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• Huntington Beach baseball tops Santa Margarita in eight innings in Division 1 quarterfinals

  11-05-2024 06:23 via ocregister.com
  
  HUNTINGTON BEACH – The Huntington Beach baseball team was one strike away from the end of its season Friday.
  The Oilers trailed Santa Margarita by one run in the bottom of the eighth inning. There were two outs and an 0-2 count on Trevor Goldenetz.
  Goldenetz slashed a line drive to drive in Jeff Burden and John Petrie and give Huntington Beach a 3-2 victory over the Eagles in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 quarterfinals at Huntington Beach High.
  The Oilers (23-8) will play at Corona (
  
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• CalAmp, Irvine software firm, files bankruptcy

  03-06-2024 21:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine-based CalAmp Corp., which develops software designed to track vehicles and improve company logistics, has filed bankruptcy to complete a debt-cutting deal that hands control of the business to lender Lynrock Lake Master Fund LP.
  Publicly traded CalAmp filed Chapter 11 on Monday in Delaware to execute a restructuring deal where Lynrock has agreed to swap $229 million in secured notes for 100% of the equity in the reorganized business. Other CalAmp creditors would be fully repaid in cash, t
  
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• Corona del Mar’s Niels Hoffmann and Sunny Hills’ Daniela Borruel named SoCal tennis MVPs

  03-06-2024 21:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowCorona del Mar’s Niels Hoffmann and Sunny Hills’ Daniela Borruel, a pair of USC tennis recruits and reigning CIF-SS individual champions, had something else in common after the recent Southern California National High School Tennis All-American awards dinner.
  They were both SoCal MVPs.
  Sunny Hills junior Daniela Borruel won her second CIF-SS singles title on Thursday in Claremont. (Photo by Da
  
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• Derek Trucks talks Tedeschi Trucks Band before Greek shows: ‘Be willing to fail’

  03-06-2024 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Derek Trucks was, it seems, born to play guitar. 
  A child prodigy, by 13, Trucks had played with legendary blues guitarist Buddy Guy. At 20, he formed the Derek Trucks Band, then, at 25 became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band, joining his uncle, drummer Butch Trucks.
  In 2009, he dissolved The Derek Trucks Band, just before it won the 2010 Best Contemporary Blues Album Grammy. Two years later, Tedeschi Trucks Band, the group he formed with his wife, singer/guitarist S
  
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• Jewzz: A new dating app for Jewish singles from Matzoball founder

  03-06-2024 19:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Andy Rudnick has three daughters who are single and dating. So each time there are applicants to his new matchmaking app, JEWZZ, they get a personal, fatherly once-over from the veteran party entrepreneur.
  Rudnick, who has been operating the famed Matzoball Jewish singles gatherings since 1987, says he screens for inappropriate language, photos and conversations. He said he rejects about 10% of potential new members.
  “I want to leave something behind that provides value and purpose for the
  
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• From robocalls to fake porn: Going after AI’s dark side

  03-06-2024 19:45 via ocregister.com
  
  New Hampshire voters received a barrage of robocalls in which a computer-generated imitation of President Biden discouraged them from voting in the January primary. While the admitted mastermind was slapped with felony charges and a proposed FCC fine, his deed is just one wound left by the cutting-edge technology law enforcement is struggling to catch up with: artificial intelligence.
  Computer-generated “deepfakes” can impersonate not only the voice and face of anyone but can contrib
  
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• Trump’s attacks on US justice system after his conviction could be used by autocrats, say experts

  03-06-2024 19:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By EMMA BURROWS (Associated Press)
  After his historic guilty verdict in his hush money case, Donald Trump attacked the U.S. criminal justice system, making unfounded claims of a “rigged” trial that echoed remarks from the Kremlin.
  “If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone,” Trump said Friday, speaking from his namesake tower in New York on Friday. Thousands of miles away, Russian President Vladimir Putin was probably “rubbing his hands with glee,”
  
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• Detroit-style pizzeria Gibroni’s opens in San Clemente

  03-06-2024 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  As Orange County enters a golden age of pizza — Truly Pizza in Dana Point, Folks in Costa Mesa and Loosies in Santa Ana have helped refine and redefine our culinary landscape — Gibroni’s, founded by Michigan natives Tony and Lindsey Gioutsos, offers a Detroit-style slice that will rank among the best.
  Born and raised in Detroit, Tony Gioutsos taught himself how to make proper pizza dough in his teens. “I know what it tastes like because I’ve had it my whole life,&rd
  
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• Rubio’s closes 48 restaurants in California, citing ‘business climate’

  03-06-2024 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Rubio’s Coastal Grill employees took to social media over the weekend, lamenting dozens of Southern California restaurant closures that took them by surprise.
  “Former employee after today,” wrote Thesil58 on Reddit. “They legit told us this morning when we showed up for work that today was going to be our last day. No severance, no warning, nada. I’m not sure exactly what locations are going, but it’s a ton of them.”
  The Carlsbad-based chain known for it
  
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• A quieter leaf blower? These undergraduates found a way.

  03-06-2024 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Nate Greene, an engineer at Towson’s Stanley Black & Decker calls the innovation “extremely atypical.”
  A group of students from the Johns Hopkins University signed onto a class project and were tasked with building a new product for the multinational tool company. And they actually did it.
  Using a campus 3D printer, a team of four seniors at Hopkins designed a new attachment for leaf blowers capable of quieting some of the harshest decibels of a blower’s sound.
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• Democrats wanted an agreement on using artificial intelligence. It went nowhere

  03-06-2024 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAN MERICA (Associated Press)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee was watching earlier this year as campaigns nationwide were experimenting with artificial intelligence. So the organization approached a handful of influential party campaign committees with a request: Sign onto guidelines that would commit them to use the technology in a “responsible” way.
  The draft agreement, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, was hardly full of revolutiona
  
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• Trump joins TikTok and calls it ‘an honor.’ As president he once tried to ban the video-sharing app

  03-06-2024 18:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By JILL COLVIN, WILL WEISSERT and MEG KINNARD (Associated Press)
  Donald Trump has joined the popular video-sharing app TikTok, a platform he once tried to ban while in the White House, and posted from a UFC fight two days after he became the first former president and presumptive major party nominee in U.S. history to be found guilty on felony charges.
  “It’s an honor,” Trump said in the TikTok video, which features footage of him waving to fans and posing for selfies at the Ult
  
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• Republicans make Biden’s EV push an election-year issue as Democrats take a more nuanced approach

  03-06-2024 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JOHN SEEWER (Associated Press)
  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Donald Trump says the Biden administration’s policy to promote electric vehicles is a “radical plan” that would kill the economy in automaking states. Republican allies in the petroleum industry have spent millions on ads that say President Joe Biden’s tax credit for EV buyers will cost Americans their freedom.
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• Eureka! restaurant chain adds new dishes meant to put a twist on classic comfort foods

  03-06-2024 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  With a nod towards classic comfort dishes, Hawthorne-based restaurant chain Eureka! has just launched new menu items and drinks at all its locations.
  “This new menu rollout is us going back to our ethos as a restaurant group of focusing on classic comforting foods with a modern twist,” said Alexia Peters, a spokesperson for the chain, which has locations in places like Woodland Hills, Cerritos, Claremont, Aliso Viejo, Hawthorne, Irvine, Ontario and Redlands.
  The new items made their
  
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• Lake Forest to debut its first multicultural celebration

  03-06-2024 18:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Lake Forest is set to host its first-ever multicultural event this Friday, June 8, at the Civic Center.
  The free event is meant to represent the diversity in Lake Forest and throughout Orange County with various bands, dance performances and food.
  Entertainment will include performances from Mariachi Toro, Folklorico Amanacer, Bollywood Dance Company, Qing Wei Lion and Dragon troupe and the RumbaLa Cuban Band. Taiko drummers, too, will perform. Next to the entertainment, banners will explain the
  
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• Unionized academic workers go on strike, for what?

  03-06-2024 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  On April 25, thirty or so tents went up in front of Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA, and the university’s eventual response has now led to rolling strikes by unionized academic workers on multiple UC campuses.
  United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4811 represents about 48,000 teaching assistants, tutors, student researchers, academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars employed in the UC system. So far, the union’s so-called “Stand-up Strikes” have been stood up at UC Santa
  
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• Bob Kelley, former publisher of Kelley Blue Book, dies at age 96

  03-06-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Bob Kelley, the former publisher of Irvine-based Kelley Blue Book who came from a family with deep roots in Southern California’s car culture, died May 28 at his home in Indian Wells. He was 96.
  Born in Los Angeles in 1927, Kelley joined his family’s dealership, Kelley Kar Company and Kelley Blue Book, after serving in World War II.
  The family business got its start in 1918 when Kelley’s uncle, Les Kelley, launched a Los Angeles car dealership with just three Model T Fords. The
  
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• Jessica Tapia carries Coach Kennedy’s torch in the fight for religious freedom

  03-06-2024 17:50 via ocregister.com
  
  In the ongoing saga of defending religious liberties, Jessica Tapia’s journey stands as a poignant reminder of the challenges faced by those who dare to uphold their faith in the public sphere. As a former teacher at California’s Jurupa Unified School District, Tapia found herself last year entangled in a legal battle when she refused to compromise her Christian beliefs in the face of institutional directives on gender identity and pronoun usage. Tapia emerged victorious, with the Ju
  
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• With cancel culture on her mind, Anna Dorn wrote the pulpy ‘Perfume & Pain’

  03-06-2024 17:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Astrid Dahl is a mess. The protagonist of “Perfume & Pain,” the latest novel from Anna Dorn, is a self-obsessed L.A. novelist trying to rebuild her life after an ill-advised quip gets her canceled. In what is, essentially, a comedy of 21st-century manners, Dahl has to grow up if she wants to reclaim her career and perhaps find love in the process.
  “I started writing this novel around the time that I turned 35, which is a big theme of the novel. Astrid, the main character, i
  
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• Sacramento Snapshot: How the California Legislature is tackling AI this year

  03-06-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  If you ask Sen. Tom Umberg, the legislature’s role in regulating artificial intelligence is multi-faceted.
  It’s no secret that California is expected to play an outsized role in AI regulation. After all, the state is home to many of the world’s largest AI companies, the governor’s office boasts.
  Sacramento Snapshot
  Editor’s note: Sacramento Snapshot is a weekly series during the legislative session detailing what Orange County’s representatives in th
  
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• KKGO Go Country lost its ‘kick-butt’ spirit. ‘Gold’ may help get it back.

  03-06-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Some changes are coming to Go Country, KKGO (105.1 FM).
  While there was an uptick in the ratings last month, there are some who feel the station is underperforming. One of those is station owner Saul Levine himself, who put the station on the air back in the 1950s.
  “Entertainment changed since COVID,” he told me. “Things got put on hold, offices were closed so people were not driving, people started working more from home. This all changed listening patterns. At the same time,
  
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• Five things to know before Trump and Biden touch down in Los Angeles

  03-06-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are heading to Southern California for big-ticket fundraisers and will be bringing a lot more baggage with them than just a load of suitcases.
  In Trump’s case that includes his new classification as a convicted felon, which could result in a particularly angry reception in the Democratic stronghold of Los Angeles. That’s not to say Biden will be warmly welcomed either, after pro-Palestine protests and mass arrests roiled SoCal&rsq
  
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• Chef Roy Choi urges CSUF Class of 2024 to ‘lead with kindness’

  03-06-2024 15:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Mixing inspiring words with self-deprecating witticisms, renowned culinary entrepreneur Roy Choi implored the 2024 graduating class from Cal State Fullerton’s College of Business and Economics to use their education and expertise to “bridge some of the inequities with the choices that you make in the businesses that you build” and to “lead with kindness, love and generosity.”
  Choi, who graduated from CSUF in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, was the
  
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• Storm is coming: Political Cartoons

  03-06-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
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  Check out our regular cartoon gallery featuring some of the best cartoonists from around the world, and across the political spectrum, covering current issues and figures.
  
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• Senior Living: New help for dealing with aggression in people with dementia

  03-06-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Caring for older adults with dementia is stressful, especially when they become physically or verbally aggressive, wander away from home, develop paranoia or hallucinations, engage in inappropriate or repetitive behaviors, or refuse to let caregivers help them.
  Upward of 95% of patients experience these neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia, which tend to fluctuate over time and vary in intensity. They’re the primary reasons people with dementia end up in assisted living facilities or nurs
  
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• Claudia Sheinbaum becomes first female president of Mexico

  03-06-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Maya Averbuch and Alex Vasquez | Bloomberg
  Claudia Sheinbaum became Mexico’s first female leader in a landslide victory, capitalizing on outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s popularity while also inheriting rampant criminal violence and a large fiscal deficit left by his government.
  The former mayor of the nation’s capital and candidate for the ruling Morena party won Sunday’s election by a margin of at least 30 percentage points, according to the nation&rs
  
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• The real problem with immigration and welfare

  03-06-2024 09:12 via ocregister.com
  
  As an advocate for freedom in immigration, one of the objections to my position I hear most often is: “immigrants abuse the welfare state by taking from a system they haven’t contributed to.” 
  This objection relies largely on a myth. Demagogues make it sound as if immigrants have virtually unrestricted eligibility to welfare, comparable to native-born Americans. But immigrants’ eligibility for welfare programs is much more limited than most people think. Legal immigr
  
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• NCAA Tournament game between UC Irvine, Oregon State suspended until Monday

  03-06-2024 05:34 via ocregister.com
  
  CORVALLIS, Ore. — The NCAA Tournament baseball game at the Corvallis Regional between No. 15 national seed Oregon State and UC Irvine was suspended Sunday night with the Beavers leading 6-4 in the bottom of the fourth inning.
  Oregon State (44-14) scored five runs in the top of the second inning to take the lead after UC Irvine (45-13) scored four times in the bottom of the first.
  The game will resume on Monday where it left off. If UC Irvine wins a second game will follow to decide the reg
  
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• NCAA regional baseball game between UC Irvine, Oregon State suspended until Monday

  03-06-2024 05:34 via ocregister.com
  
  CORVALLIS, Ore. — The NCAA tournament baseball game at the Corvallis Regional between No. 15 national seed Oregon State and UC Irvine was suspended Sunday night with the Beavers leading, 6-4, in the bottom of the fourth inning.
  Oregon State (44-14) scored five runs in the top of the second inning to take the lead after UCI (45-13) scored four times in the bottom of the first.
  The game will resume on Monday at noon. If UCI wins, a second game will follow at 3 p.m. to decide the regional cha
  
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• Women’s College World Series: UCLA softball season ends with loss to Stanford

  03-06-2024 05:16 via ocregister.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY — Fittingly, the last softball game between two Pac-12 teams was a gem.
  In a loser’s-bracket, must-win game Sunday night at the Women’s College World Series, UCLA and Stanford staged a game befitting the sport’s grandest conference. Great pitching. Big hitting. Clean fielding. Even late-inning drama.
  In the end, the eighth-seeded Cardinal defeated the sixth-seeded Bruins 3-1.
  “It was an excellent game of softball,” Stanford coach Jessica Allister
  
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