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• Master Gardener: Why bell pepper plants are dropping flowers and fruit

  21-06-2018 11:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: My bell pepper plants have been growing well, and have set many fruits that are now almost full-sized. Lately, I’ve noticed that the flowers and tiny newly-set fruits have been dropping off. Can you suggest a possible cause?
  A: I hear this complaint frequently so I’ll cover it more generally possibly to help others who might have similar situations.
  My references list boron deficiency, extreme temperature and excessive nitrogen fertilization as possible causes of fruit d
  
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• David Gilmour adds third date to the Luck and Strange tour hitting the Hollywood Bowl

  18-05-2024 01:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Pink Floyd’s storied guitarist David Gilmour is returning to U.S. stages for the first time in eight years. He announced a special series of North American tour dates earlier this week to promote his upcoming album, “Luck and Strange.” The tour originally included a two-night stay at the Hollywood Bowl on Oct. 29-30. But due to overwhelming demand, a third show has been added for Thursday, Oct. 31.
  The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will kick off his U.S. gigs in Los Angeles, foll
  
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• Angels’ pitchers get first-hand look at their own stuff

  18-05-2024 01:19 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — In the continuing effort to get their pitchers to throw more strikes, the Angels turned to technology to teach the pitchers a lesson.
  The Angels are one of the teams that uses a Trajekt pitching machine, which replicates the precise repertoire of any pitcher. A hitter can see video of the pitcher, and then the ball comes out with velocity, break and spin to mimic the real thing.
  The Angels, though, had their starting pitchers stand in the box against themselves. The point was to
  
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• Dabney Coleman dies at 92; prolific character actor played sexist boss in ‘9 to 5’

  18-05-2024 01:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By Mark Kennedy
  NEW YORK — Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in “9 to 5” and the nasty TV director in “Tootsie,” has died. He was 92.
  Coleman died Thursday, his daughter, Quincy Coleman, told The Hollywood Reporter. No other details were immediately available.
  “The great Dabney Coleman literally created, or defined, really — in a uniquely singular way — an archetype as a char
  
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• Sammy Hagar kicks off grand opening of the Sand Bar in Huntington Beach

  18-05-2024 00:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Sammy Hagar, the restauranteur and lead singer of such outfits as Van Halen and Montrose, made an appearance in Huntington Beach on Friday, May 17 to usher in the opening of the Sand Bar, the beachside extension of Cabo Wabo Beach Club. The Grammy-winning crooner appeared alongside his wife, Kari, and Waterfront Beach Resort owner Bob Mayer for an official ribbon-cutting ceremony.
  “When you go to the beach, you lug all this (stuff) with you,” he said. “Coolers and ice that weig
  
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• Diamond Club: Fullerton’s Katelynn Mathews wins voting for top playoff performers in softball

  18-05-2024 00:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowA closer look at the top vote getter in Dan Albano’s poll for best performers in the second week of the softball playoffs:
  Name: Katelynn Mathews
  High school: Fullerton
  Position: Pitcher
  Year: Freshman
  Noteworthy: Mathews continued her stellar rookie campaign by not allowing an earned run in 12 innings last week in the CIF-SS Division 3 playoffs.
  The right-handed pitcher allowed two hits and struck
  
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• Oxford Academy wins CIF-SS Division 7 baseball final with three-run rally in 7th inning

  18-05-2024 00:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Oxford Academy team poses for a photo after defeating South El Monte 5-4 at the CIF-SS Division 7 baseball championship game at Diamond Stadium in Lake Elsinore on Friday May 17, 2024. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)
  LAKE ELSINORE – Anything that could go wrong did go wrong for Oxford Academy’s baseball team in the top of the seventh inning.
  Anything that could go right did go right for Oxford Academy in the bottom half of the seventh inning.
  Oxford Academy lost its
  
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• Woman who suffered stroke on the sand thanks State Parks lifeguards who helped her

  17-05-2024 23:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Lisa Peterson couldn’t open her beach chair, the first sign something was wrong.
  Peterson, along with her then 14-year-old daughter, Haylee, and family friends from Rancho Cucamonga, was at El Moro State Beach to enjoy a relaxing beach day last summer – but within minutes, everything changed.
  Lisa Peterson, 41, and lifeguard Niel Smith, 19, have an emotional reunion at Morro Beach in Laguna on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Peterson suffered a stroke almost a year ago and Smith was one sev
  
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• The latest hot spot for illegal border crossings is San Diego. But routes change quickly

  17-05-2024 23:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By ELLIOT SPAGAT
  JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. — On many nights, hundreds of migrants squeeze through poles in a border wall or climb over on metal ladders. They gather in a buffer zone between two walls with views of the night lights of Tijuana, Mexico, waiting hours for Border Patrol agents while volunteers deliver hot coffee, instant ramen and bandages for busted knees and swollen ankles.
  About an hour drive east, where the moon offers the only light, up to hundreds more navigate a boulde
  
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• Dearica Hamby, Sparks eager to face back-to-back WNBA champion Aces

  17-05-2024 23:26 via ocregister.com
  
  TORRANCE — Sparks forward Dearica Hamby, who helped the Las Vegas Aces win the franchise’s first WNBA championship in 2022, wants to be an All-Star again, and equally important, she wants her team to win basketball games.
  Hamby also wants to earn her first All-WNBA selection of her 10-year career this season, so she’s looking forward to playing against two-time MVP A’ja Wilson and several former teammates, in a nationally televised game on Saturday.
  “I wanted the as
  
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• Klatch Coffee partners with Sprouts to open cafes inside supermarkets

  17-05-2024 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Klatch Coffee will soon be serving breakfast, snacks and its own beverages inside Sprouts Farmers Market.
  The Rancho Cucamonga-based roaster is partnering with the Phoenix-based supermarket chain to open cafes within five of its more than 60 grocery stores in Southern California.
  The first cafe, in Fontana, will celebrate its grand opening Friday, May 24 through Memorial Day, Monday, May 27. The store is at 16964 S. Highland Ave. in the Highland Village shopping center.
  Cafes in Redlands, Rancho
  
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• Previews of Saturday’s CIF-SS baseball championship games

  17-05-2024 22:45 via ocregister.com
  
  SATURDAY’S CIF-SS BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
  DIVISION 3
  St. John Bosco  (20-10) vs. Beckman (24-6-1)
  Where, when: Lake Elsinore Diamond Stadium, 10 a.m.
  Outlook: St. John Bosco, a major achiever in football and basketball, is making its first appearance in a CIF-SS baseball championship game. The Braves tied with Servite for fourth in the six-team Trinity League with a 6-9 league record. In the playoffs the St. John Bosco beat Grace Brethren 14-0 in the first round, Corona del Mar 5-3 in
  
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• Putin concludes trip to China by emphasizing its strategic and personal ties to Russia

  17-05-2024 22:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By HUIZHONG WU and EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA
  BEIJING — Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded a two-day visit to China on Friday, emphasizing the countries’ burgeoning strategic ties as well as his own personal relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as they sought to present an alternative to U.S. global influence.
  Putin praised the growth in bilateral trade while touring a China-Russia Expo in the northeastern city of Harbin. He met students at the Harbin Institute of Technology,
  
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• Frontier Airlines breaks away from ultra-low cost ticket model

  17-05-2024 22:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By Mary Schlangenstein | Bloomberg
  Frontier Airlines, famous for deeply discounted ticket prices and bare-bones service, is adding new fare categories that include carry-on bags, seat selection and no cancellation fees as it seeks to appeal to US travelers who want more upscale options when they fly.
  Frontier, a unit of Frontier Group Holdings Inc., is now offering four fare and service categories basic, economy, premium and business with varying benefits, the carrier said in a statement Friday.
  
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• Galaxy’s Dejan Joveljic approaching another double-digit goal season

  17-05-2024 21:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Dejan Joveljic scored six goals last season and it was looked at as a slump, considering his 2022 season.
  In 2022, his first full season with the Galaxy, he scored 11 goals in 32 games.
  Before the start of this season, Joveljic said he wanted to return to being a double-digit goal scorer. He wouldn’t say a specific number, but he’s certainly on his way.
  With Wednesday’s second-half goal in the 2-2 draw against Minnesota United FC, Joveljic now has seven goals, already eclipsing
  
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• Lakers announce 3 preseason home games ahead of 2024-25 season

  17-05-2024 21:51 via ocregister.com
  
  The Lakers on Friday announced their three preseason home games ahead of the 2024-25 season – with none of the exhibitions taking place at Crypto.com Arena.
  The Lakers will open their preseason with a pair of games in Thousand Palms in Greater Palm Springs, hosting the Minnesota Timberwolves on Oct. 4 and the Phoenix Suns on Oct. 6 at Acrisure Arena.
  They most recently hosted the Suns at Acrisure Arena, which opened in late 2022, to close out the 2023-24 preseason slate.
  The Lakers will al
  
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• Southern California unemployment dips to 4.3% as 23,000 jobs created in April

  17-05-2024 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California’s unemployment rate hit an 11-month low in April.
  My trusty spreadsheet, filled with state job figures for the month, found Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties had a 4.3% unemployment rate compared with 4.8% in the previous month. It’s likely a seasonal dip, as the rate decreased by 0.3 percentage points in April in the pre-pandemic 2015-19 period.
  Consider that April’s rate was the lowest since May 2023, but it’s still higher t
  
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• Corky: The crew that braves the Wedge

  17-05-2024 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  What started in 1917 and ended in 1936 at the end of the Balboa Peninsula was the construction of a very long jetty.
  The angle of this jetty, along with some sand build up next to it, created a unique wave on a south swell.  This wave would eventually become known as the Wedge.
  Little did the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers know at the time that it had helped create the most famous man-made wave on the planet. Nor did it know that this wave would produce a crazy, wild and fearless group of ind
  
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• Video appears to show Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs beating singer Cassie in hotel hallway in 2016

  17-05-2024 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  In a still image from CNN video, Sean “Diddy” Combs is allegedly seen physically assaulting singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016. (Image from CNN video)
  By ANDREW DALTON | AP Entertainment Writer
  LOS ANGELES — Security video aired by CNN appears to show Sean “Diddy” Combs physically assaulting singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016.
  The video aired Friday appears to show Combs, wearing only a white towel, punching and kicking the R&
  
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• Will Biden’s Morehouse speech address campus protests? History suggests so

  17-05-2024 21:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Ernie Suggs | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  ATLANTA — On Sunday, President Joe Biden will step foot on a college campus for the first time since student protests over the war in Gaza at dozens of American universities, including some in Georgia, escalated to encampments, arrests and concerns about rising antisemitism.
  Biden’s remarks at Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he is scheduled to give the commencement address, will be closely scrutinized as some have called for pr
  
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• Democrats criticize Justice Alito over upside-down flag at his home

  17-05-2024 21:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By John Fritze
  Justice Samuel Alito drew sharp condemnation Friday following revelations that an upside-down American flag was flown outside his home after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, a development that renewed calls on the left for Congress to impose ethics standards on the Supreme Court.
  The New York Times published on Thursday a photograph of the flag that it said was seen at the justice’s home in Alexandria, Virginia, on January 17, 2021, days before President Joe Bi
  
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• Aliso Viejo man knew UPS driver he’s accused of shooting to death, police say

  17-05-2024 21:19 via ocregister.com
  
  A United Parcel Service driver and the Aliso Viejo man accused of shooting him to death as the victim sat inside his truck on Thursday, May 16, appeared to know each other, but police say they still aren’t clear as to what led to the killing.
  Irvine police arrested Rhean Fontanoza, 46, after surrounding his silver pickup truck in Orange for around two hours later in the day, eventually firing tear gas inside to help force him out.
  Fontanoza then was taken to hospital, said Sgt. Kim Davies,
  
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• Partner talks in their sleep? Here’s how to slumber soundly

  17-05-2024 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Hunter Boyce | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)
  Parasomnia — it’s a blanket term for pesky behaviors that wreak havoc on your sleep. A third of U.S. adults get less than the recommended amount of shut-eye, a nationwide struggle linked to chronic diseases ranging from depression to Type 2 diabetes. Some parasomnias, however, don’t affect just the sleeper; they can affect others within earshot.
  A common parasomnia plaguing Americans is somniloquy, better known as talking in
  
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• Undergrads are unionizing, in a sign of labor’s resurgence

  17-05-2024 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Elaine S. Povich | Stateline.org (TNS)
  Junior psychology major Erin Green works part time at the children’s preschool at Sonoma State University, caring for university employees’ kids ages 1 to 5. Some of the non-student workers in her center belong to a union. But she didn’t, until just a few weeks ago.
  Green, a 49-year-old returning student who works 20 hours a week, said she makes $16.25 an hour, just above the state’s minimum wage of $16.
  “I was appalled at how
  
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• Their first baby came with medical debt. These parents won’t have another

  17-05-2024 20:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Noam N. Levey | (TNS) KFF Health News
  Heather Crivilare was a month from her due date when she was rushed to an operating room for an emergency cesarean section.
  The first-time mother, a high school teacher in rural Illinois, had developed high blood pressure, a sometimes life-threatening condition in pregnancy that prompted doctors to hospitalize her. Then Crivilare’s blood pressure spiked, and the baby’s heart rate dropped. “It was terrifying,” Crivilare said.
  She gave
  
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• Coastkeeper says no more extensions for addressing water quality issues at South County riding park

  17-05-2024 20:49 via ocregister.com
  
  All equestrian operations have been suspended at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park after its operators did complete a project to address water quality issues by a settlement’s deadline.
  In 2017, the nonprofit Orange County Coastkeeper sued San Juan Capistrano and the Ridland Group, which operates the riding park, alleging Clean Water Act violations from horse-washing water discharge that contained feces, soap and urine.
  As part of a settlement agreement, the city took on nearly $8 milli
  
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• Ex-Trump lawyer and Chapman law dean John Eastman pleads not guilty to Arizona election crimes

  17-05-2024 20:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By Zachary Cohen, Shania Shelton and Kyung Lah
  Former Donald Trump lawyer John Eastman — also a former professor and dean at the Chapman University law school — pleaded not guilty in Phoenix on Friday on charges related to allegedly participating in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.
  A grand jury in Arizona handed up indictments last month charging Eastman and over a dozen more Trump allies for their efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat,
  
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• Blue Origin set for human spaceflight return this weekend

  17-05-2024 19:56 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s been nearly two years since Blue Origin flew humans to space on its New Shepard rocket, but the next six passengers are set to go Sunday as the Jeff Bezos company gets back to the business of space tourism.
  The six passengers include former Air Force Capt. Ed Dwight, the first Black astronaut candidate in the 1960s. Others flying are venture capitalist Mason Angel, French microbrewery founder Sylvain Chiron, software engineer and entrepreneur Kenneth Hess, world explorer and retired C
  
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• Restaurant and church identified as possible affordable housing spots in Laguna Beach

  17-05-2024 19:54 via ocregister.com
  
  The former Ti Amo Italian restaurant property and the Neighborhood Congregational Church have been identified as possible locations for future development of affordable housing in Laguna Beach.
  In April, the City Council voted to pull money for other housing related funds to create a trust fund to support affordable development. The new pot of money could help with rent subsidies, accessory dwelling unit development loans and new affordable units, officials have said.
  The city then put out the n
  
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• Douglas Schoen: What Biden and Trump must do to ‘win’ the first debate

  17-05-2024 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  After months of back and forth between the Biden and Trump camps, the two sides finally agreed on terms for a presidential debate, due to take place this summer, hosted by CNN. 
  That voters would see these two in a televised debate was not a foregone conclusion. Trump had refused to debate during the GOP primaries, and for Biden, a lackluster performance could be fatal for his reelection chances, given the concerns over his age and fitness.
  Although the incumbent generally has more to lose
  
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