Orange County’s pandemic-era homebuying binge pushed its median selling price to yet another record as its nears the $1 million mark. Across Southern California, 16,905 existing and newly constructed homes sold in six counties, up 2% for the month and down 8% over the past 12 months. The region’s median price cracked the $700,000 barrier…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now The Orange County girls athlete of the week: Name: Brianne Weiss School: Orange Lutheran Sport: Softball Year: Sophomore Noteworthy: The left-hander fired a no-hitter and struck out 10 in an 11-0 win against No. 14 Rosary to open the Trinity League. Weiss…
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By THERESA BRAINE | New York Daily News An immunocompromised Welsh man was stuck in his home for more than seven months with intractable COVID, until a jab set him free. Ian Lester, 37, had begun to think of his home as a prison by the time doctors tried a first-ever use of the coronavirus…
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Simple logic tells us that as climate change alters precipitation patterns, California must expand its capacity to capture and store water. Even if the overall amount of precipitation remains unchanged, we will receive more of it in the form of rain and less as snow, which means the natural reservoir of the Sierra snow pack…
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Obi Toppin will get his chance in a big spot. The struggling Julius Randle, fresh off his bizarre postgame incident Sunday, will sit Tuesday’s game against the Hawks because of a sore right quad, the Knicks announced. It will be Randle’s first missed game due to injury this season, leaving the exciting Toppin as the…
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A Norco private school apologized to parents after a teacher shared a video last month of her leading preschool students in a chant denouncing President Joe Biden. The video obtained by ABC 7 News in Los Angeles shows the unnamed teacher at Turning Point Christian School in Norco asking the 4- and 5-year-olds, “Who’s our…
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Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler showed he could play through pain with his 27-point performance in Monday night’s road loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, but he also recognizes that these final three weeks of the regular season could be a delicate balancing act. “I know that guys here can hoop,” he said, “they are not…
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It was Gov. Ronald Reagan who signed the California Environmental Quality Act into law in 1970. As with many laws, CEQA was approved with the best of intentions to provide a legal basis for environmental protection for private and public activities. But, as readers of these pages surely know, good intentions don’t protect against…
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Is California ready for a Sesame Street theme park? That is what we are getting with the opening this weekend of Sesame Place San Diego in Chula Vista. Owner SeaWorld Parks has converted its former Aquatica water park to a Sesame Street theme, making it the first Sesame Place theme park on the West Coast.…
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Valeri Liukin was upset with his newest student, Andrea Orris, almost immediately. “We had a rough start,” Orris recalled. It was 1999, and Orris had just joined the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy, the about to be internationally renowned Plano, Texas, gym co-founded and co-owned by Liukin, an Olympic and world champion for the Soviet Union.…
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