George Leighton, 8, of Cub Scout Den 9 points to the daVinci surgical robot’s camera image as Dr. Ravi Shah looks on at Placentia-Linda Hospital in Placentia on Thursday, May 19, 2022 as part of event to mark the hospital’s milestone of having completed more than 1,000 robotic procedures but it also was a chance…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Kylee Cammarato, Capistrano Valley Christian, Fr., P: The Eagles’ freshman ace pitched the school to its first section title in a 5-1 win against Linfield Christian in the CIF-SS Division 7 final. Sofia Elliott, Mission Viejo, So., P: The sophomore ace fired…
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis has tested positive for the coronavirus, she announced on social media on Monday, May 23. “Earlier today I tested positive for COVID-19,” she announced Monday afternoon. “I am currently experiencing mild symptoms and will isolate myself in accordance with CDC guidelines. So grateful to be vaccinated and double boosted.…
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Orange County was famous for ranching and agriculture, for Disneyland and John Wayne, for aerospace and vast tracts of safe, cookie-cutter housing. That was yesterday. The organizers of the first Orange County Sustainability Decathlon want to forge a new tomorrow for the O.C., making it synonymous with beautiful, functional, affordable, environmentally groundbreaking building innovations that…
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Far too many Californians are finding themselves having to make hard choices about how to spend their paycheck. Millions are having to choose between filling up their gas tank and buying groceries for the week, paying bills and rent on time, or whether they’re able to afford a family vacation. With inflation at a 40-year…
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When politicians echo Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ famous observation about “shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theater,” it typically means they are trying to justify unconstitutional speech restrictions. So it was with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s comments after the racist mass shooting that killed 10 people at a Buffalo grocery store on Saturday. Hochul was…
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A Nevada handyman convicted of strangling to death an 81-year-old man in the bedroom of a Newport Beach home was sentenced Monday, May 23, to 25 years to life in prison. Anthony Thomas Garcia, 63, continued to profess his innocence during his sentencing hearing in a Santa Ana courtroom, a little more than a year…
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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins died with alcohol and ketamine in his system and had been out at a South Florida club where he drank “heavily,” records from the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office released Monday say. Haskins, 24, died April 9 after he was hit by two drivers on Interstate 595 near the Fort…
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By Jake Coyle In 1983, producer Jerry Bruckheimer was flipping through the May issue of California magazine when he was struck by a story. “Top Guns” read the headline, with a large photograph from inside the cockpit of an F-14 fighter jet. The story opened: “At Mach 2 and 40,000 feet over California, it’s always…
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Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu, who is under federal investigation for alleged corruption in the sale of Angel Stadium, resigned effective Tuesday, May 24, according to a statement from his attorney Monday. “Mayor Sidhu has always, as his foremost priority, acted in the best interests of the City of Anaheim,” attorney Paul S. Mayer said in…
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