Opponents and proponents of Governor Gavin Newsom’s Prop. 1 mental health bond measure are seeking to correct rejected ballots from the March 5 primary — usually rejected due to a voter’s missing signature or a mismatched signature — as the fate of Prop. 1 hangs by a razor-thin margin. Prop. 1 was backed by 50.1%…
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The 64th annual Swallow’s Day Parade is approaching soon for the San Juan Capistrano community, a historic tradition honoring the return of the swallows and the intersection of the city’s Spanish and Native American heritage. Organized by the San Juan Capistrano Fiesta Association, this five-day celebration is renowned as one of the nation’s largest non-motorized…
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TEMPE, Ariz. — Earlier this spring, Taylor Ward was at the plate when a fastball came at him, up and in. He moved out of the way without incident. The next pitch was also up and in. He admitted that he “couldn’t get back in the right mindset after that,” and he eventually struck out…
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The last of the 16 Orange County sheriff’s deputies injured when an object unexpectedly exploded during a training exercise in Irvine was released from the hospital over the weekend, and some of the others have returned to work, authorities said on Monday, March 18. The deputy, who required surgery for a leg injury, was released…
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Enhancing students’ skills in reading and math… or training students in progressive activism? Long Beach Unified School District in California seems to favor the latter, paying high school students $1,400 each in taxpayer money to become left-wing social justice warriors. And we wouldn’t even know about it if not for an investigative report from The…
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East Bay punk rock band and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Green Day will play an intimate show at House of Blues Anaheim on Tuesday, March 19, ahead of the launch of its massive summer stadium tour. Tickets go on sale at 1 p.m. Monday, March 18 at LiveNation.com. The Saviors Tour will…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers told a New York appellate court Monday that it’s impossible for him to post a bond covering the full amount of a $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals. The former president’s lawyers wrote in a court filing that “obtaining an…
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Katie Gee Salisbury was a 19-year-old intern at Los Angeles’ Chinese American Museum when she first heard of film star and TV actress Anna May Wong. “I was totally taken aback that there could have been an Asian American movie star in the 1920s and ‘30s and that I also had never heard of her,”…
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Westminster High School named state winner in STEM competition A Westminster High School team was selected as the state winner for California in the 14th annual Samsung Solve for Tomorrow STEM competition. Each state winner gets a package of $12,000 in technology for their school. Westminster High School MERITS students were recently announced as state winners for the 14th…
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The Santa Ana City Council is set to consider an emergency ordinance at its Tuesday, March 19, meeting that would add distance requirements for people protesting at private residences. An increasing number of picketers in Santa Ana and surrounding areas are targeting specific residences, city staffers said in a report to the council, “expressing their…
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