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• Newport Beach surgeon and girlfriend plea not guilty to drugging and raping women while 7 more charges added

  17-10-2018 21:03 via ocregister.com
  
  NEWPORT BEACH – A well-known Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend accused of drugging and raping women pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday during their first court appearance, while prosecutors filed an additional seven charges against Grant William Robicheaux and Cerissa Laura Riley following news reports about their case that prompted other potential victims to step forward.
  On Wednesday, prosecutors said there are five new potential victims, making the total seven.
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• Black Angus holds special anniversary brunch on Saturday, April 20

  16-04-2024 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Black Angus Steakhouse will mark its 60th anniversary with a “Birthday Brunch Experience” at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 20.Each course of the meal will feature a beverage pairing, according to its website.
  It will begin with Hot Honey Chicken Biscuit Sliders served with chile-infused honey and paired with a Jalapeño Strawberry Passion Fruit Margarita.
  The main course is rib-eye steak, lobster fritter and scrambled eggs paired with a Signature Bloody Mary.
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• Signing Day April 2024: Share your signing news and lists with OCVarsity

  16-04-2024 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  There will be “Signing Day” celebrations and college commitments announced in Orange County on Wednesday, April 17, and OCVarsity will be the place to find extensive coverage of the day’s events.
  Wednesday is the start of the regular signing period for boys and girls basketball players who are seniors (Class of 2024). A few Orange County standouts are expected to announce their college destinations.
  Some schools will also be holding celebrations on campus for their Class of 202
  
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• What happens to the more than 1,500 who die in Los Angeles and go unclaimed each year

  16-04-2024 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Each year, roughly 1,500 to 2,000 people die in Los Angeles County only to have their bodies go unclaimed by family; the remains are held onto by the county and eventually cremated and buried in a cemetery tucked away in Boyle Heights. 
  “The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels” by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans traces the lives of four such lost souls, giving them a humanity and identity in death that was often absent in their lives here. 
  “We
  
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• Recipe: Artichokes are in season. Here’s a great way to enjoy them

  16-04-2024 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Sometimes cone shaped, sometimes spherical, artichokes are the unopened flower buds of a thistle-like plant.  Tapering leaves tightly overlap around a tweedy choke, while the fleshy heart at the base holds everything together.  Grown domestically, their sessions peak twice a year, March to May, and September to November.
  Tough until cooking tames them, they taste buttery sweet with an alluring nuttiness and subtle bitterness. To prep, wash them in cold water. Using sharp knife. cut off
  
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• How Amazon became the largest private EV charging operator in the US

  16-04-2024 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Matt Day | (TNS) Bloomberg News
  Amazon’s Maple Valley, Washington, warehouse is built for speed. At night, big rigs pull up to one end to unload boxes and padded mailers – some after a short drive from a bigger warehouse down the road, others following a flight in the hold of a cargo plane. Waiting employees scan, sort and load them into rolling racks.
  Before 7 a.m. each day, many of those racks are wheeled out to dozens of vans lined up in four painted lanes. It’s the starting
  
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• The airline industry’s biggest climate challenge: a lack of clean fuel

  16-04-2024 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Ben Elgin | Bloomberg News (TNS)
  In a glimmer of progress for the daunting task of reducing air travel’s climate impact, a newly built plant in rural Georgia is expected to begin pumping out the world’s first commercial quantities of a new type of cleaner jet fuel this month.
  The $200 million plant from LanzaJet Inc. will be the first to turn ethanol into a fuel compatible with jet engines. The facility is one of many efforts around the globe attempting to crack one of the biggest pr
  
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• O.J. Simpson feared he had CTE but his family has said a ‘hard no’ to brain study

  16-04-2024 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  The body of O.J. Simpson is expected to be cremated in Las Vegas Tuesday, with his family giving a “hard no” to requests from scientists who want to study his brain to see if the former football great and accused double-murderer suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) — as he himself suspected.
  Several years before his death last week of cancer, Simpson, 76, spoke about his concerns that he had developed CTE, a degenerative brain disease, because of multiple concus
  
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• Have Disneyland Magic Key prices finally outpaced demand?

  16-04-2024 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland annual passes that sold out in hours in January have been languishing for weeks since they went on sale in early March following a price increase late last year that left fans moaning about the Anaheim theme park becoming the “Priciest Place on Earth.”
  Which raises the question: Have Magic Key prices finally outpaced demand?
  Sales of all four tiers of Magic Key annual passes went on sale March 5 and six weeks later the three most expensive tiers are still available. The lo
  
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• Justice Department preparing Ticketmaster antitrust lawsuit

  16-04-2024 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Leah Nylen | Bloomberg News (TNS)
  The Justice Department may file an antitrust complaint as soon as next month aimed at forcing Live Nation Entertainment Inc. to spin off its Ticketmaster ticketing business, according to three people familiar with the matter.
  The agency has been investigating the entertainment giant for years amid concerns Live Nation has illegally tied its concert promotion services to use of Ticketmaster, in violation of the terms of the 2010 settlement that allowed it to acqu
  
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• Boeing says no 787 safety risk after whistleblower raises troubling claims

  16-04-2024 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Dominic Gates | (TNS) The Seattle Times
  NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina — At its 787 Dreamliner manufacturing complex in South Carolina on Monday, Boeing detailed an immense amount of analysis and testing it has done since the discovery in 2020 of small gaps at the fuselage joins on the jet.
  Boeing has made meticulous, time-consuming changes to the way it manufactures the 787’s carbon composite airframe to eliminate the gaps. It must do so to meet the specification.
  More importantly
  
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• Families enjoy arts day in Mission Viejo

  16-04-2024 19:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Helena Ooka, 8, of Mission Viejo creates a fingerprint art magnet at one of the arts and crafts stations during Family Arts Day at the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  Families visit various arts and crafts stations in one of the rooms at the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo during Family Arts Day, presented with support from the Kiwanis Club of Mission Viejo, on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Ph
  
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• The free Bob Baker Day festival celebrates puppets and the legendary puppet master

  16-04-2024 18:54 via ocregister.com
  
  There’s no need to pull any strings to get into this festival because it’s free. But you may want to pull some strings while at the festival because it’s all about celebrating a late puppet master.
  More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the annual Bob Baker Day festival at the Los Angeles State Historic Park on Sunday, April 21.
  “It’s an all day celebration, a sort of puppetchella,” said Mary Thompson, director of communications for the Bob Baker Mario
  
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• Orange County girls athlete of the week: Zara Masud, Woodbridge

  16-04-2024 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County girls athlete of the week:
  Name: Zara Masud
  School: Woodbridge
  Sport: Swimming
  Year: Senior
  Noteworthy: The Georgia Tech commit claimed the 200-yard freestyle (1 minute, 48.18 seconds), 100 butterfly (54.01) and female swimmer of the meet honors in leading the Warriors to the team title at the Mt. SAC Spring Meet of Champions. Masud also raced on Woodbridge’s winning 200 free
  
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• Torch and sandals: What to know about the flame-lighting ceremony in Greece for the Paris Olympics

  16-04-2024 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press
  ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — A priestess prays to a dead sun god in front of a fallen Greek temple. If the sky is clear, a flame spurts that will burn in Paris throughout the world’s top sporting event. Speeches ensue.
  On Tuesday, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in southern Greece in a meticulously choreographed ceremony.
  It will then be carried through Greece for
  
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• Cops, dog owners and pups connect in Anaheim

  16-04-2024 18:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Gidget, left, a Chinese crested carin terrier and Judah Ben-Hur a Yorkie-mix arrive dressed for the occasion at the Anaheim Police Department’s “Puppuccinos with a Cop” event at the Maxwell Dog Park in Anaheim on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The event gave the police department an opportunity to promote the Dog Walker Watch Program. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Benjamin, a mini French bulldog puppy, laps up a Starbucks puppuccino during the Anaheim Police
  
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• Review: Want some advice? See ‘Tiny, Beautiful Things’ at Anaheim’s Chance Theater

  16-04-2024 18:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Enter Chance Theater’s mainstage right now and you encounter a  welcoming home. Bathed in beatific amber lighting sits a sizable, well-appointed kitchen and island, an intimate dining space, a pleasingly stuffed bookcase against the wall and a comfy multi-piece sectional couch set.
  Why, whoever is lucky enough to live here surely must not have a care in the world.
  Fortunately for those experiencing the emotionally affecting single act play “Tiny, Beautiful Things,” that&rs
  
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• Newport Beach resident shoots home-invasion robber, police say

  16-04-2024 18:13 via ocregister.com
  
  A Newport Beach man shot and wounded a home-invasion robber early Tuesday morning, April 16, police said, with the second robber dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
  None of the four victims in the home, which included at least one minor, was injured, said Sgt. Steve Oberon, spokesman for Newport Beach Police.
  The wounded robber, shot multiple times, was hospitalized.
  The crime was not random, Oberon said, but he declined to explain why it was a targeted crime saying that would
  
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• Newport Beach police investigating possible home invasion

  16-04-2024 18:13 via ocregister.com
  
  An investigation was underway Tuesday morning, April 16, into a reported home invasion in Newport Beach.
  Newport Coast Drive was closed between Ocean Ridge Road and Ridge Park Road due to police activity, according to Newport Beach police.
  Dispatched officers at around 4:45 a.m. found a family inside a Newport Coast home, and investigators believe the homeowner fired shots during the alleged home invasion, Fox11 reported.
  One suspect was taken into custody and a possible second suspect left the
  
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• Newport Beach homeowner shoots burglary suspect

  16-04-2024 18:13 via ocregister.com
  
  A homeowner shot and wounded one of two suspects who entered his home in Newport Beach early Tuesday, April 16, and the second suspect apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
  Officers went to the neighborhood near Newport Coast Drive at about 4:45 a.m., Newport Beach police said.
  The two suspects entered the residence in what investigators believe was a targeted attack, police said, and the homeowner fired shots at them.
  One suspect, who had been wounded, was found outsid
  
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• Metropolitan Water commits up to $250 million for previously untapped water sources

  16-04-2024 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  The Metropolitan Water District plans to spend up to $250 million on four non-traditional water projects that, combined, could supply up to 100,000 Southern California households over the next few years.
  Wastewater recycling, rainwater reclamation and transforming ocean water into drinking water are some of the technologies that could get money in the coming wave of funding from MWD.
  The Los Angeles-based wholesaler, which helps transfer water from Northern California and the Colorado River to 2
  
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• A student sent a swastika to a Jewish Long Beach lawmaker’s daughter. The response led to his new bill

  16-04-2024 17:34 via ocregister.com
  
  In response to his daughter receiving a swastika on social media, a Long Beach Jewish lawmaker is pushing for a bill that would give school administrators authority to suspend or expel students if they cyberbully fellow students away from school and outside of school hours.
  But Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s Assembly Bill 2351 is coming into conflict with California’s recent reforms intended to prevent students of color from being expelled and suspended at disproportionate rates.
  Th
  
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• US home construction tumbles 14.7% to 7-month low

  16-04-2024 17:19 via ocregister.com
  
  New home construction in the US slowed last month as a leveling off in interest rates has given way to a lull in housing demand and caution among builders.
  Residential starts decreased 14.7% in March to a 1.32 million annualized rate, the lowest since August, government data showed Tuesday. The figure was weaker than all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
  Building permits, which point to future construction, fell to a 1.46 million rate in March. Both starts and permits were revised h
  
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• Charges against Trump and Jan. 6 rioters at stake as Supreme Court hears debate over obstruction law

  16-04-2024 17:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday is taking up the first of two cases that could affect the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his election loss in 2020. Hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot also are at stake.
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• Director of new Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs has hands-on experience, officials said

  16-04-2024 16:52 via ocregister.com
  
  With its new leader in place, the county’s Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs is looking for two new staff members to make the office complete before opening its doors.
  Proposed by Orange County Supervisors Doug Chaffee and Andrew Do, the Board of Supervisors agreed last April to establish the new office to connect immigrants and refugees with housing, legal support and other necessary resettlement resources. Chaffee contributed $500,000 from his district discretionary funds.
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• Aspiring techies can find community in Irvine this week

  16-04-2024 16:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Google, Microsoft, Meta, BlackBerry, Vizio and Oracle are just a handful of the many technology giants with a known presence in Irvine. But do the city’s startups have that same visibility?
  That’s the question Councilmember Tammy Kim had when she proposed Irvine Tech Week to her colleagues last year.
  While a startup scene does exist in Irvine, it’s nowhere near the startup hotbed that is Silicon Beach or the Bay Area, she said, because the city is largely made up of big compani
  
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• How José Vadi’s essay collection ‘Chipped’ explores the skateboarder’s experience

  16-04-2024 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  To a skater, the board is an extension of the body. And like a skateboard, an aging body can show life’s hard knocks.
  “Skateboarding is truly rebellious and punk in its ethos,” said author José Vadi. “Nobody should care how old someone is just as much as someone shouldn’t care about their sexual orientation, gender, economic background. None of those things should be the determining factor of your ability to enjoy yourself on a skateboard.”
  Vadi explore
  
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• Anaheim police unveil new Tesla patrol cars

  16-04-2024 16:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim police will soon begin using electric Tesla Model Ys as patrol vehicles in a pilot program the department says will help keep more officers on the road.
  “We are in desperate need of police cars,” Anaheim Police Department Sgt. Jacob Gallacher said Monday at an event unveiling the vehicles.
  The Police Department has 83 patrol vehicles, which city officials say are aging and breaking down more often. Chief Rick Armendariz said at a February council meeting discussing the progra
  
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• USC cancels valedictorian’s commencement speech citing safety concerns

  16-04-2024 16:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Amid complaints about alleged antisemitic views posted online, USC’s valedictorian will not be permitted to deliver a speech at the university’s commencement ceremony due to concerns about security, the school’s provost announced, and calls for the valedictorian to be allowed to speak are growing today.
  “While this is disappointing, tradition must give way to safety,” Provost Andrew Guzman wrote in a message to the university community. “This decision is not o
  
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• California’s high construction costs limit housing. A Supreme Court decision might help

  16-04-2024 16:11 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s chronic inability to build enough housing – particularly for low-income families – has many causes, but a big one is its extremely high cost of construction.
  Some costs are intrinsic and unavoidable, such as land acquisition and building materials. But some are artificial and could be lowered, especially those imposed by state and local governments. They include dictating the use of high-cost unionized construction labor, time-consuming environmental clearances, ar
  
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