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• NCAA Tournament: Lauren Betts leads UCLA past Mississippi, into Elite Eight

  29-03-2025 05:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer
  SPOKANE, Wash. — Lauren Betts was so dominant inside that she barely missed, scoring 31 points on 15-of-16 shooting to lead UCLA past Mississippi, 76-62, on Friday night and send the Bruins to the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2018.
  The 6-foot-7 Betts added 10 rebounds and three blocked shots for the No. 1 overall seed, which will face LSU on Sunday for a chance to advance to the Final Four. The third-seeded T
  
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• 2 teens riding 1 electric scooter are critically injured in crash with car in Orange

  02-04-2025 03:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Two teenage boys were critically injured in a collision with a car as they rode an electric scooter together in Orange on Tuesday afternoon, April 1, police said.
  Officers responded around 2:05 p.m. after the boys, who were riding the scooter against traffic, crashed into the front passenger’s side of a northbound Tesla at Hewes Street and Via Lardo Avenue, according to the Orange Police Department.
  The boys were not wearing helmets, and were transported to a hospital in critical condition
  
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• In these spring flowers, there is a riot of glorious gold and yellow blooms

  02-04-2025 03:30 via ocregister.com
  
  At this time of year, it seems that yellow flowers are especially prominent in the garden. It’s as if the sun, which is suddenly more visible in the sky, has an ally in the color of so many spring blooms.
  I was reminded of yellow’s vaunted horticultural status in the current moment upon recently encountering a plant I had never seen before. Known as yellow forest lily (Veltheimia bracteata var. Yellow Comet), it displays a mini-forest of luminous yellow tubular flowers whose arrangem
  
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• Tournament of Roses gets into the spirit of April Fools with airy gag

  02-04-2025 03:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Oh, you should have seen your face! Rose Parade fans hyperventilated, and Tournament of Roses members threatened to turn in their badges when the hallowed Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association airily posted that it will float a first-ever giant inflatable balloon down Colorado Boulevard on Jan. 1, 2026.
  “Everything’s coming up roses, and so are the balloons!” the post read, under the headline, “Rose Parade to feature giant balloons.” An accompanying photo showed
  
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• Southern California gas prices jump more than 21 cents in a week — and it could get worse

  02-04-2025 02:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEVEN HERBERT
  The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose Tuesday to its highest amount since June 11, increasing 4.8 cents to $4.867.
  The average price has risen 10 of the past 11 days, increasing 21.8 cents, including 2.2 cents Monday, according to figures from the AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. It rose three consecutive days, increasing 1 cent, dropped four-tenths of a cent last Tuesday and resumed increasing Wednesday.
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• LAFC’s CONCACAF quest gets tougher with Lionel Messi and Inter Miami

  02-04-2025 01:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Focused on now instead of what could be, the Los Angeles Football Club’s push to play in a third CONCACAF Champions Cup final has reached arguably its toughest test.
  Having slayed the Colorado Rapids and the formidable Columbus Crew during the continental competition’s previous rounds, on Wednesday LAFC hosts Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba among a deep and dangerous Inter Miami CF squad that is 8-0-1 in all competitions under debutant head coach J
  
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• Scientists release plans for an even bigger atom smasher to address the mysteries of physics

  02-04-2025 01:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAMEY KEATEN
  GENEVA (AP) — Top minds at the world’s largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics.The plans for the Future Circular Collider — a nearly 56.5-mile loop along the French-Swiss border and below Lake Geneva — published late Monday put the finishing details on a project roughly a decade in the making at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
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• Unsolved violent crimes in Native American communities to get more attention with FBI surge

  02-04-2025 01:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The FBI is sending extra agents, analysts and other personnel to field offices in 10 states over the next six months to help investigate unsolved violent crimes in Indian Country, marking a continuation of efforts by the federal government to address high rates of violence affecting Native American communities.
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• Sierra Nevada snowpack sees most bountiful three years in a row in 25 years

  02-04-2025 01:34 via ocregister.com
  
  In a much-needed break after multiple years of severe droughts over the past two decades, California’s statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly one-third of the state’s water supply, was at 96% of its historical average on Tuesday, up from 83% a month before.
  The April 1 reading, considered the most important of the year by water managers because it comes at the end of the winter season, follows two previous years when the snowpack reached 111% of normal on April 1 las
  
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• Naval Academy removes nearly 400 books from library in new DEI purge ordered by Hegseth’s office

  02-04-2025 01:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By LOLITA C. BALDOR
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office to review and get rid of ones that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, U.S officials said Tuesday.
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• Glendale sergeant is among 4 soldiers killed in Lithuania training accident

  02-04-2025 01:25 via ocregister.com
  
  A U.S. Army sergeant from Glendale was formally identified Tuesday as one of four soldiers who died in a training accident in Lithuania.
  The soldiers, who were aboard an M88 Hercules vehicle, disappeared March 25 during the training exercise in the town of Pabradé. They were found dead after a roughly weeklong search that uncovered their tactical vehicle in a swamp. Three of the bodies were recovered Monday and a fourth on Tuesday.
  Three of the soldiers were identified Tuesday by the Army
  
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• Anger against Trump is likely to cost the US international visitors, forecaster says

  02-04-2025 01:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEE-ANN DURBIN
  Anger over the Trump administration’s tariffs and rhetoric will likely cause international travel to the U.S. to fall even further than expected this year, an influential travel forecasting company said Tuesday.
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• Automakers report stellar sales ahead of Trump’s tariffs taking effect

  02-04-2025 01:02 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The major car companies say sales rose sharply in March, with most reporting double-digit gains. For some companies, the strong performance last month helped make up for a sluggish start to the year.
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• Judge holds ICE agent in contempt after he detained suspect during a trial

  02-04-2025 00:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL CASEY
  BOSTON (AP) — A judge in Boston is holding a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in contempt after he detained a suspect while the man was on trial.
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• Angels’ Zach Neto starts rehab assignment as DH at Triple-A

  02-04-2025 00:54 via ocregister.com
  
  ST. LOUIS — Zach Neto took a significant step toward a return to the majors, but he’s still got some work to do.
  Neto was scheduled to begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Salt Lake on Tuesday night. Neto will just be the DH, though. He’s still not ready to play shortstop.
  “DH for however long he’s got to DH,” Angels manager Ron Washington said. “When the medical people decide he’s ready to go on the field, we’re going to give him the amoun
  
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• Trump administration pauses some family planning grants as it investigates compliance with laws

  02-04-2025 00:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By GEOFF MULVIHILL
  The federal government has paused $27.5 million for organizations that provide family planning, contraception, cancer screenings and sexually transmitted infection services as it investigates whether they’re complying with the law.
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• Most immigrants at risk of deportation from US are Christian, report finds

  02-04-2025 00:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By PETER SMITH
  As many as four in five immigrants at risk of deportation from the United States are Christian, according to a new report that calls on their fellow believers to consider the impact of the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation policies.
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• Death of veteran found in car at VA Loma Linda latest in string of suicides

  02-04-2025 00:34 via ocregister.com
  
  A military veteran wanted by police was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a parked vehicle this week at the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in the latest of a string of suicides connected to the VA Loma Linda Health Care System.
  The man, who is in his mid-30s, had an outstanding arrest warrant and officers had been searching for him when they located his vehicle in the parking lot about 3:15 p.m. Sunday, March 30, San Bernardino police Lt. Jennifer
  
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• Volcano erupts in southwestern Iceland

  02-04-2025 00:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARCO Di MARCO
  GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A volcano in southwestern Iceland that has erupted repeatedly for more than a year again belched lava and smoke into the air on Tuesday, just hours after authorities evacuated the few remaining residents of a nearby fishing village.
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• Storms could unleash deadly floods, strong tornadoes in large part of US in coming days

  02-04-2025 00:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By JEFF MARTIN
  Forecasters are warning of potentially deadly flash flooding and strong tornadoes as more rounds of thunderstorms are poised to strike parts of the Midwest and South.
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• UCI Health workers join one-day strike across the UC system

  02-04-2025 00:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Citing what they say are unfair labor practices, hundreds of union workers affiliated with UC Irvine medical centers staged a one-day strike on Tuesday, April 1, joining thousands of peers across University of California medical and academic campuses statewide.
  Employees from two unions — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and University Professional and Technical Employees — representing health care, research support, and technical professionals in
  
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• Wife stabbed husband to death in Santa Ana on his birthday, prosecutor says

  02-04-2025 00:16 via ocregister.com
  
  A wife stabbed her husband to death the morning of his birthday in 2021 as he lay in bed at their Santa Ana home, a prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday at the outset of the woman’s murder trial.
  A defense attorney acknowledged that Michelle Gutierrez, then 32, killed her husband — 38-year-old Cesar Reyes Zuna — at their home in the 1000 block of West Bishop Street but blamed the slaying on mental issues related to medication she had been taking to help prevent seizures.
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• At the Grand Prix of Long Beach, a motorsports fan lives the dream of riding in a race car

  02-04-2025 00:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Let’s get this out of the way. I’m not an adrenaline junkie.
  I know what you’re thinking. What kind of person, other than someone addicted to thrill and anxiety, would willfully agree to jump into a two-seater IndyCar to speed around 1.97 miles of downtown Long Beach at about 160 mph?
  Politics Editor Kaitlyn Schallhorn smiles after taking a ride-along in a two-seater IndyCar during the Grand Prix of Long Beach’s annual media day on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (Photo by Drew A
  
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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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• Colton Herta would love a normal Grand Prix of Long Beach win

  02-04-2025 00:07 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — Colton Herta took a seat in the VIP tent Tuesday at media day for the 50th Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, which will take place April 13. This is Herta’s hometown race, as he hails from Santa Clarita, so one can image how excited he might have been when he won here in 2021.
  Not so fast.
  Yes, Herta won. But he didn’t get to enjoy it as much as he might have because so much of the attention was on Alex Palou clinching the NTT IndyCar series championship with a fourt
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Tuesday, April 1

  01-04-2025 23:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Tuesday, April 1
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  The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
  TUESDAY’S SCORES
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  El Modena 3, Salem Hills (UT) 0
  ElMo: Novajoski (W, 5.2IP 5H 0R 2BB 11K)
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• These California publishers specialize in creating books by female authors

  01-04-2025 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  These days, female authors are publishing as many books yearly as males.
  In a 2023 study, “The Welfare Effect of Gender-Inclusive Intellectual Property Creation: Evidence from Books,” University of Minnesota economist Joel Waldfogel looked at sales on Amazon, reviews on Goodreads, and other data, and concluded that, as of 2020, women are now penning 50 percent, maybe even slightly more, of the books published yearly.
  This is a huge leap from 10 percent a century ago, and 20 percent 6
  
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• These 12 Noteworthy books by California authors made an impact in 2024

  01-04-2025 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’re keeping track, you might notice that we’ve added a couple of books to our fourth annual Noteworthy list, our salute to California authors whose books during the past year helped shape conversations, attracted considerable attention from critics and readers alike, made powerful statements and delivered unique reading experiences.
  In 2024, there were so many books by California authors whose influence reached beyond the region and reverberated across the nation that we had to
  
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• Q&A: Pacific Symphony’s new conductor Alexander Shelley on how music meets the moment

  01-04-2025 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  From catastrophic fires to mudslides, plane crashes, political upheaval — let’s just say that calamity seemed to be the opening act of 2025.
  Seeking an antidote to the venom of relentless headlines, I’ve found myself listening to music more than ever. Which made me wonder: How and why does music act as more than mere entertainment, but perhaps offer deeper wisdom and perspective?
  For answers, I turned to London-based conductor Alexander Shelley, who is the incoming artistic and
  
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• Physical or digital formats? On the joys and importance of both

  01-04-2025 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  I was about to drive my friend home after watching a movie. Before buckling my seatbelt, I reached across to the passenger’s side and pulled something small, square and plastic out of the glove compartment.
  “Is that a CD?” my friend asked, astonished. While opening the jewel case, I confirmed that his eyes weren’t deceiving him. “That’s wild,” he said. “I can’t remember the last time I saw someone use a CD.”
  I slid the disc into the car
  
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