Future events at the OC Fair & Event Center will be allowed to offer products containing the hemp-derived compound CBD, as well as glass pipes and other smoking devices, but officials have yet to decide whether vendors can sell cannabis or buy related sponsorships to be advertised at the fairgrounds. The fairgrounds’ Board of Directors…
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LOS ANGELES ― Twice this season, Will Smith has hit a no-doubt home run that became a home run. Another four times, the Dodgers’ catcher has hit a no-doubt home run that did not become a home run. It’s all part of the Great Baseball Mystery of the 2022 season: There is doubt where none…
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By ALI SWENSON | Associated Press A film debuting in over 270 theaters across the United States this week uses a flawed analysis of cellphone location data and ballot drop box surveillance footage to cast doubt on the results of the 2020 presidential election nearly 18 months after it ended. Praised by former President Donald…
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The Robinson Cano experiment will go down in Mets’ history as a colossal failure. Money aside, in Cano’s days with the Mets, he was never the player he was in Seattle and was nowhere close to the top-flight hitter and defender he was for the Yankees. That was just when he was on the field,…
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The leak of a draft United States Supreme Court ruling written by Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which would overturn past court precedents in favor of leaving abortion laws to the states, has ignited intense political debate over the future of abortion laws and the institution of the Supreme…
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By MARIA CHENG | Associated Press The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the…
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Matt Sorum recalls the exact moment he realized he wanted to be a drummer. He was sitting on the couch with his mom, dad and older brothers, Mark and Mike, eating handfuls of popcorn and watching “The Ed Sullivan Show” as they did every Sunday night in their Long Beach home in 1965. The Beatles…
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Members of the Brea Police department and community volunteers joined together to help with landscaping at the new headquarters of Together We Rise in Brea on Saturday, April 23, 2022. The organization’s mission is to transform the way youth navigate through the foster care system. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer) Brea police officer Macy…
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1. Divide and repot Cymbidium orchids. Although Cymbidiums bloom in the winter, their flowers may continue to develop through April, but usually they are done by May. Keep in mind that a Cymbidium blooms best when crowded, so it should completely fill the pot before you divide it. Cymbidium flower spikes grow from pseudobulbs that…
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Heera, the young adult protagonist of Devi S. Laskar’s “Circa,” often seems haunted as she watches one person after another in her life die or disappear. The facts of the novel are not autobiographical, but the story was born out of Laskar’s suffering and loss including a close friend who died of leukemia. In 2010,…
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