The Orioles complete the 2022 Major League Baseball draft Tuesday with their picks in the 11th through 20th rounds. Baltimore has the opening selection of each round, having started the draft by taking Oklahoma prep shortstop Jackson Holliday with the first overall pick Sunday night before grabbing college players with each of their next 11…
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Dodgers pitcher Tyler Anderson and his family join the fun during the MLB All-Star Red Carpet Arrivals on Tuesday at LA Live. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and his wife Tricia join the fun during the MLB All-Star Red Carpet Arrivals on Tuesday at LA Live. (Photo by…
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In their first rollouts of electric vehicles, America’s automakers targeted people who value short-range economy cars. Then came EVs for luxury buyers and drivers of pickups and delivery vans. Now, the companies are zeroing in at the heart of the U.S. auto market: The compact SUV. In their drive to have EVs dominate vehicle sales…
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Not only might Elon Musk not buy Twitter, he may not build a tunnel to Ontario International Airport either. Musk’s proposal to bore a tunnel to ONT from the Rancho Cucamonga train station to whisk passengers at high speed got a lot of attention in 2020 and again in 2021. But the deal was quietly…
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Santa Ana residents who have guns they want to get rid of can turn them in for a $300 cash gift card. The police department is holding an anonymous “gun buyback” event on July 23. No ID necessary; no questions asked. “We’re trying to get guns off the streets in hopes of preventing future violent…
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Like All-Star games, elections tend to leave behind a touch of optimism (and more than a little second-guessing), so it’s probably fortuitous that the Maryland primary fell on the same day as the Major League Baseball’s Midsummer Classic this year. Both events provide an opportunity to take the measure of things. But while the outcome…
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Gov. Gavin Newsom spent three days in Washington last week expanding his profile as a national political figure while insisting he has no interest in running for president. Newsom’s press office trumpeted his visit with daily bulletins listing his contacts with various political figures, the first of which declared that “California was on the national…
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LOS ANGELES — All eyes will be on two of the region’s biggest baseball stars for the first pitch of the All-Star Game on Tuesday when it returns to Dodger Stadium for the first time in 42 years. Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers’ three-time Cy Young Award winner, gets his first All-Star start for the National…
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Jonathan Ficachi and his three-year-old daughter Rebecca Ficachi operate a crane during the Touch-A-Truck event hosted by the Orange County Soccer Club in Irvine on Saturday, July 16, 2022. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer) From left, three-year-old best friends Ben Lindstedt and Myer Wilson sit inside a John Deere earth mover during the…
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Anaheim is planning a new park near City Hall and the Downtown Community Center, and recently it got some key input on the design of its playground. About 50 kids put crayon to paper to sketch out the amenities that would make the perfect playground for the 3.5-acre Center Greens, set to be completed next…
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