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• Rite Aid returns to bankruptcy protection as it seeks to sell most assets

  05-05-2025 23:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By TOM MURPHY, Associated Press
  Rite Aid is again seeking bankruptcy protection as the struggling drugstore chain says it will try to sell substantially all of its assets.
  The company said Monday that its stores will remain open as it returns to Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
  The company said it will work to ensure that customer prescriptions are transferred to other pharmacies as it goes through the sale process. The drugstore chain has lined up from some of its lenders $1.94 billion in new
  
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• John Kenney wanted to write a funny book about death. It’s about life instead.

  05-05-2025 23:35 via ocregister.com
  
  John Kenney is one of six brothers.In 2019, when his brother Tom, a firefighter who spent a week at Ground Zero in 2001, was dying of cancer, Kenney went to visit him one last time. As they were talking, a car pulled up carrying the other four brothers. When Kenney noted their arrival, his brother let his head and body slump as if he had just died. “Tell them they’re too late,” Tom said with a sly grin.
  From that moment, Kenney’s latest novel, “I See You’ve Ca
  
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• Photos: Best and worst looks from the 2025 Met Gala

  05-05-2025 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Let the year’s biggest fashion party begin! A rainy Met Gala got underway Monday with a tuxedoed choir and a trend true to the menswear theme: Emma Chamberlain and other women in pinstripe gowns.
  Chamberlain and Zuri Hall were among those who wore sleek, sexy gowns that play on men’s suiting in pinstripes and other details.
  “I expect this to be a frequent thing tonight, women wanting to maintain a trad
  
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• The conclave to choose the next pope will be the most geographically diverse in history

  05-05-2025 23:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — There is no rule that cardinals electing a new pope vote a certain way according to their nationality or region. But understanding their makeup in geographic terms can help explain some of their priorities as they open the conclave Wednesday to choose a new leader of the 1.4-billion strong Catholic Church.
  A cardinal who heads the Vatican’s liturgy office might have a very different set of concerns from the archbishop of Ulaanb
  
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• Watch live: Stars arrive at the 2025 Met Gala

  05-05-2025 23:16 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Pharrell Williams has high hopes for the Met Gala, the first to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the first in more than 20 years to have a menswear theme.
  “I want it to feel like the most epic night of power, a reflection of Black resiliency in a world that continues to be colonized, by which I mean policies and legislation that are nothing short of that,” he recently told Vogue.
  “It’s our turn.”
  Indeed. And we
  
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• OC baseball Top 25: Trabuco Hills joins Top 10 in last week of regular season

  05-05-2025 23:08 via ocregister.com
  
  This week’s Orange County high school baseball rankings, as of Monday, May 5.
  Notable this week: Huntington Beach swept Edison in three games to clinch an eighth straight league championship. … Orange Lutheran and Santa Margarita clinched playoff berths in the Trinity League. … Villa Park swept a two-game series against Foothill in the Crestview League. … Aliso Niguel rises two positions after a three-game sweep of Tesoro in the South Coast League. … El Modena e
  
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• Novelist Percival Everett and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the arts

  05-05-2025 23:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By HILLEL ITALIE
  NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within, won for drama. It also earned six Tony Award nominations last week.
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• Trump team’s $500 million bet on old vaccine technology puzzles scientists

  05-05-2025 23:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By Arthur Allen, KFF Health News
  The Trump administration’s unprecedented $500 million grant for a broadly protective flu shot has confounded vaccine and pandemic preparedness experts, who said the project was in early stages, relied on old technology and was just one of more than 200 such efforts.
  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shifted the money from a pandemic preparedness fund to a vaccine development program led by two scientists whom the administration recen
  
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• New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says

  05-05-2025 22:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE
  NEW YORK (AP) — A new salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry has sickened at least seven people in six states, health officials said Monday.
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• New York Times wins 4 Pulitzers, New Yorker 3; Washington Post wins for coverage of Trump shooting

  05-05-2025 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID BAUDER
  NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes and the New Yorker three on Monday for journalism in 2024 that touched on topics like the fentanyl crisis, the U.S. military and last summer’s assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.
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• Cinco de Mayo celebrations set for Boyle Heights, Avalon

  05-05-2025 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Free Cinco de Mayo celebrations are set Monday for Boyle Heights and Avalon commemorating the victory of a 4,500-man Mexican militia over a larger, well-equipped French expeditionary force during the original Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.
  There will be a Cinco de Mayo celebration from 4 to 8 p.m. at Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights with mariachi and regional music performances, traditional dance and cultural performances and vendor and artisan booths.
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• What to know about flight delays and cancellations at Newark airport

  05-05-2025 21:39 via ocregister.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Flight delays and cancellations persisted at Newark Liberty International Airport Monday, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calling for an investigation into the “chaos” sparked by an air traffic controller shortage and thick cloud cover.
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• OpenAI reverses course and says its nonprofit will continue to control its business

  05-05-2025 21:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT O’BRIEN and THALIA BEATY
  After months spent pursuing a plan to convert itself into a for-profit business, OpenAI is reversing course and said Monday its nonprofit will continue to control the company that makes ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products.
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• Rite Aid to file second bankruptcy, announces job cuts

  05-05-2025 21:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By Ike Swetlitz and Jonathan Randles | Bloomberg
  Rite Aid has told its employees it intends to file bankruptcy less than a year after completing an earlier restructuring that failed to turn around the troubled pharmacy chain.
  The company was unable to secure additional capital from lenders in order to continue operating the business and now intends to file Chapter 11, Chief Executive Officer Matthew Schroeder said in a letter to employees that was reviewed by Bloomberg News. The drug store chain
  
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• Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp won’t run for US Senate seat in 2026 against Democrat Jon Ossoff

  05-05-2025 21:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By JEFF AMY
  ATLANTA (AP) — Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Republican governor, announced Monday that he’s not running for U.S. Senate in 2026 against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff.
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• Laguna Beach home on promontory overlooking Arch Rock seeks $34M

  05-05-2025 21:16 via ocregister.com
  
  It doesn’t get more oceanfront than this Laguna Beach house on a rocky promontory overlooking Arch Rock, which recently hit the market for $34 million.
  Reached by a gated driveway, the 3,829-square-foot contemporary-style residence features three bedrooms and five bathrooms. Windows and floor-to-ceiling glass walls frame “270 degree views of the crashing surf, coves, sunsets and nearly one hundred miles of coastline,” according to the listing.
  The house originally dates to 1949
  
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• Alexander: Let’s enjoy our heroes while we have them

  05-05-2025 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Those of a certain age – and for those who haven’t figured out the translation of that term, it means the fire department is on alert every time we have a birthday – might actually remember the first time baseball Hall of Famer Frank Robinson was traded. It was in the winter of 1965 when Robinson – who had already won a National League MVP award for Cincinnati – was traded by the Reds to the Baltimore Orioles.
  The two most striking aspects to that trade: Reds genera
  
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• IRS lost 31% of tax auditors in DOGE downsizing, watchdog finds

  05-05-2025 21:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By Erik Wasson | Bloomberg
  The Internal Revenue Service lost 31% of its auditors from buyouts and layoffs tied to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, departures that are likely to hamper the agency’s ability to go after tax cheats.
  More than 3,600 revenue agents — responsible for collecting tax payments — have left the IRS, according to an IRS watchdog report.
  In addition, 18% of revenue officers, who oversee challenging tax cases, and 10% of tax examiners &m
  
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• Washington to host the 2027 NFL draft on the National Mall, President Donald Trump says

  05-05-2025 20:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN WHYNO
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2027 NFL draft is heading to the nation’s capital on the National Mall, President Donald Trump said Monday, bringing the widely popular event back to Washington for the first time in more than eight decades.
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• Newport Beach Wine Festival returns for its 20th year

  05-05-2025 20:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Raise your glass: Marking its second decade, the annual Newport Beach Wine Festival pours into the Balboa Bay Resort this Memorial Day Weekend, bringing a taste of terroirs from the California coast to the French countryside.
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  The event uncorks on Friday, May 23, with a four-course dinner hosted by Jean Charles Boisset — a noted
  
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• Rwanda confirms early talks to host deported US migrants

  05-05-2025 20:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By IGNATIUS SSUUNA
  KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda confirmed on Monday that discussions were “underway” with the United States regarding a potential agreement to host deported migrants.
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• Visa crackdown leads international students in the US to reconsider summer travel

  05-05-2025 20:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By MAKIYA SEMINERA
  On summer break from a Ph.D. program, an international student at University of California, San Diego, was planning a trip with a few friends to Hawaii. But after seeing international students across the United States stripped of their legal status, the student decided against it.
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• Jill Biden, Tony Blair, Scott Bessent, Mehmet Oz at Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills

  05-05-2025 20:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEVEN HERBERT
  Former first lady Jill Biden, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are among Monday’s scheduled participants as the Milken Institute’s 28th annual Global Conference begins in earnest in Beverly Hills.
  All public sessions at the conference will be streamed live.
  Biden will be interviewed from 8 to 8:30 a.m. by Esther Krofah, executive vice president, Milken Institute Health, as part of a session titled “Catalyzing the Ne
  
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• Smart credit card moves to make in a recession

  05-05-2025 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By Sara Rathner, NerdWallet
  We’re not in a recession (as of this writing, at least), but that doesn’t mean people aren’t stressed. A NerdWallet survey found that 85% of Americans have concerns about tariffs, with 45% worrying that tariffs will result in a recession.
  Experts aren’t too far behind in their fears. In early April, for example, J.P. Morgan Research raised their probability of a recession in 2025 to 60%, up from 40% at the beginning of 2024.
  “There’
  
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• Mickey and Minnie are still the stars of Disneyland’s newest kids show

  05-05-2025 20:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Mickey and Minnie will once again be the stars of a new Disney Junior stage show coming to the Disneyland resort that promises plenty of kid-centric singing and dancing with a whole new cast of supporting characters.
  The new “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live” stage show will debut on May 16 in the Disney Theater in Hollywood Land at Disney California Adventure as part of Disneyland’s 70th anniversary celebration.
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• Review: ‘Fences’ in Laguna features a suitably fierce leading man

  05-05-2025 20:14 via ocregister.com
  
  A  dominating — and often entertainingly deafening — quality in some of the best 20th century American playwriting is the larger-than-life character who, through sheer force of will and verbalizing exuberance, steers story, plot and a production itself.
  Tennessee Williams unleashed Stanley Kowalski. Arthur Miller bestowed Willy Loman. Now at Laguna Playhouse, in a satisfying, well-directed mounting of August Wilson’s “Fences,” audiences face off with Troy Maxso
  
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• Proposed Kaiser contract could end 7-month strike

  05-05-2025 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Nearly seven months after going on a labor strike, the union representing Kaiser Permanente mental health workers will hold a ratification vote Thursday on a proposed new contract.
  The tentative deal announced Sunday covers nearly 2,400 Kaiser mental health therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and psychologists represented by National Union of Healthcare Workers.
  If the agreement is given formal consent by union members, NUHW will end its open-ended strike, both sides said. If ratified
  
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• Kaiser mental health workers to vote on proposed contract

  05-05-2025 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Nearly seven months after going on a labor strike, the union representing Kaiser Permanente mental health workers will hold a ratification vote Thursday on a proposed new contract.
  The tentative deal announced Sunday covers nearly 2,400 Kaiser mental health therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and psychologists represented by National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).
  If the agreement is given formal consent by union members, NUHW will end its open-ended strike, both sides said. If r
  
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• Orange County softball stat leaders through May 3

  05-05-2025 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOrange County softball stat leaders through Saturday, May 3.
  To be included, teams must have their stats up to date on the MaxPreps.com leaderboards.
  BATTING AVERAGEName, school
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  AB
  Pricilla Hernandez, Saddleback
  .761
  35
  46
  Karla Oliva, Santa Ana Valley
  .717
  43
  60
  Jenelle Monzon, Anaheim
  .705
  31
  44
  Hayli McIlroy, Crean Lutheran
  .688
  22
  32
  Victoria Rios, Costa Mesa
  .686
  24
  35
  Lizeth Melgoza, Saddleback
  .66
  
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• Community ultra-marathon will bridge Altadena to Pacific Palisades, raise funds for wildfire relief

  05-05-2025 19:51 via ocregister.com
  
  $50k and 50 kilometers: In short, that’s the goal behind a community event on Saturday, May 10 that challenges participants to take part in a run that stretches from Altadena to Pacific Palisades to raise money for the two communities hit the hardest during January’s fires.
  Dubbed “Altadena to the Palisades: An Ultra-Marathon Relay,” the run is spearheaded by members of Silverlake Track Club, aa Los Angeles-based community running club, and will kick off at 7 a.m. at Good
  
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• Rivian building $120 million EV supplier park to offset tariffs

  05-05-2025 19:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By Miranda Davis and Kara Carlson | Bloomberg
  Rivian Automotive Inc. is investing $120 million in a new supplier park in Illinois, another win for Governor JB Pritzker after the company announced a $1.5 billion plan to expand its plant in the state.
  The 1.2 million-square-foot park in Normal will allow the electric-vehicle maker to increase production at its plant in 2026, when it starts building its R2 model, said Chief Executive Officer RJ Scaringe. The park, which will create almost 100 direc
  
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• Recipe: These Black Bean Tostadas make a tasty, last-minute meal

  05-05-2025 19:33 via ocregister.com
  
  These tostadas make a tasty last-minute meal and would be perfect to make for Mom on Mother’s Day. Put out the garnishes and let diners add their favorite toppings, piling them high with cheese and nutritious veggies. If you like, add chunks of cooked chicken to the bean mixture.
  Black Bean Tostadas with Radishes, Cherry Tomatoes and Avocado
  Yield: 4 servings
  INGREDIENTS
  1 tablespoon olive oil
  1 garlic clove, minced
  1 small white onion, chopped
  1 red bell pepper, seeded, chopped
  1/2 teaspo
  
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• How Alcatraz became America’s most notorious prison

  05-05-2025 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By ED WHITE
  President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too costly to house America’s worst criminals.
  The prison off the coast of San Francisco is where the government sent notorious gangsters Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly as well as lesser-known men who were considered too dangerous to lock up elsewhere.
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• Play your cardinals right: Betting on next pope gains popularity ahead of the conclave

  05-05-2025 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU and SYLVIA HUI
  ROME (AP) — Next week’s conclave to elect the successor to Pope Francis as leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics is a solemn affair steeped in centuries-old traditions.
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• California Democrats are tougher on businesses than they are on child trafficking

  05-05-2025 19:19 via ocregister.com
  
  If only California’s super-majority leading Democrats treated everyone with the kindness, understanding and leniency they show child sex predators.
  Last week, Democrats crushed an effort by one of their own members, Assemblywoman Maggy Krell, to equalize the penalties for purchasing a child for sex. It’s an automatic felony in California if the child is 15 or younger, but for 16- and 17-year-olds, it’s a misdemeanor. It can be charged as a felony if the child was trafficked, bu
  
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• Coalition of 19 states ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to US Health and Human Services

  05-05-2025 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By REBECCA BOONE and AMANDA SEITZ
  Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging cuts to the U.S. Health and Human Services agency, saying the Trump administration’s massive restructuring has destroyed life-saving programs and left states to pick up the bill for mounting health crises.
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• Dinner parties, listening and lobbying. What goes on behind closed doors to elect a pope

  05-05-2025 19:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICOLE WINFIELD
  ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of dinner parties, coffee klatches and private meetings as cardinals in town to elect a successor to Pope Francis suss out who among them has the stuff to be next.
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• States sue Trump administration for blocking the development of wind energy

  05-05-2025 19:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER McDERMOTT
  A coalition of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump’s attempt to stop the development of wind energy.
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• Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs

  05-05-2025 19:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motto is “ Make America Healthy Again,” but government cuts could make it harder to know if that’s happening.
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• A GOP congressman is peppered with questions about Trump during raucous town hall

  05-05-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
  SOMERS, N.Y. (AP) — Voters in U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler’s suburban New York swing district heaped criticism on the Republican during a raucous town hall Sunday night, peppering him with questions around President Donald Trump’s aggressive agenda before devolving into a chaotic chorus of boos as attendees were removed by law enforcement.
  The town hall in Somers, a leafy section of Lawler’s Hudson Valley district, began to teeter off the rails soon after it
  
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• South Dakota students weigh protest against university honors for homeland security chief Noem

  05-05-2025 18:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By SARAH RAZA
  MADISON, S.D. (AP) — Dakota State University hasn’t experienced the student protests taking place at other U.S. colleges. Nestled in rural South Dakota, most of the nearly 4,000 students have been focused on their studies or job hunts, avoiding politics and partisan groups.
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• Here are 5 things you can go out and do with Mom on Mother’s Day weekend

  05-05-2025 18:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Mother’s Day weekend is here and while it’s nice to take her to brunch or dinner, there are some moms out there who will want to do something besides just getting a meal.
  So for adult children looking to do something fun with mom, or young families who want to go out for the weekend, here are some ideas of things to go and do with Mom on her special day.
  Descanso Gardens
  Where: 1418 Descanso Drive, La Cañada Flintridge
  Information: descansogardens.org
  Go on a nice tranquil wal
  
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• 32 people rescued from yacht that began sinking off Miami Beach

  05-05-2025 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Thirty-two people were safely rescued when a Lamborghini yacht began sinking off Miami Beach over the weekend, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
  The 63-foot (19-meter) boat began taking on water off Monument Island late Saturday afternoon. Crews from the Coast Guard, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and marine patrol units from local police agencies responded to calls for help.
  The people were taken to the Miami Beach Marina and checked out by Miami Beach Fire Rescue
  
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• US states push for speed-limiting devices on the cars of dangerous drivers

  05-05-2025 18:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By JEFF McMURRAY
  A teenager who admitted being “addicted to speed” behind the wheel had totaled two other cars in the year before he slammed into a minivan at 112 mph in a Seattle suburb, killing the driver and three of the five children she was transporting for a homeschool co-op.
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• Amid Cinco de Mayo celebrations, a tax on Mexican tomatoes looms

  05-05-2025 18:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEE-ANN DURBIN
  Guacamole has been spared from tariffs for now. But salsa may not be so lucky.
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• Kings part ways with GM Rob Blake after 8 seasons

  05-05-2025 18:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Rob Blake will not return to his position as general manager of the Kings next season, as he and the Kings have mutually agreed to part ways.
  Blake, 55, was a Hall of Fame defenseman for the Kings, later becoming their assistant GM after the departure of Ron Hextall in 2013 and then ascending to the GM role after two-time Stanley Cup champion Dean Lombardi was dismissed in 2017.
  In eight seasons under Blake, the Kings made the playoffs five times but never once advanced beyond the first round.
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• America’s long history of ‘checks and balances’ is being tested by Trump like rarely before

  05-05-2025 18:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL BARROW
  ATLANTA (AP) — It’s what one historian calls an “elaborate, clunky machine,” one that’s been fundamental to American democracy for more than two centuries.
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• Who is on the Ducks’ radar for their coaching search?

  05-05-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  While the NHL’s top teams pursue the Stanley Cup, the Ducks, who have the third-longest playoff drought in pro hockey, are on a different quest, one for a new head coach.
  Last month, they fired Greg Cronin with one year remaining on his deal, despite his presiding over the largest year-over-year improvement in the West and the second-most significant spike in the NHL last season.
  With general manager Pat Verbeek rolling over his unfulfilled promise of a major offseason from the summer of 2
  
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• Status Update: $10 million in grants available to OC nonprofits

  05-05-2025 17:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County nonprofits looking to expand their reach into the community can tap a $10 million grant program from the Samueli Foundation.
  The new Breakaway and Build OC Funds were created after a project commissioned by the Samueli Foundation showed how much support is needed to help nonprofits in Orange County.
  The report, called the Orange County Nonprofit Needs Assessment, provided “an unvarnished, sobering window into the financial fragility of Orange County’s nonprofit sector,&
  
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• Indigenous people raise awareness about their missing and murdered

  05-05-2025 17:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL WARREN
  Indigenous people across North America are calling this week for sustained responses to the violence in their communities, much of it against women and girls.
  In prayer walks, self-defense classes, marches and speeches at state capitols, they are pushing for better cooperation among law enforcement agencies to find missing people and solve homicides that are among about 4,300 open FBI cases this year.
  Some parents say they will use Monday’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous
  
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