Maybe a year without bowl games wasn’t such a bad idea for USC and UCLA. There was little the Bruins and Trojans did Saturday night at the Rose Bowl that seemed to scream “encore.” But what an evening of gaffes did was reaffirm the pecking order in the city. USC, as it has done 11 [...]
HONOLULU — A small earthquake hit Hawaii on Thursday, with a jolt felt across Honolulu. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 3.6 temblor struck at 2:12 p.m., about 12 miles deep in the Kaiwi Channel, between the islands of Oahu and Molokai. There were no immediate reports of injuries [...]
In a week in which NBA superstars Carmelo Anthony and Deron Williams were traded, the Boston Celtics made a splash of their own minutes prior to the 2011 NBA Trade Deadline, sending center Kendrick Perkins and backup guard Nate Robinson to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for forward Jeff Green and center Nenad Krstic. [...]
CAPE CANAVERAL — Nearly four months after it was supposed to launch, Space Shuttle Discovery is full of fuel; its six astronauts are strapped in; and all systems are clear for its final launch – marking the beginning of the end of the U.S. space-shuttle program – later this afternoon. Discovery is set to launch [...]
With the current cold snap predicted to last for some time, new research from The Co-operative Insurance highlights the prevalence of breakdowns and the most common motor maintenance mystifiers. According to the study, while on average just under half the driving population have experienced a breakdown in their vehicle, an unlucky 1 in 100 [...]
