Yorba Linda’s city officials have been given approval by the City Council to begin negotiations with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department for a new five-year contract for law enforcement. While the current pact doesn’t end until June 30, 2023, Assistant City Manager Dave Christian told council members that it’s “appropriate to consider entering into a…
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Stock up on candles. Blackouts could hit California again this summer, reported the Sacramento Bee. Although 2021 avoided power losses, 2020 saw “two consecutive nights of rolling blackouts,” the first since the 2001 electricity crisis. This year could be as volatile. The paper quoted Mark Rothleder, senior vice president with the Independent System Operator,…
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For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It’s the first direct observation confirming the presence of the black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, as the beating heart of the Milky Way. Black holes don’t emit light, but the image shows the shadow…
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It should be no secret that in college sports, football drives the bus. At most schools that participate, and virtually all Power Five conference institutions, it is the sport that uses the most resources but brings in the most revenue from gate receipts, media rights, merchandising and sponsorships. It is the most high-profile sport, the…
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FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 was put to death Wednesday after a nearly eight-year hiatus in the state’s use of the death penalty brought on by a nearly two-hour execution that critics say was botched. Clarence Dixon, 66, died by lethal injection at the state…
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CHICAGO — Luis Gil arrived before he was ready. The 23-year-old right-hander was rushed to the majors last season before the development he needed in the minors was finished. With the Yankees going through health issues and a COVID outbreak, Gil was rushed into service — and he held his own for the most part.…
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A Fox News poll completed last week, the day before Politico published a draft majority opinion indicating that the Supreme Court will soon overturn Roe v. Wade, found that just 27% of respondents favored that outcome. Yet 54% thought their own states should ban abortion after 15 weeks of gestation — the very policy at…
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Readers of Maggie Shipstead’s novel “Great Circle” will pick up her new short story collection, “You Have a Friend in 10A,” and delight in the Easter egg found in its pages. Not the Cadbury chocolate kind of Easter egg, mind you, but the kind that’s a hidden reference to other work. In this case, a…
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The dates and times for matchups on the Miami Dolphins’ 2022 schedule are set to be announced on Thursday night in an 8 p.m. program on NFL Network. The opponents themselves, however, have already been determined. The Dolphins, as always, play home and away against their three divisional rivals — the Bills, Patriots and Jets…
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Back in October of 1978, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys planned to play a one-night gig at a small Liverpool club called Eric’s, so the duo came up with a band name, an unusual one, on a whim the night before their first show. Calling themselves Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, the duo took the…
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