Two rehabilitated adult brown pelicans were released to their natural habitat in San Pedro on Thursday April 25, 2024. Blue, nicknamed for her temporary leg band, was brought to the Bird Rescue’s Los Angeles Wildlife Center in San Pedro in early March suffering a slashed pouch that required multiple surgeries and over 500 stitches. The…
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Mater Dei announced Thursday that it has hired former Long Beach Poly coach Raul Lara as the new head coach for its football team. Lara replaces Frank McManus, who was let go this month after one season as the team’s head coach. McManus guided the Monarchs to CIF Southern Section and CIF State championships this…
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Clippers star Kawhi Leonard took part in Thursday’s non-contact practice in Dallas, a move to further re-integrate him back into the offense. Leonard returned to the court for Game 2 of their first-round playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night and seemed at times an awkward fit. Certainly, out of sync. Leonard had…
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LOS ANGELES – He strolled onto the terrace high above his former home at the Coliseum, wearing sunglasses and a vindicated smile, lugging in his 2005 Heisman Trophy by the metallic leg of its figurine like a boxer who’d just won a belt in a prizefight. “How we doin’, how we doin’, how we doin,’”…
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Oracle Corp. is moving its headquarters out of the city. Tesla Inc. is pulling back after a rapid expansion. Almost a quarter of commercial office space is vacant, and nowhere in the country have residential real estate prices fallen further from their pandemic peak. Austin, the cosmic cowboy paradise that became a Covid-era economic superstar…
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On April 27, 1994, five presidents and five first ladies came to Yorba Linda to attend the funeral of our 37th president Richard Nixon. On April 22, 1994 Richard Nixon, died after suffering a significant stroke at his home in Park Ridge, New Jersey. He was 81. It was 10 months after his wife Pat…
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Pending sales of existing US homes in March reached their highest levels in a year in spite of persistently high borrowing costs and a low supply. An index of contract signings from the National Association of Realtors climbed 3.4% to 78.2 last month, the highest since February 2023. The median estimate of economists surveyed by…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Fountain Valley has announced new co-coaches for its girls basketball team after the resignation of Marianne Karp. Former Orange County standout players Camryn Hamaguchi and Izzy Om take the helm of the Sunset Conference program. Hamaguchi played at Kennedy and Chapman while Om…
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One day after nearly 100 people were arrested following pro-Palestinian protests on campus, USC administrators have canceled the “main stage” commencement ceremony next month, citing “new safety measures.” The main graduation ceremony was planned for Friday, May 10, at Alumni Park, the same location where Wednesday’s demonstrations by pro-Palestinian students and other groups took place.…
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Some human foibles turn out to age extremely well. A prime and playful example — in this case, seeing a huckster gull the gullible before the fraudster gets his come-uppance — is Molière’s 360-year-old satire “Tartuffe.” A new production at Laguna Playhouse, with spot-on giggles and guffaws well in place, is satisfying, too, in “settling”…
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