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• Costco cracking down on non-members eating at food courts

  28-03-2024 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  David Matthews | New York Daily News (TNS)
  Costco is cracking down on non-members eating at its wallet-friendly food courts.
  The wholesale store has become known for its cheap eats as much as for allowing everyday consumers to buy in bulk, with the $1.50 hot dog combo and cheap pizza slices, or whole pies, becoming favorites.
  According to social media reports, diners will be required to show their membership cards when making food court purchases starting early next month.
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• California’s weather was made for demagogues

  16-05-2024 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s weather was made for demagogues.
  For as long as records have been kept, the state has typically experienced a series of dry years followed by a series of wet years. The weather lines up conveniently with election cycles. A few years of drought will prompt an excitable politician to declare that projections clearly show the end of the world is upon us unless California takes immediate action. Depending on the circumstances, that action can be the election of that politician to
  
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• Daxon: Breans gather for Rise Against Hunger

  16-05-2024 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  On May 4, food-packaging assembly lines of 65 volunteers were in high gear at the Brea-Yorba Linda-Placentia Boy & Girls Club in Brea.
  We were packaging dry ingredients for Rise Against Hunger food packs that will be go by cargo ship to hungry people in Southeast Asia. Our goal was to fill 10,000 packages from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. We packed 10,200 in two hours.
  The event was sponsored and organized by the Brea Rotary, who sponsored it for five years prior to 2016. Along with Rotarians, there we
  
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• Moorpark College professor to stand trial in death of pro-Israel protester in Thousand Oaks incident

  16-05-2024 18:20 via ocregister.com
  
  VENTURA — A judge decided Wednesday that a Moorpark College professor will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish counter-protester during demonstrations in Thousand Oaks over the Israel-Hamas war last year.
  Superior Court Judge Ryan Wright judge declared after a two-day preliminary hearing that there’s enough evidence to try Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.
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• Taste of Japan food and drink festival returns to Anaheim

  16-05-2024 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Taste of Japan, a three-day festival at STC Anaheim GardenWalk, returns this year to offer guests the chance to taste Japanese fare from more than a dozen Southern California food vendors and eateries.
  From ramen and takoyaki to mochi and kakigōri (sweetened shaved ice), attendees can look forward to sweet and savory bites from AJAJ Cafe, Amamiya Baby Castella, Daikokuya, Kashiwa Ramen, Kuramoto ICE, Mochi Midoh Japanese Kitchen, Mochill Mochi Crepe, Mymen Ramen, Otafuku, Shake Ra
  
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• Teen who ate spicy chip died of high chile consumption and had a heart defect, autopsy says

  16-05-2024 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  BOSTON  — A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from eating a large quantity of chile pepper extract and also had a congenital heart defect, according to an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press.
  Harris Wolobah, a 10th grader from the city of Worcester, died on Sept. 1, 2023, after eating the chip manufactured by Paqui. The cause of death was listed as cardiopulmonary arrest “in the setting of recent ingestion of
  
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• From the swap meet to Amazon: How Anaheim-based Nature’s Select keeps its pet food concept fresh, 30 years in

  16-05-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Paul and Diana Cavanaugh at Nature’s Select headquarters in Anaheim, CA, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The Cavanaughs started their pet food business 30 years ago. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Paul and Diana Cavanaugh and their daughter, Megan Sanchez, at Nature’s Select headquarters in Anaheim, CA, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The Cavanaughs started their pet food business 30 years ago. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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• From swap meets to Amazon: How Anaheim-based Nature’s Select keeps its pet food concept fresh

  16-05-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Paul and Diana Cavanaugh at Nature’s Select headquarters in Anaheim, CA, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The Cavanaughs started their pet food business 30 years ago. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Paul and Diana Cavanaugh and their daughter, Megan Sanchez, at Nature’s Select headquarters in Anaheim, CA, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The Cavanaughs started their pet food business 30 years ago. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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• Analysis: The Angels hoped for the best, and this is what they got

  16-05-2024 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  For as much as the Angels talked during spring training about how their expectations were higher than those of the rest of the baseball world, reality has hit them hard in the first quarter of the season.
  The Angels are 16-28. It equals the second-worst start in franchise history, better only than their 14-30 record in 1969.
  While it has been disappointing for the Angels and their fans, it should not be a surprise to anyone.
  The Angels are here because of decisions they made, starting with owner
  
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• The national debt still matters

  16-05-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Interest payments on the national debt have now surpassed, individually, military, Medicare and Medicaid spending, according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. That’s based on the initial seven months of data for the current fiscal year.
  With the national debt now topping $34 trillion and high interest rates, greater and greater proportions of federal spending is now going toward interest on borrowed money.
  Politicians will no doubt hope Americans attribute this
  
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• California teachers union kills science of reading support for teachers

  16-05-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  How can teachers teach kids to read if teachers don’t have the training they need to teach reading the right way? 
  What sounds like some sort of academic tongue twister is actually a huge challenge right now for many states, including California.  
  With the nation’s literacy crisis front and center, lawmakers from coast to coast are passing policies to ensure kids are learning to read from educators who are using proven methods—based on the science of reading&mda
  
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• Dow crosses 40,000 for the first time

  16-05-2024 16:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By Nicole Goodkind | CNN
  New York — The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke past the 40,000 threshold Thursday morning for the first time ever, fueled by an encouraging inflation report.
  The blue-chip index was up about 114 points, or 0.3%, and trading around 40,022 mid-morning.
  Markets had rallied to new record highs Wednesday after the latest Consumer Price Index showed a cooldown for the first time in months, stoking hopes that the Federal Reserve could start cutting interest rates as so
  
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• UCI Chancellor responds to campus encampment crackdown: ‘I’m brokenhearted”

  16-05-2024 16:52 via ocregister.com
  
  UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman called Wednesday a “sad day for our university” after police took multiple people into custody and cleared a Gaza Solidarity Encampment that had been on the campus for more than two weeks.
  “I’m brokenhearted,” Gillman said in a late night message sent out to the campus community.
  He added that although the encampment had violated university policies since its inception in late April, those violations did not rise to the level requ
  
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• Supreme Court sides with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spurning a conservative attack

  16-05-2024 16:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON  — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
  The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the agency is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court. The CFPB was created after the 2008 financial crisis to regulate mortgages, car loans and other consumer finance.
  The case was brought by payday lenders who object to a CFPB rule.
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• Southern Californians need to make $200,800 to buy a home

  16-05-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern Californians need twice the annual income of a U.S. homebuyer to qualify for a typical house.
  A $200,800 income is required to buy the region’s $785,000 median-priced, existing single-family home in the first quarter, according to affordability stats from the California Association of Realtors.
  My trusty spreadsheet found this mortgage-qualifying standard has grown by $54,800, or 38%, since 2022’s first quarter. That’s when the Federal Reserve started its war on inflat
  
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• California houses: Only millionaires need apply

  16-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Turning 69 next month, I try not to look back. Can’t change the past. But one thing I wish I had done was buy a house when I came to Orange County in 1987. Even if it meant taking a second job flipping burgers at McDonald’s.
  Jonathan Lansner headlined a story May 11, “It takes $349,200 income to buy an Orange County home, 3.5 times the U.S. salary.” I’m wondering how much that will affect my rent, currently $2,500 a month for a matchbox-sized studio in Irvine. 
  
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• A Nanny State Idiocracy: A tale of too many laws and too little freedom

  16-05-2024 15:50 via ocregister.com
  
  We are caught in a vicious cycle of too many laws, too many cops, and too little freedom.
  It’s hard to say whether we’re dealing with a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves), a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little regard for the rights of American citizens), or a Nanny State Idiocracy.
  Whatever the label, this overbearing despotism is what happens when government
  
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• The ‘heart’ of Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump is misdirection

  16-05-2024 15:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Porn star Stormy Daniels says she had sex with former President Donald Trump at a Lake Tahoe hotel in July 2006. To keep her from telling that story, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen says, “the boss” instructed him to pay Daniels $130,000 shortly before the 2016 presidential election.
  Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says that nondisclosure agreement was a serious crime that undermined democracy by concealing information from voters. Of these three accounts, Bragg’s is t
  
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• The city of Orange is facing a $19 million deficit. Now what?

  16-05-2024 15:27 via ocregister.com
  
  The city of Orange faces an annual deficit of $19.1 million that officials say could deplete the city’s reserve funding in less than two years.
  City leaders are calling this moment a crisis and are debating how to bridge the wide gap between revenue and spending with just over a month to go before the start of the next fiscal year.
  On Tuesday, the City Council reviewed a slate of cost-cutting ideas from a budget ad hoc committee that could save Orange $12.9 million next year, but would cut
  
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• Politicians can’t ‘fix’ prices, and that’s OK

  16-05-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Prices are threads stitching together the fabric of our economy. They guide countless producers, here and abroad, to meet the most urgent demands of countless consumers. Prices enable the economic coordination of millions of individuals — each with his or her own unique preferences, skills and resources — with no need for a central planner. They direct entrepreneurs and innovators, signaling where opportunities lie and where resources are most needed.
  Prices are guardians of scarce r
  
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• Santa Ana’s Rory Schoonmaker approved as new football coach at El Segundo

  16-05-2024 07:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSanta Ana football coach Rory Schoonmaker is leaving after one season at the helm to take the head coach position at El Segundo, he confirmed.
  “I have lived in Redondo Beach the last five years and this is going to give me an opportunity to be a more present father and husband being so much closer to home,” Schoonmaker said of the move. “I am working with (Santa Ana) athletic director (B
  
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• New-look Sparks fall to Atlanta in season opener

  16-05-2024 06:42 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — The new-look Sparks could not overcome an 11-0 run by the Atlanta Dream to start the fourth quarter and dropped their season opener, 92-81, in front of celebrities like Kim Kardashian (WNBA SKIMS partnership) and team owner Magic Johnson on Wednesday night at Long Beach State’s Walter Pyramid.
  The score was tied at 66 through three quarters, but Atlanta seized control with its pivotal 11-0 run for a 77-66 lead with 6:29 left.
  The Sparks cut Atlanta’s lead to 87-81
  
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• Dodgers held in check by Logan Webb as Giants avoid sweep

  16-05-2024 06:19 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — They chant it nightly, regardless of the score – “Beat L-A!” They finally did it for the first time in awhile.
  Giants ace Logan Webb held the Dodgers scoreless for six innings and prevented a sweep by the SoCal visitors with a 4-1 victory for the San Francisco Giants.
  The win was the Giants’ first in six meetings with the Dodgers this season.
  Playing with house money after winning the first two games, the Dodgers tried to steal some more without spen
  
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• Griffin Canning shines and Angels hit 3 homers in victory over Cardinals

  16-05-2024 06:06 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Griffin Canning continued his early-season turnaround on a night when the Angels finally put everything together.
  Canning pitched six strong innings in the Angels’ 7-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday, a game that included home runs from Nolan Schanuel, Zach Neto and Taylor Ward.
  The Angels (16-28) snapped their three-game losing streak with one of their best all-around performances of the season.
  Canning gave up one run, improving his ERA to 1.53 over his
  
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• Denis Bouanga, Hugo Lloris lead LAFC past St. Louis

  16-05-2024 05:40 via ocregister.com
  
  ST. LOUIS — Denis Bouanga scored two goals and Hugo Lloris made seven saves for his third clean sheet of the season to help LAFC beat St. Louis, 2-0, on Wednesday night.
  Bouanga joined Carlos Vela as the only players in club history to score at least 10 game-winning goals.
  Bouanga ran past the defense to get to a nice, lofted pass from Mateusz Bogusz and took one touch before smashing a shot inside the near post in the 59th minute.
  Bouanga added another in second-half stoppage time. St. Lo
  
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• Galaxy can’t hold off Minnesota as winless streak reaches 4 games

  16-05-2024 05:20 via ocregister.com
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. — A pair of second-half goals had the Galaxy well-positioned for a road win, but Kervin Arriaga scored off a corner kick in the 80th minute and Minnesota United rallied to tie the Galaxy, 2-2, on Wednesday night.
  Dejan Joveljic and Diego Fagúndez scored seven minutes apart in the second half for the Galaxy (5-2-6, 21 points), which is now winless in its last four games. Joveljic was left wide open near the penalty spot for an easy finish of Gabriel Pec’s c
  
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• Five storylines to follow this weekend in the CIF-SS softball championships

  16-05-2024 05:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowChampionship weekend in CIF-SS softball is approaching, and the storylines are plentiful for Orange County.
  There’s the all-county Division 1 final between No. 1 Orange Lutheran and No. 2 Pacifica on Friday, and Oxford Academy’s first appearance in a section final on Saturday.
  Here are five themes to keep watch for at Deanna Manning Stadium in Irvine this weekend:
  Will Pacifica’s Fab 5 s
  
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• Dodgers shuffle pitching plans, promote Elieser Hernandez for start

  16-05-2024 04:49 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — Even bullpen games get extra rest in the Dodgers’ starting rotation.
  The Dodgers pivoted from an expected bullpen game on Wednesday night, instead promoting right-handers Elieser Hernandez and Eduardo Salazar from Triple-A Oklahoma City.
  In the starting rotation for OKC, Hernandez was 4-1 with a 2.83 ERA in Triple-A. He started for the Dodgers Wednesday – his first major-league start since Oct. 5, 2022 with the Miami Marlins.
  “Talking it through with
  
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• After protests, UCI cancels Wednesday evening classes; moves Thursday instruction online

  16-05-2024 03:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Officials at UC Irvine canceled evening classes Wednesday and will hold classes online Thursday after a large group of police moved to break up a campus-based pro-Palestinian encampment and detained some protesters.
  “Unless specifically noted, all employees should work remotely,” UCI said in an evening announcement. “Resident students may still access dining facilities.
  “Protest activity continues. Please avoid area until further notice.”
  The decisions came after ap
  
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• After protests, UCI cancels Wednesday evening classes

  16-05-2024 03:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Officials at UCI canceled evening classes Wednesday and advised staff to work remotely Thursday after a large group of police moved to break up a campus-based pro-Palestinian encampment and taking protesters into custody.
  The move came after school hundred protesters entered the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall on Wednesday, May 15, around 2:30 p.m., prompting UCI officials to call several police agencies and issue a campus-wide alert. In that alert, school officials referred to what they describe
  
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