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• Retail sales slow in April after a spending splurge as Americans sought to front-run tariffs

  15-05-2025 16:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, Associated Press Business Writers
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumers spent slightly more at retail stores last month after ramping up their shopping in March to get ahead of tariffs.
  Sales at retail stores and restaurants rose just 0.1% in April from March, the Commerce Department said Thursday. That is much lower than the previous month’s 1.7% gain, which reflected a surge in car sales as consumers sought to get ahead of President Tr
  
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• Musicians in Pacific Symphony’s Heartstrings initiative meet audiences where they are at

  15-05-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Violinists During Jennise Hwang, left, and Agnes Gottschewski perform during a sensory-friendly concert assembly by members of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra at Del Cerro Elementary School in Mission Viejo on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. The concert is made possible by a grant from the Pacific Symphony’s Heartstrings program and the Charlie and Ling Zhang Center for Musical Arts and Education. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Kindergartner Maverick Castellanos, 5, center,
  
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• Check out a low-water herb to complement your drought-tolerant garden

  15-05-2025 15:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Five things to do in the garden this week:
  Herbs. Wall germander (Teucrium chamaedrys) is a member of the mint family from a Mediterranean habitat and an excellent candidate, despite its delicate look, for water-thrifty herb gardens. It has tiny, 1/2 inch leaves that are densely packed, giving germander an extremely lush appearance. It contrasts well with the foliage of other drought-tolerant plants, which often enough have grey to dull green foliage. It grows one foot tall and spreads to two fe
  
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• Great Recession taught me lessons that still apply now

  15-05-2025 15:45 via ocregister.com
  
  For those who’ve been through one, talk of a recession can be triggering. We’re not officially there yet (as of this writing), but it’s natural to be anxious about increased prices due to tariffs and the potential aftermath.
  Related Articles US applications for jobless benefits hold firm as layoffs remain low despite tariff uncertainty Many Californians need six-figure incomes to afford rent Wall Street drifts lower as S&P 500 flirts with its first loss of the week Walmart
  
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• US applications for jobless benefits hold firm as layoffs remain low despite tariff uncertainty

  15-05-2025 15:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT OTT, Associated Press Business Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. applications for jobless benefits held steady last week as layoffs remain low despite uncertainty over how President Donald Trump’s tariffs will impact the economy.
  The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid was unchanged at 229,000 for the week ending May 10, the Labor Department said Thursday. That’s in line with the 230,000 new applications analysts forecast.
  Weekly applications for jobless benef
  
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• Many Californians need six-figure incomes to afford rent

  15-05-2025 15:24 via ocregister.com
  
  California is home to five of the eight U.S. metropolitan areas where a six-figure income is necessary to be a financially comfortable renter.
  My trusty spreadsheet analyzed April rent data from Zillow, which tracked the stress on household finances caused by the rising cost of being a tenant in the nation’s 50 largest metro areas since the pandemic disrupted the nation’s economy.
  The typical renter in the San Jose metro area needed to earn $136,532 per year to keep local apartm
  
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• Betty Martinez Franco sworn in as Irvine’s first Latina councilmember

  15-05-2025 15:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Growing up in Monterrey, Mexico, Betty Martinez Franco said she never considered a political life.
  But after she moved to California and became a United States citizen, she said her journey began toward where she is today — the first Latina councilmember of the city of Irvine.
  She was sworn in on Tuesday, May 14, at City Hall, completing Irvine’s transition from a five-member to a seven-member city council.
  “I never thought I was gonna get this far,” she said in an interv
  
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• What to know about the Supreme Court arguments in the birthright citizenship case

  15-05-2025 14:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Thursday in its first case stemming from the blitz of actions that have marked the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.
  Before the court are the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders putting nationwide holds on the Republican president’s push to deny citizenship to children born to people who are in the United States illegally.
  Birthright citizensh
  
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• Wall Street, global markets mostly lower and oil prices drop $2 on hopes for a US-Iran nuclear deal

  15-05-2025 14:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT, Associated Press Business Writers
  Wall Street veered lower before the opening bell Thursday and oil prices fell more than $2 a barrel as optimism over a possible U.S.-Iran nuclear deal rose.
  Futures for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average each fell 0.4%. Nasdaq futures dipped 0.6%.
  President Donald Trump, visiting Qatar as part of a three-country Middle East tour, has urged the nation to use its influence with Iran to persuade its leadership to dia
  
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• Wall Street drifts lower as S&P 500 flirts with its first loss of the week

  15-05-2025 14:21 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting lower following a jumble of mixed reports that shed little clarity on how the U.S. economy is managing through President Donald Trump’s trade war.
  The S&P 500 slipped 0.4% Thursday and was on track for its first drop of the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 176 points, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.7%.
  Treasury yields also fell following the reports, which altogether suggested the Federal Reserve may have more room to cut inter
  
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• Ukraine’s Zelenskyy arrives in Turkey for peace talks but Russia’s Putin stays away

  15-05-2025 13:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By MEHMET GUZEL, HANNA ARHIROVA and SUZAN FRASER, Associated Press
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t show up in Turkey on Thursday for proposed direct peace talks with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was waiting for him in the capital of Ankara after challenging the Kremlin leader to face-to-face discussions on ending their 3-year-old war.
  With Putin absent, the Russian delegation was in Istanbul and it wasn’t clear whether t
  
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• Ukraine’s Zelenskyy arrives in Turkey for peace talks but Putin is absent

  15-05-2025 13:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By MEHMET GUZEL, HANNA ARHIROVA and SUZAN FRASER, Associated Press
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t show up Thursday for proposed direct peace talks in Turkey with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was waiting for Putin in the capital Ankara after challenging him to face-to-face discussions on ending their countries’ more than three-year war.
  With Putin absent, the Russian delegation was in Istanbul and it wasn’t clear whether the side
  
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• Trump downplays Putin’s decision to skip Istanbul peace talks with Zelenskyy

  15-05-2025 13:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press
  DOHA, Qatar (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he was not surprised that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be a no-show for anticipated peace talks with Ukraine in Turkey this week.
  Trump, who had pressed for Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet in Istanbul, brushed off Putin’s apparent decision to not take part in the expected talks.
  “I didn’t think it was possible for Putin to go i
  
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• Walmart says it will raise prices due to tariff costs after posting solid first quarter sales

  15-05-2025 13:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, Associated Press Retail Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart’s first quarter profit slipped and it said it must raise prices due to higher costs from tariffs implemented by President Donald Trump.
  The nation’s largest retailers posted strong quarterly sales Thursday and said it expects sales growth of 3.5% to 4.5% in the second quarter.
  Like many other U.S. companies, however, it did not issue a profit outlook for the quarter because of the chaotic environ
  
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• Brea Olinda volleyball loses to San Gabriel Academy in 5-set thriller in CIF-SS finals

  15-05-2025 08:04 via ocregister.com
  
  San Gabriel Academy coach Derek Duran, center, celebrates with his players and the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship plaque in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
  San Gabriel Academy’s Achilles Huang is hoisted up as his team celebrates winning the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship against Brea Ollinda in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
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• Bottom of lineup sparks Dodgers to victory over A’s

  15-05-2025 07:03 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Even a lineup with some of the top players of a generation could use a little assistance now and then.
  The Dodgers turned to Hyeseong Kim for a home run on Wednesday and Miguel Rojas for a pinch-hit RBI double as the No. 9 spot delivered in a 9-3 victory over the visiting Athletics.
  Shohei Ohtani hit his own home run and Andy Pages and Max Muncy also went deep, but it was the last spot in the order that was a difference-maker Wednesday, with more help for the big bats on the
  
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• LAFC shuffles lineup, routs Seattle to extend unbeaten streak

  15-05-2025 06:59 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Rotating forwards Cengiz Ünder and Jeremy Ebobisse into the starting lineup paid off Wednesday for the Los Angeles Football Club.
  Each attacker scored, as did fellow forward Denis Bouanga, and LAFC stymied the surging Seattle Sounders, 4-0, splitting the regular-season series with the team that beat the Black & Gold in last year’s MLS Cup playoffs. Midfielder Yaw Yeboah also connected on his first goal with LAFC (6-4-3, 21 points), punctuating the club’s
  
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• Angels’ hitters go quietly in loss to Padres

  15-05-2025 06:07 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN DIEGO — The Angels’ bats went silent again.
  After a couple of weeks of improving offense, the Angels lost, 5-1, to the Padres on Wednesday night, dropping the rubber game of the series.
  The Angels had scored at least four runs in seven of their previous 10 times, but this game brought back memories of the recent three-week stretch when their offense could barely muster a whimper.
  The Angels had four hits, including Taylor Ward’s 10th home run of the season.
  Coming into the
  
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• Galaxy winless through 13 games after giving up 2-goal lead in Philadelphia

  15-05-2025 05:05 via ocregister.com
  
  CHESTER, Pa. — The frustration continues for the Galaxy.
  Tai Baribo scored two second-half goals, including the game-winner in stoppage time, and the Philadelphia Union rallied to beat the Galaxy, 3-2, on Wednesday night.
  The Galaxy (0-9-4, 4 points) continued the worst start by a defending champion in MLS history despite Diego Fagúndez becoming the eighth player in league history to reach 75 goals and 75 assists in a career.
  Baribo scored in the sixth minute of stoppage time after
  
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• Man sentenced to 40 years to life for Stanton killing

  15-05-2025 04:54 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A 43-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years to life in prison for fatally shooting the on-again, off-again boyfriend of one of his drug-dealing associates in a Stanton motel.
  Joel Brandon Martinez was convicted Feb. 15, 2024, of second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit a crime and possession of a gun by a felon, all felonies. Jurors also found true a sentencing enhancement for discharge of a gun causing death.
  Co-defendant Amy Lynn Black was sentenced in April to
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Wednesday, May 14

  15-05-2025 03:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, May 14
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  WEDNESDAY’S SCORES
  BOYS TENNIS
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Semifinals
  OPEN DIVISION
  University 15, Peninsula 3
  Harvard-Westlake 12, JSerra 7
  DIVISION 4
  Villa Park 1
  
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• Altadena uphill vacant lot ‘priced low for a quicker sale’ at $175K

  15-05-2025 03:49 via ocregister.com
  
  A vacant Altadena lot, nearly a quarter-acre in size, hit the market this week “priced low for (a) quicker sale” at $175,000.
  Here’s the catch: It’s an uphill slope.
  Records show the property sold in March 2013 for $28,000.
  The owner, described as a retired general contractor and engineer, intended to “build a house for his son” but “due to (a) change in circumstances … decided to sell” the listing reads.
  Listing agent Eduard Khachatryan of
  
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• 3 years ago gunfire erupted in a Laguna Woods church — the suspect has pleaded insanity, but death penalty lurks

  15-05-2025 02:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Three years after a shooting at a Laguna Woods church left one dead and five others wounded, the suspected killer has signaled a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity defense in state court and the question of whether to seek the death penalty appears to be on the minds of prosecutors in federal court.
  The seemingly hate-driven attack on May 15, 2022, on the Taiwanese Presbyterian congregation on El Toro Road just outside the expansive retirement community of Laguna Woods Village shocked the quiet co
  
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• Award-winning LAUSD principal — and a wrangler of snakes

  15-05-2025 02:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Successful high school principals know that motivating students, teachers and staff is the key to academic achievement.
  But what do you do about snakes?
  When you are Grant High School’s Rebecca McMurrin — recently named principal of the year by Magnet Schools of America — you wrangle that snake.
  That was the situation about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Valley Glen campus after a student came into the office and reported seeing a snake.
  “My office manager and I went out to in
  
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• Victorville foster children kept journals of strangulation, other abuse, DA says

  15-05-2025 02:10 via ocregister.com
  
  For years, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson said, six foster children in the Victorville home of Kenneth and Tina Key suffered from physical and emotional abuse.
  Finally, one day in February, the eldest left the home and went to a grocery store, where she eventually contacted law enforcement, Anderson told a Southern California News Group reporter on Wednesday, May 14. The 16-year-old’s bravery triggered an investigation that Anderson said revealed that the Keys and t
  
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• Chargers open 2025 season against AFC West rival Chiefs in Brazil

  15-05-2025 02:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers will travel more air miles than any other NFL team during the 18-week 2025 regular season, an estimated 37,000, starting with a season-opening “home” game against the AFC West rival Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 5, after a 12-hour, 6,155-mile flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  Back in February, the league selected the Chargers to be the host team for the second game ever played in Brazil’s Corinthians Arena. But the league didn’t formally reveal the Chargers&rsq
  
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• Chargers’ 2025 opener vs. Chiefs in Brazil is 1 of their 5 primetime games

  15-05-2025 02:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers will travel more air miles than any other NFL team during the 18-week 2025 regular season, an estimated 37,086, starting with a season-opening “home” game against the AFC West rival Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 5, after a 12-hour, 6,155-mile flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  Back in February, the league selected the Chargers to be the host team for the second game ever played in Brazil’s Corinthians Arena. But the league didn’t formally reveal the Chargers’ o
  
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• Rams to open season at home vs. Texans; Eagles rematch set for Week 3

  15-05-2025 02:01 via ocregister.com
  
  For the first time in three years, the Rams will open their season at home.
  The NFL released its full schedule on Wednesday, revealing that the Rams will begin the 2025 season with an afternoon game against the Houston Texans at SoFi Stadium.
  Then the Rams will board planes for the first two of their nine road games, which will total 34,832 total miles traveled through the air. In Week 2, the Rams will travel to Nashville to face the Tennessee Titans and rookie quarterback Cam Ward, the first ov
  
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• Weinstein accuser rips defense lawyer: ‘You should be ashamed of yourself’

  15-05-2025 02:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former model reproached one of Harvey Weinstein ’s lawyers for suggesting that her sexual abuse allegations against the ex-studio boss are lies.
  “You should be ashamed of yourself,” Kaja Sokola retorted. In her fifth and final day of testimony at Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial, she maintained that she was telling the truth and that Weinstein’s alleged conduct in her teens had changed the course of her life.
  
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• South African leader and Trump will meet next week after US took in white South Africans as refugees

  15-05-2025 01:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By GERALD IMRAY and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press
  CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to meet at the White House next week following allegations by Trump — and denied by South Africa — that “genocide” is being committed against white farmers in the majority Black country.
  The meeting, announced Wednesday by the South African government and set for May 21, also comes after the U.S. wel
  
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• Swanson: USC student-superfan Crash ‘CrashLit’ Collier brings the energy

  15-05-2025 01:25 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Only natural. You see yellow caution tape and you want to know: What’s going on over there?
  Especially when you see a couple dozen adults wearing it around their heads.
  And I get paid to be nosy, so when I saw a bunch of people sporting strips of bright yellow plastic as headwear at the old Dedeaux Field that evening in May 2023, I asked one of them: “What’s going on with, you know, the caution tape?”
  The gentleman I asked – he had to have been a
  
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• Newsom forced to roll back unwise Medi-Cal expansions

  15-05-2025 01:17 via ocregister.com
  
  After the state unwisely expanding Medi-Cal in recent years, the program has descended into a fiscal crisis. Now Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes to roll back some of the expansions, but it may be too little too late given pending actions at the federal level.
  Covering more than one-third of Californians, the Medi-Cal program’s costs are projected to escalate from $179 billion in FY 2024-2025 to $194.5 billion in FY 2025-2026. Most of this money comes from the federal government, and these feder
  
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• Missouri lawmakers approve referendum to repeal abortion-rights amendment

  15-05-2025 00:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment’s repeal and instead ban most abortions with exceptions for rape an incest.
  The newly proposed constitutional amendment would go back to voters in November 2026, or sooner, if Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe calls a special election before then.
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• What happens next for the Menendez brothers?

  15-05-2025 00:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAIMIE DING and CHRISTOPHER WEBER
  A judge’s ruling made Lyle and Erik Menendez eligible for parole, but they still face multiple hurdles in their fight to be released from prison nearly three decades after they were convicted of murdering their parents in 1989.
  Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic reduced the brothers’ sentences from life without parole to 50 years to life on Tuesday, making them eligible for parole under California’s youthful offender law.
  
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• Angels reliever Ben Joyce to miss season after undergoing shoulder surgery

  15-05-2025 00:02 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN DIEGO — Angels right-hander Ben Joyce will be out for the remainder of the season after undergoing shoulder surgery, the team announced on Wednesday.
  The team did not release the nature of the surgery.
  Joyce, 24, has dealt with injuries throughout his brief professional career, a natural consequence of throwing a fastball that has reached 105 mph.
  Joyce was on the injured list because of elbow neuritis in 2023 and right shoulder inflammation in 2024. He also had Tommy John surgery whil
  
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