Dry storage of used fuel rods at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Camp Pendleton, CA, on Thursday, December 16, 2021. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) One of the quickest ways to get nuclear waste off San Onofre’s bluffs, relatively speaking: temporary storage sites, run by private companies, that aren’t surrounded by…
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John Morris resigned as Servite’s basketball coach, a position he held for 12 seasons. The Friars this season went 12-12 overall. They were 12-1 outside of the Trinity League. Servite was 0-10 in the Trinity and, having qualified for the CIF Southern Section playoffs as an at-large team, lost to Canyon in the first round…
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For Rams coach Sean McVay, what’s happening in Ukraine is personal. McVay’s fiancée, Veronika Khomyn, is Ukrainian, and much of her family is in the country that has been under invasion by Russia for the past week. Before discussing football in a virtual press conference Wednesday, McVay sent “thoughts and prayers” to Ukraine and talked…
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By Paul J. Weber and Acacia Coronado | Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Republicans promised new voting rules would make it “easier to vote and harder to cheat.” But as the dust settled Wednesday on the nation’s first primary, voters in both parties had their ballots caught by the changes. By and large, Texas’…
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A look at the schedule for Servite’s baseball verifies the high regard Friars coach Shawn Gilbert has for this season’s team. Servite will play in the Southern California portion of the Boras Classic, the most prestigious tournament in California, and in the National High School Invitational, an event that annually draws some of the nation’s…
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The OC Health Care Agency reported 385 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, March 2, increasing the cumulative total since tracking began in the county to 539,236. There were 5,104 new cases reported in the last two-week period as of Wednesday. There were 217 patients testing positive for COVID-19 reported in Orange County hospitals…
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Even as the Ravens’ contract negotiations with Lamar Jackson drag on, with general manager Eric DeCosta saying Wednesday that the team will work “at Lamar’s urgency,” the quarterback’s unsettled future in Baltimore isn’t expected to affect his offseason availability. In a session with reporters at the NFL scouting combine, DeCosta said he’s never discussed the…
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By Mark Bergen | Bloomberg Alphabet Inc.’s Google is asking employees in the San Francisco Bay Area to work in their offices three days a week starting in April, marking its first return to campuses since the pandemic began. John Casey, Google’s vice president of Global Benefits, shared the news with staff in an email…
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Crews appeared to have the upper hand while battling a roughly 60-acre wildfire reported near the Holy Jim Trail in the Cleveland National Forest Wednesday, March 2. The fire had consumed about 10 acres shortly after it was initially reported at about 11:30 a.m., Cleveland National Forest spokesman Nathan Judy said. It grew to about…
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By ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s time for America to stop letting the coronavirus “dictate how we live,” President Joe Biden’s White House declared Wednesday, outlining a strategy to allow people to return to many normal activities safely after two years of pandemic disruptions. One highlight is a new “test to treat” plan to…
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