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• ‘Bob the Minke Whale’ found dead after week in Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor

  07-04-2025 00:36 via ocregister.com
  
  A minke whale that had been swimming in Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor for most of the past week was found dead Sunday morning, April 6.
  Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are examining the whale’s body for any potential injuries or illnesses, said spokesperson Michael Milstein. They’ll also take blood and tissue samples in hopes of learning the whale’s cause of death and helping other whales in the future.
  It’s common, Milstein said, fo
  
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• Angels drop another game in Texas on a quiet night at the plate

  17-04-2025 04:48 via ocregister.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas — The Angels’ rollicking blowout victory in Tampa now seems so long ago.
  Since the day the Angels blasted six homers and scored 11 runs, their offense has been largely dormant.
  The Angels lost, 3-1, to the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night, losing for the fourth time in five games since that victory in Tampa.
  The Angels have scored 11 runs in the last five games, including just one in the first two games against the Rangers. They have hit .218 with a .631 OPS on those
  
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• Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw pitches 3 scoreless innings in rehab debut

  17-04-2025 04:39 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw’s first competitive game in 8½ months went as well as the Dodgers could have hoped after the veteran breezed through three innings for Triple-A Oklahoma City on Wednesday afternoon.
  In his first rehab outing since offseason surgery on his left big toe and left knee, Kershaw delivered three scoreless innings, allowing two hits with no walks and two strikeouts against the Tacoma Rainiers.
  Kershaw reached 89 mph among his 30 pitches, 22 of which were
  
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• Ducks’ season ends with OT loss to league-best Jets

  17-04-2025 04:31 via ocregister.com
  
  WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A season of visible progress for the Ducks ended with an overtime loss to the team that set the bar for the entire NHL this season.
  Mark Scheifele scored at 1:11 of overtime to give the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Winnipeg Jets a 2-1 victory over the  Ducks on Wednesday night in the regular-season finale for both teams.
  The Jets finished at 56-22-4 to set a franchise record with 116 points.
  Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves for Winnipeg in his 47th victory, the
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Wednesday, April 16

  17-04-2025 03:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, April 16
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  WEDNESDAY’S SCORES
  BASEBALL
  TRINITY LEAGUE
  St. John Bosco 7, Servite 0
  CRESTVIEW LEAGUE
  Villa Park 7, El Modena 2
  Cypress 5, Foothill 3
  FREEWAY LEAGUE
  
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• As the Palisades rebuilds, chimneys become a bridge to town’s architectural heritage

  17-04-2025 03:39 via ocregister.com
  
  In a sea of fire-leveled homes, some that stood from the 1920s until January 2025, tall chimneys stand out, having survived the flames of the Palisades fire.
  The only vertical thing in sight, many chimneys are the sole reminder of the architectural style of the homes that once stood – the only representation of the heart of the families that inhabited the coastal town, many for generations.
  Evan Curtis Charles Hall recently stood next to one surviving chimney on El Medio Avenue, the cinder
  
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• How Orange County plans to sterilize mosquitos to limit pest’s spread of disease

  17-04-2025 02:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Mosquito season has arrived in Southern California. That means more mosquitoes will be flying around looking for someone to bite.
  “There’s not a lot of things that we can all agree on, especially in this day and age, right? But if there’s one thing that can bring us together, it’s that mosquitoes suck,” said Brian Brannon, a spokesperson with the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District. He said he meant that literally and figuratively.
  To lower nuisance p
  
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• How Orange County plans to sterilize mosquitoes to limit pest’s spread of disease

  17-04-2025 02:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Mosquito season has arrived in Southern California. That means more mosquitoes will be flying around looking for someone to bite.
  “There’s not a lot of things that we can all agree on, especially in this day and age, right? But if there’s one thing that can bring us together, it’s that mosquitoes suck,” said Brian Brannon, a spokesperson with the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District. He said he meant that literally and figuratively.
  Mosquitoes at Orang
  
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• Special election results: Betty Martinez Franco set to become Irvine’s newest councilmember

  17-04-2025 02:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Betty Martinez Franco appears set to join the Irvine City Council, filling out the seven-member dais as the District 5 representative.
  A day after polls closed in a special election to fill the vacant seat, Martinez Franco had maintained her lead in the returns over former councilmember Anthony Kuo. Dana Cornelius, an HOA board member, was in a distant third.
  Kuo said in a statement that he reached out Tuesday night to congratulate Martinez Franco.
  “Tonight, we concluded a spirited campaig
  
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• Lakers preparing for evolved Anthony Edwards

  17-04-2025 01:47 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — The Minnesota Timberwolves using 37-year-old Joe Ingles on their scout team to play the role of Lakers star Luka Doncic in preparation for Saturday’s playoff opener was far from just Internet fodder.
  “It’s hard to replicate everything [Doncic] does,” Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said after his team’s practice on Tuesday. “We have Joe Ingles kind of simulating things, who gives us a comp on size and IQ for sure, but it’s certainly tou
  
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• Proposed rule change on endangered species triggers alarm for environmentalists

  17-04-2025 01:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By TAMMY WEBBER
  The Trump administration plans to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species in a move environmentalists say would lead to the extinction of critically endangered species due to logging, mining, development and other activities.
  At issue is a longstanding definition of “harm” in the Endangered Species Act, which has included altering or destroying the places those species live. Habitat destruction is the biggest cause of extinction, said Noah
  
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• Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph honored with Walk of Fame star

  17-04-2025 01:28 via ocregister.com
  
  A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Wednesday honoring Sheryl Lee Ralph for a television career that began in 1978 and continues today with “Abbott Elementary.”
  Series star and creator Quinta Brunson and Loretta Devine, a castmate of Ralph’s in the 1981-85 Broadway musical “Dreamgirls,” joined Ralph in speaking at the ceremony at 6623 Hollywood Blvd., near Musso & Frank Grill.
  “I can still feel the determined spirit of that little girl who da
  
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• Coachella 2025: Goldenvoice apologizes for traffic disaster and maps out changes for weekend 2

  17-04-2025 01:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival organizers are apologizing for the traffic flub that had residents and festivalgoers in precarious situations over the weekend.
  “I apologize for what took place, to your residents and the impact that it had to the community. Goldenvoice, and the partnerships we have with not only La Quinta, Indio and all the surrounding Coachella Valley cities — we take great pride in that partnership and the ability to plan together and address the challenges
  
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• Dog reunites with Israeli family after disappearing for 18 months in Gaza

  17-04-2025 01:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAM MEDNICK
  BINYAMINA, Israel (AP) — Rachel Dancyg never thought she would see her dog again after it disappeared in the Hamas attack that sparked the ongoing war with Israel.
  Her ex-husband and brother were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel and killed. She thought her beloved pet had suffered the same fate. So when a soldier called the family on Tuesday night, telling them that Billie had been found alive in Gaza, it was hard to believe.
  “It’s a miracle,&rdquo
  
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• Angels’ Jo Adell says he’s close to returning to full speed

  17-04-2025 01:08 via ocregister.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas — One of Jo Adell’s best tools still hasn’t shown up this season.
  Adell suffered a hip injury in the first weekend of the season, and he said on Wednesday that his running has been limited ever since.
  Last season Adell was in the 86th percentile in the majors for sprint speed, and this season he’s in the 31st.
  “Definitely getting close to how I want to (run), but we’re still being smart with how we’re playing it,” Adell said. &ldqu
  
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• What happens next after judge warns of possible contempt prosecution over deportation flights order

  17-04-2025 01:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MARK SHERMAN and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge’s ruling that the Trump administration appears to have willfully violated his order to turn around planes of migrants headed for El Salvador increases the prospect of officials being held in criminal contempt of court and potentially facing possible prosecution.
  U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said in his ruling on Wednesday that probable cause exists to hold the adminis
  
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• Laguna Beach holds townhall in advance of anticipated summer crowds

  17-04-2025 00:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Weeks of Spring Break visitors have already provided a taste of what Laguna Beach neighborhoods and businesses can expect as the summer vacation season nears, and city leaders say they want to get ahead of the anticipated tourism surge.
  To prepare and to take the pulse of the beach town’s residents and their priorities, city officials will hold a visitor stewardship town hall on Thursday, April 17.
  Last July, after fielding complaints from residents about beachgoers’ bad behavior, ci
  
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• Wife who stabbed husband to death in Santa Ana on his birthday convicted of murder

  17-04-2025 00:50 via ocregister.com
  
  A wife who stabbed her husband to death on the morning of his birthday in 2021 as he lay in bed at their Santa Ana home was convicted Wednesday of murder.
  An Orange County Superior Court jury deliberated for a little more than five hours before finding Michelle Gutierrez, then 32, guilty of second-degree murder for the killing of her husband — 38-year-old Cesar Reyes Zuna — at their home in the 1000 block of West Bishop Street, a slaying the defense blamed on mental issues related to
  
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• Mediator in Southern California grocery labor talks laid off by DOGE

  17-04-2025 00:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Isael Hermosillo, a mediator negotiating labor contracts for California’s grocers, got bad news in the early hours of March 26, before he even had a chance to drop off his children at school near his Alhambra home.
  He got a text from his supervisor asking that he cancel work and jump onto a Zoom call by 9 a.m. That’s when Hermosillo learned that his job and much of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service agency were terminated.
  “That was my last day,” said the 13-y
  
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• Menendez brothers re-sentencing opposed by parents of murdered children

  17-04-2025 00:29 via ocregister.com
  
  A group of parents of murdered children demanded Wednesday that Erik and Lyle Menendez not be re-sentenced for the killings of their parents, insisting that they should “do every day” of their original sentences of life in state prison without the possibility of parole.
  “This re-sentencing of the Menendez brothers I am against because it’s sending a message to all murderers that (they) have a second opportunity to be released,” Emma Rivas said at Wednesday’s n
  
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• QB Nico Iamaleava expected to transfer to UCLA, reports say

  17-04-2025 00:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Former Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava is reportedly expected to transfer to UCLA, according to multiple reports.
  The news was first reported by The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman and David Ubben. Sports personality Colin Cowherd also said in a post on X that Iamaleava is going to UCLA.
  “Family claims it’s NOT about the (money bag emoji),” Cowherd posted. “It’s about the (Tennessee) offense. I was not told what the Bruins are paying.”
  Iamaleava entered th
  
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• Medicaid cuts will not get Rep. Young Kim’s support in federal budget process

  17-04-2025 00:03 via ocregister.com
  
  A budget reconciliation package that includes large cuts to Medicaid won’t have the support of Rep. Young Kim and at least 11 other House Republicans.
  The Republican dozen, in a letter to House leadership this week, said they support reforms to Medicaid but will not back any cuts to coverage for vulnerable populations or that would threaten hospitals, nursing homes and safety-net providers.
  “We cannot and will not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Med
  
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• Chinese e-commerce sites Temu and Shein say they’re raising prices due to tariffs

  17-04-2025 00:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By MAE ANDERSON
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — China-founded e-commerce sites Temu and Shein say they plan to raise prices for U.S. customers starting next week, a ripple effect from President Donald Trump’s attempts to correct the trade imbalance between the world’s two largest economies by imposing a sky-high tariff on goods shipped from China.
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• How pick for LA28 surfing contest could impact tourism, exposure for nearby San Clemente

  17-04-2025 00:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Lower Trestles may soon become a household name among Olympics fans, with the LA28 Games turning its spotlight on the surf break. 
  And with the huge exposure that comes with the Summer Games, the quaint surf town next door is poised to reap the benefits.
  Already, as word spread Tuesday, April 15, about the location pick over Huntington Beach, news headlines — and even some elected officials — proclaimed that San Clemente in Orange County was picked as the Olympic surfing locatio
  
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• DOGE wanted to assign staff to the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice because it got federal funds

  16-04-2025 23:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By THALIA BEATY
  NEW YORK (AP) — The nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice says staff from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency contacted them to assign a team to the organization and told them they planned to similarly install teams with all nonprofits receiving funds appropriated by Congress.
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• Kawhi Leonard, Clippers trusted each other to get him healthy

  16-04-2025 23:55 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — Clippers star Kawhi Leonard could easily be bitter by now. Knee injuries, especially at this time of the year, have played havoc with his career to the point that he has appeared in just two postseason games over the past two seasons.
  Yet, the 33-year-old forward is just as excited to face the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs as he was to play in the 2001 NBA Finals during his rookie year with the San Antonio Spurs.
  “I love the game. I
  
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• Actor Michelle Trachtenberg died of complications from diabetes, says NYC medical examiner

  16-04-2025 23:44 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Michelle Trachtenberg died as a result of complications from diabetes, New York City’s medical examiner said Wednesday.
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• Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says US autism cases are climbing at an ‘alarming rate’

  16-04-2025 23:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By AMANDA SEITZ
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate,” promising on Wednesday to conduct exhaustive studies to identify any environmental factors that may cause the developmental disorder.
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• Nora Aunor, an actor among the Philippines’ biggest stars, dies at 71

  16-04-2025 23:23 via ocregister.com
  
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Nora Aunor, who became one of the biggest stars of Philippine cinema during a career that spanned seven decades, has died.
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• Zillow sharpens battle lines in fight over private home listings

  16-04-2025 23:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By Patrick Clark and Jennifer Epstein | Bloomberg
  Zillow Group is setting new rules for marketing properties on its websites and apps, escalating a fight between the online real estate company and brokerage giant Compass over how US homes are sold.
  Sellers’ agents wanting to market their properties on Zillow’s sites must follow a new standard requiring that the listings be available widely, according to a statement issued April 10. If a for-sale home is online and hasn’t been p
  
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