Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now WALNUT — Bianca Nwaizu understandably felt intimated last summer as a 14-year-old swimming at the U.S. Olympic Trials, a meet known to rattle even the most experienced racers. Not only did Nwaizu expend months of energy in qualifying for Trials in her final…
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A divided Costa Mesa City Council on Tuesday, May 6, fired City Manager Lori Ann Farrell Harrison, leaving the city without a top executive without providing an explanation for what led to her termination. On the council’s closed session agenda Tuesday was an item titled “public employee performance evaluation.” City Attorney Kimberly Barlow said the…
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Is there something in California’s water that induces the state’s bureaucrats to make boneheaded errors of judgment? It would seem so, given the sorry history of monumental screwups. Many of the state government’s wrongheaded actions involve abortive efforts to use advanced technology. The poster child for those high-tech basket cases has been Financial Information System…
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MIAMI — The Dodgers had to be relieved when Evan Phillips returned from a ligament tear in his rotator cuff and gave them seven scoreless appearances in the first two weeks after he was activated. Then his arm started hurting. Phillips went on the injured list on Wednesday with forearm discomfort, joining Blake Treinen and…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, May 7 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday. WEDNESDAY’S SCORES BOYS…
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has warned a lawyer for music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs to tame his public comments now that the music mogul’s sex trafficking trial is underway, saying it was “outrageous” that he referred to prosecutors during a podcast as a “six-pack of white women.”…
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Donald Trump’s latest policy stunt, a proposed 100% tariff on all foreign-made films, is designed to appear as a patriotic gesture at first glance. Trump frames the issue as a “national security” concern, claiming that Hollywood productions are “betraying” their home countries when they organize filming in Canada, the UK, or even my native country,…
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By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Days into Harvey Weinstein’s first sexual assault trial in 2020, prosecutors privately spoke for the first time with a former model who alleged that he had forced oral sex on her. But that jury was never told about Kaja (KEYE’-ah) Sokola’s claim.…
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By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of Haverford College was berated by Republican lawmakers in a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism Wednesday, with some suggesting the school should lose federal funding because of her refusal to discuss student discipline in the wake of pro-Palestinian protests. Related Articles Trump designates Thursday…
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By JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press The Trump administration is promising to fix the nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers after recent control tower mishaps and a string of crashes earlier this year. The need for more controllers who direct planes across increasingly crowded skies, though, isn’t a new issue or one that will be resolved…
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