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The first overdose death of a Riverside County resident from carfentanil was confirmed on Thursday by county health officials. The synthetic opioid is 100 times stronger than fentanyl and 10,000 times more potent than morphine, they said. The local resident, a man in his 40s, fatally overdosed on carfentanil in March 2025 outside of Riverside County, according to a news release from Riverside University Health System. They did not say where the death occurred or under what circumstances. Health officials said it can take months to confirm a cause of death, particularly if it occurs outside the county. Carfentanil is…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday said the agency’s renovation of two of its buildings is in compliance with plans approved by a local commission, disputing a White House suggestion that they may have violated the law by deviating from those plans. The letter is the latest salvo in an escalating battle between the Federal Reserve, an independent agency charged with fighting inflation and seeking maximum employment, and the Trump administration. President Donald Trump has for months criticized Powell and the Fed for not lowering its key interest rate, which the president says…

By DOUG FEINBERG, Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark is out of All-Star weekend. The Indiana Fever guard injured her right groin on Tuesday night in the final minute of the team’s win over the Connecticut Sun. She said Thursday in a message posted on X that she had to rest her body. “I am incredibly sad and disappointed to say I can’t participate in the 3-Point Contest or the All-Star Game,” Clark said in the message posted by the Fever. “I have to rest my body. I will still be at Gainbridge Fieldhouse for all the action and…

What could a 102-year-old Huntington Beach fire engine and a Fountain Valley woman have in common? They were both born in the same year. Lois Rufus was taken on a short ride aboard the Seagrave, the Huntington Beach Fire Department’s refurbished original motorized fire engine, on Thursday afternoon, July 17. The 102-year-old woman — Rufus is 102.5 years old to be exact, because it’s important to count the months, she said — remembered reading about the vintage fire engine in an Orange County Register article. She mentioned it to her family, and her son Dan reached out to the department…

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking California sheriff’s departments to turn over lists of all jails inmates who are not citizens, their crimes and their scheduled release dates to assist federal immigration authorities in removing “illegal aliens who committed crimes” after entering the country, according to an announcement by the federal agency. The data requests went out to sheriffs in “multiple major California counties,” including Los Angeles and San Francisco, on Thursday, July 17, the announcement states. “Removing criminal illegal aliens is this Administration’s highest priority,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. “I look forward to…

Ducks goalie Lukáš Dostál’s career has taken him from his native Czechia to Finland to the U.S., but he’ll be sticking around Orange County for at least five more years after agreeing to a contract extension worth $32.5 million. Dostál, 25, announced his own signing via Ducks social media channels on Thursday morning. He’s come light years from a tiny town outside Brno where he began his journey to NHL stardom. “I look at myself in the mirror and I always see myself as being a kid from a village with 300 people in it,” Dostál said. “It’s a good…

A person who withdrew cash from a Fontana bank said he was followed by people to a gas station, where they broke into his car and fled with the money – one of the latest examples of what authorities say is the growing crime of “bank jugging.” The crime is so named, according to various reports, because people carry large sums of money like it is in a jug. Others have called the term a play on the word “mugging.” Thieves witness the victim withdrawing money from ATMs or inside a bank, follow them to their homes or other locations,…

By MARK THIESSEN and DAVID BAUDER ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Lauren Adams, general manager for KUCB public radio in Unalaska, Alaska, didn’t have much time to reflect on Congress, 4,000 miles away, stripping federal funding for public media this week. She’s been too busy working. Sirens blared in the Aleutian Islands community Wednesday warning of a potential tsunami, with a voice over public loudspeakers urging the community’s 4,100 residents to seek higher ground immediately and tune into the radio — to Adams’ station. At the same time in Washington, the Senate was voting on a measure that would eliminate nearly…

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LEADERS Totals for Santa Anita and Los Alamitos thoroughbred meets since Dec. 26 Jockeys / Wins Juan Hernandez / 87 Antonio Fresu / 66 Hector Berrios / 63 Umberto Rispoli / 63 Armando Ayuso / 55 Kyle Frey / 49 Tiago Pereira / 45 Flavien Prat / 44 Kazushi Kimura / 36 Edwin Maldonado / 28 Trainers / Wins Mark Glatt / 46 Bob Baffert / 43 Phil D’Amato / 41 Michael McCarthy / 35 John Sadler / 35 Jeff Mullins / 34 Steve Knapp / 32 Doug O’Neill / 32 Richard Baltas / 20 Bob Hess Jr.…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN The debate over whether Coca-Cola should use high-fructose corn syrup or cane sugar in its signature soda obscures an important fact: Consumers are increasingly looking for Coke with no sugar at all. Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, which was introduced in 2017, uses both the artificial sweetener aspartame and the natural sweetener stevia in its recipe. It’s one of Coke’s fastest-growing products, with global case volumes up 14% in the first quarter of the year. By comparison, the company’s total case volumes were up 2%. PepsiCo also noted Thursday that 60% of its sales volumes in major markets in…