Michael Jones

The Trojans returned to their winning ways by routing previously ranked Oregon. Now comes the hard part: getting up for a struggling opponent. Times staff writer Gary Klein looks at some of the key issues and matchups when USC plays the Sun Devils, who...

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Now we know why Georgia packed up its players and its bulldog mascot, Uga VII, who left an air-conditioned Dawg house back in Athens, to venture out on its longest regular-season trip since 1960. It was a chance to play the Pacific 10...

Tavon Henley ran for 104 yards and two touchdowns to help No.15 Joppatowne shut out Havre de Grace, 20-0, last night. Henley had touchdown runs of 1 and 6 yards for Joppatowne (2-0), which scored one touchdown apiece in the second, third and fourth...

Two players who extended the football toward the goal line. Two players who got it slapped away for a fumble. In last weekend's opening games, two Pacific 10 Conference teams were reminded of the thin line between aggressive and reckless. Oregon State's...

Before Saturday, only one time in the last 58 years had Georgia cracked the top five in the Associated Press preseason poll. Now, the Bulldogs will learn what it's like to handle the pressure of being No. 1. Georgia will open up the season as the top-...

Ever since someone fired a gunshot through the front door of her West Pullman house last year, Elonda Jackson made sure the kids in her home would hang out only on the back porch. That was where Percy Rounds, 15, was sitting with his cousin Monday...

Illinois' largest psychiatric hospital left sexual predators unguarded despite allegations that at least 10 mentally disabled children were assaulted during the last three years. The youngest victim was an 8-year-old state ward admitted for evaluation...

A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday. Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones - aka...

Kentwood police say they've arrested 2 men in connection to an armed robbery late last month. Now they're trying to track down a third suspect. Around 7:00 p.m. on April 25th, the Apparitions Comic and Books Store was robbed. That's on Ridgemoor Drive...

— A Mathews pot grower's loss turned into local middle schoolers' gain this month, when the county sheriff's office donated a confiscated hydroponic growing system to the school's new greenhouse. The greenhouse in a previously empty courtyard at...

Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008 ARROWHEAD LEAGUE La Verne Lutheran 42, Boys Republic 28 Keith Shamburger had 10 points, six rebounds and four steals for La Verne Lutheran (14-0, 3-0). DELPHIC LEAGUE Pasadena Marshall 59, Paraclete 38 Dorian Hampton led...

Like a number of skid row's poor and "unbanked," Robert Baker trusted his cash and future dreams to a half-ton safe in downtown's bustling Union Rescue Mission. Baker, 36, had landed at the Christian mission at 5th and San Pedro streets ready to work,...