The winter surge that filled emergency rooms and hospital beds with COVID-19 patients in late December through January and into early February is over. As Southern California enters the post-omicron surge phase, once-jammed hospitals are seeing fewer than half the number of infected patients, while incidents of infection in each county have dropped by as…
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By Marko Alvarez and Astrid Suarez | Associated Press PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia — Álvaro Molina has had his run-ins with the burly bunch of neighbors with disreputable contacts who showed up about a decade ago along the river in front of his house in Colombia’s Antioquia province. But he’s learned to live with them and…
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The Miami Dolphins revealed that they promoted from within for their vacant safeties coach position on the staff and retained last season’s struggling offensive line coach — with a demotion — in the team’s announcement of its full coaching staff Friday afternoon. Steve Gregory will coach Dolphins safeties under new coach Mike McDaniel after he…
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Brian Flores plans to coach again — soon. He’ll be working with his son’s 7-on-7 Broward-based flag football team in the coming weeks, using the game he loves to guide young men the same way coaches assisted him as a kid, helping him use football as his escape from the poverty and despair he saw…
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Brian Bales was a pretty good basketball player in his time. Nowadays, “I can still shoot,” Luke Kennard’s high school basketball coach said, “but if I start moving, it’s over.” So, put Bales in a station-by-station shooting contest, and it’ll be the scoreboard that moves – ticking on upward as it did on a visit…
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John Eastman, then chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, testifies during a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee in 2013 in Washington, DC. The committee heard from six representatives of groups that were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for special scrutiny. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) John Eastman’s Constitutional Law…
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By Katelyn Polantz, Marshall Cohen and Tierney Sneed | CNN Civil lawsuits seeking to hold Donald Trump accountable for the January 6 insurrection can move forward in court, and the ex-President doesn’t have absolute immunity from litigation, a federal judge ruled Friday. Trump’s statements to his supporters before the attack on the US Capitol “is…
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Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from Feb. 10 to Feb. 18. Jack In The Box, 1502 S. Main St., Santa Ana Closed: Feb. 16 Reason: Rodent infestation Reopened: Feb. 16 The Cheesecake Factory, 120 Brea Mall Way, Brea Closed: Feb. 16 Reason: Sewage…
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LOS ANGELES — The growing divorce drama between Kim Kardashian and Ye — the rapper formerly known as Kanye West — took another legal turn this week, with Ye filing court papers objecting to the fashion and reality TV mogul’s request to have their split finalized by a judge. In a 40-page document filed Wednesday…
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There’s a cold blast from the past at Taco Bell restaurants in and around the South Bay. The Irvine-based fast food giant is bringing back the Klondike Choco Taco, an ice cream dessert, for a limited time at 20 locations. Half are in Southern California. The other 10 are in Milwaukee. Choco Tacos are made…
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