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• Retail-restaurant roundup: Playground eatery to expand, Kmart in Anaheim to close, Grocery Outlet to open June 1 in Orange

  26-01-2016 22:06
  
  Here’s a roundup of restaurant and retail news from across Orange County. Take a look at the slideshow for more details on each.
  Playground: With his food projects exiting 4th Street Market, chef-owner Jason Quinn said he can refocus on Playground....
  
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• Reward for 3 escaped inmates now $200,000 as Board of Supervisors adds $150,000

  26-01-2016 20:17
  
  The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to offer up to $150,000 for information that leads to the arrest of three men who escaped Orange County’s Men Central Jail late Friday, adding to $50,000 already offered by federal authorities assisting in the...
  
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• Tinder answers health critics with STD testing feature

  26-01-2016 20:14
  
  Southern California-based mobile app Tinder now offers its “millions” of date seekers a direct way to find not their one true love -- but instead their nearest sexually transmitted disease testing site.
  The recent move is meant to appease...
  
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• NHL suspends Ducks' Shawn Horcoff 20 games for violating performance enhancing substances program

  26-01-2016 19:56
  
  BOSTON – The National Hockey League on Tuesday handed Ducks forward Shawn Horcoff a 20-game suspension for violating the league's performance enhancing substance program.
  Under terms of the collective bargaining agreement with the NHL Players'...
  
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• Namm Tec Award Winners Announced

  26-01-2016 19:39
  
  Four companies, Avid, iZotope, Shure, and Solid State Logic, won multiple awards in the Technical Achievement category each taking home two TEC Awards. Don Was, one of music's most significant artists and executives, received the evening's highest honor, the Les Paul award. The NAMM Tec Awards sponsors are HARMAN International Industries, Inc., the Les Paul Foundation, D'Angelico and Sennheiser. Many of tonight's winning products and technologies are available at music and pro audio retailers wo
  
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• Irvine police say possible suspect in Los Olivos homicide in custody on unrelated charges

  26-01-2016 18:56
  
  IRVINE – A person in police custody Tuesday has been identified as a possible suspect in the death of an Irvine stay-at-home dad who was killed last week near the Los Olivos community.
  Irvine police released a short online video Tuesday morning...
  
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• Clippers' Blake Griffin injures hand in incident with equipment staffer

  26-01-2016 18:24
  
  Blake Griffin has returned to Los Angeles, and the fear is the Clippers' All-Star forward will be out for additional time with a broken hand, the Register has confirmed.Details surrounding how Griffin broke the hand remain scarce. ESPN, which first...
  
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• Clippers' Blake Griffin breaks hand throwing punch at equipment staffer, out 4-6 more weeks

  26-01-2016 18:24
  
  Blake Griffin broke his hand throwing a punch and will miss four to six additional weeks, the Clippers announced Tuesday. The Register learned that the punch was thrown at a member of the team's equipment staff.
  The Clippers issued a joint statement...
  
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• Sound of gunshots reported at San Diego Navy medical center

  26-01-2016 18:11
  
  SAN DIEGO – Military authorities responded Tuesday to a report of gunshots at a building on the campus Naval Medical Center San Diego.The hospital posted on its Facebook page: “An active shooter has just been reported in building (hash)26 at...
  
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• Navy finds no sign of shooting at San Diego medical center

  26-01-2016 18:11
  
  SAN DIEGO – The Navy said Tuesday an initial inspection at Naval Medical Center San Diego found no sign of a gunman or a shooting.
  The disclosure came after military police had checked Building 26 after a person reported hearing three shots in the...
  
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• Mainplace mall shakeup: Gap stores closing, Johnny Rockets relocating

  26-01-2016 17:13
  
  A month after changing ownership, the MainPlace mall is losing two veteran retail shops, the Gap and Gap Kids, while a key full-service restaurant is relocating to the food court.
  The last day of operation for the Gap stores is Tuesday. As of Monday,...
  
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• Stanton man killed in head-on collision of motorcyclists in Garden Grove

  26-01-2016 16:36
  
  GARDEN GROVE - A 25-year-old man died Monday night after an Anaheim motorcycle rider swerved into an opposing lane of traffic, causing a head-on collision. Westbound on Trask Avenue when he told police he swerved from a left-side lane into the outside turn lane near Ontario Avenue to pass a vehicle ahead of him. As Hall did that, he rode in front of Ronny Aparicio, 25 of Stanton, who was riding a motorcycle eastbound on Trask Avenue. Hall did not appear to be intoxicated at the time of the crash
  
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• Changes, closures and more at the Disneyland Resort

  26-01-2016 15:20
  
  The Disneyland Resort is undergoing a few changes, some temporary, others permanent.
  It’s A Small World is closed as its holiday overlay is removed, while the Haunted Mansion is open after its holiday overlay has already been removed.
  Scrims have...
  
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• RuPaul's Drag Race Battle of the Seasons returns for a 2016 tour

  26-01-2016 13:33
  
  When the "Battle of the Seasons" returns for a 2016 tour. The third annual "Battle of the Seasons" Tour will be the world's biggest drag revue. This year it will once again be hosted by "Drag Race" judge Michelle Visage, and will feature many beloved queens from the show including Violet Chachki, Katya, Alaska, Willam, Adore Delano, Jinkx Monsoon, BenDeLaCreme and Sharon Needles. "Battle of the Seasons" is put together by Producer Entertainment Group and Sidecar Management, in conjunction with W
  
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• Synthax Debuts Ferrofish A32 Audio Format Converter at Winter NAMM

  26-01-2016 09:25
  
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• There have been 15 rooftop escapes at O.C. Central Jail, despite push for more security

  26-01-2016 08:50
  
  Five days after the opening of Orange County’s Central Jail in 1968, an inmate escaped through the roof. Two others followed months later through the unrepaired opening.
  After 47 years, the rooftop remains a security problem for the men’s jail...
  
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• 'Oh my God, they let Hannibal Lecter out': Deputy D.A. says O.C. Sheriff was too lax with escaped inmate

  26-01-2016 08:50
  
  A deputy district attorney compared one of the men who escaped Friday from the Central Men’s Jail to a movie villain and contended the Sheriff’s Department was too lax in its handling of the suspect after it was warned about his violent past....
  
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• After public outcry, OCTA says it will modify bus route changes

  26-01-2016 08:39
  
  ORANGE – Requiring an overflow room, 64 people representing two dozen Orange County cities spoke out against proposed bus service changes on Monday, and it appears the transportation authority will take at least some of their comments to heart....
  
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• It's the law in California, but here's why you still can't get birth control without a doctor

  26-01-2016 08:33
  
  By now, it was supposed to be easier for California women to get birth control.
  A 2013 law allowing pharmacists at CVS, Rite Aid and other drug stores to directly prescribe the pill, and two other forms of hormonal contraception, was set to roll out...
  
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• Couple arrested in connection with Anaheim Hills package thefts

  26-01-2016 05:18
  
  An Anaheim man and his girlfriend were arrested last week in connection with stealing packages in Anaheim Hills and are suspected in a dozen more. Daron Wyatt of the Anaheim Police Department. The packages from the Anaheim Hills thefts were not found, but detectives found stolen property from thefts in Irvine, Costa Mesa and San Dimas, Wyatt said. Both are being held in Orange County Jail. Bail is set at $105,000 for Speck and $110,000 for Peters.
  
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• Frost promoted to Ledger G.M.

  26-01-2016 03:13
  
  2014, following stints in Cody, Wyoming and Los Angeles, Calif, where he worked for The Cody Enterprise, American Print Media in Compton, Calif., and Orange County Neighborhood Newspapers in Anaheim, Buena Park and Cypress as editor. During his tenure at KVAY radio and was named to the Hall of Fame for his work at the Compton Bulletin by the California State Assembly. "I am honored and humbled to accept this new challenge and will continue to serve Prowers County to the best of my ability," he s
  
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• Why are gas prices in California so high? Blame it on taxes and refinery issues

  26-01-2016 02:39
  
  As friends and relatives in the Midwest chortle over cheap gas, why can’t Californians catch the same break, you ask?
  The national average for a gallon of gas on Monday was $1.82. Here in Orange County, it’s $2.80. The good news? That’s down 11...
  
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• Grand jury indicts leader behind Planned Parenthood videos

  26-01-2016 01:40
  
  AUSTIN, Texas – A Houston grand jury investigating undercover footage of Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing Monday by the abortion provider and instead indicted anti-abortion activists involved in making the videos that provoked outrage among...
  
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• Abortion opponents indicted forvideo

  26-01-2016 01:40
  
  AUSTIN, Texas – A Houston grand jury investigating undercover footage of Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing Monday by the abortion provider, and instead indicted anti-abortion activists involved in making the videos that targeted the handling...
  
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• Abortion opponents indicted for video

  26-01-2016 01:40
  
  AUSTIN, Texas – A Houston grand jury investigating undercover footage of Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing Monday by the abortion provider, and instead indicted anti-abortion activists involved in making the videos that targeted the handling...
  
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• Teen to be tried as juvenile, not adult in Irvine crash that killed 5 friends

  26-01-2016 00:31
  
  ORANGE – A teenager charged with manslaughter for a 2014 crash in Irvine that killed five of his friends will be tried as a juvenile. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office has dropped efforts to try Bradley Morales as an adult, attorney...
  
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• Teen driver Bradley Morales whose five friends died in crash to be tried as juvenile, not adult

  26-01-2016 00:31
  
  ORANGE – A teenager who was driving a car that crashed in Irvine in 2014, killing five of his friends who were passengers, won’t be tried as an adult, it was determined Monday.
  Prosecutors with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said...
  
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• Bradley Morales will be tried as juvenile, not adult in Irvine crash that killed 5 friends

  26-01-2016 00:31
  
  ORANGE – A teenager charged with manslaughter for a 2014 crash in Irvine that killed five of his friends will be tried as a juvenile.
  The Orange County District Attorney’s Office has dropped efforts to try Bradley Morales as an adult, attorney...
  
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