Were you among the approximately 6,000 people who celebrated Independence Day at Brea’s July 4 Country Fair in City Hall Park? Maybe you are also back in the park for Brea’s free Concerts in the Park series on Wednesdays. There’s live musical entertainment for all tastes. On July 20, Neon Nation will be playing hit…
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Maybe it’s the canary in the coal mine. I’ve been getting a steady stream of calls from borrowers, particularly elderly mortgagors on fixed incomes, trying to figure out how to make ends meet. Further skimping, unretiring and going back to work, consolidating debt, a reverse mortgage or maybe even selling and moving to cheaper quarters…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Coach Pablo Martinez has his next challenge. The 46-year-old has been hired as the girls basketball coach at Pacifica Christian after a successful five years at Santiago. Pacifica Christian (26-6) stormed to the CIF-SS Division 4A title last season behind freshman Addison Deal…
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Roughly 1 million counterfeit pills containing fentanyl were seized earlier this month in Inglewood, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced Thursday, July 14. “This record-breaking bust is the largest seizure of fentanyl pills (the) DEA has made in California,” the DEA said in a statement. According to the DEA, the probe targeted a Los Angeles-area…
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A federal judge ordered a Buena Park tax preparer to stop assisting anyone in submitting tax returns after it was determined he helped clients claim millions of dollars in bogus refunds, according to the judge’s ruling. U.S. District Judge David O. Carter told Jose Pineda and his business — ABK Income Tax & Travel in…
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Chicago Cubs catcher Willson Contreras’s audition for the New York Mets begins Thursday night at Wrigley Field, just as the White Sox arrive at a fork in the road in Minneapolis. This final weekend before the All-Star break figures to be a most interesting one for the Cubs and Sox, two teams that have tried…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ivana Trump, the first wife of Donald Trump, has died in New York City, the former president announced on social media Thursday. “I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York…
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Good afternoon, Chicago. Wrigley Field isn’t “appropriately accessible” to fans who use wheelchairs or have other disabilities, a lawsuit from the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago alleges. The lawsuit comes nearly three years after it was revealed that federal authorities had launched an investigation into whether the Chicago Cubs’ $1 billion, five-year renovation of the…
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The Ducks signed La Mirada native Chase De Leo and four others in order to bolster their organizational depth Thursday, the second day of the NHL’s free-agent signing period. De Leo played most of last season for the New Jersey Devils’ minor-league team after spending 2018-21 in the Ducks’ organization. “No Place Like Home Lets…
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San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Washington have long failed to build enough housing to keep up with everyone trying to live there. And for nearly as long, other parts of the country have mostly been able to shrug off the housing shortage as a condition particular to big coastal cities. But in the…
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