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• Beans, berries, herbs and more to plant in the garden right now

  14-11-2024 16:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Five things to do in the garden this week:
  Fruit crops. Bramble plants (blackberry and raspberry), like deciduous fruit trees, are best planted in Southern California in the fall or winter. Bramble fruit are harvested from canes which produce a crop in their second year of growth. After they fruit, the canes die and should be removed once they turn completely brown and dry, a sign that the nutrients in the canes have returned to the plant’s perennial roots and can be recycled into new cane
  
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• Horse racing notes: Silent Law can extend Bob Baffert’s rule at Del Mar

  14-11-2024 22:56 via ocregister.com
  
  DEL MAR LEADERS
  (Through Sunday)
  Jockeys / Wins
  Hector Berrios / 6
  Antonio Fresu / 6
  Kazushi Kimura / 5
  Tiago Pereira / 4
  Juan Hernandez / 4
  Umberto Rispoli / 4
  Trainers / Wins
  Mark Glatt / 5
  George Papaprodromou / 4
  Peter Miller / 4
  Doug O’Neill / 4
  Steve Miyadi / 3
  Phil D’Amato / 3
  WEEKEND STAKES
  DEL MAR
  Saturday
  • $100,000 Desi Arnaz Stakes, 2-year-old fillies, 7 furlongs
  Sunday
  • $100,000, Grade III Bob Hope Stakes, 2-year-olds, 7 furlongs
  LOS ALAMITOS
  Saturday
  • $
  
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• Tate McRae will perform at the Kia Forum in September

  14-11-2024 22:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Canadian pop star, singer and dancer Tate McRae will bring her Miss Possessive Tour to the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Friday, Sept. 26.
  Tickets for the tour supporting her third studio album, “So Close To What,” will go on sale exclusively for AMEX card holders on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at tatemcrae.com. There will also be an artist presale on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster.com. The general sale will begin on Friday, Nov. 22, at 11 a.m. via Ticketmaster.com.
  At 13, Mc
  
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• Riverside County: The deadliest year inside one of America’s deadliest jail systems

  14-11-2024 22:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By Christopher Damien
  Christopher Damien is reporting about law enforcement in Southern California’s inland and desert communities as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship.
  Alicia Upton paced the concrete floor of her jail cell. She looked around the cramped quarters. Then she pressed the alert button on an intercom attached to the wall.
  “What is your emergency?” responded a voice, captured on video footage from a camera in the cell. It was a deputy
  
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• The Audible: On USC’s ‘probation,’ ageless LeBron, and Paul George vs. Clippers fans

  14-11-2024 22:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Jim Alexander: Only in the NCAA can you get in trouble – if you want to call it that – for violating a rule that has since been rescinded. Which is why we woke up Thursday to stories of USC’s football program being put on probation.
  Or, as the Fox News website headlined it: “USC football fined and put on probation for major NCAA violations,” Uh-huh, sure. Major. Right.
  This was hardly “Reggie Bush’s parents get a new house” territory. It wasn&rsquo
  
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• US mortgage rates dip, but economists see volatility ahead

  14-11-2024 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALEX VEIGA
  The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. edged lower this week, ending a six-week climb.
  The rate slipped to 6.78% from 6.79% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. That’s still down from a year ago, when the rate averaged 7.4%.
  Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners seeking to refinance their home loan to a lower rate, also eased this week. The average rate slipped to 5.99% from 6% last week. A year ago, it averaged 6
  
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• Jobless claims fall to lowest level in 6 months, following drop in interest rates, inflation

  14-11-2024 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT OTT
  The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level in six months last week as layoffs remain at relatively healthy levels.
  The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claim applications fell by 4,000 to 217,000 for the week of Nov. 9. That’s less than the 225,000 analysts forecast.
  The four-week average of weekly claims, which evens out some of the weekly ups and downs, fell by 6,250 to 221,000.
  Weekly applications for jobless benefits a
  
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• Dan Albano’s Orange County football Top 35 rankings, Nov. 14

  14-11-2024 21:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOCVarsity’s Dan Albano votes weekly in the Orange County football Top 25 poll.
  Here is how he voted this week for the Top 25 and his “Next 10” teams:
  1. Mater Dei (9-0) vs. Sierra Canyon
  2. Mission Viejo (10-0) vs. Centennial
  3. Orange Lutheran (7-3) vs. JSerra
  4. JSerra (6-4) at Orange Lutheran
  5. Santa Margarita (5-6) at St. John Bosco
  6. San Juan Hills (9-1) at Oaks Christian
  7. Servi
  
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• Six Flags Magic Mountain plans 21st roller coaster for 2026

  14-11-2024 21:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Six Flags Magic Mountain will extend its lead as the Roller Coaster Capital of the World when the Valencia amusement park adds a 21st coaster to its record-setting lineup while continuing to fend off challenges by rivals edging ever closer to the title.
  Six Flags Magic Mountain will debut a new coaster in 2026 that will be a first-of-its-kind thrill ride in North America, according to Six Flags officials.
  The new Magic Mountain coaster is part of Six Flags’ plan to spend $1 billion o
  
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• Farmers, educators aim to make organic produce available in California public schools

  14-11-2024 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  While California’s fertile soils sprout some of the country’s best produce, the transition from pedigree farms to public school cafeterias isn’t always so fruitful.
  Enter the Farm-to-School summit at the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano, hosted recently by Rumiano Cheese, wherein dozens of California farmers, educators, food service workers and curious citizenry gathered on an early fall afternoon to tour the 28-acre parcel, enjoy meals grown from nearby soil and talk abou
  
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• Mike Tyson, 58, concedes the villain role to Jake Paul

  14-11-2024 20:29 via ocregister.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas — Friendship is at the heart of how a fight came together between 58-year-old former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and much younger YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.
  Friction helped build the hype for a bout that is testing the formula for how boxing is delivered to the masses, a first-ever combat sports offering from the streaming platform Netflix rather than pay-per-view or traditional cable.
  “I think they’re beloved fans of Mike Tyson,” Paul said, try
  
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• Tyler Childers is bringing the On The Road Tour to the Hollywood Bowl

  14-11-2024 20:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Tyler Childers is set to embark on his On The Road stadium and arena tour, which will make a stop at the Hollywood Bowl on June 10, 2025.
  Presented by Live Nation, the Grammy-nominated country singer-songwriter will be joined by a rotating lineup of special guests, including Wynonna Judd, Charley Crockett, Robert Earl Keen, The Hold Steady, Medium Build, Deer Tick, Hayes Carll, S.G. Goodman, Cory Branan, and SOMA.
  The tour kicks off April 3 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans and includes
  
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• My Chemical Romance is bringing the Long Live the Black Parade tour to Dodger Stadium

  14-11-2024 20:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Less than a month after delivering a memorable performance of “The Black Parade” in its entirety at the When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas, My Chemical Romance has announced an upcoming stadium tour where the band will play its iconic album in full once more.
  The emo-rock legends will make a stop at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on Saturday, July 26, 2025, with special guest Wallows. Produced by Live Nation, the 10-city stadium trek, aptly named Long Live The Black Parade,
  
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• Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opens new $75 million ‘front porch’ on Nov. 17

  14-11-2024 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  With the hope of getting more people through their doors, Natural History Museum officials are opening the venue’s new “front porch” this Sunday, Nov. 17 with a free community block party that will include live music, food and even a dinosaur.
  “We really want to be a place that the community sees is for them. So it’s important for us to have a space that people can come into and feel like they’re welcomed and they belong here,” said Dr. Lori Bettison-Var
  
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• Dogs competed in a ‘smile-off’ contest at the National Dog Show preview. Everybody won

  14-11-2024 19:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By Stephanie Farr, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
  PHILADELPHIA — Two dog breeds renowned for their uncanny smiles — the Lancashire heeler and the Samoyed — were pitted head-to-head in a “smile-off” contest at the National Dog Show press preview Tuesday, shepherding in howls of laughter from the crowd and confused head tilts from the contestants.
  These noble descendants of wolves, bred to strike fear in the hearts of livestock with their impeccable herding skil
  
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• At packed UFO hearing, calls for transparency ring loud

  14-11-2024 19:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By Justin Papp, CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
  The email came through one day in January 2015, according to Tim Gallaudet, during a pre-deployment exercise off the East Coast that included the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group.
  The subject line read, in all caps, “URGENT SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE,” recalls Gallaudet, then commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command. In his telling, the email from an operations officer asked for any information on a series of unknown objects di
  
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• UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond receives contract extension through 2029

  14-11-2024 19:31 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA has extended athletic director Martin Jarmond’s contract through 2029, the school announced in a press release Thursday morning.
  “In just four years, Martin has redefined UCLA Athletics – creating new opportunities for Bruins to compete on the biggest stages, making major investments in student-athlete wellness and success, taking important steps to shore up the financial health of our athletics enterprise and putting an inclusive culture at the center of the department,&r
  
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• UCLA football ready for ‘rocking’ atmosphere at Washington

  14-11-2024 19:10 via ocregister.com
  
  The UCLA football team is on a roll, having won three Big Ten Conference games in a row and coming off its first win of the season at the Rose Bowl.
  The Bruins are back on the road again this week for a Friday night game against Washington, a team that has been unstoppable in its home territory.
  The Huskies have won 19 consecutive home games, their longest home win streak in modern school history.
  “It’s just rocking,” UCLA head coach DeShaun Foster told reporters of Husky Stadi
  
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• Only 8 monkeys remain free after more than a week outside a South Carolina compound

  14-11-2024 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  YEMASSEE, S.C. (AP) — Just eight monkeys remain free from the group who more than a week ago broke out of a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research, authorities said.
  Three more Rhesus macaques were recaptured Wednesday outside the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee, police said in a statement.
  Forty-three monkeys made a break for it on Nov. 6 after an employee at what locals call “the monkey farm” didn’t fully lock their enclosure, police sa
  
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• John Force Racing teams reach NHRA Finals with momentum

  14-11-2024 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  POMONA — It’s been a rough year for the John Force Racing team in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series.
  As the series heads to the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals at Pomona Dragstrip this weekend, the John Force Racing team has reasons to reflect and reasons to rejoice. John Force was back with his drivers and teams two weeks ago for the races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the first time since his racing accident in June left him with a severe brain injury.
  Force, the face of the
  
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• How Serfas Club Drive in Corona got its name

  14-11-2024 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the westernmost off-ramps from the 91 Freeway in Riverside County is Serfas Club Drive. It’s on the western outskirts of Corona near the mouth of Santa Ana Canyon. Its name can be traced to two brothers.
  The two brothers are Anastacios “Ernest” Serfas, and his younger brother Menelaos “Nick” Serfas.
  The brothers were born in Los Angeles in the mid-1920s to Greek immigrant parents. They grew up in Los Angeles and attended USC, where they excelled in sports &nd
  
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• Angel City FC moving into new performance center at Cal Lutheran

  14-11-2024 18:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Angel City Football Club is moving into a new performance center on the campus of California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.
  The club announced Thursday that it had signed an agreement with the university to move into a nine-acre, 50,000-square foot performance center on the campus.
  The performance center, which was formerly home to the Rams, will undergo a multi-million dollar remodel to the interior and outdoor spaces. It will also include a full-size pitch and a half.
  The work is schedu
  
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• ‘Parks and Recreation’ was Jim O’Heir’s dream job. So he wrote a book about it.

  14-11-2024 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  When the NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation” came to its end after seven seasons, it was an emotional day for all of the cast and crew, says Jim O’Heir, who played Jerry Gergich, the kind-hearted bumbler and butt of all jokes in the city of Pawnee’s parks department.
  O’Heir was part of a talented ensemble that included Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson, Aziz Ansari as Tom Haverford, Aubrey Plaza as April Ludgate, Adam Scott as Ben Wyatt, Chris
  
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• Angels near deal with utility infielder Kevin Newman

  14-11-2024 18:08 via ocregister.com
  
  The Angels are near a deal with veteran infielder Kevin Newman, who could provide depth across the infield, a source confirmed Thursday.
  Shortstop Zach Neto, third baseman Anthony Rendon and utility infielder Luis Rengifo will all be coming off injuries next season, and Newman could fill in for any of them.
  The Angels previously added Scott Kingery, who has a similar profile.
  Newman’s deal, first reported by The Athletic, would be a one-year deal with a club option, according to the New Yo
  
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• Disney executives paint rosy forecast on movies and streaming

  14-11-2024 18:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By Brooks Barnes | The New York Times
  Mickey Mouse wants to change his narrative.
  The Walt Disney Co. rarely provides guidance about what investors can expect in future earnings. On Thursday, however, the entertainment giant shared growth expectations with investors — not just for 2025, but also for 2026 and 2027.
  Entertainment streaming, for instance, will generate roughly $700 million in operating profit in 2025, up from $253 million this year, Disney said. Total per-share earnings will
  
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• The best Kate Spade bags to complete your wardrobe

  14-11-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Which Kate Spade bag is best?
  An unattractive bag can ruin an entire look, but even worse than that is a poor-quality bag that falls apart after only a few uses. Kate Spade bags are the perfect options for you if you want a quality, beautiful designer bag, but traditional designer bags are a bit too fussy for your taste.
  The Kate Spade New York Deco Pebbled Leather Medium Satchel has that classic Spade look that complements almost any outfit.
  What to know before you buy a Kate Spade bag
  Types
  Th
  
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• Kate Christensen shares the secret of ‘Arizona Triangle’ author Sydney Graves

  14-11-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A hardboiled mystery set in the American Southwest, “The Arizona Triangle” is the debut novel by Sydney Graves, which is a not-too-hidden pen name for the writer Kate Christensen. The author’s previous novels include “The Great Man” and “Welcome Home, Stranger.” Here, as Graves, she takes the Book Pages Q&A.
  Q. Please tell readers about your new book, “The Arizona Triangle.”
  It’s an arranged marriage of my two favorite strains of no
  
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• The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families’ backing

  14-11-2024 17:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By Dave Collins | The Associated Press
  The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.
  “The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in
  
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• Ford to pay up to $165 million to US government for moving too slowly on recall

  14-11-2024 17:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By Tom Krisher | The Associated Press
  Ford Motor Co. will pay a penalty of up to $165 million to the U.S. government for moving too slowly on a recall and failing to give accurate recall information.
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in a statement Thursday that the civil penalty is the second-largest in its 54-year history. Only the fine Takata paid for faulty air bag inflators was higher.
  The agency says Ford was too slow to recall vehicles with faulty rearview cameras, a
  
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• Anaheim Hills briefs: Community invited to Thanksgiving Eve worship service

  14-11-2024 17:35 via ocregister.com
  
  A Thanksgiving Eve worship service will be offered at 7 p.m. on Nov. 27  at Canyon Hills Presbyterian Church and the community is invited to attend.
  All worshippers are welcome to attend this inspirational worship service of gratitude which will feature music provided by Godsend, the church’s contemporary Christian rock band.
  An offering of canned and dried goods will be collected to help local mission partners Giving Children Hope and the Shower Plus Ministry at Garden Grove First Pr
  
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