By Monica Raymunt | Bloomberg The cargo ship that caught fire in the Atlantic while transporting roughly 4,000 Volkswagen AG vehicles to the U.S. has sunk despite efforts to tow it to safety. The Felicity Ace sank 220 nautical miles off the coast of Portugal’s Azores Islands around 9 a.m. local time on Tuesday after…
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The OC Health Care Agency reported 257 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday, March 1, increasing the cumulative total since tracking began in the county to 538,851. There were 5,352 new cases reported in the last two-week period as of Tuesday. There were 233 patients testing positive for COVID-19 reported in Orange County hospitals…
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Police are seeking the public’s help searching for a suspect after a suspicious death was ruled a homicide by the Orange County Coroner’s Office, officials said. Orange County Fire Authorities paramedics responded to Ocean Blue Restaurant, located at 14541 Brookhurst Street in Westminster, around 1 a.m. on Feb. 2 to assist with a call of…
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Westminster City Councilwoman Kimberly Ho has dodged a recall election. Though a pro-recall group in January submitted 4,038 signatures of residents who they said wanted to oust Ho, the Orange County Registrar of Voters said this week that it could validate only 2,381 of those signatures. That left the effort 285 signatures short of forcing…
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While in the midst of writing “The Fell,” Sarah Moss realized that she working on a dystopian novel. Yet, the British author’s latest novel isn’t quite like “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” or other examples of the genre. It’s not set in the future and it’s not science fiction: “The Fell,”…
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The long-running Newport Beach Jazz Festival will return in 2022 and it’s taking over Hyatt Regency Newport Beach June 3-5. Marion Meadows and Alex Bugnon will kick things off on June 3 with an intimate 1,000-capacity VIP concert at the Hyatt’s Back Bay Amphitheatre. Festivities officially begin with CeeLo Green doing a tribute to James…
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THOUSAND OAKS — Matt Wennerstrom, who helped people flee Southern California’s Borderline bar mass shooting, was killed in a motorcycle crash during the weekend, authorities said. The crash occurred Saturday in the Newbury Park area of Thousand Oaks, police said in a statement. Wennerstrom was memorialized at a vigil Monday night, Los Angeles TV station…
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By Giselle Rhoden and Justin Gamble | CNN The House’s overwhelming support of legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime directly addresses the history of racism and bigotry in the US, the bill’s sponsor said. Lawmakers passed the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act on Monday in a 422-3 majority. A similar bill was first…
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From the day he was announced as the new Chicago Bears coach, Matt Eberflus began singing a popular hymn that will resonate in a passionate football city that loves to rally behind swarming defenses. Takeaways, Eberflus noted, must become the calling card for a unit he promises will establish itself through effort, intensity and situational…
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Looks can be deceiving. When Mike McDaniel was named head coach of the Miami Dolphins last month, a casual fan that hadn’t followed the search in-depth could have seen an image of him for the first time and thought, “That’s our new coach?” McDaniel doesn’t look like a typical football coach. He doesn’t possess an…
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