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Disneyland closes ten-year-old attraction to make room for expansion


Disneyland closes ten-year-old attraction to make room for expansion

Disney California Adventure will close a decade-old attraction that serves as a symbol of the once-troubled park’s redesign and a tribute to the Main Street USA vehicles that bring kinetic energy to Disneyland’s entrance promenade. According to Disneyland, the Red Car Trolley at Disney California Adventure will close in early 2025. The Red Car Trolley […]

Animal tranquilizers mixed with illegal drugs cause concern among Bay Area health authorities


Animal tranquilizers mixed with illegal drugs cause concern among Bay Area health authorities

SANTA CRUZ – Public health officials in Santa Cruz County are warning that a dangerous sedative is being detected in illegal opioids with alarming rates. Xylazine, a powerful animal painkiller not approved for human use, is added to the street opioids fentanyl and heroin to enhance the drugs’ effects, often without the users’ knowledge, making […]

Investigators link 1973 Bay Area murder to 75-year-old Idaho man


Investigators link 1973 Bay Area murder to 75-year-old Idaho man

Investigators have arrested an Idaho resident on suspicion of murdering a San Rafael woman in 1973, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday. Michael Eugene Mullen, 75, was linked through DNA evidence to the case of Nina Fischer, who was murdered in her Point San Pedro Road home. Fischer was 31 years old. Authorities took […]

World Health Organization calls Mpox a global health emergency


World Health Organization calls Mpox a global health emergency

By Janice Kew | Bloomberg The World Health Organization has declared a rapidly spreading MPOX outbreak in Africa a global health emergency as the agency tries to contain the spread of the potentially deadly virus. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus last declared Mpox an international health emergency in May 2022, when cases of a milder […]

51-year-old skateboarder from California may not win Olympic gold, but impresses the audience in Paris


51-year-old skateboarder from California may not win Olympic gold, but impresses the audience in Paris

PARIS – Andy Macdonald has brought an electric skateboard to the Olympic Games. “It allows me to zip around the village because the village is massive,” Macdonald said of his home last week. “That’s been the beauty of this trip. It’s just surreal really. I’ve stayed up until 2am and got up at 6am just […]