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• WonderCon 2024: Star Trek, Spider-Man, Star Wars fans and more assemble in Anaheim

  29-03-2024 23:47 via ocregister.com
  
  With a large, lively gathering of Star Trek redshirts posing for a group photo, WonderCon kicked off at the Anaheim Convention Center on Friday, March 29. Now in its 36th year, the comics convention runs through Easter Sunday and brings together costumed fans, artists, authors and celebrity guests sharing their love and enthusiasm for pop culture.
  The redshirts – who are renowned for often dying in “Star Trek” episodes – were among the throngs of Spider-Men, Batmen, pirat
  
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• American Vietnam War veterans honored in new event

  29-03-2024 23:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Fifty-one years ago, the last American troops left Vietnam, ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. On Friday, those American veterans were honored in Westminster.
  The city hosted its inaugural American Vietnam War Veterans Day event Friday morning, March 29, at Sid Goldstein Freedom Park. The City Council designated the day as its annual American Vietnam War Veterans Day, a way to honor those who served in the war.
  Nearly 3 million Americans served in the war, and more than 58,000 died, acc
  
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• Former Buena Park boys basketball coach Ken Bell dies

  29-03-2024 23:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Ken Bell, who was Buena Park’s second boys basketball coach, has died, according to former Buena Park boys basketball coach Ed Matillo.
  Bell was 85. The date and cause of death have not been disclosed.
  Bell coached Buena Park from 1967 through 1987 and led the Coyotes to their first basketball league championship. He also was a teacher at Buena Park.
  Services are pending.
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• Kings pull into Calgary seeking to regain momentum

  29-03-2024 23:19 via ocregister.com
  
  While the field of eight playoff teams in the Western Conference feels all but set, the Kings will need to scrape and claw for seeding in their final 10 games, beginning with a rodeo in Calgary against the rival Flames on Saturday.
  It’s one of two remaining meetings between the clubs (the other is on April 11), who have taken turns topping each other this season in the Kings’ 5-3 win on Dec. 23 and Calgary’s 4-2 victory on Feb. 27. The Kings have now slipped into the second and
  
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• Newsom announces $50,000 rewards for key information in 2 Orange County homicides

  29-03-2024 23:13 via ocregister.com
  
  California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday, March 29 announced four $50,000 rewards for information to help solve four unsolved homicides in Southern California, including two in Orange County.
  Police agencies can request help from the governor’s office for certain cases under California law after exhausting all leads, hoping that it motivates people who know something relevant to come forward.
  In Santa Ana, detectives are seeking information leading to an arrest and conviction for the kil
  
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• EPA’s strict new rules for heavy-duty trucks spark strong Southern California responses

  29-03-2024 23:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Trucks sit idle for the weekend outside a Ontario warehouse on Friday, March 29, 2024. The Environmental Protection Agency has set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
  Semi trucks leave and enter a warehouse facility in Ontario on Friday, March 29, 2024. The Environmental Protection Agency has set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles. (Photo by Will L
  
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• Ducks take on two of the NHL’s best as penalties mount

  29-03-2024 22:37 via ocregister.com
  
  The road won’t get any easier for the Ducks this weekend as they travel to take on the Pacific Division’s top two teams, the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday and Vancouver Canucks on Sunday, following a sleepy sojourn in Seattle.
  There, two games produced just two goals but the Ducks were prolific in an area they’d rather not have been, taking 15 minor penalties. They also allotted limited minutes for a pair of star players in the second outing.
  Mason McTavish was dropped to the fou
  
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• Fontana police keep public in the dark on shootings involving officers

  29-03-2024 22:14 via ocregister.com
  
  San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus was quick to disclose information after deputies fatally shot an autistic 15-year-old boy armed with a sharp gardening tool in Apple Valley.
  Within days of the March 9 shooting outside a home, Dicus released portions of the body-worn camera footage and defended his deputies at a news conference.
  Conversely, in Fontana, more than four months after police shot and killed a man in November while responding to a domestic dispute, the department has stayed
  
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• Rayah Marshall embodies USC’s ‘no punks in here’ stance

  29-03-2024 22:07 via ocregister.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Rayah Marshall has a rather particular vocabulary. Her coaches know it. At times, when speaking with media, USC’s gregarious center will substitute interesting nouns in the middle of standard sentences or pull a random anecdote from thin air.
  So her emphasis on a program-wide team motto, after USC’s practice Wednesday, seemed simply perhaps another Rayah-ism: “No punks in here.”
  This saying, Marshall said, started when assistant Beth Burns arrived i
  
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• Tony Monaco, the chef behind the Blind Pig, to open new Italian spot in Irvine

  29-03-2024 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Tony Monaco, chef-restaurateur of such Orange County spots as the Blind Pig and the Trough, didn’t have to look far to find space for his newest restaurant. His upcoming Italian eatery, which will open late summer/early autumn, can be found in Irvine next to the Trough, the noted chef’s sandwich shop.
  “I wanted to do an Italian spot and I thought to myself, ‘Wait a minute, there’s a place next door,’ which I thought would be a cool opportunity,” Monaco s
  
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• Confusion reigns: Which fast food workers will get paid more in California?

  29-03-2024 21:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jeanne Kuang | CalMatters
  Say you work at a fast food restaurant or coffee shop that bears the name of a national chain. Under California law, you’re entitled to be paid at least $20 an hour starting Monday.
  Say you work at one of those stores, inside a grocery store. The grocery store, your employer, is exempt under the law. You’ll keep getting your current wages.
  But say you assemble burgers, scoop ice cream or prepare Frappuccinos at one of those stores, and it’s inside a
  
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• Study: Climate change since 1979 has made heat waves last longer, spike hotter

  29-03-2024 20:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By SETH BORENSTEIN (AP Science Writer)
  Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds.
  Since 1979, global heat waves are moving 20% more slowly — meaning more people stay hot longer — and they are happening 67% more often, according to a study in Friday’s Science Advances. The study found the highest temperatures in the heat waves are warmer t
  
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• COVID and Medicare payments spark remote patient monitoring boom

  29-03-2024 20:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Phil Galewitz and Holly K. Hacker | (TNS) KFF Health News
  Billy Abbott, a retired Army medic, wakes at 6 every morning, steps on the bathroom scale, and uses a cuff to take his blood pressure.
  The devices send those measurements electronically to his doctor in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and a health technology company based in New York, to help him control his high blood pressure.
  Nurses with the company, Cadence, remotely monitor his readings along with the vital signs of about 17,000 other patients
  
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• Big battles ahead for Trinity League boys lacrosse teams

  29-03-2024 20:53 via ocregister.com
  
  The boys lacrosse teams in Orange County have completed nearly two-thirds of their season and most leagues are battling in the thick of league play.
  But what is considered the best league in the county hasn’t played a league game yet.
  The Trinity League is deeper than it has been in a handful of years and has three teams in the top seven of the latest CIF-SS polls.
  The most improved team is JSerra, which is off to its best start since 2014 with a 9-0 record. JSerra is having all of this su
  
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• Experts say Medicaid rebate change is behind inhaler price cuts

  29-03-2024 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Lauren Clason | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
  A recent tweak to a Medicaid formula could be behind the shake-up to inhaler products, a series of changes that have both benefited and harmed patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
  Three of the four major inhaler manufacturers have announced plans to cap patient copays for all their inhalers at $35 a month in recent weeks, in addition to lowering the list prices of some of those products. But one drugmaker also withdrew two po
  
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• Angel City FC’s Alyssa Thompson striving to improve in Year Two

  29-03-2024 20:06 via ocregister.com
  
  As a rookie last season, Alyssa Thompson said she had a lot of learning to do.
  “I learned how to be a professional,” she said. “I didn’t really know what that entailed last year and I got a lot of insight from the vets on the team, by playing in games, and just having more experience.
  “I feel like I have learned a lot through that.”
  Thompson, the No. 1 pick in the 2023 NWSL Draft, also graduated from Harvard-Westlake High School and was selected for the United
  
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• 2 men injured in Garden Grove shooting prompted by road rage

  29-03-2024 20:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Two men were injured, one of them hospitalized, after they were shot in Garden Grove at the end of an apparent road-rage confrontation on Thursday morning, March 28, authorities said.
  Garden Grove police were called just before 10:15 a.m. to the 14200 block of Corporate Drive, near the city’s border with Santa Ana, where the shooting had occurred, Sgt. Nick Jensen said.
  Officers learned that road rage apparently occurred in Santa Ana and that the suspect followed the victims into Garden Gr
  
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• Los Alamitos cancels Saturday racing due to storm forecasts

  29-03-2024 19:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Alamitos Race Course has canceled its Saturday card in anticipation of rain, the Orange County track announced Friday morning.
  Los Al, which holds quarter-horse and thoroughbred races on weekend nights, isn’t running Sunday in observance of Easter.
  Santa Anita said Thursday it had canceled Saturday and Sunday afternoon racing, the fourth time inclement weather has upset the Arcadia track’s schedule during the season that opened Dec. 26. Those races will be made up with an extra c
  
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• Galaxy must clean up defensive lapses on corner kicks

  29-03-2024 19:51 via ocregister.com
  
  The Galaxy enters the sixth game of the season unbeaten and in second place in the Western Conference and second in the league in scoring with 12 goals.
  After last season’s struggles, that should be cause for celebration.
  One early area for concern has been defending set pieces, most notably corner kicks. Of the nine goals allowed this season, five have come on corner kicks, though one went into the record books as an own goal.
  “We’ve talked about it and we think we need just a
  
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• Pirch, luxury kitchen retailer, sued for unpaid rent and inventory, totaling $5 million

  29-03-2024 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By Roxana Popescu | San Diego Union-Tribune
  Pirch, the kitchen and bath merchant based in San Diego County that halted operations last week, has been sued by several parties alleging the luxury retailer owes more than $5 million in unpaid rent and inventory.
  In court filings this week, two landlords said Pirch owed almost $850,000 in back rent — at its Oceanside distribution center, and its airy Westfield UTC showroom, where it failed to keep up on its rent of almost $100,000 a month. A th
  
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• Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, foreman of crew killed in Key Bridge collapse, was devout father of four

  29-03-2024 19:08 via ocregister.com
  
  To win the respect of Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, the hardworking foreman of the last crew on the now-destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge, one had to earn it.
  Hernandez, 35, was so focused on the job that John Huntzberry, a former Brawner Builders worker, didn’t warm to him immediately. However, over time Huntzberry found the Baltimore father of four to be a selfless man, devoted to his family and active in his church.
  “If you’re lazy or you don’t do your job to his stand
  
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• Aliso Viejo bomber serving life for killing ex-girlfriend gets 3 years in separate fraud case

  29-03-2024 18:57 via ocregister.com
  
  A Long Beach man already in federal prison on a life sentence for using a homemade bomb to kill his ex-girlfriend, destroying the Aliso Viejo day spa she owned and injuring two others who were there, was sentenced on Thursday, Feb. 28 to more than three years in prison in a separate fraud case.
  Stephen Beal, 64, last year agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud, Social Security fraud and concealment of bankruptcy assets, with Beal admitting to filing for bankruptcy despite having received a large p
  
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• ‘Culture of silence’: Lawyer calls Diddy’s NDA terrifying, purposefully intimidating

  29-03-2024 18:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By Devoun Cetoute and Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald
  MIAMI — A nondisclosure agreement crafted on behalf of Sean “Diddy” Combs is the newest clue illuminating a sordid world of alleged sex trafficking, abuse and illegal drug use surrounding the music mogul. It raised alarm bells for a lawyer who analyzed the document for the Miami Herald.
  NDAs are standard for artists and celebrities with major popularity and influence, attorney Gavin Tudor Elliot said. Normally, they’re vi
  
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• Stop California from ending anonymous free speech online

  29-03-2024 18:53 via ocregister.com
  
  There’s nothing safer in politics than blaming social media for all of America’s problems, whether mental illness, racism, or even our collapsing republic’s virtue. Meanwhile, nearly every politician’s convenient response is to control speech and deny access to social media. Although the federal effort to ban TikTok is receiving the most attention, California — whose laws dominate the many global social media companies headquartered there — has just proposed n
  
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• Yung Miami, drugs and a shooting: New details emerge in amended lawsuit against Diddy

  29-03-2024 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald
  MIAMI — Days after federal agents raided Sean “Diddy” Combs’ multimillion-dollar compounds on both sides of the country, a music producer who sued the hip-hop megastar turned entrepreneur has come forward with another complaint that sheds light on more than a dozen pages of new accusations.
  In a lawsuit filed last month, Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones accused the Bad Boys Records founder of being the leader of a criminal enter
  
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• Crowd beats kidnapping suspect to death in Mexico

  29-03-2024 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By Fernanda Pesce | Associated Press
  TAXCO, Mexico — A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco brutally beat a woman to death Thursday because she was suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, rampaging just hours before the city’s famous Holy Week procession.
  The mob formed after an 8-year-old girl disappeared Wednesday. Her body was found on a road on the outskirts of the city early Thursday. Security camera footage appeared to show a woman and a man loading a bundle, whic
  
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• Review: 7 first impressions of Beyoncé’s new ‘Cowboy Carter’ album

  29-03-2024 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jon Bream, Star Tribune
  Beyoncé, “Act II: Cowboy Carter” (Parkwood/Columbia)
  “This ain’t a country album,” the Grammy-grabbing megastar warned on social media. “This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album.”
  To quell the concerns generated by its title and album cover depicting Beyoncé in red, white and blue Western gear riding on a horse, she turned to Linda Martell, a pioneering Black woman in country music, to deliver two spoken inter
  
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• These are the candidates for California governor in 2026

  29-03-2024 18:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Although we’re still in the throes of the 2024 election cycle, eager candidates are already lining up to vie for governor of California in 2026.
  Gov. Gavin Newsom is term-limited and cannot run for reelection. And if the handful of people who have already declared their candidacies is any indication, expect the field vying to be the state’s next chief executive to be a large one.
  Here’s a look at who has declared their candidacies thus far. We’ll keep this list updated as
  
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• LAFC looks to continue building its attack in Colorado

  29-03-2024 17:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Plenty of goals are worth remembering. Some assists, too. But it’s not so often that the build-up to the final product gets any recognition.
  Prior to Sergi Palencia rolling a pass through the box that Eduard Atuesta jumped over, freeing Denis Bouanga for the kind of score that was exactly what the Los Angeles Football Club needed after three straight shutouts, their third goal in a 5-0 rout of Nashville last Saturday stands out as one such moment.
  Starting with goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, ever
  
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• NCAA Tournament: Women’s basketball scores and updates Friday, March 29

  29-03-2024 17:54 via ocregister.com
  
  The NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 begins Friday for women’s basketball teams.
  Here’s the schedule (and TV channels). We’ll update results when they’re in:
  Friday games
  (2) Notre Dame vs. (3) Oregon State, 11:30 a.m. (ESPN)
  (1) South Carolina vs. (4) Indiana, 2 p.m. (ESPN)
  (2) Stanford vs. (3) NC State, 4:30 p.m. (ESPN)
  (1) Texas vs. (4) Gonzaga, 7 p.m. (ESPN)
  Saturday games
  (2) UCLA vs. (3) LSU, 10 a.m. (ESPN)
  (1) Iowa vs. (5) Colorado, 12:30 p.m. (ABC)
  (1) USC vs. (5)
  
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• NCAA Tournament: Men’s basketball scores and updates Friday, March 29

  29-03-2024 17:52 via ocregister.com
  
  The NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 continues Friday for men’s basketball teams.
  Here’s the schedule (and TV channels). We’ll update results when they’re in:
  Friday games
  (2) Marquette vs. (11) NC State, 4:09 p.m. (CBS)
  (1) Purdue vs. (5) Gonzaga, 4:39 p.m. (TBS/truTV)
  (1) Houston vs. (4) Duke, 6:39 p.m. (CBS)
  (2) Tennessee vs. (3) Creighton, 7:09 p.m. (TBS/truTV)
  Thursday scores
  (6) Clemson 77, (2) Arizona 72
  (1) UConn 82, (5) San Diego State 52
  (4) Alabama 89, (1) Nort
  
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• Biden administration oblivious to AB 5’s job-killing lessons as it tries to take AB 5 nationwide

  29-03-2024 17:13 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO – Perhaps I’m old fashioned, but I don’t see a role for government in determining working arrangements beyond some basic rules governing safety and non-discrimination. In a free society with a generally healthy economy, employers and employees can hammer out their own deals. As long as force or coercion isn’t involved, it’s not the Legislature’s or federal bureaucracy’s concern whether someone, say, takes contract jobs or full-time employment.
  
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• Real estate news: AO celebrates 50 years in Old Towne and beyond

  29-03-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  AO in Orange launched its 50th anniversary celebration Wednesday, March 27 in the town it’s called home since day one.
  Mayor Dan Slater, a Realtor by trade, pronounced it “AO Day” for the city as the company celebrated its milestone at the Women’s Club.
  The architect and design firm got its start in 1974 in the historic Barger building on East Chapman Avenue. Founded by Jack Selman, the company now occupies five buildings in Old Towne. Shoppers walk by its headquarters, p
  
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• Man pleads guilty to DUI crash that killed 4 in Santa Ana

  29-03-2024 16:57 via ocregister.com
  
  A 33-year-old man has pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving crash that killed four people in Santa Ana five years ago.
  Vincent Michael Calvo pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 28, to four counts of second-degree murder. He faces sentencing on April 9.
  According to the criminal complaint, Calvo’s blood-alcohol level was measured at .29 — more than three times the legal limit.
  Buena Park man charged with murder, DUI in deaths of 4 people in weekend crashKilled in the Feb. 17, 2019, t
  
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• Swanson: Book it – the UCLA women are going to the Final Four

  29-03-2024 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — America! Hey, Miss!
  A heads-up before you head out to Albany, or tune in. A warning, because I don’t want you to be disappointed.
  You know what’s on the menu there at “Albany 2,” in that juicy Northeastern corner of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament bracket. And so I know, when it gets to the Elite Eight, you’re going to want to order the championship rematch: LSU-Iowa, Part 2.
  You’ve watched those teams play other opponents this
  
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• How the novel ‘A Great Country’ seeks to find common cause in troubled times

  29-03-2024 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  After George Floyd’s murder and the upsurge in pandemic-fueled Asian hate crimes, Shilpi Somaya Gowda had a lot on her mind. 
  Gowda, who holds an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, took a look at some hot-button issues, including racism, xenophobia, police brutality, and more, and packed them into her fourth novel, “A Great Country.” 
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• Santa Ana Police Oversight Commission has begun training, taking complaints

  29-03-2024 16:17 via ocregister.com
  
  With the seven Santa Ana Police Oversight Commission members set – each appointed by a member of the City Council –  and starting their training, all that’s left is for the councilmembers to hire an independent oversight director.
  The commission, approved by the City Council in 2022, was created for the purpose of improving transparency and increasing accountability and public confidence in the Santa Ana Police Department, as well as assist in reviewing community complaint
  
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• HOA Homefront: Myths mold consultants use to scare residents, homeowners

  29-03-2024 16:11 via ocregister.com
  
  This is the second in an two-part series on mold in households.
  Misleading and self-serving statements by the “toxic mold” industry continue to grab attention.
  Also see: Why ‘toxic mold’ myths continue to panic residents
  This second column in two weeks lists other wrong statements followed by the truth.
  Myth: You cannot personally handle mold
  Many mold consultants treat mold as if it were asbestos. Asbestos is dangerous and is very different from mold, but mold consu
  
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• California’s consumer outlook drops to 11-year low

  29-03-2024 16:08 via ocregister.com
  
  “Swift swings” takes a quick peek at one economic trend.
  The number: The economic outlook from California consumers starts 2024 at an 11-year low.
  The source: My trusty spreadsheet looked at quarterly averages of the Conference Board’s consumer confidence measurements for the state. These measures, derived from public surveys, consider shoppers’ views on the future and current trends that add up to an overall index.
  Quick analysis
  The index for California consumer “
  
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• Pedestrian bridge over 5 Freeway in Irvine to be open for public use by early 2026

  29-03-2024 16:02 via ocregister.com
  
  In two years runners, cyclists, walkers and dogs alike will be able to traverse a pedestrian bridge over the 5 Freeway, part of the final stretch of the Jeffrey Open Space Trail in Irvine.
  The JOST already stretches 3.5 miles, cutting through the center of the city adjacent to Jeffrey Road. The city aims to complete a 1.5-mile extension running from Barranca Parkway to the 5, the pedestrian bridge a part of that extension.
  At its completion in early 2026, the bridge, at almost 1,200 feet long an
  
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• Housing market malaise hasn’t cut options for equity rich homeowners

  29-03-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  American homeowners have never enjoyed more home equity.
  The average homeowner now has $299,000 in equity, $193,000 of which is tappable while still maintaining a 20% equity stake.
  Mortgage holders gained $1.6 trillion of equity in 2023, reaching a combined $16 trillion in the U.S., the highest year-end total on record, according to Intercontinental Exchange’s February Mortgage Monitor Report.
  In my recent experiences, homeowners wanting to pull some cash out typically don’t want to
  
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• Free Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich from a Russian prison

  29-03-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was arrested one year ago today in Russia while doing his job as a journalist.
  Or, you could look at it this way: For doing his job as a journalist.
  Of course, that’s not what the Kremlin says. Vladimir Putin’s regime says Gershkovich was arrested for espionage.
  Gershkovich is just a pawn in the Russian game of needing hostages to swap for Russians held for various reasons in Western countries. Journalists are easier to arrest than ot
  
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• Free reporter Evan from a Russian prison

  29-03-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was arrested one year ago today in Russia while doing his job as a journalist.
  Or, you could look at it this way: For doing his job as a journalist.
  Of course, that’s not what the Kremlin says. Vladimir Putin’s regime says Gershkovich was arrested for espionage.
  Gershkovich is just a pawn in the Russian game of needing hostages to swap for Russians held for various reasons in Western countries. Journalists are easier to arrest than ot
  
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• Disneyland food by the numbers: Millions of churros, hot dogs and Mickey pretzels

  29-03-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland food and drinks take center stage in the second season of the “Behind the Attraction” documentary series on the Disney+ streaming service.
  “Behind the Attraction” takes a by-the-numbers look at the many theme park treats produced each year by Disneyland – and eaten by Disneylanders.
  ALSO SEE: Disneyland taps local craft beer makers for Disney Food & Wine Festival
  During the Disney food episode, the show offers a behind-the-scenes look inside the 10,00
  
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• Angels starters looking forward to traditional 5-man rotation

  29-03-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  BALTIMORE — As Patrick Sandoval was analyzing what went wrong during his forgettable Opening Day start on Thursday, he took some solace in the fact that it’s just one game in a long season.
  And this season, he won’t have to wait quite as long to try again.
  The Angels now have a traditional five-man rotation. That’s standard procedure in major league baseball, but something the Angels haven’t done in years.
  Because of the unique circumstances of having Shohei Ohtani,
  
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• OC Fair board approves rent hike for boarders and trainers at its equestrian center

  29-03-2024 15:47 via ocregister.com
  
  After agreeing earlier this year to make its equestrian center in Costa Mesa more widely open to the public, the OC Fair & Event Center’s board approved a rent hike Thursday, March 28, that some boarders and trainers said will mean they will have to find a more affordable place to keep their horses or sell their animals.
  A 12-by-12-foot stall has been costing boarders $644 a month for their horse, and a 12-by-24 foot stall was priced at $1,023 a month. Thursday’s decision to incr
  
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• Ryan Lemmon Tournament baseball games postoned

  29-03-2024 15:45 via ocregister.com
  
  The Ryan Lemmon Spring Tournament games scheduled for Saturday have been postponed, in anticipation of coming rain, the baseball tournament’s organizers said.
  Saturday would have been the first day of the 36-team tournament. It features several teams in the Orange County top 25 including No. 5 San Juan Hills (which is No. 1 in the CIF-SS Division 4 top 10), No. 8 Los Alamitos, No. 11 Aliso Niguel, No. 12 El Modena, No. 14 Pacifica, No. 16 Foothill, No. 21 Canyon, No. 22 Marina and No. 24 S
  
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• Louis Gossett Jr., first Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87

  29-03-2024 15:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87.
  Gossett’s first cousin Neal L. Gossett told The Associated Press that the actor died in Santa Monica, California. A statement from the family said Gossett died Friday morning. No cause of death was revealed.
  Gossett’s cousin remembered a man who walked with Nelson Mandela and who also was a great joke teller, a r
  
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• How and where to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility in SoCal

  29-03-2024 14:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Transgender people and allies across Southern California will celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility this weekend, a time when trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people around the world can embrace their visibility and share their experiences.
  Technically, the annual day falls on March 31, but because this year that also is Easter Sunday many Transgender Day of Visibility events will be observed Saturday, March 30.
  Transgender people are those whose gender identity doesn’t align wi
  
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• He had vehicle insurance, reader says, but DMV said otherwise

  29-03-2024 14:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Q. In December, I paid my six-month auto insurance premium. But I recently received a threatening Department of Motor Vehicles “Notice of Intent to Suspend” regarding my vehicle’s registration. The DMV said it did not have a record that my vehicle was insured. My insurance company confirmed that the DMV had been informed electronically about my up-to-date policy. The insurance agent told me that she, too, had received such a notice despite having a fully active policy on her ca
  
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