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Today is the last day of January. But more importantly, it is the last day of Dry January, a monthlong no-drinking tradition that has taken hold in the 21st century. And if you’ve made it this far, perhaps you can go a little farther. The nonalcoholic drink market alone now exceeds $11 billion a year.

The annual hikes, ranging from 35 cents to 50 cents over the next five years, would raise an estimate $101 million to $139 million. The projected budget deficit is $220 million.

The images of the mysterious white shark pup taken off Santa Barbara's coast suggest it was likely only hours old.

A spacious new house located in the 7200 block of Lembert Hills Drive in Dublin has new owners. The 3,547-square-foot property, built in 2021, was sold on Nov. 17, 2023. The $2,600,000 purchase price works out to $733 per square foot.

The number of beautiful wintering Western Monarch butterflies in California dipped slightly in 2023 from 2022.

Cletus Anderson was an influential figure in the music scene as now well-known rappers like Snoop Dogg and Warren G recorded some of their early music in a small studio inside VIP Records in Long Beach.

A third defendant faces sentencing in April.

I am 56 and I have Alzheimer’s, which many people mistakenly think of as something that only affects the elderly

What’s missing is leadership to disrupt a process where intolerable delays are accepted as inevitable.

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