Month: August 2022

  It’s not just Uber and Lyft drivers — and musicians and journalists — who are caught in the middle in the still ongoing fight over the anti-independent contractor legislation that is the crazily poorly conceived AB 5 in California. It’s also independent truckers who want to continue to work as they long have without…

California’s economy still needs 176,000 more jobs to join the nation’s job market that on Friday learned it had fully rebounded from the pandemic’s damage. July jobs national stats showed an unexpected 582,000 hiring spree, pushing the U.S. worker count past pre-coronavirus levels to a record 152.5 million workers. California jobs stats for July won’t…

Casino Insider is a weekly newsletter with all the best bets for food, entertainment and fun at Southern California’s casinos. It’s delivered to your inbox on Thursdays. Subscribe now. Fishbone will perform a free show at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino’s outdoor venue, The Rock Yard, on Saturday, Aug. 6. (Photo by Lisa Johnson Rock Photographer) If…

WASHINGTON — A husband and wife from Wisconsin celebrating more than five decades of marriage were killed in a lightning strike outside the White House. Two others remained hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, of Janesville, Wisconsin, died of their injuries after the lightning strike in Lafayette Park, located directly…

It didn’t fully sink in until he read the words aloud to his girlfriend, seeking her opinion on the statement that was about to make it official. Baseball is all Ryan Ripken has known. As the son of Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr., the sport has always been a major part of his life. “Feels…

Legislators in California and throughout the country say they are trying to make the internet a safer place – and limit the harassment, harm, misogyny and misinformation that have become too common in the online world. In their haste to protect the public, however, they risk making the internet a more foreboding place. California’s approach…

It didn’t fully sink in until he read the words aloud to his girlfriend, seeking her opinion on the statement that was about to make it official. Baseball is all Ryan Ripken has known. As the son of Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr., the sport has always been a major part of his life. “Feels…

A 120,000-square-foot, single-tenant office building in Tustin has sold for $91 million, according to JLL Capital Markets. The building is leased to the county through 2047. It sits on nearly 6 acres at 1382 Bell Ave. near the city’s 1,600-acre Tustin Legacy master-planned community. JLL advised the sellers, a joint venture between SteelWave and their…

  It’s not just Uber and Lyft drivers — and musicians and journalists — who are caught in the middle in the still ongoing fight over the anti-independent contractor legislation that is the crazily poorly conceived AB 5 in California. It’s also independent truckers who want to continue to work as they long have without…

WASHINGTON — It was just as beautiful as one would dream it to be. On a steamy Wednesday afternoon in our nation’s capital, Daniel Vogelbach connected for his first home run as a Met. At its glorious apex, the ball sat 125 feet in the air, coming down only when it was ready to land…

The second year of Howl-O-Scream at SeaWorld San Diego promises more howls, shrieks and screams than the inaugural year in addition to more haunted houses, updated scare zones and a new live show. Howl-O-Scream runs on select nights from Sept. 16 to Oct. 31 at the San Diego marine park. Sign up for our Park…

Four years after an explosion at a day spa in Aliso Viejo killed one woman and injured two others, the fate of a Long Beach man accused of creating and placing the deadly home-made bomb that blew up the business will soon be in the hands of a Los Angeles jury. A more than two-month…

Something had to give. The Chicago Cubs’ deficiency of infield options, further strained by the lack of position-player trades leading up to Tuesday’s deadline, left manager David Ross mixing and matching lineups to try to find at-bats. The Cubs didn’t suddenly gain a bounty of flexibility like last year, when one-third of the opening-day roster…

Q: Our HOA has suspended reserve deposits, borrowed from reserves without disclosing to members the full borrowed amount or the repayment plan and not repaid borrowed funds within the required one year (also without disclosure to homeowners). Even before these actions, the reserve was “materially underfunded” according to the latest reserve studies. Obviously, the red…

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now The 2022 high school football season is almost upon us. But before the stadium lights flip on for Friday night games, it’s time for the annual OCVarsity Hot 150, a list that projects the top impact players to watch this fall. The…

Legislators in California and throughout the country say they are trying to make the internet a safer place – and limit the harassment, harm, misogyny and misinformation that have become too common in the online world. In their haste to protect the public, however, they risk making the internet a more foreboding place. California’s approach…

WASHINGTON — It was just as beautiful as one would dream it to be. On a steamy Wednesday afternoon in our nation’s capital, Daniel Vogelbach connected for his first home run as a Met. At its glorious apex, the ball sat 125 feet in the air, coming down only when it was ready to land…

It didn’t fully sink in until he read the words aloud to his girlfriend, seeking her opinion on the statement that was about to make it official. Baseball is all Ryan Ripken has known. As the son of Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr., the sport has always been a major part of his life. “Feels…

Something had to give. The Chicago Cubs’ deficiency of infield options, further strained by the lack of position-player trades leading up to Tuesday’s deadline, left manager David Ross mixing and matching lineups to try to find at-bats. The Cubs didn’t suddenly gain a bounty of flexibility like last year, when one-third of the opening-day roster…

Four years after an explosion at a day spa in Aliso Viejo killed one woman and injured two others, the fate of a Long Beach man accused of creating and placing the deadly home-made bomb that blew up the business will soon be in the hands of a Los Angeles jury. A more than two-month…