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• Lakers face daunting task in free agency without much to spend

  30-06-2022 02:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Last season, the Lakers took a chance: They signed Malik Monk, a former lottery pick fallen on hard times, to a minimum deal.
  Monk has talked several times about the ache of last summer – hoping for bigger deals before swallowing his pride to come to L.A. at the minimum. It turned out to be a win-win: Monk helped the Lakers absorb a season-long injury to Kendrick Nunn, starting 37 games and averaging 13.8 points as one of the team’s microwave scorers. Playing for the Lakers helped re
  
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• New Laguna Beach lifeguard boat will make rescues offshore safer

  09-05-2024 16:20 via ocregister.com
  
  With warmer weather creeping in and crowds arriving to enjoy Laguna Beach’s picturesque coves and shoreline, the city’s Marine Safety Department is gearing up for a busy summer and has a new boat to help make offshore rescues safer.
  “We’re reinstating a new program that’s been dormant for 30 years,” Capt. Kai Bond said about a boat the department received in April. “We cover 7.5 miles of beaches. If a lifeguard has an offshore response, it closes the 7.5
  
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• As OC spending on homelessness grows, the number of homeless people grows, too

  09-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  After speaking with a nearby homeless individual, volunteers Katherine Ibarra, left, of the Garden Grove Regional Center and Yolie Negrete, right, a program supervisor at City Net, check their map on where to go next before dawn in Santa Ana on Jan. 23. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  The definition of insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Welcome to the asylum!
  Despite spending more and more and money on homeless servic
  
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• Crucial, not cruel and unusual: The Supreme Court weighs homelessness regulations

  09-05-2024 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  To address homelessness, cities around California and the US have tried to implement bans on camping on public property. But legal challenges have paused enforcement, and the Supreme Court is poised to rule in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson. At stake is the ability of public officials to craft nuanced policies that address homelessness.
  The class action lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of anti-camping ordinances in a small Oregon town, but the impact of the Justices’ ruling will be
  
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• Government policies push higher union raises

  09-05-2024 15:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Want to know who’s getting good raises? Look for the union label. 
  A new Goldman Sachs study for the first quarter of 2024 found compensation for private-sector union workers rose 6.6% over the previous year, “once again far outpacing compensation growth for nonunion workers, which also increased but to a more moderate 4.1%.”
  Unions have been enjoying a resurgence under President Biden. The April 24 New Yorker reported “many scholars and union officials have come to
  
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• Ending campus protests protects free speech

  09-05-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Protests against the Israeli war in Gaza are engulfing private and state-run universities across the country, from Columbia University to UCLA to the University of Texas at Austin, with more than 2,500 protesters from almost 50 campuses already arrested.
  Reactions to footage of police marching in riot gear to break up the encampments and detain students and professors have been sharp. Even critics of the protesters’ agenda — and most of what we’ve heard the protesters say is re
  
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• Is the union resurgence real? Does it matter for workers?

  09-05-2024 14:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Unions are said to be having a moment. The story goes something like this: Helped by a presidential administration that touts itself as the “most pro-union in history,” labor unions — after decades of decline — are winning big victories against anti-union corporations and extracting impressive concessions for their workers. But is it all true?
  There has certainly been a lot of union activity. Last year we witnessed a significant increase in strikes and threats of strikes.
  
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• The Democrat memory hole forgets it was the party of slavery, the Confederacy and Jim Crow

  09-05-2024 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  To the Left, former President Donald Trump is a racist. Not only is Trump a racist, but he is only the latest in a long line of Republican racists.
  From MSNBC’s Ali Velshi: “Contrary to what some might think, the former president is not an anomaly in American politics. While he may be unmatched in terms of his narcissism, Trumpism itself is not a novel idea. The movement he ushered is in line with the Republican Party’s Southern strategy, a long-term plan developed in resp
  
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• Cristian Olivera scores twice to lead LAFC into U.S. Open Cup’s Round of 16

  09-05-2024 07:31 via ocregister.com
  
  LAS VEGAS — Cristian Olivera scored two goals to lift Los Angeles Football Club to a 3-1 victory over Las Vegas Lights FC in a U.S. Open Cup match on Wednesday night at Cashman Field.
  Olivera broke a 1-1 tie in the 70th minute then scored an insurance goal in stoppage time as LAFC avoided the upset and advanced to the Round of 16 of the nation’s oldest soccer tournament.
  The 2023 MLS runner-up will host Loudoun United FC, a USL Championship team from Leesburg, Virginia, in the Round
  
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• Orange County Artist of the Year winners take to the stage in Orange

  09-05-2024 05:46 via ocregister.com
  
  The 2024 winners of the Orange County high school Artist of the Year competition performed Wednesday night, May 8, in a showcase of talents at Chapman University in Orange.
  This year’s Artist of the Year winners are: Sofia Aniceto of Orange County School of the Arts, dance; McKenzie Cahill of Capistrano Valley High School, theater; Caroline Kim of Orange County School of the Arts, fine arts; Grace Lin of Arnold O. Beckman High School, media arts; Viveka Saravanan of Orange County School of
  
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• Suspect in robbery and kidnapping at Anaheim bank arrested

  09-05-2024 04:42 via ocregister.com
  
  A suspected bank robber held several employees inside a BMO Bank in Anaheim captive before he was arrested by police on Wednesday, March 8, officials said.
  Police responded to the bank robbery on 4501 East La Palma Avenue at 4:40 p.m. The suspect allegedly kidnapped several bank employees, barricaded himself inside a room within the bank and demanded money before he stole an undisclosed amount of cash, Anaheim Police Sgt. Jon McClintock said.
  SWAT personnel and tactical negotiators at the scene
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Wednesday, May 8

  09-05-2024 03:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, May 8
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  The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
  WEDNESDAY’S SCORES
  BOYS TENNIS
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Semifinals
  OPEN DIVISION
  University 11, Palos Verdes 7
  Corona del Mar 15, Harvard-Westlake 3
  DIVISION 1
  JS
  
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• Sprawling Playa Del Rey community center ‘Lulu’s Place’ will honor former USC tennis champ

  09-05-2024 03:33 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES – On his first date with Carol “Lulu” Kimmelman, Doug Kimmelman suggested they play tennis, because he’d been taking lessons.
  That was 1989, and back then, Kimmelman had no idea of what she had accomplished six years earlier at USC. So they strolled down the block to a court, only for Kimmelman to come up gasping and slick with sweat 20 minutes in and see his soon-to-be-wife completely unbothered. She hadn’t moved an inch, he remembered.
  Tennis was one o
  
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• Irvine man charged in violin theft scheme, bank robbery

  09-05-2024 03:11 via ocregister.com
  
  A 57-year-old man was accused this week in a federal criminal complaint of stealing old violins worth more than a combined $300,000 from shops across the country, and robbing an Irvine bank in April, authorities said.
  Mark Meng, of Irvine, was charged Monday, May 7, with counts including bank robbery and wire fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
  Beginning in August 2020, Meng contacted violin shops and presented himself as a collector to gain the trust of the store owners, accor
  
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• Shohei Ohtani’s ex-interpreter linked to ‘Real Housewives of Orange County’ star

  09-05-2024 02:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Ryan Boyajian, the boyfriend of one of “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” appeared Wednesday in a federal investigation into the bookie who received millions of dollars for gambling debts from Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani,
  Mizuhara agreed on Wednesday to plead guilty to stealing nearly $17 million from Ohtani, according to federal prosecutors. The money was used to pay Mizuhara’s gambling debts to Orange County bookie Mathew Bowyer
  
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• Here’s where in Orange County homeless people were in 2024, compared to 5 years ago

  09-05-2024 02:14 via ocregister.com
  
  The 2024 point in time count sent hundreds of volunteers throughout the county over a three day period in January to make contact with homeless people. Each region of the county was swept twice.
  More than 3,220 people were counted as homeless in north Orange County, with more than 1,600 living on the streets. More than 2,000 of the more than 3,400 people reported homeless in central Orange County didn’t have shelter, and 150 of the 641 homeless people contacted in south Orange County had s
  
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• Should the Kings dump their 1-3-1 neutral-zone trap?

  09-05-2024 01:42 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — The Kings’ 1-3-1 trap had drawn criticisms from opposing players, like Vancouver’s Nikita Zadorov, who said it was the Kings’ goal to not play hockey, and Colorado’s Gabriel Landeskog, who once implored the Kings to “get up and hunt,” among other more profane commands.
  Those comments were considered encouraging signs for the Kings – limiting, stifling and consternating the opposition would be the ideal progression of a neutral-zone tra
  
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• Santa Margarita’s boys and girls to be challenged at CIF State swim meet this weekend

  09-05-2024 01:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSanta Margarita’s girls will race without their best swimmer. Santa Margarita’s boys face more tough rounds against Loyola and Northwood.
  The Eagles will certainly be challenged this weekend at the CIF State swimming and diving championships in Fresno as they seek to defend their boys and girls team titles.
  The three-day meet at Clovis West High begins Thursday with boys and girls diving. The
  
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• Pro-Palestinian rallies, events held across CSU system on ‘day of action’ but no disturbances

  09-05-2024 01:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Pro-Palestinian protesters urged students throughout California State University’s Southern California campuses to take part in a CSU-wide day of action on Wednesday, May 8, as tensions continue to flare over the Israel-Hamas war.
  No major outbreaks were reported in the greater Los Angeles area, however. Across a number of college campuses, including non-CSU campuses, students held teach-ins and other activities while calling on university officials to divest from Israel and businesses wit
  
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• Jury awards sisters $18 million from insurance company that offered only $5,000 for storm damage

  09-05-2024 00:44 via ocregister.com
  
  A San Bernardino County jury has awarded two women $18 million after determining their insurance carrier acted in bad faith when it failed to pay out more than $100,000 to cover repairs for their flood-damaged home.
  Jurors awarded Pinon Hills residents Jennifer Garnier and Angela Toft $6 million for pain and suffering and $12 million in punitive damages on April 18, following a six-week trial in San Bernardino Superior Court, said their attorney, Michael Hernandez of San Diego.
  According to a la
  
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• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene triggers effort to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson from office

  08-05-2024 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING
  WASHINGTON — Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called Wednesday for a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, pressing ahead with her long-shot effort despite pushback from Republicans at the highest levels tired of the political chaos.
  Greene, who is one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, stood on the House floor and read a long list of “transgressions” she said Johnson had committed as speaker. Colleagues booed in protest.
  
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• House quickly rejects Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to remove Speaker Johnson from office

  08-05-2024 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING
  WASHINGTON — Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stunned colleagues Wednesday calling for a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, but lawmakers quickly rejected it.
  Greene pressed ahead with her long-shot effort despite pushback from Republicans at the highest levels tired of the political chaos.
  One of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, Greene stood on the House floor and read a long list of “transgressions” she said Johnson ha
  
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• Gavin Stone shines as Dodgers sweep Marlins for 7th straight win

  08-05-2024 23:18 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Art collectors do not take care of their prized possessions as well as Gavin Stone has nurtured his and made it his own.
  A winner of a rotation spot late in spring training, Stone is showing that his hold on the role is rock solid after another strong outing Wednesday against the Miami Marlins.
  Stone gave up one run over seven innings and Teoscar Hernandez hit a go-ahead home run in the sixth inning as the Dodgers earned a 3-1 victory over the Marlins to extend their winning
  
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• Steve Albini dies at 61; alternative rock pioneer produced albums for Nirvana, the Pixies

  08-05-2024 23:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By Maria Sherman
  Steve Albini, an alternative rock pioneer and legendary producer who shaped the musical landscape through his work with Nirvana, the Pixies, PJ Harvey and more, has died. He was 61.
  Brian Fox, an engineer at Albini’s studio, Electrical Audio Recording, said Wednesday that Albini died after a heart attack Tuesday night.
  In addition to his work on canonized rock albums such as Nirvana’s “In Utero,” the Pixies’ breakthrough “Surfer Rosa,” a
  
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• Homelessness in Orange County up 28% since 2022 in newly released point in time count results

  08-05-2024 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The number of people reported homeless in Orange County increased by 28% in the last two years, according to the latest “point in time count” results released Wednesday by county officials.
  This year the county reported 7,322 people reached during the January count said they were experiencing homelessness. The last count in 2022 tallied 5,718 people either living on the streets in Orange County or staying in shelters.  Of those surveyed, 328 were veterans, 308 were young adults
  
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• Homelessness in Orange County on the rise, newly released point in time count results indicate

  08-05-2024 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The number of people reported homeless in Orange County increased by 28% in the last two years, according to the latest “point in time count” results released Wednesday by county officials.
  This year the county reported 7,322 people reached during the January count said they were experiencing homelessness. The last count in 2022 tallied 5,718 people either living on the streets in Orange County or staying in shelters.  Of those surveyed, 328 were veterans, 308 were young adults
  
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• South Coast Repertory announces its 2024-25 season

  08-05-2024 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  South Coast Repertory will stage three world premieres — including one about the late comic Joan Rivers — while bringing back a popular Broadway staple during its 2024-25 season, announced by the Costa Mesa-based theater company today, May 8.
  The theater will present Hershey Felder, known for his portrayals of famous composers such as George Gershwin, in a new musical play, “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” from Feb. 18 through March 2. Felder will return March 3 to perform hi
  
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• UCLA administrators ignored UC policies and now engage in blame-shifting

  08-05-2024 22:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Ten years ago, the UC system created a comprehensive guide of roles, responsibilities, and planning for the UC system and individual campuses to follow in responding to civil disobedience on campuses. These guidelines remain in effect to this day. As detailed below, this guide calls into question the ongoing attempt by UCLA administrators to shift blame to law enforcement for the response/lack of response to protests at UCLA.
  The lengthy 2014 plan resulted from eighteen months of delib
  
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• Alexander: What can your favorite team’s ownership do better?

  08-05-2024 22:41 via ocregister.com
  
  What, as a fan, do you want to see from the owner(s) of your favorite team(s)?
  Is it enough to have a decent hot dog, a reasonably priced seat with good sightlines, a stadium or venue that’s relatively easy to get into and out of? Is concessions variety important to you? What about the in-game experience? Do you want a high-energy atmosphere, or would you prefer that the speakers be turned down a bit – even if it’s only once in a while – so you can hear yourself think or
  
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• Gaza solidarity encampments at UCI and Chapman continue to rally for changes

  08-05-2024 22:32 via ocregister.com
  
  UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman in a Tuesday night email sent to the campus community reiterated there are some demands being made by students who have formed a solidarity encampment with Gaza that the university can accommodate, but not others.
  Meanwhile, a similar encampment that formed at Chapman University entered its seventh day, with students holding teach-ins, rallies and educational activities in front of Wilkinson Hall.
  The Pro-Palestinian protesters at UCI say they will not be leav
  
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