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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A snowmobile-themed roller coaster that takes riders on a frigid trek through the arctic tundra without ever leaving sunny Southern California is expected to begin construction soon at SeaWorld San Diego as the marine park continues its coaster-building binge. Track segments and support pillars for a family launch coaster built by Intamin Amusement Rides have…
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Since 2014, one of the marquee events at Comic-Con International is the Her Universe Fashion Show, a night where talented amateurs create glamorous, pop culture-themed runway looks with the hopes of winning a chance to design professionally. Like the fan-friendly Comic-Con itself, it’s a celebration, an opportunity and a safe space, according to Her Universe…
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The array of lifeboats available for the Pac-12 seemingly has been reduced by one. The conference is no longer discussing a merger or alliance with the Big 12, according to an ESPN report Monday night. In the realignment game, nothing is official until it’s official — and sometimes not even then. But if we presume…
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Because I am a cook who likes a comfy kitchen, Cousin Michelle’s hot weather advice has stuck with me for decades. She spent the summer months at her cottage in the South of France. A cook-from-scratch French homemaker, she lived by a warm-weather rule. Her culinary creed? Prepare everything in the cool of the morning…
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