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• Theater review: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ stays grounded, looks backward and forward

  22-04-2019 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  A train pulls into a station, and a young man wearing a red hooded sweatshirt and carrying a book steps off and gazes around. That’s not the usual start of “Fiddler on the Roof,” but it’s how director Bartlett Sher begins his revival of this musical.
  That man could be the great-great-grandson of Tevye, the Jewish father of five daughters who is at the center of this musical. The man pulls off the hoodie, dons a cap and reveals the knotted fringes of a prayer shawl. And no
  
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• Anaheim’s resort-area buses get new solar-powered charging facility

  27-04-2024 00:47 via ocregister.com
  
  The Anaheim Transportation Network, the transit agency that runs buses in the city’s resort district, on Friday opened the first-of-its-kind, solar-powered charging facility in the county to power its fleet of battery electric buses and vans.
  The charging hub, located east of the 5 Freeway off of South Claudina Street, expands the agency’s ability to charge its electric vehicles as its leaders plan to buy more in the coming years.
  “We’re extremely proud of it,” ATN
  
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• Wild ending to baseball’s regular season, now it’s time for CIF-SS playoffs

  27-04-2024 00:32 via ocregister.com
  
  The final week of the high school baseball regular season was a dramatic one.
  Now it’s on to the playoffs. The brackets for the eight CIF Southern Section playoff divisions will be released Monday at 10 a.m.
  Some basics on the baseball playoffs: teams are automatic qualifiers for the playoffs if they finish among the top two teams in a four-team league, top three in five- and six-team leagues, and top four in seven- and eight-team leagues; teams can apply for an at-large berth if their ove
  
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• Stagecoach 2024: See photos of musicians, fans from Day 1 of country festival

  27-04-2024 00:27 via ocregister.com
  
  From the music to the fans, here’s everything we say during Day 1 of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Friday, April 26.
  Riley Accurso, of San Diego, line dances at Diplo’s Honkytonk during the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., on Friday, April 26, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Contributing Photographer)
  The L.A. Wranglers Dance Troupe performs at Diplo’s Honkytonk during the Stagecoach
  
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• Chargers top draft pick Joe Alt makes an imposing first impression

  27-04-2024 00:18 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA — Joe Alt dwarfed the press room podium during his introductory news conference on Friday at the Chargers’ headquarters. He was nearly as tall as the powder blue backdrop with the team’s logo and its car sponsor splashed across it. His new lightning bolt cap barely fit atop his head.
  Standing 6-foot-9 and weighing 321 pounds, Alt was a commanding presence as he met with the Chargers’ coaching staff, toured the facility, spoke with reporters and posed for photos
  
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• Famed 125-mile Newport to Ensenada race brings legacy, competition and fun on the water

  27-04-2024 00:14 via ocregister.com
  
  The winds were strong, the weather favorable and the competition on the water was fierce for the iconic Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race.
  An estimated 146 boats departed from the start line off the Balboa Pier on Friday, April 26, for the 125-mile jaunt now in its 76th year. About 20 boats were signed up to do a shorter course that ends in San Diego.
  Sailboats gather near the Balboa Pier as they prepare to start the 76th Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race in Newport Beach,
  
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• Mater Dei hires former college coach Jody Wynn as its girls basketball coach

  26-04-2024 23:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowMater Dei has hired Jody Wynn, a former collegiate coach with strong ties to the program and Orange County, as its new girls basketball coach.
  The Monarchs announced the hiring Friday. The former Long Beach State and Washington women’s basketball coach will replace Kevin Kiernan, who resigned after last season.
  Wynn, a former standout player at Brea Olinda, joined Kiernan’s staff this past sea
  
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• USC signs women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb to extension through 2030

  26-04-2024 22:53 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES – As she watched proudly from the sidelines in Las Vegas in March, tears and confetti and hugs melding together on the postgame hardwood in one post-Pac-12-championship mishmash, JuJu Watkins’ mother Sari offered a definitive take on the coach who’d brought USC here.
  “I think Lindsay (Gottlieb),” Sari Watkins pondered, “is the best coach in the NCAA. Because she gives herself space to grow, and her approach is very open – in the development p
  
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• OCDE Superintendent Al Mijares announces retirement amid cancer diagnosis

  26-04-2024 22:49 via ocregister.com
  
  After 12 years of serving as the Orange County Department of Education’s superintendent, Al Mijares will retire at the end of June.
  Mijares announced his retirement on Friday, April 26, citing medical reasons and the advice of doctors. Only a few days ago, Mijares had said he was optimistic he would return to his job in August. He has been on medical leave since August 2023.
  “After extensive discussions with my medical team and my family, as well as considerable prayer, it has become
  
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• Jerry Seinfeld says Netflix Pop-Tart film ‘Unfrosted’ is his ‘Fabelmans’

  26-04-2024 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jake Coyle | The Associated Press
  Jerry Seinfeld has been responsible for more movies than you think.
  Yes, he co-wrote and lent his voice to 2007’s “Bee Movie.” But before that, “Seinfeld” — where going to the movies, with or without the aid of Moviefone, was nearly as regular a destination as the coffee shop — gave birth to dozens of (fake) films. “Rochelle, Rochelle.” “Prognosis Negative.” “Sack Lunch.”
  But nearly
  
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• After two surgeries, Galaxy defender Jalen Neal ready to get back to action

  26-04-2024 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Jalen Neal is at the end of the long road back.
  Neal, who made his first team debut last season with the Galaxy, played 16 games and was selected to the USMNT roster for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. However, his season was shortened after suffering an injury with the U.S. and after two games back with the Galaxy, he was sidelined for the remainder of the season.
  First, it was a hernia surgery, late last season and before the start of this season, he underwent another surgery.
  However, after recovery,
  
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• US will send more Patriot systems in Ukraine aid package

  26-04-2024 22:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will provide Ukraine additional Patriot missiles for its air defense systems as part of a massive $6 billion additional aid package, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Friday.The missiles will be used to replenish previously supplied Patriot air defense systems and are part of a package that also includes more munitions for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems, or NASAMS, and additional ge
  
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• Biden administration shelves ban on menthol cigarettes

  26-04-2024 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Matthew Perrone and Zeke Miller | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — For the second time in recent months, President Joe Biden’s administration has delayed a plan to ban menthol cigarettes, a decision that is certain to infuriate anti-smoking advocates but could avoid angering Black voters ahead of November elections.
  In a statement Friday, Biden’s top health official gave no timeline for issuing the rule, saying only that the administration would take more time to consider feedb
  
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• Berkshire Hathaway to pay $250 million to settle real estate commission lawsuits

  26-04-2024 21:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By Alex Veiga | The Associated Press
  A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide claiming that longstanding practices by real estate brokerages forced U.S. homeowners to pay artificially inflated broker commissions when they sold their homes.
  HomeServices of America said Friday that the proposed settlement would shield its 51 brands, nearly 70,000 real estate agents and over 300 franchisees from similar lit
  
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• Warren Buffett’s real estate brokerage agrees to $250 million commission settlement

  26-04-2024 21:38 via ocregister.com
  
  HomeServices of America, the largest residential real estate brokerage in the United States and owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy, has agreed to settle a series of lawsuits that could change the way commissions are paid to real estate agents.
  On Thursday, the brokerage signed off on adding $250 million to the mounting pile of damages won by home sellers who have successfully sued several brokerages and the National Association of Realtors over what they described as infla
  
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• US probe wants to know if Tesla Autopilot recall did enough to get drivers to pay attention

  26-04-2024 21:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By Tom Krisher | The Associated Press
  The U.S. government’s auto safety agency is investigating whether last year’s recall of Tesla’s Autopilot driving system did enough to make sure drivers pay attention to the road.
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted on its website Friday that Tesla has reported 20 more crashes involving Autopilot and since the recall. The crashes and agency tests raised concerns about the effectiveness of the remedy.
  
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• Kaiser Permanente may have sent private patient data to Google, Microsoft and X

  26-04-2024 21:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By John Tozzi | Bloomberg
  Oakland-based health plan Kaiser Permanente said its websites and apps may have inappropriately sent members’ private information to tech giants including Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp. and the social media company X.
  Kaiser plans to inform 13.4 million current and former patients of the breach directly over the next month, according to an emailed statement to Bloomberg News.
  The data shared with other companies may have included their names and what people search
  
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• Kaiser health system sent private patient data to Google, Microsoft and X

  26-04-2024 21:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By John Tozzi | Bloomberg
  The giant California-based health plan Kaiser Permanente said its websites and apps may have inappropriately sent members’ private information to tech giants including Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp. and the social media company X.
  Kaiser plans to inform 13.4 million current and former patients of the breach directly over the next month, according to an emailed statement to Bloomberg News.
  The data shared with other companies may have included their names and what
  
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• Girlfriend of gunman who killed 6-year-old boy in road rage shooting on 55 Freeway pleads guilty

  26-04-2024 21:08 via ocregister.com
  
  A Costa Mesa woman whose boyfriend shot and killed 6-year-old Aiden Leos during a 2021 road rage confrontation on a busy Orange County freeway pleaded guilty Friday, April 26 to being an accessory after the fact, but due to credit for time already served will not spend any more time in custody.
  Wynne Lee, 26, was sentenced to four years in prison moments after pleading guilty to the accessory count, a felony, as well as a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle. But she wa
  
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• Firefighters still working on destructive fire at historic Oceanside pier

  26-04-2024 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By Teri Figueroa, Phil Diehl and Karen Kucher
  Fire tore through a vacant restaurant at the end of the Oceanside Municipal Pier Thursday afternoon, causing “significant damage” and continuing to smolder and burn long after crews had the fire under control.
  Lifeguards spotted the fire just after 3 p.m. at the building that had once housed Ruby’s Diner. Images shared on social media showed a large black plume of smoke rising above the end of the iconic pier, cr
  
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• Firefighters contain destructive fire on historic Oceanside pier

  26-04-2024 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  OCEANSIDE — A stubborn fire at the end of a landmark wooden pier on the Southern California coast was contained early Friday, authorities said.
  The fire erupted at 3 p.m. Thursday on the seaward end of the pier in the city of Oceanside, north of San Diego.Firefighters pulled hoses down the 1,954-foot pier and also battled the flames with water cannons aboard boats and helicopter water drops.
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• Holdout states consider expanding Medicaid — with work requirements

  26-04-2024 20:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By Shalina Chatlani, Stateline.org
  In Humphreys County, Mississippi — about 70 miles north of the state capital, in the heart of the fertile Delta region — a third of the residents live in poverty. In Belzoni, the county seat, there are just a handful of health care clinics. The town’s only major hospital closed more than a decade ago, around the same time its catfish industry collapsed.
  Jobs in the area are scarce, said Wardell Walton, who was mayor of Belzoni from 2005 to 201
  
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• He thinks his wife died in an understaffed hospital. Now he’s trying to change the industry

  26-04-2024 20:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Kate Wells, Michigan Public | (TNS) KFF Health News
  For the past year, police Detective Tim Lillard has spent most of his waking hours unofficially investigating his wife’s death.
  The question has never been exactly how Ann Picha-Lillard died on Nov. 19, 2022: She succumbed to respiratory failure after an infection put too much strain on her weakened lungs. She was 65.
  For Tim Lillard, the question has been why.
  Lillard had been in the hospital with his wife every day for a month. Nurses i
  
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• Rural jails turn to community health workers to help the newly released succeed

  26-04-2024 20:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By Lillian Mongeau Hughes, KFF Health News
  MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.
  He blames his addiction. He started using in middle school, and by the time he was an adult he was addicted to meth and heroin. At various points, he’s done time alongside his mom, his dad, his sister, and his younger brother.
  “That’s
  
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• Top Orange County swimming times entering Friday’s league finals, April 26

  26-04-2024 20:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSophomores Peter Vu of Fountain Valley and Zoe DeFabrique of San Clemente have posted Orange County-leading swimming times entering Friday, April 26, 2024:
  BOYS SWIMMING
  200-yard medley relay (O.C. record 1:29.01 Santa Margarita ’23) SM 1:30.43
  200 free (O.C. record 1:33.26 Shoults ’16) Maksymowski (Nor) 1:36.47
  200 IM (O.C. record 1:45.42 Okubo ’14) Lee (Nor) 1:49.82
  50 free (O.C.
  
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• Census change will lead to more data on health of Middle Eastern, North African people in US

  26-04-2024 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Nada Hassanein | (TNS) Stateline.org
  Before the successful, healthy birth of her son, recalls Germine Awad — an Egyptian American who is a psychologist at the University of Michigan — clinicians told her that her hormone levels were too high and that her pregnancy was in danger. “They don’t know us,” her mother reassured her.
  Iyman Hamad, a Palestinian American public health graduate student at Wayne State University in Detroit, had to search online to figure out wh
  
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• 10 Independent Bookstore Day tips to find books, authors and giveaways

  26-04-2024 20:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Like every year, we’ll be heading out to the bookstore on Independent Bookstore Day, which is tomorrow, Saturday, April 27.
  With stores closing, expecting to close, or going up for sale, it seems even more important than ever to get out and support a local bookstore. Or two. Or … more?
  In some cities, like San Diego and Seattle, you can take a bookstore crawl to multiple stores. And unlike its inspiration, the pub crawl, you won’t have to hold your friends’ hai
  
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• Free, two-day California in My Garden tour highlights planting local

  26-04-2024 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  When Travis Gramberg moved into his new Costa Mesa home with his family, he didn’t just see the bare canvas inside to decorate; he saw an opportunity outside as well.
  In pursuit of a goal to have a garden featuring just plants native to California, he “removed everything and started over.”
  “The goal is 100% California native gardens can look lush, can look colorful and can be done,” said Gramberg, a landscape architect and founder of Koheid Design.
  And now his garde
  
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• Betting against Trump’s stock has made some traders millions

  26-04-2024 20:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By Bernard Condon | Associated Press
  NEW YORK — Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable.
  Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social — will keep dropping despite massive buying by Trump loyalists and wild swings that often mirror the candidate’s latest polls, court trials and outbu
  
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• Mission Viejo to implement new homeless outreach program as Mercy House prepares to withdraw

  26-04-2024 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Mission Viejo is looking for new ways to expand its homeless outreach initiatives once longtime partner Mercy House pulls back this summer.
  Mercy House, a non-profit that provides housing and support services for unhoused individuals, will discontinue outreach services in south Orange County at the end of June. However, the nonprofit will still provide housing and shelter assistance throughout the area.
  Mercy House has contracted with Mission Viejo to provide homeless outreach services for the c
  
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