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• Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani gets ‘precautionary’ day off with back issue

  12-05-2024 23:35 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN DIEGO –If NHK viewers in Japan set their alarms to rise early on a Monday morning and watch Shohei Ohtani face Yu Darvish, they should have slept in.
  Ohtani was not in the Dodgers’ starting lineup Sunday against Darvish and the San Diego Padres after leaving Saturday’s game early with lower back tightness.
  “I just felt some discomfort while working out yesterday,” Ohtani said through his interpreter. “I personally feel that I can play but just taking it ea
  
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• Anaheim Councilmember Natalie Rubalcava declares victory in recall election

  06-06-2024 02:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim Councilmember Natalie Rubalcava is declaring victory after appearing set to have fended off a recall election against her brought forth by a labor union.
  The vote against recalling Rubalcava from office leads by 53.7%, according to the latest results from the county election office posted Wednesday evening. Rubalcava led by 440 votes with an estimated 103 still to process, according to the registrar’s tally. However, it’s unclear how many ballots may still arrive by mail that
  
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• Dodgers’ Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani ‘grinding’ through slumps

  06-06-2024 01:55 via ocregister.com
  
  PITTSBURGH — As Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani have slumped recently, creating a drag on the Dodgers’ offense, Manager Dave Roberts might have been tempted to shuffle his lineup if for no other reason than to shake up its chemistry.
  But there’s one problem with that.
  “Well, if there were other options or better options I’m all for listening. But if you look up and down our lineup there’s really no one who’s going great,” Roberts said when asked abo
  
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• NBA Finals: Redemption-minded Celtics take on opportunistic Mavericks

  06-06-2024 01:03 via ocregister.com
  
  BOSTON — As the Dallas Mavericks and Boston Celtics prepare to tip off the NBA Finals, the four biggest names in the series are looking at this moment through different lenses.
  Boston’s Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown – the Celtics’ most tenured and scrutinized stars on their roster – see it as a chance at redemption after falling just short two seasons ago and then failing to return last year.
  “You think that you’re young, if you’ve been once, you&r
  
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• Mark Takano: Ignore the spin, trust the facts on Trump’s conviction

  06-06-2024 00:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Stacks of physical evidence. Weeks of testimony from corroborating witnesses. Twelve ordinary citizens on a jury listened carefully to the prosecution and defense present their cases. And they came to one unanimous verdict: former President Donald Trump was guilty of 34 felonies.
  In almost any other time, Republicans would have been reading the GOP Party bylaws at breakneck speeds, desperate to find the fastest way to ditch a convicted felon from the ticket. These are not normal times. Instead,
  
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• Stanton’s old approach for a new downtown

  06-06-2024 00:44 via ocregister.com
  
  California eliminated redevelopment agencies a dozen years ago, yet some cities have yet to dispense with the redevelopment mindset. One of the core problems with that planning approach – beyond encouraging officials to abuse eminent domain and run up taxpayer-backed debt – was that it empowered City Hall to centrally plan new projects.
  Stanton is a 1950s-era north Orange County suburb, known mainly for its nondescript tract-house neighborhoods and commercial strips. Officials there
  
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• LA28 organizers choose former U.S. military leader Reynold Hoover as CEO

  06-06-2024 00:19 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics has hired retired Army Lt. Gen. Reynold Hoover as its CEO.
  In a news release announcing the move on Wednesday, the committee said, “Hoover’s appointment underscored LA28’s heightened focus on operations and delivery.”
  “Reynold is one of the few people in the nation who possesses the operational and logistics expertise that the Olympic and Paralympic Games require,” LA28 Preside
  
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• Recovered brown pelicans take flight off San Pedro’s White Point Beach

  06-06-2024 00:16 via ocregister.com
  
  A group of brown pelicans were set free on a San Pedro beach on Wednesday, June 5, after recovering from starvation and various injuries.
  The seabirds, which were released back into the wild from White Point Beach, spent several weeks getting back to good health at International Bird Rescue’s San Pedro center.
  Since mid-April, International Bird Rescue has admitted more than 350 emaciated and injured pelicans to its two centers; besides San Pedro, the nonprofit animal care organization als
  
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• Blaze Pizza moving its Pasadena headquarters to Atlanta

  05-06-2024 23:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Blaze Pizza is relocating the chain’s Pasadena headquarters to Atlanta.
  The company announced this week that the move, expected to be completed by September, is part of its growth strategy. The chain is in 39 states with more than 300 restaurants – with roughly one-third of the eateries in California.
  Unlike other companies that have departed the Golden State, Blaze’s statement on its relocation sounded sort of sentimental.
  “California is where this brand was born more th
  
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• Blaze Pizza headquarters moving from California to Georgia

  05-06-2024 23:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Blaze Pizza is relocating the chain’s Pasadena headquarters to Atlanta.
  The company announced this week that the move, expected to be completed by September, is part of its growth strategy. The chain is in 39 states with more than 300 restaurants – with roughly one-third of the eateries in California.
  Unlike other companies that have departed the Golden State, Blaze’s statement on its relocation sounded sort of sentimental.
  “California is where this brand was born more th
  
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• 2 teens shot in Santa Ana neighborhood; at least 1 was only a bystander

  05-06-2024 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Two teenagers, at least one a bystander, were hospitalized in critical condition after getting shot in a residential area of Santa Ana on Wednesday, June 5.
  The shooting occurred around 12:15 p.m. on the 900 block of West Bishop Street.
  One teen, believed to be the intended target, was on foot when shot.
  The other teen, an apparent innocent bystander, was inside a home and had no connection to the other victim, said Officer Natalie Garcia, a spokeswoman for Santa Ana police.
  The suspect fled. It
  
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• As finals loom, student teachers at UCI join statewide strike

  05-06-2024 23:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Graduate students who work as teaching and research assistants at UC Irvine went on strike Wednesday, joining similar workers at other University of California campuses who say the UC system has violated their collective bargaining agreement by cracking down on  pro-Palestine encampments.
  The stoppage at UCI is the sixth to hit the UC system since mid-May, with workers also walking out at campuses in Santa Cruz, Davis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego.
  The UAW represents 48,000 grad
  
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• Kings re-sign Andre Lee to a one-year, two-way contract

  05-06-2024 23:35 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings have re-signed forward Andre Lee to a one-year, two-way contract worth as much as $775,000, the club shared in a news release Wednesday.
  Lee completed his second full season and third overall with the Kings’ top minor-league affiliate, the Ontario Reign, notching 13 points in 36 games and four points (all goals) in eight playoff appearances.
  At 6’5” and firmly above 200 pounds, Lee projects as a checker whose energy and physicality will likely be what open doors for t
  
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• Disneyland pauses Magic Key sales again on all annual passes

  05-06-2024 23:29 via ocregister.com
  
  The on-again, off-again availability of Disneyland annual passes is paused once more as the Anaheim theme park has halted all Magic Key sales indefinitely.
  New sales of all Magic Key pass types were paused on Wednesday, June 5 as the Disneyland resort manages the program, according to Disneyland officials.
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• Disneyland closing Doctor Strange show in Avengers Campus

  05-06-2024 23:19 via ocregister.com
  
  A superhero show that has drawn standing room only crowds and been a staple of Avengers Campus since the Marvel themed land opened at Disney California Adventure will end its run later this month.
  The final performance of “Doctor Strange: Mysteries of the Mystic Arts” in Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure is said to be on June 30, according to Disneyland officials.
  However, fans may not want to wait until then to catch one last performance of the show. Currently, the last
  
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• Putin warns that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets

  05-06-2024 22:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAMES JORDAN and HARRIET MORRIS
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — President Vladimir Putin warned Germany on Wednesday that the use of its weapons by Ukraine to strike inside Russia would mark a “dangerous step,” and he said Moscow could, in turn, provide long-range arms to others to strike Western targets.
  Such action by the West will further undermine international security and could lead to “very serious problems,” he said, speaking to senior news leaders of internatio
  
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• Pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested at Stanford University after occupying president’s office

  05-06-2024 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By TERRY CHEA and JOHN ANTCZAK
  STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford University said 13 people were arrested as law enforcement removed pro-Palestinian demonstrators who occupied a campus building early Wednesday, with the school saying there was damage inside and outside a building that houses the university president and provost offices.
  The takeover began near dawn on the last day of classes for the spring quarter. Some protesters barricaded themselves inside while others linked arms outside, The
  
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• The chicken and egg problem of fighting another flu pandemic

  05-06-2024 21:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Arthur Allen | (TNS) KFF Health News
  Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs.
  They worried about them in 2005, and in 2009, and they’re worrying now. That’s because millions of fertilized hen eggs are still the main ingredient in making vaccines that, hopefully, will protect people against the outbreak of a new flu strain.
  “It’s almost comical to be using a 1940s technology for a 21st-century pandemic,” said Rick
  
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• 5 financial steps for new college grads in their first jobs

  05-06-2024 21:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By Amanda Barroso | NerdWallet
  It’s college graduation season, a time to celebrate the years of hard work and effort you’ve invested in your education and career development. Hopefully, the future feels full of endless possibilities. But there’s also an undeniable reality: those possibilities cost money.
  One antidote to the uncertainty you might feel about your financial future is to put together a plan. Here are five first steps you can take now.
  1. Build a budget you can stic
  
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• First look at Frozen ride pitched for Disneyland expansion

  05-06-2024 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  The new Frozen ride at the Tokyo Disneyland resort that has been called a “masterpiece of modern Imagineering” offers a glimpse of what the future could hold for Disneyland under a long-term vision for the Anaheim theme park resort district.
  Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Journey has been pitched as a possible project for the DisneylandForward theme park expansion plan recently approved by the city of Anaheim.
  ALSO SEE: What will Disneyland build first in theme park expansion?
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• 80 years later, memories of D-Day invasion, sacrifice remain strong

  05-06-2024 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  About a month before the Allied invasion of a 50-mile stretch of beaches in Normandy, France, Leonard Zerlin, then a 20-year-old B-26 turret gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps, had a sense something major was coming.
  Based in Bournemouth, England, he and a crew of five were among a squadron flying 38 planes for the 9th Air Force Bombardment Group, and all communication in or out of the base had been restricted. From atop a control tower he had already spied tons of equipment being amassed: Jeeps,
  
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• Ozempic may help fight kidney disease, study finds

  05-06-2024 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  As chronic kidney disease rises nationwide, a new study partially conducted in Orlando suggests weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy could be part of the solution.
  The pharmaceutical-industry-backed study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, followed more than 3,500 people with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease for an average of 3.4 years, including several in Orlando. One group was given weekly injections of semaglutide, the main ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, and another
  
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• John Stossel: Trump earned his boos at the Libertarian convention

  05-06-2024 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Donald Trump recently spoke at the Libertarian National Convention.
  Good for him. It’s encouraging that he reached out to those of us who often disagree with him.
  We libertarians put individual liberty first. We think government that governs least governs best.
  That’s a reason we fear today’s Democrats. In their eagerness to tax and regulate, while throwing newly printed money at a thousand special interests, we fear they will destroy our future.
  So, Trump won applause saying,
  
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• Eric Borba resigns as baseball coach at Orange Lutheran

  05-06-2024 20:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Eric Borba has resigned as Orange Lutheran baseball coach, a position Borba held for 16 seasons.
  The school made the announcement today (June 6).
  He led the Lancers to the CIF Southern California Regional Division I championship this season. They beat La Mirada 7-6 in the Division I final on Saturday.
  Assistant coach RJ Farrell will replace Borba. Farrell, who has recently been listed as co-head coach, has been on the Orange Lutheran baseball coaching staff for the past five seasons.
  Borba, 49,
  
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• Chargers release Corey Linsley in advance of his expected retirement

  05-06-2024 20:42 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers officially severed ties with All-Pro center Corey Linsley on Wednesday, releasing him months after he said he was “99% certain” that he would retire from the NFL after a stellar, decade-long career because of a heart ailment discovered early in the 2023 season.
  “Corey is everything you hope for and more in an NFL player,” Chargers president of football operations John Spanos said in a statement. “The consummate professional, his mentorship of younger pl
  
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• Mater Dei freshman Chasity Rice transfers to state girls basketball champion Etiwanda

  05-06-2024 20:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowPromising Mater Dei basketball player Chasity Rice has enrolled at reigning state and national champion Etiwanda, Eagles girls coach Stan Delus confirmed.
  Rice, a 5-foot-6 freshman point guard, showed progress last season for Orange County’s top-ranked team.
  She averaged 6.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.4 assists to help the Monarchs (25-8) claim the Trinity League title and reach the Open Division se
  
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• ‘We’re not gonna barbecue our way out of this’: Wild pigs, conquering all Florida counties, are now taking over the U.S.

  05-06-2024 20:09 via ocregister.com
  
  David Prendergast loved gardening at his home in the small Miramar development that borders the Everglades. Then he woke up one morning in early May to discover his grass destroyed and his plants devoured.
  A family of wild hogs had visited his home, as they had those of other residents over the last several days, leaving lawns in various states of disarray and creating a sense of panic throughout the neighborhood, though Prendergast empathized with the animals.
  “I guess they’re hungr
  
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• Man convicted of firing gunshots in 99 Cents Only parking lot in Santa Ana

  05-06-2024 20:05 via ocregister.com
  
  A driver who opened fire on the occupants in another vehicle after an apparent parking lot dispute outside a 99 Cents Only store in Santa Ana was convicted this week of attempted murder.
  An Orange County Superior Court jury on Tuesday, June 4, found Johnell Jackson, 38, guilty of felony counts of attempted murder and discharging a firearm at an occupied vehicle for a Feb. 18, 2024, shooting in a parking lot at 1514 N. Main St.
  The 9:45 p.m. shooting, on a Sunday, came immediately after what witn
  
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• Universities try 3-year degrees to save students time, money

  05-06-2024 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Elaine S. Povich | (TNS) Stateline.org
  With college costs rising and some students and families questioning the return on investment of a four-year degree, a few pioneering state universities are exploring programs that would grant certain bachelor’s degrees in three years.
  The programs, which also are being tried at some private schools, would require 90 credits instead of the traditional 120 for a bachelor’s degree, and wouldn’t require summer classes or studying over breaks.
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes’ appeal set to be heard June 11 in federal court

  05-06-2024 19:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Imprisoned Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes’ appeal is set to be heard June 11 in San Francisco federal court.
  The notorious founder of the now-defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup is serving a lengthy sentence at a minimum-security prison in Texas. Theranos, once valued at $9 billion, claimed that its machines could conduct more than a thousand tests — for everything from cancer and diabetes to pregnancy and HIV infection — using just a few drops of blood from a finger-p
  
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