Services for longtime Orange County sports referee Espiridion “Speed” Castillo will be held at Christ Cathedral on June 27 at 11 a.m. A reception is to follow the Mass at Christ Cathedral. Burial is at Riverside National Cemetery on June 28 at 10 a.m. Castillo died May 18 in Anaheim of natural causes. He was…
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Name: Laci Armenta — Age: 18 — High school: Brea Olinda High School — GPA: 3.8 — High School Activities or Groups: I have been apart of ASB for 4 years and have gladly served as ASB president this past year. I have also had the honor of being in Link Crew my last 2…
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NEW YORK — If you can break it here, you can break it anywhere. The Dodgers arrived at Citi Field reeling from a three-game sweep in Cincinnati, slumping offensively and wearing a five-game losing streak, their longest in five years. They snapped the losing streak on Tuesday and broke out of the offensive slump on…
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St. Margaret’s hired Jon Hughes as its boys basketball coach, the school announced Wednesday. Hughes coached the girls basketball team at Calvary Chapel the past two seasons. Before that he was the boys basketball coach at Calvary Chapel from 2019 to 2021. He led the Eagles to the CIF Southern Section Division 5AA championship in…
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The 12-year-old spelling whiz kid from Los Angeles tripped up Wednesday, May 29, on the word “desinent” in the fourth round of the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland and was eliminated from the finals. Oliver Halkett, a sixth-grader at The Mirman School in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the San Fernando Valley, misspelled…
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Virgina Guevera, 66, had been homeless in Orange County since 2016, living in a car for half a decade before moving into a shelter for a few years. But in January, she moved into a new affordable housing complex in Stanton that will be her first permanent home in years. “To me, there’s peace and…
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By Tran Nguyen | Associated Press SACRAMENTO — As corporations increasingly weave artificial intelligence technologies into the daily lives of Americans, California lawmakers want to build public trust, fight algorithmic discrimination and outlaw deepfakes that involve elections or pornography. The efforts in California — home to many of the world’s biggest AI companies — could…
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Los Angeles area legislators are leading the charge to combat chemicals connected to leukemia, ADHD, hearing loss and breast cancer — and more — through a series of proposed environmental laws. Assemblymember Laura Friedman, D-Burbank, is pushing a bill to ban the herbicide paraquat, which has been linked to a 64% increase in the risk…
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS — Iga Swiatek played like the current No. 1 and the two-time defending champion at the French Open. No surprise there. That Naomi Osaka looked like the former No. 1 that she is – and on clay, no less – amounted to an announcement that she is still…
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Lashinda Demus was busy coaching in March 2023 when she received a text from a friend. “Congratulations!” the message said. “Congratulations?” Demus responded. “I didn’t even have a clue what he was talking about,” Demus, the Inglewood native and former Long Beach Wilson High School standout hurdler, recalled Wednesday. It wasn’t until her friend forwarded…
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