Mavericks’ Luka Doncic scores 73, tied for 4th in NBA history

• January 27, 2024

By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer

ATLANTA — Luka Doncic scored a franchise-record 73 points, tied for the fourth-most in NBA history and surpassed only by Wilt Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant, to power the Mavericks to a 148-143 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night.

Doncic blew past his personal best and team record 60 points after scoring a team-record 41 points in the first half.

His record night came only four days after Philadelphia center Joel Embiid scored a franchise-record 70 points, then the most in the NBA this season, in the 76ers’ 133-123 victory over San Antonio on Monday night. Devin Booker scored 62 for the Phoenix Suns on Friday in the second-highest scoring game of his career to add to a week of offensive explosions the likes of which the league has never seen.

Friday marked only the fifth time in NBA history – and amazingly, the second time this week – when two players scored at least 60 points on the same day, after Karl-Anthony Towns had 62 for Minnesota on Monday, the same night Embiid had 70.

A three-point play with 2:58 remaining gave Doncic 70 points. With Dallas leading 140-136, Doncic added another three-point play to cap his night.

Against the team that drafted him in 2018, Doncic joined Chamberlain and David Thompson among players who scored 73 points. Chamberlain, who owns the NBA record with 100 points, also had a 78-point game, while Bryant finished with 81 points on Jan. 22, 2006.

“Those names are special,” Doncic said. “It’s unbelievable.”

Dallas coach Jason Kidd said he had no worries about Doncic’s scoring spree disturbing the Mavericks’ game plan.

“He is the game plan,” Kidd said.

The Mavericks rode Doncic’s big game to end their three-game losing streak while handing the Hawks their fourth straight loss. Doncic made 25 of 33 shots from the field, going 8 for 13 from 3-point range and 15 for 16 from the free-throw line. The field goals made set another personal record.

Trae Young led Atlanta with 30 points, including a 3-pointer with five seconds remaining that trimmed the Dallas lead to 146-143. Jalen Johnson added 25 points and Bogdan Bogdanovic had 24.

Doncic scored 23 points in the second quarter after opening with 18 points in the first.

Doncic, who averages 33.6 points, nailed a 3-pointer with 4:48 remaining in the third quarter, giving him a season-high 51 points. He then took aim at his career high of 60 points, also the Dallas record, set against the New York Knicks on Dec. 27, 2022.

The Hawks had no answer for Doncic. Jalen Johnson opened as Atlanta’s primary defender on the 6-foot-7 guard. Saddiq Bey, Dejounte Murray and others tried without success to slow Doncic’s high-scoring pace.

“He was hot. He was going,” Young said. “We were trying everything. We were trying to trap him.”

Josh Green scored 21 points for Dallas, but Doncic carried the offense.

“I’ve never seen anything like that,” Green said.

Through it all, Doncic kept looking for his teammates and contributing more than points. He grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds and led the Mavericks with seven assists.

“The three assists are what he’s probably thinking about in the locker room to have a triple-double,” Kidd said.

Doncic insisted the win was the biggest reason to celebrate after he overcame constant extra attention from Atlanta’s defense.

“You’ve got to continue to play and have trust in your teammates,” Doncic said.

Doncic’s milestone game came in his original NBA home, at least for a few minutes.

Doncic was selected by the Hawks with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft before having his draft rights traded to Dallas for Young with the No. 5 pick and a 2019 first-round pick used to select Cam Reddish.

Doncic scored 41 points in the first half to set a franchise record for points in any half. He made 17 of 22 shots from the field, going 6 for 9 from 3-point range, in the half.

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The Mavericks’ previous high mark for points in a half was 34 by Dirk Nowitzki in the second half against Utah on Nov. 3, 2009.

Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving missed his second consecutive game with a sprained right thumb. He suffered the injury against Boston on Monday.

Dallas forward Derrick Jones Jr. suffered a sprained left wrist with 30 seconds remaining in the first half and did not return.

Young cleared the concussion protocol after missing two games.

The rematch between the teams, originally scheduled for April 5 in Dallas, has been moved to April 4, the league announced Friday.

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Clippers crush Raptors ahead of showdown with Celtics

• January 27, 2024

By IAN HARRISON The Associated Press

TORONTO — The Clippers successfully avoided the trap game.

With a much-anticipated showdown with the league-leading Boston Celtics looming, James Harden had 22 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds for his 75th career triple-double, Paul George added 21 points and the Clippers thumped the Toronto Raptors, 127-107, on Friday night for their fourth consecutive win.

Harden’s triple-double was his first with the Clippers since joining them in a Nov. 1 trade with Philadelphia. He has the eighth-most triple-doubles in NBA history.

“James has been great,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said. “He keeps everybody happy. It takes a lot of grind off of PG and Kawhi, acquiring James. It’s huge for us.”

Harden has had at least 20 points and 10 assists in each of his past three games.

Russell Westbrook scored 20 points and Kawhi Leonard had 16 against his former team for the Clippers, who have won 12 of their past 14 games.

“We still want to get better,” Leonard said. “We’re not where we want to be.”

Leonard had his second career triple-double in Tuesday’s victory over the Lakers. He had seven rebounds and three assists on Friday.

Leonard has gone 8-0 against Toronto since leaving the Raptors following their 2019 NBA championship. He was welcomed with a warm ovation when the starters were introduced.

“Everybody knows what I did here and how special that year was,” Leonard said. “They’re very thankful for it. Every time I come I get good praise.”

Leonard didn’t play in the fourth quarter, with Lue giving the oft-injured star some rest ahead of Saturday’s clash with Eastern Conference-leading Boston.

“He’s good,” Lue said of Leonard. “We’ve got a back-to-back (Saturday) so the more I can lessen him, the better it is for us.”

Former Raptors guard Norman Powell scored 17 points as the Clippers opened a season-long seven-game trip by evening their road record at 10-10.

Mason Plumlee added 12 points and 12 rebounds as the Clippers won their fourth straight north of the border.

“They are big, and they are forceful,” Toronto coach Darko Rajakovic said of the Clippers. “They were able to attack the paint and get there.”

The Clippers finished with a season-best 70 points in the paint.

Scottie Barnes scored 14 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter for the Raptors, who lost their fourth straight and ninth of 11.

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RJ Barrett added 22 points for the Raptors. Gary Trent Jr. and Dennis Schröder each scored 13 while Thad Young had 12.

The Clippers led 66-52 at the half and were up 95-81 through three quarters.

Bruce Brown made his first start for Toronto, taking the place of injured guard Immanuel Quickley (sore right quadriceps). Brown finished with nine points and nine rebounds.

Raptors center Jakob Poeltl missed his ninth straight game because of a sprained left ankle. Toronto’s frontcourt options were further thinned when forward Jontay Porter left after four minutes of action because of irritation in his eye. Porter left Monday’s loss to Memphis after being poked in the eye.

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The Clippers play at Boston on Saturday at 4 p.m. PT

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Swanson: Unheralded field grinds it out at Farmers Insurance Open – can you dig it?

• January 27, 2024

LA JOLLA — The third-round leaderboard of the Farmers Insurance Open was a real who’s who of professional golf.

As in, spectators watching the lead group Friday were asking one another: “Who is who?” And: “Which one’s the leader?”

That would be the bearded fellow in olive pants and the light purple-and-teal striped shirt.

Stephan Jaeger, a 34-year-old German who shot a 1-over-par 73 to maintain a one-stroke advantage, sits atop a leaderboard that looked a lot like a World Cup soccer draw: France, Denmark, Belgium, Argentina, England, South Korea and, yes, us too, the United States, all were also represented among the top nine players at the start of Friday.

The real who’s who list: Who isn’t here.

That’s due, in part, to the fact that five of the eight players who came in ranked in the top 20 of the world golf rankings missed the 36-hole cut, including Collin Morikawa and Jason Day.

Also, LIV golf. Saudi Arabia’s controversial alternative tour has siphoned off significant star power from the PGA Tour, the winners of the past five majors, John Rahm, Brooks Koepka and Cam Smith among that group.

That doesn’t mean the PGA Tour isn’t still teeming with notable talent – just maybe not every week?

The tour’s most recognizable names don’t play every event, and many of them didn’t play this one. There’s no Rory McIlroy or Scottie Scheffler. No Viktor Hovland or Rickie Fowler. No Justin Thomas or Wyndham Clark.

And no Nick Dunlap – the 20-year-old who skipped the tournament to catch his breath after becoming the first amateur winner on the PGA Tour in 33 years last week, when he triumphed at the American Express tournament in La Quinta.

That left a host of relative unknowns – and Tony Finau – jockeying for position Friday on the South Course, which played nearly 7,800 yards, the longest of any regular tour stop, and which felt even longer because it was softened and slowed by three inches of rain that also fed its sticky, stubborn, ankle-deep rough.

The course didn’t care about the names on the golf bags. It proved as obstinate as ever, as scary. Basically, it told the best golfers … playing this week … in La Jolla: “Put your hands up, nobody move!”

And nobody did, much.

On a glorious day along the Pacific Coast, the average score was a shade over 73. No one shot better than 68, a score that was good for only a share of a nine-player, 10th-place logjam. So much for moving day.

That meant Finau – the name you heard while walking with the lead groups Friday, “To-ny! To-ny!” chanted, on occasion, by his supportive gallery – could shoot 74 and remain in the top 10, within four strokes of the lead.

The local contenders – San Diego’s Xander Schauffele (72), Torrey Pines High graduate Michael Kim (77), and Rancho Santa Fe’s Charley Hoffman (79) – ended the day tied for 10th, 38th and 65th.

Defending champion Max Homa, a Valencia High product, is tied for 27th after shooting 71.

And the gentlemen at the top of the pile, whose names you likely wouldn’t have recognized before this week?

What about those extras from across the pond? Those players who got promoted to headliner duty this week – including Belgium’s Thomas Detry, the victim of a most unfortunate spin-off? He watched his ball trickle the length of the 18th green and disappear into the pond below, setting up a double-bogey 7 that cost him the lead and landed him in fourth.

Still, in the end, he – and Jaeger and France’s Matthieu Pavon and Denmark’s Nicolai Højgaard, who are tied for second – survived their day at the beach. And now they’ll have a slight inside track in the final round on the $1.62 million winner’s share of the $9 million purse.

And probably a few more fans will be able to pick a few of them out of a lineup Saturday than would have at the start of the week.

Probably you who love golf so much you’ll tune in for regular events even if your favorites aren’t in the field; you, who are open-minded enough to appreciate anyone’s valiant effort in such patience-testing conditions, whether or not you’re familiar with their games.

You, who can get behind a leader like Jaeger on a course that will reward mental fortitude as much as shot-making, because he has worked so hard the past few months to dedicate himself to meditating, reading, journaling. The mental game that might tell you that it’s all how you look at a thing, an unheralded PGA Tour field included.

“Today,” Jaeger said, “was a blast. I loved it.”

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Jaeger takes 1-shot lead at Torrey Pines after Detry’s watery finish

• January 27, 2024

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer

LA JOLLA — Stephan Jaeger sank a 6-foot birdie putt on No. 18 at Torrey Pines South for a one-shot lead in the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open on Friday, moments after Thomas Detry’s third shot landed well past the hole and spun back into the pond fronting the green, leading to a double bogey that cost him the lead.

It was a tough day of high scores on the blufftop municipal gem high above the Pacific Ocean. Detry took the biggest gut punch when he went from a one-shot lead on the 18th tee to dropping two shots off the pace.

Jaeger, a German who lives in Tennessee, had a 1-over 73 and was at 11-under 205 through 54 holes. Matthieu Pavon (72) of France and Nicolai Hojgaard (73) of Denmark were at 10 under while Detry, of Belgium, was 9 under after his 73.

There very well could be a first-time winner on the PGA Tour after the final round. Jaeger has never won on tour, and neither have any of the eight players within three shots of him. The tournament ends on Saturday to avoid conflict with the NFL’s conference title games.

Detry, playing in the final group with Jaeger and Hojgaard, was at 11 under going into the 543-yard, par-5 18th with the backdrop of a brilliant sunset. He hit a 293-yard drive and a 162-yard second shot that left him 92 yards from the hole. After his wedge spun too hard and scooted into the pond, Detry covered his face with his right hand.

“I hit an amazing drive. I drove it great on 18,” he said. “I was just in between 3-wood, hybrid. It’s been a very long day. I think we played in 5 hours, 45 (minutes). I had a little bit of mud on the ball. The lie wasn’t perfect, the light was starting to be – it was starting to be dark.

“There was a couple of different factors that were not in my favor,” he said. “Obviously short is a no-go. So we decided to be smart and there we go, I got punched in the face.”

After taking a penalty, he hit to within 24 feet and two-putted.

The pond is known as Devlin’s Billabong for Australian Bruce Devlin, who was in contention for the 1975 Andy Williams San Diego Open before taking seven hacks to get his ball out of the water on his way to a 10.

There were a number of factors for the high scores, including tough pin placements and thick rough that was soaked during a storm Monday that overwhelmed parts of the city.

“I think most of the greens here slope from back to front and there was a lot of back flags,” Detry said. “So, I mean, if you’re coming in with a wedge, you obviously got a lot of spin. It’s almost impossible to get it all the way back there because obviously long miss is no-go as well. I think that was probably one of the main reasons.

“Also, with all the rain and obviously the heat the last couple of days, I think the rough is juicier than ever. Obviously the greens with that many players making the cut and people walking on those greens, the greens being soft as well, it’s not easy to make putts out there.”

Five players were tied at 8 under while nine were 7 under, including Xander Schauffele, a San Diegan who is ranked No. 5 in the world, and Tony Finau.

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Slumping Kings can’t slow surging Avalanche

• January 27, 2024

By CRAIG MEYER The Associated Press

DENVER — Two teams headed in opposite directions produced a predictable result.

Logan O’Connor scored two of Colorado’s three first-period goals helping the Avalanche to a 5-1 victory over the Kings on Friday night, handing the visitors their 13th loss in 15 games.

In a matchup of the league’s top scoring offense and its third-stingiest scoring defense, Colorado continued its recent offensive tear in which it has scored 18 goals during its three-game win streak.

Alexandar Georgiev, who will be taking part in his first career All-Star Game next week, stopped 26 shots.

Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar and Josh Manson also scored for the Avalanche, who won for the 11th time in 14 games in their final game before the NHL All-Star break.

MacKinnon’s goal and assist moved him past Nikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning for the NHL points lead with 84 and extended his franchise-record home point streak to 25 games. That latter mark ties him with Bobby Orr in 1974-75 for the second-longest home point streak to open an NHL season.

O’Connor has six goals over Colorado’s past five games. The 27-year-old right wing recorded his first career hat trick six days earlier in a win against the Philadelphia Flyers.

Friday’s setback prolonged a midseason tailspin for the Kings, who have struggled mightily since starting the season 20-7-4. During the team’s current three-game losing streak, a previously stout defense has allowed 14 goals.

The Avalanche took a 3-0 lead in the first period prompting the Kings to pull goaltender Cam Talbot in favor of David Rittich. Heading into his second career All-Star Game appearance, Talbot gave up three first-period goals on 12 shots.

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Kevin Fiala scored the Kings’ goal, firing a slapshot past Georgiev on a power play in the second period.

The Kings had their share of scoring opportunities, but they failed to convert. Trevor Moore, the team’s leading scorer, had two scoring chances against Georgiev, who made a glove save on the first, with Moore firing wide left on the second.

UP NEXT

Kings: At St. Louis on Sunday at 11 a.m. PT

More to come on this story.

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Charisma Osborne, No. 2 UCLA women pull away from Washington

• January 27, 2024

By JILL PAINTER LOPEZ The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Charisma Osborne scored 17 points and Londynn Jones added 13 to lead No. 2 UCLA to a 62-44 victory over Washington on Friday night.

UCLA (16-2 overall, 5-2 Pac 12) had lost two of its last three games before beating the Huskies. With a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter, UCLA went on a 10-0 run late to build a 60-40 lead.

Washington (12-6, 2-5) has lost six of its last seven games. Dalayah Daniels had a team-high 14 points and Elle Ladine added 13.

Lauren Betts, UCLA’s leading scorer at 15.4 points per game and one of the top players in the country, did not play due to undisclosed medical reasons. Washington’s Jayda Noble, a starter, did not make the trip to Los Angeles for undisclosed reasons.

UCLA and Washington were both cold from the field in the first half. The Bruins made just 8 of 39 shots (20.5%) in the first half while Washington shot just 30%.

UCLA also had seven turnovers in the first quarter. The Bruins turned it around in the second half, making 15 of 36 shots. Osborne made a 3-pointer from the left wing at the halftime buzzer to give the Bruins a 23-21 halftime lead.

The Bruins outscored the Huskies 23-15 in the third quarter to take a 46-36 lead. Osborne had a pair of tough 3-point plays in the quarter to lead UCLA.

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BIG PICTURE

UCLA: Even though it wasn’t pretty, especially in the first half, the Bruins got back on track after losing two of their last three, providing a gritty win.

Washington: The Huskies are young and are getting good experience for the freshmen and sophomores, who make up eight of the 12 roster spots.

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UCLA hosts Washington State on Sunday at 1 p.m.

Washington plays at USC on Sunday at noon.

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Mater Dei boys soccer secures Trinity League title with win over Servite

• January 27, 2024

SANTA ANA — With four Trinity League boys soccer teams ranked among the Top 10 in Orange County, finishing first in the league is no easy feat.

Doing it without losing a league game is tougher still.

But that is what Mater Dei has accomplished after defeating Servite 2-1 in a Trinity League contest Friday at Mater Dei High School.

With the victory, the Monarchs (15-0-1, 7-0-1), who are ranked No. 1 in the county and No. 2 in Division 1 of the CIF Southern Section, clinched the league title with two games to spare and remain undefeated in all games.

“I think it speaks to our culture,” Mater Dei coach Sean Ganey said. “I think anytime you put together a good string, it’s not just the talent on the field, but it’s every single guy. Watch our bench. You watch when we celebrate, everybody’s into it. And for me, that’s the culture. That’s what I’ve always said is first. Whatever we do, our culture has to be right.”

The Friars (12-5-2, 3-3-2), who are ranked No. 6 in the county, are holding on to second place and in third is Orange Lutheran (7-4-5, 2-2-4), which played to a 0-0 tie against JSerra (6-1-7, 1-1-6) on Friday.

Servite closes out the regular season with games against Orange Lutheran and JSerra.

The Friars got on the board first when Justin Cuevas scored on a penalty kick 15 minutes into the contest.

Mater Dei tied the score in the 20th minute on Diego Chavarria’s header into the net, which came off a throw-in from Jake Barak.

Michael Cherico scored what proved to be the winning goal on a perfectly placed free kick from in front of the goal, about 40 yards out.

Cherico, who has 21 goals and 10 assists this season, sent the ball over a wall of players and into the upper-right corner of the goal, just out of reach of the goalkeeper.

“It’s been a journey, especially with me at this program and all of our guys,” Cherico said. “Our core group has stayed the same for a long time. We’ve had a lot of heartbreaks and a lot of that against JSerra and against Servite. It’s a very hard league, and when you come out and get the chance to win the league against a team like Servite, who every year is one of the top teams in the state, it just feels great. Especially for us to grind out a win the way we did.”

The Monarchs defeated the Friars 3-2 in their first matchup Jan. 10 at Servite.

The game Friday was played with a high level of intensity by both teams, and along with it came multiple yellow cards.

“They deserve it,” Servite coach Eddie Soto said of the Monarchs winning the league title. “They are having a good year. That’s what makes this league so great, because on any given day, anyone can win. There’s a lot of history, and not just between the teams or the schools, but between the coaches. I’ve known Sean for nearly 30 years.”

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British painting stolen 54 years ago returned to owner’s son

• January 27, 2024

By Matthew Brown | Associated Press

An 18th century British painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought it for $7,500 during the Great Depression, the FBI’s Salt Lake City field office announced Friday.

The 40-inch-by-50-inch (102-cm-by-127-cm) John Opie painting — titled “The Schoolmistress” — is the sister painting of a similar work housed in the Tate Britain art gallery in London.

Authorities believe the piece was stolen with the help of a former New Jersey lawmaker, then passed among organized crime members for years before it ended up in the southern Utah city of St. George. A Utah man had purchased a house in Florida in 1989 from Joseph Covello Sr. — a convicted mobster linked to the Gambino family — and the painting was included in the sale, the FBI said.

When the buyer died in 2020, a Utah accounting firm that was seeking to liquidate his property sought an appraisal for the painting and it was discovered to likely be the stolen piece, the FBI said.

The painting, which dates to about 1784, was taken into custody by the agency pending resolution of who owned it and returned on Jan. 11 to Dr. Francis Wood, 96, of Newark, the son of the painting’s original owner, Dr. Earl Wood, who bought it during the 1930s, the FBI said.

“This piece of art, what a history it’s had,” said FBI Special Agent Gary France, who worked on the case. “It traveled all through the U.K. when it was first painted, and owned by quite a few families in the U.K. And then it travels overseas to the United States and is sold during the Great Depression and then stolen by the mob and recovered by the FBI decades later. It’s quite amazing.”

Opie, who came from the Cornwall region, was one of the most important British historical and portrait painters in his time, said Lucinda Lax, curator of paintings at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. His paintings have sold at major auction houses such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s, including one bought in 2007 for almost $1 million.

Opie often portrayed British royals and other members of the elite. But he also depicted scenes from ordinary life, such as in “The Schoolmistress,” which shows an older teacher sitting at a table with a book and surrounded by young students.

“It’s such a compelling painting,” Lax said. “It’s a subject drawn from everyday life and he paints it in a very direct, straightforward way. He’s not artificially elevating it.”

Special Agent Gary France, second right,, Dr. Francis Wood and Wood’s children stand next to the John Opie painting that was stolen from Wood’s parents’ home in 1969 in Newark, N.J.,on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024.

According to the FBI, the painting was taken from Earl Wood’s house by three men working at the direction of former New Jersey state Sen. Anthony Imperiale, who died in 1999. Imperiale, a political firebrand who also served as a Newark city councilman, was in the national spotlight in the 1960s as a spokesman for cracking down on crime. He was also divisive, organizing citizen patrols to keep Black protesters out of Italian neighborhoods during riots in Newark in the summer of 1967.

Authorities say the thieves broke into the house in July 1969 in a bid to steal a coin collection, but were foiled by a burglar alarm. Local police and Imperiale responded to the attempted burglary, and the home’s caretaker told the lawmaker that the Opie painting in the home was “priceless,” the FBI said.

The men returned to the house later that month and stole the painting, the FBI said.

One of the thieves, Gerald Festa, later confessed to the burglary, in the 1975 trial of an accomplice, and said the trio been acting under Imperiale. Festa said the thieves had visited Imperiale prior to the theft and were told by the lawmaker where to find the painting in Wood’s home, the FBI said. Festa also testified that Imperiale had the painting.

The claims against the state lawmaker were not sufficiently corroborated and he was never charged, France said.

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No charges have been filed by the FBI since the painting’s recovery because all of those believed to have been involved are dead, France said. The three men who stole the painting were all convicted of other mob-related crimes before their deaths, he said.

Francis Wood’s son, Tom, recalled on Friday how “The Schoolmistress” hung for decades in his grandparent’s dining room, where it loomed over Sunday dinners and other family gatherings until its sudden disappearance. Francis Wood bought another, smaller Opie painting about 25 years ago as a placeholder for the lost piece and was “just thrilled” to get the stolen piece back, David Wood said.

It’s now being cleaned and appraised, but remains in good condition with only a few flecks of paint missing from the piece, according to France.

“It has one or two minor blemishes, but for a painting that’s 240 years old and has been on a roundabout journey, it’s in pretty good shape,” David Wood said. “Whoever has had their hands on it, I’m thankful they took care of the painting.”

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