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Boys' Basketball CITY SECTION WESTERN LEAGUE Fairfax 64, LACES 21 SOUTHERN SECTION OMEGA LEAGUE San Fernando Valley Academy 53, Camarillo Cornerstone Christian 37 NONLEAGUE Apple Valley Christian 60, Lucerne Valley 56 Atascadero 71, Lompoc Cabrillo 66...

UPDATED: includes all divisions SOUTHERN SECTION BOYS BASKETBALL DIVISION 1AA First round, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Corona at #1 Mater Dei #16 Long Beach Jordan at Vista Murrieta Arcadia at #9 Oxnard Pacifica San Clemente at #8 Los Alamitos Corona Santiago......

Here are Wednesday's first-round playoff scores. Go here for Friday's second-round and first-round matchups. DIVISION 1AA Corona Centennial 103, Long Beach Cabrillo 44 Etiwanda 64, Palmdale 41 Knight 72, King 58 Long Beach Jordan 55, Vista Murrieta 53...

We are living, you might say, in the Age of the Slash. Everywhere we turn, it's all about slashing. Slash jobs. Slash profits. Slash budgets. So much slashing we're starting to shake. No wonder we're scramming. To the four walls and the roof we call...

KOCHAV YAAKOV, West Bank - The white van rolled past cement barricades, past a barbed-wire fence and an armed guard at the entry gate, past rows of cream-colored houses with red-tile roofs before pulling to a stop. Glenn and Gilla Jasper, a young Orthodox...

Last week, we started a fresh year on the Jewish calendar, when the HighHoly Days started at sundown Wednesday with Rosh Hashana, the New Year of5768. More than 80 years ago, the year 5686 was proudly placed on the cornerstoneof first synagogue to be...

Members watched as flames gutted their place of worship. "A place that is sacred a place that is hosted any number of joys and sad events I think it's a home it's a sanctuary to see it in it's current state of ruin is really devastating," said Rabbi...

Our attire was about as casual as it can get for a religious celebration. At dawn Wednesday, about two dozen runners in shorts and T-shirts charged up a hill and stopped on a ridge overlooking the Elah Valley, the biblical site of David's triumph over...

Menachem Mendel Korf, 8, was an integral part of the creation of a holy, sacred document. He wrote the Hebrew letter mem in the word "vayomer," Hebrew for "and he said," in the third line of a new Torah scroll, the Jewish holy book. "If you have one...

State Rep. Adam Hasner, R-Boca Raton, today led a Republican Party attack on Barack Obama???s scheduled visit Thursday to a synagogue in south Palm Beach County. Hasner, the Florida House majority leader, told reporters in a telephone conference call........

It was a speech like no other that Rabbi Rex Perlmeter had given -- delivered inside a Baptist church and pressing the argument that the death penalty is "killing the soul of this country." When he finished his talk last week at Mount Hope Baptist Church...