First look inside mesmerizing jellyfish aquarium coming to SeaWorld San Diego

• February 18, 2025

Mesmerizing and mysterious jellyfish will surround visitors in a new SeaWorld San Diego aquarium that focuses on the serene, graceful and ethereal creatures that have existed since before the age of dinosaurs.

The new Jewels of the Sea: A Jellyfish Experience aquarium will debut on March 15 at the San Diego marine park just in time for the Spring Break season.

The Jewels of the Sea attraction near the Electric Eel roller coaster will feature several species — including moon jellies, pacific sea nettles and upside-down jellyfish.

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The first-of-its-kind aquarium at any SeaWorld park promises to be an Instagram-worthy photo spot with a jellyfish-filled archway, one of the largest jelly cylinders in the country and a glowing LED room of the pulsating invertebrates.

Jewels of the Sea will be divided into three sections — Realm of Jellies, Jellyfish Passage and the Medusa Gallery.

The Realm of Jellies will focus on the anatomy and life cycle of the jellyfish.

The Jellyfish Passage will feature a 14-foot-tall moon jelly aquarium — one of the tallest in the nation.

The Medusa Gallery will celebrate the beauty and mystery of comb jellies and sea nettles.

The vital role jellyfish play in transporting nutrients throughout ocean layers and other educational details will be highlighted throughout the exhibit.

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A touch pool will allow visitors to get up close to the brainless beauties that have terrified generations of beach-goers with their stinging tentacles.

Hardcore jellyfish fans can sign up for a $50 Jelly Up-Close Tour led by an expert aquarist.

SeaWorld San Diego annual passholders will get a preview of Jewels of the Sea before the official grand opening of the attraction.

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Judge declines to immediately block Elon Musk or DOGE from federal data or layoffs

• February 18, 2025

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge declined Tuesday to immediately block billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data systems or participating in worker layoffs.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan found that there are legitimate questions about Musk’s authority, but said there isn’t evidence of the kind of grave legal harm that would justify a temporary restraining order.

The decision came in a lawsuit filed by 14 states challenging DOGE’s authority to access sensitive government data. The attorneys general argued that actions taken by Musk at the helm of DOGE can only be taken by a nominated and Senate-confirmed official under the Constitution.

The Trump administration has maintained that Musk doesn’t have authority of his own and layoffs are coming from agency heads.

Musk’s team has tapped into computer systems across multiple agencies with the blessing of President Donald Trump, digging into budgets and searching for what he calls waste, fraud and abuse, even as a growing number of lawsuits allege DOGE is violating the law.

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Judge questions motives for Trump’s order banning transgender troops

• February 18, 2025

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday questioned President Donald Trump’s motives for issuing an executive order that calls for banning transgender troops from serving in the U.S. military, describing a portion of the directive as “frankly ridiculous.”

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes indicated that she won’t rule before early March on whether to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing the order, which plaintiffs’ attorneys have said illegally discriminates against transgender troops.

But her questions and remarks during Tuesday’s hearing suggest that she is deeply skeptical of the administration’s reasoning for ordering a policy change. Reyes also lauded the service of several active-duty troops who sued to block the order.

“If you were in a foxhole, would you care about these individuals’ gender identity?” the judge asked a government attorney, who answered that it “would not be a primary concern of mine.”

Trump’s Jan. 27 order claims the sexual identity of transgender service members “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life” and is harmful to military readiness. It requires Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to issue a revised policy.

Six transgender people who are active-duty service members and two others seeking to join the military sued to block the Trump administration from enforcing the order. In a court filing, plaintiffs’ lawyers argued that Trump’s order openly expresses “hostility” and constitutionally impermissible “animus” toward transgender people.

Reyes said the order’s language smears thousands of transgender troops as dishonest, dishonorable and undisciplined.

She asked Justice Department attorney Jason Lynch: “How is that anything other than showing animus?”

“I don’t have an answer for you,” Lynch responded.

“No, you have an answer. You just don’t want to give it,” the judge shot back.

Trump’s order also says that “use of pronouns that inaccurately reflect an individual’s sex” is inconsistent with a government policy to “establish high standards for troop readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity.”

Reyes said it is “frankly ridiculous” to suggest that pronoun usage could impact the military readiness of the U.S. armed forces.

“Because it doesn’t. Because any common sense, rational person would understand that it doesn’t,” said Reyes, who was nominated by President Joe Biden, a Democrat.

Reyes peppered Lynch for several hours with questions about the executive order. They disagreed on whether the language of the executive order explicitly bans transgender people from serving in the military.

Reyes asked Lynch if Trump himself would call it a ban, then added, “He would say, ‘Of course it is,’ because he calls it a transgender ban.” Lynch said the order itself doesn’t require the discharge of service members while Hegseth crafts a policy that reflects it.

“Everyone knows a change is coming. I’m not denying that,” Lynch said.

Reyes is expected to hear more arguments on Wednesday and again on March 3.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys contend Trump’s order violates transgender people’s rights to equal protection under the Fifth Amendment, marking them as “unequal and dispensable, demeaning them in the eyes of their fellow service members and the public.”

“The ban is an irrational and prejudicial attack on service members who have risked their lives to serve their country,” they wrote in a court filing.

Government attorneys say the plaintiffs are prematurely challenging an order that doesn’t immediately require transgender troops to be discharged. The Justice Department also argues that the constitutional right to equal protection “requires only that similarly situated persons be treated alike.”

“A transgender individual identifying as a woman is not similarly situated to a biological female, nor is a transgender individual identifying as a man similarly situated to a biological male,” they wrote.

During Trump’s first term, the Republican issued a directive directive to ban transgender service members. The Supreme Court allowed the ban to to take effect. Biden scrapped it when he took office.

Thousands of transgender people serve in the military, but they represent less than 1 percent of all active-duty service members.

The plaintiffs include an Army Reserves platoon leader, an Army major who was awarded a Bronze Star for service in Afghanistan and a Sailor of the Year award winner serving in the Navy. They are represented by attorneys for the National Center for Lesbian Rights and GLAD Law.

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Ducks prospects: Beckett Sennecke proving the team right

• February 18, 2025

While many of the Ducks’ top 25-and-under players are already competing for the parent club, they still have reinforcements on the way from the junior, minor pro and European pro levels.

As their core grows, it could also expand, especially given that the Ducks had two first-rounders this season on the heels of 2023-24, when they added one lottery pick in the draft and another recent one via trade in current NHL’ers Leo Carlsson and Cutter Gauthier.

The league’s prolonged pause for the 4 Nations Face-Off shifted the spotlight onto the aspirants who could soon join a team that already has enough university-aged players to fill a fraternity house.

Beckett Sennecke

Sennecke himself was stunned to be selected third overall in June, but he has more than justified his draft standing and Ducks GM Pat Verbeek’s confidence in him. The Oshawa Generals’ virtuoso was named the 21st-best player in the world under 23 by The Athletic’s Corey Pronman, on a list that included established NHL stars like Ottawa’s Tim Stützle and generational prospects such as Chicago’s Connor Bedard.

The 19-year-old forward has placed fifth in goals and eighth in points in the Ontario Hockey League, despite beginning his campaign recovering from a stress fracture in his foot and missing a handful of games this season. Sennecke was the league’s Player of the Month in December, when he burst forth with 22 points in eight games. Half that scoring came in a three-game spurt that he capped off with a goal-of-the-year candidate, abusing San Jose lottery pick Sam Dickinson in the process. On Valentine’s Day, he gave the Guelph Storm the unwelcome gift of his third hat trick of the season.

Tristan Luneau

Luneau, 21, started each of the past two seasons in the NHL, but a tempered development plan last year was knocked askew by a viral infection that cost him not only a chance to play for Canada at the World Junior Championships but also the remainder of his campaign. Toned up at the gym and tuned into the film room, Luneau was raring to go during the summer and preseason.

Yet a crowded blue line and some refinements needed in his game against top competition landed Luneau back in San Diego with the American Hockey League’s Gulls. He leads all AHL defensemen who’ve played 30 matches or more in points per game. His explosive skating, robust physique and relentlessness seem sure to make him as popular among fans as he already is within the organization.

Rest of the best

Sam Colangelo and Sasha Pastujov have each chased a point-per-game pace in San Diego thus far. Goalie Tomas Suchanek’s severe knee injury destabilized the Gulls’ net and while the Ducks’ most prized goalie prospect, Damian Clara, hasn’t yet arrived in North America, he did switch up the ambiance abroad. He was playing in Sweden’s top league for the first time after last season’s sterling debut at the relegation level with Brynäs IF, the franchise for which former Duck Jakob Silfverberg plays. Yet the Ducks were dissatisfied with the development of the towering Italian by his new club, Färjestad BK, leading to a transfer for Clara to Finnish side Kärpät.

The Ducks’ other 2024 first-rounder, defenseman Stian Solberg, has also played with Färjestad this season, his first outside his native Norway. He and the Norwegians were favored to win  December’s Division 1 Group A World Junior Championship, but took bronze behind champion Denmark and runner-up Austria. Elsewhere overseas, unsigned 2020 Ducks fifth-rounder Arytom Galimov has enjoyed a breakout season, currently placing fifth in scoring in the Kontinental Hockey League, where only one other NHL prospect, No. 5 overall pick Ivan Demidov, ranks in the top 10.

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Arctic air sweeping south over Plains shatters record temperatures in North Dakota

• February 18, 2025

By JACK DURA

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More than 95 million people are facing gripping cold Tuesday as a polar vortex sends temperatures plunging to record levels, closing schools, bursting pipes and forcing communities to set up more temporary shelters for the homeless.

“Some of the coldest temperatures of the entire winter season right now across the central United States,” said Andrew Orrison, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

The harsh cold descended on the nation’s midsection Monday on the heels of weekend storms that pummeled the Eastern U.S. killing at least 17 people. Some areas in the Midwest have wind chills as cold as -50 to -60 degrees, Orrison said.

It is so dangerous that hundreds of public school districts canceled classes or switched to online learning Tuesday in Oklahoma, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Kansas and Missouri. And in Kansas City, Kansas, dozens of tents were set up in one building to house the homeless.

The biggest batch of record-setting cold temperatures are likely to hit early Thursday and Friday, Orrison said. But North Dakota already felt more like the North Pole on Tuesday as Bismarck hit minus 39, breaking the record of minus 37 (minus 38.3 C) set in 1910 for the same date.

Stephanie Hatzenbuhler’s family has been contending with the cold in many ways on their farm and ranch west of Mandan, North Dakota, from their calving operation, to vehicles and equipment starting, to their coal-fired furnace keeping up.

“There’s always something new to learn and something new to experience. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve done this, so you have to adapt,” said Hatzenbuhler, who called the cold spell “the Siberian experience.”

Conditions were rapidly deteriorating across northeast, east and central Oklahoma as residents in these parts of the state were dealing with freezing rain, ice and snow, according to the National Weather Service.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said US Highway 75 between Tulsa and Okmulgee was shut down in both directions because of the amount of vehicles and semi-tractor trailers that were stuck on the road due to ice.

“Our troopers are working to get salt and sand trucks to the area to treat the roads but it is extremely slick in that area,” the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said in post on X.

In upstate New York, a foot or more of lake-effect snow was expected to fall Tuesday in some areas east of Lake Ontario. The blowing snow created white-out conditions and prompted travel advisories.

Snowfall across the U.S. measured as much as 3 feet (0.91 meters) to 6.5 feet (1.98 meter) in southeastern Wyoming’s Snowy Range, to several inches from South Dakota to Missouri.

Kentucky braces for winter storm

In flood-battered Kentucky, the state was bracing for a winter storm that could dump a half-foot or more of snow in some parts of the state, starting Wednesday.

“This is a snowstorm in the middle of a natural disaster,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said at a news conference Tuesday in Frankfort, the capital city.

The weather-related death toll in Kentucky rose to 14, the governor said, with the two latest fatalities in Jefferson County, which includes Louisville. The two, an adult male and an adult female, were apparently homeless and both appeared to die from hypothermia, he said.

“So that should tell all of us that the weather conditions are as dangerous as that water is,” Beshear said.

Part of Virginia prepares for a foot of snow

Officials in Virginia prepared for up to a foot of snow in the state’s southern region, less than a week after being pummeled with snow, freezing rain and floodwaters.

“If you are not where you want to be by midnight tonight, please don’t go,” Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin said in a news conference on Tuesday.

Youngkin said the National Guard will be deployed across the state, and officials have also stockpiled water and meals for those in need. Local governments will also keep the doors of their homeless shelters open.

North Carolina governor declares a state of emergency

In North Carolina, Gov. Josh Stein declared a state of emergency on Tuesday as the National Weather Service forecast the approaching storm could bring up to 9 inches (22.9 centimeters) in far northeastern counties near the Atlantic coast.

The most populated areas of the state, including Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro, could see from 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.6 centimeters) of snow, according to the weather service. Mountain areas still recovering from Hurricane Helene in the fall are largely expected to receive an inch or two.

Stein and state Emergency Management Director Will Ray also warned residents — particularly in east-central counties — about freezing rain and ice accumulation that could threaten power outages and make roads treacherous.

“At this time our greatest concerns are potential power outages and road safety,” Stein said at a media briefing.

Ray said more than 180 North Carolina National Guard members have been activated to help any affected communities. Over 1,300 state Transportation Department employees and contractors were preparing for the storm in part by pretreating roads.

In Tennessee, Obion County Mayor Steve Carr said on social media Monday evening that there are currently no reports of missing people or deaths after a levee failed Saturday, flooding the small community of Rives, home to around 300 people in the western part of the state.

After assessing the destruction with the sheriff, the mayor said it is “unprecedented and has profoundly impacted the community.” Rives remains under a state of emergency and more than 75% of the city has had power restored, the mayor said.

West Virginia had 3 storm-related deaths

In southern West Virginia, officials announced three flood-related deaths in McDowell County, where multiple roads were destroyed, public water systems were severed, schools remain closed and thousands were still without power Tuesday.

The county has one of the highest poverty rates in the nation.

More than 90 people have been helped from their southwest Detroit homes after a nearly century-old water main burst Monday, leaving streets and basements flooded during below-freezing temperatures. The flood waters receded later Monday morning after the break was found and the water flow stopped, according to the Great Lakes Water Authority.

What caused the break has not yet been determined. Nearly 400 homes are in the emergency flood zone, Mayor Mike Duggan told reporters Tuesday.

Scores of snow-covered vehicles were stuck in water up to their wheel wells or engine hoods. Fire and dive team crews used inflatable boats to help some people from homes. A few people were driven out in the bucket of a front-end loader.

Associated Press writer Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kansas, Julie Walker in New York, Corey Williams in Detroit, Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis, Bruce Schreiner in Louisville, Kentucky, Gary Robertson in Raleigh, North Carolina, Olivia Diaz in Richmond, Virginia, and Jonathan Mattise in Nashville, Tennessee, Leah Willingham in Charleston, West Virginia, Juan Lozano in Houston, Michael Hill in Albany, New York, contributed to this report.

Diaz is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

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Nixon Foundation president is picked to oversee National Archives

• February 18, 2025

James Byron, president and CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, has been selected to help oversee the National Archives and Records Administration.

President Donald Trump on Sunday, Feb. 16, took to social media to announce Byron, 31, will serve as a senior advisor to acting archivist Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the National Archives. The government agency is tasked with preserving important records and documents.

“Jim will manage the National Archives on a day-to-day basis, while we continue our search for a full-time Archivist,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social account. “Jim has worked with the National Archives for many years, and understands the great responsibility and duty we have to preserve the History of our Great Country.”

Byron, of Costa Mesa, will take a leave of absence from the Nixon Foundation while serving in the National Archives and Records Administration. While gone, Joe Lopez, the foundation’s vice president of marketing and communications, will serve as acting president and CEO.

The Chapman graduate took the top post at the foundation in 2021. As president, his goal has been to create an immersive and educational experience for visitors around the globe who come to Yorba Linda to visit the presidential library, according to his biography on the foundation’s website.

Through special exhibits — including former President George. W. Bush’s “Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors,” which visited the library in 2024 — Byron has said he hopes to raise the foundation’s and library’s national impact and online presence.

Byron also oversaw the American Civics campaign, a $40 million effort launched in 2023 that helps educate middle and high school students on American civics and history.

“The Nixon Foundation is pleased that President Trump has appointed Jim Byron to this important role at the National Archives. The Board congratulates Jim and looks forward to welcoming him back to Yorba Linda when his work is finished. We wish him great success,” said Robert O’Brien, chair of the Nixon Foundation.

“Jim Byron’s fingertips on maintaining and curating America’s history are found all over Orange County,” said Will O’Neill, former Newport Beach mayor and recently elected chair of the Orange County Republican Party. “Our county’s loss is truly our nation’s gain. I commend President Trump on his election and wish Jim the absolute best as senior advisor to our nation’s acting archivist.”

Recently, acting archivist William J. Bosanko and other senior staff members reportedly resigned from the National Archives, the latest shakeup since Trump took office again.

Byron, according to his bio, is a native of Santa Monica who grew up in Orange County.

Byron is just one of several people from Southern California who is serving in the new Trump administration.

O’Brien, a longtime attorney in Los Angeles and chair of the Nixon Foundation’s Board of Directors, was tapped earlier this month to serve as a member on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. In an emailed release, the White House said those on the advisory board will advise Trump “on our nation’s most important security challenges and ensure that the intelligence community is working to advance the president’s America First agenda.”

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Columbine High School shooting survivor dies decades after tragedy. Her tenacious spirit is remembered.

• February 18, 2025

While Columbine High School shooting survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter’s life was shaped by tragedy, the tenacious woman worked hard to ensure tragedy did not define her.

Hochhalter was 17 when her life shifted from teen clarinet player to among the most injured survivors of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. The high school junior was paralyzed after being shot in the back. She spent the rest of her days in a wheelchair with medical complications.

Six months after the shooting, her mother, Carla Hochhalter, walked into a pawnshop, asked to see a revolver and fatally shot herself.

Amid the media frenzy, medical care and grief, Anne Marie Hochhalter was determined to live life on her own terms. She went on to find her new normal, living independently in a handicap-accessible home with dogs to love and friends to cherish.

Anne Marie Hochhalter, 43, was found dead in her home Sunday.

Her death appears to be complications from the medical issues she suffered from the shooting, said Sue Townsend, stepmother of Lauren Townsend who died in the Columbine shooting. Sue and Rick Townsend reached out to Anne Marie Hochhalter after the tragedy and formed a familial relationship with her, calling her their “acquired daughter.”

“She was fiercely independent,” Sue Townsend said. “She was a fighter. She’d get knocked down — she struggled a lot with health issues that stemmed from the shooting — but I’d watch her pull herself back up. She was her best advocate and an advocate for others who weren’t as strong in the disability community.”

The families, united by tragedy, found joy within each other’s understanding, caring nature. They spent holidays and vacations together and developed a unique, intimate bond knitted together by wounds few else could understand.

“She was fun,” Sue Townsend said.

In 2018, they all took a Hawaii trip and rigged an innertube so Anne Marie Hochhalter could float in the ocean, her legs dangling in the water.

“She said the two hours she was out there she didn’t have any nerve pain at all,” Sue Townsend said. “The ocean was her happy place even though she didn’t get to go there but once.”

Nathan Hochhalter, Anne Marie Hochhalter’s brother, said his big sister was always a straight ‘A’ student who loved learning and reading. She had an affinity for musical instruments, playing harp, piano, clarinet and guitar.

“And she loved her mom a lot,” Nathan Hochhalter said.

Animals — particularly furry, four-legged friends — filled a huge part of Anne Marie Hochhalter’s heart.

She fostered dogs and owned several over the years, doting on them.

“She could probably name every dog in the neighborhood but maybe not the neighbors,” Sue Townsend said, laughing.

Two neighbors, Jan and Dave Anderson, who were a part of Anne Marie Hochhalter’s village, are taking her beloved chiweenie dog, Georgie.

Though Anne Marie Hochhalter was often in pain, she found escape in cinema. Sometimes, she and her friends would call each other, turn on a movie at the same time and watch it silently together over the phone, Sue Townsend said.

More than anything, Sue Townsend said Anne Marie Hochhalter would have wanted people to know she wasn’t a victim.

Her resilience, Sue Townsend said, was driven in part by stubbornness.

“It was this attitude of ‘I’ll show you,’” she said. “‘You’re not going to get me down.’”

In 2016, Anne Marie Hochhalter wrote a letter to the mother of Dylan Klebold who, along with Eric Harris, killed twelve students and one teacher in a shooting rampage at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999.

The letter to Sue Klebold coincided with an ABC television interview promoting her book “A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy.”

In the letter, Anne Marie Hochhalter told Sue Klebold she harbored no ill will toward her.

“Just as I wouldn’t want to be judged by the sins of my family members, I hold you in that same regard,” Hochhalter wrote. “It’s been a rough road for me, with many medical issues because of my spinal cord injury and intense nerve pain, but I choose not to be bitter towards you. A good friend once told me, ‘Bitterness is like swallowing a poison pill and expecting the other person to die.’ It only harms yourself. I have forgiven you and only wish you the best.”

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Young dancer thanks UCI Medical Center after removing rare pancreatic tumor

• February 18, 2025

Lauren Torres is small, even for a 12-year-old.

But her resilience is unparalleled.

A year ago, Torres had a baseball-sized tumor removed from her pancreas at UCI Medical Center.

Now, the Corona girl is back to jazz dance, school and everything else she loves to do — in full health.

Earlier this week, the Torres family revisited staff at the UCI Medical Center in Orange to say thank you and to showcase Lauren’s outstanding progress.

“I was debating going back because I just didn’t know how it would feel, what emotions it would bring back,” said Lauren’s mom, Vicki Torres. “But then I thought that if sharing Lauren’s story can maybe help somebody or give them a positive outlook, then I decided it’d be worth it.”

For Lauren, the visit showcased her resiliency.

Going back to the hospital wasn’t scary. Actually, “it was really fun,” she said.

Her favorite part, she said, was reconnecting with Lulu and Pixel, the two therapy dogs that helped her cope through recovery.

Dr. David Imagawa said Lauren was a “remarkable patient.”

Imagawa is a leading expert in liver and pancreatic tumors who diagnosed Lauren with SPN, a slow-growing pancreatic tumor seen mostly in women in their 20s or 30s. He performed the surgery to remove the tumor.

In doing online research, Vicki Torres said she only found stories of two or three other children across the nation who went through what Lauren did, which is why she wanted to share her daughter’s success story.

Since Lauren’s tumor pressed against a vein, surgery was risky.

Imagawa and a Children’s Hospital Orange County oncologist initially tried a clinical trial to shrink the tumor’s size.

But, after three rounds of treatment, the tumor continued to grow.

Surgery was the only option for a cure.

During the procedure, however, Lauren had an unexpected adverse reaction to anesthesia that Dr. Govind Rajan, the performing anesthesiologist, said he had seen only once prior in his 30-year career.

Consequently, the procedure ran longer than expected. Nevertheless, Imagawa and the UCI Health team navigated a successful eight-hour operation to remove Torres’ tumor.

“It was a surgical miracle,” Rajan said.

Once the tumor was out, Vicki Torres said her daughter’s recovery initially seemed slow.

“The whole thing was pretty traumatic; I was just in kind of a zone,” she said.

“But looking back at it, everything went by so fast. It’s amazing how fast the body can heal in such a short amount of time.”

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