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RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA (CBSLA) — A mountain lion cub whose mother was fatally struck by a car in Orange County has been released back into the wild this week after four months of rehabilitation. Two mountain lion cubs were just six months old when they were first spotted in February at the edges of the Tijeras Creek Golf Course in Orange County. California Fish & Wildlife officials confirmed the cubs had been orphaned after their mother was killed in traffic, but determined they weren’t ready yet to fend for themselves. One of the cubs was brought in February to the Ramona Wildlife Center, where the Project Wildlife Team worked to rehabilitate the kitten with the intention of releasing her back into the wild. Rescued mountain lion kittens are usually sent to a sanctuary. “This is the first time we’ve released a younger female lion, so it’s significant for us. She’s basically a teenager going out on her own for the first time and we’ve tried to help her get to the teenage stage, so she’s old enough,” said Christine Barton, director of operations and wildlife…

Tests recently done by a commercial lab have proved that no identifiable tuna DNA was found in Subway’s sandwiches, reported the New York Times. The newspaper had 60 inches of tuna sandwiches from three different Subway locations in Los Angeles tested. The “tuna” was removed, frozen and sent to an unidentified commercial food testing lab as the chain faces a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California earlier this year alleging the ingredient it calls tuna actually contains no tuna at all. “No amplifiable tuna DNA was present in the sample and so we obtained no amplification products from the DNA. Therefore, we cannot identify the species,” the test results read.  “One, it’s so heavily processed that whatever we could pull out, we couldn’t make an identification,” a lab spokesperson said. “Or we got some and there’s just nothing there that’s tuna.” Subway wrote an email to the newspaper denying the allegations: “There simply is no truth to the allegations in the complaint that was filed in California,” a Subway spokeswoman wrote in the email. “Subway delivers 100 percent cooked…

Not sure if your family qualifies for the expanded child tax credits that will start going out next month? The IRS now has a new online tool that allows taxpayers to check their eligibility. Launched Tuesday, the Advance Child Tax Credit Eligibility Assistant can help American families quickly determine if they qualify for monthly payments of up to $300 per child by having them answer a simple set of questions, according to an IRS news release. When using the tool, users should have their 2020 tax return on hand; however, if they haven’t submitted that yet, they can go off of their 2019 filing. For those who don’t have a copy of their tax return but know their filing status, estimates can be made based on income statements like W-2s and 1099s, and the amount of expenses and adjustments to total income. The tool then walks users through a set of questions, beginning with whether the taxpayer claimed the child tax credit on their 2019 or 2020 return, and whether they have established residency in the U.S. for more than half of that year. If…

John McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus software, has been found dead in his cell in a jail near Barcelona, a government official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Authorities said the cause of death was being investigated. Hours earlier, a Spanish court issued a preliminary ruling in favor of the 75-year-old tycoon’s extradition to the United States to face tax-related criminal charges that could carry decades in prison. Security personnel at the Brians 2 penitentiary near the northeastern Spanish city tried to revive him, but the jail’s medical team finally certified his death, a statement from the regional Catalan government said. “A judicial delegation has arrived to investigate the causes of death,” the statement said, adding that “Everything points to death by suicide.” The statement didn’t identify McAfee by name, but said he was a 75-year-old U.S. citizen awaiting extradition to his country. A Catalan government source familiar with the event who was not authorized to be named in media reports confirmed to the AP that the dead man was McAfee. Spain’s National Court on Monday ruled in favor of extraditing McAfee, who…

In 2019, a listener of writer Neil Strauss’ podcast “To Live and Die in LA” came forward with information that helped solve the case of a 25-year-old missing woman, Adea Shabani. The revelations were released in almost real time, and listening seemed intimate, not to mention terrifying. Strauss is back with a second season of his podcast, focusing on the 2017 disappearance of Elaine Park, a 20-year-old woman last seen in Calabasas. A new episode is released on Thursdays. Strauss became aware of the case after his then-wife, Ingrid De La O, stumbled across a news report online that said Park’s abandoned car was found in Malibu — where they lived. De La O couldn’t shake the idea that something disturbing may have taken place in her community and joined the search. She brought in neighbor and friend Mike Einziger — guitarist for the band Incubus — and his wife, violinist Ann Marie Simpson. Strauss helped too, now saying that at the time it was originally more to get along than to go along. Strauss alludes on the podcast to his marriage breaking up, at least in…

Newport Beach is raising berms on the Balboa Peninsula and handing out sand bags to residents as high tides bring the threat of flooding.

BOSTON (CBS) – With more people returning to the roads and skies this summer, it may come as no surprise as the demand for car rentals is skyrocketing. That means a smaller supply and higher prices for consumers. Newlyweds Drew and Austin Swigar are heading north to Maine using their rental car to tour the coast for their honeymoon. The couple is relieved they planned this trip back in January. “We booked it probably early enough that we got ahead of that rush,” said Austin Swigart. But others are finding themself right in the middle of the rush to find a rental car. “We checked prices about a week or two beforehand, made a U-turn and canceled our original rental reservation and got a different one,” said Robert Schein. Sticker shock is the reaction from most travelers at Logan Airport’s Car Rental Center. “One thousand eight hundred eighty-four dollars for five days is pretty expensive,” said Brandon Melanson. According to AAA, daily car rental prices are up 86% compared to this same time last year, costing upwards of $166 a day! “There is pent-up demand, and people are booking, and people…

John McAfee has been found dead in a Spanish prison hours after a court approved his extradition to the US.

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner will offer expanded service for trains between Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, officials announced Wednesday. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the trains have been operating on a reduced schedule. Starting Monday, three additional roundtrips will be added to the Pacific Surfliner schedule. Southbound Train 562 will depart Los Angeles at 6:05 a.m. and arrive in San Diego at 8:58 a.m. Southbound Train 572 will depart Los Angeles at 10:54 a.m. and arrive in San Diego at 1:52 p.m. On weekends and holidays, this train will operate as Train 1572, departing Los Angeles at 11:20 a.m. and arriving in San Diego at 2:13 p.m. Southbound Train 590 will depart Los Angeles at 7:30 p.m. and arrive in San Diego at 10:25 p.m. Northbound Train 569 will depart San Diego at 9:43 a.m. and arrive in Los Angeles at 12:38 p.m. Northbound Train 583 will depart San Diego at 2:50 p.m. and arrive in Los Angeles at 5:54 p.m. Northbound Train 595 will depart San Diego at 8:57 p.m. and arrive…