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Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer is battling for a second four-year term against three challengers who are united in one proposition: the office can’t go on as it is. The campaigning leading up to the June 7 primary election has been so focused on drama, scandals and doomsday predictions that little has been said…
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Michael Deiter has technically never earned a starting spot with the Miami Dolphins. In his rookie season his status as a 2019 third-round draft pick got the former Wisconsin standout elevated up the depth chart quicker than he deserved, placed into the starting lineup as a left guard before he was ready, and that forced…
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Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, an early investor in Google, Amazon and other leading tech companies, and his wife, Ann, have agreed to donate $1.1 billion to Stanford University to set up a new school devoted to the study of climate change and its solutions. The gift, announced Wednesday, is the largest in Stanford…
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With the curtain set to rise on the 2022 WNBA season on Friday, the Sparks waived returning guards Te’a Cooper and Arella Guirantes and rookie guard Kianna Smith, the 2017 Orange County Register Girls Basketball Player of the Year. With Wednesday’s cuts, the Sparks have 14 players on a roster that eventually will have to…
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The Mets provided an update on injured reliever Trevor May on Wednesday morning. It sounds ominous. The imaging tests done on May revealed a stress reaction on the lower portion of his right humerus, the upper arm bone between the shoulder and elbow joints, per general manager Billy Eppler. The stress reaction has caused inflammation…
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Buck Showalter began his pregame press conference on Wednesday with an unprompted story, as he’s wont to do. “They changed the error they gave Francisco Lindor in St. Louis to a hit,” Showalter said. “I asked Lindor after the game [if he wanted to get it changed]. He said leave it alone. You know why?…
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Pixie tangerines, with their perky-sweet flavor profile, are the perfect partner in a green salad, especially when fresh baby spinach is the main event. Grown in Ojai, these tasty tangerines are generally available through May, past the availability for most other tangerine varieties. Napping baby spinach leaves with a creamy Roquefort dressing shows off sections…
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Tyler Herro makes it clear the only priority at the moment is living in the moment. “Right now we’re focused on this season and my role now,” the third-year Miami Heat guard said in the wake of being named NBA Sixth Man of the Year. So, with that, attention returned to the Heat’s Eastern Conference…
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Disneyland visitors who always dreamed of living like “The Jetsons” in Monsanto’s House of the Future will soon be able to spend the night in a hotel suite that pays tribute to Tomorrowland’s midcentury modern masterpiece. The new House of the Future Retro Suite will open this summer at the Howard Johnson Anaheim Hotel across…
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