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Academy Awards show...On the air... I am waiting to find out if Oppenheimer will win the best picture... The black lady in THE HOLDOVERS just won best supporting actress award...It was a good movie...

No. 1 South Dakota State is looking to cap off an undefeated season by claiming its second consecutive FCS championship with a win over Montana in the FCS Championship game on Sunday afternoon. The Jackrabbits, riding a 28-game win streak, are hoping to become just the fifth repeat champion in FCS history. Last season, they trounced North Dakota State in the championship, 45-21. Last time out, South Dakota State drubbed fifth-seeded Albany in the semifinals, 59-0.

Crooner Michael Bolton has revealed that just before the holidays he had to have "immediate surgery" to remove a brain tumor. He said in a Facebook post that thanks to his "incredible medical team, the surgery was a success." "I am now recuperating at home and surrounded by the tremendous love and support of my family," he wrote. He added that for the next few months, he'll be focusing his time and energy on his recovery and will have to take "a temporary break" from touring.

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake shook the Los Angeles County area on New Year’s Day. The temblor struck off the coast about 12 miles south of Rancho Palos Verdes and south-southwest of San Pedro at 8:27 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.3 but that was later reduced to 4.1 by the USGS. Shaking from the quake, which had a depth of just over 7 miles, was felt across the county.

Liberty battles Oregon on Monday afternoon in the Fiesta Bowl. The Flames finished the regular season 13-0 and earned the Group of Five spot in the New Year's Six Bowl games. It is the first-ever Fiesta Bowl for the Flames and they will be looking to pull off a huge upset over Oregon. The Flames offense was their strength this season, as they scored at least 31 points in all but one of their games. They punctuated a great season with a big 49-35 win over New Mexico State in the C-USA championship game. It was their first-ever conference championship...

It was 40 years ago this month when the biggest battle on movie screens took place not between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, but improbably enough, between James Bond and… James Bond. In 1983, audiences got to choose between two films starring Ian Fleming’s famous secret agent: Octopussy, the sixth film to feature the debonair Roger Moore as British spy 007, and Never Say Never Again, the first movie in 12 years to star the original James Bond, Sean Connery. This was following his second departure from the wildly successful film franchise in 1971. How did this come to pass?...

The Philadelphia Eagles will aim for revenge on Monday Night Football in Kansas City. Jalen Hurts and the Eagles will face the Kansas City Chiefs in a rematch of Super Bowl LVII. The Eagles fell short on the sport's biggest stage, but Philadelphia is 8-1 to begin the 2023 season, matching the franchise's best nine-game start ever. Kansas City is 7-2 to lead the AFC this season, and the Chiefs are 3-1 at Arrowhead Stadium. Kickoff is at 8:15 p.m. ET in Kansas City. For this game, SportsLine consensus lists the Chiefs as 2.5-point favorites, while the over/under, or total...

MALIBU, Calif. (KABC) -- The driver in a Malibu crash that killed four Pepperdine University students pleaded not guilty to murder during his first court appearance Wednesday, and prosecutors said he was speeding at more than 100 mph moments before the crash. Fraser Bohm, 22, is charged with four counts of murder and four counts of gross vehicular manslaughter. Bohm was not visible in court Wednesday as he entered a not guilty plea. Bohm's attorney Michael Kraut claimed his client was trying to get away from someone who was aggressively chasing him just before the deadly crash on the Pacific...

Houston: The Texas Rangers are headed back to the World Series and put together a championship-worthy celebration on Monday night. Following the 11-4 win over the Houston Astros the Rangers made their way to the locker room , where they had plenty of beer and champagne to celebrate.

Former President Donald Trump has weighed in on the new relationship between pop music icon Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce, indicating whether he thinks the romance will last. In an interview with the Daily Caller, Trump said, "I wish the best for both of them. I hope they enjoy their life, maybe together, maybe not — most likely not." The former president’s comments come in the middle of a media frenzy over the alleged romance between the world’s most famous musician and one of the NFL’s biggest stars.

Glendale's police chief Wednesday blamed "agitators on both sides of the issue" for inciting violence that erupted outside a meeting of the Glendale Unified School District board, which was set to discuss policies in support of LGBTQ+ classroom curriculum. The melee erupted Tuesday night as hundreds of people gathered outside the district's headquarters in the 200 block of North Jackson Street, where the board was meeting. Many people in the crowd held signs and waved American and LGBTQ+ Pride flags. While the gathering was initially peaceful, factions on both sides of the emotional issue eventually grew confrontational, leading to fights...

Former Minnesota officer Kimberly Potter has been released from prison after serving 16 months of a two-year sentence in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, whom she shot after mistaking her gun for a Taser during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, according to the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Potter was released from the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee at 4 a.m. on Monday, the department said, noting the early hour was due to safety concerns and the potential for violent protests outside the facility. Potter was convicted of two counts of manslaughter in the killing of 20-year-old Wright, an unarmed Black...

West Virginia University (WVU) head men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins has had his salary reduced $1 million per year, given a three-game suspension and will be required to participate in sensitivity training following his “abhorrent” comments made while appearing on a Cincinnati radio show on Monday. After his appearance, Huggins apologized and admitted there was no excuse for his hurtful language. Before his docked pay was announced on Wednesday, Huggins’ annual salary was due to be $4.15 million before incentives, according to a school spokesperson.

A heavily tattooed American traveller is fighting to be released from jail after she was allegedly busted trying to smuggle a 24-karat gold-plated pistol into Australia in her hand luggage. Liliana Goodson was arrested on April 23 after Australian Border Force officials claim they found a handgun hidden in her hand luggage when she touched down in Sydney. An X-ray machine at Sydney Airport allegedly detected the golden gun inside Ms Goodson’s hand luggage after she flew into the country from Los Angeles. The weapon is a gold-plated Colt 45-style pistol with pearl inlay, which is estimated to be valued...

Academy Awards Show has started...Jimmy Kimmel did mention Hunter Biden...He also joked about Tom Cruise...Something about Ron Hubbard...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Ten years ago this week, we witnessed the largest manhunt in Southern California history. Former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner was heavily armed and seeking revenge for losing his job. Dorner murdered four people before taking his own life during a fiery standoff in the San Bernardino Mountains. In the beginning, it was a mystery: A double murder in Irvine - the victims were Keith Lawrence and his fiance Monica Quan. Irvine police had no leads. But two days later, there was a break in the case: LAPD equipment found in a dumpster in National City, along...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is moving ahead with a plan to place new limits on credit card late fees that it says will save consumers money and prohibit companies from charging excessive penalties. But banking groups say the proposal would result in higher costs for consumers. The proposal comes less than a year after the bureau found that credit card companies in 2020 charged $12 billion in late fees, which have become a ballooning revenue source for lenders.

If Lee Tamahori could change anything about his James Bond film Die Another Day it would be the film’s use of CGI in one infamous scene. “The only thing I’d do differently [with Die Another Day] would be the kitesurfing sequence,” director Tamahori tells Yahoo over the phone from New Zealand, where he's shooting his next film. “I don’t know how you’d do it differently. It was virtually impossible to do it for real as a real stunt: falling off the edge of a glacier, hastily concocting a kite-surfing rig, and kitesurfing your way out of danger. If you tried...

The remains of P-22, the famous mountain lion who roamed the Hollywood Hills for more than a decade, have been transported to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. What happens next, however, is unclear. Museum officials were joined by descendants from several Native American tribes who led a blessing ceremony Friday “welcome P-22 back to his homeland” from the San Diego Zoo where he was euthanized last weekend, the museum posted to Twitter. “Right now, we are in dialogue with Native communities, including multiple Chumash and Tongva Tribes, to help navigate this unprecedented situation,” NHM said. Southern California’s...

A California woman who killed her former stepfather after discovering hundreds of nude images of herself on his computer was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder. The murderer, Jade Janks, murdered Thomas Merriman, who was one of the founders of Butterfly Farms, a research and education non-profit dedicated to the conservation of butterflies located in Encinitas, Calif., according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. Janks faces life in prison During a weeks-long trial, prosecutors argued Janks, a 39-year-old Solana Beach interior designer, drugged, strangled and suffocated Merriman, 64, with a plastic bag on New Year's Eve 2020, after she stumbled upon racy...