The UCLA gymnastics team has coined a new term: sidelineography. A noun describing the energy that the Bruins bring for every meet, something that will be very valuable as the team enters the NCAA Raleigh Regional on Thursday. “We’ve wanted to embrace and support how each of our student-athletes gets into their own zone,” Coach…
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A 22-year-old Anaheim man was convicted Wednesday of sexually assaulting a freshman student during an early-morning attack last year on the Chapman University campus. An Orange County Superior Court jury deliberated for several days before finding Dalante Jerome Bell guilty of felony counts of assault with intent to commit sexual offense and sexual penetration by…
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The pandemic’s homebuying binge added 23 million-dollar Orange County neighborhoods since February 2020, the last month before coronavirus chilled the economy. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with February homebuying stats from DQNews/CoreLogic for 83 Orange County ZIP codes, showed how dramatically home pricing has changed in the past two years — comparing “expensive” ZIPs (median selling…
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The OC Health Care Agency reported 129 more cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, March 30. That increases the cumulative total since tracking began in the county to 546,880. There were 102 people in Orange County hospitals with coronavirus on Wednesday, including 17 who needed to be in intensive care units. The county reported five…
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By Travis Loller | Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The moment nurse RaDonda Vaught realized she had given a patient the wrong medication, she rushed to the doctors working to revive 75-year-old Charlene Murphey and told them what she had done. Within hours, she made a full report of her mistake to the Vanderbilt University…
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Loyola is the best boys volleyball team in the CIF Southern Section. If there is an Orange County team that will challenge the Cubs in the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs, maybe it’s Mater Dei. In this week’s CIF-SS combined Division 1 and 2 rankings Loyola is No. 1 and Mater Dei is No. 2. The…
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By JOSH BOAK and MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing higher oil prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden is looking at invoking the Defense Production Act this week to increase the mining of critical minerals for the batteries used in electric vehicles. That’s according to a person familiar with the White House…
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A man accused of fatally shooting a 6-year-old boy on the 55 Freeway in Orange, and the woman who authorities say was driving him at the time, will face a jury trial for their suspected roles in the road-rage confrontation, a judge ruled on Wednesday, March 30. Orange County Superior Court Judge Larry Yellin determined…
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LOS ANGELES — Luke Kennard wore one of Kawhi Leonard’s patented “Clip Gang or Don’t Bang” hoodies to work Tuesday, scored 17 points and then cracked a smile when he noted the relevance of the attire, which features an image of Leonard, Marcus Morris Sr. and Paul George screaming in competitive exhilaration at a posterized…
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By TIA GOLDENBERG TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Three deadly attacks in Israel in a week are raising questions over Israel’s approach to its conflict with the Palestinians, after years of efforts to sideline the issue and focus instead on other regional priorities. The attacks by Palestinian assailants, including most recently on Tuesday night, have…
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