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• Body found in Newport Beach park

  27-01-2018 18:44 via ocregister.com
  
  NEWPORT BEACH >> Someone reported a body at Bonita Canyon Sports Park in the 1900 block of Ford Road in Newport Beach Saturday morning, Jan. 27, police said.
  The call came in at about 7 a.m. and the Orange County Coroner was at the scene, said Newport Beach Police Sgt. Rachel Johnson.
  The deceased person has not been identified and no further information was available, she said.
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• Dearica Hamby, Cameron Brink help Sparks rally past Wings

  08-06-2024 06:42 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Sparks forwards Dearica Hamby and Cameron Brink each recorded double-doubles to help the team end its three-game losing streak.
  Hamby had 16 of her game-high 22 points in the second half and grabbed 12 rebounds for her eighth double-double in 10 games. Brink, a rookie, had her first career double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds as the Sparks outscored the Dallas Wings 20-9 in the fourth quarter to rally for an 81-72 comeback win on Friday night at Crypto.com Arena.
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• Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Saturday, June 8, 2024

  08-06-2024 06:35 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Saturday, June 8, 2024.
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• Framber Valdez, Astros deny Angels’ bid for 4th straight win

  08-06-2024 06:14 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — The Angels couldn’t solve Houston Astros left-hander Framber Valdez this time around.
  Valdez notched his seventh complete game in the past four seasons, holding the Angels to one run and four hits in the Astros’ 7-1 victory in the opener of the three-game series on Friday night at Angel Stadium.
  Valdez (5-3) struck out eight and walked one on 106 pitches.
  The Angels lit up Valdez for eight runs in a 9-7 win in Houston on May 20, tying a career worst for the left-hande
  
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• Former San Marino estate of CIA chief John McCone sets sales record at $30M

  08-06-2024 04:49 via ocregister.com
  
  A gated, 5.5-acre compound once owned by John McCone, the CIA director during the Cuban missile crisis, has sold for $30 million.
  That makes it the most expensive home ever sold in San Marino.
  Located in the upscale Lacy Estates neighborhood, this 13,706-square-foot residence boasts nine bedrooms and 15 bathrooms across three structures, all connected by formal gardens. The June 5 deal, which closed at 33% over the $22.5 million asking price a month after officially listing, broke the previous r
  
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• Scoreless duel goes to 11 before Dodgers beat Yankees

  08-06-2024 04:44 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — It was a parade of stars at the plate worthy of October – and a parade of zeroes on the scoreboard, also postseason-worthy.
  The Dodgers and New York Yankees stuffed their lineups with five former MVPs on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series billed as a potential World Series preview. But Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto and a collective of six Yankees pitchers engaged in a scoreless duel for 10 innings before Teoscar Hernandez came through with a two-run dou
  
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• Dodgers-Yankees matchup a preview of things to come in October?

  08-06-2024 03:35 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — Dodgers manager Dave Roberts strode into the visitor’s dugout at Yankee Stadium on Friday afternoon and noticed a difference immediately.
  “Feels like the postseason,” he said, looking at the media crowding around for his pre-game press availability.
  “Is this October or what?”
  It is not October yet but the matchup between the Dodgers and New York Yankees drew a postseason-sized media gathering and is being billed as a potential World Series preview &
  
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• Orange County judge halts strike at UC campuses

  08-06-2024 03:30 via ocregister.com
  
  An Orange County Superior Court judge granted a temporary restraining order Friday afternoon, ordering a halt to a strike by thousands of graduate student teachers and research assistants at University of California campuses.
  Judge Randall J. Sherman said the rolling strike authorized last month by 48,000 graduate students across the UC system represented by United Autoworkers Local 4811 must temporarily stop. Union members have gone on strike at six campuses in the UC system since mid-May, with
  
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• Dodgers’ Kiké Hernández makes error during in-game interview

  08-06-2024 03:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer
  NEW YORK — Dodgers third baseman Kiké Hernández made an error while in the midst of a live television interview Friday night during their game against the New York Yankees.
  Hernández had a microphone and earpiece in his left ear as he spoke with Wayne Randazzo and former pitcher Dontrelle Willis on the Apple TV telecast in the second inning. After talking about Hernández’s decision to wear colorful cleats and the atmospher
  
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• Wrong-way DUI driver who killed woman in Tustin sentenced to 5 years, 8 months

  08-06-2024 03:18 via ocregister.com
  
  A 23-year-old man pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to more than five years in prison Friday, June 7 for a drunken driving wrong-way crash that killed a 22-year-old woman on the 5 Freeway in Tustin.
  Dylan Erric James Robinson of Altadena pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, driving under the influence with a blood-alcohol content above the legal limit of .08%, and driving under the influence of alcohol
  
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• Angels reliever Ben Joyce impressed his manager with 2024 debut

  08-06-2024 03:05 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Angels right-hander Ben Joyce still brings a 100 mph fastball out of the bullpen, but he’s looking more like a pitcher in his second stint with the major league club.
  Mainly, he’s learned the importance of mental preparedness and consistency.
  “Just, everyday, showing up and just putting your best stuff out there everyday, no matter how your body feels,” Joyce said before the opener of a three-game series against the visiting Houston Astros on Friday night.
  
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• 6 street vendor advocates plead guilty to assault charges

  08-06-2024 01:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Now it’s the “Justice 2.”
  Six of the eight defendants accused of various crimes related to their aggressive tactics in defending street vendors and confronting others pleaded guilty to single felony counts on Friday, June 7, in Superior Court in Victorville.
  The other two members of the so-called Justice 8 — their leader, Edin Alex Enamorado of Upland and the only one of the group not being held on bail, Gullit Eder Acevedo of San Bernardino — were not part of the p
  
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• City of Anaheim to pay $5.8 million in lawsuit over death of Brandon Lopez

  08-06-2024 01:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim city officials have agreed to pay nearly $6 million in a settlement with the family of Brandon Lopez, a Santa Ana resident who was shot and killed by Anaheim police officers in 2021.
  The settlement comes three years after the fatal shooting that followed a high-speed chase that ended in a four-hour standoff in the city of Santa Ana. Lopez was pronounced dead at the scene.
  Anaheim police officials said the officers thought what turned out to be a water bottle in a black bag he was holding
  
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• You might be surprised at how many more avocados Americans are eating

  08-06-2024 00:51 via ocregister.com
  
  June is California Avocado Month and Americans are eating more of them than ever, especially the Hass variety, which was created in California.
  California’s own
  More than 1,000 varieties of avocados are listed in the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources database. You may see avocados in stores year-round, but it’s important to know that California avocados are not available all year. They are in season from spring through summer and early fall, with the bulk of
  
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• All-Orange County girls track and field: Newport Harbor’s Keaton Robar is the athlete of the year

  08-06-2024 00:48 via ocregister.com
  
  ALL-COUNTY GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD 2024
  ATHLETE OF THE YEAR 
  Keaton Robar, Newport Harbor, Junior
  Newport Harbor junior Keaton Robar finished third in the 800 meters at the CIF State Track and Field Championships.
  No Orange County girl finished higher in any event at this year’s state meet.
  But wait, there was more from her during the high school track and field season.
  She was the CIF Southern Section Division 2 champion in the 800. The following week, at the CIF-SS Masters Meet, Robar
  
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• NBA Finals: Celtics’ Kristaps Porzingis hurts Mavericks in several ways

  07-06-2024 23:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer
  BOSTON — The Mavericks couldn’t figure out how best to utilize big man Kristaps Porzingis during his three seasons in Dallas.
  Three years later, the Mavericks now have a big Porzingis problem in the NBA Finals.
  Dallas coach Jason Kidd said before the start of the series that he didn’t think Porzingis received nearly enough praise for his ability as a shot blocker and someone who can alter opponents’ shots.
  The 7-footer did both in his ro
  
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• NBA Finals: Boston’s Kristaps Porzingis hurts Dallas in several ways

  07-06-2024 23:39 via ocregister.com
  
  BOSTON — The Mavericks couldn’t figure out how best to utilize big man Kristaps Porzingis during his three seasons in Dallas.
  Three years later, the Mavericks now have a big Porzingis problem in the NBA Finals.
  Dallas coach Jason Kidd said before the start of the series that he didn’t think Porzingis received nearly enough praise for his ability as a shot blocker and someone who can alter opponents’ shots.
  The 7-footer did both in his rousing return to the court in Boston
  
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• Orange City Council to take another stab at budget cuts as new fiscal year fast approaches

  07-06-2024 23:35 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange City Council will hold a special budget review Tuesday as the seven-member board scrambles to address a financial crisis before a new fiscal year starts in July.
  The city is facing a $19 million budget deficit, and staffers say Orange could deplete its reserves in under two years without corrective action. But in recent conversations, the council has struggled to find consensus about how to slash the gap between revenue and expenses, even as they raise the possibility of cutting cheri
  
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• Stanley Cup Final: Edmonton and Florida are far apart in every way

  07-06-2024 23:28 via ocregister.com
  
  SUNRISE, Fla. — By the time he was old enough to watch NHL games growing up in Sweden, Oliver Ekman-Larsson began dreaming about playing in the Stanley Cup Final.
  Now he’s here, a member of the Florida Panthers in a series against the Edmonton Oilers that marks the furthest distance between two teams in a final in NHL history. That would not have mattered to that kid yearning to be in this spot.
  “I would probably go back and forth to Sweden if I got a chance to play in the Stan
  
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• World Oceans Day: Here’s an oceans quiz and a tour of the ocean zones

  07-06-2024 23:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Going deep
  Saturday, June 8, is the 15th World Oceans Day.
  Mapping the seafloor
  The oceans cover over 70% of the Earth’s surface. The marine ecosystem is the largest and most abundant in the world. But most of the ocean is permanently dark and incredibly difficult to observe. As of 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had mapped slightly more than 23% of the seafloor in great detail, and even less has been explored with underwater cameras or submersibles. Mapping the s
  
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• Push for defibrillators in schools becomes personal

  07-06-2024 23:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Ariel Cohen | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
  Matthew Mangine and Rep. Andy Barr are tied together by unimaginable loss and one singular, horrible date: June 16, 2020.
  That’s the day Mangine, a dad from northern Kentucky, lost his 16-year-old son, who collapsed at a soccer practice and later died from a cardiac event. It’s also the day Barr’s wife, Carol, collapsed on a Zoom call and later died, also from a cardiac event. She was 39.
  Last month, Mangine went to Barr’s Washington, D.C.
  
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• The Audible: On the NBA Finals, Dan Hurley’s status, and ‘Clipped’

  07-06-2024 22:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Jim Alexander: Watching last night’s first game of the NBA Finals in Boston, my mind kept drifting back to the “Memorial Day Massacre.” Remember? Game 1 of the 1985 Finals, with the Lakers so desperate to avenge the previous June’s loss to the Celtics but getting, well, massacred at the start of the next year’s series. The final was 148-114, and I remember journeyman Scott Wedman being made to look like a Hall of Famer in waiting that afternoon, going 11 for 11 from
  
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• Angel City FC returns from break against defending champ Gotham FC

  07-06-2024 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Angel City Football Club went into the international break with a scoreless draw against San Diego Wave FC.
  The club returns with a cross-country trip to New Jersey face Gotham FC, the first of consecutive road games for Angel City.
  “Any time you come off of an international break for both teams and for everybody this weekend, you just don’t know what you’re going to get,” ACFC coach Becki Tweed said. “You haven’t had time to work with your internationals. The
  
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• After 41 years, Pat Sajak makes his final spin tonight as host of ‘Wheel of Fortune’

  07-06-2024 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By KAITLYN HUAMANI
  LOS ANGELES — After 41 years and over 8,000 episodes, Pat Sajak’s final turn as the renowned host of “Wheel of Fortune” will air tonight — Friday, June 7.
  In a farewell message released ahead of Friday’s episode airing, Sajak thanked the viewers of the beloved game show for granting him the “incredible privilege to be invited into millions of homes, night after night, year after year, decade after decade.”
  He noted that he always
  
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• Belmont Stakes might be the best Triple Crown race this year

  07-06-2024 22:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Horse racing history of all kinds is being made Saturday in the final Triple Crown race of the year.
  The Belmont Stakes is taking place at venerable Saratoga Race Course for the first time in the venue’s vaunted 161-year history. And while there is no chance at a 14th Triple Crown champion, the third leg features the winners of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes for the first time since 2013.
  Five weeks since Mystik Dan finished a nose ahead of Sierra Leone in the Derby and three week
  
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• French Open: Swiatek goes for 3-peat against underdog Paolini

  07-06-2024 21:54 via ocregister.com
  
  PARIS — The contrasts between the French Open finalists are obvious: Iga Swiatek, who turned 23 last week, already owns four Grand Slam titles, including three in Paris. Jasmine Paolini, 28, had never been past the second round at any major tournament until this season.
  Entering Saturday, Swiatek is on a 20-match winning streak at Roland Garros as she pursues a third consecutive championship on the red clay, and the Polish star’s career record at the place is 34-2. Paolini was 3-5 at
  
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• How a Depression-era law could be used to make booze cheaper

  07-06-2024 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By Matt Egan
  Federal regulators are planning to use a rarely enforced law from the Great Depression to allege America’s largest alcohol distributor is unfairly pricing wine and spirits, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.
  A looming Federal Trade Commission lawsuit against Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits would be aimed at lowering costs for consumers — in this case on alcohol — and ensuring mom-and-pop shops have a level playing field against big chain
  
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• Where Disneyland hid all 52 Pizza Planet trucks during Pixar Fest — and how to find them

  07-06-2024 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  The Pizza Planet delivery truck that has popped up as an Easter Egg in nearly every Pixar animated movie has now been hidden in Disneyland attraction queues, restaurants, shops and even in the middle of rides as part of a treasure hunt throughout Pixar Fest.
  Disney artists have transformed 52 of the familiar yellow Toyota pickup trucks with a rocket on the roof into artwork designed to blend into its surroundings throughout Disneyland, Disneyland California Adventure and Downtown Disney.
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• All-Orange County boys track and field: Dana Hills’ Evan Noonan is the athlete of the year

  07-06-2024 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  ALL-COUNTY BOYS TRACK AND FIELD 2024
  ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
  Evan Noonan, Dana Hills. Junior
  Evan Noonan was Orange County’s best in the 1,600 and 3,200 meters a year ago as a sophomore.
  How could he get even better in his junior year at Dana Hills?
  “I worked most on mental improvement,” Noonan said “I worked on my mental toughness and reworking my subconscious mind. … Getting rid of the doubt concept.”
  No doubt, Noonan did that. He was even better in the 1,
  
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• If an Amazon review makes you laugh, are you more likely to buy?

  07-06-2024 20:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Erin McCarthy | (TNS) The Philadelphia Inquirer
  Ever found yourself laughing at your computer or phone screen while reading a review for a rudimentary product on Amazon?
  Perhaps for the “Wolf Moon Shirt” that went viral in 2009 or the banana slicer, a product for which there was no demand (“For decades I have been trying to come up with an ideal way to slice a banana,” reads a top review).
  Maybe for the lift-a-flap book Where Is Baby’s Belly Button? (One popular rev
  
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