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• Tortoiseshell kitty Penelope is sweet and gentle

  27-04-2024 18:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Breed: Tortoiseshell
  Age: 3 years
  Sex: Spayed female
  Penelope’s story: Penelope is a healthy girl who no longer has to worry about being a mom. She and her four kittens were found, abandoned, in a crate in an alley. Although in a terrible situation, Penelope took good care of her offspring, along with a blind, singleton orphan who was given to her after she and her kittens were rescued. The five kittens have been adopted, and Penelope is patiently awaiting her turn. This sweet, kind and ge
  
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• USC graduates, families converge on Coliseum to cheer student achievement amid political turmoil

  10-05-2024 05:54 via ocregister.com
  
  The moment arrived Thursday night for USC graduates — but not the way the Class of 2024 had envisioned it mere weeks ago.
  Weeks ago, the 143-year-old private university proudly trumpeted the details of its annual university-wide commencement, featuring high-profile speakers, distinguished honorees and the usual pomp and circumstance, including speeches from top students.
  But that tradition was scuttled amid bitter division over a valedictorian’s cancelled speech, a wave of campus pro
  
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• Murrieta Mesa softball overpowers Huntington Beach in CIF-SS quarterfinals

  10-05-2024 05:49 via ocregister.com
  
  HUNTINGTON BEACH — A first-inning home run from Murrieta Mesa’s Paige Bambarger provided a glimpse of what was to come in the CIF SS Division 1 softball quarterfinal between the Rams and Huntington Beach on Thursday at Huntington Beach High School.
  The hits kept coming for the Rams, who led throughout and blew the game open in the final two innings, coming away with a 12-0 victory.
  Murrieta Mesa (25-3), the No. 4 seed in Division 1, will take on Orange Lutheran in the semifinals Satu
  
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• Orange Lutheran softball shows ‘fight’ in defeating Canyon in Division 1 quarterfinals

  10-05-2024 05:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowPitcher Brianne Weiss (9), left, and Kai Minor (2) of Orange Lutheran celebrate after defeating Canyon in the quarterfinals of the CIF-SS Division 1 softball playoffs at Orange Lutheran High School in Orange on Thursday, May 9, 2024. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Orange Lutheran’s softball team continued to display its resiliency Thursday in the CIF-SS Division 1 quarterfinal
  
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• Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Friday, May 10, 2024

  10-05-2024 05:20 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Friday, May 10, 2024.
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• UC regents expected to hit UCLA with maximum annual subsidy — err, “contribution” for Cal

  10-05-2024 05:10 via ocregister.com
  
  The University of California Board of Regents is planning to require UCLA to “contribute” $10 million annually to Cal’s athletic department in the aftermath of the conference realignment that separated the sister campuses, according to a summary of the upcoming meeting at UC Merced on the regents’ website.
  That is the maximum amount agreed upon by the regents in late 2022, after UCLA’s announced departure to the Big Ten placed the Pac-12’s future, and Cal&rsqu
  
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• Previews of Friday’s CIF Southern Section baseball quarterfinals

  10-05-2024 04:05 via ocregister.com
  
  CIF-SS BASEBALL QUARTERFINALS
  FRIDAY
  DIVISION 1
  Orange Lutheran (24-6) VS. La Mirada (23-6)
  Where, when: Glenn High, 4:15 p.m.
  Outlook: Trinity League champion Orange Lutheran, No. 1 in the Orange County Top 25, beat Sierra Canyon 6-0 in the first round and Vista Murrieta 17-6 in the second round. Loyola Marymount signee Nate Savoie hit two home runs and Josiah Hartshorn homered and drove in four runs in the win over Vista Murrieta. Hartshorn has a team-high 22 RBIs. La Mirada, champion of the G
  
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• Here’s a great new tool to help protect butterflies in your area

  10-05-2024 03:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Spring wings
  A look at our local Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species and share some tips on how to protect them.
  New conservation tool
  One of the ways you could help butterflies and moths in your local area is by creating a space with plants they are attracted to. Chris Cosma, a recent Ph.D. graduate from UC Riverside and now at the Conservation Biology Institute, created an online tool that lets you enter your ZIP code (or address) and the Butterfly Net shows the best native plant species
  
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• Angels’ Mike Trout says surgery was better than spending rest of season as DH

  10-05-2024 03:29 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Six days removed from arthroscopic surgery, Angels outfielder Mike Trout said Thursday there was an alternative to the procedure that will keep him out for an undetermined time.
  Talking for the first time post-surgery, Trout said he was given an option not to have surgery for his torn meniscus and dedicate the rest of the season to being a designated hitter. The issue was that the pain-tolerance route offered no assurances that it wouldn’t be a lost season anyway.
  “Ye
  
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• UCI sends suspension notices to several students in the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus

  10-05-2024 03:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Multiple UC Irvine students involved in a pro-Palestinian encampment that formed on campus last week have been given suspension notices, a university spokesperson confirmed Thursday, May 9.
  According to one of the suspension letters independently obtained by The Orange County Register, the students have been barred from being “physically or virtually present on campus,” including in “any and all university housing facilities.” The notices were sent out early Wednesday, Ma
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday, May 9

  10-05-2024 03:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Thursday, May 9
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  The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
  THURSDAY’S SCORES
  SOFTBALL
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Quarterfinals
  DIVISION 1
  Pacifica 13, Oaks Christian 2
  JSerra 2, Great Oak 0
  Murrieta Mesa 12, Huntington Beach
  
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• Florida’s ban on cultivated meat sacrifices conservative principles for culture war points

  10-05-2024 02:56 via ocregister.com
  
  It is not yet clear whether the alternative protein products known variously as “lab-grown,” “cell-cultivated” or “cultured” meat will deliver the environmental benefits touted by their boosters or when they will be appealing and cheap enough to be competitive with conventional poultry, beef and pork. But Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis already has made up his mind, deeming these products so repellent that selling them should be a crime.
  When he signed the nation&rs
  
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• Man charged with drowning golden retriever puppy in Cypress

  10-05-2024 02:28 via ocregister.com
  
  A 27-year-old man is facing a felony charge after police accused him of drowning a golden retriever puppy in a Cypress hotel room.
  Richard Benjamin Tolliver was charged Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to one count of cruelty to animals. His next court date is a May 16 pretrial hearing at the West Justice Center in Westminster.
  Authorities were called to the Extended Stay motel at 5990 Corporate Drive about 8:50 a.m. Monday, May 6 in response to reports of smoke coming from a room, according to
  
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• Not allowing transgender surfers would violate Coastal Act, Huntington Beach contest organizer learns

  10-05-2024 02:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The California Coastal Commission has drawn a line in the sand: Allow transgender surfers to compete, or you’ll be in violation of the Coastal Act.
  A two-day surf contest happening this weekend in Huntington Beach found itself at the center of a hotly debated topic: Whether trans athletes should be allowed to compete in the gender division they identify with or the gender they were born as – a question many sports organizers are facing as equality and fairness are argued among both s
  
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• ‘The Bear,’ ‘Reservation Dogs’ among Peabody Award winners

  10-05-2024 02:17 via ocregister.com
  
  FX’s Emmy-winning comedy “The Bear” and acclaimed drama series “Reservation Dogs” were among the winners announced today for the prestigious 84th annual Peabody Awards, while the “Star Trek” franchise will receive an Institutional Award for it’s long-running impact on entertainment and culture.
  The Peabody Awards — which honor “the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2023” &md
  
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• USC Shoah Foundation to help expand program to recognize Holocaust survivors

  10-05-2024 02:12 via ocregister.com
  
  A Los Angeles-based program that brings Holocaust survivors into classrooms and to community events to share their stories in an effort to counter antisemitism and bigotry is set to expand, officials announced Thursday.
  Living Links, billed as the first national organization to engage and empower third-generation descendants of Holocaust survivors, will be partnering with USC Shoah Foundation to expand the program and bolster its speaker training efforts. According to Robert Williams, executive
  
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• Man who killed Irvine scientist at Malibu Creek State Park has separate battery conviction reversed

  10-05-2024 02:09 via ocregister.com
  
  A state appeals court panel on Thursday reversed a man’s felony conviction for attacking a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy while he was awaiting trial in the murder of an Irvine research scientist who was camping with his two young daughters in Malibu Creek State Park.
  The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal found that a reasonable jury could conclude that the male deputy’s injuries were “not serious enough to require professional
  
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• Heavy rains bring slow start to Southern California wildfire season, but residents urged to stay prepared

  10-05-2024 02:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Despite record heavy rainfall last winter, the threat of wildfires in Southern California remains significant in coming months with the peak of the season looming just around the corner.
  CalFire, the Orange County Fire Authority, and several other partnering agencies hosted a press conference Thursday, May 9, at Irvine Lake in Silverado, as part of a multi-agency effort to raise awareness and urge residents to be prepared and help reduce wildfire risks.
  “Don’t let the green hillsides
  
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• These are SCNG’s finalists for the 66th SoCal Journalism Awards

  10-05-2024 01:41 via ocregister.com
  
  The Southern California News Group was well-represented among the finalists for the 2024 SoCal Journalism Awards.
  The Los Angeles Press Club announced the finalists for the 66th annual awards on Thursday, May 9, and SCNG had 26 total finalists across 19 categories – including a possible journalist of the year.
  Staff writer Beau Yarbrough, who writes for The Sun and SCNG’s other Inland Empire publications, was named a finalist for journalist of the year in the “print, circulatio
  
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• Ex-classmate testifies to receiving ‘sexually charged’ messages from accused killer Samuel Woodward

  10-05-2024 01:41 via ocregister.com
  
  A former Orange County School of the Arts student testified this week to receiving “sexually charged” messages from a teenage Samuel Woodward, the man currently on trial for killing his former classmate Blaze Bernstein, a slaying prosecutors allege was a hate crime.
  With Woodward’s attorney admitting at the outset of his murder trial that Woodward, then 20, killed 19-year-old Bernstein in 2018, the key question for jurors will be whether Woodward was driven by anti-gay and anti
  
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• Irvine doctor suspected of sexually assaulting patients

  10-05-2024 01:06 via ocregister.com
  
  An Irvine doctor who specializes in treating liver diseases is suspected of sexually assaulting two female patients.
  Dr. John Carl Hoefs, 79, was arrested on May 3 and charged with seven counts of sexual battery, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. He was released after posting a $500,000 bond.
  Hoefs is accused of grabbing the breasts of two patients during exams at a medical office in Irvine affiliated with Hoag Hospital.
  He is suspected of assaulting a female patie
  
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• Pomona, Occidental colleges face civil rights complaints over alleged antisemitic bullying

  10-05-2024 01:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Two Southern California colleges have become the latest institutions to face allegations for “caving to the anti-Semitic mob and letting them bully, harass, and intimidate Jewish students,” amid student calls for divestment from Israel.
  The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Anti-Defamation League announced on Thursday, May 9, that they have filed civil right complaints against Pomona College and Occidental College. Arnold & Porter, a prominent law firm h
  
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• Fryer: Holly Barker ready to go for another 3,200 championship at CIF-SS track finals

  10-05-2024 00:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Holly Barker is running after another CIF championship.
  Barker, a junior at Trabuco Hills, was the CIF Southern Section Division 4 champion in the 3,200 meters last year when she was at Laguna Hills. Her time of 10 minutes, 20.90 seconds was the fastest time among all of the girls who ran the 3,200 in the finals that day.
  She will run in the Division 1 3,200 on Saturday at the CIF-SS Track and Field Championships at Moorpark High School. Barker qualified for the finals with a time of 10:28.01 in
  
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• Gift cards for guns in buyback event planned May 11 by OC supervisors

  10-05-2024 00:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Anyone looking to get rid of their weapons can anonymously trade them in for gift cards at a gun buyback event Saturday, May 11, in Anaheim.
  The exchange day is being put together by Orange County Supervisors Doug Chaffee and Vicente Sarmiento in partnership with the city of Anaheim and the Anaheim Police Department.
  “Every year, we’ve seen a lot of innocent lives lost due to gun accidents that could have been prevented. We are trying to provide the community an opportunity to safely
  
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• Dodgers believe in strategy to ‘protect’ their starting pitchers with extra rest

  10-05-2024 00:53 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — As a 22-year-old, second-year major-leaguer, Mark Prior pitched 234⅔ innings over 33 starts (including the postseason) for the 2003 Chicago Cubs.
  He averaged 113 pitches in his 30 regular-season starts, threw more than 120 pitches nine times and more than 130 three times in September then again in his first postseason start. Over his final six regular-season starts and three postseason starts, he threw 1,125 pitches. The majority of his starts (including two of the thre
  
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• Mark Takano: Refocusing on a two-state solution

  10-05-2024 00:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Almost 85 years ago, the passenger liner St. Louis departed from Germany. Many aboard were fleeing from Hitler’s Third Reich in search of a safe haven, but were turned away from the United States and other nations because they were Jews. 
  Of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, 254 were passengers of the St. Louis who had been denied asylum.  
  Out of this collective horror and trauma, the State of Israel was born to ensure the Jews would always have a secure home in l
  
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• UCLA and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson dead at age 86

  10-05-2024 00:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By BARRY WILNER (AP Pro Football Writer)
  Former UCLA football player Jimmy Johnson, a three-time All-Pro and member of the All-Decade Team of the 1970s, has died. He was 86.
  Johnson’s family told the Pro Football Hall of Fame that he died on Wednesday night at home in the San Francisco area after a lengthy illness.
  Johnson, inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1994, played his entire 16-year pro career as a defensive back with the San Francisco 49ers. He appeared in 213 games, mo
  
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• Hall of Fame defensive back Jimmy Johnson dead at age 86

  10-05-2024 00:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By BARRY WILNER (AP Pro Football Writer)
  Former UCLA football player Jimmy Johnson, a three-time All-Pro and member of the All-Decade Team of the 1970s, has died. He was 86.
  Johnson’s family told the Pro Football Hall of Fame that he died on Wednesday night at home in the San Francisco area after a lengthy illness.
  Johnson, inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1994, played his entire 16-year pro career as a defensive back with the San Francisco 49ers. He appeared in 213 games, mo
  
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• Pomona College students reinforcing encampment as commencement approaches

  10-05-2024 00:23 via ocregister.com
  
  New signs and a barricade have appeared around the pro-Palestinian encampment occupying Pomona College‘s commencement stage days before the ceremony.
  Large banners that read “The people campus for Palestine” and the Palestinian flag hung from the supports of the commencement stage Thursday, May 9. Commencement activities begin Friday and conclude Sunday.
  The group organizing the student protest against Israel’s offensive in Gaza, Pomona Divestment from Apartheid, added on
  
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• International college enrollment is booming again with help from Indian students. What does that mean for colleges?

  10-05-2024 00:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Suchita Farkiwala, a DePaul University senior from Ahmedabad, India, vividly remembers the day she flew into O’Hare International Airport more than three years ago to enroll in undergraduate classes.
  Despite having no family or friends in the city, she had a crew of DePaul community members who met her at the airport, welcoming her to Chicago.
  Since that first day in the city, she hasassumed the role of mentor to younger students from around the world pursuing higher education.
  “You
  
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