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This year’s holiday tree — a white fir that towers more than 90 feet and is festooned with more than 94,000 lights — was officially illuminated for the first time this season during a ceremony Thursday night at Town Center Park in Costa Mesa.
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The transition to trustee area elections, in which residents in designated areas will choose one person from their area to represent them, comes after Seige Law, a Santa Barbara-based law firm, sent a letter in July accusing the district of not complying with the California Voting Rights Act. -
Susan Price, Orange County’s “homeless czar,” has been hired as Costa Mesa’s new assistant city manager, officials announced Thursday. She is expected to join Costa Mesa on Jan. 6.
The sixth annual OC Brew Hee Haw wrapped up its two-day run Saturday at the Hangar at the Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa.
As I walked through the gates on opening day of the Orange County Fair on Friday, I felt a need.
Ruben Gutierrez, 45, of Huntington Beach was one of two men who once worked for an engineering firm in Rolling Hills Estates who were convicted Wednesday of more than 200 counts each, including forgery, identity theft and grand theft.
The AES facility was scheduled to close by the end of next year, but the California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously last Thursday to extend its operating life for up to three additional years.
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Thursday’s results involving Fountain Valley, Laguna Beach, Estancia, Ocean View, Costa Mesa and Pacifica Christian Orange County.
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Lani Bowman scores 22 points and her twin, Abbi, adds 11 points, and the Seahawks beat the Warriors 55-13 at home Thursday.
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The Anteaters lose 59-58 to the Horned Frogs, who get a game-winning, three-pointer from RJ Nembhard with four seconds left in Thursday’s nonconference game.
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Senior wide receiver Aidan Goltz has been the Sailors’ top target since joining the varsity program at the start of his junior year.
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Chapman University launched its Center for Freedom of Expression and Media Integrity on Wednesday with a controversial event featuring a debate on “fake” news and media bias by former White House press secretaries Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Robert Gibbs.
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Jurors decided officers used unreasonable force in using a stun gun and a chokehold to detain Fermin Vincent Valenzuela, who died from complications of asphyxia after the 2016 incident.
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The program forces migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. to live in Mexico while their court cases are adjudicated
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A Philippine Airlines flight headed to Manila made an emergency landing Thursday shortly after leaving Los Angeles International Airport after its right engine apparently started shooting flames.
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Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey received the endorsement of San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Dennis Herrera, the city attorney. It’s a rebuke of former S.F. D.A. George Gascon and his style of criminal justice reform.
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A 53-year-old mother of two has sued Fuller Theological Seminary, alleging she was expelled from its graduate program over a same-sex relationship.
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How the University of California’s six medical schools gave in to the Catholic church’s limits on medical treatment and training
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Twenty-two years after two women were attacked in Alameda County, a suspect has been identified, using evidence from a discarded ice cream spoon.
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The men bought and sold dozens of “off-roster” weapons through private party transfers, prosecutors said, sometimes interacting with felons.
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Young people want someone like Bernie Sanders who will fight for them. They deserve that.
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It’s not just drugs. Mexico’s cartels are fighting over avocados.
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After days of damaging testimony in the Trump impeachment hearings, Democrats claimed they had built an airtight case against the president. Will it matter?
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Question: About 17 years ago I inherited my father’s mortgage-free town house in Southern California.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the wraps off his electric “cyberpunk” pickup truck on Thursday night.
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A 57-year-old scuba diver from New York died after being found floating unconscious in the water Saturday at Shaw’s Cove in Laguna Beach, authorities said.
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The bodies of Bruce Robert Frenchak Sr., 57, and Sheliene Zhanette Frenchak, 54, were found by Pennsylvania state police at a rest stop in Newburg. Police said a records search showed the pair had been reported missing out of California’s Tuolumne County.
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News briefs from the Daily Pilot.
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Parking in Laguna Beach will get pricier — and maybe a little easier — as a result of increased citywide parking rates the City Council unanimously approved Tuesday. Staff projected the fee increases could lower parking occupancy and net $3 million in revenue.
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David Carrillo Peñaloza, Matt Szabo and Andrew Turner pick Friday’s winners in the semifinals of the CIF Southern Section football playoffs.
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The top-seeded Sea Kings (12-0), seeking their third CIF Southern Section finals appearance in four years, travel to play the No. 4 Warriors (9-2) in the Division 3 semifinals on Friday at 7 p.m.
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The Sailors (9-3) travel to play the No. 2-seeded Bulldogs (9-3) in the semifinals of the CIF Southern Section Division 9 playoffs on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
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The No. 2-seeded Vikings (10-2) will compete in their first CIF Southern Section semifinal since 1985 when they travel to play the Bulldogs (8-4) in a Division 11 playoff game on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
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Judah Brown scores 19 points and Charles Erving adds 17 points, and the Tritons earn a 63-53 road victory over the Eagles on Wednesday.
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Carmen Villegas woke up in Soledad Saturday morning, applied some hot pink lipstick and gathered up the kids.
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Veterans surveyed for a recently-published UC Irvine study said it’s easier for them to accept comrades lost in combat than those who died by suicide.
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When Kenneth Wells stepped out of jail after a six-year bid, life’s possibilities seemed minuscule.
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As the Easy fire burned in Simi Valley last month, images of frightened horses running between a column of evacuating vehicles gripped animal lovers nationwide.
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When any theater produces a play involving Sherlock Holmes, audiences are well aware that emotional extremes — cool, unflappable deduction and histrionic melodrama — are to be expected.
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Maine is pretty cold in the winter. It was freezing when I was a kid.
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What kind of education would you rather have?
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Since 1970 Share Our Selves has been front and center in Orange County, caring for the underserved community.
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For the third year in a row, TimesOC readers have nominated and voted on “Orange County’s Best: TimesOC’s Readers’ Choice.”
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As advocates for gun violence prevention and sensible gun laws, we urge you to vote for Dave Min, a Democratic Party candidate for state Senate District 37.
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