Three people have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in a retail theft operation targeting Home Depot locations throughout Southern California, the California Attorney General’s Office announced. On Wednesday, April 12, the California Highway Patrol and the Home Depot’s retail crime investigators served arrest warrants for three different suspects. The alleged thefts began around…
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LOS ANGELES ― Dodger Stadium held no ill will toward Cody Bellinger. The Dodgers’ longtime center fielder received a loud ovation before his return visit with the Chicago Cubs after a tribute video played before the game, showing his highlights from six years in a Dodgers uniform. The announced sellout crowd of 52,298 clapped again…
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Guests get more than food when they come to my house for dinner. They get a taste of the community. My live-work unit at L Twelve Loft Space serves as a hub for artists, musicians and booklovers in the heart of East Oakland. I host events ranging from dance workshops to game nights, while serving…
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Gov. Gavin Newsom might have just made his most audacious move yet. Newsom, who has a fondness for making “big, hairy audacious” statements, just completed a tour through the south promoting his PAC and talking about his accomplishments in California. What made this trip so audacious? Not that this was just the latest installment of…
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I always root for the underdog, and I’m not the only one. Hundreds came out on Saturday to welcome Underdog Bookstore to Monrovia, says Nathan Allen, who owns the store with his husband Thomas Murtland. (Visitors included Octavia’s Bookshelf owner Nikki High, offering another example of the wonderful, supportive people running our local bookstores.) “We were…
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Officials gathered Friday, April 14, to toast the completed expansion of a pioneering recycling facility that takes wastewater and turns it into clean, drinkable water for much of Orange County. With the $284 million expansion to the 15-year-old Groundwater Replenishment System, the facility can now provide up to 130 million gallons of water per day,…
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Two men have been charged in connection with the beating of a married couple in their 60s in the Dodger Stadium parking lot after an Elton John concert last November. Reece Hopkin, 38, and Chad Reeves, 42, were each charged with one felony count of battery with serious bodily injury. Hopkin also faces one felony…
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LOS ANGELES ― The ending to Cody Bellinger’s Dodgers career was so abrupt, he never got the courtesy of a “hug watch” in the dugout, let alone a proper goodbye from each of his teammates. The hugs flowed freely for the 2019 National League Most Valuable Player on Friday at Dodger Stadium. Bellinger spent the…
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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is underway at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. Fans lined up early to catch a variety of sets and to take photos with several of the new art installations on site on Friday, April 14. Others hurried to the main Coachella Stage to snag an up-close spot…
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With race cars speeding through the streets of Long Beach this weekend, we take a look at some of the long-lost raceways of Southern California. First in Southern California Horses, autos and motorcycles would all race at the first Ascot Park when it opened in 1903 in L.A. Its first auto race was held in…
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