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• Police move toward crowd at UCI Gaza Solidarity Encampment that demands school reverse suspensions, divest

  15-05-2024 23:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Students and supporters calling for UC Irvine administrators to drop suspensions of students involved in a Gaza Solidarity Encampment on campus and meet other demands kicked up the pressure on Wednesday.
  A couple hundred supporters gathered at the Pro-Palestinian encampment in the afternoon in response to a call for an emergency coalition protest.
  A couple hundred supporters gathered at the Pro-Palestinian encampment at UC Irvine on Wednesday, May 15, in response to a call for an emergency coali
  
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• Another $100 million announced for OCTA’s coastal resilience plans

  01-11-2024 01:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Another major boost in funding has been awarded to the Orange County Transportation Authority for efforts to secure a coastal rail line threatened by the ocean and collapsing bluffs – this time, $100 million in new federal assistance announced Thursday, Oct. 31.
  Officials made the announcement in San Clemente, where troubles in recent years have resulted in months-long closures of the Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo, or LOSSAN, Corridor where it runs oceanfront, cutting off the link
  
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• Breeders’ Cup horse racing consensus picks for Friday, Nov. 1, 2024 at Del Mar

  01-11-2024 01:01 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Del Mar horse racing picks, including the Breeders’ Cup, comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Eddie Wilson, Kevin Modesti and Mark Ratzky. Here are the picks for races on Friday, November 1, 2024.
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• Football video: OCVarsity’s Steve Fryer and Dan Albano make their Week 10 predictions

  01-11-2024 00:48 via ocregister.com
  
  In this week’s OCVarsity Gridiron video, Dan Albano and Steve Fryer discuss Orange County’s top football games in Week 10 and make their predictions.
  They discuss: Portola vs. Pacifica, Beckman vs. Marina, Edison vs. San Clemente, Servite vs. Santa Margarita and Capistrano Valley vs. Tustin.Related ArticlesHigh School Sports | Orange County football playoff races headed for thrilling conclusionHigh School Sports | Santa Margarita High, Diocese of Orange hire law firm to investigate s
  
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• Fryer: Servite and Santa Margarita trying to solve football’s playoff puzzle

  01-11-2024 00:35 via ocregister.com
  
  When the CIF Southern Section football playoffs brackets come out Sunday morning, the school name many will be looking for is “Santa Margarita.”
  Santa Margarita’s 3-6 record and standing in the Trinity League have the Eagles in a precarious position, a position that might no longer be precarious if they beat Servite on Friday, the final date of the CIF-SS 11-man football season.
  That game’s results could be important for Servite’s playoff fate, too. More on that lat
  
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• Alexander: It’s time to give Dodgers’ Dave Roberts his flowers

  01-11-2024 00:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Now, can we convince Dave Roberts’ critics in the Dodger fan base – and they might not necessarily be plentiful but they sure are loud – to give him the credit he deserves?
  October after October, and throughout recent regular seasons as well, those critics have hammered the manager for his pitching decisions, for his lineups, and for occasionally punting a game if it will save valuable resources down the line. Admit it, you probably were railing at your TVs on Tuesday night as
  
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• LA Metro awards full funding to extend light-rail line into San Bernardino County

  01-11-2024 00:14 via ocregister.com
  
  No tricks, only treats were in the bag for future light-rail riders from eastern Los Angeles and western San Bernardino counties on Halloween, Thursday, Oct. 31 from LA Metro, which awarded $798 million for building a short but historic A (Gold) Line extension from Pomona to Claremont and Montclair.
  For the first time in LA Metro history, the agency funded the construction of a light-rail train line across county lines that will reach the Inland Empire city of Montclair for service that is expec
  
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• Rocket fire from Lebanon kills 7 in Israel as US tries to push for cease-fires

  01-11-2024 00:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By MELANIE LIDMAN, JULIA FRANKEL and FADI TAWIL
  TEL AVIV, Israel — Rocket barrages from Lebanon into northern Israel killed four foreign workers and three Israelis on Thursday, Israeli medics said, the deadliest cross-border strikes in Israel since it invaded Lebanon. Israel kept up airstrikes it says targeted Hezbollah militants across Lebanon, where health authorities on Thursday reported 24 people killed.
  U.S. diplomats were in the region pushing for cease-fires in both Lebanon and Gaza
  
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• Endorsement: Re-elect Tri Ta to the California Assembly

  31-10-2024 23:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Former Westminster Mayor Tri Ta has been a reliable vote for fiscal responsibility in Sacramento since his election to the Assembly two years ago.
  As a Republican, he is naturally constrained by the supermajority, but that hasn’t stopped him from fielding legislation and standing up for his district.
  Ta supports school choice, wants to see California continue to streamline housing regulations so more housing can get built and will be a reliable vote against tax increases.
  He also just righ
  
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• ‘Top of the World’ book commemorating the Dodgers World Series championship season available to order

  31-10-2024 23:41 via ocregister.com
  
  From the offseason signing of baseball’s best player and biggest free agent, Shohei Ohtani, to Freddie Freeman’s grand slam in World Series Game 1, to Walker Buehler’s final pitch in the World Series, the Southern California News Group was covering every big moment in the Dodgers’ historic season.
  We’ve collected the best of those stories in book form, and “On Top of the World, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Extraordinary Run to the 2024 World Series Title,&rd
  
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• Horse racing: A bettors’ guide to the Breeders’ Cup races at Del Mar

  31-10-2024 23:29 via ocregister.com
  
  DEL MAR — Dazzled by racing cards full of elite horses at juicy odds in an all-you-can-eat buffet of possible wagers, bettors at the Breeders’ Cup on Friday and Saturday at Del Mar will go one of two ways.
  They’ll find themselves with lots of strong opinions. Or they’ll find themselves with very few.
  The latter is preferable.
  The wagering menu has expanded exponentially in the 40 years since the first Breeders’ Cup at Hollywood Park, which offered only win, place, s
  
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• Endorsement: Matt Gunderson for the 49th congressional district

  31-10-2024 23:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Voters in the 49th congressional district, which spans parts of Orange County and San Diego County, have before them two candidates trying to appeal to the middle.
  Democratic Rep. Mike Levin has done considerable work on behalf of veterans and figuring out what to do about the waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. This editorial board applauds his work on immigration policy. Levin rightly understands that the nation needs both border security and a more modernized immigration syste
  
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• Horse racing notes: Fillies star on Del Mar’s Breeders’ Cup undercards

  31-10-2024 23:18 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANITA LEADERS
  Final, through Sunday
  JOCKEYS / WINS
  Juan Hernandez / 25
  Umberto Rispoli / 15
  Antonio Fresu / 14
  Tiago Pereira / 10
  Hector Berrios / 10
  Edwin Maldonado / 8
  TRAINERS / WINS
  Bob Baffert / 14
  Phil D’Amato / 13
  George Papaprodromou / 12
  Doug O’Neill / 10
  Michael McCarthy / 7
  Mark Glatt / 7
  WEEKEND STAKES (DEL MAR)
  Friday
  • $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, 2-year-olds, 1-1/16 miles, and four other Breeders’ Cup races
  • Four non-Breeders’ C
  
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• Breeders’ Cup kicks off with ‘Future Stars Friday’ at Del Mar

  31-10-2024 23:18 via ocregister.com
  
  DEL MAR — There are purple signs and banners all over this small seaside village and its racetrack, which can mean only one thing: The Breeders’ Cup is back in town.
  Fourteen “world championship” races involving more than 160 horses will be run over the next two days for $30 million in purse money. The most lucrative day is Saturday, with nine races — including the $7 million Classic, the richest race run in North America. Before that comes what the Breeders’
  
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• USC’s JuJu Watkins, Kiki Iriafen find their bond runs deep

  31-10-2024 23:06 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Kiki Iriafen’s grandparents know, of course, that their granddaughter plays basketball. But they have no clue yet, as mother Yemi Iriafen chuckled, as to who she can become.
  The Iriafen name, for generations, has revolved around values of education and Catholicism. You get good grades. You pray. Iriafen’s grandfather Segun Ogunsaju is a professor, and her grandmother Fadeke worked at a university in their home of Nigeria, and values do not break. For years, Iriafe
  
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• Dodgers’ victory in World Series spurs a run on Randy’s Donuts

  31-10-2024 22:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Blue doughnuts are selling out fast at Randy’s Donuts shops throughout Los Angeles County now that the Dodgers have won the World Series.
  The doughnuts, which have Dodger blue icing and are filled with Bavarian cream, sell for $3.40. The chain will stop offering them by Friday, Nov. 1, after the stores sell out, according to representatives.
  Time is also running out for Randy’s Halloween doughnuts, which are only available through Thursday, Oct. 31. randysdonuts.com
  Other local eater
  
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• Angel City FC’s ‘season of growth’ ending in Portland

  31-10-2024 22:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Becki Tweed stepped in as interim coach last season and led Angel City Football Club to a playoff berth, the first in the team’s brief history.
  Her first full season will end Friday night as Angel City visits the Portland Thorns. It has been one of learning.
  “I honestly think I have to spend some more time and use this offseason to really reflect,” she said Thursday. “The things the spring to mind are this league is about detail, about discipline and it’s about the
  
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• Highway 330 closure continues to cut off a main road to Big Bear

  31-10-2024 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Nearly 5 miles of Highway 330, which leads to the Big Bear resort community, is closed until December.
  The closure, which began Sept. 24, results from September’s 20,000-acre Line fire in San Bernardino County, which damaged guardrails designed to prevent cars from going over the ledge.
  Highway 330, which is the most-traveled route to Big Bear Lake and is accessible from the 210 Freeway in Highland, will remain completely closed in both directions from Highland Avenue in Highland to Live O
  
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• Rams LB Omar Speights adjusting to bigger role

  31-10-2024 22:14 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Despite his preseason successes, despite proclamations about him being a potential Week 1 contributor, despite the Rams trading away their top returning linebacker before the season started, Omar Speights was still waiting for his opportunity to play on defense.
  The undrafted rookie had played on a variety of special teams units, but the Rams had stuck with Troy Reeder and Christian Rozeboom exclusively at linebacker.
  But as so often happens in the NFL, injury opened a door.
  
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• California No. 3 for fatal car accidents on Halloween in US

  31-10-2024 21:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Halloween is a time for costumes, candy corn – and lethal car crashes.
  California suffered the nation’s third-highest number of Halloween fatal driving accidents, according to a study of auto safety stats from the Bader Scott law firm from Georgia.
  My trusty spreadsheet looked at the firm’s analysis of federal crash data for 2013 through 2022 that tracked drivers involved in vehicle fatalities by state – on Halloween compared with the eight weeks surrounding the fall fest
  
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• How to get an exclusive tour of ‘The Brady Bunch’ family’s iconic home

  31-10-2024 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  “The Brady Brunch” sitcom is celebrating 55 years and welcoming five fans and their guests into the iconic family’s home.
  Five winners and their guests will be flown to Los Angeles for a VIP brunch, private tour, and photo opportunities with the original cast. They will also have their airfare, hotel accommodations, ground transportation and meals taken care of.
  To win, fans can enter the Sunshine Stay Sweepstakes by purchasing one item from TheBradyExperience.com. Items f
  
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• Can I get bird flu from eating eggs? Drinking milk? We asked a disease expert

  31-10-2024 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By Fernanda Galan, The Sacramento Bee (TNS)
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As poultry farms and dairies across California battle bird flu outbreaks, some are wondering if their food is safe to eat.
  Since highly pathogenic avian influenza surfaced in the United States in January 2022, the virus has been detected in wild birds and domestic poultry, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  HPAI was detected at a Merced County turkey farm in September and infected&n
  
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• Universal’s most popular Horror Nights mazes ranked by wait times

  31-10-2024 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Universal’s Horror Nights fans spoke with their feet this Halloween season to determine the most popular haunted mazes and an uncontested winner emerged from the bloody pack of contenders at this year’s event.
  Insidious: The Further was the most popular haunted maze based on average wait times at Halloween Horror Nights 2024 with Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Legacy of Leatherface the clear runner- up, according to Thrill Data.
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• The Turpin children wound up in yet another abusive home, but this investigator saved them

  31-10-2024 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By February 2021, it had been three years since the 13 Turpin siblings had escaped the torture imposed on them by their biological parents in their Perris home. And now six of them were ready to flee again, this time from the clutches of the foster family that had adopted four of them.
  One of the minors, a boy, “practically ran away” because of physical and psychological abuse, said Tom Salisbury, a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department master investigator brought in when the c
  
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• Galaxy looks to finish 1st-round playoff series in Colorado

  31-10-2024 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Not long ago, the Galaxy’s 5-0 victory Saturday to open the Major League Soccer playoffs would have likely been enough to win the home-and-home series.
  In the current MLS landscape, that opening win is just that – a win with no aggregate-goal lead for the Galaxy to carry over into Friday’s second meeting against the Colorado Rapids.
  “I miss those days,” Galaxy coach Greg Vanney said. “Each of these is one game at a time. There’s never been a more true ki
  
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• Hip-hop producer Metro Boomin is accused of rape in lawsuit

  31-10-2024 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles woman has filed a lawsuit alleging that Metro Boomin, a Grammy-nominated producer who has worked with some of the biggest names in hip-hop and R&B, raped her in 2016 and she became pregnant from the attack.
  The producer’s attorney calls the accusations false and said the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court is “a pure shakedown.”
  Vanessa LeMaistre, 38, says in the lawsuit th
  
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• About 8,000 North Korean troops now at Ukraine’s border are expected in combat soon, US says

  31-10-2024 20:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By TARA COPP, MATTHEW LEE and EDITH M. LEDERER
  WASHINGTON — Some 8,000 North Korean soldiers are now in Russia near Ukraine’s border and are preparing to help the Kremlin fight against Ukrainian troops in the coming days, the Biden administration said Thursday.
  The new figure is a dramatic increase from a day earlier, when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would only say “some” of the troops had moved toward Ukraine’s border in the Kursk region, where Moscow’s fo
  
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• Country Campout Weekend festival is postponed due to weather

  31-10-2024 20:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Country Campout Weekend, the second annual three-day camping and music festival experience set for Nov. 1-3 at Prado Regional Park in Chino, has been postponed, according to the festival’s team.
  On Oct. 28, the festival stated on social media that the rescheduling was due to “the anticipated weather forecast.” Per the email statement, the decision was made after extensive discussions with County officials and performing artists, prioritizing the safety of attendees and the over
  
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• How Mexican cartels manage the flow of migrants on their way to the US border

  31-10-2024 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARÍA VERZA
  CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — The first place where many migrants sleep after entering Mexico from Guatemala is inside a large structure, a roof above and fenced-in sides on a rural ranch. They call it the “chicken coop” and they don’t get to leave until they pay the cartel that runs it.
  Migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border have reached a four-year low, but days before the U.S. election, in which immigration is a key issue, migrants continue
  
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• Indians celebrate Diwali by lighting a record number of clay lamps

  31-10-2024 20:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By BISWAJEET BANERJEE
  LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Millions of Indians began celebrating the annual Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, by symbolically lighting a record 2.51 million clay oil lamps at dusk on Wednesday on the banks of the river Saryu in a northern Indian city they believe to be the birthplace of the deity Lord Ram.
  Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India, particularly for the Hindu majority. It is celebrated by socializing and exchanging gifts with loved ones. Ma
  
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