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There is a tone to Jason Dietrich’s voice that hasn’t been heard since he returned to Cal State Fullerton the summer of 2021 to take over a baseball program that was leaking oil. A measured tone that was even absent after the 2023 season, when Dietrich ended the Titans’ four-year postseason hiatus with a share…
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Hot Dog on a Stick is getting harder to find in Southern California malls. The Carlsbad-based counter-service chain has closed several locations, its parent company Fat Brands confirmed in an email. Fat Brand hasn’t yet provided details on what locations have closed or when, but said the closures were due to unfavorable leases and that…
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Swoon! We’re positively infatuated with data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that makes us ask: Orange County, are you wasted? Vices are so interesting, and our friends at the CDC feed this fascination with a can’t-look-away-from-the-train-wreck collection of detailed information — almost down to the Census tract! — on where binge drinking is…
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By Sara Rathner, NerdWallet Last year was kind of a lot. Once-secure federal government jobs were slashed, and that was before the longest government shutdown in history. The labor market cooled. Economically speaking, 2025 was a tough year for many. Related Articles CBO: Federal deficits and debt to worsen over next decade 3,000 Kaiser pharmacists,…
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More than 3,000 pharmacy and lab workers with the United Food and Commercial Workers union in Southern California are ending their three-day strike against Kaiser Permanente on Thursday, Feb. 12. Their return to work still leaves the bulk of the healthcare giant’s 31,000 registered nurses and healthcare workers on strike. The UFCW locals in Southern…
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Just try it. Even if you think you’ll fail. Try anyway. That’s this week’s sermon, my friends. Now you can head over to the coffee and doughnuts. Oh really? You want more? Well, OK, fine then. The reason I’m telling you this is because too many of us just give up without trying, and it…
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It’s said that all politics is local, and that’s the idea behind a new tool meant to help California campaigns really get to know the people they are trying to reach — powered by artificial intelligence. Launched on Tuesday, Feb. 10, by Cole Patterson, a southern Orange County native, Civiq utilizes AI to compile in…
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LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Elizabeth Lemley and Jaelin Kauf won gold and silver for the United States in women’s freestyle moguls skiing on Wednesday. Lemley, 20, won the eight-skier final with a score of 82.30 points. The 29-year-old Kauf repeated as silver medalist with a score of 80.77. She also won silver in 2022 in…
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By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio, Cara Anthony, Emily Siner, Nashville Public Radio, KFF Health News When she noticed an unusual craving for hot dogs, Matte’a Brooks suspected her body was telling her something, so she decided to take a pregnancy test. She took two just to be sure. Both were positive. Related Articles CHOC…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s 10-year outlook projects worsening long-term federal deficits and rising debt, driven largely by increased spending, notably on Social Security, Medicare, and debt service payments. Related Articles Watch: Attorney General Bondi will face questions from Congress on Epstein and investigation of lawmakers Russia…
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