Cooking and serving food on a hot line with hungry, eager customers never was an easy job. Now imagine it with a face mask and gloves on. The family-owned Panda Restaurant Group employs nearly 800 people in Orange County and 40,000 worldwide. They work side by side under certain pressure every day, making fan-favorites such…
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The second year of the pandemic has been a new year of milestones for the team at Voit Real Estate Services. The broker-owned commercial real estate firm celebrated its 50th anniversary in a year that saw the economy whipsaw from bad to good. The team at Voit also earned its third time among Orange County’s…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general is seeking former President Donald Trump’s testimony in an ongoing civil investigation into his business practices, a person familiar with the matter said. Attorney General Letitia James’ office has requested that Trump sit for a deposition on Jan. 7, according to the person,…
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“Bubble Watch” digs into trends that may indicate economic and/or housing market troubles ahead. Buzz: California mortgage makers look “conservative” vs. national benchmarks. Source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed Black Knight’s report with noteworthy details from purchase and refi mortgages locked in during October. That stats track the 20 most-active housing markets — including five in…
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The consensus box of picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for races on Friday Dec. 9, 2021 at Los Alamitos. Trouble viewing on mobile device? See consensus picks Enjoy the consensus horse racing picks online? Subscribe Related Articles Medina Spirit, winner of the…
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was immediately taken into custody Thursday after a federal jury convicted him of downloading and possessing child pornography. The jury in Fayetteville, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, found the 33-year-old Duggar guilty on one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography.…
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A “Lion King” musical stage show coming to Disneyland offers a new adaptation of the ancestral story of how a young lion cub becomes king of the jungle told with singers, dancers and drummers. The “Tale of the Lion King” show will move from Disney California Adventure to the Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland in 2022.…
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By Crispian Balmer | Reuters ROME — Italian writer-director Lina Wertmuller, the first woman ever to be nominated for best director at the U.S. Academy Awards, has died at the age of 93, the culture ministry said on Thursday. A filmmaker since the early 1960s, Wertmuller took world cinema by storm with her politically charged films of…
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By Lisa Mascaro | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Bob Dole lay in state Thursday at the U.S. Capitol, as the president and others gathered to pay tribute to a “giant of our history” who served the country in war and in politics with pragmatism, self-deprecating wit and a bygone era’s sense of common civility and…
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By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sounded an alarm about a global slide among democratic institutions Thursday as he convened the first White House Summit for Democracy. He called for world leaders to “lock arms” to strengthen democracies and demonstrate their worth in a changing world. Biden called it…
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