Spanish-language artists had a big presence on all of the stages of the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio on April 14-16. The biggest performance came with Friday headliner Bad Bunny, who made history as the first Latin act to top the bill during the three-day festival. He’ll perform again on Friday,…
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A young woman looking for a friend’s house was shot and killed in upstate New York after she and her friends turned down the wrong driveway, police said Monday. Kaylin Gillis, 20, was riding in a car in Washington County on Saturday night with three other people, Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy said. The group…
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Disneyland is continuing its road show promoting its DisneylandForward proposal for zoning changes at the resort. This month, the resort hosted a coffee-and-doughnuts information session in Anaheim’s Eucalyptus Park, while next month it heads to Ponderosa Park. The meets will continue monthly through the end of the year. I do not live near Disneyland, but…
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Viewers of the northern lights got a surprise mixed in with the green bands of light dancing in the Alaska skies: A blue spiral appeared amid the aurora borealis for a few minutes. The cause of Saturday morning’s display was excess fuel that had been released from a SpaceX rocket that…
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By ADAM BEAM | Associated Press YUBA CITY — Authorities in Northern California on Monday said they had arrested more than a dozen men from two warring criminal syndicates whose violent rivalry they say was responsible for a mass shooting at a Sikh temple and a brutal sword attack at a parade in 2018. Sutter…
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By SOPHIE AUSTIN and DAMIAN DOVARGANES | Associated Press/Report for America PALM SPRINGS — As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a small piece of land on a Native American reservation in Palm Springs he described as a “little world of its own,” surrounded by the parts of the city that were tourist magnets…
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”Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data. Buzz: California’s growth of its business output ranked just 18th-best among the state during the past three years, more evidence that coronavirus was not terribly kind to the Golden…
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LAYTONVILLE — A 15-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of killing another teenager whose body was found in an empty field in a remote Northern California town, authorities said Monday. Sixteen-year-old Ruby Sky Montelongo was found dead by her uncle Saturday morning after she failed to return to their home in Covelo the previous…
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By Jessica Damiano You’re in your garden and notice a beautiful, new-to-you flower that has popped up somewhere unexpected — pull it or leave it? Or perhaps an unfamiliar garden pest has ravaged your tomato plants. Or you experienced the deflating discovery of a gray-white crust on the soil in your seed-starting tray. Where do…
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Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021 signed a law that returns property to the heirs of a family victimized by Manhattan Beach, which used the power of eminent domain to take the couple’s oceanfront resort for transparently racist reasons. Senate Bill 746 not only restored, albeit belatedly, a modicum of justice — but reminded us…
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