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Battle is brewing
over unique right
of workers in state
A ballot measure
would replace a law
that allows staffers to
sue their employers.
By Suhauna Hussain
California workers who
believe they have been vic-
tims of wage theft or other
workplace abuses have for
more than two decades re-
lied on a unique state law
that lets them sue employ-
ers not only for themselves
but also for other workers.
Now a battle is shaping
up over the law, known as the
Private Attorneys General
Act, or PAGA. An initiative
seeking to replace PAGA will
appear on the ballot in Cali-
fornia in November, the cul-
mination of long-standing
efforts by corporate and
industry groups to undo the
law.
Two reports released last
week offer dueling narra-
tives about whether PAGA
helps or hurts workers —
marking the opening of a
potentially expensive fight
Photographs by Anna Tsyhyma For The Times over the landmark law that
OLENA KOVALYK , top, walks near the school-turned-prison in Bilyayivka, Ukraine, where relatively few know about.
Russian soldiers held her husband, Oleh, pictured at left. At right, a calendar in a classroom there. Labor researchers say
that the ballot measure, if
COLUMN ONE approved, would harm em-
ployees, particularly people
what are essentially class-
action suits against employ-
ers that allege labor law vio-
lations. The ballot measure
also would weaken the
state’s already strained sys-
tem for enforcing workplace
laws, the researchers say.
But the business coali-
tion backing the ballot ini-
tiative, called the Fair Play
and Employer Accountabil-
ity Act, counters that the la-
bor law has resulted in a pro-
liferation of lawsuits that
small businesses and non-
profits have little ability to
fight. Workers end up get-
ting less money after a long
legal process than if they had
filed complaints through
state agencies, the initia-
tive’s proponents say.
Worker advocates have
long complained that
chronic understaffing at
state agencies responsible
for investigating employee
complaints means that alle-
gations about wage theft
and other violations can
take years to be resolved. So
workers turn to the courts.
Luz Perez Bautista and
her mother, Maria de la Luz
Bautista-Perez, were among
three named plaintiffs who
sued Juul Labs Inc. in fed-
eral court in 2020 for alleg-
edly misclassifying some 450
campaign staffers working
on a ballot measure the com-

A haunting quest in Ukraine

with low-wage jobs, by tak- pany was promoting to allow
ing away their ability to file [See Worker suits, A8]

S
ometimes, he visits her in
dreams. In her waking hours
— treading a muddy village
byway, casting an eye across a
desolate field — hope pulses
in her like a beating heart: that she
might somehow find him.
As Europe’s largest land war since
World War II enters its third year on
Saturday, Ukraine is full of wounded
souls like Olena Kovalyk, caught in
Russia invaded
the quest for some trace of a lost loved
one.
There are tens of thousands of
these vanished: soldiers who disap-
peared into the maw of battle, chil-
Woman only
dren spirited away for adoption in
Russia, civilian villagers like Olena’s
husband, Oleh, her childhood sweet-
wants to find heart, who engaged in quixotic acts of
defiance against a powerful occupy-
her husband, ing army.
For those left behind, grief and
missing since uncertainty swirl together, muddy
rivulets in a vast tributary. The amor-
phous sense of loss echoes a larger
national sense of pervasive not-know-
ingness: No one can say when, or how,
By Sabra Ayres this war might end.
and Laura King But some, like Olena, have con-
reporting from vinced themselves they will find a
myrolyubivka, ukraine [See Ukraine, A4] Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
TWO REPORTS released last week offer dueling
narratives about whether a state law helps workers.

Grossman found guilty of

murder in brothers’ deaths
Her SUV hit 2 boys in a Westlake Village crosswalk
By Richard Winton
and Grace Toohey
A jury on Friday found
Rebecca Grossman guilty in
the killing of two young
brothers who were crossing
a street in Westlake Village
when her speeding Mer-
cedes hit them.
The verdict caps a legal
drama that generated inter-
national attention in part
because Grossman is a
prominent figure who co-
founded the Grossman
Burn Foundation with her
husband, Dr. Peter Gross-
man.
The verdict was read in a
tense, packed Van Nuys
courtroom. The jury of nine
men and three women found
Grossman guilty of two
counts of murder, two
counts of gross vehicular
manslaughter and one
count of hit and run in the
2020 deaths of Mark and Ja-
cob Iskander, ages 11 and 8.
She faces 34 years to life in
prison and is scheduled to
return to court April 10 for
sentencing.
[See Grossman, A6]

Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times

SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher speaks at last year’s Screen Actors Guild
Awards. The show, formerly on cable, streams live Saturday on a bigger platform. Netanyahu issues
plan for Gaza

Netflix’s SAG experiment Palestinian leaders

reject his postwar vision
of Israeli control, and
the U.S. signals skepti-

could change awards season cism. WORLD, A3

By Josh Rottenberg
and Wendy Lee
When winners take the
stage to deliver their accept-
ance speeches at the 30th
Screen Actors Guild Awards
on Saturday, they won’t
need to worry about being
played off the stage to en-
sure advertisers have time to
peddle their wares. Viewers
won’t have to time their
bathroom breaks and snack
runs around the commer-
cials.
Indeed, there won’t be
any commercials at all: For
the first time ever, the show
will be streamed live on Net-
flix.
For the SAG Awards, a
key precursor on the road to
the Oscars voted on by more
than 119,000 members of the
actors’ union, the move to
Netflix, with its 260 million
Deputy gang
‘logo’ spotted
global subscribers, repre- Oversight officials say
sents a significant boost af- an image seen in a jail
ter decades of struggling to parking garage is linked
reach a wide viewership on to the Regulators.
cable. CALIFORNIA, B1
“This is a milestone for
Weather
what started out as the little
Periods of sun. Intuitive Machines
engine that could 30 shows
L.A. Basin: 74/53. B8
ago,” says actor JoBeth Wil- ROCKY BUT HISTORIC
liams, who serves as chair of
SAG’s Awards Committee, The U.S. returns to the moon with a private
which is charged with over- craft, shown orbiting. It tipped over upon land-
sight of the show. “It’s an ex- ing, limiting communications. PERSPECTIVES, A2
[See SAG Awards, A6]

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Antisemitic cartoon roils Harvard once again

When the Harvard Pal-
estine Solidarity Committee Activists aimed to highlight the links between Black and ful antisemitic tropes, or
otherwise engaging in in-
and the Harvard African flammatory rhetoric or
and African American Re- Palestinian liberation but reignited a 1967 campus firestorm sharing images that demean
sistance Organization put people on the basis of their
together an infographic for identity is precisely the op-
By Jenny Jarvie
Instagram, their goal was to posite of what this moment
showcase the historic con- demands of us.”
nections between the Black
and Palestinian liberation ::
movements.
They gathered old im- Dov Waxman, a professor
ages of Black activists who of political science and chair
had been vocal advocates of of Israel studies at UCLA,
the Palestinian cause, in- found the reappearance of
cluding Angela Davis and the cartoon depressing,
Malcolm X. showing how little progress
They quoted Nelson has been made in getting
Mandela: “Freedom is in- people to avoid using anti-
complete without the free- semitic tropes.
dom of the Palestinians.” But at least, he said, Har-
And they plucked an old vard activists removed the
cartoon from the archives of image and expressed re-
the Student Nonviolent Co- morse.
ordinating Committee — “When people are willing
one that roiled the civil to apologize for invoking
rights movement when it antisemitic tropes or stereo-
first appeared in 1967 and types, we should accept
has lost none of its ability to that,” Waxman said.
outrage. The drawing shows “Often, those who are on
a white hand, marked with a the left think because of
dollar sign inside a Star of their anti-racist credentials
David, tightening nooses and their progressive values,
around the necks of a Black they aren’t going to be sus-
man and an Arab man. ceptible” to the tropes
Drawn by Black artist deeply embedded in society,
Herman “Kofi” Bailey, it first he said. “They might be less
appeared in a SNCC news- careful because somehow
letter alongside an article Matthew J. Lee Boston Globe they’re under the illusion
fiercely critical of Zionism, KOJO ACHEAMPONG, a Harvard student and member of the African and African American Resistance they’re immune from it be-
leading to charges of Organization, speaks to pro-Palestinian supporters before a Cambridge City Council meeting in January. cause of their political val-
antisemitism and furious ues.”
condemnation of the SNCC After the Harvard stu-
from Jewish community The pro-Palestinian ac- been published,” they said. white members. Its Atlanta this is really going to rankle dent activists updated their
leaders. tivists deleted the original “We wholeheartedly apolo- headquarters would soon people.” post and removed the car-
More than half a century post Monday and reposted it gize for the immense harm struggle to pay utility bills as toon, they stated that “our
later, the cartoon ignited an- without the offensive car- we caused.” the Anti-Defamation :: mutual goals for liberation
other firestorm when it was toon. League of B’nai B’rith and a will always include the Jew-
posted on Instagram — and “Our mutual goals for lib- :: string of national Jewish The cartoon is just the ish community.”
reposted by Harvard Facul- eration will always include groups denounced SNCC. latest controversy to engulf In a separate apology,
ty and Staff for Justice in the Jewish community and There were no apologies “Anti-Semitism is anti- the Ivy League school. they vowed to “educate our
Palestine. we regret inadvertently in- when the cartoon was origi- Semitism whether it comes The day after Hamas at- membership about anti-
“With Professors like cluding an image that nally published in 1967. from the Ku Klux Klan or tacked Israel on Oct. 7, semitism in all its forms, in-
these, it’s easy to see why we played upon antisemitic Israel was celebrating its from extremist Negro killing about 1,200 people, cluding imagery and tropes
Jewish students don’t feel tropes,” the activists said. victory in the Six-Day War groups, ‘Snick’ included,” mostly civilians, at kib- that harm Jewish communi-
safe in class,” wrote Shabbos After Harvard issued a when SNCC asked Bailey, Morris Abram, president of butzes and a music festival, ties.”
“Alexander” Kestenbaum, a statement condemning the who was born in Chicago the American Jewish Com- many students, alumni and Some critics were quick
Jewish student at Harvard post as “despicable” and and grew up in Los Angeles, mittee, said in 1967, referring faculty were outraged when to note, however, that the
Divinity School who sued warning of disciplinary ac- to illustrate a contentious to SNCC by its common pro- the Harvard Graduate Stu- Harvard activists replaced
the university last month, al- tion, the activists published article in its summer news- nunciation. dents for Palestine and the the offensive cartoon with a
leging it had failed to com- a joint statement Tuesday letter. But SNCC defended the Palestine Solidarity Com- photo of the late Kwame
bat “severe and pervasive” saying the image “violated The Atlanta civil rights cartoon. The dollar sign and mittee declared on social Ture, formerly known as
antisemitism on campus. our internal standards and group was known for its sit- the Star of David were not a media that more than 30 stu- Stokely Carmichael, a Black
“This should be called betrayed our fundamental ins against segregation in statement about Jews, dent organizations “hold the nationalist and former
what it is,” Harvard Chabad values of justice and libera- the Deep South, but by 1967 SNCC said in a subsequent Israeli regime entirely re- SNCC leader who has long
posted on X. “Reprehensi- tion.” it had shifted to a more mili- newsletter, but symbols of sponsible for all unfolding vi- been accused of anti-
ble. Bigoted. Hateful.” “It should never have tant Black nationalism and Zionism strangling Arabs olence.” semitism. In the 1980s, Ture
asked all white members to and the United States stran- Israel’s subsequent at- became infamous for stat-
leave. gling Muhammad Ali as well tacks have killed more than ing, “The only good Zionist is
In the article headlined as Arabs. 29,500 Palestinians, mostly a dead Zionist.”
“The Palestine Problem,” “Both signs were placed women and children, in the Many students and facul-
FOR THE RECORD SNCC called Israel an “il- on the hand to indicate the Gaza Strip, according to the ty are tired of the heightened
legal” state. close relationship of the Health Ministry in the emotional rhetoric sweeping
Village Theater: In the owned and operated by Re- “Do you know that Zi- United States with ZI- Hamas-run territory — in- U.S. campuses — a style of
Feb. 23 Calendar section, an gency Theatres. Before the onism, which is a world-wide ONISM and U.S. support of spiring more waves of pro- arguing that one observer of
article about Jason Reitman sale to Reitman’s group, the nationalistic Jewish move- the Zionist State — Israel,” Palestinian demon- higher education described
and a group of directors buy- theater was owned by the ment, organized, planned SNCC said. strations. this month as “the hyperbo-
ing Westwood’s Village The- Margaret Skouras Martyn and created the ‘State of Is- In internal documents, Even before the latest lic style in American aca-
ater said it was previously family. rael’ by sending Jewish im- Fischbach said, SNCC lead- war between Israel and deme” — “breathless, de-
migrants from Europe into ers described the hostile re- Hamas, Palestinian solidari- claratory, at once aggressive
Palestine (the heart of the action to the cartoon as akin ty had become one of the and aggrieved.”
Arab world) to take over to a lynching. most vigorous political On Wednesday, the Har-
land and homes belonging The idea that SNCC was movements on American vard Crimson published an
to the Arabs?” SNCC wrote. antisemitic was a “big lie,” college campuses. editorial titled “The Anti-
How to contact us In Bailey’s cartoon, the SNCC argued, propagated As dueling protests semitic Cartoon Is Every-
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A CHILD injured in the Israeli bombardment is carried into Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza
Strip, on Thursday. An Israeli strike on an apartment building in the town killed at least 25 people.
Netanyahu seeks open-ended
control over postwar Gaza
Palestinian leaders reject Israeli security plan; U.S. signals skepticism
associated press
DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza
Strip — A long-awaited post-
war plan by Israel’s prime
minister shows that his gov-
ernment seeks open-ended
control over security and ci-
vilian affairs in the Gaza
Strip. That was swiftly re-
jected Friday by Palestinian
leaders and runs counter to
Washington’s vision for the
war-ravaged enclave.
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu presented the
two-page document to his
security Cabinet late Thurs-
day for approval.
Deep disagreements over
Gaza’s future have led to in-
creasingly public friction be-
tween Israel and the United
States, its closest ally. The
Biden administration seeks
eventual Palestinian govern-
ance in Gaza and the Israeli-
occupied West Bank as a
precursor to Palestinian
statehood, an outcome ve-
hemently opposed by Ne-
tanyahu and his right-wing
government. Netanyahu’s
plan envisions handpicked
Palestinians administering
Gaza.
Separately, cease-fire ef-
forts appeared to gain trac-
tion, with mediators to pre-
sent a new proposal at an ex-
pected high-level meeting
this weekend in Paris. The
U.S., Egypt and Qatar have
been struggling for weeks to
find a formula that could
halt Israel’s devastating of-
fensive in Gaza, but now face
an unofficial deadline as the
Muslim holy month of
Ramadan approaches.
In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes
in the center and south of
Mexican leader reveals U.S. reporter’s phone number
President defends the
disclosure, saying a
privacy law doesn’t
apply to him.
associated press
MEXICO CITY — Mexi-
co’s president Friday de-
fended his decision to dis-
close a U.S. reporter’s tele-
phone number, saying a
Mexican law that prohibits
officials from releasing per-
sonal information doesn’t
apply to him.
Press freedom groups
said the president’s decision
to make public the phone
number of a New York Times
reporter Thursday was an
attempt to punish critical re-
porting, and exposed the re-
porter to potential danger.
Mexico’s law on the pro-
tection of personal data
states that “the government
will guarantee individuals’
privacy” and sets out pun-
ishments for officials and
others for “improperly us-
ing, taking, publishing, hid-
ing, altering or destroying,
fully or partially, personal
the territory killed at least 92
Palestinians, including chil-
dren and women, overnight
and into Friday, Gazan
health officials and an Asso-
ciated Press journalist said.
An additional 24 bodies re-
mained trapped under the
rubble.
After a strike leveled his
apartment building in the
central town of Deir al
Balah, online video showed
Mahmoud Zuaiter — a co-
median well known in Gaza
for his appearances in TV
commercials — rushing into
the hospital holding his
young sister, who was
screaming and covered in
blood. At least 25 people
were killed in the strike; 16 of
them women and children,
officials said.
Throughout the war,
Zuaiter has been posting up-
beat and cheerful videos on
social media, joking with
people about ways they en-
dure bombardment and dis-
placement, praising Pal-
estinian culture and assur-
ing those around him that
one day things will be better.
Another video at the hos-
pital showed him cradling
his wounded sister in his lap.
“I always say, ‘God, may they
not force us out of Gaza,’
that’s how much I love it and
its people,” he says, crying.
“But it looks like they want
us to leave Gaza.”
Earlier at the hospital,
relatives wept over bodies
laid out in burial shrouds in
the courtyard, and a man
cradled a dead infant.
The overall Palestinian
death toll since the start of
the war rose to more than
29,500, with nearly 70,000
people wounded, Gaza
data.”
President Andrés Manu-
el López Obrador said that
“the political and moral au-
thority of the president of
Mexico is above that law,”
adding that “no law can be
above the sublime principle
of liberty.” He also accused
U.S. media of acting with
“arrogance.”
He also downplayed the
risks to journalists, saying it
was “an old song that you
[reporters] use to discredit
our government,” and sug-
gesting the New York Times
reporter should just “change
her telephone number.”
Mexico is one of the dead-
liest places in the world for
reporters outside of war
zones. The Committee to
Protect Journalists, or CPJ,
has documented the killings
of at least 55 journalists in
Mexico since 2018, when
López Obrador took office.
Jan-Albert Hootsen, the
Mexico representative for
the CPJ, noted that the pub-
lication of a reporter’s phone
number in Mexico can be
dangerous. “The vast major-
ity of threats and harass-
ment and intimidation that
reporters in this country,
THE WORLD
health officials said. The
death toll amounts to close
to 1.3% of Gaza’s population
of 2.3 million.
Netanyahu’s plan, while
lacking specifics, marks the
first time he has presented a
formal postwar vision. It re-
iterates that Israel is deter-
mined to crush Hamas, the
militant group that took
power in Gaza in 2007.
Polls have indicated that
a majority of Palestinians
don’t support Hamas, but
the group has deep roots in
Palestinian society. Critics,
including some in Israel, say
the goal of eliminating
Hamas is unattainable.
Netanyahu’s plan calls
for freedom of action for Is-
rael’s military across a de-
militarized Gaza after the
war to thwart any security
threat. It says Israel would
establish a buffer zone in-
side Gaza, which is likely to
provoke U.S. objections.
The plan also envisions
Gaza being governed by lo-
cal officials who Israel says
would “not be identified
with countries or entities
that support terrorism and
will not receive payment
from them.”
It’s not clear whether any
Palestinians would agree to
such a role. Over the dec-
ades, Israel has repeatedly
tried and failed to set up
handpicked local Palestin-
ian governing bodies.
The Palestinian Author-
ity, which administers pock-
ets of the Israeli-occupied
West Bank, on Friday de-
nounced Netanyahu’s plan
as “colonialist and racist,”
saying it would amount to Is-
raeli reoccupation of Gaza.
Israel withdrew its soldiers
PRESIDENT Andrés Manuel López Obrador down-
played the risk to journalists in his country.
both foreign and domestic,
receive, are conveyed
through messages on mes-
saging apps to mobile
phones,” Hootsen said.
The situation began
Thursday when López
Obrador denied allegations
in a New York Times story
about a U.S. investigation
into claims that people close
to him took money from
drug traffickers shortly be-
fore his 2018 election and
again after he was president.
The story cited unidenti-
Adel Hana Associated Press
and settlers from Gaza in
2005 but maintained control
of access to the territory.
U.S. Secretary of State
Antony J. Blinken said he
had not seen details of the
plan. But he said any plan
should be consistent with
basic principles the U.S. has
set out for Gaza’s future, “in-
cluding that it cannot be a
platform for terrorism, there
should be no Israeli reoccu-
pation of Gaza, [and] the
size of Gaza’s territory
should not be reduced.”
The Biden administra-
tion wants to see a reformed
Palestinian Authority gov-
ern the Gaza Strip as well as
the West Bank as a step
toward Palestinian state-
hood. It has sought to chip
away at Netanyahu’s resist-
ance by holding out the
prospect of the normaliza-
tion of ties between Israel
and Saudi Arabia, which de-
mands a Palestinian state as
a precondition.
U.S., Israeli, Qatari and
Egyptian officials are ex-
pected to meet in Paris this
weekend to discuss cease-
fire efforts. A senior Egyp-
tian official said Egypt and
Qatar would outline an
understanding reached with
Hamas that calls for a six-
week cease-fire and the re-
lease of elderly and sick hos-
tages in return for Palestin-
ian prisoners in Israel.
Hamas has demanded a
halt to Israel’s offensive and
a withdrawal of its troops
from Gaza in return for re-
leasing all its remaining hos-
tages. It also demands that
Palestinians held by Israel,
including top militants, be
freed. Netanyahu has re-
jected those demands.
Marco Ugarte Associated Press
fied U.S. officials familiar
with the now-shelved in-
quiry and noted that a for-
mal investigation was not
opened, nor was it known
how much of the informants’
allegations were independ-
ently confirmed.
As is common practice,
the Times reporter had sent
a letter to López Obrador’s
spokesman asking for the
president’s comment on the
story before it was pub-
lished, and included her tele-
phone number as a means of
S S AT U R DAY , F E B RUA RY 2 4 , 2 0 2 4
Israel vows to
further expand
in West Bank
Palestinian shooting
prompts officials to
call for adding 3,300
homes in settlements.
associated press
JERUSALEM — Israel
plans to build more than
3,300 new homes in settle-
ments in the Israeli-occu-
pied West Bank in response
to a fatal Palestinian shoot-
ing attack, a senior Cabinet
minister said. The decision
drew an angry response
from the U.S. at a time of
growing tensions over the
course of Israel’s war on
Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s finance minister,
far-right firebrand Bezalel
Smotrich, announced the
new settlement plans late
Thursday, after three Pal-
estinian gunmen opened fire
on cars near the Maale Adu-
mim settlement, killing one
Israeli and wounding five.
“The serious attack on
Ma’ale Adumim must have
a determined security re-
sponse but also a settlement
response,” Smotrich wrote
on X, formerly Twitter. “Our
enemies know that any
harm to us will lead to more
construction and more de-
velopment and more of our
hold all over the country.”
He said Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and
Defense Minister Yoav Gal-
lant participated in the dis-
cussion. The decision will
put in motion approval pro-
cesses for 300 new homes in
the Kedar settlement and
2,350 in Maale Adumim. It
will also advance previously
approved construction of
nearly 700 homes in Efrat.
The Biden administra-
tion says it is seeking eventu-
al Palestinian governance in
Gaza and the West Bank as a
precursor to a Palestinian
state — which is opposed by
Netanyahu and his right-
wing government and is be-
ing further prevented, advo-
cates say, as new settlement
plans are advanced.
U.S. Secretary of State
Antony J. Blinken said he
was “disappointed” to hear
of the Israeli announce-
ment.
“It’s been longstanding
U.S. policy under Republi-
can and Democratic admin-
istrations alike that new set-
PEOPLE mourn Matan Elmaliach, who was killed in
the West Bank, Israel says, by Palestinian gunmen.
contacting her, also com-
mon practice.
At his daily press briefing
that day, the president dis-
played the letter on a large
screen and read it aloud, in-
cluding her phone number.
In a statement posted on
X, the New York Times
wrote, “This is a troubling
and unacceptable tactic
from a world leader at a time
when threats against jour-
nalists are on the rise.”
Mexico’s National Insti-
tute for Transparency and
Information Access, the
agency charged with up-
holding personal data laws,
announced Thursday that it
is launching an investigation
into the president’s actions.
But it is unclear how
much good that will do;
López Obrador has fre-
quently criticized the insti-
tute and has proposed abol-
ishing it.
Leopoldo Maldonado of
the press freedom group Ar-
ticle 19 said, “Obviously, he is
doing it with the intention of
inhibiting the work of jour-
nalists and trying to prevent
the publication of issues of
public interest concerning
his administration and the
A3
tlements are counterpro-
ductive to reaching an en-
during peace,” he said in
Buenos Aires. “They’re also
inconsistent with interna-
tional law. Our administra-
tion maintains a firm oppo-
sition to settlement expan-
sion and in our judgment
this only weakens, it doesn’t
strengthen, Israel’s securi-
ty.”
The comments reversed
the Trump administration’s
position that settlements
did not violate international
law, a stance that broke with
four decades of U.S. policy.
Consecutive Israeli gov-
ernments have expanded
settlements on land long
owned by Palestinians in
East Jerusalem and the
West Bank, territories in-
tended for a future Palestin-
ian state, along with Gaza.
Construction has accel-
erated under Netanyahu’s
current right-wing govern-
ment, in which settlers such
as Smotrich hold key posi-
tions.
“Instead of acting in or-
der to prevent future hor-
rible attacks such as of
yesterday, the government
of Israel is acting to deepen
the conflict and the ten-
sions,” said Hagit Ofran of
Peace Now, an Israeli watch-
dog group.
“The construction in set-
tlements is bad for Israel,
distancing us from peace
and security,” she said.
Israel captured the West
Bank, East Jerusalem and
the Gaza Strip in the 1967
Mideast war; Palestinians
maintain the land is theirs.
Violence has escalated in
the West Bank since Hamas
militants’ deadly Oct. 7 at-
tack in southern Israel,
which triggered Israel’s lat-
est war in Gaza.
Gaza’s Health Ministry
said Monday that more than
29,000 people, most of them
women and children, had
been killed there since Oct. 7.
Palestinians elsewhere
have carried out several
deadly attacks on Israelis
since Oct. 7.
Israel keeps the West
Bank under a tight grip, lim-
iting movement and fre-
quently raiding what it says
are militant targets.
More than 400 Palestin-
ians have been killed by Isra-
eli fire in the West Bank dur-
ing that period, the territo-
ry’s health officials say.
Maya Alleruzzo Associated Press
people around him.”
“This is something the
president has done before,”
Maldonado noted.
In 2022, López Obrador
published a chart showing
the income of Carlos Loret
de Mola, a journalist who
had written stories critical of
the president.
The president said he got
such information — which
Loret de Mola has said is in-
correct — “from the people,”
but later said he based the
chart in part on tax receipts,
which would have been
available only to the party
who wrote them or the gov-
ernment tax agency.
López Obrador regularly
lashes out at the media,
claiming they treat him un-
fairly and are part of a con-
servative conspiracy to
undermine his administra-
tion. He has also expressed
anger at what he claims is
U.S. tolerance for such me-
dia reports. It is the second
time in recent weeks that the
foreign press published sto-
ries signaling that the U.S.
has apparently looked into
alleged contacts between
López Obrador allies and
drug cartels.
A4 SAT U R DAY , F E B RUA RY 2 4 , 2 0 2 4
Ukrainian’s haunting quest amid war’s grind
[Ukraine, from A1]
measure of comfort in confirming
beyond any doubt that the worst
has indeed come to pass.
To that end, she believes in
patience. She believes in paying
close attention to the clues Oleh
leaves when he speaks to her in her
dreams.
“I know,” she said, “that eventu-
ally, he’ll tell me where he is.”
b
At 49, Olena has black hair, a
sturdy build, and a face that can
sometimes look much younger, or
much older. She and Oleh grew up
in these rural flatlands of southern
Ukraine, where they ran a family
farm and raised their two sons.
They were married 30 years ago
this year.
The provincial capital, Kher-
son, about 100 miles to the south-
west, fell to the Russians in the
opening days of the full-scale
invasion that began Feb. 24, 2022.
Their village, Myrolyubivka, was
swiftly overrun as well. Together,
the couple made the risky decision
to remain, watching over their
property and hoping for liberation
by the Ukrainian army.
During the first days of the
Russian presence, Olena and Oleh
watched from behind their gates
as soldiers set up checkpoints,
patrolled the streets in armored
vehicles, dug trenches, took over
empty homes.
Soon enough, the occupation
turned personal: armed troops
repeatedly raided their home,
insisting that weapons were hid-
den there. The Russians knew that
one of their adult sons had served
in the Ukrainian military, during
the fight against Russia’s proxy
militias in the eastern Donbas
region that began a decade ago.
At their parents’ urging, both
sons slipped away early in the
occupation. But Oleh began tak-
ing more and more chances.
After Russian soldiers tore
down the yellow-and-blue Ukrain-
ian flag from the village council
building in the center of the town,
Oleh waited for a day when there
were no occupying forces in sight.
He found the discarded flag,
brought it home and hid it inside a
wall of the farmhouse, plastering
over the hole.
Olena remembers him telling
her then that if he wasn’t around
when the village was liberated by
Ukrainian troops, she should fetch
the flag from its hiding place and
hang it back up.
In Russian-occupied towns and
villages, a small act of defiance like
secreting away a Ukrainian na-
tional symbol could bring harsh
punishment. But Oleh was only
getting started; like many civilians
in occupied towns and villages
across Ukraine’s south and east,
he began acting as a spotter for the
Ukrainian military, relaying infor-
mation about the movements and
activities of the Russians and their
proxies.
On April 9, nearly a month after
the Russians took over the village,
Oleh left the house after lunch
with his cellphone, heading for an
area where he thought he could
get a signal.
He didn’t come back.
Olena’s search began the next
morning.
With a friend, she went to a
nearby agricultural enterprise
known as the Valentina farm,
where she thought Oleh had gone.
There, they were met by an armed
member of a Russian proxy mili-
tia, who warned them not to come
back.
But perversely, the threat
carried a glimmer of hope.
“If you see your husband,” the
man told her, “tell him we are
looking for him.”
Meanwhile, Oleh’s 78-year-old
father, Stepan Kovalyk, went to
the Russians’ local headquarters
to ask after his son. Instead, he
found himself detained.
The Russians threw a bag over
the old man’s head, beat him and
drove him to a neighboring village,
where they spent hours interro-
gating him. Before dumping him
back in Myrolyubivka, they offered
a chilling coda.
“Your son is gone,” they said.
b opened the cell door and saw that
Oleh, his wife and father later
learned, had been captured al-
most immediately after arriving at
the Valentina farm buildings. This
was frightening news, but Olena
had heard that the Russians
sometimes ransomed detainees
for cash.
So she waited and hoped. But
the situation quickly grew desper-
ate.
Russian soldiers kept returning
to the couple’s house, ransacking
it for weapons, becoming more
and more violently menacing
when they found none.
After the 16th such raid, Olena
decided it was time to seek shelter
elsewhere, at least for now.
On April 29, she left the village
through one of the only check-
points left in the region, heading
for the Ukrainian-controlled city of
Kryvyi Rih, 60 miles to the north-
west.
As Olena fled, the outside
world was just beginning to learn
S L AT I M E S . C O M
A ROOM in the Bilyayivka school used by Russian soldiers as a prison during their occupation of the Ukrainian village in 2022.
OLENA KOVALYK stands by a drainage well. She wonders
whether Russian troops dumped her husband’s body there.
A FRAGMENT of Russian fatigues pokes out from under a
dusting of snow in a village park in Bilyayivka.
of the horrors taking place in
Ukrainian towns and villages
under occupation.
That spring, as Russian troops
broke off an attempt to seize the
capital, Kyiv, the names of subur-
ban communities like Bucha be-
came synonymous with stories of
Ukrainian civilians tortured and
slaughtered.
In the south of Ukraine, the
same bleak pattern was unfolding.
In a village called Bilyayivka, a
dozen miles from Myrolyubivka,
the Russians turned a village
school into a torture center.
Human rights organizations
believe at least 20 Ukrainian pris-
oners were held at the school from
April 2022 through that Septem-
ber, when the village was liberated
by Ukrainian troops.
It was July when two former
prisoners from the school holding
cell reached out to Olena. They
had seen Oleh, they said. And they
told her what they had witnessed.
b prisoners said, Russian soldiers
On the second floor of the
school complex, a tiny, windowless
storage closet served as a holding
cell. In what were once classrooms
for preschool and elementary
students, Russian troops adminis-
tered beatings and electric shocks
to prisoners’ genitals, and carried
out mock executions.
Two Ukrainian groups — the
nonprofit Reckoning Project and
the Human Rights Center ZMINA
— would later document condi-
tions and events at the prison
based on testimony from those
who were held there.
According to those accounts,
Russian soldiers brought Oleh to
the upstairs holding cell and threw
him inside. It was April 9, the same
day he had been captured.
He was soaking wet, hands
bound behind his back, his cloth-
ing torn. His sweatpants were cut
away in the groin area. The Rus-
sian soldiers slammed the door
shut, warning the 12 other men in
the cell not to untie Oleh’s hands,
or they would face a similar fate.
In their telling, he lay crumpled
and moaning on the concrete floor,
begging for water, mumbling that
he had a burning sensation
around his nose and mouth.
Oleh smelled strongly of
strange chemicals, the witnesses
recounted. They suspected Rus-
sian soldiers had sprayed a fire
extinguisher into his face, a
method of torture that has been
documented in testimonies from
other Russian-occupied areas.
At one point, a prisoner called
out to guards that the bound man
on the floor was dying. One of
them replied that if he wasn’t dead
by morning, a doctor would come.
It didn’t take until morning.
According to the testimonies, it
took about another half-hour for
Oleh to die.
Through the haze of hearing
this hammer-blow news, Olena
seized upon the details that would
galvanize her search in the months
to come.
That next morning, surviving
Oleh was dead. They ordered two
other prisoners to stuff the corpse
into a big white fertilizer bag and
heave it into a Russian armored
personnel carrier.
Months later, those prisoners
said their first thought was that
they would be asked to bury the
body. But then they heard one of
the Russian soldiers say, “She’ll
pay us for this.”
At the time, the witnesses took
the Russians’ comment to mean
they would try to extort money
from the man’s widow.
In one sense, though, the cap-
tor’s prediction was correct: Olena
would pay.
And pay, and pay.
b tional standards.
Olena returned to her home in
Myrolyubivka in late September
2022, just weeks after a Ukrainian
military counteroffensive
recaptured a swath of territory
that included her village and the
surrounding area.
By that time, more information
was trickling out about the Rus-
sian torture chambers and prisons
in the Kherson region. Olena was
determined to speak to as many
witnesses as she could. Any clue
might help her find the body.
Time made those clues harder
to come by. Of the dozen prisoners
who were in the cell with Oleh, one
hanged himself, and another died
of a heart attack, according to the
Reckoning Project. A third was
killed in subsequent shelling. A
fourth told her he could not bear to
speak about what he witnessed.
Olena turned to the police and
other security agencies to help
with her search, but described the
response as frustrating. One secu-
rity officer, she said, urged her to
concentrate on the bureaucratic
task of obtaining a death certifi-
cate to collect widow’s benefits.
“What money?” she said an-
grily. “I said I needed his body.”
She described ordering the
officer off her property, but only
after demanding a thorough offi-
cial search for Oleh.
“How can I find him myself?”
she asked.
That task, as it turned out,
became her life’s work.
About once a week, Olena
returns to Bilyayivka, site of the
school-prison, to walk the village
pathways and look for any signs of
disturbed earth that could indi-
cate a burial site.
She follows every lead, no mat-
ter how small. Last year, she heard
a rumor that during the occupa-
tion, bodies were buried in a wal-
nut grove just outside a neighbor-
ing village.
But Ukraine is one of the most
heavily mined countries in the
world, and Olena knew it would be
near-suicidal to venture into the
orchard. She began agitating — so
far unsuccessfully — for sappers,
or de-mining specialists, to clear
the grove.
She has tried to enlist allies
wherever they might be found.
Last September, she appeared on
a war-crimes panel in Kyiv, with
the prosecutor general, Andriy
Kostin. She made an emotional
appeal for his help; the regional
prosecutor’s office is now involved.
“There are so many cases like
this!” she said. “Maybe they would
like to say they will solve it all. But
it’s not realistic.”
The most frightening prospect,
she says — one that she can hardly
stand to contemplate — is that the
Russians might have taken the
body with them when they pulled
back from the area.
Still, some help has materi-
alized. Local Ukrainian journalists
have published accounts of her
search, which attracted the atten-
tion of volunteer and civil society
groups. An organization called On
the Shield, which specializes in
searching for fallen soldiers,
brought in dogs and handlers to
comb the grounds of the school-
turned-torture center.
Foreign nongovernmental
organizations are stepping in to
help Ukraine develop systems and
methodology for searches like this
one. But with at least 30,000 peo-
ple unaccounted for, by Ukrainian
estimates, the task is enormous.
“This limbo, yes — the United
Nations has called it a form of
torture,” said Kathryne Bomb-
erger, executive director of the
Hague-based International Com-
mission on Missing Persons, which
is helping Ukraine build a missing-
persons tracing system to interna-
Since the organization began
its work during the Balkan wars of
the 1990s, she said, there have been
enormous technical strides in-
cluding DNA matching, but the
emotional backdrop remains an
Photographs by Anna Tsyhyma For The Times
agonizing constant. People like
Olena, Bomberger said, “have a
right to justice, to truth, to know-
ing.”
b
Olena now has a companion in
her quest: a Ukrainian civilian-
military liaison officer assigned to
the region. Tall and blunt-fea-
tured, his name is Serhiy, and in
keeping with Ukrainian military
protocol, he asked not to be fur-
ther identified.
On a cold January day, he
walked with her, retracing paths
they had covered many times
before: black earth, white patchy
snow. Flickering in her mind’s eye
was a white fertilizer bag.
When Olena recited a long list
of nearby places she thought they
should search as well, Serhiy lis-
tened, nodding.
Olena has talked to everyone in
Bilyayivka who is willing to speak.
She asks them all to turn their
minds back to the days of occupa-
tion, to consider any obscure
location where a body might have
been dumped.
But for villagers still struggling
to recover from their own ordeals
from that time, it’s a big thing to
ask. She knows that.
On this day, Olena led Serhiy to
a large sunken concrete pit across
the street from the school build-
ing. Such holding tanks, dating
back to the Soviet era, are scat-
tered throughout the village,
probably originally used for col-
lecting rainwater.
Before the war, the area abut-
ting the school had been a little
park, complete with burbling
fountain. Now it was strewn with
trash: empty bottles and cans,
pieces of tattered Russian uni-
forms. One of the concrete pits
was full of empty shell casings.
Isn’t it strange, she asked Ser-
hiy, that the area is so covered in
litter? As if concealing something?
He responded sympathetically,
but didn’t give the answer she
hoped for. The pits were deep, he
noted, and clearing them would
require special equipment. More-
over, they could very well be
mined.
“Sometimes I ask myself: If I
find him, will it get easier for me?”
Olena said.
Even now, she cannot help
envisioning him alive. He would be
51 now. Whenever there are tele-
vised scenes of prisoners brought
home in exchanges, she studies
the faces intently.
She pays close attention to her
dreams. In one particularly vivid
one, she saw Oleh descending a
wide stairway with a green carpet.
She recognized it immediately: the
interior of the Bilyayivka village
school.
Perhaps, she said, the pris-
oners’ recollection of Oleh’s death
was all a mistake. Perhaps he will
come home. She twisted a hand-
kerchief, looked down at her
hands.
“There are no miracles, I
understand,” she said quietly.
“But hope is the last to die.”
She still has the flag Oleh had
rescued. Olena and her sons dug it
out of the wall of her half-ruined
home. She said she had promised
her sons she would raise it as her
husband had asked — but only
after she found his body.
Times special correspondent
Ayres reported from Bilyayivka
and Myrolyubivka, and staff writer
King from Berlin. Some of the
reporting for this story was
supported by the Reckoning
Project, a consortium of Ukrainian
and international journalists and
researchers who record and verify
witness testimonies of war crimes
and crimes against humanity.
L AT I M E S . C O M
U.S., EU heap further sanctions on Russia
Penalties are in response to two-year war on Ukraine and the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny
By Fatima Hussein
and Lorne Cook
WASHINGTON — The
United States and the Euro-
pean Union are piling new
sanctions on Russia on the
eve of the second anniversa-
ry of its invasion of Ukraine
and in retaliation for the
death of noted Kremlin
critic Alexei Navalny last
week in an Arctic penal co-
lony.
The U.S. Treasury, State
and Commerce depart-
ments plan to impose
roughly 600 new sanctions
on Russia and its military
apparatus in the largest sin-
gle tranche of penalties since
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
on Feb. 24, 2022. They come
on the heels of a series of new
arrests and indictments an-
nounced by the Justice De-
partment on Thursday that
target Russian business-
men, including the head of
Russia’s second-largest
bank, and their middlemen
in five separate federal
cases.
The European Union an-
nounced Friday that it is im-
posing sanctions on several
foreign companies over alle-
gations that they have ex-
ported dual-use goods to
Russia that could be used in
its war against Ukraine. The
27-nation bloc also said that
it was targeting scores of
Russian officials, including
“members of the judiciary,
local politicians and people
responsible for the illegal de-
portation and military re-
education of Ukrainian chil-
dren.”
“The American people
and people around the world
understand that the stakes
of this fight extend far be-
yond Ukraine,” President
Biden said in a statement
announcing the sanctions.
“If [Russian President
Vladimir] Putin does not
pay the price for his death
and destruction, he will keep
going. And the costs to the
United States — along with
our NATO allies and part-
ners in Europe and around
the world — will rise.”
Speaking from the White
House on Friday, Biden said
the U.S. would hit Russia
with more than 500 new
sanctions.
While previous sanctions
Alabama IVF ruling has
lawmakers scrambling
Fertility treatments at
risk after justices say
frozen embryos can
legally be children.
associated press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. —
Lawmakers are scrambling
for ways to protect in vitro
fertilization in Alabama
after some providers paused
their services in response to
a state Supreme Court
ruling that frozen embryos
could be considered
children.
Facing shock and anger
over the decision, legislators
in the state House and Sen-
ate prepared separate pro-
posals seeking to prevent a
fertilized egg from being
considered a human life or
unborn child before it is im-
planted in a woman’s uterus.
State justices ruled this
week that couples whose
embryos are destroyed in a
storage mishap could pur-
sue wrongful death claims
for their “extrauterine chil-
dren.” The justices cited lan-
guage the Republican-con-
trolled Legislature and vot-
ers added to the Alabama
Constitution in 2018 saying
that the state recognizes the
“rights of the unborn child.”
State Senate Democratic
leader Bobby Singleton said
Republicans helped create
the situation in their push
for strict antiabortion laws.
“The Republican Party
has to be responsible for
what they have done,” he
said.
Former President Trump
joined the calls for state law-
makers to act, saying Friday
that he would “strongly sup-
port the availability of IVF.”
GOP lawmakers said
they were seeking a solution.
“Alabamians strongly be-
lieve in protecting the rights
A PHOTO of Russian politician Alexei Navalny, who died last week, and a rose are left near the Russian Em-
bassy in London. On Friday, President Biden said the U.S. would hit Russia with more than 500 new sanctions.
have increased costs for
Russia’s ability to fight in
Ukraine, they appear to have
done little so far to deter
Putin’s aggression or ambi-
tions. The Biden adminis-
tration is levying additional
sanctions as House Republi-
cans are blocking billions of
dollars in additional aid to
Ukraine.
The war is becoming en-
tangled in U.S. election-year
politics, with former Presi-
dent Trump voicing skepti-
cism about the benefits of
the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization and saying
that he would “encourage”
Russia to “do whatever the
hell they want” to countries
that, in his view, are not
pulling their weight in the al-
liance.
Many of the new U.S.
sanctions target Russian
firms that contribute to the
Kremlin’s war effort — in-
cluding drone and industrial
chemical manufacturers
and machine tool importers
— as well as financial institu-
tions, such as the state-
owned operator of Russia’s
Mir National Payment Sys-
tem.
of the unborn, but the result
of the State Supreme Court
ruling denies many couples
the opportunity to conceive,
which is a direct contradic-
tion,” House Speaker
Nathaniel Ledbetter said.
GOP state Sen. Tim Mel-
son, a doctor, said his pro-
posal would clarify that a fer-
tilized egg is a “potential life”
rather than a life, until it is
implanted in the uterus.
“I’m just trying to come
up with a solution for the IVF
industry and protect the
doctors and still make it
available for people who
have fertility issues that
need to be addressed be-
cause they want to have a
family,” he said.
House Democratic lead-
er Anthony Daniels intro-
duced legislation that would
clarify that a “human egg or
human embryo that exists in
any form outside of the uter-
us shall not, under any cir-
cumstances, be considered
an unborn child.”
“This is just the first step
in unwinding this predic-
ament our state has placed
itself in,” he said.
Melson said he wasn’t
surprised by the unintended
consequences of the lan-
guage added to the constitu-
tion in 2018. Supporters said
then that it was intended to
block abortion if states ever
gained control of the issue —
which they did in 2022. But
opponents warned that the
language amounted to a
“personhood” measure that
established “constitutional
rights for fertilized eggs.”
GOP Gov. Kay Ivey said
Alabama wants to foster a
culture of life, and that in-
cludes “couples hoping and
praying to be parents who
utilize IVF.”
The state’s GOP Atty.
Gen. Steve Marshall does
not intend to prosecute IVF
providers or families based
on the new ruling, according
THE NATION
In response to Navalny’s
death, which the U.S.
blames on the Kremlin, the
State Department is target-
ing three Russian officials
the U.S. says are connected
to his death, including the
deputy director of Russia’s
Federal Penitentiary Serv-
ice, who was promoted by
Putin to the rank of colonel
general Monday, three days
after Navalny died.
The sanctions would bar
the officials from traveling to
the U.S. and block access to
U.S.-owned property. It is
unclear, however, how many
of the sanctioned officials
travel to or have assets or
family in the West. If they do
not, the sanctions may be
largely symbolic.
The U.S. also will impose
visa restrictions on Russian
authorities it says are in-
volved in the kidnapping of
Ukrainian children.
In addition, 26 third-
country people and firms
from across China, Serbia,
the United Arab Emirates
and Liechtenstein are listed
for sanctions, for assisting
Russia in evading existing fi-
nancial penalties.
to his chief counsel, Kather-
ine Robertson.
The ruling has nonethe-
less raised questions about
what legal liabilities clinics
could face during IVF proc-
esses, including the freezing,
testing and disposal of em-
bryos. Three IVF providers
in Alabama have since
paused their services.
Gabby Goidel, who was
days from a scheduled ap-
pointment to retrieve eggs
for IVF, was told Thursday
that her provider would no
longer do embryo transfers.
“I started crying,” said
Goidel, who rushed to Texas
with her husband to try to
continue treatment. The Al-
abama ruling is “not pro-
family in any way,” she said.
At the Fertility Institute
of North Alabama, Dr. Brett
Davenport said IVF treat-
ments would continue. But
he urged state policymakers
to act and remove the uncer-
tainty for providers.
“What we do could not be
any more pro-life,” he said.
The court ruled only that
embryos are covered as
children under the state’s
wrongful death statute, said
Mary Ziegler, a legal histori-
an at UC Davis School of
Law. She noted that the jus-
tices did not say embryos
have full constitutional
rights — at least, not yet.
“I think people in Ala-
bama are rightly expecting
that this is the tip of the ice-
berg, though, and this ruling
will lead to more down the
road,” Ziegler said.
She pointed out that
antiabortion groups and
politicians have been push-
ing to get some sort of ruling
through the federal courts
stating “that a fetus is a con-
stitutional rights holder.”
“It’s not just about in
vitro, and it’s not just about
Alabama,” Ziegler said. “It’s
part of this nationwide
movement.”
Kirsty Wigglesworth Associated Press
The Russian Foreign
Ministry said the EU sanc-
tions are “illegal” and under-
mine “the international legal
prerogatives of the U.N. Se-
curity Council.” In response,
the ministry is banning
some EU citizens from en-
tering the country because
they have provided military
assistance to Ukraine. It did
not immediately address the
U.S. sanctions.
The U.S. specifically was
to target individuals associ-
ated with Navalny’s impris-
onment a day after Biden
met with the opposition
leader’s widow and daugh-
ter in California. It was also
hitting “Russia’s financial
sector, defense industrial
base, procurement net-
works and sanctions
evaders across multiple con-
tinents,” Biden said.
The EU asset freezes and
travel bans constitute the
13th package of measures
imposed by the bloc against
people and organizations it
suspects of undermining the
sovereignty and territorial
integrity of Ukraine.
“Today, we are further
tightening the restrictive
SALVADORAN President Nayib Bukele, whose policies have been criticized by
human rights groups, warned that “dark forces are already taking over” the U.S.
Salvadoran leader cheered
on by conservatives in U.S.
associated press
NATIONAL HARBOR,
Md. — El Salvador’s Presi-
dent Nayib Bukele received
a rock-star welcome at a
conservative gathering out-
side Washington as he urged
attendees to “unapologet-
ically fight” against what he
called “dark forces.”
At Thursday’s annual
Conservative Political Ac-
tion Conference, Bukele —
whose policies have been
criticized by human rights
groups — said El Salvador
should be seen as a warning.
He said gangs had taken
control of the country dec-
ades ago and that a fight was
necessary to arrest crimi-
nals and remove corrupt
judges.
“The next president of
the United States must not
only win an election; he must
have the vision, the will and
the courage to do whatever
it takes, and above all, he
S AT U R DAY , F E B RUA RY 2 4 , 2 0 2 4
measures against Russia’s
military and defense sector,”
EU foreign policy chief Josep
Borrell said. “We remain
united in our determination
to dent Russia’s war mach-
ine and help Ukraine win its
legitimate fight for self-de-
fense.”
In all, 106 more officials
and 88 “entities” — often
companies, banks, govern-
ment agencies or other or-
ganizations — have been
added to the sanctions list,
bringing the tally of those
targeted to more than 2,000
people and entities, includ-
ing Putin and his associates.
Companies making elec-
tronic components, which
the EU believes could have
military as well as civilian
uses, were among 27 entities
accused of “directly sup-
porting Russia’s military
and industrial complex in its
war of aggression against
Ukraine,” a statement said.
Those companies —
some based in India, Sri
Lanka, China, Serbia, Kaz-
akhstan, Thailand and Tur-
key — face tougher export
restrictions.
The bloc said the compa-
must be able to identify the
underlying forces that will
conspire against him,”
Bukele said in English at the
gathering in National Har-
bor, Md., south of Washing-
ton. “These dark forces are
already taking over your
country.”
The four-day conference
will also host the new presi-
dent of Argentina, right-
wing populist Javier Milei.
He is scheduled to speak
Saturday, the same day
former President Trump is
to give the headlining ad-
dress.
Nearly two years ago,
Bukele declared a war on
gangs. He has since de-
tained more than 76,000 Sal-
vadorans, a move he says is
necessary to break the chain
of violence that has ravaged
the country for decades. His
policies have broad support,
and earlier this month, he
won reelection to a second
five-year term.
But many of the arrests
A5
nies “have been involved in
the circumvention of trade
restrictions,” and it accuses
others of “the development,
production and supply of
electronic components” des-
tined to help Russia’s armed
forces.
Some of the measures are
aimed at depriving Russia of
parts for pilotless drones,
which are seen by military
experts as key to the war.
Since the start of the war,
U.S. Treasury and State de-
partments have designated
more than 4,000 officials, oli-
garchs, firms, banks and
others under Russia-related
sanctions authorities. A $60-
per-barrel price cap has also
been imposed on Russian oil
by Group of 7 allies, in-
tended to reduce Russia’s
revenues from fossil fuels.
Critics of the sanctions,
price cap and other mea-
sures meant to stop Russia’s
invasion say they are not
working fast enough.
Maria Snegovaya, a sen-
ior fellow at the Center for
Strategic and International
Studies, said that primarily
sanctioning Russia’s de-
fense industry and failing to
cut meaningfully into Rus-
sia’s energy revenues will not
be enough to halt the war.
“One way or another,
they will have to eventually
address Russia’s oil reve-
nues and have to consider an
oil embargo,” she said. “The
oil price cap has effectively
stopped working.”
Treasury Deputy Secre-
tary Wally Adeyemo, in pre-
viewing the new sanctions,
told reporters that the U.S.
and its allies will not lower
the price cap; “rather what
we’ll be doing is taking ac-
tions that will increase the
cost” of Russia’s production
of oil, he said.
He added that “sanctions
alone are not enough to
carry Ukraine to victory.”
“We owe the Ukrainian
people who have held on for
so long the support and re-
sources they desperately
need to defend their home-
land and prove Putin wrong
once and for all time.”
Hussein and Cook write for
the Associated Press. AP
writers Josh Boak and Zeke
Miller in Washington and
Emma Burrows in London
contributed to this report.
Jose Luis Magana Associated Press
have been conducted with
little evidence or access to
due process, and human
rights groups have docu-
mented widespread abuses
of power not seen since the
country’s 1980-92 civil war.
Bukele said Thursday
that it had taken 50 years;
two wars; 250,000 deaths; the
displacement of a third of
the population; “and a near
miracle” to bring his country
back. Someone in the crowd
shouted, “And you!”
As he left the ballroom,
people cheered, blew horns
and paraded a calendar with
his photograph. Some
chased him down the hall to
take photos and get a few
words with the leader.
“To have a smart man as
president really makes a dif-
ference,” said Nallely Gutiér-
rez Gijón, who managed to
get a picture with the Salva-
doran leader. “He is deter-
mined as an authoritarian to
end corruption but governs
with an iron fist.”
A6 SAT U R DAY , F E B RUA RY 2 4 , 2 0 2 4
Netflix takes big swing with live SAG Awards
[SAG Awards, from A1]
citing new format for us, and
it’s bringing us into what’s
happening now, what the
world wants to see.”
Last year’s SAG Awards
was streamed live on Net-
flix’s YouTube and social
media channels, reaching
some 1.5 million viewers.
Now, in hosting the ceremo-
ny on the Netflix platform it-
self, with its vast reach and
formidable marketing mus-
cle, the streaming giant
could bring the SAG Awards
to a far larger audience than
ever before. (And that’s even
before you consider the
drawing power of the “Bar-
benheimer” phenomenon.)
Faced with a diminishing
broadcast audience, other
awards shows have sought
homes on streaming serv-
ices, including the Academy
of Country Music Awards on
Prime Video. But as the first
major film and TV awards
show to be carried live by a
streaming giant, SAG’s
move to Netflix could por-
tend changes to come for the
entire awards show land-
scape, including the Oscars
themselves.
“I think this establishes a
new model for this kind of
show,” says Screen Actors
Guild Awards executive pro-
ducer Jon Brockett, who is
producing this year’s awards
alongside Baz Halpin, Mark
Bracco and Linda Gierahn
of Silent House Produc-
tions. “If watching on a
streamer ends up being a
format that other people
take on as well, so be it. But
our goal is always just engag-
ing the audience and mak-
ing a fun, entertaining
show.”
The show’s producers
say the move to streaming
will invest the show, which is
scheduled to run two hours
and will include a Lifetime
Achievement Award for
Barbra Streisand, with a
greater sense of momentum
while allowing for more free-
dom in the format.
“On broadcast, someone
wins an award, a Steadicam
follows them offstage, and
that’s generally when you’ve
got to cut to the commer-
cial,” says Bracco. “We don’t
have to do that. We’re ex-
cited to be able to have these
interstitials where we’ll be
able to follow the winner
backstage and break that
fourth wall and give viewers
at home that behind-the-
scenes feeling.”
SAG-AFTRA was in the
process of looking for a home
for its awards ceremony in
2022 after TNT had signaled
it did not plan to renew its li-
censing agreement to air the
show, the labor union said at
the time. The SAG Awards
had been on TNT since 1998,
but ratings were declining in
its last six years on the cable
network and TBS, with the
exception of a post-pan-
demic bump in 2022. That
year saw 1.84 million aggre-
gated viewers on TBS and
TNT, according to Nielsen.
A verdict of murder in brothers’ hit-and-run deaths
[Grossman, from A1]
“My family has been wait-
ing for this for three and a
half years now,” Nancy
Iskander, the boys’ mother,
said after the decision was
announced. “I give glory to
God.”
Grossman’s lead attor-
ney, Tony Buzbee, called the
verdict unexpected and
vowed to appeal.
As the guilty verdict was
read aloud in court, Alexis
Grossman, Rebecca’s
daughter, cried out, “Oh my
God, Oh my God,” as tears
ran down her cheeks.
Rebecca Grossman, also
with tears streaking her
face, turned toward her
daughter to try to calm her,
as Peter Grossman hugged
Alexis. Los Angeles County
Superior Court Judge Jo-
seph Brandolino said justice
could no longer be delayed,
and a deputy moved to
handcuff Grossman.
Alexis Grossman
screamed as her mother was
taken into custody. Her
mother begged her to stop
before being escorted from
the courtroom.
Throughout the six-week
trial, jurors were presented
with two very different ver-
sions of Grossman and the
collision that ended the lives
of the two young brothers.
“This was not a tragic ac-
cident,” Deputy Dist. Atty.
Jamie Castro said in
Wednesday’s closing argu-
ments. “This was murder.”
But Buzbee launched
into his closing statement
with words he’d repeated
throughout the trial: “Where
S L AT I M E S . C O M
NETFLIX successfully streamed Chris Rock’s “Selective Outrage” special live in March but had trouble with “Love Is Blind” reunion show.
Streaming the SAG
Awards represents Netflix’s
latest effort to increase its li-
brary of live events, bringing
large audiences onto its plat-
form simultaneously for ap-
pointment-style viewing.
Some of the streamer’s
previous live events include
Chris Rock’s live comedy
special and celebrity golf
tournament “The Netflix
Cup.”
“We’re super excited
about SAG,” said Brandon
Riegg, vice president of non-
fiction series, at a Netflix
press event in Hollywood
last month. “As award shows
go, this one to me is the most
public-facing, public-
friendly. It’s celebrities. It’s
stars that you love to see,
your favorite shows and
movies and whatnot on a
global stage. … I think live is
a terrific tool in terms of ex-
panding the portfolio — it’s
applicable to all the content
genres that we have.”
Still, the timing of the
partnership is slightly awk-
ward. This year’s SAG
Awards arrive in the wake of
a grueling summer of dual
Hollywood strikes led by
writers and actors, many of
whom picketed daily outside
Netflix offices. Some of the
major issues in the strike in-
volved data transparency
among streaming services
and how those platforms re-
ward writers for hit shows.
Some even deemed the labor
is Scott Erickson?” He
sought to pin responsibility
for the crash on the former
Dodgers pitcher.
Erickson has denied
wrongdoing. Though he was
at one point charged with a
misdemeanor in connection
with the crash, it was
dismissed after he made a
public service announce-
ment for teens about the im-
portance of safe driving.
Prosecutors alleged
Grossman, 60, had cocktails
with Erickson and then
raced with him — he in his
black Mercedes sport utility
vehicle and she in her white
Mercedes SUV — along Tri-
unfo Canyon Road until they
reached a crosswalk, where
she fatally struck the Iskan-
der brothers.
Grossman, Castro said,
showed conscious disregard
for human life and knew her
speed could be dangerous on
a suburban street with pe-
destrian traffic because po-
lice had warned her of the
dangers in the past. Prose-
cutors also alleged that
Grossman traveled a third of
a mile after slamming into
the children before safety
features in her SUV auto-
matically shut it down.
“She had a history of
speeding. She’d texted
about it,” Castro said. “She
acted with disregard for hu-
man life.”
But throughout the trial,
Buzbee continued to point
the finger at Erickson, who
was the first to barrel
through the crosswalk.
Crash reconstruction ex-
perts for the defense testi-
action the “Netflix strike.”
Planning for this year’s
SAG Awards was put on
hold during the work stop-
page. “As producers of the
show, we had to go into basi-
cally hibernation during
that period because we
didn’t know if the show was
ever going to go forward,”
Williams says.
Now that the strike is
over, Williams believes union
members are ready to set
aside any lingering misgiv-
ings about the streaming gi-
ant and move forward. “I
don’t expect to have nega-
tive feedback about the fact
that it’s on Netflix,” she says.
“When the strike was re-
solved, we went back to work
with Netflix, and they’ve
been very accommodating
and very collaborative.
Naturally we all have to work
with the people that we’ve
been striking against —
that’s what our business is.”
As part of their multiyear
agreement, Netflix paid
SAG-AFTRA around $7 mil-
lion to license the SAG
Awards, according to two
people familiar with the deal
who were not authorized to
discuss it.
“This is inaccurate,” a
Netflix spokesperson, who
did not disclose any details
about the pact, said in a
statement to The Times.
SAG-AFTRA declined to
comment on the terms of the
deal.
NANCY ISKANDER, with husband Karim nearby, addresses the media after a
jury found Rebecca Grossman guilty in the deaths of their sons Mark, 11, and Ja-
cob, 8. “We have a justice system that we can trust, thank God,” she said.
fied that Erickson’s Mer-
cedes hit the boys first, send-
ing Mark over his vehicle and
onto the hood of Grossman’s
vehicle.
It was around 7 p.m. on
Sept. 29, 2020, when Nancy
Iskander and her three sons
approached the crosswalk.
Wearing inline skates,
Iskander began to cross Tri-
unfo Canyon Road at Saddle
Mountain Drive. Her young-
est son, Zachary, was next to
her on his scooter. Mark, on a
skateboard, and Jacob, also
wearing inline skates, were
also in the crosswalk.
“The mother did every-
thing right,” Castro said.
Analysts say that the
partnership represents a
potential win for both
parties.
“If they can show that it
got significantly more peo-
ple than watched it last year
on YouTube, what’s to stop
them from going to the Pro-
ducers Guild Awards or even
Independent Spirit
Awards?” said Travis Knox,
associate professor of pro-
ducing at Chapman Uni-
versity. “If Netflix can legiti-
mize it and get a bigger audi-
ence, maybe they created a
new niche.”
Parrot Analytics indus-
try strategist Brandon Katz
said that about 58% of Net-
flix’s audience in the U.S. is
in the 13- to 29-year-old age
range, according to his firm’s
data.
“This is a chance to
bridge that gap, potentially
convert some remaining old-
er linear subscribers into
streaming subscribers and
perhaps introduce the SAG
Awards to a slightly younger
audience as well, so I think
there’s a lot of potential up-
side and benefits,” Katz
said.
“I do think, for the longev-
ity of the SAG Awards and
the hopeful cultural rele-
vance that it maintains,
moving to Netflix is probably
a better move than remain-
ing on TNT as pay TV’s de-
cline continues to rapidly ac-
celerate,” he added.
Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times
“Rebecca Grossman did
everything wrong.”
Iskander testified during
the trial that she heard rev-
ving engines and looked up
to see a black SUV speeding
toward the intersection. She
dived out of the way, pulling
Zachary to safety.
But she testified that a
white Mercedes SUV was fol-
lowing closely behind the
black vehicle. When it went
through the crosswalk,
Iskander said, she heard an
impact, and her two oldest
boys were gone.
Jacob was found near the
curb about 50 feet from the
crosswalk. He was taken to a
It remains to be seen how
many people will tune in live
to watch the SAG Awards;
the show will remain on the
platform for 28 days after it
streams, and some may
choose to watch it on replay
later. Regardless, some in-
dustry observers say they
sense increased buzz
around this year’s SAG
Awards in part because it’s
going to be on Netflix.
“We have seen the Netflix
bump in full effect for li-
censed linear series, every-
thing from ‘Breaking Bad’ to
‘Suits,’ as well as canceled
linear series that Netflix res-
cued such as ‘Lucifer’ and
‘Manifest,’ ” Katz said. “At
the end of the day, Netflix is
the largest global TV net-
work, and that seemingly
comes with a lot of program-
ming upside.”
Netflix said it would pro-
mote the SAG Awards simi-
lar to how it would promote
other live events. The plat-
form takes into consider-
ation what users have
watched before to make rec-
ommendations and pro-
mote trailers.
Streaming a show live
comes with significant tech-
nical challenges, however.
Both Netflix and SAG hope
to avoid a repeat of the tech-
nical hiccups that bedeviled
last year’s reunion episode of
reality dating series “Love Is
Blind.” Viewers had logged
on to Netflix in droves to
hospital, where he was pro-
nounced dead a few hours
later. Mark’s body was found
254 feet away.
Prosecutors accused
Grossman of reaching 81
mph before lightly braking
and hitting the brothers at
73 mph, based on the car’s
data recorder and the dis-
tance Mark was found from
the crosswalk. But Buzbee
called in experts who testi-
fied that the data weren’t re-
liable and that Grossman
was traveling at 52 mph
based on a video captured
seconds after the collision.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Ryan
Gould said he was glad the
AaronP Bauer-Griffin / GC Images
watch the reunion live, but
the stream was plagued by
problems and ultimately
scrapped, forcing many to
wait until the next day to
watch a taped version.
Speaking to The Times in
December, a Netflix execu-
tive called the “Love Is
Blind” reunion snafu a
“humbling moment,” adding
that the company has been
focused on improving its
technical capabilities.
“We’ve learned from that
and evolved from it,” the exe-
cutive said.
The SAG Awards’ pro-
ducing team is fully confi-
dent the show, which will re-
turn to its traditional home
at L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium,
will go off without a hitch
and bring some needed
freshness to a format that
has struggled to adapt with
changing times.
“The SAG Awards is in-
credibly unique — this is by
actors, for actors,” says
Halpin. “From the moment
the guests walk into the
room, we want to create
something that feels mag-
ical and elegant and sophis-
ticated. To do the first live
show on Netflix feels like a
perfect evolution of award
shows. Netflix likes to take
big swings and reach for the
stars.”
Times staff writer Stephen
Battaglio contributed to
this report.
Erickson argument didn’t
become a distraction for the
jurors.
“We thought the evidence
spoke for itself,” Gould said.
“As we argued in closing,
there was not a shred of evi-
dence that he was involved.
And the jury obviously felt
that way too.
“This is a day for the
Iskanders, Mark and Jacob
and the community of West-
lake Village,” he said. “We got
justice for the children.”
After the verdict was
read late Friday afternoon,
Karim Iskander, the boys’
father, thanked the jury.
“Thank you for not falling
into the imaginary conspira-
cy theories and tricks,” he
said. It took “a lot of pa-
tience, so I really appreciate
you getting closure.”
Nancy Iskander thanked
the prosecutors for their
hard work on the case.
“They went above and
beyond. ... They’ve done
their job and we are now
ready to start our healing
process,” she said. “We have
a justice system that we can
trust, thank God.”
She declined to comment
on the upcoming sentenc-
ing, saying she would “leave
that up to the judge.”
Though the boys’ parents
felt justice was served in the
case, Nancy Iskander said it
didn’t bring her joy to see
Grossman in handcuffs.
“No one wishes that on
anyone,” she said. “I promise
I do not have any hate for
her. My heart broke for her
children. ... It wasn’t easy,
but it will bring me closure.”
L AT I M E S . C O M
More
tariffs
on retail
goods?
Senators look to crack
down on packages
from China that enter
the U.S. duty-free.
associated press
WASHINGTON — Two
senators looking to crack
down on the number of
packages from China that
enter the U.S. duty-free are
calling on President Biden
to take executive action, say-
ing domestic manufacturers
can’t compete with low-cost
competitors that rely on
forced labor and state subsi-
dies in key sectors.
U.S. trade law allows
packages bound for con-
sumers and valued below a
certain threshold to enter
tariff-free. That threshold,
under a category known as
“de minimis,” stands at $800
per person, per day. The ma-
jority of the imports are re-
tail goods purchased online.
Alarmed by the large in-
crease in such shipments
from China, lawmakers in
both chambers have filed
legislation to alter how the
U.S. treats imports valued at
less than $800. Sens. Sher-
rod Brown (D-Ohio) and
Rick Scott (R-Fla.) have
sent a letter to Biden calling
on him to end the duty-free
treatment altogether for
those products.
“The situation has
reached a tipping point
where vast sections of
American manufacturing
and retail are at stake if de
minimis is not immediately
addressed,” they wrote.
Brown and Scott singled
out Temu, Shein and AliEx-
press in their letter as com-
panies that “unfairly” bene-
fit from duty-free treatment
of their goods. The surge in
shipments, they said, hurts
big-box stores and other
U.S. retailers.
“This out-of-control
problem impacts the safety
and livelihoods of Ameri-
cans, outsourcing not only
our manufacturing, but also
our retail sectors to China,
which — as you know — sys-
tematically utilizes slave
labor among other uncon-
scionable practices to
undermine our economy,”
the senators said.
The White House did not
immediately respond to a re-
quest for comment on the
letter, which was provided to
the Associated Press.
Congress in 2016 raised
the threshold for expedited
and duty-fee imports to the
U.S. from $200. The argu-
ment for doing so was that it
speeds up the pace of com-
merce and lowers costs for
consumers, while allowing
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection to focus its re-
sources on bigger-ticket
items that generate more
tariff revenue for the federal
government. The change
has led to a significant in-
crease in de minimis ship-
ments, from about 220 mil-
lion packages in 2016 to 685
million in fiscal 2022.
The $800 threshold has
strong backing from many in
the business community.
John Pickel, a senior direc-
tor at the National Foreign
Trade Council, which repre-
sents a broad range of com-
panies, said that ending the
duty-free treatment, as the
senators are urging, would
slow shipments’ arrival time
as they go through a more
cumbersome inspection
process at the border — and
those products would cost
more.
“The increase from $200
to $800 has not really been a
significant driver in terms of
volume,” Pickel said.
“What’s really driving inter-
est in the use of de minimis
is the desire for consumers
to access their products
quickly and at a lower trans-
action cost.”
He said the average ship-
ment that comes into the
U.S. through the de minimis
category is $55. But that cost
would roughly double for the
consumer if de minimis
treatment were no longer
applied, because importers
would have to hire a customs
broker and pay additional
processing fees as well as the
import duty.
LIVE NATION made a killing from tours by Beyoncé, with more than $575 million in ticket sales, and Taylor Swift, $700 million so far.
The Tayoncé effect boosts Live Nation
Live Nation Entertain-
ment revealed Friday that
concert attendance jumped
by 20% in 2023 — the year
Beyoncé and Taylor Swift
launched their blockbuster
greatest-hits tours.
The Beverly Hills-based
ticket vendor and concert
promoter also noted in its
latest earnings report that
ticket sales were up 30%,
with more than 620 million
sold by Ticketmaster, bring-
ing in nearly $36 billion.
More than 145 million
people attended upward of
50,000 live events in 2023, the
company reported.
All this has led to the live
music behemoth increasing
its 2023 revenue by 36% to
$22.7 billion and its op-
erating income by 46% to
$1.07 billion.
“The live music industry
reached new heights in 2023,
and demand for live music
continues to build,” Michael
Rapino, chief executive of
Live Nation, said Friday in a
statement.
“Our digital world em-
powers artists to develop
global followings, while in-
spiring fans to crave in-per-
son experiences more than
ever. At the same time, the
industry is delivering
a wider variety of concerts
which draws in new aud-
iences, and developing more
venues to support a larger
show pipeline.”
Much of that success is
thanks to Beyoncé and
Swift, two of music’s biggest
stars. The former’s Renais-
sance tour racked up more
than $575 million in ticket
sales, while the latter’s on-
Warner shares fall 10% after earnings miss
Media giant posts a
bigger-than-expected
loss, though streaming
unit turns a profit.
By Stephen Battaglio
Despite turning a profit
on its streaming business,
Warner Bros. Discovery
shares were battered Friday
morning after the company
failed to hit its estimates on
revenue and posted a larger-
than-expected loss in the
fourth quarter.
Shares in Warner Bros.
Discovery fell 9.9% after the
company reported a loss of
$400 million, or 16 cents a
share. That was an improve-
ment over the loss of $2.1 bil-
lion, or 86 cents a share, a
year earlier but wider than
the 6-cents-a-share loss ana-
lysts had expected.
Revenue came in at $10.3
billion, down 7% from the
same period last year. Ana-
lysts had predicted revenue
of $10.4 billion.
“This business is not
without its challenges,”
Chief Executive David Zas-
lav said during an earnings
call. “We continue to face the
impacts of ongoing disrup-
tion in the pay TV ecosystem
and a dislocated, linear ad-
BUSINESS
Concert behemoth says attendance was up
20% in 2023, led by two blockbuster tours
A FAN enters SoFi Stadium for Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour. Beyoncé and Swift
both capitalized on their tours’ popularity with concert movies at AMC Theatres.
DAVID ZASLAV, Warner Bros. Discovery’s CEO, said the Max streamer is suc-
ceeding at retaining subscribers, as it had the lowest “churn” rate in its history.
vertising ecosystem.”
The stock was down as
much as 13% in morning
trading, putting its price at
less than $9.
The media conglomerate
cited softness in advertising
demand for linear TV, seeing
a 14% drop in ad revenue for
its TV channels.
Ratings for linear televi-
sion — which includes CNN,
By Christi Carras
TNT, Discovery, Food Net-
work, HGTV and other
channels — continue to de-
cline as consumers migrate
to streaming platforms.
Distribution fees from pay
TV providers also declined,
by 8%.
The strikes by writers
and actors last year slowed
the pipeline of new pro-
grams on the TV side.
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Warner Bros. Discovery
also continues to face chal-
lenges in the theatrical mov-
ie business, as the fourth-
quarter releases “The Color
Purple” and “Aquaman and
the Lost Kingdom” were not
strong performers at the box
office.
Studio revenue declined
17% to $3.17 billion, while pre-
tax earnings plummeted
A7
going Eras tour is estimated
to have amassed more than
$700 million.
Both artists further capi-
talized on their tours’ popu-
larity by releasing concert
movies via AMC Theatres
that have grossed a com-
bined total of $305.7 million
worldwide.
In early 2023, the Senate
Judiciary Committee held a
hearing on Ticketmaster,
Live Nation and the United
States ticketing market
after colossal demand for
Swift’s Eras tour resulted in
a Ticketmaster meltdown —
spurring a class-action law-
suit filed by disgruntled
Swifties.
The hearing scrutinized
alleged anti-competitive
practices by Live Nation and
Ticketmaster, which control
an estimated 80% of the tick-
eting market. The Depart-
ment of Justice also has
launched an investigation
into the ticket vendors’
practices.
“Ticketmaster comes
under a lot of criticism,” Joe
Berchtold, president and
chief financial officer of Live
Nation Entertainment, said
during the Senate hearing in
January 2023. “But I can say
with great confidence that
technologically Ticketmas-
ter is a much better ticketing
system today than it was in
2010. Its performance in large
on-sales is the best in the
industry, it has the best
marketing capabilities of
any ticketing system, and it
is far and away the leader in
preventing fraud and get-
ting tickets into the hands of
real fans.”
29% to $543 million in the
quarter.
On the positive side,
Warner Bros. Discovery’s
direct-to-consumer stream-
ing business, led by its Max
platform, finished the full
year with a $103-million
pretax profit, reflecting
deep reductions in content
spending.
Media companies have
found it challenging to avoid
losses in streaming as they
invest heavily in program-
ming in their effort to in-
crease the number of sub-
scribers.
Zaslav said Max is suc-
ceeding at retaining sub-
scribers, as it had the lowest
“churn” rate in its history.
The service should be
helped by an increased
amount of content and
growth in its ad-supported
streaming business, Zaslav
said.
The company said it con-
tinues to make progress on
reducing its debt, paying
down $5.5 billion in 2023, and
improving its free cash flow.
Meanwhile, Zaslav said,
the company is “fully en-
gaged” in contract renewal
talks on its media rights deal
with the NBA. Warner Bros.
Discovery is expected to face
stiff competition for the
package from Amazon and
other tech giants.
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Ballot measure aims to halt worker lawsuits
[Worker suits, from A1]
the sale of electronic ciga-
rettes in San Francisco. The
workers were all classified
as independent contractors
rather than employees,
which saddled them with ex-
penses that employees
wouldn’t have to pay.
Workers were made to
travel long distances be-
tween campaign offices
without pay, were not given
lunch breaks and were ter-
minated abruptly, Perez
Bautista said at a news con-
ference last week to unveil a
report by the UCLA Labor
Center and researchers at
advocacy groups Power-
Switch Action and the Cen-
ter for Popular Democracy.
Because the workers had
signed arbitration agree-
ments, without PAGA they
would not have had the legal
standing to take Juul and
the nonprofit it created for
the campaign to court.
Through their PAGA claim,
workers secured a $1.75-mil-
lion settlement.
“It is important for other
workers to see that ... you can
hold your boss account-
able,” Bautista-Perez said at
the news conference.
The report argues
broadly that eliminating
workers’ ability to pursue
private lawsuits would leave
them more vulnerable to
having their wages stolen by
employers and other abuses
of their rights.
PAGA plays a “vital role”
in bringing bad actors into
compliance, said Tia
Koonse, legal and policy re-
search manager at the
UCLA Labor Center.
Koonse and other au-
thors of the report said the
ballot initiative is disingenu-
ously framed as a push to re-
form PAGA and bolster
other enforcement mecha-
nisms.
“By cloaking policies that
hurt workers in language
that says they’re helping
workers, corporations are
making it sound like what is
down is up,” said Minsu
Longiaru, senior staff attor-
ney for PowerSwitch Action.
Other mechanisms to en-
force California labor laws
are insufficient on their own,
including wage claims and
whistleblower complaints
investigated by state agen-
cies, the report argues, be-
cause the sheer number of
labor violations dwarfs the
state’s capacity to enforce
them.
Each year, the $40 million
recovered in approximately
30,000 wage claims filed with
the state labor commis-
sioner represents roughly
2% of the estimated $2 bil-
MARKETS
Stocks finish mixed; S&P 500
edges up for another weekly gain
associated press
Stocks clung to modest
gains Friday, giving the mar-
ket another record high and
a winning week.
The listless day for stocks
capped a mostly solid week
of earnings when the tech-
nology sector once again
powered the market higher.
The sector has been the driv-
ing force behind a rally that
started in October.
The Standard & Poor’s
500 index rose 1.77 points, or
less than 0.1%, to 5,088.80.
That marks another record
high for the benchmark in-
dex and its sixth winning
week in the last seven.
The Dow Jones industrial
average rose 62.42 points, or
0.2%, to 39,131.53. The
Nasdaq composite slipped
44.80 points, or 0.3%, to
15,996.82.
Weakness in some tech-
nology companies weighed
down the market, in a rever-
sal from Thursday.
Apple fell 1%. Nvidia eked
out a 0.4% gain after topping
the $2-trillion valuation
mark earlier in the day; on
Thursday, the chipmaker
surged after reporting block-
buster demand for its semi-
conductors, which are used
to power AI applications.
A pullback by travel-
related companies checked
gains elsewhere in the mar-
ket. Booking Holdings tum-
bled 10.1%, dragging down
other companies in the sec-
tor. The online travel service
beat Wall Street’s fourth-
quarter sales and profit tar-
gets but issued a lukewarm
forecast that spooked in-
vestors. Its competitor
Expedia Group fell 2%.
“Investors are sanguine,
with political uncertainty,
lion California workers lose
to wage theft, according to
the report.
An analysis of California
Labor & Workforce Devel-
opment Agency data by the
report’s authors found that
91% of PAGA claims allege
wage theft — primarily over-
time violations and failure to
pay for all hours worked, al-
though some involved viola-
tions of earned sick leave
rights. Other forms of wage
theft include paying workers
less than minimum wage,
denying meal breaks or rest
periods and requiring em-
ployees to finish tasks before
or after their shifts.
The initiative at the cen-
ter of the discussion, the Fair
Play and Employer Account-
ability Act, got the green
light to be placed on the No-
vember 2024 ballot almost
two years ago.
It proposes to remove the
law’s powerful private right
of action, which empowers
workers to file lawsuits
against their employers,
suing for both back wages
and civil penalties on behalf
of themselves, other employ-
ees and the state of Califor-
nia.
Official language for the
measure states that it would
eliminate “employees’ abil-
ity to file lawsuits for mone-
tary penalties for state labor
law violations.”
Backers emphasize that
it offers replacement provi-
sions that would bolster
state agency enforcement of
workplace rules.
Replacement provisions
include doubling penalties
for employers “willfully” vio-
lating labor law, requiring
100% of monetary penalties
to be awarded to harmed
employees (rather than the
current division of 25% to the
employee and 75% to the
state of California) and re-
quiring that the state pro-
vide employers with re-
sources to help with coming
into compliance.
“Today’s PAGA system is
completely broken and does
not work well for employees
or employers,” said Jennifer
Barrera, president of the
California Chamber of Com-
merce, in announcing a re-
port released last week by
backers of the ballot initia-
tive, the Fix PAGA coalition.
Barrera said that be-
cause one employee can sue
on behalf of others, it allows
lawyers to stack charges and
extract high penalties from
employers with few barriers,
because PAGA claims don’t
require the same type of no-
tification and certification of
workers allegedly affected
that a class-action suit
HARLEM Globetrotter Hot Rod De La Rosa jokes with a New York Stock
Exchange trader Friday, as tech firms’ weakness weighed down the market.
elevated valuations and Fed
uncertainty not able to dent
the momentum in the mar-
ket,” said Mark Hackett,
chief of investment research
at Nationwide.
Earnings remained the
big focus.
Ticket seller and concert
promoter Live Nation rose
2% after beating analysts’
revenue forecasts. Sleep
Number, which sells beds
and bedding products,
surged 33% after beating
Wall Street’s revenue fore-
casts.
On the losing end, Warn-
er Bros. Discovery fell 9.9%
after reporting a bigger loss
than Wall Street expected.
Among the companies
that didn’t report earnings,
Intuitive Machines, which
made the first U.S. lunar
landing in more than 50
years, soared 15.8%.
Energy stocks were
mostly lower as oil and natu-
ral gas prices fell. U.S. crude
oil prices slumped 2.7%, and
natural gas prices fell 7.4%.
Treasury yields slipped.
A LAWSUIT filed against Juul Labs by workers who alleged that they were
misclassified as independent contractors resulted in a $1.75-million settlement.
would require.
“The statutory frame-
work of PAGA is what cre-
ates the abuse,” she said in
an interview.
Barry Jardini, executive
director of the California
Disability Services Assn.,
said members of the trade
group, many of which are
nonprofits that are reliant
on state or federal funding,
are increasingly burdened
by PAGA claims. He said 20
of some 85 members who re-
sponded to a recent survey
said they dealt with PAGA
claims in 2023.
Jardini said disability
service businesses have
struggled to provide true
“responsibility-free” 10-min-
ute rest breaks in accord-
ance with labor laws be-
cause often workers “can’t
just walk away” from clients,
especially if they are out and
about instead of at home.
He said employers have
looked for creative solu-
tions, such as paying em-
ployees extra for working
through breaks or tacking
on breaks at the beginnings
or ends of shifts rather than
the middle, but these fixes
aren’t legal substitutes for
the rest breaks workers are
entitled to.
“We run into a bit of a le-
gal rock and a hard place,”
he said. “We do have a con-
flict with the law in terms of
some of our services. Once
that becomes known, it’s
relatively easy for an attor-
The yield on the 10-year
Treasury fell to 4.25% from
4.33% late Thursday.
Markets were mostly
higher in Europe and Asia.
Tokyo’s markets were closed
for a holiday, a day after
surging to an all-time high.
Investors have more big
earnings to review next week
as they try to get a better
sense of where the economy
is headed.
Home improvement re-
tailer Lowe’s and discount
retailer Dollar Tree will re-
port results. Computer
maker HP and electronics
retailer Best Buy will also re-
lease their results.
Analysts polled by Fact-
Set expect companies in the
S&P 500 to report average
earnings growth of just
under 4% for the fourth
quarter. Roughly 90% of
companies in the index have
already reported. Analysts
are forecasting earnings
growth of 3.6% for the cur-
rent quarter.
Wall Street will also get
more economic data that
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cies, Gonzalez said.
To suggest that the busi-
ness lobby, through the bal-
lot initiative, is asking for
changes that will actually
improve labor law enforce-
ment “doesn’t pass the smell
test,” she said.
Backers of the ballot ini-
tiative are open to working
on a legislative compromise
to avert a costly battle,
spokesperson Fairbanks
said.
But any sort of deal
would have to be reached be-
fore the end of June — the
deadline to pull measures off
the November ballot. The
Fix PAGA coalition reports
having banked some $15 mil-
lion in campaign contrib-
utions so far.
Business groups have
sought to shrink PAGA’s
reach in state and federal
courts with limited success
in recent years.
In June 2022, the U.S.
Supreme Court, considering
the California case Viking
River Cruises Inc. vs. Mori-
ana, ruled that PAGA vio-
Ted Shaffrey Associated Press lated the rights of employers
and that the claims of other
employees would have to be
dismissed because the em-
ney to try to solicit a client compared with cases adjudi- ployee sent to arbitration
that works in this industry cated by state agencies. would no longer have stand-
that is maybe ripe for PAGA That is because “lawyers ing to pursue that litigation.
claims.” take massive fees and are But in a concurring opin-
The claims sap resources getting rich while workers ion, it affirmed that interpre-
and lead to program clo- get very little,” Fairbanks tation of PAGA was a matter
sures because “providers said. of state, not federal, law and,
with very thin margins are Lorena Gonzalez in effect, kicked the matter
using up their reserves on Fletcher, head of the power- back to California.
settling these claims,” Jar- ful California Labor Federa- State appellate courts
dini said. “Other times, pro- tion, agreed that PAGA is consistently have held that
viders are unable to give at times abused by “unscru- PAGA claims by workers
wage increases to their staff. pulous attorneys” but said cannot be forced into arbi-
And at the end of the day, it repealing the law is not a so- tration because they are
impacts people with disabil- lution. brought as if the individual is
ities.” “There’s massive wage operating on the state’s
Some disagree that there theft that goes unaccounted behalf.
is rampant of abuse of for, and to take away this tool In July 2023, the Califor-
PAGA. from the tool box would be nia Supreme Court rejected
UCLA Labor Center re- damaging to workers and a an argument by Uber that
searchers published a report gift for corporate America,” sought to limit the ability of
in February 2020 finding no said Gonzalez, a former its drivers to take employ-
evidence that PAGA un- state assembly member who ment-related disputes to
leashed a flood of frivolous was known for writing labor- court, unanimously deter-
litigation, as its detractors friendly legislation. mining that drivers could
complain, and that it had If approved by voters, the not sign away the right to
demonstrably enhanced ballot measure “would leave represent their peers in a
Labor Code compliance workers with dwindling op- lawsuit.
among employers. portunities to enforce labor The decision didn’t end
In response to criticisms law.” the debate, however, with
outlined by the recent UCLA Gonzalez said it is well other cases bouncing
Labor Center report, Kathy understood that state labor around the courts.
Fairbanks, a spokesperson agencies are subject to short A federal appeals court,
for the coalition, pointed to staffing and the ebbs and citing the Uber case, ruled
findings in the coalition’s re- flows of political desire to Feb. 12 that a PAGA suit
port, which argues that take on major cases. Al- against Lowe’s Home Cen-
PAGA is too slow to resolve though it’s not ideal to have ters for allegedly underpay-
claims, leaves workers with to rely on private attorneys ing workers who took sick
little compensation and en- to help enforce the law, leave could stand.
riches lawyers while sad- PAGA provides an impor- Judge William Fletcher
dling businesses with costly tant avenue for enforce- wrote in the ruling that a
suits. ment, she said. state court “has the author-
Fairbanks said workers The initiative doesn’t ity to correct a misinterpre-
get about one-third of the mandate or otherwise clear tation of that state’s law by a
compensation, and PAGA the way for increased fund- federal court,” including the
cases take twice as long ing for enforcement agen- U.S. Supreme Court.
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family to Denmark, while D. has moved to France. I recently checked in with them to learn about their lives now.

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linked to Regulators group was
seen in facility’s parking garage
By Keri Blakinger

A deputy gang has left its mark at the women’s jail.

County oversight officials touring the Century Re-
gional Detention Facility in Lynwood late last year spot-
ted a new sticker on the wall of the jail’s parking garage a
couple of feet from the elevator. It was a black-and-white
image of a grinning skeleton in a cowboy hat — the symbol
of the Regulators, a deputy gang affiliated with the Cen-
tury sheriff ’s station next door.
According to the Office of Inspector General, which
documented finding the image in a report released this
week, the sticker “appeared recent” and investigators
“had not seen it previously on regular site visits” to the jail.
Investigators first spotted the grim symbol on Dec. 21.
When they returned more than a month later, it was still
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times there, on top of the red paint of an “Emergency Help” sign
RESIDENTS survey damage and flooding wrought by Hilary in Cathedral City in Riverside County. Officials next to the second-story elevator.
now say the August storm had degenerated to a post-tropical low by the time it reached California. The Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department said
the sticker has since been removed — and last week Sher-

Not so epic? Hilary gets

iff Robert Luna faulted oversight officials for not telling
him about the image sooner.
“It would be tremendously helpful to the Depart-
ment’s efforts to eradicate such symbols if we were ad-
vised of their existence immediately,” he wrote to Inspec-
tor General Max Huntsman in a six-page letter criticizing

a downgrade in status
the report.
“I do not know when your office first identified such a
sticker,” Luna wrote, “but any derogatory symbol such as
those reflecting a law enforcement gang are inappropri-
ate and need to be addressed immediately.”
In response, Huntsman told The Times that publicly
reporting problems will be the “default” now.
“We have repeatedly brought the problem of public
The 2023 system was displays of suspected gang logos to LASD attention pri-
vately, and they have consistently failed to address them
no longer a tropical effectively, instead endangering Inspector General per-
storm when it reached sonnel with responses that shoot the messenger,” he said.
“This logo was in place in a high traffic area for at least
California, data show. a month with no official action,” he continued. “As with
previous reports by my office, little if any investigation has
By Hayley Smith been conducted as to when the imagery first appeared
and why it was not reported.”
A damaging storm that After initiating an inquiry, the Sheriff ’s Department
pummeled portions of Mexi- said on Wednesday that it opened a formal internal affairs
co and the American South- investigation into the matter.
west last year was not a trop- In recent years there have been some indications in
ical storm when it hit Cali- reports that the Regulators, one of the older gangs within
fornia, as was originally be- the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department, are no
lieved, federal officials have longer actively adding members. It’s not clear if the ap-
determined. pearance of the group’s logo outside the jail signals a
Hilary began as an off- [See Deputies, B2]
shore hurricane before mak-
ing landfall Aug. 20 as a trop-
ical storm in the Mexican
state of Baja California. It
lost strength as it churned
north toward San Diego, Los
Angeles and the Inland Em-
pire, according to a new
Hello? A new
report from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s National
Hurricane Center.
area code comes
The system prompted
the first tropical storm
[See Hilary, B4]
Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times
STREETS ARE FLOODED outside a store in Ensenada, Mexico. Hilary
damaged or destroyed at least 87 homes across the Baja California peninsula. calling in L.A.
Utilities Commission ap-
The county’s growth proved a proposal last year
to add 738 to the mix as an
forced the 213 to be
Grubhub’s surprise fees are illegal split repeatedly.
Next on the line: 738.
overlay, meaning it will be
used in the same turf as 213
and 323.
“The 213/323 area codes

‘bait-and-switch,’ county suit says

By Rebecca Ellis
The price of the turkey on
rye half-sandwich from
Langer’s Delicatessen-
Restaurant in Los Angeles,
purchased through the de-
livery app Grubhub, starts
around $17.
But at checkout, the
costs mount. With addi-
tional fees and sales tax, the
cost of a sandwich delivery
can surpass $26. Plus tip.
L.A. County says it
amounts to an illegal “bait-
and-switch.”
In a lawsuit filed Wednes-
day against Grubhub,
county lawyers argue the
food delivery company has
repeatedly flouted a state
law barring false advertising
by promoting meals at a
cheaper price than what
customers see at the check-
out page.
“Grubhub has built this
[See Lawsuit, B5]
By Jon Healey
Remember when Los
Angeles had only one area
code?
Of course you don’t. The
area’s relentless growth
forced regulators to split the
213 area code again and
again, starting a mere four
years after its introduction
in 1947.
Today there are 10 area
codes in L.A. County, and in
about eight months there
will be an 11th: 738, which will
cover the same territory now
served by 323 and the much-
diminished 213.
This is why we can’t have
nice things: Landlines may
be going the way of the fax
machine — in fact, AT&T
wants to end its duty to pro-
vide wired phone service to
anyone in its California serv-
ice area who asks for it — but
the population of cellphones
and other connected devices
that require phone numbers
continues to grow. So the
area served by 213 and 323 is,
Patrick T. Fallon For The Times believe it or not, running out
DELIVERY APP Grubhub plans to “aggressively defend” itself in court against of unassigned numbers.
L.A. County’s allegations that it flouts California law barring false advertising. The California Public
generally serve the down-
town portion of the city of
Los Angeles and the sur-
rounding cities and commu-
nities, including Alhambra,
Bell, Bell Gardens, Beverly
Hills, Commerce, Cudahy,
Glendale, Hawthorne,
Huntington Park, Ingle-
wood, Lynwood, Maywood,
Montebello, Monterey Park,
Pasadena, Rosemead,
South Gate, South Pasa-
dena, Vernon and West Hol-
lywood, as well as unincor-
porated portions of Los
Angeles County,” the CPUC
helpfully explains on its web-
site.
Under the plan approved
by the CPUC last year, 738
will make its debut in mid-
November. So if you’re itch-
ing for a new number — say,
(738) 543-2539, which would
spell out the easy-to-remem-
ber (738) JHEALEY — you’ll
have to wait until then. The
commission and phone
companies in the state are
supposed to begin educat-
ing the public about the new
code March 1.
The additional area code
won’t change numbers al-
[See Calling, B5]

SPORTS INSIDE: There’s a method to Cronin’s frequent madness as UCLA coach. B12
B2 SAT U R DAY , F E B RUA RY 2 4 , 2 0 2 4
Abortion front and center for Biden visit
‘I promise you we will
fully restore Roe vs.
Wade,’ he says at a
Bay Area fundraiser.
By Mackenzie Mays
LOS ALTOS — Just days
after the Alabama Supreme
Court ruled that frozen em-
bryos can be considered
“children,” President Biden
held a fundraiser at a leading
stem cell research advo-
cate’s Silicon Valley home,
warning that voting for Don-
ald Trump would limit re-
productive rights beyond
abortion.
“Trump and his MAGA
friends are determined to
take away your fundamental
freedoms,” Biden said at a
small event Thursday at the
home of real estate devel-
opers Bob Klein and Dan-
ielle Guttman Klein.
Klein was the leader of
Proposition 71, a California
ballot measure approved by
voters in 2004 that ensured
state funding for stem cell
research to support medical
discoveries and cures to
diseases.
The measure came after
former Republican Presi-
dent George W. Bush limited
federal funding for the re-
search amid ethical con-
cerns from religious conser-
vatives about the destruc-
tion of human embryos that
supply the cells.
Biden’s visit to Klein’s
home in the affluent town of
Los Altos Hills came as the
Alabama court decision has
stalled in vitro fertilization
treatments, known as IVF,
leaving some who had hoped
to conceive children through
Deputy gang ‘logo’ found near L.A. women’s jail
[Deputies, from B1]
change or indicates that the
group has continued to op-
erate within the depart-
ment.
For decades, county and
outside investigations have
shown the Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment has been plagued by
gangs of deputies running
roughshod over certain sta-
tions and floors of the jail.
The groups are known by
monikers such as the Execu-
tioners, the Vikings and the
Regulators, and their mem-
bers often bear the same se-
quentially numbered tat-
toos with symbols linking
them to specific stations.
A photo of the sticker
that oversight officials spot-
ted outside the Lynwood jail,
for example, showed the
skeletal figure ripping
through a logo with the let-
ters CEN and the Roman
numeral 21. Century Station
is the department’s 21st sta-
tion, and it is home to two
deputy groups: the Regula-
tors and the Spartans.
Over the years, a series of
elected sheriffs have failed to
bring the tattooed groups
under control despite multi-
ple internal investigations,
an FBI inquiry, oversight
hearings, dozens of lawsuits
and several outside reports.
According to one of those
reports, released last year by
the Civilian Oversight Com-
mission after a series of pub-
lic hearings with sworn testi-
mony, internal department
communications docu-
mented the existence of the
Regulators as far back as
2007.
“The Regulators philoso-
phy is that if a sergeant, lieu-
tenant, or captain was weak
at Century Station they
would run over them,” a
commander wrote to then-
Sheriff Lee Baca in October
of that year, according to the
report. “They would not re-
spect rank. They openly dis-
played the Regulators logo
of the ‘skull and flames’ sym-
bol on their motorcycles as
well as body tattoos.”
Witnesses also told the
commission during the 2022
hearings that the Regula-
tors and the Spartans had
competed for control of the
station and engaged in mis-
conduct.
In one instance, an
anonymous witness told the
commission about problems
stemming from a Regulator-
sponsored fundraising
poker game in which female
deputies took personal days
off to serve as “cocktail wait-
resses,” according to the re-
port.
That allegedly irked the
Spartans, who asked for the
same amount of time off, but
were turned down. Eventu-
ally, the witness said, one
Spartan left a threatening
note under the door of the
captain who denied the re-
quest.
PRESIDENT Biden’s California tour included a stop at the Julian Dixon Library in Culver City, where he
announced the cancellation of an additional $1.2 billion in student loan debt for about 153,000 borrowers.
the procedure scrambling.
The practice involves com-
bining sperm and eggs in a
lab to create embryos and
implanting them in a uterus.
The Alabama court deci-
sion — which said those who
destroy frozen embryos can
be held liable for wrongful
death — has sparked new
concerns about reproduc-
tive health access amid
abortion uncertainty after
INVESTIGATORS with the Office of Inspector General found a Regulators deputy gang sticker in the parking garage of the Lynwood jail
late last year. The sticker has since been removed, but Sheriff Robert Luna faulted oversight officials for not telling him about it sooner.
One former official said
department leadership
knew about the Regulators
because the group had “in-
stalled a large monument
honoring themselves on the
premises of the Century Sta-
tion that remained in place
for several years,” according
to the commission report.
By 2020, an internal
county report showed tax-
payers had spent at least
$55 million settling lawsuits
involving deputies who were
alleged members of deputy
gangs, including the Regula-
tors.
While the prior sheriff, Al-
ex Villanueva, has often de-
nied the groups exist and at
one point likened them to
mythical unicorns, the coun-
ty’s current top cop has
vowed to eradicate them
and last year announced a
new office within the depart-
ment focused on achieving
that goal.
Still, in January of this
year a Times investigation
revealed evidence of a previ-
ously unreported deputy
gang, the Industry Station
Indians. The group’s exist-
ence came to light after sev-
eral deputies — two of whom
allegedly admitted to having
Indians tattoos — menaced
a group of teens during a
boozy confrontation outside
a bowling alley.
the U.S. Supreme Court in
2022 overturned Roe vs.
Wade, the decision that
protected abortion rights
nationwide.
The issue has reignited
partisan ethical debates
over the medical uses of
stem cells. Republican presi-
dential hopeful Nikki Haley
said this week that she be-
lieves “embryos are babies.”
At Thursday’s event, Bid-
Four deputies were fired,
though they have all ap-
pealed their terminations,
according to a county source
familiar with the situation
who was not authorized to
speak publicly.
Aside from noting the ap-
pearance of the Regulators’
imagery outside the wom-
en’s jail, the oversight report
released this week also high-
lighted two other major con-
cerns about conditions in
the county lockups based on
inspections conducted dur-
ing the last three months of
2023.
In October, the report
said, a woman at the Lyn-
wood jail gave birth alone in
her cell after medical staff
and jail officials failed to no-
tice that she was pregnant,
even though she’d been in
custody for nearly four
months.
Just before the woman —
who was not named in the
report — gave birth, a depu-
ty noticed that she looked
“big in the belly” but wasn’t
wearing a pregnancy uni-
form.
When the deputy re-
turned 15 minutes later, the
woman was covered in blood
and had a baby with her.
Under jail healthcare pol-
icy, the woman should have
been given a pregnancy test
when she was booked in, ac-
en doubled down on his
promise to veto any national
abortion ban proposed by
Congress and said that if he
is reelected — and Demo-
crats gain congressional
control in November — his
administration can undo
the far-reaching rollbacks of
reproductive rights.
“I promise you we will
fully restore Roe vs. Wade,”
Biden said to applause.
cording to the report. But,
oversight officials wrote, af-
ter she refused an initial uri-
ne screen, the jail’s medical
staff ordered a blood test
that was never completed.
Over the next several
months, the pregnant wom-
an repeatedly saw medical
staff for routine visits and
was put in high-observation
housing where she was sup-
posed to be checked on by
jailers every 15 minutes.
At one point, the report
said medical staff noted in
her chart that she refused to
wear clothing in her cell.
Though she did not often
come out for group activ-
ities, the report said she left
her cell four days before giv-
ing birth to take part in a
program.
Still, the guards and
healthcare workers failed to
notice the woman was preg-
nant.
The county’s Correc-
tional Health Services —
which handles healthcare
inside the jails — told The
Times that it could not pro-
vide any information about
the case due to medical pri-
vacy laws, but that inmates
are legally permitted to
refuse pregnancy tests.
This is not the first time
in recent years the jail has
faced questions about its
handling of pregnant in-
Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times
When Vice President
Kamala Harris visited San
Jose last month, she also
hammered the need for vot-
ers to put Democrats in
charge in order to avoid a na-
tional abortion ban.
Trump has taken credit
for the overturning of Roe vs.
Wade, made possible by his
appointments to the high
court.
The New York Times
mates. Last year, The Times
reported on leaked surveil-
lance videos of a woman giv-
ing birth in a jail hallway
while apparently restrained
in a wheelchair.
In addition to the prob-
lems at the women’s jail, the
oversight report also raised
concerns about an ongoing
rat problem at Men’s Central
Jail, a decaying facility built
downtown in the 1960s,
which the county has been
aiming to close for several
years.
Last year, multiple incar-
cerated people on the
LGBTQ+ unit told over-
sight officials they had been
bitten by rats that lived
there. According to the re-
port, the Office of Inspector
General repeatedly in-
formed the department
about the problem. Officials
responded by disinfecting
and pressure washing the
unit, as well as contracting
with a pest control agency to
set out traps.
But four months later, in-
spectors continued finding
rat feces during their visits
and the Office of Inspector
General suggested last week
that the department shut
down the rat-infested unit
“until it can maintain a sani-
tary environment to ensure
that conditions do not pose
a health risk to persons in
L AT I M E S . C O M
reported this week that if
Trump is elected, he plans
to take that even further,
targeting access to abortion
pills.
“All of these rights and all
of this progress is at a real
risk of loss if Joe Biden is not
reelected,” Klein said Thurs-
day, pointing to IVF, abor-
tion, cancer research and
progress on decreasing the
cost of lifesaving prescrip-
tions.
Steve Westley, the former
state controller of California
who unsuccessfully ran for
governor as a Democrat in
2006, co-hosted the Bay Area
event, held in a secluded
residential area near Santa
Clara, where horses and
donkeys roamed in neigh-
bors’ yards.
Tickets to the event cost
between $6,600 and $100,000.
Attendees included Lt. Gov.
Eleni Kounalakis, a Demo-
crat, and TV journalist Katie
Couric, who is an advocate
for pancreatic cancer re-
search.
Biden, who had been in
California since Tuesday,
stopping at fundraisers in
Los Angeles and San Fran-
cisco, headed back to the
White House on Thursday,
where state leaders, includ-
ing Gov. Gavin Newsom,
were awaiting his arrival for
the National Governors
Assn. winter meeting.
Nodding to criticisms
about his ability to serve
another term at his age,
Biden, 81, shared a common
refrain on the campaign
trail, comparing himself not
to “the almighty” but to the
alternative.
“I’m not the gift of all
presidents, but I’m sure as
hell better than the last guy,”
he said.
Office of Inspector General
custody.”
The Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment did not comment on
the suggestion to shut down
the rodent-riddled module,
but on Wednesday said in an
emailed statement that offi-
cials had investigated rat-re-
lated complaints and did not
find any inmate grievances
or reports consistent with
rodent bite injuries.
“The allegations in the
Office of Inspector General
report were thoroughly in-
vestigated,” the department
said in a statement. “The
Department strives to pro-
vide a safe and secure envi-
ronment for our entire incar-
cerated population.”
To Melissa Camacho, a
senior staff attorney with the
American Civil Liberties
Union of Southern Califor-
nia who is representing in-
mates in two major lawsuits
against the jails, the issues
identified in the latest over-
sight report are indicative of
a larger problem and require
a more sweeping solution.
“Closing Men’s Central
Jail is the only thing that will
fix the rat problem,” she told
The Times, “but LASD also
needs to admit that they
have a major deputy culture
problem and work to con-
vince their staff that they are
responsible for caring for the
people in their custody.”
L AT I M E S . C O M
Sam Hale searches for driftwood amid storm debris on the banks of the Santa Ana River at Huntington
Beach. Hale, who says he cleans the beach throughout the year, uses the wood for landscaping.
A storm’s on the way, but
it won’t pack much punch
The weak system will
cap off a month of
historic precipitation
in the Southland.
By Summer Lin
Southern Californians
can brace for another round
of wet weather, as a storm
expected to hit early next
week should cap off a month
of historic precipitation.
The slow-moving storm
is expected to reach the Los
Angeles area by Monday
night or Tuesday morning
before tapering off later
Tuesday, according to the
National Weather Service.
It’s projected to drop be-
tween a quarter of an inch
and half an inch of rain in
coastal areas and valleys
and up to an inch in the
mountains.
This storm isn’t expected
to pack the same punch as
the ones that drenched the
region earlier this month.
“It’s considerably
weaker,” said Mike Wofford,
a meteorologist with the
weather service in Oxnard.
“This would be a light storm
even in a fairly quiet winter
pattern.”
However, because the
ground is still saturated
from back-to-back storms
this month that triggered
debris and mudflows, dam-
aged homes and killed
several people across the
state, there remains a risk of
landslides in areas adjacent
to hills. That includes the
Santa Monica Mountains,
Record snowfall at Big Bear resorts
By Hannah Fry
For outdoor sports en-
thusiasts, the powerful
storms that have pummeled
Southern California have
provided at least one tan-
gible benefit: an epic snow
month in the mountains.
Big Bear Mountain Re-
sort, which operates the
Snow Summit, Bear Moun-
tain and Snow Valley re-
sorts, reported this week
that it’s the snowiest Febru-
ary on the mountain since at
least 2000. And more fresh
powder is on the way early
next week.
Snow Valley, which has a
peak elevation of about 7,800
feet, has recorded 121 inches
— about 10 feet — of fresh
snow this month. Snow
Summit and Bear Moun-
tain, which have peak eleva-
tions of 8,200 feet and 8,850
feet, respectively, have re-
ceived 99 inches, or about
8.25 feet.
“Compared to where we
were even a month ago, it’s
really night and day in terms
of the snowfall we’ve seen
come in this month,” said
Justin Kanton, a Big Bear
Mountain Resort spokes-
person. “It’s definitely a later
SALVAGE OPERATION
A MOTORIST plows through a muddy parking lot Tuesday at Lake Balboa/
Anthony C. Beilenson Park. More wet weather is expected early next week.
the San Gabriel Mountains,
the Rancho Palos Verdes
area and anywhere in the
Hollywood Hills.
“Landslides can happen
at any time now that the
grounds are so wet,” Wofford
said. “Any additional rain
would make it worse. That’s
something people will have
to live with for a while until
things dry out.”
Downtown Los Angeles
has received 17.79 inches of
rain since the water year be-
gan Oct. 1. To put that into
context, downtown usually
gets about 10 inches by this
time in the water year and
about 15 inches over a 12-
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times
BRAYAN ARREOLA, left, and Cynthia Ramirez
clear snow this month at Big Bear Superstore.
start than what we’re used
to seeing in a typical season,
but we’re glad it decided to
show up. Better late than
never.”
California has experi-
enced back-to-back atmos-
pheric river storms that
have translated to record-
breaking precipitation
along the coast and signifi-
cant snowfall in the moun-
tains.
These weather systems,
known as Pineapple Express
storms, get their name from
the tropical moisture they
carry from near Hawaii to
CITY & STATE
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times
month period.
“If we didn’t get any rain
between now and October,
we’d be almost 3 inches
above the normal for the
entire year,” Wofford said.
“That’s telling.”
The 12.56 inches received
so far this month alone have
made it the fourth-wettest
February since the weather
service started keeping rec-
ords in 1877.
In fact, February has
been the wettest month in 26
years and is tied for the
seventh-wettest ever.
After three years of se-
vere drought, California is
experiencing one of its
the mainland. The storms
are known for intense rain
but can bring snow at higher
elevations.
“We’ve had a lot of warm
and very wet storms,” said
Alex Tardy, a meteorologist
with the National Weather
Service in San Diego. “We’ve
seen about three times, so
far, the amount of precipita-
tion we normally see in these
areas just in February. And
most of that has been snow.”
By contrast, Snow Valley
last February received 87
inches — 7.25 feet — of pow-
der, while Snow Summit and
wettest years on record.
Elsewhere in the state, the
storms dropped enough
snow on the Sierra Nevada
to eradicate fears of a “snow
drought” and build up the
pack to 86% of normal for
the date.
California’s major reser-
voirs are at 118% of their aver-
age levels for this time of
year.
“Some of the reservoirs
had to do releases ahead of
approaching storms so they
can take in the water that
falls,” Wofford said. “That’s
not something we normally
have to deal with in a typical
winter.”
Bear Mountain notched 81
inches, or 6.75 feet. Snow fell
last year at much lower
elevations, down to 1,000
feet. A storm in late
February left an unusual
blanket of fresh powder on
the Santa Monica and San
Gabriel mountains.
Though the snow season
has gotten off to a late start
this year, Tardy said, the
storms have been “very pro-
ductive in terms of overall
precipitation.”
The latest storms have
blanketed the Sierra Nevada
with a near-average amount
of snow for this time of year,
helping to ease concerns
that California might re-
main in a “snow drought.”
Sensors across the Sierra
Nevada show larger accu-
mulations in the northern
section of the range, where
the snowpack measures 98%
of normal for the date.
Meanwhile, another rain
event is expected to hit the
region early next week.
That storm, while ex-
pected to be much milder
than the other systems that
have hit the area this month,
could bring a few inches of
snow to elevations above
7,000 or 7,500 feet, the
weather service said.
S AT U R DAY , F E B RUA RY 2 4 , 2 0 2 4
2 more suspects
charged in L.A.
County killings
By Nathan Solis
An 18-year-old man and a
17-year-old boy have been ar-
rested and charged with
murder in connection with a
series of deadly drive-by
shootings this month, join-
ing two suspects who were
apprehended within hours
of the killings, the Los Ange-
les County district attor-
ney’s office announced.
Prosecutors also an-
nounced murder charges
against two of the suspects
for two fatal shootings in No-
vember.
Four people were shot
and killed on Feb. 11 and 12
across a five-mile radius.
The victims were targeted at
random in the cities of Cuda-
hy, Huntington Park and
Bell and unincorporated
Los Angeles County, author-
ities say. Homicide investi-
gators said those killed were
the victims of a “random
murder spree.”
Law enforcement ar-
rested 42-year-old Gary
Garcia Jr. and 20-year-old
Timberland Wayne McK-
neely less than 24 hours after
the killings. Days later, 17-
year-old Deair Fleming De-
lerence was arrested as the
third suspect, according to a
news release from Dist. Atty.
George Gascón’s office.
On Thursday, the D.A.’s
office announced murder
charges against 18-year-old
Joseivan Mendoza as the
fourth suspect in the Febru-
ary shootings.
Prosecutors also re-
vealed two additional mur-
der charges for the killings of
two men, ages 30 and 28, in
an unincorporated part of
the county on Nov. 24. McK-
neely and Mendoza were
named as the alleged shoot-
ers. It’s unclear if those two
victims were specifically tar-
geted or also randomly se-
lected.
On Nov. 24, the Los Ange-
les County Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment said, a 30-year-old man
was gunned down around
2:30 a.m. in the 6300 block of
Miramonte Boulevard in a
gang shooting. In nearby
Cudahy, a man was found fa-
tally shot in the street in the
2 accused of giving
fatal silicone shots
knew risk, jury told
By Salvador
Hernandez
Two women charged with
killing a 26-year-old woman
by giving her a fatal dose of
silicone to enlarge her but-
tocks in 2019 had seen the un-
licensed procedure turn
deadly before, prosecutors
argued in court.
Libby Adame, 53, and Ali-
cia Galaz, 25, both of Riv-
erside, are on trial in the
death of Karissa Rajpaul,
who died shortly after the
mother and daughter in-
jected her with silicone at a
home in Sherman Oaks.
Rajpaul, of Los Angeles,
started to lose conscious-
ness after the procedure, but
Los Angeles police said Ad-
ame and Galaz fled the
scene, leaving paramedics
unaware that Rajpaul had
undergone the risky cos-
metic procedure.
“As a result, the victim
died in an emergency room
with tending physicians un-
aware of the silicone injec-
tion,” police said at the time
of their arrest.
On Tuesday, prosecutors
told jurors the two defend-
ants had seen such risky in-
jections turn deadly before,
the Los Angeles Daily News
reported.
About a year before Raj-
paul’s death, prosecutors
said, Adame and Galaz were
seen in security camera
footage in the parking lot be-
hind a salon in South Gate
just as paramedics rushed in
through the front door to
treat another woman who
had lost consciousness after
getting an injection.
Paramedics tried unsuc-
cessfully to revive the wom-
an, Karina Arias, Deputy
B3
7900 block of Park Avenue,
according to a department
news release.
The D.A.’s office did not
respond to requests for
more information about
these shootings.
Including the two uni-
dentified victims, in total,
six people were killed by the
suspects, prosecutors al-
leged. Four were killed in the
span of a few hours in south-
east L.A. County, including
14-year-old Javier Pedraza
Jr., who was shot and killed
outside his elementary
school in Cudahy in the early
hours of Feb. 12. The other
victims were 24-year-old
Kevin Parada; 27-year-old
Josue Ramirez and 43-year-
old Omar Mara, according to
the D.A.’s office.
Mendoza is charged with
two counts of murder.
Delerence is scheduled to
appear in court in late
March and is charged with
four counts of murder and
two counts of attempted
willful, deliberate and pre-
meditated murder, accord-
ing to the D.A.’s office. Two
others were shot during the
Feb. 11 and 12 shootings, in-
cluding a 13-year-old boy.
At each of the four Febru-
ary shootings, a red Honda
Pilot was captured on sur-
veillance video footage driv-
ing away from the scene. In-
vestigators were able to ver-
ify the vehicle’s license plate
number and issued a bul-
letin to law enforcement
agencies describing the
driver as armed and danger-
ous and wanted in connec-
tion with the shootings.
A vehicle matching the
description was stopped by
San Bernardino County
sheriff ’s deputies several
hours after the shootings,
and one of the suspects — in-
vestigators would not say if
it was Garcia or McKneely —
was arrested at that time.
The second suspect was ar-
rested the following morn-
ing after a search warrant
was executed by a SWAT
team at a Compton home,
according to investigators.
The D.A.’s office did not
disclose whether the Honda
Pilot was present at the No-
vember shootings.
Dist. Atty. Lee Cernok told
the jury.
It is unclear why no
charges were filed in that
death.
Cernok said in court that
Arias’ case was under inves-
tigation when investigators
became aware of Rajpaul’s
death.
Cernok said that despite
knowing the risks, the
mother and daughter per-
formed the procedure for
about a decade, gaining a
following on social media.
“They kept going and go-
ing and going, to make mon-
ey,” said Cernok, according
to the Daily News.
Attorneys for Adame and
Galaz, meanwhile, argued
on Tuesday that the silicone
injections used to enlarge
buttocks are not illegal in
California and called the
deadly incident an accident.
Marco Gianuzzi, Raj-
paul’s husband, testified
Tuesday that the defend-
ants performed the pro-
cedure on his wife a total of
three times, including the
deadly incident in 2019.
Gianuzzi, the Daily News
reported, said he was aware
of the first two procedures,
but his wife hid the third one
from him because she knew
he objected to it.
The two women have
been charged with one count
of murder and three counts
of practicing medicine with-
out a license.
The risky procedure has
become more popular in re-
cent years, leading to other
deaths.
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration has issued
warnings against silicone
buttock injections, remind-
ing people that they are not
FDA-approved.
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Hilary lost some oomph before it hit state
[Hilary, from B1]
watches and warnings ever
issued in California.
But officials now say it
had degenerated into a post-
tropical low by the time it
reached the state. The post-
tropical designation means
a storm no longer has the
characteristics of a tropical
cyclone.
“On its approach to land
— and even more so after it
made landfall — the
thunderstorm activity be-
came increasingly disorga-
nized, and it lost its well-
defined center at the sur-
face, and those are two nec-
essary criteria for something
to be considered a tropical
cyclone,” said Brad Rein-
hart, the report’s author and
a specialist with the Na-
tional Hurricane Center.
The mountains and
rough terrain of the Baja
California peninsula dis-
rupted the organization of
the storm’s surface center,
making it “less defined,
more diffused and difficult
to track,” Reinhart said.
Post-storm analyses
often reveal new informa-
tion, and it is not uncommon
for initial reports to change
when systems are later ex-
amined with all available
data and without opera-
tional time constraints, he
said.
The findings do not
undermine the real and sig-
nificant impacts of Hilary,
including three fatalities
and more than $914 million in
damage in the U.S. and
Mexico.
“Even though the center
itself may not have moved
into Southern California, it
still brought impacts to
Southern California, both as
a tropical and post-tropical
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to resume diplomatic
ties through possible
loan of two animals.
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China could soon be
sending giant pandas to the
U.S. for the first time in
years. “Panda diplomacy”
between the countries could
be resumed this summer.
The China Wildlife Con-
servation Assn. has secured
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one in California, the report
says.
In Baja California, a man
drowned in Santa Rosalía
after his vehicle was swept
away by floodwaters. A 32-
year-old woman was found
dead after her vehicle was
swept away by an overflow-
ing stream near Cataviña.
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dead after her mobile home
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along the Santa Ana River in
San Bernardino County.
Hilary produced an esti-
mated $900 million in dam-
age in the United States,
along with at least $14.5
million in Baja California
Sur. It delivered gale-force
winds that downed trees
and knocked out power to
hundreds of thousands of
people.
As it bore down, the
storm coincided with a mag-
nitude 5.1 earthquake in
Ojai, about 80 miles north-
west of Los Angeles — a
uniquely Californian occur-
rence that led residents to
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times coin the term “hurriquake.”
Reinhart said the re-
port’s findings do not negate
the tropical storm watches
Angeles and 1.82 inches in dino Mountains. Management Agency fund- and warnings that were is-
San Diego. Death Valley set “This post-analysis ing for affected areas. sued well in advance of Hila-
its all-time daily rainfall doesn’t really change any of In Mexico, the highest ry, which helped people pre-
record of 2.2 inches — more that,” Reinhart said. “Really, rainfall accumulations oc- pare for the hazards they
than it averages in an entire the focus is that it brought curred in northern portions might experience, regard-
year. these impacts beginning as of Baja California Sur, with a less of the storm’s official
The mountains of South- a tropical cyclone, and these storm total of 12.83 inches in status or location.
ern California also saw sig- impacts and hazards con- San Lucas Norte — about 1.8 “It’s a perfect example
nificant rainfall totals from tinued even after it became times the annual average, that tropical storm impacts
Aug. 19 to 21, the report indi- post-tropical.” the report says. can extend far away from the
cates. That includes 13.07 The event garnered a Hilary damaged or de- center,” Reinhart said. “The
inches at Upper Mission state of emergency declara- stroyed at least 87 homes center doesn’t have to move
Creek in San Bernardino tion from Gov. Gavin New- across the Baja California over you, or in your state or
County, 11.75 inches at Mt. som and, later, a major di- peninsula. region, for you to still be sig-
San Jacinto in Riverside saster declaration from The storm was directly nificantly impacted by it.
County and 10.34 inches near President Biden, which un- responsible for at least three Hilary highlighted that for
Crestline in the San Bernar- locked Federal Emergency deaths, two in Mexico and Southern California.”
cure the future for giant pan- according to Brandie Smith, returned to China in the last the animals “envoys of
das,” Owen said. director of the Smithsoni- few years. friendship between the Chi-
Owen told the Associ- an’s National Zoo and Con- The San Diego Zoo re- nese and American peo-
ated Press that two pandas, servation Biology Institute. turned its last giant pandas, ples.”
female and male, could ar- “It’s always been our Bai Yun and her son Xiao “We are ready to continue
rive at the zoo by the end of intention and hope to have Liwu, to China in 2019. The our cooperation with the
the summer. One of the fe- giant pandas at the Zoo in Memphis Zoo sent back its United States on panda con-
males being considered is a the future and continue our female panda in April. servation, and do our best to
descendant of former zoo research here and conserva- Last November, the Na- meet the wishes of the Cali-
residents Bai Yun and Gao tion work in China,” Smith tional Zoo sent back two fornians so as to deepen the
Gao. said in a statement. adults, Tian Tian and Mei friendly ties between our two
The San Diego Zoo hasn’t China has been lending Xiang, and their cub, Xiao Qi peoples,” Xi said at the time.
hosted giant pandas since pandas to the U.S. for more Ji, according to a news re- China first lent two pan-
2019. than five decades as a sign of lease. das to the National Zoo in
China is also negotiating goodwill between the coun- Chinese President Xi Jin- 1972. It later began lending
with the National Zoo in tries, but doubts about the ping hinted late last year pandas to other U.S. zoos,
Washington to “develop a fu- future of the loans grew after that China could send new with the proceeds going to
ture giant panda program,” several of the animals were pandas to the U.S., calling conservation programs.
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L.A. County sues Bass supports homelessness bill

over Grubhub’s Mayor backs Padilla
grams for the elderly and
disabled, the National Hous-
ing for All Act to finally treat
the homelessness and af-
support of national efforts
that she said are already

fees at checkout
[Lawsuit, from B1]
vast marketplace through
practices that mislead con-
sumers and restaurants and
put the squeeze on the com-
pany’s delivery drivers,” the
lawsuit says. “Multiple as-
pects of Grubhub’s business
— and every transaction for
food delivery — are suffused
with deception.”
A Grubhub spokes-
person said in a statement
the company plans to “ag-
gressively defend” itself in
court.
“We’ve sought to engage
in a constructive dialogue
with the Los Angeles County
Counsel’s office to explain
our business and identify
the restaurants didn’t be-
lieve they had made a mis-
take with the order. Restau-
rants are also at a disadvan-
tage if they don’t pay the
company extra marketing
fees, the county alleged.
Grubhub gives more
search prominence to
restaurants that pay more in
marketing fees, though most
customers likely don’t real-
ize this, the suit alleges. In-
stead, customers may be-
lieve the restaurants they’re
seeing higher in the search
ranking are the closest or
the most popular.
“These practices inflict
financial harm on L.A.
County’s residents, restau-
as he reintroduces
Housing for All Act to
provide U.S. funding.
By Caroline
Petrow-Cohen
Los Angeles Mayor
Karen Bass joined U.S. Sen.
Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and
local leaders Wednesday to
voice support for the rein-
troduction of a bill that
would invest billions of fed-
eral dollars in housing and
homelessness programs.
The Housing for All Act,
which Padilla previously in-
troduced in 2022 and 2023,
would funnel money into
supportive housing pro-
ing Trust Fund, the Housing
Choice Vouchers program
and other efforts. The bill
would also back local ap-
proaches to the homeless-
ness crisis including the con-
version of motel and hotel
rooms into permanent sup-
portive housing and mobile
crisis intervention teams for
unhoused people.
Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Tor-
rance) and Salud Carbajal
(D-Santa Barbara) intro-
duced companion legisla-
tion in the House. The bill
did not reach the president’s
desk either time it was previ-
ously introduced.
“Housing is a basic hu-
man right, not a privilege,”
Padilla said Wednesday. “I
am reintroducing the Hous-
fordable housing crises with
the seriousness they de-
serve, and I won’t stop this
fight until every person has a
place to call home.”
Padilla’s legislation
would authorize $14.5 billion
for the Project-Based Rent-
al Assistance program,
which allows tenants to pay
rent based on their income,
and an additional $40 mil-
lion to provide technical as-
sistance to recipients or ap-
plicants of the program.
It would also allocate $15
billion to be spent over 10
years on Continuum of Care
grants, which provide fund-
ing to nonprofit providers
and state and local govern-
ments tackling homeless-
ness. Bass praised the bill’s
making a difference in the
fight against homelessness.
“This bill would invest in
federal programs that have a
proven track record,” she
said. “The point is, we know
how to solve this problem. ...
This crisis is not going to be
solved at one level of govern-
ment.”
The bill funds programs
that aim to address the lack
of affordable housing, pre-
vent evictions and support
those living on the street. Al-
though the bill failed to
progress into law in prior
years, Bass said she remains
committed to its passage.
“We’re going to continue
advocating until it’s on Pres-
ident Biden’s desk for signa-
ture,” she said.

any areas for improvement,”
a company spokesperson
wrote. “We are disappointed
they have moved forward
with this lawsuit because
our practices have always
complied with applicable
law, and in any event, many
of the allegations are incor-
rect or have been discontin-
ued.”
The lawsuit refers to a
Grubhub webpage with a
banner that says customers
can “order online for free” at
Los Angeles restaurants
near them. In reality, the
lawsuit says, they cannot.
Grubhub said it is work-
ing on removing the lan-
guage “from all existing ma-
terials.”
“This lawsuit sends a
clear message: Los Angeles
County will not tolerate
businesses that deceive con-
sumers, take advantage of
restaurants, and exploit the
drivers who work hard to
provide a valued service,”
Supervisor Lindsey Hor-
vath, the board chair, said in
a statement.
It’s the latest government
action aimed at preventing
companies from hitting con-
sumers with surprise
charges. A new state law
goes into effect this summer
prohibiting last-minute
“junk fees” across a long list
of businesses, including de-
livery apps. Atty. Gen. Rob
Bonta, who co-sponsored
the measure, has promised
“the price Californians see
will be the price they pay.”
The attorney general’s of-
fice has said that once the
law goes into effect, delivery
apps cannot tack on miscel-
laneous fees at the end of the
transaction.
The county’s lawsuit ar-
gues the status quo hurts
not only Grubhub’s custom-
ers but also the drivers and
restaurants who serve them.
According to the lawsuit,
restaurants signing up for
Grubhub were not properly
warned that they would
have to refund money to dis-
satisfied customers even if
L.A. COUNTY contends Grubhub delivery drivers
are being exploited by the company’s deceptive fees.
rants and workers and are
unacceptable while so many
of them struggle to make
ends meet,” Rafael Carbajal,
director of the county’s De-
partment of Consumer and
Business Affairs, said in a
statement.
Grubhub came under fire
from its California delivery
drivers in 2020 after the com-
pany rolled out a new charge
— called the driver benefits
fee — to help cover the costs
that came under Pro-
position 22, a voter-ap-
proved ballot measure that
guaranteed delivery drivers
who clock a certain number
of hours a healthcare
stipend, among other ben-
efits.
As part of the rollout, the
company defaulted to no tip.
Drivers said their earnings
were slashed as a result.
The lawsuit alleges the
way Grubhub explains the
driver benefits fee continues
to deter customers from tip-
ping.
Grubhub explains the fee
to consumers as helping
guarantee “minimum wage
and healthcare benefits for
our drivers so they don’t
have to depend on tips,” the
lawsuit says. In reality, many
drivers don’t qualify for the
stipend and are fully de-
pendent on tips, the county
alleges.
Grubhub said the com-
pany has worked to make it
easier for restaurants to dis-
pute refunds and plans to
clarify the benefits drivers
receive as a result of Pro-
position 22. It also said mar-
keting fees only affect the
searches customers see in
“certain, limited circum-
stances.”
In 2022, Grubhub settled
a similar suit with Washing-
ton, D.C., for $3.5 million af-
ter the district’s attorney
general accused the com-
pany of manipulating cus-
tomers with “hidden fees.”
Under the settlement, Wash-
ington received $800,000,
and Grubhub customers
were refunded $2.7 million.
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member of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. He never met
a stranger and loved his time
socializing with old and new
friends alike.
Francisco Corpuz
April 25, 1952 -
February 12, 2024
Francisco P. Corpuz, 71,
of Los Angeles and Mililani,
Hawaii, passed away on
February 12, 2024.
He was born in Laoag,
Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
In 1975, Francisco married
Precious and had their first
child, Charles. He and son
immigrated to Hawaii in 1979
Dr. George Joji
YAMAUCHI,
George Yamauchi, a man
of many passions and deep
love for his family, passed
away on Februar y 1st,
2024 after bravely battling
cancer for a year. George
was born in Setagaya, Tokyo
on November 22, 1949 to
Mutsuko, his Japanese-
American mother, and
Kazumichi, his Japanese
father. In 1962 at the age
of 12, George moved to the
United States with his older
brother, Richard. Upon arrival
in Los Angeles, he began his
studies in English at Marina
Junior High before continu-
ing his education at Venice
High School.
In 1972, he earned a
bachelor of science degree
cum laude, followed by a
medical school degree in
1976, both from UCLA. In
1981, he completed his
urology residency at USC.
From 1984 to 2008, George
took pleasure in teaching
at USC, serving as a clinical
instructor in surgery and a
clinical associate professor in
urology. He dedicated over
four decades to practicing
at Advanced Urology before
eventually retiring in 2022.
He also enjoyed volunteering
with the Japanese American
Medical Association and
with a team of Japanese
physicians who provided
long-term screenings and
care for the survivors of the
1945 bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
While he took great pride
in his professional career and
volunteer work, his greatest
source of joy came from
tending his extensive garden,
adorned with beautiful flow-
ers, bromeliads, staghorns,
and distinctive plants. He
initiated the growth of
many vegetables from seeds
harvested the previous year.
He cultivated various berries,
Kyoho grapes, passion fruit,
and vegetables for his grand-
children to harvest and enjoy.
Even as an empty-nester, he
lovingly entrusted his daugh-
ters to care for “his babies,” the
cherished plants that brought
color and life to his home.
Beyond his green thumb,
George cherished moments
spent fishing with friends at
Panguitch Lake, Utah, sharing
laughter over poker games
and annual gatherings with
lifelong friends. His love
for storytelling, jokes, and
camaraderie with loved ones
enriched the lives of all who
knew him.
George was deeply loved
by his family, friends and
medical community. He
leaves behind a legacy of
Frank Goldberg
May 1933 -
January 2024
Born in Quinc y,
Massachusetts on May 4th,
1933, Frank Goldberg was the
youngest of four children of
Dora (Liberman) Goldberg,
originally from Ukraine, and
John “Yankel” Goldberg,
originally from Belarus. In the
late 1940s, his family moved
to Phoenix, where he gradu-
ated from North High School
in 1950. Frank later earned a
BA in History from California
State University, Los Angeles.
Frank was a California state
taxman, retiring as a district
administrator after 35 years.
He died January 14th, 2024
in Sherman Oaks.
Frank is recalled as a
family-oriented storyteller,
and an endlessly loyal and
generous son and uncle,
known never to forget a
birthday. Frank was loved.
He is survived by 4 nieces, 2
nephews, 12 great nieces and
nephews, and 15 great-great
nieces and nephews. Services
were held at Eden Memorial
Park on January 16th.
Moti Teckchandani
July 22, 1944 -
February 2, 2024
Pe a c e f u l d e m i s e o f
Moti Teckchandani on 2nd
February 2024 in Mumbai,
India
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Patrick Burke was born on March 17, 1962 to Michael and
Joan in Hollywood, Florida. He is one of three brothers, along
with Michael and James. Pat’s younger years were spent in
New Jersey, where he attended Christian Brothers Academy
and Bricktown High School, graduating in 1978. Most will
know Patrick as a brilliant golfer and instructor, but in his
high school years, his true love for hockey shone through as
arguably his favorite sport of the two. He went on to attend
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Debra A Breech
August 6, 1952 - December 4, 2023
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of
Debra Ann (Neff ) Breech on December 4, 2023. Debbie died
after a six month battle with a series of strokes, with her
husband of 47 years, Andy, by her side.
Debbie was born in Edmonds, Washington to
Desmond and Beverly Neff in 1952. She was the oldest of
five children. She attended Stanford University, where she
met Andy in 1971 at a study abroad program in Vienna,
Austria. They were married in 1976 and one year later found
themselves in Southern California. Debbie attended UCLA grad
school, studying nutrition. Her studies were interrupted by the
birth of their first child in 1979. She took a leave of absence
but did not return due to the births of three more children
in the next six years.
Now with two girls and two boys to raise, she
became very active in the community. She volunteered for
the PTA, the local library, Cub Scouts, and Girl Scouts, among
other organizations in the town of Pacific Palisades.
Debbie was an avid reader and loved puzzles
and games. She enjoyed gardening, baking, and sewing,
frequently making the kids’ Halloween costumes herself. Her
creativity didn’t stop with costumes; she crocheted blankets,
turned old t-shirts into quilts, made rag rugs, hot pads, cork
boards, and more. She loved spending time with family and
friends at Big Bear Lake, never missing her daily summertime
swim in the lake. She was always active, preferring to walk
or bike into town rather than drive. In her late thirties, she
started playing soccer with fellow soccer moms. They formed
a women’s team, and soccer was her passion for the next 30+
years. She was on the over sixties team when she died.
She was the proud grandma of five grandchildren,
and all five loved spending time with their “Gaga”.
Debbie is survived by her husband, Andy Breech,
her four children, Sarah Breech, Adam Breech (Laura), Patty
Breech, James Breech (Erin), and her five grandchildren, Lily,
Faye, Abby, Leland, and Sam. She is also survived by members
of her Seattle family, siblings Linda Neff Berg, Ted Neff, Janis
Neff Warner, and Stacie Neff.
Debbie will be sorely missed by everyone who
knew her. Services will be held Saturday, March 23 at 10 a.m.
at the United Methodist Church in Pacific Palisades. The family
requests that any donations in memory of Debbie be sent to
City of Hope.
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Patrick Thomas Burke
March 17, 1962 - January 29, 2024
Patrick Thomas Burke, 61, of Orange County, California,
passed away unexpectedly in his home on January 29, 2024.
The sudden loss of Patrick has tremendously saddened the
entirety of his family and friends.

Area code 738 will to join Precious.
Francisco worked for the
state of Hawaii and retired
Broward College in West Palm Beach, Florida before moving to California for good in 1982.
love, kindness, and a green
In California, he continued school at Citrus College, and then went on to attend Cal State
oasis that will forever bloom
Dominguez Hills. He attended Dominguez Hills on a golf scholarship, earned second team
in the hearts of his family and
All America and Academic All America Honors, and earned a spot on the school’s Athletic

be used in the same as Chief of Research, Dept.
Of Labor in 2012.
Hawaii was home for over
friends. His memory will be
Wall Of Fame. This is where Patrick’s golf talent began to shine through, winning the Gary
cherished for his passion for
Sanders Invitational twice.
gardening and his ability to
cultivate beauty and joy in After finishing college, Pat worked in different areas within the golf world, including as an

turf as 213 and 323 33 years, where he welcomed

[Calling, from B1]
ready in use, nor will it make
punching in numbers any
more demanding than it al-
ready is. Since the 323 area
code overran its original
boundaries in 2017 to be-
come an overlay throughout
213’s turf, people with 323 or
213 numbers have been re-
quired to use all 10 digits of a
phone number even when
calling someone who’s in the
same area code. That will
continue to be the case once
738 is in use.
With cellphones gradu-
ally replacing wired phones,
new area codes and longer
numbers aren’t as meaning-
ful as they used to be. In-
creasingly, people place calls
by touching a link on a
smartphone screen rather
than punching numbers on a
keypad.
And with portability —
the ability to keep your
phone number even when
you change phone compa-
nies — area codes are losing
their place as geographic
symbols.
Twenty years ago, when
your phone’s caller ID dis-
play said a call was coming
from Colorado, you could be
pretty sure someone was
calling you from Colorado.
Today, all you know is that
the caller’s phone number
originated in Colorado.
a second child, Cherish.
The Corpuz Ohana
moved to LA in 2013 to be
closer to their children and
grandchildren.
Francisco is sur vived
by wife Precious, children
Charles and Cherish,
daughter-in-law Rebecca and
son-in-law Yu, and grandchil-
dren Kaitlyn, Joshua, and Mia.
A viewing will be held at
Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills
on Sunday, March 3 (1-8 pm).
Mass will be held at St. Cyril
of Jerusalem in Encino on
Wednesday, March 6 (11am).
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every aspect of his life.
His cherished wife of
53 years, Janice Christine
Assistant Superintendent to his stepfather, Bill Martin, at Friendly Hills Country Club. During
this time, he began to work diligently on his golf game, which quickly led to his turning pro
in 1986 and qualifying for the Australian Tour. This success led him to the PGA Tour in 1989,
again in 1992 and then, the Buy.Com Tour. In 1994, he headed back to Australia and won the
Yamauchi, survives him. He
Australia Players Championship and the Victorian Open. Returning to the U.S., Pat enjoyed
is also survived by his daugh-
success from 1995-1997 with numerous strong finishes, and a tie for 3rd at the B.C. Open, his
ters Ann (Ken Yu) Yamauchi,
best finish ever. In his career, Pat also competed in 5 Major Championships, but unfortunately,
Caren (Karl Smith) Yamauchi,
a wrist injury derailed his playing career, leading him back to California, and to a successful
and Sharon (Makoto Ogawa)
Yamauchi; grandchildren
career in teaching all levels of golfers. He found a great niche at Coto de Caza Country Club for
numerous years, teaching many up-and-coming successful amateur and junior golfers. One of
Maggie and Michael Yu, and
his most fulfilling jobs on his portfolio was working as the Director of Golf and Instruction at
Sophie, Luke, and George
Get A Grip foundation, where Pat met lifelong friends and helped change the lives of countless
Ogawa; siblings Richard
young students through golf instruction and after-school education.
(Concetta) Yamauchi, Jon
Sasaki, Tamako (Manabu) At his passing, he had began teaching at El Niguel Country Club in Laguna Niguel, California,
Abe, and Sumiko Hayashi and was again reaching a new level of success for himself, his students and, El Niguel. Pat’s
of Japan. In addition, he is playing experience, knowledge of the golf swing, and his true desire and compassion to help
survived by cousins, nieces, his students, was what made him such a successful teacher and mentor to so many. His legacy
nephews, and a large ex- will live on through the many lives he reached throughout his teaching and playing career.
tended family.
Pat met his wife Jody in 1982 while skating at an ice rink in West Covina, California, they
Funeral services for the went on to have their first date that very evening. Patrick and Jody were married 1989 in Lake
late Dr. George Joji Yamauchi,
74 years old, will be held on
Tahoe, Nevada, and have one daughter, Jaime. Patrick was an extraordinarily devout husband
and father, and spent his every waking moment supporting his family in every way he could,
Saturday, March 9, 10 a.m. at
Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist
making every decision in his life with consideration of how it would benefit them. He would
never miss a single important event in his daughter or his wife’s life, doing absolutely whatever
Temple 815 E. First St. in Los it took to be present to support them. Patrick was an exceptionally great and loving friend to
Angeles. all that are close to him, and his presence will be tremendously missed by all.
www.fukuimortuary.com
213-626-0441 Pat was predeceased by his father, Mike Sr. and his mother, Joan.
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SUDOKU BRIDGE
On the bidding South may well have five spades,
By Frank Stewart surely has a heart-stopper, and suggesting a trump suit
so East must hope West has quickly often leads to an eas-
“Simple Saturday” fo- an entry. Moreover, East ier auction.
cuses on basic technique. must keep communication
Against a notrump con- with his partner. South dealer
tract, the defenders’ usual On the first heart, East N-S vulnerable
strategy is to establish a long must follow with the 10. Then
NORTH
suit. The declaring side will when declarer leads a dia- ♠ K 10 9
invariably have more of the mond, West can play an hon- ♥43
high cards. But even if the or, win a diamond trick and ♦ A 10 8 4 3
defenders set up a suit, the lead his last heart for East to ♣AQ8
player with the winners run his suit. WEST EAST
♠J432 ♠865
must retain an entry to cash You hold: ♠ K 10 9 ♥ 4 3 ♥62 ♥ A K Q 10 5
them. ♦ A 10 8 4 3 ♣ A Q 8. You open ♦KQ52 ♦7
In today’s deal, West led a one diamond, and your part- ♣743 ♣ 10 9 6 2
heart against 3NT, and East ner bids one spade. What do SOUTH
joyously and impulsively you say? ♠AQ7
took the queen, king and ace. Answer: To rebid a five- ♥J987
South won the next heart card suit is permissible but ♦J96
with the jack and still had not desirable. A rebid of two ♣KJ5
only eight tricks. He guessed diamonds here would sug- SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
well to let the nine of dia- gest a six-card or longer suit. Pass Pass 1♦ 1♥
monds ride next (instead of A bid of 1NT to show a bal- 2 NT Pass 3 NT All Pass
playing East for a singleton anced minimum would not Opening lead — ♥ 6
honor), and the contract be a mistake, but a raise to
KENKEN came home. two spades is best. Partner Tribune Content Agency
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When a loved one cheats

HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
There was a time you would
rush into the game without a
thought, but now you’re
more aware. Often the win-
ning move is not to compete.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): A gradual and natural
progression is underway.
Your priorities, wants and
needs will soon change to
suit this fresh mission.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
When you sense a person is
using some kind of persua-
sive technique, it makes you
wonder why.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
Out of your element and
forced to rise to the occasion
— that’s your zone of success
today.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
Maybe others want some-
thing a little different from
you than what you’re cur-
rently giving. Ultimately the
one to determine how you’ll
change is you.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
There’s a rhythm to the day
as you click with people.
You’re a key part of every-
thing coming together.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
There is no skill more useful
now than your ability to
match your message to its
recipient.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
Tonight will bring one of
those certain instances
when pulling back and not
helping can be the biggest
help.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): A carefree mood
sets in. Your mind is cleared
of worry, your time free of
chore. Sure, you have re-
sponsibilities, but they don’t
seem burdensome.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): Things happen that look
more impactful than they
really are. What you’re deal-
ing with here is a temporary
stain, which will be washed
away with minimal effort.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): The spotlight is taking
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its sweet time getting
around to you, though this
might be considered a gift.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): It doesn’t feel like you’re
making decisions because
answers come so auto-
matically to you that you
hardly feel you are choosing,
but of course you are.
Today’s birthday (Feb.
24): You’re a healer. You’ll
revel in relationships that
fortify you and you’ll take
that feeling into the world,
providing a sense of belong-
ing and support to those
who really need it. More
highlights: Luck aligns per-
fectly with your health and
wellness goals. Logistics will
often be smooth, for travel
especially, and when they
are not, the story will be well
worth it! Sagittarius and Ar-
ies adore you. Your lucky
numbers: 48, 11, 36, 32 and 5.
Mathis writes her column
for Creators Syndicate Inc.
The horoscope should be
read for entertainment.
Dear Amy: My wonderful
daughter and her husband
have been together for 15
years.
We genuinely love her
husband, “Danny,” and con-
sider him our son. They have
a 1-year-old child and we ab-
solutely adore our grandson.
Last weekend our daugh-
ter told us that Danny has
cheated on her. She is devas-
tated, and so are we. We are
so disappointed in him.
Our daughter told us that
they are trying to work
things out. She says they in-
tend to stay together and
that she absolutely wants to
stay married to him.
We worry about her self-
esteem and think it’s not a
good idea for her to stay
married to someone who has
been unfaithful to her.
My wife and I want her to
call a lawyer, but we are torn
about sharing our opinion
with her. What do you think?
Torn Parents
Dear Parents: Couples do
recover from episodes of
cheating.
When it comes to your
daughter’s marriage, it’s a
mistake for you to attach to a
specific outcome.
If she asks for your ad-
vice, you should be honest
with her. Otherwise, keep
your opinion to yourself.
If you share your view,
FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane
you should also say that you
understand this is compli-
cated, that it is her marriage
— not yours — and that you
will absolutely be in her cor-
ner no matter what.
If she stays with Danny,
you should also be honest
with him. Tell him (pri-
vately) you’re disappointed
in his choice, but that you
hope they can recover.
If you put him down or re-
act with anger, she could feel
the need to defend him and
distance herself from you.
Dear Amy: I am originally
from Europe and have lived
in Los Angeles for more than
55 years — so naturally, I
consider L.A. my home.
Often in a group setting
when I’m introduced to new
people, I’ll say that I’m from
L.A.
A woman recently re-
sponded to this by saying,
“You don’t have an L.A. ac-
cent.”
I would think it’s inappro-
priate to comment on some-
one’s accent and how they
speak/sound. Is a response
even necessary?
Dan, in Los Angeles
Dear Dan: I’m curious
about what a Los Angeles
accent sounds like.
Is it the up-talking popu-
larized by “Valley girls” in
the ’80s? The Kardashians’
DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
vocal fry? The accent of
some of the almost 50% of
the L.A. population who are
Hispanic?
My point is that in a melt-
ing pot like your city, many
accents qualify as being “to-
tally L.A.”
The unkindest assump-
tion is to believe that the per-
son you quote was really try-
ing to figure out whether you
are “American,” or to imply
that you are not.
This “where are you
from” intimation comes off
as rude to Americans like
you — who may have been
born elsewhere — because it
paints you as “other.”
The kinder assumption is
that the person is looking for
a way to connect. They may
believe that you and they
share a similar background.
Or they’re trying (in a clunky
way) to start a conversation.
If this is posed as a ques-
tion, you can respond: “I’ve
lived in Los Angeles for over
half a century; this is my
hometown.”
If this is posed as a state-
ment (“You don’t have an
L.A. accent”), you can re-
spond by deflecting and ask-
ing where they grew up.
Or you can say, “Hmmm.
How about that?”
Email questions to Amy
Dickinson at askamy@
amydickinson.com.

CROSSWORD
Edited By Patti Varol
By Guilherme Gilioli © 2024 Tribune Content Agency

ACROSS
1 “If memory serves ... “
13 Particles in the Fermi
theory of beta decay
15 Rent, pension, etc.
17 “There’s no wrong way
to eat a __”: candy
tagline
18 Madness, e.g.
20 Bandmate of Dizzy and
Duff
21 Functions
24 Comedian Radner FREE RANGE By Bill Whitehead MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
25 Nectar eaters
27 Skinned
28 Prep for a bout
30 Actress Jessica
32 N-everlasting thing
33 Ishikawa __: visual
component of root-
cause analysis
35 “Come again?”
38 __ Souls College, Oxford
39 Shortly, shortly
41 Vegan-friendly organic
brand
42 Responds to 52-Across
45 Durable garb
47 Forest moon
12 The __ Brothers: “Listen 46 Muttered remarks
where C-3PO
to the Music” band 48 Form opener
was worshipped
14 Shaver 49 Preservative
as a god
16 Creates a soft spot? 50 Bowling game
48 Pub pals
19 Pops 51 “Cool!”
49 Walks, in stats
22 Abuses an email list, 53 Seating level
52 Cues
say 55 Shape of a baklava,
54 Straight
23 Continuing ed course sometimes
57 “My Very Excellent
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Mother Just
26 Flight board abbr. 58 IDs of PCs
Served Us Noodles,”
27 Muñoz Ryan who wrote 59 Let it out,
for one
the Newbery Honor in a way
60 Star quality
61 Comfortable Book “Echo” ANSWER TO
28 Part of 57-Across PREVIOUS PUZZLE
DOWN 29 Legendary attendants
1 “The Glass Menagerie” of Charlemagne
girl 31 Yeti, e.g.
2 Add-on 33 Doesn’t want the truth,
3 __ drum say
4 Mulheres da família 34 Juice sources?
5 About 36 Japanese title of respect
6 2030 event 37 Chanting sounds
7 Peach or plum 40 2023 WNBA Finals MVP
8 Weather-sensitive fig. Wilson
9 “Mindfreak” magician 43 Arrive at
Angel 44 Pulitzer-winning
10 Idiosyncrasy McCullough presidential
11 Put behind bars biography 2/24/24
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CRABGRASS By Tauhid Bondia BABY BLUES By Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman

CANDORVILLE By Darrin Bell CRANKSHAFT By Tom Batiuk & Chuck Ayers

LOOSE PARTS By Dave Blazek

JUMP START By Robb Armstrong

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE By Stephan Pastis

MACANUDO By Liniers

LIO By Mark Tatulli BLONDIE By Dean Young & John Marshall

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TUNDRA By Chad Carpenter BIZARRO By Wayno and Piraro

SIX CHIX By Stephanie Piro DRABBLE By Kevin Fagan

FRAZZ By Jef Mallett MUTTS By Patrick McDonnell

NON SEQUITUR By Wiley PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz

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Today in Southern California Today in North America

Dry and mild: Friday brought high temperatures above 70 for the first time this month to many places. Tem- Front moves across the Appalachians: A storm system and its front will
peratures will remain on the warm side of historical averages again today. An offshore storm will send some send some showers across the Carolinas, while colder air behind the
high and mid-level moisture across the area, but there will be intervals of sunshine. The offshore storm could front will result in snow showers across the central and southern Appa-
bring a period of wet weather Monday into Tuesday. lachians. Clouds and rain will clip western Washington.
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High/low temperatures are average forecasts for entire zone.
Temps –0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+ Rain T-storm Snow Ice
L.A. Basin Valleys Beaches Mountains Deserts
Today 74/53 72/52 69/52 51/29 80/57 Winnipeg
Periods of sun Partly sunny Periods of sun Variable clouds Variable clouds 40/17
Seattle Montreal
Sunday Mostly cloudy 68/52 Mostly cloudy 67/49 Mostly cloudy 64/50 Mostly cloudy 52/33 Partly sunny 80/57 51/46 17/8
Billings
Monday Showers 66/53 Showers 64/51 Showers 64/54 Showers 46/34 Clouds, sun 76/55 56/39
Minneapolis Toronto
Tuesday A shower 65/51 A shower 64/47 A shower 62/49 Some rain 48/27 A t-shower 76/53 46/31
Detroit
25/19
Wednesday Partly sunny 67/52 Clouds, sun 65/49 Partly sunny 63/51 Partly sunny 47/28 Sunny 76/53 33/25
New York
San Francisco 41/24
Air quality Good Moderate Unhealthful for: Sensitive people All Not Available 69/48 Chicago
36/32
Washington
South Coast Air Quality Management District forecasts air quality 50/28
SANTA VENTURA CO. Santa Clarita Denver
BARBARA CO. Santa Paula 74/47 Hesperia 62/37 Kansas City
LOS ANGELES CO. 61/40
Santa Ojai 72/50 67/41 Los Angeles Atlanta
Barbara 70/50 Simi Valley 74/53 61/33
Chatsworth SAN BERNARDINO CO.
68/49 72/49 Burbank Monrovia
Ventura Camarillo 72/49
74/52 75/54
64/52 69/52 Pomona/ Yucca Valley El Paso
UCLA 76/51 Houston
68/48
Oxnard
Westlake 71/52 L.A. Downtown Fairplex Ontario San Bernardino 80/51
65/51 Woodland 74/53 73/51 73/49
Village 73/51
Hills Chihuahua Miami
69/49 Whittier 83/51
73/50 Chino Monterrey 76/52
Santa Monica Hills 74/49 Riverside RIVERSIDE CO. 76/55
69/52 75/52 Fullerton 72/46
Surf and sea Torrance 75/52 U.S. cities
POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO 69/55 Santa Ana
Inner waters: Wind becoming south- Long ORANGE CO. Hemet Palm FRIDAY’S EXTREMES FOR THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES
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Injuries, illnesses dog short-handed Lakers Thursday’s late box

WARRIORS 128, LAKERS 110
LAKERS
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Hachimura.........32 3-8 1-2 1-4 1 1 8
Prince ...............31 5-10 0-0 0-3 2 0 12
with the Lakers and Warri- came out and did the best Davis ................32 11-19 5-6 3-15 1 3 27
Minus James, Reddish ors both eyeing the No. 6 job he could under the cir- Reaves..............27 7-11 0-0 0-2 4 2 16
Russell..............33 6-15 3-4 0-5 9 3 18
seed from the back end of cumstances.”
and left with a muted the play-in picture. And if Short-handed and forced
Christie .............28 3-8 2-2 2-3 6 0 9
Hayes................18 3-6 1-4 4-7 1 2 7
Davis, they stumble this is going to be a race, the to play smaller than they Dinwiddie ..........17 2-6 1-1 0-0 3 5 5
Hood-Schifino ......5 1-3 1-2 0-1 0 1 4
Lakers didn’t look great out would’ve liked, the Lakers
out of All-Star break. of the blocks, struggling to didn’t put up significant re-
Mays ..................5 2-2 0-0 0-0 0 1 4
Windler ...............5 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 0 0
Totals 43-88 14-21 10-41 28 18 110
contain Stephen Curry sistance for long. Curry Shooting: Field goals, 48.9%; free throws, 66.7%
By Dan Woike while taking on the Warriors scored 25 of his 32 points in Three-point goals: 10-35 (Russell 3-9, Reaves 2-5,
without LeBron James in a the first half, rookie Trayce Prince 2-7, Hood-Schifino 1-2, Hachimura 1-4, Christie
1-5, Dinwiddie 0-1, Davis 0-2). Team Rebounds: 10.
SAN FRANCISCO — 128-110 loss. Jackson-Davis dominated Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 9 (Davis 3,
Nearly a year ago, Golden James, who sat out his his minutes against the Lak- Hachimura 2, Christie, Dinwiddie, Hayes, Reaves). Turn-
overs: 11 (Davis 3, Russell 3, Reaves 2, Hachimura,
State coach Steve Kerr sat in second straight game (with ers’ second unit, and the Hood-Schifino, Prince). Steals: 5 (Russell 2, Christie,
Hachimura, Prince). Technical Fouls: None.
a back room in Los Angeles a brief cameo Sunday in the Warriors managed to close
GOLDEN STATE
before playing the Lakers All-Star Game), received an better than the Lakers all Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
and called the playoff race “a ankle treatment designed to game — scoring in the final Kuminga............24 5-12 1-2 1-3 3 2 12
Wiggins .............27 8-14 2-2 2-3 2 2 20
sprint to the finish.” keep him as healthy as pos- Jeff Chiu Associated Press 1.5 seconds of each of the Green ...............21 3-5 0-0 0-7 5 1 8
The possibility of avoid- sible and returned to the ANTHONY DAVIS had no voice in Thursday’s loss first three quarters. Curry ................31 12-24 2-2 0-1 8 1 32
ing the play-in tournament lineup for Friday’s game at Golden State and struggled to direct L.A.’s defense. The Lakers were Podziemski ........27 3-12 2-2 3-9 1 1 10
Thompson..........28 1-9 0-0 0-4 5 2 3
and the fear of slipping en- against San Antonio. outscored by 18 at the three- Moody ..............19 2-6 0-0 1-6 1 2 4
tirely out of the top 10 existed The team didn’t get for- lems for the defense. cookie-cutter game plan. It’s point line, beaten on the Saric.................15 2-6 0-0 2-4 4 1 4
Jackson-Davis ....14 8-10 1-1 4-5 1 2 17
for Kerr’s Warriors and the ward Cam Reddish back, as “Definitely. You have to going to be times where glass and badly lost the Quinones...........13 2-5 3-3 1-1 1 4 7
Lakers then, just as it does his ramp-up to return from a cover it up,” coach Darvin you’re going to play perfect bench points battle. Davis Looney................8 1-1 0-0 1-5 1 0 2
for his team and the Lakers knee injury continues. He Ham said after the loss. defense and they’re going to led the Lakers with 27 points Robinson.............3 2-2 1-2 0-0 0 1 6
Santos ................3 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 3
now, the two meeting for the worked with trainers on the “You’re not going to get score. It’s times when you and 15 rebounds before the Totals 50-107 12-14 15-48 32 19 128
first game out of the All-Star court at the Thursday morn- through a game like this with have to give multiple efforts team pulled the plug mid- Shooting: Field goals, 46.7%; free throws, 85.7%
Three-point goals: 16-41 (Curry 6-13, Green 2-2,
break in consecutive years. ing shootaround. that type of firepower with and you have to yell and way through the fourth Wiggins 2-5, Podziemski 2-6, Robinson 1-1, Santos 1-1,
Things don’t feel quite as The Lakers also were that type of head of the communicate with your ahead of Friday’s game at Kuminga 1-3, Thompson 1-4, Quinones 0-1, Moody 0-2,
Saric 0-3). Team Rebounds: 12. Team Turnovers: None.
frantic as they did a year ago dealing with a handful of ill- snake, in terms of Steph, teammates. Him having a home against the Spurs. Blocked Shots: 4 (Jackson-Davis 2, Green, Wiggins).
— the Lakers are not five nesses coming out of the without everyone talking little trouble with his voice “It matters,” Reaves said Turnovers: 9 (Podziemski 2, Quinones 2, Curry, Green,
Looney, Saric, Wiggins). Steals: 6 (Curry 3, Kuminga,
games under .500 at the break, with Austin Reaves and being alert and ready tonight definitely impacted of Davis’ inability to direct Thompson, Wiggins). Technical Fouls: None.
break as they were then. But recovering from a sickness and doing our work early the game. the defense, with a laugh. LAKERS 28 28 26 28— 110
make no mistake, there’s go- while Anthony Davis lost his and being in position early. “My hat’s off to him,” “Didn’t know where a screen Golden State 31 36 31 30— 128
ing to be a sprint, especially voice, which caused prob- “It’s not going to be a Ham said of Davis. “He still was coming all night.” A—18,064. T—2:15.

Clippers continue to struggle with West’s best Thursday’s late box

THUNDER 129, CLIPPERS 107
CLIPPERS
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
George ..............35 6-16 0-0 1-7 6 2 14
teams, secured the regular- three-point range over the come out of a game healthy needed to in the second Leonard.............30 9-12 2-2 0-3 2 2 20
Zubac ...............29 5-12 3-4 4-12 1 4 13
Third quarter dooms season tiebreaker between same stretch as the Clippers and get ready for Memphis half.” Harden..............29 5-9 4-4 2-6 2 2 17
the clubs. were outscored 35-23. A 13-3 tomorrow.” The Clippers remained Mann................27 3-8 0-0 2-6 6 0 8
them in a 129-107 loss “It was a big game as far run by the Thunder to cap The Clippers also came third in the West behind con-
Powell ...............30 7-15 1-2 1-2 1 1 19
Coffey ...............28 3-8 1-1 0-1 3 1 8
at Oklahoma City to as just the tiebreaker situa- the quarter put the Clippers out of this game knowing ference leader Minnesota Westbrook .........16 1-9 0-0 0-1 5 2 2
Plumlee ..............7 1-2 0-0 1-4 1 1 2
tion,” Clippers coach Ty- in a 14-point hole. their defense needs im- and second-place Okla-
start the second half. ronn Lue said. “But they’ve “In that third quarter, provement. homa City, and Denver was
Boston Jr. ............3 2-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 4
Totals 42-93 11-13 11-42 27 15 107
been playing great all year. I they just started running The Thunder had all five right behind them entering Shooting: Field goals, 45.2%; free throws, 84.6%
By Broderick Turner think it’s been times where faster, playing harder,” said starters score in double fig- play Friday.
Three-point goals: 12-32 (Powell 4-9, Harden 3-6,
Mann 2-3, George 2-6, Coffey 1-4, Leonard 0-2, West-
we played really well. It’s Kawhi Leonard, who led the ures, led by All-Star guard “Obviously we want to brook 0-2). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 2 (Powell, Zubac). Turnovers: 14 (Harden
OKLAHOMA CITY — been times we won games Clippers with 20 points on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s finish with the best seed pos- 3, Powell 3, Boston Jr. 2, Leonard 2, Coffey, Mann, West-
The Oklahoma City Thun- because we won with talent. nine-for-12 shooting. “We 31 points. sible that we can finish brook, Zubac). Steals: 6 (Coffey 2, George, Harden,
Leonard, Westbrook). Technical Fouls: None.
der presented a significant “And, so, like I said, I turned over the ball and they His 12-for-19 shooting with,” George said. “But I OKLAHOMA CITY
opportunity for the Clippers don’t think it’s barometer got out in transition and just from the field and three-for- think more so, we just need Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
to prove they belong at the game. I think the barometer cooked us up.” six shooting from three- to be playing the right way Dort..................30 8-13 0-0 1-3 1 3 19
Jal.Williams........36 7-13 2-4 0-4 6 3 18
top of the uber-competitive game is when we get to the When their deficit grew to point range helped Okla- towards the end of the year.” Holmgren...........32 6-12 2-3 3-10 3 4 17
Western Conference. playoffs and see what hap- 19 points in the fourth, the homa City shoot 55.6% from Giddey ..............22 4-10 3-3 0-5 2 0 12
Gilgeous-Alxndr...34 12-19 4-6 0-4 8 1 31
Instead, they missed an- pens then. And, so, for us, we Clippers made one last the field and 48.6% from Wallace .............19 3-3 0-0 2-4 3 1 7
other opportunity to show know we have to get a lot bet- push. But with 3:53 left and three-point range. Joe ...................19 4-5 0-0 0-2 1 2 9
they can beat one of the ter, especially cleaning up the Clippers down 115-99, “For the most part they K.Williams .........15 3-7 0-0 1-5 0 1 7
Wiggins .............13 3-6 1-1 1-2 0 1 9
NBA’s top teams. stuff at the defensive end, Lue pulled four starters — were in rhythm,” said Hayward ............13 0-2 0-0 0-4 0 0 0
The Clippers’ 129-107 loss being better with that, Leonard, Paul George, Ivica George, who had 14 points, Sarr....................1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
Waters III.............1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
to the Thunder on Thursday understanding the cov- Zubac and James Harden — seven rebounds and six as- Totals 50-90 12-17 8-44 24 16 129
night coming out of the All- erages and being better with aware they have a game Fri- sists. “We couldn’t get them Shooting: Field goals, 55.6%; free throws, 70.6%
Star break marked their sec- our schemes at times. And day night in Memphis. out of rhythm. But I thought Lakers and Clippers Three-point goals: 17-35 (Dort 3-6, Gilgeous-Alexan-
der 3-6, Holmgren 3-6, Jal.Williams 2-4, Wiggins 2-4,
ond straight to a team ahead so we got to do a better job “I mean, you can cut it to Shai did a good job of just be- Friday night’s Lakers Wallace 1-1, Joe 1-2, Giddey 1-3, K.Williams 1-3). Team
of them in the standings, fol- with that.” four or six and still lose the ing in attack mode. All of game against San Antonio Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 3. Blocked Shots: 11
(Holmgren 3, Jal.Williams 3, Dort 2, Gilgeous-Alexander
lowing their 121-100 loss to the The game got away from game and that’s wasted min- them ... all of them were just ended after this edition’s 2, Giddey). Turnovers: 12 (Giddey 3, Holmgren 3,
first-place Minnesota the Clippers in the third utes to me,” Lue said. “So, in attack mode. And, I don’t deadline. For that story Gilgeous-Alexander 2, Wiggins 2, Jal.Williams, Joe).
Steals: 9 (Wallace 4, Wiggins 2, Dort, Gilgeous-Alexan-
Timberwolves on Feb. 12. quarter when they made just once they scored, went up 16 think we did anything. We and our report from the der, Jal.Williams). Technical Fouls: None.
Oklahoma City, which 29.6% of their shots from the with four and a half, it was didn’t defend the three- Clippers’ 101-95 victory at CLIPPERS 33 26 23 25— 107
viewed the game as a meas- field. The Thunder shot a just like, ‘It’s over,’ so get point line and we didn’t de- Memphis, go to Oklahoma City 35 26 35 33— 129

uring stick against top sizzling 70% and 71.4% from ready for tomorrow. We fend the paint as well as we latimes.com/sports. A—18,203. T—2:00.
LAT I M E S . C O M
Seasoned Stone seeking spot in rotation
Right-hander’s rough
rookie year also
showed his resolve,
and Dodgers noticed.
By Jack Harris
PHOENIX — Gavin
Stone’s statistics tell one
story about his rookie sea-
son.
In his debut campaign
last year, the Dodgers’ start-
ing pitching prospect gave
up 31 earned runs in 31 in-
nings for a 9.00 ERA. He is-
sued 13 walks (and two hit
batters) while collecting
only 22 strikeouts. He
posted a WHIP (walks and
hits per innings pitched) of
nearly two. And he yielded
eight home runs in his eight
total outings.
There are poor small-
sample stat lines. And then
there is that.
“It was extremely hard,”
Stone said of handling such
mighty struggles. “It defi-
nitely shakes your confi-
dence.”
Ask around at Dodgers
spring camp about the 25-
year-old right-hander, how-
ever, and the reviews of
Stone’s 2023 performance —
and continued progress
since — are accompanied by
a very different tone.
“Couldn’t have asked for
more,” manager Dave Rob-
erts said.
“The stat line, the surface
is not everything we look at.
So there’s a lot of things
underlying from Gavin’s per-
formance last year that were
really positive.”
Echoed pitching coach
Mark Prior: “Easier for me to
say this probably than to live
it, but I thought he had a
great year. We view it as a
successful campaign, more
so because of what he went
through and what he did, the
strides he did make.”
Even veteran catcher
Austin Barnes chipped in
with praise: “Stuff like that
can mess with your head
sometimes. But he came
back, he threw the ball really
well and just started to find
himself as a pitcher.”
That’s because the saga
that was Stone’s first big
league season can only prop-
erly be told in two distinct
parts.
Part I: His disastrous de-
but stint in May that ended
with a two-inning, seven-run
shellacking against the
Tampa Bay Rays, leaving
the former top prospect
looking more like a potential
lost cause.
Part II: The mental and
physical rebound Stone
made by the end of the year,
managing to not only return
Kings let
run of
good play
get away
Nashville wins all the
physical battles and
the game to end L.A.’s
four-game win streak.
By Dan Greenspan
Colton Sissons had a goal
and two assists and Juuse
Saros made 27 saves, help-
ing the Nashville Predators
beat the Kings 4-1 on Thurs-
day at Crypto.com Arena.
Nashville has won three
in a row for the first time
since a four-game streak
Dec. 10 to 16. Jeremy Lauzon
had a goal and an assist for
the Predators, and Mark
Jankowski and Yakov
Trenin also scored.
“Just committed efforts
up and down the lineup,”
Sissons said. “We’re rolling
everybody. Everybody’s hav-
ing a positive impact. Hope-
fully we can keep this mo-
mentum.”
Kevin Fiala scored for the
Kings, who had won four in a
row. David Rittich made 17
stops in the team’s second
loss in seven games under in-
terim coach Jim Hiller.
“There wasn’t much time
out there, and we didn’t do
the right things against that
type of team,” Fiala said. “We
just have to adjust a little
better.”
Jankowski lifted Nash-
ville to a 2-1 lead with 5:14 left
in the second period, tap-
ping home his second goal of
the season after Rittich lost
sight of Luke Evangelista’s
low-angle shot at his feet.
GAVIN STONE acknowledged his confidence was shaken last season, but he says “you just gotta figure out a way to come out of it.”
to the majors in August and
September, but also pitch
well enough to enter this
spring with a legitimate
chance of making the open-
ing day rotation.
“The biggest takeaway
from last year was just how
to deal with failure and how
to come back from it,” said
Stone, whose slender frame
and youthful looks (a scruffy
goatee aside) belies a fiery
internal drive and rigid men-
tal fortitude.
“All last year, I heard
about how everybody has
that moment of failure, and
you just gotta figure out how
to come out of it. So that’s
the biggest key this year.
Cleaning the mind and get-
ting a fresh start.”
Indeed, the ugly numbers
that once marred Stone’s
statistical slate have long
been wiped clean.
In hindsight, there were
myriad reasons behind his
first-half struggles — from
an early season toe blister on
his push-off foot that subtly
altered his mechanics; to a
pitch-tipping tendency
Dodgers coaches identified
following Stone’s implosion
against the Rays, who
seemed to jump all over any
pitch that wasn’t his trade-
Yannick Peterhans Associated Press
YAKOV TRENIN of Nashville cheers the first goal of
Thursday’s win over Adrian Kempe and the Kings.
“It was just throw the
puck at the net and win a
battle at the net, so it was
that type of game,” Hiller
said.
Sissons added an empty-
netter with three minutes to
play and Lauzon got anoth-
er with 53 seconds to go, en-
suring the Predators picked
up two more crucial points
in their push for a Western
Conference wild-card play-
off. The Kings currently hold
the top wild-card spot.
“This was one of those
games where we knew it was
going to be hard,” Nashville
coach Andrew Brunette
said. “It was gonna be a
game of the little margins,
and we’ve lost the little mar-
gin battle over the course of
the season.”
The upturn in form came
with another strong per-
formance from Saros, who
had gone 19 starts since
stringing together consecu-
tive wins against St. Louis
on Saturday and the Kings.
He came up with 14 saves in
the third period as the Kings
made a strong charge.
The Kings had move-
ment in and out of their for-
ward lines, with center Blake
Lizotte returning from a
lower-body injury that side-
lined him for 14 games and
forward Viktor Arvidsson
out because of a lower-body
injury after he was hurt early
during a win against Colum-
mark changeup.
“People could see when I
wasn’t throwing the change-
up,” Stone said. “Because
my arm would move just to
get to other pitches.”
More important to the
Dodgers, however, was the
way Stone rebounded over
the latter half of the season.
He found success follow-
ing a return to triple A, earn-
ing pitcher of the week hon-
ors in the Pacific Coast
League twice in July.
He was recalled in Au-
gust for a spot outing at Fen-
way Park against the Boston
Red Sox, earning his first
major league win in a six-in-
ning, four-run effort.
Then, after another hic-
cup against the San Diego
Padres in September, he
closed his season with a pair
of impressive efforts later in
the month, including a
scoreless three-inning save
during a trip to Seattle.
“It shows he’s got that in-
ternal determination,” Prior
said. “He continued to will
himself to try and find a way
to get better.”
Key to Stone’s success
was a midseason change he
made to his pitching arsenal.
During his first call-up,
the former fifth-round pick
bus on Tuesday.
Arvidsson was put on in-
jured reserve, but Hiller did
not have an update on how
long he might be out. Arvids-
son, who sat out the first 50
games because of a back in-
jury, had two assists in four
games.
The Kings took another
blow when top pairing de-
fenseman Mikey Anderson
sat out the final 14 minutes of
the game because of an
undisclosed injury, Hiller
saying he did not know how
serious it might be.
“Right now I’m looking at
the loss, and it’s a tough
loss,” said Fiala, who scored
on a five-on-three power
play for his 400th career
point. “Not a good night for
us.”
The Kings look to bounce
back when they host the
Ducks on Saturday night.
Greenspan writes for the
Associated Press.
Thursday’s late summary
PREDATORS 4, KINGS 1
Nashville..................................1
KINGS .....................................1
FIRST PERIOD: 1. Nsh., Trenin 9 (Sissons, Mc-
Donagh), 8:47. 2. KINGS, Fiala 15 (Kempe, Kopitar),
19:07 (pp).
SECOND PERIOD: 3. Nsh., Jankowski 2 (Novak, Evan-
gelista), 14:46.
THIRD PERIOD: 4. Nsh., Sissons 15 (Lauzon), 17:00
(en). 5. Nsh., Lauzon 6 (Sissons), 19:07 (en).
SHOTS ON GOAL: Nsh. 5-11-5—21. KINGS 6-8-14—
28. Power-play Conversions—Nsh. 0 of 3. KINGS 1 of 3.
GOALIES: Nsh., Saros 22-21-2 (28 shots-27 saves).
KINGS, Rittich 8-3-3 (19-17). Att—17,415 (18,230).
T—2:26. R—Jake Brenk, Trevor Hanson. L—Brandon
Gawryletz, Mark Shewchyk.
used a slider to complement
his go-to fastball-changeup
combination. While it was ef-
fective at generating whiffs,
opponents crushed it when
he left it hanging in the zone.
Add in the pitch-tipping on
non-changeups, and at
times Stone’s early MLB
starts looked more like bat-
ting practice than a live
game.
“Failure sucks,” Stone
said, bluntly. “So you do
everything you can not to
feel that feeling again.”
Thus, after returning to
triple A, Stone worked with
pitching coaches Doug
Mathis and Justin DeFratus
on his mechanics (with his
toe healed, he eliminated
many of the arm-side misses
that hampered his initial
MLB call-up) and his ar-
senal.
He shelved his big-break-
ing slider for a more consis-
tent cutter, sacrificing some
right-to-left movement for a
pitch with more velocity. He
paired that with a two-seam
fastball that broke the oppo-
site way, dusting off a varia-
tion of the heater he hadn’t
thrown since his days at the
University of Central Arkan-
sas.
“It was a big learning year
THE DAY IN SPORTS
Judge deals blow to NCAA
staff and wire reports
A federal judge on Friday
barred the NCAA from en-
forcing its rules prohibiting
name, image and likeness
compensation from being
used to entice recruits,
granting a request for a pre-
liminary injunction from the
states of Tennessee and Vir-
ginia and dealing another
blow to the association’s
ability to govern college
sports and 500,000 athletes.
The ruling by U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Clifton Corker in
the Eastern District of Ten-
nessee undercuts what has
been a fundamental princi-
ple of the NCAA’s model of
amateurism for decades:
Third parties cannot pay
recruits to attend a school.
Corker wrote that the
NCAA’s stance likely vio-
lates antitrust law, with Con-
gress so far unwilling to give
the NCAA an exemption.
The judge said athletes with
a limited window are irrepa-
rably harmed by not being
able to know their true value
before choosing a school.
“The NCAA fails to show
how such relief will cause any
harm that outweighs the ir-
reparable harm that stu-
dent-athletes will face in the
absence of an injunction,”
Corker wrote.
The NCAA said it would
talk with its member schools
about possible policy
changes, but that turning
rules supported by mem-
1 2 — 4
bers “upside down” will only
0 0 — 1 make an already chaotic sit-
uation worse and lessen pro-
tections keeping athletes
from being exploited.
Three members of the
Wyoming swimming and
diving team were killed
when their SUV rolled over
alongside a rural highway.
S S AT U R DAY , F E B RUA RY 2 4 , 2 0 2 4
for him,” Mathis said, noting
the reimagined pitch mix al-
lowed Stone to attack either
edge of the strike zone and
set up his changeup as a put-
away pitch.
“Gavin is a guy who has
relied on the changeup a lot
throughout his career, and
that’s always gonna be a
good pitch for him,” Mathis
added.
“But he really realized,
he’s able to make more
pitches than he ever had to
[before]. And he likes doing
it. He likes being able to
move that ball around. It
was great.”
This spring, Stone is hop-
ing to parlay it into a more
extended MLB opportunity.
With Walker Buehler
likely to miss a month (or
more) at the start of the sea-
son while finishing Tommy
John rehabilitation, the
Dodgers have an open com-
petition for the final spot in
their five-man rotation.
Emmet Sheehan and
Michael Grove are also in the
mix, other young pitchers
with more big league experi-
ence than Stone.
Stone’s performance in
camp, however, is already
turning heads. In a scoreless
inning of work during the
ETC.
Rams re-sign
WR Robinson
The Rams and receiver
Demarcus Robinson agreed
to a one-year contract.
Terms were not disclosed.
Robinson, 29, joined the
Rams last season and be-
came a valuable starter
down the stretch for a team
that finished 10-7 and ad-
vanced to the playoffs.
— Gary Klein
The Chargers hired Kiel
McDonald as running backs
coach; he spent the last two
seasons at USC. ... Two for-
mer coaches are joining An-
tonio Pierce’s staff in Las
Vegas: Marvin Lewis as as-
sistant head coach and Joe
Philbin as senior offensive
assistant. ... Pittsburgh re-
leased veteran center Ma-
son Cole and Miami re-
leased defensive end Em-
manuel Ogbah. ... The sala-
ry cap will be $255.4 million,
up a record $30.6 million
from last year.
Former USC and Char-
gers defensive back Sha-
reece Wright is one of a doz-
en former Colton High play-
ers who are suing the Colton
Joint Unified School District
and its former athletic
trainer, alleging that she
committed sex acts on them
more than a decade ago.
— Chuck Schilken
World No. 1 Iga Swiatek
was stunned by qualifier
Anna Kalinskaya 6-4, 6-4 in
the semifinals of the Dubai
Championships. Kalinskaya
will play Jasmine Paolini,
who beat Sorana Cirstea
6-2, 7-6 (6), in Saturday’s fi-
nal.
B9
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Dodgers’ Cactus League
opener Thursday, for exam-
ple, Stone routinely hit 96
mph with his fastball (an
uptick from last year that he
attributes to the 10 pounds of
weight he added this off-
season) and fanned Padres
superstar Fernando Tatis Jr.
with a two-strike changeup.
“I felt great,” Stone said
afterward. “Ball feels like it’s
coming out of my hand a lot
better than last year. Just
gotta continue to do that.”
If he does, a pitcher who
once looked overmatched in
the majors should get more
chances to keep rewriting
his big league story.
Last year, he had a de-
cent debut season in spite of
the crooked numbers that
accompanied it.
This season, he is hoping
the stats more obviously re-
flect the strides he has
made.
“Once your confidence is
shaken like that, you just
gotta figure out a way to
come out of it and keep
throwing, keep doing you,
keep throwing your pitches,
and just put them in better
spots,” Stone said. “To come
out of that spot I was in was
big. So hopefully we don’t go
back there.”
Golden State Warriors
coach Steve Kerr, an archi-
tect of four franchise cham-
pionships, agreed on a two-
year, $35-million contract
extension that’ll make him
the highest-paid coach in
NBA history, agents Rick
Smith and Dan Eveloff of
Priority Sports told ESPN.
Ex-UCLA standout Jake
Knapp, making his ninth
PGA Tour start, shot a sev-
en-under 64 to share the
Mexico Open’s second-
round lead. ... Sei Young
Kim moved into a three-way
tie for the lead after two
rounds of the LPGA’s Thai-
land event.
Jean-Guy Talbot, one of
12 Montreal Canadiens to
win five Stanley Cups from
1956 to 1960, died. He was 91.
Arsenal, Liverpool and
Manchester United will have
a three-game U.S. summer
tour, including a match at
SoFi Stadium. ... Spain beat
the Netherlands 3-0 in the
Women’s Nations League
semifinals and secured the
world champions a spot in
the Paris Olympics.
In Thursday’s late college
basketball games, Ty John-
son had 24 points and made
two free throws with six sec-
onds left to rally UC Davis to
a 66-65 win over Cal State
Northridge; Tory San Anto-
nio and Dominic Brewton
had 20 points each to lead
Cal State Fullerton to a 68-50
win over Cal Poly; Justin
Hohn had 19 points to lead
UC Irvine to an 81-69 win over
UC Santa Barbara; AJ
George’s 18 points helped
Long Beach State beat Bak-
ersfield 79-66; Santa Clara
beat Loyola Marymount 65-
55; and Abilene Christian
beat California Baptist 71-65.
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USC watching its season go by the boards

Trojans second-worst
in rebounding margin
in Pac-12, and they’re
running out of time.
By Thuc Nhi Nguyen
After USC’s sixth con-
secutive loss, Andy Enfield’s
patience appeared to be
wearing thin. USC had just
given up 17 offensive re-
bounds in a nine-point loss
to Oregon at Galen Center.
The previous game, the Tro-
jans were outrebounded by
14 against UCLA at home.
The coach, often so calcu-
lated in his media appear-
ances, called his top four
post players “poor” defen-
sive rebounders. He yearned
for USC’s big men of old. He
missed their toughness.
Three weeks later, when
asked where his players
stood in terms of toughness
required to battle on the
boards, Enfield paused in a
mostly empty practice gym.
He considered his words
carefully.
“They work hard, they’re
trying to be tough,” the
coach said, “but the re-
bounding thing is not neces-
sarily natural for a lot of
guys.”
The Trojans (10-16, 4-11
Pac-12) are the second-worst
team in the Pac-12 in re-
bounding margin. They’re
running out of time to ad-
dress the issue with five
regular-season games left,
starting with Saturday’s ri-
valry rematch against UCLA
at 7 p.m. at Pauley Pavilion.
The Bruins (14-12, 9-6)
outrebounded USC 43-29 on
Jan. 27 in a 15-point UCLA
victory at Galen Center, the
first road win over USC of
coach Mick Cronin’s tenure.
It won’t be easy for the Tro-
COACH ANDY ENFIELD bemoaned his team’s rebounding woes during a recent losing streak. “They work
hard, they’re trying to be tough,” he said, “but the rebounding thing is not necessarily natural for a lot of guys.”
jans to get revenge. They
have lost seven consecutive
road games, their longest
road losing streak since 2015.
USC has lost two straight
games at Pauley Pavilion.
But after blowing a 16-
point, second-half lead to
Colorado, guard Boogie
Ellis called the rivalry re-
match a “must win.” The
Trojans are hoping to find
any semblance of momen-
tum entering the Pac-12
tournament, which they
know will be their only hope
for an NCAA tournament
berth.
Last weekend could have
provided the perfect launch-
ing point. A thrilling win and
last-gasp block by Joshua
Morgan against Utah ap-
peared to give the slumping
team confidence. Losing to
Colorado in double overtime
was a gut punch, but the
Trojans tried to find a silver
lining while preparing for
UCLA.
“Just play like we did ver-
sus Utah and Colorado,” for-
ward DJ Rodman said. “But
just rebound.”
The Trojans have been
outrebounded by an average
of 18.25 in the last four
games, including 27- and 25-
rebound disadvantages
against California and Col-
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times
orado, respectively. It has better, but we need them to
been an Achilles heel for the improve, and then some of
team all season, Morgan ac- our guards, same thing.”
knowledged. Defensive rebounding is
Morgan leads the four- a combination of technique,
man post rotation that in- mentality and anticipation,
cludes 7-foot-1 center Vin- Enfield said. The team con-
cent Iwuchukwu, 6-9 sopho- tinues to work on physicality
more Kijani Wright and drills in practice. Morgan, a
freshman Arrinten Page. 6-11 forward who leads the
They have a combined 18 de- Pac-12 in blocks but averages
fensive rebounds in the last a paltry 1.8 defensive re-
four games. None has pulled bounds per conference
down more than two in a game in 21.1 minutes, has
game. tried to focus on making sure
“Some of our bigs are very he hits the opposing post
good offensive rebounders, player first after each shot.
not so much natural defen- The 6-6 Rodman leads the
sive rebounders,” Enfield team with 4.9 rebounds per
said. “Working at it, getting game.
Making a late-season
push on the boards is USC’s
next task after tackling its
turnover problem. The Tro-
jans had double-digit turn-
overs in 13 of their first 14
games. The struggles
prompted the coaching staff
to start tracking turnovers
during practices, awarding
points during each scrim-
mage for made baskets or
turnovers forced. The team
that lost had extra wind
sprints at the end of each
practice. The immediate
feedback of seeing their mis-
takes tallied on the board,
combined with the conse-
quence of extra condition-
ing, made a bigger impact
than simply reviewing the
practice film a day later, said
Enfield, who uses the system
to track and penalize offen-
sive rebounds given up dur-
ing practice.
The strategy worked un-
til injuries knocked out the
starting backcourt. During
the three games without
Ellis and Isaiah Collier, USC
had 42 assists to 50 turn-
overs. But since Collier’s re-
turn from a broken hand,
USC is averaging 8.5 turn-
overs in the last four games
compared to 12.7 this season.
Much of USC’s preseason
hype was built on the tal-
ented backcourt. Languish-
ing at 11th place in the con-
ference, the Trojans recog-
nize they fell well short of ex-
pectations that put them
second in the Pac-12 pre-
season media poll. But get-
ting Collier back makes
them whole at the right time
with the team preparing to
go all-in at the conference
tournament.
“We were one of the favor-
ites to win at the beginning
of the year and we still have
the same team,” Rodman
said. “I don’t know why
that’s not a possibility.”

There’s method to Cronin’s sometimes madness

[Cronin, from B12]
On freshman guard Ilane
Fibleuil committing a turn-
over: “First time you touch
the ball, you try to be
Michael Jordan and look
what happens.”
On freshman forward
Berke Buyuktuncel throw-
ing a bad cross-court pass:
“We invent new ways to turn
it over.”
Former shooting guard
David Singleton got a sense
of the verbal volleys to come
in his first meeting with
Cronin in the spring of 2019,
not long after the coach had
taken the UCLA job.
“I didn’t know who he was
talking to,” Singleton said,
“but he looked up and said,
‘Why isn’t the video ready? If
you were working for coach
[Rick] Pitino, you would
have been fired already.’ And
I’m like, who is he talking to?
Is he serious? He was talking
to the video guy. So that was
like, ‘Oh, OK, this guy means
business.’ ”
Some fans have called
him Cronin the Barbarian, a
playful twist on fictional
warrior Conan. His influ-
ences include his father, who
was a warm but no-non-
sense high school coach, in
addition to two former
bosses who are crusty col-
lege icons — Bob Huggins is
notoriously gruff, even
under the best of circum-
stances, and Pitino openly
berated his St. John’s play-
ers last weekend after they
lost for the eighth time in
their last 10 games, saying
“about five guys are slow lat-
erally.”
Cronin’s Bruins (14-12
overall, 9-6 Pac-12) are on a
different trajectory, having
won eight of their last 10
games heading into a rivalry
showdown against USC (10-
16, 4-11) on Saturday night at
Pauley Pavilion. It’s just an-
other late-season surge for a
coach who has taken UCLA
to two Sweet 16s in addition
to the 2021 Final Four as part
of his three NCAA tourna-
ment appearances with the
team.
He also has helped four
players be selected in the
NBA draft — two in the first
round — while sending a
handful of others to the G
League and overseas profes-
sional teams. Leaning heavi-
ly on the teachings of a leg-
endary predecessor, Cronin
favors results over public
opinion.
“Sometimes people think
I’m testy or edgy or I don’t
care,” Cronin said, “and I
don’t say this as arrogance, I
don’t care because coach
[John] Wooden tells you not
to care about praise or criti-
cism, just do your job and be
a good person and I try to get
[my players] to do the same
thing.”
UCLA COACH Mick Cronin is never shy about instructing players with emotion and aggressiveness in games.
Those watching from
afar might be surprised to
learn Cronin has a soft side,
like flipping over a Brillo pad
to find cashmere. After his
team beat Stanford and Cal-
ifornia during a recent trip to
the Bay Area, the coach vis-
ited for several minutes with
a young special-needs fan
who attended both games,
ending each exchange with a
hug.
The feel-good vibes
carried over to the locker
room. Addressing his team
after the 61-60 victory over
the Golden Bears, Cronin
quipped, “It was a one-point
blowout.”
Cracking up his players
as much as he challenges
them, Cronin loves to drop
pop culture references dur-
ing practices. He quotes
lines from old movies — few
of which his players get —
and last season told star for-
ward Jaime Jaquez Jr. after
an egregious traveling viola-
tion that “Ray Charles could
have called that one.”
If you hear Cronin refer to
Uncle Smitty, he’s using a
catch-all phrase for anyone
in a player’s entourage who
might have strong opinions
about things that don’t mat-
ter, like failing to score 20
points in a game.
Chris Smith, a forward
for the Iowa Wolves of the G
League who spent his final
two college seasons under
Cronin, said part of the
coach’s genius was connect-
ing basketball to other
things.
“You play basketball how
you live life, you know?”
Smith said. “If you’re half-
assing it on the court, then
you’re most likely half-ass-
ing in life.”
Half measures never fly
with Cronin. After watching
Clark fail to box out a San Di-
ego State player as in-
structed in his college debut,
Cronin threatened to never
play the freshman again.
The next day, even as the
Bruins went to triple over-
time against Pepperdine
and two players fouled out,
Clark never got off the
bench.
“They looked at me,”
Clark said of assistant
coaches contemplating
putting him in the game,
“and [Cronin] said, ‘No,
somebody else.’ ”
Clark eventually worked
his way out of the dog house
via relentless defense that
two seasons later won him
the team’s Hungry Dog
Award that goes to the play-
er who logs the most deflec-
tions.
Perhaps the best mea-
sure of Cronin’s popularity
among his players is that
only four have transferred in
five seasons and those who
now play professionally
flock back to see their former
coach. Clark, Singleton,
Amari Bailey and Johnny
Juzang were among those in
attendance Sunday when
the Bruins played Utah at
Pauley Pavilion.
That’s not to say they al-
ways enjoyed being the sub-
ject of a high-volume rant.
Singleton recalled his coach
once screaming at him to set
a screen to free Juzang for a
shot.
“I’m looking at him like, ‘I
got it,’ and he just kept
yelling at me and when it was
time to inbound it and I set it
and Johnny was open and he
knocked it down,” Singleton
said.
“I looked at [Cronin] and
I’m like, ‘I told you, I got it,’
and he was like, ‘All right,
well, do it again.’ It was just
constant, like he wanted
more, he always demanded
more.”
Does all that yelling rattle
the Bruins? Sometimes. In
the middle of the team’s
most recent Final Four sea-
son, Singleton said, players
gathered to discuss the vola-
tility.
“We said, ‘Just because
he’s yelling at us, we can’t
play scared,’ ” Singleton
said. “So I would say after
that is when we really took
off as a team, to listen to
what he says, not how he
says it.”
Cronin, who will turn 53
this summer, likes to say he
has a PhD in dealing with
young players after spend-
ing his whole life in locker
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rooms beginning with his
dad’s teams as an infant. He
tries to tailor his delivery to
each player based on their
personality and experience
level. That can be particu-
larly challenging on a team
with seven freshmen such as
this one.
“You’ve got to have some
feel,” Cronin said. “You’re
not always right, but you’ve
got to be observant and see
who responds to what
through trial and error. Cer-
tain guys, the more aggres-
sive you coach them, the bet-
ter they play. Other guys
may go into a shell. So you
have to be observant of that.
“We’re like a starting
pitcher and it’s a long sea-
son, you’ve got a lot of differ-
ent battles. You can’t throw
fastballs all season to every
hitter, right? So you’ve got to
have a changeup at times.
You know, there’s times
where they need a little soft-
ball, a little batting practice.
Other times they need the
fastball down the middle or
maybe under the chin —
they might need the brush-
back.”
If he’s particularly hard
on a player, Cronin said, he
tries to circle back to him lat-
er to let him know he’s trying
to help him get to where he
wants to go in his career.
Whenever he yanks players
for mistakes during games,
the coach has an assistant
check in with them to dis-
cuss the issue and make sure
they’re staying mentally
prepared to return.
Mack has found Cronin’s
messages increasingly reso-
nating the deeper he goes
into his first college season
based on their prognostic
prowess.
“I wouldn’t want to call
him a wizard,” Mack said,
unintentionally referencing
Wooden’s nickname, “but, I
mean, the stuff he does say
usually ends up happening.”
What about Cronin’s
tendency to share his unvar-
nished thoughts with the
media?
Myles Johnson, a former
UCLA center once de-
scribed by Cronin as “too
nice” to be as dominant as he
should be, said it just comes
with playing for the steward
of one of the best brands in
college basketball.
“It’s UCLA, you’ve got to
hold yourself to a higher
standard playing for UCLA
and we all knew that,” John-
son said, “and even if it does
come out in the media and
he was tough on you in the
media, most of the time
what he’s saying is factual,
it’s not like he’s just making
it up out of thin air.”
It would be easy for
Cronin to say he has mel-
lowed since suffering a brain
abnormality called arterial
dissection nearly a decade
ago that forced him to miss
the final 25 games of the 2014-
15 season at Cincinnati, but
the coach conceded that’s
not the case.
“It’d be a lie,” Cronin said.
“You get older, you know, all
of us, theoretically you’re a
little smarter. So you take
better care of yourself, get
more rest, you know, things
of that nature.”
You just don’t necessarily
take it easier on your play-
ers. They don’t seem to mind
given the results.
“He’s someone that tries
to push you to your limits
and get the best out of you
every single day,” said guard
Lazar Stefanovic, who left
Utah for UCLA before this
season mostly because he
figured Cronin could help
him improve. The junior is
now averaging career highs
in points (11.1) and rebounds
(6.1). “I think that’s what ev-
ery young player needs.”
Maybe it’s why the quiet
moments tend to stand out
most for those who have
played for the man some
fans see as a screaming
meanie.
Among his favorite mem-
ories of playing for Cronin,
Singleton mentioned pour-
ing a Gatorade container full
of confetti over his coach to
celebrate their making the
Final Four.
It was a gentle swishing
that said it all.
L AT I M E S . C O M
FORMER LAFC standout Carlos Vela, 35, remains unsigned and could end up a victim of the club’s success.
Unsigned Vela still unfinished
business from LAFC offseason
The longtime captain
might be brought back
but MLS salary rules
could prevent that.
By Kevin Baxter
LAFC has never started
an MLS season without Car-
los Vela on its roster.
That could change Sat-
urday afternoon when the
reigning Western Confer-
ence champions face the Se-
attle Sounders at BMO Sta-
dium since Vela, the team’s
longtime captain and all-
time leader in goals and as-
sists, remains unsigned.
But there’s still hope. Be-
cause not only has Vela
failed to move on, he hasn’t
even moved out.
“He still has his locker
there with all his stuff,” de-
fender Aaron Long said
Thursday at the team’s
training site. “Maybe there’s
something that can get
worked out.”
For the time being, Vela is
a victim of an MLS salary
structure that punishes
teams for being successful —
and no MLS team has been
more successful than LAFC
since it entered the league
with Vela in 2018.
Many players have bonus
packages that become quite
lucrative if teams make long
playoff runs, and LAFC has
made the MLS Cup final the
last two seasons. The team
also made the finals of the
CONCACAF Champions
League and Campeones
Cup last year, triggering
other bonuses — all of which
count against the league’s
salary cap of $5.7 million.
Jones another weapon for the Bruins
The guard hits seven
three-pointers as
No. 12 UCLA avenges
earlier loss to Utah.
By Thuc Nhi Nguyen
The shots kept falling.
The crowd’s cheers grew
louder. Londynn Jones’ face
stayed straight.
Draining threes is just
what the UCLA sophomore
does.
Jones’ career-high 23
points, including seven-
for-10 three-point shooting,
led No. 12 UCLA to an 82-52
win over No. 18 Utah on
Thursday at Pauley Pavil-
ion. Jones celebrated her
red-hot shooting, which in-
cluded a career best for
three-pointers in a game,
but was most proud of her
defense with two steals and
one block. Utah averages 81.3
points and the Bruins lim-
ited the Utes to their second-
lowest scoring night of the
season.
“I’m really passionate
about defense just because
the size that I am, I have to
be able to do that,” the 5-
foot-4 Jones said. “The of-
fense is always good when
my shots are falling, but my
team does a really good job
of getting me the ball as
well.”
Sophomore center Lau-
ren Betts, who had 14 points
and six rebounds, anchored
the defense that held Pac-12
player of the year Alissa Pili
to 20 points and 11 rebounds
on five-for-13 shooting. Fifth-
year Bruins guard Charisma
Osborne had 13 points, sev-
en assists and five rebounds.
So the better LAFC does
on the field, the harder it be-
comes for general manager
John Thorrington to keep
the team together.
“The last two years the
value of our players has risen
because of their success
here,” Thorrington said.
“Managing a salary cap gets
incredibly tight. So you com-
bine the value of those play-
ers going up [and] money
shrinking, in effect, and it
makes it really difficult for us
to compete for free agents.”
Vela made nearly $4.4
million in the final year of his
contract last season, al-
though as a designated play-
er just a portion of that sala-
ry counted against the cap.
And he wasn’t the only one
affected. Midfielder Kellyn
Acosta and goalkeeper
Maxime Crepeau, who
played key roles in LAFC’s
success, left as free agents,
part of an exodus in which 14
players departed.
The year before that,
LAFC lost 10 players from its
league championship team,
among them leading scorer
Cristian Arango and MLS
Cup hero Gareth Bale, who
both were sacrificed to the
salary cap.
“Those are the rules,”
LAFC coach Steve Cherun-
dolo said. “We know the
rules and we try to proceed
even though those rules
make it difficult to build a
dynasty or build a roster
over multiple years.”
In other parts of the
world, success is rewarded
with additional TV revenue
and big-money purses for
qualifying for continental
tournaments, money those
teams can plow back into
their rosters, assuring the
Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
UCLA GUARD Londynn Jones scored a career-high
23 points to lead Thursday’s win over the No. 18 Utes.
The program’s second-lead-
ing scorer with 2,185 points
has 803 career rebounds, be-
coming the second Pac-12
guard to reach 2,000 points
and 800 rebounds, following
Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu.
The Bruins (21-5, 10-5
Pac-12) entered the weekend
in a tie with the Utes (19-8,
9-6) for fifth in the confer-
ence with two weeks left be-
fore the conference tourna-
ment. After Stanford, which
is 12-2, five teams separated
by one game are fighting for
the final three first-round
byes in the tournament.
Hosting Utah and No. 11
Colorado, which is in a three-
team logjam for second in
the standings at 10-4, the
Bruins understand what’s at
stake this weekend. It’s ex-
actly why coach Cori Close
has deleted apps such as
ESPN from her phone, elimi-
nating any potential distrac-
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That’s why Bayern Munich The return of Vela, who 8:30 a.m. NASCAR Cup, Ambetter Health 400, qualifying TV: FS1
has won 11 consecutive Bun- turns 35 next week, would
desliga titles and Paris help. What seems more
11 a.m. NASCAR Trucks, Fr8 208 TV: FS1
2 p.m. NASCAR Xfinity, Raptor King of Tough 250 TV: FS1
Saint-Germain and Man- likely, however, is that his re-
BASEBALL
chester City have won five of turn will be limited to the
the last six titles in France time it takes him to clean out 10 a.m. Spring training, Philadelphia at Toronto TV: MLB
and England, respectively. his locker. In MLS, success Noon Spring training, Dodgers at Angels TV: SNLA, BSW
MLS salary rules were comes with a heavy price. R: 570, 1020; 830
written to promote parity, “Look, he was here for six BASKETBALL
which is why only one team years, he was our captain. Of 5:30 p.m. Boston at New York TV: 7
has won consecutive titles in course, he’s gonna have a
the last 15 years. LAFC can presence,” Cherundolo said. COLLEGE BASEBALL
buck that trend by making it “We don’t erase people out of 2 p.m. UCLA at Texas Christian TV: ESPN+
to a third straight MLS Cup our memory here. I hope he COLLEGE BASKETBALL
final this fall, something no will be back. The door’s al- 9 a.m. Houston at Baylor TV: 2
team has done this century. ways open for him.” 9 a.m. Notre Dame at Syracuse TV: ESPN
“We don’t allow ourselves
9 a.m. Missouri at Arkansas TV: ESPN2
to have the rules as an ex- LAFC SCHEDULE
cuse,” midfielder Ilie 9 a.m. Indiana at Penn State TV: Big Ten
(all times Pacific)
Sánchez said. “We always try 10 a.m. Vanderbilt at Florida TV: SEC
FEBRUARY
to find the best solutions to Today: vs. Seattle, 1:30 p.m. 11 a.m. Washington at Arizona TV: 2
build a very strong roster. MARCH 11 a.m. Duke at Wake Forest TV: ESPN
Two seasons in a row we’ve 2: at Real Salt Lake, 11 a.m. 11 a.m. West Virginia at Iowa State TV: ESPN2
been able to get to the final 9: vs. Sporting K.C., 7:30 p.m.
game. It’s something that we 16: at Minnesota, 5:30 p.m. 11 a.m. Boston College at North Carolina State TV: ACC
23: vs. Nashville, 7:30 p.m.
will try to repeat.” 30: at Colorado, 1 p.m. 11:15 a.m. Iowa at Illinois TV: Big Ten
But there will be little APRIL 12:30 p.m. South Carolina at Mississippi TV: SEC
room for error. Denis 6: vs. Galaxy, 4:30 p.m.
12:30 p.m. Virginia Union at Virginia State TV: 9
13: at Portland, 1:30 p.m.
Bouanga, who led MLS with 20: vs. N.Y. Red Bulls, 7:30 p.m.
1 p.m. Alabama at Kentucky TV: 2
20 goals last season, returns 27: vs. Portland, 7:30 p.m.
and the team has replaced MAY 1 p.m. North Carolina at Virginia TV: ESPN
Crepeau with Hugo Lloris, 4: vs. San José at Levi’s Stadium, 4:30 p.m.
11: vs. Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
1 p.m. Oklahoma at Oklahoma State TV: ESPN2
the former captain of the 15: at St. Louis, 5:30 p.m. 1 p.m. Georgia Tech at Miami TV: ACC
French national team. Co- 25: at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m.
29: vs. Minnesota, 7:30 p.m. 1 p.m. Air Force at New Mexico TV: CBSSN
lombia’s Eduard Atuesta, JUNE 1 p.m. UC Irvine at UC San Diego TV: SpecSN
26, returns after two seasons 1: vs. Dallas, 7:30 p.m.
with Brazilian club Pal- 15: at Orlando, 4:30 p.m. 1 p.m. Women, Tarleton State at California Baptist TV: ESPN+
19: at Austin, 5:30 p.m.
meiras to take Acosta’s spot 22: vs. San José, 7:30 p.m.
2 p.m. Oregon at Stanford TV: Pac-12
in the midfield, and the team 29: vs. Colorado, 7:30 p.m. 2 p.m. California Baptist at Tarleton State TV: ESPN+
also added Mexican defend- JULY
2 p.m. Women, Gonzaga at Pepperdine TV: ESPN+
er Omar Campos, 21, and Co- 4: vs. Galaxy at the Rose Bowl, 7:30 p.m.
7: at Houston, 5:30 p.m. 2 p.m. Women, Cal St. Fullerton at Cal St. Northridge TV: ESPN+
lombian forward Tomás Án- 13: vs. Columbus, 7:30 p.m.
gel, 21. 17: vs. Real Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m. 2 p.m. Women, Pacific at Loyola Marymount TV: ESPN+
20: at Seattle, 7:30 p.m.
“Depth is our weakness,” 2 p.m. Women, UC San Diego at UC Irvine TV: ESPN+
AUGUST
Cherundolo said. “I feel 24: at Vancouver, 4:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Virginia Tech at Pittsburgh TV: 5
really good about our first 31: vs. Houston, 7:30 p.m. 3 p.m. Texas at Kansas TV: ESPN
group and then we’re pretty SEPTEMBER
3 p.m. Auburn at Georgia TV: SEC
young. [It] will be a chal- 14: at Galaxy, 7:30 p.m.
18: vs. Austin, 7:30 p.m. 3 p.m. Georgetown at DePaul TV: CBSSN
lenge to stay healthy. In- 21: at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.
juries will happen and how 28: at Cincinnati, 4:30 p.m. 3 p.m. Women, Hawaii at Long Beach State TV: SpecSN
we get out of those when OCTOBER 4 p.m. Oregon at California TV: Pac-12
2: vs. St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.
they happen and how many 6: at Sporting K.C., 5:30 p.m. 4:45 p.m. Florida State at Clemson TV: 5
there are kind of determines 19: vs. San José, 6 p.m.
5 p.m. Villanova at Connecticut TV: 11
5 p.m. Texas A&M at Tennessee TV: ESPN
5 p.m. Washington State at Arizona State TV: ESPN2
5 p.m. Colorado State at Nevada Las Vegas TV: CBSSN
5 p.m. Charlotte at Tulsa TV: ESPNU
5:30 p.m. Butler at Seton Hall TV: FS2
5:30 p.m. Mississippi State at Louisiana State TV: SEC
fourth.
6 p.m. Utah at Colorado TV: Pac-12
Utah had more turnovers
(20) than field goals (17). The 6 p.m. Cal State Northridge at Cal State Fullerton TV: ESPN+
Utes made only two shots in 6 p.m. Women, Cal Poly at UC Riverside TV: ESPN+
the third quarter in 16 at- 6:30 p.m. Women, Nevada Las Vegas at Nevada TV: FS1
tempts.
“This really means a lot,”
7 p.m. USC at UCLA TV: ESPN
Close said, “because to play 7 p.m. Santa Clara at Gonzaga TV: ESPN2
the kind of defense we 7 p.m. San Diego at Saint Mary’s TV: ESPNU
played against one of the 7 p.m. Pepperdine at San Francisco TV: ESPN+
best offensive teams in the 7 p.m. Loyola Marymount at Pacific TV: ESPN+
country, I just think earns us
7 p.m. UC Riverside at Cal Poly TV: ESPN+
a lot of confidence.”
After beginning the sea- 9 p.m. Long Beach State at Hawaii TV: ESPN+
son with 14 consecutive wins, GOLF
rising to the highest ranking 10 a.m. PGA, Mexico Open, third round TV: Golf
in school history at No. 2 and Noon PGA, Mexico Open, third round TV: 4, Peacock
looking like a national cham- 7:30 p.m. Honda LPGA Thailand, final round TV: Golf
pionship contender, the
Bruins lost five games in the HOCKEY
last six weeks. Their confi- 9 a.m. St. Louis at Detroit TV: 7, ESPN+
dence was shaken. Noon New York Rangers at Philadelphia TV: 7, ESPN+
On Thursday, they built 4 p.m. Toronto at Colorado TV: NHLN
it back up every time Jones 7:30 p.m. Ducks at Kings TV: BSW, BSSC
calmly hit another three- R: iHeart; Ducks
“All of the pressure or just pointer. stream
sort of distractions come “If we play the way we did
HORSE RACING
from living from past regret today,” Betts said, “no one’s
or fear of the future or being going to be able to stop us.” 11 a.m. America’s Day at the Races TV: FS2
outcome driven,” Close said Noon America’s Day at the Races TV: BSSC
this week. “Whichever of the SOCCER
teams can stay most present Thursday’s late box
7 a.m. England, Aston vs. Nottingham TV: USA, Universo
focused over the next four No. 12 UCLA 82, No. 18 UTAH 52
7 a.m. England, Brighton & Hove vs. Everton TV: Peacock
games one by one, and not UTAH (19-8) — Johnson 0-2 0-0 0, Pili 5-13 10-10
20, McQueen 5-10 0-1 11, Vieira 3-7 0-0 6, Wilke 1-6
just have that be lip service, I 0-0 2, Crispe 0-1 2-2 2, Ross 1-3 0-0 2, Young 1-7 2-2
7 a.m. England, Crystal Palace vs. Burnley TV: Peacock
think those are going to be 5, White 1-4 1-2 4, Totals 17-53 15-17 52.
UCLA (21-5) — Dugalic 3-9 1-2 7, Betts 6-10 2-2 14,
7 a.m. England, Manchester United vs. Fulham TV: Peacock
the ones that end up on top.” Jones 8-12 0-0 23, Osborne 6-12 0-0 13, Rice 4-12 4-5 7:15 a.m. Spain, Barcelona vs. Getafe TV: ESPN+, ESPND
UCLA was laser-focused 13, Iwuala 1-3 1-2 3, Jaquez 4-7 1-2 9, Muse 0-0 0-0 0,
Brown 0-0 0-0 0, Totals 32-65 9-13 82. 9 a.m. Italy, Salernitana vs. Monza TV: Paramount+
from the start Thursday. Utah 15 10 9 18— 52 9:30 a.m. England, Bournemouth vs. Manchester City TV: 4, Universo
The Bruins raced to a 12-0 UCLA 25 14 20 23— 82
lead, forcing three Utah 3-Point Goals—Utah 3-15 (McQueen 1-4, Vieira 0-2,
9:30 a.m. Germany, Munich vs. Leipzig TV: ESPN+
turnovers before the Utes Wilke 0-2, Ross 0-2, Young 1-3, White 1-2), UCLA 9-23 9:30 a.m. Spain, Deportivo Alavés vs. Mallorca TV: ESPN+, ESPND
(Dugalic 0-3, Jones 7-10, Osborne 1-5, Rice 1-4, Jaquez
scored their first basket. The 0-1). Assists—Utah 9 (Vieira 3), UCLA 24 (Osborne 7). 11:45 a.m. Italy, Genoa vs. Udinese TV: Paramount+
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Utah 33 (Pili 11), UCLA
Bruins polished off the first 38 (Dugalic 9). Total Fouls—Utah 12, UCLA 15. Technical Noon England, Arsenal vs. Newcastle TV: Peacock
half with six consecutive Fouls—None. A—3,711.
Noon Spain, Almería vs. Atlético Madrid TV: ESPN+, ESPND
points to take a 14-point lead
1:30 p.m. MLS, LAFC vs. Seattle TV: 11, Apple TV
at the break. They piled on
with a 14-0 run during the Women’s basketball 4:30 p.m. CONCACAF W Gold Cup, Puerto Rico vs. Panama TV: ESPN+
third quarter that pushed No. 7 USC’s game against 7 p.m. CONCACAF W Gold Cup, Colombia vs. Brazil TV: ESPN+
their lead to 27. A sixth three- No. 11 Colorado on Friday TENNIS
pointer from Jones, who ended after this edition’s 7 a.m. WTA Dubai singles final TV: Tennis
leads the Pac-12 in three- deadline. For that story Noon ATP Rio de Janeiro semifinals TV: Tennis
pointers per game, put the and more coverage go to
Bruins up by 30 early in the latimes.com/sports. 7 p.m. ATP Los Cabos singles final TV: Tennis
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Playing for Cronin is a scream

e looks like a madman, stomping
UCLA coach blocks to play for the easygoing Steve Alford only to

H around the sideline as if he’s

smashing grapes.
Yelling at officials and his
own players with equal aban-
don, his howls can be heard in the upper
reaches of any arena.
Win or lose, the words flow freely in his pub-
out criticisms of his
penchant for yelling,
find himself sticking around for five more sea-
sons under the demanding Cronin, once ap-
proached the latter mentor with a startling
message.
“Coach,” Nwuba told him, “we play better
when you yell.”
That’s not much of an ask. Type “Mick
lic comments afterward, no one spared from
biting critiques.
instead focusing on Cronin” into a YouTube search and one of the
auto-populated options on a drop-down menu
Some see these animated displays and is “Mick Cronin mad.”
wonder if Mick Cronin is being abusive.
His players have come to invite the invec-
player connections Yep, he can run hot beyond the three tech-
nical fouls he has earned this season, the red-
tive, knowing where it will lead them. lining going back to his days at Cincinnati.
“He doesn’t care about how you feel,” said BY B EN B OLCH Among the videos that pop up are “Mick
Jaylen Clark, the Minnesota Timberwolves Cronin very upset after Shootout brawl,”
rookie who went from a lightly recruited high “Mick Cronin tries to fight Xavier bench” and
school player to a Final Four participant and “UCLA coach puts players on BLAST!!”
the Naismith college defensive player of the He has freely ripped since his arrival in
year under the guidance of the UCLA basket- Westwood, calling out nearly everyone on the
ball coach. “He’s going to get everything he roster. Just listen to Cronin’s takes from earlier
feels like he can get out of you even if you don’t this season:
see it yourself.” On freshman guard Sebastian Mack: “On a
It usually doesn’t take long for the Bruins to veteran team, he’d play about five minutes a
see it. Center Kenneth Nwuba, who signed up game.” [See Cronin, B10]

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LAFC’s longtime captain still could be brought back, Trojans are second-worst in rebounding margin in Learning from last season’s struggles, the Dodgers
but MLS salary rules might prevent that. B11 Pac-12, and they’re running out of time to fix it. B10 right-hander hopes to earn a job in the rotation. B9
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9522 COTHARIN ROAD 633 SANTA CLARA AVENUE | VENICE 24800 PIUMA ROAD 33269 MULHOLLAND HIGHWAY
$5,950,000 | Approx. 18.94 Acres | Rendering $5,950,000 | 2 Bed | 2 Bath $4,995,000 | Approx. 72.83 Acres | Rendering $4,895,000 | 3 Bed | 3 Bath

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19136 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY 6228 TRANCAS CANYON ROAD 9990 HOUSTON ROAD 19046 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
$4,750,000 | 3 Bed | 2 Bath $4,500,000 | 4 Bed | 3 Bath $3,995,000 | 5 Bed | 3 Bath $3,795,000 | 2 Bed | 2 Bath

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21488 CALLE DEL BARCO 21764 CASTLEWOOD DRIVE 5936 BUSCH DRIVE 5942 BUSCH DRIVE
$3,500,000 | Approx. 1.225 Acres $3,495,000 | 4 Bed | 3 Bath $2,575,000 | Approx. 0.92 Acres | Rendering $2,325,000 | Approx. 0.927 Acres | Rendering

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6445 LATIGO CANYON ROAD 5092 LATIGO CANYON ROAD 30890 MULHOLLAND HIGHWAY 0 SOUTH FOOSE ROAD
$2,295,000 | Approx. 5.196 Acres $1,295,000 | Approx. 3.001 Acres $995,000 | Approx. 11.888 Acres $795,000 | Approx. 5.05 Acres

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9988 HOUSTON ROAD 27540 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY 23402 MALIBU COLONY ROAD 22368 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
$595,000 | Approx. 2.58 Acres $350,000/month | 7 Bed | 10 Bath $225,000/month | 6 Bed | 7 Bath $200,000/month | 9 Bed | 14 Bath

28808 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE 6020 BONSALL DRIVE 30962 BROAD BEACH ROAD 28946 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE
$185,000/month | 6 Bed | 9 Bath $125,000/month | 7 Bed | 8 Bath $100,000/month | 7 Bed | 7 Bath $100,000/month | 5 Bed | 6 Bath
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28827 GRAYFOX SREET 27348 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY 28823 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE 28926 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE
$100,000/month | 6 Bed | 7 Bath $85,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath $75,000/month | 6 Bed | 5 Bath $75,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath
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26714 LATIGO SHORE DRIVE 23614 MALIBU COLONY ROAD 5868 ZUMIREZ DRIVE 29020 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE
$75,000/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath $75,000/month | 5 Bed | 5 Bath $68,000/month | 5 Bed | 8 Bath $65,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath
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28899 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE 24314 MALIBU ROAD 27445 WINDING WAY 29000 CLIFFSIDE DRIVE
$60,000/month | 6 Bed | 5 Bath $60,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath $60,000/month | 6 Bed | 8 Bath $55,000/month | 5 Bed | 6 Bath
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310.457.3995
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DRE 01190363
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6530 ZUMA VIEW PLACE 26966 MALIBU COVE COLONY DRIVE 32802 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY 31646 SEA LEVEL DRIVE
$55,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath $50,000/month | 3 Bed | 3 Bath $50,000/month | 3 Bed | 5 Bath $50,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath

22349 CARBON MESA ROAD 5920 CLOVER HEIGHTS AVENUE 23901 MALIBU KNOLLS ROAD 7157 BIRDVIEW AVENUE
$49,995/month | 6 Bed | 7 Bath $45,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath $45,000/month | 4 Bed | 4 Bath $40,000/month | 3 Bed | 4 Bath

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6715 FERNHILL DRIVE 32054 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY 29943 HARVESTER ROAD 27070 MALIBU COVE COLONY DRIVE
$35,000/month | 4 Bed | 5 Bath $35,000/month | 4 Bed | 3 Bath $34,995/month | 4 Bed | 6 Bath $30,000/month | 2 Bed | 2 Bath

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18106 WAKECREST DRIVE 5949 RAMIREZ CANYON ROAD
$12,750/month | 4 Bed | 2 Bath $11,450/month | 1 Bed | 1 Bath

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6461 ZUMA VIEW PLACE #148 29233 HEATHERCLIFF ROAD #4
$7,500/month | 3 Bed | 3 Bath $6,500/month | 2 Bed | 2 Bath

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22368 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY

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With the luxurious location, style, and amenities of a holiday resort, this remarkable Carbon Beach oceanfront estate is both
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expansive and exceedingly comfortable. Three lots, totaling approximately 0.59 acre, have been combined to create the exceptional
120-foot frontage that commands a sweeping ocean panorama from Point Dume and the Malibu Pier to the Queen’s Necklace
and Catalina Island. Beyond its celebrity pedigree and architect of note, the entire property invites gracious indoor-outdoor
entertaining and relaxation in an atmosphere of opulent privacy. From the porte-cochre entry to the beachfront pool and deep,
wraparound decks, the home combines classical motifs with contemporary openness and light. The spectacular living room, which
opens through multiple doors to the oceanfront deck, features two spacious seating areas, fireplace, and an in-wall projector and
retractable movie screen. At one end of the living room is a chandelier dining area with ocean views and sliding glass doors to the
deck. The adjacent kitchen is equipped for lavish entertaining with top-grade appliances, generous counter and cabinet space, a
large island, wine storage, a built-in breakfast nook, and a butler’s pantry with additional prep and storage space. Off the foyer is
a spacious guest suite, complete with sitting room and two en-suite bedrooms. A wide staircase ascends to the upper floor, where
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there is an office, an en-suite gym/bedroom with mirrored walls and a private balcony, and six en-suite bedrooms, including the
elegant primary suite. This private refuge has a grand foyer, tray ceiling, fireplace, sitting room/office, dual walk-in closets, dual
salon-style bathrooms, and large pocket doors opening onto the upper level ocean-view wraparound deck, where there is ample
space for lounging. The main-floor deck is an entertainer’s dream, complete with an outdoor kitchen, bar seating, built-in barbecue,
firepit, fountain, turf area, ocean-view pool and Jacuzzi, sound system, pergola, multiple settings for dining and relaxing, an outdoor
shower, and a beach bathroom. The home is equipped with full security, intercom, fire sprinklers, and lovely landscaping. A rare
estate of classical scale and contemporary restraint in an absolutely unmatched location. $200,000/month | 9 Bed | 14 Bath
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CHRIS CORTAZZO
310.457.3995 | DRE 01190363
chris@chriscortazzo.com
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53732 VIA PISA, LA QUINTA
4 Beds, including guest casita
4 Full + 1 Half Bath
5,200 Sq Ft Valery Neuman
$4,995,000 | Furnished Founding Partner

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760.861.1176
valery@valeryneuman.com
valeryneuman.com
DRE 01138184
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YOU’RE INVITED TO A WRIGHT WAY TEAM OPEN HOUSE!

20711 HILLSIDE DRIVE, TOPANGA
OPEN SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25 FROM 1PM-5PM
Presenting ‘Hillside Retreat’ a Mid Century Modern Architectural Compound perched above the clouds
adjacent to Topanga State Park. Your gated 1 ½ acres comes fully remodeled with exquisite soulful
finishes and every amenity needed for a luxurious sanctuary. Reminiscent of the visionary architects
Barragan and Legorreta, the home shows a bold new face to the world, and million dollar, southern
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facing views. A new ADU perches even higher above the clouds, with a sensuous full bath outfitted in
brass fixtures, Roman Clay walls, wrapped in a commanding deck overlooking the world below. The
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new pool and spa include a built-in bbq, dining deck, fire pit and a perched pergola so the summer
days are as long as the views are vast. Slate floors lead to loft-like interiors with soaring 24’ ceilings,
expansive views from every room, bathed in sunlight; capped with clear cedar ceilings. Designer
lighting elevates the home. Every way you turn, the wilderness beckons. Step down into a huge sunken
living room, with a warming fireplace, and walls of glass, with doors leading out to peaceful gardens.
Mountain views, like massive art installations, distract you from your day-to-day life. This is a house
made for art, with bold spaces, dreamy lighting, and wide walls to fill. Curved patios and decks create
a sense of harmony and welcome. Custom white oak millwork fills the wide kitchen. A honed granite
island, Viking appliances, a custom burnished brass range hood, and Waterworks fixtures opens to an
adjoining second living space that’s perfect for smaller gatherings. Meditative garden paths, dotted
with olive trees lead out the back gate, into the park, and directly onto the trails to Eagle Rock,
Trippet Ranch, and the Backbone Trail. A gated play yard with turf welcomes games or pups. Ample
outdoor private parking that can accommodate up to 12 cars means you can welcome a crowd. The
monumental presence of this house is inspiring. But it’s the tucked away canyon setting that truly sets
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this home apart. The sunsets are transcendent. The silence is a living, breathing presence. The mid-
canyon location lets you slip to the beach, the Topanga Village, or the Calabasas Farmers’ Market in
minutes. Create an artful life here, under the sheltering sky.

@thewrightwayteam 4 BED | 3.5 BA | 3,373 SF | $4,795,000

PASSIONATE LOCAL AGENTS. UNPARALLELED MARKETING REACH. INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY. RESULTS DELIVERED.
AN EXPERIENCE LIKE NO OTHER. NOW MORE THAN EVER, WHO YOU WORK WITH MATTERS.

Adrian Wright Jordan Wright

818-939-6415 818.746.6987
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adrian.wright@compass.com jordanwright@compass.com
DRE 00935559 DRE 01952694

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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. #1 Topanga agents status based on total closed transaction sides. All measurements and square footage are approximate.
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OCEAN TO CITY

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LOS FELIZ

4411 LOS FELIZ, PENTHOUSE 1401

$1 ,850,000 | 2 BED + DEN | 3 BATH | 1, 870 SF
—
Open House on 3/3 and 3/10, 1 pm – 4 pm

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PAM LUMPKIN
310.993.7085
pam@pamlumpkin.com
www.pamlumpkin.com
DRE 01931688

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Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills
JUST SOLD JUST SOLD JUST SOLD OVER ASKING

801 N. Camden Drive $12,995,000 512 N. Elm Drive $6,499,000 503 N. Alta Drive $6,495,000
1st time avail in 51 yrs. Immac grand 2sty Deco-era Represented Buyer. Charming 1sty 4BD 3BA Tradit. 1st time for sale in 56 yrs. Total charm. Classic 2sty
Spanish estate. Massive 26,500SF crnr lot. 5BD 5.5BA Den. Sunlit rms. Immaculate condition. Large yrd 1937 Trad. 4Bd + mds. Fam rm. Wd flrs. Perfect flr
Sep fam and sun rms. Hi clngs. Pl/lawns/patio/GH. with pl. Endless possibilities. Best quiet 500 block. plan. Updated kitch. Huge deep yard. Lawns/patios.

Beverly Hills
Hancock Park

Beverly Hills
LA
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024

JUST SOLD NEW X I OPEN SUNDAY - JUST SOLD

846 S. Longwood Avenue $5,498,000 442 S. Peck Drive $4,795,000 320 S. Canon Drive $3,295,000
Represented Buyer. Impeccably restored/expanded walled Stunning redone 5BD 4.5BA 2sty Tradit w/contemp 1st time available in 51 yrs. Immac 2sty 5BD 4.5BA
Storybook masterwork. 4 BD + GH. Large lush grounds. flair. Light wd flrs, French drs. Huge great rm. Big mstr Traditional. Over 3,000 SF. Sep den & fam rm. Huge
Sunlit rms. Dramatic stylings. Pool/spa. Brookside's best. w/walk-in. X-priv yrd w/lawns/patio. Quiet road. liv & dining rooms. Patios/pool. Endless potential.

Beverly Hills
BHPO
Beverly Hills
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PENDING JUST SOLD JUST SOLD OVER ASKING

145 - 147 N. Clark Drive $2,795,000 2246 Betty Lane $2,599,000 357 S. Clark Drive $2,295,000
Stunning authentic 2sty Deco-era Spanish duplex. Represented Buyer. Updated 1sty 4 BD 3 BA Trad. Trust Sale - 1st time avail in 34yrs. Immac sunlit 1sty
Each unit near 2,200SF w/3BD + fam rm + 2BA. Fam room. Cook's kitchen. Off-street prkg galore. Spanish. 3BD 2BA. Wd flrs. Hi clngs. Fab updated
Hi clngs. Wd flrs. Unlimited potential. Vacant!! Outdr Studio. Bucolic grounds/privacy. Cul-de-sac. kitch and baths. Beaut priv yrd. Endless potential.
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Michael J. Libow Celebrating 39 Years in our Westside Market

310.691.7889 The Hardest Working Man in Real Estate.
mjlibow@gmail.com
michaeljlibow.com
DRE 00863172
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11 8°1 4'

Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills
Sunset Strip

JUST LEASED NEW X | BY APPOINTMENT JUST LEASED

1634 Blue Jay Way $29,500/mo 612 N. Elm Drive $26,000/mo 515 N. Linden Drive $26,500/mo
Panoramic city/ocean vus. Long gated drive. Seclusion. All redone gated modern. Gorg new wood flrs. Grand gated redone 2sty Trad. 5BD 5.5BA + outdr
Elegant 1.5sty 4BD 3.5BA Trad estate. Near 4,000SF. 3 Huge kitch/brkfst w/top built-ins. Giant owner's rm/ba. Hi clngs. Wd flrs. Huge fab kitch. Massive
FP's. Screening rm. Pl/patios. Long-term Furnished. suite up + office. 4BD + den down. Pool/spa/lawn. living/dining/fam rooms. Pool/spa/patios. Long term.

Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills

Los Feliz

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
NEW X | BY APPOINTMENT JUST LEASED JUST LEASED

801 N. Camden Drive $23,500/mo 2441 Chislehurst Drive $16,000/mo 301 S. Roxbury Drive $14,900/mo
Just updated classic grand 2sty Deco Spanish on Head-on city vus. Secluded. Walled. Gated. Spacious Stunning sunlit redone 2sty spacious Spanish. 4BD 4.5BA.
26,500 SF crnr lot. 5BD 5.5BA. Sun rm. Fam rm. sunlit redone Spanish estate. Motorcourt. 4BD 3.5BA Great rm. Hi clngs. Gleaming wd flrs. Top quality new kitch
Lawns/patios/pl. Bonus rms/bath. Great value. Huge primary. Patios/pl/spa/grdns/privacy. Long-term. & bas. 2 Primary suites up. Huge yrd w/lawns/patios.
Beverly Hills

Cahuenga Pass
Beverly Hills

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NEW PRICING | BY APPOINTMENT JUST LEASED NEW X | BY APPOINTMENT

208 S. Lasky Dr Unit 201 $11,500/mo 204 S. Camden Drive $10,950/mo $5,600/mo each
3484 - 3486 Oak Glen Drive
Stunning 10yr new custom full-floor 1-level sunlit All redone Contemp 1sty Spanish. New kitch/bas. 3BD 3.5BA Lg Rare redone side x side 2sty townhomes. Authentic
condo. 4B D 3.5 BA. Near 2,850sf. 4-unit luxe bldg. outdr guest unit. Cook's kitch. Big vaulted clng liv rm. Dining English charm. Wd flrs. New kitchens. W/D in units. 3BD
3 gated prkng spaces. Shared rooftop deck. rm/den. X-priv yrd w/turf/covered patio. Moments to all. up 2.5BA each. Quiet rd just w. of Cahuenga/s. of Ventura.

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Michael J. Libow Celebrating 39 Years in our Westside Market
310.691.7889 The Hardest Working Man in Real Estate.
mjlibow@gmail.com
michaeljlibow.com
DRE 00863172
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BEVERLY HILLS

208 South Lask Drive Unit 201

New Pricing | By Appointment

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$11,500/month Long-term Lease

4 Bed | 3.5 Bath | ± 2,840 Sq ft
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024

• Custom 2013 built one-level full-floor condominium • Fabulous center-isle cook’s kitchen with top appliances
• Spacious layout with superb finishes • “Great Room” concept for ultimate entertaining capacity
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• Sunlit rooms with stunning stone and wood floors • Huge community roof patio with BBQ, lovely city views
• High ceilings, mouldings, and French doors • 3-car gated subterranean parking
• 4 generous bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms • Exclusive 4-unit Contemporary Mediterranean building
• Grand primary suite with walk-in/luxe bath • Moments to the best of Beverly Hills and the Westside

Michael J. Libow
Celebrating 39 Years
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in our Westside Market 310.691.7889

mjlibow@gmail.com
michaeljlibow.com
The Hardest Working Man in Real Estate. DRE 00863172

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PROPERTY SPOTLIGHT
BY APPOINTMENT BY APPOINTMENT OPEN SUN 1-4PM | NEW LISTING

BEVERLY HILLS Sally Forster Jones BRENTWOOD Nora Wendel SANTA MONICA Sally Forster Jones
502 Smithwood Dr Marc Sonnenthal 11901 Sunset Bl #209 Peter Wendel 948 23rd St 310.579.2200
$4,295,000 310.579.2200 $775,000 310.918.2064 $5,688,000 DRE 00558939
Two 3+3.5 | Two 1+1 DRE 00558939 1 Bed | 1 Bath DRE 01419846 6 Beds | 6.5 Baths
502smithwood.com 01466238 1,102± Sq Ft 00971482 948-23rdst.com

OPEN SATURDAY 1-4PM OPEN SUNDAY 1-4PM OPEN SUN 1-4PM | NEW LISTING OPEN SAT & SUN 1-4PM | NEW LISTING

SANTA MONICA Susan Kastner WESTCHESTER Sally Forster Jones Carla Winnie
WESTWOOD TUJUNGA Richard Langstaff
722 21st St 7612 Cowan Ave 1874 Benecia Ave 310.344.4740 7229 W. Aleksander Lane 626.643.2065
310.880.9227 Vincent DiMauro
$4,795,000 $2,699,900 $2,395,000 DRE 00703299 $1,199,000 Bonnie Simons
DRE 01237053 310.579.2200
3 Beds | 2 Baths 5 Beds | 6 Baths DRE 00558939 3 Beds | 4 Baths 4 Beds | 4 Baths 818.269.3803
02048914 2,355± Sq Ft 2,872± Sq Ft DRE 01057700 | 00878209
3,067± Sq Ft 7612cowan.com
PROPERTY SPOTLIGHT

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TOPANGA Jordan Wright

# BROKERAGE IN ORANGE COUNTY

20711 Hillside Dr Adrian Wright
$4,795,000 818.746.6987
4 Beds | 3.5 Baths
3,373± Sq Ft | 64,087± Sq Ft Lot
DRE 01952694 | 00935559 & LOS ANGELES
AS THE LEADER OF $10 MILLION-PLUS SALES, THE COMPASS LOS ANGELES-ORANGE
COUNTY NETWORK IS AN UNRIVALED FORCE IN LUXURY REPRESENTATION.

Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws (01991628). Source: San Diego MLS and CRMLS, regions include

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Los Angeles County, property types include Single Family Homes sold, 01/01/2022 - 12/31/22, and Single Family Homes sold at $10 million+, 01/01/2022 - 12/31/22. RealTrends 3/9/23.
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New Price New Listing | Open Saturday & Sunday 2-4pm

1000 Buena Vista Street, South Pasadena 2310 Panorama Drive, La Crescenta
7 Bedrooms | 7 Bathrooms | 7,323 Square Feet | $6,649,999 | 1000BuenaVista.com 3 Bedrooms | 2 Bathrooms | 2,402 Square Feet | $1,599,000 | 2310Panorama.com

Dhari Thein Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws.

626.437.7414 Lic. #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
dhari@dhari.com made without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and
www.dhari.com square footage are approximate. If your property is currently listed for sale this is not a solicitation.
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complaint history review. Mark Moskowitz · Keller Williams
professionals in the Los Angeles area! Five Star Professional’s 1. Qualifying rating. Westlake Village Realty
Petros Altunyan · Flagstar Bank
research team contacted real estate and mortgage industry veterans Eligibility Criteria: 4. Satisfies minimum production Pasadena Karen Crosby · Watermark Home Loans
on a one-year and three-year Corina Preece · Excellence RE Real
and consumers to identify up-and-coming professionals in the 2. Holds an active license and Estate Steven Daly · Coldwell Banker Realty
basis. Rising Star
industry. Rising Star award winners are held in high regard by their employed in their field for a Tony Dowdy · Coldwell Banker Realty
5. Successful completion of a Blue Sheri Schuster · Coldwell Banker
peers and mentors and have received a qualifying nomination for the minimum of five years. Realty Mortgage Professional
Ribbon Panel review. Santa Clarita Sylvie Guerin · New American Funding
award. Evaluators were asked to identify a real estate agent or Real estate agents, mortgage professionals and home/auto insurance Stacy Blair Young · Douglas Elliman
Cyndi Lesinski · Cyndi Lesinski &
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less and embodies professional excellence, exhibits superior profession.
Long Beach South Pasadena
Professional
customer service and shows great potential to excel in their The final list of 2024 Los Angeles-area Five Star award winners is a
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profession. All Rising Star award winners must be actively licensed,
satisfy minimum production criteria and have a favorable regulatory
history to be eligible for award consideration.
select group, representing approximately 1% of real estate agents,
1% of mortgage professionals and 1% of home/auto insurance
professionals in the area. To see the full list of winners, visit
www.fivestarprofessional.com.
Meg Middleman · Meg Real Estate, Inc.
Agency
REALTOR® is a federally registered collective membership mark which identifies a real estate professional who is a
Member of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® and subscribes to its strict Code of Ethics.

Cherryl Weaver Kiyo Johnson Craig E. Jaffe

Realtor, DRE 1353222 DRE 01703199 Vice President, COO, CFO, DOI 0555929

RE/MAX Pinnacle Estate

Empower Properties, Inc.
18635 Devonshire Street 13160 Mindanao Way, Suite 204
2272 Colorado Boulevard, Suite 1141
Northridge, CA 91324 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Cell: 818-235-8374 Office: 310-827-5050, ext. 107
Office: 323-254-1350
Office: 818-360-7001 Fax: 310-827-6060
cherryl@hotlaneighborhoods.com
kiyojohnson10@gmail.com craig@jaffeinsurance.com

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client satisfaction • Los Angeles native • Over 20 years of real estate experience
• Specializes in homeowner, auto, valuable article, earthquake, umbrella,
• Ensures clients’ needs are met
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She has worked with the highest standard of ethics and professionalism since 2002.
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One of One Private Island

10 Tarpon Isle, Palm Beach
One-of-one, Tarpon Island is a Palm Beach masterpiece with 360 degree water views over 1,163 lineal feet of waterfront with its own private bridge and a plethora of
amenities. Price upon request. elliman.com | Web# RX-10845215
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HOT PROPERTY

340 ROYAL POINCIANA WAY M302 PALM BEACH 33480. 561.655.8600. © 2024 DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE. ALL MATERIAL PRESENTED HEREIN IS INTENDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. WHILE, THIS INFORMATION IS BELIEVED TO BE CORRECT, IT IS REPRESENTED SUBJECT TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, CHANGES OR WITHDRAWAL WITHOUT NOTICE. ALL PROPERTY
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• Water Views from All Principal Rooms • West Guest Wing - 3 Bedrooms • Tennis Pavilion & Rare Lighted Tennis Court
• Approx. 2.269 Acres & Approx. 98,833sf - Full Kitchen - Clay Tennis Court
• Approx. 28,618sf Total & Approx. 21,406sf AC - Living Room • 2 Pools & 3 Cabana Baths
• 11 Bedrooms, 15 Bathrooms, 7 Half Baths • Wellness Wing - Approx. 124’ Lap Pool with Spa & Cold Plunge
• 3 Indoor Kitchens, 1 Outdoor Kitchen - Waterfront Gym & Juice Bar - Swim-Jet Pool
• East Guest Wing - 5 Bedrooms - Steam Room & Dry Sauna • 3 Interior Fireplaces & 1 Outdoor Fireplace
- VIP Suite, Balcony & Dual Baths - Massage Room, Hair & Nail Salon • Elevator, Wine Room, 4 Laundry Rooms
- Home Theater • Game Room & Billiards Room • 2 Docks
• 5+ Car AC’d Garage with 2 Tesla Chargers - Approx. 100’ South-Facing Dock (Water & Electric)
- Secondary Dock (Boat & Jet-Ski Lits)
• Full House Generator

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For Additional Information
Chris Leavitt Suzanne Frisbie
Sales Associate Broker Associate
Executive Director of Luxury Sales M 561.373.0941
M 917.664.0720 suzanne@frisbiepalmbeach.com
cleavit@elliman.com

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INFORMATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO SQUARE FOOTAGE, ROOM COUNT, NUMBER OF BEDROOMS AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN PROPERTY LISTINGS SHOULD BE VERIFIED BY YOUR OWN ATTORNEY, ARCHITECT OR ZONING EXPERT. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY. CHRIS LEAVITT AND SUZANNE FRISBIE ARE LICENSED IN FLORIDA.

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The color, style and texture

of a rug can help pull a
space together.
Photo courtesy of Content That Works

5 THINGS TO KNOW
LA
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WHEN BUYING A RUG man-made but thanks to improved technology,

here’s more to consider than just pattern
T and price.
Consider the power of an area rug: It can 2. Where Will the Furniture Be Positioned
these rugs now have the look of natural fiber and
can be cleaned quickly. They’re a good choice
for family rooms and hallways. Other materials
include jute, sisal and seagrass, which look good
in a casual setting.
instantly add warmth and personality to a room.
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It can pull a space together with its matching
colors, style and texture. With so many choices
available, it may seem daunting to pick a rug
that’s perfect for your living room, bedroom or
whatever space you have in mind. Before you go
shopping, do a bit of fact-finding first. It’ll help
ensure you get a rug you’ll love. Check out the
following:
1. What Size Rug Should You Buy
HOT PROPERTY
Have an idea of how you want to arrange
both your furniture and the rug in the space
before committing to a certain rug size – plan
on having at least a one-foot border between the
rug and the walls. If the new rug is going in the
living room, make sure that the front legs will
be sitting on the rug. To get an approximate rug
size, measure the room’s length and width. Then
subtract one to two feet.
3. What Material Is Most Suitable
4. How to Figure Out What Style You Need
Take a look at the decorating choices you’ve
already made in the room and let that be your
guide. Is the style traditional, contemporary
or eclectic? Will a classic Oriental rug look
like it will fit in or is it calling for a rug made of
natural jute?
5. How to Determine the Best Rug Colors

They should complement the existing colors

The rug should be in proportion to the size
of the space. Picture a large room with a small
rug – the space would look unbalanced. Use
painter’s tape to mockup possible rug placement
to give you an idea of how an actual rug will fit.
Which shape (rectangular, round or square)
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It depends on where the rug is going. If you’ll
be placing it in a high-traffic area like a living
room, go for a durable, soft wool, which doesn’t
stain easily. If you want to give your bedroom a
soft, sumptuous look and feel, choose a silk rug.
For the kitchen, flat-weave cotton is a good op-
tion because it’s got a casual look and is easy to
in the room. That way, the look will be cohesive.
Knowing which colors to look for also lets you
narrow down your choices, which is helpful for
example in steering you towards the earth colors
and away from the pastels.
CTW Features

would work best? clean. Synthetics, such as nylon and viscose, are Contact us with comments or questions at hotproperty@latimes.com
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Arcadia, CA Sunset Strip - Hollywood Hills West, CA
, ,
$12,800,000 , ,
$11,495,000
Ash Rizk Steve Frankel
626.393.5695 310.508.5008
CalRE #01503342 CalRE #01195571

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Encino, CA La Cañada Flintridge, CA
, ,
$8,495,000 , ,
$7,500,000
Avi Barazani Janice T. McGlashan
818.528.2210 818.949.5230

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CalRE #01004601 CalRE #01041976

Pacific Palisades, CA
$3,595,000

HOT PROPERTY
Sandy Stewart
Westwood - Century City, CA 310.281.3991 Westwood - Century City, CA
$5,295,000
, , CalRE #01306177 $3,200,000
, ,
Tania Ferris Michael Shore Danny Mahelka
310.713.8234 310.721.5297 213.359.4097
CalRE #00664167 CalRE #01311509 CalRE #01170359

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Beverly Hills, CA
Malibu Beach, CA $26,995,000
, ,
$34,900,000 $110,000/MO
,
Joyce Rey Jade Mills
310.291.6646 310.285.7508
CalRE #00465013 CalRE #00526877

A LEADER IN LUXURY
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Malibu Beach, CA Beverly Hills, CA

$20,995,000 $19,995,000
, ,
Julian Alexander Jade Mills
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424.425.9292 310.285.7508
CalRE #01994705 CalRE #00526877

Malibu, CA
HOT PROPERTY

$29,900,000
Yar Meshkaty
310.777.6268 Beverly Hills, CA Malibu, CA
CalRE #01060780 $10,500,000 $6,350,000
Jade Mills Mitra Sisatar Stephen Udoff
310.285.7508 310.777.6372 310.701.6848
CalRE #00526877 CalRE #01239374 CalRE #01870835
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Bel Air, CA Westwood - Century City, CA
, ,
$24,995,000 $22,000,000
Jade Mills Aram Afshar
310.285.7508 310.702.0583
CalRE #00526877 CalRE #01484569

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Bel Air - Holmby Hills, CA
$4,150,000
Nanette Iggulden
310.433.9908 Beverly Hills - P.O., CA
CalRE #01363249 $3,500,000
, ,
Joyce Rey Jade Mills

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310.291.6646 310.285.7508
CalRE #00465013 CalRE #00526877

Woodland Hills, CA Westwood - Century City, CA

HOT PROPERTY
$1,800,000 $1,275,000
, ,
Nicole Nichols Jade Mills
Santa Monica, CA 818.825.7286 310.285.7508
$4,950,000
, , CalRE #01417053 CalRE #00526877
Tyler Saadian H ll Hatch
Holly H h Alexis LaMontagna
310.359.3491 818.306.7901 310.280.8080
CalRE #02226820 CalRE #01244574 CalRE #01400539

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Beverly Hills, CA Malibu Beach, CA

, ,
$6,495,000 $4,500,000
Tania Ferris Craig Natvig
310.713.8234 310.880.3665
CalRE #00664167 CalRE #01311614
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Beverly Center - Miracle Mile, CA Palm Springs Central, CA

, ,
$4,495,000 , ,
$3,500,000
Elizabeth Donovan Marianne Trintignac
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213.948.7983 703.901.5338
CalRE #01930016 CalRE #02118135

Ladera Heights, CA
$2,350,000
, ,
HOT PROPERTY

Philip Boroda
Malibu Beach, CA Woodland Hills, CA 818.728.3944
$2,995,000
, , $2,950,000 CalRE #00822192
Ellen Francisco Jeremy Lieberman Rick Hartzler
310.589.2464 310.456.4659 818.730.1756
CalRE #00709314 CalRE #02196105 CalRE #00907499
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STUNNING ARCHITECTURAL HOME
HOLLYWOOD HILLS

LA
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
2538 CARMAN CREST DRIVE | HOLLYWOOD HILLS
List Price: $5,250,000

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— Open Sunday 1-4pm —
• 3,785 Approx. SqFt • Cul-De-Sac Location • Infinity Edge Pool
• Stunning Architecture • Great City & Canyon Views • Garage Parking for 4 Cars

GENE BUSH

HOT PROPERTY
310.657.5050 | Genebush.com
CalRE# 01433309

Not intended as a solicitation if your property is already listed by another broker. The property information herein is derived from various sources that may include, but not be limited to, county records and the Multiple Listing Service, and it may include
approximations. Although the information is believed to be accurate, it is not warranted, and you should not rely upon it without personal verification. Real estate agents affiliated with Coldwell Banker Realty are independent contractor sales associates,
not employees. ©2024 Coldwell Banker. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker and the Coldwell Banker logos are trademarks of Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. The Coldwell Banker® System is comprised of company owned offices which are owned by a
subsidiary of Anywhere Advisors LLC and franchised offices which are independently owned and operated. The Coldwell Banker System fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act. (35632434)

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NEW PRICE
$49,950,000 | 1601 CASALE RD, PACIFIC PALISADES $34,800,000 | 4533 COCKERHAM DR, LOS FELIZ
DREW FENTON 310.623.3622 BRETT LAWYER 310.623.3638
DRE 01317962 DRE 00897489
LA
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OPEN SUNDAY 1-4

$44,950,000 | 277 ST PIERRE ROAD, BEL AIR $24,995,000 | 1741 CORREA WAY, BRENTWOOD $24,995,000 | 21622 PACIFIC COAST HWY, MALIBU $24,995,000 | 3160 COLDWATER CANYON AVE, STUDIO CITY
LINDA MAY, DREW FENTON 310.623.3650 ZAC MOSTAME 424.527.8899 COOPER MOUNT 310.351.9002 JUSTIN P HUCHEL, DREW FENTON 310.617.4824
DRE 00475038, 01317962 DRE 02110196 DRE 01956287 DRE 01375793, 01317962
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NEW PRICE NEW PRICE NEW LISTING

$14,900,00 | 1108 LAUREL WY, BEVERLY HILLS $12,695,000 | 2020 GEORGINA WY, SANTA MONICA $11,495,000 | 1401 N DOHENY DR, SUNSET STRIP $10,995,000 | 1575 CARLA RIDGE, BEVERLY HILLS $9,995,000 | 15967 VALLEY VISTA BLVD, ENCINO
JAMES HARRIS, DAVID PARNES 310.733.8038 JAMES HARRIS, DAVID PARNES 310.733.8038 LINDA MAY 310.623.3650 JONATHAN NASH, STEPHEN RESNICK 424.230.6088 MARCI KAYS, JONATHAN MOGHARRABI 323.356.2650
DRE 01909801, 01905862 DRE 01909801, 01905862 DRE 00475038 DRE 01943888, 01241282 DRE 01397539, 02009871
HOT PROPERTY

NEW LISTING | OPEN SUNDAY 1-4 OPEN SUNDAY 12-3 NEW LISTING
$5,489,000 | 1101 S CARMELINA AVE, BRENTWOOD $3,995,000 | 2018 FAIRBURN AVE, WESTWOOD $3,950,000 | 10420 KURT ST, SYLMAR $3,795,000 | 1450 SEABRIGHT PL, BEVERLY HILLS $3,695,000 | 1062 ALFRED ST, BEVERLY GROVE
BJORN FARRUGIA 310.998.7175 JIM OSTRIDGE 310.857.8827 BRETT LAWYER 310.623.3638 JONAH WILSON 310.623.3616 SUSAN SMITH 310.415.5175
DRE 01864250 DRE 01779734 DRE 00897489 DRE 01078809 DRE 01187140
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$47,500,000 | 38 BEVERLY PARK, BEVERLY HILLS
LINDA MAY, ALEX SORIANO 310.623.3650
DRE 00475038, 02000129
$11,250,000 | 9240 ROBIN DR, SUNSET STRIP
DREW FENTON 310.623.3622
DRE 01317962
$21,495,000 | 13233 RIVIERA RANCH RD, BRENTWOOD
DREW FENTON, BJORN FARRUGIA 310.623.3622
DRE 01317962, 01864250
NEW LISTING
$7,500,000 | 31671 SEA LEVEL DR, MALIBU
ZAC MOSTAME 424.527.8899
DRE 02110196
NEW LISTING | OPEN SUN 1-4
$2,499,000 | 2412 BEVERWIL DR, BEVERLYWOOD
BJORN FARRUGIA, ALPHONSO LASCANO 310.998.7175
DRE 01864250, 01723550
NEW LISTING
$19,889,000 | 1580 SAN REMO DR, PACIFIC PALISADES
DREW FENTON, ZAC MOSTAME 310.623.3622
DRE 01317962, DRE 02110196
$7,809,000 | 20990 LAS FLORES MESA DR, MALIBU
BJORN FARRUGIA, ALPHONSO LASCANO 310.998.7175
DRE 01864250, 01723550
NEW LISTING | OPEN SAT 1-4
$2,399,000 | 1334 N GENESEE AVE, HOLLYWOOD
ALPHONSO LASCANO 818.800.8848
DRE 01723550
$27,950,000 | 1475 N DOHENY DR, SUNSET STRIP
RICHARD EHRLICH 310.968.8881
DRE 01267136
$21,250,000 | 755 NAPOLI WY, PACIFIC PALISADES
JAMES HARRIS, DAVID PARNES, ZAC MOSTAME
DRE 01909801, 01905862, 02110196
NEW LISTING
$15,850,000 | 543 PERUGIA WAY, BEL AIR
LINDA MAY, GUY LEVY 310.623.3650
DRE 00475038, 01374536
NEW LISTING | OPEN SUNDAY 1-4
$7,200,000| 7212 MULHOLLAND DR,HOLLYWOOD HILLS $5,995,000 | 1135 COLDWATER CYN, BEVERLY HILLS
RICK OJEDA 310.902.7676
DRE 00987794
NEW LISTING
$2,195,000 | 1960 CORINTH AVE, WEST LA
ADEENA K. FITTERMAN, SUSAN SMITH 310.991.8166 NICHOLE SHANFELD 310.499.8064
DRE 02012059, 0118714
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OPEN SUNDAY 1-4
$24,995,000 | 1741 CORREA WAY, BRENTWOOD
ZAC MOSTAME 424.527.8899
DRE 02110196
$7,200,000 | 7212 MULHOLLAND DR, HOLLYWOOD HILLS
RICK OJEDA 310.902.7676
DRE 00987794
$5,995,000 | 1135 COLDWATER CYN DR, BEVERLY HILLS
JANE DORIAN, SHAUN ALAN-LEE 310.922.6464
DRE 01320240, 01955694
$5,489,000 | 1101 S CARMELNIA AVE, BRENTWOOD
BJORN FARRUGIA 310.998.7175
DRE 01864250
$3,995,000 | 1143 SIERRA ALTA WAY, SUNSET STRIP
JONATHAN NASH, STEPHEN RESNICK 424.230.6088
DRE 01943888, 01241282
$3,995,000 | 2018 FAIRBURN AVE, WESTWOOD
OPEN SUNDAY 12-3
JIM OSTRIDGE 310.857.8827
NEW LISTING DRE 01779734
310.733.8038 $3,749,000 | 1241 ENCINO DR, PASADENA
ALPHONSO LASCANO, BJORN FARRUGIA, CHAD HAINES
818.800.8848
DRE 01723550, 01864250, 02150105
$2,999,000 | 17728 PORTO MARINA WAY, PACIFIC PALISADES
LA
JANE DORIAN, SHAUN ALAN-LEE 310.922.6464
DRE 01320240, 01955694
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
$2,995,000 | 610 ESTRELLITA WAY, BEL AIR
HILARY MARKUS, SHANE MCCOY FERMELIA 818.807.7416
DRE 01827945, 0292472
$2,975,000 | 751 HARTZELL ST, PACIFIC PALISADES
BJORN FARRUGIA, ALPHONSO LASCANO 310.998.7175
DRE 01864250, 01723550
$2,595,000 | 852 10TH ST #4 , SANTA MONICA
BJORN FARRUGIA, ALPHONSO LASCANO 310.998.7175
DRE 01864250, 01723550
$2,499,000 | 2412 BEVERWIL DR, BEVERLYWOOD
BJORN FARRUGIA, ALPHONSO LASCANO 310.998.7175
DRE 01864250, 01723550
$2,399,000 | 1334 GENESEE AVENUE, HOLLYWOOD
OPEN SATURDAY 1-4
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ALPHONSO LASCANO 818.800.8848
DRE 01723550
$1,989,000 | 2838 BARRINGTON AVENUE, WEST LA
NEW PRICE | OPEN SUNDAY 1-4 ALPHONSO LASCANO, BJORN FARRUGIA, JOSEPH GOODHUE
310.998.7175
JANE DORIAN, SHAUN ALAN-LEE 310.922.6464 DRE 01864250, 02006693, 02006693
DRE 01320230, 01955694
$1,250,000 | 850 N KINGS RD #204, WEST HOLLYWOOD
NICK SHAPIRO, STEPHEN SIGOLOFF 310.866.2485
DRE 02148302, 00796067
$1,249,000 | 6926 CEDROS AVE, VAN NUYS
HOT PROPERTY
ERIC HASSAN 310.623.3612
DRE 00823256
THE PENTHOUSE
9440 SANTA MONICA BLVD | BEVERLY HILLS, CA. 90210
NEW LISTING
carolwoodre.com | @carolwoodrealestate
$1,799,000 | 2172 CENTURYWOODS, CENTURY CITY
DRE 02093007
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277 ST PIERRE ROAD, BEL-AIR

$44,950,000 | $150K/MO (Long Term) | 277StPierreRoad.com
LA
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38 BEVERLY PARK, BEVERLY HILLS CASTILLO DEL LAGO, HOLLYWOOD HILLS

$47,500,000 | 38BeverlyPark.com | Co-listed with Alex Soriano $18,900,000 | 6342Mulholland.com
LOS ANGELES TIMES

NEWLY PRICED
HOT PROPERTY

543 PERUGIA WAY, BEL-AIR 1401 N DOHENY DRIVE, SUNSET STRIP 255 N CANON DR, THE MAYBOURNE, BEVERLY HILLS
$15,850,000 | 543Perugia.com | Co-Listed with Guy Levy $11,495,000 | 1401Doheny.com $75,000/MO (Lease) | Maybourne7a.com | Co-Listed with Guy Levy

310.623.3650 | LINDA@LINDAMAY.COM | LINDAMAY.COM

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New Price
4533 COCKERHAM DRIVE
LOS FELIZ | $34,800,000 | TheCockerhamEstate.com
Astounding 20,000+ sqft multi-structure compound, ±2 acre promontory. Panoramic downtown to ocean views.

LA
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New Price
9551 LIME ORCHARD ROAD
BEVERLY HILLS | $14,900,000 | 9551LimeOrchardRoad.com

HOT PROPERTY
Lime Orchard Exclusive Guard Gated Tennis Court Estate.

310.502.1143 | BRETT@BRETTLAWYER.COM

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573 WESTLAKE RD, MALIBU $12,995,000 9814 CURWOOD PLACE, BEVERLY HILLS $12,500,000 3140 COLDWATER CANYON $8,495,000
7 Bed | 10 Bath | Approx. 12,114 sqft | 50 Acres Built in 2021, 6 Bed 9 Bath, Pool, Gym, Theater, View 8BR 7BA Royal Oak Estate surrounded by oak trees and greenery
ADI LIVYATAN 8!8.9!9.4060 HALEH DOWLATSHAHI 3!0.463.3030 JIMMY HECKENBERG 3!0.650.!!!6

OPEN SUNDAY 1 - 4PM yes

REDUCED yes

5015 OTIS AVE, TARZANA $7,495,000 1030 DELLA DR, BEVERLY HILLS $6,995,000 29329 BLUEWATER RD,MALIBU $5,995,000
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6 Bed | 7.5 Bath | Approx. 8,215 sqft | 29,117 sqft lot 5 bed, 7 bath, 5,392 ft.ÿ≤, 20,646 LOT Great opportunity for an end user and or developer
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024

ADI LIVYATAN 8!8.9!9.4060 MICHAEL RABBANI 3!0.499.88835 DARLENE HUTTON/SERGIO GUADARRAMA 3!0.428.486! /3!0.779.7!7!

OPEN SUNDAY
yes
1 - 5PM BY APPOINTMENT
yes

23617 LONG VALLEY ROAD, HIDDEN HILLS $5,495,000 840 CALIFORNIA AVE, VENICE $5,495,000 222 14TH ST, SANTA MONICA $4,999,888 1223 N WETHERLY DR, LOS ANGELES $4,999,000
7+6.5, 7,026 SF, pool/spa, BBQ FP, ofice, bar 5 Bed | 6 Bath | Approx. 4,200 sqft 5BR 6BA Contemporary home w/chefs kitchen & indoor-outdoor flow 4BR 5BA Estate on picturesque street north of Sunset Blvd
SAMANTHA BRUDER 818.455.2305 ADI LIVYATAN 818.919.4060 JIMMY HECKENBERG 310.650.1116 GREG DAVIS 310.503.4161

OPEN SATURDAYyes& SUNDAY 1-4PM OPEN SATURDAYyes& SUNDAY 1-4 PM

LOS ANGELES TIMES

1840 RIVERSIDE DR, GLENDALE $4,750,000 1341 DEVON LANE, VENTURA $4,499,500 2727 CASIANO RD, LOS ANGELES $4,495,000 3696 GOODLAND AVE, STUDIO CITY $4,449,000
Boarding stable & facility w/arena, comm. store & barn 4+3, 2,484 SF, ocean views, high ceilings, tons of light Fully refurbished to highest quality. 4BR/5BA, 3054 sq ft, pool New Construction South of the Blvd, Studio City
JAYSON HOOSHMAND 818.201.4224 PRESTIN PERSSON 310.864.9270 PAVEL ‘PAUL’ BLYUMKIN 310.409.9970 JESSICA FELIX & JASMINE DIAZ 818.399.7214
HOT PROPERTY

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6511 MARYLAND DR $4,095,000 438 EL CIELITO, SANTA BARBARA $3,999,999 4986 PUESTA DEL SOL, MALIBU $3,795,000 16050 ROYAL MOUNT DR, ENCINO $3,585,000
5BR 5BA New construction in prime Beverly Grove 5BD 5BA Resort style property w/pool & magnificent views 90’s California Contemporary with 180-degree ocean views Current 4+5, 4646 SF home. Rehab or build new on 1/2 acre lot!
JIMMY HECKENBERG 310.650.1116 VIVIANA VENTRONE, GAIL MINTZ 310.867.1547 JAMES RESPONDEK 310.488.4400 NICK TATONE 818.929.6326

OPEN SUNDAY
yes
1 - 4PM OPEN SUNDAY
yes
1 - 4PM OPEN SUNDAY
yes
1-4PM

4952 HASKELL AVE, ENCINO $3,555,000 15473 LA MAIDA ST, SHERMAN OAKS $3,495,000 1411 CLOVERFIELD BLVD, SANTA MONICA $3,450,000 22626 CALIFA STREET, WOODLAND HILLS $3,395,000
5 Bed | 5.5 Bath | Approx. 4,552 sqft | 6,750 sqft lot 5 Bed | 6.5 Bath | Approx. 4,264 sqft | 8,125 sqft lot’ Stunning luxury Triplex in the heart of Santa Monica 5+6, 4134 SF, single story, bonus rm, ches kit, pool
ADI LIVYATAN 818.919.4060 ADI LIVYATAN 818.919.4060 DANIEL KIRKPATRICK 310.717.1142 OREN OVADIA 818.723.2706

OPEN SUNDAY 1 - 4PMyes

OPEN SUNDAY 1-4PM yes
OPEN SUNDAY 1-4PMyes

5544 TUXEDO TER LOS FELIZ $3,250,000 2223 CALIFORNIA AVE, SANTA MONICA $3,195,000 10350 WILSHIRE BLVD PH3 $2,999,999 43000 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY $2,999,999

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3BR 3BA perched on a quiet street in the renowned Los Feliz Oaks. Completely remodeled with high end finishes.converted garage 3BR 3BA Newly renovated unit in The Diplomat on the SE corner 1BR 1BA Absolutely charming oceanfront retreat!
MOE ABOURCHAD EVELYN RUBIO 310.990.9850 HALEH DOWLATSHAHI 310.463.3030 JIMMY HECKENBERG 310.650.1116 JIMMY HECKENBERG 310.650.1116

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024

OPEN SUNDAY 1 - 4PMyes
OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1-4PM yes
OPEN SUNDAY 1-4PMyes

3443 MANDEVILLE CANYON RD $2,999,888 654 SWARTHMORE AVE, PAC PALISADES $2,995,000 790 HALLIDAY AVE, LOS ANGELES $2,995,000 1811 BLUE HEIGHTS DR, SUNSET STRIP $2,950,000
3BD 3BA Home situated on an expansive 24,540 sq foot lot Overlooking Portrero Cyn in the heart of Pac Palisades Village Brentwood Heights 2,400SF Mid-Century. 3+2+Den in Magical Setting 3BD 3BA Gated contemporary home w/pool & VIEWS!
JIMMY HECKENBERG 310.650.1116 JAMES RESPONDEK 310.488.4400 NICK TATONE 818.929.6326 PATRICK NORMAN 213.304.0281

WWW.CAROLWOLFE.COM yes
$200,000 RUDUCTION - BY APPOINTMENT yes
OPEN SUNDAY 1-4PMyes

LOS ANGELES TIMES

19324 PALOMAR PLACE, TARAZANA 2,699,000 19029 SPRAGUE STREET, TARZANA $2,395,000 501 S. CRESCENT HEIGHTS BLVD $2,395,000 2236 THE TERRACE, BRENTWOOD $2,388,000
Updated estate w/over 4,700 sq.ft. Entertainers yard w/pool & spa 4BR, 3BA, 2,458 S.F., 23,557 S.F. Lot with pool Exquisite Spanish Villa in the Beverly Grove area. 5+3/Guest Qtr. Secured, gated with views - It’s a Vacation Here Everyday!
CAROL WOLFE 818.285.3688 MARC TAHLER/KEN ZIETZ 818.970.3000 RON WOLOTZKY 323.646.1206 IGAL BAKSHANDEH 310.702.5188

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OPEN SATURDAYyes& SUNDAY 1-4PM OPEN SUNDAY

yes
1-5PM BY APPOINMENT
yes

17182 NORDHOFF STREET, NORTHRIDGE $2,299,000 151 N MARTEL AVENUE, LOS ANGELES $2,295,000 7714 FOUNTAIN AVE, WEST HOLLYWOOD $2,250,000 458 S ALMONT DR, BEVERLY HILLS $2,249,000
2 Large Homes, Completely Updated 3BD 2BA Classic Tudor w/period details thruout + pool 3BD 3 Ba / R2 zone 3BD 3BA w/gourmet kitchen, remodeled bathrooms
IGAL BAKSHANDEH 310.702.5188 TED FLEMING 310.466.2022 MARK ZAK 310.454.8278 MARGE CHIRCHICK 310.927.1049

SUNDAY 1-4PM
yes
REDUCED! OPEN SUNDAY
yes
1-4PM

22778 CHARLEMONT PLACE, WOODLAND HILLS $2,199,000 441 S BARRINGTON AVE #110, LOS ANGELES $2,195,000 3188 S BENTLEY AVE, LOS ANGELES $2,175,000 4406 JUBILO DR, TARZANA $2,149,000
4+3, 2428 SF, Renovated and fully upgraded, cul-de-sac 3 bed, 4 bath, 2,502 sqft., Built 2015 3BD 2BA Impeccably renovated home in Westside Village 3BR, 3BA, 2,815 S.F., 10,481 S.F. Lot Charles DuBois mid-century
LINDA SANDLER 818.517.5282 MICHAEL RABBANI 310.499.8835 JIMMY HECKENBERG 310.650.1116 MARC TAHLER/KEN ZIETZ 818.970.3000

OPEN SUNDAY 1-4PM

yes
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11332 BOLAS AVE, LOS ANGELES $2,099,000 2275 E. BELDING DR, PALM SPRINGS $2,000,000 19246 ROSITA STREET, TARZANA $1,999,950 13082 MINDANAO WAY #11, MARINA DEL REY $1,995,000
2BD 2BA Newly re-imagined stunning California Bungalow Modern indoor/outdoor living | 3 bed, 3 bath | 2319 sq ft | Pool 3BR, 3BA, 3,120 S.F., 8,821 S.F. Lot Fab TH 3 bd+3.5 ba + Ofice 2,370 sf in Resort Complex
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024

JIMMY HECKENBERG 310.650.1116 JAYSON HOOSHMAND 818.201.4224 MARC TAHLER/KEN ZIETZ 818.970.3000 ELYSE ARBOUR 310.893.9388

OPEN SUNDAY 1-4PM

yes
OPEN SUNDAY 1-4PM
yes
OPEN SUNDAY 1-4PM yes

6084 LAKE LINDERO DR, AGOURA HILLS $1,995,000 8536 MCCONNELL AVE, LOS ANGELES $1,990,000 4908 DEMPSEY AVE, ENCINO $1,985,000 4920 PACIFIC COAST HWY, TORRANCE $1,899,950
Stunning architectural showplace! 5+4+Guest Ste. All on huge lot! The Vibrant Community of Westchester & Silicon Beach area,4BD,3BA Beautiful 5+4.5 pool property. Wood flrs, high cielings & more! Beautiful South Bay Ranch style home with large backyard
POUPEE KOMENKUL & RICHARD CURE 818.482.0085 RHONDA PAYNE 213.503.5282 MARLY TEMPEL 818.470.0432 DANIEL KIRKPATRICK 310.717.1142

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY yes

LOS ANGELES TIMES

15606 TIERRA REJADA ROAD $1,895,000 10430 WILSHIRE BLVD #806, WESTWOOD $1,890,000 1706 ABBOT KINNEY BLVD, VENICE $1,875,000 1132 S CRESCENT HEIGHTS BLVD $1,845,000
Welcome to Library View Ranch! Set on 10.36 acres Designer Remodel @ Mirabella-Stunning South Views -2300sf Can be Sold w/1702 Abbot Kinney/580 Venice. All 3 for $6,250,000 A Smart Investment. Impeccably preserved Spanish Duplex
JAISA BISHOP 858.382.6428 ADRIANE WESTLAND 310.403.5535 RON WOLOTZKY 323.646.1206 ROBERT LEIGHTON 310.433.0054
HOT PROPERTY

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PARKWILSHIRE906.COM
yes
OPEN HOUSE yes
SUNDAY 1-4PM

10724 WISHIRE BLVD #906 $1,839,000 802 3RD STREET #E, SANTA MONICA $1,749,000 1350.5 N FAIRFAX AVE, WEST HOLLYWOOD $1,695,000 2451 BLANCHARD PL, SANTA ROSA VALLEY $1,635,000
3 Bed + 3.5 Bath upscale Wilshire Corridor living Best location in Santa Monica steps from the beach 3+4 modern SFR in WeHo - roof top top 3+3 2,762sqft - 1.24 Acre Horse Property. Stalls, Arena & MORE!
PETER MAURICE, TREGG RUSTAD 310.623.8819 DARLENE HUTTON/SERGIO GUADARRAMA 310.428.4861/310.779.7171 TINA FANELLI MORACCINI 310.980.3532 JENNA KAYE 818.307.9679

OPEN SUNDAY
yes
2-4 PM

6477 ZUMA VIEW PL # 127 $1,575,000 13944 ADDISON ST, SHERMAN OAKS $1,500,000 23882 MARIANO STREET, WOODLAND HILLS $1,495,000 10550 WILSHIRE #902, LOS ANGELES $1,395,000
Newly remodeled 2 level Townhouse in Malibu, 3+3 Build or rehab! Approved RTI plans for Apx 2500SF modern home! 4+3, 2,509 SF, pool, spa, BBQ, mantled stone fireplace Wilshire Thayer townhouse over 2000 sq ft 2+den/3 ba
CATHY WOOD 310.503.1325 NICK TATONE 818.929.6326 DESIREE ZUCKERMAN 818.262.5648 MICHELE MARTIN 310.508.8448

OPEN SUNDAY 1 - 4PMyes

410 S .BARRINGTON AVE, #204 $1,339,000 19556 SINGING HILLS, PORTER RANCH $1,299,950 305 HIGHLAND DR, OXNARD $1,299,000 7127 YOLANDA AVE, RESEDA $1,295,000
Tranquil 3Bed 2.5Bath, rear unit with towering tree views 4+3, 2301sf, 12,666sf lot overlooking 2nd hole PVCC! Exquisite. Mid-Century-Modern 3+1 bungalow on double lot! Close to beach! 2BR, 1BA, 3,641 S.F., 8,068 S.F. Lot
ELYSE ARBOUR 310.893.9388 MATT WILDSTEIN 818.282.5279 POUPEE & KAREN KOMENKUL 818.482.0085 SHANE NICHOLS 818.312.3164

JUST LISTED!
yes
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY yes
OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY/SUNDAY 1-4PM yes

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
23943 VIA FLAMENCO, VALENCIA $1,200,000 828 S BEDFORD STREET UNIT #202 $1,199,999 24311 CLIPSTONE ST, WOODLAND HILLS $1,193,000 19710 LEMARSH STREET, CHATSWORTH $1,049,000
5BD 3BA 2 story Pool Home - Ask about current 4.2% INTEREST RATE! Spacious 2BR/2BA in a 9 Unit Building, Prime Location 4 Bed/2 Bath/2000sqft Cul-de-Sac Single-Story on 13,574sqft lot 4BR, 3BA, 2,253 S.F., 11,009
MICHAELANGELO CRUZ 818.472.2570 ROBERT LEIGHTON/SHAWN TOLANI 310.433.0054 SHERYL WEIRETER 805.402.7901 MICHAEL WEAVER 818.631.3613

OPEN SATURDAY 1-4

yes
OPEN SAT. 1 - 4PM
yeurday

22037 BUENA VENTURA ST, WOODLAND HILLS $987,654 8156 TILDEN AVENUE, PANORAMA CITY $829,000 26868 ALBION WAY, CANYON COUNTRY $799,000 18131 ANDREA CIRCLE #1, NORTHRIDGE $775,000
3BR, 2BA, 1,120 S.F., 6,126 S.F. Lot 4+2, 1479sf corner lot, open fl. plan, newer kit., 2 car det. 4BR, 3BA, 2,157 S.F., With Community Pool Meticulous 3br+loft, 2.5ba end unit. 2061sf, 2 car gar. Lg. patio
GORDON POLK 818.699.4552 MANUEL DE AVILA 818.631.4264 PATRICIA CONTRERAS 818.438.4804 BONNIE POBJOY 818.298.1624

LOS ANGELES TIMES

OPEN SATURDAYyes& SUNDAY 1-4 PM OPEN SUNDAY
yes
1-4 PM WWW.CAROLWOLFE.COM
yes

4707 WILLIS AVE #104, SHERMAN OAKS $759,000 12345 COHASSET ST, NORTH HOLLYWOOD $700,000 12420 TELFAIR AVE, SYLMAR $601,000 5325 NEWCASTLE AVE., #340, ENCINO $549,000
Beautiful spacious 1-level over 1700SF. 2+2 w/FP and Balcony! Fixer - 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths in North Hollywood. Opportunity Knocks in Sylmar! Great potential/probate Great complex with Loads of Amenities! 2+2 with Loft!
DENISE BRYSON & MARLY TEMPEL 818.470.0432 POUPEE & KAREN KOMENKUL 818.482.0085 DAVID BURGER 818.517.6544 CAROL WOLFE 818.285.3688

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9255 SWALLOW DR | BIRD STREETS $22,000,000 1835 OLD ORCHARD RD | BRENTWOOD $17,750,000
David Kramer | DRE 00996960 LEASE $95,000/MO David Kramer | DRE 00996960
310.691.2400 310.691.2400

OPEN SUNDAY 1-4 OPEN SATURDAY 1-4 & SUNDAY 1-4

NEW
PRICE

601 N BEVERLY DR | BEVERLY HILLS $6,800,000 2308 GRAND CANAL | VENICE $4,999,999
Susan Pekich | DRE 01520605 Paul Salazar | DRE 01763227 LEASE $22,000/MO
310.738.2298 310.492.0737
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OPEN SATURDAY 1-4 OPEN SUNDAY 1-4

NEW NEW
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024

LISTING LISTING

2251 GLOAMING WAY | BEVERLY HILLS P.O. $3,795,000 13053 ROSE AVE | MAR VISTA $3,490,000
Paul Salazar | DRE 01763227 Stuart Vetterick | DRE 01984753
LOS ANGELES TIMES

310.492.0737 310.702.9808

OPEN SATURDAY 1-4 & SUNDAY 1-4

NEW
LISTING
HOT PROPERTY

51 27TH AVE | VENICE LEASE $30,000/MO 368 NORUMEGA DR | MONROVIA $1,898,000 10795 WILSHIRE BLVD #305 | WILSHIRE CORRIDOR $1,575,000
Denise Moreno | DRE 01928051 · Gordon MacGeachy | DRE 01312979 Ankur Batra | DRE 01509919 · Rahul Batra | DRE 01722026 Kathy Douglas | DRE 01222534 · Stuart Vetterick | DRE 01984753
310.273.3311 310.858.5417 310.617.2229
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NEW
LISTING HILTONHYLAND.COM

1871 MARCHEETA PL | DOHENY ESTATES $10,500,000 9911 TOWER LN | BEVERLY HILLS P.O. $9,995,000
David Kramer | DRE 00996960 · Andrew Buss | DRE 01999869 David Kramer | DRE 00996960
310.691.2400 310.691.2400

OPEN SUNDAY 1-4

NEW
LISTING

8814 - 8824 HARRATT ST | WEST HOLLYWOOD $4,995,000 3525 MAY ST | MAR VISTA $4,495,000
Steven Medina | DRE 01883878 Stuart Vetterick | DRE 01984753
310.270.1532 310.702.9808

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NEW

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024

LISTING

RENDERING

8056 MULHOLLAND DR | HOLLYWOOD HILLS $3,295,000 2031 IVAR AVE | HOLLYWOOD HILL EAST $1,950,000
Paul Salazar | DRE 01763227 Kyle Amicucci | DRE 02063153 · Paul Salazar | DRE 01763227
310.492.0737

LOS ANGELES TIMES

424.245.0868

OPEN SATURDAY 1-4 & SUNDAY 1-4

NEW
PRICE

HOT PROPERTY
8787 SHOREHAM DR #703 | SUNSET STRIP $859,000 1645 VINE ST #1001 | HOLLYWOOD LEASE $3,595/MO
Steven Medina | DRE 01883878 Neil McDermott | DRE 01385176
310.270.1532 310.880.2315

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APPROX. 0.56 ACRE LOT

THE EDITION RESIDENCES

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W E ST H O L LY W O O D | N OW O F F E R E D AT $ 24 , 5 0 0 , 0 0 0
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V E N I C E | $9,875,000
LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Tracy Tutor Realtor® 310-595-3889 | tracy.tutor@elliman.com | DRE# 01326769

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150 EL CAMINO DRIVE, SUITE 150, BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90212. 310.595.3888. DRE# 01947727. © 2024 DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE. ALL
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68 4 FI RT H AVE | B R E N T WO O D 1 8 5 1 N S TA N L E Y AVE | SUN S E T IS L ANDS
BRANDEN & RAYNI WILLIAMS DRE 01774287 | DRE 01496786 BRANDEN & RAYNI WILLIAMS DRE 01774287 | DRE 01496786
$68,000,000 $38,000,000

JUST LISTED RENDERING SHOWN

OPEN SAT FEB 24
310 22ND ST
SANTA MONICA | 1PM-4PM
NICOLE PLAXEN
SHAUNA WALTERS

OPEN SUN FEB 25

1267 ST IVES PL
BIRD STREETS | 1PM-4PM
2275 SUNSET PLAZA DR | SUNSET STRIP JENNIFER SAGINOR
BRANDEN & RAYNI WILLIAMS | 310.626.4248 DRE 01774287 | DRE 01496786 1580 N SAN REMO | PACIFIC PALISADES
SCOTT ROSENTHOL | 310.694.7474 DRE 02076317 LEA PORTER | 310.701.9212 DRE 00932907
$19,995,000 $19,889,000
15291 BESTOR BLVD
PACIFIC PALISADES | 1PM-4PM

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024

880 W 1ST ST #709
DOWNTOWN LA | 1PM-4PM
JENNIFER NAIM

17228 OTSEGO ST
ENCINO | 1PM-4PM
DANIELLE PERETZ

310 22ND ST
SANTA MONICA | 1PM-4PM
NICOLE PLAXEN
SHAUNA WALTERS

12206 CANTURA ST
1 7 1 5 0 OTS EG O S T | E N C I N O STUDIO CITY | 1PM-4PM
NICOLE PLAXEN | 310.710.7167 DRE 01772151 16767 BOLLINGER DR | PACIFIC PALISADES

LOS ANGELES TIMES

JERIKA JENSEN
SHAUNA WALTERS | 310.775.1106 DRE 01728600 MICK PARTRIDGE | 310.990.6425 DRE 02015130
$6,495,000 $4,395,000
10336 WILSHIRE BLVD #703
CENTURY CITY | 1PM-4PM
NEW PRICE OPEN SUN 1PM-4PM ESTEL HILTON

6312 MIRROR LAKE DR

HOLLYWOOD HILLS | 1PM-4PM
DANIELLE PERETZ

HOT PROPERTY
731 7 PYRAMID D R | HOLLY WOOD HILLS
ASH MARTIN | 310.957.1056 DRE 01960877
1850 INDUSTRIAL ST #103 | ARTS DISTRICT SHAUNA WALTERS | 310.775.1106 DRE 01728600 24701 STO N EGATE D R | WE S T HILLS
MICK PARTRIDGE | 310.990.6425 DRE 02015130 NICOLE PLAXEN | 310.710.7167 DRE 01772151 DENNIS DEWALT | 323.774.3315 DRE 02116703
$3,245,000 $2,850,000 $1,499,000

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1035 Berkeley Street

+ OPEN SUNDAY
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SANTA MONICA | OFFERED AT $3,707,000

3 BEDROOMS | 2 BATHROOMS | 1,952 SQ. FT. | 9,010 SQ. FT. LOT
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024
LOS ANGELES TIMES
HOT PROPERTY

SANDRO DAZZAN
SANDRO@THEAGENCYRE.COM
310.435.7556
LIC. #01418033 THEAGENCYRE.COM
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12408 W SUNSET BL, BRENTWOOD 1442 CLUB VIEW DR, COMSTOCK HILLS 367 DALKEITH AVE, WESTWOOD HILLS 2604 RUTHERFORD DR, HOLLYWOOD HILLS
4BD/4BA • $3,750,000 3BD/4BA • $3,295,000 3BD/2BA • $2,900,000 5BD/3½BA • $2,850,000
Larry Young, 310.777.2879 Larry Young, 310.777.2879 Larry Young, 310.777.2879 Rose Ware, 213.369.9171
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Larry Young / Matt McIntyre, 310.777.2879 / 626.943.7321 Larry Young, 310.777.2879 Rose Ware, 213.369.9171
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21606 PACIFIC COAST HWY | MALIBU 1940 BEL AIR RD | BEL AIR $29,950,000
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