Teamsters members at Chedraui USA-owned Smart & Final distribution centers in Commerce and Riverside fear they may soon lose their jobs, and they’re alerting customers of their concerns. The two facilities will be closing next year as the company shifts operations to a bigger 2.4 million-square-foot distribution center in Rancho Cucamonga that’s set to open…
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The deep-sea creature is an image horror films are made of: Dark black flesh, teeth sharp as glass and an antenna that glows to entice prey in the ocean’s depths. It’s quite fitting that the spooky-looking angler fish washed up on Friday the 13th, just weeks before Halloween. It is the second angler fish to…
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LOS ANGELES — Booted from the postseason in four games by the San Diego Padres last fall, Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman called it “an organizational failure.” So how would he characterize a second consecutive first-round exit, this time after a three-game National League Division Series sweep by the Arizona Diamondbacks? “I think…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Here are the Orange County high school football stat leaders after the Week 7 games. The leaderboards are based on season stats published on MaxPreps.com. To be included, teams must have stats updated on MaxPreps each Tuesday by 2 p.m. PASSING: TOTAL YARDS…
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By Colleen Long, Aamer Madhani and Chris Megerian | Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s efforts to tamp down tensions in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas faced massive setbacks even before he departed for the Middle East on Tuesday, as Jordan called off the president’s planned summit with Arab leaders after a…
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta hosted a press conference on Tuesday, Oct. 17 at Los Angeles State Historic Park, to warn companies of their responsibility to disclose the presence of dangerous PFAS under Assembly Bill 1200. He issued a letter to manufacturers, distributors, and sellers of food packaging and cookware, alerting them that they must…
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By Marshall Cohen | CNN Jury selection in the first Georgia election subversion trial is set to begin Friday as planned, after the judge issued a slew of rulings Tuesday rejecting attempts to throw out the charges. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee denied eight motions from co-defendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, pro-Donald…
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SANTA ANA — A former Inglewood Police Department officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge of distributing cocaine. John Abel Baca, 47, of Whittier, who served as an Inglewood officer for 21 years, admitted that he distributed cocaine on two occasions. Sentencing was set for Feb. 5 in Santa Ana federal court. On April…
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Congress has been without a House speaker for two weeks after Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, was ousted from the position, and two Republican candidates vying for California’s 49th congressional district say a divided GOP is hurting the country. Kate Monroe, a U.S. Marine veteran and Margarita Wilkinson, a longtime media executive, are the latest to…
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LOS ANGELES — UCLA football is still looking for its first Pac-12 road win this season, and it has an opportunity to find it this weekend at Stanford. “We want to get it bad,” defensive lineman Gary Smith III said. “We want to win every game, so hopefully we can get one on the road…
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