Read more about the article Girls’ soccer: Centurions’ Makea Leonard earns Player of the Year honors in all-league selections  
Saugus forward Makea Leonard (11) during the 2025 season. Leonard ended her high school career as the Player of the Year for the Foothill League in 2026. Habeba Mostafa/ Signal file photo

Girls’ soccer: Centurions’ Makea Leonard earns Player of the Year honors in all-league selections  

The 2025-26 all-league girls’ soccer selections for the Foothill League have been released, and Saugus senior forward Makea Leonard highlights the list of honorees after earning Player of the Year.   Player of the…

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CIA retracts intelligence reports, citing political bias 

By Zachary Stieber Contributing Writer  The CIA has retracted or substantially revised 19 intelligence reports after finding they contained political bias and fell short of CIA standards.  CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a Friday statement…

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Read more about the article Savannah Guthrie announces $1M reward for information in mother’s disappearance 
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of U.S. journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her home in Tucson, Arizona , on Feb. 1, 2026, embraces Savannah, in an undated photograph. Courtesy NBC/Today/Handout

Savannah Guthrie announces $1M reward for information in mother’s disappearance 

By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer  “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie has said she is offering a $1 million reward for information related to the location of her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie,…

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Read more about the article FBI sounds new alarm on nihilistic violent extremist groups targeting children 
An FBI agent at the Department of Justice in Washington on Feb. 12, 2025. Photo by Madalina Vasiliu.

FBI sounds new alarm on nihilistic violent extremist groups targeting children 

By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer  FBI officials, warning of a “sharp increase” in activity by the so-called 764 group and other nihilistic violent online networks targeting children, have issued a letter…

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Texas senator: Cartel problem ‘spilling over’ to US  

By Naveen Athrappully Contributing Writer  The cartel problem in Mexico has spilled over into the United States, harming Americans and requiring Washington to take action on the matter, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in a Monday interview…

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Hart district test scores in highest tier of California high school districts 

News release  An analysis of state test scores ranks the William S. Hart High School District eighth in the state and No. 2 in Southern California, the district announced in…

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Read more about the article DOJ: PA man arrested at Castaic motel federally charged with grooming girl into acts of self-harm  
Matthew Edward Pysher. Screenshot from FBI Los Angeles office via X.

DOJ: PA man arrested at Castaic motel federally charged with grooming girl into acts of self-harm  

News release  A Pennsylvania man has been arrested and federally charged after grooming a girl who recently turned 13 years old to send him sexually explicit material of herself and…

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Read more about the article Developer to ask council for OK on self-storage plan 
The Santa Clarita Planning Division’s staff is recommending the Santa Clarita City Council uphold a Planning Commission ruling, while a Cerritos developer hired a city-registered lobbyist and paid the appeal fee to make his case Tuesday. Courtesy

Developer to ask council for OK on self-storage plan 

The Santa Clarita Planning Division’s staff is recommending the Santa Clarita City Council uphold a Planning Commission ruling, while a Cerritos developer hired a city-registered lobbyist and paid the appeal fee to make…

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Read more about the article Valencia, Saugus win in semis, advance to CIF Championship 
Winward’s Shiloh Johnson (54) attempts to block Valencia’s Kamilla Basyrova (34) during the semifinals of the CIF-SS girls’ basketball playoffs on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. Katherine Quezada/The Signal

Valencia, Saugus win in semis, advance to CIF Championship 

The Valencia Vikings and Saugus Centurions have both clinched appearances in the championship games of their respective brackets in the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section playoffs. With wins on Saturday night, both teams clinched their…

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Read more about the article Pickup hits pole, overturns near Valencia Town Center 
The black GMC endures a traffic collision and gets overturned on Valencia Boulevard between McBean Parkway and Citrus Street, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. Kamryn Martell/The Signal

Pickup hits pole, overturns near Valencia Town Center 

An overturned vehicle resulted in one transport at the intersection of Valencia Boulevard and McBean Parkway on Monday afternoon, according to an official with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.  Shirley Miller, spokeswoman for the…

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Read more about the article Photos: COC spring semester begins 
Students returned to the Valencia campus for the start of the 2026 spring semester. Courtesy photo.

Photos: COC spring semester begins 

The College of the Canyons spring 2026 semester is underway after classes began recently. The semester includes more than 1,690 sections of core courses across a wide range of subjects, along…

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Read more about the article What to know about Trump’s 1st State of the Union of 2nd term  
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 4, 2025. Photo by Madalina Vasiliu.

What to know about Trump’s 1st State of the Union of 2nd term  

By Joseph Lord Contributing Writer  President Donald Trump is scheduled to address both chambers of Congress on Tuesday in what will be his first State of the Union since beginning his second term.  Scheduled for…

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More than 10K flights canceled amid massive snowstorm 

By Evgenia Filimianova Contributing Writer  More than 10,000 flights scheduled for between Sunday and Tuesday were canceled across the United States as a powerful nor’easter pounded the East Coast with heavy snow, strong winds and coastal flooding, disrupting air travel and prompting emergency declarations in several states.  Data from FlightAware showed 3,440 cancellations on Sunday, followed by 5,535 on Monday and another 1,619 scheduled for Tuesday.  On Monday alone, 88% of outgoing flights and 87% of incoming flights at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York were canceled, according to FlightAware. At Boston Logan International Airport,…

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