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• OC Board of Supervisors discuss new CEO search as Frank Kim’s retirement looms

  22-05-2024 17:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The hunt for the County of Orange’s next CEO continues; the OC Board of Supervisors discussed the position at Tuesday’s board meeting.
  The agenda item “public employee appointment” was scheduled to be discussed during closed session, but no decision was reported after the meeting.
  Frank Kim, who has been Orange County’s CEO since 2015, announced his plans to retire by July 11 in a letter to the Board of Supervisors last November. He’s served the county in vari
  
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• In presidential debate, SoCal voters sought answers on immigration and Israel but got a muddle

  28-06-2024 05:00 via ocregister.com
  
  On Thursday night, televisions at a sports bar in Santa Monica, a pizza restaurant in Irvine and a dive bar in Downtown L.A. were tuned not to a baseball game but rather the presidential debate.
  Southern Californians gathered to watch President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump go head-to-head in the first debate of the 2024 general election. They wanted to hear about climate, abortion and immigration from the White House contenders, many said. But voters in both parties left concerned
  
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• NHL draft: What will the Ducks do on Day 2?

  28-06-2024 04:44 via ocregister.com
  
  It seems safe to assume that Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek will have his energy drinks in hand, but the team’s entire delegation might want to have plenty of caffeine as well as comfortable sneakers at the NHL draft on Friday and Saturday, when they’ll walk to the podium repeatedly.
  They’re currently set to select twice during Friday’s first round with picks Nos. 3 and 31 overall, then make seven Saturday picks, five of which will be in Rounds 2 and 3, with selections
  
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• Presidential debate: Is Biden sick? What does Trump mean by “after-birth” abortions? The people react

  28-06-2024 04:09 via ocregister.com
  
  President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump’s first presidential debate of the 2024 general election is generating an abundance of internet buzz, from comments about each debater’s age to questions about the truthfulness during the 90-minute showdown.
  Just minutes into the debate, it dominated social platform X’s trending topics list, with #Debates2024 generating almost 80,000 posts in the first 30 minutes.
  Early comments pertained to Biden’s opening statements,
  
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• Angels’ Brandon Drury making progress but remains out with illness

  28-06-2024 03:52 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Brandon Drury is making progress with an upper respiratory illness that has worked its way through the clubhouse, yet he still missed his seventh consecutive game on Thursday.
  Manager Ron Washington confirmed that the illness has affected multiple Angels players, with Drury seemingly taking it the hardest. The infielder went through a full workout Thursday that will determine the course of action moving forward.
  “If he doesn’t have a relapse and we’re going in t
  
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• USC’s Boogie Ellis set to join Sacramento Kings for Summer League

  28-06-2024 03:42 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — In mid-March, sitting in front of a locker after USC’s season-ending loss to Arizona, Boogie Ellis could hardly speak, the emotion clogging words in his throat.
  He had returned to USC for a super-senior season after testing NBA draft waters, the captain in search of a big final year to boost his pro stock. But the Trojans’ fortunes collapsed under a barrage of injuries, and Ellis was frequently in-and-out himself during USC’s frustrating 15-18 finish, tellin
  
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• Copa America: Short-handed USMNT loses to Panama in chaotic finish

  28-06-2024 03:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer
  ATLANTA — Jose Fajardo beat backup goalkeeper Ethan Horvath in the 83rd minute to give Panama a 2-1 victory over the United States at the Copa America on Thursday night and put the Americans in danger of elimination if they don’t beat Uruguay in their first-round finale.
  The U.S. played nearly the entire game a man down after a silly foul by Tim Weah in the 18th minute.
  Folarin Balogun put the short-handed U.S. ahead in the 22nd minute
  
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• Sam Woodward became disillusioned with hate group, psychiatric expert testifies

  28-06-2024 02:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Samuel Woodward was drawn by a desire for camaraderie to join a Neo-Nazi group months before he killed former classmate Blaze Bernstein, but quickly became disillusioned with the extremist organization, a psychiatric expert testified this week as testimony wound down in Woodward’s murder trial.
  Martha Rogers, a psychological expert who interviewed Woodward shortly after his 2018 arrest and again in the months before his current trial, diagnosed Woodward as being on the autism spectrum. Her
  
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• Is Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani a better hitter because he is not pitching?

  28-06-2024 02:13 via ocregister.com
  
  CHICAGO — It was one of the questions of the spring – would Shohei Ohtani be an even better hitter this season without having to devote some of his time and energy to pitching?
  He reached the midpoint of this season leading the majors in batting average (.322) and the National League in home runs (25), slugging percentage (.643) and OPS (1.045) while ranking third in the NL in RBIs (61) and fourth in on-base percentage (.402).
  So – yes?
  “The reality is the workload has be
  
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• Horse racing notes: Jockey Tyler Baze sidelined by hand injury

  28-06-2024 01:27 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ALAMITOS LEADERS
  Thoroughbred meet
  Jockeys / Wins
  Edwin Maldonado / 3
  Kyle Frey / 3
  Antonio Fresu / 2
  Jeremy Laprida / 2
  Armando Ayuso / 2
  Edgar Payeras / 2
  Trainers / Wins
  Sergio Morfin / 3
  Jorge Periban / 3
  Bob Baffert / 2
  (Ten tied) / 1
  WEEKEND STAKES (LOS ALAMITOS)
  Saturday
  • $100,000 Los Alamitos Derby, 3-year-olds, 1⅛ miles
  DOWN THE STRETCH
  • Jockey Tyler Baze will miss the rest of Los Alamitos’ daytime thoroughbred meet after breaking a bone in his left hand last
  
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• Ahead of Olympics, skateboard park event will be in the X Games spotlight

  28-06-2024 00:57 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN DIEGO — Most of the locals had yet to arrive when Tate Carew rolled up at Linda Vista skateboard park on a recent Sunday morning.
  Sporting a white cap with side-by-side logos of both Bay Area major-league baseball clubs, the 19-year-old Point Loma resident took a few easy laps around the 6 1/2-year-old public facility, giving little indication of his newly achieved status.
  Carew shot to the top of qualifying for skateboard park at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris after winning the second
  
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• NBA draft: Clippers take Minnesota guard Cam Christie with 2nd-round pick

  28-06-2024 00:39 via ocregister.com
  
  PLAYA VISTA — The Clippers need youth and with their lone pick in the NBA draft, they took 18-year-old Cam Christie, a one-and-done player from the University of Minnesota, in the second round (No. 46 overall) on Thursday.
  Christie, a 6-foot-6 shooting guard, possesses athleticism with above-average length and a smooth shot. As a freshman last season, he averaged 11.3 points and shot 39% from 3-point range in 33 games to earn All-Big Ten Freshman team honors. He also posted 3.6 reboun
  
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• Realtor settlement will create ‘biggest mess on the planet,’ celebrity agent Mauricio Umansky says

  28-06-2024 00:27 via ocregister.com
  
  A proposed real estate court settlement over commission rates taking effect in August will create “the biggest mess on the planet,” a Beverly Hills celebrity agent said.
  Rules about how the industry will operate “are changing on a daily basis,” said Mauricio Umansky, chief executive and co-founder of global brokerage The Agency and star of the Netflix series, “Selling Beverly Hills.”
  “It’s going to be an absolute mess.”
  Speaking offstage foll
  
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• NBA draft: Lakers select Bronny James, LeBron James’ son, in 2nd round

  28-06-2024 00:17 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — More than two years ago, Lakers star LeBron James publicly expressed his desire to play on the same NBA team as his oldest son, Bronny James.
  Now, he’ll have the opportunity to achieve the feat of becoming the first father-son duo in the NBA – if he chooses to return to the Lakers this offseason.
  The Lakers selected Bronny with the No. 55 pick in the NBA’s draft second round on Thursday.
  Bronny, 19, averaged 4.8 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 19.4 mi
  
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• Sparks looking to break 6-game losing streak vs. Mercury

  28-06-2024 00:09 via ocregister.com
  
  The Sparks are in the midst of their longest losing streak of the season, dropping their last six games on the road, albiet to playoff-caliber teams.
  However, the Sparks (4-13) will have an opportunity to get back into the win column at the Phoenix Mercury on Friday night.
  The Sparks are 0-1 against the Mercury this season after suffering an 87-68 loss in Phoenix on June 2. Guard Diana Taurasi scored 31 points against the Sparks, including 7 of 9 from 3-point range. Sparks forward Dearica Hamby
  
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• Lexie Brown out indefinitely, Sparks looking to break 6-game losing streak vs. Mercury

  28-06-2024 00:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Sparks guard Lexie Brown has been ruled out indefinitely due to Crohn’s Disease as the team is in the midst of their longest losing streak of the season, dropping their last six games on the road, albeit to playoff-caliber teams.
  The organization said a further update on Brown, who missed the Sparks last game on June 22, will be provided after the Olympic break in mid-August. Brown missed 28 of 40 games last season with what at the time was an undisclosed non-COVID illness and bacterial in
  
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• UC graduate worker strike is over, officials say

  27-06-2024 23:47 via ocregister.com
  
  The graduate worker strike across the University of California system that began in May and stemmed from administrative responses to pro-Palestinian protests is over, officials say.
  The strike was halted earlier this month by a temporary restraining order from an Orange County Superior Court judge that was set to expire on Thursday, June 27. When the temporary restraining order was issued on June 7 – right before finals began at some UC schools – the strike affected six campuses, inc
  
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• NBA draft: UCLA’s Adem Bona goes to 76ers at 41st overall pick

  27-06-2024 23:47 via ocregister.com
  
  A new Bruin is headed to the NBA.
  UCLA center Adem Bona was selected 41st overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in the second round of the NBA draft on Thursday.
  Bona, 21, who will look to serve as a backup center to MVP Joel Embiid, was lauded for his nearly 7-4 wingspan and a 40-inch vertical jump at the draft combine. In 66 career college games, he used his athleticism to play above the rim defensively and offensively.
  However, he had to wait until day two to hear his name called, as the first ro
  
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• NHL draft: What will the Kings do on Day 2?

  27-06-2024 23:42 via ocregister.com
  
  As their position stands, the Kings will have a first-rounder in attendance at July 1’s opening of rookie camp for the first time since Brandt Clarke’s arrival in 2021, but their pickings on Saturday’s Day 2 of the NHL Draft project to be slim with just one other pick in the top 180 after No. 21 overall.
  In Clarke’s draft year, the Kings consolidated their picks and selected just four players. They enter this draft with four picks, and only three on the second day barring
  
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• Knott’s Camp Snoopy not quite ready for grand reopening

  27-06-2024 23:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Knott’s Berry Farm cut the red ribbon on the reimagined Camp Snoopy with folding scissors from a giant Swiss Army pocket knife, but the refreshed kiddie land was not ready for the grand reopening with more than half of the new additions unfinished or slashed from the budget.
  Camp Snoopy returned on Thursday, June 27 during a media ceremony at the Buena Park theme park after a seven-month refurbishment of the 41-year-old Peanuts themed land.
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• Colleen Shogan, first woman appointed U.S. archivist, visits Nixon Library

  27-06-2024 23:17 via ocregister.com
  
  There are about 13.5 billion records in the United States national archives, and it’s Colleen Shogan’s job to preserve them and make them available to the public. Shogan is the 11th national archivist in U.S. history and the first woman appointed to the position.
  Her oversight includes 42 archival facilities across the country including 15 of America’s presidential libraries, which bring together the documents and artifacts to tell the history of each presidential administratio
  
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• Los Alamitos Derby horses try to heat up in the summer

  27-06-2024 23:01 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Alamitos Derby on Saturday marks the local start of what should be an intriguing second half of the 2024 season for followers of the nation’s 3-year-old colts.
  Different horses won the Kentucky Derby (Mystik Dan), Preakness (Seize the Grey) and Belmont Stakes (Dornoch) this spring, leaving the campaign for the division championship wide open going into the summer. In the latest national rankings determined by a National Thoroughbred Racing Association poll of turf journalists, vote
  
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• Rep. Katie Porter will return to UCI Law next year

  27-06-2024 22:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Rep. Katie Porter will return to teaching at the UC Irvine School of Law next year, once her congressional term is complete.
  Porter, following her loss in the U.S. Senate primary earlier this year, is set to leave Congress in January after six years. The Harvard Law alumna had been teaching at UCI Law prior to her 2018 election, and she will return to its faculty in the spring of 2025, the school announced on Wednesday.
  Related: What’s next for Rep. Katie Porter after she leaves Congress?
  
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• Homeowners can get cash-out second mortgages to fund small rental properties

  27-06-2024 22:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Say, you want to build an accessory dwelling unit on your rental property, and you need financing.
  Or maybe you want to buy another rental and need to find the dough.
  Or maybe you have debt to ditch.
  More on mortgages: Loan payments for Orange County’s record-high median-price house tops $10,000
  Tapping home equity through an equity line-of-credit or a fixed rate second is easy-peasy when it comes to your primary residence. Even Freddie Mac is jumping on board with its own program.
  Bu
  
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• Volkswagen recalls more than 271,000 Atlas SUVs over defective airbags

  27-06-2024 22:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By Samantha Delouya | CNN
  Volkswagen has recalled 271,330 of its Atlas SUV vehicles due to faulty passenger-side airbags.
  Certain Atlas vehicles made between 2021 and 2024 and Atlas Cross Sport vehicles made between 2020 and 2024 may experience a wiring error, causing front passenger airbags not to deploy, according to a Wednesday report from the US National Highway and Safety Administration.
  In March, the German automaker said it would recall 143,000 Atlas SUVs for a similar issue. It is unclea
  
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• Ultra-processed food is tasty and easy. Is it bad for you?

  27-06-2024 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Brooks Johnson | Star Tribune (TNS)
  MINNEAPOLIS — As shoppers study food labels amid renewed concerns about the health impacts of processed food, General Mills isn’t worried. After all, it’s the flavor that makes the sale.
  “Newsflash: People like food that tastes really good,” General Mills CEO Jeff Harmening told an audience of investors recently when asked about the debate around “ultra-processed” foods and how it could affect the Golden Valley, Minnes
  
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• Kings trade Carl Grundstrom to Sharks for defenseman Kyle Burroughs

  27-06-2024 22:19 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings have traded winger Carl Grundstrom to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for defenseman Kyle Burroughs, the organization said in a news release on Thursday.
  This move dealt one of the most physical forwards on the roster for a heavy presence on the blue line, albeit one that may or may not be destined for the parent club.
  Grundstrom, nicknamed the Tonka Trunk and fondly viewed by former Kings banger Dustin Brown, arrived in Southern California from the Toronto Maple Leafs system during th
  
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• Young gay Latinos see rising share of new HIV cases, leading to call for targeted funding

  27-06-2024 22:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By Vanessa G. Sánchez and Devna Bose, Associated Press and Phillip Reese | KFF Health News (TNS)
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Four months after seeking asylum in the U.S., Fernando Hermida began coughing and feeling tired. He thought it was a cold. Then sores appeared in his groin and he would soak his bed with sweat. He took a test.
  On New Year’s Day 2022, at age 31, Hermida learned he had HIV.
  “I thought I was going to die,” he said, recalling how a chill washed over him as
  
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• Busting 5 common credit misconceptions

  27-06-2024 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By Joe Yerardi | NerdWallet
  Maintaining solid credit can open doors to financial goals, but misunderstanding how credit works can make your efforts futile.
  As part of the 2024 State of Consumer Credit study, a NerdWallet survey conducted online by The Harris Poll asked more than 2,000 adults a series of questions focusing on common misconceptions about credit.
  Two thirds (67%) of Americans believed at least one of the five credit misconceptions we asked about. Here, we’re busting them.
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• Ex-Angels manager Mike Scioscia lists Newport Beach island home for $9.2 million

  27-06-2024 20:50 via ocregister.com
  
  A view of the house with its rooftop deck and dock, center. (Photo by Bowman Group Media)
  The family room. (Photo by Bowman Group Media)
  The front patio. (Photo by Bowman Group Media)
  A view of the combined living and dining room and kitchen. (Photo by Bowman Group Media)
  The living room. (Photo by Bowman Group Media)
  The dining area. (Photo by Bowman Group Media)
  The remodeled kitchen has a center island with seating. (Photo by Bowman Group Media)
  The primary bedroom. (Photo by Bowman Group Med
  
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