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• Germany’s Merkel at farewell ceremony: Don’t tolerate hate

  02-12-2021 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans to stand up to hatred, at a military ceremony Thursday bidding her farewell after 16 years in office.
  Merkel was honored with a traditional military musical performance and march in front of almost all the country’s political elite — save for the far-right Alternative for Germany, who weren’t invited.
  “Our democracy also lives from the fact that wherever hatred and violence are seen as a legitimate me
  
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• How the gift of a typewriter gave me the keys to the kingdom

  04-05-2024 11:01 via ocregister.com
  
  May has been very attentive to my need to live in Camelot for my entire birthday month.  By Camelot, I mostly mean the musical which features my favorite “It’s May, it’s May that gorgeous holiday” song … but also the King Arthur reference to a utopia on earth. Romantic and magical with a door wide open to possibility, that is my May,
  When my mother surprised me with a portable Remington typewriter on my 16th birthday, it was like a horse-drawn carriage deliver
  
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• CIF-SS boys lacrosse playoffs: Friday’s scores, updated schedule for Monday’s games

  04-05-2024 09:53 via ocregister.com
  
  CIF-SS BOYS LACROSSE PLAYOFFS
  DIVISION 1
  Quarterfinals, Friday
  St. Margaret’s 17, Corona del Mar 7
  Mater Dei 18, Westlake 14
  Loyola 9, Santa Margarita 4
  Foothill 10, JSerra 5
  Semifinals, Monday, 5 p.m.
  St. Margaret’s at Mater Dei
  Foothill at Loyola
  Championship game: May 10
  DIVISION 2
  Quarterfinals, Friday
  Mira Costa 12, Santa Monica 3
  Huntington Beach 9, Trabuco Hills 8
  Sierra Canyon 12, Palos Verdes 4
  Agoura 9, San Clemente 2
  Semifinals, Monday, 5 p.m.
  Mira Costa at Huntington Beac
  
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• CIF-SS baseball playoffs: First-round scores, updated schedule for all divisions

  04-05-2024 09:20 via ocregister.com
  
  CIF-SS BASEBALL PLAYOFFS
  DIVISION 1
  First round, FridayCorona 1, El Dorado 0
  Mater Dei 5, Damien 0
  Aquinas 7, Pacifica/GG 2
  Notre Dame/SO 16, Torrance 1
  Huntington Beach 9, Santiago/Corona 2
  Villa Park 6, Bishop Amat 1
  Gahr 5, Fullerton 2
  Santa Margarita 7, Tesoro 9
  Orange Lutheran 6, Sierra Canyon 1
  Vista Murrieta 12, Millikan 2
  Foothill 7, South Hills 5
  La Mirada 4, Oaks Christian 3
  San Dimas 2, West Ranch 2
  Cypress 5, Calabasas 2
  Bonita 15, JSerra 2
  Harvard-Westlake 7, Norco 2
  Second round, T
  
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• Baseball playoffs roundup: Buena Park, La Habra, Beckman win in Friday’s first round

  04-05-2024 08:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Ryan Prescott homered, Neil Navarro hit a three-run double and Manuel Rivera pitched six scoreless innings for Buena Park in a 12-0 victory over Thacher in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 7 baseball playoffs Friday at Buena Park High.
  Coyotes coach Cody Gutierrez said it is the school’s first win in the baseball playoffs since 1994, according to the school’s research.
  The Coyotes (22-6) are the No. 1 seed in the division. They will play their second-round game Tu
  
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• Six-run inning lifts El Modena baseball to victory over Dana Hills in Division 3 playoffs

  04-05-2024 07:54 via ocregister.com
  
  DANA POINT — A seven-run fourth inning led El Modena’s baseball team to a 9-3 win over Dana Hills Friday in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 3 playoffs at Dana Hills High.
  El Modena (19-8-1) will play its second-round game at South Torrance on Tuesday. South Torrance beat Northwood 3-1 in the first round Friday.
  “Always happy to get a win, however it comes,” El Modena coach Josh Kliner said. “We didn’t sting the ball too well today but we put the ball in
  
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• Seven-run inning lifts El Modena baseball to victory over Dana Hills in Division 3 playoffs

  04-05-2024 07:54 via ocregister.com
  
  DANA POINT — A seven-run fourth inning led El Modena’s baseball team to a 9-3 win over Dana Hills Friday in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 3 playoffs at Dana Hills High.
  El Modena (19-8-1) will play its second-round game at South Torrance on Tuesday. South Torrance beat Northwood 3-1 in the first round Friday.
  “Always happy to get a win, however it comes,” El Modena coach Josh Kliner said. “We didn’t sting the ball too well today but we put the ball in
  
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• Angel City FC tops Utah for 3rd win in 4 games

  04-05-2024 07:52 via ocregister.com
  
  SANDY, Utah — Sydney Leroux and Clair Emslie both scored in the first half and Angel City held on for a 2-1 victory over the expansion Utah Royals on Friday night.
  It was the third win in four games for Angel City (3-3-1, 10 points), which has played a schedule front-loaded with some of the NWSL’s top teams before its meeting with the Royals.
  Leroux scored on a header in the 29th minute and Emslie doubled the lead with a penalty kick in the 41st. Emslie leads the team with five goals
  
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• Dodgers outlast Braves on Andy Pages’ 11th-inning walk-off single

  04-05-2024 07:42 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — This time around, there was no playoff seeding at stake, no MVP race to decide and no argument to settle about who is the National League’s best team as October approached.
  This time, the Dodgers and Atlanta Braves met as a pair of mega-talented teams still trying to find their way in the early season and they proved to be at similar places on the journey.
  In the first meeting of NL powers, it was the Dodgers who got the jump on the season series with a 4-3 victory Frid
  
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• Fountain Valley baseball tops Trabuco Hills in CIF-SS playoffs with thrilling finish

  04-05-2024 07:34 via ocregister.com
  
  FOUNTAIN VALLEY — The CIF-SS Division 3 baseball playoff game between Trabuco Hills and Fountain Valley on Friday featured a season’s worth of emotions in the final inning.
  In the top of the seventh, the Mustangs, who had been trailing by a run for most of the contest, were down to their final strike when a two-run single from Sean Dmytrowicz gave them the lead at Fountain Valley High.
  Fountain Valley came back and scored two runs in the bottom of the inning for a 4-3 walk-off victor
  
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• Swanson: Clippers fall flat again in Dallas as season ends

  04-05-2024 07:20 via ocregister.com
  
  DALLAS — As the song goes: Inglewood, always up to no good.
  And now the Clippers live there.
  Their next home game will be their first at the new Intuit Dome. You can put a period on the 2023-24 season: Friday night’s 114-101 Game 6 loss to the fifth-seeded Dallas Mavericks meant the Clippers won’t ever host another game at Crypto.com Arena.
  Their opening-round loss in the Western Conference playoffs eliminated Coach Tyronn Lue’s team on his 47th birthday, the fourth-seede
  
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• Clippers’ season ends with Game 6 loss to Mavericks

  04-05-2024 06:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer
  DALLAS — On a night when the Clippers were again playing without one of their stars, they needed more from the healthy ones in order to extend their season.
  As it turned out, they didn’t get enough from either one.
  Luka Doncic had 28 points and 13 assists, Kyrie Irving scored 28 of his 30 points in a second-half surge while Paul George and James Harden endured a poor shooting night as the Dallas Mavericks advanced to the second round of the playoffs
  
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• Cade Townsend dominates in Santa Margarita’s victory over Tesoro in Division 1 baseball playoffs

  04-05-2024 05:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Santa Margarita’s Cade Townsend pitches, holding Tesoro scoreless, during a 7-0 win in a first round CIF-SS Division 1 game between the two teams on Friday, May 3, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  LAS FLORES – Santa Margarita pitcher Cade Townsend is projected to be an early-round MLB Draft pick this summer.
  He showed why Friday. The senior right-hander threw a three-hitter with 11 strikeouts and one walk in the Eagles’ 7-0 win over Tesoro in a CIF Sout
  
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• Damien’s season ends with loss to Mater Dei in CIF-SS baseball playoffs

  04-05-2024 04:57 via ocregister.com
  
  LA VERNE – The season came to a screeching halt for the Damien baseball team Friday with a 5-0 loss to visiting Mater Dei in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs.
  “That’s never the way you want to end a season,” Spartans coach A.J. LaMonde said. “But I’m really proud of our team. We battled our way past an early bump in the road and we had our chances but didn’t execute the way we wanted.”
  The Baseline League champions ra
  
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• Spike in sick, starved brown pelicans has wildlife care center in need

  04-05-2024 04:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Brown pelicans have been coming in starved, dehydrated and in desperate need of care, officials with the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center said as they made a plea for support from the community.
  A mass stranding of the species seen over the last few weeks, with birds found throughout Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, has rescue teams worried and quickly running out of supplies, said Debbie McGuire, executive director of the center in Huntington Beach.
  “They are all comin
  
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• Pitzer College to release financial information demanded by pro-Palestine students

  04-05-2024 04:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Pitzer College will disclose information about its financial investments, officials said Friday, as pro-Palestinian students continued to call for the institution to stop doing business with Israel or companies that support its actions in Gaza.
  In a memo released Friday, May 3, Pitzer officials said President Strom C. Thacker and Board of Trustees Chairperson Donald P. Gould agreed to the financial disclosure after meeting with three undisclosed students and a faculty member that morning.
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• LA County Fair kicks off season with ‘Stars, Stripes, and Fun’

  04-05-2024 04:44 via ocregister.com
  
  The farm animals have arrived, the deep-fried delights are being served, and good ol’ classic fair fun is now underway.
  Yep, the LA County Fair kicked off Friday evening, May 3, for its 102nd year of celebrations.
  Americana will be in focus through the month-long run at Fairplex in Pomona as this year’s theme “Stars, Stripes, and Fun” pays homage to history and the communities in Southern California.
  From the Ferris wheel to the Garden Railroad and roller skating to repti
  
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• José Soriano, young hitters lead the way in Angels’ victory over Guardians

  04-05-2024 04:05 via ocregister.com
  
  CLEVELAND — José Soriano demonstrated immediately that he had corrected what was going so horribly the last time he pitched.
  One start after Soriano’s control was so bad he didn’t make it out of the second inning, he threw 14 of 17 first-inning pitches for strikes.
  It was the encouraging beginning to six scoreless innings in the Angels’ 6-0 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Friday night.
  Soriano, a 25-year-old who was moved to the rotation this year because t
  
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• Dodgers’ Walker Buehler looking forward to return from Tommy John surgery

  04-05-2024 03:52 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — After nearly two years away, a major surgery that repaired two parts of his elbow and countless hours of rehab, Walker Buehler craves one thing the most as he gets set to take a major league mound again on Monday.
  Success and adulation can wait. What Buehler yearns to feel again is the jolt of energy he gets from pitching at the highest level.
  That is expected to come, first from the home crowd when he faces the Miami Marlins. He wants to square off against the best players a
  
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• Despite an uncertain future, Kings think they have ‘the perfect team’

  04-05-2024 03:10 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — On some alternate plane of reality, the Kings would have had a skate before Game 6 of their first-round playoff series against the Edmonton Oilers on Friday morning.
  In the here and now, they were taking physicals while soaking in the gloom of being eliminated by the same opponent for a third straight season, leaving them adrift in a sea of uncertainty.
  “I fully expected to be playing in a game today again, and we’re not. Now I’m going to go home, my kids are
  
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• Canelo Alvarez, Jaime Munguia unusually polite to each other ahead of bout

  04-05-2024 02:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer
  LAS VEGAS — Given the significance of two Mexican fighters facing each other on Cinco de Mayo weekend, Canelo Alvarez and Jaime Munguia have been especially respectful of each other heading into Saturday night’s bout.
  Much more so than what typically would be expected of a title fight when those going against each other often create fake controversies to gin up pay-per-view sales.
  Alvarez saved most of his venom for his former promoter, Oscar De La H
  
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• Kentucky Derby wide open after Fierceness and Sierra Leone

  04-05-2024 02:35 via ocregister.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Fate has not been kind to Mike Repole in the Kentucky Derby. The outspoken owner is 0 for 7, although he is perhaps best known for his two champions that never made the starting gate.In 2011, Uncle Mo was scratched the day before the race because of a gastrointestinal infection. Last year, Forte was scratched the morning of the race due to a bruised right front foot.
  Now, the self-made billionaire from Queens, New York, is back with Fierceness, the morning-line favorite f
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Friday, May 3

  04-05-2024 02:11 via ocregister.com
  
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  FRIDAY’S SCORES
  BASEBALL
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Round 1
  DIVISION 3
  Fountain Valley 4, Trabuco Hills 3
  DIVISION 5
  Segerstrom 1, South Pasadena 0
  DIVISION 7
  Oxford A
  
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• Dione Barbosa makes UFC debut thanks to dreams and determination

  04-05-2024 01:46 via ocregister.com
  
  The past four years of Dione Barbosa’s life can be described as geometrical, going full circle into an Octagon.
  The former Brazil Judo National Team member embarked on an ambitious dream less than four years ago in pursuit of a pro MMA career. She left Brazil and moved to Huntington Beach to live and train with MMA star and countrywoman Cris Cyborg, helping the Grand Slam champion prepare for her Bellator featherweight title defenses while honing her own skills for her future in the sport.
  
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• Big Bear Lake before and after a 15-foot increase in water depth thanks to winter storms

  04-05-2024 01:40 via ocregister.com
  
  After hitting record lows two years ago due to drought, Big Bear Lake reported a 10-foot increase in its water level in December 2023 and new data shows it’s risen even higher the first four months of 2024.
  In December 2022, the water level at Big Bear Lake was just below 55 feet, officials said. Two consecutive winters brought heavy storms in early 2023 and 2024, resulting in significant rainfall and snowpack that have helped restore the lake after water levels hit a record low in late 20
  
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• Potential candidates for Lakers’ head coaching job

  04-05-2024 01:09 via ocregister.com
  
  The Lakers fired head coach Darvin Ham on Friday, ending his two-season tenure at the helm.
  Here are a few of the potential candidates for the Lakers’ vacant head coaching position:
  David Adelman, Denver Nuggets assistant coach
  Adelman, the son of Hall of Famer Rick Adelman, is the lead assistant coach for the defending NBA champions and has been on Coach Michael Malone’s staff since the 2017-18 season.
  Adelman, 42, joined the Minnesota Timberwolves as a player development coach in 2
  
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• The Sand Bar, Sammy Hagar’s Cabo Wabo extension, opens in Huntington Beach

  04-05-2024 00:55 via ocregister.com
  
  One year after opening Cabo Wabo Beach Club inside the Waterfront Beach Resort in Huntington Beach, Sammy Hagar, the restauranteur and noted frontman of such aural outfits as Van Halen and Montrose, has softly opened the Sand Bar, a beachside extension of his nearby restaurant.
  The Sand Bar, located a stone’s throw from the sand, features a 2,100-square-foot patio with 100 seats, which offers full-service dining. Counter service is also available for to-go meals.
  Menu highlights include su
  
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• OC man who organized ‘fighters’ for Jan. 6 riot gets home detention and probation

  04-05-2024 00:55 via ocregister.com
  
  A Ladera Ranch entrepreneur who teamed up with a former Orange County police chief and four Inland Empire-based members of an extremist group to travel to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection was sentenced Friday, May 3 to three years of probation, including six months of home detention.
  Russell Taylor previously accepted a plea deal in which he admitted to conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding and testified against Alan Hostetter, a former La Habra police chief-turned yoga in
  
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• Willie Calhoun batting 4th for Angels because Ron Washington says young players aren’t ready

  04-05-2024 00:42 via ocregister.com
  
  CLEVELAND — Journeyman Willie Calhoun found himself hitting in the cleanup spot in his first game with the Angels on Friday.
  “I took some names and put them in a hat and shook them up and he came out fourth,” Manager Ron Washington said.
  After the assembled media chuckled, Washington added: “Seriously. You think I’m joking.”
  Washington went on to explain that he actually wrote some names on pieces of paper and threw them on his bed. He also had Jo Adell and Lo
  
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• Admired by all, Homeboy leader Father Boyle gets Presidential Medal of Freedom

  04-05-2024 00:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Father Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries — the largest gang intervention and re-entry program in the world — was honored by President Joe Biden with the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, on Friday, May 3.
  Officials at Homeboys Industries said in a statement that Father Greg, as he is widely known, “exemplifies the transformative power of compassion, forgiveness, and second chances. For nearly forty years, Father Greg has empowered hundreds
  
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