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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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• Mater Dei close to hiring former college coach Jody Wynn as 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 is close to ending its search for a new girls basketball coach.
  The replacement for Kevin Kiernan, who resigned after last season, will likely be former Brea Olinda High standout and ex-college coach Jody Wynn, who was an assistant for the Monarchs in 2023-24.
  Wynn previously was the head coach for the women’s basketball teams at Long Beach State and Washington.
  Wynn joined Kiernan’s
  
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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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• Galactic Starcruiser space cocktails land at Oga’s Cantina in Disneyland

  26-04-2024 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A pair of interstellar cocktails once served aboard the failed $350 million Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World can now be ordered at Oga’s Cantina in Disneyland if you never made it to the star-crossed Star Wars hotel or still long for a liquid reminder of your $5,000 voyage.
  The Star Wars-themed cocktails are available through June 2 during the Season of the Force seasonal event at the wretched hive of scum and villainy in the Anaheim theme park.
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• LAFC to face Portland, trying to build some momentum

  26-04-2024 19:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Completing its regular season series with the Portland Timbers on Saturday, the Los Angeles Football Club needs a result to avoid tying a franchise-worst 10-game start in MLS competition.
  Ceding three points to the Timbers would mark a first home defeat for the Black & Gold this year and drop them to 3-4-3, the same record at this stage during the only season LAFC failed to qualify for the playoffs.
  What’s past, however, doesn’t have to be prologue.
  More than two-thirds of the le
  
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• New Heroes Hall exhibit of combat artist’s work remembers Vietnam War

  26-04-2024 19:58 via ocregister.com
  
  As war raged, art was made.
  And now those photos and sketches, and the drawings and paintings they inspired, chronicling moments from the Vietnam War are on display at Heroes Hall, part of the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.
  Some of the work done by Ed Bowen on display at a new exhibit open at the Heroes Hall at the OC Fair and Event Center in Costa Mesa, titled, The Vietnam War Through the Art and Photography of Ed Bowen, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Bowen, a resident of Newport Beac
  
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• CSUF art major’s feline illustration wins top prize in national contest

  26-04-2024 19:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Teeny Nadeau was thrilled when opening an email last December notifying the art major that she was one of 10 finalists in the BOBS from Skechers Paws for a Cause Design Scholarship challenge.
  Her prize for being a finalist was a free Bobs from Sketchers shoe.
  “They were like, since you’re a finalist, you can have a free pair of shoes, any of the Bob’s line on our website,” Nadeau said. “So that was pretty cool. I got a free pair of shoes. I was like, OK, that’
  
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• Stagecoach and Coachella 2024: The differences and similarities of the festivals

  26-04-2024 19:51 via ocregister.com
  
  The Stagecoach Country Music Festival and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival are annual traditions at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. While the festivals share the month of April and happen on consecutive weekends, they usually have some similarities and differences.
  One of the most significant differences this year was that Stagecoach sold out, which is rare. Coachella ticket sales usually go within a couple of hours, but it took a month for weekend one to sell out, and
  
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• Matt Gunderson: Biden’s Title IX reforms are an attack on women across America

  26-04-2024 19:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Times change and people change, and in America that’s usually for the better.
  I’m young enough to remember the days when boys played sports and girls were cheerleaders because those were the options.
  I also remember when my high school added its first official girls’ sports team.
  America has come a long and positive way in ensuring women have the same opportunities as men.
  That progress is now under assault.
  A minority group of individuals are pushing an agenda that says gender
  
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• Egypt sends delegation to Israel, its latest effort to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas

  26-04-2024 19:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAMY MAGDY, BASSEM MROUE and DAVID RISING (Associated Press)
  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt sent a high-level delegation to Israel for talks Friday seeking to push through a cease-fire agreement with Hamas and avert an Israeli offensive on Gaza’s town of Rafah — on the border with Egypt — which it warned could ruin regional stability, officials said.
  Egypt’s top intelligence official, Abbas Kamel, led the delegation and planned to discuss with Israel a “new vision&rdqu
  
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• Weekly mortgage rates are up, but prices are the real villain

  26-04-2024 19:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Mortgage rates continued to rise for the week ending April 25. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 7.23% APR, up seven basis points from the previous week’s average, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. (A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percentage point.)
  Rates for 30-year fixed-rate loans have been hovering in the general neighborhood of 7% for the past year-plus, causing considerable pain for home buyers. The rise of mortgage rates in recent years has drawn lo
  
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• Baltimore athletic director used AI to fake racist recording of principal, police say

  26-04-2024 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  The athletic director of Pikesville High School in Maryland was arrested Thursday morning in connection with an artificial intelligence-made audio clip of the school’s principal having a fake, racist conversation.
  Dazhon Darien, 31, is charged with disrupting school activities after Baltimore County Police say he created the falsified audio recording of Eric Eiswert in January. The audio clip using the principal’s voice went viral and was swiftly condemned by the Baltimore County com
  
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• A Kentucky lawmaker had a nonviable pregnancy. State abortion bans made her loss more agonizing

  26-04-2024 18:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Alex Acquisto | (TNS) Lexington Herald-Leader
  LEXINGTON, Ky. — Almost a year to the day after Rep. Lindsey Burke gave birth to twins — one dead, the other alive — she walked out of a legislative committee meeting in Frankfort.
  Burke, one of three Kentucky Democrats who walked out that day, was protesting a bill she said shamed the choice to abort a nonviable pregnancy.
  Burke herself made that choice in October 2022 when she and her husband ended a pregnancy they’d planned
  
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• Doctors race against Florida’s six-week abortion ban

  26-04-2024 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  With just days until Florida’s six-week abortion ban takes effect on Wednesday, providers are rushing to perform as many abortions as possible while planning contingencies for a future where they will need to turn thousands of women away.
  Clinics have expanded hours, prioritized ultrasounds and added appointments in these final weeks. They’ve fortified their patient navigation efforts and strengthened relationships with abortion fund groups like the Florida Access Network that provid
  
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• Could AI strengthen border security operations? A new bill seeks to find out

  26-04-2024 18:29 via ocregister.com
  
  An army of drug-sniffing bots at the U.S.-Mexico border doesn’t sound like such a far-fetched idea in the age of artificial intelligence.
  While the U.S. isn’t exactly marshaling a robotic platoon, lawmakers are considering how emerging technology, including AI, could contribute to border security. Legislation recently introduced by Rep. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, would require top border officials to make sense of how emerging technology could secure the border.
  The bill, broadly, woul
  
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• Jon Coupal: Enough bonds already!

  26-04-2024 18:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Back in 2010, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, said that “the most significant threat to our national security is our debt.” At the time, our national debt was “only” $14.3 trillion. Today, it is more than double that. Debt service ― payment of interest on the debt ― is expected to cost Americans $1 trillion annually. That amount is larger than our annual outlays for defense.
  California has its own debt crisis but, unlike the
  
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• California once led in government transparency. It descended into secrecy and opacity

  26-04-2024 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  California once was a national leader in making government more transparent, requiring state and local agencies to conduct their business in public meetings and giving Californians easy access to public records.
  In recent years, however, transparency has eroded. The Legislature has retreated into semi-secrecy, particularly on the state budget but also on other major legislation. Due to a construction project, legislative offices have been moved from the Capitol to an almost impenetrable building
  
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• Real estate news: 30 remodeled Westminster apartments fetch $10 million

  26-04-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A 30-unit apartment complex in Westminster recently sold for $10,025,000.
  CBRE represented both sides of the deal but did not identify the buyer or seller.
  La Pat Courtyard Apartments at 13812 La Pat Place includes a 21,416-square-foot, two-story, two-building complex built in 1961.
  CBRE notes the property underwent $1.4 million in improvements, both inside and out. The buildings include one studio, 17 one-bedroom units and 12 two-bedroom units. The remodeled units include washers and dryers, st
  
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• AG Bonta ditches fair dealing on ballot titles

  26-04-2024 17:52 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the smaller but significant roles of the California attorney general is to write ballot titles and summaries for statewide initiatives. Those are the main descriptors that voters read before casting their ballots, so the AG’s role can tip the scales on important elections. How they wield that power says much about the office-holder’s sense of fair play.
  The attorney general is supposed to present the measure as neutrally as possible. There’s a huge difference between, sa
  
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• Man, woman dead in apparent murder-suicide at Anaheim senior apartment complex

  26-04-2024 17:37 via ocregister.com
  
  A 59-year-old woman was killed and the man believed to be responsible for her death was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his apartment, ending an hours-long stand off at an Anaheim senior apartment complex Thursday, April 25, authorities said.
  Anaheim officers were called to the Tyrol Plaza Senior Apartments, 891 S. State College Blvd., on a report of a shooting about 3:40 p.m., Anaheim police Sgt. Jon McClintock said.
  The complex sits across the street from Boysen Park.
  Offic
  
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• Santa Ana man charged with vehicular manslaughter for pursuit crash that killed girl in Long Beach

  26-04-2024 17:21 via ocregister.com
  
  An 18-year-old man was charged this week with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and other felony counts for leading Orange police on a pursuit in a stolen car leading to a crash in Long Beach that ultimately killed his passenger in March, authorities said.
  Izaiah Joseph Miranda of Santa Ana was then accused of running away from the crash, leaving the passenger, a 15-year-old girl, seriously injured inside the car. The teen, identified as Denisse Pilego Roman, died several days later,
  
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• Most ‘green’ states are laggards in economic growth

  26-04-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The vaunted transition to green energy has hit its share of speed bumps of late – from unwanted EVs piling up on dealers’ lots to soaring electricity prices – but anti-fossil fuel advocates never cease to remind us that better days are ahead.
  But are they?  What about those states that have taken the plunge and are at the vanguard of the transition?  And how do they stack up against states that have not turned their backs on oil, natural gas, or even coal?
  The persona
  
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• HOA Homefront: What do board officers really do?

  26-04-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I am a sitting board member for our HOA and we are coming up next week with our annual board election and a possible change of president (which is badly needed). As of right now, we have only 3 board members present out of 5 due to one moving away and another just resigned.
  Our sitting president acts like a dictator who demeans and speaks down at others, even other board members like myself. She also seems tied very closely with the property manager and the board secretary.
  We have a chance a
  
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• Audit homeless efforts to see what works

  26-04-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  No one wants to get audited when the number-crunchers are Treasury Department-based and coming after you, personally.
  But all of us can agree that when it comes to ensuring that government itself is spending those tax dollars wisely, we’re audit-friendly. We have a right to know about efficiences, and inefficiencies.
  That’s why a new plan in the Legislature to fully audit California’s homeless spending has to be applauded by all California taxpayers.
  Assembly Bill 2903 by Assem
  
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• Fed’s preferred inflation gauge shows price pressures remain elevated

  26-04-2024 16:55 via ocregister.com
  
  A measure of inflation closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained uncomfortably high in March, likely reinforcing the Fed’s reluctance to cut interest rates anytime soon and underscoring a burden for President Joe Biden’s re-election bid.
  Friday’s report from the government showed that prices rose 0.3% from February to March, the same as in the previous month. It was the third straight month that the index has run at a pace faster than is consistent with the Fed’s 2%
  
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• Economist: ‘All of a sudden ‘higher for longer’ could mean another hike’

  26-04-2024 16:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Stubborn inflation is likely to mean that the Federal Reserve will wait at least until fall to begin cutting interest rates.
  Some forecasters think it is possible that policymakers won’t just keep rates “higher for longer,” as investors have been anticipating for several weeks now, but might actually raise them further.
  “It is a huge shift because all of a sudden ‘higher for longer’ could mean another hike,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG. For
  
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• Marine dies in ‘routine military operations’ at Camp Pendleton

  26-04-2024 16:33 via ocregister.com
  
  A Marine assigned to a helicopter training squadron is dead after an accident at Camp Pendleton.
  A Marine spokesperson with the 3rd Marine Air Wing said the accident occurred around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, during “routine military operations.”
  The accident is under investigation, and the Marine’s identity will not be released until next-of-kin is notified, the 3rd MAW spokesperson said.
  No further details on how the Marine died were provided.
  The unit operates at the Camp
  
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• 20 least-affordable US cities to buy a home are all in California

  26-04-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  “How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market.
  The pain: Twenty U.S. cities with the highest home-price-to-income ratios are all in California.
  The source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a housing affordability yardstick by Construction Coverage, which tracked median home prices divided by the median annual household income for 384 cities including 79 from California.
  The pinch
  If going 20 for 20 at the top of this “unaffordabili
  
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