The Chargers on Tuesday hired Adam Fuller to be their new safeties coach, replacing Chris O’Leary, who was named the defensive coordinator and safeties coach at Western Michigan University. Fuller spent the past five seasons as the defensive coordinator at Florida State. O’Leary was with the Chargers for one season after spending six seasons in…
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion on Tuesday, Feb. 11, to increase the penalty for price gouging to a maximum of $50,000 per violation. The supervisors voted 5-0 to increase the penalty. State law allows for up to one year in jail and a $10,000 fine for price gouging, which occurs…
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By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared Tuesday that he is “no longer facing legal questions” after the Justice Department moved to shield him from the bribery charges that have been hanging over his reelection campaign. Related Articles National Politics | Appeals court won’t halt judge’s order requiring Trump administration to unfreeze…
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The Orange County Board of Supervisors approved on Tuesday, Feb. 11, settlement offers from Southern California Edison for $18.125 million to pay for county damages from the 2020 Silverado fire and the 2022 Coastal fire. The Silverado fire broke out on Oct. 26, 2020, near Santiago and Silverado canyon roads and blackened about 12,400 acres.…
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Southern California institutions could lose out on hundreds of millions of dollars in funding if the Trump administration‘s proposed cuts to overhead for biomedical research move forward. The National Institutes of Health announced on Friday, Feb. 7, that it would cap funding for overhead costs for research at 15% beginning this week. By Monday afternoon,…
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to immediately halt a judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to release billions of dollars in federal grants and loans that remain frozen even after a court blocked a sweeping pause on federal funding. Related Articles National Politics | New York City’s…
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By AUDREY McAVOY HONOLULU (AP) — Kilauea volcano began shooting lava into the air once again Tuesday on the Big Island of Hawaii. Related Articles National News | New York City’s mayor has 4 months to persuade Democratic voters he’s not Trump’s puppet National News | NASA’s 2 stuck astronauts may return to Earth sooner…
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By the time Twyla Tharp left Southern California for New York City in 1961, she was pretty sure the pre-med major she’d embarked on at Pomona College would not be the degree she finished with at Barnard College on the Upper West Side. “I came to Barnard all the while harboring in the back of…
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At the peak of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the Golden Age of Hollywood, audiences knew the name of the studio on the silver screen signaled something wonderful was about to begin. “If they would go to a sneak preview, and the film would would start and it would have the MGM logo, people would applaud,” says Kenneth…
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Officials and residents in pockets across Southern California are preparing for rainstorms expected to slam the region over the next few days — and bring the potential for mudslides and debris flow in areas ravaged by wildfires. Flood watches, when flooding conditions are considered ripe, are in place for stretches including the burn scars surrounding…
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