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• Status Update: David Wilson, owner of Wilson Automotive, gives $25 million to his alma mater

  23-10-2023 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  David W. Wilson, owner of Tustin-based Wilson Automotive, pledged $25 million to his alma mater, the University of Northern Iowa.
  The donation, celebrated Friday, Oct. 20, is the largest gift in UNI history and will go toward creating the David W. Wilson College of Business.
  Locals are probably familiar with Wilson’s catchy tune that promises “You won’t get a lemon at Toyota of Orange.” The Orange County dealership marked the Iowa native’s first foray into ownership
  
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• Buena Park City Councilmember Jose Castañeda resigns, citing health concerns

  29-05-2024 00:08 via ocregister.com
  
  The Buena Park City Council has one empty spot on the dais following Councilmember Jose Trinidad Castañeda’s resignation last week.
  Castañeda stepped down from his post on Thursday, May 23, effectively immediately.
  “I resigned so I could prioritize my health and make steadfast improvements in my health,” Castañeda said, declining to share additional details about his health condition.
  The City Council will in the coming weeks consider options for filling th
  
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• San Clemente ocean reopens following “aggressive” shark incident

  29-05-2024 00:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The ocean along a two-mile stretch of San Clemente has reopened, following a 24-hour closure due to an “aggressive” shark incident late Sunday, May 26, when a surfer was knocked off his board.
  An “enter at your own risk” advisory is still in effect until 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28, pending no additional shark sightings, according to an announcement by the city.
  The surfer, identified by news outlets as 25-year-old surfer Evan Garcia, said the shark looked to be about fou
  
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• 14-year-old Rialto girl identified as victim in weekend fatal crash in Newport Beach

  28-05-2024 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  A 14-year-old girl who was struck and killed in a suspected alcohol-fueled crash on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach last weekend was identified by authorities on Tuesday, May 28.
  Rosenda Elizabeth Smiley, of Rialto, was in the area near the Balboa Fun Zone on Saturday when she was struck by a vehicle driven by Joseph Alcazar, 30, of Fontana, according to the Newport Beach Police Department. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
  Another man and a child were in the vehicle with Alcazar, who
  
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• 14-year-old Rialto girl identified as victim in weekend crash on Balboa Peninsula

  28-05-2024 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  A 14-year-old girl who was struck and killed in a suspected alcohol-fueled crash on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach last weekend was identified by authorities on Tuesday, May 28.
  Rosenda Elizabeth Smiley was in the area near the Balboa Fun Zone on Saturday when she was struck by a vehicle driven by Joseph Alcazar, 30, of Fontana, according to the Newport Beach Police Department. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
  Another man and a child were in the vehicle with Alcazar, who remained at
  
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• Yohan Ramirez ‘surprised’ and buoyed by Dave Roberts’ mid-game message

  28-05-2024 23:17 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — Considering the way things were going for him, Yohan Ramirez couldn’t have been surprised to see Dave Roberts coming out of the Dodgers’ dugout during the eighth inning of Sunday’s game against the Cincinnati Reds.
  Acquired in exchange for cash considerations after the New York Mets designated him for assignment last week, Ramirez was a mess in his first game for the Dodgers on Friday. He threw 13 pitches. Only one was a strike as he hit two batters and walked
  
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• Whittier man who fired at a state agent and a police drone in Costa Mesa gets 36 years

  28-05-2024 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A Whittier man who fired at a law enforcement officer and an unmanned police drone during a more than eight-hour standoff at a Costa Mesa building was sentenced Tuesday to 36 years and four months in prison, court records show.
  Luis Mendez Jr., 51, was convicted earlier this year of assault with a deadly weapon against a special agent, among other charges, for firing at, but not hitting, a state bureau of firearm agent during the Oct. 5, 2022 standoff in the 1700 block of Monrovia Avenue.
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• Man who fired at a state agent, police drone in Costa Mesa gets 36 years

  28-05-2024 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A Whittier man who fired at a law enforcement officer and an unmanned police drone during a more than eight-hour standoff at a Costa Mesa building was sentenced Tuesday to 36 years and four months in prison, court records show.
  Luis Mendez Jr., 51, was convicted earlier this year of assault with a deadly weapon against a special agent, among other charges, for firing at, but not hitting, a state bureau of firearm agent during the Oct. 5, 2022 standoff in the 1700 block of Monrovia Avenue.
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• Top seniors get a chance to play in rescued Orange County All-Star Baseball Game

  28-05-2024 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County All-Star Baseball Game, first played in 1968, was in danger of not being played this year and perhaps never again.
  The Kiwanis Club of Greater Anaheim had organized and managed the game since ‘68 but did not have the manpower to do it this year.
  The Ryan Lemmon Foundation stepped forward and assumed the responsibilities of keeping the game going, starting with Wednesday’s game at Great Park in Irvine.
  Guy Lemmon is the chief officer of The Ryan Lemmon Foundation tha
  
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• Galaxy’s Gabriel Pec continuing to develop in his first season

  28-05-2024 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  With Joseph Paintsil sidelined with a hamstring injury, a lot of attention and eyes will be on the Galaxy’s other newest Designated Player.
  Gabriel Pec, 23, turned in a strong performance in Saturday’s 2-1 win over the Houston Dynamo with a goal and an assist. In his 14 games this season, Pec has scored four goals – all at home – and added three assists.
  “Yes, all of my goals have been at home,” he said Saturday through an interpreter. “I know that. I fe
  
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• $59 million Australian penthouse gets celebrity Realtor After languishing on market

  28-05-2024 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Opulent, elevated, expensive. There are plenty of descriptive terms for the $59 million home perched high in Crown Resorts Ltd.’s twisting skyscraper in Sydney.
  “Sold” is not one of them.
  The chrome-heavy duplex has been on the market since at least 2021 when the 271-meter-tall One Barangaroo tower was completed. Conceived in an age when Chinese cash flooded the globe, elevating asset prices from Sydney to London, the property’s target market has all but di
  
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• ‘As Seen on TV’ star to buy $100 million Miami home

  28-05-2024 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Ajit “AJ” Khubani made a fortune selling contraptions such as the PedEgg, for removing callouses from feet, and the Horsepower, for getting rid of grime, through “As Seen on TV” ads.
  Now, the infomercial king is about to plow that money into one of the largest real estate purchases ever made in the Miami area.
  Khubani agreed to pay $100 million for three parcels of a waterfront compound on an island in Miami Beach, said people with knowledge of the matter, asking not to b
  
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• ‘Selling the Hamptons’: High Prices, High Drama on Long Island

  28-05-2024 22:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Like the Hamptons itself, where white-sand beaches and white-glove service await those with enough equity each summer, the reality TV show “Selling the Hamptons” is an escape and an indulgence. Now in its second season on Max, the streaming service formerly known as HBO Max, the show follows the cast in the storied vacationland of moneyed New Yorkers.
  The show’s stars are a motley crew of ambitious, good-looking real estate agents who all work for the luxury brokerage Nest Seek
  
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• Orange County girls athlete of the week: Julia Teven, Brea Olinda

  28-05-2024 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County girls athlete of the week:
  Name: Julia Teven
  School: Brea Olinda
  Sport: Track and field
  Year: Sophomore
  Noteworthy: Teven, a first-year track and field athlete, capped a breakout campaign by placing third in the high jump at the CIF State championships with an Orange County-leading and school-record clearance of 5 feet, 7 inches. Teven entered the postseason with a season-best clear
  
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• Netflix thinks ‘Selling Sunset’ fans will love ‘Buying London’

  28-05-2024 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Netflix Inc. has swapped the Hollywood Hills for the manicured squares of Mayfair in its new real estate show Buying London, the UK’s answer to the popular Selling Sunset reality program.
  The stars of the show are Daniel Daggers and his agents at DDRE Global. Daggers has sold more than $5.5 billion of real estate to some of the world’s wealthiest people, including a £95 million ($120 million) mansion to hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin.
  Much like Selling Sunset, the show feat
  
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• San Clemente’s sand expansion project wraps up ahead of holiday weekend

  28-05-2024 22:16 via ocregister.com
  
  A project to widen the beach surrounding the San Clemente Pier has wrapped up, for now, just in time for the unofficial start of the summer season.
  Beach crowds flocking to the area may notice a more expansive beach, offering up more towel and play space than in recent years.
  Leslea Meyerhoff, San Clemente’s coastal administrator, did a final walk through on Thursday, May 23, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer project managers and the contractor, Manson Construction, calling the completi
  
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• ‘Her last ride’: Maya Brady leads UCLA into Women’s College World Series

  28-05-2024 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Maya Brady has hit the second-most home runs in UCLA softball history. Observations and a little science can explain why:
  She’s strong, athletic and has great hands, according to coach Kelly Inouye-Perez, but it’s her core that allows her to create the rotational momentum to constantly – and seemingly effortlessly – send softballs rocketing over the fence.
  “She works from the ground up and that allows for her to be very, very easy,” Inouye-Perez said. “A
  
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• One of every 5 new homes built in California last year was an ADU

  28-05-2024 22:08 via ocregister.com
  
  In 1984, Mike Bradley bought a brown-shingled home on a quiet street in central Berkeley.
  Forty years and three generations later, the Bradley family has grown — and so has their home. In 2009, the family built an addition, which Mike got when his son, Michael “Casey” Bradley, moved into the main house with his wife, Daphnée St Pierre, and their two children.
  Last year, Mike’s daughter Kelly decided to move from Oakland to Berkeley, seeking to be closer to the rest
  
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• Dollar Tree lines up to buy 93 shuttered 99 Cents Only stores in California

  28-05-2024 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Recently shuttered 99 Cents Only stores could soon have another discount banner atop California storefronts.
  Dollar Tree is reportedly the winning bidder for at least 93 of the chain’s discount stores spread across the state, according to reports from the brokerage Retail Specialists. Most of the stores are in Southern California.
  Bill Read, an executive vice president at the commercial real estate firm, posted three pages of 112 store addresses on the bidding list, a majority of them in C
  
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• Read UCI student protester demands and administration responses for yourself

  28-05-2024 21:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Pro-Palestinian protesters wave flags from the second level of the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall after they took over the building at UC Irvine in Irvine on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  The UC Irvine Academic Senate had many pointed questions for the UC Irvine administration.
  “QUESTIONS RELATED TO THE ENCAMPMENT BEFORE MAY 15 EVENTS,” says the 70-page document that will be weighed by faculty members on Friday, May 31.
  “Several
  
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• How Knott’s Berry Farm turned a 65-cent fried chicken dinner into an $8 billion theme park empire

  28-05-2024 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Fried chicken was the most famous dish on the menu at Knott’s Berry Farm long before the boysenberry became the star of an annual food festival and synonymous with the Buena Park theme park.
  Knott’s Berry Farm will celebrate the 90th Anniversary of Mrs. Knott’s Chicken Dinner Restaurant with a series of fried chicken feasts that stretch from Memorial Day Weekend to New Year’s Day.
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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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