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• Costa Mesa baseball looks strong again after big season a year ago

  04-03-2026 23:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Costa Mesa’s baseball team looks like it is on the way to another fine season.
  The Mustangs are 5-0 including back-to-wins of 14-0 over Marshall and Kennedy. They have outscored their opponents, 41-6.
  Costa Mesa finished 24-7 last season and went 12-0 in the Golden West League. The Mustangs advanced to the CIF Southern Section Division 3 quarterfinals, losing to eventual division champion Glendora, 2-1, in that round.
  “We brought back a big group of seniors,” said Jim Kiefer, w
  
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• Judge rules companies are entitled to refunds for Trump tariffs overturned by the Supreme Court

  04-03-2026 23:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By PAUL WISEMAN and MAE ANDERSON
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down last month by Supreme Court are due refunds.
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• Man detained at Aldelanto ICE facility dies in custody; 9th such death this year, LA council member says

  04-03-2026 23:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Alberto Gutierrez Reyes, a father and husband, died in U.S. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on Friday, Feb. 27, after being detained inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center for less than two months, according to authorities.
  Two days before his death, Gutierrez reported feeling sick and was taken to the Victor Valley Global Medical Center where he died, according to ICE.
  Gutierrez is the ninth person known to have died in ICE custody this year, said Los Angeles City Council mem
  
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• Man detained at Adelanto ICE facility dies in custody; 9th such death this year, LA council member says

  04-03-2026 23:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Alberto Gutierrez Reyes, a father and husband, died in U.S. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on Friday, Feb. 27, after being detained inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center for less than two months, according to authorities.
  Two days before his death, Gutierrez reported feeling sick and was taken to the Victor Valley Global Medical Center where he died, according to ICE.
  Gutierrez is the ninth person known to have died in ICE custody this year, said Los Angeles City Council mem
  
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• Lou Holtz, college football staple who coached Notre Dame to 1988 national title, dies at 89

  04-03-2026 23:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC OLSON and TOM COYNE
  Lou Holtz, the College Football Hall of Fame coach who led Notre Dame to the 1988 national championship and won 249 games over 33 seasons at six schools, has died. He was 89.
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• See all 4 ‘Fast & Furious’ coaster cars at Universal Studios Hollywood

  04-03-2026 23:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Thrill seekers will hop into one of four authentic “Fast & Furious” film cars and race around a hillside-hugging track while drifting and spinning in circles when the new Hollywood Drift roller coaster debuts this summer at Universal Studios Hollywood.
  Universal offered a first look at all four of the Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift ride vehicles and the load/unload station for the attraction coming to the Upper Lot of the Hollywood theme park during a media preview on Wednes
  
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• Woman killed after two work vehicles collide at 7-Eleven in Laguna Beach

  04-03-2026 23:16 via ocregister.com
  
  A woman was killed in a crash involving two work trucks in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven convenience store in Laguna Beach on Tuesday, March 3, authorities said.
  Officers were called to the store at 31702 Coast Highway, near Third Avenue, just after 10 a.m. and found that a CR&R trash truck had collided with a Belshire Environmental Services work vehicle, police said in a statement.
  A woman was found with critical injuries and taken to Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, but she died.
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• Orange County softball teams ready be tested in Dave Kops Tournament of Champions

  04-03-2026 23:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowFrom the defending champion to schools in and outside of the main bracket, several Orange County softball teams hope to contend this week in the Dave Kops Tournament of Champions in Bullhead City, Ariz.
  The event, annually the first major tournament of the softball season, runs Thursday through Saturday and features the top eight teams from the Orange County preseason rankings.
  No. 3 El Modena won the tou
  
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• Private payrolls add 63,000 jobs in February, ADP says

  04-03-2026 23:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By Augusta Saraiva | Bloomberg News
  U.S. companies added the most jobs since July last month, adding to evidence of some stabilization in the labor market.Private-sector payrolls increased 63,000 in February after a downward revision to the prior month, according to ADP Research data out Wednesday. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for a 50,000 advance.
  The report points to a labor market that’s slowly finding its footing after near-zero job creation in 2025. A
  
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• Kings stagger into Islanders game still adjusting

  04-03-2026 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  With one game remaining before Friday’s trade deadline, the Kings will take the ice Thursday against the New York Islanders, one of the top 10 teams in the NHL by points percentage.
  Which version of the Kings would face the Isles remained to be seen. Kevin Fiala, Andrei Kuzmenko, Joel Armia and Quinton Byfield should be considered out. Drew Doughty, Darcy Kuemper, Trevor Moore and Jacob Moverare were all options after missing Monday’s loss to Colorado.
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• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says at consumer protection trial that he resisted censoring platforms

  04-03-2026 22:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By MORGAN LEE
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Jurors in a bellwether trial about the impacts of social media on teenagers and children on Wednesday watched a deposition of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that explores what the architects of Facebook and Instagram knew from internal research about the negative experiences by young users and how the company responded since its early years.
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• Southern California homeowners stay put the longest in US, stifling housing market

  04-03-2026 22:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By Prashant Gopal | Bloomberg
  American homeowners are staying put, a trend that’s helping drive home prices out of reach for many.
  The typical homeowner has stayed in their home for 12 years as of December, almost double the median tenure of two decades ago, according to a new report from brokerage Redfin. Keeping owners in place are the high costs associated with borrowing and moving, as well as accumulated wealth in their existing homes.
  Homeowners in California’s major metropolita
  
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• USC’s defense starts spring speaking a new language

  04-03-2026 22:43 via ocregister.com
  
  It may be too soon to quantify the impact that coach Gary Patterson has had on the USC defense, but one thing is for certain: It’s louder.
  “There’s an insane amount of communication,” offensive lineman Tobias Raymond said. “I’m trying to get my call to the right guard, but the defense is so loud that I’m screaming at the top of my lungs to get it across.”
  Patterson spent the second day of spring football practices walking from position group to pos
  
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• House committee votes to subpoena Attorney General Bondi to answer questions over the Epstein files

  04-03-2026 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and STEPHEN GROVES, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Oversight Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions over the Justice Department’s handling of files regarding the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation.
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• Google settles with Epic Games with offer to lower its app store commissions

  04-03-2026 22:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google will lower the lucrative fees imposed on its Android app store and offer a way for rival options to gain its stamp of approval, ending a bruising legal battle that led to one of several rulings condemning its tactics as an illegal monopoly.
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• SCNG sports earns national honors in four APSE categories for 2025

  04-03-2026 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Muin Gafurov lands a head kick on Rinya Nakamura during their bout at UFC 311 at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California on Saturday, January 18, 2024. Gafurov defeated Nakamura by unanimous decision.(Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  Manager Dave Roberts, center, celebrates with bench coach Danny Lehmann after Freddie Freeman (not pictured) of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit a walk off solo home run to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 and win game 3 of a World Series baseball g
  
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• An Arkansas man accused of killing his daughter’s alleged abuser wins GOP sheriff’s nomination

  04-03-2026 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By SEAN MURPHY
  An Arkansas man accused of killing his teenage daughter’s alleged abuser won the Republican nomination for local sheriff while waiting to stand trial for murder in his rural county, where he ran on a message of seeing the failures of law enforcement.
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• Angels have several closer options this season

  04-03-2026 22:07 via ocregister.com
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — While recent seasons have failed to meet expectations, the Angels have managed to deliver consistency at closer through it all.
  Raisel Iglesias arrived in a trade from the Cincinnati Reds before the 2021 season and had 34 saves before collecting another 16 one season later. He was traded to the Atlanta Braves to save over $50 million in future salary.
  Carlos Estevez had 31 saves with an All-Star Game appearance in 2023 after signing a two-year, $13.5 million free-agent deal,
  
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• Day Trip Festival will debut Long Beach Amphitheater stage

  04-03-2026 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California’s Day Trip Festival will return to the waterfront next summer while introducing a new venue to the event.
  Insomniac Events announced that the 2026 edition of Day Trip Festival will take place June 27-28 at the Queen Mary Waterfront in Long Beach and will debut the Long Beach Amphitheater as an official third stage.
  The open-air venue, which is scheduled to open this summer, has a capacity of roughly 11,000 and will be one of the largest waterfront amphitheaters on the W
  
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• The family of a girl killed at Camp Mystic asks a Texas judge to prevent the camp from reopening

  04-03-2026 21:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By JIM VERTUNO and SEAN MURPHY
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge is hearing evidence Wednesday on whether the youth camp where 25 girls and two counselors were killed in catastrophic floods last year should remain closed while a lawsuit filed by one of the girls’ families is pending.
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• Camp Mystic victim’s family asks a Texas judge to prevent the facility from reopening

  04-03-2026 21:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By JIM VERTUNO and SEAN MURPHY
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge is hearing evidence Wednesday on whether Camp Mystic, the all-girls youth camp where 25 girls and two counselors were killed in catastrophic floods last year, should remain closed while a lawsuit filed by one of the girls’ families is pending.
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• White House formally nominates Warsh to be Federal Reserve chair

  04-03-2026 21:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has formally nominated Kevin Warsh, a former top Federal Reserve official, to be the next Fed chair when Jerome Powell’s term ends in two months.
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• Brea Olinda Unified board to vote on declaring trustee has vacated his seat

  04-03-2026 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  The Brea Olinda Unified School District board is set to decide Thursday, March 5, whether to declare that Trustee Chris Becerra has vacated his seat.
  Becerra, 42, who was elected in 2022 to represent the district’s Trustee Area 4, has not attended any board meetings since Nov. 6.
  He was arrested Dec. 18 by the Brea Police Department on suspicion of possessing child pornography, annoying or molesting a child, falsifying evidence, and bribing, influencing, intimidating or threatening a witne
  
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• Country by country, here’s how the unfolding war is affecting the Middle East and beyond

  04-03-2026 21:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By JULIA FRANKEL
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The unfolding Iran war has ricocheted across the region and beyond, with nearly every country in the Middle East sustaining damage from missile hits, drone strikes or shrapnel, many reporting casualties, and key embassies, economic engines and passageways closing down. Off the coast of Sri Lanka, a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship as the war intensified and its footprint grew.
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• How ‘Black-Owned’ explores the history of Black bookstores in America

  04-03-2026 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Here are the first words of “Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore,” journalist Char Adams’ history of Black-owned bookstores in the U.S., published by Tiny Reparations Books.“I love to tell people’s stories,” she writes.
  It’s a fitting sentiment from Adams, a former reporter for People magazine and NBC News; she has dedicated her career to bringing to life the accounts of people, including Black immigrants, Black homeschooling famil
  
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• Apartments approved for Anaheim Hills, where residents said they fear wildfires

  04-03-2026 21:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Hours of extensive debate ended Tuesday night with the Anaheim City Council’s narrow vote approving the redevelopment of part of the Anaheim Hills Festival center into housing.
  In a decision that had been delayed a couple of times, the council voted 4-3 to allow a developer to replace the shuttered Regal Cinema at the southwest end of the shopping center, between Festival Drive and Roosevelt Road, with a 447-unit residential community.
  Mayor Ashleigh Aitken and councilmembers Kristen Maahs
  
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• US interior secretary is in Venezuela to discuss critical minerals

  04-03-2026 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By REGINA GARCIA CANO
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on Wednesday met in Venezuela with acting President Delcy Rodríguez in the latest sign of the Trump administration’s intent to exercise control over the South American country’s natural resources.
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• El Pollo Loco puts a spotlight on its high-protein menu items

  04-03-2026 20:35 via ocregister.com
  
  El Pollo Loco has a new section on its menu that taps into the high protein craze.
  A “Protein Packed” web page includes two dozen items with 20 grams of protein or more, according to the Costa Mesa-based chain’s website. The page makes it easy to find the protein content for each item.
  ALSO SEE: High-protein craze is reaching new heights in 2026
  Some of them were already on the main menu, but there are new items as well. Among them is the Street Corn Double Pollo Salad with 52
  
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• Tournament of Roses announces 2027 parade marching band lineup

  04-03-2026 20:13 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s only March, but planning for the next Tournament of Roses Parade is well on its way.
  The Tournament of Roses on Wednesday, March 4, announced the 21 marching bands that will participate in the 2027 Rose Parade.
  A committee of Tournament volunteers select bands from all over the world based on criteria that takes into account musicianship, marching ability and entertainment or special interest value. In addition to the 21 bands revealed this week, the university bands for the schools p
  
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• IRS leader Bisignano declines to answer questions over unlawful taxpayer data disclosures to ICE

  04-03-2026 20:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By FATIMA HUSSEIN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the IRS largely declined to answer questions about recent unlawful disclosures of taxpayer data when he was questioned by lawmakers at a congressional hearing on Wednesday, saying they happened before his tenure began.
  IRS CEO Frank Bisignano faced the House Ways and Means Committee to speak about the agency’s progress in serving taxpayers as the 2026 tax season is in full swing. It was his first time facing lawmakers in his role as lea
  
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• 2027 Rose Parade marching band lineup announced by Tournament of Roses

  04-03-2026 20:13 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s only March, but planning for the next Tournament of Roses Parade is well on its way.
  The Tournament of Roses on Wednesday, March 4, announced the 21 marching bands that will participate in the 2027 Rose Parade.
  A committee of Tournament volunteers select bands from all over the world based on criteria that takes into account musicianship, marching ability and entertainment or special interest value. In addition to the 21 bands revealed this week, the university bands for the schools p
  
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• California weighs new factory-built housing rules to ease construction, cost burden

  04-03-2026 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Part of an apartment in a modular apartment complex is hoisted into place in Santa Monica, CA on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025.The nonprofit Community Corporation of Santa Monica with Plant Prefab and Howard CDM, for Berkeley Station, is building Santa Monica’s first modular affordable housing building. The building’s prefabricated units will be installed with a crane over three days, creating 13 units of affordable housing for low-income families and transition-age youth.(Photo by David C
  
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• Lawsuit alleges Google’s Gemini guided man to consider ‘mass casualty’ event before suicide

  04-03-2026 19:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT O’BRIEN
  A new lawsuit against Google alleges that the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini guided 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas on a mission to stage a “catastrophic accident” near Miami International Airport and destroy all records and witnesses, part of an escalating series of delusions that ended when Gavalas killed himself.
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• Elon Musk takes stand in Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of deflating stock before purchase

  04-03-2026 19:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MICHAEL LIEDTKE
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk took the stand in a shareholder trial on Wednesday in San Francisco, where he’s accused of making false and misleading statements that drove down Twitter’s stock price before he bought the social media platform for $44 billion in 2022.
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• Urban Plates expands grass-fed burger menu

  04-03-2026 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  The burger lineup at Urban Plates is getting hotter this year with the addition of a trio of new dishes.
  The health-conscious chain is adding a few new grass-fed burger options to all 22 California locations, which cover San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange counties as well as Northern California, Sacramento and Davis spots.
  The new burgers include the Duroc Bacon Cheeseburger. Priced at $14.25, it’s made with a beef patty topped with melted American cheese and crispy Duroc pork bacon, tomato
  
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• Kara Dunn’s leadership has Jazzy Davidson, USC believing in themselves

  04-03-2026 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  The sun was shining when Jazzy Davidson confided in Kara Dunn. The two were poolside on one of those fortuitous, hot Southern California days of February.
  “Is college always this stressful and emotionally challenging?”
  Dunn looked at her with a blunt answer: “Yeah.”
  “It doesn’t get easier,” she explained to her teammate. “But you do learn how to handle certain situations better and understand what type of situations you exert that much energy and y
  
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• Everything you need to know about Apple’s ‘big week’ of product launches

  04-03-2026 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By SHAWN CHEN, AP Technology Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook promised a “big week” of product announcements has seen the introduction of a new budget-friendly iPhone trim, an entry-level Macbook tier, updated iPad Air models, refreshed monitors and higher-end chipsets. All of which was on display at hands-on media events held Wednesday in New York, London and Shanghai.
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• The sea is higher than we thought and millions more are at risk, study finds

  04-03-2026 18:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By SETH BORENSTEIN and ANNIKA HAMMERSCHLAG
  Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are, a new study said.
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• Girls soccer playoffs: Segerstrom, Santa Margarita advance on penalty kicks

  04-03-2026 18:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSegerstrom freshman Isabella Barrera scored late in regulation to force overtime and the Jaguars’ girls soccer team beat top-seeded Birmingham in penalty kicks in a Division IV first-round match in the CIF Southern California Regional on Tuesday.
  After regulation ended in a 1-1 deadlock, visiting Segerstrom received goals in penalty kicks from Jewel Orellana, Aymar Salgado, Dominique Becerra and Dan
  
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• Top FDA drug official is trying to hire a friend who’s seeking a bold new warning on antidepressants

  04-03-2026 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s top drug regulator, Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, is working to hire a researcher and friend who wants the agency to add new warnings to antidepressants about unproven pregnancy risks, The Associated Press has learned.
  Dr. Adam Urato, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and critic of antidepressant safety, is pressing the FDA to add a boxed warning to SSRIs, the drugs most commonly prescribed for depres
  
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• ‘It’s too warm’: Greenland’s fishermen are under threat from climate change

  04-03-2026 18:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By EMMA BURROWS, KWIYEON HA and EVGENIY MALOLETKA
  ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) — Fisherman Helgi Áargil no longer knows what to expect on Greenland’s fjords, where he spends up to five days at a time on his boat with his dog, Molly, and the ever-changing northern lights in the sky as company.
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• Winter Paralympics 50th anniversary: Chinese dominance expected amid boycotts over Russian flag

  04-03-2026 18:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By TALES AZZONI
  CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The Winter Paralympics come to Milan Cortina to celebrate their 50th anniversary, with China looking to extend its dominance as a Paralympic powerhouse and Ukraine and other nations boycotting the opening ceremony over the return of the Russian flag and anthem.
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• Chargers expected to release OL Mekhi Becton, save cap space

  04-03-2026 18:39 via ocregister.com
  
  If the Chargers release right guard Mekhi Becton, as an ESPN.com report Wednesday said they would in the coming days, and if they fail to re-sign pending free agent left guard Zion Johnson, then they’d start the season with three new linemen between tackles Rashawn Slater and Joe Alt.
  ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler cited an unnamed source in his Becton report.
  Center Bradley Bozeman announced his retirement Feb. 23, after eight seasons in the NFL, including the past two with the Chargers. Boze
  
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• Travel: Plan ahead to sail away — 2027 cruises offer a world of options

  04-03-2026 18:38 via ocregister.com
  
  You know the 2027 cruise season is going to be strong when an older ship from one of the industry’s best‑kept secrets is poised to deliver one of the year’s most exciting itinerary‑and‑vessel pairings.
  Never mind the 37 countries, 103 destinations and five continents that passengers aboard the Azamara Quest will cover over 188 nights, from a January departure in foggy San Francisco to a July arrival in cloggy Copenhagen. That level of globetrotting is expected on a
  
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• Man, 76, arrested on suspicion of shooting to death woman in Huntington Beach home

  04-03-2026 18:29 via ocregister.com
  
  A 76-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder on Tuesday, March 3, after Huntington Beach police found a woman dead of a gunshot wound in a home, police said.
  Officers were called to the 19000 block of Brookhurst Street about 10 a.m. in response to multiple calls about a family disturbance with shots fired, police said.
  After no one answered the front door, officers forced their way in, detained Robert Alvarez of Huntington Beach and then found the victim, police said.
  Detectives found e
  
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• California’s split economic sees growth, jobs lagging, UCLA says

  04-03-2026 18:24 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s economy continues to outpace the nation in overall growth but remains constrained by sluggish hiring and an unemployment rate that has stayed elevated for nearly two years, a UCLA forecast said Wednesday.The spring 2026 UCLA Anderson Forecast finds that while California has grown faster than the United States for four consecutive quarters, hiring has not kept pace with production, creating what economists described as a structural imbalance in the economy.
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• Rams trade for Chiefs CB Trent McDuffie in blockbuster deal

  04-03-2026 18:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Les Snead said he would take a more aggressive approach to this offseason if quarterback Matthew Stafford returned to the Rams for another season. And with a week still to go until free agency opens, the Rams’ general manager made his first big move of the spring Wednesday.
  The Rams are trading for Chiefs All-Pro cornerback Trent McDuffie, sending the No. 29 pick in this year’s NFL draft as well as 2026 fifth- and sixth-round picks and a 2027 third-rounder, according to multiple medi
  
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• Nepalis are set to vote in the first election after protests ousted the previous government

  04-03-2026 18:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA
  KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Millions of Nepalis are set to vote in crucial parliamentary elections, the first since a violent youth-led uprising toppled the previous government and thrust forward a new generation’s demands for sweeping change in the Himalayan nation.
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• London police arrest 3 men on suspicion of spying for China. One is a UK lawmaker’s husband

  04-03-2026 17:50 via ocregister.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Three men suspected of spying for China were arrested Wednesday, London police said. One of the three men is the husband of a lawmaker from the governing Labour Party.
  The three allegedly assisted a foreign intelligence service in violation of the National Security Act of 2023, Metropolitan Police said.
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• The Iran war has upended flights across the Middle East. Here’s what travelers should know

  04-03-2026 17:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. and Israel’s joint war against Iran has already upended travel across the Middle East, stranding hundreds of thousands of people. And the future is anything but certain.
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