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Rams general manager Les Snead has been to the mountaintop but his vantage point at the moment may be deep in the valley as the Rams are coming off a 5-12 title defense that led to the severing of ties with significant players from a roster that won the Super Bowl just a year earlier.…
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OC Animal Care has sent 69 pets to rescue agencies in northern California to make room for an influx of more than 350 animals the shelter received in recent days, many as a direct result of Tropical Storm Hilary, officials said. Injured and displaced pets continue to arrive at the OC Animal Care shelter because…
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Monique Hernandez says her days are often sabotaged before she even begins work. As a nurse in the telemetry unit at HCA’s Riverside Community Hospital, she’s supposed to care for a maximum of four patients at a time. But many days, she says that ratio is higher. And in a department where critical patients must…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now One of Orange County’s best soccer coaches is now part of a national Hall of Fame. Retired Sunny Hills girls soccer coach Jeff Gordon was inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame earlier this summer in Lincoln, Neb.…
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Orange County Soccer Club announced that forward Korede Osundina has been transferred to Feyenoord of the Dutch Eredivisie. Osundina, 19, is the fifth international transfer for OCSC and the first with Feyenoord, who is a new partner. ESPN reported that the transfer fee is $215,000 and could reach $1 million if certain incentives are met.…
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK — Coco Gauff used the phrase “when I was younger” after her second-round victory at the U.S. Open on Wednesday while discussing the perspective she’s gained at the ripe old age of 19. “I used to think,” she explained, “every match was life or death.” And now?…
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A 54-year-old man was convicted of first-degree murder this week for shooting to death a Buena Park man two years ago on an Anaheim street. An Orange County Superior Court jury deliberated for several hours before finding Glen Ralph Johnson guilty on Tuesday, Aug. 29, of killing 43-year-old Tyrone Portis during a morning confrontation on…
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By Alexandra Olson | The Associated Press The Biden administration proposed a new rule Wednesday that would make 3.6 million more U.S. workers eligible for overtime pay, the most generous such increase in decades. The rule would revive an Obama-era effort that faced strong pushback from business leaders and Republicans and was ultimately scuttled in…
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By Clare Duffy | CNN Newspaper chain Gannett has paused the use of an artificial intelligence tool to write high school sports dispatches after the technology made several major flubs in articles in at least one of its papers. Several high school sports reports written by an AI service called LedeAI and published by the…
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By Mary Schlangenstein and Ryan Beene | Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc. flight attendants gave their union leaders approval to trigger a strike if the labor group is eventually allowed to end contract negotiations under federal labor law, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants said. The so-called strike authorization was approved by more than 99%…
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