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A pedestrian was struck and killed in Costa Mesa while crossing Newport Boulevard against a red “Don’t walk” signal, police said. About 4 p.m. Sunday, a 74-year-old man from Bakersfield was crossing Newport Boulevard at Bristol Street when a 1989 Ford pickup truck struck him. The man suffered major head trauma and was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange, where he died of his injuries, police said. Authorities have not released the name of the man because family members have not been notified of his death.

NEWPORT BEACH — Three victims were hospitalized in serious condition and one man is in custody after a Friday morning stabbing, police said. Vi Nguyen Le, 19, of Garden Grove, is being held at Newport Beach jail in lieu of $250,000 bail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. One of the victims, a 17-year-old from Westminster, is at Western Medical Center with a stab wound to the back. The other, 21-year-old Thomas Hoang of Garden Grove, is at UCI Medical Center with wounds to the left arm and stomach.

NEWPORT BEACH — Three victims were hospitalized in serious condition and one man is in custody after a Friday morning stabbing, police said. Vi Nguyen Le, 19, of Garden Grove, is being held at Newport Beach jail in lieu of $250,000 bail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. One of the victims, a 17-year-old from Westminster, is at Western Medical Center with a stab wound to the back. The other, 21-year-old Thomas Hoang of Garden Grove, is at UCI Medical Center with wounds to the left arm and stomach.

UCI appoints health affairs leader David N. Bailey, the interim vice chancellor for health sciences and interim dean of the UC San Diego School of Medicine, has been named UC Irvine's vice chancellor for health affairs. He is expected to start at the post on April 1. In addition to serving as dean of the school of medicine, Bailey will coordinate the university's health centers, including the UCI Medical Center in Orange, the UCI University Physicians and Surgeons and College of Health Sciences.

A Newport Beach man driving a pickup at Pacific Coast Highway and 6th Street in Huntington Beach struck and killed a 16-year-old girl and injured her boyfriend, authorities said Tuesday. Heather Stamm, a Huntington Beach resident, was taken to Hoag Hospital, where she later died, according to the Orange County coroner's office and Huntington Beach Police Lt. Dave Bunetta. Christopher Hulett, 27, of Newport Beach, was westbound on Pacific Coast Highway at about 8:30 p.m. Monday when he struck Stamm and her friend, Nathan Koontz, as they walked across the highway at 6th Street, Bunetta said.

To patients for whom the simple act of breathing has become a life-or-death struggle, Larry Cherrison can revive the spirits like a wave of fresh air. As operations manager for pulmonary diagnostics and procedures at UCI Medical Center in Orange, Cherrison acts as guide, confidante and counselor to patients being treated for breathing problems. A respiratory therapist since 1969, he understands that a small courtesy, or a few extra minutes of his time, can ease patients' anxiety.

EDUCATION Kline School celebrates 20-year anniversary Kline School, one of Costa Mesa's smallest private schools, celebrated the opening of its new rubber-floored playground -- paid for in part by Newport Beach philanthropist Paul Merage. Thursday afternoon, the school held a ceremony in honor of Merage and the school's 20-year anniversary. The 20th Anniversary Campaign Committee, chaired by parents, solicited more than $100,000 for the playground over the last year, with $40,000 coming from Merage's foundation.

In wake of scandal, the chancellor will appoint a team to examine liver, other organ transplants.UC Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake has begun assembling a committee of experts to investigate transplant programs at the UCI Medical Center, following a scandal that broke last week. Thursday, the medical center announced that it was halting its liver transplant program after the federal government had stripped the program of its certification. That morning, the Los Angeles Times ran a story about a recent report by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which found that more than 30 people had died while on the waiting list for liver transplants at UCI and that the university had rejected many donated organs during that time.

Man arrested after fatal crash on tollway A Cypress man who lost control of his vehicle on the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor (73) on Friday morning has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and of driving under the influenceof drugs or alcohol, according to a California Highway Patrol report. The accident occurred at 9:55 a.m. near Newport Coast Drive and resulted in the death of the passenger. Richard Groom, 49, was driving a 2004 Dodge Viper southbound at more than 100 mph when witnesses said the vehicle spun out of control and crashed into the center divider, officials said.