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• Strong start propels Beckman baseball to win over Woodbridge

  17-04-2024 06:55 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE — Since the Woodbridge baseball team swept Beckman last season, the Patriots have had this week circled on their calendar.
  Beckman started the week off right with a 6-1 win Tuesday at home.
  It was the first game of a three-game series between the teams.
  The Patriots (16-5-1, 12-3-1) are tied with Northwood for first place in the Pacific Coast League standings. Beckman went 0-2-1 in its series against Northwood so a tiebreaker would go to the Timberwolves.
  Woodbridge (14-8, 10-6) was
  
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• Class war in California

  30-04-2024 05:25 via ocregister.com
  
  If you are a strong student at UC San Diego with middle-class college-educated parents and a wish to transfer to a “selective major” (engineering, data science, public health), the university isn’t interested in you. A new directive gives one point each for California residency, first-generation college-student status, low income, and a GPA above 3.0—a low bar for “selective” admissions. This is the latest instance of exclusionary practices in the na
  
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• Westminster and Texas men get long prison sentences for selling fentanyl, other drugs through darknet, encrypted apps

  30-04-2024 05:23 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A Westminster man and a Texas man were sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms Monday for their part in a drug trafficking organization that peddled narcotics through the darknet and encrypted messaging apps.
  Michael Ta, 25, of Westminster was sentenced to 21 years and eight months in prison by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, who handed down a punishment of 19 years and seven months to 37-year-old Rajiv Srinivasan of Houston.
  Ta pleaded guilty in August to a count of con
  
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• Lakers’ Jarred Vanderbilt available to return in Game 5 against Nuggets

  30-04-2024 05:12 via ocregister.com
  
  DENVER — The Lakers received another potential boost for their frontcourt on Monday ahead of Game 5 of their first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets, with forward Jarred Vanderbilt being cleared to play for the first time in nearly three months.
  Reserve big man Christian Wood was available for Saturday night’s Game 4 win in Los Angeles after being sidelined for 2½ months after having left knee surgery last month but didn’t play.
  Vanderbilt, who has been sid
  
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• Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman rediscovers his swing after persistent work

  30-04-2024 04:48 via ocregister.com
  
  PHOENIX — Freddie Freeman has been searching for his swing, inside and out.
  A strict adherent to routine, Freeman hits three rounds of batting practice each day in preparation for that night’s game. When things aren’t going well or his swing just isn’t up to his standards – as it hasn’t been for much of the season’s first month – Freeman will change things up by taking the middle round out on the field with the team.
  When his batting average sank t
  
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• Erin Jones, former Corona del Mar girls soccer standout, dies in shooting near University of Arizona

  30-04-2024 04:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowCorona del Mar High is remembering Erin Jones as a talented soccer player and kind teammate after the 20-year-old died Sunday after a shooting off-campus while attending the University of Arizona, officials said.
  “Erin had a passion for the game of soccer but most importantly had a passion of being a kind and inclusive teammate to all,” Sea Kings girls soccer coach Bryan Middleton said Monday
  
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• Mater Dei announces hiring of former college coach Jody Wynn to lead girls basketball team

  30-04-2024 04:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Mater Dei announced Monday that it has hired Jody Wynn, a former collegiate coach with strong ties to the program and Orange County, as its new girls basketball coach.
  The former Long Beach State and Washington women’s basketball coach replaces Kevin Kiernan, who resigned after last season.
  Wynn, a former standout player at Brea Olinda High, joined Kiernan’s staff this past season and helped coach a squad that includes her youngest daughter Kaeli Wynn, a sophomore who was a first-tea
  
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• University, Woodbridge, Beckman and Corona del Mar reach Open for CIF-SS boys tennis playoffs

  30-04-2024 04:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Pacific Coast League showed its power in boys tennis once again on Monday.
  University, Woodbridge and Beckman — the top-three teams from the league — joined Corona del Mar as the Orange County schools selected to the prestigious Open Division for the CIF-SS team playoffs.
  University (20-1, 14-0), the Pacific Coast League champion and two-time defending Open champion, earned the No. 1 seed
  
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• University, Woodbridge, Beckman and Corona del Mar in Open Division for CIF-SS boys tennis playoffs

  30-04-2024 04:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Pacific Coast League showed its power in boys tennis once again Monday.
  University, Woodbridge and Beckman — the top-three teams from the league — joined Corona del Mar as the Orange County schools selected to the prestigious Open Division for the CIF-SS team playoffs.
  University (20-1, 14-0), the Pacific Coast League champion and two-time defending Open champion, earned the No. 1 seed for
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Monday, April 29

  30-04-2024 04:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Monday, April 29
  Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register.
  The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
  MONDAY’S SCORES
  BOYS LACROSSE
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Wild-card Round
  DIVISION 2
  Canyon/Anaheim 11, Cate 9
  BOYS GOLF
  ORANGE COAST LEAGUE
  St. Margaret’s 194
  
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• Orange County baseball Top 25: Orange Lutheran at No. 1 entering CIF-SS playoffs, April 29

  30-04-2024 03:35 via ocregister.com
  
  This week’s Orange County high school baseball rankings.
  Notable this week: Orange Lutheran is the No. 1 team in the Orange County rankings at the end of the regular season, but now the CIF-SS playoffs are starting. The final rankings will released after the CIF-SS championship games.  … The Lancers won the Trinity League championship last week. … Aliso Niguel continues to rise in the rankings, having won six in a row. … Servite returns to the Top 10 after sweepin
  
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• Realty TV star convicted of sexual battery of teen at Laguna Beach home

  30-04-2024 03:02 via ocregister.com
  
  A Texas real estate developer and reality TV personality pleaded guilty Monday, April 29, to misdemeanor sexual battery for assaulting an unconscious 16-year-old girl at his vacation home in Laguna Beach in 2021.
  Four additional counts of sexual battery and one count of rape were dismissed for lack of evidence against William Lewald Hutchinson, 65, who starred in the Lifetime reality TV series “Marrying Millions” and whose company, Dunhill Partners, owns the Laguna Design Center in L
  
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• Reality TV star convicted of sexual battery of teen at Laguna Beach home

  30-04-2024 03:02 via ocregister.com
  
  A Texas real estate developer and reality TV personality pleaded guilty Monday, April 29, to misdemeanor sexual battery for assaulting an unconscious 16-year-old girl at his vacation home in Laguna Beach in 2021.
  Four additional counts of sexual battery and one count of rape were dismissed for lack of evidence against William Lewald Hutchinson, 65, who starred in the Lifetime reality TV series “Marrying Millions” and whose company, Dunhill Partners, owns the Laguna Design Center in L
  
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• OC jury finds Arizona man guilty of 2015 quadruple killings

  30-04-2024 02:36 via ocregister.com
  
  An Arizona man was convicted Monday, April 29 of the 2015 slayings of three men killed and burned in an SUV in a suburban Orange neighborhood and the slaying of a fourth man shot to death on a drive to Fontana, the apparent violent culmination of what prosecutors described as a feud over unpaid debts and control of a lucrative drug-trafficking business.
  A six-man crew — including five men from the Phoenix area and a sixth from Mexico with alleged ties to the Sinaloa Cartel — allegedl
  
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• Pomona man shot by Newport Coast resident during apparent home robbery attempt faces charges

  30-04-2024 02:25 via ocregister.com
  
  A Pomona man who was shot and injured during an apparent home invasion robbery in Newport Coast in mid-April appeared in court for the first time Monday.
  Andrew Miguel Rosas, 24, until recently was recovering from gunshot wounds sustained during the apparent attempted robbery of a home inside a gated community in the pricey, coastal city on Tuesday, April 16.
  The homeowner fired at Rosas and another man who entered the house on Vista Luci that morning armed with handguns and carrying zip ties an
  
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• Pomona man shot by Newport Coast resident during apparent home robbery attempt appears in court

  30-04-2024 02:25 via ocregister.com
  
  A Pomona man who was shot and injured during an apparent home invasion robbery in Newport Coast in mid-April appeared in court for the first time Monday.
  Andrew Miguel Rosas, 24, until recently was recovering from gunshot wounds sustained during the apparent attempted robbery of a home inside a gated community in the pricey, coastal city on Tuesday, April 16.
  The homeowner fired at Rosas and another man who entered the house on Vista Luci that morning armed with handguns and carrying zip ties an
  
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• Ouster threat looms as Speaker Johnson returns to Congress

  30-04-2024 02:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot | CNN
  House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed to pass a major foreign aid package over the objections of hardline conservatives. Now, the Louisiana Republican will have to face the fallout.
  The House returned to session Monday evening following a weeklong recess after the chamber’s consequential move to pass billions of dollars in aid for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region.
  Looming over Johnson this week is the question of whether he will face a vote over
  
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• Angels ‘move on’ from Aaron Hicks after veteran’s slow start

  30-04-2024 02:17 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM —  Monday marked a milestone of sorts in the Angels’ season.
  For the first time this season, the Angels made a roster move that reflected performance, rather than being forced by an injury.
  The Angels designated Aaron Hicks for assignment, replacing the veteran outfielder him with utility man Cole Tucker. Hicks was 8 for 57 (.140) and had not played much since Jo Adell took over as the everyday right fielder.
  “We just thought we needed to start making some changes,
  
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• Rehab Riviera: Addiction fraud charges filed against another OC operator

  30-04-2024 02:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County — once notorious for boiler rooms, investment cheats, Charles Keating Jr. and the savings and loan scandal —  grabbed a more modern and dubious distinction in 2021, when it was crowned “Ground Zero for addiction treatment fraud in America” by the feds.
  Alcoholics Anonymous sobriety coin (FILE PHOTO BY, BRUCE CHAMBERS, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER/SCNG)
  The U.S. Department of Justice promised a crackdown, dubbed it “The Sober Home Initiative,” and
  
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• Repeat drunken driver convicted of fatal Yorba Linda crash

  30-04-2024 02:06 via ocregister.com
  
  A law student and repeat drunken driver was convicted Monday, April 29 of second-degree murder for the Yorba Linda traffic death of a man who was heading home from work.
  Richard Curtis Lindwall was driving on La Palma Avenue around 8:15 p.m. on Aug. 3, 2017 when he crashed his 2013 Hyundai Equus sedan head-on into a vehicle driven by Carlos Mendez.
  Lindwall was driving home after visiting his girlfriend, according to court filings, while Mendez was just leaving the Yorba Linda business complex w
  
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• Actor Depardieu will stand trial on sexual assault charges

  30-04-2024 02:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By Oleg Cetinic and Barbara Surk | Associated Press
  PARIS — French actor Gérard Depardieu will face a criminal trial in October over the alleged sexual assaults in 2021 of two women on the set of a film, prosecutors announced Monday.
  The 75-year-old actor, who previously has denied any wrongdoing, was detained for questioning by police in Paris for several hours earlier Monday. His lawyer, Christian Saint-Palais, later declined to comment to reporters other than to say that the acto
  
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• At least 45 dead in flash floods, landslide in western Kenya

  30-04-2024 01:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Associated Press
  NAIROBI, Kenya — Flash floods and a landslide swept through houses and cut off a major road in Kenya, killing at least 45 people and leaving dozens missing on Monday, the Interior Ministry said.
  Police official Stephen Kirui initially told The Associated Press that the Old Kijabe Dam, located in the Mai Mahiu area of the Great Rift Valley region that is prone to flash floods, had collapsed, carrying with it mud, rocks and uprooted trees.
  But in a statement late Monday the
  
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• San Diego judge allows hearings over misconduct allegations in OC murder prosecution

  30-04-2024 01:37 via ocregister.com
  
  A San Diego judge has agreed to hold a special hearing on whether a former high-level Orange County prosecutor, now a current judge, withheld evidence in a murder case and covered up the county’s illegal use of jailhouse informants.
  San Diego County Superior Court Judge Daniel Goldstein on Monday agreed to a defense request for an evidentiary hearing that would include courtroom testimony tied to sweeping allegations of top prosecutors spending more than a decade hiding evidence of law enf
  
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• Blinken presses Hamas to accept proposal for Gaza cease-fire

  30-04-2024 01:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By Samy Magdy and Lee Keath | Associated Press
  CAIRO — The United States stepped up pressure for a cease-fire deal in Gaza on Monday as the secretary of state said a new proposal had been put to Hamas, whose officials were in Cairo talking to Egyptian mediators. Israeli airstrikes killed 26 people in Gaza’s southernmost town of Rafah, according to hospital records.
  U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, ahead of a visit to Israel this week, urged Hamas to accept the latest proposal,
  
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• U.S., Mexico withdraw 2027 Women’s World Cup bid, look to 2031

  30-04-2024 01:22 via ocregister.com
  
  U.S. Soccer and the Mexican Football Federation have withdrawn their bid to jointly host the 2027 Women’s World Cup and will instead focus on securing the 2031 tournament, the federations announced on Monday.
  The U.S.-Mexico joint bid was one of three finalists for the 2027 World Cup alongside Brazil and a joint bid from Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands, with the FIFA Congress set to vote on the 2027 host on May 17 in Bangkok, Thailand.
  “The revised
  
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• Irvine dedicates a spot for an Armenian genocide memorial

  30-04-2024 00:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine dedicated land in its Great Park over the weekend for an Armenian genocide memorial that was added to plans last year.
  City officials, along with the Orange County Armenian Genocide Memorial Committee, held a dedication ceremony on Sunday, April 28, in the Great Park for the future memorial. It will be located on the edge of a forested part of the park being called the “Heart of the Park,” with a clearing in front of the memorial.
  City of Irvine transportation commissioner Mar
  
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• Bob Baffert, horse racing’s household name, will miss the 150th Kentucky Derby

  30-04-2024 00:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By BETH HARRIS
  The 150th Kentucky Derby is missing horse racing’s household name: Bob Baffert.
  The Hall of Fame trainer with a record-tying six victories won’t be saddling a contender in Saturday’s Run for the Roses for the third consecutive year.
  Last July, Baffert had another year tacked on to his two-year suspension by Churchill Downs Inc., which was set to expire in 2023. The additional punishment came despite no positive drug or medication tests involving the 71-year-old t
  
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• Season’s first blue whale does ‘greyhounding lunges’ off Laguna Beach

  29-04-2024 23:46 via ocregister.com
  
  With a flurry of exciting whale sightings off Southern California in recent weeks, it comes as no surprise that the season’s first blue whale has also been spotted and, in continuing dramatic fashion, was observed doing “greyhound lunges” off Laguna Beach’s coastline.
  The whale – the blue whales is the world’s largest mammal with some growing more than 100 feet long – was spotted on Sunday, April 28, about seven miles out from Laguna Beach’s coastl
  
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• Chargers pick up 5th year option on Rashawn Slater’s contract

  29-04-2024 23:45 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA — The Chargers said Monday they picked up the fifth year option on offensive lineman Rashawn Slater’s contract, which means, as Coach Jim Harbaugh said the other day, he’s “locked in” at left tackle for at least the next two seasons. It also means he’ll get a massive raise for 2025.
  Slater’s base salary jumps from a little less than $3 million for the upcoming season to more than $19 million for the 2025 season, according to figures compiled b
  
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• Orange County softball Top 25: Tesoro rises after capturing South Coast League title, April 29

  29-04-2024 23:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThis week’s Orange County softball rankings.
  Notable this week: Tesoro leaps six spots to No. 7 after defeating Mission Viejo and Aliso Niguel in the final week of the regular season to claim the outright South Coast League title. … No. 1 Orange Lutheran and No. 2 Pacifica earned the top-two seeds for the Division 1 playoffs and open on May 7 against winners of wild card games on Thursday.
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