COLORADO SPRINGS — An El Paso County judge on Thursday unsealed a dropped 2021 criminal case against the Club Q mass shooting suspect in which the suspect allegedly threatened to become “the next mass killer.” The 2021 case against Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, was made secret last year after the charges were dropped and court…
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Yorba Linda not only topped voter turnout in the midterm election among the north Orange County cities served by this newspaper, but the city’s voters gave Gavin Newsom-opponent Brian Dahle by far the highest percentage of the vote for governor. And Yorba Linda’s voters supported every candidate endorsed by Orange County’s official Republican Party organization…
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By David R Baker | Bloomberg The wildfire smoke that’s often seen blanketing California skies is more than just a problem for breathing — it can also drastically slash electricity generated by solar panels in a state that’s been struggling to meet all its power needs. A new study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research shows…
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The Indiana Jones Adventure dark ride in the crumbling Temple of the Forbidden Eye at Disneyland that has been prone to downtime and showing its age in recent years will undergo a comprehensive refurbishment in early 2023. The Indiana Jones Adventure attraction will be closed from Jan. 9 until spring 2023 for refurbishment and maintenance,…
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By ERIC TUCKER, MATTHEW LEE and ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON — Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic prisoner exchange, as the U.S. released notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout but failed to win freedom for another American, Paul Whelan, who has been jailed for nearly four years. The swap, at a…
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By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS LONDON — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, made a sweeping indictment of Britain’s media and the racism they believe has fueled coverage of their relationship in a new Netflix series that promises to tell the “full story” of the couple’s estrangement from the royal family. Relying on interviews…
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By Lisa Respers France | CNN Celine Dion is postponing several Europe tour dates after the recent diagnosis of a rare neurological disorder that doesn’t allow her “to sing the way I’m used to,” she announced. The superstar singer has stiff-person syndrome, which affects “something like one in a million people,” Dion, 54, said in…
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Ander Monson doesn’t remember the first time he saw “Predator,” the 1987 action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. As he writes in his new book about the film, it could have been at a movie theater in his hometown of Houghton, Michigan, when it came out, but maybe it was on VHS a year later. Regardless,…
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The Chet Holifield Federal Building in 1971 looking north. (Source: GSA) The pyramid-shaped office building in Laguna Niguel known as “Ziggurat” should be hit with a wrecking ball. Instead, the federal government says any buyer must preserve what most folks see as an industrial eyesore. After a lengthy review process, the General Services Administration says…
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By Colleen Slevin and Jim Mustian | Associated Press DENVER — Authorities said the person who would later kill five at a Colorado gay nightclub was on the FBI’s radar a day before being arrested for threatening to kill family members, but agents closed out the case just weeks later. The disclosure by the FBI…
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