Kris Jenner lists ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ mansion for $13.5 million

• February 8, 2025

Kris Jenner today listed her iconic Hidden Hills estate for $13.5 million.

For over a decade, this sprawling 8,860-square-foot Mediterranean-style mansion has been the backdrop for much of the drama showcased in “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” making it “a piece of television history.”

At least, that’s what the listing calls it.

The long-running reality series focused on the blended Kardashian and Jenner family, particularly spotlighting sisters Kim, Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian and their half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner. After 20 seasons spanning 14 years, the show concluded in 2021, but the allure of the house remains.

“It’s a home where a family lived their lives, with good times, bad times, kids growing up, and all kinds of evolution,” Tomer Fridman of Christie’s International Real Estate Southern California, the listing agent, told the New York Times, which first reported the property for sale.

The grand foyer sets a luxurious tone with a sweeping double staircase and oversized black and white-checkered flooring. This choice of flooring adorns the dining room and gourmet kitchen, while the family room boasts a wet bar.

Abundant picture windows fill the interior with natural light and frame views of the lushly landscaped grounds, which include a pool, spa, firepit, cabana, outdoor kitchen and dining area.

The primary suite opens to a walk-out balcony overlooking the 1.5-acre-plus estate. Inside this retreat, a fireplace warms the bedroom. A spa-like bathroom with a steam shower, a walk-in closet and a private gym add to the offerings.

A dedicated office adds functionality, making the home “perfect for both lavish living and productivity,” the listing reads.

Records viewed at PropertyShark.com reveal Kris Jenner and her ex, Caitlyn Jenner, bought the home for $4 million in March 2010. In 2014, during their separation, Caitlyn Jenner transferred ownership of the property to Kris Jenner.

They finalized their divorce in 2015 after 24 years of marriage.

Kris Jenner, 69, is now in a relationship with talent manager Corey Gamble, 44.

In a statement to the New York Times, she said, “I’ve shared so many unforgettable memories in this incredible home with my family, and I’m excited to see it start a new chapter with its next owners.”

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Wesley Yates’ big night not enough for USC in blowout loss to No. 7 Purdue

• February 8, 2025

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A monster night from sophomore Wesley Yates III wasn’t nearly enough for the short-handed USC men’s basketball team on Friday night.

Yates scored 22 of his career-high 30 points in the first half, but a Trojans squad playing without leading scorer Desmond Claude was no match for seventh-ranked Purdue in a 90-72 loss at Mackey Arena.

Trey Kaufman-Renn had 24 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Boilermakers (19-5 overall, 11-2 Big Ten), who overwhelmed USC in the paint on the way to their fourth straight win and 11th in their past 12 games. Fletcher Loyer added 14 points for Purdue, which outrebounded the Trojans 48-31. Braden Smith and Caleb Furst each just missed joining Kaufman-Renn with double-doubles. Smith finished with nine points and a team-high 13 assists, and Furst added had nine points and 10 rebounds.

Yates, whose previous high was 21 points, had to play much of the second half with four fouls after he picked up his fourth with 16:25 minutes left. Isaiah Elohim added 11 points and Jalen Shelley had 10 points and six rebounds for USC (13-10, 5-7), which trailed by as much as 26 and lost its second in a row since upsetting then-No. 7 Michigan State last weekend.

Claude, a 6-foot-6 junior guard (16.2 ppg), has been battling a knee injury and also sat out Tuesday’s 77-75 loss at Northwestern.

The conference-leading Boilermakers established dominance of the lane early to take a double-digit lead less than seven minutes into the game.

Purdue pulled ahead 21-10 with 18 of its points coming from inside. The Boilermakers outscored USC in the paint 52-36 for the night and nearly had as many points in the key by halftime (32) as the Trojans had in total (36).

Kaufman-Renn set the tone, shooting 7 for 9 from the floor in the first half for 14 points. The Boilermakers shot 67% in the first half to build a 48-36 lead by halftime.

Both teams struggled from 3-point range: USC shot 4 for 26, while Purdue was 6 for 26, but USC also went just 16 for 29 from the free-throw line. Clark Slajchert, who scored a season-high 24 points on Tuesday, shot 0 for 6 from 3-point range and 2 for 10 from the floor on his way to seven points.

Purdue, which has won 29 of its last 30 home games, moved two games up in the win column over Michigan State and Michigan in its quest for a third consecutive Big Ten regular-season title.

UP NEXT

USC plays host to Penn State on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Galen Center.

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Orange County scores and player stats for Friday, Feb. 7

• February 8, 2025

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FRIDAY’S SCORES

GIRLS WATER POLO

CIF-SS PLAYOFFS

DIVISION 2

Round 2

El Toro 15, La Serna 9

Woodbridge 9, Buena Park 6

Goals: (BP) Chagollan 2. (Wood)  Sardarian 3, DeLand 2.

Saves: (BP) Smith 13. (Wood) Adams 12.

Downey 12, Edison 7

Murrieta Valley 13, Dana Hills 6

Redondo Union 13, Irvine 11

DIVISION 3

Round 2

Portola 10, Santa Monica 8

St. Joseph/Lakewood 11, Capistrano Valley 10

DIVISION 4

Round 2

Ayala 13, Garden Grove 9

Troy 10, Roosevelt 9

Aliso Niguel 12, Crean Lutheran 7

DIVISION 5

Round 2

El Dorado 8, Walnut 7

Fullerton 4, Warren 3

Brea Olinda 12, Westminster 3

Santa Paula 5, Segerstrom 3

West Covina 7, El Modena 5

DIVISION 6

Round 2

La Quinta/La Quinta 8, Tustin 4

Anaheim 13, Edgewood 8

Ocean View 21, Alhambra 20

Cathedral City 9, Los Amigos 6

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Buena Park High staff member placed on leave following racially-charged social media posts

• February 8, 2025

A Buena Park High School staff member who allegedly used charged language on social media to advocate burning the Mexican flag and deporting undocumented immigrants was placed on administrative leave following a student demonstration against those comments.

The posts do not reflect the views of the Fullerton Joint Union High School District or Buena Park High School, Superintendent Steve McLaughlin said in a statement released Friday, Feb. 7.

“FJUHSD is a district built on respect, inclusivity, and a deep commitment to ensuring every student, family, and staff member feels safe, valued, and supported,” McLaughlin said, adding that the matter is under investigation.

“Overall, I want to emphasize that the safety and well-being of our students remain our top priority—not just at BPHS, but across all of our unique and thriving school communities.”

The district did not identify the staff member by name or say if that person works as a teacher. The district also did not say when the posts were made, and it’s unclear from viewing them how long they’ve been online.

Allegedly, the staff member used social media to display an image of Mexico’s flag along with the comment: “If y’all have flags I will burn them for you! This is America. They are deporting criminals.” The posts, on Instagram and Facebook, also contain a link to Buena Park High School’s Instagram account.

In another post, with the hashtag “staffprobablyhatedme, the staff member commented on their attire, which included a green “Trump 2024” shirt and a red “Make America Great Again” ball cap.

“So all month long when I work this how it will look,” the post reads.

“People need to wake up and realize when Trump was president things were a lot better. If you don’t like it leave and if you are here illegally here you will be leaving shortly anywho!  Adios! if you are offended by what I say than (sp) you are the problem! #trump #trump #trump.”

The staff member could not be reached for comment.

The posts sparked a raucous protest Friday by at least a dozen Buena Park High School students who shouted, held posters and waived Mexican flags at motorists driving on Magnolia Avenue.

The Fullerton Joint Union High School District assigned additional staff Friday to Buena Park High School and will do so again when classes resume Tuesday for those who would like to discuss the incident.

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Years before coaching together at USC, D’Anton Lynn and Rob Ryan were Baltimore housemates

• February 8, 2025

LOS ANGELES — In the first-ever staff job of his career, cutting up tape for the New York Jets in 2013, current USC defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn was paid about $21,000.

Somehow, as father Anthony Lynn remembered, a young Lynn managed to save $7,000.

“I don’t know how you do that,” Anthony said, on a phone call with the Southern California News Group, “to this day.”

But if you knew his son, Anthony Lynn reflected, you knew he was fiscally responsible. D’Anton Lynn lived, for all intents, inside the Jets’ facility that year. His habits didn’t much change years later, when an early-30s Lynn was hired as the Baltimore Ravens’ safeties coach; instead of finding his own place, a Ravens coach invited him to crash with him for a few months. Lynn took him up on it.

That coach was Rob Ryan: a man a generation older, and with hair immeasurably longer, and a filter unmistakably softer.

“Two totally different personalities,” Anthony Lynn chuckled.

Yet a pair of oddball roommates have reunited as colleagues again, after shared stops with the Buffalo Bills in 2016 and the Ravens in 2021. Shockingly, after spending 24 years coaching some of the NFL’s best, the enigmatic Ryan took the Trojans’ linebackers job in mid-January to complete one of the more formidable staffs in the country. There were a number of ties throughout his coaching life to USC, Ryan explained to reporters in a truly unhinged press conference on Wednesday: telling the tale of former New England Patriots linebacker Willie McGinest’s unabashed love for his Trojans, professing his fondness for USC alumni Isaiah Pola-Mao (who played for Ryan with the Las Vegas Raiders) and wife Janina.

But Ryan, truly, never would have arrived at USC without Lynn.

“This is a young Mike Tomlin, way I look at him,” Ryan said of Lynn on Wednesday, referring to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ head coach. “D’Anton’s as sharp as he can be. He’s a wonderful person. He’s a great teacher.”

Lynn first floated the idea of coming to USC to Ryan at the end of the Las Vegas Raiders’ season, where Ryan was a senior defensive assistant. Ryan, plainly, told Lynn he was out of his mind. But Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce was canned in early January, and Lynn kept talking up USC’s progress and his roster, Ryan recalled. Eventually, the NFL lifer came to visit campus and meet head coach Lincoln Riley, who Ryan called “right there” with Rams head coach Sean McVay as one of the best offensive minds in football.

“I’d like to say I asked my wife’s opinion,” Ryan cracked Wednesday, “but I’m like, ‘Man, I’m going to USC.’ So, now, she’s packing what she now says is for the last time, and she is not happy with me.”

Ryan has been tabbed USC’s assistant head coach for defense, in addition to his linebackers title, and the on-paper fit is sheer chaos with Lynn’s more muted nature. In his first press conference at USC, back in December 2023, Lynn described his personal goals in coaching as just wanting to “play the best defense possible.” In Ryan’s first press conference at USC, on Wednesday, he turned a question about coaching with Lynn into a 5-minute story about how name-dropping former player Kaluka Maiava – USC quarterback Jayden Maiava’s uncle – secured him a rental car on a vacation to Oahu.

He’s plenty “comfortable in (his) own skin,” Ryan put it Wednesday, and the highlights from his 20-minute meeting with the media came unbridled and viral and hilarious.

On USC linebacker Eric Gentry: “He does the unnatural, natural. Like, I love this kid. This kid makes more plays – my God. Like, I’m like, this guy’s going to be fun to work with. And he’s got vines for arms. I do great with those guys with the long arms.”

On USC and NFL legend Troy Polamalu: “Both of us, ironically, married Greek women. Phew. That’s tough. That’s tough. So I’m sure that she’s in charge of his house like mine’s in charge of me.”

On spring practice and new Hutchinson Community College-turned-USC running back Waymond Jordan: “I can’t wait. We’re gonna go against the best. Oh, good. Bring it on! I can’t wait to see that lil’ JUCO kid from Hutch. Bam! We’re going to get after it.”

Both Lynn and Ryan, though, are aligned by a philosophy to stop the run, as fellow former colleague Anthony Lynn described. They are aligned, too, in work ethic. In 2016, back in Buffalo, Ryan’s brother Rex – then the Bills’ head coach, and a massive Chicago Cubs fan – rounded up staff and rented a bus to watch Game 7 of the World Series.

Lynn and Ryan were two of the only coaches who stayed behind.

“That’s what I admired about him,” Ryan recalled. “We were always going to work.”

Both, too, have made a living revolutionizing defenses. Ryan did it as Oklahoma State’s defensive coordinator in 1997, his last college stop before USC, taking a unit ranked 80th in the country in points per game to 22nd. Lynn did it at UCLA, and is righting the ship slowly at USC, the Trojans’ defense making massive strides in 2024.

And he’ll have an unlikely partner in Ryan, this fall.

“Watch where we finish this year,” Ryan implored, on Wednesday. “Watch where we finish this year.”

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel are the disruptors we need

• February 8, 2025

In 1987, Judge Robert Bork went before the Senate Judiciary Committee for confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court. Expecting a sober discussion of legal issues, instead he was “borked,” as it came to be called. Led by Chairman Joe Biden, the hearings descended into a farcical attack on the most distinguished jurist of his time.

Since then, nominees for every position, whether Republican or Democrat, have given studied demurrals to tough questions, making confirmation hearings almost worthless.

That changed when President Trump’s three most controversial cabinet picks were grilled: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to head the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, whom I’ll discuss, and Kash Patel for FBI director. Each showed a Trumpian combativeness that gave Americans a view of the low quality of their senators. 

Like Trump rising after he was shot, they effectively raised their fists and shouted: Fight! Fight! Fight! 

RFK Jr., the scion of the most famous Democratic family, faced Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, who despite being an “independent” socialist ran twice for president in the Democratic Party and caucuses with them. 

After grandstanding about the problems in American health care, Sanders asked if Kennedy would “guarantee health care to every single American.” That’s a socialist utopian fantasy as shown by Canada, where wait times to get procedures averaged 30 weeks in 2024.

“I’m going to make America healthier than other countries,” Kennedy said, before Sanders interrupted him. “By the way, Bernie,” Kennedy continued, using the senator’s first name, “The problem of corruption is not just in the federal agencies. It’s in Congress, too. Almost all the members of this committee, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, protecting their interests.”

Sanders objected that his 2020 presidential bid was paid for by thousands of “workers all over this country.” Kennedy then pointed out Sanders was the single largest recipient of pharmaceutical dollars, $1.5 million. Sanders conceded, “Out of $200 million.”

Of course, the senators questioned Kennedy on his controversial stances on vaccines. He said he wasn’t anti-vaccine. At this point, I think Americans just want to know the truth of what happened, which we’ll get if Kennedy is confirmed. Also just recently, under new Director John Ratcliffe, reported the New York Times, “C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins.” Remember when that view was censored by the government and social media?

Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran, was challenged by Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, a Gulf War veteran, on Syria policy. He quoted this statement of hers from 2016, “The U.S. is providing direct and indirect support for terrorist groups in order to overthrow the Syrian government.” Kelly said that was the same position as Russia and Iran, which were supporting the Assad regime then in power.

Gabbard responded she enlisted in the Army “because of al Qaeda’s terrorist attack on 9/11…. It was shocking and a betrayal to me and every person who was killed on 9/11, their families and my brothers and sisters in uniform, when as a member of Congress I learned about President Obama’s” Timber Sycamore program, since made public, “of working with and arming al Qaeda.”

Recently, Bashar al-Assad, a nasty tyrant, was overthrown by the even worse Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of al Qaeda, with the assistance of the Biden administration. So we conducted the long and bloody Global War on Terror against al Qaeda only to back it?

After 9/11 we got the misnamed USA Patriot Act, a severe limit on our liberties, and the creation of new agencies, including the Office of the DNI, which remains duplicative and ought to be abolished. At least Gabbard will bring her strong patriotism to her daily briefings of Trump and will be skeptical of moves to expand the government to combat real and perceived threats.

This whole government is rotten to the core and needs to be shaken up. Kennedy, Gabbard and Patel are the disruptors we need.

John Seiler is on the editorial board of the Southern California News Group.

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You might be surprised by when the bald eagle became our national bird

• February 8, 2025

Eagles honored

The bald eagle has been a symbol of our nation’s strength since the Revolutionary War, but it was not made our national bird until recently.

The bald eagle is emblematic of America and on coins, bills and is on the Great Seal of the United States. Conservation efforts were needed to bring the species back from the brink of extinction. Though it was used as the national symbol more than 240 years ago, Congress had never made it official.

That changed on Christmas Eve 2024, when President Joe Biden signed the legislation declaring the bald eagle the official national bird.

“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National Bird Initiative for the National Eagle Center, in a news release. “But now the title is official, and no bird is more deserving.”

Eagle Day is Jan. 11. Eagle appreciation days are Jan. 18-19

Watch the eagle cam

Local eagle cam: Jackie, an eagle in Big Bear, has laid three eggs. You can watch the nest on the online camera at:www.friendsofbigbearvalley.org/eagles.

Delayed incubation: Many bald eagles do not incubate the first egg right away, delaying development so that their chicks hatch closer together. The main idea behind this evolutionary adaptation is to ensure that younger chicks have a higher chance of survival while competing with their older siblings for food and shelter.

Pip watch: When there’s a visible bump or crack in the eggshell is expected to start March 1.

Other bald eagle facts

The bald eagle was voted our national seal in 1782. To help preserve the bird’s declining numbers, Congress passed the Bald Eagle Protection Act in 1940. The birds have avoided the endangered species list since 2007.

The Latin name “Haliaeetus leucocephalus” means “white-headed sea eagle.” The word bald refers to an old English word meaning white, like that of a judge’s wig in the English legal system.

Nearly every Native American tribe has its own name for eagle.

Bald eagles migrate to Southern California from thousands of miles away. The UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group used battery-powered sensors and satellite telemetry to track migratory patterns of eagles. On March 13, 1998, one bird took off from Silverwood Lake and landed at Great Slave Lake, Canada, on April 16 – a distance of more than 1,800 miles in just over a month.

Golden eagles in California tend to be here year-round, but golden eagles in Alaska and Canada may migrate south as far as 1,000 miles to wintering areas.

You can hear the sound of bald eagles on allaboutbirds.org here.

Eagles have about 7,000 feathers. Their feathers are made of keratin and grow continuously, just like their talons and beaks.

It is illegal to possess any part of an eagle. If you find feathers, contact the National Eagle Repository at 303-287-2110.

Golden eagles

This bird is widespread in the wilder country of North America, Europe and Asia. About the same size as the bald eagle, the golden eagle is less of a scavenger and more of a predator, regularly taking prey up to the size of foxes and cranes.

Some bird scientists have raised concern that their populations are on decline in Southern California.

The golden eagle is the most common official national animal in the world — it’s the emblem of Albania, Germany, Austria, Mexico and Kazakhstan.

Biologists, engineers and government officials have cooperated in developing and publicizing power-pole designs that reduce raptor electrocutions—caused when the large birds’ wings or feet accidentally touch two lines and form a circuit. Since the early 1970s, utility companies have modified poles to prevent eagle electrocutions. And some new power lines in non-urban areas have been built to “raptor-safe” construction standards.

Although capable of killing large prey such as cranes and domestic livestock, the golden eagle subsists primarily on rabbits, hares, ground squirrels and prairie dogs.

The rough-legged hawk, the ferruginous hawk and the golden eagle are the only American raptors to have legs feathered all the way to the toes.

The oldest recorded golden eagle was at least 31 years, 8 months old, when it was found in 2012 in Utah. It was banded in the same state in 1980.

• Bald and golden eagles often mate for life.
• Acquires adult plumage at 4 or 5 years of age.
• May fly more than 100 miles in a day.

Worldwide, there are approximately 74 species of eagles, but only two in North America. Never disturb or approach an eagle’s nest, even if they are not in it.

Bald eagles can be spotted near Big Bear Lake, Irvine Lake, Lake Elsinore, Huntington Beach’s Central Park and Catalina Island.

Golden eagles have been spotted in almost all Southern California counties except for Imperial County in recent years.

The first quarter made by the U.S. Mint in 1796 was silver. The designs from 1796 to 1930 showed Liberty on the obverse and an eagle on the reverse.

Female bald eagles can lay two to four eggs a year. Chicks fledge, or leave the nest, at about 12 weeks old.

Females are larger than males, and birds of northern states and provinces tend to be larger than those from the southern portions of the breeding range.Lifespan more than 20 years in the wild.

Backyard bird count

The Cornell Lab Great Backyard Bird Count will be held Friday – Feb. 17. It takes as little as 15 minutes and will help create a real-time snapshot of bird populations.

Go to birdcount.org for more information.

Sources: All About Birds, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; California Department of Fish and Wildlife, birdcount.org, Audubon.orgPhotos: SCNG file photos; The Associated Press; Wikimedia Commons

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Grand Prix of Long Beach had nearly $100 million in regional economic output in 2024, officials say

• February 8, 2025

The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach had a nearly $100 million economic impact on Long Beach and the seven counties that comprise Southern California last year, race officials announced on Friday, Feb. 7 — a $35 million increase compared to 2018.

Those numbers, the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach said, came from a study by Kleinhenz Economics, which last looked at the three-day event’s economic impact in 2018.

Of the $98.7 million the Grand Prix generated for the region in 2024, the association’s press release said, $58 million — or 58.8% — came from visitor and operational expenditures. Within Long Beach, the economic output was $58.7 million.

The Grand Prix also contributed $17.9 million in taxes, $8.3 million of which went to the state and local governments.

The 49th annual Grand Prix, which attracted more than 194,000 visitors across all three days — a new record — also created 702 jobs across the region, the press release said, including 525 locally. That produced $40.3 million in total income, worth an annual average wage of $57,400.

“The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is not just an exciting racing event — it’s also a dynamic economic engine for the city and the Southern California region,” Jim Michaelian, the president and CEO of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach, said in a statement. “This year’s economic impact report highlights the substantial benefits the event delivers, from creating jobs to generating millions in revenue for local businesses and government.”

The Grand Prix, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in April, is widely considered the premier street race in the country — beloved by drivers and fans alike — and the second-most prestigious IndyCar Series race, behind only the Indianapolis 500.

It is also Long Beach’s biggest annual party — and, as the Kleinhenz study shows — a major economic driver for the city.

“From local businesses seeing a surge in customers to job creation and infrastructure investments, the impact extends far beyond the checkered flag,” Mayor Rex Richardson said in a statement. “For Long Beach, this means more support for small businesses, increased tourism revenue, and a stronger local economy that supports city services that our residents depend on.”

The 2025 Grand Prix of Long Beach is scheduled to take place from April 11 to 13. Big-time names are expected to descend on Long Beach to celebrate the occasion, with four-time winner Mario Andretti and six-time winner and “King of the Beach” Al Unser Jr. set to serve as co-grand marshals during Sunday’s titular event. And iconic rock group Foreigner will headline the Saturday night concert.

Tickets are on sale now at gplb.com or by calling 888-827-7333.

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