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• John Wayne’s onetime ranch is selling for $8 million. Could a pot farm be in its future?

  13-12-2018 21:20 via ocregister.com
  
  John Wayne’s onetime 2,000-acre ranch in Riverside County is for sale, and among the possible uses, the marketing pitch says, is a place to grow marijuana.
  Other scenarios posed include vineyards, horses, cattle, shooting, hunting, a private retreat or a sports camp. But one can’t overlook this suggestion: “possible cannabis cultivation.”
  Rancho Pavoreal is located in Sage, a small agricultural community 10 minutes away from Temecula wine country, as real estate agent Tat
  
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• Video: Steve Alford previews UCLA’s game vs. Belmont

  13-12-2018 21:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Head coach Steve Alford talks about UCLA’s defensive growth against Notre Dame, Jalen Hill’s impact defensively and why he thinks Belmont is one of the best offensive teams UCLA will play this year.
  
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• Video: Jaylen Hands on how UCLA can attack zone defenses

  13-12-2018 21:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Guard Jaylen Hands talk about how Notre Dame shut down UCLA’s fast-break opportunities last week, what the Bruins need to do better against zone defenses and what Jalen Hill brings to the team’s defense.
  
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• Video: UCLA’s Kris Wilkes on managing in-game calf cramps

  13-12-2018 21:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Guard Kris Wilkes talks about the plan to combat in-game calf cramps that he’s suffered twice this season and what Cody Riley’s return to the court has given the Bruins on defense.
  
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• Swim with whales at a mall as Dreamscape Immersive opens its first VR storefront

  13-12-2018 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Dreamscape Immersive, the location-based virtual reality studio behind last year’s “Alien Zoo,” has opened its first storefront.
  Located on the second level of the Westfield Century City mall in Los Angeles, the venue reprises its intergalactic zoo tour as part of its lineup of original free-roaming VR adventures for visitors 10 and over. Titles also include the cinematic “Lavan’s Magic Projector: The Lost Pearl” and the oceanic “TheBlu: Deep Rescue,&rdq
  
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• What you don’t know about Medicare for All can hurt you

  13-12-2018 20:58 via ocregister.com
  
  In November, Democrats took the House of Representatives. But many of the party’s most progressive candidates outside deep-blue coastal enclaves fell short at the polls.
  Voters in Nebraska, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Florida, and Maryland all rejected Democratic candidates who campaigned on Medicare for All. And thank goodness.
  The idea polled well before the election — a Reuters/Ipsos poll pegged public support at 70 percent. But once people learn it would outlaw private insur
  
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• Bryce Harper to the Dodgers might require patience, creativity

  13-12-2018 20:42 via ocregister.com
  
  LAS VEGAS — Baseball’s Winter Meetings concluded Thursday with no one having claimed the mega-millions jackpot.
  Manny Machado and Bryce Harper remain unsigned, visions of $300 million contracts dancing in their heads.
  In Harper’s case, the accepted wisdom is the 26-year-old free-agent outfielder and his agent, Scott Boras, want to top Giancarlo Stanton’s 13-year, $325 million extension as the largest contract in baseball history. It is not readily apparent which team
  
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• How California’s natural landscape inspired an entire creative movement

  13-12-2018 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  California craft makers have always found inspiration in the state’s landscape.
  Native plants have served as material, design motif and inspiration, and they continue to feed into the creations of contemporary studio artisans as the new “Rooted” exhibition at the Craft in America Center in Los Angeles shows.
  This stained glass window by the Judson Studios is featured in Craft in America Center’s “Rooted” exhibition. (Courtesy of Craft in America Center)
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• Angels leave winter meetings with unfinished business

  13-12-2018 19:48 via ocregister.com
  
  LAS VEGAS — Billy Eppler arrived at the winter meetings with a cough, and he left with a new first baseman, more information … and the same cough.
  The Angels’ general manager, who had trouble talking to his professional counterparts and the media throughout the four days in Las Vegas, said the team moved closer to adding more players.
  “We’re making progress on trying to understand what’s reality and what’s not reality,” Eppler said. “We trie
  
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• Gardening: What you need to know about the world’s fastest growing plant

  13-12-2018 19:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Q:  What is the scariest plant?A:  BamBOO
  I know, it’s a corny joke, but what would say about a plant that can grow as much as three feet in one day (or one inch every forty minutes)? Or culms (bamboo stalks) that grow a hundred feet tall and eight inches in diameter in one season, in as little as three months’ time? If bamboo, the world’s fastest growing plant, is not in the realm of scary, it would certainly qualify for the bizarre. People who live in tropical regio
  
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• Master Gardener: How to care for an air plant

  13-12-2018 17:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: On a whim, I picked up an air plant called a Tillandsia as I was walking through a home improvement store. I figured that even I can’t kill a houseplant that lives on air. Now I’m thinking that there might be more to the story. Can you offer any information or advice before I kill it?
  A: First of all, relax. Tillandsias are very easy to care for. Since we don’t know the species, I’ll stay very general. You may be interested to know that Tillandsias are members of the B
  
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• How to sail on a real ship from Disney’s ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’

  13-12-2018 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Ahoy, mateys. Are you fans of Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie franchise? Well, consider this: The ship that Captain Jack Sparrow used to pursue the Black Pearl in the franchise’s first movie will soon be in Southern California — and you can ship out on it, even if only for a few hours.
  The ship, which portrayed the HMS Interceptor, aboard which Sparrow chased his purloined ship, the Black Pearl, in the first “Pirates” movie, is in real life the
  
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• Laguna Beach increasing police presence at Main Beach, Heisler Park after 1,500 incidents this year

  13-12-2018 16:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Paul Cuevas is Laguna Beach High School’sassistant volleyball coach.He works out with his team on Main Beach on Wednesday, December 12, 2018. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer)
  Laguna Beach police officer James Michaudwrites Shane Sutton a ticket for smoking in Laguna Beach on Wednesday, December 12, 2018. The Laguna Beach city council agreed on Tuesday to increase police presence in the city. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe gallery will resume in
  
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• Southbound side of Sepulveda Boulevard tunnel near LAX to close overnight

  13-12-2018 16:35 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The southbound side of the Sepulveda Boulevard tunnel near Los Angeles International Airport will be partially closed overnight Thursday into Friday to accommodate maintenance work.
  The work by the city street-services and street-lighting bureaus is scheduled to begin at 11 p.m. and continue until 6 a.m. Friday. Crews will be performing maintenance and lighting repairs in the tunnel from World Way to the 105 Freeway.
  Related Articles Half-billion dollar LAX Terminal 1 renovat
  
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• This week’s best deals include Catalina Island boat and hotel packages, a new shopping aid and more

  13-12-2018 16:12 via ocregister.com
  
  The range of deals is winding down as we edge closer to the new year, but one thing that abounds is gift card offers. Many restaurants will give you a free bonus card when you purchase a gift card for a select amount by the end of December. You could use the card as a little extra holiday present or tuck it away for a treat for yourself, however, I really like what one of my friends does. She carries fast food gift cards with a small value on them, usually $10 or less, in her wallet and gives th
  
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• 5 things to do in your garden this week, Dec. 15-21

  13-12-2018 16:04 via ocregister.com
  
  1. Harvest winter vegetables
  Continue harvesting winter vegetables planted in September and October. Replace those harvested completely, such as spinach, cauliflower, cabbages, radishes, beets and turnips. These new plants will be ready to harvest around Valentine’s Day, and then there will still be time to put in one more round, if you want. For plants that produce an on-going harvest – like peas, snap peas, Chinese peas and Swiss chard – pick the edibles regularly to keep the
  
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• 1 man dies after truck collides with street sweeper in La Habra

  13-12-2018 16:04 via ocregister.com
  
  A man in a pickup truck died early Thursday, Dec. 13, after colliding with a street sweeper on Imperial Highway in La Habra.
  The crash was reported shortly after 2 a.m. just east of Idaho Street.
  When officers arrived they found the front of the Toyota pickup heavily damaged. The driver was inside and pronounced dead by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
  The driver of the street sweeper, which appeared mostly unscathed, cooperated with officers, La Habra police said. He was uninjured.
  It wa
  
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• Pledge to limit tenure as speaker wins over Pelosi critics

  13-12-2018 14:29 via ocregister.com
  
  HOUSEBy ALAN FRAM
  WASHINGTON — Rep. Nancy Pelosi all but ensured that she will become House speaker next month, quelling a revolt by disgruntled younger Democrats by agreeing to limit her tenure to no more than four additional years in the chamber’s top post.
  Within moments of announcing Wednesday she would restrict her time in the job, seven of her critics distributed a statement promising to back the California Democrat. Democrats widely agreed that the pledge meant Pelosi had clin
  
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• Taco Bell is taking the word ‘dollar’ off of its discount menu

  13-12-2018 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  On Dec. 27, Taco Bell plans to roll out a new “Value Cravings” menu that replaces its current Dollar Cravings menu. It will include items with prices ranging from $1 to $5, according to a news release.
  Nearly all individual items on Taco Bell’s current menu are priced between $1 and $5.
  The Irvine-based fast food chain will promote the change with a marketing campaign that will invite viewers “into a world that is fantastical and surreal.”
  The news release affirms T
  
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• Esperanza girls basketball answers Orangewood’s challenge to reach tournament final

  13-12-2018 08:38 via ocregister.com
  
  GARDEN GROVE Esperanza’s girls basketball team showcased strides in multiple areas Wednesday night in securing one of its best victories of the young season.
  A full-healthy Sam Fries scored a season-high 25 points and Jamie Kwong added 13 as the No. 7 Aztecs won their fifth straight game by defeating host No. 8 Orangewood Academy 58-40 to reach the finals of the 10th Spartan Classic.
  Esperanza (8-3) will likely meet top-ranked Mater Dei in the championship Saturday night at 8:30.
  Frie
  
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• Postal Service center substitutes as modern-day Santa’s workshop

  13-12-2018 08:05 via ocregister.com
  
  It may not be Santa’s workshop, but it’s a pretty close approximation.
  On afternoons like Wednesday — at least afternoons in the midst of the holiday season — the U.S. Postal Service’s Processing and Distribution Center in the City of Industry is filled with people working in synchronization to ensure gifts get into the right hands on time.
  Only instead of elves cobbling them together, it’s postal workers sorting packages and prepping them to head across count
  
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• Orange County basketball highlights for Wednesday, Dec. 12

  13-12-2018 07:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Highlights and top scorers from the Orange County basketball games on Wednesday, Dec. 12.
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  No. 19 University outlasted San Clemente in the Gary Raya/SoCal Elite Tournament, beating the Tritons 83-81 in overtime. San Clemente trailed by 14 heading into the fourth quarter and Jack Carroll made a 3-pointer to tie the game with 4.5 seconds remaining in regulation. The Trojans outscored the Tritons 10-8 in overtime and Noah Small made the game-winning layup as time expired.
  Kody Uyesug
  
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• USC linebacker Cameron Smith selected team’s most valuable player

  13-12-2018 07:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Linebacker Cameron Smith was announced as USC’s most valuable player at the team’s awards banquet Wednesday night.
  Smith, a senior, led the Trojans in tackles for a third consecutive season, totaling 81 this fall despite missing a pair of games because of a hamstring injury. The feat had not been accomplished in nearly 40 years, since linebacker Dennis Jackson was the leading tackler during the 1977-1979 seasons.
  Starting since he was a freshman in 2015, Smith finished with 354 caree
  
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• Ondrej Kase’s hat trick sparks Ducks in come-from-behind win over Stars

  13-12-2018 06:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim Ducks’ Jake Dotchin, left, defends against the Dallas Stars during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
  ANAHEIM, CA – DECEMBER 12:Jake Dotchin #21 of the Anaheim Ducks checks Mattias Janmark #13 of the Dallas Stars during the first period of a game at Honda Center on December 12, 2018 in Anaheim, California.(Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsANAHEIM, CA &nda
  
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• Orange County residents report spike in jury duty scams, identity thieves posing as court employees

  13-12-2018 06:22 via ocregister.com
  
  A recent spike in jury duty complaints from Orange County residents prompted officials on Wednesday, Dec. 12, to warn people not to be fooled by scammers posing as court employees and threatening bogus penalties over the phone.
  The scam, which involves callers asking for personal information and payments after claiming that their victims had failed to comply with the terms of jury duty in state or federal courts, is not a new one, according to Kostas Kalaitzidis, a spokesman for the Superior Cou
  
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• Are Harris and Garcetti made out of Teflon or Velcro?

  13-12-2018 04:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Every politician who manages to stay in office for a decent length of time has her or his share of bad news cycles.  Politics, like life, isn’t always a bowl of cherries, and the key to longevity is being able the weather the storm when things get rough.
  Successful politicians are able to navigate through choppy waters; unsuccessful ones might as well be on the Costa Concordia.
  In 1983, Colorado Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder took to the floor of the House of Representatives to exco
  
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• 3 men rob Garden Grove store of cell phones at gunpoint

  13-12-2018 04:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Garden Grove police are hunting for three men who they say robbed a cell phone store Tuesday, Dec. 11.
  Officers responded about 3:40 p.m. Tuesday to the Metro PCS store in the 12800 block of Haster Street and learned that three men entered the store and asked about cell phones. One removed a gun from his waistband, showed it to the employee and then returned it to his waistband, police said.
  Two suspects went into the back stockroom and took a large number of cell phones, opened a cash
  
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• Los Alamitos boys basketball hoping that tough nonleague schedule helps when games matter

  13-12-2018 04:29 via ocregister.com
  
  BELLFLOWER — Los Alamitos boys basketball’s tough start to the season continued Wednesday with a 66-48 loss to Loyola.
  Everett May led the Griffins with 13 points, while David Olcomendy scored 12.
  The Griffins were, in a word, out-manned. Loyola is one of the best teams in the area and feature a senior forward, James Keefe, who is Stanford-bound after this season.
  It was clear the Griffins weren’t prepare for the intensity from the outset, falling behind 18-7 after the first qu
  
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• Cut red tape for rebuilding homes after wildfires

  13-12-2018 04:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Costly state and local regulations are preventing thousands of property owners from rebuilding the homes they lost in devastating wildfires. That should change.
  The regulatory impediments faced by homeowners trying to rebuild was recently chronicled by journalist and San Fernando Valley resident David DeVoss in an article for the Weekly Standard. “Even two years may not be enough time to complete the paperwork necessary for rebuilding here,” he wrote.
  Fourteen months after the Tubbs
  
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• Clues to deciphering treatment centers

  13-12-2018 04:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The passing of the Affordable Care Act and the implementation of parity caused investors to see an opportunity for financial gain in entering the behavioral healthcare space, particularly addiction treatment.
  Many were solely seeking to benefit from insurance payments — in some cases adding up to hundreds of thousands of dollars for a short-term residential treatment program. Some companies billed insurance plans for daily urine drug screening in excess of $1,200. Others even purchased ins
  
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• Without the fight and the loss to the Rockets, the Lakers wouldn’t look the same

  13-12-2018 03:59 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — Unlike actual pro fist fights, this one won’t have a rematch.
  On Thursday the Lakers (17-10) take on the Houston Rockets without Rajon Rondo and Brandon Ingram, the two players who threw punches in the brawl at Staples Center back on Oct. 20. It’s been almost two months since the Lakers and Rockets last played, and even though Chris Paul is expected to suit up, Rondo’s and Ingram’s absence releases much of the lingering tension – if there even is
  
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• Dodgers still searching for bridge to young catchers’ arrival

  13-12-2018 03:38 via ocregister.com
  
  LAS VEGAS — The Dodgers have made it clear they believe acquiring an established catcher to pair with incumbent backup Austin Barnes is their highest-priority need this offseason.
  Will Smith is one of the most highly-regarded young catchers in the minor leagues – one of four prospects at the position in various stages of development in the Dodgers’ farm system. But he doesn’t see the Dodgers’ desire to add a veteran at his position as a bad thing.
  “No. I mean,
  
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• Dodgers’ shifting strategy for 2019 – bunt!

  13-12-2018 03:35 via ocregister.com
  
  LAS VEGAS — Aggressive defensive shifts have sucked some of the offensive life out of baseball in the past few seasons – so much so that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has suggested rules could be changed to limit the defense’s ability to overload one side of the field.
  In the meantime, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has another plan – get his hitters to adjust.
  “But I still believe the players should be able to – it should be important enough to get on base to be
  
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• O.C. man among 5 convicted in Thai sex trafficking ring

  13-12-2018 02:19 via ocregister.com
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. — Five people on trial for an alleged ring that prosecutors said sold Thai women for sex in the U.S. were convicted Wednesday on sex trafficking charges.
  A federal jury in Minnesota found all five guilty of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and other charges, the Star Tribune reported . Jurors returned their verdict just a day after receiving the case.
  The defendants were Michael Morris, 65, of Seal Beach, California; Pawinee Unpradit, 46, of Dallas; Saowapha Thinram, 44
  
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• Chargers injury report vs. Kansas City Chiefs | Who’s in, who’s out?

  13-12-2018 02:14 via ocregister.com
  
  A look at Chargers players who were listed on the injury report this week and their status for Thursday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs:
  Melvin Gordon, running back
  Injury: Knee
  Participation status: Did not participate Monday, limited Tuesday-Wednesday
  Official status: Questionable
  Outlook: Gordon made the trip with his teammates to Kansas City and plans on testing the knee before game time.
  Austin Ekeler, running back
  Injury: Neck/concussion
  Participation status: Did
  
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• What to Read in December

  13-12-2018 01:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Winner of the Man Booker Prize, “Milkman” by Anna Burns is a stream-of-consciousness tale of a young protagonist (referred to only as “middle sister”) who attempts to navigate her way through gossip and political intrigue in 1970s Belfast at the height of The Troubles. Milkman of the title is actually a terrorist who stalks the narrator, sparking unfounded rumors. Timely and provocative; not to miss.
  In the satirical novel “Radiant Shimmering Light,” auth
  
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• Fryer: Getting beat by a girl is OK when the girl is Westminster’s state wrestling champion, Aine Drury

  13-12-2018 01:53 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s a mismatch when it’s a boy wrestling against a girl.
  A mismatch in favor of the girl, that is, when the girl is Aine Drury.
  Drury, whose first name is pronounced “Ahn-yuh,” is going to win such matches. The boy who loses to her should not be embarrassed. Drury, a junior at Westminster High, was Orange County wrestling’s only state champion – boy or girl – last season.
  She won a CIF State girls wrestling title last season at 137 pounds She might be e
  
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• Missing Idyllwild man’s body was found short distance from home

  13-12-2018 01:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The body of David Bradish, an Idyllwild man whose family said he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, was found a short distance from where he had been living when reported missing Nov. 26, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday.
  Deputies said Wednesday that Bradish, 80, was found just after 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8 in the San Bernardino National Forest, northeast of Pine Crest Avenue and Chipmunk Drive in Idyllwild.
  The Riverside County Coroner had announced
  
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• Holiday movies for kids and teens at Kaleidoscope in Mission Viejo

  13-12-2018 01:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Kaleidoscope invites families to celebrate the season with Holiday Pajama Movie Night at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19. The free evening of fun will feature the Christmas classic “Home Alone,” shown inside Union Market’s event space.
  Moviegoers can enjoy free popcorn and should bring their own seating such as blankets and pillows, folding beach chairs or even bean bags. Portola Coffee will offer $1 kid’s hot chocolate with the purchase of an adult drink.
  In addition
  
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• Winter exhibitions open at The Irvine Fine Arts Center

  13-12-2018 01:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Two winter exhibitions have opened at The Irvine Fine Arts Center, one examining changing familial relationships and the other exploring physicality and the body. The exhibitions run concurrently through Jan. 19.
  Re:balance, located in the Main Gallery and Gallery 2, features the work of Ching Ching Cheng, Juliana Rico, and Jane Szabo. This exhibition offers a look at the shifting dynamics of family relationships undergoing change. The three artists explore how established, seemingly permanent r
  
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• Rams’ Jared Goff ready for bounce-back game, but might not get to face draft-mate Carson Wentz

  13-12-2018 01:33 via ocregister.com
  
  THOUSAND OAKS – Jared Goff needs to bounce back, and Carson Wentz has a sore back.
  Here they are again. The top two picks of the 2016 draft are destined for parallel paths, and they’d been scheduled to meet for a second time when the Rams play Philadelphia at the Coliseum on Sunday night.
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  Will they? According to a report from NFL Network, Wentz “is not expected” t
  
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• Why former San Bernardino County assessor is headed to state prison — not county jail — for Colonies conviction

  13-12-2018 01:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Former San Bernardino County Assessor and Colonies corruption figure Bill Postmus will be serving his three-year sentence in state prison after all, his attorney says.
  When Postmus surrendered to authorities Nov. 30 to begin serving his sentence, his attorney said he qualified under prison realignment as a “triple-non offender” and likely would serve his time at a San Bernardino County jail. “Triple-non” is terminology for an offender considered “non-viole
  
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• Servite on top of Orange County wrestling top 10

  13-12-2018 01:14 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County boys wrestling top 10.
  WRESTLING TOP 10
  (Selected by the Orange County Wrestling Coaches)
  1. Servite
  2. Villa Park
  3. Esperanza
  4. Calvary Chapel
  5. Laguna Hills
  6. Yorba Linda
  7. Fountain Valley
  8. Capistrano Valley
  9. Sonora
  10. Irvine
  Others considered: Santa Ana, Trabuco Hills, Brea Olinda, Westminster, and Aliso Niguel
  
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