The 12-year-old spelling whiz kid from Los Angeles tripped up Wednesday, May 29, on the word “desinent” in the fourth round of the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland and was eliminated from the finals. Oliver Halkett, a sixth-grader at The Mirman School in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the San Fernando Valley, misspelled…
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Virgina Guevera, 66, had been homeless in Orange County since 2016, living in a car for half a decade before moving into a shelter for a few years. But in January, she moved into a new affordable housing complex in Stanton that will be her first permanent home in years. “To me, there’s peace and…
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By Tran Nguyen | Associated Press SACRAMENTO — As corporations increasingly weave artificial intelligence technologies into the daily lives of Americans, California lawmakers want to build public trust, fight algorithmic discrimination and outlaw deepfakes that involve elections or pornography. The efforts in California — home to many of the world’s biggest AI companies — could…
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Los Angeles area legislators are leading the charge to combat chemicals connected to leukemia, ADHD, hearing loss and breast cancer — and more — through a series of proposed environmental laws. Assemblymember Laura Friedman, D-Burbank, is pushing a bill to ban the herbicide paraquat, which has been linked to a 64% increase in the risk…
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS — Iga Swiatek played like the current No. 1 and the two-time defending champion at the French Open. No surprise there. That Naomi Osaka looked like the former No. 1 that she is – and on clay, no less – amounted to an announcement that she is still…
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Lashinda Demus was busy coaching in March 2023 when she received a text from a friend. “Congratulations!” the message said. “Congratulations?” Demus responded. “I didn’t even have a clue what he was talking about,” Demus, the Inglewood native and former Long Beach Wilson High School standout hurdler, recalled Wednesday. It wasn’t until her friend forwarded…
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Amazon is getting into the pharmacy business in California. The online mega-retailer on Wednesday, May 29, officially opened its first pharmacy in the state. Located in an industrial area of Corona in western Riverside County, the pharmacy near the 15 and 91 freeways promises to deliver prescription drugs — often within hours — using the…
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ALL-COUNTY GIRLS BEACH VOLLEYBALL 2024 PLAYERS OF THE YEAR Emma Champagne and Sara Moynihan, JSerra They led JSerra to a league championship, the semifinals of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 girls beach volleyball team championships and went deeper in the CIF-SS pairs playoffs than any other Orange County team. The duo of sophomores Emma…
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KTLA5 veteran weatherman Mark Kriski was recovering Wednesday from a “mild stroke” suffered earlier in the week. Kriski, who has been a fixture on the KTLA Morning News program since it began more than 30 years ago, “is getting the best medical care and looks forward to being back with the team soon,” according to…
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Orange County prosecutors charged a Fontana man who has previous drunken driving convictions with murder Wednesday, four days after a Memorial Day weekend collision on the Balboa Peninsula that killed a 14-year-old girl as she tried to cross a busy street. Joseph Alcazar, 30, was charged with crimes including murder, driving under the influence of…
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