Skydiving instructor and student killed in Perris after “dust devil” caused turbulent landing - Anaheim news - NewsLocker (2024)

A 28-year-old tandem skydiving instructor and her student died from injuries sustained in a hard landing after encountering a “dust devil” as they descended toward Perris Valley Airport.
The accident occurred Friday, Aug. 2, around 2:30 p.m. in an open field on the 2000 Block of Goetz Road. No equipment issues were reported and the skydive, which includes a free fall and parachute deployment, appeared normal, according to witness reports. As the pair prepared to land, they were struc

$2 billion Intuit Dome, opening in Inglewood next week, makes fan experience the star of the show

Inglewood is just about ready to celebrate another significant milestone — one that will continue to elevate the city’s international presence as a can’t-miss entertainment and sports venue.
The Intuit Dome, a $2 billion state-of-the-art basketball arena and concert venue that’s been in the works since 2021, will open with plenty of fanfare — including a show by pop icon Bruno Mars — on Thursday, Aug. 15.
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Tech review: Five gadgets to make your car safer and more comfortable

Jim Rossman | Tribune News Service (TNS)
I love to drive, which is good, because I get a lot of opportunities to review gadgets for drivers.
This week I’m looking at a handful of useful things to make your drive safer or more comfortable.
You’ll notice I have included two air inflators. I like them both and they each have their advantages. Pricing included is retail price, but you may find them cheaper.
The Laxon DR-6000 Vehicle Air Massage Seat. (Laxon/TNS)
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What is the difference between pet insurance and wellness plans?

Lezanne Winshaw | Bankrate.com (TNS)
Pet owners want the best for their furry friends, which often involves making decisions about their health care. One common dilemma is whether to invest in pet insurance or a pet wellness plan. In many cases, pet owners may want both.
Both pet insurance and wellness plans offer ways to manage your pet’s health expenses, but they serve different purposes. Understanding these differences will ensure you choose the right option for your pet’s needs.

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Ice rink fumes have sent kids to the hospital. Still, few states require tests

Alex Brown | Stateline.org (TNS)
Last December, dozens of young hockey players were rushed to hospitals in the Buffalo, New York, area — some vomiting, lethargic and suffering from headaches.
The skaters had beenexposedto high levels of carbon monoxide at an indoor ice rink, a problem that is far from uncommon. Most rinks use ice resurfacing machines — often known by the brand name of Zamboni — and edgers that often run on propane or other fuels. Some use gas-powere

2 biggest mistakes owner-occupants make in real estate

Owning the building where your business operates is indeed a smart move, and many entrepreneurs find it to be a beautiful arrangement.
Typically, the process involves creating an entity like a limited liability company to take title to the real estate. Then, the business operation “rents” the address from the LLC, often as a separate corporation.
This setup offers some distinct advantages: tax benefits, depreciation, interest deductions and the ability to build equity. However, many

Native American public health officials are stuck in data blind spot

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez | (TNS) KFF Health News
It’s not easy to make public health decisions without access to good data. And epidemiologists and public health workers for Native American communities say they’re often in the dark because state and federal agencies restrict their access to the latest numbers.
The 2010 reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act gave tribal epidemiology centerspublic health authorityand requires the federal Department of Heal

Best volatility ETFs: Use these funds to profit when the market falls

James Royal, Ph.D. | (TNS) Bankrate.com
A volatility exchange-traded fund (ETF) lets traders bet on an increase in the stock market’s volatility. It can be a highly profitable wager if the market suddenly becomes more volatile — for example, if it crashes — but the fund’s price constantly erodes due to how the fund is structured.
Here are some of the best volatility ETFs and ETNs, with data as of August 2, 2024.
What is a volatility ETF?
A volatility ETF gives traders the

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Del Mar horse racing consensus picks for Saturday, August 10, 2024

The consensus box of Del Mar horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Saturday, August 10, 2024.
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Dodgers beat Pirates as NL West race remains tight

LOS ANGELES — If the Dodgers woke Friday morning to the realization that they were in a playoff race, they responded well.
While the Dodgers were resting and relaxing on the off day Thursday, the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks kept creeping up on them. By the time they reported for work Friday afternoon, the Dodgers’ lead in the National League West was down to 2½ games over the San Diego Padres and 3½ over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
It is as closely packed as

Local favorite Anisette hopes to continue 2023’s success on Saturday at Del Mar

DEL MAR – One of the darlings of Del Mar’s 2023 summer meeting will make her first seaside appearance of 2024 Saturday in the Grade 2 Yellow Ribbon Stakes.
Anisette will be seeking her third straight win and sixth in eight races in the 1 1/16-mile turf test for older fillies and mares. She looks to be the odds-on favorite in a field of six veterans.
But trainer Leonard Powell is sending Anisette out for the first time following a 2 ½-month “freshening up” break fol

Dodgers will move Mookie Betts back to right field when he returns next week

LOS ANGELES — Mookie Betts will be going back where he probably belonged all along – right field.
Throughout his eight weeks on the injured list with a fractured left hand, the Dodgers asserted that Betts’ time as their everyday shortstop was not over. As recently as Wednesday, Dave Roberts said he expected Betts to play shortstop when he returns to the lineup on Monday.
Minds have been changed.
“We’ve had conversations, essentially daily, about what’s best fo

Angels can’t find a big hit late in 10-inning loss to Nationals

WASHINGTON — The young core of the Angels’ offense had an off night all at once.
Although Jo Adell hit a second-inning two-run homer, he and the other young hitters who have been carrying the Angels lately all came up empty in numerous opportunities late in the Angels’ 3-2, 10-inning loss to the Washington Nationals on Friday night.
José Soriano left with a one-run lead after six innings, but José Quijada gave up the tying run in the eighth and Matt Moore was char

Transfers from Santa Margarita and Mater Dei join Crean Lutheran football team

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.Subscribe nowFormer Santa Margarita offensive lineman Jacob Maiava and former Mater Dei defensive back Patrick Hall have enrolled at Crean Lutheran, Saints football coach Rick Curtis confirmed on Friday.
Maiava is a 6-foot-2, 290-pound senior committed to SMU. He earned first-team All-Trinity League honors last season at Santa Margarita. It was his first season at the school after transferring from Liberty of Nevada.

Crean Lutheran football adds transfers from Santa Margarita and Mater Dei

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.Subscribe nowFormer Santa Margarita offensive lineman Jacob Maiava and former Mater Dei defensive back Patrick Hall have enrolled at Crean Lutheran, Saints football coach Rick Curtis confirmed on Friday.
Maiava is a 6-foot-2, 290-pound senior committed to SMU. He earned first-team All-Trinity League honors last season. It was his first season at Santa Margarita after transferring from Liberty of Nevada.
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Tustin man who choked wife to death while 2 young sons were present gets 15 years to life

A 41-year-old man was sentenced Friday, August 9 to 15 years to life in prison for strangling his wife in a Tustin bedroom while their two young sons were present.
Erik Merida-Diaz was convicted in June of second-degree murder for the July 6, 2017, killing of 35-year-old Elvira Ventura.
Merida-Diaz “strangled his wife to death in their bedroom,” Deputy District Attorney Jeff Moore said in his sentencing brief. “The cruelty of the murder is enhanced by the fact that their two yo

Irvine-based Golden State Foods sells majority stake to private equity firm

Irvine-based Golden State Foods, a behemoth distributor to fast-food chains, is selling a controlling interest in the longtime family-run business to Lindsay Goldberg, a private equity investment firm based in New York.
Neither company disclosed how much that stake was worth.
Forbes estimated GSF revenue in 2022 was $5.1 billion. The privately held Lindsay Goldberg, founded by Alan Goldberg and Robert Lindsay, says it has assets under management worth $17 billion.
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, at the Nixon Library, offers tales of how the legal system is too complex

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch made his case Friday at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum that America’s legal system has grown far too complex.
“I have just seen so many cases come through my courtroom where ordinary Americans, hard-working, decent people, were caught up in, they’re just getting whacked by laws that they didn’t expect and they shouldn’t reasonably been able to expect,” Gorsuch said.
Gorsuch pointed around the room where a fe

Why there are some books you’ll just never give up

In the garage tucked into a shelf behind a few teetering stacks of books, there is a box.
Full of books.
These books are special, though not for any literary quality or monetary value. I’ve had most of these cheap paperbacks since I was old enough to be out buying books on my own, say, around fifth grade or so. With limited resources and fewshopping opportunities (mostly second-hand shops, Friends of the Library sales, Scholastic book fairs and occasional visits to an actual bookstor

Gov. Tim Walz is headed to Orange County for a fundraiser

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who was recently picked to be Vice President Kamala Harris‘ running mate, is headed to Orange County.
Walz is scheduled to headline a fundraiser in Newport Beach on Tuesday, Aug. 13, according to an event invitation from Harris’ fundraising committee. Tickets range from $1,000 to attend to $100,000 to be named a chair. Some of the more expensive tickets include a photo opportunity.
Anne Earhart, Janet Keller and Bernie Schneider, Bette and Wylie Aitken and Te

Rams playing it careful again with preseason decisions

THOUSAND OAKS — Now that the Rams are through their third week of practices, the decisions begin for who will play in Sunday’s preseason game against the Dallas Cowboys.
Under head coach Sean McVay, the Rams have been largely hesitant to play starters or even key backups during the preseason. So playing the likes of quarterback Matthew Stafford, wide receiver Cooper Kupp and running back Kyren Williams isn’t even a consideration.
But the Rams will meet on Saturday to discuss wh

Photos: See fans in cosplay on opening day of D23 expo in Anaheim

The D23 Expo returned to the Anaheim Convention Center on Friday, Aug. 9, with fans lining up to enter the sold-out, three-day event, which includes exhibits, panels, presentations and shopping tied to all things Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars.
The expo will feature 55 panels and presentations and 175 show floor offerings and Disney celebrity interactions. Larger nighttime showcases will take place at the Honda Center following daytime events at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Among the attr

Inglewood bans stages on SoFi Stadium plaza after Hard Summer’s rumbling annoys South Bay

Inglewood will no longer permit stages in the American Airlines Plaza, an elevated area between SoFi Stadium and the YouTube Theater, after booming bass from last weekend’s Hard Summer musical festival reverberated across miles of the South Bay.
The range of the disturbance perplexed city officials because there have been multiple outdoor concerts on the SoFi campus without issue, said Mayor James T. Butts Jr. in a press release. Hard Summer, a electronic dance music festival, ran from 2 t

Corky: A whole lotta surf stuff summering this summer

Mid-summer is always packed full of beach and surf related activities going on, and this year is absolutely zero exception.
Take this past weekend as an example.
I was sitting at the Sugar Shack in downtown Huntington Beach happily sipping my coffee and preparing to inhale some really good bacon and eggs on Friday morning, and I was kinda trying to plan out what I would be doing over the weekend.
It was the day of the Surfers’ Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Next, I had an art showing alo

Leaders condemn recent racist, hom*ophobic graffiti at Culver City elementary school

As a new school year approaches, a coalition of local leaders and educators in Los Angeles are sending a clear message: hate has no place on campus or elsewhere.
At a press conference Thursday, parents, officials from the Culver City Unified School District, and other elected leaders denounced recent incidents at El Marino Language School in Culver City.
The elementary school on 11450 Port Rd. was the site of recent hate speech and vandalism targeting Black and LGBTQ+ students, officials said.
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First look at Marvel E-Ticket ride vehicle coming to Disneyland

A new Marvel E-Ticket attraction coming to Disney California Adventure will launch riders across the multiverse in a dynamic ride vehicle designed to feel like you’re flying with the Avengers.
The Avengers E-Ticket dark ride is “currently in development for Disney California Adventure,” according to the Walt Disney Imagineering D23 pavilion display.
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San Juan Capistrano bookie pleads guilty to running gambling business used by ex-Ohtani interpreter

By AMY TAXIN and STEFANIE DAZIO
A Southern California bookmaker who took thousands of sports bets from the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani pleaded guilty on Friday, Aug. 9, to running an illegal gambling business.
Mathew Bowyer, 49, of San Juan Capistrano entered the plea in federal court in Santa Ana. He also pleaded guilty to money laundering and subscribing to a false tax return. He’s due to be sentenced Feb. 7.
“I was running an illegal gambling operation, laun

Homicide suspect shot by authorities serving search warrant in Anaheim

A man suspected of homicide was shot by authorities while they were serving a search warrant in Anaheim on Friday, Aug. 9, police said.
Around 1:30 p.m., police were assisting U.S. marshals with serving a search warrant in the area near State College Boulevard and Via Burton, near the 91 Freeway, said Anaheim Police Sgt. Matt Sutter. The man, whose identity had not been released as of 5 p.m., was suspected of a homicide in another city, he said, though details surrounding the case were not

Authorities shoot homicide suspect in Anaheim

A man suspected of homicide was shot by police in Anaheim while authorities were serving a search warrant on Friday, Aug. 9, police said.
Around 1:30 p.m., authorities were assisting U.S. marshals with serving a search warrant in the area near State College Boulevard and Via Burton, near the 91 Freeway, said Anaheim Police Sgt. Matt Sutter. The man, whose identity had not been released as of 3:45 p.m., was suspected of a homicide in another city, he said, though details surrounding the case were

Anaheim police shoot homicide suspect

A man suspected of homicide was shot by police in Anaheim while authorities were serving a search warrant, police said.
Around 1:30 p.m., authorities were assisting U.S. Marshals with serving a search warrant in the area near State College Boulevard and La Palma Avenue, near the 91 Freeway, said Anaheim Police Sgt. Matt Sutter. The man was suspected of a homicide in another city, he said, though details surrounding the case were not immediately available.
At least one officer shot the suspect, w