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Man hospitalized for weeks after Huntington Beach crash dies

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A man who had been hospitalized for weeks died on Wednesday, Feb. 13, following a traffic collision that happened in Huntington Beach at the end of January A preliminary investigation suggests that a Toyota Tundra traveling north on Brookhurst Street collided with a Cadillac Escalade at Atlanta Avenue shortly before 8:42 a.m., according to a news…

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Betty Ballantine, who helped invent the modern paperback, dies at 99

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Betty Ballantine, half of a groundbreaking husband-and-wife publishing team that helped invent the modern paperback and vastly expand the market for science fiction and other genres through such bestsellers as “The Hobbit” and “Fahrenheit 451,” has died. Ballantine died Tuesday at her home in Bearsville,…

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Year after Parkland massacre, 17 victims remembered

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By TERRY SPENCER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON PARKLAND, Fla. — The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre a year ago renewed the national debate on guns and school safety, turned some victims’ parents and surviving students into political activists and at least temporarily ended the local sheriff’s career. But Thursday’s anniversary will primarily be about…

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Airbus abandons iconic A380 superjumbo, lacking clients

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By ANGELA CHARLTON and JON GAMBRELL TOULOUSE, France  — European plane maker Airbus said Thursday it will stop making its superjumbo A380 in 2021 for lack of customers, abandoning the world’s biggest passenger jet and one of the aviation industry’s most ambitious and most troubled endeavors. Barely a decade after the double-deck, 500-plus-seat plane started…