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• Del Mar horse racing consensus picks for Sunday, Aug. 30

  30-08-2020 09:40 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Sunday, August 30 for racing at Del Mar.
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• Trump or Biden? Either way, US seems poised to preserve heavy tariffs on imports

  21-05-2024 18:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By PAUL WISEMAN (AP Economics Writer)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As president, Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on foreign steel, which hurt Clips & Clamps Industries, a Michigan auto supplier — raising its materials prices, making it harder to compete with overseas rivals and costing it several contracts.
  Jeff Aznavorian, the company president, thought he might enjoy some relief once Joe Biden entered the White House. Instead, Biden largely preserved Trump’s tariffs — on ste
  
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• After finishing high school in a pandemic, Cal State Fullerton grads get to celebrate in person

  21-05-2024 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  More than 11,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students will celebrate their graduation in a dozen commencement ceremonies this week at Cal State Fullerton.
  Ceremonies kicked off Monday evening for eligible graduates of the College of Communications and College of the Arts collecting their diplomas before family and friends. For many who graduated high school in 2020, Monday was their first chance to celebrate a commencement in person. For transfer students, it marked triumph over educ
  
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• California’s budget deficit revives state’s everlasting battle over school funding

  21-05-2024 18:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Financial support for the nearly 6 million students in California’s public schools is not only the largest chunk of the state budget, but for the past half-century it has been its most contentious element.
  This year is no exception as Gov. Gavin Newsom faces stiff opposition from the education establishment for a new fiscal maneuver to cope with a massive budget deficit.
  A bit of history places it in context.
  Until the 1970s, local school systems were financed almost entirely from property
  
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• Election deniers moving closer to GOP mainstream, report shows, as Trump allies fill Congress

  21-05-2024 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and LISA MASCARO (Associated Press)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In the hours after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Ohio’s then-Republican senator, Rob Portman, voted to accept President Joe Biden’s win over the defeated former president, Donald Trump, despite Trump’s false allegations that Biden only won because of fraud.
  But as Trump charges toward his rematch with Biden in 2024, Portman has been replaced by Sen. JD Vance, a potential vice pres
  
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• LA County to move Jane Fonda Day so it doesn’t fall on Black April, the day of the fall of Saigon

  21-05-2024 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected Tuesday to move Jane Fonda Day to April 8 from the previously proclaimed date of April 30, after backlash from critics and Vietnamese Americans upset over the date’s overlap with Black April.
  Commemorating the Fall of Saigon, Black April is observed on April 30 and is a solemn occasion for veterans of the Vietnam War and the 521,100-strong Vietnamese population in California.
  The board issued its original Jane Fonda Day proclamation o
  
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• All-Star basketball showcase celebrates top Asian-American high school stars

  21-05-2024 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  As Pranav Iyer, the founder of AMAZN HQ, addressed a large crowd at Mira Costa High School’s basketball gym on Sunday, kids ran behind the players’ benches, trying to get the autographs of the AMAZN All-Star West Showcase players.
  Iyer delivered a message to the fans in attendance about why he started his media platform, AMAZN HQ, in 2019.
  “I wanted to show people that it’s not just one or two of us,” Iyer said. “There’s not just one Asian-American on th
  
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• Nick’s to take over Gracias Madre space in Newport Beach

  21-05-2024 18:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Nick’s Restaurant, noted for its causal yet upscale American fare, will move into the former Gracias Madre space in Newport Beach. It’s expected to open in October. This will mark the third location for Nick’s in Orange County, joining the Laguna Beach and San Clemente venues, and its eighth spot overall in California.
  “Nick’s will continue to elevate not only our property, but also the foodie culture of Westcliff Drive, providing the community the perfect gathering
  
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• $1.2 million CalOptima grant will expand educational programs at Santiago Canyon College

  21-05-2024 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Opportunities for local students to launch their careers in the health care field will become more accessible, thanks to a recent $1.2 million grant from CalOptima to Santiago Canyon College.
  The goal of the grant is to expand educational health care opportunities in SCC’s Division of Continuing Education and create an employment pipeline between SCC students and CalOptima service providers.
  “For us, it’s a huge benefit to receive this grant,” said SCC Dean of Instruction
  
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• This international film festival amplifies Latino voices with movies that tell universal stories

  21-05-2024 18:01 via ocregister.com
  
  With about 100 films in all sorts of genres, the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival returns to the heart of Hollywood this month with movies that are meant to capture the human experience from a Latino perspective and stories that will resonate with audiences from all backgrounds.
  “We really want and strive to create a program that’s really wide and really diverse so that we can serve the various tastes that every audience member may have. We want to offer something for e
  
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• Invest in the systems that keep us healthy and divest from the systems that harm

  21-05-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Governor Gavin Newsom has released the May Revised Budget, cutting billions in spending to address California’s staggering and unpredictable budget deficit. While his original budget spared many key public health initiatives from the chopping block, Newsom’s revised budget cuts $52.5 million from last year’s local and state public health funding, and an additional $300 million in ongoing spending reductions.
  Dwindling federal support for efforts to confront an ongoing pandemic
  
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• Lowe’s hurt by sour home-improvement outlook

  21-05-2024 17:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Retailer Lowe’s Cos. cautioned that home-improvement spending will remain muted in coming months.
  Comparable sales, a key metric for the retail industry, fell 4.1% in the first quarter, though they were better than analysts projected. The company said it expects sales trends to be similar in the second quarter.
  Chief Executive Officer Marvin R. Ellison said on a call with analysts that uncertainty around interest rates and inflation continues to weigh on home-improvement demand, as does a
  
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• Chapman University president announces he will retire in fall 2025

  21-05-2024 17:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Chapman University President Daniele Struppa announced to the university’s board of trustees that he will retire as president before the fall 2025 term. He will then return to the mathematics faculty.
  Struppa was inaugurated as Chapman’s 13th president in 2016. Previously, he was the university’s first chancellor for nine years, and he was provost for one year before that.
  “I believe Chapman is living some of its best years: we are fiscally very strong, indicators such as
  
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• Housing shouldn’t be a privilege in California

  21-05-2024 17:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By Gonzalez Soto
  I never thought that having a child would cause me to become homeless. I was pregnant and working full-time at a minimum-wage job when my daughter was born. My job refused me paid parental leave, and as a single parent without the income to afford costly child care, I was forced to stay home to care for my infant child. This cost me my income and my ability to pay rent.
  Within months, my landlord threatened to call the sheriff to evict me. My daughters and I became homeless. We
  
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• Poetry as therapy can help to guide us through darkness

  21-05-2024 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By Myra Dutton | Contributing Columnist
  Myra Dutton is the author of “Healing Ground,” which was a finalist for the New Age Retailer Award. She is the founder of the Evolutionary Poets Theater Troupe and director of Beat Nite in Idyllwild. (Courtesy of Myra Dutton)
  I began writing this on Mother’s Day, as my heart seemed buried by the weight of my son’s recent diagnosis of an incurable, debilitating disease –– an inherited illness that remained silent for deca
  
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• California’s median home price crosses $900,000 threshold

  21-05-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  “How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market.
  The pain: The typical California house for sale now costs more than $900,000.
  The source: My trusty spreadsheet looked at the California Association of Realtors report, which says the statewide median price for an existing single-family house reached $904,210 in April. It was a first for the median, which gained 5.8% in a month and 11% in a year.
  The pinch
  It was only March 2022 when the m
  
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• 11-year-old to break Irvine Valley College’s record, and her brother’s, as school’s youngest grad

  21-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  At 11 years old, Athena Elling is doing what any normal pre-teens do: exploring her hobbies, taking care of her pets and hanging out with her family.
  But unlike her peers, in a few days, she will also be a college graduate.
  On Thursday, May 23, Elling, a San Juan Capistrano resident, will become the youngest student to graduate from Irvine Valley College. She will graduate as cum laude (which means she had a GPA of 3.50–3.74) with an associate’s degree in liberal arts.
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• Niles: I’d rather wait in line than use Disney’s virtual queue

  21-05-2024 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Innovation has driven some amazing new experiences over the past generation at Disneyland and leading theme parks around the world. From ride systems to Audio Animatronics to projection show effects, innovation in technology has helped to create experiences that feel more immersive and engaging than ever before.
  But in business and operations, I am much less enamored of what innovation has brought theme park fans. Please, can we just go back to old-fashioned waiting in line?
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• A disgraced K-pop star hides in Southern California. ‘The Band’ tells the story.

  21-05-2024 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  In Christine Ma-Kellams debut novel “The Band,” a canceled K-pop idol flees South Korea for Southern California, where a chance encounter in an H-Mart grocery store leads to him laying low in the home of a slightly older psychology professor.
  He’s handsome and charismatic; she’s unhappy in her marriage. But this isn’t going where that might make you think.
  “The idea mostly came out of my experiences as a reader,” Ma-Kellams says of this meet-cute that zi
  
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• Florida’s 125% surge in insurance bills creates housing havoc

  21-05-2024 15:22 via ocregister.com
  
  For Filicia Porter, the insurance bills were the final straw. They’d been climbing steeply for her assisted-living business as Florida was battered with ever more-powerful storms, and eventually, the numbers stopped adding up.
  So in March, she finally decided to call it quits, shutting the facility near Palm Beach that she opened just two years ago. That came four months after she closed an older location in Port St. Lucie, opened in 2017. Together, they left a dozen residents scrambling t
  
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• Freddie Freeman’s grand slam the big blow as Dodgers top Diamondbacks

  21-05-2024 06:59 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo had an idea Monday.
  Rather than feed rookie starter Slade Cecconi immediately to the former MVPs at the top of the Dodgers’ lineup, the Diamondbacks started lefty reliever Joe Mantiply – a familiar “opener” strategy in the analytics era – and let him handle the first inning. Cecconi could get his feet under him and maybe sneak up on the Dodgers.
  “They haven’t seen Slade,” Lovullo reason
  
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• Man charged with murder in Fullerton shooting

  21-05-2024 05:06 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A 20-year-old Fullerton man has been charged with gunning down a 19-year-old man and attempting to kill another victim in Fullerton.
  Alexis David Rodriguez-Lopez was charged Friday with murder and attempted murder with sentencing enhancements for the personal discharge of a gun. The defendant was 17 when he was initially charged in Juvenile Court. However, he was found to be unsuitable for a trial in that court and was charged as an adult.
  The defendant was accused of killing 1
  
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• Angels’ core of young hitters blast 4 homers in quick rally to stun Astros

  21-05-2024 04:52 via ocregister.com
  
  HOUSTON — In a season in which the Angels are going to see what the future holds, they won a game on Monday night when four of the young hitters homered to pick up a struggling young pitcher.
  Nolan Schanuel, Logan O’Hoppe, Jo Adell and Zach Neto – the 25-and-under core of the Angels’ lineup – hit homers in a two-inning span to help the Angels overcome a five-run deficit on their way a stunning 9-7 victory over the Houston Astros.
  The first three homers came in a sev
  
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• LAFC looks to secure U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal spot without Steve Cherundolo

  21-05-2024 04:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Prior to halftime of the Los Angeles Football Club’s Round of 32 U.S. Open Cup win in Las Vegas two weeks ago, Steve Cherundolo was sent off with a straight red card for engaging officials near midfielder Eduard Atuesta, who appeared to get stepped on after the ball was blown dead.
  Referee James Duling’s decision drew a bemused smile from the 45-year-old head coach, and, moments later, Cherundolo was unable to address his team in the visitor’s locker room at Cashman Field.
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• Former OC Fire Authority communications director awarded $580,000 to settle gender suit

  21-05-2024 03:56 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County Fire Authority quietly paid a $580,000 settlement last year to its former communications director to settle a lawsuit alleging a systematic pattern of chauvinistic harassment, according to court records.
  The July 2023 settlement with Colleen Windsor, who worked for OCFA  from January 2019 to August 2021, and her legal team, was first reported by the Times of San Diego.
  The $580,000 payout, which includes $58,000 for “taxable wages,” follows Windsor’s 2021
  
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• Dodgers’ Emmet Sheehan ready for the long rehab road ahead

  21-05-2024 03:55 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Emmet Sheehan is the latest member of a rapidly growing fraternity.
  The Dodgers right-hander underwent Tommy John surgery last week and now faces over a year on the sidelines, rehabilitating.
  “Super frustrating,” Sheehan said Monday, back at Dodger Stadium for the first time since the procedure. “Obviously being on a team like this, it’s really cool to be around these guys and getting to play with them is a great opportunity that I was looking forward
  
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• CIF-SS champion Pacifica among Orange County softball teams opting out of CIF SoCal Regional

  21-05-2024 03:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowCIF-SS Division 1 champion Pacifica is among the Orange County softball teams that have opted out of the upcoming CIF SoCal Regional playoffs, Mariners coach Tony Arduino said Monday after a meeting with players.
  “We decided not to do it,” he said. “It was a team decision.”
  Pacifica (27-2), which claimed its second consecutive Division 1 crown on Friday, joins two other automatic q
  
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• CIF-SS champion Pacifica among O.C. softball teams opting out of SoCal regional

  21-05-2024 03:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowCIF-SS Division 1 champion Pacifica is among the Orange County softball teams that have opted out of the upcoming CIF SoCal Regional, Mariners coach Tony Arduino said Monday after a meeting with players.
  “We decided not to do it,” he said. “It was a team decision.”
  Pacifica (27-2), which claimed its second consecutive Division 1 crown on Friday, joins automatic qualifiers Orange Lu
  
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• Several 7-Eleven stores robbed across LA, Orange counties, possible suspects arrested

  21-05-2024 02:59 via ocregister.com
  
  A crew of robbers late on Sunday, May 19 targeted at least four 7-Eleven convenience stores across Los Angeles and Orange counties, and possibly more, as police continue to investigate the apparent crime spree.
  Over about a half hour, a group of five men barged into three different 7-Eleven stores located in North Orange County: Two in Anaheim and one in Fullerton, police said.
  At every location, the group jumped over the front counter, grabbed cash boxes and cigarettes, then fled outside to a w
  
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• Santa Margarita baseball accepts spot in CIF regional playoffs, joining Huntington Beach, Orange Lutheran

  21-05-2024 02:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Santa Margarita is going to the CIF Southern California Regional baseball playoffs.
  The Eagles were invited because Corona and Harvard-Westlake opted not to compete in the playoffs that begin May 28.
  Corona defeated Harvard-Westlake in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 championship game Saturday. Both teams announced their intention to not participate in the regional.
  The CIF State organizes and manages the CIF SoCal Regional, and it offers 20 invitations to CIF-SS teams. The spots are awarded
  
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