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• Baseball playoffs roundup: Los Alamitos beats Mission Viejo; Beckman, Buena Park reach semifinals

  11-05-2024 07:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Jake Evans’ double in the bottom of the eighth inning drove in the winning run for Los Alamitos in a 2-1 win over Mission Viejo in a CIF Southern Section Division 3 baseball quarterfinal at Los Alamitos High on Friday.
  The Griffins (24-7) will be home against Beckman (23-6-1) in the semifinals Tuesday.
  Jack Lorenz pitched six innings in which he gave up one earned run to Mission Viejo (17-14). Ryan Deck pitched the final two innings to get the win.
  Damon Valdez went 3 for 3 and Cole Belfan
  
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• Vice President Kamala Harris wraps up Southern California visit in LA

  03-06-2024 22:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris will wrap up an intermittent six-day visit to Southern California early this week with events in Los Angeles Monday and Tuesday, her office announced.
  Without releasing many details of Harris’ itinerary, her office said she would be in Los Angeles on Monday to participate in an interview for Pride Month.
  On Tuesday, the vice president is scheduled to tape an interview with Jimmy Kimmel for ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” her office said — add
  
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• Merging finances long after marriage? Here’s how to start

  03-06-2024 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By Chanelle Bessette | NerdWallet
  Combining finances with a partner can happen at any stage of your relationship, even if you’ve been married to your partner for a long time. It can be a great opportunity for a couple to get on the same page about what they want their financial future to look like, especially when it comes to big considerations such as child care, homeownership and retirement.
  An academic study published in the Journal of Consumer Research in 2023 found that couples with j
  
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• MLB is investigating Padres’ Tucupita Marcano for allegedly betting on baseball, AP source says

  03-06-2024 22:34 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano is under investigation by Major League Baseball for allegedly betting on baseball and could be subject to a possible lifetime ban, according to a person familiar with the probe.
  MLB is looking into allegations Marcano bet on games involving the Pittsburgh Pirates while on the team’s injured list last season, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoi
  
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• Psychoactive drugs are having a moment. The FDA will soon weigh in

  03-06-2024 22:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Dawn Megli | (TNS) KFF Health News
  Lori Tipton is among the growing number of people who say that MDMA, also known as ecstasy, saved their lives.
  Raised in New Orleans by a mother with untreated bipolar disorder who later killed herself and two others, Tipton said she endured layers of trauma that eventually forced her to seek treatment for crippling anxiety and hypervigilance. For 10 years nothing helped, and she began to wonder if she was “unfixable.”
  Then she answered an ad for a
  
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• See full ride-through video of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure coming to Disneyland

  03-06-2024 22:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Riders on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will help Princess Tiana find a musical band of bayou critters to play her Mardi Gras party when the transformation of the former Splash Mountain ride is complete later this year at Disneyland.
  Walt Disney World released a point-of-view ride-through video of the complete Tiana’s Bayou Adventure ride officially opening at the Magic Kingdom on June 28 and in late 2024 at Disneyland in the former Splash Mountain attractions at both parks. The ride
  
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• Farmworkers face high-risk exposures to bird flu, but testing isn’t reaching them

  03-06-2024 22:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Tony Leys, Amy Maxmen | (TNS) KFF Health News
  Farmworkers face some of the most intense exposures to the bird flu virus, but advocates say many of them would lack resources to fall back on if they became ill.
  So far, only two people in the United States have tested positive after being exposed to a wave of bird flu spreading among cows. Those people, dairy farm workers in Texas and Michigan, experienced eye irritation.
  Scientists warn the virus could mutate to spread from person to person l
  
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• Man pleads guilty in West LA shootings of two Jewish men leaving synagogues

  03-06-2024 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  A 29-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday to federal hate crimes and firearms offenses for shooting two Jewish men after they left synagogues in the Pico-Robertson district of Los Angeles last year less than 24 hours apart.
  Jaime Tran, previously of Riverside, entered his plea to all charges against him: two counts of hate crimes with intent to kill and two counts of using, carrying and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Offi
  
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• Former Riverside man pleads guilty in West LA shootings of two Jewish men leaving synagogues

  03-06-2024 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  A 29-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday to federal hate crimes and firearms offenses for shooting two Jewish men after they left synagogues in the Pico-Robertson district of Los Angeles last year less than 24 hours apart.
  Jaime Tran, previously of Riverside, entered his plea to all charges against him: two counts of hate crimes with intent to kill and two counts of using, carrying and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Offi
  
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• Musk’s X allowing users to post consensual adult content, formalizing a prior Twitter policy

  03-06-2024 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Barbara Ortutay | The Associated Press
  The social media platform X says it will now formally allow people to show consensual adult content, as long as it is clearly labeled as such. The move makes official a policy already in place when the platform was known as Twitter, before billionaire Elon Musk purchased it in 2022.
  In a recent update on its website, the San Francisco-based company said users “should be able to create, distribute, and consume material related to sexual themes as lo
  
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• Southern California rescue centers concerned by illness, deaths among sea lions as facilities fill

  03-06-2024 21:45 via ocregister.com
  
  A temporary field hospital staged in a dog park near the Pacific Marine Mammal Center is nearing capacity with more rescued sea lion pups already seen this season than in seven years, and concerns about large numbers being found dead around the islands where the marine mammals breed.
  It isn’t the first time the rescue center has seen a grave season for the sea lions – there was a large die off between 2013 and 2016 – but this time it is in the middle of a $16 million renovation
  
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• Winners/losers in homebuying’s new commission system

  03-06-2024 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Franklin Schneider | Wealth of Geeks
  A settlement in a high-profile lawsuit accusing the National Association of Realtors of fixing real estate commission stands to shake up the way commission is paid — and by whom.
  The settlement, which requires the NAR to pay $418 million in damages, also includes a rule that forbids sellers from offering a buyer’s agent commission in home listings. This eliminates the longstanding convention of the home seller expected to pay both the listing agen
  
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• Recipe: Love apricots? Use them to make this delectable chicken dish

  03-06-2024 21:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Chicken Breasts with Apricots, Ginger and Lime Zest is an easy-to-make but delectable entree. (Photo by Nick Koon, The Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Oh, the beauty of an apricot. A rosy blush adorns one cheek. It graces the downy orange-gold skin, promising apricot lovers that, inside, the fruit is fragrant and flavorful. At its tree-ripened best, the juicy flesh has the look of deep-pile velvet; the taste, enhanced by flowery perfume, is a perfect balance of sweet and tart.
  Their addictive taste
  
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• Irvine-based Edwards sells critical care unit for $4.2 billion

  03-06-2024 21:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine-based Edwards Lifesciences Corp. has agreed to sell its critical care unit for $4.2 billion in cash to Becton Dickinson & Co.
  The unit has about 4,500 employees, with most based in Irvine, and generated more than $900 million in revenue last year, New Jersey-based Becton said in a statement Monday, June 3. Becton added that Critical Care will operate as a separate business unit and “will maintain its presence in Irvine.”
  The transaction is expected to close before the end
  
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• CalAmp, Irvine software firm, files bankruptcy

  03-06-2024 21:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine-based CalAmp Corp., which develops software designed to track vehicles and improve company logistics, has filed bankruptcy to complete a debt-cutting deal that hands control of the business to lender Lynrock Lake Master Fund LP.
  Publicly traded CalAmp filed Chapter 11 on Monday in Delaware to execute a restructuring deal where Lynrock has agreed to swap $229 million in secured notes for 100% of the equity in the reorganized business. Other CalAmp creditors would be fully repaid in cash, t
  
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• Corona del Mar’s Niels Hoffmann and Sunny Hills’ Daniela Borruel named SoCal tennis MVPs

  03-06-2024 21:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowCorona del Mar’s Niels Hoffmann and Sunny Hills’ Daniela Borruel, a pair of USC tennis recruits and reigning CIF-SS individual champions, had something else in common after the recent Southern California National High School Tennis All-American awards dinner.
  They were both SoCal MVPs.
  Sunny Hills junior Daniela Borruel won her second CIF-SS singles title on Thursday in Claremont. (Photo by Da
  
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• Derek Trucks talks Tedeschi Trucks Band before Greek shows: ‘Be willing to fail’

  03-06-2024 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Derek Trucks was, it seems, born to play guitar. 
  A child prodigy, by 13, Trucks had played with legendary blues guitarist Buddy Guy. At 20, he formed the Derek Trucks Band, then, at 25 became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band, joining his uncle, drummer Butch Trucks.
  In 2009, he dissolved The Derek Trucks Band, just before it won the 2010 Best Contemporary Blues Album Grammy. Two years later, Tedeschi Trucks Band, the group he formed with his wife, singer/guitarist S
  
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• Jewzz: A new dating app for Jewish singles from Matzoball founder

  03-06-2024 19:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Andy Rudnick has three daughters who are single and dating. So each time there are applicants to his new matchmaking app, JEWZZ, they get a personal, fatherly once-over from the veteran party entrepreneur.
  Rudnick, who has been operating the famed Matzoball Jewish singles gatherings since 1987, says he screens for inappropriate language, photos and conversations. He said he rejects about 10% of potential new members.
  “I want to leave something behind that provides value and purpose for the
  
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• From robocalls to fake porn: Going after AI’s dark side

  03-06-2024 19:45 via ocregister.com
  
  New Hampshire voters received a barrage of robocalls in which a computer-generated imitation of President Biden discouraged them from voting in the January primary. While the admitted mastermind was slapped with felony charges and a proposed FCC fine, his deed is just one wound left by the cutting-edge technology law enforcement is struggling to catch up with: artificial intelligence.
  Computer-generated “deepfakes” can impersonate not only the voice and face of anyone but can contrib
  
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• Trump’s attacks on US justice system after his conviction could be used by autocrats, say experts

  03-06-2024 19:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By EMMA BURROWS (Associated Press)
  After his historic guilty verdict in his hush money case, Donald Trump attacked the U.S. criminal justice system, making unfounded claims of a “rigged” trial that echoed remarks from the Kremlin.
  “If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone,” Trump said Friday, speaking from his namesake tower in New York on Friday. Thousands of miles away, Russian President Vladimir Putin was probably “rubbing his hands with glee,”
  
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• Detroit-style pizzeria Gibroni’s opens in San Clemente

  03-06-2024 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  As Orange County enters a golden age of pizza — Truly Pizza in Dana Point, Folks in Costa Mesa and Loosies in Santa Ana have helped refine and redefine our culinary landscape — Gibroni’s, founded by Michigan natives Tony and Lindsey Gioutsos, offers a Detroit-style slice that will rank among the best.
  Born and raised in Detroit, Tony Gioutsos taught himself how to make proper pizza dough in his teens. “I know what it tastes like because I’ve had it my whole life,&rd
  
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• Rubio’s closes 48 restaurants in California, citing ‘business climate’

  03-06-2024 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Rubio’s Coastal Grill employees took to social media over the weekend, lamenting dozens of Southern California restaurant closures that took them by surprise.
  “Former employee after today,” wrote Thesil58 on Reddit. “They legit told us this morning when we showed up for work that today was going to be our last day. No severance, no warning, nada. I’m not sure exactly what locations are going, but it’s a ton of them.”
  The Carlsbad-based chain known for it
  
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• A quieter leaf blower? These undergraduates found a way.

  03-06-2024 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Nate Greene, an engineer at Towson’s Stanley Black & Decker calls the innovation “extremely atypical.”
  A group of students from the Johns Hopkins University signed onto a class project and were tasked with building a new product for the multinational tool company. And they actually did it.
  Using a campus 3D printer, a team of four seniors at Hopkins designed a new attachment for leaf blowers capable of quieting some of the harshest decibels of a blower’s sound.
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• Democrats wanted an agreement on using artificial intelligence. It went nowhere

  03-06-2024 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAN MERICA (Associated Press)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee was watching earlier this year as campaigns nationwide were experimenting with artificial intelligence. So the organization approached a handful of influential party campaign committees with a request: Sign onto guidelines that would commit them to use the technology in a “responsible” way.
  The draft agreement, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, was hardly full of revolutiona
  
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• Trump joins TikTok and calls it ‘an honor.’ As president he once tried to ban the video-sharing app

  03-06-2024 18:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By JILL COLVIN, WILL WEISSERT and MEG KINNARD (Associated Press)
  Donald Trump has joined the popular video-sharing app TikTok, a platform he once tried to ban while in the White House, and posted from a UFC fight two days after he became the first former president and presumptive major party nominee in U.S. history to be found guilty on felony charges.
  “It’s an honor,” Trump said in the TikTok video, which features footage of him waving to fans and posing for selfies at the Ult
  
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• Republicans make Biden’s EV push an election-year issue as Democrats take a more nuanced approach

  03-06-2024 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JOHN SEEWER (Associated Press)
  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Donald Trump says the Biden administration’s policy to promote electric vehicles is a “radical plan” that would kill the economy in automaking states. Republican allies in the petroleum industry have spent millions on ads that say President Joe Biden’s tax credit for EV buyers will cost Americans their freedom.
  Related ArticlesNational Politics | Claudia Sheinbaum becomes first female presiden
  
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• Eureka! restaurant chain adds new dishes meant to put a twist on classic comfort foods

  03-06-2024 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  With a nod towards classic comfort dishes, Hawthorne-based restaurant chain Eureka! has just launched new menu items and drinks at all its locations.
  “This new menu rollout is us going back to our ethos as a restaurant group of focusing on classic comforting foods with a modern twist,” said Alexia Peters, a spokesperson for the chain, which has locations in places like Woodland Hills, Cerritos, Claremont, Aliso Viejo, Hawthorne, Irvine, Ontario and Redlands.
  The new items made their
  
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• Lake Forest to debut its first multicultural celebration

  03-06-2024 18:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Lake Forest is set to host its first-ever multicultural event this Friday, June 8, at the Civic Center.
  The free event is meant to represent the diversity in Lake Forest and throughout Orange County with various bands, dance performances and food.
  Entertainment will include performances from Mariachi Toro, Folklorico Amanacer, Bollywood Dance Company, Qing Wei Lion and Dragon troupe and the RumbaLa Cuban Band. Taiko drummers, too, will perform. Next to the entertainment, banners will explain the
  
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• Unionized academic workers go on strike, for what?

  03-06-2024 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  On April 25, thirty or so tents went up in front of Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA, and the university’s eventual response has now led to rolling strikes by unionized academic workers on multiple UC campuses.
  United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4811 represents about 48,000 teaching assistants, tutors, student researchers, academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars employed in the UC system. So far, the union’s so-called “Stand-up Strikes” have been stood up at UC Santa
  
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• Bob Kelley, former publisher of Kelley Blue Book, dies at age 96

  03-06-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Bob Kelley, the former publisher of Irvine-based Kelley Blue Book who came from a family with deep roots in Southern California’s car culture, died May 28 at his home in Indian Wells. He was 96.
  Born in Los Angeles in 1927, Kelley joined his family’s dealership, Kelley Kar Company and Kelley Blue Book, after serving in World War II.
  The family business got its start in 1918 when Kelley’s uncle, Les Kelley, launched a Los Angeles car dealership with just three Model T Fords. The
  
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