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Los Angeles County Fire Department was called to Parking Lot L at the stadium at about 4:05 p.m., during the NFC Championship Game between the 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams. There, firefighters found the victim, whom the Los Angeles Times identified as Daniel Luna, a restaurant owner from Oakland. Firefighters transported Luna, who was wearing a 49ers jersey at the time of the attack, to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and staff in the hospital’s emergency room brought Luna to the attention of police, Meeks said.

Judge: Harris knew 'exactly what he was doing' when he struck fatal blows LANCASTER - In a packed but eerily quiet courtroom, Lancaster juvenile court judge Richard E. Naranjo sentenced 13-year-old Greg Harris to a possible maximum 12-year term Thursday for the second-degree murder of 15-year-old Jeremy Rourke. The judge looked directly at the defendant, who appeared small in the courtroom chair, with chains around his ankles. The judge, his voice at times cracking with emotion, referred to the swing with an aluminum bat that Harris landed on Rourke's skull following what prosecutors referred to as innocent ribbing. "I still...

BOSTON -- A 21-year-old college student died Thursday from injuries she received as police tried to subdue the rowdy crowd outside Fenway Park following the Red Sox's series-clinching win over the Yankees, a hospital spokeswoman said. Victoria Snelgrove, an Emerson College journalism major from Bridgewater, was injured on Landsdowne Street early Thursday morning as fans poured out of bars and into the streets around Kenmore Square after the final out in Boston's 10-3 win at Yankee Stadium, authorities said. A spokeswoman for Brigham and Women's Hospital said Snelgrove died there at 12:50 p.m. Mayor Tom Menino told WBZ-AM that Snelgrove...