Year: 2025

Dolly Parton postpones Las Vegas shows, cites ‘health challenges’

Legendary entertainer Dolly Parton is postponing six concerts in Las Vegas that were scheduled for later this year. The 79-year-old alerted fans in an Instagram post on Sunday afternoon. “I want the fans and public to hear directly from me that, unfortunately, I will need to postpone my upcoming Las Read More

New HR Study Reveals Published Authors Command 2x Higher Rates and 86% Hiring Preference in Professional Services

LOS ANGELES, Calif. /California Newswire/ — A groundbreaking new study from The Evolution of Publishing Institute reveals that published authorship creates a dramatic “Author Authority Premium” in professional services, with published authors commanding overwhelmingly higher preference rates, premium fees, and enhanced credibility compared to non-author counterparts with identical qualifications. The Read More

SecuGen Corp. Announces Unity 20 USB-S: A Versatile, Platform-Agnostic Fingerprint Reader for Developers

The Unity 20 USB-S is a smart, all-in-one fingerprint recognition system that provides fingerprint image capture, template extraction and matching SANTA CLARA, Calif. /California Newswire/ — SecuGen is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Unity(tm) 20 USB-S, a fully programmable fingerprint reader designed for developers and system integrators Read More

O.C. Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs to host a Strategy Summit on Oct. 1

Community leaders, legal advocates, and frontline practitioners will gather this Wednesday for the Orange County Immigration Summit: Turning the Page, hosted by the Orange County Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs. This is a pivotal event aimed at shaping the future of immigrant and refugee support across the region. Hosted Read More

Creator behind AI actress responds to backlash: ‘she is not a replacement for a human being’

Tilly Norwood looks and sounds real, but she’s not real at all. Created by Eline Van Der Velden, the CEO of the AI production company Particle6, the “actress” has garnered interest from studios with talent agents eyeing to sign her. Variety reports, Van Der Velden explained at the Zurich Summit Read More

OC nonprofit VietRISE ripped for comments supportive of Ho Chi Minh, the Communist dictator

Westminster City Council members recently voted to condemn a local progressive nonprofit, VietRISE. VietRISE recently hosted an event in Garden Grove that recapped Vietnam’s history and posted a series of slides on their Instagram page entitled “The August Revolution: Vietnam’s Fight For Freedom.”  The slides quoted the Vietnamese communist dictator, Ho Chi Read More

Can your Halloween decorations get you into legal trouble?

Halloween-loving homeowners have been known to show little restraint when decorating for the holiday, putting up taller and taller skeletons each year, or finding new and creative ways to scatter fake entrails and viscera across their lawns. But can Halloween decorations ever go too far, in terms of breaking the Read More

A box truck seriously injured two electric scooter riders in a north O.C. collision

Saturday, September 27th, at approximately 7:00 PM, police officers were dispatched to the area of Associated Rd. and Yorba Linda Blvd. regarding a collision involving a vehicle and two electric scooter riders, according to the Fullerton Police Department. Upon arrival, officers located two females in the roadway with significant, life-threatening Read More

Trump announces ‘100% tariff on all movies’ made outside United States

President Donald Trump made a major announcement on Monday morning regarding films made outside of the country. In a post to Truth Social, the president said: “Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing ‘candy from a baby.’” He Read More