Month: March 2021

Three UCLA Bruins were acknowledged for their efforts this season when the Pac-12 announced its yearly awards Tuesday morning. Sophomore point guard Tyger Campbell was named to the all-conference first team. Sophomore guards Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Johnny Juzang were selected to the all-conference second team. Jaquez was also named to the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team.…

Two fired Fullerton police officers involved in the 2011 beating death of Kelly Thomas have dropped their legal fight to win back their jobs. Jay Cicinelli and Joseph Wolfe separately handed-in court papers recently terminating their cases in appellate court against the Fullerton Police Department. The death of 37-year-old Thomas in July 2011 triggered national…

Two fired Fullerton police officers involved in the 2011 beating death of Kelly Thomas have dropped their legal fight to win back their jobs. Jay Cicinelli and Joseph Wolfe separately handed-in court papers recently terminating their cases in appellate court against the Fullerton Police Department. The death of 37-year-old Thomas in July 2011 triggered national…

Two fired Fullerton police officers involved in the 2011 beating death of Kelly Thomas have dropped their legal fight to win back their jobs. Jay Cicinelli and Joseph Wolfe separately handed-in court papers recently terminating their cases in appellate court against the Fullerton Police Department. The death of 37-year-old Thomas in July 2011 triggered national…

By BRIAN MELLEY | The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a state appeals court blocked Kern County’s effort to speed up new oil and gas drilling, officials overseeing the state’s prime oil patch have revised an ordinance that could permit tens of thousands of new wells over the next 15 years. The Kern…

 Furniture. Clothing. Software. Posters. Maps. Experience. Buildings. Websites. These are all things that can be designed. Heck, design has so many different meanings and application you wonder if the term can be defined at all. Answer: It can. Design has a variety of definitions, but in its simplest form, it can be defined as both…

Content marketing has seen a lot of changes during the past few years. Many of these changes can be attributed to the rapidly evolving search landscape as well as a huge shift in the way people are actually discovering content. New, more sophisticated search algorithms, changes in how people use search engines, and new ways…

The first ecommerce sale was made in 1994 … and can you guess what it was? It was a Sting CD. Dan Kohn, a 21-year-old who ran a website called NetMarket, sold Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales CD to a friend who purchased it with his credit card for $12.48 plus shipping costs. These exchanges are…

By BRIAN MELLEY | The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a state appeals court blocked Kern County’s effort to speed up new oil and gas drilling, officials overseeing the state’s prime oil patch have revised an ordinance that could permit tens of thousands of new wells over the next 15 years. The Kern…

By Lauren M. Johnson | CNN A rare Kobe Bryant rookie card sold for more than $1.795 million on Saturday, “an all-time record” for any Bryant card, according to the Goldin Auctions, an online auction house. The Topps trading card is a chrome refractors edition sold from 1996-97, Goldin Auctions said on its website. It…

Three UCLA Bruins were acknowledged for their efforts this season when the Pac-12 announced its yearly awards Tuesday morning. Sophomore point guard Tyger Campbell was named to the all-conference first team. Sophomore guards Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Johnny Juzang were selected to the all-conference second team. Jaquez was also named to the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team.…

Opponents of a proposed desalination facility along the Huntington Beach coastline are aghast that Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken steps to help end a years-long regulatory logjam. Although an environmentalist, the governor clearly recognizes the importance of developing new water sources to meet California’s needs. Privately funded facilities plants that turn saltwater into drinking water…

By BRIAN MELLEY | The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a state appeals court blocked Kern County’s effort to speed up new oil and gas drilling, officials overseeing the state’s prime oil patch have revised an ordinance that could permit tens of thousands of new wells over the next 15 years. The Kern…

By BRIAN MELLEY | The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a state appeals court blocked Kern County’s effort to speed up new oil and gas drilling, officials overseeing the state’s prime oil patch have revised an ordinance that could permit tens of thousands of new wells over the next 15 years. The Kern…

By Lauren M. Johnson | CNN A rare Kobe Bryant rookie card sold for more than $1.795 million on Saturday, “an all-time record” for any Bryant card, according to the Goldin Auctions, an online auction house. The Topps trading card is a chrome refractors edition sold from 1996-97, Goldin Auctions said on its website. It…

Orange County’s adjusted case rate for the coronavirus plunged Tuesday, March 9 below the threshold that requires weekly testing for water polo and football teams. The county’s adjusted case rate per 100,000 people checked in at 6 %, fulfilling the 7 % condition set by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) that requires testing…

First, there’s the physical toll. Latrell Wrightsell chronicles the effects of that on the bodies of his Cal State Fullerton basketball teammates and him: “Battling through the shutdowns while we’re in season and fighting for seeding in conference is pretty draining as well,” Wrightsell said. “We’d be so excited for a game and the coaches…

By Colleen Barry | Associated Press CHIARI, Italy — The 160-bed hospital in the Po River Valley town of Chiari has no more room for patients stricken with the highly contagious variant of COVID-19 first identified in Britain that has put hospitals in Italy’s northern Brescia province on high alert. That history was repeating itself…

LOS ANGELES — A winter storm will make its way into Southern California Tuesday evening, with some mountain areas potentially seeing more than a foot of snow and the rest of the region expected to see rainy conditions into Thursday. A winter storm warning will take effect at 10 p.m. Tuesday and continue until 10…

When Instagram Reels first launched, many users treated it like TikTok 2.0. They posted their videos on TikTok first, then reuploaded that same content to Reels. Now, Instagram is saying, “Hey, stop that.“ On its creators’ account, the company announced it would be on the lookout for recycled content and stop recommending it to users…