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Amy Maxmen | (TNS) KFF Health News Last year’s “triple-demic” marked the beginning of what may be a new normal: a confluence of respiratory infections — RSV, influenza, and COVID-19 — will surge as the weather cools each year. Like blizzards, the specific timing and severity of these outbreaks are hard to forecast. But their…
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The $9.5 million Magic Key class action settlement offers a glimpse behind the curtain that Disneyland rarely shares with the public and provides a rough estimate of what annual passholders are worth to the Anaheim theme park. Disney agreed in September to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that annual passholders who purchased the $1,399 Dream…
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By Jordan Yadoo and Leah Nylen | Bloomberg The lucrative broker commission system at the heart of the US residential housing market is facing unprecedented antitrust scrutiny from the Justice Department and two private class-action lawsuits that risk weakening the National Association of Realtors, the industry’s powerful lobbying group. Federal antitrust enforcers are poised to…
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By MORGAN LEE SANTA FE, N.M. — Special prosecutors said Tuesday they are seeking to recharge actor Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie in New Mexico two years ago. New Mexico-based prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis said they’ll present evidence grand…
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Singer-guitarist Mike Peters of the Alarm was in a dire spot at the end of September 2022. The leukemia he’d twice beaten was back, and this time a life-threatening case of pneumonia tagged along. “I was in a bad situation,” Peters says of his illnesses. “And then there was a gentleman hovering quite close to…
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By Zachary Fleming, Redd Brown and Ignacio Gonzalez | Bloomberg The push by employers to get American workers back into the office appears to be working. Fewer than 26% of US households still have someone working remotely at least one day a week, a sharp decline from the early 2021 peak of 37%, according to…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Dana Hills football coach Tony Henney uses a colorful phrase to describe a momentum-shifting performance that succeeds despite slim chances. The veteran calls those moments “stealing a play”, and they’re pushing the Dolphins closer toward one of their biggest goals for the season.…
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Q: I got into it with a guy at a bar and we both were arrested. There are two witnesses who are clear this other person was wasted and started it, and that I was defending myself. But the police confiscated my cell phone. I want to know can they just go through it for…
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The Orange County boys athlete of the week: Name: Ardwon Morris School: Orange Sport: Football Year: Senior Noteworthy: He rushed for 409 yards and seven touchdowns on 33 carries in the Panthers’ 59-20 win over Estancia in an Orange Coast League game. Morris’ 409 rushing yards are the eighth-most in Orange County high school history.…
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Billed as one of the largest Japanese cultural festivals in Southern California, the OC Japan Fair returns to Costa Mesa from Oct. 27 through Oct. 29. Organizers expect upward of 45,000 people to attend the three-day festival, which is a lot of mouths to feed. Luckily, this year’s abundant lineup of Japanese and Asian food…
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