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• Lake Forest man arrested in sexual assault of woman in Irvine

  10-04-2021 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  A 37-year-old man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in Irvine has been arrested, police announced Saturday.
  The woman was sitting in her car at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the area of Harvard Avenue and Coronado Street when she saw Michael Sangbong Rhee standing at her driver’s side door holding a gun, according to Irvine Police Department Sgt. Karie Davies. Rhee allegedly told the woman to get in the back of her car if she wanted to live.
  The woman offered to give Rhee her wallet a
  
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• Earth Day: A look at what’s being done to decrease plastic use

  19-04-2024 01:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Plastic predicament
  Earth Day is Monday, April 22, and the theme for 2024 is “Planet vs. Plastics.” Plastic has many benefits: It’s cheap, versatile, lightweight and durable. It also can provide environmental benefits: It plays a critical role in maintaining food quality and safety and reducing food waste. But at the same time, plastics are having a negative impact on our oceans and wildlife health.
  The first synthetic plastic — Bakelite — was produced in 1907. Rapi
  
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• Huntington Beach councilmembers pledge to fight state’s lawsuit over city’s voter ID measure

  19-04-2024 01:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach elected officials on Thursday said the city will fight the state attorney general’s new lawsuit attempting to block the city from implementing voter ID in future elections.
  Voters in March approved adding language to the city’s charter that said the city may ask for proof of identification when voting at in-person polling locations in city elections beginning in 2026.
  The measure was put on ballots by the council’s four-member conservative majority. The state a
  
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• Concern over newly shifting Palos Verdes Peninsula ground brings out hundreds for town hall meeting

  19-04-2024 01:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Concerned citizens gather for a townhall meeting at the new Ladera Linda Community Center in Rancho Palos Verdes to address the current state of the Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex on April 17, 2024. (Photo by Gil Castro-Petres, Contributing Photographer)
  Rancho Palos Verdes mayor John Cruikshank speaks at a townhall meeting at the new Ladera Linda Community Center in Rancho Palos Verdes to address the current state of the Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex on April 17, 2024. (Photo b
  
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• As Long Beach Grand Prix weekend looms, drivers delight revved-up students

  19-04-2024 01:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Previewing the Long Beach Grand Prix weekend, professional racers Filipe Albuquerque and Jordan Taylor visited Chavez Elementary to engage with students about racing, driver safety and the path of becoming a professional racecar driver.
  Despite the gloomy clouds on a Thursday morning of Apr. 18, students ranging from grades kindergarten to fifth grade were ushered outdoors at the school’s basketball court — beaming with excitement at the scene of a Acura ARX-06 IMSA GT Prototype race
  
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• Takuma Sato goes into Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame with a familiar face

  19-04-2024 00:41 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — Takuma Sato and Katherine Legge have crossed paths throughout their auto racing careers.
  The drivers met again Thursday when they were inducted into the Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame together.
  For Sato, it brought back memories of the times they raced against each other and when both were starting their careers.
  It began in the Formula E Series in 2014 as teammates, if only for a brief time. They raced against each other in the NTT IndyCar Series. Their next meeting will
  
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• Green and Digital Shipping Corridor for Ports of LA, Long Beach and Singapore could create 700 jobs

  19-04-2024 00:34 via ocregister.com
  
  More than 700 new jobs could be added and environmental goals reached once a partnership between the ports of Long Beach, LA and Singapore can be fully implemented, the Port of Los Angeles announced Thursday.
  One year ago, the ports of LA and Long Beach signed an agreement with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore to establish a Green and Digital Shipping Corridor — a maritime route that showcases low- and zero-emission lifecycle fuels and technology with the aim of achieving zero
  
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• Embryos were accidentally destroyed at Newport Beach fertility clinic, lawsuits claim

  19-04-2024 00:27 via ocregister.com
  
  An Orange County fertility clinic accidentally destroyed embryos after they came in contact with hydrogen peroxide while an employee was cleaning an incubator, according to a pair of lawsuits filed by two couples on Thursday, April 18.
  The couples, who failed to become pregnant after the embryos were implanted in late January, accuse FPG Labs, LLC – doing business as Ovation Fertility – of negligent representation, negligence, fraud, intentional misrepresentation and five other claim
  
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• Signatures turned in for ballot measure to reverse Prop. 47, crack down on theft

  19-04-2024 00:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Prop. 47, which reduced many shoplifting and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors, has been the subject of controversy since its passage in 2014 and now its fate may once again be put in the hands of voters.
  On Thursday morning, the Californians for Safer Communities Coalition announced the submission of over 900,000 voter signatures for the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act. The coalition has raised around $8 million for the campaign, with major contributio
  
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• US vetoes resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine

  19-04-2024 00:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By Edith M. Lederer | Associated Press
  UNITED NATIONS — The United States vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution on Thursday that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for the state of Palestine.
  The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions.
  The resolution would have recommended that the 193-member General Assembly, where there are no vetoes, approve Palestine becoming the 194th member of the United Nations.
  
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• Chargers prepare for NFL draft to ‘create great depth’

  18-04-2024 23:41 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA — The Chargers’ quest for replacements for running back Austin Ekeler and to develop a muscular backfield for the 2024 season and beyond didn’t end with the signings of Gus Edwards last month and J.K. Dobbins this week, new general manager Joe Hortiz said Thursday.
  The additions of Edwards and Dobbins also did not alter the Chargers’ approach to the NFL draft next Thursday. Hortiz said the thing general managers in all sports tend to say going into an upcoming
  
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• Indonesian eruption sparks tsunami warnings, evacuation

  18-04-2024 23:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kathleen Magramo | CNN
  Indonesian authorities on Wednesday ordered hundreds of villagers to evacuate following multiple eruptions of a remote island volcano, raising fears it could collapse into the sea and trigger a tsunami.
  Mount Ruang, a 725-meter (2,400-foot) volcano on Ruang Island, North Sulawesi, has erupted at least five times since Tuesday night, spewing fiery lava and ash plumes thousands of feet into the sky, the country’s volcanology agency said.
  Agency chief Hendr
  
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• Review: ‘Prelude to a Kiss,’ The Musical’ shows potential at South Coast Repertory

  18-04-2024 23:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The appealing and reasonably accomplished “Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical,” in its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, feels that success is within its sights.
  Among many things evident during Wednesday night’s opening, the Costa Mesa theater’s bold venture in commissioning, developing and producing a musical for the first time reasserts the creative ambitions which have been the institution’s hallmark across the past six decades.
  The musical is also rooted in
  
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• Mother, daughter get time served for deadly buttocks-enhancement procedure

  18-04-2024 23:20 via ocregister.com
  
  A Riverside woman and her daughter, convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a woman’s death after a buttocks-augmentation procedure at a Sherman Oaks home in 2019, were sentenced on Thursday, April 18, to state prison but a judge ordered their release because they had completed their sentences with credit for time they spent under electronic monitoring.
  Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge George G. Lomeli sentenced Libby Adame, 53, to four years and four months in state prison, and h
  
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• Trump loses bid to halt Jan. 6 lawsuits while he fights criminal charges in the 2020 election case

  18-04-2024 23:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER (Associated Press)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump lost a bid Thursday to pause a string of lawsuits accusing him of inciting the U.S. Capitol attack, while the former president fights his 2020 election interference criminal case in Washington.
  U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington denied defense lawyers’ request to put the civil cases seeking to hold Trump responsible for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on hold while the criminal case accusing him of conspiring
  
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• Mission Viejo football scheduled to play Long Beach Poly at SoFi Stadium

  18-04-2024 23:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Mission Viejo-Long Beach Poly football rivalry is scheduled to shift to SoFi Stadium this fall.
  The Diablos have announced their 2024 schedule highlighted by a nonleague game against Long Beach Poly on Oct. 4 at SoFi Stadium, home to the NFL Rams and Chargers.
  “Opportunity of a lifetime,” said Mission Viejo coach Chad Johnson, who confirmed the agreement with the Jackrabbits.
  The current r
  
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• Fryer: Mater Dei decided it didn’t have the right leader for football program

  18-04-2024 22:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Frank McManus did not grow in the ways that Mater Dei administrators wanted him to as the school’s football head coach during the 2023 season.
  They did not see potential for growth this coming season or beyond. So they decided that the 2023 season, which yielded CIF Southern Section and CIF State championships, was enough. Last week McManus was told he no longer would be the school’s football coach. 
  Being the head coach at Mater Dei requires much more than winning CIF champions
  
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• Carnival doles out more details on new Bahamas destination

  18-04-2024 22:32 via ocregister.com
  
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Carnival Cruise Line has released another round of updates on what travelers can expect when its new private destination Grand Bahama Celebration Key opens.
  Debuting in summer 2025, the port of call will be welcoming ships from Florida ports Port Canaveral, PortMiami, Tampa and Jacksonville as well as six other U.S. ports.
  The 369-acre site less than 20 miles east of Freeport will be the first dedicated to Carnival Cruise Line, although Carnival ships have used sister l
  
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• Universal Studios Hollywood brings ‘Fall Guy’ pre-show to ‘Waterworld’ stuntacular

  18-04-2024 22:14 via ocregister.com
  
  The stunt team behind “John Wick” and “Deadpool” will bring a new pre-show to the “Waterworld” stuntacular at Universal Studios Hollywood based on the $125 million Universal Pictures film “The Fall Guy” coming to theaters next month.
  The limited-time “Fall Guy Stuntacular Pre-Show” will run for three weeks from April 27 to May 19 as an introduction to the three-decade-old “Waterworld” stunt show on Universal’s upper lo
  
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• Horse racing: Top jockey Juan Hernandez committed to California – for now

  18-04-2024 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Juan Hernandez keeps making his mark on the racetracks at Santa Anita and Del Mar, proving himself an especially smart and dependable jockey.
  But he’s finding his fortune on the road.
  The leading jockey in the “Classic Meet” portion of Santa Anita’s season, Hernandez flew to Arkansas twice in the past three weekends to win million-dollar races with Bob Baffert-trained Muth in the Arkansas Derby and Adare Manor in the Apple Blossom Handicap.
  As Santa Anita’s “H
  
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• UCLA unexpectedly loses Jay Toia to transfer portal

  18-04-2024 21:59 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — UCLA defensive lineman Jay Toia announced on social media Thursday morning that he is entering the transfer portal.
  “As I prepare to graduate from UCLA…After speaking with my parents and family I have decided to enter the NCAA transfer portal as of last night,” Toia wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
  The announcement was somewhat unexpected after head coach DeShaun Foster’s conversation with reporters Tuesday.
  “I don’t think
  
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• Trump presses Republicans for kickbacks when using his likeness

  18-04-2024 21:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Nancy Cook | Bloomberg News (TNS)
  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s presidential campaign wants other Republicans to pay up, if they use the former president’s name, image or likeness in any fundraising solicitations, according to a new campaign memo obtained by Bloomberg News.
  Related ArticlesNational Politics | Biden counters RFK Jr. with Kennedy family endorsementsNational Politics | Biden is off on details of his uncle’s WWII death as he calls Trump unfit to lead the milita
  
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• 100-year-old cabin continues to serve Huntington Beach scouts

  18-04-2024 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  For the last 100 years, the Boy Scout cabin at Lake Park has stood the test of time, acting as a backdrop for civic events, providing a home base for thousands of scouts, and evolving alongside the Huntington Beach community that it serves.
  Over the years, the log cabin has witnessed numerous eras in the city’s history – from the oil boom of the 1920s, to World War II, to the arrival of tract housing starting in the 1950s – and has become a beloved local landmark along the way,
  
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• Biden counters RFK Jr. with Kennedy family endorsements

  18-04-2024 21:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Justin Sink | Bloomberg News (TNS)
  President Joe Biden will be endorsed by more than a dozen members of the Kennedy family at an event Thursday in Philadelphia, as he looks to blunt the outsider presidential bid of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
  Biden will be introduced by Kerry Kennedy — the sister of the third-party candidate — and joined by fellow siblings including Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a former Maryland lieutenant governor; filmmaker Rory Kennedy; former Congressman Joe Kennedy II,
  
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• Angels waste strong outing from Griffin Canning in loss to Rays

  18-04-2024 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The good news for the Angels was that Griffin Canning finally changed course.
  The bad news is it happened on a day they didn’t hit.
  The Angels lost 2-1 to the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday afternoon, missing a chance to win the four-game series and wasting Canning’s encouraging outing.
  Mike Trout produced the Angels only run, leading off the sixth inning with a walk. Trout stole second and third – giving him five steals this season – and he score
  
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• The first-timer’s go-to guide for the best Grand Prix of Long Beach experience

  18-04-2024 21:34 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s just about time for 49th annual Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.
  The event, dubbed Southern California’s 200-mph beach party, will offer Grand Prix veterans and first-timers countless offerings from Friday to Sunday, April 19-21.
  There’s so much to see and do at this event — which takes over a big chunk of Long Beach’s downtown and waterfront — it might be hard to figure out how to make the most of the experience.
  But never fear. The Southern California Ne
  
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• Horse racing notes: Fierceness, Sierra Leone top Kentucky Derby qualifiers

  18-04-2024 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANITA LEADERS
  (Through Thursday)
  Jockeys / Wins
  Juan Hernandez / 53
  Antonio Fresu / 46
  Flavien Prat / 42
  Frankie Dettori / 34
  Umberto Rispoli / 28
  Trainers / Wins
  Doug O’Neill / 30
  Mark Glatt / 29
  Phil D’Amato / 28
  Bob Baffert / 24
  Steve Knapp / 20
  WEEKEND STAKES AT SANTA ANITA
  Saturday
  • $100,000, Grade III Californian Stakes, 4-year-olds and up, 1 1/8 miles
  • $100,000, Grade III Providencia Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 1 1/8 miles on turf
  Sunday
  • $200,000, Grad
  
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• What college students need to know about payment apps

  18-04-2024 21:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kimberly Palmer | NerdWallet
  For college students, sending money to friends has never been easier thanks to peer-to-peer payment apps like Venmo, PayPal and Cash App. But that convenience poses risks, including vulnerability to errors, fraud and the tendency to overspend.
  As a result, payment apps can contribute to financial stress at a time when young people are learning how to manage their finances on their own. “Peer-to-peer payment apps are cash on steroids because they’re a s
  
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• Lawsuit alleges Obamacare plan-switching scheme targeted low-income consumers

  18-04-2024 21:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Julie Appleby | (TNS) KFF Health News
  A wide-ranging lawsuit filed Friday outlines a moneymaking scheme by which large insurance sales agency call centers enrolled people into Affordable Care Act plans or switched their coverage, all without their permission.
  According to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, two such call centers paid tens of thousands of dollars a day to buy names of people who responded to misleading advertisements touting f
  
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• With mortgage rate topping 7%, what will it take to soften the market?

  18-04-2024 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Mortgage rates have exploded, again.
  Last week, the Freddie Mac 30-year fixed was 6.88%. This week, it landed at 7.1%, or 22 basis points higher.
  Just a week ago, the principal and interest payment on a $750,000 loan was $4,929 on a 30-year fixed rate, assuming a 6.88% rate. This week, that principal and interest payment is $5,040 or $111 more per month.
  Also see: Locked in: Homeowners with mortgage rates too good to give up
  “The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage surpassed 7% for the first
  
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