As you linger over the photos within “Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of an Era 1850-1950,” you might catch glimpses of the city you recognize today. Maybe, if you spend a lot of time downtown, you can try to imagine where certain long-gone structures stood. In the middle of the 20th century, as L.A.’s…
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Clippers coach Tyronn Lue hasn’t given much thought to the urgency or intensity that comes with playing a Game 5. The Clippers head into Tuesday’s game tied in their best-of-seven first-round playoff series with the Denver Nuggets at two games each, with the winner getting the chance to close it out when the teams return…
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For many expecting mothers, the decision of where and how to give birth is deeply personal and filled with questions. Two MemorialCare community hospitals in Orange County—Orange Coast Medical Center and Saddleback Medical Center—offer expecting mothers the advantages of partnering with midwives throughout their pregnancy. These partnerships provide mothers with both the security of hospital…
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s effort to impose new requirements on Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine — the nation’s only traditional protein-based option for the coronavirus — is sowing uncertainty about updates to other vaccines, too. Related Articles Things to know about the US coal industry and proposed changes under…
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Arrests as well as citations for illegal use of handicapped parking placards at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival both increased in 2025 over 2024, the Indio Police Department said. There were 223 arrests over the two-weekend festival in 2025 and 193 in 2024, an increase of 16.5%. Arrest charges included drug and alcohol…
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By PAUL ANDERSON A 53-year-old man repeatedly sexually assaulted two boys he tutored in the Anaheim area from when they were 8 and 9 until they were 13 and 14, a prosecutor told jurors Monday as the defendant, who was representing himself, said the accusers were lying. Zeta “Jimmy” Dhanapanth is charged with a dozen…
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This week’s Orange County high school baseball rankings, as of Monday, April 28. Notable this week: Newport Harbor, which beat Huntington Beach in two of their three Sunset League games last week, soars from No. 15 to No. 4 in the rankings. … Huntington Beach remains at No. 1. … Laguna Beach keeps winning and…
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By Karen Brown, New England Public Media, KFF Health News Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts, a small city two hours west of Boston, for about 10 years. She was happy with the care, though she started to notice it was becoming harder to get an appointment. Related Articles COVID worsened…
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By SARAH EL DEEB, MOHAMMED JAHJOUH and LEE KEATH KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Nearly seven months pregnant, Yasmine Siam couldn’t sleep, living in a crowded tent camp in Gaza and shaken often by Israeli bombardment. She couldn’t find proper food and hadn’t eaten meat for more than a month. Weak and losing weight,…
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California consistently ranks as the most regulated state in the country—getting so bad, in fact, that comedian Bill Maher recently told Gov. Gavin Newsom that he needs to “take a chainsaw” to California’s overgrown regulatory code. And while many Californians might worry about environmental, social, or safety consequences of deregulation, there is at least one…
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