The Orange County Sheriff’s Department partnered with Rancho Santa Margarita leaders over the weekend to host the city’s first-ever Bike Rodeo. While residents were entertained by a BMX performance and music, Sunday’s event in the Bell Tower Regional Community Center parking lot also shared important tips for safe bike riding. The rodeo featured an obstacle…
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By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco | CNN The Democrats’ budget reconciliation package, which gained more heft after West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin agreed to add back several climate and tax provisions, was passed Sunday by the Senate on a party-line vote. It won the critical support of Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who demanded several…
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By Ramishah Maruf | CNN Tesla’s autopilot and self-driving claims are under fire again, this time from the California Department of Motor Vehicles in a complaint it filed on July 28. The complaint alleges that the company made “untrue or misleading” statements in advertisements on its website by claiming that Tesla vehicles were, or could…
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The top players and season outlook for all four teams in the South Coast League: SOUTH COAST LEAGUE PREVIEW Capistrano Valley wide receiver Dane Benedix carries the ball after a catch during a nonleague game against Orange on Friday, September 17, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer) CAPISTRANO VALLEY Top players: Dane Benedix, WR/DB,…
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The Orioles once again have baseball’s No. 1 prospect. Gunnar Henderson is atop Baseball America’s latest list of the game’s top 100 prospects, with the Triple-A Norfolk infielder occupying that spot not long after Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman, who has since graduated from prospect status. Five other Orioles minor leaguers made the rankings, with right-hander…
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Over the past eight years, Bob Daley painstakingly built a fishing boat replica from scratch. Although it was on a much smaller scale this go around, it wasn’t the first time Bob constructed the vessel, affectionately dubbed the Mary Anne II. During the 1950s, Bob and his two brothers worked as fishermen to put themselves…
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H Mart opens its newest grocery store Friday in the Westpark neighborhood of Irvine. It’s the second H Mart in the city, the fourth in Orange County and the 15th in California. The store at 3825 Alton Parkway debuts at 10 a.m. Aug. 12. Daily hours will be 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. The New…
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Companies responsible for cleaning doctors’ surgical kits and syringes have been placed under a microscope by Southern California’s air quality monitor, which has found that at least three located in Southern California are emitting alarming levels of a cancer-causing gas used in the sterilization process. The South Coast Air Quality Management District plans to investigate…
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Administrations and faculties at University of California campuses are embroiled in a searing controversy over requirements that applicants for faculty positions and candidates for promotion prove their active support, without reservation, of what’s called “diversity, equity and inclusion.” Candidates must submit “DEI statements” that, under UC’s policies, determine whether they will be considered for employment…
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On a muggy Tuesday evening, Jaina and Ivy Spagis pulled into a shopping center on San Bernardino’s east side and parked near an enclosed dumpster behind the building. They popped the back hatch of their electric-blue Rav4 with vanity plates reading “CATS SB” and began filling cardboard bowls with dry and wet cat food, pulling…
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