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• Sweet Tibetan spaniel Ollie will shower you with love

  27-04-2024 18:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Breed: Tibetan spaniel
  Age: 21 months
  Sex: Neutered male
  Size: About 10 pounds
  Ollie’s story: A Tibetan Spaniel rescue received Ollie and, although almost nothing about his past is known, he is friendly and eager for love. He loves his foster mom and her own dog. He follows her from room to room, looking for attention or just making sure he’s near her. Not house-trained at first, Ollie is nearly there. He hasn’t had indoor accidents in more than a week, and the diaper he wears
  
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• See a collection of Salvador Dali’s artwork at Fullerton’s Muckenthaler

  10-05-2024 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  About a year ago, Annabella Pritchard, a local art curator, was chatting with a good friend, an learned about a recently acquired,  unique collection of Salvador Dali’s artwork.
  The owner of the collection, financier Benjamin Feldman, the friend told Pritchard, was interested in sharing the art with a nonprofit and preferably showing it as its own exhibition.
  Guests view the Dali artwork during the Muckenthaler Cultural Center’s opening reception for an exhibit of Salvador Dali&
  
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• Can Missouri GOP remove candidate for governor with alleged KKK ties? Judge to decide

  10-05-2024 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Kacen Bayless | (TNS) The Kansas City Star
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Cole County judge will decide whether the Missouri Republican Party can block a candidate with alleged ties to the Ku Klux Klan from running for governor as a Republican.
  Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker held a one-day trial in Jefferson City on Thursday over a lawsuit from the state party seeking to remove the candidate, Darrell Leon McClanahan III, from the August ballot.
  McClanahan, who resides in Milo, a small vil
  
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• Sean Burroughs, Long Beach baseball icon, dies at 43

  10-05-2024 21:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Sean Burroughs, a celebrated baseball standout who led the Long Beach All-Stars to back-to-back Little League World Series titles and played seven seasons in the major leagues, died Thursday. He was 43 years old.
  Long Beach Little League announced Burroughs’ death in a statement posted on Instagram. The cause of death was not immediately known.
  Burroughs was one of the most decorated amateur baseball players in history. The son of 1974 American League Most Valuable Player Jeff Burroughs, S
  
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• Ex-Fatburger, Johnny Rockets CEO accused of ‘cover-up’ in $47M scheme to avoid taxes

  10-05-2024 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  A federal grand jury indicted the former CEO of Fat Brands, Inc. this week for what they said was a years-long scheme to distribute $47 million of shareholder funds disguised as loans to himself to avoid paying taxes.
  Andrew A. Wiederhorn, of Beverly Hills, who is still the controlling shareholder of the company behind such restaurant chains as Fatburger and Johnny Rockets, was accused of conspiring with the company’s CFO and an accountant to hide the disbursements to himself over more tha
  
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• Capistrano Valley Christian diver Grant Schneider soars to CIF State championship

  10-05-2024 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowGrant Schneider’s future appears bright with his commitment to attend Stanford.
  His view at the CIF State diving championships on Thursday also was sparkling.
  The Capistrano Valley Christian junior became the third Orange County boy to claim a state title with a strong performance at Clovis West High.
  Schneider scored 612.60 points to outdistance runner-up Gunnar Grubbs of Palo Alto by just over 28
  
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• Though noncitizens can vote in few local elections, GOP goes big to make it illegal

  10-05-2024 20:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Matt Vasilogambros | (TNS) Stateline.org
  Preventing people who are not United States citizens from casting a ballot has reemerged as a focal point in the ongoing Republican drive to safeguard “election integrity,” even though noncitizens are rarely involved in voter fraud.
  Ahead of November’s presidential election, congressional and state Republican lawmakers are aiming to keep noncitizens away from the polls. They’re using state constitutional amendments and new laws tha
  
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• Olympian Kristi Yamaguchi is ‘tickled pink’ to inspire a Barbie doll

  10-05-2024 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By TERRY TANG (Associated Press)
  Like many little girls, a young Kristi Yamaguchi loved playing with Barbie. With a schedule packed with ice skating practices, her Barbie dolls became her “best friends.”
  So, it’s surreal for the decorated Olympian figure skater to now be a Barbie girl herself.
  “It’s a huge, huge honor. I think a lot of pride comes along with it, not just recognizing the Olympic achievement, but also being recognized during AAPI Month and following i
  
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• Stormy Daniels unfavorably compares Trump to ‘real men’ after hush-money trial testimony

  10-05-2024 20:46 via ocregister.com
  
  David Matthews | New York Daily News
  Stormy Daniels blasted Donald Trump on social media Thursday night, just a few hours after she finished testifying against the former president in his Manhattan hush-money trial.
  “Real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. Oh…wait. Nevermind,” she wrote in a post on X — a taunting reference to Trump not testifying in the case and using his own social media accounts to rail against the proc
  
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• Amgen plows ahead with costly, highly toxic cancer dosing despite FDA challenge

  10-05-2024 20:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Arthur Allen | (TNS) KFF Health News
  When doctors began using the drug sotorasib in 2021 with high expectations for its innovative approach to attacking lung cancer, retired medical technician Don Crosslin was an early beneficiary. Crosslin started the drug that July. His tumors shrank, then stabilized.
  But while the drug has helped keep him alive, its side effects have gradually narrowed the confines of his life, said Crosslin, 76, who lives in Ocala, Florida: “My appetite has been minima
  
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• 25 years to life for man who kidnapped, raped 11-year-old girl in Santa Ana 2 decades ago

  10-05-2024 20:45 via ocregister.com
  
  A Chicago man who kidnapped and repeatedly raped an 11-year-old girl in Santa Ana more than two decades ago was sentenced Friday, May 10 to 25 years to life in prison.
  Ismael Salgado, now 44, was convicted earlier this year of five counts of rape, as well as kidnapping to commit a sex crime, related to a series of sexual assaults over a roughly two hour period on Feb. 3, 1999.
  The sexual assaults of the 11-year-old girl  went unsolved for more than 15 years until a DNA hit led police to Sal
  
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• ‘Birthing friendly’ label requires little effort by hospitals

  10-05-2024 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Jessie Hellmann | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
  WASHINGTON — Six months after the launch of the Biden administration’s “birthing friendly” designation for hospitals, advocates are questioning the next steps for the tool aimed at incentivizing better care for patients.
  Beginning last fall, hospitals that achieved the designation received an icon on Care Compare, a federal website aimed at helping consumers pick health care providers.
  But it’s not difficult for hospitals to
  
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• Part-time Huntington Beach actor found guilty of soliciting investments for fraudulent COVID-19 cure

  10-05-2024 20:40 via ocregister.com
  
  A part-time actor from Huntington Beach who in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic had fraudulently touted a cure and treatment for the virus was found guilty by jury Friday, May 10, of 11 counts of wire fraud for soliciting investors for his bogus treatments, federal authorities said.
  Keith Lawrence Middlebrook, 56, faces a potential maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Ciaran McEvoy said. His sentencing was scheduled for Sept. 9.
  Middlebr
  
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• Trump response to sex tryst allegations key focus as hush money trial resumes

  10-05-2024 20:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By Molly Crane-Newman, Josephine Stratman | New York Daily News
  A bid by Trump’s lawyers to show he was concerned about how his family would take the news of the Stormy Daniels sex tryst allegations fizzled Friday as testimony in the ex-president’s hush money trial resumed.
  Former top White House aide Madeleine Westerhout, who famously lost her job after saying she had a better relationship with Trump than his daughters, testified that she couldn’t recall Trump m
  
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• USC’s Daily Trojan publishes text of valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s canceled speech – redacted

  10-05-2024 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  The Class of 2024 valedictorian whose canceled USC commencement address spurred controversy, protests and the scuttling of the main university graduation ceremony, has shared the text of that speech — though not how you might expect.
  Asna Tabassum, in a nod to how her planned address was silenced by the university, shared her speech with the Daily Trojan on Friday, where it was published in the school newspaper — redacted.
  “President Folt, Provost Guzman, faculty, staff, famili
  
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• Former UCLA doctor wins $14 million in retrial of gender discrimination suit

  10-05-2024 20:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL HETHERMAN
  A jury has awarded $14 million to a former UCLA hematologist who said she was forced out of her job as director of the medical school’s lymphoma program because a male-dominated administration ignored her complaints of gender discrimination.
  The Los Angeles Superior Court panel reached its verdict Thursday in a retrial of Dr. Lauren Pinter-Brown’s long-running lawsuit originally filed against the UC Regents in June 2016.
  Pinter-Brown, now 69, won $13 million in the
  
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• New COVID ‘FLiRT’ variants are spreading nationwide. Health experts urge up to date vaccination

  10-05-2024 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  A new family of COVID variants nicknamed “FLiRT”is spreading across the country, as vaccination rates nationwide remain concerningly low for some public health experts.
  While symptoms and severity seem to be about the same as previous COVID strains, the new FLiRT variants appear to be more transmissible, said infectious disease expert Dr. Robert Murphy.“A new, more contagious variant is out there,” said Murphy, executive director of Northwestern University’s Institu
  
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• Black homeowners start to close gap in property values

  10-05-2024 20:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Tim Henderson | Stateline.org (TNS)
  Black homeowners’ property values are on the rise across the country, with some of the biggest upswings in Midwestern and Southern states. The boon to Black homeowners, after decades of lagging property values, could help them close a racial wealth gap that has kept the American dream out of reach.
  Home values increased on average 84% in majority-Black ZIP codes between 2016 and 2023, outpacing growth in white ZIP codes, where values grew 69%, according
  
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• What’s wrong with protesting about something you’re mistaken about?

  10-05-2024 20:21 via ocregister.com
  
  In the 1960s, while the United States was in the midst of the war in Vietnam, massive protests broke out against the draft and our involvement in the war. Students across the country marched and chanted against what they perceived to be an unjustified war and a racist and classist conscription. Supporters of the war argued that the protesters were misguided and that the war was necessary to halt the spread of communism. 
  During the same general period, thousands of students were demonstrati
  
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• Santa Clarita mom shares story of her daughter’s long recovery from brain cancer

  10-05-2024 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  After 21 years, Amy De La Cruz still remembers in detail the day in 2003 that her little girl was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
  Her daughter, Sabrina Schiermeyer, was 10 when a school nurse contacted De La Cruz to inform her that her fourth-grader was suffering from headaches, dizziness and nausea. After work, De la Cruz took her girl to an urgent care facility. After blood and urine tests, she was sent for an MRI.
  Following long and anxious hours, De La Cruz received a call from a doctor who re
  
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• Analysis: Takeaways from Biden’s candid CNN interview as he warns Israel

  10-05-2024 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  John T. Bennett | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is headed back to California to raise more campaign cash Friday and Saturday after he sent shockwaves around the globe with a potential landmark change to U.S. foreign policy.
  Biden sat down with CNN anchor Erin Burnett Wednesday during a campaign stop in battleground Wisconsin. As he did during recent official White House and campaign events, he jabbed at Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidentia
  
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• Pomona College shifts graduation events as encampment enters 5th day

  10-05-2024 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  As a pro-Palestinian encampment on the Pomona College commencement stage enters its fifth day, commencement activities scheduled for today have been moved to different locations.
  On Tuesday, May 7, the college’s website said the Baccalaureate Service of The Claremont Colleges, a consortium that includes Pomona College, was scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today at Bridges Auditorium.
  This morning, the website listed a new location for the event — Balch Auditorium at Scripps College, another m
  
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• Previews of the CIF Southern Section boys volleyball championships

  10-05-2024 19:49 via ocregister.com
  
  CIF-SS BOYS VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
  FRIDAY
  DIVISION 6
  Samueli Academy (28-3) vs. Riverside Poly (26-9)
  Where, when: Riverside Poly High, 6 p.m.
  Outlook: Samueli Academy, a private school in Santa Ana that opened in 2013, is in a CIF-SS boys volleyball final for the first time. The Firewolves, champions of the Academy League, take a 15-match winning streak into this final. In the playoffs they beat Bassett 3-0 in the first round, Rio Hondo Prep 3-1 in the second round, Tahquitz 3-1 in the quarte
  
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• Saturday’s detonation should free the ship that hit the Key Bridge. What’s next?

  10-05-2024 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  The Dali has sat, entangled with the remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge that it knocked down, for the past six weeks, becoming a Baltimore landmark as crews work to clear the channel around it of debris.
  But in the most dramatic step yet to free the ship, authorities plan to use explosive devices Saturday evening to slice up a huge piece of bridge sitting atop the container ship, paving the way for it to be freed and pushed from the incident site in the coming days.
  If all goes as plan
  
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• Famed Ansel Adams photos of Yosemite, Golden Gate to be featured on new U.S. stamps

  10-05-2024 19:39 via ocregister.com
  
  For more than 150 years, visitors have taken hundreds of millions of photographs of Yosemite National Park.
  But many of the park’s most iconic images — timeless, internationally famous shots of Half Dome, Tunnel View, Mirror Lake and other wonders that strikingly depict America’s natural heritage —  were made by Bay Area native Ansel Adams.
  On Wednesday, the U.S. Postal Service will issue 16 commemorative stamps featuring some of Adams’ most renowned photograph
  
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• Crestline’s sole grocery store reopens 14 months after historic blizzard destroyed it

  10-05-2024 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  For the first time in 14 months, Crestline residents are able to shop at their local grocery store.
  The devastating blizzard that hit the San Bernardino Mountains in February and March 2023 caved in the roof of Goodwin & Son’s Market, destroying Crestline’s only grocery store.
  “It was the hardest thing our company has ever gone through,” company vice-president Mike Goodwin said Wednesday, May 9. “We literally watched our livelihood and everything we had known fa
  
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• Should you be worried about bird flu? Here are 5 things to know about the virus

  10-05-2024 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Irene Wright | The Charlotte Observer (TNS)
  As a new virus takes center stage at the heart of a global outbreak, it’s easy to get flashbacks of March 2020.
  Now more than four years after the world was rocked by a pandemic, H5N1, or avian or bird flu, has exploded in bird and livestock populations, and at least one human case has been confirmed by health officials.
  This isn’t the first time.
  There have been major outbreaks around the world in the recent past, including four from
  
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• Democrats forgo idealism, as Biden risks losing the youth vote

  10-05-2024 19:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Leading Democrats press an odd response to campus uprisings across the nation: dismiss and stigmatize the persisting tide of students pleading for peace in the Middle East. This flat-footed rejection of youthful idealism jeopardizes Joe Biden’s ability to secure the youth vote this fall.
  The president first tried a law-and-order stance, implying that  pro-Palestinian students — staking-out tent settlements in campus quads from USC to Columbia — are “threatening
  
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• Irvine med tech team meet those whose lives they saved

  10-05-2024 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Chad Darby’s life turned upside down after he felt a twinge in his chest during a CPR class.
  The 51-year-old thought he was in good health, he was there to learn life-saving techniques should anything happen at home with his newborn twins.
  Instead, he soon needed what was likely a life-or-death surgery. And, this week he met the Irvine-based team of medical device manufacturers at the heart of his recovery.
  A group of employees at Edwards Lifesciences talks with heart valve recipient Chad
  
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• Galaxy starts busy stretch vs. 1st-place Real Salt Lake

  10-05-2024 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  After the first 11 games of the season, the real season is preparing to start for the Galaxy.
  Starting Saturday, the Galaxy will play three games in eight days, with two on the road along with their first midweek game of the season.
  Surviving three-game weeks is a good test for potentially successful Major League Soccer seasons.
  “It’s a busy week,” Galaxy coach Greg Vanney said. “Physically, I think we’re in a pretty good spot. Obviously, we’ve had some guys w
  
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