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The drive to allow indoor high school sports to be played in California received a major boost Thursday, March 4 as a lawsuit challenging the state’s guidelines for youth sports reached a “tentative settlement” with the state that could have major ripple effects for student-athletes statewide amid the pandemic. The plaintiffs in a suit filed by two San Diego high school football players against Gov. Gavin Newsom, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the county of San Diego announced that the settlement includes guidelines to allow for indoor sports such as basketball, volleyball and wrestling to resume competition...

As in so many aspects of our lives, COVID-19 and President Trump played major roles in Southern California’s top environmental headlines for 2020. Overall, environmentalists won some and lost some — as did the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce burdens on businesses by trying to rollback more than 100 environmental regulations, ranging from California’s emissions standards to protections of natural preserves. Many of the administration’s proposed changes spurred legal challenges, some already successful. And President-elect Joe Biden, whose victory was celebrated by environmentalists, is expected to reverse many of those that remain. “Biden’s cabinet is going to spend a lot...