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Conforto’s contract with the Dodgers includes an $8.5-million signing bonus and some deferred money, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.

Sentencing of the the ex-Scotland international for abusing his estranged wife over the course of five years has been deferred until January.

Instead, he deferred to an emergency room doctor’s diagnosis of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.

It is a crisis that has been waiting to happen, but was deferred till now by long procedural haggling over the 2025 budget.

The spokesperson for the California Department of Food and Agriculture, which jointly operates the lab, deferred questions to UC Davis, saying, “CAHFS lab has done tremendous work under demanding circumstances.”