A new and growing threat is facing America’s largest bird, the California condor, a famed species that has been slowly recovering from the brink of extinction. A highly contagious strain of avian influenza has killed at least 18 of the massive birds around the Grand Canyon in Arizona over the past month. And now California…
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EL SEGUNDO — The question was direct and to the point, and D’Angelo Russell wanted no part of it. He said he didn’t wish to reply to a query about the challenges the Lakers might face from Memphis Grizzlies backcourt counterpart Ja Morant in their first-round Western Conference playoff series. “I’d rather, honestly, talk about…
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Athlete Elliot Barrios gets a high-five during Pendleton Elementary School’s Special Olympics Field Day in Buena Park, CA on Friday, April 14, 2023. Athletes from the school’s special day classes participated in events and an awards ceremony. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG) Students at Pendleton Elementary School cheer on their classmates during the…
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Last year’s first-round clash between the Kings and Edmonton Oilers was such an entertaining, edifying series that it only seemed fitting that they would meet again. On Monday, they’ll square off in Canada for Game 1 of a series that should be spellbinding if last year’s postseason offered any indication. That confrontation saw the maximum…
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PLAYA VISTA — It’s the playoffs, where a team has potentially seven chances to get it right. Seven games to find the right matchups, to figure out the most effective schemes, the right defense and the best offense. Seven games, if that’s what it takes, for another chance. The Clippers (44-38) open their best-of-seven playoff…
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The race for the final two spots in the “grandfather of match racing” has set sail. The Ficker Cup, a three-day regatta in Long Beach that acts as a qualifier for last available slots in next week’s Congressional Cup, got underway on Friday, Feb. 14. The Ficker Cup will continue on Saturday and Sunday. The…
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A Great Park aquatics facility will still be completed in the initial phase of the Irvine park’s development — just not in time for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. And the deadline for the completion of the first slate of projects, which includes a veterans memorial garden, 15 acres of lush green botanical gardens, a…
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One-day theme park tickets to Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Calif., and its sibling, Disney California Adventure Park, start at $104 per person, so calling Disneyland cheap is about as believable as saying an elephant can fly. But at Disneyland, elephants do in fact fly (Dumbo, anyone?) — and successfully planning a trip to Disneyland on…
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On the northeast corner of Highland and Commonwealth avenues stands the Fullerton police station, a Spanish Colonial Revival architectural building with flat, red tile roofing and colorful glazed ceramic tiles adorning the walls in the courtyard. Originally built as Fullerton City Hall in July 1941 and known to longtime locals as “Old City Hall,” the…
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By Steve Contorno | CNN Floridians woke up Friday morning to discover Gov. Ron DeSantis had signed into law a six-week abortion ban overnight, meeting behind closed doors with a select group of invited guests to give final approval to a bill that had just passed the state legislature earlier in the day. In backing…
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