201810.02
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Casino Night at Florence Sylvester rolls the dice for senior services

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LAGUNA HILLS — The Florence Sylvester Memorial Senior Center held Casino Night on Saturday, Sept. 29. The annual event raises funds for the Meals On Wheels program and the many other resources the center provides. The evening featured games, refreshments and raffle prizes. Nicolet Araujo, Ingrid Papich and Nancy Bledsoe celebrate a winning Blackjack hand…

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Laguna Woods modifies employee benefits, talks pesticides

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LAGUNA WOODS — The City Council on Wednesday, Sept. 26, unanimously approved two resolutions that would modify the compensation schedule and employee benefits plan for city employees. Both a “prudent business practice” as well as federal-law compliance necessitated the changes, City Manager Chris Macon said. Other modifications were made for clarity as well as a…

201810.02
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Here’s how your county and California did on the 2018 state test

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California students did slightly better in English and math on this year’s state test than they did last year, state education officials announced Tuesday morning, Oct. 2. In the state, 49.88 percent of students met or exceeded the English Language Arts/Literacy standards, a 1.32 percentage point increase from 2017, a news release states. In math, 38.65…

201810.02
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O.C. ‘Real Housewife’ Tamra Judge sells her house for $1.75 million

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The master suite, with a sitting area and opening to a terrace, is one of five bedrooms in the home. (Photos by Antis Photography) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Show Caption of Expand That was quick. “Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member Tamra Judge sold the Ladera Ranch house she bought in December…

201810.02
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LAPD makes arrests in celebrity burglaries

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LOS ANGELES — Detectives are expected to share details Tuesday about the arrests they’ve made in connection with recent burglaries at the homes of Los Angeles celebrities. Capt. Lillian Carranza, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Commercial Crimes Division, and detectives from that unit will detail the arrests at a news conference at…

201810.02
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American, Frenchman, Canadian win Nobel for work with lasers

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By DAVID KEYTON and JIM HEINTZ STOCKHOLM  — Three scientists from the United States, Canada and France won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work with lasers described as revolutionary and bringing science fiction into reality. One of them, Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, entered the Nobel record books by…