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UC Irvine Medical Center has lost a more than $2 million disability discrimination lawsuit after a jury last week determined that a psychiatric nurse who was injured while protecting students from a violent patient was later wrongly fired. An Orange County Superior Court jury ordered the medical center to pay Peter Albrecht about $1 million…
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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 Monday, May 9 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. MONDAY’S SCORES BOYS TENNIS CIF-SS PLAYOFFS Quarterfinals DIVISION 1 Mira Costa 12, Northwood 6 DIVISION 2 Dos Pueblos…
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Three different players could have won NBA Most Valuable Player this season. But the candidate that best fit my definition of “value” this season, and whose value has been substantiated through two playoff rounds, did not hoist the award on Monday. Denver’s Nikola Jokic took the crown, according to ESPN, over Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid and…
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Editor’s note: This is the Monday, May 9 edition of the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter from reporter Kyle Goon. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. There is a scene in episode 8 of “Winning Time” – perhaps one of the best scenes in the show’s first season – that sees…
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The outdoor kitchen. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The primary bedroom. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The primary bathroom. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The gated courtyard entry. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The foyer. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The living room. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The dining room. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The kitchen. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)…
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Nestor Cortes, once known as the quirky lefty with the funky deliveries, is now simply known as the Yankees’ best starter. The left-hander delivered again, flirting with a no-hitter into the eighth inning as the Yankees edged out the Rangers 1-0 at the Stadium in a matinee make-up of Saturday’s rained out game. Cortes struck…
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LOS ANGELES — The Kings lived to fight another day, avoiding a harrowing 3-1 series hole and instead reducing their first-round playoff series to a best-of-three against the Edmonton Oilers. Yet there was no elation on the part of Coach Todd McLellan. “We won Game 1, and then we did nothing in Games 2 or…
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By Ana B. Ibarra | CalMatters Californians seeking to start a family with the help of in vitro fertilization are often on the hook for the full cost of treatment, in the range of tens of thousands of dollars. The cost could deter some people from having children, and it could leave others in exorbitant…
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Steve Fryer’s list of outstanding baseball players last week: Will Burns, Trabuco Hills, Jr., SS: He homered twice for the Mustangs in their 13-10 loss to Santa Margarita in a CIF Southern Section Division 1 first-round playoff game. Burns also is the Trabuco Hills football quarterback. Juan Gutierrez, Los Amigos, So., Inf.: He hit a…
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The Orange County baseball top 25 for this week. ORANGE COUNTY BASEBALL TOP 25 (Records through May 9) 1. Orange Lutheran (24-4) Casey Borba leads the Trinity League champion Lancers in home runs (5) and RBIs (26) as they go into the playoffs with their first game Tuesday against Bonita at Hart Park in the…
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