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Click for a larger image. LOS ANGELES — Temperatures will spike Friday and Saturday, reaching triple-digit territory in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys this weekend. The higher heat will be the product of an upper-level high pressure system building off the coast, a weakening of onshore flow and an increasingly shallow marine layer,…

Lots and lots of money has been made in local real estate in recent years. And in some ways, the dollars involved are almost unfathomable. I filled my trusty spreadsheet with stats from the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California detailing changes in the total value of Southern California County’s housing stock — detached…

By MEGHAN HOYER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Millions of people covered under the Affordable Care Act will see only modest premium increases next year, and some will get price cuts. That’s the conclusion from an exclusive analysis of the besieged but resilient program, which still sparks deep divisions heading into this…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER The Associated Press WASHINGTON  — Hiring in the United States picked up in August as employers added a strong 201,000 jobs, a sign of confidence that consumers and businesses will keep spending despite the Trump administration’s ongoing conflicts with its trading partners. The unemployment rate remained at 3.9 percent, near an 18-year…

Ruining the reputation of sharks as bloodthirsty predators, California researchers said they have found a shark that enjoys a side of seagrass with its prey. Bonnethead sharks not only eat grass while chomping fish and squid — they also digest the plant and gain nutrition from it, scientists at…

In the mid-1960s, Burt Reynolds had begun landing starring roles in films such as “Navajo Joe,” “100 Rifles,” “Sam Whiskey,” “Shark!,” “Impasse” and “Skullduggery.” They generally were the kind of movies that he joked “they show in prisons and airplanes because nobody can leave.” That self-deprecating…

What did we learn from this week’s bombshell essay in the New York Times about President Trump, written by a person identified only as a “senior official in the Trump administration”? That the president is amoral? Already knew that. That there are grownups in the White House who try to rein in…

The much-welcomed break from the triple-digit heat in the Inland Empire will be interrupted the next few days, as daytime temperatures will rise at least 10 degrees, the National Weather Service said. After high temperatures around 90 degrees in the San Bernardino-Riverside area on Thursday, the highs for Friday through Monday are expected to range from…

A Long Beach man who owns an Orange County construction company is due to be sentenced on Sept. 12 after pleading guilty to dozens of felony charges of forgery and embezzlement. Cameron “Sid” Evans, 44, owner of Newport Beach-based metal stud framing/drywall company Champion Construction, pleaded guilty to 42 counts of embezzlement, forgery and property…