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• Orange County baseball Top 25: Orange Lutheran at No. 1 entering CIF-SS playoffs, April 29

  30-04-2024 03:35 via ocregister.com
  
  This week’s Orange County high school baseball rankings.
  Notable this week: Orange Lutheran is the No. 1 team in the Orange County rankings at the end of the regular season, but now the CIF-SS playoffs are starting. The final rankings will released after the CIF-SS championship games.  … The Lancers won the Trinity League championship last week. … Aliso Niguel continues to rise in the rankings, having won six in a row. … Servite returns to the Top 10 after sweepin
  
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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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• Israel insists it is doing all it can to protect civilians in Gaza and denies genocide charges

  17-05-2024 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By MOLLY QUELL
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Israel strongly denied charges of genocide on Friday, telling the United Nations’ top court it was doing everything it could to protect the civilian population during its military operation in Gaza.
  The International Court of Justice wrapped up a third round of hearings on emergency measures requested by South Africa, which says Israel’s military incursion in the southern city of Rafah threatens the “very survival of Palestinians in
  
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• Lily Nabet’s road to Angel City FC paved with passion

  17-05-2024 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  It was not a road easily traveled.
  Lily Nabet arrived at Duke as a walk-on freshman. By the time she had graduated, Nabet had made 86 appearances at midfielder and earned the co-captaincy role as a senior.
  “It was really difficult walking on,” Nabet said. “I wanted to go there for so long, so I knew what I was getting myself into. It kind of helped once I got there and I knew how much of a challenge it was. It didn’t really come as a surprise, which was a good thing for m
  
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• After blaming his 2020 loss on mail balloting, Trump tries to make GOP voters believe it’s OK now

  17-05-2024 18:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and MARGERY BECK (Associated Press)
  Marta Moehring voted the way she prefers in Nebraska’s Republican primary Tuesday — in person, at her west Omaha polling place.
  She didn’t even consider taking advantage of the state’s no-excuse mail-in ballot process. In fact, she would prefer to do away with mail-in voting altogether. She’s convinced fraudulent mailed ballots cost former President Donald Trump a second term in 2020.
  “I don’t trus
  
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• Taking presidential debates out of commission’s hands virtually guarantees fewer viewers

  17-05-2024 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID BAUDER (AP Media Writer)
  NEW YORK (AP) — The planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that were swiftly organized this week are a coup for CNN and ABC News — but a virtual guarantee they’ll be among the least-watched general election contests ever.
  The two campaigns skirted the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has organized the events for 36 years with the goal of getting them before as many eyes as possible.
  ABC, which has assigned Davi
  
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• California’s lagging economy hinders efforts to close state budget deficit

  17-05-2024 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  As Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators spend the next few weeks fashioning a state budget that’s plagued by a multibillion-dollar deficit, they can’t count on a booming economy to make their task easier.
  California’s recovery from the devastating economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been sluggish at best, trailing what’s happening in the nation as a whole and in the state’s archrivals, such as Texas and Florida.
  According to Employment Development Depar
  
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• Michelin Guide awards stars to 18 restaurants in Mexico, including 1 with a SoCal tie

  17-05-2024 18:23 via ocregister.com
  
  For the first time in its 124-year history, Michelin has announced a restaurant guide for Mexico. The inaugural directory awarded 18 stars to restaurants in Baja California, Los Cabos, Mexico City, Nuevo Léon Oaxaca and Quintana Roo — 16 spots nabbed one star and two restaurants received two stars.
  Two Mexico restaurants, lauded by Michelin at a ceremony in Mexico City this week, have chefs who also operate spots in Southern California — Carlos Gaytán, whose HA’ i
  
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• Putin says Russia wants a buffer zone in Ukraine’s Kharkiv but has no plans to capture the city

  17-05-2024 18:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By ILLIA NOVIKOV
  KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday during a visit to China that Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region aims to create a buffer zone but that there are no plans to capture the city.
  The remarks were Putin’s first on the offensive launched May 10, which opened a new front and displaced thousands of Ukrainians within days. Earlier Friday, a massive Ukrainian drone attack on the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsu
  
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• Police shootings of mentally ill expose gaps in SoCal programs to assist first-responders

  17-05-2024 18:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Raising a garden hoe, 15-year-old Ryan Gainer chased a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy from his doorstep.
  In a separate confrontation, a knife-wielding Aaron James, 17, slashed the hand of another San Bernardino County deputy who ostensibly was trying to stop the youth from cutting himself.
  Both mentally troubled teenagers are now dead, killed in midcrisis by deputies who had no choice but to shoot, authorities say.
  The deaths of Gainer and James, less than a month apart in March an
  
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• Israeli military finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza, including Shani Louk, killed at music festival

  17-05-2024 18:12 via ocregister.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk.
  A photo of 22-year-old Shani’s twisted body in the back of a pickup truck ricocheted around the world and brought to light the scale of the attack on communities in southern Israel. The military identified the other two bodies as those of a 28-year-old woman, Amit Buskila, and a 56-year-
  
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• Some in Houston facing no power for weeks after storms cause widespread damage, killing at least 4

  17-05-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID J. PHILLIP, LISA BAUMANN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER
  HOUSTON — Power outages could last weeks in parts of Houston after thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds tore through the city, an official said Friday, knocking out electricity to nearly 1 million homes and businesses.
  “We are going to have to talk about this disaster in weeks, not days,” Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, the county’s top elected official, said at a news conference.
  Houston Mayor John Whitmire sa
  
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• Downtown Disney goes upscale with 3 new ‘elevated’ restaurants

  17-05-2024 17:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Downtown Disney is stepping up its culinary game from burgers, pizza, coffee and pretzels with a new level of fine dining offering steaks, hand-made dumplings and gourmet Mexican food from a Michelin-starred chef.
  The outdoor shopping mall next to Disneyland has already brought in a trio of Mexican restaurant concepts from celebrity chef Carlos Gaytan with plans for a Din Tai Fung dumpling house later this year and a new steakhouse in the near future.
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• CSUF’s Investment Research Center: Just like Wall Street

  17-05-2024 17:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By Larry Urish, contributing writer
  Here’s an indication that Titan Capital Management, the rigorous student-investment program within Cal State Fullerton’s College of Business and Economics’ Finance Department, does more than create successful investment professionals: The program’s mantra, prominently displayed on a wall in TCM’s classroom, reads, “The Best Return Is Giving Back.”
  Although financial achievement is important at Titan Capital Management,
  
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• PGA Championship: Top-ranked Scottie Scheffler arrested before second round

  17-05-2024 17:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By DOUG FERGUSON (AP Golf Writer)
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested Friday morning on his way to the PGA Championship, with stunning images showing him handcuffed as he was taken to jail for not following police orders during a pedestrian fatality investigation.
  In a span of four hours, the top-ranked golfer in the world was arrested wearing gym shorts and a T-shirt, dressed in an orange jail shirt for his mug shot, returned to Valhalla Golf Club in gol
  
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• How police pieced together the case against Samuel Woodward in the killing of Blaze Bernstein

  17-05-2024 17:03 via ocregister.com
  
  It was six days into the massive, nationally-watched search for a missing 19-year-old last seen at a small Lake Forest park, and something just wasn’t making sense to the lead homicide investigator who had been assigned to assist the Orange County Sheriff Department’s missing person team.
  Cell phone records outlining the movement of Blaze Bernstein — the missing young man — and Samuel Woodward — the former classmate who authorities for days had already suspected of
  
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• What’s holding up your home loan? Avoid these pitfalls to speed the process

  17-05-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Homebuyers, you’ve only just begun when income documentation, pay stubs, and down payment sourcing arrives in the hands of a mortgage broker.
  Between your contractual obligations with the seller to perform and your lenders’ rate lock, you just don’t want to delay the day.
  Here is a list of common borrower actions or inaction that can slow down a transaction or even completely derail the deal.
  —Frozen credit. Make sure your credit report is unfrozen. The lender cannot chec
  
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• President Biden’s latest tariffs on products from China are bad policy

  17-05-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Since the current president, very much along with the former one, is clearly so enamored of placing the very heavy boot of the federal government into the marketplace, in what seems a grand homage to the way that the Chinese government runs its economy, why not just go all in?
  Why stop with imposing crippling tariffs on foreign goods just to show you can, in order to make a domestic political point and as a Bronx cheer to your international rivals, even though it’s a hammer-blow to your ci
  
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• HOA Homefront: 13 things I wish all HOA directors knew

  17-05-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  This is the first of five HOA Homefront columns addressing boards, homeowners, managers, vendors and HOA lawyers.
  Governance
  1. HOA governance is a team sport. It’s different from our career jobs because the board legally controls the HOA, not the president. The president is not the boss but mainly is the Chair and spokesperson, and only has what power the board grants. The president’s vote counts the same as the newest director.
  2. An attitude of service is less stressful than an at
  
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• China tariffs are all wrong for Americans

  17-05-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Since the current president, very much along with the former one, is clearly so enamored of placing the very heavy boot of the federal government into the marketplace, in what seems a grand homage to the way that the Chinese government runs its economy, why not just go all in?
  Why stop with imposing crippling tariffs on foreign goods just to show you can, in order to make a domestic political point and as a Bronx cheer to your international rivals, even though it’s a hammer-blow to your ci
  
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• Woodburing fire pits returning to Aliso Beach

  17-05-2024 16:33 via ocregister.com
  
  That familiar smell of a Southern California beach summer will waft in the air again over Aliso Beach after Laguna Beach lifeguards get woodburning fire pits back into the sand at the popular South Laguna beach.
  The city took over the South Laguna beaches from the county a year ago; Aliso Beach is among the most popular beaches in the city for visitors, primarily because of its easy access from Coast Highway, bountiful parking, bathrooms and food at Lost Pier Cafe.
  A year after Laguna Beach Mari
  
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• 1930s-era firefighter memorabilia back with Huntington Beach department

  17-05-2024 16:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach firefighters this week were donated pieces of the city’s fire fighting history, including a helmet worn by department volunteers nearly 100 years ago.
  The donations, which also includes two firefighter badges, came from the Honnell and Hibler families, descendents of firefighters who once helped protect the city and who are connected by marriage and remain close.
  The fire helmet is believed to be from the late 1920s to early 1930s. The badges are from the 1930s.
  A 100-year
  
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• Stop pretending self-checkout ban is about retail theft

  17-05-2024 16:20 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO – In describing a high-profile state bill that would largely ban self-checkout lanes at grocery and drug stores, the radio station KSBY reported, “It’s all in an effort to combat theft.” A San Francisco Chronicle news story likewise echoed that preposterous description. In a headline, a Chronicle news story claims, “This California bill aims to stop theft at self-checkout lanes.” It then asks: “Why are stores against it?”
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• City of Hope patient is 86 and still tooting his own horn

  17-05-2024 16:15 via ocregister.com
  
  The steely sound of Johnny Kleker’s trumpet hung in the cool air like a healing message. With a collapsed lung and a passion for music, the 86-year-old was performing with his 19-member “Johnny Kleker’s Big Band.”
  It was City of Hope’s Seacliff outpatient cancer center’s opening celebration in Huntington Beach on Tuesday. Earlier that morning cancer survivor Kathy Miller Willahan stood on stage with doctors and dignitaries and declared, “Hope is the only
  
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• What you can do if you experience lactose intolerance or a dairy allergy

  17-05-2024 16:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Lactose intolerance is the most common food sensitivity worldwide. Lactose intolerance and dairy allergy are not the same, but the differences can be misunderstood. How do you know if you are experiencing lactose intolerance? For those who are intolerant to lactose, what steps can be taken to adjust your diet?
  Lactose intolerance affects nearly one in three people in the United States, but it’s even more prevalent among certain ethnic groups, with 80-90 percent of African Americans, Native
  
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• Orange leaders hold off on plans to demolish old and vacant fire station

  17-05-2024 16:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The defunct 50-year-old fire station on South Grand Street in Old Towne will continue to stand for now after bids for its demolition came in much higher than city estimates.
  The vacant building with a troubled history won’t go down without causing another headache.
  When the City Council initially approved the demolition in February, the city engineer estimated the tear-down would cost around $560,000. The lowest bid for the project came in at nearly $750,000, about 33% higher, mainly due t
  
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• Who killed Alex Odeh, whose 1985 bombing death in OC was invoked by UCI protesters?

  17-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Before police tore it down on Wednesday, a banner fluttered from the second floor balcony of UCI’s Physical Sciences Lecture Hall: “Alex Odeh Hall,” it said. It has been nearly 40 years since the Palestinian-born Odeh was murdered, but the killing is still officially unsolved (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Before police tore it down on Wednesday, a banner fluttered from the second-floor balcony of UC Irvine’s Physical Sciences Lecture Hall:
  “A
  
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• OC Parks opens new wilderness area in Silverado Canyon

  17-05-2024 15:51 via ocregister.com
  
  From Blackstar Canyon to Whiting Ranch, the Santa Ana Mountains are home to colorful sandstone ravines and cobble bluffs that invoke iconic Western imagery. Now, the range is home to one more designated wilderness area that protects the striking, yet little-known red rock formations in Silverado Canyon.
  On Wednesday, May 15, OC Board of Supervisors Chairman Don Wagner and OC Parks officials cut the ribbon to open Red Rock Wilderness, a 1,500-acre area that features eight miles of trails for hiki
  
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