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• A Cumbia Week is coming to L.A. and here’s a step-by-step guide for the musical celebration

  19-09-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Get those hips ready to shake and sway because a weeklong celebration of cumbia music is coming to Los Angeles in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.
  “Cumbia is one of the most listened to forms of music, it’s become a global sound,” said Grant C. Dull organizer of  Cumbia Week in Los Angeles.
  The celebration of the high-energy, traditional Latin dance music takes place at several venues throughout the city and will vary from vibrant dance parties to concerts to film screeni
  
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• Fryer: Dana Hills’ Evan Noonan heads into Woodbridge Classic on an epic pace

  20-09-2024 00:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Dana Hills’ Evan Noonan will be off and running to start his senior year Saturday night in the Woodbridge Classic cross country meet at Great Park in Irvine.
  Noonan was last season’s Orange County boys cross country runner of the year and Gatorade’s boys cross country runner of the year in California. He repeated as a CIF Southern Section (Division 3) and state champion.
  In track and field, Noonan was the CIF state champion in the 3,200 meters. He was Orange County’s only
  
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• Los Alamitos horse racing consensus picks for Friday, September 20, 2024

  19-09-2024 23:45 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Los Alamitos horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Friday, September 20, 2024.
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• Chargers QB Justin Herbert limited in return to practice

  19-09-2024 23:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Justin Herbert returned to the practice field Thursday at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, but the Chargers said his participation was limited because of an injured right ankle. His status for the Chargers’ game Sunday against the Steelers in Pittsburgh remained to be determined.
  Herbert was observed throwing passes, but he did not join his teammates for drills during the period open to reporters. The Chargers’ quarterback was injured on a third-down scramble in the third
  
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• Dodgers’ Andrew Friedman: Shohei Ohtani is ‘not really an option’ to pitch in postseason

  19-09-2024 23:42 via ocregister.com
  
  MIAMI — There has been a lot of talk about Shohei Ohtani possibly pitching if the Dodgers go deep enough in the postseason this year.
  Ohtani has not been involved in any of that talk.
  “There’s no conversation that was brought about with the pitching coach in terms of pitching in the postseason,” Ohtani said through his interpreter this week. “But we’re going to have a meeting back in L.A. to discuss the overall rehab progression.”
  The meeting has nothing
  
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• Bowling’s 1950s boom in suburbs gets fresh spin in new book

  19-09-2024 23:21 via ocregister.com
  
  The heyday of bowling alleys in Southern California is the subject of a new book. Author Chris Nichols gives all credit to Covina Bowl, his family’s favored bowling center of the 1980s.
  “I loved it so much,” says Nichols, 53, who grew up in the San Gabriel Valley. “I spent so many childhood milestones there.”
  Nichols organized a 60th anniversary party in 2016 for Covina Bowl. (I was there.) After the last pin fell in 2017, he was among those who successfully advocat
  
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• Gov. Newsom calls out Southern California cities while signing homeless, housing bills

  19-09-2024 23:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom called out Huntington Beach and Norwalk Thursday, Sept. 19, during a press conference announcing the passage of 32 laws aimed at the state’s housing and homelessness crises.
  Newsom signed seven of the 32 bills, alongside Attorney General Rob Bonta, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Bay Area state legislators Timothy Grayson and Buffy Wicks and Secretary of the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Tomiquia Moss.
  “We can pass all these laws and if folks at t
  
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• Gov. Newsom calls out Huntington Beach while signing homeless, housing bills

  19-09-2024 23:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom called out Huntington Beach and Norwalk Thursday, Sept. 19, during a press conference announcing the passage of 32 laws aimed at the state’s housing and homelessness crises.
  Newsom signed seven of the 32 bills, alongside Attorney General Rob Bonta, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Bay Area state legislators Timothy Grayson and Buffy Wicks and Secretary of the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Tomiquia Moss.
  “We can pass all these laws and if folks at t
  
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• Former Orange County election official tells story of protecting the vote in 2020

  19-09-2024 23:10 via ocregister.com
  
  The leadup to the 2020 election was marked by widening partisan polarization, raging wildfires in California and the COVID-19 pandemic.
  In the middle of that turbulence was Jackie Wu, who was working at the Orange County Registrar of Voters as a community outreach manager in charge of executing a voter outreach plan and assisting with proofing all election materials.
  That year, voter turnout in Orange County was 87.3%, one of the highest in the state. An incredible feat on its own, it was even m
  
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• Lazerson: Rate cut means home prices will moderate as inventory rises

  19-09-2024 22:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Sorry, house hunters, the recent rate cut by the Federal Reserve won’t move the housing market much.
  A host of economists I surveyed offered modest expectations after central bankers cut their benchmark interest rates for the first time in four years. The Fed’s rate took a somewhat unexpected half-point trim as unemployment is rising and inflation diminishing. Most predictions were for a one-quarter point cut.
  Related: Cheaper rates don’t get house hunters buying. US sales
  
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• Horse racing: Like John Henry, trainer Ron McAnally endures

  19-09-2024 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  A visitor to the Tarzana, Calif., home of Ron and Debbie McAnally immediately feels the presence of John Henry.
  A painting of John Henry by the renowned equine artist Richard Stone Reeves rules over the living room. Memories of the 1981 and 1984 North American horse of the year dominate a conversation with the McAnallys. That steel-drivin’ horse was a favorite subject for Reeves, and he was the masterpiece of Ron McAnally’s thoroughbred training career.
  “So many stories. I can&
  
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• Taco Bell is bringing back the Big Cheez-It on Friday, Sept. 20

  19-09-2024 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  The Big Cheez-It is coming back to Taco Bell.
  The Irvine-based fast food giant will resume serving Big Cheez-It menu items on Friday, Sept. 20, according to a news release.
  Related linkTaco Bell gets date changed for National Taco DayThey include the Big Cheez-It Crunchwrap Supreme at a suggested price of $5.49 and its Big Cheez-It Tostada at $2.99.
  This time the Crunchwrap will have two Cheez-Its encased in a tortilla with beef, cheese sauce, sour cream and diced tomatoes. The original version
  
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• Starbucks new CEO on return to office: ‘We’re all adults here’

  19-09-2024 22:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By Daniela Sirtori | Bloomberg
  New Starbucks Corp. Chief Executive Brian Niccol thinks his employees should be wherever they need to be to get their jobs done. More often than not, he said, that place is the office.
  In Niccol’s first staff address after taking the top job this month, he extolled the “power in having everybody together” but said he wouldn’t tell them what specific days to badge in at the company’s Seattle headquarters or at what time, according to a
  
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• Horse racing notes: Bob Baffert, Richard Mandella horses top Los Alamitos feature

  19-09-2024 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ALAMITOS LEADERS
  (Through Sunday)
  Jockeys / Wins
  Edwin Maldonado / 3
  Armando Ayuso / 3
  Diego Herrera / 3
  Edgar Payeras / 3
  Mario Gutierrez / 2
  Tyler Baze / 2
  Trainers / Wins
  Craig Dollase / 2
  Charles Treece / 2
  Jeff Mullins / 2
  Sergio Morfin / 2
  (16 tied) / 1
  WEEKEND STAKES
  LOS ALAMITOS THOROUGHBREDS
  Saturday
  • $125,000 Dark Mirage Stakes, fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up, 1 mile
  DOWN THE STRETCH
  • Two Hall of Fame trainers take different tacks in the Dark Mirage Stakes at Los
  
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• Tupperware bankruptcy spat delays pay for 465,000 door-to-door workers

  19-09-2024 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By Steven Church | Bloomberg
  Tupperware’s first day in bankruptcy court hit a sour note as the 78-year-old company that’s synonymous with storing leftovers was forced to delay paying 465,000 door-to-door contractors because of a spat with lenders.
  The standoff threatens to quash Tupperware’s revival plans before the company has a chance to hold a court-supervised auction designed to attract investors willing to save the money-losing business. That’s because Tupperware has
  
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• Hot flashes, brain fog, frisky older women and Dr. Ruth: A chat with a sexual health expert

  19-09-2024 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Wendy Ruderman | (TNS) The Philadelphia Inquirer
  PHILADELPHIA — Robyn Faye, a certified menopause practitioner, gave up obstetrics more than a decade ago to focus on menopause, sexual health and gender-affirming care. In 2015, she became only the second medical doctor in Pennsylvania to be certified as a sex counselor through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT).
  Faye said she decided to go back to school to become a s
  
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• Costa Mesa-based Anduril teams up with Microsoft on Army combat goggles

  19-09-2024 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By Tony Capaccio | Bloomberg
  Defense technology startup Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa is teaming up with Microsoft to improve the performance of new combat goggles for the US Army.
  Anduril said Thursday that the project could generate as much as $21.9 billion from the service over a decade.
  The goggles, based on virtual reality headsets with which Anduril’s founder Palmer Luckey is inherently familiar, are intended to give soldiers everything from night-vision capability to warnings of
  
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• The Audible: Shohei Ohtani’s MVP chances, Mike Trout’s future, and so long, Woj

  19-09-2024 21:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Jim Alexander: We seem to be having a fairly lively debate on Shohei Ohtani’s bid for his third MVP award in four seasons, and first in the National League. It doesn’t transcend the Dodgers star’s chase for baseball’s first 50-50 season; he got his 49th stolen base Wednesday night in Miami and needs two homers to reach 50, although it seems to this untrained (but experienced) eye that he’s pressing, chasing some pitches he shouldn’t in the quest for history. F
  
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• Disney’s animation boss steps down to focus on ‘Frozen’ sequels

  19-09-2024 21:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Disney shook up its animation leadership on Thursday as part of an ongoing effort to improve movie quality.
  Jennifer Lee, who has led Disney’s flagship animation operation since 2018, delivering the smash hit “Encanto” and the wipeout “Strange World,” will step down effective immediately, Disney said. She will remain at Disney as a writer-director and focus on shaping the company’s all-important “Frozen” franchise.
  Disney named Jared Bush, 50, to s
  
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• ‘A natural leader’: Ducks name Radko Gudas team captain

  19-09-2024 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Defenseman Radko Gudas was named the ninth captain in Ducks franchise history Thursday, becoming the first player to sport the “C” on his jersey since Ryan Getzlaf’s retirement in 2022.
  Gudas, 34, signed as a free agent with the Ducks before last season after going on a run to the Stanley Cup Final with the Florida Panthers. He had previously played for the Washington Capitals, Philadelphia Flyers and Tampa Bay Lightning.
  He arrived to Tampa Bay as a fourth-round pick in 2010,
  
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• Nearly 138,000 beds under recall after reports of them breaking, collapsing

  19-09-2024 21:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Nearly 138,000 platform beds sold at major retailers including Amazon and Walmart are being recalled across the U.S. and Canada because they can collapse, posing fall and injury risks.
  Utah-based importer CVB Inc. is recalling the Lucid-branded platform beds with upholstered square tufted headboards. According to Thursday notices from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, the beds can sag, break or collapse during use.
  To date, there have been 245 incidents of this occur
  
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• Orange County girls soccer standouts deliver college commitments

  19-09-2024 20:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSanta Margarita soccer goalie Peyton Trayer discovered “everything and more” she wanted in a collegiate program in national powerhouse North Carolina.
  The junior recently committed to the Tar Heels to highlight a flurry of high-profile college announcements by Orange County girls soccer standouts.
  “It was everything and more I wanted in a school,” Trayer said of North Carolina, which ha
  
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• Best 5 things I ate at Six Flags Fright Fest

  19-09-2024 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Six Flags Fright Fest has plenty of blood bags, diablo dogs, dragon’s legs, roadkill nachos and spiked syringes to fill your tummy when you’re done fleeing all the brainless zombies, crazed clowns and serial killers at the annual Halloween event.
  Fright Fest Extreme runs on select night through Nov. 3 at Six Flags Magic Mountain with 11 haunted mazes, nine scare zones and a host of spooky food.
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• San Marino estate of late Vons CEO Roger E. Stangeland seeks $8M

  19-09-2024 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The living room. (Photo by Erik Grammar)
  Detail of the living room fireplace. (Photo by Erik Grammar)
  The sun room opens to the terrace. (Photo by Erik Grammar)
  The bar in the sun room. (Photo by Erik Grammar)
  The dining room. (Photo by Erik Grammar)
  The kitchen. (Photo by Erik Grammar)
  Detail of the tiles that decorate the range. (Photo by Erik Grammar)
  The family room. (Photo by Erik Grammar)
  The wood-paneled den. (Photo by Erik Grammar)
  The basement-level rec room. (Photo by Erik Grammar)
  The
  
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• Mary-Louise Parker understands drama better than anyone else, says director

  19-09-2024 19:58 via ocregister.com
  
  For more than three decades, Mary-Louise Parker has been one of America’s finest stage actresses, creating distinctive characters in more than a dozen roles, earning Tony nominations for “Prelude to a Kiss,”  “How I Learned to Drive,” “Proof,” “Reckless,” and “The Sound Inside” (and winning for “Proof” and “Sound Inside”). But while she found a good match for her darkly comic and off-beat persona on TV
  
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• Helpful or ‘inhumane?’ One South Florida city’s app lets people report ‘homeless concerns’

  19-09-2024 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Raisa Habersham | (TNS) Miami Herald
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Alongside pothole repair requests and complaints about flooded streets, Fort Lauderdale residents can now report homelessness in their communities through the city app FixIt FTL, which is typically used for non-emergency events.
  The city is using the new app function in response to a state law that will soon prohibit unauthorized camping on public property, according to Chris Cooper, acting assi
  
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• Big Lots closing Apple Valley distribution hub, laying off all 349 employees

  19-09-2024 19:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Debt-ridden and bankrupt, Big Lots is permanently closing its Apple Valley distribution center, laying off all 349 employees at the facility by Oct. 31.
  In a letter to Mayor Scott Nassif and the state’s Employment Development Department, the company stated all associates who are “involuntarily terminated as a result of the closure” will get pay and benefits through Nov. 3.
  Also see: Big Lots closing 75 stores in California. See the list
  Staff at the distribution center at
  
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• Wildly popular ’80s toy has another shot to overcome long-running snub

  19-09-2024 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  My Little Pony has again made the list of finalists for the National Toy Hall of Fame. Maybe the seventh time will be a charm.
   
  The pastel toy horse with the silky mane is among this year’s 12 contenders, said the announcement Wednesday from the Strong National Museum of Play, in Rochester, N.Y.
  Introduced in the early 1980s, My Little Pony became an immediate hit, for a time outselling Barbie and spawning movies and TV shows. The 2010 animated series “My Little Pony: Friendshi
  
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• Metrolink will add midday trains for nontraditional workers, tourists

  19-09-2024 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Commuters board a southbound Metrolink train at the Metrolink train station in Tustin.(Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Riders disembark a Metrolink train in Los Angeles. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG
  A southbound Metrolink train leaves the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, also known as, ARTIC, in Anaheim. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  A passenger runs with his bicycle to Metrolink train 899 departing to Los Ang
  
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• Hackers have stolen your personal information in a data breach. Now what?

  19-09-2024 19:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Mike Hughlett | (TNS) The Minnesota Star Tribune
  I almost threw away the mailing I got in mid-July from MNGI Digestive Health. I couldn’t remember ever patronizing the place. Must be more junk mail.
  Then I remembered I’d recently written about MNGI and another Twin Cities medical firm, Consulting Radiologists. They had both been hacked, together exposing personal data of over 1 million people. Turns out I was one of them.
  Like millions of Americans, I faced the specter of identity th
  
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