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• Kennedy Smith powers No. 7 USC women past Ohio State

  09-02-2025 05:50 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES – When they needed her, she was their source of fire, Kennedy Smith’s eyes popping and her motor churning through the offensive fog that had befallen the Galen Center.
  She was there, when no shot by a Trojan fell for five minutes against Ohio State, hitting a first-quarter wing three to break the seal. She was there, dumping a pass into Kiki Iriafen for a 10-point lead late in the first half, a freshman with no fear clapping her hands at – not with – her teamm
  
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• Update: Be ready for pea-sized hail with thunderstorms to hit Santa Ana Mountains and Inland Empire Thursday

  13-03-2025 22:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Santa Ana Mountains/Foothills and San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys were placed under an updated report for strong thunderstorms by the National Weather Service on Thursday at 1:25 p.m. The alert is in effect until 2:15 p.m.
  Prepare for pea-sized hail (0.25 inches) and wind gusts of up to 40 mph.
  “At 1:25 p.m., Doppler radar tracked a thunderstorm over southeastern Corona, moving northeast at 35 mph,” according to the NWS San Diego CA. “Gusty winds could knock down tr
  
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• March megastorm may bring blizzards, tornadoes, flooding and even fires across much of US

  13-03-2025 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By ISABELLA O’MALLEY, Associated Press
  More than 100 million people in the U.S. will be in the path of an intense March storm starting Friday as the sprawling multi-day system threatens fires, blizzards, tornadoes, and flooding as it tracks eastward across the Great Plains.
  Scientists said the storm’s strength and potential for far-reaching impacts is notable, but its timing isn’t particularly unusual. Extreme weather can pop up in spring because storms feed on big temperature
  
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• Rock & Reilly’s Irish Pub closes after 14 years in West Hollywood

  13-03-2025 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  After 14 years of service, Rock & Reilly’s Irish Pub, a well-known establishment on West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, shuttered abruptly just before St. Patrick’s Day.
  The pub, located at 8911 W. Sunset Blvd., just two doors down from The Whisky a Go Go, has yet to make an official announcement on its social media accounts and website. Still, the business is already listed as permanently closed on Yelp and Google. This isn’t the first time it has closed without warning.
  
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• Horse racing column: He had a fast start in race to success as handicapper

  13-03-2025 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Many racing fans feel such a natural attraction to the sights, sounds and excitement of the track that they believe they were born to be horseplayers. Tyler Hoffman might be the only one who can back up that claim with photographic evidence.
  In a photo taken in 1992 by his mother, Tracy, 4-week-old Tyler is in the arms of his father, Alan, alongside his grandfather, Ron Kojis. In the background is the Santa Anita racetrack marquee, and at least two of the three guys in the picture are looking at
  
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• Horse racing notes: Mrs. Astor, Kathynmarissa battle on Santa Anita turf

  13-03-2025 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANITA LEADERS
  (Through Sunday)
  Jockeys / Wins
  Flavien Prat / 41
  Juan Hernandez / 41
  Umberto Rispoli / 31
  Antonio Fresu / 20
  Tiago Pereira / 20
  Trainers / Wins
  Mark Glatt / 24
  Bob Baffert / 21
  Jeff Mullins / 17
  Michael McCarthy / 17
  Doug O’Neill / 16
  UPCOMING STAKES
  SANTA ANITA
  Saturday
  • $100,000, Grade III Santa Ana Stakes, fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 1¼ miles on turf
  Sunday
  • $100,000 Irish O’Brien Stakes, California-bred fillies and mares, 4 and u
  
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• RFK Jr.’s first month as health secretary: Touting French fries and casting doubts on vaccines

  13-03-2025 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By AMANDA SEITZ and JONEL ALECCIA, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — There sat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, at a Steak ’n Shake with Fox News host Sean Hannity, raving about the fries.
  “Steak ’n Shake has been great, we’re very grateful for them,” Kennedy said, in between nibbles of fries that the Midwestern franchise recently announced would be cooked in beef tallow instead of common cooking oils that Kennedy claims —
  
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• Five years ago, COVID gripped the world in fear. Now scientists, doctors warn Trump’s policies are weakening public health

  13-03-2025 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  CHICAGO — The patient wasn’t initially worried when she first caught COVID-19.Fully vaccinated and relatively healthy at the age of 41, Johanna Claudette of the Irving Park neighborhood thought the positive test in February 2022 wouldn’t be a big deal.But within days, her memory became spotty. Her heart raced and she became fatigued. Today, she said, she’s still grappling with blurry vision, chest pain and brain fog — all symptoms of the chronic condition called lon
  
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• Measles is spreading. Are you protected?

  13-03-2025 21:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Measles, a highly infectious and preventable disease considered eliminated in the U.S. a quarter century ago, is now spreading in at least two states. Here are some answers to common questions about the disease, from how it presents to the durability of vaccinations.
  Q: What is measles and why are we hearing about it now?
  A: The World Health Organization identifies measles as one of the most contagious diseases, killing up to three out of every thousand children globally. The disease has been pr
  
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• Rams OL Coleman Shelton happy to be back

  13-03-2025 21:04 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — In most ways, Coleman Shelton is returning to an organization he is very familiar with after agreeing to a two-year deal with the Rams. But when he reported to Woodland Hills instead of the Thousand Oaks facility where he had worked out for five years, the offensive lineman was caught off guard a bit.
  What a difference a year makes.
  “It’s funny, walking in, it kind of felt like it was completely new to me. So a lot bigger, a lot more space,” Shelton said. &l
  
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• Under Trump, Social Security resumes what it once called ‘clawback cruelty’

  13-03-2025 21:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By David Hilzenrath, Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group, KFF Health News
  A year ago, a new head of Social Security set out to stop the agency from financially devastating many of the people it was meant to help.
  The agency had long made it a practice to reduce or halt benefit checks to recoup billions of dollars in payments it sent recipients but later said they never should have received.
  Martin O’Malley, then the Social Security Administration commissioner, announced in March 2024 the agen
  
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• How to shop amid tariff uncertainty

  13-03-2025 20:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kimberly Palmer, NerdWallet
  As President Donald Trump enacts his tariff plans, you may be wondering if you can expect higher prices when you shop.
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• New Rams WR Davante Adams credits Sean McVay’s recruiting

  13-03-2025 20:42 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — When Davante Adams planned a trip to Japan with friends for early March, he couldn’t have known how much his circumstances would have changed. That the Jets would release him, and for the first time in his career, the All-Pro receiver would be a free agent.
  And certainly he could not have guessed the number of phone calls he would receive from Rams head coach Sean McVay, reaching out from across the Pacific Ocean to recruit him to Los Angeles.
  “I thought he was ou
  
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• Anaheim breaks ground on new fire station for Platinum Triangle

  13-03-2025 20:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim this month started construction on the city’s 12th fire station, located in the Platinum Triangle, meant to reduce response times in the growing neighborhood that is home to thousands of residents and major destinations such as Angel Stadium and the Honda Center.
  The city officials celebrated the beginning of construction for the new fire station on March 4. The occasion occurred after years of delays stemming from objections once raised by the Angels as part of legal issues over t
  
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• Sage Hill’s Amalia Holguin fulfills ‘dream’ with run to CIF State girls basketball final

  13-03-2025 20:32 via ocregister.com
  
  NEWPORT COAST — In March of 2022, Amalia Holguin watched “as a fan” and dreamed of her chance as the Sage Hill girls basketball team reached the CIF State championships.
  Holguin was in the eighth grade that spring as four of her teammates from Kobe Bryant’s famed Mambas youth team helped the Lightning capture the Division II state title. The victory capped an emotional season as the team honored Bryant and others killed in the 2020 helicopter crash.
  On Friday night, Holgu
  
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• Chargers and DT Da’Shawn Hand agree on 1-year deal

  13-03-2025 20:10 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers addressed a glaring need Thursday by agreeing with Da’Shawn Hand, a former Miami Dolphins defensive tackle, on a one-year contract worth up to $3.35 million.
  The Chargers lost defensive lineman Poona Ford to the Rams on a three-year deal earlier this week.
  Ford played one season with the Chargers and helped them become the NFL’s top-ranked defense, giving up a league-low 17.7 points per game during the 2024 season. Ford signed a relatively modest one-season contract wort
  
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• Trump administration asks Supreme Court to partly allow birthright citizenship restrictions

  13-03-2025 20:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect while legal fights play out.
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• OC judge who shot his wife to death faces potential April retrial

  13-03-2025 20:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, whose first murder trial ended with a deadlocked panel just days ago, will likely soon find himself in front of another jury as soon as early April.
  Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter set an April 7 date for a retrial and rebuffed defense requests to delay the proceedings until May.
  Prosecutors allege that an inebriated Ferguson — angered at his wife, Sheryl, mocking him — pulled out a Glock .40-caliber pistol he al
  
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• Gavin Newsom moves to the center as he auditions for the White House

  13-03-2025 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Governor Gavin Newsom’s recent pivot to the political center confirms what many have long assumed: the term-limited governor has begun auditioning for a much higher office, this one in Washington, DC.
  Newsom has long been considered a potential Democratic frontrunner in 2028, although how the governor is starting his unofficial campaign is surprising, and certainly worth watching.
  Indeed, in recent months, Newsom has positioned himself closer to the center on a range of issues, breaking fr
  
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• Some La Roche-Posay, Proactiv and Walgreens acne treatments recalled due to benzene levels

  13-03-2025 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW PERRONE, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are asking retailers to pull a small number of acne creams from their store shelves after government testing found they contain slightly elevated levels of a chemical associated with cancer.
  The Food and Drug Administration said several lots of six products containing benzoyl peroxide are being recalled, including Walgreens Acne Control Cleanser, Proactiv Skin Smoothing Exfoliator and La Roche-Posay Effaclar Duo D
  
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• How the color of St. Patrick’s Day went from blue to green

  13-03-2025 19:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By Bryan McGovern, Kennesaw State University, (THE CONVERSATION)
  St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers.
  So my students are often surprised when I tell them that St. Patrick’s Day was once a solemn feast day when you’d be far more likely to see the color blue. In fact, there’s even a color known as St. Patrick’s blue
  
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• 5 ways schools have shifted in 5 years since COVID-19

  13-03-2025 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By Rachel Besharat Mann, Wesleyan University and Gravity Goldberg, Wesleyan University (THE CONVERSATION)
  The U.S. educational landscape has been drastically transformed since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered school campuses five years ago.
  Access to high-quality teachers and curriculum developed by teachers is shrinking, for example. Likewise, there has been a loss of emotional support for students and a decline in the school use of technology and social media.
  As education scholars fo
  
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• Measles cases in Europe and Central Asia doubled last year to the highest reported level since 1997

  13-03-2025 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — There were 127,350 measles cases reported in Europe and Central Asia in 2024, double the number of cases reported the previous year and the highest number since 1997, according to an analysis by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
  In a report published on Thursday, U.N. health experts said Romania had the most measles infections, at more than 30,000, followed by Kazakhstan, which reported 28,147 people with measles.
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• FTC reverses its request for a delay in an Amazon trial, says it has resources to litigate the case

  13-03-2025 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By HALELUYA HADERO
  A lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission has walked back his comments about a lack of resources and staff turnover interfering with the agency’s preparations for a trial involving Amazon’s Prime program.
  Related ArticlesBusiness | Meta to start testing crowd-sourced fact-checking, based on X example, next weekBusiness | Average US rate on a 30-year mortgage edges higher, ending a seven-week slideBusiness | February US wholesale prices unchanged showing inflation e
  
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• Sonya Walger lost her home to wildfire just weeks before her debut novel published

  13-03-2025 18:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Sonya Walger hadn’t yet unpacked her family’s evacuation go-bag from December’s Franklin fire; it lay unused by the front door. Then, on Jan. 6, hurricane-force winds began punishing her Malibu neighborhood.
  That night, the one before the Palisades wildfire, felt different, she says.
  “I’d had a bad feeling,” says Walger, who’s lived with her family in the Big Rock neighborhood for nearly two decades. After making hotel reservations to avoid the heavy win
  
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• Update: Winter storm warning in place for Los Angeles County until early Saturday morning – up to 6 inches of snow

  13-03-2025 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles County is under an updated winter storm warning which was issued by the National Weather Service on Thursday at 10:04 a.m. The warning is in effect until Saturday, Mar. 15 at 5 a.m.
  “Additional snow accumulations up to 6 inches. Winds gusting as high as 50 mph,” can be expected according to the NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA. “A second, and much weaker system will move into the mountains Friday into Friday night generating much lighter accumulations.”
  “Plan o
  
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• US workers with remote-friendly jobs are still working from home nearly half the time, 5 years after the pandemic began

  13-03-2025 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By Radostina Purvanova, Drake University and Alanah Mitchell, Drake University, (THE CONVERSATION)
  Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted office life, American workplaces are settling into a new rhythm. Employees in remote-friendly jobs now spend an average of 2.3 days each week working from home, a research team that tracks remote employment has found. And when you look at all workers – and not just those in remote-friendly positions – they’re working remotely 1.4 da
  
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• Former Stanton councilmember accused of not living in district she represented pleads not guilty

  13-03-2025 18:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Former Stanton Councilmember Hong Alyce Van pleaded not guilty to felony charges stemming from her allegedly not living in the district she represented.
  Van entered the plea at a courthouse in Santa Ana on Thursday, March 13. Prosecutors have accused Van of allegedly not living in the district she represented, lying on her candidate paperwork when she filed for reelection last year, and not being entitled to vote at an election. She’s facing four felony charges.
  After the hearing, Scott Si
  
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• Drummond: PYLUSD’s Local Control and Accountability Plan offers learning update

  13-03-2025 18:27 via ocregister.com
  
  A mid-year update on student achievement in the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District was presented to the board of trustees at the district’s regular February meeting.
  The update to the state-mandated Local Control and Accountability Plan lists recent results for a three-year program that outlines “goals, actions, services and expenditures” designed “to support positive student outcomes that address state and local priorities.”
  Among the goals of the three-
  
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• CIF State girls basketball preview: Sage Hill vs. Carondelet, Division I final

  13-03-2025 18:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowA preview of Friday’s CIF State Division I girls basketball championship game:
  CIF STATE DIVISION I FINAL
  At Golden 1 Center, Sacramento
  Sage Hill (23-11) vs. Carondelet (29-6), 6 p.m.
  Outlook: The Lightning peaked late in the season to reach their second state final in four years. After going 0-3 in the grueling CIF-SS Open Division playoffs, coach Kerwin Walters’ squad sprinted through the D
  
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