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• Coronavirus: 628 new cases, two new deaths reported in Orange County on Nov. 18

  18-11-2020 23:13 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 628 new cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, Nov. 18, increasing the cumulative total in the county to 66,585 cases since tracking began.
  An estimated 5,473 cases have been recorded in the last 14 days.
   
  Two new deaths were reported by the county on Wednesday, raising the total number of reported deaths to 1,528.
  Of the cumulative 1,528 deaths reported from the virus, 586 were skilled nursing facility residents, 121 were in assisted living fa
  
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• McDonald’s readies $5 meal deal to lure customers back into stores

  10-05-2024 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  McDonald’s Corp. is looking to launch a $5 meal deal in the US that the burger chain is betting can lure penny-pinching consumers back in.
  The deal could include a McChicken or a McDouble along with fries and a drink, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. On the company’s first-quarter earnings call, Chief Executive Officer Chris Kempczinski said McDonald’s had to be “laser-focused on affordability” given how price-w
  
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• The Book Pages: A forgotten Los Angeles novel is rediscovered

  10-05-2024 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  In 1970s-era Los Angeles, something was in the air. Much of that was smog, but there were other atmospheric troubles in those days of Me-Decade malaise.
  Call it a feeling of uneasiness, a sense that the overripe paradise of Southern California had gone off. Author Gavin Lambert captures some of that dread – as well as L.A.’s toxic air – in his 1971 novel, “The Goodby People.” (Yes, he spelled it “Goodby,” which, like so
  
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• Angels Deals: Free food and discounts for fans based on Angels games

  10-05-2024 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Angels partnered with several restaurants to offer free and discounted menu items all season long based on how the Angels play. Here are the deals available and how you can get them:
  McDonalds
  Free medium fries with a minimum purchase of $2 when the Angels win a home game.
  Chick-fil-A
  Free Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich if the Angels score 7 or more runs at any home game. Offer available by opening the Chick-Fil-A App until 11:59 p.m. the night of the game and using within 3 busine
  
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• Bill would ban some production quotas for U.S. warehouse workers

  10-05-2024 21:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Getting a few more packages out shouldn’t injure workers or force them to skip lunch or a bathroom break, according to a new U.S. Senate bill that seeks to regulate production quotas for warehouse workers in the Inland Empire and nationwide.
  The Warehouse Worker Protection Act, unveiled Thursday, May 2, would ban quotas that the bill’s authors say require workers to move at an unsafe pace, miss restroom breaks or cut corners in their work in order to keep up with expectations.
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• Sam Rubin, KTLA 5 entertainment reporter, dies at 64

  10-05-2024 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Sam Rubin, one of the most recognizable and likable entertainment reporters in the business and a fixture on the KTLA Morning News since 1991, died Friday at age 64.
  TMZ reported that Rubin suffered a fatal heart attack Friday morning. A KTLA source told Variety that Rubin died at his home in Brentwood.
  KTLA technology reporter Rich DeMuro wrote on X that he is “in absolute shock.” He posted a picture of himself with Rubin and wrote, “Thinking the most of your family right now.
  
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• Mark Wahlberg opens Mexican restaurant in Huntington Beach

  10-05-2024 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Actor and Boston native Mark Wahlberg — who, along with his brothers, co-owns casual burger joint Wahlburgers — has moved into the fine-dining landscape with his own culinary project: Flecha Cantina, a nearly 10,000-square-foot Mexican-American restaurant located inside the Bella Terra shopping center in Huntington Beach.
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• Dodger Deals: Free food and discounts for fans when the Dodgers score

  10-05-2024 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Dodgers partnered with several restaurants to offer free and discounted menu items throughout the season based on how the Dodgers play. Here are the deals available and how you can get them:
  Panda ExpressWhen the Dodgers win, you win! Visit https://t.co/4iaClE6WWA to learn more and get your $5 Panda Plate. pic.twitter.com/S0wToGF5RL
  — Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 7, 2024Panda Plate for $5 until 11:59 p.m. the following day by using the code “Dodgerswin” in
  
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• Newsom says state has $27 billion budget shortfall, but it can be balanced without raising taxes

  10-05-2024 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s state budget has a $27.6 billion deficit, but it can be balanced without new taxes or major cuts to core programs, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday.
  Unveiling his revised $288 billion May state budget for 2024-25, Newsom laid out a plan that relies on taking some money from “rainy day” reserves set aside in prior years, while also delaying some state programs, leaving 10,000 state jobs unfilled, and reducing spending on other programs — from new water storage to
  
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• See a collection of Salvador Dali’s artwork at Fullerton’s Muckenthaler

  10-05-2024 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  About a year ago, Annabella Pritchard, a local art curator, was chatting with a good friend, an learned about a recently acquired,  unique collection of Salvador Dali’s artwork.
  The owner of the collection, financier Benjamin Feldman, the friend told Pritchard, was interested in sharing the art with a nonprofit and preferably showing it as its own exhibition.
  Guests view the Dali artwork during the Muckenthaler Cultural Center’s opening reception for an exhibit of Salvador Dali&
  
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• Can Missouri GOP remove candidate for governor with alleged KKK ties? Judge to decide

  10-05-2024 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Kacen Bayless | (TNS) The Kansas City Star
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Cole County judge will decide whether the Missouri Republican Party can block a candidate with alleged ties to the Ku Klux Klan from running for governor as a Republican.
  Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker held a one-day trial in Jefferson City on Thursday over a lawsuit from the state party seeking to remove the candidate, Darrell Leon McClanahan III, from the August ballot.
  McClanahan, who resides in Milo, a small vil
  
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• Sean Burroughs, Long Beach baseball icon, dies at 43

  10-05-2024 21:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Sean Burroughs, a celebrated baseball standout who led the Long Beach All-Stars to back-to-back Little League World Series titles and played seven seasons in the major leagues, died Thursday. He was 43 years old.
  Long Beach Little League announced Burroughs’ death in a statement posted on Instagram. The cause of death was not immediately known.
  Burroughs was one of the most decorated amateur baseball players in history. The son of 1974 American League Most Valuable Player Jeff Burroughs, S
  
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• Ex-Fatburger, Johnny Rockets CEO accused of ‘cover-up’ in $47M scheme to avoid taxes

  10-05-2024 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  A federal grand jury indicted the former CEO of Fat Brands, Inc. this week for what they said was a years-long scheme to distribute $47 million of shareholder funds disguised as loans to himself to avoid paying taxes.
  Andrew A. Wiederhorn, of Beverly Hills, who is still the controlling shareholder of the company behind such restaurant chains as Fatburger and Johnny Rockets, was accused of conspiring with the company’s CFO and an accountant to hide the disbursements to himself over more tha
  
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• Capistrano Valley Christian diver Grant Schneider soars to CIF State championship

  10-05-2024 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowGrant Schneider’s future appears bright with his commitment to attend Stanford.
  His view at the CIF State diving championships on Thursday also was sparkling.
  The Capistrano Valley Christian junior became the third Orange County boy to claim a state title with a strong performance at Clovis West High.
  Schneider scored 612.60 points to outdistance runner-up Gunnar Grubbs of Palo Alto by just over 28
  
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• Though noncitizens can vote in few local elections, GOP goes big to make it illegal

  10-05-2024 20:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Matt Vasilogambros | (TNS) Stateline.org
  Preventing people who are not United States citizens from casting a ballot has reemerged as a focal point in the ongoing Republican drive to safeguard “election integrity,” even though noncitizens are rarely involved in voter fraud.
  Ahead of November’s presidential election, congressional and state Republican lawmakers are aiming to keep noncitizens away from the polls. They’re using state constitutional amendments and new laws tha
  
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• Olympian Kristi Yamaguchi is ‘tickled pink’ to inspire a Barbie doll

  10-05-2024 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By TERRY TANG (Associated Press)
  Like many little girls, a young Kristi Yamaguchi loved playing with Barbie. With a schedule packed with ice skating practices, her Barbie dolls became her “best friends.”
  So, it’s surreal for the decorated Olympian figure skater to now be a Barbie girl herself.
  “It’s a huge, huge honor. I think a lot of pride comes along with it, not just recognizing the Olympic achievement, but also being recognized during AAPI Month and following i
  
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• Stormy Daniels unfavorably compares Trump to ‘real men’ after hush-money trial testimony

  10-05-2024 20:46 via ocregister.com
  
  David Matthews | New York Daily News
  Stormy Daniels blasted Donald Trump on social media Thursday night, just a few hours after she finished testifying against the former president in his Manhattan hush-money trial.
  “Real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. Oh…wait. Nevermind,” she wrote in a post on X — a taunting reference to Trump not testifying in the case and using his own social media accounts to rail against the proc
  
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• Amgen plows ahead with costly, highly toxic cancer dosing despite FDA challenge

  10-05-2024 20:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Arthur Allen | (TNS) KFF Health News
  When doctors began using the drug sotorasib in 2021 with high expectations for its innovative approach to attacking lung cancer, retired medical technician Don Crosslin was an early beneficiary. Crosslin started the drug that July. His tumors shrank, then stabilized.
  But while the drug has helped keep him alive, its side effects have gradually narrowed the confines of his life, said Crosslin, 76, who lives in Ocala, Florida: “My appetite has been minima
  
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• 25 years to life for man who kidnapped, raped 11-year-old girl in Santa Ana 2 decades ago

  10-05-2024 20:45 via ocregister.com
  
  A Chicago man who kidnapped and repeatedly raped an 11-year-old girl in Santa Ana more than two decades ago was sentenced Friday, May 10 to 25 years to life in prison.
  Ismael Salgado, now 44, was convicted earlier this year of five counts of rape, as well as kidnapping to commit a sex crime, related to a series of sexual assaults over a roughly two hour period on Feb. 3, 1999.
  The sexual assaults of the 11-year-old girl  went unsolved for more than 15 years until a DNA hit led police to Sal
  
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• ‘Birthing friendly’ label requires little effort by hospitals

  10-05-2024 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Jessie Hellmann | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
  WASHINGTON — Six months after the launch of the Biden administration’s “birthing friendly” designation for hospitals, advocates are questioning the next steps for the tool aimed at incentivizing better care for patients.
  Beginning last fall, hospitals that achieved the designation received an icon on Care Compare, a federal website aimed at helping consumers pick health care providers.
  But it’s not difficult for hospitals to
  
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• Part-time Huntington Beach actor found guilty of soliciting investments for fraudulent COVID-19 cure

  10-05-2024 20:40 via ocregister.com
  
  A part-time actor from Huntington Beach who in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic had fraudulently touted a cure and treatment for the virus was found guilty by jury Friday, May 10, of 11 counts of wire fraud for soliciting investors for his bogus treatments, federal authorities said.
  Keith Lawrence Middlebrook, 56, faces a potential maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Ciaran McEvoy said. His sentencing was scheduled for Sept. 9.
  Middlebr
  
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• Trump response to sex tryst allegations key focus as hush money trial resumes

  10-05-2024 20:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By Molly Crane-Newman, Josephine Stratman | New York Daily News
  A bid by Trump’s lawyers to show he was concerned about how his family would take the news of the Stormy Daniels sex tryst allegations fizzled Friday as testimony in the ex-president’s hush money trial resumed.
  Former top White House aide Madeleine Westerhout, who famously lost her job after saying she had a better relationship with Trump than his daughters, testified that she couldn’t recall Trump m
  
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• USC’s Daily Trojan publishes text of valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s canceled speech – redacted

  10-05-2024 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  The Class of 2024 valedictorian whose canceled USC commencement address spurred controversy, protests and the scuttling of the main university graduation ceremony, has shared the text of that speech — though not how you might expect.
  Asna Tabassum, in a nod to how her planned address was silenced by the university, shared her speech with the Daily Trojan on Friday, where it was published in the school newspaper — redacted.
  “President Folt, Provost Guzman, faculty, staff, famili
  
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• Former UCLA doctor wins $14 million in retrial of gender discrimination suit

  10-05-2024 20:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL HETHERMAN
  A jury has awarded $14 million to a former UCLA hematologist who said she was forced out of her job as director of the medical school’s lymphoma program because a male-dominated administration ignored her complaints of gender discrimination.
  The Los Angeles Superior Court panel reached its verdict Thursday in a retrial of Dr. Lauren Pinter-Brown’s long-running lawsuit originally filed against the UC Regents in June 2016.
  Pinter-Brown, now 69, won $13 million in the
  
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• New COVID ‘FLiRT’ variants are spreading nationwide. Health experts urge up to date vaccination

  10-05-2024 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  A new family of COVID variants nicknamed “FLiRT”is spreading across the country, as vaccination rates nationwide remain concerningly low for some public health experts.
  While symptoms and severity seem to be about the same as previous COVID strains, the new FLiRT variants appear to be more transmissible, said infectious disease expert Dr. Robert Murphy.“A new, more contagious variant is out there,” said Murphy, executive director of Northwestern University’s Institu
  
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• Black homeowners start to close gap in property values

  10-05-2024 20:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Tim Henderson | Stateline.org (TNS)
  Black homeowners’ property values are on the rise across the country, with some of the biggest upswings in Midwestern and Southern states. The boon to Black homeowners, after decades of lagging property values, could help them close a racial wealth gap that has kept the American dream out of reach.
  Home values increased on average 84% in majority-Black ZIP codes between 2016 and 2023, outpacing growth in white ZIP codes, where values grew 69%, according
  
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• What’s wrong with protesting about something you’re mistaken about?

  10-05-2024 20:21 via ocregister.com
  
  In the 1960s, while the United States was in the midst of the war in Vietnam, massive protests broke out against the draft and our involvement in the war. Students across the country marched and chanted against what they perceived to be an unjustified war and a racist and classist conscription. Supporters of the war argued that the protesters were misguided and that the war was necessary to halt the spread of communism. 
  During the same general period, thousands of students were demonstrati
  
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• Santa Clarita mom shares story of her daughter’s long recovery from brain cancer

  10-05-2024 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  After 21 years, Amy De La Cruz still remembers in detail the day in 2003 that her little girl was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
  Her daughter, Sabrina Schiermeyer, was 10 when a school nurse contacted De La Cruz to inform her that her fourth-grader was suffering from headaches, dizziness and nausea. After work, De la Cruz took her girl to an urgent care facility. After blood and urine tests, she was sent for an MRI.
  Following long and anxious hours, De La Cruz received a call from a doctor who re
  
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• Analysis: Takeaways from Biden’s candid CNN interview as he warns Israel

  10-05-2024 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  John T. Bennett | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is headed back to California to raise more campaign cash Friday and Saturday after he sent shockwaves around the globe with a potential landmark change to U.S. foreign policy.
  Biden sat down with CNN anchor Erin Burnett Wednesday during a campaign stop in battleground Wisconsin. As he did during recent official White House and campaign events, he jabbed at Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidentia
  
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• Pomona College shifts graduation events as encampment enters 5th day

  10-05-2024 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  As a pro-Palestinian encampment on the Pomona College commencement stage enters its fifth day, commencement activities scheduled for today have been moved to different locations.
  On Tuesday, May 7, the college’s website said the Baccalaureate Service of The Claremont Colleges, a consortium that includes Pomona College, was scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today at Bridges Auditorium.
  This morning, the website listed a new location for the event — Balch Auditorium at Scripps College, another m
  
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