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• Angels bullpen implodes, spoiling big offensive night

  30-07-2020 08:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani, of Japan, runs to first as he pops out during the first inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
  Los Angeles Angels’ Brian Goodwin (18) is congratulated by Anthony Rendon (6) and other teammates after hitting a solo home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
  
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• 7 surprising facts about credit cards

  07-05-2024 21:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By Melissa Lambarena | NerdWallet
  Using a credit card to make purchases is straightforward, but understanding the ins and outs of how exactly they work can be more complicated.
  On the back end, credit card issuers can take certain liberties that impact your cards’ features. If you dig into the fine print, you’ll find that card issuers generally mention they can make certain account decisions at their discretion. There are also unwritten liberties issuers can take, potentially in your
  
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• USC women’s basketball to play at Iowa next season

  07-05-2024 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Through their captivating run to the Elite Eight, the lasting high point from USC women’s basketball’s 2023-24 season may have been the net that fell in Las Vegas in the spring, winners of the final Pac-12 Tournament in a conference that had rarely been better.
  An hour after beating Stanford in the title game March 10, McKenzie Forbes, Kayla Padilla and Rayah Marshall sat with head coach Lindsay Gottlieb in a haze of emotion at the postgame podium, Gottlieb pointi
  
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• Orange County boys athlete of the week: Andrew Maksymowski, Northwood

  07-05-2024 21:16 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County boys athlete of the week:
  Name: Andrew Maksymowski
  School: Northwood
  Sport: Swimming
  Year: Sophomore
  Noteworthy: He won the 200 and 400 freestyle races in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 championships and anchored Northwood’s 400 free relay. Maksymkoswki won the 200 in 1 minute, 35.51 seconds. He won the 500 in 4:22.64. The Timberwolves’ time of 2:59.15 in the 400 free relay set an Orange County record. Northwood finished third in Division 1 team scoring.
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• Higher labor costs drag down Disneyland profits

  07-05-2024 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Higher labor costs and other expenses dragged down income at Disneyland despite higher attendance, ticket prices and visitor spending in an otherwise rosy picture for Disney theme parks across the globe, according to the company’s latest earnings report.
  Disneyland saw a decrease in operating results due to inflation, lower hotel occupancy and increased labor costs, according to Disney’s second quarter earnings report released on Tuesday, May 7.
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• Experience art ‘Made in California’ in Brea

  07-05-2024 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  The annual juried exhibit “Made in California” has returned to the Brea Gallery.
  The exhibit features more than 100 art pieces from all over California and explores creative movements happening in the state.
  “Made in California” highlights artists at different stages of their careers and using a variety of mediums who compete for prizes, including a chance at a solo show.
  This is the show’s 39th year. It was juried by Director Katie Chidester, guest juror Megan Debi
  
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• Catch a bonanza of music in Brea Downtown

  07-05-2024 21:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Brea Downtown will be hosting a three-day country music festival this month.
  Brea Bonanza Days will feature multiple stages and line dancing lessons all festival long from May 17 to 19. Go Country 105FM will be there for the evening on May 17, there will be a Dolly Parton impersonator on May 18 as well and a dance contest on May 19. A kid zone will be open on the weekend.
  On the Main Stage on May 17 will be Dean Kalogris and The Kelly Boyz; on May 18 will be Daniel Bonte and Vegas McGraw; on May
  
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• How the UK duo Mount Kimbie reconnected in Southern California’s Yucca Valley

  07-05-2024 20:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Kai Campos and Dominic Maker, the British indie-electronic duo better known as Mount Kimbie, were still riding a high from a gig the night before. They’d performed in Amsterdam where the group, only three dates into the Dumb Guitar Tour, finally felt grounded at the crossroads of tour life and nerves.
  “I’ve gotten a lot better with the anxiety and nervousness of playing live these days,” Maker shared over a phone call before the duo hit the stage at La Cigale in Paris. &l
  
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• The steady slide towards tyranny: How freedom dies from A to Z

  07-05-2024 20:31 via ocregister.com
  
  The American governmental scheme is sliding ever closer towards a pervasive authoritarianism. 
  The American people, the permanent underclass in America, have allowed themselves to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid down right under their noses by the architects of the Deep State.
  This steady slide towards tyranny, meted out by militarized local and federal police and legalistic bureaucrats, has been carried forward by each
  
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• Breastfeeding moms sent naked photos, videos to purported lactation consultant on Facebook. Now they fear it was a scam.

  07-05-2024 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Sleep-deprived and anxious about feeding their babies, tens of thousandsof moms in Illinois and elsewhere recently turned to a variety of Facebook groups offering support for breastfeeding, pumping breast milk and postpartum care.
  Direct responses were often remarkably prompt from the creator and admin of these groups, a Facebook user named “Cathy Marie Chan,” whose profile featured a smiling picture of a woman purporting to be a board-certified lactation consultant and founder of Ch
  
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• New revelations in the mystery of the dolphin with the bird flu

  07-05-2024 20:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Veterinarians previously thought dolphins had low susceptibility to flu infections — and dolphins don’t feed on birds. So biologists were highly concerned when a dolphin with the bird flu died in Florida.
  The infected dolphin was trapped between a dock and a seawall in the Big Bend region in March 2022. By the time wildlife officials arrived, it had died. They later found that it was infected with bird flu. The discovery — the first known case of a dolphin contracting bird flu
  
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• What should you do about noisy neighbors? Ask the lawyer

  07-05-2024 20:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: We live in a nice neighborhood, and are raising two young kids (ages 7 and 10) who are in bed by 9 p.m. Our next door neighbors rented out their home and the tenants are very noisy, sometimes well into the night (music, partying, that kind of thing). What can we do to nip this in the bud?
  P.M., Seal Beach
  Ron Sokol
  A: We are all entitled to the quiet enjoyment of our residence (California Health & Safety Code Section 46000). Noise that genuinely interferes with that quiet enjoyment can in
  
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• Husband of Fort Lauderdale woman who disappeared in Spain arrested at Miami airport, FBI says

  07-05-2024 20:05 via ocregister.com
  
  David Knezevich, the husband of a Fort Lauderdale woman who disappeared in Spain in February, was arrested Saturday by federal authorities at Miami International Airport.
  David Knezevich, 36, was arrested “without incident” at the airport by Diplomatic Security Service and the FBI “for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a U.S. Citizen” in Madrid, said FBI Miami spokesperson James Marshall.
  Knezevich appeared in federal court in Miami briefly Monday, and a bond h
  
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• California restaurants shouldn’t be shocked law banning ‘junk fees’ applies to them

  07-05-2024 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Last Friday, a friend and I met at a chain restaurant in Sacramento for our customary weekly lunch. Both of us ordered $16 plates of Mexican food.
  When the bill came, it totaled a bit over $36, including taxes and a $1.28 “surcharge.” We gave the server $45 before leaving, assuming that the extra cash would cover her tip.
  I mention the somewhat mysterious surcharge because, just a few days earlier, California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office declared that a new state la
  
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• Boeing 787 employees falsified inspection records; FAA opens probe

  07-05-2024 19:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Dominic Gates | The Seattle Times (TNS)
  The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it has opened a new investigation into a potential manufacturing quality lapse on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner after Boeing admitted that inspection records on work at the wing-to-body join were falsified at the jet’s final assembly site in South Carolina.
  Boeing informed the FAA in April that on some 787s the company may not have completed required inspections to confirm adequate bonding and electrica
  
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• Explaining America’s long history with campus protests

  07-05-2024 19:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Ernie Suggs | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  Exactly a century ago, in the spring of 1924, students at the historically Black Fisk University walked out.
  Their president at the time, who was white, was trying to raise a million dollars by promising gilded philanthropists that the Nashville school would change its liberal arts curriculum to one more geared toward industrial education.
  Scholar and social activist W.E.B. Du Bois, who graduated from Fisk in 1888 before moving to Atlanta to t
  
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• Israeli forces seize Rafah crossing in Gaza, threatening aid and putting cease-fire talks on edge

  07-05-2024 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAMY MAGDY, MELANIE LIDMAN and LEE KEATH
  CAIRO — An Israeli tank brigade seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing Tuesday as Israel brushed off urgent warnings from close allies and launched an incursion into the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remained on a knife’s edge.
  The U.N. warned of a potential collapse of the flow of aid to Palestinians from the closure of Rafah and the other main crossing into Gaza, Kerem Shalom, at a time when
  
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• Surfrider Foundation launches petition asking state, military to keep public access to San Onofre

  07-05-2024 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The Surfrider Foundation has launched a petition calling on decisionmakers to come up with an agreement for the continued public use of San Onofre State Beach, an area made up of popular surf breaks considered the best on the mainland and open space used by hikers, bikers and campers.
  The area, just south of San Clemente on military land, has been leased by the State Parks for more than 50 years and is the fifth most visited of 280 parks operated by the state.
  The land was leased to the parks sy
  
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• Noting campus protests, Democrats are preparing for intense action at their summer convention

  07-05-2024 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By WILL WEISSERT
  WASHINGTON — As pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalate on college campuses around the country, critics of President Joe Biden ‘s handling of the Israel-Hamas war suggest this summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine his reelection campaign.
  Already, 65-plus organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC” when it opens there on Aug. 19. Activists have sue
  
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• Travelers Insurance raising California home rates by 15% on average

  07-05-2024 18:48 via ocregister.com
  
  One of California’s largest home insurers is raising rates for hundreds of thousands of state policyholders by an average of 15.3%, the latest move by a major insurer to boost homeowners’ premiums in the face of growing wildfire risk.
  Travelers Insurance, the state’s sixth-largest home insurer as of 2022, plans to update rates for roughly 320,320 homeowners, with some seeing hikes of more than 25% on an annual basis, according to filings with the California Department of Insura
  
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• Rancho Fiesta Days celebrates region’s history

  07-05-2024 18:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Jacque Nunez, a Dine’, gives the Acjachemen Invocation with native story telling during the Rancho Days Fiesta held at Heritage Hill Historical Park in Lake Forest on Saturday, May 4, 2024. The annual family-friendly event celebrates the history of ranch life and Native American culture with performances, exhibits, piñata breaking, crafts and more. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
  Viviana Martinez, 2, of Orange poses for a photo with a few of Grupo Folkloric
  
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• 12 fun and free places to take Mom for Mother’s Day 2024

  07-05-2024 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  You love the mom in your life, right? But you don’t have the money this year to take her somewhere pricey.
  Well, not to worry. Mom won’t feel slighted when you do one of these special things for her, and it won’t even be obvious that you didn’t break the bank to do it.  Here are some suggestions:
  The Mickey Mouse plant (Ochnea serrulata) is shown at the Mathias Botanical Garden on the UCLA campus in Westwood. (Photo by Joshua Siskin)
  UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden. Lo
  
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• Why the Scottish pop band Belle and Sebastian is huge in Garden Grove

  07-05-2024 18:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Keyboardist Chris Geddes is happy to talk all things Belle and Sebastian: From the Scottish indie pop band’s three upcoming shows in Los Angeles to the group’s two most recent albums, “A Bit of Previous” and “Late Developers.”
  But he’s especially delighted when the conversation turns to Belle and Sebastian‘s appearance on a popular and long-running American television series in December.
  If you’re thinking “Saturday Night Live” or
  
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• Donald Trump calls Joe Biden weak on antisemitism, ignoring his own rhetoric

  07-05-2024 18:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE L. PRICE and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON (Associated Press)
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is accusing Joe Biden of offering a weak response to antisemitism, wielding the clashes on colleges campuses over the war in Gaza as a campaign issue. But Trump’s attacks ignore his own long history of rhetoric that invokes the language of Nazi Germany and plays on stereotypes of Jews and politics.
  The latest example came over the weekend, when Trump — accusing the White House of having
  
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• Biden condemns current antisemitism in Holocaust remembrance during college protests and Gaza war

  07-05-2024 18:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By ZEKE MILLER (AP White House Correspondent)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world” during a Tuesday ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time when the Hamas attack on Israel and controversy over the war in Gaza have sparked new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews.
  “We’re at risk of people not knowing the truth,” Biden said of t
  
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• Center Theatre Group’s new season brings its three venues under one show-stopping roof

  07-05-2024 17:20 via ocregister.com
  
  The upcoming season for Los Angeles’s Center Theatre Group is coming together in an entirely new way as the company combines the power of its three iconic venues to bring musicals, world premieres, Broadway stars and family shows all under one programming umbrella for the first time in its history.
  “I feel good about the direction we’re heading,” said Snehal Desai, the Theatre Group’s artistic director, who took the helm of the company in August. “This is just
  
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• Create options for careers in state’s schools

  07-05-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  “Why hate school when you can love it?” Mason Tucker, a 10th-grader at Madera South High School near Fresno, told — well, asked — reporter Carolyn Jones of CalMatters.
  In these post-pandemic days of secondary education, after a period in which so many students missed so much, and when schooling has been so adjusted of necessity — most of the adjustments not for the better — it’s the perfect question to pose.
  Jones was writing last month about the push fo
  
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• This couple met at Costa Mesa’s Wayfarer and got engaged there. Now they own it

  07-05-2024 16:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Justin and Courtney Suitor were ready when the Wayfarer was offered for sale last year.
  And why wouldn’t they be? The Costa Mesa music venue had long meant so much to the couple, both personally and professionally. They’d often fantasized about buying it. But that wasn’t going to happen … right?
  “Courtney and I had talked about it actually years before the opportunity presented itself,” says Justin Suitor, an Orange County musician who’d been playing at
  
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• Why doesn’t California install cameras along freeways to record traffic violations?

  07-05-2024 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: Kurt Meidinger of Beaumont asked why the state of California doesn’t install cameras along freeways to record traffic infractions and then mail traffic tickets to speeding and unsafe drivers caught on camera.
  A: Currently, traffic cameras are installed and used by Caltrans to monitor traffic conditions, such as delays and congestion caused by crashes and other incidents. However, the cameras do not record anything and only offer a live feed, said CHP spokesperson Tami Grimes in the CHP
  
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• Students say they’re firm on demands; UCI officials say some less feasible, but open to talking

  07-05-2024 16:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Students at UC Irvine continued their protest Monday, May 6, calling for the university to divest itself from companies with ties to Israel and weapons manufacturers, with university officials indicating there’s room to move on some demands but not on divestment.
  UCI students and others participating in a Gaza solidarity encampment since last week have been firm in their message: They won’t be leaving until the university meets all of their demands. Chancellor Howard Gillman said in
  
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