It did not take long for Chicago Cubs infielder Zach McKinstry to learn how his new team approaches baserunning. The Cubs’ aggressive style has been a seasonlong strategy. Earlier in the year, manager David Ross acknowledged the Cubs needed to adopt that philosophy in an effort to generate more runs based on personnel. McKinstry, acquired…
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An aging patriotic mural on the Prado Dam near Corona — visible to millions of drivers traveling east on the 91 Freeway — has been called the “gateway” or “marquee to the Inland Empire.” And after graffiti, lead paint concerns, and a long legal battle with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — which controls…
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HERAT, Afghanistan — An explosion tore through a crowded mosque in western Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 18 people. including a prominent cleric close to the Taliban, Taliban officials and a local medic said. At least 21 people were hurt. The explosion in the city of Herat left the courtyard of the Guzargah Mosque…
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Q. Hello Honk: You have been asked this question a few times over the last few years: When will the weigh station along the 91 Freeway reopen? You have explained previously that there have problems because of COVID or subcontractor problems. But it seems that those problems might have been resolved by now. Any clue…
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Mike McDaniel is a big believer in team chemistry, camaraderie, relationship-building, all that kind of intangible, abstract stuff. McDaniel, the 39-year-old Miami Dolphins rookie head coach, strongly believes those things help win games. That belief is the reason the Dolphins had a team outing Thursday night, and it’s the reason Miami’s locker room has a…
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Here are 5 things to do in the garden his week: 1. Propagate petunias, marigolds, impatiens, and begonias from cuttings. Make a soil mix that is half perlite or pumice and half peat moss or coco coir. Soak the mix in a bucket or similar receptacle until it has the consistency of a wrung-out sponge,…
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Anaheim Union High School District unveiled at Sycamore Junior High School on Thursday, Sept. 1, the first of 13 community resource centers planned for campuses around the district to provide a variety of support services to students and their families. Sycamore’s new Community Schools Resource Center is a product of a seven-year, $4 billion state…
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This is what the Miami Heat attempted to pre-empt in July, when the franchise that rarely, even surreptitiously, alludes to personnel deliberations did just that. “We have enough,” an Erik Spoelstra favorite, basically was the word from on high, issued behind the scenes to those charged with pontificating on the team’s direction. While not exactly…
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If Hollywood were to make the movie “Revenge of the Small Paychecks” for Labor Day 2022, it would be a horror film for bosses. An intriguing plot line inside this year’s job market drama is that workers making the least are getting the second-biggest pay hikes among 41 job niches tracked by the Federal Reserve Bank…
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North Coast Music Festival: Armin Van Buuren, Illenium and Porter Robinson headline the annual EDM fest, which features stages focused on house, bass and dubstep. You can also climb a couch cushion pyramid and watch a laser light show in the air conditioned Chill Dome, dance around the Incendia Fire Pit and groove to your…
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