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The world associates the name Harry Winston with glamour and jewels – it’s synonymous with Hollywood stars, royal families and captains of industry. Marilyn Monroe ushered the name into legend when she breathlessly sang, “Talk to me, Harry Winston; tell me all about it!” in 1953’s classic movie “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” But for his eldest…
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Disneyland may extend its 1959 monorail to a proposed 17,000-car parking garage and the Toy Story parking lot under a massive expansion plan envisioned for the Anaheim theme park resort. The potential extension of the Disneyland Monorail is buried deep in the 17,000-page Environmental Impact Report released last week by the city of Anaheim for…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Mater Dei and Mission Viejo’s football programs, ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in Orange County, respectively, will be in the Washington metropolitan area this weekend for games. Mater Dei (4-0), ranked No. 1 in the county and the nation, departs Wednesday night…
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BY JUSTO ROBLES In the final hours of Sept. 15, 2022, Pablo Silva and four other Venezuelan men were wandering downtown Sacramento, a city they had never heard of, searching for a roof over their heads. They didn’t find it. They had traveled thousands of miles to escape violence and poverty in Venezuela. Silva said…
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Although the statement released by Shohei Ohtani’s agent about his surgery did not include the phrase “Tommy John surgery,” two orthopedic surgeons who read the statement believe that was the procedure Ohtani underwent on Tuesday. How the surgery is described is perhaps only a matter of semantics. The Angels and Ohtani’s…
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SANTA ANA — A 60-year-old Huntington Beach man was convicted of misdemeanor manslaughter Wednesday for a collision that killed a 34-year-old man in Fountain Valley two years ago, but jurors deadlocked on a more serious charge of hit and run. David Stephen Kennedy II was convicted of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in the Sept. 11, 2021,…
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The Federal Reserve pressed pause on its campaign of interest rate hikes Wednesday, keeping the federal funds rate at a range of 5.25% to 5.5%. This is the second pause since the Fed started increasing the fed funds rate back in March 2022. The central bankers have made considerable progress toward achieving their goal of…
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Policymakers at the Federal Reserve have squeezed the budgets of debt-laden Americans – and rewarded those with money to stash in savings. The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark rate, the federal funds rate, to over the past year-and-a-half to rein in inflation, which recently sped up as gas prices rose. Prices remain elevated, leading…
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Gas prices are rising yet again – a headache for elected officials and consumers, particularly less affluent Americans. And they present a challenge for policymakers at the Federal Reserve, who have sought to rein in rapid inflation over the past 18 months. Gas prices don’t factor into “core inflation,” a measure closely watched by the…
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Now in their third decade with the Kings, captain Anze Kopitar and alternate captain Drew Doughty have transformed from fixtures into granite sculptures inside the dressing room. While that dressing room has been temporarily relocated to Melbourne, Australia, for a pair of preseason games against the Arizona Coyotes on Friday and Saturday, the duo has…
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