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• Tustin’s Lemonade Day marks the first in Orange County

  22-05-2018 15:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Tustin became one big lemonade mall – or, rather, 13 small shops – on Saturday, May 19, as hundreds of kids from around the city set up stands.
  They were taking part in the national Lemonade Day, launched in Houston 11 years ago as an opportunity for children to learn about entrepreneurship. The program walks participants through the steps of establishing and running a business.
  Tustin’s event marks the first Lemonade Day held in Orange County.
  Aidan Tran, 10, and Lily Metcalf,
  
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• Mission Viejo softball uses clutch hitting to defeat Aliso Niguel and remain in first place

  19-04-2024 05:34 via ocregister.com
  
  MISSION VIEJO — Mission Viejo’s softball team continued to conjure memories of its magical 2022 season Thursday while competing in another intense South Coast League game.
  The Diablos scored all their runs with two outs and overcame four home runs by Aliso Niguel to collect a 9-5 victory at Mission Viejo High.
  Aliso Niguel catcher Tessa Cowsill can’t hang onto the ball as Mission Viejo’s Kaitlyn Sun, right, slides in safe in in a South Coast League softball game at Missio
  
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• USC’s Anthony Lucas among returning defensive players with ‘a lot to prove’

  19-04-2024 05:09 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Eric Gentry will never forget the number 116, because it has been weaponized around USC, a painful trigger pressed over and over and over again as a reminder of the season that was lost.
  116. It comes after every defensive workout, one additional set of repetitions, as Gentry described after USC’s final spring practice on Thursday. One more rep for every rung USC dropped in total-defense rankings in 2023. 116 reps. 116th in yards-per-game allowed. A cardinal-red stain o
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday, April 18

  19-04-2024 04:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Thursday, April 18
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  THURSDAY’S SCORES
  SOFTBALL
  ORANGE LEAGUE
  Anaheim 16, Western 3
  Santa Ana Valley 10, Magnolia 0
  SUNSET LEAGUE
  Los Alamitos 9, Marina 0
  CRESTVIEW LEAGUE
  
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• Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Friday, April 19, 2024

  19-04-2024 04:01 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Friday, April 19, 2024.
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• Man gets 11 years for DUI crash that killed 3 returning from Bible study in Placentia

  19-04-2024 03:20 via ocregister.com
  
  A 25-year-old Santa Ana man pleaded guilty Thursday and was immediately sentenced to 11 years in prison for an alcohol-fueled crash that killed two adults and a 10-year-old girl who were returning from a Bible study meeting in Placentia.
  Mario Armando Paz Jr. pleaded guilty to three counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, one count of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and one count of DUI with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 or more causing injury, all felonie
  
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• Former member of neo-Nazi group testifies in Samuel Woodward murder trial

  19-04-2024 02:51 via ocregister.com
  
  A former member of a neo-Nazi group that prosecutors allege is tied to the killing of Blaze Bernstein by his former classmate Samuel Woodward outlined the inner-workings of the militant organization during testimony this week in Woodward’s ongoing murder trial.
  Prosecutors argue that Woodward’s alleged hatred of gay and Jewish people led him to drop out of college and join Atomwaffen Division — an organization federal authorities have described as a racially motivated violent e
  
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• Another Tax Day has come and gone, and most Americans believe they pay too much

  19-04-2024 02:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Another Tax Day has come and gone, and most Americans believe they pay too much. One recent poll revealed that 56% say they pay more than their fair share. Unfortunately, I fear this is just the beginning considering the insane level of debt Washington policymakers have accumulated over the years. With this in mind, here are some important facts about our tax system that you might not know.
  The payroll tax is the heaviest burden for most taxpaying Americans, but the income tax is more visible an
  
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• San Clemente girls lacrosse takes big step by ending Foothill win streak

  19-04-2024 02:39 via ocregister.com
  
  The San Clemente girls lacrosse team took the field on April 12 with one goal in mind: do what no Orange County team had done in five years.
  San Clemente accomplished that goal by snapping Foothill’s 47-game winning streak against Orange County teams. The streak had started in 2019.
  Foothill ended San Clemente’s season in 2023 in the CIF-SS Division 1 semifinals and has won three consecutive CIF-SS Division 1 championships in convincing fashion.
  “They (Foothill) are the standar
  
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• Judge denies request for Bob Baffert-trained Muth to run in Kentucky Derby

  19-04-2024 02:12 via ocregister.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A judge has denied a request by the owner of Bob Baffert-trained Arkansas Derby winner Muth for the colt to run in next month’s 150th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.
  Jefferson County Circuit Judge Mitch Perry declined Thursday to grant a temporary injunction to Zedan Racing Stables, which had argued that the ban of Baffert was “illegal.”
  Muth won the Arkansas Derby on March 30 but is ineligible to receive the 100 points that would have put him in the
  
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• Clippers lack clarity on Kawhi Leonard’s Game 1 availability

  19-04-2024 01:52 via ocregister.com
  
  PLAYA VISTA — Clarity over Kawhi Leonard’s availability became slightly murkier Thursday when it was disclosed that the two-time NBA Finals MVP was still dealing with inflammation in his right knee.
  Lawrence Frank, the Clippers’ president of basketball operations, said Leonard continues to “do everything” possible to play in the first round of the playoffs against the Dallas Mavericks. He said Leonard is “questionable” for Sunday’s Game 1.
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• Lakers’ D’Angelo Russell stays even-keeled ahead of playoff rematch with Nuggets

  19-04-2024 01:41 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — D’Angelo Russell is aware of the attention he’s receiving ahead of the Lakers’ first-round playoff matchup against the defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets.
  The type of attention usually reserved for a team’s main stars – such as LeBron James and Anthony Davis for the Lakers.
  Or Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray for the Nuggets.
  But because of the way things went the last time the Lakers and Nuggets met in the playoffs, Russell’s performan
  
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• Iran attacked Israel. What happens next?

  19-04-2024 01:31 via ocregister.com
  
  After 45 years of increasingly bellicose rhetoric, Iran launched an unprecedented, and historically large, direct attack on Israel, marking an expansion of the shadow war – or “war between wars” as Israel calls it – that until now, had largely been confined to Lebanon, Syria, or covert operations. 
  Last weekend, more than 300 Iranian drones, cruise, and ballistic missiles were fired at the Jewish State, and while 99% of them were intercepted prior to reaching Israeli
  
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• Iran attacked Israel. Israel has now responded. What happens next?

  19-04-2024 01:31 via ocregister.com
  
  After 45 years of increasingly bellicose rhetoric, Iran launched an unprecedented, and historically large, direct attack on Israel, marking an expansion of the shadow war – or “war between wars” as Israel calls it – that until now, had largely been confined to Lebanon, Syria, or covert operations. 
  Last weekend, more than 300 Iranian drones, cruise, and ballistic missiles were fired at the Jewish State, and while 99% of them were intercepted prior to reaching Israeli
  
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• Earth Day: A look at what’s being done to decrease plastic use

  19-04-2024 01:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Plastic predicament
  Earth Day is Monday, April 22, and the theme for 2024 is “Planet vs. Plastics.” Plastic has many benefits: It’s cheap, versatile, lightweight and durable. It also can provide environmental benefits: It plays a critical role in maintaining food quality and safety and reducing food waste. But at the same time, plastics are having a negative impact on our oceans and wildlife health.
  The first synthetic plastic — Bakelite — was produced in 1907. Rapi
  
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• Huntington Beach councilmembers pledge to fight state’s lawsuit over city’s voter ID measure

  19-04-2024 01:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach elected officials on Thursday said the city will fight the state attorney general’s new lawsuit attempting to block the city from implementing voter ID in future elections.
  Voters in March approved adding language to the city’s charter that said the city may ask for proof of identification when voting at in-person polling locations in city elections beginning in 2026.
  The measure was put on ballots by the council’s four-member conservative majority. The state a
  
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• Concern over newly shifting Palos Verdes Peninsula ground brings out hundreds for town hall meeting

  19-04-2024 01:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Concerned citizens gather for a townhall meeting at the new Ladera Linda Community Center in Rancho Palos Verdes to address the current state of the Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex on April 17, 2024. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
  Rancho Palos Verdes mayor John Cruikshank speaks at a townhall meeting at the new Ladera Linda Community Center in Rancho Palos Verdes to address the current state of the Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex on April 17, 2024. (Photo b
  
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• As Long Beach Grand Prix weekend looms, drivers delight revved-up students

  19-04-2024 01:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Previewing the Long Beach Grand Prix weekend, professional racers Filipe Albuquerque and Jordan Taylor visited Chavez Elementary to engage with students about racing, driver safety and the path of becoming a professional racecar driver.
  Despite the gloomy clouds on a Thursday morning of Apr. 18, students ranging from grades kindergarten to fifth grade were ushered outdoors at the school’s basketball court — beaming with excitement at the scene of a Acura ARX-06 IMSA GT Prototype race
  
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• Takuma Sato goes into Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame with a familiar face

  19-04-2024 00:41 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — Takuma Sato and Katherine Legge have crossed paths throughout their auto racing careers.
  The drivers met again Thursday when they were inducted into the Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame together.
  For Sato, it brought back memories of the times they raced against each other and when both were starting their careers.
  It began in the Formula E Series in 2014 as teammates, if only for a brief time. They raced against each other in the NTT IndyCar Series. Their next meeting will
  
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• Green and Digital Shipping Corridor for Ports of LA, Long Beach and Singapore could create 700 jobs

  19-04-2024 00:34 via ocregister.com
  
  More than 700 new jobs could be added and environmental goals reached once a partnership between the ports of Long Beach, LA and Singapore can be fully implemented, the Port of Los Angeles announced Thursday.
  One year ago, the ports of LA and Long Beach signed an agreement with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore to establish a Green and Digital Shipping Corridor — a maritime route that showcases low- and zero-emission lifecycle fuels and technology with the aim of achieving zero
  
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• Embryos were accidentally destroyed at Newport Beach fertility clinic, lawsuits claim

  19-04-2024 00:27 via ocregister.com
  
  An Orange County fertility clinic accidentally destroyed embryos after they came in contact with hydrogen peroxide while an employee was cleaning an incubator, according to a pair of lawsuits filed by two couples on Thursday, April 18.
  The couples, who failed to become pregnant after the embryos were implanted in late January, accuse FPG Labs, LLC – doing business as Ovation Fertility – of negligent representation, negligence, fraud, intentional misrepresentation and five other claim
  
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• Signatures turned in for ballot measure to reverse Prop. 47, crack down on theft

  19-04-2024 00:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Prop. 47, which reduced many shoplifting and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors, has been the subject of controversy since its passage in 2014 and now its fate may once again be put in the hands of voters.
  On Thursday morning, the Californians for Safer Communities Coalition announced the submission of over 900,000 voter signatures for the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act. The coalition has raised around $8 million for the campaign, with major contributio
  
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• US vetoes resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine

  19-04-2024 00:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By Edith M. Lederer | Associated Press
  UNITED NATIONS — The United States vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution on Thursday that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for the state of Palestine.
  The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions.
  The resolution would have recommended that the 193-member General Assembly, where there are no vetoes, approve Palestine becoming the 194th member of the United Nations.
  
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• Chargers prepare for NFL draft to ‘create great depth’

  18-04-2024 23:41 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA — The Chargers’ quest for replacements for running back Austin Ekeler and to develop a muscular backfield for the 2024 season and beyond didn’t end with the signings of Gus Edwards last month and J.K. Dobbins this week, new general manager Joe Hortiz said Thursday.
  The additions of Edwards and Dobbins also did not alter the Chargers’ approach to the NFL draft next Thursday. Hortiz said the thing general managers in all sports tend to say going into an upcoming
  
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• Indonesian eruption sparks tsunami warnings, evacuation

  18-04-2024 23:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kathleen Magramo | CNN
  Indonesian authorities on Wednesday ordered hundreds of villagers to evacuate following multiple eruptions of a remote island volcano, raising fears it could collapse into the sea and trigger a tsunami.
  Mount Ruang, a 725-meter (2,400-foot) volcano on Ruang Island, North Sulawesi, has erupted at least five times since Tuesday night, spewing fiery lava and ash plumes thousands of feet into the sky, the country’s volcanology agency said.
  Agency chief Hendr
  
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• Review: ‘Prelude to a Kiss,’ The Musical’ shows potential at South Coast Repertory

  18-04-2024 23:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The appealing and reasonably accomplished “Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical,” in its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, feels that success is within its sights.
  Among many things evident during Wednesday night’s opening, the Costa Mesa theater’s bold venture in commissioning, developing and producing a musical for the first time reasserts the creative ambitions which have been the institution’s hallmark across the past six decades.
  The musical is also rooted in
  
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• Mother, daughter get time served for deadly buttocks-enhancement procedure

  18-04-2024 23:20 via ocregister.com
  
  A Riverside woman and her daughter, convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a woman’s death after a buttocks-augmentation procedure at a Sherman Oaks home in 2019, were sentenced on Thursday, April 18, to state prison but a judge ordered their release because they had completed their sentences with credit for time they spent under electronic monitoring.
  Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge George G. Lomeli sentenced Libby Adame, 53, to four years and four months in state prison, and h
  
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• Trump loses bid to halt Jan. 6 lawsuits while he fights criminal charges in the 2020 election case

  18-04-2024 23:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER (Associated Press)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump lost a bid Thursday to pause a string of lawsuits accusing him of inciting the U.S. Capitol attack, while the former president fights his 2020 election interference criminal case in Washington.
  U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington denied defense lawyers’ request to put the civil cases seeking to hold Trump responsible for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on hold while the criminal case accusing him of conspiring
  
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• Mission Viejo football scheduled to play Long Beach Poly at SoFi Stadium

  18-04-2024 23:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Mission Viejo-Long Beach Poly football rivalry is scheduled to shift to SoFi Stadium this fall.
  The Diablos have announced their 2024 schedule highlighted by a nonleague game against Long Beach Poly on Oct. 4 at SoFi Stadium, home to the NFL Rams and Chargers.
  “Opportunity of a lifetime,” said Mission Viejo coach Chad Johnson, who confirmed the agreement with the Jackrabbits.
  The current r
  
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• Fryer: Mater Dei decided it didn’t have the right leader for football program

  18-04-2024 22:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Frank McManus did not grow in the ways that Mater Dei administrators wanted him to as the school’s football head coach during the 2023 season.
  They did not see potential for growth this coming season or beyond. So they decided that the 2023 season, which yielded CIF Southern Section and CIF State championships, was enough. Last week McManus was told he no longer would be the school’s football coach. 
  Being the head coach at Mater Dei requires much more than winning CIF champions
  
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