware to be collected.Dominant2⃣3⃣ #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/KOxvOq3d18— Novak Djokovic (@DjokerNole) June 11, 2023 Having illuminated courts in Melbourne, Paris, New York and Wimbledon, it appears there is no stopping the most dominant of sporting forces.That statement rings true as much in the present as it has ever done, with Djokovic the overwhelming 10/11 favourite in US Open 2023 betting to capture the 24th Grand Slam crown of his already record-breaking career.While such success is almost universally admired, with tennis betting tips seemingly for...

Pelosi will run for reelection in 2024

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:32 GMT

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is running for reelection.The longtime California congresswoman, who stepped down from Democratic leadership at the end of the last Congress, announced Friday that she will run for another term.“Now more than ever our City needs us to advance San Francisco values and further our recovery. Our country needs America to show the world that our flag is still there, with liberty and justice for ALL. That is why I am running for reelection — and respectfully ask for your vote. -Nancy,” Pelosi wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.The announcement from Pelosi, 83, puts an end to any speculation that the California Democrat may be hanging up her hat after more than 35 years serving in the House. And it opens up the opportunity for Pelosi to continue a historic career on Capitol Hill that has landed her at the top of the Democratic caucus, at the center of intense policy fights and in the thick of GOP attacks.Pelosi was first elected t...

Deputies seek black sedan seen fleeing Cudahy murder scene

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:32 GMT

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is looking for a shooter who killed a man Friday morning and then fled the scene in Cudahy in a black sedan.The victim, only identified as a man, was killed at about 5 a.m. in the 5000 block of Clara Street, the LASD said in a news release. Though officials did not provide the exact address, investigators appeared to be focusing on a Circle K convenience store and gas station in the area.Deputies found the man suffering from apparent gunshot wounds, and he was declared dead at the scene, officials said. No information has been released about the suspected shooter except that a black sedan was seen fleeing the area after the shooting.The investigation is ongoing, and no further details were available.Anyone with information is asked to call the LASD Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. To provide information anonymously, call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477) or visit lacrimestoppers.org.

Authorities search for home burglary suspects in Palmdale

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:32 GMT

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is searching for two people who were captured on camera allegedly burglarizing a home in Palmdale.The burglary happened on Aug. 18 in the area of White Fence Farms.The suspects, a man and a woman, first entered the home by shattering a window and then left through the front door, authorities said.Photos released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department show two people accused of stealing jewelry from a Palmdale home on Aug. 18, 2023. (LASD)Investigators released photos showing the female suspect getting away with a box of jewelry.Anyone with information is urged to call the L.A. County Sheriff's Detective Thompson at 661-272-2476. Those who want to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477) or visit http://lacrimestoppers.org.

Shirtless smash-and-grab suspect identified by police

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:32 GMT

A would-be smash-and-grab suspect who got more than he bargained for when he attempted to rob a family-owned jewelry store in the San Gabriel Valley last week, has been identified, authorities announced on Thursday.  Surveillance cameras captured the suspect, now identified as 36-year-old Joshua Lee Simmons, as he was walking down Main Street in El Monte on Sept. 2 dressed in all black with a face mask and a cardboard box in hand. As the 36-year-old approaches Meza’s Jewelry store, he’s seen spraying bear repellent in the face of a 70-year-old man, one of the store’s owners, who was sitting just outside the shop.  That didn’t stop the 70-year-old from running inside his family’s jewelry store to fight back, his brother, niece and nephews all coming to his defense, struggling to restrain the intruder as he smashed the display case and attempted to grab whatever precious merchandise he could get his hands on.    Jewelry store owners speak out after wild smas...

Agustina Cano-De Arambula Killed in Two-Vehicle Collision on Manning Avenue [Fresno, CA]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:32 GMT

Two-Car Crash on Adams Avenue Left Agustina Cano-De Arambula DeadFRESNO, CA (September 8, 2023) – Wednesday evening, a two-vehicle crash on Manning Avenue left Agustina Cano-De Arambula dead and two individuals hospitalized.Officers responded to the fatal collision on August 23rd at around 9:20 p.m. along Manning Avenue and Adams Avenue.According to reports, a 32-year-old man driving a Freightliner truck, that was transporting grapes from a neighboring vineyard, when he took a left turn out of a field onto Manning Avenue. He subsequently traveled into the path of a Honda CRV.The Honda driver crashed into the axle part of the back trailer of the semi-truck.Emergency crews arrived shortly afterward and transported the 72-year-old Honda driver, and his passenger to a local hospital for treatment.Later, at the hospital, medics pronounced 70-year-old Agustina Cano-De Arambula dead, due to the extent of her condition.No words can mend the broken hearts and sorrow felt during this delicate...

From Doja Cat to Radiohead — the New LA Weekly Playlist is Live

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:32 GMT

From Doja Cat to Radiohead: The 173rd LA Weekly playlist, reviewing the musicians that we’ve been writing about all week, is live now. There’s electronic music from wAFF, hip-hop from Doja Cat, pop from Madilyn Bailey, punk from the Erections and the Varukers, classic rock from Fleetwood Mac and Ringo Starr, and so much more.Find us on Spotify here,or on Soundcloud here.Don’t forget to “Like” the playlists and “Follow” the profiles.Madilyn Bailey (Lissy Laricchia)From Doja Cat to RadioheadAlso this week:Print star Madilyn Bailey told us that, “I practicality came out of the womb singing. ‘Hi world, I’m here.” Putting on little shows for my family, and then I think I started taking it seriously when I performed at my school’s talent show. My whole school was so supportive, and I was such a shy kid at that point that I was like, ‘I’m not even sure that you guys knew that I existed until this moment.’ But they were so supportive and also my parents were super supportive of everything. ...

California shows an electric-car uprising headed for the U.S.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:32 GMT

By Tom Randall | BloombergIf you want to know how quickly electric vehicles might spread across the US, just look at California. In the past five years, EVs have gone from 2% of new-car sales in the state to 22%.The pace of adoption in California picked up significantly once EVs reached 5% of new-car sales, a threshold at which preferences start to flip for mainstream car buyers, according to a Bloomberg Green analysis of EV adoption curves around the world. California was one of the first major car markets to reach that tipping point, in 2018, and so far 23 countries have been added to the list.If California were itself a country, it would now rank fourth in terms of overall EV sales; only China, the US and Germany sell more. The pace of adoption in the state shows no signs of slowing, either, with second-quarter EV sales rising 70% over the same period in 2022. The US as a whole is just three years behind California, and currently tracing its path. If the trend continues, a quarte...

80-year-old California woman swindled out of house awarded nearly $4 million in elder abuse case

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:32 GMT

A Long Beach woman who unwittingly signed over her house of 48 years to a real estate investor while confined to a nursing home has been awarded nearly $4 million in an elder abuse and fraud case.Jurors awarded 80-year-old Suzanne Yorgason $939,669 in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive damages after finding Ken Allen Lamphear committed elder abuse, fraud and fraud in the inducement. Additionally, the jury found that Lamphear acted with malice, oppression or fraud at the conclusion of the 10-day trial at the Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse in Long Beach.“We are extremely gratified by the jury’s verdict and punitive award,” Yorgason’s Aliso Viejo attorney, William D. Chapman, said in a statement. “A sophisticated real estate investor, Ken Lamphear, knew exactly what he was doing when he persuaded Ms. Yorgason to transfer her home to him without any documentation — no promissory note, no deed, no escrow and no payment of any kind.”Yorgason lived at her home in the Al...

Murder defendant attacks his attorney at San Jose trial opening

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:32 GMT

SAN JOSE — A man on trial for murder violently brought the proceedings to a halt Thursday when he attacked his own attorney in court moments before opening statements were set to be heard, according to authorities and multiple sources.Ronnell Spencer is shown in a 2022 booking photo taken at Cook County jail in Chicago, where Spencer was a resident. (Photo courtesy of Cook County Sheriff’s Office) Ronnell Spencer, charged in a deadly 2022 San Jose shooting, was scheduled to face jurors for the first time in a San Jose courtroom Thursday morning when, without warning, he started punching a Santa Clara County deputy public defender who was representing him, sources familiar with the incident told this news organization.Court bailiffs — who are county sheriff’s deputies — as well as a prosecutor soon intervened to subdue Spencer and pull the attorney away from the fray, sources said.The attorney who was attacked was not seriously injured, sources said...