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• Ex-OC prosecutor testifies he doesn’t know why evidence wasn’t disclosed in murder case

  10-06-2024 22:56 via ocregister.com
  
  A former top Orange County prosecutor, now a judge, testified Monday that he didn’t know why evidence in a 2010 murder case was not turned over to defense attorneys as required.
  Orange County Superior Court Judge Ebrahim Baytieh made a rare appearance on the witness stand during a hearing on whether he illegally withheld evidence while prosecuting the case 14 years ago against defendant Paul Gentile Smith.
  “I don’t know why it happened,” Baytieh testified under questionin
  
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• Fullerton voters choose candidates focused on improving infrastructure

  09-11-2024 02:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Fullerton voters appear to have affirmed the direction of their city by reelecting both incumbents on this year’s ballot for City Council.
  Fred Jung is set to continue to represent District 1. Nick Dunlap to represent District 2. In Distirct 4, where there was no incumbent on the ballot, the race remains close. Jamie Valencia has a 55-vote lead over Vivian “Kitty” Jaramillo.
  Dunlap received nearly two-thirds of the vote as of Friday’s count in his head-to-head race agains
  
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• Rams’ WR Demarcus Robinson on track for career year in ‘right place’

  09-11-2024 02:33 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Cobie Durant sat on the Rams bench, feeling mixed emotions. The team had gone to overtime against the Seattle Seahawks because of two misplays by the third-year corner while covering Jaxon Smith-Njigba. But the defense had gotten the necessary stop on the first drive of overtime, so his frustration was tempered.
  But then from his seat on the sidelines, Durant watched as Rams receiver Demarcus Robinson streaked down the field, and used his left arm to create some separation fr
  
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• Irvine District 1 race too close to call; frontrunners come from contrasting political backgrounds

  09-11-2024 02:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Heading into the weekend after Election Day, the results for one Irvine City Council race remain too close to call.
  In District 1, John Park and Melinda Liu have pulled away from three other candidates in the race, but the two of them were separated by just 57 votes out of more than 14,900 votes tallied as of Friday night.
  Irvine City Council positions are ostensibly nonpartisan offices, but Park and Liu approach the dais from starkly different political backgrounds.
  Park was endorsed by leading
  
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• Huntington Beach sued over refusal to cooperate with state’s audit of air show settlement

  09-11-2024 02:03 via ocregister.com
  
  The California State Auditor’s office has sued Huntington Beach over the city’s continued refusal to cooperate with an audit looking into its settlement with the Pacific Airshow.
  The lawsuit, filed on Oct. 22 in Orange County Superior Court, seeks an order to mandate Huntington Beach allow city officials to be interviewed and turn over documents related to the settlement. It also asks the court to declare that the state auditor has the authority to audit a charter city, which City At
  
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• Letter: I’m just glad the election was over. Both sides just lied and exaggerated the whole time.

  09-11-2024 02:02 via ocregister.com
  
  I’m more than glad the election is over.
  In the last two months, every day brought more and more political flyers, just more trash to deal with. Both sides blatantly lied, misrepresented and misquoted going way beyond exaggeration and political license.
  Most, from both parties, went directly into the shredder. I read the ones that didn’t, went to the same place. If both parties would stop fomenting hate, they could suspend partisan politics as they do when bills for their pay raises
  
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• Israeli soccer fans were attacked in Amsterdam. The violence was condemned as antisemitic

  09-11-2024 02:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE CORDER
  AMSTERDAM — Israeli fans were assaulted after a soccer game in Amsterdam by hordes of young people apparently riled up by calls on social media to target Jewish people, Dutch authorities said Friday. Five people were treated at hospitals and dozens were arrested after the attacks, which were condemned as antisemitic by authorities in Amsterdam, Israel and across Europe.
  Reports of antisemitic speech, vandalism and violence have been on the rise in Europe since the start of t
  
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• Inspiring surf action in Huntington Beach at ISA World Para Surfing Championship

  09-11-2024 01:54 via ocregister.com
  
  It was six years ago that Jose Martinez hit rock bottom.
  He lost an arm, a leg, and several fingers while serving in the Army in Afghanistan in 2012 – and now out of the military and casting about he had to find a way to stay afloat.
  “Instead of doing something dumb, I remember some of the therapy that worked for me and I ended up calling one of my buddies and said ‘I need to surf again,’” he recalled. “It’s given me my life back. It’s been super h
  
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• Angels reach new TV deal with FanDuel Sports Network

  09-11-2024 01:51 via ocregister.com
  
  The Angels and the Diamond Sports Group have reached an agreement on a new deal that will allow fans to watch games on the FanDuel Sports Network, via cable providers or by subscribing to a streaming service, a source said.
  The FanDuel Sports Network was previously known as Bally Sports.
  The deal is expected to be announced in the coming days. The length of the new deal is unclear. Pricing for the subscription service is to be determined.
  Under the previous arrangement with Diamond, fans in Sout
  
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• Monkeys that escaped a lab have been subjects of human research since the 1800s

  09-11-2024 01:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By BEN FINLEY
  The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity, revealing our strengths and weaknesses through their own clever behaviors, organ systems and genetic code.
  The bare-faced primates with expressive eyes have been launched on rockets into space. Their genome has been mapped. They have even been stars of a reality TV show.
  Animal rights gr
  
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• A research boat will scan the seabed to help search for those missing in Spain’s floods

  09-11-2024 01:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSEPH WILSON
  BARCELONA, Spain — A Spanish research vessel that investigates marine ecosystems has been abruptly diverted from its usual task to take on a new job: Helping in the increasingly desperate search for the missing from Spain’s floods.
  The 24 crew members aboard the Ramón Margalef were preparing Friday to use its sensors and submersible robot to map an offshore area of 36 square kilometers — the equivalent of more than 5,000 soccer fields — to see if t
  
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• The Chosen Vron out for Del Mar’s fall meeting, but trainer eager to return this summer

  09-11-2024 01:31 via ocregister.com
  
  DEL MAR — The first post-Breeders’ Cup stakes race of Del Mar’s 11th fall season goes off Saturday afternoon without the horse that won it the past two years.
  The Chosen Vron is out for at least the next three months after being scratched from the Breeders’ Cup Sprint by a veterinarian’s decision.
  “It was a very minor blip that was blown way out of proportion,” trainer J. Eric Kruljac said Friday of the ruling that led to The Chosen Vron being scratched
  
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• Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk faces more charges in killing near Beverly Center

  09-11-2024 01:27 via ocregister.com
  
  New charges have been lodged against Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Durk, who was previously facing a federal murder conspiracy charge in Los Angeles in connection with an August 2022 killing near the Beverly Center, officials announced Friday.
  The 32-year-old Chicago rapper, whose real name is Durk Banks, is charged in a superseding federal indictment, returned late Thursday, that adds two felony counts against him.
  Banks is now charged with one count of conspiracy, one count of use of interst
  
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• High school football: Live updates from Friday’s playoff games

  09-11-2024 01:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Welcome to the Southern California News Group’s high school football score updates for Friday, Nov. 8.
  We’ll have updates from throughout the area, including highlights provided by our reporters at the games.
  Stay on top of all of the action with our Friday Night Football host, John W. Davis, who will be providing comments and analysis. And make sure you check out his video at the end of the night that wraps up all of the news and highlights from the first round of the CIF-SS and L.A
  
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• Rock & Brews at Yaamava’ Resort & Casino has closed

  09-11-2024 01:18 via ocregister.com
  
  A rock-and-roll-themed restaurant at Yaamava’ Resort & Casino in Highland has shuttered.
  Rock & Brews, the restaurant chain co-created by Kiss members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, closed on Oct. 13 after eight years of operation inside the casino.
  “After a wonderful partnership with Rock & Brews, we’ll be welcoming guests to a brand-new concept come 2025,” said Kenji Hall, general manager of Yaamava’ Resort & Casino. “Construction is already
  
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• Papa Roach is bringing the Rise of the Roach tour to the Kia Forum

  09-11-2024 01:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Papa Roach is set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut record, “Infest,” with their upcoming Rise of the Roach Tour, which will make a stop at the Kia Forum on Friday, March 28, 2025.
  The hard rock group will be joined by Rise Against and special guest Underoath as they embark on the first leg of their North American tour. This milestone marks the first time the two headlining acts, both celebrating their 25th anniversaries—Papa Roach for their debut album and Rise
  
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• Newport Beach man gets 4 years for multi-million dollar real estate fraud scheme

  09-11-2024 01:05 via ocregister.com
  
  A 65-year-old Newport Beach man who orchestrated a more than $5 million real estate fraud scheme in which he took out equity in costly homes despite having no actual ownership stake in the properties was sentenced this week to four years in state prison.
  Ronald Cedric Touchard accepted a plea deal in which he admitted to six felony charges of grand theft and recording false or forged documents in return for dozens of other charges being dismissed, records show. The four-year sentence, which Touc
  
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• Angels see value in Kyle Hendricks, on the mound and in the clubhouse

  09-11-2024 00:51 via ocregister.com
  
  The Angels are taking a low risk flier on Kyle Hendricks, figuring that he has two ways he could help them.
  General manager Perry Minasian said on Friday that he believes Hendricks can bounce back and once again be productive on the mound, and also that Hendricks will be a positive influence on the Angels young pitchers.
  “We brought Kyle in here to pitch, first and foremost,” Minasian said a day after the $2.5 million, one-year deal became official. “We believe he’s going
  
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• Fontana woman dies after attack by 2 pit bulls

  09-11-2024 00:37 via ocregister.com
  
  A 35-year-old woman died after getting attacked by two pit bulls at the Fontana home where she was staying, Fontana police said.
  Juanita L. Sanchez was injured on Sunday, Nov. 3, and pronounced dead that day at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, according to the San Bernardino Coroner’s Office.
  The family had taken in four stray pit bulls some months earlier, said Sgt. Nathan Weiske, a Police Department spokesperson. The family later invited Sanchez, a family friend, to live with
  
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• Alexander: Baseball is over – time to catch up with L.A.’s NFL teams

  09-11-2024 00:35 via ocregister.com
  
  The world according to Jim:
  • See, this is the issue with trying to keep up with everything going on in sports in Southern California: You can’t. At least, you can’t do it while giving the 17 major league and major college attractions in our territory, plus so many others on the fringe, the attention they deserve.  …
  • That might explain this, then: In 29 other markets, people have been obsessing about the local NFL team (or, in New York, teams) since … o
  
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• Visit Anaheim CEO apologizes after suggesting new city advisory board was redundant, should be dissolved

  09-11-2024 00:26 via ocregister.com
  
  At the first meeting of a new public advisory board created by the City Council to monitor more than $30 million annually that flows through Anaheim’s tourism district, the recently hired head of the city’s marketing partner suggested the board was redundant and should be disbanded.
  “Selfishly, my belief is over time, maybe after the second or third or fourth meeting … we will all decide this is not necessarily the most effective use of our time and we will disband it,&r
  
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• Hermosa Beach custom house with surf camera seeks $7.6M

  09-11-2024 00:06 via ocregister.com
  
  A Hermosa Beach home with a camera trained on the distant surf break and the waves at the Palos Verdes spot known as Indicator is up for grabs.
  The asking price is $7,599 million.
  Security and lifestyle are priorities in this custom, 3,756-square-foot house featuring four bedrooms and four bathrooms. Records show the sellers are Jereme Pitts and his wife, Leslie.
  Pitts is a cofounder of Bar Nine , a coffee roasting company and cafe with locations in Culver City and El Segundo.
  The couple bought
  
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• Chargers list Khalil Mack as questionable versus Titans

  08-11-2024 23:59 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — Khalil Mack doesn’t often join his Chargers teammates for practice on Wednesdays. Officially, his status is listed as NIR – Rest. As in, he wasn’t nursing an injury, but he was given an extra day to rest and recover from last week’s game and to prepare for this week’s game.
  It’s nothing new for the 11-year NFL veteran.
  It was a schedule developed in conjunction with former Chargers coach Brandon Staley, who wanted to make sure Mack was fresh
  
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• What to know about the House push to expand some Social Security benefits

  08-11-2024 23:55 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected to try next week to pass a Social Security-related bill to ensure benefits for workers who are also eligible for other pensions despite a surprise move by hard-right Freedom Caucus leaders to derail the effort.
  It’s a quick turnaround to salvage what had been a bipartisan effort to pass the bill during what’s now the lame-duck post-election period of the Congress.
  Here’s what’s going on:
  WHAT DOES THE BILL DO?
  The measure that
  
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• Trump’s shunning of transition planning may have severe consequences, governance group says

  08-11-2024 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By ZEKE MILLER and WILL WEISSERT
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A good-governance group is warning of severe consequences if President-elect Donald Trump continues to steer clear of formal transition planning with the Biden administration — inaction that it says is already limiting the federal government’s ability to provide security clearances and briefings to the incoming administration.
  Without the planning, says Max Stier, president and CEO of the nonprofit Partnership for Public Servic
  
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• Para surfing world championships ride into Surf City

  08-11-2024 23:31 via ocregister.com
  
  The International Surfing Association’s World Para Championships, being held for the second consecutive year in Huntington Beach, has drawn the best surfers to the south side of the famed pier for nine days of competition.
  More than 150 surfers from 25 national teams are competing, but they aren’t just surfing for their own individual medals, but also for their counties in an Olympic-style format.
  The event kicked off Sunday, Nov. 3, with a parade down Main Street where athletes, coa
  
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• Kings face Columbus at home Saturday, but lineup is uncertain

  08-11-2024 23:04 via ocregister.com
  
  As they geared up to host the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Kings carried confidence from their recent games but were decidedly less certain as to which players might be available to them in Saturday’s showdown.
  Their four-game points streak was interrupted by Thursday’s 4-2 loss to Vancouver, a match that both teams described as offering playoff intensity in early November. In that contest, the Kings lost two players: winger Tanner Jeannot to a match penalty and defenseman Mikey Anders
  
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• Chinese national jailed on charges that he tried to enter Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate

  08-11-2024 23:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By TERRY SPENCER
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Chinese national was ordered held Friday on trespassing charges after police say he tried to enter President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in violation of a court order that he stay away following previous attempts.
  Zijie Li, 39, is being held without bond at the Palm Beach County Jail after being arrested Thursday when he arrived at Mar-a-Lago’s entrance gate in an Uber, the latest in series of contacts he’s had wi
  
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• Orange County Soccer Club’s conference semifinal postponed to Sunday

  08-11-2024 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County Soccer Club’s Western Conference semifinal against the Colorado Springs Switchbacks has been moved to Sunday due to weather.
  The game was originally set for 3:30 p.m. Saturday, but was moved due to a winter storm warning issued by the National Weather Service for an incoming snowstorm.
  The local weather calls for 4-10 inches of snow to fall through Saturday morning.
  OCSC, the sixth seed, defeated third-seeded Memphis 901 FC 1-0 in last Saturday’s opening round of the US
  
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• 11 books coming in November 2024: Fiction, nonfiction and more

  08-11-2024 22:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Earlier this week, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers might sign for next season.
  That book, “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel,” lands in stores on Nov. 19, and it immediately pulled me in with its sobering, concise summation of the period: “That century brought world wars, revolutions, automobiles, women&
  
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