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The Dodgers had their best pitcher on the mound in Tyler Glasnow, the 6-foot-8 right-hander who was acquired from the Tampa Bay Rays in December and signed to a five-year, $136.5-million extension to be the team’s ace. They had their most dangerous hitter at the plate for the game’s most critical moment in Shohei Ohtani, the two-time American League most valuable player who was signed to a 10-year, $700-million deal in December to power what was expected to be one of baseball’s most lethal lineups. Neither delivered in a 6-4 loss to the Washington Nationals in front of 42,677 at Dodger Stadium on Monday night, the team’s fourth loss in five games. Glasnow, who entered with a 3-0 record and 2.25 ERA, gave up six earned runs and eight hits, including two homers, in five innings, striking out five and walking two, suffering his first loss as a Dodger on a night he was battling flu-like symptoms. “He’s not going to say it, but he was under the weather,” manager Dave Roberts said. “As far as the performance, it just wasn’t there. The fastball command

The Kings lost a game they needed to win Monday, falling to the Minnesota Wild 3-1 at Crypto.com Arena to muddy the team’s playoff outlook with one game left in the regular season. The loss, the Kings’ first at home in nine games, leaves them with a one-point lead over Vegas for third place in the Pacific Division. If the Golden Knights defeat the struggling Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday and the Ducks on Thursday, the Kings would fall to the Western Conference’s second wild-card spot and meet the conference’s top-seeded team in the playoffs. As of Monday, the Dallas Stars — a team the Kings haven’t beaten in three tries this season and been outscored 13-3 — were first in the West. “I don’t think it matters who we play,” Kings defenseman Mikey Anderson said. “Obviously anyone that’s making postseason is a really good team. Whoever it is, we need to be ready to play, probably with a little more intensity than we had today.” The Kings (43-27-11) started in control of their own fate: win their final two games and they would finish third

A man suspected of spraying gunfire from atop a Marina del Rey apartment complex over the weekend was identified Monday by authorities. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department identified the suspect as 41-year-old Victoryloc Nguyen, who remains jailed in lieu of $2-million bail. No one was injured in the Saturday night shooting in the 4100 block of Via Marina, according to a written statement from the Sheriff’s Department. The incident began at 10:15 p.m. when deputies from the Marina del Rey sheriff’s station responded to reports of gunshots from inside the apartment complex. Later, a sheriff’s helicopter “observed a male suspect on the roof of the location, firing rounds from a rifle,” the statement read. The shooting prompted deputies from other nearby stations to respond to the location, and armored SWAT-style vehicles were dispatched. Videos posted on social media show a man shooting from the balcony of an apartment who can be heard saying: “I can shoot a car right now and no one would give a s—.” In other videos, bystanders shelter at home or take cover while gunfire can be heard in the

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A Los Angeles Fire Department recruit who may have been involved in a traffic collision and exited his vehicle on the Hollywood (101) Freeway in Studio City was fatally struck Monday, possibly by a hit-and-run driver. According to the Los Angeles Fire Department and California Highway Patrol, a two-vehicle crash occurred around 5:10 a.m. on the northbound Hollywood Freeway at Campo de Cahuenga, near Vineland Avenue. LAFD spokesman Capt. Erik Scott said department recruit Jacob Fuerte, 22, was one his way to training when he “may have been involved in a traffic collision.” “He got out of his vehicle, likely to assess the situation and render aid to anyone in need, when he was hit by another vehicle,” Scott said. Fuerte was pronounced dead at the scene. There was no immediate information on the vehicle that struck him, and Scott said the California Highway Patrol was conducting a hit-and-run investigation. Fire officials initially indicated that the recruit had come upon a crash on the freeway and stopped to render aid to those involved, but on Monday afternoon Scott said Fuerte himself may have been involved

The Dodgers were joined by the Washington Nationals for a “team reflection” on Jackie Robinson Monday as Major League Baseball marked the 77th anniversary of his breaking baseball’s color line. “We talk … with the Dodgers doing something that’s bigger than ourselves, living a life that’s more important than ourselves, and there’s no better person that exemplified that than Jackie Robinson,” Dodger manager Dave Roberts said at the statue of Robinson in Dodger Stadium’s Centerfield Plaza. “He had a big burden in his life to be a professional baseball player, but to take on all this negativity, this hate towards him, his wife, his kids, and still persevere.” Robinson’s granddaughter Ayo Robinson, sociologist and civil rights activist Harry Edwards and Jackie Robinson Foundation scholars also attended the reflection. Robinson’s widow, Rachel, founded the foundation in 1973, the year following her husband’s death at the age of 53. It provides four-year college scholarships to disadvantaged students of color. The Dodgers have been gathering at the statue on Jackie Robinson Day annually since 2021, mainly to hear Roberts talk about Robinson. Last season was the first time

Saying “tradition must give way to safety,” the University of Southern California on Monday made the unprecedented move of barring an undergraduate valedictorian who has come under fire for her pro-Palestinian views from giving a speech at its May graduation ceremony. The move, according to USC officials, is the first time the university has banned a valedictorian from the traditional chance to speak onstage at the annual commencement ceremony, which typically draws more than 65,000 people to the Los Angeles campus. In a campuswide letter, USC Provost Andrew T. Guzman cited unnamed threats that have poured in shortly after the university publicized the valedictorian’s name and biography this month. Guzman said attacks against the student for her pro-Palestinian views have reached an “alarming tenor” and “escalated to the point of creating substantial risks relating to security and disruption at commencement.” “After careful consideration, we have decided that our student valedictorian will not deliver a speech at commencement. … There is no free-speech entitlement to speak at a commencement. The issue here is how best to maintain campus security and safety, period,” Guzman wrote. The student

Authorities with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are investigating a deadly shooting that claimed the life of a teenage boy Monday in South Los Angeles.   The fatal incident, according to a LASD news release, unfolded just before 4 p.m. in the 10800 block of Western Avenue, near the intersection of West 108th Street on the border of L.A.’s Westmont and Gramercy Park neighborhoods.   When deputies arrived at the scene, they witnessed a large group of juveniles dispersing. The teen was found lying on the sidewalk suffering from gunshot wounds. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead, LASD said in an update. Police on the scene of a deadly shooting in South L.A. that claimed the life of a teenage boy on April 15, 2024. (KTLA) Footage of the scene captured by Sky5 showed a heavy presence of police, along with crews from the L.A. County Fire Department at the intersection. The area was cordoned off with yellow crime scene tape, including the parking lot of a 7-Eleven store.   There are several schools in the area, though it’s unknown