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• Iconic Huntington Beach Pier reopens to public, but keep moving

  27-05-2020 23:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach Pier users can once again peer down at surfers riding waves or get a glimpse at passing whales or dolphins.
  Strollers who have made the 1,850-foot pier part of their daily routine for years can once again spend the morning smelling the salty air or count their steps on the concrete deck, which sticks out like a finger hovering above the ocean.
  The city Tuesday afternoon reopened the pier – one of the longest on the West Coast –  giving beachgoers back a beloved
  
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• Spirit Airlines encourages customers to keep flying through bankruptcy

  18-11-2024 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By Allyson Versprille Jonathan Randles and Mary Schlangenstein | Bloomberg
  Spirit Airlines told customers Monday that they should continue feeling comfortable booking flights “now and in the future,” despite the airline filing for bankruptcy.
  The US carrier sought Chapter 11 protection in New York on Monday to restructure $1.6 billion of debt after struggling to overcome mounting losses and failed merger attempts, according to court filings. The company said it plans to relinquish co
  
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• Orange County restaurant chain Jan’s Health Bar expands into Long Beach

  18-11-2024 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  More than 50 years after it was launched in Huntington Beach, Jan’s Health Bar is moving up the coast and out of Orange County for the first time when it opens a new location in Long Beach .
  The new outpost of the health-oriented eatery, which is known for its smoothies, sandwiches, soups, salads, wraps and bowls, opened Nov. 15 in an 1,800-square foot space at 6232 E. Pacific Coast Highway about a mile from California State University, Long Beach.
  The new restaurant marks the small chain&
  
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• Status Update: Discount retailer Panda Mart leases former Sears in Orange

  18-11-2024 17:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Panda Mart, a popular discount retailer with 100 stores outside the United States, is coming to Orange County, leasing its first domestic store at the former Sears in Orange.
  Brokers at JLL who negotiated the lease at the Village at Orange declined to comment on the new tenant. Sears, which has been closed for years, was divided in order to make room for a 24-Hour Fitness gym.
  So, what is Panda Mart? Imagine if Big Lots and Home Goods had a baby, a big one.
  Videos of the store in other countries
  
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• Santiago Canyon College alumnus returns to hear his music performed at fall concert

  18-11-2024 17:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Santiago Canyon College’s Fall Concert, held Nov. 7, was a night of music and celebration, highlighted by a special tribute to SCC alumnus and New York-based composer Victor Gutierrez, whose inspiring journey from student to musician was honored at the event.
  Titled “Encore! Honoring our Past and Composing our Future,” the performance was held in the Lorenzo A. Ramirez Library on campus, where one upstairs wing was transformed into a concert hall for the night. The evening bega
  
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• Bloated bureaucracies and progressive mandates in public education need to go

  18-11-2024 17:13 via ocregister.com
  
  At the end of a contentious election year in which the Republican Party won the presidency, the House and the Senate in spite of opposite voting patterns among the majority of California’s electorate, it is easy to get caught up in the dramas of high politics and ignore painful education statistics. 
  Only 47% of California students meet or exceed English proficiency standards and nearly 65% cannot do math at the grade level, based on the 2024 California Smarter Balanced test results.
  
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• Cal State Fullerton’s Dedrique Taylor sizes up a new era of men’s basketball

  18-11-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Dedrique Taylor saw this coming months ago, even two years ago. He saw the runaway train bearing down and inevitably derailing what he spent 11 years building.
  The only Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball coach in program history to crash the NCAA Tournament dance twice now faced an inevitable truth — one that forced him to take the concepts he built, refined, re-refined and refined some more after that, and, well, forget them.
  This realization did not come easy. Nor did it come wit
  
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• Santa Ana City Council to consider adopting anti-camping law

  18-11-2024 16:55 via ocregister.com
  
  The Santa Ana City Council will consider anti-camping laws at its next meeting, which would make it illegal to sleep in tents or store personal belongings in public spaces.
  If approved, it would be illegal for any person to camp — defined under the amended ordinance as to pitch tents, use camping supplies or “to use property for living accommodation purposes or to use a vehicle for human habitation” — at any public parking lot or space, plaza or the Civic Center.
  It would
  
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• San Juan Capistrano’s new Windmill Park is ready for visitors

  18-11-2024 16:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Full of citrus trees and native pollinator gardens, Windmill Park has officially opened in San Juan Capistrano.
  Located next to the San Juan Hills Golf Club, the park sits on the corner of San Juan Creek Road and La Novia Park Avenue. The park is a collaboration with the golf club and San Juan Capistrano to turn more than an acre of land “into a tranquil community amenity,” according to the city.
  Windmill Park in San Juan Capistrano, on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. The park is located a
  
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• KFI’s holiday layoffs underscore the problem with iHeart Media leadership

  18-11-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  When two of your brightest stars leave your company, smart managers would reflect on why.
  But we’re dealing with iHeart Media; and in my humble opinion, there is a definite lack of caring or programming intelligence at the very top. That is why they are in such dire financial straits and have been for at least 20 years.
  Longtime KFI (640 AM) program director Robin Bertolucci resigned her positions — she also oversaw programming on KEIB (1150 AM) — on Friday, November 8th, the s
  
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• Senior living: Older Americans living alone often rely on neighbors, others willing to help

  18-11-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Donald Hammen, 80, and his longtime next-door neighbor in south Minneapolis, Julie McMahon, have an understanding. Every morning, she checks to see whether he’s raised the blinds in his dining room window. If not, she’ll call Hammen or let herself into his house to see what’s going on.
  Should McMahon find Hammen in a bad way, she plans to contact his sister-in-law, who lives in a suburb of Des Moines. That’s his closest relative. Hammen never married or had children, and
  
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• Swanson: Chargers start hot, go cold and still come out winners

  18-11-2024 07:27 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD – As far as temperature checks go, Sunday’s 34-27 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals was a real fever dream for Chargers fans. A nerve-fraying, stomach-churning, toying, thrilling, beautiful mess.
  The headline: The Chargers won their fourth consecutive game to improve to 7-3, notching two victories more than all of last season and doing it before Thanksgiving.
  The subtext: They willed this win into existence after coughing up the entirety of the 21-point lead they’d
  
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• Chargers build, blow, and regain lead in thrilling win over Bengals

  18-11-2024 06:18 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh said he wanted it loud at SoFi Stadium.
  It was loud.
  He wanted a home-field advantage Sunday night.
  He got it.
  Harbaugh wanted exposure for his up-and-coming team.
  He got that, too, and it wasn’t all he had hoped for Sunday night.
  The Chargers built a 27-6 lead by the early minutes of the third quarter, but then watched it all slip away as the Cincinnati Bengals rallied to tie it 27-27 in the fourth before winning it 34-27, thanks to J.K. Dobbi
  
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• Cooking with Judy: A cooking lesson for kids that was years in the making

  18-11-2024 06:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Can it really be 23 years?
  In 2001, Cathy Thomas, food editor of The Orange County Register, assigned me the Thanksgiving story. I planned to show how the diverse cultures of Orange County celebrate this most American holiday with their own ethnic dishes.
  In Westminster home cook Bich-Ngoc Thi Nguyen demonstrated her cha gio (fried spring rolls). In Little Arabia, Susan Nachawati, (barely weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks) invited me to her family’s restaurant in Anaheim where I s
  
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• USC men’s basketball can’t close with no-center lineup in loss to Cal

  18-11-2024 05:57 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — They didn’t have much rim protection. They couldn’t stop interior penetration. They fought an uphill battle, every free-wheeling transition bucket matched by a Golden Bears onslaught on their rim at the Galen Center, a game slowly slipping away from Eric Musselman and USC basketball.
  So with time waning in the second half, on Sunday, Musselman stuck to the very guns of how he’d built USC’s roster — and closed a basketball game without a center.&n
  
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• USC basketball can’t close with no-center lineup in loss to Cal

  18-11-2024 05:57 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Seconds passed, and Saint Thomas of USC men’s basketball sat at the postgame podium Sunday night still contemplating the question, unsure of how to answer because he didn’t have the answer himself.
  What’s not clicking defensively? 
  “Um,” the USC forward Thomas said eventually, “I think that’s something that we’re still trying to figure out.”
  “Because it’s not like we’re a team that doesn’t play
  
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• Clippers snap skid with win over Jazz as James Harden hits NBA milestone

  18-11-2024 05:39 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — The Clippers celebrated James Harden’s 3-point achievement on Sunday, taking a moment during a timeout to recognize the 16-year veteran at the Intuit Dome.
  Harden moved solely into second place on the NBA’s career list, surpassing Ray Allen with 2,974 made 3-pointers. He had buried a 26-foot 3-pointer at the 6:18 mark of the first quarter to reach the benchmark.
  With that out of the way, the Clippers focused on beating the Utah Jazz and getting back to the winning s
  
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• Clippers beat Jazz to snap skid as James Harden hits NBA milestone

  18-11-2024 05:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Clippers center Ivica Zubac, right, shoots as Utah Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
  Clippers guard Amir Coffey, right, shoots as Utah Jazz guard Keyonte George defends during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
  Utah Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen, left, and Clippers guard Terance Mann reach for a re
  
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• What is Donald Trump looking for in his Cabinet picks?

  18-11-2024 05:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Barely one week after winning the 2024 presidential election, President-elect Donald Trump has rapidly begun assembling a Cabinet where loyalty is seemingly prioritized over experience. This has left many scratching their heads, wondering what kind of Cabinet Trump is trying to build.
  After selecting the more traditional Susie Wiles for Chief of Staff and Sen. Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, Trump turned to fierce loyalists for other key spots, regardless of their qualifications – or l
  
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• Antron Brown clinches fourth Top Fuel championship amid dramatic In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals

  18-11-2024 04:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Top Fuel points leader Justin Ashley drives through the shutdown area during the final round of qualifying at the 59th NHRA Finals at In-N-Out Pomona Dragstrip in Pomona on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
  Top Fuel points leader Justin Ashley laughs with a crew member following the final round of qualifying at the 59th NHRA Finals at In-N-Out Pomona Dragstrip in Pomona on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulleti
  
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• E.T., AI and our need for friends

  18-11-2024 02:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Especially in times of division and polarization, it’s important to remember that none of us can go it alone. The vitriol in America’s public discourse isn’t the only problem we have regarding how we relate to one another: We’re also about as lonely in this country as we’ve ever been.
  Recently, I started thinking about loneliness after re-watching Steven Spielberg’s classic 1982 film “E.T. the Extra Terrestrial.” The idea of “E.T.” spra
  
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• The new Border Czar reminds us how immigration controls destroy our freedom

  18-11-2024 02:23 via ocregister.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of Thomas Homan as his “Border Czar” reminds us how the enforcement of America’s socialist system of immigration controls has been a major factor in the destruction of the liberty of the American people for at least the past 80 years.
  For one thing, even the use of the term “czar” conjures up images of pre-communist Russian rulers who wielded omnipotent, dictatorial powers over the lives of the Russian people.
  But Hom
  
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• Rafael Perez: Donald Trump’s nominees must tread carefully

  18-11-2024 02:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Looking down the barrel of a gun, you look up to see a round figure in the distance. It is your dear Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. You were told that you failed at the impossible task that was asked of you, and now you face execution. Seated next to the big man is your replacement. What must he be thinking? Is it disconcerting to him that he was fifth in line to take the job?
  To a much less dramatic extent, many of Trump’s picks to fill his administration should be feeling a bit uneasy about
  
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• Chargers’ pass rusher Khalil Mack sits out vs. Bengals with groin injury

  18-11-2024 01:42 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — Outside linebacker Khalil Mack was sidelined Sunday for the first time in his Chargers tenure, sitting out Sunday night’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium because of a nagging groin injury suffered in a victory two weeks ago against the Cleveland Browns.
  Mack didn’t practice with his teammates during the week. He played only four snaps during the Chargers’ victory last Sunday over the Tennessee Titans, finding a seat on the bench as the team
  
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• Sparks secure No. 2 pick in WNBA Draft Lottery, eyes set on top prospects

  18-11-2024 01:04 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Sparks were awarded with the No. 2 pick in the WNBA Draft Lottery, which was held on Sunday. After a season in which the Sparks played to a franchise-worst 8-32 record, they had a 44.2% chance of earning the top selection, which is determined by which team has the worst cumulative record for two seasons. The Sparks were 25-55 over that stretch.
  Along with the Sparks, the Dallas Wings and the Chicago Sky, each 31-49 over the last two seasons, entered Sunday with a 22.7% ch
  
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• How USC landed Corona Centennial QB Husan Longstreet amid Julian Lewis’ decommittment

  18-11-2024 00:59 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — In January of 2024, as USC made their rounds for winter visits to high schools near and far, quarterbacks coach Luke Huard stopped by Corona Centennial to see Texas A&M QB commit Husan Longstreet.
  By this point, Lincoln Riley already had his QB1 of the future cemented, Georgia’s high-profile Julian Lewis bound tightly to the Trojans since August 2023. Riley had, in part, convinced Lewis to reclassify from 2026 to 2025. Lewis and father T.C. were active in helping US
  
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• Rams make change at offensive line in win over Patriots

  18-11-2024 00:43 via ocregister.com
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The Rams made yet another change to their ever-evolving offensive line ahead of Sunday’s 28-22 win over the New England Patriots, starting rookie Beaux Limmer over free-agent acquisition Jonah Jackson.
  Jackson started at center in Week 1 before moving over to left guard following an injury to Steve Avila. Limmer started the next seven games while Jackson went on injured reserve after Week 2 with a shoulder injury.
  Jackson returned from IR last week and resumed his
  
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• Camp Flog Gnaw 2024: From Odd Future memories to Chromakopia, these are the Saturday highlights

  18-11-2024 00:29 via ocregister.com
  
  “I wanted to build a place where people can just come and be and it’s beautiful to see that y’all have been rocking with it. All this really started from my notebook, man, it’s crazy,” Tyler, The Creator, spoke humbly into the microphone, taking in the sight of the sold-out crowd on the first day of Camp Flog Gnaw’s 10th anniversary at Dodger Stadium.
  The milestone celebration, which commenced on Nov. 16th, marked not just a decade of music, community, and art
  
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• 1 man killed, another injured in La Mirada shooting

  18-11-2024 00:24 via ocregister.com
  
  LA MIRADA — A shooting in La Mirada left one man dead and another in critical condition at a hospital, authorities said Sunday.
  The shooting occurred at about 11 p.m. Saturday in the 13900 block of Valley View Avenue, north of Rosecrans Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
  Deputies dispatched to the scene located two men in a parking lot suffering from gunshot wounds. Paramedics rushed the pair to a hospital, where one was pronounced dead and the other wa
  
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• Winter sports begin: Report your team’s scores, player stats to OCVarsity

  18-11-2024 00:15 via ocregister.com
  
  The season is starting for the winter season sports teams in Orange County — boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, girls water polo and boys and girls wrestling.
  OCVarsity has made it easy for area coaches — varsity level only — to get their scores, player stats and highlights published online by the Orange County Register.
  Click this link for the details about submitting your team’s stats and results.Daily deadlines for submitting information:Monday-Friday, 1
  
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