Editor’s note: This is the Monday, Dec. 26, edition of the “Game Day with Kevin Modesti” newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Good morning. Happy new year to thoroughbred racing fans, who celebrate the opening of Santa Anita’s winter-spring season with a high-class card starting at 11 a.m. today. If…
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Pantone’s Color of the Year 2023, officially called Viva Magenta 18-1750, is expected to shape design in all kinds of ways in the coming year. Viva Magenta is a bold color. describes it as a sexy reddish-purplish-pink midway between red and blue on the color wheel.”] Pantone calls it “an unconventional shade for an unconventional…
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Q: We are having a new year’s party with about 40 people. We plan to serve liquor (including wine). If someone drinks too much, falls, or gets abusive, or drives away and causes an accident, are we liable? S.R., Manhattan Beach A: In California, the laws for dram shops (businesses that sell alcohol), and social…
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2022 marked a return to the basics for many of America’s largest food companies. That left some fan favorites in the garbage heap of history. McDonald’s gave us a gut punch when it announced the end of the McRib, the Choco Taco is being sent to the confectionery cemetery and sandwiches we didn’t know existed…
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM (Associated Press) SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military fired warning shots, scrambled fighter jets and flew surveillance assets across the heavily fortified border with North Korea on Monday, after North Korean drones violated its airspace for the first time in five years in a fresh escalation of tensions. South Korea’s…
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BEIJING (AP) — China will drop a COVID-19 quarantine requirement for passengers arriving from abroad starting Jan. 8, the National Health Commission announced Monday in the latest easing of the country’s once-strict virus-control measures. Currently, arriving passengers must quarantine for five days at a hotel, followed by three days at home. That is down from…
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At least 25 people have died in Erie County, New York, as a result of a massive winter storm which blasted much of the US in recent days, county officials said Monday, bringing the nationwide death toll to 47. The updated number of deaths in Erie County, which includes the city of Buffalo, comes as…
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Last week’s winter weather travel mess is lingering like a hangover into this week — and the headaches are migraine-proportioned for Southwest Airlines and its frustrated passengers on Monday. More than 3,200 flights within, into or out of the US had already been canceled by 2:30 p.m. ET Monday, according to flight tracking website FlightAware,…
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Los Angeles is nearly finished with a $600 million project in the east San Fernando Valley that will turn contaminated groundwater from Superfund sites into drinking water for as many as 261,000 households annually. The three new treatment facilities, expected to become operational in the second half of 2023, will produce up to 87,000 acre…
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On a warm August evening in 2021, 29-year-old Jesus Jimenez, holding a can of Bud Light, walked his bicycle along North Raitt Street in Santa Ana. A couple of steps behind him was a man in a black T-shirt, carrying what appeared to be a metal pole. They appeared to know each other, according to…
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