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• Red Lobster abruptly closes dozens of restaurants around US

  14-05-2024 01:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By Nathaniel Meyersohn | CNN
  Struggling Red Lobster is abruptly closing at least 48 of its restaurants around the country, according to a leading restaurant liquidator.
  TAGeX Brands is conducting an online auction of Red Lobster kitchen equipment, furniture and other contents at restaurants closing. The auction begins Monday and continues through Thursday, according to company founder Neal Sherman.
  Red Lobster locations in Sacramento, Buffalo, Orlando, Jacksonville and other cities were listed a
  
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• UCLA women’s basketball adds transfer forward Janiah Barker to roster

  28-05-2024 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA women’s basketball has landed another highly skilled transfer in 6-foot-4 forward Janiah Barker, who just concluded her sophomore season at Texas A&M.
  “4s up in the LAnd,” Barker said in an announcement on Instagram.
  View this post on InstagramA post shared by JB2 (@iamjaniahbarker)Barker averaged 12.2 points per game and 7.6 rebounds per game with a season-high 21 points against LSU in February. She also added 38 steals and had 20 blocks for the Aggies, who lost in th
  
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• Can a police report be considered defamatory? Ask the lawyer

  28-05-2024 21:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I filed a police report about my stolen vehicle, and gave the names of people who I thought were involved. One of them was arrested. The district attorney chose not to prosecute, and he is now suing me for defamation. I told the cops what I thought. Isn’t that protected?
  A.M., Torrance
  Ron Sokol
  A: My guess is you have an attorney, and if so, he or she no doubt has told you about the Anti-Slapp statute. The law allows you to promptly require the party suing for defamation to demonstrate
  
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• Judge keeps 30-year term at resentencing for man who attacked Paul Pelosi

  28-05-2024 20:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By Janie Har and Olga R. Rodriguez | Associated Press
  SAN FRANCISCO — The man convicted of attempting to hold former Speaker Nancy Pelosi hostage and attacking her husband with a hammer two years ago apologized in federal court Tuesday, but still received 30 years in prison at an unusual resentencing hearing that resulted from judicial error.
  District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley on May 17 sentenced David DePape to 20 years for attempting to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and 30 years for the Octobe
  
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• Trump’s appeal to Libertarian Party falls flat

  28-05-2024 19:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump addressed the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday, appealing for either the party’s nomination “or at least lots of your votes” come November.
  Trump’s pitch was simple: “If we unite, we will be unstoppable.”
  Given the close margins of presidential contests, Trump’s appeal makes sense for him. The party’s presidential candidate received over 1 million votes in 2020 and over 4 million in 2016.
  “What is the
  
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• T-Mobile to buy US Cellular assets for roughly $2.4 billion

  28-05-2024 19:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By Lynn Doan | Bloomberg
  T-Mobile US, the second-largest mobile carrier in the US, has agreed to buy US Cellular Corp.’s wireless operations and some of its spectrum assets for about $2.4 billion.
  The deal includes US Cellular’s wireless customers, retail stores and 30% of its spectrum assets, according to statements from the companies. T-Mobile is paying $4.4 billion, including a combination of cash and as much as $2 billion in assumed debt. The transaction is expected to close in m
  
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• Recipes: Looking to save money? Make these tasty and budget-friendly dishes

  28-05-2024 19:24 via ocregister.com
  
  You may remember the recession in the early ’90s, an economic decline that lasted about a year. Many felt the pinch. I assume that most of us have had tight food budgets along the way, challenges that include the inflation we’re presently confronting.
  In the early days of my first marriage, my husband was in medical school, and I was earning a very modest new-teacher salary. I cooked every day, trying to make the dollars stretch. On a visit to the doctor that included a lon
  
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• One of world’s rarest whales sighted off California coast

  28-05-2024 18:50 via ocregister.com
  
  In an extraordinary sighting, a critically endangered North Pacific right whale was spotted off the Marin County coast on Friday, thrilling scientists.
  One of the rarest whales in the world, only an estimated 30 animals are thought to survive.
  “It was astonishing,” said research ecologist Jan Roletto, who sighted the whale about three miles west of Point Reyes National Seashore while aboard a research vessel for the Applied California Current Ecosystem Studies.
  A Northern Pacific rig
  
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• How Sinkane used therapy, college and the Black Arts Movement to create his new album ‘We Belong’

  28-05-2024 18:45 via ocregister.com
  
  When Sinkane appears on a Zoom call to discuss his new album, “We Belong,” a psychedelic background behind him makes it appear he’s floating in space. The Brooklyn-based musician, born Ahmed Gallab, jokes that he’s phoning in from an abyss — one that only he knows exists. Listening to Gallab’s Afrofuturistic album, the idea that he can occupy multiple worlds at once doesn’t seem so far off.
  Over the course of his career, Gallab hasn’t shied away fr
  
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• Los Angeles and Orange County students advance in Scripps National Spelling Bee

  28-05-2024 18:16 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles and Orange County contestants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Oliver Halkett and Katelyn Nguyen, advanced to the third round early on Tuesday May 28.
  Halkett, a sixth-grader who attends The Mirman School in Brentwood, correctly spelled desiccate, a verb meaning to dry up, and chose the correct answer to the vocabulary question “Acerbity is?” selecting “a manner that is harsh, biting or irritated.”
  Seventh-grader Katelyn Nguyen is surprised by a celeb
  
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• Status Update: Tustin’s 99 Ranch Market opening in July

  28-05-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Tustin residents soon will have new grocery options in the popular retail zone along Newport Avenue.
  99 Ranch Market is opening in July in a former Haggen grocery store at 550 E 1st St. (Some readers will recall this store in Larwin Square was a Vons for much longer before it was divested in the Albertsons-Safeway merger and converted to a Haggen, which lasted barely six months.)
  The Buena Park-based 99 Ranch will likely begin with a “soft” opening in mid-month.
  The chain signed a 15
  
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• Steve Garvey’s amateurish Senate campaign has no chance against Adam Schiff

  28-05-2024 17:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Adam Schiff counted on this back in February, when he blasted out TV commercials designed to promote former baseball all-star Steve Garvey to Republican voters just as millions of Californians were filling out mail-in primary election ballots: Garvey, the GOP’s U.S. Senate candidate for the seat long occupied by the late Democrat Dianne Feinstein, often looks like a green rookie as he campaigns – when he even bothers to campaign.
  (He didn’t bother showing up for his party&
  
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• Interest-rate hikes not entirely ruled out, Fed official says

  28-05-2024 17:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said the US central bank’s policy stance is restrictive, but policymakers haven’t entirely ruled out additional interest-rate increases.
  “I don’t think anybody has totally taken rate increases off the table,” Kashkari said Tuesday at an event in London. “I think the odds of us raising rates are quite low, but I don’t want to take anything off the table.”
  Kashkari echoed remarks he made ear
  
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• California wants to be carbon-neutral by 2045. What does that mean for its big economic drivers?

  28-05-2024 17:28 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, flew more 6,000 miles to Rome this month to deliver a brief speech on climate change at a Vatican-sponsored conference.
  Media reports of Newsom’s appearance centered on his verbal potshot at former President Donald Trump and his conversation with Pope Francis who, Newsom said, praised his unilateral suspension of executions in California.
  However, the governor did devote a little time to climate change, mostly reiterating his villainization of the
  
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• US home prices up 7.4% in a year, says Case-Shiller’s 20-city index

  28-05-2024 17:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Home-price growth in 20 major US cities sped up in March, pressuring buyers as the key selling season kicks into gear.
  Prices in a measure of 20 cities increased 7.4% from a year earlier, larger than the 7.3% annual gain in February, an S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index shows.
  Homebuyers are facing a severe affordability crisis made worse by mortgage rates hovering around 7% and price growth that’s only accelerating. At the heart of the problem is the lack of previously owned homes for
  
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• California legislators could allow students without legal immigrant status to work on campuses

  28-05-2024 16:56 via ocregister.com
  
  A bill working its way through the California Legislature seeks to allow any undocumented student at a public college or university to work an on-campus job, even without a work permit.
  Undocumented students granted DACA status, an Obama-era program that offers eligible individuals a temporary reprieve from deportation, are given temporary work permits that they can use to apply to jobs.
  However, the Department of Homeland Security, which reviews and approves DACA applications, stopped processin
  
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• How Viggo Mortensen’s mother helped inspire his Western ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’

  28-05-2024 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The opening scenes of Viggo Mortensen’s “The Dead Don’t Hurt” are vintage Hollywood Western – there’s a killing in a Nevada bar, a lawman shot down on a dusty street and a trial in which the rich and powerful protect the guilty and railroad an innocent man, which culminates in his hanging. The sheriff, Holger Olsen (Mortensen), who has just buried his beloved wife, is disgusted by what happens and turns in his badge, taking his son and riding off. 
  While
  
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• Los Angeles house rents are 76% pricier than U.S., San Diego is 90% costlier

  28-05-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Source: CoreLogic
  The “Looking Glass” ponders economic and real estate trends through two distinct lenses: the optimist’s “glass half-full” and the pessimist’s “glass half-empty.”
  Buzz: Renting a house in Southern California is preposterously expensive on a national scale.
  Source: My trusty spreadsheet looked at CoreLogic’s single-family rental index tracking the cost of living in a three-bedroom house nationally and in 20 US markets, includi
  
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• Dana Point launches new travel app to help locals and tourists navigate the beachy town

  28-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Want to know what restaurant is new in town, what the town’s most popular trails and parks are and where, or if there’s a cool event happening like a car show or art fair?
  A new travel app that helps locals and visitors navigate Dana Point was recently launched and offers this and much more information, such as real-time trolley schedules and where to find lodging.
  The app is a collaboration between the city and Visit Dana Point and will also highlight special events such as fun happ
  
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• Niles: Disneyland deserves more than clones as it moves forward

  28-05-2024 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  With DisneylandForward winning approval from the City of Anaheim, Disneyland fans now are looking forward to August’s D23 event to hear some specifics about what Disney is planning to build at the resort.
  The only commitment that Disney officials have made so far is CEO Bob Iger’s promise that an Avatar attraction will be part of the new construction at the resort. In addition, Disney Experiences Chairman Josh D’Amaro has teased that an Anaheim installation of Hong Kong Disneyl
  
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• Mr Fisk wins Hollywood Gold Cup before ‘minor’ injury

  28-05-2024 04:52 via ocregister.com
  
  ARCADIA – Bob Baffert’s 10th victory in the Hollywood Gold Cup produced perhaps the Hall of Fame trainer’s most muted celebration ever Monday at Santa Anita.
  Mr Fisk and jockey Kazushi Kimura defeated Reincarnate and Juan Hernandez by 2 1/4 lengths to make it an all-Baffert exacta in the $200,000, Grade II race for some of the best horses in the California handicap division.
  But Mr Fisk didn’t make it back for the winner’s-circle photo. Kimura pulled up Mr Fisk as t
  
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• Swanson: Bill Walton was the best friend and a unique talent

  28-05-2024 03:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Bill Walton, one of one.
  Though the world would be better, wouldn’t it, if everyone had a little more of what made him so singularly special?
  Humanity and enthusiasm. Joy and appreciation. Love and humor.
  I loved – loved – listening to Walton’s informed irreverence on a basketball broadcast, but I wasn’t lucky enough to know him or to have watched the 6-foot-11 center lead UCLA to the 1972 and ’73 national titles and NBA championships with the Portland Trail B
  
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• Photos: 500 sailors traverse LA’s iconic 6th Street Viaduct in stirring Memorial Day march

  28-05-2024 02:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Sailors from the USS Carl Vinson march across the Sixth Street Bridge in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, May 27, 2024, in a Memorial Day tribute to those service members who have died fighting for their country. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
  Sailors from the USS Carl Vinson march across the Sixth Street Bridge in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, May 27, 2024, in a Memorial Day tribute to those service members who have died fighting for their country. (Photo by Howard Fresh
  
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• 500 sailors traverse LA’s iconic 6th Street Viaduct in stirring Memorial Day march

  28-05-2024 02:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Sailors from the USS Carl Vinson march across the Sixth Street Bridge in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, May 27, 2024, in a Memorial Day tribute to those service members who have died fighting for their country. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
  Sailors from the USS Carl Vinson march across the Sixth Street Bridge in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, May 27, 2024, in a Memorial Day tribute to those service members who have died fighting for their country. (Photo by Howard Fresh
  
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• Sparks seeking redemption vs. Caitlin Clark in rematch at Indiana Fever

  28-05-2024 01:19 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Sparks want nothing more than redemption against phenom Caitlin Clark and WNBA All-Stars Kelsey Mitchell and Aliyah Boston in Tuesday’s game at the Indiana Fever.
  The Sparks vs. Fever contest will begin this week’s three-game road trip, including stops in Chicago (Thursday) and Phoenix (Sunday).
  Tuesday’s game will be the second time the two teams have played in less than a week, creating another marquee matchup between the Clark (No. 1 pick) and Sparks
  
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• Pac-12 Hotline: RIP, Bill Walton, the Pac-12’s greatest supporter passes away

  27-05-2024 22:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Two days after the Pac-12 took its final competitive breath, the conference lost its soul.
  Bill Walton passed away Monday after 71 years of a life like no other, ever.
  The cause: cancer.
  Left unsaid: a broken heart.
  Walton might have been the greatest player in college basketball history. He won two NCAA titles with UCLA and two more in the NBA (with Portland and Boston) and was a no-brainer Hall of Fame inductee.
  He was the world’s preeminent Grateful Dead fan, a cycling enthusiast, a pas
  
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• UCLA mourns the loss of basketball legend Bill Walton; Cronin’s heartfelt reaction

  27-05-2024 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The UCLA men’s basketball team and athletics department are mourning the loss of two-time NCAA champion Bill Walton, who died at the age of 71 following a prolonged battle with cancer, the NBA announced Monday.
  Walton, a UCLA basketball icon, led the Bruins to back-to-back NCAA titles in 1972 and 1973, with two straight 30-0 records, which was part of the program’s historic span of seven consecutive NCAA championships from 1967 to 1973, under legendary UCLA coach
  
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• Bill Walton dies: Social media reacts to the news

  27-05-2024 22:05 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Walton died Monday at the age of 71 following a battle with cancer.
  Walton was known as one of the most outspoken and charismatic figures in the sports world. He played for coach John Wooden and led the Bruins to back-to-back NCAA titles as a sophomore (1972) and junior (1973) before playing for the Portland Trailblazers, Clippers and Boston Celtics in the NBA (1974-87).
  Bill Walton, UCLA great, NBA Hall of Famer, broadcasting star, dies a
  
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• Students take protest to UCI Chancellor’s home; ‘No rest until UCI divest’

  27-05-2024 22:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Memorial Day may be a holiday at UC Irvine, but Pro-Palestinian student protesters were determined that Chancellor Howard Gillman would not get the day off and staged an early morning protest outside of his residence in University Hills.
  More than two dozen protesters attended the rally, some wearing keffiyeh and using speakers to amplify chants of “Howard Gillman you won’t rest until UCI divest.” They carried posters with messages such as “Over 40,000 dead, UCI painted r
  
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• Angels catcher Logan O’Hoppe feels the growing pains as he learns how to handle the pitchers

  27-05-2024 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — A month ago the Angels were swept by the Minnesota Twins, allowing 11 runs in the series finale. It was one of the lowest points of a mostly disappointing two months.
  For more than a half hour after that Sunday afternoon game, catcher Logan O’Hoppe sat in the Angels dugout conferring with bench coach Ray Montgomery. O’Hoppe then spoke to reporters and took responsibility for the flood of runs and hits they allowed.
  “When there’s a crooked number under hits
  
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