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• Orange County high school schedule: Monday, April 23

  22-04-2018 03:31 via ocregister.com
  The Orange County high school sports schedule for Monday, April 23.
  BASEBALLFREEWAY LEAGUEBuena Park at Fullerton, 3 p.m., La Habra at Sonora, 3:15 p.m.
  EL DORADO STEAKHOUSE TOURNAMENTSan Clemente at El Dorado, 3 p.m.
  NONLEAGUETesoro at El Toro, 3:15 p.m.
  SOFTBALLPACIFIC COAST LEAGUEIrvine at Corona del Mar, 3:30 p.m.
  ORANGE COAST LEAGUELaguna Beach at Calvary Chapel, 3:15 p.m.
  NORTH HILLS LEAGUEVilla Park at Brea Olinda, 3:15 p.m.
  FREEWAY LEAGUESunny Hills at Buena Park, 3:15 p.m.
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• Trump meets with oil executives at the White House on Friday, seeking investments in Venezuela

  09-01-2026 18:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH BOAK
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is meeting with oil executives at the White House on Friday in hopes of securing $100 billion in investments to revive Venezuela’s ability to fully tap into its expansive reserves of petroleum — a plan that rides on their comfort in making commitments in a country plagued by instability, inflation and uncertainty.
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• Dozens evacuated after Disneyland monorail stalls

  09-01-2026 18:20 via ocregister.com
  
  About 60 people were evacuated by ladder from the Disneyland monorail Thursday evening, Jan. 8, after a technical issue caused two trains to lose power, according to police and Disneyland officials.
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  No injuries were reported after passengers were evacuated from the stalled trains, according to Sgt. Matt Sutter with Anaheim Police.
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• Federal officers are leaving Louisiana immigration crackdown for Minneapolis, documents show

  09-01-2026 18:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By JACK BROOK, Associated Press/Report for America
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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• UCLA’s Sumanasekera and Matthews embracing college gymnastics

  09-01-2026 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The elite-to-college gymnastics transition is easier said than done. Tiana Sumanasekera and Nola Matthews are learning the adjustment firsthand just a week and a half into the NCAA season.
  The freshmen competing in the heart of lineups for No. 1 UCLA gymnastics – which earned the top ranking after a rare week-one quad meet in Seattle with a 196.975 overall score – have had to switch their focus to precision and vying for perfection.
  As Matthews, who competed in th
  
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• Swiss prosecutors request male bar manager to be placed in pre-trial detention over fatal fire

  09-01-2026 17:45 via ocregister.com
  
  MARTIGNY, Switzerland (AP) — Switzerland held a national day of mourning on Friday for the 40 people who died in an Alpine bar fire during a New Year’s Eve celebration, as prosecutors requested one of the managers to be placed in pre-trial detention.
  Valais region’s chief prosecutor Beatrice Pilloud said in a statement the detention of the man was needed to avoid a “risk of flight.” The man’s wife and co-manager will remain free under judicial s
  
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• Minnesota shooting videos challenge administration narrative, policing experts question tactics

  09-01-2026 17:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By CLAIRE GALOFARO
  The federal officer steps in front of the Honda SUV, parked nearly perpendicular across a one-way residential street in Minneapolis, with snow piled up on the curb.
  Within seconds, he would shoot and kill the driver, Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three.
  Federal officials said the officer acted in self-defense, that the driver of the Honda was engaging in “an act of domestic terrorism” when she pulled forward toward him and that he was lucky to escape alive.
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• Alexander: The road to Santa Clara for Rams, Chargers? Uh …

  09-01-2026 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  A few weeks ago, the prospect was tantalizing: An all L.A. Super Bowl, Rams vs. Chargers, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, home of the San Francisco 49ers.
  I mean, how much angst and consternation would that have caused, in the Bay Area in particular and Northern California in general? A full SoCal takeover might have caused some NoCal heads to explode.
  Recent events seem to have chilled that possibility, pun partially intended.
  As the NFL’s postseason tournament begins this we
  
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• HOA Homefront: How the Business Judgment Rule protects volunteers

  09-01-2026 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Association directors are unpaid volunteers serving their neighbors – so is it fair that they could be sued for their volunteer work?
  The Business Judgment Rule is the first thing any director should know, yet well-intentioned volunteers often unwittingly stray beyond its protection.
  Last week’s column discussed an important new appellate decision, Eng v. Opperman, explaining how the BJR protects HOAs. So, how do HOAs fall under that protection?
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  Directors operating under the
  
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• What to know about restrictions on state use of money for child care and other social services

  09-01-2026 16:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press
  President Donald Trump’s administration has told states that it is restricting some social safety net funds that cover services including child care subsidies and cash assistance and job training for poor families with children.
  The administration says the moves are designed to root out fraud as a result of reported problems, but five Democratic-led states are a special focus of its attention, and some of their leaders say children are being harmed for
  
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• If you just bought a fruit tree in a container, do this right away

  09-01-2026 16:25 via ocregister.com
  
  5 things to do in the garden this week:
  Fruits. Bare-root deciduous fruit trees are now arriving in nurseries and home improvement centers. In order to squeeze these trees into containers, their roots have been pruned, a practice that will diminish their growth in the coming year if they remain in their containers. Therefore, upon purchase of such a tree, it is advisable to immediately remove it from its container and plant it directly in the garden. This will give it the opportunity to adjust t
  
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• LA wildfires didn’t lead to soaring Southern California rents

  09-01-2026 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Why didn’t Southern California rents soar after last year’s horrific wildfire destroyed roughly 12,000 structures?
  My trusty spreadsheet reviewed rental stats from ApartmentList, which tracks costs by combining federal housing figures and pricing patterns from its own listing service for 49 cities in the six-county Southern California region. The stats include both apartments and rental homes.
  Population-weighted averages of rentals across all sizes were used to track local markets,
  
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• Screaming + vomiting: ‘Scromiting’ is the mysterious cannabis syndrome becoming more common

  09-01-2026 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Like many cannabis smokers, Jared Panks used marijuana as medicine. As a paramedic, he’d seen the disastrous effects of other drugs and alcohol so, after years of fighting fires for the U.S Forest Service, he began to smoke marijuana to dull the pain from scoliosis and his torn-up knees.
  He became more interested in the plant’s potential benefits after seeing family members suffer from cancer and opioid abuse. Panks and his wife founded HomeGrown ORegonicX, a small medical cannabis f
  
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• US will provide $45 million in aid to Thailand and Cambodia in a bid to ensure regional stability

  09-01-2026 16:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By GRANT PECK, Associated Press
  BANGKOK (AP) — The United States, which played a major role in ending border clashes last year between Thailand and Cambodia, will be providing $45 million in aid packages to the two Southeast Asian countries to help ensure regional stability and prosperity, a senior U.S. State Department official said Friday.
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• What caused 7 patients to regain consciousness after Medical Aid in Dying?

  09-01-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Rarely does a governmental report make our heart race, but this mysterious footnote was a jolt:
  “From 2016 to 2022,” said California’s most recent dispatch on medical-aid-in-dying prescriptions and passings, “7 individuals regained consciousness after ingestion. No individuals regained consciousness in 2023 and 2024.”
  What?
  Seven terminally ill people drank the potion that was supposed to end their lives and…woke up? How? Why? When? Did they take more of the
  
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• Waking the dead?

  09-01-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  California Department of Public Health
  Rarely does a governmental report make our heart race, but this mysterious footnote was a jolt:
  “From 2016 to 2022,” said California’s most recent dispatch on medical-aid-in-dying prescriptions and passings, “7 individuals regained consciousness after ingestion. No individuals regained consciousness in 2023 and 2024.”
  What?
  Seven terminally ill people drank the potion that was supposed to end their lives and…woke up? How
  
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• Survey: Men more financially confident in the New Year

  09-01-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Erin El Issa, NerdWallet
  Americans’ financial confidence is strong coming into the new year, but some are feeling more equipped to deal with 2026 obstacles than others.
  A recent NerdWallet survey, conducted online by The Harris Poll, found that Americans are more often confident than not about their ability to withstand money misfortune should it occur this year. Over 3 in 5 Americans (62%) say they could financially withstand a 2026 recession, and more than half (55%) think they could
  
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• Long Beach bookstore Casita, struggling with debt, will move to a new space

  09-01-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  During a phone conversation this week, Antonette Franceschi-Chavez, owner of the Long Beach bookstore, Casita, handles a child’s requests, a blaring security alarm and a journalist’s questions with unwavering calm.
  Because there are even more pressing issues for the bookstore located on Long Beach’s Fourth Street, which Franceschi-Chavez revealed on a social media post and GoFundMe campaign: The store can no longer afford to remain in its current location and plans to move to a
  
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• Hospital room building boom can’t offset longterm need in Orange County

  09-01-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  On one level, experts see the arrival of 372 beds at three new or expanding hospitals in Irvine as a welcome addition to Orange County’s effective but strained health care system.
  Simply put, more beds – even when clustered in a slice of the county that, hospital-wise, is already well served – could lessen the load at the 30-plus big hospitals that pepper all of Orange County. That alone, experts say, could mean slightly faster and slightly better health care for everybody, not
  
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• Wall Street ticks higher following a mixed report on the job market

  09-01-2026 15:53 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are ticking higher Friday following a mixed report on the U.S. job market, one that may delay another cut to interest rates by the Federal Reserve but not necessarily slam the door on it.
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• Meta signs three nuclear power deals to help support its AI data centers

  09-01-2026 15:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
  Facebook parent Meta has reached nuclear power deals with three companies as it continues to look for electricity sources for its artificial intelligence data centers.
  Meta struck agreements with TerraPower, Oklo and Vistra for nuclear power for its Prometheus AI data center that is being built in New Albany, Ohio. Meta announced Prometheus, which will be a 1-gigawatt cluster spanning across multiple data center buildings, in July. It’s anticipated to come online this y
  
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• US forces intercept fifth oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, US military says

  09-01-2026 15:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, according to the U.S. military on Friday, as the Trump administration continues to target sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela.
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• Luigi Mangione heads to court as he fights to block death penalty, murder charge and key evidence

  09-01-2026 15:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione is due in federal court Friday for a pivotal hearing in his fight to bar the government from seeking the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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• Speed cameras are coming to Southern California, but their locations will be restricted

  09-01-2026 15:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: In your last column about new traffic laws, you noted that Caltrans would possibly have the authority to place speed cameras to cite culprits who are causing havoc. I have a situation in Newport Beach that needs the attention, as I have a group of speed demons who have turned our streets into raceways, which, in addition to creating an unsafe situation, creates unbearable noise. Do you know who to contact in Caltrans to see whether there are any plans for installing cameras here, or how to ge
  
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• Democrats’ national divide is playing put in California

  09-01-2026 15:01 via ocregister.com
  
  The growing divide within the Democratic Party is now coming to a head, right here in California. 
  Ostensibly, the conflict stems from a proposed wealth tax that would target billionaires with a 5% levy, with progressive populists – led by Rep. Ro Khanna – on one side, and moderates – led by Gov. Gavin Newsom – on the other.
  The progressive side is pushing the tax under the assumption that it will be popular with their constituencies – the far-left and labor un
  
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• America’s AI electricity ‘crisis’ is easily fixed: Unleash market forces

  09-01-2026 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO — The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is causing an AI power crisis, as the electricity demands of massive AI data centers are straining existing power grids and outpacing the development of new energy sources. This has led to concerns about grid stability, rising electricity costs and significant environmental impacts. If there’s not enough juice, then I’ll have to write my own ledes — as those two sentences were penned by AI and powered by t
  
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• Sluggish hiring closes out a frustrating year for job seekers though unemployment slips to 4.4%

  09-01-2026 14:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press Economics Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sluggish hiring last month closed out a year of weak employment gains that have frustrated job seekers even as layoffs and unemployment have also been low.
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• Musk’s Grok chatbot restricts image generation after global backlash to sexualized deepfakes

  09-01-2026 14:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press Business Writer
  LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is preventing most users from generating or editing any images after a global backlash that erupted after it started spewing sexualized deepfakes of people.
  FILE – Workers install lighting on an “X” sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
  The chatbot, which is accessed through Musk&rs
  
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• Israeli strikes kill at least 13 across Gaza, as Trump is expected to announce Board of Peace

  09-01-2026 13:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By WAFAA SHURAFA, Associated Press
  DEIR AL BALAH (AP) — Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed at least 13 people, according to health officials, as U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire.
  Health officials and family members said at least one child was among the dead in northern Gaza following several strikes there as well as east of Gaza City. All 13 people were killed on Thursday.
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• Anger and outrage spills onto Minneapolis streets after ICE officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good

  09-01-2026 13:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By REBECCA SANTANA, TIM SULLIVAN and GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, Associated Press
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded, sparked additional protests and elicited more scrutiny of enforcement operations across the U.S.
  Protesters chant and march during a rally for Renee Good, who was fatally sho
  
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