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• How the pandemic opened up the creative floodgates for this veteran punk rocker

  30-07-2020 17:58 via ocregister.com
  
  While life before the pandemic was very busy for Long Beach musician, writer and filmmaker Frank Meyer, staying at home has turned out to be a creative boon for the guitarist and frontman of the veteran punk rock band The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs.
  Stuck in his two-bedroom apartment since March with his computer, a keyboard and a bunch of guitars and amps, Meyer has written and released several new songs in the past few months, including one all-star filled tune inspired by the coronavirus pa
  
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• LAFC placing more emphasis on U.S. Open Cup this year

  08-05-2024 04:57 via ocregister.com
  
  During their historic congested schedule last year, the 2023 U.S. Open Cup felt diminished compared to previous attempts by the Los Angeles Football Club at claiming the oldest trophy in American soccer.
  LAFC featured in six competitions – going 0 for 6 wasn’t in the conversation – and the early stages of the U.S. Open Cup in the spring felt small fry compared to the weight of a nearly complete CONCACAF Champions League run or a handful of trophies that were up for grabs along
  
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• Appeals court overturns murder conviction in high-profile killing of Torrance nurse

  08-05-2024 04:28 via ocregister.com
  
  A federal appeals court panel has overturned the murder conviction of an Orange County engineer in the high-profile 1979 slaying of a Torrance nurse, ruling that lower courts erred in excluding potentially exculpatory evidence of another suspect.
  The three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to the state courts, where prosecutors must decide within 30 days whether to retry Douglas Gordon Bradford in the killing of Lynne Knight, a woman he had been dating.
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• Walker Buehler’s next challenge – finding his place in Dodgers’ rotation

  08-05-2024 04:11 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Walker Buehler returned to a much different Dodgers’ rotation than the one he fronted in 2022.
  That rotation also had Julio Urias and Clayton Kershaw with Tyler Anderson and Tony Gonsolin pitching at All-Star levels.
  Two years later, Buehler will have to find his place in a rotation fronted by big-money acquisitions Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto (both off to excellent starts) and featuring veteran James Paxton with emerging young pitchers Bobby Miller, Gavin Ston
  
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• Want to intern this summer for The Orange County Register? Applications being taken for newsroom

  08-05-2024 03:53 via ocregister.com
  
  ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER SUMMER INTERNSHIP
  Application deadline: Friday, May 17, 2024
  The Orange County Register is seeking a talented, dedicated intern for its local news desk. The intern will work 30 hours per week, for 10 weeks, covering general assignment and breaking news as well as Little Saigon and other Asian communities. Preference will be given to applicants invested in or interested in the Vietnamese or other Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, and who have ties to Southern
  
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• Patrick Sandoval dominates and Angels’ bats come to life against Pirates

  08-05-2024 03:33 via ocregister.com
  
  PITTSBURGH — Patrick Sandoval took another step toward getting his career back on track on Tuesday.
  Sandoval pitched seven innings in the Angels’ 9-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates, with Kevin Pillar’s two homers and career-high six RBIs providing the bulk of the support.
  Sandoval has now pitched better in each of his last three starts, allowing three and two earned runs in the previous two. This was the first time this season that he finished the sixth inning.
  Although it
  
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• Medics from Southern California stuck in Gaza following seizure of eastern Rafah border crossing

  08-05-2024 03:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Omar Sabha, an operating room nurse who just returned from a volunteer medical mission in Gaza, is now worried for his brother and other medics from Southern California who are still in the war zone, following Israel’s seizure Tuesday of the Rafah border crossing.
  Several organizations, including the Palestinian American Medical Association and Humanity Auxilium, have partnered with medical professionals from around the world, some from Orange County, to send reinforcements into Gaza to he
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Tuesday, May 7

  08-05-2024 02:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Tuesday, May 7
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  The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
  TUESDAY’S SCORES
  BASEBALL
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Round 2
  DIVISION 1
  Huntington Beach 5, Villa Park 3
  Santa Margarita 6, Gahr 3
  La Mirada 5, Foothill 2
  DIVISI
  
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• OC Fair 2024: The Aquabats are coming to Pacific Amphitheatre and The Hangar adds a trio of shows

  08-05-2024 02:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Pacific Amphitheatre added a new show to its 2024 OC Fair concert season.
  The costumed alternative rock group The Aquabats will headline the Costa Mesa venue on Saturday, Aug.17 with support from Sweet & Tender Hooligans and The Agrrolites.
  Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 11 at pacamp.com. Tickets include same-day admission to the OC Fair, which runs July 19-Aug.18 at the OC Fair & Event Center.
  In addition, three more shows have been added to the roster of tribute acts perfo
  
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• More protest fallout across Southern California campuses as graduations loom

  08-05-2024 02:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Cal State LA students pass by a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on the campus on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.The encampment was set up by students and activists on May 1st. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  A statue decorated by Pro-Palestinian supporters at the Cal State LA campus on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.The encampment was set up by students and activists on May 1st. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  A Palestinian supporter guards the entrance to the encampment se
  
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• Ducks land 3rd pick in NHL draft lottery

  08-05-2024 02:19 via ocregister.com
  
  The NHL’s draft lottery played out in the way that few NHL seasons ever do: according to the odds.
  That meant the San Jose Sharks would select first, last year’s No. 1 overall pick owners, the Chicago Blackhawks, would be up second and that the Ducks would slot in third.
  This year’s most coveted prospect is Boston University freshman Macklin Celebrini. However, the Ducks have never chosen first overall in their 32-year draft history and it will be no different when the two-day
  
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• Richard ‘Dick’ Pickup, longtime Orange County philanthropist and investor, dies at 90

  08-05-2024 01:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Richard “Dick” Pickup, an Orange County philanthropist who made a fortune as a securities trader and investor, died of a stroke on April 25. He was 90 years old.
  Pickup’s family said the Newport Beach resident spent his last day working in his office trading stocks and eyeing his next investment deal.
  Passionate about golf, cars and giving his money away, just five months ago Pickup and his family gave $50 million to Hoag Hospital.
  Calling it “the best money I ever spent,
  
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• The race is on to stop a tiny pest from killing Southern California’s native oak trees

  08-05-2024 00:51 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s less than a half-inch long but it can fell a giant oak tree in no time.
  The goldspotted oak borer, GSOB or Agrilus auroguttatus, is a 0.4-inch bullet-shaped beetle with six golden spots on its forewings, and it burrows its way into mature oak trees, cutting off a tree’s water and nutrients and leaving it to shrivel and die in about three years.
  Two views of the small pest that’s invading oak trees, the goldspotted oak borror (GSOB). (imaged courtesy of University of Califo
  
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• Prosecutor: Anaheim man strangled woman while awaiting trial in domestic violence case

  08-05-2024 00:46 via ocregister.com
  
  An Anaheim man beat and strangled his ex-girlfriend during a 2023 fight in his luxury apartment while awaiting trial for a domestic violence attack against the same woman, a prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday.
  Aaron Stevan Romo, 37, ignored a court order barring him from contacting Mirelle Mateus, called the 24-year-old woman after being thrown out of an Orange nightclub and getting into a brawl and then killed the woman in Anaheim before getting into a standoff with police in Temecula, Senior De
  
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• Sparks move Caitlin Clark’s LA debut, 2 other games to Crypto.com Arena

  08-05-2024 00:27 via ocregister.com
  
  TORRANCE — The Sparks are going big, and in doing so are setting up a matchup between the top two picks in last month’s WNBA draft on a significantly bigger stage.
  With the sport’s booming popularity resulting in sold-out arenas and record-high TV ratings, the Sparks announced Tuesday that three of their home games – including their May 24 showdown against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever – would be moved from the Walter Pyramid at Cal State Long Beach to Crypto.
  
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• Jeannie Epper dies at 83; ‘greatest stuntwoman who ever lived’ did Lynda Carter’s stunts on ‘Wonder Woman’

  08-05-2024 00:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By Andrew Dalton
  LOS ANGELES — Jeannie Epper, a groundbreaking performer who did stunts for many of the most important women of film and television action of the 1970s and ’80s, including star Lynda Carter on TV’s “Wonder Woman,” has died. She was 83.
  Epper died of natural causes Sunday at her home in Simi Valley, California, family spokesperson Amanda Micheli told The Associated Press.
  Considered one of the greatest at her craft — Entertainment Weekly in 2007
  
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• Michelin adds Orange County restaurant to its California guide

  08-05-2024 00:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Michelin, the restaurant guide that doles out stars each year to arguably the world’s best restaurants, added five new additions to its recommendations today, May 7, including one in Orange County.
  Lola Gaspar, a Mexico City-inspired gastrobar in Santa Ana led by chef Luis Perez, nabbed a coveted spot on Michelin Guide’s midseason “new discoveries” list.
  Michelin inspectors, an anonymous body of diners who deem whether or not a restaurant merits inclusion in the guide, wr
  
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• Ducks goaltending coach Sudarshan Maharaj is cancer-free

  08-05-2024 00:09 via ocregister.com
  
  In May of 2023, Ducks goaltending coach Sudarshan Maharaj was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given a roughly one in five chance of survival.
  In May of 2024, the man affectionately known as “Sudsie” had been declared cancer-free.
  “It’s been an emotional year for my family and me, culminating with the incredible news that I am cancer free,” Maharaj said, in a press release from the Ducks. “There are so many people for me to thank – starting with Henr
  
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• Angels enduring ‘growing pains’ as they learn to run the bases aggressively

  08-05-2024 00:07 via ocregister.com
  
  PITTSBURGH — Angels manager Ron Washington doesn’t view losses and mistakes as failures. He prefers to think of them as learning opportunities.
  In that respect, the Angels are learning a lot about running the bases this season.
  Washington said from the moment he was hired, and he reiterated throughout spring training, that he wanted the Angels to aggressively run the bases. They have clearly done that, but with an efficiency that leaves something to be desired.
  The Angels have made 1
  
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• Judge indefinitely postpones Trump classified documents trial

  08-05-2024 00:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand | CNN
  Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida, citing significant issues around classified evidence that would need to be worked out before the federal criminal case goes to a jury.
  In an order Tuesday, Cannon cancelled the May trial date and did not set a new date. While Trump was in criminal court Tuesday for his hush money trial in New York, Cannon’
  
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• Chino leaders demand removal of death row inmates from local prison

  07-05-2024 23:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Anger. Fear.
  Those were the immediate reactions of Mary Ann Hughes when she learned that condemned state inmates were being transferred to California Institution for Men in Chino, the prison from which Kevin Cooper escaped in 1983 before slaughtering her son and three others.
  In compliance with Proposition 66, approved by voters in 2016, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has begun relocating death row inmates from San Quentin State Prison to 19 prisons statewide so they
  
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• Baltimore authorities say they have recovered final bridge victim

  07-05-2024 23:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By Ritu Prasad | CNN
  Salvage teams have recovered the body of the sixth victim from the March 26 Baltimore bridge collapse, authorities announced Tuesday.
  The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after a 213-million-pound cargo vessel slammed into the structure, killing six workers repairing potholes on it. The bridge was used daily by some 30,000 Marylanders.
  “Today, Unified Command salvage teams located the sixth victim and promptly notified the Maryland Department of State Police,”
  
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• Trabuco Elementary named Green Ribbon school

  07-05-2024 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  At Trabuco Elementary School, sustainability and environmentalism are woven into the fabric of the school.
  Over the years, it’s become a place where the community can learn more about how nature works – and how it can be protected – through outdoor gardens, an on-site farm, a robust field study program, and more.
  Students tend to gardens and farm animals at Trabuco Elementary School in Trabuco Canyon, CA. The school received the California Green Ribbon Schools award for its env
  
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• Live Nation Concert Week: What it is, who’s participating and how to take part in Southern California

  07-05-2024 23:28 via ocregister.com
  
  If you think concert ticket prices are too high, this is the week for you. Concert Week, a Live Nation ticket sale, runs May 8-14 and offers $25 tickets to thousands of shows not just in Southern California but across the U.S. and Canada, plus for the first time in Australia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Here’s everything you need to know about Concert Week 2024.
  What is Concert Week?
  Concert Week is a promotion in which select shows are available for $25. The world’s biggest co
  
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• Electric vehicle mandates are an attack on liberty and free enterprise

  07-05-2024 23:26 via ocregister.com
  
  In a recent interview, Secretary of Transportation Mayor Pete Buttigieg lamented the supposed recalcitrance of consumers hesitant to buy electric vehicles: “I feel like it’s the early 2000s and I’m talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.”Last we checked, nobody ever thought to mandate cell phones. The reason the Biden administration and its allies in California are using coercive government force to compel electrification is because
  
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• Three Orange County medics describe wartime health care in Gaza

  07-05-2024 22:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Four Palestinian sisters, each younger than 12, were rushed into the only functioning hospital left in central Gaza with gunshot wounds from an Israeli drone.
  One girl lost her arm. Two underwent surgery to save their legs. The other died.
  These were among the first cases three medical professionals from Orange County witnessed last month when they visited Gaza as part of a life-saving volunteer mission.
  Carrying suitcases filled with medical supplies and medications, Dr. Haifaa Younis, an OB/GY
  
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• CIF swimming roundup: Villa Park girls, Costa Mesa boys sweep Division 2 titles

  07-05-2024 22:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe colorful mural at Villa Park’s pool that displays decades of team records and a few Olympians will have a striking addition for future visitors thanks to a performance at the recent CIF-SS swimming championships.
  The Spartans’ girls claimed the first section swimming title — girls or boys — in school history by winning Division 2 over the weekend at Mt. SAC in Walnut.
  “It
  
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• CIF-SS swimming finals: Villa Park girls, Costa Mesa boys win Division 2 titles

  07-05-2024 22:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe colorful mural at Villa Park’s pool that displays decades of team records and a few Olympians will have a striking addition for future visitors thanks to a performance at the recent CIF-SS swimming championships.
  The Spartans’ girls claimed the first section swimming title — girls or boys — in school history by winning Division 2 over the weekend at Mt. SAC in Walnut.
  “It
  
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• Why adult children are finding benefits to traveling with their parents

  07-05-2024 22:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Nancy Clanton | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  Hannah Johnson first went to Walt Disney World with her mother while still in college. After a brief break because of COVID, the Ringgold, Ga., resident has resumed their trips together as an annual event.
  “I decided (the annual trip) was going to be what I did for her,” Johnson said, “kind of as a payback for all the things she did for me. I could just see how happy she was and how much it meant.”
  According to Meghan
  
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• Too many college students have been indoctrinated in extremist, far-left ideologies

  07-05-2024 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  In recent weeks, the anti-Israel demonstration swiftly spread from Columbia University to colleges nationwide. While many demonstrators were agitators outside of campuses, some were students who shouted antisemitic remarks and pro-Hamas slogans, even “death to America” — a stark reminder of the influence of extreme ideology.
  An unpleasant truth is: many American college students have become indoctrinated. This phenomenon has been fueled, in part, by decades of politicization wi
  
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