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Cal State Fullerton professor and marine ecologist Danielle Zacherl is eager to point out that collaborations with former and current students, as well as the nonprofit Orange County Coastkeeper, have boosted efforts to restore oyster beds of the native Olympia oyster along the Southern California coast. In the latest development of this long-term project, local…
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By TY O’NEIL TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities investigating the apparent kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie returned to her Arizona neighborhood several times over the weekend, ahead of a Monday evening deadline set by her purported abductors who sent ransom notes demanding money for her return. The investigation into what happened to the mother of “Today”…
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By STEPHEN GROVES WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be self-incriminating. Maxwell was to be questioned during a video call to the federal prison camp in Texas where she’s serving a…
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By JOSEPH WILSON, Associated Press LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Mathilde Gremaud successfully defended her Olympic freeski slopestyle title and denied Eileen Gu a gold medal for a second straight Winter Games. Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud celebrates her gold medal on her final run in the women’s freestyle skiing slopestyle finals at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in…
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NEW YORK (AP) — A big rally for global stock markets that began in Asia on Monday petered out by the time trading got to Wall Street. Related Articles Orange County has 60 million-dollar ZIP codes, up 4 in a year Kaiser strike expands with 3,000 pharmacy, lab workers joining nurses Eddie Bauer – the…
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As I said last week, the emails (and even regular mail) regarding Jim Healy may have set a record for the massive number of responses. I honestly have no clue since I have never counted anything officially, but I do know that my mailbox runneth over far more than I remember ever happening before. Let’s…
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More than 3,000 pharmacy and lab workers with the United Food and Commercial Workers union in Southern California joined a “second wave” of health care professionals striking Kaiser Permanente on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. Meanwhile, the strike is showing signs of spilling over beyond just Kaiser. Grocery union pharmacists with certain supermarket chains have a…
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The weather in Sacramento this time of year is rather cold. That’s particularly true at 6:30 a.m., when the sun isn’t even peeking out, and the Capitol is covered with fog and darkness. But still, Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva is bundled up, ready for a few quick laps around the statehouse. This is what she does…
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Orange County had 60 million-dollar ZIP codes in the three months ending in November – up four in a year. There were 4,479 sales in the period in communities with five or more sales and a median selling price of $1 million, according to Attom data. Sales fell 2% versus the previous year. These seven-figure…
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As 2026 begins, the economic story remains the same: The rent is too damn high, and the dream of homeownership feels increasingly out of reach for millions of Americans. New data reveals that the typical age of a first-time home buyer has climbed to an all-time high of 40 years. And although policymakers throughout the…
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