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UC Irvine senior John Chin has been named to the Division I PING All-West Region team for the third straight year by the Golf Coaches Assn. of America. Chin earned his third consecutive Big West Conference Golfer of the Year award this season after...

Daman Starring, a 6-foot-4 guard, is transferring to UC Irvine from Centenary (La.) College, UC Irvine Coach Russell Turner announced. Starring has signed a written offer of financial aid and will be eligible immediately with the Anteaters since...

Former Corona del Mar High standout Taylor Dent will face No. 3-seeded Novak Djokovic today in the second round at Wimbledon. Dent defeated Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 7-5, in the first round. He also previously won three...

UC Irvine senior John Chin has been named 2010 Big West Conference Golfer of the Year and Anteaters coach Paul Smolinski is the conference Coach of the Year. Its the third straight Golfer of the Year honor for Chin, who repeated as medalist at the...

LONG BEACH -- Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist Boney James was hurt by a suspected drunk driver Saturday in Long Beach. James, 48, was driving home after his appearance at the three day Newport Jazz Festival when his car was rear-ended while he was...

UC Irvine star Charles Jock finished second in his first-round heat Thursday and advanced to the semifinals of the 800 meters at the USA Track & Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. Jock ran a time of one minute, 47.99 seconds, sixth-fastest...

Slammers send three teams to semifinals BERNALILLO, N.M. — The Newport Beach-based Slammers FC sent three teams to the U.S. Youth Soccer Region IV Championships in Bernalillo, N.M. Each team qualified for the semifinals in their respective...

She's a leading Paris courtesan, that high-class brand of prostitute that had its heyday before the telephone created "call girls." He is the son of a friend, a vain pretty-boy given to "debauchery" -- wine, women and opium. She knew him as a child and...

It was a crime of epic proportions: a multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme that wiped out fortunes, drained retirement nest eggs, ruined charities and foundations, and even pushed some investors to commit suicide. Six months after the scandal came to light,...

Police investigating the death of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti are working on the assumption his wife strangled him with her purse strap while he drunkenly slept. While cautioning that nothing is being ruled out, lead investigator Moises...

Otto Heino, the Ojai-based master potter, educator and symbol of the midcentury California studio crafts movement who along with his late wife, Vivika, reformulated a lost-to-the-ages Chinese glaze that made him a multimillionaire, has died. He was 94....

I wasn't due for another month when my water broke. Neal and I lay there naked and shocked in a puddle of amniotic fluid. We were an hour from the hospital, at Neal's house in Beach Haven. The bedroom was warm but my teeth chattered. "Oh, God," I said....