California bans controversial ‘excited delirium’ diagnosis; is first state to do so

• October 16, 2023

SACRAMENTO — California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known as “excited delirium,” which a human rights activist hailed as a “watershed moment” that could make it harder for police to justify excessive force.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Oct. 8 to prohibit coroners, medical examiners, physicians, or physician assistants from listing excited delirium on a person’s death certificate or in an autopsy report. Law enforcement won’t be allowed to use the term to describe a person’s behavior in any incident report, and testimony that refers to excited delirium won’t be allowed in civil court. The law takes effect in January.

The term excited delirium has been around for decades but has been used increasingly over the past 15 years to explain how a person experiencing severe agitation can die suddenly through no fault of the police. It was cited as a legal defense in the 2020 deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis; Daniel Prude in Rochester, New York; and Angelo Quinto in Antioch, California, among others.

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“This is a watershed moment in California and nationwide,” said Joanna Naples-Mitchell, a lawyer with the New York-based Physicians for Human Rights, who co-authored a 2022 report on the use of the diagnosis.

“In a wrongful death lawsuit, if excited delirium comes up, it’s a big hurdle for a family getting justice if their family member was actually killed by police,” Naples-Mitchell said. “So, now it will be basically impossible for them to offer testimony on excited delirium in California.”

Even though the new law makes California the first state to no longer recognize excited delirium as a medical diagnosis, several national medical associations already discredited it. Since 2020, the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association have rejected excited delirium as a medical condition, noting the term has disproportionately applied to Black men in law enforcement custody. This year, the National Association of Medical Examiners rejected excited delirium as a cause of death, and the American College of Emergency Physicians is expected to vote this month on whether to formally disavow its 2009 position paper supporting excited delirium as a diagnosis. That white paper proposed individuals in a mental health crisis, often under the influence of drugs or alcohol, can exhibit superhuman strength as police try to control them, and then die from the condition.

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In the case of Quinto, his mother, Cassandra Quinto-Collins, had called Antioch police two days before Christmas because her son was experiencing a mental health crisis. She had subdued him by the time they arrived, she said, but officers held her 30-year-old son to the ground until he passed out.

In a harrowing home video taken by Quinto-Collins, which was broadcast nationally after his death, she asked police what happened as her son lay on the floor unconscious, hands behind his back in handcuffs. He died three days later in the hospital.

The Contra Costa County coroner’s office, part of the sheriff’s department, blamed Quinto’s death on excited delirium. The Quinto family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county and is seeking to change the cause of death on his death certificate.

Quinto-Collins also testified in favor of the bill, AB 360, introduced by state Assemblymember Mike Gipson, a Democrat. It sailed through the legislature with bipartisan support. No organization formally opposed the measure, including the California Police Chiefs Association, whose executive director declined to comment this week.

“There’s a lot more work to be done, but it is a unique window into some of the corruption, some of the things that we’ve allowed to happen under our noses,” said Robert Collins, Quinto’s stepfather. “I think it’s really telling that California is ending it.”

Part of the problem with an excited delirium diagnosis is that delirium is a symptom of an underlying condition, medical professionals say. For example, delirium can be caused by old age, hospitalization, a major surgery, substance use, medication, or infections, said Sarah Slocum, a psychiatrist in Exeter, New Hampshire, who co-authored a review of excited delirium published in 2022.

“You wouldn’t just put ‘fever’ on someone’s death certificate,” Slocum said. “So, it’s difficult to then just put ‘excited delirium’ on there as a cause of death when there is something that’s underlying and driving it.”

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In California, some entities already had restricted the use of excited delirium, such as the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department, which prohibits the term in its written reports and policy manual.

But these changes confront decades of conditioning among law enforcement and emergency medical personnel who have been taught that excited delirium is real and trained how to handle someone suspected of having it.

“There needs to be a systematic retraining,” said Abdul Nasser Rad, managing director of research and data at Campaign Zero, a nonprofit group that focuses on criminal justice reform and helped draft the California law. “There’s real worry about just how officers are being trained, how EMS is being trained on the issue.”

This article was produced by KFF Health News, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation.

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Rams, Kyren Williams rediscover rushing attack in win over Cardinals

• October 15, 2023

INGLEWOOD – Through two quarters on Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals, the Rams had run the ball three times for a total of 5 yards. The offense that Sean McVay had established six years ago on the legs of Todd Gurley opening up space for the air game had seemed to lose its identity, and as a result the Rams trailed by three at halftime.

But when the second half resumed, McVay called a carry for Kyren Williams that went 17 yards. Then a dive by Williams. Then a pitch to the outside by the second-year RB, then another carry. Then a couple handoffs to backup Ronnie Rivers, then back to Williams for two more.

Eight consecutive runs later, the Rams had moved 60 yards before quarterback Matthew Stafford dropped back. The defense softened up to defend the run, Stafford found receiver Cooper Kupp for the go-ahead touchdown.

Kupp’s first score of the year, and the rediscovered balance on offense, set up the Rams’ 26-9 win over the Cardinals.

After rushing just twice for 4 yards in the first half, Williams finished the game with a career-high 158 yards on 20 carries, averaging 7.9 per attempt.

Opening the first half, it was clear the Rams (3-3) were not in the right headspace on offense. They picked up a first down, then got no further as Stafford’s throws went off target. It was the first time this season the Rams failed to score on their opening possession.

Stafford found Kupp along the sideline for 37 yards to open the next drive. With first down at the Cardinals 11, Stafford overthrew Puka Nacua, threw behind Kupp, then overthrew Tutu Atwell. The Rams had to settle for a field goal.

Consecutive three-and-outs, both of which ended in sacks of Stafford, allowed the Cardinals (1-5) to take a 9-3 lead as the defense, despite some losses of containment on third-down, limited the damage to field goals. A 49-yard connection between Stafford and Kupp set up a field goal before the half and got the Rams within three.

But with the rushing attack stuck in the mud, the Rams went 0-for-5 on third down in the first half.

That conversion rate jumped to 4-for-7 after Williams was activated to open the third. After two field goals in five first-half possessions, the Rams scored on their first four possession in the second: The Kupp TD catch, two field goals and a 5-yard carry by Williams in which he extended his arms to get the ball past the goal line.

And after weeks of McVay imploring his team to play complementary football, the Rams turned two second-half turnovers – Christian Rozeboom’s first career  interception and a fumble forced by Byron Young and recovered by Quentin Lake – into 10 points.

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US sending 2nd carrier strike group, fighter jets to region as Israel readies to expand Gaza operations

• October 15, 2023

The Pentagon has ordered a second carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean Sea and is sending Air Force fighter jets to the region as Israel prepares to expand its Gaza operations, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement Saturday.

The US warships are not intended to join the fighting in Gaza or take part in Israel&#’;s operations, but the presence of two of the Navy’s most powerful vessels is designed to send a message of deterrence to Iran and Iranian proxies in the region, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The movements are “part of our effort to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following Hamas’s attack on Israel,” Austin said in the statement.

The first carrier strike group, led by the USS Gerald R. Ford, arrived off the coast of Israel last week.

Now the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower strike group, which deployed from Norfolk, Virginia, on Friday, is headed to the eastern Mediterranean. The aircraft carrier was initially set to sail for the waters of US European Command.

It is unclear how long the Ford will stay in the region once the Eisenhower carrier strike group arrives, one US defense official told CNN.

The Eisenhower, which is the flagship of the carrier strike group, will be joined by a guided-missile cruiser and two guided-missile destroyers, Austin&#’;s statement said.

The Eisenhower can carry more than 60 aircraft, including F/A-18 fighter jets. The Ford can deploy more than 75 aircraft.

ABC News first reported the carrier strike group’s orders.

US forces not there to aid Israel

The Biden administration made clear that the carrier and its accompanying force are not there to engage in combat activities on behalf of Israel.

“There is no intention or plan to put American troops on the ground in Israel,” John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator for the National Security Council, said Thursday.

“We take our national security interests very seriously in the region,” he said, noting that the purpose of the bolstered force posture was “to act as a deterrent for any other actor, including Hezbollah, that might think that widening this conflict is a good idea.”

However, on Sunday, Kirby wouldn’t rule out sending in US troops to help free Americans who may be held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.

Speaking to “Fox News Sunday,” Kirby said there were “no plans or intentions to put US troops on the ground in the fight between Israel and Hamas,” but when pressed repeatedly on whether the administration was considering deploying troops to save Americans, he wouldn’t say no.

“What I won’t do is rule anything in or out when it comes to getting our hostages home,” he said. “We’re working on this literally by the hour.”

Kirby said Sunday that the US knows there are Americans being held hostage by Hamas – going beyond his comments Wednesday, when he said the US believed there were Americans among the hostages.

“We don’t even know how many exactly. A small handful we know, there could be more than we know, they could be in different groups, they could be moved around,” he said Sunday.

In addition, the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, a rapid reaction force capable of conducting special operations, is making preparations in case it is ordered closer to Israel to bolster the US’ force posture there, multiple US officials told CNN.

The unit, which is on board the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan, is composed of more than 2,000 Marines and sailors and would be capable of supporting a large-scale evacuation. Among the mission essential tasks for a Marine Expeditionary Unit are evacuation operations and humanitarian assistance.

No such order has been given yet to the unit, the officials said.

More US warplanes sent to region

Meanwhile, US Air Forces Central on Saturday announced the deployment of F-15E fighter jets and A-10 ground-attack jets to the region.

The movement of the warplanes from the 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron and 354th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, respectively, “bolster the U.S. posture and enhance air operations throughout the Middle East,” an Air Force statement said. It did not give specific numbers of warplanes involved.

A-10s from the 354th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron arrived in the Middle East on Sunday, US Air Forces Central tweeted.

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“This arrival bolsters the U.S. defense posture, enhances air operations throughout the Middle East, and reassures our allies and regional partners we remain postured to protect and defend their freedom,” the tweet added.

A US Central Command social media post said the A-10s would join another squadron of the aircraft already in the region. US Defense Secretary Austin&#’;s statement said F-16 fighters have also been deployed to the region.

“By posturing advanced fighters and integrating with joint and coalition forces, we are strengthening our partnerships and reinforcing security in the region,” Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, 9th Air Force commander, said in a statement.

Defense officials have said repeatedly in recent days that the Pentagon will be able to flow in additional forces and assets to the region quickly as needed, as Israel continues to fight a war against the terrorist group Hamas.

This story has been updated with additional developments.

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Angel City FC clinches playoff berth with win over Portland

• October 15, 2023

LOS ANGELES – The Angel City Football Club had to wait a year, but finally made their own piece of history.

Angel City FC reached the final day of the regular season needing a win and some help around the league to clinch their first playoff berth.

By the time the dust settled, Angel City had a lot of goals and most importantly a 5-1 win over the Portland Thorns, clinching fifth place and spot in the NWSL playoffs in front of a sellout crowd of 22,000 at BMO Stadium.

With all of the games in the league played at the same time, it allowed for some wild moments for fans and team executives watching the live standings.

At start of the day, Angel City was in eighth place and by halftime, the club was in sixth.

After tense early moments of the first half, Angel City broke through on the scoreboard on M.A. Vignola’s strike from the left wing that eluded Portland goalkeeper Bella Bixby in the 36th minute. Two minutes later, Scarlett Camberos’ header made it 2-0 and the celebration was just getting underway.

Savannah McCaskill (47th minute) and Sydney Leroux (51st minute) gave Angel City a 4-0 lead early in the second half.

Despite the large lead, it wasn’t all safe on the standings watch for Angel City. Portland scored in the 79th minute on a goal by Hina Sugita and that bumped Angel City from fifth to sixth in the standings. However, in the 80th minute, Jun Endo restored Angel City’s four-goal lead and moved the club back into fifth place.

Portland entered the game in with a chance to win the Shield as the best team in the league, but with Angel City’s outburst and San Diego Wave’s win over Racing Louisville FC 2-0, it was the Wave, in their second season, winning the Shield.

The teams split the two Challenge Cup meetings this season. The first regular-season meeting (April 29), ended in a 3-3 draw. Entering the game, Angel City had two wins against the Thorns and both came in the Challenge Cup (April 24, 2022 and July 29 of this season).

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WNBA finals: Liberty avoids sweep by Aces to force a Game 4

• October 15, 2023

By Doug Feinberg

NEW YORK (AP) — Jonquel Jones scored 27 points and Breanna Stewart added 20 to help the New York Liberty beat the Las Vegas Aces 87-73 on Sunday in the WNBA Finals and force a Game 4.

New York struggled in the first two games against the Aces in Las Vegas, but the Liberty found their shooting touch in Game 3 behind Jones, who hit four of the team’s 13 3-pointers.

“She was huge for us,” Liberty coach Sandy Brondello said of Jones, who came to the Liberty in a trade in the offseason. “Those 3’s changed the moment of the game a bit. The ball went in. Other games the ball weren’t going in for us. We got back to our identity. Proud of the effort and commitment and connection we had. Now we’ve got to do it again.”

This was the Liberty’s first win in the WNBA Finals since Teresa Weatherspoon’s half-court shot in Game 2 against Houston in 1999. The Aces are up 2-1 in the best-of-five series and Game 4 is Wednesday night in New York.

The Liberty led by three at halftime before scoring the first eight points of the third quarter to take a double-digit lead, bringing the crowd of 17,143 to its feet. They led 61-50 after three quarters.

Behind A’ja Wilson, the Aces got to within six before Stewart hit a turnaround jumper and Betnijah Laney stole the ball from Jackie Young at half court and made a layup to extend the lead back to 10.

Las Vegas didn’t challenge the rest of the way and star guard Chelsea Gray went back to the locker room midway through the fourth quarter after inuring her foot.

“I can’t give you an update, I’ll let you know when we know,” Las Vegas coach Becky Hammon said.

Kelsey Plum scored 29 points and Wilson added 16 points and 11 rebounds for the Aces, who are looking to become the first team to win consecutive titles since the 2001-02 Los Angeles Sparks. That came on the heels of the Houston Comets winning the WNBA’s first four championships.

“This is a good team we’re talking about, obviously a different feeling in their place,” Wilson said of the Liberty. “We still have a chance to take care of business.”

The Aces had won their first seven games in this postseason by an average of 17.3 points. They were looking to become the first team to go 8-0 in a WNBA postseason and the first to not lose a game since Seattle in 2020.

The first two games of the series, as well as the four regular-season meetings, were all blowouts, with the closest game being a nine-point win by New York on Aug. 28. That was the last loss the Aces had until Sunday.

New York had stretches of playing well in the first half, buoyed by the sellout crowd that included NBA Commissioner Adam Silver as well as basketball greats Dawn Staley, Sue Bird and Tony Parker. The Liberty extended their lead to 41-34 on Jones’ layup with 2:27 left in the half before the Aces got within 43-40 at the break. Jones had 16 points in the first half while Plum scored 15.

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This was the first WNBA Finals game in New York since 2002, when the Liberty were swept by the Sparks. Hammon was playing on that New York squad and remembers how excited the city was amid the team’s success. No New York basketball team in either the NBA or WNBA has made it that far since.

“This is New York City, this is a basketball mecca. It’s good when all the sports teams do good. The Nets, the Knicks, the Liberty,” Hammon said. “It’s a basketball town. Fans here, they want and expect good basketball. When you don’t put it on the floor, they’ll let you know about it, too.”

Liberty greats Vickie Johnson, Crystal Robinson, Sue Wicks and Weatherspoon, who played with Hammon on New York’s previous Finals teams, were all in attendance and received a loud ovation from the crowd when they were introduced in the third quarter. New York’s coach at that time, Richie Adubato, was also in the crowd.

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The Finals brought out celebrities from all walks of life, including musician Joan Jett, actors Jason Sudeikis and Michael Shannon and journalist Robin Roberts. Lil’ Kim performed at halftime.

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UCLA football continues to navigate through quarterback woes

• October 15, 2023

UCLA entered the season with notable depth within the quarterback room but there’s now a level of uncertainty at the position following the 36-24 Pac-12 Conference loss to Oregon State over the weekend.

The Bruins (4-2 overall, 1-2 Pac-12) traveled with four quarterbacks to Corvallis, playing true freshman Dante Moore and redshirt junior Collin Schlee.

Moore threw three interceptions and Oregon converted the turnovers into 17 total points in the first half. One of those interceptions resulted in a pick-6, which was the third for Moore, with one happening in each of the last three games.

“He’s a resilient kid and that’s a great quality of his,” Coach Chip Kelly said. “We will sit down and watch the game with him and go over what his decisions were when he had the ball and how those things happen and we will continue to grow as a football team.”

Ryan Cooper Jr. returned the ball 67 yards for the score with 48 seconds left in the first half. The Beavers (6-1, 3-1) took a 23-10 lead into the locker room following the successful extra-point attempt.

Members of the fan base expressed their thoughts on social media, calling for a change at the position.

Schlee did participate in the game but not necessarily in relief of Moore.

“We planned on using Collin early and we did,” Kelly said. “I thought he was a spark. We had a package for him that we felt he could help us with. He did a nice job with it.”

The Kent State transfer had six carries for 80 yards on some designed quarterback runs. Schlee wouldn’t return to the game after he appeared to be in some pain following his longest run for a 28-yard gain in the third quarter,

“Collin was unavailable,” Kelly explained. “I was just told that he was unavailable for a little bit in the first half and then at halftime they said he would see if he could go.”

Schlee completed his one pass attempt for a 1-yard gain.

Kelly wouldn’t provide any other information or speculate on Schlee’s status.

Quarterbacks Chase Griffin and Ethan Garbers were also seen on the sideline and available for the Bruins but neither played. Both have starting experience for UCLA.

Garbers has appeared in four games this season, which is the maximum number of games allowed to play if the player is planning on redshirting the season. He’s currently listed as a redshirt junior after not playing for Washington in the 2020 season but is expected to have two years of eligibility after this season because of the extra year granted by the NCAA for the COVID-impacted season.

Garbers had stated that he was on track to graduate in the spring of 2024. He’ll then have the opportunity to exercise his right to transfer again as a graduate transfer.

Garbers served as the top quarterback coming out of training camp and was tabbed as the starter for the season opener against Coastal Carolina.

The Corona del Mar graduate completed 10 of 17 passes for 121 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions against the Chanticleers before handing the reigns over to Moore.

Garbers has thrown the ball just once in the last five games. He completed a pass for 13 yards to Kyle Ford in the nonconference finale against North Carolina Central. Kelly used a total of five quarterbacks in the 59-7 victory on Sept. 16.

Backup placekicker Blake Glessner took over as the holder for R.J. Lopez’s field goal attempts in place of Garbers following the Utah game.

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UCLA football is ranked 25th in both the Associated Press Top 25 poll and in the USA Today Sports Coaches Poll on Sunday.

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The Bruins will find out the channel and the kickoff time for their Oct. 28 homecoming game against Colorado (4-3, 1-3) on Monday morning.

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2 powerful earthquakes hit Afghanistan for the fourth time in over a week

• October 15, 2023

KABUL, Afghanistan — Two powerful earthquakes struck Herat province in northwestern Afghanistan early Sunday, jolting a region already hit by three major quakes over the past eight days that have killed more than 1,000 people.

The magnitude 6.3 and magnitude 5.4 temblors struck the province just after 8 a.m. local time at a depth of about 6 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of the quakes was around 20 miles northwest of Herat City, the provincial capital and a major economic hub near the country’s border with Iran.

At least two people died and more than 150 people were injured in Sunday’s quakes, according to Masoud Danish, the director of the Herat governor’s office.

The episode Sunday capped an already devastating period in Herat. It began on Oct. 7, when two major earthquakes hit the region, killing around 1,300 people and injuring about 1,700 more in the country’s deadliest natural disaster in decades, according to the United Nations.

Those quakes decimated entire villages in Zinda Jan district outside the city, turning clusters of mud-brick homes scattered across the desert into little more than piles of rubble.

Days later, another magnitude 6.3 quake hit just outside the city, injuring around 120 people and rattling Herat residents who were already on edge after the initial quakes. Thousands of people left their homes to live in makeshift tents scattered across the city, terrified of another tremor that they feared could bring buildings crashing down around them.

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Then, early Sunday, those fears were realized.

Mohammad Ghaznawi, 30, had been sleeping in a tent with his wife and two children in a park on the outskirts of the city after the first quakes struck. On Sunday morning, they woke up shivering from the biting wind and decided to return to their third-floor apartment, thinking that the temblors were finally over.

But as his wife put on a kettle for tea, the apartment building began to shake around them. Ghaznawi saw his iPad fall from the table, its screen smashing on the ground. Small pieces of white concrete from their ceiling crashed to the floor. He and his wife grabbed their son and daughter and rushed outside.

When the shaking finally ended, Ghaznawi decided he had had enough. He’s planning on taking his family to a relative’s home in Ghazni province — about 500 miles from Herat in southeast Afghanistan — on Sunday afternoon until they feel it’s safe to return.

“I’m full of stress, I just want to leave Herat,” said Ghaznawi, who owns a handicraft shop in the city.

Around 20 minutes after the quake struck, ambulances began arriving at Herat’s regional public hospital, ferrying injured people from the outskirts of the city. One man was pulled onto a stretcher, his head and face coated in blood, according to Nazif Padshah, 27, who was at the hospital pharmacy when the quake struck.

Across the city, fresh cracks snaked up the walls of apartment buildings and people’s homes, photos from residents show. Toilet paper, boxes of tissues and small containers of hand sanitizer were strewn across the floor of one grocery store, next to shattered bottles of ketchup and cooking oil.

Like Ghaznawi, some residents who had been sleeping outside now plan to leave the province entirely, shaken by the seemingly relentless wave of quakes. Others are at a loss for what to do.

Hussain Karimi, 34, had been sleeping in a makeshift tent in the alley outside his home along with his wife, 4-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter.

On Sunday morning, they went inside their home to make tea and breakfast. A glass of tea was in his hand when suddenly the ground began to tremble beneath him. He dropped the glass, grabbed his daughter and ran to an alleyway opposite their home.

“The quake made me dizzy,” he said. “Both my legs are shaking even now.”

Now, he says, he does not know where to go to keep his family safe.

“We can’t sleep outside because of the cold. We can’t stay in our home because of the fear,” Karimi said. “I don’t know what to do.”

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These are the top finishers for the 39th Long Beach Marathon

• October 15, 2023

The 39th Long Beach Marathon took place this weekend, with a packed schedule that included the Aquarium of the Pacific 5K on Saturday, Oct. 14, and the main 26.2-mile event on Sunday morning.

Here are the top finishers for each event.

Full Marathon

Men:

First: Jason Yang, 32, of Los Angeles, 02:27:03.9.
Second: Raymon Ornelas, 23, of Long Beach, 02:29:29.1.
Third: Fernando Villeda Reyes, 35, of Guadalajara, Mexico, 02:35:30.9.

Women:

First: Ryley Fick, 23, of Gardena, 02:58:29.8.
Second: Patten Makenzie, 26, ofEagle, Idaho, 03:04:19.4.
Third: Liz Arnold, of Venice, 03:05:18.0.

Half marathon

Men:

First: Ayrton Ledesma Fuentes, 25, of Azusa, 01:05:27.0.
Second: Robert Miranda, 23, of Venice, 01:07:30.1.
Third: Luis Gutierrez, 29, of Rancho Cucamonga, 01:08:13.5.

Women:

First: Jennifer Sandoval, 24, of Fontana, 01:18:10.8.
Second: Margaux Curcuru, 31, of Los Angeles, 01:22:02.3.
Third: Laura Velasco, 22, of Downey, 01:15:19.0.

Aquarium of the Pacific 5K

Men:

First: Kevin Horchler, 31, of Fullerton, 16:43.
Second: Parth Surti, 28, of Pasadena, 17:10.
Third: Noah Lopez, 33, of Torrance, 17:57.

Women:

First: Annalise O’Toole, 32, of Bismarck, North Dakota, 20:41.
Second: Hollie Sick, 33, of Edwards, 20:59.
Third: Sierra Harden, 12, of Ladera Ranch, 21:48.

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