SANTA ANA – There is a buzz around the Huntington Beach baseball team. That buzz is the sound of an electric razor. Huntington Beach has won 14 in a row since the players and coaches went to the buzz cut look. The 14th win came Wednesday when the Oilers beat Mater Dei 6-2 in a…
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By PAUL J. WEBER and JESSICA GRESKO AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals court has preserved access to an abortion drug for now but under tighter rules that would allow the drug only to be dispensed up to seven weeks, not 10, and not by mail. The drug, mifepristone, was approved for use by the…
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Notre Dame starting pitcher Oliver Boone, right, gets a handshake from Notre Dame catcher Colin Brown after Boone struck out a JSerra batter to end the inning in the second round of the Boras Classic baseball tournament in San Juan Capistrano on Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Notre Dame’s Dean…
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SAN FRANCISCO — Major League Baseball has instituted a series of new rules designed to put more action into the game. But the Dodgers are doing their best to take some of it out. The leaders in baseball with 72 walks in their first 13 games this season, the Dodgers used four in a row…
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Evidence is mounting in court documents that an Orange County sheriff’s detective illegally listened to at least five recorded calls between a jail inmate and an attorney — including calls in which the officer was warned by the lawyer not to listen. Recordings of the calls were included in a motion filed Wednesday, April 12,…
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By Jesse Bedayn | Associated Press/Report for America DENVER — Cindy Powers was driven into bankruptcy by 19 life-saving abdominal operations. Medical debt started stacking up for Lindsey Vance after she crashed her skateboard and had to get nine stitches in her chin. And for Misty Castaneda, open heart surgery for a disease she’d had…
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Around this time a year ago, complaints about the state of baseball were not limited to pedants, pundits, and old men yelling at clouds. The league-wide batting average by the end of April 2022 was .231. Mario Mendoza, the light-hitting infielder of the 1970s and 1980s whose name is synonymous with below-average hitting, batted .231…
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Prof. Dante Simonetti stood on a 100-foot barge Wednesday morning, tethered close to shore just outside one of AltaSea’s massive warehouses at the Port of Los Angeles. In one hand, Simonetti, who helps head up UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management, held a copper block called an electrochemical reactor. When a jolt of electricity is applied…
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SAN FRANCISCO — The Dodgers have answered their leadership question – by not even asking it. With Justin Turner departed for Boston, a popular question this spring centered on who would fill his leadership role in the Dodgers clubhouse. Manager Dave Roberts acknowledged that it was an issue on his mind as spring camp opened…
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Fullerton coach Shaun Hill argues with the umpire about a balk call that gave La Habra a 1-0 win in a Freeway League game Wednesday. (Photo by Lou Ponsi) La Habra’s Jared Day pitched five innings in the Highlanders’ 1-0 victory over Fullerton in a Freeway League game Wednesday, April 12. (Photo by Lou Ponsi)…
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