As the son of a City of Orange firefighter, Ryan Thibert grew up around the fire station. But he never considered firefighting as a career – until his father suffered a cardiac arrest in 2020. Thibert’s father made a full recovery – largely thanks to the timely medical assistance provided by paramedics from Orange County…
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The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Eddie Wilson, Kevin Modesti and Mark Ratzky. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Saturday, January 18, 2025. Trouble viewing on mobile device? See consensus picks Enjoy the consensus horse racing picks online? Subscribe Sign up for Ponies Express newsletter…
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Nikki Lewis and Anteres Anderson Turner greeted each other with a big embrace. These neighbors shared a sigh of relief: Their homes in the Meadows neighborhood of Altadena had survived the Eaton fire. “For us it was days of watching the fire climb and go back,” said Lewis, 48, a professor at Mt. San Antonio…
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A race against time. That’s how one air quality expert describes the current public health situation in Los Angeles, where thousands are coping with destruction wreaked by the Palisades and Eaton fires. Together, the fires have ravaged more than 37,000 acres since they broke out last Tuesday — leaving over 12,000 structures, including homes, business,…
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LOS ANGELES — The only time his legs found a seat last weekend in Champaign, Illinois, was for 60 measly seconds, and USC forward Saint Thomas found himself laboring amid USC’s upset bid. He’d played the most minutes of anyone in a Trojans jersey. And midgame, naturally, he asked head coach Eric Musselman for a…
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A cryptocurrency businessman who dubbed himself “The Godfather” and a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy have agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges for alleged involvement in a conspiracy that used intimidation, extortion and illegal search warrants against multiple victims, officials said Friday. Adam Iza, 24, who has homes in Beverly Hills and…
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has reached an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to end a years-long investigation into the systemic misuse of jailhouse informants, federal authorities announced on Friday, Jan. 17. The lengthy Department of Justice Civil Rights Division investigation into the use of informants between 2007 and 2016 found that informants within…
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As the Kings strolled down to Seattle in an effort to tame the Kraken on Saturday, they sought to end their heretofore split road trip on a high note. They were singing in falsetto on Thursday in Vancouver, where Alex Turcotte’s two goals and his no-look assist to Adrian Kempe in the opening 9:42 of…
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FILE: Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan Photo by: Mindy Schauer, SCNG There’s a saying that the late L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan cited during his tenure when it came to government red tape, and it came in handy amid a catastrophe that, until last week, was a notch higher on the list of L.A.’s worst natural…
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Evelyn McClendon died on the Altadena block she grew up on when the Eaton fire swept through her neighborhood like “a scene out of a … movie,” her brother said. A Loyola Marymount graduate and school bus driver, McClendon, 59, loved politics, scary movies and religion, according to her nephew, Jamire Calvin. “She was an…
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