MALIBU — Solstice Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area was set to reopen Thursday following a brief closure prompted by a mountain lion that tried to attack a small dog whose owner was slightly injured when attempting to intervene. “An individual walking a small dog on a leash was injured when a young…
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Henry Lo, former Monterey Park mayor and current city councilmember, was in the midst of celebration when another place he considered a home fell victim to another instance of senseless violence. Lo spent four years — 1993 to 1997 — in Maine while attending Colby College, just an hour outside of Lewiston, where a gunman…
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By Vanessa Yurkevich and Chris Isidore | CNN Ford and the United Auto Workers union reached a tentative labor deal, according to the union. It is an important first step in ending the union’s unprecedented strike against three major US automakers. “Our Stand Up strike has delivered,” UAW president Shawn Fain declared in a video…
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The author and statistician Nate Silver summed up the cynic’s view of a Texas Rangers-Arizona Diamondbacks World Series matchup on Tuesday night, writing on his Twitter/X account: “This is the least compelling World Series matchup in a long time, maybe ever. MLB made a lot of great and overdue changes this season but it’s time…
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By David Sharp | Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine — CNN is reporting at least 16 people are dead in multiple shootings in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday night, according to multiple law enforcement sources. Fifty to 60 people are injured in the incidents, though it’s unclear how many are injured due to gunfire, the sources told CNN.…
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Coeur d’Alene High football coach Shawn Amos has lunch with UCLA’s Colson Yankoff whenever he’s back in his Idaho hometown. The two catch up on each other’s lives and Amos picks Yankoff’s brain about no-huddle offense. Yankoff has played three different positions for the Bruins in his four seasons and counting – all with a…
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LOS ANGELES — The imprisoned leader of a Mexico-based evangelical megachurch was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on child pornography charges involving a 16-year-old victim. Naasón Joaquín García — the leader of La Luz del Mundo (Light of the World) — was indicted on one count each of production of child pornography and…
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There are fundamental laws, deeply entrenched not just in culture and society but also in religious tenets, that are universally repudiated. Crimes such as murder, adultery and theft top this list. Yet, as countless unsuspecting citizens have discovered, there’s a sinister form of theft lurking in the shadows, sanctified by the very government that’s supposed…
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By Matt Day | Bloomberg More than two-thirds of Amazon.com’s US warehouse workers surveyed by researchers reported they took unpaid time off to recover from pain or exhaustion sustained on the job. The new national study, published Wednesday by the University of Illinois Chicago’s Center for Urban Economic Development, found that 69% of workers surveyed…
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THOUSAND OAKS — As he finished rattling through his list of practice participations, Rams head coach Sean McVay had a different kind of status update to provide. He and his wife, Veronika Khomyn, welcomed their first child, Jordan John McVay into the world on Tuesday afternoon. Both the baby boy and Khomyn are doing well,…
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