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• Padres snap Dodgers’ 7-game win streak on walk-off single by Luis Arraez

  11-05-2024 06:11 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN DIEGO — They were striking out all over the Gaslamp Quarter on Friday night – presumably in the bars, too.
  Starting pitchers Tyler Glasnow and Michael King combined to strike out 21 batters over the first seven innings at Petco Park while allowing just three hits between them – one by Glasnow (a solo home run), two by King (soft singles).
  The San Diego Padres put together the game-winning rally in the bottom of the ninth inning, walking off with a 2-1 victory over the Dodge
  
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• Anaheim Discovery Christian’s Zuxu Wu qualifies for CIF State boys golf championships

  23-05-2024 04:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowAnaheim Discovery Christian senior Zuxu Wu is the last Orange County boys golfer still playing this postseason.
  The Academy League champion carded a 4-under-par 70 to tie for ninth Wednesday at the CIF-SCGA SoCal Regional at Los Serranos Golf Club to advance to next week’s state championships.
  The top-nine finishing individuals not on advancing teams and the top-three schools qualified for the CIF S
  
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• Huntington Beach must release air show settlement, judge rules

  23-05-2024 04:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach must comply with the state open records law and release the entire settlement agreement between it and the operator of the annual air show, an Orange County Judge ruled Wednesday, May 22.
  The city has spent the last year refusing to release the $5 million settlement document between it and Pacific Airshow agreed to in May 2023.
  Gina Clayton-Tarvin, a resident and Ocean View School District trustee, sued the city after it refused to release the document under the state’s op
  
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• Newsom shuns tax increases yet his budget contains billions in new levies on businesses

  23-05-2024 04:00 via ocregister.com
  
  When Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a much-revised 2024-25 state budget this month, he became visibly irritated when reporters pressed him about raising taxes to cover a $44.9 billion deficit, particularly the corporate tax hikes that left-leaning groups have suggested to avoid spending cuts in health, welfare and education programs.
  “When considering the 8.84 % corporate tax – which is the highest, arguably, depending on how you analyze it, in the country – no, I’m not prepa
  
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• Eric Trump political fundraiser in Temecula gets underway

  23-05-2024 04:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A fundraiser for conservative school board candidates headlined by Eric Trump is underway Wednesday evening, May 22, in Temecula.
  The Trump-loving crowd donned red Make America Great Again caps, hoisted Donald Trump 2024 flags and enjoyed a guitarist’s performance of “Folsom Prison Blues” — dedicated to Hillary Clinton. They gathered in the Stampede, a popular country music venue in rustic Old Town Temecula.
  At least an hour before the 6 p.m. event, people on both sides o
  
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• OC man faces federal charges, is accused of obtaining fraudulent COVID-relief loans

  23-05-2024 03:56 via ocregister.com
  
  An Orange County man who owned Riverside and Anaheim ambulatory transportation businesses has been indicted on wire fraud and money laundering charges alleging he obtained fraudulent COVID-19 disaster loans, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
  According to court documents, from May 2020 to December 2021, Aliso Viejo resident Mehrdad “Mitch” Tabrizi submitted two fraudulent applications for Paycheck Protection Program loans — a federal program created to provide financial a
  
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• Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard earns 2nd-team All-NBA honor

  23-05-2024 03:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard, whose season was cut short by a knee injury, was named to the 2023-24 All-NBA second team, the league announced on Wednesday. It is the sixth time in his 12-year career he has received an All-NBA distinction.
  Leonard appeared in 68 games this season before sitting out the Clippers’ final eight regular-season games because of a swollen right knee. Although he played in two of the team’s six first-round playoff games against the Dallas Mavericks, Leonard
  
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• Lakers’ LeBron James, Anthony Davis receive All-NBA honors

  23-05-2024 03:16 via ocregister.com
  
  LeBron James continues to raise the bar during the latter stages of his career while Anthony Davis has once again been formally recognized as one of the league’s best players for the first time in four years.
  James and Davis received 2023-24 All-NBA honors on Wednesday, with Davis being named to the second team while James was named to the third team.
  Davis’ All-NBA honor was his first since the 2019-20 season, when he made the first team.
  For James, who was the youngest player to ma
  
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• Magnolia High Graduation 2024: Our best photos of the ceremony

  23-05-2024 02:59 via ocregister.com
  
  A group of graduates celebrate at the Magnolia High School graduation ceremony in Anaheim on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)
  Graduate Jordy Mujguia waves to the crowd at the Magnolia High School graduation ceremony in Anaheim on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)
  A graduate exalts after the ceremonies at the Magnolia High School graduation ceremony in Anaheim on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (Photo by Michael Kit
  
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• Kings sign Aatu Jämsen to a 2-year, entry-level deal

  23-05-2024 02:59 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings have signed winger Aatu Jämsen to a two-year, entry-level contract worth up to $852,500 per season, the team announced in a news release.
  Jämsen was originally a seventh-round draft selection of the Kings (No. 190 overall) in 2020. He remained in his native Finland with the pro club Pelicans, for which he competed at various junior levels and at the senior level for the past three campaigns. Last season, he had 25 points in 36 games, including 14 goals against the country&rsq
  
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• LAX officials urge travelers to plan ahead for Memorial Day, summer trips

  23-05-2024 02:55 via ocregister.com
  
  With record numbers of people expected to travel for Memorial Day weekend, Los Angeles International Airport officials urged people Wednesday to plan ahead and give themselves plenty of time to reach the airport and board their flights.
  Memorial Day traditionally marks the beginning of the summer travel season, and airport officials reminded travelers that passenger numbers and vehicular traffic will be rising over the next few days and remain high for the next few months.
  “With school bre
  
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• Cal State Fullerton continues Class of 2024 graduation celebrations

  23-05-2024 02:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Laura Lopez, left, points to the crowd before shaking the hand of Dr. Sridhar Sundaram, right, Dean of the College of Business and Economics at Cal State Fullerton, during commencement at Titan Stadium on Wednesday morning, May 22, 2024, in Fullerton. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Family members hold a sign for a soon-to-be graduate of the College of Business and Economics at Cal State Fullerton during the commencement at Titan Stadium on Wednesday morning, May 22, 2024,
  
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• Santa Ana raises pride flag to support LGBTQ+ community

  23-05-2024 02:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Santa Ana hoisted the pride flag Wednesday afternoon at City Hall, an effort to show visible support for the LGBTQ+ community.
  The flag-raising coincided with Harvey Milk Day, celebrated on May 22 in recognition of the late human rights activist and one of the first openly gay elected officials as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
  “The colorful rainbow flag sends a powerful message that our LGBTQ+ community members matter, they are supported and they belong in our beautif
  
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• Orange County volleyball all-star matches Thursday at Newport Harbor

  23-05-2024 01:53 via ocregister.com
  
  The 47th annual Dave Mohs Memorial Orange County Volleyball All-Star Matches will be played Thursday at Newport Harbor High School.
  The girls match is at 6 p.m. and bhe boys match at 7:30 p.m. Both matches encompass three sets.
  Admission is $10. Payment can be made in cash or card.
  The event is named for the late Dave Mohs, who was a volleyball coach for many years at Edison. A girls volleyball tournament in the fall is also named for Mohs.
  The program, including rosters, for the event are at th
  
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• Haley announces she will vote for Donald Trump

  23-05-2024 01:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By Meg Kinnard
  Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she will be voting for Donald Trump in the general election, a notable show of support given their intense and often personal rivalry during the Republican primary calendar.
  But Haley also made it clear that she feels Trump has work to do to win over voters who supported her during the course of the primary campaign and continue to cast votes for her in ongoing primary contests.
  “I will be voting for Trump,” Haley, Trump’s former U
  
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• Sparks nearing sellout for Caitlin Clark’s 1st WNBA game in Los Angeles

  23-05-2024 00:53 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Tickets are still available as the Sparks are looking forward to hosting their first home game Friday at Crypto.com Arena on Friday in a highly anticipated matchup against the Indiana Fever, which features phenom Caitlin Clark.
  “Can’t wait to be in Crypto, should be a huge, huge crowd with Indiana coming,” Sparks coach Curt Miller said after his team’s 70-68 win against the Washington Mystics on Tuesday night at Cal State Long Beach.
  Clark, the No. 1 d
  
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• Newport Coast estate sells off-market for a 2024 OC record of $38 million

  23-05-2024 00:25 via ocregister.com
  
  A newly built Crystal Cove estate has sold off-market for $38 million, the highest Orange County home sale so far this year.
  The Mediterranean-style, 18,336-square-foot house in the guard-gated Newport Coast community has six bedrooms, 12 bathrooms and a great room off the kitchen for seamless indoor-outdoor living. Its flat three-quarter-acre-plus lot with wraparound canyon and ocean views make it a rare find.
  “There’s been a lot of sloped land, but people would rather have one big
  
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• Did Mike Feuer tell investigators the whole truth?

  23-05-2024 00:05 via ocregister.com
  
  In February, former Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer acknowledged to the editorial board of this newspaper that he was under investigation by the California Bar Association. He smoothly characterized the probe as no big deal, just the Bar appropriately investigating every lawyer involved in a case that had resulted in multiple convictions for such federal crimes as bribery and extortion.
  Feuer was a candidate for Congress in a crowded primary and asking for an endorsement, ultimately unsucce
  
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• Angel City FC and San Diego Wave FC have room for improvement

  23-05-2024 00:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Angel City Football Club and San Diego Wave FC kick off the third year of California’s first NWSL rivalry Thursday both in search of consistency.
  After making the playoffs in their first season, Wave FC followed that by winning the NWSL Shield, finishing first in the league with 37 points.
  Angel City went on a second-half run to finish in sixth, qualifying for the playoffs in their second season.
  Entering Thursday, Wave FC is in eighth place (3-4-2, 11 points) and Angel City is in ninth (3
  
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• Court rebukes Huntington Beach City Council’s housing stunt

  23-05-2024 00:01 via ocregister.com
  
  What happens when conservative ideologues take over a city council and focus on performative litigation rather than substantive policy making? We’re getting the answer in Huntington Beach, where the city’s GOP majority has been handed yet another court rebuke in its pointless lawsuit challenging California’s housing mandates.
  This Editorial Board predicted the outcome, although it requires no prescience to have seen this one coming. The council, in concert with allied City Atto
  
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• Feds face trial over reports of abuse at FCI Dublin

  22-05-2024 23:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Associated Press
  OAKLAND — The federal Bureau of Prisons will go to trial next year over claims it allowed an environment where guards at a now-shuttered California prison sexually abused incarcerated women, a judge ordered Wednesday.
  In the first public hearing since FCI Dublin closed last month, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers also ordered an outside legal expert to keep handling the cases of some 600 women transferred out of the prison. Many of the inmates sent to other
  
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• Suspicious package left outside Orange fire station determined to be false alarm

  22-05-2024 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  A suspicious package left outside the Orange Fire Department Station Headquarters forced the temporary evacuation of the building, but was determined to be a false alarm, Deputy Fire Marshal Robert Prendergast said Wednesday, May 22.
  Personnel temporarily evacuated the building for precautionary measures, after the package was found around 1:08 p.m. in front of the fire station on 1176 East Chapman Avenue. The Orange Police Department and Orange County Sheriff Department’s Bomb Squad respo
  
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• Average US vehicle age hits a record high 12.6 years

  22-05-2024 23:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By Tom Krisher | Associated Press
  DETROIT — Cars, trucks and SUVs in the U.S. keep getting older, hitting a record average age of 12.6 years in 2024 as people hang on to their vehicles largely because new ones cost so much.
  S&P Global Mobility, which tracks state vehicle registration data nationwide, said Wednesday that the average vehicle age grew about two months from last year’s record.
  But the growth in average age is starting to slow as new vehicle sales start to recover fro
  
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• McDonald’s gives grandma a kiss with its latest McFlurry

  22-05-2024 23:02 via ocregister.com
  
  McDonald’s is striving for sweet nostalgia in its latest McFlurry.
  It’s called Grandma McFlurry, and according to Restaurant Business Online it taps into a Gen Z trend called grandmacore.
  Grandmacore, however, is more about fashion than food, as in knitwear and other garments that aren’t too practical as summer arrives. Teen Vogue holds up Billie Eilish wrapping scarves around her head as an example.
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• UCI Divest group prompts walkout over treatment, suspensions in encampment protest last week

  22-05-2024 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  More than 100 people have gathered in UC Irvine’s Aldrich Park this afternoon, May 22, following the UCI Divest Coalition’s call for a walkout in response to suspensions the group said those arrested in last week’s encampment protest have received.
  Leaders of the walkout were starting, shorting before 1:30 p.m., to lead the group back to the location of the more than two-week Gaza Solidarity Encampment in a quad in front of UC Irvine’s Physical Sciences Lecture Hall. The
  
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• Farmworker diagnosed with bird flu in 2nd US case tied to dairy cows

  22-05-2024 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE and JONEL ALECCIA
  NEW YORK — A Michigan dairy worker has been diagnosed with bird flu — the second human case associated with an outbreak in U.S. dairy cows.
  The patient had mild eye symptoms and has recovered, U.S. and Michigan health officials said in announcing the case Wednesday. The worker had been in contact with cows presumed to be infected, and the risk to the public remains low, officials said.
  A nasal swab from the person tested negative for the virus, but an
  
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• Sharlize Palacios helps UCLA softball peak as Super Regional play begins with Georgia

  22-05-2024 22:43 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Sharlize Palacios gauges the demeanor of each pitcher she catches, judging their readiness as they enter a ballgame. Their facial expression, she explains, says it all.
  Take UCLA freshman Kaitlyn Terry for example. When she stepped into Saturday’s game against Virginia Tech in the bottom of the second inning — the Bruins, down three runs, with Hokies occupying first and second base — Palacios noticed a stone-faced visage similar to the expression Terry flash
  
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• Tyler Anderson leads Angels to series victory in Houston

  22-05-2024 22:35 via ocregister.com
  
  HOUSTON — Tyler Anderson gave the Angels exactly what they needed.
  The left-hander pitched eight innings in a 2-1 victory over the Houston Astros on Wednesday, leading them to a second consecutive series victory on this trip through Texas.
  The bad news was that shortstop Zach Neto left the game with right elbow soreness. Neto made a high throw in the fifth inning and then left the game. There was no immediate word on how serious the injury might be.
  Angels manager Ron Washington escorts Za
  
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• Prepare for a change in your US travel with this visa waiver. It involves a selfie

  22-05-2024 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Daniel Shoer Roth | Miami Herald (TNS)
  The program that allows travelers from 41 countries to enter the United States for short-term stays without a visa is undergoing a significant update.
  The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection has proposed changes to the ESTA application for the Visa Waiver Program that could take effect soon and affect travel. ESTA stands for Electronic System for Travel Authorization.
  The ESTA authorization — an automated system used
  
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• Pearl Jam brings its Dark Matter Tour to Kia Forum for a storied night of music

  22-05-2024 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Consider this: Pearl Jam, through the first seven shows of its Dark Matter Tour, has played 83 different songs
  Now, name another band that can do that, and, well, you can’t because there is no other band like Pearl Jam, as Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, and Matt Cameron showed once more on Tuesday, the first of two shows at the Kia Forum in Inglewood.
  So you go to the show with a faint idea of what you might hear – “Dark Matter,” the band’s
  
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