Anaheim news

• Summer heat waves are hitting Europe. Here’s how to handle them

  06-07-2024 12:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Scott Hartbeck | (TNS) TravelPulse
  Europe is hot.
  And I’m not just talking about what’s happening on your favorite social media feed. Indeed, the momentum from 2023 — a year when seemingly everybody hopped on a plane across the pond — appears unabated, with early summer crowds currently swarming the continent, resulting in the usual hand-wringing and host of news stories about overtourism.
  I’m talking about temperatures.
  As I write this, A-list destinations like Rom
  
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• Angels’ Jack Kochanowicz allows 5 runs in short major league debut

  12-07-2024 06:09 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — A day after Jack Kochanowicz spent his first day in a big league clubhouse, standing in front of reporters and telling them about his dream come true, it became a nightmare.
  The Angels brought Kochanowicz for his major league debut on Thursday, and he gave up four runs in the first inning of an 11-0 loss to the Seattle Mariners.
  Kochanowicz made it through three innings, and he was charged with five runs.
  The Angels’ rotation has been an issue for more than a month, startin
  
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• Public art unveiled at Intuit Dome, in Inglewood, highlights LAculture, architecture

  12-07-2024 04:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Another massive entertainment venue is about to open in Inglewood, and its aesthetics hints at its goal — to blend sports and art.
  The $2 billion Intuit Dome, which will become the new home of the Los Angeles Clippers beginning with the upcoming NBA season, will open next month with a Bruno Mars concert. But on Thursday, July 11, officials provided a first look at six pieces of art that were installed at the arena.
  The six pieces, commissioned from Los Angeles artists, are intended to tie
  
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• Chargers’ new practice facility ready to open its doors for training camp

  12-07-2024 03:56 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers unveiled The Bolt, their new training facility and headquarters in El Segundo, to members of the media on Thursday. The 150,000-square foot facility is three stories and sits on 14 acres. The equipment room has jerseys, helmets and shoes. (Photo by Brittany M. Solo Press-Telegram/SCNG)
  The Chargers unveiled The Bolt, their new training facility and headquarters for members of the media in El Segundo on Thursday, July 11, 2024. The 150,000 square foot facilityis three stories and sit
  
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• Chargers’ new El Segundo practice facility ready to open its doors for training camp

  12-07-2024 03:56 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers unveiled The Bolt, their new training facility and headquarters in El Segundo, to members of the media on Thursday. The 150,000-square foot facility is three stories and sits on 14 acres. The equipment room has jerseys, helmets and shoes. (Photo by Brittany M. Solo Press-Telegram/SCNG)
  The Chargers unveiled The Bolt, their new training facility and headquarters for members of the media in El Segundo on Thursday, July 11, 2024. The 150,000 square foot facilityis three stories and sit
  
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• Reeling Dodgers don’t measure up as Phillies sweep 3-game series

  12-07-2024 02:56 via ocregister.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA — The score was tied 0-0 after the first inning at Citizens Bank Park on Tuesday night. That was the high point of the series for the Dodgers.
  They trailed at the end of every other inning in the three-game set against the Philadelphia Phillies who completed a sweep with a 5-1 victory on Thursday night.
  If the Dodgers viewed the series against the team with the best record in baseball as a measuring stick to determine where they stood in the National League hierarchy, the Phil
  
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• Judge rules Santa Ana must eliminate prejudicial language from noncitizen voting rights measure

  12-07-2024 02:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Knill ruled Thursday that a Santa Ana ballot measure asking voters to decide whether to allow noncitizens to vote in municipal elections will need to be rewritten before ballots are printed in August.
  Knill made clear that this case is not about whether noncitizens should be able to vote in municipal elections, a right she said has been established by case law in certain circumstances in city elections. Rather, the case is about whether specific langua
  
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• Angels’ Hunter Strickland impresses Ron Washington with his durability

  12-07-2024 02:19 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Ron Washington said Hunter Strickland refused to have a night off on Wednesday, which was no surprise to the Angels manager.
  “He was one of those guys that were on fumes,” Washington said, “but he refused not to take the ball because of the situation we were in. He stepped up and said he will take the ball.”
  Washington said Strickland and Carson Fulmer are two relievers “that I’ll go in a foxhole with and die in that foxhole with them, because
  
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• Huntington Beach air show settlement reveals financial promises city made

  12-07-2024 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach has released the settlement agreement with operators of the Pacific Airshow that it fought for more than a year to keep from becoming public. It details the financial promises the city would provide should the air show pursue a long-term contract to stay in town.
  The agreement allows the city and Pacific Airshow to enter into an agreement that would give the event organizer the exclusive right to host the air show for up to 40 years, along with continued waiving of city fees tha
  
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• Check out our OC photographers’ favorite images from June 2024

  12-07-2024 01:11 via ocregister.com
  
  We asked our photographers to pick their favorite moments from June 2024, and here are some of the images they selected.
  Dan Vo multi-tasks as he holds his five-month-old daughter, Kora, and samples chili during the 40th Tustin Street Fair and Chili Cook-off on Sunday, June 2, 2024. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  A worshiper stands in the shadows outside the Crystal Cathedral during a service at the Our Lady of La Vang Shrine in Garden Grove on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. (Ph
  
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• Boy, 10, loses 3 fingers after a firework explodes in his hand in San Juan Capistrano

  12-07-2024 00:53 via ocregister.com
  
  A 10-year-old Laguna Hills boy is recovering in a hospital from severe injuries suffered when a firework exploded in his hand in San Juan Capistrano last week.
  Edther Ocampo and his 11-year-old brother, Dominic, were walking in a residential area along train tracks near Camino Capistrano to their grandmother’s home about 7:30 p.m., July 5, after a soccer practice at nearby Stone Field when along the route they found what they thought was an unused firework in an alleyway next to a line of
  
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• Dodgers find themselves in unexpected position with rookie rotation

  12-07-2024 00:31 via ocregister.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA — After spending millions to rebuild their starting rotation last winter by acquiring Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and James Paxton, the Dodgers did not expect to be in this position.
  But they will reach the All-Star break this weekend with three rookies and an open spot in their rotation with left-hander James Paxton the only experienced starter.
  “It’s one of those things – it’s where we’re at,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. &ldqu
  
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• Lawsuit alleges Anaheim police officer raped woman at her home

  12-07-2024 00:26 via ocregister.com
  
  An Orange County woman in a newly-filed lawsuit alleges that an Anaheim police officer raped her at her home several months after the officer spotted her at an In-N-Out restaurant and ran her license plate number in order to get in touch with her.
  Anaheim Officer Carlos Romero — who is currently off-duty in the midst of an internal department investigation and is facing a criminal charge for the alleged misuse of a DMV database — is now also facing public allegations that he sexually
  
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• How to make D23 reservations for panels and presentations

  11-07-2024 23:36 via ocregister.com
  
  The D23 event coming to Anaheim in August will use a random lottery system to distribute reservations for the most popular panels, presentations and experiences tied to all things Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars.
  The sold-out D23 event will return to the Anaheim Convention Center on Aug. 9-11.
  The D23 Reservation Random Selection Process will open on Monday, July 15 at 12 p.m. and run through noon on July 19.
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• Hip-hop star Missy Elliott celebrates her birthday with downtown LA dance party

  11-07-2024 23:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Missy Elliott celebrated her birthday with a dance party in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, one night before the hip-hop star opened a two-night stand at Crypto.com Arena on her first-ever headlining tour.
  Party on the Plaza: An Out of This World Experience was a free public event to teach fans the moves to a new dance challenge Elliott has crafted for her tour. Her tour dancers were on hand to demonstrate the choreography.
  From left, Ciara Wilson and friends sing Missy Elliott, “Happy
  
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• Sign up to Notes and Bolts for weekly LA Chargers news

  11-07-2024 23:12 via ocregister.com
  
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• The Rolling Stones deliver a night of magic at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood

  11-07-2024 23:05 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s not like the Rolling Stones have anything left to prove after six decades as one of the most thrilling rock and roll bands to ever step on a stage.
  A brace of classic records, scores of hit singles and beloved album tracks, and the larger-than-life personas of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood? That’s more than enough to thrill fans like those who packed SoFi Stadium on Wednesday for the first of the Stones’ two nights in Inglewood.
  But it’s clearly not eno
  
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• Looking for a housing deal with lower rates? Economists say not so fast

  11-07-2024 22:43 via ocregister.com
  
  With no recession in sight, the second half of 2024 is going to look a lot like the first half, according to several economists who specialize in the housing market.
  Said another way: It will be like watching wet paint dry.
  Also see: Powell: Cooling job market could signal coming rate cut
  Recently, I spoke with Jordan Levine, chief economist at the California Association of Realtors; Edward Coulson, economics professor and director at the Center for Real Estate at UC Irvine; Christopher Tho
  
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• IRS collects $1 billion in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers

  11-07-2024 22:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By Fatima Hussein | The Associated Press
  The IRS announced Thursday that it has collected $1 billion in back taxes from high-wealth tax cheats — a milestone meant to showcase how the agency is making use of the money it received as part of the Biden administration’s signature climate, health care, and tax package signed into law in 2022.
  Part of the push for public awareness of high-wealth tax collections is a growing recognition by agency officials that a potential Republican takeov
  
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• How USC’s JuJu Watkins is improving amid her ‘summer of LA stardom’

  11-07-2024 22:25 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The festivities slowly cleared Thursday morning on the track at Hollywood High, and JuJu Watkins had begun to walk off from one Los Angeles engagement in the direction of another, pausing and turning as somebody cried her name.
  The signal came from a gaggle of tweenage boys, peering through the other side of a fence back by the field. Watkins was just a few steps from the exit, a morning complete after making an appearance at a youth skills clinic and announcing a Gatorade-sp
  
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• Lifesaving drugs, police projects mark first use of opioid settlement cash in California

  11-07-2024 22:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By Aneri Pattani and Don Thompson | KFF Health News
  Sonja Verdugo lost her husband to an opioid overdose last year. She regularly delivers medical supplies to people using drugs who are living — and dying — on the streets of Los Angeles. And she advocates at Los Angeles City Hall for policies to address addiction and homelessness.
  Yet Verdugo didn’t know that hundreds of millions of dollars annually are flowing to California communities to combat the opioid crisis, a payout tha
  
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• Man, 55, convicted of stabbing girlfriend to death at Garden Grove Motel 6

  11-07-2024 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  A 55-year-old man was convicted Thursday of fatally stabbing his girlfriend in a Garden Grove motel nearly three years ago.
  Kennedy Anthony Audain was convicted of first-degree murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife. Audain, who is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 13, faces 26 years to life in prison.
  Jurors deliberated for about three hours before convicting Audain of killing 50-year-old Leticia Mahe of Santa Ana on July 14, 2021.
  Audain killed the victim just befor
  
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• Our ruling class is an anti-family cabal

  11-07-2024 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  “We’re always there for these kids. These are our kids and we need to make sure that we are lifting them up,” a hyperventilating Sen. Scott Wiener said a few weeks ago inaugurating Pride Month. He was busy conflating school notification policies that keep parents engaged in raising their kids with (as Wiener puts it) “outing gay and lesbian kids.”
  “As we fight all the nasty people out there who are trying to harm us – and we’re going to beat them &
  
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• What Disneyland fans will want to see at D23 2024

  11-07-2024 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The D23 fan festival coming to Anaheim in August offers Disneyland fans a look back at the park’s 69-year history and a sneak peek at the future that promises a new Avatar themed land, Marvel E-ticket attraction and plenty of DisneylandForward projects.
  The sold out D23 event will return to the Anaheim Convention Center on Aug. 9-11 in 2024 for exhibits, panels, presentations and shopping tied to all things Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars.
  Larger nighttime showcases will take place at
  
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• Court rules some NCAA athletes may qualify as employees

  11-07-2024 21:54 via ocregister.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA — College athletes whose efforts primarily benefit their schools may qualify as employees deserving of pay under federal wage-and-hour laws, a U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday in a setback to the NCAA.
  The court, in the latest challenge to the NCAA’s long-held notion of “amateurism” in college sports, said that a test should be developed to differentiate between students who play college sports for fun and those whose effort “crosses the legal line int
  
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• Beyond PMS: A poorly understood disorder means periods of despair for some women

  11-07-2024 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By Lauren Peace, Tampa Bay Times | KFF Health News (TNS)
  If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.”
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  For the most part, Cori Lint was happy.
  She worked days as a software engineer and nights as a part-time cellist, filling her free hours with inline skating and gardening and long talks with friends. But a few days a month, Lint’s mood would tank. Panic attacks came on sudd
  
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• How to use buy now, pay later like a pro

  11-07-2024 21:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By Melissa Lambarena | NerdWallet
  “Buy now, pay later” plans have become a common option at checkout when shopping in store or online. Some plans, like the pay-in-four option, are appealing since they typically don’t charge interest or require a hard credit check that impacts credit scores.
  These plans may seem like another payment method next to debit or credit, but they are installment loans that divide your purchase into several payments, with the first one typically due at
  
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• Horse racing notes: Southern California’s top Breeders’ Cup prep gets makeover

  11-07-2024 21:37 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ALAMITOS LEADERS
  (Thoroughbred meet, final)
  Jockeys / Wins
  Kyle Frey / 9
  Armando Ayuso / 5
  Diego Herrera / 5
  Edwin Maldonado / 5
  Geovanni Franco / 4
  Edgar Payeras / 4
  Trainers / Wins
  Jorge Periban / 5
  Bob Baffert / 4
  Sergio Morfin / 4
  George Papaprodromou / 4
  Peter Miller / 4
  Steve Knapp / 4
  DOWN THE STRETCH
  • Santa Anita’s biggest race of the fall has a bigger prize money and new name. The $1 million California Crown on Sept. 28, formerly the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes, w
  
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• ‘Powerful, profound experience’: Patient sings along to rock song during first awake kidney transplant at Northwestern Medicine

  11-07-2024 21:26 via ocregister.com
  
  John Nicholas’ go-to karaoke song is “When You Were Young” by The Killers. He remembers hearing it come on as his surgery began, and singing along to it while on the operating table.
  That’s because Nicholas, 28, was awake during his kidney transplant at Northwestern Medicine, a first for the hospital.Nicholas, who was administered regional anesthesia, could hear what thetransplant team was saying around him, but for the most part, it felt like “a lot of noise and mo
  
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• Prosecutors seeking restitution for families of 34 killed in Conception dive boat fire

  11-07-2024 21:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By Stefanie Dazio and Jaimie Ding
  LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors are seeking restitution for the families of 34 people killed in a scuba dive boat fire in 2019 that was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history.
  A judge will determine the amount on Thursday during a hearing in federal court in Los Angeles. The proceeding comes nearly five years after the Sept. 2, 2019, tragedy off the central California coast, which prompted changes to maritime regulations, congressional reform and
  
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