More than 10,000 Southern California Edison customers remained without power Saturday morning, Jan. 18 as the utility scrambled to fix equipment damaged by the recent high winds. “I don’t have information specific to a city or a community, but I can tell you as of 7 a.m. this morning, there are 10,186 customers without power,”…
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No. 4 RAMS at No. 2 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES When: Noon Sunday Where: Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia TV/Radio: NBC (Ch. 4), Peacock/710 AM; 93.1 FM; 1330 AM (Spanish); Sirius 225, 226 Line: Eagles by 6 Notable injury designations Rams: QUESTIONABLE: LT Alaric Jackson (chest/knee), CB Ahkello Witherspoon (thigh), NT Bobby Brown III (shoulder), OL Justin Dedich (illness). Eagles: OUT: DT Byron…
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Firefighters in battle-scarred Los Angeles County and around Southern California could again face “extreme” fire weather conditions with powerful gusts in the coming week, the National Weather Service said on Saturday, Jan. 18. “A strong and dry Santa Ana event with extreme fire weather conditions is increasingly likely,” the NWS said in a statement. “This…
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Galaxy defender and captain Maya Yoshida is returning, signing a new two-year contract through the end of the 2026 season. Yoshida, 36, who was out of contract after last season, started all 40 games. He played all but 24 minutes in the Galaxy’s 34 regular-season games. “We are thrilled to announce that our captain is…
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In the wake of our recent catastrophic fires, much can be written about the value of firescaping and its principles and I will get to that subject in a moment, but first let me say a few words about tree maintenance. The Santa Ana winds that spread the fires with lightning speed blew with hurricane…
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The most fraudulent presidency in the history of the nation is about to come to an end. Joe Biden leaves office at 9 a.m. Pacific Time on Monday, Jan. 20. During the inaugural ceremonies, federal employees will remove every trace of the Biden administration from the White House. They should check behind the sofas and…
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The beginning of a new year is the ideal time to harness those feelings of guilty excess and summon the resolve to lighten up. I know it’s no fun. As I sort through my own home, I have a whole arsenal of excuses to avoid letting go of what should go. To fuel my momentum,…
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The Black Widow Bride in Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion who had a dark habit of beheading her husbands has traded in her axe for a new backstory that softens her murderous tendencies and makes her a more mournful and lovesick figure. Walt Disney Imagineering will introduce a new ghostly bride using projection technology in the Haunted…
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Declan Durcan and his wife wept with relief when they got the call last Sunday telling them they could rent a three-bedroom house in Brentwood. It was a small but consequential bit of good news after a devastating, heart-rending week. Their Pacific Palisades home was transformed into rubble Jan. 7 when an inferno devoured their…
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“How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market. The pain: Southern California tenants last year hunted for housing in some of the nation’s tightest apartment markets. The source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a year-end report by RentCafe on rental availability at big apartment complexes nationwide. The data tracked 139 U.S. markets, including six…
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