Disneyland is getting closer to reaching pre-pandemic staffing levels, hiring hundreds more employees each week and offering $1,500 bonuses for the most difficult-to-fill jobs as the Anaheim theme park continues a phased reopening following an extended pandemic closure. The Disneyland resort has 30,000 cast members currently working with a job fair planned for later this…
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Ongoing disagreements between Poseidon Water and state regulators over a proposed desalination plant in Huntington Beach have resulted in a March 17 permit hearing being postponed at the company’s request. Poseidon is seeking the final permit needed, from the state Coastal Commission, before it can finalize contract terms with the Orange County Water District and…
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Again, this is how it’s supposed to work in Los Angeles. The Sparks missed the WNBA playoffs in 2021 “by one possession,” as Coach/GM Derek Fisher pointed out at a news conference Wednesday. They last won a championship in 2016, and while everyone said the right things, it had to be kind of galling, deep…
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Newly signed Sparks center Liz Cambage speaks to reporters during her introductory press conference on Wednesday at Crypto.Com Arena. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Newly signed Sparks center Liz Cambage receives her jersey during her introductory press conference on Wednesday at Crypto.Com Arena. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Sparks…
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By EUGENE GARCIA ADELANTO, Calif. (AP) — A small convoy of truckers demanding an end to coronavirus mandates began a cross-country drive from California to the Washington, D.C., area on Wednesday. Several hundred people rallied in a parking lot in the cold, windswept Mojave Desert town of Adelanto before about two dozen trucks and a…
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Four alleged gang members were arrested last week in connection with the fatal shooting of a Garden Grove man at a motel in Anaheim three months ago, officials said. Juan Ramiro Felix, 19, was charged with the murder of Jeremy Ray Brommer, 31, according to court records. Also, Felix and Kevin Moreno-Aviles, 18, were charged…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, Feb. 23. Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. TUESDAY’S SCORES GIRLS SOCCER CIF-SS PLAYOFFS Semifinals DIVISION 3 West Torrance 5, Portola 0 El Segundo 3, Sonora…
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A McDonald’s franchisee has agreed to pay $25,920 in penalties for assigning hazardous work to minor-aged employees at three Santa Ana locations. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the restaurants, operated by Costa Mesa-based Man-Cal Inc. and Cal-Man Corp., had 18 minor-age employees loading and operating indoor trash…
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La Mirada High School’s gym has a capacity of 710. It will be the site for the San Juan Hills-La Mirada boys basketball CIF-SS Division 2A championship game Friday night. From 1994 through 2019, the 2A boys basketball championship game was usually among the finals held at a large venue, such as the Honda Center. CIF-SS…
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By Zachary B. Wolf | CNN Former President Donald Trump has signaled to Republicans that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “genius” for invading Ukraine. Now we shall see what happens. Will the party’s lawmakers back President Joe Biden as he stands up to Putin? Or, as the majority did with a collective amnesia on…
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