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• Man shot, killed behind Westminster business

  31-03-2025 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  A man was shot and killed behind a business in Westminster on Sunday night, March 30, and police were searching for the alleged gunman, authorities said.
  Westminster officers were called to the 14000 block of Goldenwest Street, near Westminster Boulevard, about 7:45 p.m. on a call of a possible gunshot victim and found the man, believed to be 30-years old, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, Sgt. Alan Aoki said.
  Orange County firefighters attempted to help the man and took him to a hospital,
  
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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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• 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.
  Related ArticlesMexico celebrates dodging latest US tariffs but feels the effects of global economic uncertaintyIsraeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 27 people, Palestinian health officials sayHungary announces plan to quit Intern
  
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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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• 2025 Angels Deals: Free food and discounts for fans based on Angels games

  04-04-2025 01:52 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Angels have once again partnered with several restaurant chains to offer free and discounted menu items based on how the Angels play during the 2025 season. Fans might be able to score multiple deals in one day. Here are the deals available and how you can get them:
  McDonald’s
  McDonald’s is giving fans a free medium fries with a minimum purchase of $2 when the Angels win a home game. To unlock the deal the Dodgers will have to have 6 or more runs in a game. No code is
  
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• Bodega cats make New Yorkers’ hearts purr, even if they violate state regulations

  04-04-2025 01:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By CEDAR ATTANASIO and JULIE WALKER
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s “bodega cats” are beloved fixtures in the Big Apple — but they’re on the wrong side of the law.
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• No more cheap skirts: Trump ends tax exemption for low-value Chinese imports

  04-04-2025 01:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and DIDI TANG
  A notice to customers dazzled by the low-priced products on Chinese shopping apps: the days of getting trendy clothing, tools and gag gifts that cost less than lunch delivered to your door in 10 days are probably numbered.
  Related ArticlesWhat to know about the Trump tariffs upending global trade and marketsNo gift money? No problem. How to afford a house on your ownTrump’s tariffs aren’t strictly reciprocal. Here’s how he calculated the
  
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• Fryer: Spring football reveals arrivals, departures at OC schools

  04-04-2025 01:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Springtime always brings high school football activity and news.
  The biggest news is transfer news.
  Santa Margarita has a new quarterback, Trace Johnson, who recently transferred from Florida. Johnson, who will be a senior in the fall, is a 6-foot, 170-pound college prospect from Buchholz High in Gainesville.
  Santa Margarita issued a press release to announce Johnson’s move.
  Such an announcement, even by a big, athletically-ambitious private school like Santa Margarita, is unusual. That mi
  
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• Subtle change helped Anthony Banda became key cog in Dodgers’ bullpen

  04-04-2025 01:21 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Anthony Banda is describing the seemingly minuscule adjustment that changed his life, allowed him to reach the pinnacle of his craft and has inspired him to give back to society when he stops abruptly.
  Banda looks behind him, at the setup of his brand new locker inside the Dodgers’ reconstructed locker room and reaches for a drawer. He grabs a baseball and puts his fingers on the red stitched seam.
  “Slider,” he announces.
  Banda’s vibe: I know it sounds
  
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• NCAA Final Four: South Carolina and Texas go at it again

  04-04-2025 01:17 via ocregister.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. — Among the many things Texas coach Vic Schaefer admires about South Carolina’s Dawn Staley, her consistency stands out the most.
  UConn’s Geno Auriemma has set the standard in women’s basketball with 24 Final Four appearances and 11 national titles, both records.
  For Schaefer, Staley – who’s in her seventh Final Four and seeking her fourth title, all in the span of 11 seasons – is next.
  “I have a great deal of respect and admiration for
  
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• Trump says he supports proxy voting for new parents in Congress

  04-04-2025 01:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By SEUNG MIN KIM
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy, rather than in person.
  Related ArticlesLawyers for a detained Tufts student from Turkey demand she be returned to MassachusettsStates sue to block Trump’s election order, saying it violates the ConstitutionLarge protests against Trump administration policies expected across Southern CaliforniaFederal judge says she will temporarily block
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday, April 3

  04-04-2025 01:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Thursday, April 3
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  THURSDAY’S SCORES
  BASEBALL
  NATIONAL CLASSIC
  La Habra 8, Liberty 5
  SAN DIEGO LIONS TOURNAMENT
  Chula Vista 6, Pacifica Christian 4
  SOFTBALL
  MICHELLE CAREW
  
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• Lawyers for a detained Tufts student from Turkey demand she be returned to Massachusetts

  04-04-2025 00:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL CASEY
  BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was seized by immigration officials off a street near Boston argued in federal court Thursday that she should be returned to Massachusetts, while the U.S. government insisted it did nothing wrong in moving her to a detention center in Louisiana.
  Related ArticlesTrump says he supports proxy voting for new parents in CongressStates sue to block Trump’s election order, saying it violates the C
  
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• Swanson: UCLA women’s first Final Four has been a work in progress

  04-04-2025 00:47 via ocregister.com
  
  No NCAA banners, not yet. But don’t get your nets twisted, it’s not like the UCLA women’s basketball program has been long-suffering. Or even kinda meh.
  It’s been good and decent for a long while. You could even say the Bruins have had something brewin’. Simmering, low-key, before bringing it to a full boil this season, when they’ve reached the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four for the first time in program history.
  UCLA (34-2) will face perennial power UConn
  
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