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Max Llewellyn went over in the last throes for a fourth Welsh try and a losing bonus point and a four-try bonus that looked impossible for much of the day.

It’s rare anything penetrates the preternatural calm with which Watkins plays, but it was clear the superstar sophomore was pressing, in the throes of her worst slump yet at USC.

Forecasters are hopeful the winter storms might finally lift Los Angeles County from the throes of a devastating fire season.

Southern California is in the throes of a historically dry start to winter — one for the record books, shattering records that have been collected since the late 19th century.

Of course, this issue is coming at a particularly inopportune time, as we are in the throes of cold and flu season currently.