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• Worker awarded $58 million in Palmdale train yard injury

  22-05-2024 19:33 via ocregister.com
  
  A jury on Tuesday, May 21 awarded more than $58 million to a Palmdale train yard worker who slipped and fell on top of a train while performing electrical repairs at the Kinkisharyo International train manufacturing yard in 2016.
  The Los Angeles Superior Court panel’s total award to Pablo Scipione, now 46, was $58.35 million, which includes $54.15 million in compensatory damages and $4.2 million in punitive damages. Scipione at one time offered to settle for as little as $3 million.
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• New fathers should be screened for postpartum depression too, study says

  18-06-2024 20:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Joel Gratcyk remembers the moment he finally broke. 
  He pulled his car off to the side of the road, tears streaming down his face. His newfound fatherhood was supposed to be one of the happiest times of his life. Instead, he was sinking deep into a heavy sadness while his infant son sat in the back seat.
  It was all too much. The stress, the lack of sleep, the lingering fear that he wouldn’t be a good parent.
  “I just knew, at that moment, I needed help,” Gratcyk, 42, recall
  
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• Researchers find link between moms’ experience of racism and kids’ aging

  18-06-2024 20:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Mothers’ experiences of racism showed up in their children’s bodies, with altered patterns of aging – though scientists cautioned they aren’t sure if their findings will translate into future health problems for the kids.
  Two Colorado researchers looked at 205 pairs of mothers and children from non-white ethnic groups living in Massachusetts, in cooperation with scientists elsewhere. When mothers reported they’d experienced more types of racial discrimination, such
  
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• What women should know about their investing power and needs

  18-06-2024 20:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kimberly Palmer | NerdWallet
  The investing information provided on this page is for educational purposes only. NerdWallet, Inc. does not offer advisory or brokerage services, nor does it recommend or advise investors to buy or sell particular stocks, securities or other investments.
  Jessica Spangler, author of the newly released “Invest Like a Girl,” realizes that her book’s title might raise questions for some readers.
  “I think there’s an irony when it comes to
  
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• John Phillips: It’s open season on pedestrians in Los Angeles

  18-06-2024 19:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Last week, the Los Angeles City Council voted to have more illegal guns on the streets, more unsafe drivers on the road, and more dangerous criminals running free with no way for the police to apprehend them.  And the vote was 13-0.
  All in the name….of equity!
  With the vote, the council authorized a study that aims to limit how often motorists are pulled over for low level traffic infractions and shift the responsibility of enforcement from uniformed police officers to unarmed city w
  
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• When will America get its $25,000 electric car?

  18-06-2024 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Tom Randall | Bloomberg News (TNS)
  Electric-vehicle prices are falling fast in the U.S., but the cheapest models remain far more costly than what other countries have on offer. The BYD Seagull sells for about $10,000 in China, the Dacia Spring starts at $20,000 in Europe, the Renault Kwid e-Tech costs $19,000 in Brazil, and the Kia Ray goes for $22,000 in South Korea.
  So where is America’s $25,000 EV?
  In short, it’s coming soon. It may not seem that way at first glance: U.S. vehicle
  
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• Free market economic principles must fuel California’s energy markets

  18-06-2024 19:19 via ocregister.com
  
  There is a rather basic but key economic principle which states that free markets are crucial to efficiently running economies. Free markets facilitate the allocation of capital and resources through unfettered interaction of supply and demand. Free markets encourage competition and are the foundation of market-based pricing. Free markets are also crucial to investment, consumer choice, and innovation. They work in concert to drive and sustain productivity and vital economic growth.
  So why is it
  
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• EV maker Fisker in Manhattan Beach files for bankruptcy protection

  18-06-2024 19:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By Michelle Chapman | The Associated Press
  Manhattan Beach’s electric-vehicle maker Fisker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the second electric startup to do so in the last year, as even industry leaders struggle to lure more buyers beyond the early adapters of the technology.
  Fisker Group Inc. said in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware that its estimated assets are between $500 million and $1 billion. It estimated liabilities are between $100 million and $500 m
  
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• Educational fakery and anti-Semitism in the Golden State

  18-06-2024 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  The retirement of Rep. Anna Eshoo has touched off a race between California Democrats Sam Liccardo, Stanford professor and former mayor of San Jose; former state senator Joe Simitian, and Assemblyman Evan Low. Liccardo and Low will face off in November and educational credentials have become an issue.
  Liccardo earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown, a JD from Harvard Law School and an MPP from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Low’s assembl
  
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• In rain, snow and drought, California’s fights over water rights, supplies persist

  18-06-2024 19:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Legal rights to use water — particularly those obtained prior to 1914 — lie at the heart of California’s perpetual wrangling over the allocation of increasingly limited water supplies.
  For years state officials have been trying, with limited success, to reduce farmers’ diversions, increase river flows and restore declining numbers of fish, particularly salmon, and other wildlife.
  The conflict occurs even during periods when the state receives abundant rain and snow and it
  
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• Democrats hail Biden immigration moves that Trump brands ‘amnesty’

  18-06-2024 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  John T. Bennett, Niels Lesniewski | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced a new program aimed at helping some migrant families to stay together by allowing noncitizen spouses and children to apply for lawful permanent residence without leaving the country — and Donald Trump and other top Republicans already are crying foul.
  The administration also said some recipients of deferred action and other so-called “Dreamers” would be able to more swif
  
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• Grand Annex debuts new theatrical work that’s part play and part call for healthcare activism

  18-06-2024 18:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Told through the story of one family dealing with health issues, which includes a doctor who has a tough choice to make, a new theatrical work making its debut in San Pedro is part play and part call for social justice.
  “I would like it to start conversations. I would like it to bring people together, people who are in the medical field, people who have had these experiences where they’ve felt ignored or overlooked while navigating the healthcare system,” said playwright and ac
  
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• Clippers reportedly adding Jeff Van Gundy to coaching staff

  18-06-2024 18:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Former longtime NBA coach Jeff Van Gundy reportedly will join Coach Tyronn Lue’s staff next season as the top assistant. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski was the first to report the story.
  Van Gundy, 62, is expected to serve as the team’s defensive coordinator, replacing Daniel Craig, who left the Clippers last month to join the Chicago Bulls as an assistant.
  Van Gundy coached the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets, where Lue played for one season in 2004. Most recently, Van Gundy wo
  
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• A $1.75 million grant will help Santiago Canyon College meet growing demand in water industry

  18-06-2024 18:21 via ocregister.com
  
  CalMatters, a nonprofit news organization that covers state government, hosted its inaugural Ideas Festival June 5 and 6 in Sacramento.
  Among the agenda items was a panel discussion titled “Work Pathways in Today’s Economy,” which included Adele Burnes, deputy chief of the California Division of Apprenticeship Standards; Cesar Lara, director of Workforce and Economic Development, California Labor Federation and Megan Nazareno, senior program and data manager, Construction Trade
  
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• First look: Inside the new Salt Creek Grille in Dana Point

  18-06-2024 18:04 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s back.
  After Salt Creek Grille, the 27-year-old Dana Point institution known for its upscale fare and weathered charm, announced its closure in January, fans of the restaurant arrived in droves to bid the venerable eatery adieu. But a handful of regulars, who weren’t ready to say goodbye, snapped up the place with hopes of returning it to glory.
  That dream is now a reality as the new Salt Creek Grille (or Salt Creek Grille Orange County, as it’s officially called) makes its
  
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• Henry Mancini’s daughter discusses father’s Hollywood Bowl tribute, TikTok fame

  18-06-2024 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Monica Mancini can point to the exact night – April 9, 1962 – when she and her two siblings realized that their father, the legendary film composer Henry Mancini, wasn’t like other dads.
  “There was a real specific time when us kids became quite aware that we were dealing with somebody who wasn’t just, you know, a dad that went to work and came home at dinner,” Mancini says on a recent call. “It was the Academy Awards show where he picked up two Oscars in
  
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• Cal State Fullerton’s Tegan Andrews turns around his mental game

  18-06-2024 18:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By his own admission, Tegan Andrews isn’t much of a reader — outside of the greens he reads during his day job as the current No. 1 player on the Cal State Fullerton men’s golf team. But this — this book was the closest thing to a page-turner.
  And the closest thing to a game-changer.
  When we last left Andrews, right around this time last year, he was just emerging from a long sentence as a prisoner of his own head. It wasn’t a good place to be, a golf prodigy held c
  
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• Bellator Champions Series San Diego features lightweight title bout

  18-06-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Bellator and its lightweight champion Usman Nurmagomedov are returning to San Diego.
  Eleven months to the day after a stacked Bellator 300 card, Bellator Champions Series San Diego is coming back to Pechanga Arena and will feature the undefeated Nurmagomedov taking on Alexander Shabliy on Sept. 7.
  Tickets go on sale to the general public Thursday on AXS.com.
  Nurmagomedov, the 26-year-old cousin of former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, hasn’t fought since his one-sided unanim
  
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• Universal Studios Hollywood unleashes radioactive zombies for Halloween Horror Nights 2024

  18-06-2024 17:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Universal Studios Hollywood will bring an original radioactive zombies haunted maze to Halloween Horror Nights that serves as a “spiritual sequel” to a similarly themed haunted house introduced at Universal Orlando more than a decade ago.
  Dead Exposure: Death Valley is the second of eight haunted mazes announced for Halloween Horror Nights 2024 at Universal Studios Hollywood.
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• Justin Timberlake arrested, accused of driving while intoxicated in Long Island

  18-06-2024 16:46 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Justin Timberlake was arrested early Tuesday and is accused of driving while intoxicated on New York’s Long Island, authorities said.
  Timberlake was expected to be arraigned in Sag Harbor, on the eastern end of Long Island, according to a statement from the Suffolk County district attorney’s office.
  Timberlake’s representatives did not immediately return requests for comment from The Associated Press.
  Sag Harbor is a coastal village in the Hamptons,
  
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• What is a driver obligated to do if they hit a dog or cat with their vehicle?

  18-06-2024 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: Jim Guthrel of San Bernardino asked what drivers are supposed to do if they hit a dog or a cat with their vehicle. “My understanding, if I accidentally hit a dog or cat, I’m to stop. What for and for how long? What do I do?” he asked.
  Guthrel also expressed concerns about putting the animal in his car, about it possibly being vicious, and about the prospect of facing a veterinarian bill he said he can’t pay.
  A: This question touches on several issues about the driver&r
  
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• The search for Orange County’s next superintendent is coming to an end

  18-06-2024 16:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County Board of Education will select the next person to fill the superintendent job this evening, according to its president, Tim Shaw.
  Longtime Superintendent Al Mijares is retiring from the post at the end of June, amid a cancer diagnosis. The candidate selected will complete the remainder of Mijares’ term, which ends in early January 2027, and will have the opportunity to run for a full four-year term in 2026 as an incumbent, Orange County Department of Education spokesperso
  
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• California has 6 of 10 ‘most vulnerable’ housing markets in US

  18-06-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  The “Looking Glass” ponders economic and real estate trends through two distinct lenses: the optimist’s “glass half-full” and the pessimist’s “glass half-empty.”
  Buzz: California has six of the 10 counties nationwide with the highest risks of home-price declines.
  The source: My trusty spreadsheet looked at Attom’s study of housing markets “most vulnerable” to price declines based on first-quarter economic measurements such as affo
  
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• CalOptima Health invests $526 million to raise rates for OC health care providers

  18-06-2024 16:06 via ocregister.com
  
  In the wake of state budget cuts poised to impact Medi-Cal payments, CalOptima Health is investing about $526 million from its reserves toward increasing rates paid to hospitals, community clinics and other health care providers serving Orange County.
  Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest budget proposal would take $6.7 billion originally reserved for increasing Medi-Cal payments to health care providers and redirect those funds toward the state’s deficit. To mitigate the blow, officials with C
  
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• Overcoming tragedy, Mission Hospital’s long-time nursing leader retires with hope

  18-06-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Deanne Niedziela wheeled herself into what had been her corner office in a tower at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo and glanced out the large windows.
  “I always had a view of Saddleback,” she said. She looked out again, realizing that Friday, June 14, was the last day of her nearly 31-year career.
  More than a year earlier, Niedziela, 55, was on vacation, in a Costa Rica jungle, when a tree limb fell from high overhead and knocked her into the ground. Her injuries were se
  
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• Mission Hospital’s long-time nursing leader says goodbye

  18-06-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Deanne Niedziela wheeled herself into what had been her corner office in a tower at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo and glanced out the large windows.
  “I always had a view of Saddleback,” she said. She looked out again, realizing that Friday, June 14, was the last day of her nearly 31-year career.
  More than a year earlier, Niedziela, 55, was on vacation, in a Costa Rica jungle, when a tree limb fell from high overhead and knocked her into the ground. Her injuries were se
  
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• Veterans cemetery gets approval from Planning Commission for Anaheim Hills

  18-06-2024 15:43 via ocregister.com
  
  The Anaheim Planning Commission gave its approval Monday, June 17, for Orange County’s first veterans cemetery to be built in Anaheim Hills’s Gypsum Canyon.
  The commission’s 6-0 vote moves the project for the county to build a 283-acre cemetery that will be half for veterans and half for public use to the City Council for consideration.
  Orange County is the largest county in the state without a veterans cemetery. Years of failed efforts to secure a location in Irvine led t
  
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• Niles: Disneyland fans have a lot to look forward to on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure

  18-06-2024 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Ever since Disney announced that it would be closing Splash Mountain to convert the popular log flume into a “The Princess and The Frog” ride, many fans have been worried about the result. Would Disney ruin a beloved experience?
  The new Tiana’s Bayou Adventure ride will open at Disneyland later this year, but the ride is now in previews at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in Florida. I rode it during a press event last week, and am pleased to report that Disney’s I
  
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• We’re accused of ‘ragebaiting’ after story about public paychecks

  18-06-2024 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  (Associated Press)
  Over the years, this mild-mannered reporter has been called many nasty names and belittled by many unflattering adjectives. Denounced as a shrew, likened to a snake, accused of “pension envy” — and now, alas, of engaging in “ragebait.”
  We’ve been touring through public pay and pension data as of late — always popular with readers and unpopular with public officials — and were finally done with the piece about city manager pay, wh
  
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• A late replacement, Zach Plesac shines in his Angels debut

  18-06-2024 06:20 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Approximately 2½ hours before first pitch Monday night, the Angels’ medical staff told Angels manager Ron Washington he needed to find a new starter.
  There was little time for discussion. Jose Soriano, the young starter-turned-reliever and bright spot in an otherwise frustrating Angels season, had abdominal pain. He couldn’t go. Faced with precious few alternatives, and a potential replacement in Jose Suarez designated for assignment earlier in the day, a thoug
  
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