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• Crowd at Gaza Solidarity Encampment demanding UCI reverse suspensions, divest; police have arrived

  15-05-2024 23:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Students and supporters calling for UC Irvine administrators to drop suspensions of students involved in a Gaza Solidarity Encampment on campus and meet other demands kicked up the pressure on Wednesday.
  A couple hundred supporters gathered right outside the walls of the Pro-Palestinian encampment in the afternoon in response to a call for an emergency coalition protest.
  Over the course of an hour, the encampment was expanded to take over the quad area in front of the Physical Sciences Lecture H
  
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• Fontana denies wrongdoing in 2018 police interrogation characterized as ‘psychological torture’

  31-05-2024 00:56 via ocregister.com
  
  In a forceful defense of its police officers, Fontana city officials say detectives did nothing illegal in the 2018 interrogation of a man who was “psychologically tortured” into falsely confessing to killing his father.
  An unsigned statement on the city’s website posted Wednesday, May 29, said, “the City of Fontana vigorously denies that (any officer) violated any state or federal law during the investigation.”
  The city recently paid nearly $900,000 to settle a fed
  
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• U.S. women’s water polo blends youth and experience with roster selections for Paris Olympics

  31-05-2024 00:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSeven first-time Olympians will join decorated Southern California attackers Maddie Musselman, Rachel Fattal and Kaleigh Gilchrist on the U.S. women’s water polo team at the Paris Olympics as it attempts to claim a fourth consecutive gold medal.
  The U.S. federation announced its 13-player Olympic roster on Thursday as the countdown continues toward opening ceremonies in Paris on July 26.
  “We h
  
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• OC new Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs kicks off work

  31-05-2024 00:28 via ocregister.com
  
  County officials, community members and service providers are celebrating the launch of a new county office that aims to connect immigrants and refugees with vital resources they need to successfully establish a new home in Orange County.
  A Wednesday event at the County Administration North building in Santa Ana acted as the kickoff for the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs (OIRA) and was also the first in-person meeting of the OC Good Neighbor Task Force, a coalition formed after the fall
  
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• With Trump convicted in New York, what happens next?

  31-05-2024 00:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Rosie Manins | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)
  After being convicted Thursday in New York, former President Donald Trump will remain free from custody while awaiting his sentencing on July 11. And he is certain to appeal which could carry the case into 2025.
  The jury in Trump’s criminal hush money case began deliberating Wednesday and returned a verdict Thursday, finding Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide an alleged affair, which he den
  
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• Can Donald Trump still vote for himself for president in November?

  31-05-2024 00:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Donald Trump may be convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for restricting the voting rights of people with felony convictions. But he can still vote as long as he stays out of prison in New York state.
  That’s because Florida defers to other states’ disenfranchisement rules for residents convicted of out-of-state felonies. In Trump’s case, New York law only removes the right to vote for people convicted of felonies when they&rsqu
  
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• Can Donald Trump still run for president? Can he still vote for himself?

  31-05-2024 00:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Donald Trump may be convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for restricting the voting rights of people with felony convictions. But he can still vote as long as he stays out of prison in New York state.
  That’s because Florida defers to other states’ disenfranchisement rules for residents convicted of out-of-state felonies. In Trump’s case, New York law only removes the right to vote for people convicted of felonies when they&rsqu
  
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• Fryer: Raul Lara trying to get plenty done in a short time as Mater Dei football coach

  30-05-2024 23:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Raul Lara accepted the offer to become Mater Dei’s football coach at a fairly late date.
  He got the very large job, the biggest head coaching job in Orange County sports outside of managing the Angels or coaching the Ducks, on April 25.
  Lara had to scramble to get himself and the Monarchs ready for spring football, including their spring game that was played Wednesday.
  One prominent and successful former county football head coach, when asked if he would take a run at becoming the Mater De
  
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• Former President Trump’s guilty verdict elicits strong reactions from Southern California lawmakers

  30-05-2024 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Democrats praised the country’s legal system. Republicans marked Thursday as “a shameful day in American history.”
  Former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict — on all 34 felony charges in his hush money trial — makes him the first former or sitting president ever convicted of a crime.
  “Despite his efforts to distract, delay and deny, justice arrived for Donald Trump all the same,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democratic contender for U.S. Senate in
  
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• Review: ‘Funny Girl’ in Costa Mesa boasts a mega-talented star

  30-05-2024 23:14 via ocregister.com
  
  At the end of almost any show these days,  theater audiences rise for an obligatory standing ovation as if the doorbell just rang and the last Halloween candy needs doling out.
  Rarely, an audience roars out of its seats with fervent spontaneity, a visceral launch as if the chairs were spring-loaded.
  Tuesday evening, the largely unknown stage actress Katerina McCrimmon, starring as Fanny Brice in the touring “Funny Girl” newly arrived at Segerstrom center, generated that raw erup
  
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• Former President Donald Trump found guilty in hush money trial

  30-05-2024 23:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex.
  Jurors convicted Trump on all 34 counts after deliberating for 9.5 hours.
  The verdict is a stunning legal reckoning for Trump and exposes him to potential prison time in the city where his manipulations of the tabloi
  
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• Unpaid water bills could begin leading to shutoff in Santa Ana again

  30-05-2024 22:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Amid the economic woes of the coronavirus pandemic, Santa Ana placed an emergency moratorium on shutting off the water of those who got behind on paying for the utility and now that it is set to resume it will be with more leniency than in the past.
  The moratorium was a financial lifeline many cities threw to struggling residents and most had already resumed shutoffs. Santa Ana officials said many of the federal and state programs the city was participating in to help with costs had limited fund
  
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• Irvine man who firebombed Planned Parenthood clinic gets 6 years in prison

  30-05-2024 22:37 via ocregister.com
  
  An Irvine man who firebombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa and plotted but did not carry out attacks at an electrical substation in Orange and at Dodger Stadium during an LGBTQ pride event was sentenced Thursday to six years in federal prison.
  Tibet Ergul, pleaded guilty earlier this year to one felony count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility and one misdemeanor account of intentional damage to a reproductive health services facility. Two co-defendant’s of Ergul also ac
  
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• Horse racing: Frankie Dettori’s ‘bizarre’ ride might lead back here

  30-05-2024 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  ARCADIA — Frankie Dettori said so long, arrivederci and au revoir to Santa Anita on Monday as horse racing’s globetrotting superstar rode here for probably the last time this season before moving on to his next midlife adventure.
  In any of the languages the Italian-born jockey gets along in, it’s not goodbye, it’s see you later.
  After putting off a planned retirement, moving from England to the United States and competing at Santa Anita this winter and spring, Dettori now
  
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• Horse racing: Frankie Dettori’s ‘bizarre’ ride may lead back here

  30-05-2024 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  ARCADIA — Frankie Dettori said so long, arrivederci and au revoir to Santa Anita on Monday as horse racing’s globetrotting superstar rode here for probably the last time this season before moving on to his next midlife adventure.
  In any of the languages the Italian-born jockey gets along in, it’s not goodbye, it’s see you later.
  After putting off a planned retirement, moving from England to the United States and competing at Santa Anita this winter and spring, Dettori now
  
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• Orange County’s top committed football recruits, May 30

  30-05-2024 22:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowTop committed high school football recruits from Orange County’s class of 2025:
  Note: Early signing day is Dec. 4
  Name, High school, Position, Height, Weight, College
  Benjamin Alefaio, Orange Lutheran, S, 6-1, 195, Arizona State
  Dash Beierly, Mater Dei, QB, 6-1, 215, Washington
  Quaid Carr, Servite, RB, 6-0, 190, San Diego State
  Jake Flores, JSerra, OL, 6-6, 285, Washington
  Zach Giuliano, Corona del
  
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• Hyundai, suppliers in Alabama sued over alleged child employment

  30-05-2024 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Labor wants a federal judge to prevent Hyundai and two other Alabama companies from what the government contends is the illegal employment of children.
  The complaint filed Thursday follows an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division that found a 13-year-old worked between 50 and 60 hours a week operating machines on an assembly line that formed sheet metal into auto body parts.
  The defendants include Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama LLC, SMART Alab
  
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• Report: Biden finalizing US-Mexico border migrant limit reforms

  30-05-2024 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By Colleen Long and Seung Min Kim | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — The White House is finalizing plans for a U.S.-Mexico border clampdown that would shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once the number of people encountered by American border officials exceeded a new daily threshold, with President Joe Biden expected to sign an executive order as early as Tuesday, according to four people familiar with the matter.
  The president has been weighing additional ex
  
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• Jordan Woolery powers UCLA in Women’s College World Series opener

  30-05-2024 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY — Jordan Woolery dropped the bat and immediately raised her hands. Even though she watched the ball soaring toward the left-field fence, she knew it was gone.
  Knew it was big, too.
  Woolery’s three-run six-inning homer was the difference as sixth-seeded UCLA defeated 14th-seeded Alabama 4-1 in its opener Thursday at the Women’s College World Series.
  The Bruins (43-10) will play the winner of the Oklahoma-Duke game at noon PT Saturday at Devon Park in Oklahoma City.
  
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• Lúa Eatery, a new Vietnamese spot, opens in Dana Point

  30-05-2024 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Located in the old Eden Vegan space inside Dana Point’s Monarch Bay Plaza, Lúa Eatery, helmed by chef and co-owner Khang Nguyen, offers Vietnamese dishes with nods to other Southeast Asian countries and beyond. Currently in its soft-opening stage, Lúa Eatery will make its grand opening on Saturday, June 8.
  Formerly of Gem Dining, Nếp and the Recess Room, Nguyen will feature a fusion-forward menu with such fare as bò kho, a sizzling beef jowl with a poutine-adjace
  
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• Audit explains why California workers wait so long for wage theft claims

  30-05-2024 21:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jeanne Kuang | CalMatters
  Severe understaffing, slow hiring, poor training and inefficient bureaucracy combine to slow California’s investigations of wage theft claims, the state auditor’s office concluded Wednesday.
  The result, according to the audit of the state Labor Commissioner’s Office, is a backlog of 47,000 claims that take six times longer to resolve than the four months set in state law.
  Workers are left waiting years for money they claim they are owed when their e
  
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• Kings add assistant Newell Brown to Jim Hiller’s staff

  30-05-2024 21:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings have hired former Ducks assistant coach Newell Brown to join newly promoted coach Jim Hiller’s staff, the team announced Thursday in a news release.
  After Hiller’s February promotion to interim head coach, he continued his duties running the power play. With the removal of that interim tag, the man-advantage maestro will now be Brown, who will also work with the Kings’ forwards. D.J. Smith, who was fired as head coach by the Ottawa Senators last season, joined the Kin
  
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• Horse racing notes: Big City Lights tries to extend streak at Santa Anita

  30-05-2024 21:07 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANITA LEADERS
  (Through Thursday)
  Jockeys / Wins
  Antonio Fresu / 21
  Juan Hernandez / 20
  Umberto Rispoli / 18
  Kyle Frey / 17
  Edwin Maldonado / 15
  Trainers / Wins
  Mark Glatt / 11
  Phil D’Amato / 11
  Steve Knapp / 10
  Doug O’Neill / 10
  John Sadler / 9
  WEEKEND STAKES
  SANTA ANITA
  Saturday
  • $200,000, Grade II Triple Bend Stakes, 4-year-olds and up, 7 furlongs
  • $100,000, Grade III Honeymoon Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, 1 1/8 miles on turf
  Sunday
  • $100,000 Desert Stormer S
  
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• Disney plan calls for investing up to $17 billion in Florida parks

  30-05-2024 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Florida’s tourism oversight district is poised to adopt a new development agreement with The Walt Disney Co. that officials say will bring up $17 billion of investments at Disney World over the next 10 to 20 years.
  The district’s board will take up the plan on Wednesday, addressing a key source of contention between Gov. Ron DeSantis and Disney.
  “With Walt Disney World’s substantial investments, we anticipate economic growth, job creation, and support for local busin
  
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• The state of policing in the IE: Killing teenagers, mismanaging jails and torturing innocent people

  30-05-2024 20:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Policing in the Inland Empire has been generating a lot of headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent months.
  In April, after 18 months of stonewalling, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department finally released footage of the 2022 killing of 15-year-old Savannah Graziano. Graziano was gunned down as she followed orders from a deputy to approach him in broad daylight.
  Thanks to the work of independent journalist Joey Scott and the First Amendment Coalition, we know now that Sheriff
  
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• Array of mortgages cover hard-to-qualify properties, borrowers

  30-05-2024 20:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Once again, the mortgage world has a huge portfolio of mortgage programs that may get outside-the-conventional box borrowers qualified.
  Let’s start with every mortgage loan originator’s favorite heart-burning challenge: the so-called non-warrantable condominium.
  Ever since the Champlain Towers collapse and tragedy in July 2021 in Surfside, Fla., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been aggressively vetting condo projects across the United States. Does the project have 100% insurance repl
  
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• Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Friday, May 31, 2024

  30-05-2024 20:39 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Friday, May 31, 2024.
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• Newsom unveils plan that would hasten insurance-rate reviews — and increases

  30-05-2024 20:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By Levi Sumagaysay | CalMatters
  Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed legislation to speed up insurance premium rate reviews as he and the Insurance Department try to fix the state’s battered insurance market.
  Last fall, Newsom issued an executive order tasking Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara with fixing home and fire insurance availability and affordability as insurers — citing rising wildfire risk and pandemic-induced inflation, and complaining about having to wait too long to get the
  
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• Azusa man, 81, found dead days after arrest in decade-long slingshot vandalism case

  30-05-2024 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  An 81-year-ol Azusa man died a day after he was charged with using a slingshot to damage seven neighbors’ windows and a car since 2021.
  Azusa police received a call around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday of a possible dead person at a home in the 500 block of North Soldano Avenue and found Prince Raymond King inside, Sgt. Nick Covarrubias said.
  “We didn’t find any evidence of foul play,” he said.
  Covarrubias didn’t know who owns the home.
  King died of arteriosclerotic cardiovas
  
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• 81-year-old suspected Azusa slingshot shooter dies of heart disease

  30-05-2024 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  An 81-year-ol Azusa man died a day after he was charged with using a slingshot to damage seven neighbors’ windows and a car since 2021.
  Azusa police received a call around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday of a possible dead person at a home in the 500 block of North Soldano Avenue and found Prince Raymond King inside, Sgt. Nick Covarrubias said.
  “We didn’t find any evidence of foul play,” he said.
  Covarrubias didn’t know who owns the home.
  King died of arteriosclerotic cardiovas
  
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