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By Tasnim Ahmed | CNN As the Covid-19 pandemic enters its third year, scientists are finding that the coronavirus has far-reaching effects on health beyond the acute phase of illness. One recent study has found that people with Covid-19 are at an increased risk for cardiovascular diseases for at least a year after recovery. The…
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A procession of Huntington Beach police cruisers and officers on motorcycles escorted the body of Officer Nicholas Vella, a pilot who died Saturday when his helicopter plunged into Newport Harbor, from the Orange County coroner’s office to a mortuary in La Habra Tuesday afternoon. A brief, cold downpour soaked several hundred mourners — including Orange…
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By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer JUPITER, Fla. — Another day ran off the clock on talks to salvage Opening Day when locked-out baseball players proposed what they considered a small move forward in drawn-out labor negotiations and management termed it a third straight step backward. Management again proposed a federal mediator enter the negotiations,…
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By Ashraf Khalil and Lolita Baldor | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is expected to approve the deployment of 700 to 800 unarmed National Guard troops to the nation’s capital, a U.S. official said Tuesday, in the face of trucker convoys that are planning protests against pandemic restrictions beginning next week. The District of…
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As California’s housing crisis threatens the expansion of higher education and roils college towns, state Sen. Scott Wiener Tuesday introduced a bill to streamline and boost development of student and faculty housing on state campuses. The proposal, Senate Bill 886, exempts certain residential projects proposed by public colleges and universities on their campuses from being…
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Marina del Rey’s iconic high-rise condo towers are in significant need of repairs to fix deteriorating cement, exposed and corroded reinforcement bars and damaged waterproofing on rooftop decks, but are otherwise structurally sound, a county-mandated engineering report concluded. Los Angeles County officials ordered the structural engineering study last summer after residents expressed concern the 48-year-old…
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By Kathleen Ronayne | Associated Press SACRAMENTO — President Joe Biden highlighted his efforts to counter China’s dominance of the electric battery market on Tuesday as he touted domestic efforts to mine and process lithium and rare metals necessary to create the technology that powers cars, electronics, wind turbines and more. The Democratic president announced…
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Southern California Congress members are calling for severe sanctions on Russia in the wake of news that President Vladimir Putin has sent troops into two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, heightening fears that a full invasion of Ukraine is imminent. “U.S. restraint has not deterred Putin,” Rep. Young Kim, R-La Habra, tweeted Tuesday. “We need…
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As severe recession wracked California 13 years ago, it revealed a serious flaw in the state government’s revenue system. Over several decades, the state had become increasingly dependent on taxing a relative few affluent Californians whose taxable incomes, largely from investments, tended to have wide swings. During prosperous periods, their incomes would increase sharply, generating…
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