‘It brings out the best in humanity’: the rescuers saving pets from LA’s wildfires | Los Angeles

As the wildfires besieged Los Angeles, marauding through hillside suburbs at an impossibly fast and ferocious pace, 500 miles away Garrett Needles and the volunteers with the North Valley Animal Disaster Group started making plans. The northern California-based group specializes in helping evacuate, rescue and shelter animals during catastrophes, and has responded to some of…

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SEC fills college basketball NCAA tournament projection

The SEC was conspicuously absent from Monday night’s College Football Playoff national championship game. But the conference is all over the first USA TODAY Sports edition of bracketology for the 2024-25 college basketball season, with a tournament-best 13 teams in the field and multiple earning a No. 1 seed. Auburn is the top overall seed…

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