Invest in the systems that keep us healthy and divest from the systems that harm - Anaheim news - NewsLocker (2024)

Governor Gavin Newsom has released the May Revised Budget, cutting billions in spending to address California’s staggering and unpredictable budget deficit. While his original budget spared many key public health initiatives from the chopping block, Newsom’s revised budget cuts $52.5 million from last year’s local and state public health funding, and an additional $300 million in ongoing spending reductions.
Dwindling federal support for efforts to confront an ongoing pandemic

Horse racing: Santa Anita races spark mixed feelings for this horse trainer

Steve Specht motors to Santa Anita this week with a trailer full of well-trained horses and untamed emotions.
The three horses come from Golden Gate Fields to compete on Saturday’s program of stakes for California-breds, led by a tenacious 3-year-old filly named Grand Slam Smile.
The emotions come from what’s happening to racing back in Northern California, where Specht, 74, is the dean of thoroughbred trainers but unsure how much longer he’ll hang on.
“I don’t want

Could current COVID vaccines protect against future outbreaks? New study offers hope

Irene Wright | The Charlotte Observer (TNS)
Before March 2020, it was hard to imagine a global pandemic in the modern age.
Now, it’s hard to imagine our lives without one.
As COVID-19 has become less of an active part of our days and more a quick thought when we have a runny nose or cough, it’s time to think about what comes next — and how to stop another pandemic.
A group of researchers had the future in mind when they asked if current COVID-19 vaccines and boosters could&nbsp

The number of births continues to fall, despite abortion bans

Tim Henderson | (TNS) Stateline.org
Births continued a historic slide in all but two states last year, making it clear that a brief post-pandemic uptick in the nation’s birth numbers was all about planned pregnancies that had been delayed temporarily by COVID-19.
Only Tennessee and North Dakota had small increases in births from 2022 to 2023, according to a Stateline analysis ofprovisional federal data on births. In California, births dropped by 5%, or nearly 20,000, for the year. An

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Horse racing notes: Bob Baffert strong in Santa Anita Memorial Day races

SANTA ANITA LEADERS
(Through Thursday)
Jockeys / Wins
Antonio Fresu / 17
Kyle Frey / 15
Edwin Maldonado / 14
Juan Hernandez / 14
Umberto Rispoli / 12
Hector Berrios / 11
Trainers / Wins
Mark Glatt / 11
Phil D’Amato / 9
John Sadler / 7
Steve Knapp / 7
Librado Barocio / 6
Jeff Mullins / 6
WEEKEND STAKES
SANTA ANITA
Saturday
• $125,000 Snow Chief Stakes, California-bred 3-year-olds, 1 1/8 miles on turf
• $125,000 Melair Stakes, Cal-bred 3-year-old fillies, 1 1/16 miles
• $100,0

Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Friday, May 24, 2024

The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Friday, May 24, 2024.
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How to use credit cards to save money on gas

By Gregory Karp, Jae Bratton | NerdWallet
If you’re paying full price at the gas pump these days, you might be missing a way to fuel your household savings. That’s because many rewards credit cards offer bonus points when you use them at the gas station.
Used right, those rewards are like a discount on every gallon you buy. Few consumers would turn down these savings when the average price of a gallon of gas as of May 2024 was $3.61, according to AAA.
It’s fairly common now to

‘Fantasmic’ viewers guide for return of Disneyland nighttime spectacular

Sorcerer Mickey and a host of pink elephants, swashbuckling pirates and dancing princesses will once again take over the Rivers of America when “Fantasmic” returns to Disneyland after a yearlong hiatus following a fire that engulfed the nighttime spectacular’s marquee dragon.
Our viewers guide has everything you need to know to catch the return of the fan-favorite nighttime show that has been entertaining crowds since 1992.
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Dodgers’ Miguel Vargas getting accustomed to changes

LOS ANGELES — It was only a few hours after Miguel Vargas returned to the major leagues last week when his journey to get back on the Dodgers’ roster was put into proper perspective.
Mookie Betts hit a leadoff home run in a 7-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday as Vargas cheered from the bench, the creases still in his brand new No. 27 Dodgers uniform after just being recalled.
After the game, though, Betts lamented some of his defensive miscues like a throwing error and the

Space Force training HQ gets official nod to come to Space Coast

The decision has been a year in the making, but the Space Coast will officially become the home of STARCOM, the training headquarters for Space Force.
Patrick Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, both former Air Force facilities, were named in May 2023 the presumptive home for STARCOM, which stands for Space Training and Readiness Command. It’s one of three Space Force field command units, similar to an Air Force air command.
Sen. Marco Rubio confirmed the decision was

NOAA predicts ‘highest-ever’ number of named storms in 2024 preseason forecast

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday said that the 2024 hurricane season has an 85% chance of being above normal, forecasting a range of 17 to 25 total named storms, and of those, eight to 13 are expected to become hurricanes.
These numbers are the “highest ever” that NOAA has issued for its May outlook.
An infographic shows the hurricane season probability and numbers of named storms predicted from NOAA’s 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook. (NOAA

Justice Department says illegal monopoly by Ticketmaster and Live Nation drives up prices for fans

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment on Thursday, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America — squelching competition and driving up prices for fans.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, was brought with 30 state and district attorneys general and seeks to break up the monopoly they say is sq

COVID-19 test maker Cue Health — once worth $2.3B — lays off entire company and shuts down

By Natallie Rocha | San Diego Union-Tribune
Cue Health, the once high-flying San Diego biotech supplying rapid COVID-19 test kits to the NBA and Google, is laying off all employees and shutting down on Friday.
Cue’s closure comes a week afterthe U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumersto throw away its COVID-19 test kits because they could give false results. The San Diego firm said on Thursday it stopped selling the COVID-19 tests, its only fully FDA-approved commerc

At this middle school, students teach each other. Is this new model the future of education?

In Gilroy Prep’s eighth-grade math class, there are no quiet rows of orderly desks facing an instructor. Instead, the room feels less like a classroom and more like the floor of a stock exchange, with the constant buzz of conversation as students sketch slopes and equations on tablets that project their stylus strokes onto nearby screens.
All the while, a trio of clipboard-wielding students circulate among their classmates — huddled in groups of three on the periphery of the room &md

Rudy Giuliani peddles self-named coffee amid legal woes, financial struggles

Jessica Schladebeck | New York Daily News
NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani hasbrewed up a new business— and the reactions from social media are pouring in.
The former New York City Mayor, who is currentlygrappling with bankruptcyand a debt of $148 million, rolled out the ads for his personally branded coffee amid his ongoing legal issues stemming from the 2020 election.
Giuliani has been happily hawking his new product this week on social media, where he shared an ad

Iran’s late president interred at nation’s holiest Shiite site

By Jon Gambrell | Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran interred President Ebrahim Raisi at the nation’s holiest Shiite shrine Thursday, days after he was killed in a helicopter crash that added to the woes of a country already beset by international sanctions, internal unrest and tensions abroad.
Raisi, who died alongside the country’s foreign minister and six others, was lowered by mourners into a tomb at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, where Shiite Islam&rsquo

Cooking with Judy: Taste of the Town raises money, highlights Fullerton specialties

Planning an Africa safari this year? If not, Hangar 21 at the Fullerton Airport will be the scene of “Let’s Get Wild,” this year’s Fullerton Taste of the Town.
“Fullerton Ford and Premier Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Buena Park will supply a Jeep,” said Theresa La Riccia, vice president of resource development for the Assistance League, which hosts the event every year to raise funds for their many community programs. This year will be 5 to 10 p.m. on June 14. &

Remember last year’s Memorial Day travel jams? Chances are they will be much worse this year

By DAVID KOENIG (AP Airlines Writer)
You didn’t think summer travel would be easy, did you?
Highways and airports are likely to be jammed the next few days as Americans head out for Memorial Day weekend getaways and then return home.
AAA predicts this will be the busiest start-of-summer weekend in nearly 20 years, with 43.8 million people expected to travel at least 50 miles from home between Thursday and Monday. The Transportation Security Administration says up to 3 million might pass th

White House pushes tech industry to shut down market for sexually abusive AI deepfakes

By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY (AP Technology Writers)
President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology.
New generative AI tools have made it easy to transform someone’s likeness into a sexually explicit AI deepfake and share those realistic images across chatrooms or social media. The victims — be they celebrities or childre

A comment from Trump and GOP actions in the states put contraceptive access in the 2024 spotlight

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and GEOFF MULVIHILL (Associated Press)
CHICAGO (AP) — Republican lawmakers in states across the U.S. have been rejecting Democrats’ efforts to protect or expand access to birth control, an issue Democrats are promoting as a major issue in this year’s elections along with abortion and other reproductive rights concerns.
Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, pushed the issue into the political spotlight this week when he said in an inte

Anaheim briefs: Library encourages keeping up with summer reading

The Anaheim Public Library system will be launching its Summer Reading Program on May 28.
The theme this year is “Adventure Begins at Your Library.” Patrons of all ages can log their reading and complete activities to earn prizes. It’s a way to encourage reading over the summer break.
Visit Anaheim.net/library for more information. Or call 714-765-1880.
Also, the Anaheim Public Library has been honored with the ALA PR Xchange Award, which recognizes the very best public relatio

Get a first look at John Wayne Airport’s proposed update, restaurants and more

A slew of new dining options will come to John Wayne Airport, including a bevy of familiar Orange County restaurants. With completion nearly a year away, a handful of renderings show what the upcoming eateries will look like.
Under a new 15-year contract, HMSHost (part of Avolta AG, which operates retail shops at airports around the globe) will reimagine more than 32,000 square feet of concessions space across Terminals A, B and C. HMSHost will open more than a dozen new dining venues, including

Drummond: Yorba Linda’s police services contract to increase

Current levels of service and staffing will continue through June 2025 under terms of the first amendment to Yorba Linda’s five-year contract with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department for law enforcement in the 20-square-mile city.
But the cost to the city will increase $1 million for the fiscal year starting July 1, a 7.37% jump to $14.9 million, according to recent action taken by City Council members. The amendment will be viewed by the county Board of Supervisors next month.
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Charlie Colin dies at 58 after falling in shower; bassist was founding member of band Train

NEW YORK — Charlie Colin, bassist and founding member of the American pop-rock band Train, best known for their early-aughts hits like “Drops of Jupiter” and “Meet Virginia,” has died. He was 58.
Colin’s sister Carolyn Stephens confirmed her brother’s death to The Associated Press on Wednesday. He died after slipping and falling in the shower while house-sitting for a friend in Brussels, Belgium, celebrity website TMZ.com reported.
Colin grew up in Calif

As UCLA Chancellor Block testifies in Congress, students set up new encampment

As UCLA Chancellor Gene Block sat in Washington D.C. defending his record on campus antisemitism before Congress on Thursday morning, pro-Palestinian student protesters set up a second encampment on campus.
Block was summoned before the House Committee Committee on Education and the Workforce, alongside the presidents of Rutgers University and Northwestern University, in the latest in a series of hearings where the Republican-led committee grilled university leaders for their handling of antisem

CSUF graduate takes next step toward a civil engineering career

Soon after Oscar Sosa Cordova graduates from Cal State Fullerton this month with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, he will start a summer job at SafeWork CM, a project management company in Anaheim. Then he plans to pursue a master’s degree.
The first person in his family to graduate from college, Sosa Cordova is acutely aware of the opportunities he’s had that were never available to his parents, who were farmers in Mexico before coming to the U.S.
This awareness motiv

NAACP fund seeks to close Black voter registration and turnout gaps ahead of the November election

By AYANNA ALEXANDER (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The NAACP on Wednesday announced that nonprofits engaged in a variety of voter-engagement efforts can apply for grant funding that helps local organizations register voters, boost turnout and guard against minority disenfranchisem*nt.
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Angels manager Ron Washington likes to deliver messages to pitchers personally

ANAHEIM — The Angels were trailing by two runs in the eighth inning of an April game, and José Cisnero was digging a hole. The right-hander issued a walk and gave up a hit to the first two batters he faced in the inning.
Ron Washington headed to the mound.
The Angels manager was not bringing a hook with him, though. Instead, he had a message for Cisnero.
After Washington returned the dugout, Cisnero got a flyout and then back-to-back strikeouts, punctuating the third out by pounding

Jim Ryun relishes memory of the last mile record set in the United States

At 30, Jim Grelle was an outlier in a sport that did not foster longevity, still among the world’s best distance runners eight years after he captured the 1959 NCAA title as an Oregon senior.
That he had continued to thrive despite the sport’s draconian and antiquated rules regarding amateurism, that he had bounced back from missing the 1964 U.S. Olympic team by inches, breaking the American record in the mile a year later, elevated Grelle to elder statesman status and a unique persp

Jim Ryun relishes memory of last mile record set in the United States

At 30, Jim Grelle was an outlier in a sport that did not foster longevity, still among the world’s best distance runners eight years after he captured the 1959 NCAA title as an Oregon senior.
That he had continued to thrive despite the sport’s draconian and antiquated rules regarding amateurism, that he had bounced back from missing the 1964 U.S. Olympic team by inches, breaking the American record in the mile a year later, elevated Grelle to elder statesman status and a unique persp