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• Tackling California’s high cost-of-living: A roadmap to affordability

  14-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Living in California offers unparalleled opportunities, natural beauty, and a vibrant culture. However, it also presents a growing challenge that can no longer be ignored—the soaring cost of living. As your representative in the California Senate, it is my duty and commitment to address these challenges head-on and to ensure that the promise of our great state remains accessible to all, especially the hardworking families of Senate District 23.
  Every day, I hear from constituents making to
  
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• Angels drop another tight home game against Luis Gil, Yankees

  30-05-2024 06:22 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — The Angels spent another night pestering one of the best teams in baseball as they appear ready to enter June with a little less gloom.
  The New York Yankees lost their manager to an ejection in the first inning on Wednesday yet still managed to maintain their resolve.
  Angels starter Tyler Anderson walked an early tightrope before the Yankees ultimately pulled off a 2-1 victory before a mostly pro-New York crowd.
  Unlike the series opener, when the Angels pulled off an eighth-innin
  
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• TikTokers post viral video of themselves breaking into Knott’s Berry Farm

  30-05-2024 05:45 via ocregister.com
  
  A pair of teenage boys who hopped the fence at Knott’s Berry Farm so they could ride roller coasters and thrill rides for free shouldn’t be hard to find after they posted clear images of their faces in a viral TikTok video with 1.4 million views.
  The trespassing incident at the Buena Park theme park took place on May 20, according to the Buena Park Police Department.
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• Angels’ bullpen eager to make more consistent contributions

  30-05-2024 04:40 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Twice on Tuesday the top two batters of the dreaded New York Yankees’ lineup came to the plate in the late innings of a tight game.
  The Angels’ bullpen not only dispatched the duo, four relievers combined for four perfect innings against an offense that entered Wednesday night’s game leading MLB in home runs (82) and in OPS (.770).
  The next challenge is repeating the feat, or something like it, so that it becomes normalized.
  “Everyone’s going to have
  
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• Three old motels are now new affordable housing communities in Stanton

  30-05-2024 03:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Virgina Guevera, 66, had been homeless in Orange County since 2016, living in a car for half a decade before moving into a shelter for a few years.
  But in January, she moved into a new affordable housing complex in Stanton that will be her first permanent home in years.
  “To me, there’s peace and there’s serenity,” Guevera said. “You have privacy.”
  Guevera’s home is in the Clara Vista apartments, one of three motel conversions unveiled on Wednesday, May 2
  
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• L.A.’s guy at the Scripps Spelling Bee is tripped up by the word “desinent”

  30-05-2024 02:35 via ocregister.com
  
  The 12-year-old spelling whiz kid from Los Angeles tripped up Wednesday, May 29, on the word “desinent” in the fourth round of the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland and was eliminated from the finals.
  Oliver Halkett, a sixth-grader at The Mirman School in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the San Fernando Valley, misspelled the adjective that means “forming an end” by choosing the incorrect spelling “desonant.” Katelyn Nguyen, a seventh-grade
  
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• Jon Hughes named boys basketball coach at St. Margaret’s

  30-05-2024 01:48 via ocregister.com
  
  St. Margaret’s hired Jon Hughes as its boys basketball coach, the school announced Wednesday.
  Hughes coached the girls basketball team at Calvary Chapel the past two seasons. Before that he was the boys basketball coach at Calvary Chapel from 2019 to 2021. He led the Eagles to the CIF Southern Section Division 5AA championship in 2021. He was also the school’s athletic director.
  At St. Margaret’s he replaces Chris Nordstrom, who resigned recently and will remain a teacher at St
  
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• Dodgers break out of slump, complete trip with sweep of Mets

  30-05-2024 01:40 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — If you can break it here, you can break it anywhere.
  The Dodgers arrived at Citi Field reeling from a three-game sweep in Cincinnati, slumping offensively and wearing a five-game losing streak, their longest in five years.
  They snapped the losing streak on Tuesday and broke out of the offensive slump on Wednesday, completing a three-game sweep of the New York Mets with a 10-3 victory.
  The 10 runs were the most they had scored in a game since a 10-2 win in San Francisco on May 14
  
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• Photos: Valedictorians and top scholars for Orange County’s Class of 2024

  30-05-2024 01:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Name: Laci Armenta —
  Age: 18 —
  High school: Brea Olinda High School —
  GPA: 3.8 —
  High School Activities or Groups: I have been apart of ASB for 4 years and have gladly served as ASB president this past year. I have also had the honor of being in Link Crew my last 2 years in high school. —
  After Graduation/College Plans: Going to SDSU —
  Career Goal: Become an elementary school teacher —
  Parents: Amanda Armenta
  Name: Angel Perez
  Age: 18
  High school: Capist
  
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• Services set for longtime sports official ‘Speed’ Castillo

  30-05-2024 01:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Services for longtime Orange County sports referee Espiridion “Speed” Castillo will be held at Christ Cathedral on June 27 at 11 a.m.
  A reception is to follow the Mass at Christ Cathedral. Burial is at Riverside National Cemetery on June 28 at 10 a.m.
  Castillo died May 18 in Anaheim of natural causes. He was 94.
  Castillo was a high school and college football and basketball official for 47 years, retiring in 2000. He was the Orange County liaison of officials for the CIF Southern Sec
  
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• Coroner: Former Palm Desert Assemblymember Brian Nestande died of drug overdose

  30-05-2024 01:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Brian Nestande, a former state assemblyman and county administrator found dead in his Palm Desert home on March 6, died of a drug overdose, the Riverside County Coroner’s Bureau has determined.
  Related ArticlesNews | Westminster man gets 21 years in prison for selling fentanyl, other drugs through darknetNews | California is joining with a New Jersey company to buy a generic opioid overdose reversal drugNews | Sammy’s Law in California seeks to protect youth from social media drug sa
  
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• Chargers plan to get creative with outside linebackers

  30-05-2024 01:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Chargers linebackers Tuli Tuipulotu, left, and Khalil Mack look on during an OTA workout on Wednesday at Hoag Performance Center in Costa Mesa. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert throws passes during an OTA workout on Wednesday at Hoag Performance Center in Costa Mesa. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Chargers running back Kimani Vidal, right, carries the ball past safety Thomas Harper during an OTA workout on Wednesday
  
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• Repeat drunken-driver charged with murder in Newport Beach collision that killed Rialto girl

  30-05-2024 01:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County prosecutors charged a Fontana man who has previous drunken driving convictions with murder Wednesday, four days after a Memorial Day weekend collision on the Balboa Peninsula that killed a 14-year-old girl as she tried to cross a busy street.
  Joseph Alcazar, 30, was charged with crimes including murder, driving under the influence of alcohol causing great bodily injury with two previous prior convictions; driving under the influence of alcohol with a BAC of 0.08 or higher with two
  
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• Repeat drunken-driver charged with murder in death of 14-year-old girl on Balboa Peninsula

  30-05-2024 01:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County prosecutors charged a Fontana man who has previous drunken driving convictions with murder Wednesday, four days after a Memorial Day weekend accident on the Balboa Peninsula that killed a 14-year-old girl as she tried to cross a busy street.
  Joseph Alcazar, 30, was charged with crimes including murder, driving under the influence of alcohol causing great bodily injury with two previous prior convictions; driving under the influence of alcohol with a BAC of 0.08 or higher with two p
  
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• KTLA veteran weatherman Mark Kriski suffers ‘mild stroke’

  30-05-2024 00:58 via ocregister.com
  
  KTLA5 veteran weatherman Mark Kriski was recovering Wednesday from a “mild stroke” suffered earlier in the week.
  Kriski, who has been a fixture on the KTLA Morning News program since it began more than 30 years ago, “is getting the best medical care and looks forward to being back with the team soon,” according to a social media post from the station.
  “Mark checked in with us earlier on Wednesday and we’re happy to report that he’s in good spirits,&rdquo
  
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• All-Orange County girls beach volleyball team plus players and coach of the year

  30-05-2024 00:37 via ocregister.com
  
  ALL-COUNTY GIRLS BEACH VOLLEYBALL 2024
  PLAYERS OF THE YEAR
  Emma Champagne and Sara Moynihan, JSerra
  They led JSerra to a league championship, the semifinals of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 girls beach volleyball team championships and went deeper in the CIF-SS pairs playoffs than any other Orange County team.
  The duo of sophomores Emma Champagne and Sara Moynihan stood out throughout the beach volleyball season.
  This was the second season that the CIF Southern Section had girls beach voll
  
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• Amazon opens its first California pharmacy in Corona

  30-05-2024 00:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Amazon is getting into the pharmacy business in California.
  The online mega-retailer on Wednesday, May 29, officially opened its first pharmacy in the state. Located in an industrial area of Corona in western Riverside County, the pharmacy near the 15 and 91 freeways promises to deliver prescription drugs — often within hours — using the same infrastructure that puts other goods on customers’ doorsteps.
  Once fully ramped up, the pharmacy, which technically opened in March, will
  
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• Twelve years later Lashinda Demus will finally get her gold medal in Paris

  30-05-2024 00:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Lashinda Demus was busy coaching in March 2023 when she received a text from a friend.
  “Congratulations!” the message said.
  “Congratulations?” Demus responded.
  “I didn’t even have a clue what he was talking about,” Demus, the Inglewood native and former Long Beach Wilson High School standout hurdler, recalled Wednesday.
  It wasn’t until her friend forwarded her a news report that Demus learned that the International Olympic Committee had elevated he
  
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• French Open: No. 1 Iga Swiatek fends off Naomi Osaka upset bid

  29-05-2024 23:41 via ocregister.com
  
  PARIS — Iga Swiatek played like the current No. 1 and the two-time defending champion at the French Open. No surprise there. That Naomi Osaka looked like the former No. 1 that she is — and on clay, no less — amounted to an announcement that she is still quite capable of elite tennis.
  Surging down the stretch as Osaka faded, Swiatek saved a match point and grabbed the last five games to sneak her way to a 7-6 (1), 1-6, 7-5 victory in the second round of the French Open on Wednes
  
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• California legislators advance bills aimed at toxic chemicals, pesticides, lead

  29-05-2024 23:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles area legislators are leading the charge to combat chemicals connected to leukemia, ADHD, hearing loss and breast cancer — and more — through a series of proposed environmental laws.
  Assemblymember Laura Friedman, D-Burbank, is pushing a bill to ban the herbicide paraquat, which has been linked to a 64% increase in the risk of Parkinson’s disease.
  Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, D-Encino, is backing an effort to ban six harmful food dyes from meals provided in public s
  
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• State advances measures targeting AI discrimination and deepfakes

  29-05-2024 23:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By Tran Nguyen | Associated Press
  SACRAMENTO — As corporations increasingly weave artificial intelligence technologies into the daily lives of Americans, California lawmakers want to build public trust, fight algorithmic discrimination and outlaw deepfakes that involve elections or pornography.
  The efforts in California — home to many of the world’s biggest AI companies — could pave the way for AI regulations across the country. The United States is already behind Europe
  
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• Anaheim man convicted of killing ex-girlfriend while awaiting trial on domestic violence case

  29-05-2024 23:17 via ocregister.com
  
  An Anaheim man was convicted Wednesday of killing his ex-girlfriend shortly after getting into a brawl outside a nightclub and while awaiting trial for a domestic violence attack against the same woman.
  An Orange County Superior Court jury deliberated for about a day and a half before finding Aaron Romo, 37, guilty of first-degree murder, among other charges, for beating and strangling 24-year-old Mirelle Mateus in the early morning hours of March 17, 2023.
  While Romo himself maintained his inno
  
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• Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman hopes he has found his swing

  29-05-2024 23:12 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — Freddie Freeman is flattered by your concern.
  “The thing that makes me kind of smile is when people come up to me and say, ‘Oh, you’re not playing that well,” said Freeman whose batting average has been below .300 for most of May and who went 26 games between home runs at one point. “I’m, ‘That’s still okay. Thank you for believing that there’s way more in there.’
  “It’s nice that the bar is so high up here a
  
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• County chooses status quo at OC Animal Care

  29-05-2024 22:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County residents who had expected transformational change at the animal-care facility were surely disappointed at the county’s selection in April of a new director, Monica Schmidt. She has the requisite experience and appears open to public input, but she comes from within an agency that has been failing OC residents and animals for years. Schmidt had been serving as interim director and previously as assistant director.
  The shelter situation has been abysmal for decades, with OC An
  
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• Laguna Beach home east of PCH hits new city benchmark, selling for $18.3 million

  29-05-2024 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The hillside home has set a record in Laguna Beach for the all-time highest price sale east of Pacific Coast Highway. (Photo by Brandon Beechler)
  Disappearing corner glass walls extend the dining room onto the pool terrace. (Photo by Brandon Beechler)
  The kitchen opens to the great room. (Photo by Brandon Beechler)
  The ultra-luxe gourmet kitchen. (Photo by Brandon Beechler)
  The barbecue center just outside the kitchen. (Photo by Brandon Beechler)
  The primary walk-in closet. (Photo by Brandon Bee
  
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• Swanson: Alexa Melton’s approach to U.S. Women’s Open? ‘It’s just golf’

  29-05-2024 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  A girl just wants to have fun.
  That seems pretty straightforward when you’re a kid winning junior golf tournaments: Hit it as straight as you can, get it in the hole in as few strokes as possible, show off your new trophy to your proud grandpa.
  Of course, anyone who’s kept at it can tell you golf is not nearly so simple. That you’ll have to deal with the elements, with rough stuff and sneaky undulation, with bad breaks and busted lip-outs.
  That you might find yourself spending
  
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• Iceland volcano erupts again, shooting lava into the sky

  29-05-2024 22:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By Marco di Marco | Associated Press
  GRINDAVIK, Iceland — A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted Wednesday for the fifth time since December, spewing red lava that once again threatened the coastal town of Grindavik and led to the evacuation of the popular Blue Lagoon geothermal spa.
  The eruption began in the early afternoon following a series of earthquakes north of the town of 3,800 people that was largely evacuated in December when the volcano came to life after centuries of dormancy
  
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• Why most EVs in the US are still being shipped to the same few states

  29-05-2024 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kyle Stock | Bloomberg
  As the US car market swiftly and steadily goes electric, the Volkswagen ID.4 remains near the front of an increasingly crowded field. Americans bought nearly 6,200 of them in the first three months of this year.
  But if you want an ID.4 in South Dakota, you better act fast — only three in the state are unspoken for. The same is true in Arkansas and Mississippi, according to the latest data from CarGurus Inc., a listing platform that captures most US new car invento
  
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• The Audible: On the late Bill Walton, Ty Lue and Dave Roberts

  29-05-2024 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Jim Alexander: Lots of words have been written and spoken – including by the both of us – following the passing of Bill Walton on Monday at age 71. I referred to him as a “force of nature,” but that may just have scratched the surface. And the amazing thing about the last couple of days and the reaction to a death that was untimely – and, to those of us not in the know, unexpected – was that there were so many different ways in which his impact was measured: B
  
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• Here’s how to stay safe when visiting national parks this summer

  29-05-2024 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Mia Taylor | TravelPulse (TNS)
  At Death Valley National Park, summer temperatures can reach as high as 130 to 134 degrees.
  For some travelers, that would be reason enough not to visit. But for others, it’s the exact motivation for a trek to Death Valley during the summer: The novelty of experiencing temperatures you’d be hard-pressed to find elsewhere around the globe.
  “Some folks are seeking out what they consider to be a rare experience,” Nichole Andler, a park ranger w
  
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