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• Foothill boys water polo team aiming for fifth CIF championship (video interviews)

  07-11-2017 03:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Foothill’s boys water polo team took another step toward the program’s fifth CIF title.
  The Knights fought off a challenge from Murrieta Valley to capture a 10-7 victory in a second round match at Foothill Saturday to advance into the semifinals Wednesday.
  The top-seeded Knights (22-7) will face Redlands East Valley at the Woollett Center in Irvine Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Corona del Mar and Agoura play in the other semifinal at 5 p.m. with the winners moving on to the finals on Saturd
  
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• Angels’ Mike Trout removed from rehab game with knee soreness

  24-07-2024 04:33 via ocregister.com
  
  SEATTLE — The Angels’ plan for Mike Trout got more murky after Trout was pulled with left knee soreness just two innings into the first game of his rehab assignment on Tuesday night at Triple-A Salt Lake. The Angels announced that he was day to day.
  Trout started in center field and handled three routine fly balls. He struck out looking in his only plate appearance.
  The three-time American League MVP had been scheduled for five innings in center field on Tuesday, followed by a DH gam
  
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• Dodgers’ Walker Buehler, Yoshinobu Yamamoto working to become viable rotation options

  24-07-2024 04:16 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers’ playoff rotation is a riddle to be solved over the next two months. Walker Buehler and Yoshinobu Yamamoto spent Tuesday afternoon at Dodger Stadium trying to show their viability as options.
  Buehler threw a bullpen session, his first since rejoining the team after a month spent (in part) working away from the organization at Cressey Sports Performance in Florida. Buehler used the time to heal a hip injury and try to make some adjustments after posting a 5.8
  
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• Video shows confusion over use of Taser vs. gun in fatal LAPD shooting of 23-year-old woman

  24-07-2024 03:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Bodycam footage of a fatal police shooting of a 23-year-old woman armed with a knife in Panorama City on June 15 shows there was confusion among the officers over deploying a Taser or using a gun.
  After the deadly shooting, one officer on the video is heard asking, “It was just a Taser, right?”
  “No,” says another officer, “She’s got a gunshot wound. Yeah, I didn’t know that either.”
  The footage was part of the Los Angeles Police Department’s
  
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• Comic-Con: A lot more illegal building wraps in downtown San Diego this year

  24-07-2024 03:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Downtown San Diego has become a canvas for the latest TV shows and video games with wraps attached to more than 30 buildings.
  Set to be completed before San Diego Comic-Con International kicks off Wednesday night, the advertisements are for everything from the “Lord of the Rings” show to the “The Walking Dead” franchise.
  Most of the building wraps are technically illegal. But given that the penalties are lower than the revenue that building owners get from the wraps, they
  
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• California House members express Golden State pride in Kamala Harris’ rise

  24-07-2024 03:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Hours after Vice President Kamala Harris secured enough delegates’ support to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, House Democratic Caucus chair Ted Lieu and vice chair Pete Aguilar held a press conference praising her rise to the top of the ticket.
  “Vice President Harris will be the Democratic nominee for president, whether people put in a press release or not, that is going to happen,” said Aguilar, D-San Bernardino, on Tuesday morning. “She has locked up the
  
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• Angels’ Logan O’Hoppe gets more comfortable with more responsibility in lineup

  24-07-2024 03:02 via ocregister.com
  
  SEATTLE — When Logan O’Hoppe saw his name in the cleanup spot in the Angels’ lineup on Tuesday, it barely registered.
  And that was progress.
  “Seeing that was the least ‘Oh wow’ I’ve felt about it in my career so far,” the Angels catcher said. “It’s just another day.”
  Angels manager Ron Washington said back in May, when injuries first caused him to scramble for middle of the order hitters, that he didn’t want young players li
  
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• “Ghostly” dolphin sighted off Dana Point

  24-07-2024 02:47 via ocregister.com
  
  A “ghostly-looking” white common dolphin was spotted by charter boats off Dana Point’s coastline on Tuesday, July 23, believed to have leucism, a rare loss of skin pigmentation.
  The unusual sighting was reported by Capt. Dave’s Dolphin & Whale Watching Safari, which said the dolphin was seen swimming in a pod with other common dolphins.
  A “ghostly” dolphin showed up off the Dana Point coast.(Photo courtesy of Jaida James/Capt. Dave’s Dolphin & Wh
  
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• President Biden’s planned trip to Orange County for a fundraiser this week is postponed

  24-07-2024 02:19 via ocregister.com
  
  A planned fundraiser in Laguna Beach this Friday for the re-election of President Joe Biden will be rescheduled as an event for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign now that the president has dropped out of the race, the organizer said today.
  “They were hoping to (go) forward, but decided to hold off a bit,” organizer Carol Leslie Hamilton said. “That’s probably a good decision but we’re moving along.”
  Biden was expected to attend the event in Orange C
  
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• Riverside duck sanctuary tries to save hundreds of balut hatchlings outside Orange County Walmart

  24-07-2024 02:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Volunteers at a Riverside County duck sanctuary are fighting to save as many hatchlings as they can after a “horrible situation” in which hundreds of fertilized eggs were abandoned in Orange County due to a shipping delay.
  The eggs were picked up by about 20 volunteers at a Walmart parking lot in Brea on Saturday, after The Duck Sanctuary in Winchester was contacted by a woman in possession of about 300 so-called “balut eggs.” Considered a delicacy in some cultures, balut
  
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• Riverside County duck sanctuary tries to save hundreds of balut hatchlings outside Orange County Walmart

  24-07-2024 02:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Volunteers at a Riverside County duck sanctuary are fighting to save as many hatchlings as they can after a “horrible situation” in which hundreds of fertilized eggs were abandoned in Orange County due to a shipping delay.
  The eggs were picked up by about 20 volunteers at a Walmart parking lot in Brea on Saturday, after The Duck Sanctuary in Winchester was contacted by a woman in possession of about 300 so-called “balut eggs.” Considered a delicacy in some cultures, balut
  
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• France says it banned 1,000 suspected spies from Olympics

  24-07-2024 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By Sylvie Corbet and Barbara Surk | Associated Press
  PARIS — Three days before the start of the 2024 Olympics, France’s interior minister said about 1,000 people suspected of possibly meddling for a foreign power have been blocked from attending the Olympics — one of the security challenges that Paris is cracking down on in its goal to keep Games safe for athletes and fans.
  About 1 million background checks have scrutinized Olympic volunteers, workers and others involved in the
  
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• Raiders bring training camp back to region, where fan base remains strong

  24-07-2024 01:46 via ocregister.com
  
  A Raiders fan is seen prior to a game between the Chargers and the Las Vegas Raiders at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
  A Raiders team flag is displayed outside Killarney’s Irish Pub in Huntington Beach on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
  Vintage Oakland Raiders team pictures are displayed on the walls of Killarney’s Irish Pub in Huntington Beach. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
  Las Vegas Raiders fan prior to
  
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• McDonald’s $5 Meal Deal isn’t going away yet

  24-07-2024 01:27 via ocregister.com
  
  McDonald’s representatives have confirmed that the fast chain’s highly publicized $5 Meal Deal will be extended through August in Southern California.
  The deal launched on June 25 after weeks of speculation and was expected to last four weeks. Bloomberg and Reuters reported on Monday that the deal will continue at most restaurants due to the business it’s generating.
  Related linksMcDonald’s rolls out a new Chicken McNuggets dipping sauce and a Kit Kat McFlurry
  Here’
  
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• Big Ten commissioner: Revenue-sharing decisions will be up to member schools

  24-07-2024 01:21 via ocregister.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — There was a time, once, before Greg Schiano brought the chop to the banks of the Raritan River in New Jersey, when Rutgers breaking into the Big Ten Conference was merely a pipe dream.
  It became a quest of his for a decade, the longtime head football coach reflected, speaking to media at Tuesday’s Big Ten Media Day. It was, to him, the best conference in football. It was where he, born and raised in New Jersey, felt Rutgers belonged. It was a “blessing,” as
  
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• Review: Chance Theater trims down ‘Sweeney Todd’ but doesn’t sacrifice the show a slice

  24-07-2024 00:48 via ocregister.com
  
  High among Stephen Sondheim’s achievements in writing music and lyrics are the diabolical skills on gleeful and gruesome display in “Sweeney Todd,” the blackest humor musical of all.
  The show’s full title includes the descriptor “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” “A Little Night(mare) Music” could work, too.
  Macabre by design, the 1979 show remains as winningly animated today as ever in stacking up its corpses and enlivening them by virtue of musi
  
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• Donald Trump plans to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu as Mideast conflict persists

  23-07-2024 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By Stephanie Lai
  Donald Trump said he will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, the latest effort by the Republican nominee to build ties with foreign leaders.
  Trump announced the sit-down on his social media site, saying “we had Peace and Stability in the Region” during his presidency and vowing “we will have it again.” Israel has been mired in a deadly war against Hamas since the group’s Oct. 7 attac
  
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• Donald Trump says he’s willing to debate Kamala Harris 

  23-07-2024 23:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By Stephanie Lai
  Republican nominee Donald Trump said he’s willing to debate his likely Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, but suggested he wanted a network other than ABC News to host the forum.
  “I’d want to. I think its important,” Trump said Tuesday on a call with reporters. “I would be willing to do more than one debate, actually.”
  Trump was scheduled to debate President Joe Biden — before he dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris — in a
  
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• Ed Laird Scout Camp a “hidden little oasis” for kids

  23-07-2024 23:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Ask kids what they like about the Ed Laird Scout Camp at the Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center and they will talk about the high-ropes course, the zip lines, the archery, the mining camp or event the enveloping hills that make them feel far from urban sprawl.
  “It’s a hidden little oasis,” said Regina Engle, director of camping for the program in Orange. “Parents like the camp because it’s close. Kids feel like they’re far away in nature.”
  Niles Nam,
  
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• These restaurants are celebrating the 2024 Olympics with special menu items

  23-07-2024 22:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Restaurants are getting into the spirit of the 2024 Olympics.
  Opening ceremonies for the Summer Games in Paris take place Friday, July 26. Coverage begins at 9 a.m. on NBC.
  Eateries are celebrating with limited-time hot dogs, burgers, wings and sweets. Even if the items aren’t in Olympians’ diets, they could be in yours.
  Here’s what’s out there, according to news releases.
  Chipotle Mexican Grill will be wrapping its burritos in gold foil in honor of the 2024 Olympics. (Ph
  
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• Israel allocates millions to defend unauthorized settlements

  23-07-2024 22:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By Melanie Lidman | Associated Press
  JERUSALEM — The Israeli government has budgeted millions of dollars to protect small, unauthorized Jewish farms in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, underwriting tiny outposts meant to grow into full-fledged settlements, according to an anti-settlement monitoring group.
  Documents uncovered by Peace Now illustrate how Israel’s pro-settler government has quietly poured money into the unauthorized outposts, which are separate from its more than 100 off
  
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• Cyber security startup Wiz rejects $23B acquisition by Google

  23-07-2024 22:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Wiz has rejected a reported $23 billion acquisition proposal from Google parent Alphabet — as the cybersecurity startup pivots back to a previously-planned initial public offering, according to a company memo seen by CNBC and others.
  That ends the prospect of what would’ve been the most expensive acquisition in Google’s 25-year history. In a Monday memo to Wiz employees, as reported by CNBC, CEO Assaf Rappaport noted “saying no to such humbling offers is tough” but
  
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• Rams, QB Matthew Stafford agree to reworked contract

  23-07-2024 22:07 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Sean McVay was three hours late to his media press conference to open the Rams’ training camp Tuesday, but he had a good excuse.
  The Rams and quarterback Matthew Stafford agreed to a reworked contract Tuesday afternoon after huddling together on the Loyola Marymount campus to work out the final details.
  “Ultimately it was all geared toward finding a solution that really suits our team but also accommodates some of the things that represent Matthew’s worth fo
  
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• Former St. John Knits exec sells Newport Beach estate to Corona exec for $30 million

  23-07-2024 22:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Former St. John Knits executive Mike Gray recently sold his contemporary waterfront estate on Newport Beach’s Lido Isle for $30 million.
  That’s 37% less than the original $47.5 million asking price.
  The 8,868-square-foot home stretches across 3.5 lots, a configuration the city no longer permits, and has 105 feet of harbor frontage. Inside are four bedrooms, six bathrooms and floor-to-ceiling glass walls that slide open, extending the living space out.
  Records show Gray and his wife,
  
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• USC in Paris: Meet the Trojans’ Olympians headed to the 2024 Summer Games

  23-07-2024 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Inside a pristine Newport Beach hotel ballroom in late April, where USC’s NIL collective House of Victory hosted a wide range of former athletic luminaries and deep-pocketed alumni for an event titled “Legends of Troy,” one of the greatest points of emphasis to donors was USC’s status as the pre-eminent Olympic university in the country.
  And after a university-record 65 past, then-present and future USC students competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics in
  
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• US investigating Delta’s flight cancellations and faltering response after tech outage

  23-07-2024 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By David Koenig and Matt Ott | The Associated Press
  U.S. regulators are investigating how Delta Air Lines is treating passengers affected by canceled and delayed flights as the airline struggles to recover from a global technology outage.
  Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the Delta investigation on the X social media platform Tuesday “to ensure the airline is following the law and taking care of its passengers during continued widespread disruptions.”
  “All airli
  
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• UCLA in Paris: Meet the Bruins’ Olympians headed to the 2024 Summer Games

  23-07-2024 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA athletics will be well represented with 49 Bruins headed to Paris for the 2024 Olympics Games.
  Those Bruins feature 40 athletes, seven coaches and two staff members across 18 countries. The United States will have 24 of those athletes from UCLA. Canada (3), Australia (3), Phillippines (2) and Germany (2) will each have multiple Bruins.
  UCLA women’s water polo will see its strongest representation with three of five Bruins playing for Team USA, with Adam Krikorian looking to bring hom
  
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• You can pretend you’re on an African safari at this new glamping resort in New Jersey

  23-07-2024 21:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Sarah Kuta | TravelPulse (TNS)
  Want to feel like you’re on safari, without leaving the country?
  Head to Savannah Sunset Resort and Spa, a new glamping experience that’s now open at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, which is about halfway between Philadelphia and New York City.
  The exclusive overnight experience is situated within Six Flags Great Adventure’s 350-acre Wild Safari area, which is home to more than 1,200 animals.
  “Spending the night in the comf
  
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• Comic-Con: What ‘Bright Sword’ author Lev Grossman loves about the San Diego fan event

  23-07-2024 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Lev Grossman, author of “The Magicians” and the just-published “The Bright Sword,” has attended Comic-Con International in San Diego “approximately a million times” as a member of the press, as a panelist and even just as a fan. He loves going, he says, because that’s where he will find fellow fans of whatever he’s interested in at the moment.
  “Sometimes I think that I’m the only person who’s obsessed with some obscure webtoon, an
  
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• Comic-Con: Panels, events and a webtoon ‘Bright Sword’ author Lev Grossman loves

  23-07-2024 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Lev Grossman, author of “The Magicians” and the just-published “The Bright Sword,” has attended Comic-Con International in San Diego “approximately a million times” as a member of the press, as a panelist and even just as a fan. He loves going, he says, because that’s where he will find fellow fans of whatever he’s interested in at the moment.
  “Sometimes I think that I’m the only person who’s obsessed with some obscure webtoon, an
  
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