Month: December 2019

Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news. LAKERS The Dallas Mavericks took advantage of all the Lakers mistakes and beat them, 114-100. The loss snapped a 10-game winning streak constructed entirely against teams with losing records. The Lakers (17-3) hadn’t played a team with a winning record since Nov. 10, […]

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SAN DIEGO —  It is the end of an era. The volunteer firefighters who for nearly 40 years protected the tiny community of Julian, a popular tourist destination in San Diego County, are gone. Last week, a team of professional firefighters moved into the new station off state Route 79. The move came eight months after […]

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Thousands of people in the Lake Arrowhead area were without power Sunday after heavy snow and strong winds resulted in widespread outages in the San Bernardino Mountains, officials said. About 8,000 Southern California Edison customers were affected in mountain communities, including Skyland, Twin Peaks, Running Springs, Cedar Glen, Forest Falls and Crestline, where many residents […]

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POWAY, Calif. —  Poway residents were ordered to boil tap water before drinking it, and restaurants remained closed Sunday after officials became concerned over the weekend that a recent rainstorm may have contaminated the city’s water system. Residents started reporting discolored tap water on Friday. City crews tested the water at those first locations and found […]

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Disney’s “Frozen 2″ dominated the box office once again in its second weekend, adding $123.7 million through the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend, including $85.3 million Friday through Sunday (a small 35% drop), for a cumulative total of $287.6 million, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore. “This was the Thanksgiving box office bounty the industry […]

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Dec. 5 Varda by AgnèsIn her final film, the beloved director looks back on her 60-year career. In French and English with English subtitles. (2:00) NR. Dec. 6 The AeronautsFelicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”) reunite as a daring balloon pilot and a meteorologist conducting high-altitude research in the 1860s. With Vincent […]

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When Yanna McIntosh takes the stage Sunday for opening night at the Curran theater in San Francisco, she becomes the eighth black actress to play Hermione Granger in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” And, as was just announced, when “Harry Potter und das Verwunschene Kind” takes the stage this spring in Hamburg, Germany, Jillian […]

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