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• UCLA upset bid of Gonzaga foiled by Jalen Suggs’ game winner

  04-04-2021 05:26 via ocregister.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — It appeared that UCLA had done enough to force a second overtime in its bid to upset undefeated Gonzaga in the Final Four. Johnny Juzang put his own miss back to tie the game with 3.3 seconds left on the clock.
  But rather than call timeout, Gonzaga in-bounded the ball to star freshman Jalen Suggs. He dribbled up the court, pulled up from just past midcourt and banked in the game-winning 3-pointer, as UCLA fell in heartbreaking fashion, 93-90.
  Suggs jumped up on the table in
  
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• iPhone sales are plunging. Here’s why

  16-04-2024 21:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By Samantha Murphy Kelly
  Apple’s smartphone sales tumbled a stunning 10% last quarter, according to market research firm IDC. The main cause: iPhone sales in China fell sharply.
  The company has lost momentum in China as nationalism, a rough economy and increased competition have hurt Apple over the past several months.
  “It’s a steep drop for Apple, but if you think of where we have been in the past four years, Apple has probably been the most resilient brand, overcoming supply
  
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• Blake Griffin retires after high-flying NBA career that included Rookie of the Year, All-Star honors

  16-04-2024 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By The Associated Press
  Blake Griffin announced his retirement Tuesday after a 14-year career that included six All-Star selections, Rookie of the Year honors and a dunk contest victory.
  Griffin said in a social media post that he’s “thankful for every single moment” of his career. He was the No. 1 overall pick by the Los Angeles Clippers out of Oklahoma in 2009. He missed his first season with a knee injury, but rebounded to earn Rookie of the Year honors in 2011, when he won
  
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• Progress made on three Big Sur Highway 1 landslides

  16-04-2024 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  BIG SUR – The three landslides on Highway 1 south of the slip-out near Rocky Creek Bridge continue making progress on Caltran’s road to reopening roadway between the Monterey Peninsula and the San Luis Obispo County line later this year.
  With another rainy weekend in the books for the area, Caltrans District 5 spokesperson Kevin Drabinski said that no significant movement or changes occurred as a result of the past weekend’s rain event at the Rocky Creek slip-out — post m
  
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• Cruise demand leaves pandemic in rearview with record passengers, more construction on tap

  16-04-2024 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  MIAMI BEACH — The COVID pandemic drove the cruise industry to a standstill, but numbers released Tuesday signal the years of comeback are officially over with more expansion on tap.
  More than 31.7 million passengers took cruises worldwide in 2023, said Kelly Craighead, Cruise Line International Association president and CEO, speaking at the annual Seatrade Cruise Global conference at Miami Beach Convention Center.
  CLIA is the lobbying group for member cruise lines, including Royal Caribbea
  
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• As AI eye exams prove their worth, lessons for future tech emerge

  16-04-2024 20:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Hannah Norman | (TNS) KFF Health News
  Christian Espinoza, director of a Southern California drug-treatment provider, recently began employing a powerful new assistant: an artificial intelligence algorithm that can perform eye exams with pictures taken by a retinal camera. It makes quick diagnoses, without a doctor present.
  His clinics, Tarzana Treatment Centers, are among the early adopters of an AI-based system that promises to dramatically expand screening for diabetic retinopathy, the leading
  
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• Am I liable for harm that occurs in the common area? Ask the lawyer

  16-04-2024 20:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I received a letter from a lawyer stating that my tenant is suing me for an “incident” resulting in substantial injuries. The manager of the complex said he thinks the tenant tripped on the side steps in the common area. Nothing that I know of happened in the condo.  Am I responsible, even if his injury happened in the common area?
  R.W.S., Marina Del Rey
  Ron Sokol
  A: As a landlord, you are to conduct periodic inspections of your rental property when you have the legal right o
  
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• More kids are dying of drug overdoses. Could pediatricians do more to help?

  16-04-2024 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Martha Bebinger, WBUR | KFF Health News (TNS)
  A 17-year-old boy with shaggy blond hair stepped onto the scale at Tri-River Family Health Center in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
  After he was weighed, he headed for an exam room decorated with decals of planets and cartoon characters. A nurse checked his blood pressure. A pediatrician asked about school, home life, and his friendships.
  This seemed like a routine teen checkup, the kind that happens in thousands of pediatric practices across the U.S. ever
  
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• UCLA football ready to address depth needs in transfer portal

  16-04-2024 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Coach DeShaun Foster will have his first opportunity to explore the transfer portal as head coach of the UCLA Bruins as the spring transfer window officially opened on Tuesday.
  The Bruins had already acquired talent from the transfer portal this offseason, such as receiver Rico Flores Jr. and defensive end Jacob Busic, during the early period.
  Foster remains transparent about his plans to be active during the 15-day window with specific needs he’ll pursue to help bolste
  
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• What happens if I default on my car loan?

  16-04-2024 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By Funto Omojola | NerdWallet
  More Americans are defaulting on their car loans due to larger loan amounts, high interest rates, increased living costs and more.
  The number of borrowers who fell more than 90 days behind on their auto loans rose to 2.66% in the fourth quarter of 2023 — a nearly 20% increase from the same time last year, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
  Why are more people defaulting on car loans?
  Borrowers are struggling in part due to sky-high in
  
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• Orange County boys athlete of the week: Devin Bragg, Los Alamitos

  16-04-2024 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County boys athlete of the week:
  Name: Devin Bragg
  School: Los Alamitos
  Sport: Track and field
  Year: Junior
  Noteworthy: He ran the fastest times in Orange County track and field this season in the 100 and 200 on Saturday in the Orange County Championships. Bragg won the 100 in a meet-record time of 10.50 seconds. He won the 200 in 21.31. Both were wind-legal times. Bragg’s 100 time is the second-best in California this season. His 200 time is the fourth-best in the state this se
  
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• Iran’s conflict with Israel puts US ally Jordan on edge

  16-04-2024 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Sam Dagher | (TNS) Bloomberg News
  Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel and the prospect of escalating hostilities has threatened to embroil Jordan, a key Western ally and a country regarded by Gulf states as pivotal to their own security.
  When the Islamic Republic fired a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel on Saturday night, Jordan helped shoot down some that flew over its capital Amman, with Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi saying the kingdom saw the projectiles as posing “a rea
  
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• States race to restrict deepfake porn as it becomes easier to create

  16-04-2024 19:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Madyson Fitzgerald | Stateline.org (TNS)
  After a 2014 leak of hundreds of celebrities’ intimate photos, Uldouz Wallace learned that she was among the public figures whose images had been stolen and disseminated online.
  Wallace, an actress, writer and social media influencer, found out the images were ones her ex had taken without her consent and had threatened to leak.
  Over the next few years, Wallace spent loads of money paying private companies to take down the images, she said. It wasn&
  
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• OJ Simpson estate executor softens stance on civil judgment payouts

  16-04-2024 19:39 via ocregister.com
  
  The executor of O.J. Simpson’s estate is walking back comments he made last week indicating that he would try to prevent the payout of a $33.5 million judgment awarded by a civil jury after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
  In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Monday, attorney Malcolm LaVergne took on a much more subdued and cooperative tone regarding the pending civil judgment.
  “I can tell you in advance, Fred Goldman’s claim will be accepted. And
  
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• Black Angus holds special anniversary brunch on Saturday, April 20

  16-04-2024 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Black Angus Steakhouse will mark its 60th anniversary with a “Birthday Brunch Experience” at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 20.Each course of the meal will feature a beverage pairing, according to its website.
  It will begin with Hot Honey Chicken Biscuit Sliders served with chile-infused honey and paired with a Jalapeño Strawberry Passion Fruit Margarita.
  The main course is rib-eye steak, lobster fritter and scrambled eggs paired with a Signature Bloody Mary.
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• Signing Day April 2024: Share your signing news and lists with OCVarsity

  16-04-2024 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  There will be “Signing Day” celebrations and college commitments announced in Orange County on Wednesday, April 17, and OCVarsity will be the place to find extensive coverage of the day’s events.
  Wednesday is the start of the regular signing period for boys and girls basketball players who are seniors (Class of 2024). A few Orange County standouts are expected to announce their college destinations.
  Some schools will also be holding celebrations on campus for their Class of 202
  
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• What happens to the more than 1,500 who die in Los Angeles and go unclaimed each year

  16-04-2024 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Each year, roughly 1,500 to 2,000 people die in Los Angeles County only to have their bodies go unclaimed by family; the remains are held onto by the county and eventually cremated and buried in a cemetery tucked away in Boyle Heights. 
  “The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels” by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans traces the lives of four such lost souls, giving them a humanity and identity in death that was often absent in their lives here. 
  “We
  
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• Recipe: Artichokes are in season. Here’s a great way to enjoy them

  16-04-2024 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Sometimes cone shaped, sometimes spherical, artichokes are the unopened flower buds of a thistle-like plant.  Tapering leaves tightly overlap around a tweedy choke, while the fleshy heart at the base holds everything together.  Grown domestically, their sessions peak twice a year, March to May, and September to November.
  Tough until cooking tames them, they taste buttery sweet with an alluring nuttiness and subtle bitterness. To prep, wash them in cold water. Using sharp knife. cut off
  
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• How Amazon became the largest private EV charging operator in the US

  16-04-2024 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Matt Day | (TNS) Bloomberg News
  Amazon’s Maple Valley, Washington, warehouse is built for speed. At night, big rigs pull up to one end to unload boxes and padded mailers – some after a short drive from a bigger warehouse down the road, others following a flight in the hold of a cargo plane. Waiting employees scan, sort and load them into rolling racks.
  Before 7 a.m. each day, many of those racks are wheeled out to dozens of vans lined up in four painted lanes. It’s the starting
  
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• The airline industry’s biggest climate challenge: a lack of clean fuel

  16-04-2024 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Ben Elgin | Bloomberg News (TNS)
  In a glimmer of progress for the daunting task of reducing air travel’s climate impact, a newly built plant in rural Georgia is expected to begin pumping out the world’s first commercial quantities of a new type of cleaner jet fuel this month.
  The $200 million plant from LanzaJet Inc. will be the first to turn ethanol into a fuel compatible with jet engines. The facility is one of many efforts around the globe attempting to crack one of the biggest pr
  
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• O.J. Simpson feared he had CTE but his family has said a ‘hard no’ to brain study

  16-04-2024 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  The body of O.J. Simpson is expected to be cremated in Las Vegas Tuesday, with his family giving a “hard no” to requests from scientists who want to study his brain to see if the former football great and accused double-murderer suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) — as he himself suspected.
  Several years before his death last week of cancer, Simpson, 76, spoke about his concerns that he had developed CTE, a degenerative brain disease, because of multiple concus
  
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• Have Disneyland Magic Key prices finally outpaced demand?

  16-04-2024 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland annual passes that sold out in hours in January have been languishing for weeks since they went on sale in early March following a price increase late last year that left fans moaning about the Anaheim theme park becoming the “Priciest Place on Earth.”
  Which raises the question: Have Magic Key prices finally outpaced demand?
  Sales of all four tiers of Magic Key annual passes went on sale March 5 and six weeks later the three most expensive tiers are still available. The lo
  
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• Justice Department preparing Ticketmaster antitrust lawsuit

  16-04-2024 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Leah Nylen | Bloomberg News (TNS)
  The Justice Department may file an antitrust complaint as soon as next month aimed at forcing Live Nation Entertainment Inc. to spin off its Ticketmaster ticketing business, according to three people familiar with the matter.
  The agency has been investigating the entertainment giant for years amid concerns Live Nation has illegally tied its concert promotion services to use of Ticketmaster, in violation of the terms of the 2010 settlement that allowed it to acqu
  
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• Boeing says no 787 safety risk after whistleblower raises troubling claims

  16-04-2024 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Dominic Gates | (TNS) The Seattle Times
  NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina — At its 787 Dreamliner manufacturing complex in South Carolina on Monday, Boeing detailed an immense amount of analysis and testing it has done since the discovery in 2020 of small gaps at the fuselage joins on the jet.
  Boeing has made meticulous, time-consuming changes to the way it manufactures the 787’s carbon composite airframe to eliminate the gaps. It must do so to meet the specification.
  More importantly
  
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• Families enjoy arts day in Mission Viejo

  16-04-2024 19:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Helena Ooka, 8, of Mission Viejo creates a fingerprint art magnet at one of the arts and crafts stations during Family Arts Day at the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  Families visit various arts and crafts stations in one of the rooms at the Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo during Family Arts Day, presented with support from the Kiwanis Club of Mission Viejo, on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Ph
  
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• The free Bob Baker Day festival celebrates puppets and the legendary puppet master

  16-04-2024 18:54 via ocregister.com
  
  There’s no need to pull any strings to get into this festival because it’s free. But you may want to pull some strings while at the festival because it’s all about celebrating a late puppet master.
  More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the annual Bob Baker Day festival at the Los Angeles State Historic Park on Sunday, April 21.
  “It’s an all day celebration, a sort of puppetchella,” said Mary Thompson, director of communications for the Bob Baker Mario
  
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• Orange County girls athlete of the week: Zara Masud, Woodbridge

  16-04-2024 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County girls athlete of the week:
  Name: Zara Masud
  School: Woodbridge
  Sport: Swimming
  Year: Senior
  Noteworthy: The Georgia Tech commit claimed the 200-yard freestyle (1 minute, 48.18 seconds), 100 butterfly (54.01) and female swimmer of the meet honors in leading the Warriors to the team title at the Mt. SAC Spring Meet of Champions. Masud also raced on Woodbridge’s winning 200 free
  
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• Torch and sandals: What to know about the flame-lighting ceremony in Greece for the Paris Olympics

  16-04-2024 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press
  ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — A priestess prays to a dead sun god in front of a fallen Greek temple. If the sky is clear, a flame spurts that will burn in Paris throughout the world’s top sporting event. Speeches ensue.
  On Tuesday, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in southern Greece in a meticulously choreographed ceremony.
  It will then be carried through Greece for
  
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• Cops, dog owners and pups connect in Anaheim

  16-04-2024 18:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Gidget, left, a Chinese crested carin terrier and Judah Ben-Hur a Yorkie-mix arrive dressed for the occasion at the Anaheim Police Department’s “Puppuccinos with a Cop” event at the Maxwell Dog Park in Anaheim on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The event gave the police department an opportunity to promote the Dog Walker Watch Program. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Benjamin, a mini French bulldog puppy, laps up a Starbucks puppuccino during the Anaheim Police
  
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• Review: Want some advice? See ‘Tiny, Beautiful Things’ at Anaheim’s Chance Theater

  16-04-2024 18:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Enter Chance Theater’s mainstage right now and you encounter a  welcoming home. Bathed in beatific amber lighting sits a sizable, well-appointed kitchen and island, an intimate dining space, a pleasingly stuffed bookcase against the wall and a comfy multi-piece sectional couch set.
  Why, whoever is lucky enough to live here surely must not have a care in the world.
  Fortunately for those experiencing the emotionally affecting single act play “Tiny, Beautiful Things,” that&rs
  
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