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• What to expect as Skypark at Santa’s Village opens for second season

  09-11-2017 00:03 via ocregister.com
  
  SkyPark at Santa’s Village opens for its second Christmas season Thursday, Nov. 9, but if you don’t already have a ticket for opening day you’ll have to try for another day.
  “We are completely sold out for the opening day. We strongly suggest that people get their tickets online before driving up,” said Bill Johnson, Skypark general manager.
  The iconic Christmas-themed park in the San Bernardino Mountains has added attractions for outdoor enthusiasts including
  
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• Who killed Alex Odeh, whose 1985 bombing death in OC was invoked by UCI protesters?

  17-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Before police tore it down on Wednesday, a banner fluttered from the second floor balcony of UCI’s Physical Sciences Lecture Hall: “Alex Odeh Hall,” it said. It has been nearly 40 years since the Palestinian-born Odeh was murdered, but the killing is still officially unsolved (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Before police tore it down on Wednesday, a banner fluttered from the second-floor balcony of UC Irvine’s Physical Sciences Lecture Hall:
  “A
  
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• OC Parks opens new wilderness area in Silverado Canyon

  17-05-2024 15:51 via ocregister.com
  
  From Blackstar Canyon to Whiting Ranch, the Santa Ana Mountains are home to colorful sandstone ravines and cobble bluffs that invoke iconic Western imagery. Now, the range is home to one more designated wilderness area that protects the striking, yet little-known red rock formations in Silverado Canyon.
  On Wednesday, May 15, OC Board of Supervisors Chairman Don Wagner and OC Parks officials cut the ribbon to open Red Rock Wilderness, a 1,500-acre area that features eight miles of trails for hiki
  
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• Gardeners: We are in the midst of a pluot revolution

  17-05-2024 15:22 via ocregister.com
  
  5 things to do in the garden this week:
  1. We are in the midst of the pluot revolution. A pluot is a hybrid between a plum and an apricot. It has been said that some people don’t like plums and some people don’t like apricots, but everybody loves pluots. Pluots are not only bursting with flavor, but the hang time of some varieties is longer than that of peaches or plums, which tend to ripen all at once. The only caveat where pluots are concerned is that you must plant two cross-polli
  
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• Paper license plates typically expire in 90 days — or less

  17-05-2024 15:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Q. Several times I’ve noticed temporary license plates on vehicles long after they expired. How soon should a new car owner expect to wait for their metal plates? I can understand that this is a low-priority-enforcement item for our police agencies.
  – Jim Thomson, Huntington Beach
  A. Virtually every vehicle on California roads needs temporary or permanent plates. No more hiding behind dealership advertisements slipped into the plate holders.
  A heavy user of the temporary plates
  
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• Why are both homelessness and homelessness spending growing?

  17-05-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Over the past decade, homelessness in California has been rising at alarming rates. California already topped the national list in 2014 when it had a homeless population of 114,000, but according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2023 Homelessness Assessment Report count, that number has grown to more than 180,000—nearly a 60 percent increase—and an astonishing two-thirds of these individuals are entirely unsheltered. In fact, with a total unshelter
  
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• Misinformed anti-vaxxers risk a return of once-beaten diseases

  17-05-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  There is no major crisis yet, but California and the rest of America are currently under unquestionable threat of a variety of epidemics, some of which could be crippling or fatal.
  Make no mistake: This is the work of anti-vaccination activists led by current independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was working to discredit vaccinations long before the COVID-19 pandemic, even as he denied being an anti-vaxxer.
  RFK Jr., milking his assassinated father’s name and reputatio
  
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• Ballroom culture coming to the Long Beach Pride Festival

  17-05-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Ballroom culture will make its Long Beach Pride debut — but this isn’t the waltz or foxtrot.
  The “Rhythm of the Rainbow Ball,” a new feature of the annual Long Beach Pride Festival, will showcase more than 20 diverse performers from around Los Angeles and Orange counties on Saturday evening, May 18.
  House of Ninja, an international group of LGBTQ+ and ally performers, will throw “the ball” at the Pride Festival’s main stage at 6 p.m. The event will
  
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• Reds’ Elly De La Cruz torments Tyler Glasnow, Dodgers

  17-05-2024 07:17 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — No matter what the Dodgers did, they couldn’t stop Elly De La Cruz.
  De La Cruz went 4 for 4 with a double, three runs scored and a career-high four stolen bases to propel the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-2 victory over the Dodgers on Thursday night. The Reds’ 22-year-old wunderkind became the first player to steal four bases in a game against the Dodgers since 2009.
  The Dodgers were merely De La Cruz’s latest victim – he now leads MLB with 30 stolen bases in
  
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• Here’s why California has a national strawberry day

  17-05-2024 06:24 via ocregister.com
  
  The California Strawberry Festival is an annual strawberry festival that takes place in Ventura. The event is held at the Ventura County Fairgrounds on the third weekend of May.
  The 64th Garden Grove Strawberry Festival will be May 24-27.
  When you think of California agribusiness, grapes, lettuce and almonds might come to mind first, but berries are a huge presence as well. California’s berry industry generates 5% of California’s farm sales (2020) from less than 1% of the state&rsquo
  
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• Orange Lutheran boys golf advances to CIF/SCGA SoCal Regional for the first time

  17-05-2024 05:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOrange Lutheran’s boys golf team continued its ascent Thursday by advancing to the CIF/SCGA SoCal Regional championships for the first time.
  The Lancers made the history by carding an even-par 360 for a top-four finish at the SCGA Regional Qualifier Tournament at Temecula Creek Inn Golf Course in Temecula.
  Only the top-four schools advanced to the SoCal regional final at Los Serranos Golf Club on Th
  
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• Congressional committee probing UCLA leadership’s actions amid campus turmoil

  17-05-2024 05:11 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA Chancellor Gene Block has now become the focus of the chair of a congressional committee over whether he and his administration did enough to protect Jewish students on the Westwood campus amid tensions surrounding a now-disbanded pro-Palestinian encampment.
  On Tuesday, Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chairwoman of the House’s Education and the Workforce Committee, sent a letter to UC leadership asking for all documents, communications and security videos related to alleged antisemitic in
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday, May 16

  17-05-2024 04:35 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 16
  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.
  THURSDAY’S SCORES
  BOYS VOLLEYBALL
  CIF SOCAL REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
  Semifinals
  DIVISION I
  Loyola def. Corona del Mar, 25-22, 25-16, 25-18
   
   
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• Dodgers pitcher Emmet Sheehan out for 2024 after elbow surgery

  17-05-2024 03:02 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers were counting on Emmett Sheehan to be a critical part of their starting pitching depth this year.
  Instead, his season is over before ever throwing a pitch.
  The Dodgers announced Sheehan had UCL surgery in his right elbow on Wednesday and will miss the rest of the 2024 season. Dr. Neal ElAttrache performed the procedure in Los Angeles.
  Sheehan, 24, went 4-1 with a 4.92 ERA in 13 appearances (11 starts) for the Dodgers as a rookie last season. He had yet to pitch in
  
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• Board Riders surf championships bring bragging rights, fun rivalry to Lower Trestles

  17-05-2024 02:48 via ocregister.com
  
  This surf championship happening at Lower Trestles isn’t your typical contest – it’s all about bringing together the community.
  And staking claim to bragging rights for your surf town, of course.
  Professional surfer Taylor Knox competes with Team Carlsbad during the US Board Riders West Coast Championships at Lower Trestles in San Clemente on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  Team Dana Point’s Eric Diamond competes during the US B
  
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• Fans line up hours ahead of Dodgers Game for Shohei Ohtani bobblehead

  17-05-2024 02:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Fans started lining up at Dodger Stadium hours ahead of Thursday’s evening game against the Cincinnati Reds in the hopes of scoring an exclusive Shohei Ohtani Dodgers bobblehead.
  Related: Shohei Ohtani has 3 hits including a homer as Dodgers rout GiantsThe Dodgers are giving away this Shohei Ohtani bobblehead to the first 40,000 fans at tonight's game, with 1,700 surprise road gray uniform Ohtani bobbleheads to also be given out at randompic.twitter.com/u5rdmvNbG2
  — MLB (@MLB) May 16
  
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• Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani bobblehead giveaway sees fans line up hours ahead of game

  17-05-2024 02:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Fans started lining up at Dodger Stadium hours ahead of Thursday night’s game against the Cincinnati Reds with the hope of scoring an exclusive Shohei Ohtani Dodgers bobblehead.
  Related: Shohei Ohtani has 3 hits including a homer as Dodgers rout GiantsThe Dodgers are giving away this Shohei Ohtani bobblehead to the first 40,000 fans at tonight's game, with 1,700 surprise road gray uniform Ohtani bobbleheads to also be given out at randompic.twitter.com/u5rdmvNbG2
  — MLB (@MLB) May 16,
  
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• House Republicans ditch day jobs to stand with Trump while legislating languishes

  17-05-2024 02:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO | AP Congressional Correspondent
  Leaving Washington behind, prominent far-right House Republicans who have repeatedly thrown this Congress into chaos showed up Thursday at Donald Trump’s hush money trial to do what they do best.
  They stood outside Trump Tower filming their support for the indicted former president. They filed into the Manhattan courthouse “standing back and standing by,” as Rep. Matt Gaetz put it — invoking Trump’s call to the extrem
  
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• UPS driver fatally shot in Irvine; suspect in custody

  17-05-2024 02:35 via ocregister.com
  
  A United Parcel Service driver was fatally shot while sitting in his truck in Irvine afternoon on Thursday, May 16 and police later took a suspect into custody.
  The UPS driver, believed to be on-duty, was shot around 3 p.m. in an industrial area near Chrysler and Fleming, Irvine Police spokesperson Kyle Oldoerp said.
  NBC Los Angeles reported that the driver was sitting in his truck, taking a break, when someone in a car pulled up and shot him multiple times. No packages were stolen, leading poli
  
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• UPS driver fatally shot in Irvine

  17-05-2024 02:35 via ocregister.com
  
  A United Parcel Service driver was fatally shot in Irvine on Thursday, May 16.
  The UPS driver, believed to be on-duty, was shot around 3 p.m. in an industrial area near Chrysler and Fleming, Irvine Police spokesperson Kyle Oldoerp said.
  Details about the victim and the circumstances of the shooting were not released.
  The investigation is ongoing and police were reportedly searching for the shooter’s vehicle.
  Witnesses to the crime are asked to call Irvine Police at (949) 724-7200.
  This is
  
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• Michael Cohen pressed on his crimes and lies as defense attacks key Trump hush money trial witness

  17-05-2024 02:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
  NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyers accused the star prosecution witness in his hush money trial of lying to jurors, portraying Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen on Thursday as a serial fabulist who is bent on seeing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee behind bars.
  As Trump looked on, defense attorney Todd Blanche pressed Cohen for hours with questions that focused as much on his misdeeds as on
  
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• Baby girl abandoned in shopping cart at CVS store in Lomita

  17-05-2024 02:18 via ocregister.com
  
  A pregnant woman left a seven-to-nine-month-old baby girl in a shopping cart at a CVS store in Lomita on Tuesday, then walked out and took a cab, leaving the baby behind, authorities said.
  Around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14, deputies responded to a CVS on Pacific Coast Highway and Eshelman Avenue after several employees reported an abandoned baby left behind in a shopping cart, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Peter Velasco said.
  The baby girl was carried into the store by a preg
  
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• House votes to require delivery of US bombs to Israel

  17-05-2024 02:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By Stephen Groves and Seung Min Kim | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — The House delivered a rebuke to President Joe Biden Thursday for pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, passing legislation that seeks to force the weapons transfer as Republicans worked to highlight Democratic divisions over the Israel-Hamas war.
  Seeking to discourage Israel from its offensive on the crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah, the Biden administration this month put on hold a weapons shipment of 3,500 bombs &mda
  
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• Kings and assistant Trent Yawney agree to part ways

  17-05-2024 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings announced Thursday that they and assistant coach Trent Yawney mutually agreed to part ways.
  That leaves at least one assistant coaching vacancy for a staff that currently has an interim head coach, Jim Hiller, and an assistant whom the Kings brought into the fold in February, D.J. Smith, whose status may also be uncertain.
  “We appreciate all that Trent has contributed over the past five seasons and thank him for his dedication to the organization,” Kings general manager Rob
  
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• Santa Ana mother charged in beating of 5-week-old son

  17-05-2024 01:51 via ocregister.com
  
  A Santa Ana woman is facing criminal charges after allegedly beating her 5-week-old son for refusing to stop crying and leaving the infant with 16 broken bones, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday, May 16.
  Mirian Jimenez-Olivera, 34 was charged with 11 felony counts of child abuse and her husband, Edgar Busto-Rodriguez, 35, was charged with one felony count of being an accessory, the district attorney’s office said.
  Jimenez-Olivera is suspected of punch
  
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• Texas bridge collision may have spilled up to 2,000 gallons of oil

  17-05-2024 01:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By Lekan Oyekanmi and Valerie Gonzalez | Associated Press
  GALVESTON, Texas — Early estimates indicate up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday.
  The barge crashed into a pillar supporting the Pelican Island Causeway span on Wednesday. The impact caused the bridge to partially collapse and cut off the only road connecting Galvesto
  
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• PGA Championship: Schauffele gets another major scoring record, sets the early pace

  17-05-2024 01:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By DOUG FERGUSON
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Xander Schauffele is playing some of his best golf without a trophy to show for it. He at least put his name in the PGA Championship record book Thursday with a 9-under 62, and gave himself another entry to the record book for all majors.
  Schauffele seized on the rain-softened conditions at Valhalla with a bogey-free 62, the lowest round in PGA Championship history. On this day, it was only good for a three-shot lead over Tony Finau and Sahith Theega
  
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• Preview of Friday’s CIF-SS Division 7 baseball championship game

  17-05-2024 01:40 via ocregister.com
  
  CIF-SS BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
  DIVISION 7
  South El Monte (22-6) vs. Oxford Academy (17-14-1)
  Where, when: Lake Elsinore Diamond Stadium, Friday, 10 a.m.
  Outlook: South El Monte, the visiting team for this championship game, is making its CIF-SS baseball finals debut. The Eagles have playoff wins over Paramount 7-3, Artesia 6-1, Oakwood 4-3 and in the semifinals Buena Park 2-1. Senior Andrew Medina leads South El Monte with 32 hits, has a .372 batting average and a team-high 22 stolen bases. Medin
  
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• OC United Way, supporters shatter Guinness record, assemble 6,136 hygiene kits in hour

  17-05-2024 01:33 via ocregister.com
  
  In Sue Parks’ nightmare, she was abandoned to achieve an ambitious goal alone at Orange County United Way’s Women’s Philanthropy Fund Breakfast.
  In reality, the OC United Way president and CEO was joined by a ballroom full of helpers who assembled 6,136 hygiene kits with plenty of time to spare in their allotted hour Thursday morning at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, setting a mark recognized by the Guinness World Records.
  The number they beat: 5,900 by a group in Melbourne, Au
  
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• The Audible: How the Sparks looked, whom will the Lakers hire, and what’s up with Chris Taylor?

  17-05-2024 00:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Jim Alexander: The good part is that the Sparks – a team that coach Curt Miller candidly acknowledges is in a rebuild – looked pretty good for most of its opening night Wednesday, and basically lost because of an 11-0 surge by Atlanta at the start of the fourth quarter. Cameron Brink and Rickea Jackson had their rookie moments, as expected, and Brink was limited by early foul trouble … but oh, my gosh, her fourth-quarter block on Cheyenne Parker-Tyrus was one for the highlight
  
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