Fake news is now a civic issue in Westminster. City officials spent part of the March 9 city council meeting debating a resolution from Councilman Tai Do condemning Vietnamese-language “fake news.” One outlet, Do said, has spread what he termed inflammatory lies that put his colleagues Kimberly Ho and Carlos Manzo in danger. The resolution…
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Ivica Zubac’s 24 points and 12 rebounds weren’t enough on Friday in Atlanta, as the Clippers let the game get away late, falling 112-106 to split the season series with the Hawks and lost for the third time in four games. A contest between two conference finalists from a season ago played out, for the…
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CYPRESS >> The Cypress baseball team broke out the bats once again in a 6-5 nonleague victory over Ocean View on Friday at Cypress High School. The Centurions (7-2-2), who are ranked No. 5 in Orange County, have scored 29 runs over the past three games. Cypress scored four of their six runs against the…
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The USC Trojans and the UCLA Bruins will compete for a third time this season with the opportunity to advance to the Pac-12 Tournament Championship Game. The semifinal matchup is just the seventh time in which UCLA has faced USC in the conference tournament. The last tournament meeting was 2017. How to watch: USC…
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The concerns coming in about the dominance of Cleveland Cavaliers in the first two games of this three-game series were largely overstated, considering Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo missed both. So Friday night, Butler and Adebayo made their statements, with the mostly whole Miami Heat looking a whole lot better, this time with a 117-105…
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Observations and other notes of interest from Friday night’s 117-105 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers: — Markieff Morris again was on the court pregame, continuing his drill work with assistant coach Caron Butler. — That work had come with Morris awaiting NBA clearance to return from the neck injury sustained in his Nov. 8 run-in…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Utah-bound pitcher Brooklyn Carreon fired a two-hitter and drove in a pair of runs to lead Whittier Christian’s softball team past Canyon 3-0 on Friday night and into the semifinals of the Dave Kops Tournament of Champions in Bullhead City, Ariz. Carreon also…
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Southern California’s pandemic-recovery hiring spree was 66% bigger than previously estimated, new jobs data shows. The four-county region averaged 7.44 million jobs throughout 2021’s economic reopening, according to data revisions released Friday, March 11. That was 134,000 more jobs than previously reported. The revisions also found an extra 34,000 jobs in 2020. That means 2021’s…
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Construction of a $5 million building to give Newport Beach’s popular junior lifeguard program some breathing room is cleared to start. The public-private project at the Balboa Pier received unanimous support from the California Coastal Commission this week, the last approval needed. More than a decade in the making, the new home for the guards-in-training…
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Eleven-year-old Zainab, an Afghan refugee who is learning English, nails the question the moment she hears it. “How many notebooks in the classroom?” her teacher asks. “There is one notebook in the classroom,” she says, her voice halting because of the new language but confident because she knows the answer. “Perfect!” her teacher says. Then the…
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