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• NASA Langley is testing solar sail technology that could reduce costs of space missions

  18-04-2024 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  A sunlight-propelled satellite floating though space on huge metallic sails sounds like an idea straight from science fiction.But scientists at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton have spent five years making the technology a reality and plan to launch a test mission as soon as April 23. If successful, the sail technology could reduce the cost of space missions and make monitoring the sun much easier for scientists.
  Matthew Chamberlain, head of the Structural Dynamics Branch at NASA Langley
  
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• President Biden doesn’t know how to make government work

  01-05-2024 15:45 via ocregister.com
  
  President Joe Biden says, “I know how to make government work!”
  You’d think he’d know. He’s worked in government for 51 years.
  But the truth is, no one can make government work.
  Biden hasn’t.
  Look at the chaos at the border, our military’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the rising cost of living, our unsustainable record-high debt …
  In my new video, economist Ed Stringham argues that no government can ever work well, because “even
  
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• Recounting the votes shouldn’t be so expensive

  01-05-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The cost of recounts in California elections has become unreasonably high, and it’s a problem that the Legislature should address, because public confidence in the accuracy of vote totals is essential to the functioning of democratic government.
  A recount in Congressional District 16, covering parts of the Bay Area counties of Santa Clara and San Mateo, is costing more than $300,000. Former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is in the lead, about 8,000 votes ahead of Assemblymember Evan Low and S
  
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• Larry Wilson: Opening a window to more Pasadena al fresco dining

  01-05-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Hooray, hooray, it’s the first of May, outdoor …
  Well, never mind. But here in the springiest of the spring months, the time has also come for al fresco dining to get a boost, and thanks to a decision in late April by the Pasadena Planning Commission, it looks like it’s going to be happily easier going forward to nosh out of doors in the Crown City.
  The commission “voted unanimously to propose that the City Council codify three emergency measures that streamlined the rev
  
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• Newsom runs away from state’s issues, again

  01-05-2024 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Not another junket.
  Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced he’ll speak at a May 15-17 climate conference at Vatican City.
  Remember his trip to China last October when he met with President Xi Jinping and other Communist Party officials?
  The aspiring future president essentially greenwashed the Chinese Community Party for the sake of boosting his profile.
  Newsom, if he wanted to show leadership, would have used the opportunity to condemn the Communist police state for its abuses of the
  
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• Violent clashes break out among opposing protest factions at UCLA; ‘situation got out of control’

  01-05-2024 09:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Pro-Israel counter-protesters clashed Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning with demonstrators in the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA, with violence breaking out just hours after UCLA had declared the  “Palestine Solidarity Encampment” unlawful.
  As sporadic violence in the quad continued for about two hours, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky posted on social media at 1:13 a.m. “the situation on UCLA’s campus is out of control and is no longer safe.
  
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• Violent clashes break out among opposing protest factions at UCLA; councilwoman says situation got out of control

  01-05-2024 09:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Pro-Israel counter-protesters clashed Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning with demonstrators in the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA, with violence breaking out just hours after UCLA had declared the  “Palestine Solidarity Encampment” unlawful.
  As sporadic violence continued for more than 2 1/2 hours, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky posted on social media “the situation on UCLA’s campus is out of control and is no longer safe.”I am at the
  
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• Diamondbacks sting Dodgers’ bullpen for extra-inning win

  01-05-2024 08:35 via ocregister.com
  
  PHOENIX — When Matt Hilton was sitting at his 6-year-old son Levi’s tee ball game in Surprise on Tuesday night, he had no idea the game at Chase Field would bee delayed.
  But he wound up getting the save.
  A swarm of bees gathered atop the screen behind home plate just before the scheduled game time for the Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks.
  “I got a call about five minutes before game time, from our senior manager of events. She doesn’t usually call me about that time, so I
  
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• Corona del Mar boys volleyball beats Tesoro, moves closer to CIF-SS final

  01-05-2024 07:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Corona del Mar’s Daniel Booker, center, celebrates after denying three shots near the end of Corona del Mar’s victory over Tesoro 3-1. Tesoro vs. Corona del Mar in the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs at Corona del Mar High School on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)
  Corona del Mar took a big step Tuesday toward playing in another CIF Southern Section boys volleyball championship.
  The Sea Kings defeated Tesoro in four sets, 25-14, 21-25, 25-17, 2
  
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• Fountain Valley softball finds positives after falling to Upland in CIF-SS playoff thriller

  01-05-2024 06:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowFOUNTAIN VALLEY — There were tears of disappointment. Thoughts of what could have been. And in the end, recognition of a special senior class.
  The playoffs have a way flooding both sides of the win-loss column with emotion, and that was the case Tuesday on the Fountain Valley softball field.
  The Barons experienced the sting of a 7-6 loss to Upland in eight inning in a Division 3 wild-card game full
  
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• Angels blow 9th-inning lead in loss to Phillies

  01-05-2024 06:36 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — The Angels received a pair of gut punches on Tuesday.
  One came in the afternoon, when they learned they would be without injured Mike Trout for an extended period of time. The second was hours later, when they coughed up a late two-run lead in a 7-5 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.
  The Angels rallied from an early three-run deficit to take a two-run lead in the sixth, but the good feelings were short-lived. They gave up one run in the eighth and then Carlos Estevez yielded thre
  
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• Dark Harbor will once again rise for Halloween at the Queen Mary

  01-05-2024 06:00 via ocregister.com
  
  There are dark times ahead for the Queen Mary, and this is great news for the ship and fans of horror events.
  After being canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the ship’s widely popular Dark Harbor Halloween haunt event and festival is returning to the Queen Mary this year on select nights from Sept. 20 through Nov. 2.
  According to ship officials, it will replace Shaqtoberfest, a Halloween event conjured up by former Los Angeles Lakers all-star Shaquille O’Neal that took
  
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• Dodgers-Diamondbacks delayed by bee swarm at Chase Field

  01-05-2024 05:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer
  PHOENIX — A swarm of bees created quite a baseball buzzkill in the desert – and gave Arizona Diamondbacks fans a new hero.
  The start of Tuesday night’s game between the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks was delayed nearly two hours after a bee colony swarmed the top of the protective netting behind home plate.
  Matt Hilton turned into the star of the night for removing the bees, earning a brief slice of stardom and the nod to throw out the ceremonial
  
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• Ryan Brasier latest arm subtracted from Dodgers’ bullpen mix

  01-05-2024 04:51 via ocregister.com
  
  PHOENIX — The Dodgers’ bullpen has been giving up fewer hits recently. But that group keeps taking hits.
  The latest they’ll have to absorb is the loss of Ryan Brasier, likely for as much as two months. Brasier suffered a strained calf muscle during a pre-game workout on Monday. Unfortunately for Brasier, it was a familiar feeling.
  “I was doing some sprints. Felt it blow up in my calf,” said Brasier, who had the same injury to his left calf in 2021.
  “That was a
  
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• Long Beach State men’s volleyball sweeps Belmont Abbey to reach NCAA semifinals

  01-05-2024 04:34 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team wasn’t going to be left behind on Tuesday evening.
  Second-seeded Long Beach recovered from a slow start to sweep seventh-seeded Belmont Abbey, 25-18, 25-14, 25-11, in an NCAA Tournament quarterfinal match at the Walter Pyramid.
  LBSU (26-2) advanced to the semifinals for the third straight season and will play the winner of a match between third-seeded Grand Canyon and sixth-seeded Ohio State on Thursday afternoon.
  Long Bea
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Tuesday, April 30

  01-05-2024 02:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Tuesday, April 30
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  TUESDAY’S SCORES
  SOFTBALL
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Wild-card Round
  DIVISION 5
  Ocean View 2, Santa Clara 1
  DIVISION 6
  Calvary Chapel/SA 17, Calvary Chapel/Downey
  
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• Little Saigon remembers Black April with traditional ceremony

  01-05-2024 02:15 via ocregister.com
  
  In a solemn ceremony, the Little Saigon community remembered Black April on Tuesday, April 30.
  The day marked the 49th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and South Vietnam on April 30, 1975, to North Vietnamese troops.
  A Westminster ceremony included a poem recitation, prayers, traditional songs and the laying of a wreath at Sid Goldstein Freedom Park.
  Cmdr. Bill Drinnin with the Westminster Police Honor Guard, takes part in Westminster’s Black April Remembrance Ceremony on Tuesday, April 3
  
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• Testimony begins in hearings tied to misconduct allegations in OC murder prosecution

  01-05-2024 02:05 via ocregister.com
  
  A former Orange County Sheriff’s Department investigator on Tuesday denied that he personally mishandled evidence related to a jailhouse snitch that was withheld from defense lawyers, resulting in the unraveling of a murder conviction.
  William Beeman, a former member of the sheriff’s Special Operations Unit, was the first person to take the stand in a special hearing held for a judge to determine whether a former high-level Orange County prosecutor, who is currently a judge, improper
  
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• Two charged with cutting down famous tree in England

  01-05-2024 01:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By Brian Melley | Associated Press
  LONDON — Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree that toppled over on Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday.
  Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged with causing criminal damage and damaging the wall built in A.D. 122 by Emperor Hadrian to guard the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire.
  They were ordered to appear in Newcastle Magistrates’ Court
  
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• UC Irvine men’s volleyball sweeps Penn State to reach NCAA semifinals

  01-05-2024 01:32 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — The UC Irvine men’s volleyball team lived to fight another day at the NCAA Championships, sweeping Penn State in the quarterfinals Tuesday afternoon at the Walter Pyramid.
  The fourth-seeded Anteaters slowly gained separation from fifth-seeded Penn State as the match unfolded and they eventually pulled away for a 26-24, 25-16, 25-19 win.
  Irvine (20-10) will meet top-seeded UCLA in the semifinals Thursday evening.
  “I feel like, at this point of the season, I’m
  
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• After up-and-down season, Lakers face an uncertain future

  01-05-2024 01:32 via ocregister.com
  
  DENVER — As star forward LeBron James sat at the Lakers’ podium inside Ball Arena on Monday night after the team’s season-ending 108-106 playoff loss to the Denver Nuggets, questions about his basketball future naturally arose.
  “I haven’t given it much thought,” James said after the Nuggets eliminated them for the second straight year, this time in five games. “Obviously at some point I’ll sit down with Rich [Paul], my agent, I’ll sit down wi
  
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• Marina’s Quinn Hartman named CIF State Scholar-Athlete of the Year

  01-05-2024 01:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Marina High senior Quinn Hartman has been chosen as a CIF Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the 2023-24 school year.
  It is a CIF State award.
  Hartman has served as Marina’s team captain on its cross country, soccer and baseball teams.
  He also leads several high school organizations.
  Hartman, who will attend Caltech, is the founder and president of the Marina Math Club, president of the Science National Honors Society, vice president of the Medical Career Club, vice president of California Sc
  
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• Taliban turn their attention to wooing tourists to Afghanistan

  01-05-2024 01:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By Riazat Butt | Associated Press
  KABUL, Afghanistan — Around 30 men are crammed into a Kabul classroom, part of the debut student cohort at a Taliban-run institute training tourism and hospitality professionals.
  It’s a motley crew. One student is a model. Another is 17 and has no job history.
  The students vary in age, education level and professional experience. They’re all men — Afghan women are banned from studying beyond sixth grade — and they don’t know a
  
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• 12 horse deaths last year at Churchill Downs brought change to Kentucky Derby

  01-05-2024 01:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Memories are made at the Kentucky Derby, most of them good. Whether cashing a winning ticket, sipping mint juleps or marveling at the horses, crowds pack Churchill Downs to experience a bucket list sporting event.
  Many left last year in tears, anger and questioning the safety of the sport after 12 horses died at the historic track in the days surrounding the race, including two on Derby day when racing enjoys its biggest attendance and highest TV ratings of the year.
  “You can’t ever
  
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• Angels star Mike Trout needs surgery for torn meniscus

  01-05-2024 01:01 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Angels star Mike Trout will have surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee, sidelining the three-time American League MVP indefinitely.
  The Angels believe Trout will be able to return this season, General Manager Perry Minasian said while announcing the injury Tuesday.
  Trout is batting .220 with a major league-leading 10 home runs, 14 RBIs and six stolen bases this year, but he will be sidelined by a major injury for the fourth consecutive season.
  “It’s just
  
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• Chad Brown has 2 shots at 1st Kentucky Derby victory

  01-05-2024 00:46 via ocregister.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — There was a brief moment three weeks ago when trainer Chad Brown’s Kentucky Derby outlook was jolted as one of his hopefuls resisted multiple attempts to enter the gate in a major qualifying race and then started slowly.
  Things turned out way better than Brown could have guessed as that testy colt, Sierra Leone, put any concerns to rest by storming from the back to win the Grade 1 Blue Grass by 1½ lengths at Keeneland. That stirring rally not only gave Brown
  
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• Three surf legends inducted into Hermosa Beach Surfers Walk of Fame

  01-05-2024 00:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Three individuals who made major contributions to the world of surfing were honored during the Surfers Walk of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday, April 27 — which marked the event’s 20th anniversary.
  David Nuuhiwa, Greg Browning and Mike Balzer — surrounded by family, friends and surfing afficianados — each took home a replica of the plaque that will eventually be installed on the Hermosa Beach Pier.
  The trio joined dozens of others feted over the last two decades, incl
  
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• UCLA’s offensive line continues to evolve

  01-05-2024 00:03 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES – UCLA’s offensive line depth continues to undergo significant changes as the Bruins finish out the final week of spring practice.
  Coach DeShaun Foster and the Bruins saw the departure of a pair of linemen after UCLA received two commitments from out of the transfer portal this week.
  Left tackle Bruno Fina leaves after four seasons with the program. Fina started all 13 games and helped the Bruins lead the Pac-12 in rushing yards per game (197.9). But Fina also struggled i
  
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• Kings’ season on the line in Game 5 at Edmonton

  30-04-2024 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Through peaks and valleys, the Kings have repeated the same maxim: “Check for chances.”
  But last they checked, they were all but out of chances, facing elimination Wednesday in Edmonton. There, the Oilers could continue their countdown after having ejected the Kings in seven, six and now potentially five games across three consecutive seasons.
  Their adjustments in this first-round series have been mostly futile, with Edmonton requiring all of two minutes to counter their recalibratio
  
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• Parents get life in prison for the torture murder of 4-year-old Noah Cuatro in Palmdale

  30-04-2024 23:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By TERRI VERMEULEN KEITH
  The parents of a 4-year-old Palmdale boy who was tortured and murdered were sentenced Tuesday to potential life prison terms.
  Superior Court Judge Robert G. Chu sentenced Jose Maria Cuatro Jr. to 32 years to life in prison, and Ursula Elaine Juarez to 22 years to life for Noah Cuatro’s July 2019 death, which was initially reported as a drowning.
  Cuatro, 32, pleaded no contest March 29 to one count each of first-degree murder and torture, and Juarez, 30, pleaded no
  
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