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• Clippers look for strong homestand amid tight playoff race

  02-04-2025 00:08 via ocregister.com
  
  The Clippers have seven games remaining before finding out their postseason future, a final stretch that will determine where they will land in the standings.
  The Clippers head into the opener of a five-game homestand on Wednesday night against the New Orleans Pelicans tied with the Minnesota Timberwolves for seventh place in the Western Conference.
  At 43-32, the Clippers went into Tuesday’s schedule just one back in the loss column from the fifth-place Memphis Grizzlies (44-31) and sixth-
  
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• Here’s why April 5th is known as Go for Broke Day

  04-04-2025 08:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Great gallantry
  April 5th is known as Go for Broke Day. The term was the slogan for an Army unit comprised of Japanese Americans from Hawaii and the mainland U.S. The unit is recognized as the most decorated in the history of the U.S. military. Their motto is gambler’s slang for risking it all in one effort to win big. The fierce fighting unit had high casualty rates in World War II.
  More than 33,000 Japanese Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, with many serving
  
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• Ducks’ postseason hopes officially extinguished by Flames

  04-04-2025 07:30 via ocregister.com
  
  CALGARY, Alberta — The obvious became official north of the border.
  Blake Coleman scored a pair of special teams goals, Dustin Wolf made 26 saves and the Calgary Flames beat the Ducks, 4-1, on Thursday night, eliminating the Ducks from the playoff race and extending their postseason drought to seven consecutive seasons.
  Nazem Kadri and Kevin Rooney also scored and Yegor Sharangovich had two assists for the Flames (36-27-12, 84 points), who helped their playoff hopes.
  Olen Zellweger scored
  
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• Lakers fall to Steph Curry, Warriors in potential playoff preview

  04-04-2025 07:09 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Lakers, like most Western Conference teams competing for a spot in the playoffs outside of the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder, understand how precious each game is in the final 1½ weeks of the regular season.
  With seeds Nos. 3-8 separated by just 2½ games entering Thursday, one poor stretch of play could be the difference between having home-court advantage in the playoffs, making the top six outright or having to compete in the Play-In Tournament.
  The Lak
  
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• Cypress loses a close one in National Classic baseball final

  04-04-2025 07:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Cypress advanced to the National Classic championship game while averaging nine runs a game in their first three games of the baseball tournament.
  The Centurions offense cooled down Thursday. Cypress lost to Aquinas of San Bernardino 2-1 in the tournament championship game at Cypress High.
  Cypress, which won the National Classic championship in 2022 and ‘23, is 11-8.
  Aquinas is 12-1. Aquinas’ only loss was to Huntington Beach in the first round of the Boras Classic South tournament.
  
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• Cypress baseball loses to Aquinas in low-scoring National Classic final

  04-04-2025 07:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Cypress advanced to the championship game of the National Classic while averaging nine runs a game in its first three games in the baseball tournament.
  The Centurions offense cooled down Thursday. Cypress lost to Aquinas of San Bernardino 2-1 in the tournament championship game at Cypress High.
  Cypress (11-8) won the National Classic championship in 2022 and ‘23.
  The only loss this season for Aquinas (12-1) was to Huntington Beach in the first round of the Boras Classic South tournament.
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• UC Irvine loses OT heartbreaker to Chattanooga in NIT title game

  04-04-2025 06:35 via ocregister.com
  
  UC Irvine center Bent Leuchten shoots over Chattanooga forward Garrison Keeslar during the first half of the NIT championship game on Thursday night, April 3, 2025, in Indianapolis. (Photo by AJ Mast, Contributing Photographer)
  UC Irvine guard Jurian Dixon shoots in front of Chattanooga guard Jack Kostel (11) during the first half of the NIT championship game on Thursday night, April 3, 2025, in Indianapolis. (Photo by AJ Mast, Contributing Photographer)
  UC Irvine guard Myles Che looks to pass t
  
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• USC edged by Villanova in College Basketball Crown quarterfinal

  04-04-2025 06:28 via ocregister.com
  
  LAS VEGAS — Eric Dixon scored 24 of his 28 points in the second half, including the go-ahead free throw with 18 seconds remaining, and Villanova outlasted USC, 60-59, in a quarterfinal game of the College Basketball Crown on Thursday night.
  Dixon, who became the program’s all-time scoring leader in the opening round of the inaugural 16-team tournament, extended his record with a monster second half to lead Villanova (21-14).
  Dixon was responsible for all but nine of the Wildcats&rsqu
  
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• Kings use 3rd-period surge to beat Utah

  04-04-2025 06:19 via ocregister.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Kings are doing their best to remain ahead of the Edmonton Oilers as they battle for potential home-ice advantage in the postseason – and a Pacific Division title isn’t out of the question either.
  Kevin Fiala and Trevor Moore scored in a 44-second span early in the third period and the Kings beat the Utah Hockey Club, 4-2, on Thursday night for their third straight victory.
  Drew Doughty had an empty-net goal and an assist, Adrian Kempe scored his 33rd of th
  
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• California’s tax-hikers are busy dreaming up more ways to take more of your money

  04-04-2025 06:07 via ocregister.com
  
  California taxes could go up – again. That’s if the speakers have their way from a March 27 conference at the state Capitol, “Funding California’s Future: Building a Strong Revenue System.” It was sponsored by the Service Employees International Union, the California Budget & Policy Center, the California Tax Reform Association and GRACE – End Child Poverty CA.
  Based on viewing a video of the event, what struck me most is that the presenters didn’t s
  
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• 2 Riverside police officers sent to ‘character building class’ for breaking skateboard

  04-04-2025 05:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Two Riverside police officers — one who smashed a resident’s skateboard and another who photographed the damaged board in a crime recorded by a surveillance camera — were sentenced to community service on Thursday, April 3, after agreeing to a diversion program in a misdemeanor vandalism case.
  Timothy Rolland Popplewell, 35, and Andrew Jason Price, 28, appeared at the Riverside County Hall of Justice before Superior Court Commissioner Stepanie Field, who ordered each of them to
  
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• No charges in Savannah Graziano shooting, but lessons learned

  04-04-2025 05:19 via ocregister.com
  
  No criminal charges will be filed against San Bernardino County deputies who gunned down 15-year-old Savannah Graziano as she followed a deputy’s orders to approach toward him.
  Last week, the California Department of Justice released a report on the shooting, which took in place in Hesperia on September 27, 2022.
  To briefly recap:
  On Sept. 26, 2022, Anthony Graziano murdered his estranged wife Tracy Martinez and took off with their daughter Savannah Graziano. An Amber Alert was issued
  
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• New faces making an impact for USC football this spring

  04-04-2025 04:50 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Just two weeks into the USC football team’s spring practices, the combination of veteran transfers and highly-touted freshmen have started to form a motivated and cohesive defensive unit.
  Earlier this week when asked who has been impressive so far this spring, Coach Lincoln Riley first mentioned Floyd Boucard, a freshman defensive tackle from South Florida.
  He also brought up Trestin Castro, Alex Graham, James Johnson and Steve Miller, all freshman defensive backs who h
  
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• Jaxson Hayes looking to take advantage of opportunity with Lakers

  04-04-2025 04:23 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — There’s no question what the Lakers are playing for, and what their collective mindsets are focused on, during this time of the year: compete for an NBA championship.
  General Manager Rob Pelinka has made it clear throughout the season that’s the expectation, and said in early February in the aftermath of the organization’s acquisition of All-Star guard Luka Doncic that the urgency to compete for a title is “ever-present.”
  Players who have joined
  
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• Breach sends confidential Orange County emails to disgraced former Supervisor Andrew Do

  04-04-2025 03:44 via ocregister.com
  
  For months after Andrew Do resigned from the Orange County Board of Supervisors and pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges he continued to receive dozens of confidential emails between the board and its lead attorney.
  Do’s civil lawyer, Eliot Krieger, notified County Counsel Leon Page of the breach on Feb. 20, as required by state regulations. Krieger told the Orange County Register that he has since ordered a forensic analysis that found 57 emails sent from Page’s government emai
  
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• An economist explains what trade deficits really mean

  04-04-2025 03:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Believing the myth that trade deficits are bad, the Trump Administration imposed global reciprocal tariffs this week. The proposal threatens to derail economic prosperity and trigger a barn burner of a recession. 
  The fallacy of this myth can be clearly seen in the U.S. economic data. Over the last half-century U.S. trade deficits shrunk during recessions and increased during economic expansions. This phenomenon could not have persisted for so long if trade deficits harmed economic growth.
  
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• Acts of hate based on race, religion increased in LA county, report says

  04-04-2025 03:14 via ocregister.com
  
  A report released Thursday shows increases in hateful acts motivated by race, ethnicity and religion, according to the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission’s annual report tracking non-criminal acts of hate.
  Hate incidents are defined as acts motivated by prejudice against someone’s real or perceived identities and can include non-criminal verbal abuse, harassment or displays of offensive materials.
  In 2023, nearly all hate incidents reported were acts of hate speech.
  There
  
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• Can Antonio Villaraigosa beat the odds and become the next governor of California?

  04-04-2025 03:11 via ocregister.com
  
  While the current mayor of Los Angeles is struggling to stay afloat in rough political seas, a former mayor of Los Angeles hopes to ride the waves to the top of the California political world. Antonio Villaraigosa wants to be governor of California, a job he sought unsuccessfully in 2018. Can he beat the odds and take the job?
  Villaraigosa served as mayor of Los Angeles from 2005 to 2013. He doesn’t always echo the typical party line like many other Democratic candidates vying for the post
  
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• Angels bobblehead giveaways for the 2025 season

  04-04-2025 03:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Every season, Major League Baseball teams across the country offer special promotion nights where they offer giveaways at home games. These can range from free hats, jerseys and jackets for the first fans to arrive.Related: 2025 Angels Deals: Free food and discounts for fans based on Angels gamesFor Los Angeles Angels fans, one of the popular collectables come from bobblehead nights. The bobbleheads highlight various players, including long-time Angels outfielder Mike Trout. Here’s a rundo
  
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• ‘Horror master’ John Carpenter honored with Walk of Fame star

  04-04-2025 02:53 via ocregister.com
  
  A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Thursday honoring John Carpenter, who has received the nickname ‘The Horror Master’ for directing such films as “Halloween,” “The Thing,” “The Fog,” “Christine” and “In the Mouth of Madness.”
  “In 1968 I was a skinny kid from Bowling Green, Kentucky, walking these streets,” Carpenter said. “I was looking for a career in Hollywood. Well, I found my career, and
  
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• The Residents to perform Eskimo at EXOTIKON Festival in Los Angeles

  04-04-2025 02:47 via ocregister.com
  
  For the first time since its release in 1979, “Eskimo,” the avant-garde album by The Residents, will be performed in full.
  The long-awaited live debut is set for Saturday, June 7 at the Mayan Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, as part of the two-day festival EXOTIKON.
  The Residents have remained a force in experimental music for over five decades, pushing the boundaries of performance art, multimedia storytelling, and avant-garde composition. Their work has influenced artists across ge
  
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• California State Library’s federal aid cut retroactively without warning

  04-04-2025 02:34 via ocregister.com
  
  On Wednesday, April 2, a California State Library spokesman said the institution had not been informed of any changes to its budget, but that changes in federal funding might be coming, perhaps in the July budget for the coming fiscal year.
  Well, it didn’t take that long. 
  By 5 p.m. that same day, the state library had received a brief two-page memorandum that the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) was ending its current 2024-2025 grant to the state. Or rather, it
  
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• Starbucks sued yet again over spilled hot drink — this time in North Hollywood

  04-04-2025 02:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Another Starbucks customer sued the coffee store chain Thursday, alleging he suffered injuries after a hot drink handed out by a drive-thru employee in North Hollywood spilled onto his lap due to an unsecured lid.
  Ernesto Vladimir Sanchez Avendano’s Alhambra Superior Court negligence suit seeks unspecified general and special damages.
  RELATED: Delivery driver severely burned by hot tea at Starbucks awarded $50 million by LA jury
  According to the suit, Avendano went to the Starbucks store o
  
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• Oral arguments made in state’s lawsuit over Huntington Beach’s voter ID

  04-04-2025 02:26 via ocregister.com
  
  The California Attorney General’s Office at a hearing Thursday, April 3, argued there is “no constitutional way” for Huntington Beach to implement its voter ID law in city elections starting in 2026.
  The hearing with Orange County Superior Court Judge Nico Dourbetas was the first time lawyers from both sides were able to lay out their complete arguments on whether Huntington Beach could require voters to show identification in future city elections.
  Voters in March 2024 approve
  
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• UCLA gymnastics team pounces to advance to NCAA regional final

  04-04-2025 02:19 via ocregister.com
  
  The UCLA gymnastics team took care of one meet in Salt Lake City on Thursday, capturing the NCAA Regional semifinal and advancing to Saturday’s final.
  The fifth-seeded Bruins recorded a 197.750 for their third-highest score of the season to easily outpoint No. 12 seed Minnesota (197.200), Southern Utah (196.475) and Boise State (195.175).
  Opening on floor exercise and ending on balance beam, UCLA scored a 49.500 on both disciplines. And the Bruins’ 49.450 on vault, which has been the
  
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• ‘Bob the minke whale’ lost for fourth day in Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor

  04-04-2025 02:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Whale expert Alisa Schulman-Janiger’s camera clicked away as the fin of a minke whale breached the water’s surface, she just standing feet away.
  It was a rare occurrence for her, she usually spies whales through binoculars leading an annual count of migrating grays from the Palos Verdes Peninsula. But it is also rare for a whale, especially a minke, to be cruising around Long Beach’s inner harbor waters.
  “It just made a big splash! Oh, oh — what is it doing?”
  
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• How Roisín O’Donnell wrote ‘Nesting’ about a woman fleeing an abusive relationship

  04-04-2025 02:11 via ocregister.com
  
  When Roisín O’Donnell was asked to write a story about “independence in today’s Ireland” as part of a project celebrating her homeland’s 100th year of independence, she penned a tale that was both political and intimate about a woman in an abusive relationship who finally takes the first steps toward freedom.
  But hearing “Derry Girls” star Siobhán McSweeney read her story on the radio, O’Donnell had a reaction she’d never f
  
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• Republicans moving ahead with Trump’s ‘big’ bill of tax breaks and spending cuts amid tariff uproar

  04-04-2025 02:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After a long wait, the Senate is launching action on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” of tax breaks and spending cuts at a risky moment for the U.S. and global economy.
  Related ArticlesNo more cheap skirts: Trump ends tax exemption for low-value Chinese importsTrump says he supports proxy voting for new parents in CongressLawyers for a detained Tufts student from Turkey demand she be returned to MassachusettsStates sue to bl
  
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• Flower lovers and influencers flock to the tulip vistas at an iconic Dutch park

  04-04-2025 01:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By MOLLY QUELL and MICHELE NOVAGA
  LISSE, Netherlands (AP) — Nestled among tulip fields not far from Amsterdam, the world-famous Keukenhof garden has opened for the spring, welcoming camera-wielding visitors to its increasingly selfie-friendly grounds.
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• El Modena loses in Carew Classic when Oaks Christian rallies in 7th inning

  04-04-2025 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — El Modena pitcher Sara Pinedo clung to a one-run lead going into the final inning of the Vanguards’ game against Oaks Christian on Thursday at Peralta Park.
  The Lions spoiled Pinedo’s brilliant outing, scratching out two runs in the seventh for a 2-1 walk-off victory over the Vanguards in the opening round of the Michelle Carew Classic softball tournament.
  El Modena pitcher Sara Pinedo (24) against Oaks Christian during the first round of the Carew Classic softball to
  
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