Defying Santa Anita’s dire warnings, the California Horse Racing Board on Thursday approved plans for an autumn thoroughbred season at the Pleasanton fairgrounds in Northern California’s East Bay. The decision, by a 6-0 vote with one member absent, capped an emotional meeting in Sacramento where the board quizzed proponents of replacing soon-to-close Golden Gate Fields…
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Kennedy Fuller decided to turn professional and sign with Angel City FC as a 16-year-old. On Sunday, just eight days after turning 17, Fuller was in the starting lineup as Angel City opened the season against Bay FC in front a sellout crowd of 22,000 at BMO Stadium. Fuller said learned she was starting the…
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In-N-Out Burger will go ahead with plans to close its Oakland restaurant this weekend, the Irvine-based fast food chain confirmed in an email Thursday. The drive-thru’s last day will be Sunday, March 24, as the company announced in late January, citing crime in the area as endangering customers and employees. Statistics show the crime situation…
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State utility regulators on Thursday, March 21, rejected Norco’s request to make Southern California Edison bury transmission lines for a long-awaited Riverside power project that will run along the Santa Ana River. Norco is now eyeing a legislative fix. City manager Lori Sassoon said they’re working with Assemblyman Bill Essayli, R-Riverside, to introduce a bill…
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Arizona scored 16 straight points over a five-minute stretch Thursday to pull away for an 85-65 victory in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and end Dan Monson’s coaching tenure at Long Beach State. Kylan Boswell scored 20 points for the second-seeded Wildcats (26-8), who made 13 3-pointers, the…
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Ariana Arghandewal | (TNS) Bankrate.com If I had a point for every time I got asked about the best way to use points for travel, I’d have enough to fly around the world — twice. After over a decade in which I turned an interest in loyalty programs into a full-time job, I know how…
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Christmas comes twice a year for the UCLA women’s basketball team: once in December, and again in March. “It feels like Christmas,” Bruins graduate student guard Camryn Brown said. “It genuinely does when tournament season comes around. You play all these games throughout the season to be your best in March for a tournament like…
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SANTA ANITA LEADERS (Through Thursday) Jockeys / Wins Juan Hernandez / 46 Flavien Prat / 41 Antonio Fresu / 38 Frankie Dettori / 28 Hector Berrios / 20 Umberto Rispoli / 20 Trainers / Wins Doug O’Neill / 27 Mark Glatt / 22 Phil D’Amato / 22 Bob Baffert / 21 Steve Knapp / 19…
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An escalating wave of Starbucks worker victories continued this week when baristas at a Seal Beach store voted to join Starbucks Workers United. Their 9-3 vote marks the 32nd California location to unionize. Workers at the 12470 Seal Beach Blvd. store join more than 400 Starbucks stores nationwide that have unionized in their fight for…
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Showers, cool temperatures and windy gusts may have you double-checking the calendar this weekend. “It will feel like a cold winter day in the middle of March,” National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Moede said. After a cool, partly cloudy Friday with temperatures in the 60s, about a tenth to a third inch of rain is…
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