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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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• Porto’s Bakery founder Raul Porto Sr. dies at 92

  24-05-2024 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Raul Porto Sr., the co-founder of Porto’s Bakery and Cafe, died on Wednesday, May 22. He was 92.
  “It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Porto’s Bakery founder and beloved father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Raul Porto Sr.,” read a statement his family posted to the bakery’s official Instagram page. “He passed away peacefully on Wednesday surrounded by his loving family.”
  Raul Porto Sr., arrived in California from Cuba with his w
  
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• Kraftwerk dazzles fans in the third of 9 nights at Walt Disney Concert Hall

  24-05-2024 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Twenty years ago, a reviewer for the Britain’s New Music Express argued that the German electronic band Kraftwerk – currently in the midst of a nine-night residency at Walt Disney Concert Hall – was one of the two most influential bands in rock history.
  The other? The Beatles.
  You can debate that – you can debate anything in rock and roll – but considering the German group’s influence on bands such as New Order and Daft Punk, and genres including techno and ho
  
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• Hitting the road? Expect higher gas prices over Memorial Day

  24-05-2024 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By Taryn Phaneuf | NerdWallet
  Memorial Day weekend promises to be a big one for road trips, and that means gas prices are going to jump.
  As of May 20, a gallon of regular gas costs $3.58 on average in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Through the summer, gas prices are expected to average $3.70 per gallon nationally.
  Summer driving season kicks off
  Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of the summer travel season in the U.S. Factoring in all forms of tran
  
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• Tribal nations invest opioid settlement funds in traditional healing to treat addiction

  24-05-2024 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Aneri Pattani and Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez | (TNS) Kaiser Health News
  PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Outside the Mi’kmaq Nation’s health department sits a dome-shaped tent, built by hand from saplings and covered in black canvas. It’s one of several sweat lodges on the tribe’s land, but this one is dedicated to helping people recover from addiction.
  Up to 10 people enter the lodge at once. Fire-heated stones — called grandmothers and grandfathers, for the spirits they r
  
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• Here’s how much you have to earn to qualify as middle class, new study says

  24-05-2024 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Brianna Taylor | The Sacramento Bee (TNS)
  The household income required to be considered middle class in the United States varies depending on where you live. In California, the price is high.
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• New information about the mystery of Janet Halverson, book design icon, surfaces

  24-05-2024 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  It was a mystery.
  That’s what we were left with when I last wrote about Janet Halverson, the creator of iconic book covers from the 1950s to the 1990s, including Joan Didion’s “Play It As It Lays,” Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and Jack Kerouac’s “Big Sur.”
  Despite creating indelible designs for classic books, Halverson herself is largely unknown and unheralded. And that shouldn’t be.
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• Loara High Graduation 2024: Our best photos of the ceremony

  24-05-2024 21:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Loara High School graduate Matthew Hernandez looks toward the stands and his family at Handel Stadium during the graduation ceremony in Anaheim on Thursday morning, May 23, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Kenneth Katigbak, left, has his photo taken with Loara High School english teacher Rachel Grefe, just prior to the start of the graduation ceremony at Handel Stadium in Anaheim on Thursday morning, May 23, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  
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• Riverside woman gets almost 3 years in prison for barrage of antisemitic threats

  24-05-2024 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A 59-year-old Riverside woman was sentenced to almost three years in federal prison for making antisemitic threats against the former executive director of a Pittsburgh synagogue, the site of a mass shooting in 2018, and his family members.
  Melanie Harris was sentenced to 32 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce, the United States Department of Justice announced Friday, May 24.
  
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• Asian Pacific Food Fest returns to South Coast Plaza

  24-05-2024 20:53 via ocregister.com
  
  A handful of the best Asian restaurants inside South Coast Plaza, including Paradise Dynasty, Anqi Bistro and a couple of newcomers, will participate in the third annual Asian Pacific Food Fest on Thursday, May 30.
  Part of the shopping behemoth’s Asia Pacific American Heritage Month celebration, the evening culinary event will feature 11 South Coast Plaza restaurants that focus on the contributions of its Asian chefs and restaurateurs.
  Highlights will include a preview from Vox Kitchen, pa
  
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• Orange Eichler home sells for record $2.1 million — before hitting the market

  24-05-2024 20:43 via ocregister.com
  
  This Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County since the same property was sold in 2022. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  This Eichler home in the Fairhaven neighborhood in Orange on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 recently sold in an off-market deal for $2.075 million, making it the highest-priced sale of its kind in Orange County
  
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• Kabosu, the Shiba Inu who helped define the Doge meme, dies at 18

  24-05-2024 20:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Kabosu, a Shiba Inu whose “much wow” face helped launch one of the defining memes of the last decade and inspired the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, died Friday. She was 18 years old.
  She “crossed the rainbow bridge” on Friday, her owner Atsuko Sato said on social media, adding that she died without suffering, and as Sato was petting her. She died at home in Sakura, Japan, a city east of Tokyo, Sato said in an email Friday.
  In the animal hall of fame, Kabosu’s sudden rise
  
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• 91 Freeway in Anaheim Hills closed during police standoff

  24-05-2024 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  A large fleet of police vehicles blocked both sides of the 91 Freeway in Anaheim Hills Friday morning, May 24, while SWAT teams surrounded a sedan amid Memorial Day weekend traffic.
  The standoff began just after 8 a.m., and was the result of a police chase that began in Corona earlier that morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
  As of 10:30 a.m., two SWAT vehicles from Anaheim and Corona police had pinned the blue sedan between them, with a third SWAT vehicle positioned nearby, appe
  
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• Kennedy High Graduation 2024: Our best photos of the ceremony

  24-05-2024 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Faith Hinrichs reacts after receiving her diploma during the 2024 Kennedy High School graduation ceremony in Handel Stadium at Western High School in Anaheim on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Madi Fontanilla reacts after receiving her diploma during the 2024 Kennedy High School graduation ceremony in Handel Stadium at Western High School in Anaheim on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  A photo of the face o
  
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• Mary Lou Retton slams those who questioned her lack of insurance, $459,000 fundraiser

  24-05-2024 19:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Mary Lou Retton opened up — just a bit — about the controversy that erupted over her claim that she couldn’t “afford” health insurance — a situation that prompted her daughters to launch an online fundraising campaign that netted more than $459,000 and was supposed to cover the costs of her monthlong hospital stay last year for a rare and potentially deadly form of pneumonia.
  During Retton’s interview Wednesday in her Texas home with a sympathetic corres
  
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• Santa Margarita’s Daniel Verdolaga is the Orange County swimmer of the year

  24-05-2024 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
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  Daniel Verdolaga from Santa Margarita High School competes in the boys 200-yard individual medley for the CIF Southern Section Division 1 swimming championships earning first place on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at the Mt. San Antonio College Aquatic Center. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
  BOYS SWIMMER OF THE YEAR
  Daniel Verdolaga, Santa Margarita
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• All-County boys swimming and diving: Santa Margarita’s Daniel Verdolaga is the O.C. swimmer of the year

  24-05-2024 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowALL-COUNTY BOYS SWIMMING TEAM 2024
  Daniel Verdolaga from Santa Margarita High School competes in the boys 200-yard individual medley for the CIF Southern Section Division 1 swimming championships earning first place on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at the Mt. San Antonio College Aquatic Center. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
  BOYS SWIMMER OF THE YEAR
  Daniel Verdolaga, Santa Margarita
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• America has a bridge problem. It doesn’t yet have a national bridge solution

  24-05-2024 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  A federal agency recommended in 1981 that bridges near ports and harbors be assessed to see which ones needed better protection. In 1983, a report echoed the call, advising states and other bridge owners to evaluate spans for their ability to withstand a ship strike.
  Neither happened.
  On March 26, the extremely-unlikely-but-seemingly-inevitable happened: One of those bridges got hit. The container ship Dali lost power and crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, collapsing the span, killi
  
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• McDonald’s getting rid of soda machines, free refills

  24-05-2024 19:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Brian Niemietz | New York Daily News
  McDonald’s reportedly plans to get rid of self-serve soda machines and, at some locations, do away with free refills.
  The fast-food giant plans to remove all its beverage stations from stores by 2032. Some restaurants that offer complimentary beverage refills may stop doing that as well.
  Foodservice Results CEO Darren Tristano, a food service industry researcher, expects other fast food joints to follow McDonald’
  
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• Man, 18, arrested for alleged assault on UCLA pro-Palestinian protesters

  24-05-2024 19:25 via ocregister.com
  
  An 18-year-old man accused of attacking a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA was behind bars on Friday, May 24.
  Edan On was arrested in Beverly Hills on Thursday by the UCLA Police Department and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, a felony, and was being held on $30,000 bail, according to campus police and jail records, which indicate he was in the men’s central jail in downtown Los Angeles.
  “Detectives interviewed witnesses and victims and reviewed security-camera
  
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• Here’s how a CSUF alum parlayed her education into an Emmy-winning career with ESPN

  24-05-2024 19:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Cal State Fullerton alumna Katie Hennessey always wanted to be a sports reporter.
  A lifelong sports fan and former athlete, Hennessey pictured a career that included holding an ESPN microphone while reporting from the sidelines.
  While she may not be a sideline reporter, Hennessey is a two-time Emmy winner who is on her second stint with the “worldwide leader in sports” as a senior talent producer. She has a resume that spans working in marketing and publicity for Walt Disney Studios
  
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• 1st arrest of accused attackers of UCLA pro-Palestinian protesters

  24-05-2024 19:25 via ocregister.com
  
  An 18-year-old man accused of attacking a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA was behind bars on Friday, May 24.
  Edan On was arrested in Beverly Hills on Thursday by the UCLA Police Department and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, a felony, and was being held on $30,000 bail, according to campus police and jail records, which indicate he was in the men’s central jail in downtown Los Angeles.
  “Detectives interviewed witnesses and victims and reviewed security-camera
  
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• Look inside Airbnb’s Incredibles mansion just off the Sunset Strip

  24-05-2024 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Style icon Edna Mode will be your Airbnb host when you check into her chic minimalist mansion just off the Sunset Strip and her team of designers creates a custom supersuit so you can join the Incredibles to help save the world.
  Fans of the 2004 Pixar animated film “The Incredibles” can request to book the Airbnb Icons home starting on Friday, May 24 through Tuesday, May 28.
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• How the ‘hush money’ case impacts Trump’s presidential chances

  24-05-2024 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  As Donald Trump’s New York City “hush money” trial nears its end, with a verdict expected shortly after Memorial Day, the long-simmering question of how Trump’s legal situation will impact the presidential election may soon be answered.
  Importantly, with it all but certain that this will be the only case to reach a verdict prior to the election, there are unique implications for whichever decision the jury reaches. 
  The most obvious being that if the jury decides Tru
  
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• As the election nears, Biden pushes a slew of rules on the environment and other priorities

  24-05-2024 18:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW DALY (Associated Press)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As he tries to secure his legacy, President Joe Biden has unleashed a flurry of election year rules on the environment and other topics, including a landmark regulation that would force coal-fired power plants to capture smokestack emissions or shut down.
  The limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fueled electric stations are the Democratic president’s most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the
  
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• Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park resumes operations

  24-05-2024 18:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park has reopened after a month of being shut down.
  The park, located in San Juan Capistrano, had been closed since April 15 after its operators, the Ridland Group, failed to comply with a settlement agreement that required the group to construct a storm drain on the property.
  But on May 20, an agreement was reached between the nonprofit Orange County Coastkeepers and the Ridland Group that allows Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park to reopen under a strict set of provis
  
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• Resort at Pelican Hill switching to Marriott management, St. Regis brand

  24-05-2024 18:15 via ocregister.com
  
  The Irvine Co. will turn over day-to-day management of its Resort at Pelican Hill to Marriott International, with the luxury hotel eventually joining the St. Regis brand.
  The Newport Beach oceanview resort — with 204 rooms, 128 villas and two golf courses—  is the Orange County real estate giant’s only remaining hotel. It has been run independently of any chain since its opening in 2008.
  Irvine Co. announced that the operational switch, which does not change Irvine Co. own
  
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• Get a scoop of a traditional Turkish treat at this new ice cream shop in Long Beach

  24-05-2024 18:04 via ocregister.com
  
  A cool scoop of Turkish culture has arrived in Long Beach with the opening of a new ice cream shop where authentic flavors meet a bit of showmanship.
  Galata Ice Cream and Desserts is a new Turkish ice cream shop that will hold its grand opening on Saturday, May 25 in Long Beach’s Belmont Shore neighborhood.
  “It’s the ice cream of the Turkish people. For more than a thousand years we’ve made it. We only use original cow milk and goat milk and we never use gelatin or chemic
  
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• Get a delicious scoop of a traditional treat at this new Turkish ice cream shop in Long Beach

  24-05-2024 18:04 via ocregister.com
  
  A cool scoop of Turkish culture has arrived in Long Beach with the opening of a new ice cream shop where authentic flavors meet a bit of showmanship.
  Galata Ice Cream and Desserts is a new Turkish ice cream shop that will hold its grand opening on Saturday, May 25 in Long Beach’s Belmont Shore neighborhood.
  “It’s the ice cream of the Turkish people. For more than a thousand years we’ve made it. We only use original cow milk and goat milk and we never use gelatin or chemic
  
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• All eyes on FA Cup final and Erik ten Hag’s future at Manchester United

  24-05-2024 18:01 via ocregister.com
  
  MANCHESTER, England — Change is happening at pace at Manchester United.
  Where manager Erik ten Hag fits into that picture is uncertain.
  Ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup final against Manchester City, he avoided ongoing speculation about his position.
  “I am just focusing on the job I have to do and that is, first, win the game on Saturday, and then we are in the project and keep going in the project,” Ten Hag said Thursday.
  If the Cup final ultimately determines his future, then
  
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