By Jenny Surane | Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. joined its largest rivals in setting aside more reserves as a growing number of consumers couldn’t keep up with their loan payments, even as executives dialed down fears of a looming crisis. The four biggest US lenders wrote off a combined $3.4 billion in bad consumer…
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The Happiest Place on Earth just got a little happier for more than 1,300 Disneyland security workers. The theme park’s “security cast members” — including security officers, lead officers, sergeants, bag checkers and canine handlers — have secured a wage increase of nearly $8 an hour to be phased in over the next two years.…
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The first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival experienced one major festival-related collision involving an Indio police officer and a slight increase in citations since last year, authorities said today. According to statistics released by the Indio Police Department, this year saw a 15% increase in citations and a 9% decrease in…
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Dionne Warwick is apparently skipping Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties and going straight to the IE for her next gigs in Southern California. The 82-year-old Grammy Hall of Fame member will be performing at 8 p.m. Friday, June 9 at Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, 49500 Seminole Drive. Cabazon. Tickets are $39-$297 plus…
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Spanish-language artists had a big presence on all of the stages of the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio on April 14-16. The biggest performance came with Friday headliner Bad Bunny, who made history as the first Latin act to top the bill during the three-day festival. He’ll perform again on Friday,…
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A young woman looking for a friend’s house was shot and killed in upstate New York after she and her friends turned down the wrong driveway, police said Monday. Kaylin Gillis, 20, was riding in a car in Washington County on Saturday night with three other people, Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy said. The group…
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Disneyland is continuing its road show promoting its DisneylandForward proposal for zoning changes at the resort. This month, the resort hosted a coffee-and-doughnuts information session in Anaheim’s Eucalyptus Park, while next month it heads to Ponderosa Park. The meets will continue monthly through the end of the year. I do not live near Disneyland, but…
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Viewers of the northern lights got a surprise mixed in with the green bands of light dancing in the Alaska skies: A blue spiral appeared amid the aurora borealis for a few minutes. The cause of Saturday morning’s display was excess fuel that had been released from a SpaceX rocket that…
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By ADAM BEAM | Associated Press YUBA CITY — Authorities in Northern California on Monday said they had arrested more than a dozen men from two warring criminal syndicates whose violent rivalry they say was responsible for a mass shooting at a Sikh temple and a brutal sword attack at a parade in 2018. Sutter…
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By SOPHIE AUSTIN and DAMIAN DOVARGANES | Associated Press/Report for America PALM SPRINGS — As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a small piece of land on a Native American reservation in Palm Springs he described as a “little world of its own,” surrounded by the parts of the city that were tourist magnets…
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