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• Ducks make changes on the bench and in the front office

  14-05-2024 23:57 via ocregister.com
  
  The Ducks were already set to undergo one of the most stark transformations in the NHL this offseason, beginning Tuesday with changes behind the bench and in the front office.
  It was announced by the club that assistant coaches Newell Brown and Craig Johnson would not have their contracts renewed, opening the door for new faces to join head coach Greg Cronin and assistant Brent Thompson. Cronin could also have a multitude of new players in his group as the Ducks will be one of the most financial
  
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• Driver suspected of causing fatal crash in Irvine is sought

  14-05-2024 23:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine police are asking for the public’s help finding a driver who investigators say caused a fatal crash.
  Allen Yangkaou Lee, 67, of Irvine, died Monday night, a few days after Thursday’s rollover crash involving a 2004 Toyota Corolla near Culver Drive and Trabuco Road, police said.
  Lee was heading north on Culver approaching Trabuco at about 4:30 p.m. and appeared to swerve and lose control of the car when the driver of a Honda Civic made a right turn against a red from Trabuco to
  
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• 8 Comic Con Revolution Ontario panels you don’t want to miss

  14-05-2024 23:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Grab your capes and lightsabers, Comic Con Revolution returns to the Ontario Convention Center this weekend.
  The event, which hosts voice actors, animators, comic creators and WWE Hall of Famers, will take place Saturday, May 18, through Sunday, May 19, at the Ontario Convention Center.
  Cosplayers, X-maniacs and far-away galaxy fans will have the chance to meet the casts of “Star Wars Rebels,” “Star Wars: The Clones Wars” and “X-Men ’97.” These three eve
  
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• Inland Empire battles low college grad rates to gain higher tech jobs, businesses

  14-05-2024 23:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By Deborah Brennan | CalMatters
  For many Californians the Inland Empire is a view from Interstate 10 of massive warehouses and desert en route to Las Vegas or other parts of the country.
  To residents of the region, it’s a place of affordable housing yet interminable traffic, sweeping vistas shrouded by perpetual smog, and huge employers alongside family-owned businesses.
  More than 4.7 million people — 12% of California’s population — live in its 27,000 square miles and m
  
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• Will Disneyland use a virtual queue when Tiana’s Bayou Adventure opens?

  14-05-2024 23:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland could use a virtual queue with an unusual twist when Tiana’s Bayou Adventure opens later this year if the Anaheim theme park follows the lead of Walt Disney World where the rethemed Splash Mountain attraction debuts next month.
  Florida’s Magic Kingdom will use a virtual queue when Tiana’s Bayou Adventure opens on June 28.
  The Disneyland Resort has not yet announced attraction access details for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, according to Disneyland officials.
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• California moves closer to requiring new pollutant-warning labels for gas stoves

  14-05-2024 23:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By SOPHIE AUSTIN | Associated Press/Report for America
  SACRAMENTO — California could require all new gas stoves sold in the state to carry a label warning users about pollutants they can release that have been linked to respiratory illnesses.
  The state Assembly approved a proposal Monday that would require the label on gas stoves or ranges made or sold online after 2024, or sold in a store after 2025. The bill now heads to the state Senate.
  Proponents of the legislation say it is a necessa
  
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• Chargers sign undrafted OLB Chris Collins

  14-05-2024 22:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers on Tuesday signed Chris Collins, an undrafted outside linebacker from the University of Minnesota, and waived outside linebacker Brevin Allen, who played two games for them in the 2023 season.
  Collins, a graduate transfer from North Carolina last season for the Golden Gophers, impressed the Chargers as a non-roster invitee to their recent rookie minicamp.
  The move comes after the Chargers on Saturday signed outside linebacker Bud Dupree, a former member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, T
  
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• Ohtani’s ex-interpreter pleads not guilty — but just for now

  14-05-2024 22:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Dodger Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter pleaded not guilty on Tuesday, May 14, to federal charges of stealing nearly $17 million from the Dodger slugger’s bank account to pay off illegal gambling debts — but he has agreed to plead guilty at a later date.
  The arraignment for Ippei Mizuhara, 39, in downtown Los Angeles was a procedural matter. Last week, he agreed to plead guilty to one count each of bank fraud and subscribing to a false tax return, according to the U.S. Attorn
  
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• Jim Trentin overcame stigma of his autism to become accepted as an Orange County baseball umpire

  14-05-2024 22:14 via ocregister.com
  
  As the high baseball season closes in on its CIF Southern Section championship games, it marks the end of another umpiring season for Jim Trentin.
  He just finished his 27th as an Orange County high school baseball umpire.
  The Orange County Baseball Officials Association has several umpires that have around that long, close to that long or even longer. What makes Trentin’s longevity and dedication even more remarkable is that Trentin is autistic.
  Trentin, 63, said he was diagnosed with auti
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Monday, May 13

  14-05-2024 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Monday, May 13
  Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register.
  The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
  MONDAY’S SCORES
  BOYS GOLF
  CIF-SS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
  DIVISION 1
  Bear Creek (par 71)
  Top teams: 1. Palm Desert 363; 2. San Marcos 372; 3. Oaks Christian 372;
  
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• Transient accused of shooting 2 Jewish men in LA to plead guilty, prosecutors say

  14-05-2024 21:51 via ocregister.com
  
  A transient with a history of antisemitism who authorities say admitted attempting to kill two people who he believed were Jewish in Los Angeles in 2023 has agreed to plead guilty to hate-crime charges and other offenses, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday, May 14.
  Jaime Tran, 29, had made Riverside one of his homes, and he was arrested in Cathedral City on Feb. 16, 2023, the day of the second shooting in two days in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood of L.A. Tran had a rifle and handgun w
  
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• Amy Tan hopes ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’ makes you a conservationist

  14-05-2024 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  If you didn’t know the line “Hope is the thing with feathers” had been written by poet Emily Dickinson, you might think it was the marketing tagline for ”The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” a collection of observations, meditations and drawings by author Amy Tan.
  In 2016, Tan – whose bestselling novels include “The Joy Luck Club,” “The Kitchen God’s Wife” and “The Bonesetter’s Daughter,” among others – says she
  
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• The American labor market: Fact vs. Fiction

  14-05-2024 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  When we consider markets, we typically think of commerce – the buying and selling of goods and services, international trade, investing, supply and demand. Markets are the backbone of our economy. Almost everything has a market – food, medical care, toys, films and entertainment, weapons, drugs, stocks. But there is one market that surpasses them all in importance, without which no other market could exist – the labor market.
  Labor is crucial for commerce. Without people to pro
  
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• Biden team’s tightrope: Reining in rogue Obamacare agents without slowing enrollment

  14-05-2024 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Julie Appleby | (TNS) KFF Health News
  President Joe Biden counts among his accomplishments the record-high number of people, more than 21 million, who enrolled in Obamacare plans this year. Behind the scenes, however, federal regulators are contending with a problem that affects people’s coverage: rogue brokers who have signed people up for Affordable Care Act plans, or switched them into new ones, without their permission.
  Fighting the problem presents tension for the administration: how
  
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• How to know if your car is tracking you, risking higher insurance

  14-05-2024 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By Isabel Contreras | NerdWallet
  A recent New York Times investigation revealed some automakers sell data on driving behavior, like speeding, hard breaking and late night driving, which can then be purchased by car insurers. This data, known as “telematics” data, could be used to price already high auto insurance rates for the drivers of those vehicle models.
  Car insurance companies already use telematics data in their pay-per-mile and telematics programs. Good driving behavior can r
  
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• LAFC adds French great Olivier Giroud, who has stepped down from AC Milan

  14-05-2024 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Football Club has signed an absolute unit.
  Olivier Giroud, an all-time great French center forward, put pen to paper on a Major League Soccer contract that will connect him in L.A. with fellow World Cup winner and good friend Hugo Lloris through 2025 with a club option for one more season, LAFC formally announced on Tuesday.
  “You have no idea how big he is,” said LAFC co-president and general manager John Thorrington, who visited the 6-foot-4 Giroud in Italy to facili
  
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• Galaxy takes resiliency and fight to Minnesota

  14-05-2024 20:49 via ocregister.com
  
  The Galaxy was moments away from starting an important three-game stretch with a loss Saturday.
  However, thanks to Miguel Berry’s late goal, they salvaged a point in a 2-2 draw against Real Salt Lake on Saturday.
  As the Galaxy returns to the road for Wednesday’s meeting with Minnesota United FC, the one thing that’s been evident about this season is the club’s resiliency.
  “Games can have different feelings at the start, to the finish,” Galaxy coach Greg Vanney
  
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• Fed’s Powell downplays potential for rate hike despite higher price pressures

  14-05-2024 20:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By Craig Torres and Cagan Koc | Bloomberg
  Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank must be patient and wait for evidence that inflation continues to cool, doubling down on the need to keep borrowing costs elevated for longer.
  The Fed chief said recent inflation figures indicate it will likely take more time than previously thought to attain the confidence needed to lower interest rates, echoing comments he made earlier this month.
  “We did not expect this to be a smooth
  
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• Check stubs, fake receipts, blind loyalty: Michael Cohen testifies in Trump hush money trial

  14-05-2024 20:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER, MICHELLE L. PRICE and COLLEEN LONG
  NEW YORK — It wasn’t until after a decade in the fold, after his family pleaded with him, after the FBI raided his office, apartment and hotel room, Michael Cohen testified Tuesday, that he finally decided to turn on Donald Trump.
  That decision led to a 2018 guilty plea to federal charges involving a payment to the porn actor Stormy Daniels to bury her story of an alleged sexual encounter with Trump and to other, un
  
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• Could better inhalers help patients, and the planet?

  14-05-2024 20:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Martha Bebinger, WBUR | (TNS) KFF Health News
  Miguel Divo, a lung specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, sits in an exam room across from Joel Rubinstein, who has asthma. Rubinstein, a retired psychiatrist, is about to get a checkup and hear a surprising pitch — for the planet, as well as his health.
  Divo explains that boot-shaped inhalers, which represent nearly 90% of the U.S. market for asthma medication, save lives but also contribute to climate change. E
  
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• How Vietnamese lawmakers struck back after LA County declared Jane Fonda Day

  14-05-2024 20:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Assemblymember Tri Ta was one of several California lawmakers of Vietnamese descent who protested Los Angeles County’s designation of Jane Fonda Day. Photo by Rahul Lal for CalMatters
  As Saigon was falling, Janet Nguyen’s uncle – an officer in the South Vietnamese Army – was taken before his village and executed. After the city fell on April 30, 1975, the communists put Nguyen’s father and mother in jail. Their “crime?” They got caught trying to escape
  
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• Orange County girls athlete of the week: Bianca Nwaizu, Liberty Christian

  14-05-2024 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County girls athlete of the week:
  Name: Bianca Nwaizu
  School: Liberty Christian
  Sport: Swimming
  Year: Freshman
  Noteworthy: Nwaizu captured the 100-yard breaststroke at the CIF State championships in Fresno in an Orange County-leading time of 1 minute, 00.23 seconds. The time makes the Irvine Novaquatics club swimmer the No. 2 performer in Orange County history in the event and places her third
  
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• New device could identify which babies will struggle with breastfeeding

  14-05-2024 20:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Paul Sisson | The San Diego Union-Tribune
  Doctors traditionally use a finger to gauge how well a baby suckles, but researchers at UC San Diego have come up with a new way to more precisely measure just how well each child gets the job done.
  Led by engineer James Friend, a team in the university’s Medically Advanced Devices Laboratory rigged up a “non-nutritive suckling system” by connecting a digital vacuum sensor to an ordinary disposable pacifier, allowing for 60 seconds of r
  
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• How do you deal with a stealth juror? Ask the lawyer

  14-05-2024 19:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I just served on a jury. One of the people gave me a lot of concern. I don’t think she followed the judge’s instructions, and I think she had a bias going in, but hid it. How is a juror like that kept off a jury?
  Q.M., Van Nuys
  Ron Sokol
  A: A stealth or rogue juror is an individual who has a concealed agenda with regard to the case, seeks to get onto the jury and then to influence the outcome. Not following the court’s instructions is misconduct as well, of a different natur
  
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• OC Fair 2024: Trevor Noah, Steel Pulse, Stray Cats and more coming to Pacific Amphitheatre

  14-05-2024 19:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Pacific Amphitheatre has announced four additional shows slated for the OC Fair 2024 season lineup.
  Stray Cats, the ’80s American rockabilly group, will return to the venue on Aug.1-2, rockin’ this town with a newly announced special guest, The English Beat.
  Tickets start at $45-$125 and are now on sale to the general public at pacamp.com. Tickets include same-day admission to the OC Fair, which runs July 19-Aug.18 at the OC Fair & Event Center.
  Comedian and Emmy-winning televisi
  
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• Israel, Hamas talks in limbo after Rafah move, says Qatar PM

  14-05-2024 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Abeer Abu Omar, Francine Lacqua and Fadwa Hodali | (TNS) Bloomberg News
  Cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas have reached an impasse following the Jewish state’s ground offensive on the outskirts of the Gazan city of Rafah, according to Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.
  Over the past few weeks, “we have seen some momentum building but unfortunately things didn’t move in the right direction,” Sheikh Mohammed said at the Qatar Economic For
  
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• Bird flu found in US dairy cows isn’t deterring raw milk drinkers

  14-05-2024 19:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jonel Aleccia | The Associated Press
  Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite years of warnings about the health risks of drinking the unpasteurized products — and an outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows.
  Since March 25, when the bird flu virus was confirmed in U.S. cattle for the first time, weekly sales of raw cow’s milk have ticked up 21% to as much as 65% compared with the same periods a year ago, according to the market research firm NielsenIQ.
  That runs counter to a
  
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• Three people shot at Super Bowl parade grapple with bullets left in their bodies

  14-05-2024 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Bram Sable-Smith, Peggy Lowe, KCUR | KFF Health News (TNS)
  James Lemons, 39, wants the bullet removed from his thigh so he can go back to work.
  Sarai Holguin, a 71-year-old woman originally from Mexico, has accepted the bullet lodged near her knee as her “compa” — a close friend.
  Mireya Nelson, 15, was hit by a bullet that went through her jaw and broke her shoulder, where fragments remain. She’ll live with them for now, while doctors monitor lead levels in her blood for
  
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• Sister restaurateurs Angela and Miriam El Haj celebrate two years of Calaca Mamas

  14-05-2024 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Born and raised in the restaurant industry, sisters Angela and Miriam El Haj of Anaheim’s Calaca Mamas Cantina — celebrating its second anniversary this month — spent their early years “working” in restaurants. That is, if you call playing waitress inside their father’s handful of eateries, including Anaheim Pizza, Spaghetti Company and an IHOP, work. Nevertheless, the child’s play gave them a head start in the food game despite trying to forge a career
  
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• Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan settling in ahead of the Preakness Stakes

  14-05-2024 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  BALTIMORE — Mystik Dan exerted so much energy winning the Kentucky Derby by a nose in the race’s closest finish in 75 years that there was no guarantee his camp would send him to the Preakness to chase the second jewel of the Triple Crown.
  After a bit of rest, the decision was made to go to Baltimore, and after a 12-hour van ride from Louisville, Mystik Dan has settled in nicely at Pimlico Race Course ahead of the the Preakness on Saturday.
  “Most horses after a race if they ext
  
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• Eric Trump, Alina Habba to headline Temecula conservative fundraiser

  14-05-2024 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Eric Trump and a lawyer who defended his father, former President Donald Trump, are scheduled to headline a fundraiser in Temecula for a local conservative political action committee focused on electing like-minded people to Inland Empire school boards.
  Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin also is expected to speak at the Inland Empire Family PAC fundraiser, set for Wednesday, May 22, at the Temecula Stampede country music venue.
  So is Kash Patel, who served in the Trump White House,
  
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• US hiking tariffs on Chinese EVs, solar cells, steel, aluminum

  14-05-2024 19:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By Josh Boak, Fatima Hussein, Paul Wiseman and Didi Tang | The Associated Press
  The Biden administration announced plans to slap new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminum and medical equipment — an election year move that’s increasing friction between the world’s two largest economies.
  The tariffs come in the middle of a heated campaign between President Joe Biden and his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, in which both candid
  
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• Biden hiking tariffs on Chinese EVs, solar cells, steel, aluminum

  14-05-2024 19:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By Josh Boak, Fatima Hussein, Paul Wiseman and Didi Tang | The Associated Press
  The Biden administration announced plans to slap new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminum and medical equipment — an election year move that’s increasing friction between the world’s two largest economies.
  The tariffs come in the middle of a heated campaign between President Joe Biden and his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, in which both candid
  
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• Recipe: Here’s how to slow roast vine-on tomatoes

  14-05-2024 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Nancy Silverton, chef-restaurateur and cookbook author, slow-roasts tomatoes to perfection. She uses small, on-the-vine tomatoes and slow roasts the colorful orbs slathered with extra-virgin olive oil. Their skins shrivel but the tomatoes remain plump.
  There are myriad ways to serve them. Once cooled, the room-temp, stem-on tomatoes can sit atop a generous mound of rich fresh burrata cheese that is graced with coarse salt and a smidgen of basil pesto.
  I also like to serve them atop cooked store-
  
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• Comcast to offer Apple TV, Netflix, Peacock bundle at ‘vastly reduced price’

  14-05-2024 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By Todd Shields | Bloomberg
  Comcast Corp. will offer customers a streaming bundle that includes Apple TV+, Netflix and its own Peacock service as it tries to reduce subscriber churn, Chief Executive Officer Brian Roberts said Tuesday at an investor conference.
  The bundle will be offered at “a vastly reduced price” compared with offerings elsewhere, Roberts said without stating a figure.
  Comcast, owner of the Xfinity brand, has been losing subscribers along with the wider pay-TV indus
  
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• UCLA softball adds basketball player Gabriela Jaquez to roster

  14-05-2024 18:56 via ocregister.com
  
  The UCLA softball team has added women’s basketball player Gabriela Jaquez to its roster ahead of this weekend’s NCAA Los Angeles Regional.
  “We are excited to welcome Gabriela Jaquez into our Bruin Softball Family! Gabriela is a fierce competitor and will add to the depth and versatility of our running game this postseason,” softball coach Kelly Inouye-Perez said in a statement released by UCLA Athletics. “As a standout student-athlete on the UCLA women’s bask
  
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• Music fans can hear eight continuous hours of Bob Dylan songs at this Torrance festival

  14-05-2024 17:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Bob Dylan’s music will be blowing in the wind of Torrance on May 25 with the return of the annual Dylanfest.
  The 34th annual festival will feature eight straight hours of the legendary singer’s music performed by more than 60 Dylan-loving musicians.
  “It’s obviously No. 1 about the music, and then a close second is the community that has formed around the event,” said Renee Safier, who along with her bandmate Andy Hill founded the festival. “People get to recon
  
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• Cal State Fullerton’s degree programs open career doors for nursing students

  14-05-2024 17:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Established in 1974, Cal State Fullerton’s School of Nursing within the College of Health and Human Development is committed to providing highly competitive nursing education programs for Titan students.
  Now celebrating its 50th year, CSUF offers a range of nursing program options, including a variety of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree paths. And with a strong reputation for local job placement, those looking for a career in nursing will find the support they need at C
  
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• Tustin follow-up study finds no asbestos or lead contamination caused by hangar fire

  14-05-2024 16:33 via ocregister.com
  
  A follow-up study of homes near the Tustin hangar fire found no lead or asbestos contamination in people’s yards and interior areas that could be attributed to the blaze that broke out in November and destroyed a historic World War II blimp hangar, according to city officials.
  The city-commissioned study tested a sampling of 50 homes near the hangar for asbestos and lead in residences’ soil, dust and air. Another 30 homes similar in construction and age in Santa Ana and Irvine &ndash
  
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• Why Just Like Heaven may be the last dual Death Cab for Cutie & Postal Service U.S. show

  14-05-2024 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  As the 20th anniversary of landmark albums by Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service approached last year, Ben Gibbard, the singer-songwriter for both projects, came to his bandmates in Death Cab with a question.
  “Ben had this idea,” says Nick Harmer, Death Cab for Cutie‘s bassist since 1997 when Gibbard decided to turn his fledgling solo project into a proper band. “It was like, ‘Do you think it’s time? Do you think there’s a world where we sort of
  
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• Is California’s unemployment rate really 9.5%?

  14-05-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Is California’s unemployment problem double what’s commonly discussed?
  Ponder a quarterly employment report from the BLS that contains for Californians another bit of discomforting data: a jobless measurement using a broad interpretation of folks with paycheck problems.
  This benchmark includes the officially jobless, the discouraged worker and those who are underemployed. It includes people working part-time who want full-time employment. It also tracks folks with no jobs who aren&rs
  
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• Lexus signs on as title sponsor for US Open of Surfing, WSL Finals

  14-05-2024 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Car maker Lexus has signed on as title sponsor for the region’s largest surfing contests, the US Open of Surfing held in Huntington Beach in August and the World Surf League Finals to be held just south of San Clemente in September.
  Lexus has already tested the waters with several other WSL events, including the Lexus Pipe Pro and the WSL Awards, a partnership that will continue into 2025, according to a WSL announcement.
  The Lexus VIP Area at the Lexus Pipe Pro on Jan. 31, 2024 at Oahu, H
  
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• Judge hears arguments over whether Huntington Beach should release air show settlement

  14-05-2024 16:01 via ocregister.com
  
  An Orange County judge heard arguments Monday on whether Huntington Beach should be required to release the entire settlement agreement between the city and the operator of the air show held annually in town.
  Pacific Airshow operators sued the city over losses incurred when the final day of the three-day event was canceled in 2021 due to an oil spill. The city last year settled that lawsuit when it agreed to pay nearly $5 million to the Pacific Airshow. The city was sued after officials refused
  
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• What do Newsom’s proposed cuts to California’s budget mean to OC?

  14-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Hundreds of millions in reductions to homelessness programs. A pause in billions for subsidized child care. A $510 million reduction to the Middle Class Scholarship program. And $300 million annual reductions to public health funding.
  Those are just a handful of the proposed budget cuts across 260 state programs in California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest $288 billion budget proposal, commonly referred to as the “May Revise,” which he announced Friday, May 10.
  But what do those nu
  
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• Tackling California’s high cost-of-living: A roadmap to affordability

  14-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Living in California offers unparalleled opportunities, natural beauty, and a vibrant culture. However, it also presents a growing challenge that can no longer be ignored—the soaring cost of living. As your representative in the California Senate, it is my duty and commitment to address these challenges head-on and to ensure that the promise of our great state remains accessible to all, especially the hardworking families of Senate District 23.
  Every day, I hear from constituents making to
  
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• Inland Empire school districts are doing the right thing in upholding parental rights

  14-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  California students and parents have had it rough during the first four years of this decade. Not only were children locked away at home, condemned to “learn” behind a screen long after experts determined that youngsters faced only nominal risks from COVID-19, but parents were also stonewalled, sued, and threatened when they questioned their children’s curricula. Consequently, millions of California schoolchildren suffered years of deferred learning and stunted social skills th
  
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• Newsom’s proposed spending cuts spur backlash from affected California groups

  14-05-2024 15:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Just minutes after Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a revised state budget with billions of dollars in spending reductions on Friday, advocates for affected programs began showering reporters with statements of dismay.
  The gist of the complaints was that after Newsom and the Legislature had devoted attention and money to expanded health care coverage, prekindergarten education, income supports for the poor, undocumented immigrant assistance, homelessness, climate change and a myriad other left-of-cent
  
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• Blessed Sacrament in Placentia is latest church partnering to build affordable housing

  14-05-2024 15:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County leaders say the recently released results of January’s point in time count of homeless people in the region highlight a desperate need for more affordable housing.
  To help with addressing that need, area churches are making unused land available for new developments, and this week officials celebrated the latest project to help more people find permanent homes.
  The Santa Angelina senior housing community is built around the Episcopal Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Placent
  
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• Niles: Two major bits of news reverborate in Disney’s world

  14-05-2024 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Disney’s theme parks enjoyed a big week last week, with a long-awaited announcement, debuts of several new attractions and a big political win.
  First up, Disney fans got the news they have been awaiting all year — an official opening date for the Tiana’s Bayou Adventure ride. The Walt Disney World installation of former Splash Mountain will open on June 28. Themed to “The Princess and the Frog,” Tiana’s Bayou Adventure reimagines the beloved flume ride as a tr
  
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• Hari Kunzru’s ‘Blue Ruin’ examines love and relationships during lockdown

  14-05-2024 15:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Hari Kunzru’s 2017 novel “White Tears” explored cultural appropriation and toxic White arrogance in a ghost story that took his main characters on a road trip through American blues and history; in 2021’s “Red Pill,” he delved into alt-right paranoia in the Trump era and our sense of reality as the protagonist traveled to Europe and back in a search for himself. 
  Kunzru’s new novel, “Blue Ruin,” as the title colorfully suggests, is loose
  
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