Let’s all take a moment to thank “The Real Housewives of Orange County” for Housewife Emily Simpson. Not only was she the star of Wednesday’s episode, but Emily managed to bust out a footlong turkey sub in the sauna to the amazement of Housewives Heather Dubrow and Jen Armstrong. Auras and chakras and assorted woo-woo…
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Two people were hospitalized after being struck by gunfire in Buena Park on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 12, police said. The shooting happened in the area of Commonwealth Avenue and Auto Center Drive around 3:50 p.m., the Police Department said in a Facebook post. No further information was immediately available regarding the circumstances of the shooting.…
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Santa Margarita was at home Wednesday, but Mater Dei’s boys basketball team made sure the Eagles did not feel comfortable there. The Monarchs forced the game to be played at a fast pace to their liking while applying defensive pressure that prevented the Eagles from getting their offense going. Mater Dei won the Trinity League…
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By JAKE COYLE NEW YORK (AP) — The Oscar race may be missing in-person glitz this year, but it doesn’t lack for star power. Will Smith, Lady Gaga and Ben Affleck landed individual nominations for the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday, while the casts of “Belfast” and “CODA” were among those nominated for…
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By Brendan Case and Daniela Sirtori-Cortina | Bloomberg Social-media sites are full of photographs of empty grocery-store shelves, and the head of one of the biggest U.S. supermarket chains says the situation will take weeks to improve. Albertsons Cos. had been expecting that supply outages would be improving by now, but “omicron has put a…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation jumped at its fastest pace in nearly 40 years last month, a 7% spike from a year earlier that is increasing household expenses, eating into wage gains and heaping pressure on President Joe Biden and the Federal Reserve to address what has become the biggest threat to the…
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By ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is redoubling its efforts to expand supply and accessibility of COVID-19 testing as it faces mounting criticism over long lines and supply shortages for testing nationwide and confusion about when to get tested amid the omicron surge. The White House announced Wednesday that a dedicated stream…
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It seems like an eternity ago that everything was shutting down to flatten the curve. But since then state and county officials have used consideration of cases, hospitalizations and deaths to guide their policy responses. Deaths and hospitalizations are probably the best metric because they indicate how seriously people are actually getting sick and…
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By Christopher Rugaber | The Associated Press Inflation jumped at its fastest pace in nearly 40 years last month, a 7% spike from a year earlier that is increasing household expenses, eating into wage gains and heaping pressure on President Joe Biden and the Federal Reserve to address what has become the biggest threat to…
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On Jan. 10 Los Angeles Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote the cruelest column I’ve ever seen, titled, “Mocking anti-vaxxers’ COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes – but may be necessary.” The URL of the column reads, “why-shouldnt-we-dance-on-the-graves-of-anti-vaxxers.” In the column, Hiltzik gratuitously attacked Republican activist and Orange County Deputy District Attorney Kelly Ernby, who died…
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