Did you know that being a mermaid — or a merman — is a hot new trend? I didn’t until I visited Hawaii and took a new, two-hour “Discover Mermaid Experience” class with Sara Ferguson, owner of The Mindful Mermaid Swim Academy, a PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) program launched around the world, including…
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Brea’s public school students return to classes on Aug. 15. Remember when school didn’t start until after Labor Day? Not any longer. Not only will our students be starting a new school year, so will the Brea Olinda Unified School District’s new superintendent Brinda Leon, who was officially named the district’s top administrator in July…
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It’s been 30 years since Dorothy, Sophia, Rose and Blanche last hung out in their Miami, Fla. kitchen while chatting about life, sometimes bickering and often playfully burning each other with memorable zingers. While NBC’s Emmy Award-winning show “The Golden Girls” has long been off the air, the ladies’ famous kitchen is cooking again as…
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Raheem Mostert had his 2021 season cut short just as it was getting started. Now, he’s picking things back up in Miami as the Dolphins running back most experienced with the wide-zone scheme new coach Mike McDaniel is implementing into the offense. Mostert, after falling to a knee injury just two carries into last year’s…
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The Vans US Open of Surfing, the world’s largest action-sports festival, is making a major comeback this week in Huntington Beach. The mega, nine-day event kicking off Saturday, July 30, had been a staple in the sun-drenched beach town – until the pandemic wiped out the 2020 competition and severely reduced last year’s festival. “We…
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After the FBI leveled corruption allegations against former Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu, his closest allies threw him under the bus. “I and my City Council colleagues now must seek to … uphold the public trust and continue with the business of the city of Anaheim,” said Councilman Trevor O’Neil in a letter calling for Sidhu…
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By Elizabeth Cohen | CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Testing for monkeypox, a crucial part of containing the growing outbreak, has gotten off to a sluggish start at the five commercial laboratories that are doing nearly all of the nation’s testing, CNN has learned. Mayo Clinic Laboratories, for example, has the capacity to process 1,000 monkeypox…
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Major League Baseball introduced PitchCom this year, a system that allows catchers to call signs for their pitcher electronically, sending the call directly to their ear rather than doing it the traditional way by putting down fingers for everybody to see. One of their best pitchers ever is not a fan. “Here’s what I’ll say…
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SAN JACINTO — County authorities Wednesday identified a man who died in a three-vehicle crash on Highway 79 in San Jacinto. The crash occurred at 9 a.m. Tuesday on the southbound side of the highway near Gilman Springs Road, according to the California Highway Patrol. According to the CHP, one vehicle overturned, and a tractor-trailer…
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Jackson Holliday didn’t have anything in mind when it came to what he might do with the franchise-record $8.19 million signing bonus the Orioles provided him as the first overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft. His grandfather, too, was largely stumped, with both noting Jackson has a satisfactory truck. Only one item came…
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