By DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer BEIJING — Austrian skier Matthias Mayer defended his title in the super-G on Tuesday (Monday night PT) at the Beijing Games and added a third Olympic gold medal to his collection, while American Ryan Cochran-Siegle finished second 50 years after his mother won an Olympic gold medal. Mayer broke…
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It took Nathan Chen little more than 80 seconds to vanquish the ghosts of Pyeongchang. Less than 90 seconds for Chen to emphatically answer the questions that hounded him for four years, through World Championships-winning seasons, to the moment he took the ice for the Olympic Games short program on Tuesday morning (Monday night PT).…
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BEIJING — Marie-Philip Poulin capped a three-goal run by scoring on a penalty shot with 2:35 left in the second period, and Canada upended the defending Olympic champion United States, 4-2, on Tuesday (Monday night PT) to claim the women’s hockey tournament’s top seed entering the playoff round. Barring a major upset, the global hockey…
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Endangered giant river otters playing underneath a 15-foot waterfall. Monkeys moving through a treetop system of see-through mesh trails. And a new splash pad area for little kids. Those are some of the big changes in the works at the Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park, which broke ground last month on the new habitat…
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With the help of a $55 million donation, UC Irvine will develop a center on campus dedicated to research on depression, where top-notch experts will be recruited to study causes and treatment of the disease. The money was gifted by Newport Beach resident Audrey Steele Burnand, as part of her estate. The philanthropist, who died…
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U.S. men’s figure skater Vincent Zhou has tested positive for the coronavirus, and is out of the individual competition at the Beijing Olympics. In a five-minute video posted to Instagram on Monday night, a teary Zhou announced that he would have to withdraw. He had initially tested positive as part of a routine COVID-19 screening,…
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A layoff and a knack for making things pushed Eric Buss into the sticky, opaque world of toothpaste. The story of the La Mirada kid who grew up to be a Temecula manufacturer selling minty paste to the masses is a head-spinning tale of ingenuity and good old-fashioned serendipity. His story goes something like this:…
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For nearly two years, singer-songwriter Elle King battled what she called her “pandemic depression” by diving deeper into her craft. Now, King said she’s done with virtual performances and writing in isolation, and she is ready to hit the road on the Drunk and I Don’t Wanna Go Home Tour. “I feel that I’ve been…
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BEIJING (AP) — A roundup of gold medals from Monday, Feb. 7, at the Beijing Games: ALPINE SKIING MEN’S DOWNHILL Beat Feuz of Switzerland captured gold in the Olympic men’s downhill. Johan Clarey of France, who is 41, was 0.10 seconds behind to win silver and two-time Olympic champion Matthias Mayer of Austria was 0.16…
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Ten Orange County residents with developmental disabilities have been honored for their decades of work in Orange County. The board of directors at the Regional Center of Orange County commended the group at a recent meeting. Nine of the honorees have each worked for more than 30 years at their respective jobs while another has…
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