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• Widow of Anaheim Hills man who died in Conception boat disaster sues ship’s owners

  12-11-2019 01:51 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The widow of a passenger from Anaheim Hills who died in a fiery dive boat disaster that killed 34 people in the waters off California sued the vessel’s owners Monday.
  Christine Dignam, whose husband, Justin Dignam, died when the Conception caught fire Sept. 2 off the Santa Barbara coast, claimed that the boat was unsafe.
  The vessel didn’t have adequate smoke detectors or firefighting equipment, it lacked enough emergency exits, and a required night watch was not o
  
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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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• Newport Beach police investigating possible home invasion

  16-04-2024 18:13 via ocregister.com
  
  An investigation was underway Tuesday morning, April 16, into a reported home invasion in Newport Beach.
  Newport Coast Drive was closed between Ocean Ridge Road and Ridge Park Road due to police activity, according to Newport Beach police.
  Dispatched officers at around 4:45 a.m. found a family inside a Newport Coast home, and investigators believe the homeowner fired shots during the alleged home invasion, Fox11 reported.
  One suspect was taken into custody and a possible second suspect left the
  
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• Newport Beach homeowner shoots burglary suspect

  16-04-2024 18:13 via ocregister.com
  
  A homeowner shot and wounded one of two suspects who entered his home in Newport Beach early Tuesday, April 16, and the second suspect apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
  Officers went to the neighborhood near Newport Coast Drive at about 4:45 a.m., Newport Beach police said.
  The two suspects entered the residence in what investigators believe was a targeted attack, police said, and the homeowner fired shots at them.
  One suspect, who had been wounded, was found outsid
  
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• Metropolitan Water commits up to $250 million for previously untapped water sources

  16-04-2024 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  The Metropolitan Water District plans to spend up to $250 million on four non-traditional water projects that, combined, could supply up to 100,000 Southern California households over the next few years.
  Wastewater recycling, rainwater reclamation and transforming ocean water into drinking water are some of the technologies that could get money in the coming wave of funding from MWD.
  The Los Angeles-based wholesaler, which helps transfer water from Northern California and the Colorado River to 2
  
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• A student sent a swastika to a Jewish Long Beach lawmaker’s daughter. The response led to his new bill

  16-04-2024 17:34 via ocregister.com
  
  In response to his daughter receiving a swastika on social media, a Long Beach Jewish lawmaker is pushing for a bill that would give school administrators authority to suspend or expel students if they cyberbully fellow students away from school and outside of school hours.
  But Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s Assembly Bill 2351 is coming into conflict with California’s recent reforms intended to prevent students of color from being expelled and suspended at disproportionate rates.
  Th
  
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• US home construction tumbles 14.7% to 7-month low

  16-04-2024 17:19 via ocregister.com
  
  New home construction in the US slowed last month as a leveling off in interest rates has given way to a lull in housing demand and caution among builders.
  Residential starts decreased 14.7% in March to a 1.32 million annualized rate, the lowest since August, government data showed Tuesday. The figure was weaker than all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
  Building permits, which point to future construction, fell to a 1.46 million rate in March. Both starts and permits were revised h
  
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• Charges against Trump and Jan. 6 rioters at stake as Supreme Court hears debate over obstruction law

  16-04-2024 17:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday is taking up the first of two cases that could affect the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his election loss in 2020. Hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot also are at stake.
  Related ArticlesNational News | Trump trial: Why can’t Americans see or hear what is going on inside the courtroom?National News | Only 1 in 3 US adults think Tr
  
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• Director of new Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs has hands-on experience, officials said

  16-04-2024 16:52 via ocregister.com
  
  With its new leader in place, the county’s Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs is looking for two new staff members to make the office complete before opening its doors.
  Proposed by Orange County Supervisors Doug Chaffee and Andrew Do, the Board of Supervisors agreed last April to establish the new office to connect immigrants and refugees with housing, legal support and other necessary resettlement resources. Chaffee contributed $500,000 from his district discretionary funds.
  Jos
  
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• Aspiring techies can find community in Irvine this week

  16-04-2024 16:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Google, Microsoft, Meta, BlackBerry, Vizio and Oracle are just a handful of the many technology giants with a known presence in Irvine. But do the city’s startups have that same visibility?
  That’s the question Councilmember Tammy Kim had when she proposed Irvine Tech Week to her colleagues last year.
  While a startup scene does exist in Irvine, it’s nowhere near the startup hotbed that is Silicon Beach or the Bay Area, she said, because the city is largely made up of big compani
  
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• How José Vadi’s essay collection ‘Chipped’ explores the skateboarder’s experience

  16-04-2024 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  To a skater, the board is an extension of the body. And like a skateboard, an aging body can show life’s hard knocks.
  “Skateboarding is truly rebellious and punk in its ethos,” said author José Vadi. “Nobody should care how old someone is just as much as someone shouldn’t care about their sexual orientation, gender, economic background. None of those things should be the determining factor of your ability to enjoy yourself on a skateboard.”
  Vadi explore
  
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• Anaheim police unveil new Tesla patrol cars

  16-04-2024 16:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim police will soon begin using electric Tesla Model Ys as patrol vehicles in a pilot program the department says will help keep more officers on the road.
  “We are in desperate need of police cars,” Anaheim Police Department Sgt. Jacob Gallacher said Monday at an event unveiling the vehicles.
  The Police Department has 83 patrol vehicles, which city officials say are aging and breaking down more often. Chief Rick Armendariz said at a February council meeting discussing the progra
  
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• USC cancels valedictorian’s commencement speech citing safety concerns

  16-04-2024 16:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Amid complaints about alleged antisemitic views posted online, USC’s valedictorian will not be permitted to deliver a speech at the university’s commencement ceremony due to concerns about security, the school’s provost announced, and calls for the valedictorian to be allowed to speak are growing today.
  “While this is disappointing, tradition must give way to safety,” Provost Andrew Guzman wrote in a message to the university community. “This decision is not o
  
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• California’s high construction costs limit housing. A Supreme Court decision might help

  16-04-2024 16:11 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s chronic inability to build enough housing – particularly for low-income families – has many causes, but a big one is its extremely high cost of construction.
  Some costs are intrinsic and unavoidable, such as land acquisition and building materials. But some are artificial and could be lowered, especially those imposed by state and local governments. They include dictating the use of high-cost unionized construction labor, time-consuming environmental clearances, ar
  
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• Orange Unified launches a hunt for new board members after recall election

  16-04-2024 16:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange Unified School District is moving forward with filling two empty trustee seats through provisional appointments.
  The OUSD board will pick two new candidates to replace former President Rick Ledesma and Trustee Madison Miner after voters last month booted them in a recall election. Whoever the board selects would fill the seats, representing Trustee Areas 4 and 7.
  The district is accepting applications for the respective positions through April 26.
  To be considered, an applicant must b
  
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• Orange County’s untapped AI potential

  16-04-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  When Forbes released its AI top 50 list last April, only one Orange County company made the cut. That’s despite California laying claim to thirty-five of the top fifty AI companies worldwide. OC, however, has untapped AI potential.
  The vast majority of Forbes’ top AI companies are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. The only SoCal standouts are Costa-Mesa-based Anduril and San-Diego-based Shield AI. In 2021, the Brookings Institution issued a report identifying fifteen U.S.
  
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• Niles: Can name changes turn around struggling theme parks?

  16-04-2024 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Of all the forms of creative entertainment, theme parks might be the most dynamic. With attractions opening and closing, theme parks remain in a constant state of development.
  Yet this change typically happens over long periods of time. It’s rare that a park changes its entire identity at once. But that has happened twice already this month, with two notable parks announcing or completing name and identity changes.
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• Why can’t San Francisco build housing? Lessons from the 1906 fire

  16-04-2024 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  At 5 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Franciscans were jolted out of their beds by the first tremors of an earthquake whose vibrations would be felt as far away as England. The massive quake brought down lampposts and split gas lines, causing several small fires that quickly converged into one giant conflagration that burned for three days. The fire destroyed more than 28,000 buildings and left a quarter-million residents homeless.
  In terms of sheer numbers, San Francisco has never faced a housing cr
  
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• IVF: The new Republican nail for their ‘pro-life’ hammer

  16-04-2024 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  My husband and I started trying to have children when I was 33.
  I was older than some first-time moms I knew, but I was also younger than plenty others. My husband and I were both healthy, and there was no reason to suspect we’d have trouble conceiving. In fact, I was so confident of our success that for my birthday that first year, I asked for gift cards to get baby items.
  Even if it takes a few months to get pregnant, I thought, they’ll be handy for diapers.But it would be almost s
  
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• Trump trial: Why can’t Americans see or hear what is going on inside the courtroom?

  16-04-2024 12:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By David Bauder, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a moment in history — the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American courtroom. Yet only a handful of observers are able to see or even hear what is going on.
  Instead, most of the nation is getting news of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial secondhand. Starting with preliminary motions and jury selection Monday, reporters in a Manhattan courtroom must convey what is b
  
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• Only 1 in 3 US adults think Trump acted illegally in New York hush money case, poll shows

  16-04-2024 12:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Thomas Beaumont and Amelia Thomson-Dexeaux, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he committed a crime, a new AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds.
  Only about one-third of U.S. adults say Trump did something illegal in the hush money case for which jury selection began Monday, while close to half think he did something illegal in the other three cr
  
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• Orange County softball stat leaders through April 13

  16-04-2024 10:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOrange County softball stat leaders through Saturday, April 13.
  To be included, teams must have their stats up to date on the MaxPreps.com leaderboards.
  BATTING AVERAGEName, school
  BA
  H
  AB
  Isabella Gonzalez, Costa Mesa
  .648
  35
  54
  Natalie Keith, Northwood
  .647
  22
  34
  Soraya Leuta Aniva
  .640
  16
  25
  Fernanda Cervantes, Rancho Alam.
  .625
  10
  16
  Ashley Capelouto, Ocean View
  .615
  32
  52
  Aleena Garcia, Whittier Christia
  
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• Canyon boys volleyball clinches fourth straight league title with sweep of Yorba Linda

  16-04-2024 10:02 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Canyon boys volleyball coach Matt Silva has seen enough to know that he has built a winner.
  The winning ways continued Monday night as the Comanches swept Yorba Linda in dominant fashion, 25-7, 25-21, 25-17, to clinch a share of the Crestview League championship for the fourth consecutive season.
  “I’m excited man,” Silva said. “I think that we’ve really built a program here, not just on the boys side, but as well on the girls side, just kind of putti
  
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• Car driver charged in suspected DUI crash that killed motorcycle rider in Santa Ana

  16-04-2024 08:42 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A 29-year-old man was charged Monday with a deadly alcohol-related collision with a motorcycle rider in Santa Ana.
  Mario Celestino Torres was accused of killing 44-year-old Flor Mecon Granados of Santa Ana in a collision just before 3 a.m. Thursday at Bristol Street and Segerstrom Avenue, police said.
  Torres was driving a 2024 Mazda that rear-ended the motorcycle driven by Granados, police said. Both vehicles were northbound on Bristol Street at Segerstrom Avenue when the car c
  
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• CIF-SS boys volleyball polls, April 15

  16-04-2024 08:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe CIF-SS boys volleyball polls, released Monday, April 15.
  CIF-SS BOYS VOLLEYBALL POLLS
  (Selected by the Boys Volleyball Committee)
  DIVISION 1/2
  1. Loyola
  2. Corona del Mar
  3. Mira Costa
  4. Edison
  5. Huntington Beach
  6. Newport Harbor
  7. Mater Dei
  8. Redondo Union
  9. Tesoro
  10. San Marcos/Santa Barbara
  11. Santa Barbara
  12. Beckman
  13. Long Beach Wilson
  14. Servite
  15. Upland
  16. Santa Margarita
  17. Dos Pueb
  
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• Tyler Glasnow roughed up as Dodgers lose to Nationals

  16-04-2024 06:58 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — This was not part of the plan.
  Over the next two days, the Dodgers will go with a ‘bullpen game’ one day and start a pitcher called up from Triple-A on the other – bringing with it the very real possibility of back-to-back bullpen games.
  But they had Tyler Glasnow starting on Monday night, coming off his seven scoreless innings and 14 strikeouts in Minnesota last week.
  This was not that Glasnow. The right-hander had his worst start of his nascent Dodger
  
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