When Mike Trout announced during the All-Star Game media day last summer that he was going to play in the World Baseball Classic for the first time, the other primary topic he faced that day was his sore back. It would be more than a month before Trout played again, including a brief moment when…
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Ana Walshe disappeared from her Cohasset home in the first hours of the new year when the DA said her husband began scouring the internet on how to dismember a body and quickly collect an inheritance. “Can you be charged with murder without a body?” Brian Walshe allegedly searched on Google soon after his wife…
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Galaxy defender Jalen Neal first learned he was on the preliminary roster for the January U.S. Men’s National team camp about two weeks ago. And then Wednesday, the official word came. “A lot of emotions and a lot of excitement,” he said. Neal, 19, was one of the 24 players called into training camp as…
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By Colleen Dillaway The 1960s cartoon series “The Jetsons,” about a nuclear family living in the year 2062, left an entire generation wide-eyed about what the smart technology of the future could look like and how it could make their lives easier. Today, many of “The Jetsons” tech fantasies are a reality — think robot…
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By FRED SHUSTER Former Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar pleaded guilty on Friday, Jan. 21, to two federal charges stemming from a City Hall-based bribery and money laundering scheme in which he took more than $1.5 million in cash, gambling trips and escorts in exchange for his support of a planned downtown hotel project.…
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SACRAMENTO – After my column last week about environmentalists’ apparent desire to make our lives miserable as they try to improve the environment, I heard from progressives who accused me of jumping on the Fox News bandwagon. That’s because I pointed to their latest crusade to highlight the supposed danger of natural-gas stoves. “I’d laugh…
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Avoiding peak travel season is one of the best ways to save money on your next vacation. Yet visiting Norway in January isn’t everybody’s idea of a good time — however cheap the airfare. That’s where traveling during shoulder seasons comes in: These tourist seasons that fall on either side of peak travel dates have…
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Disneyland has some catching up to do if it hopes to make good on a promise to cut ticket prices in 2023 after offering fewer low-priced days during the first half of this year. Disneyland officials announced last week that the Anaheim theme park will offer nearly two months of dates in 2023 with daily…
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In the dark of night, two boats were loaded with safety gear, film crews and the world’s best big-wave surfers, the expedition setting out on a super secret strike mission to find a mysterious “ghost wave.” Forecasts were showing a small break in the back-to-back bomb cyclones on Jan. 13, when the relentless rains should…
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Irvine-based Families Forward has completed an affordable housing community called The Bungalows in Costa Mesa. The eight-unit facility was built to help homeless families, offering them a place to “get a fresh start in the new year,” according to the nonprofit. The construction project included rehabbing six existing units and adding two accessory dwelling units…
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