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• Stormy Daniels wore bulletproof vest to Trump trial, lawyer says

  15-05-2024 20:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSEPH WILKINSON | [email protected] | New York Daily News
  Stormy Daniels wore a bulletproof vest under her outfits while she was testifying at former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan, her lawyer said.
  The former adult film star was “paralyzed” with fear ahead of the proceedings, attorney Clark Brewster said Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°.”
  “She was concerned about the security co
  
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• Laguna Niguel man charged with shooting at sheriff’s helicopter

  11-06-2024 06:02 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A 39-year-old Laguna Niguel man accused of shooting at an Orange County sheriff’s helicopter pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court in Santa Ana.
  Justin Derek Jennings was arrested on Monday on a federal grand jury indictment returned last week when state prosecutors dropped attempted murder charges against him to make way for the federal case.
  Jennings had been charged by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office with two counts of attempted murder and singl
  
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• Stanley Cup Final: Panthers cruise, take 2-0 series lead on Oilers

  11-06-2024 05:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer
  SUNRISE, Fla. — Evan Rodrigues had two goals in the third period, Niko Mikkola and Aaron Ekblad also scored and the Florida Panthers beat the Edmonton Oilers, 4-1, on Monday night to take a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup Final.
  Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 18 shots for Florida, which was 1-8 all-time in Cup final games before this series started – and now is two wins away from capturing its first championship.
  But the win came with a price for Florida as the
  
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• Here are the James Beard Awards 2024 winners

  11-06-2024 04:08 via ocregister.com
  
  At a gala ceremony at the Lyric Opera of Chicago on Monday, June 10, restaurants and chefs were honored at the James Beard Awards, often regarded as the Oscars of the food world, highlighting some of the country’s most notable gastronomic talent.
  The annual accolades given out by nonprofit foundation featured more than 100 restaurants as finalists across 22 categories. All winners receive a certificate and a medallion engraved with the James Beard Foundation Awards insignia.
  The 2024 award
  
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• U.S. Open: Tiger Woods, Adam Scott part of first full day of practice at Pinehurst

  11-06-2024 02:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer
  PINEHURST, N.C. — Tiger Woods was among those on Pinehurst No. 2 for the first full day of U.S. Open practice before the sun could break through the clouds and climb over the trees.
  It’s his first time playing a U.S. Open on this Donald Ross gem in 19 years, and so much of it is new to him because of a restoration project from a decade ago that replaced rough with native sandy areas and wiregrass bushes.
  As for Adam Scott, there is nothing new about pl
  
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• Dodgers’ Teoscar Hernandez named NL Player of the Week

  11-06-2024 02:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Teoscar Hernandez’s big weekend in the Big Apple earned him the National League Player of the Week award for last week.
  Hernandez’s weekend opponent, Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees, won the award in the American League after going 10 for 20 with three home runs and 12 RBIs last week – including 7 for 11 with those three home runs, two doubles and five RBIs in the three-game series between the Dodgers and Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
  Hernandez warmed up in Pittsburgh before t
  
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• Chargers sign OL Joe Alt, their first-round draft pick

  11-06-2024 01:38 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers signed first-round draft pick Joe Alt on Monday, leaving only second-round selection Ladd McConkey unsigned going into the team’s three-day, mandatory minicamp that begins Tuesday. Alt, an offensive lineman, has attended each spring practice so far.
  Alt was the fifth overall pick in the NFL draft in April, after a stellar career at Notre Dame that included unanimous All-American honors following the 2023 season. He also was a finalist this past season, his junior year, for the
  
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• How to minimize your exposure to microplastics

  11-06-2024 01:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Matthew Campen, a toxicologist at the University of New Mexico, wasn’t surprised when his team found microplastics in human testicles during a new study. The tiny particles had already been found in human breast milk, lungs and blood. At this point, Campen said, he expects to find them in every part of the body.
  The particles are so small that it’s easy to ingest or inhale them. Scientists still aren’t sure how that might affect human health, but some early research points to c
  
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• Diamond Bar man arrested in Huntington Beach slaying of woman he’d been dating

  11-06-2024 01:35 via ocregister.com
  
  HUNTINGTON BEACH — A 35-year-old man was behind bars Monday on suspicion of killing a woman last month in Huntington Beach, police said.
  Christopher Mendez of Diamond Bar was arrested about 5:30 p.m. Friday at the border with Mexico as he attempted to re-enter the U.S., said Jessica Cuchilla, a spokeswoman for the Huntington Beach Police Department.
  Mendez, who was being held on $2 million bail, is accused of killing 35-year-old Nicole Marquisee of Walnut on May 31, Cuchilla said.
  Police w
  
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• Alzheimer’s drug that can slow disease gets backing from FDA advisers

  11-06-2024 01:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW PERRONE | AP Health Writer
  WASHINGTON — A closely watched Alzheimer’s drug from Eli Lilly won the backing of federal health advisers on Monday, setting the stage for the treatment’s expected approval for people with mild dementia caused by the brain-robbing disease.
  Food and Drug Administration advisers voted unanimously that the drug’s ability to slow the disease outweighs its risks, including side effects like brain swelling and bleeding that will have to be
  
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• Improve your health by stopping negativity and embracing optimism

  11-06-2024 01:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALBERT STUMM
  Prince Bhojwani never thought of himself as a negative person, until three trips to the hospital in one month forced him to reconsider.
  Before May 2018, he was a healthy but chronically worried start-up founder who regularly did 20-mile bike rides. When he suddenly became barely able to walk, with blurry vision and spiking blood pressure, emergency room doctors suspected a stroke, but couldn’t pinpoint the cause of his illness.
  A close friend, however — “one of
  
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• Celtics traded for Jrue Holiday with NBA Finals in mind, and now sit 2 wins from title

  11-06-2024 01:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer
  BOSTON — This moment is exactly why the Boston Celtics went out and got Jrue Holiday.
  When president of basketball operations Brad Stevens and the rest of the front office sat down after last season to piece together their next steps following Boston’s Eastern Conference finals loss to Miami, a question hovered over them.
  How much were they willing to shake up the core of a team that had lost in the NBA Finals in 2022 and then came up a game short o
  
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• Center opens in Brea to connect residents with Orange County services

  11-06-2024 00:01 via ocregister.com
  
  A new County Community Service Center opened in Brea on Monday, June 10, creating a “one-stop-shop” where Orange County residents can get connected to services from government agencies or community organizations.
  At the center, residents can apply for food benefit programs, health insurance and financial aid through the OC Social Services Agency, or find health care resources through CalOptima Health or the OC Health Care Agency. OC Workforce Solutions is also located on the third fl
  
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• Four-day SummerFest will feature drone show, concerts, fun in Fountain Valley

  10-06-2024 23:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Fountain Valley’s big summertime celebration kicks off tonight, June 13.
  SummerFest will take over the Fountain Valley Sports Park, with carnival rides and games, concerts, lots to eat and drink, shopping areas and more. There will be nearly two dozen carnival rides to choose from.
  The fun continues through the weekend and on Friday and Saturday nights there will be a free drone show lighting up the sky above the park.
  Thursday night will feature an Elton John tribute concert, Friday night
  
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• Ex-OC prosecutor testifies he doesn’t know why evidence wasn’t disclosed in murder case

  10-06-2024 22:56 via ocregister.com
  
  A former top Orange County prosecutor, now a judge, testified Monday that he didn’t know why evidence in a 2010 murder case was not turned over to defense attorneys as required.
  Orange County Superior Court Judge Ebrahim Baytieh made a rare appearance on the witness stand during a hearing on whether he illegally withheld evidence while prosecuting the case 14 years ago against defendant Paul Gentile Smith.
  “I don’t know why it happened,” Baytieh testified under questionin
  
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• Former Lakers coach Darvin Ham joining Milwaukee Bucks as Doc Rivers’ top assistant

  10-06-2024 22:49 via ocregister.com
  
  As the Lakers’ search for their next head coach continues, their former coach has found a new job.
  ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported on Monday that Darvin Ham will join Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers’ staff as the team’s top assistant.
  Ham was an assistant in Milwaukee under Mike Budenholzer from 2018-22, including the 2021 NBA championship-winning Bucks team, before taking over the Lakers’ coaching reins in 2022.
  Budenholzer, who now coaches the Suns, repo
  
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• Former Lakers coach Darvin Ham joining Bucks as Doc Rivers’ top assistant

  10-06-2024 22:49 via ocregister.com
  
  As the Lakers’ search for their next head coach continues, their former coach has found a new job.
  ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski was the first to report on Monday that Darvin Ham will join Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers’ staff as the team’s top assistant.
  Ham was an assistant in Milwaukee under Mike Budenholzer from 2018-22, including the 2021 NBA championship-winning Bucks team, before taking over the Lakers’ coaching reins in 2022.
  Budenholzer, who now coaches the P
  
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• Airlines are preparing for another busy summer. Are they ready for it?

  10-06-2024 22:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Alexandra Skores | (TNS) The Dallas Morning News
  Carson Shofner and his husband were heading to Costa Rica for a relaxing trip on American Airlines on the morning of May 28.
  But their plane didn’t leave Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport until May 29 at 7 a.m. It’s a situation many passengers dealt with after weeks of steady thunderstorms cascaded through North Texas, delaying hundreds of flights just as summer travel was about to take off.
  “We were never offered
  
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• All-Orange County boys tennis: Corona del Mar’s Niels Hoffmann is the player of the year

  10-06-2024 22:44 via ocregister.com
  
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  Corona del Mar senior and USC commit Niels Hoffmann is seeded first in CIF singles for the 122nd Ojai Tennis Tournament this week. (Courtesy of Holly Roberts)
  PLAYER OF THE YEAR
  Niels Hoffmann, Corona del Mar, Sr.
  Advocates for high school tennis often point to the social benefits as a reason why players should join their school-based teams and perhaps think twice about a
  
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• State inspectors investigating fatal Disneyland accident

  10-06-2024 22:40 via ocregister.com
  
  State inspectors are investigating a “tragic” Disneyland accident that killed a Club 33 employee who fell from a moving golf cart and hit her head in a backstage area of the Anaheim theme park.
  The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the fatal Disneyland accident, according to the California Department of Industrial Relations.
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• Dearica Hamby’s ‘All-Star’ play leads Sparks into Seattle, 7-game road trip

  10-06-2024 22:31 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Dearica Hamby-led Sparks are gearing up for the team’s longest road trip of the season, which begins at the Seattle Storm on Tuesday, while settling into the rhythm of playing nine games in 18 days.
  The seven-game road trip starts with Sparks’ first regular season affair against former franchise player Nneka Ogwumike, who signed with Seattle during free agency. Ogwumike’s 12 years with the Sparks were highlighted by a 2016 WNBA MVP season that ended with
  
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• Nicola Yoon says ‘One of Our Kind’ inspired by ‘The Stepford Wives’ and Toni Morrison

  10-06-2024 22:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Bestselling young adult fiction author Nicola Yoon says she didn’t set out to write a book for adult audiences.
  But then the pandemic lockdowns happened, and so did the murder of George Floyd and so did the protests across the country. That summer, the discussions about what it meant to be Black in America were everywhere. 
  In the fall of 2020, Yoon began to write her latest novel. It took her only six weeks to finish the first draft.
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• Music therapy helps stroke survivors regain lost speech by singing

  10-06-2024 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Ray Hart’s vocabulary consisted of just one word after his August 2022 stroke.
  “Yep” was all he could say, said Pamela Jenkins, his caregiver and partner of 24 years.
  Like many survivors, Hart, 62, can understand what’s said to him almost as well as he could before the stroke, but it’s still hard for him to form complete sentences.
  Now, though, a year after adding music therapy to his rehabilitation schedule, he can sing them.
  “I’ve got sunshine on a clo
  
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• Civil rights icon Pastor James Lawson dies at 95

  10-06-2024 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and the longtime pastor of Holman United Methodist Church in South Los Angeles, died Monday at age 95.
  According to the Los Angeles Sentinel, which first reported the news, Lawson died Monday morning from cardiac arrest. No other details were immediately available.
  Los Angeles City Councilwoman Heather Hutt, who led a street-dedication ceremony for Lawson in January outside Holman UMC, confirmed the death, telling City News Service
  
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• Surfers Marks, Florence win in El Salvador, giving Team USA momentum as Olympics near

  10-06-2024 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Team USA’s surfers are riding a wave of success — momentum they hope will continue into Tahiti for the upcoming Olympics and the world championship showdown at Lower Trestles, just south of San Clemente.
  Caroline Marks, a Florida surfer who now lives in San Clemente, won the Surf City El Salvador Pro on Sunday, June 9, with Hawaii’s John John Florence earning the men’s win at the World Surf League’s World Tour event.
  The victories are pivotal not just for their Worl
  
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• Alexander: Hurley’s turndown of Lakers shouldn’t have been surprising

  10-06-2024 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  So what happens now?
  Dan Hurley said no to the Lakers Monday, and should we really have been that surprised? An East Coast guy, and the king of his campus after back-to-back national championships at Connecticut, Hurley decided not to step out of his comfort zone.even with a six-year, $70 million contract offer on the table. Which was, to be sure, more than twice the annual average value of the six-year $32.1 million contract extension he signed at UConn a year ago.
  And there’s talk that t
  
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• Alexander: Hurley’s rejection of Lakers offer shouldn’t have been surprising

  10-06-2024 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  So what happens now?
  Dan Hurley said no to the Lakers Monday, and should we really have been that surprised? An East Coast guy, and the king of his campus after back-to-back national championships at Connecticut, Hurley decided not to step out of his comfort zone.even with a six-year, $70 million contract offer on the table. Which was, to be sure, more than twice the annual average value of the six-year $32.1 million contract extension he signed at UConn a year ago.
  And there’s talk that t
  
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• Homeownership costs in US jump 26% since pandemic began

  10-06-2024 21:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jennifer Epstein | Bloomberg
  The cost of owning a home in the US has increased 26% since 2020, as expenses including taxes, insurance and utilities all soared during a period of high inflation across the economy.
  The average annual outlay for owning and maintaining a typical single-family home — not including mortgage payments — totaled $18,118 in March, the personal finance website Bankrate found. That works out to $1,510 a month, roughly $300 more than four years earlier, when p
  
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• Apple announces ChatGPT tie-up for AI tools on iPhone

  10-06-2024 21:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By Mark Gurman | Bloomberg
  Apple Inc. announced its long-awaited new artificial intelligence features, including tools supported by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, promising to deliver technology that’s personalized, safe and deeply integrated into the iPhone maker’s software.
  The platform, called “Apple Intelligence,” will help summarize text, create original images and retrieve the most relevant data when users need it, Senior Vice President Craig Federighi said at the company&
  
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• Presidential election could decide fate of extra Obamacare subsidies

  10-06-2024 21:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Andy Miller | (TNS) KFF Health News
  When Cassie Cox ended up in the emergency room in January, the Bainbridge, Georgia, resident was grateful for the Obamacare insurance policy she had recently selected for coverage in 2024.
  Cox, 40, qualified for an Affordable Care Act marketplace plan with no monthly premium due to her relatively low income. And after she cut her hand severely, the 35 stitches she received in the ER led to an out-of-pocket expense of about $300, she said.
  “I can’t
  
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