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• Pechanga Resort Casino partners with The Venetian Resort Las Vegas

  22-11-2024 00:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula and The Venetian Resort Las Vegas have partnered to provide guests of each resort shared access to amenities, casino club member rewards and other benefits.
  “This is an exciting time for us,” said Ken Perez, president of the Pechanga Development Corporation, in a phone interview. “The Venetian is an iconic Las Vegas resort and approached us with this partnership idea. Las Vegas casinos have approached Pechanga for about 10 years about partners
  
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• McDonald’s announces ‘McValue’ deals for 2025

  22-11-2024 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  McDonald’s will be launching a new “McValue Platform” on Jan. 7 that will include its popular $5 Meal Deal and offer other savings to customers, the fast food giant announced Friday, Nov. 22.
  McValue introduces a “buy one, add one for $1” option on popular items, according to a news release.
  Related linkMcDonald’s will bring back the McRib on Dec. 3They include the Sausage McMuffin, Sausage Biscuit, Sausage Burrito and Hash Browns on the breakfast menu.
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• Trans-Siberian Orchestra talks 20 years of ‘The Last Christmas Eve’ before Anaheim show

  22-11-2024 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Trans-Siberian Orchestra is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its rock opera “The Last Christmas Eve,” this holiday season on a tour that marks having sold 20 million tickets, and in doing so, surpassed more than $20 million in donations to charity.
  The American rock band will stop at the Honda Center in Anaheim on Nov. 30 for a 3 pm and 7:30 pm show, with ticket prices ranging from $80-$150.
  Those numbers – 20 million tickets sold in 20 years – would seem impossible fo
  
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• UCLA football wants to seize opportunities in USC rivalry clash

  22-11-2024 18:52 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s the time of year when no one is allowed to wear red around the UCLA football facilities. Three letters are forbidden from being spoken and a different type of energy is requested of the scout team.
  It’s the 94th rendition of UCLA-USC rivalry week, and the Bruins have the chance to be the first of the two teams to win at home since 2019 when they host the Trojans at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Rose Bowl.
  USC (5-5 overall, 3-5 Big Ten) hasn’t won a road game this season.
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• Apple readies more conversational Siri in bid to catch up in AI

  22-11-2024 18:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By Mark Gurman
  Apple Inc. is racing to develop a more conversational version of its Siri digital assistant, aiming to catch up with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other voice services, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
  The new Siri, details of which haven’t been reported, uses more advanced large language models, or LLMs, to allow for back-and-forth conversations, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the effort hasn’t been announced. The system also can
  
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• Will food-flation spoil California’s holiday spirit?

  22-11-2024 18:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Your holiday shopping budget should contain a generous helping of “food-flation” in the mix.
  With significant dining expenses coming this festive season, my trusty spreadsheet peeked at high food prices crimping household budgets. By melding government pricing stats from four big California regions – Los Angeles/Orange County, the Bay Area, the Inland Empire and San Diego – we get a rough yardstick of food costs and their sharp swing higher in recent years.
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• OC man accused of killing mother, wounding father is found not guilty by reason of insanity

  22-11-2024 18:06 via ocregister.com
  
  A 36-year-old man who stabbed his mother to death and seriously wounded his father in San Juan Capistrano was found not guilty by reason of insanity by a judge.
  Orange County Superior Court Judge Gary Paer found Yihong Peng on Thursday, Nov. 21, was not guilty by reason of insanity of murder, two counts of attempted murder and other charges.
  Peng could have faced up to 44 years to life in prison if convicted of killing his mother, Wei Ping Shen, 59, and wounding his father, Guojon, 59, on March
  
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• Real estate news: ‘Small dollar deals’ dominate Orange County’s commercial property sales

  22-11-2024 17:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Smaller properties remain a highlight in Orange County’s multifamily sales, according to a third-quarter report from NAI Capital.
  While large complex sales have seen a steep decline, demand remains in “certain asset classes, although growth prospects appear less optimistic,” wrote J.C. Casillas, the brokerage’s managing director of research.
  Multifamily sales volume climbed 20.3% to $1.23 billion year-to-date compared with last year, the report said. But that volume was d
  
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• Many in Gaza are eating just once a day, as hunger spreads amid aid issues

  22-11-2024 17:23 via ocregister.com
  
  BY WAFAA SHURAFA and FATMA KHALED
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Yasmin Eid coughs and covers her face, cooking a small pot of lentils over a fire fed with twigs and scrap paper in the tent she shares with her husband and four young daughters in the Gaza Strip.
  It was their only meal Wednesday — it was all they could afford.
  “My girls suck on their thumbs because of how hungry they are, and I pat their backs until they sleep,” she said.
  After being displaced five times,
  
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• Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta

  22-11-2024 17:09 via ocregister.com
  
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.
  The justices heard arguments in November in Meta’s bid to shut down the lawsuit. On Friday, they decided that they were wrong to take up the case in the first place.
  The high court dismissed the company’s appeal, leaving
  
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• The JFK assassination still haunts us

  22-11-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas 61 years ago today, he took with him a sense of the nation’s innocence. Many of those who were in their formative years at the time remember it as a historical inflection point, a moment after which everything changed. Given the massive cultural upheavals that occurred through the rest of the 1960s and the 1970s, it’s difficult to argue the point. While it’s debatable how much President Kennedy’s death actually pre
  
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• Insurance reform urgently needed, watchdog says

  22-11-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s home insurance market needs urgent reforms to halt the exodus of insurers from California and to stem skyrocketing costs for coverage, a state watchdog said.
  For example, the state should allow insurance companies to use computer models and incorporate their own “re-insurance” costs in calculating rate hikes, the Little Hoover Commission said in a report released Thursday, Nov. 21.
  But the state should also require insurance companies to base rates on investments h
  
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• HOA Homefront: Can we spend reserve funds on insurance?

  22-11-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: Last year after insurance skyrocketed, the HOA board borrowed from the reserves and then paid back the reserves with an assessment. We then learned that the board borrows from the reserves every year to pay the insurance and then pays it back over time, without notice to the residents.
  My understanding is that annual insurance payments should be part of the operating budget. Is it legal for the board to borrow every year from the reserves to pay the annual insurance payment? I understood that
  
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• Santiago Canyon’s ‘traditional’ college athletes compete in the world of esports

  22-11-2024 16:33 via ocregister.com
  
  First off, these are not your typical athletes, by whatever means you define “typical.” There are no budding edge rushers, point guards or center defenders in the images your mind conjures up of those positions at this moment.
  But when you burrow down into Roshan Uma’s team here at Santiago Community College, there are edge rushers. There are point guards and yes, there are center defenders. They don’t go by those names, naturally. But Uma has at his disposal athletes &md
  
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• Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof had a secret plan for ‘Seed of the Sacred Fig’

  22-11-2024 16:33 via ocregister.com
  
  For filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, the idea for his new film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” came not from a screenwriter or producer but from one of his jailers in the prison where he’d been sentenced for his criticism of the Iranian government.
  Though the broader inspiration had been in mind for much longer, he notes.
  “I should preface this by saying that the film is based on a question that lived with me, stayed with me for years,” Rasoulof says on a recent video call
  
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• Costa Mesa launches free ride service for downtown and surrounding neighborhoods

  22-11-2024 16:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Costa Mesa residents needing rides in the city’s neighborhoods near downtown, such as Westside and College Park, can now take advantage of a new free electric rideshare service from the city.
  Dubbed Let’s Go Costa Mesa, the service launched this month will give on-demand rides to people in the service’s boundaries. It’ll be able to take people to destinations such as 17th Street businesses, Northgate Market, the Donald Dungan library and OCTA’s 55 bus route.
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• Republicans scramble to fill JD Vance’s Ohio Senate seat

  22-11-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — JD Vance’s election as vice president has opened up one of Ohio’s U.S. Senate seats for the third time in as many years, setting off a scramble for the appointment among the state’s ruling Republicans.
  GOP Gov. Mike DeWine is tasked with filling the vacancy, giving the pragmatic center-right politician a hand in setting his party’s course in the state potentially for years to come. His decision will be made
  
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• Layered doughnut shop to open first Orange County location

  22-11-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Noted for its irregularly shaped doughnuts with a crispy outside and flakey, layered interior, Parlor Doughnuts will opens its first location in Orange County, tentatively scheduled to launch on Saturday, Jan. 11.
  Hungry? Sign up for The Eat Index, our weekly food newsletter, and find out where to eat and get the latest restaurant happenings in Orange County. Subscribe here.
  The Orange County franchise, owned and operated by Doug Jolley, will open at Aliso Village Shopping Center, located across
  
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• What people are saying about Trump’s pick for transportation secretary

  22-11-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Former Wisconsin GOP congressman and two-time MTV cast member Sean Duffy, chosen by President-elect Donald Trump for transportation secretary, could dry up federal funding needed to build several LA Metro rail line projects and bus system improvements, critics warn.
  Duffy, announced by Trump on Nov. 18, was described by many environmental and pro-transit groups as having ties to the fossil fuel industry and a climate-change denier who favors internal combustion cars and widening highways over ma
  
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• Republican populism goes all in for the Nanny State

  22-11-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO – We’re well accustomed to progressive politicians railing against corporate greed, especially here in California where Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Democratic allies blame oil companies – and not their own tax and regulatory policies – for our sky-high gasoline prices.
  This economic illiteracy isn’t confined to our state, of course, with the ongoing congressional hearings on credit-card rates likely to feature all the usual posturing and big-government clap
  
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• Here is a trick Caltrans uses to get speeders to slow down

  22-11-2024 15:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Q. What are the short, perpendicular white lines for on the sides and middle of Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, near Trancas Canyon Road?
  –  Kioren Moss, Ventura
  A. They look like rectangles, sticking into the lane from each side.
  As you drive along, they get closer and closer – so your mind thinks you are going faster and faster.
  It is a neat trick traffic engineers use to get people to slow down, or to at least get drivers to glance down at the dashboard to ensure they aren&r
  
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• CIF-SS football semifinals: Previews for Dana Hills, Pacifica, Portola and Anaheim

  22-11-2024 09:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowPreviews of the CIF-SS football semifinals
  All games Friday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m.
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  Dana Hills (10-2) vs. Glendora (8-4) at Citrus College
  Outlook: The Dolphins are in the semifinals for the first time since 1991 when they finished as the CIF-SS Division 2 runner-up to Irvine. Dana Hills has recovered from a late slide in the Foxtrot League to win two close games in the playoffs. The Dolphins averag
  
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• Video: Steve Fryer and Dan Albano make their predictions for semifinals of CIF-SS football playoffs

  22-11-2024 08:16 via ocregister.com
  
  In this week’s OCVarsity Gridiron video, Dan Albano and Steve Fryer discuss Orange County’s top football games in the semifinals of the CIF-SS playoffs and make their predictions.
  They discuss: Palos Verdes vs. Foothill (Division 5), Edison vs. Vista Murrieta (Division 3), Yorba Linda vs. Newbury Park (Division 2), Orange Lutheran vs. St. John Bosco (Division 1) and Mater Dei vs. Centennial (Division 1).Related ArticlesHigh School Sports | Dan Albano’s Orange County football To
  
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• Fairmont Prep girls basketball’s Adyra Rajan reaches milestone in win against Santa Margarita

  22-11-2024 08:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowCYPRESS — Adyra Rajan took the court Thursday night needing one point in Fairmont Prep’s semifinal game at the Oxford Academy tournament to achieve 1,000 career points.
  The junior guard soared past the minimum to continue her torrid start and help lead the Huskies’ girls basketball team into the tournament final.
  Rajan scored 30 points, including eight 3-pointers, to lead Fairmont Prep t
  
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• Shots reportedly fired at police officers on patrol in Orange; no injuries reported

  22-11-2024 07:44 via ocregister.com
  
  A suspect opened fire on officers patrolling in Orange on Thursday night, officials said.
  The officers were on patrol near Park Lane and Meats Avenue close to the 55 freeway when the suspect started firing rounds at them just before 7:15 p.m., said Lt. Phil McMullin of the Orange Police Department.
  The officers escaped injury and were “actively” searching for him in the area, McMullin said.
  A suspicious person was found in a backyard but it was unclear if it was the suspected gunman,
  
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• Lakers miss crucial free throws as Orlando hands them 1st home loss

  22-11-2024 07:32 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Playing against one of the league’s biggest and best defensive teams, Lakers coach JJ Redick emphasized the importance of physicality.
  And he acknowledged that aspect of the game as something he’ll “probably” reinforce with his team, at least every now and then.
  And when it mattered most, the Lakers met physicality with physicality. But crucial missed free throws down the stretch came back to haunt them, resulting in a 119-118 loss to the Orlando Magic
  
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• Real Housewives of Orange County: Shannon and Alexis have it out

  22-11-2024 06:44 via ocregister.com
  
  In our quest to find the villain of this season on “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” the other shoe dropped on the final reunion episode of the show and it was an $800 Ferragamo loafer paid for by Shannon Storms Beador with her ex-boyfriend Johnny J’s foot still in it.
  The main arc of the 18th season of the “Housewives” show that launched the franchise involved a love triangle, or more accurately a love-hate triangle, between Shann, her ex John Janssen, and hi
  
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• Lakers’ JJ Redick weighing options with starters once Rui Hachimura returns

  22-11-2024 06:10 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Lakers coach JJ Redick has made it clear he doesn’t want to have too many different starting lineups, barring injuries necessitating change.
  But with rookie wing Dalton Knecht’s recent hot streak as a starter in light of Rui Hachimura missing his fourth consecutive game because of a sprained left ankle on Thursday night against Orlando, Redick has considered his options for when Hachimura returns to the floor.
  Redick has previously said the team hopes Hachimura, a
  
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• Browns overcome miscues, snow to take down Steelers

  22-11-2024 05:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer
  CLEVELAND — Nick Chubb ran for a 2-yard touchdown in heavy snow with 57 seconds left, and the Cleveland Browns stunned division rival Pittsburgh, 24-19, on Thursday night, ending the Steelers’ five-game winning streak.
  Chubb’s score came in his first game against the AFC North-leading Steelers (8-3) since the running back sustained a season-ending left knee injury on a carry last year at Pittsburgh.
  The Browns (3-8) had blown a 12-point lead in t
  
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• Alexander: No suspense as Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani sweeps NL MVP vote

  22-11-2024 04:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Was there really any doubt?
  Certainly, the advertisers on Thursday’s MLB Network announcement of the Most Valuable Player awards didn’t think so. Ads featuring Shohei Ohtani were lined up to go right after the announcement of the National League MVP award. I’m sure there were fallback ads, but why would anyone think they were needed?
  When Clayton Kershaw appeared on screen to announce the NL winner – after Derek Jeter had appeared to announce the Yankees’ Aaron Judg
  
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