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• Young the Giant's Sameer Gadhia shares Irvine Meadows memories before closing it with Gwen Stefani

  26-10-2016 23:05 via ocregister.com
  
  For Young the Giant frontman Sameer Gadhia, who was raised and initially formed his band in Irvine, being tapped to serve as the supporting act for Gwen Stefani as she headlines the final two shows at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre is an honor....
  
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• DMV offices across California still crippled by computer outage

  26-10-2016 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Dozens of Department of Motor Vehicles offices were still affected Wednesday by a computer outage that has left customers frustrated across the state since Monday.
  The systems were due to be back to normal Wednesday morning, the DMV announced...
  
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• Computer outage still impacting DMV offices throughout California

  26-10-2016 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Dozens of Department of Motor Vehicles offices were still affected Wednesday by a computer outage that has left customers frustrated across the state since Monday.
  The systems were to be back to normal on Wednesday morning, the DMV announced Tuesday,...
  
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• 'Flip or Flop' stars Tarek, Christina El Moussa under fire after complaints about their flipping classes

  26-10-2016 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  For Doug Stephens, the free event seemed like a good way to learn how to flip homes. An online ad for the December gathering sported pictures of Tarek and Christina El Moussa, the Orange County stars of HGTV’s “Flip or Flop” who buy rundown...
  
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• Sunset Beach part of 'Star Wars' galaxy for Halloween

  26-10-2016 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  A 45-foot diameter Death Star. Animatronics. Holograms and lasers. A life-sized, 30-foot-tall TIE fighter and an X-Wing fighter, not to mention a 6-foot Millennium Falcon and a pod racer.
  Four blocks of a grass median taken over to display more than...
  
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• Man arrested, suspected of being YouTuber jumping off of Orange County landmarks

  26-10-2016 19:49 via ocregister.com
  
  A 28-year-old Laguna Niguel man has been charged with trespassing on suspicion of jumping into the ocean and a pool from private property and then posting videos of the incidents on YouTube, authorities said Wednesday.
  Anthony Booth Armer is facing...
  
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• Did Orange County force United Airlines to end its gender discrimination? Depends on who you ask

  26-10-2016 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  After a month of denials followed by silence, United Airlines reportedly promised the Orange County Board of Supervisors to end its discriminatory practice of moving passengers around when men say they can’t be near or served by women.
  In what...
  
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• A 'Bird that flies - the 1968 Pontiac Firebird Ram Air II

  26-10-2016 17:32
  Arriving late to the pony car party, four-plus months behind the Chevrolet Camaro and the Mercury Cougar, Pontiac's Firebird faced the potential of an identity crisis. To ensure that the Firebird remained memorable to performance-oriented consumers, Pontiac offered five distinct versions, including the range-topping Firebird 400, available with the optional Ram Air induction package.
  
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• UC Irvine fulfills soccer dreams of 13-year-old boy with rare blood disease

  26-10-2016 16:20 via ocregister.com
  
  On Tuesday, the UC Irvine men’s soccer team signed a new member.
  New to the Anteaters’ lineup is Julio Godoy Jr., a 13-year-old boy from Orange who has aplastic anemia. He’s awaiting a bone marrow transplant, UCI says. Through the charitable...
  
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• Sex offender gets 2 years for indecent exposure at Huntington Beach bookstore

  26-10-2016 16:20 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA – A registered sex offender admitted exposing himself in the children's section of a Barnes & Noble bookstore at the Bella Terra shopping center in Huntington Beach and was immediately sentenced Tuesday to a two-year prison term.
  Bradley...
  
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• Santa Ana to pay $100,000 to pot shop at center of controversial police raid

  26-10-2016 15:20 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA – The city will pay a Santa Ana marijuana dispensary $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit in connection with a controversial raid last year where police officers were caught on hidden video eating snacks and making disparaging remarks...
  
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• Irvine seeks operator to run new water park at Great Park

  26-10-2016 15:20 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE – A plan to create a water park at the Orange County Great Park is inching forward, though residents will likely have to wait at least a few years to enjoy its slides and surf wave.
  The Irvine City Council, acting as the Great Park Board of...
  
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• Here are the 6 most exciting new restaurants opening in Orange County

  26-10-2016 15:20 via ocregister.com
  
  We’ve entered that time of year when long-anticipated food venues are scrambling to get open before Christmas.
  Some will make it, others won’t.
  Whatever the case, we are looking forward to visiting these trendy or forward-looking restaurants once...
  
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• Dana Point city manager suddenly resigns after 15 years

  26-10-2016 15:20 via ocregister.com
  
  DANA POINT – City Manager Doug Chotkevys agreed Tuesday to resign Nov. 1 after serving the city for 15 years.
  Chotkevys asked the Dana Point City Council three weeks ago to create a new position of deputy city manager to prepare for his retirement,...
  
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• Caught on camera: Anaheim church looted by 2 women

  26-10-2016 15:20 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM – Pastor Vicki Rufsvold was deep into delivering her Sunday sermon at Faith Lutheran Church of West Anaheim and it was going well.
  But she was unaware that thieves, just yards from the pulpit, were ransacking her office. Police say the...
  
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• Chance Theater Proudly Presents Little Women -the Broadway Musical

  26-10-2016 13:10
  
  Anaheim's official resident theater company, Chance Theater is pleased to remount the heartwarming and wondrous Little Women - The Broadway Musical. Book by Allan Knee , music by Jason Howland , lyrics by Mindi Dickstein , directed by Casey Long , associate direction by Sarah Figoten Wilson, and music direction by Bill Strongin.
  
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• Anaheim church looted by 2 women, who were caught on camera

  26-10-2016 07:50 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM – Pastor Vicki Rufsvold was deep into delivering her Sunday sermon at Faith Lutheran Church of West Anaheim and it was going well.
  But she was unaware that thieves, just yards from the pulpit, were ransacking her office. Police say the...
  
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• D.A. Tony Rackauckas won't fill oversight job urged after jailhouse snitch controversy

  26-10-2016 07:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas will not reinstate a top oversight position that his handpicked investigatory committee said last year could help steer the “rudderless” ship his office had become and that might have helped to...
  
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• D.A. Tony Rackauckas rejects oversight position created after jailhouse snitch controversy

  26-10-2016 07:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas will not reinstate a top oversight position that his handpicked investigatory committee said last year could help steer the “rudderless” ship his office had become and that might have helped to...
  
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• Catholic Church clarifies cremation rules, says ashes shouldn't be scattered

  26-10-2016 05:12 via ocregister.com
  
  In recent years, Catholics have increasingly chosen to scatter the ashes of loved ones – or keep them close by, at home – as a way to honor their lives.
  The Vatican, though, doesn’t condone the practice.
  Roman Catholic doctrine allows the dead...
  
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• Company planning renewable energy plant using food waste in Anaheim looking at other sites

  26-10-2016 04:44
  Anaergia, a Toronto based renewable energy company has proposed building the Anaheim Sustainability Center in the 1300 block of Lakeview Avenue. The company is looking at other sites.
  
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• Mission Viejo senior said in 1993 that Cubs would win World Series this year. Will he be right?

  26-10-2016 03:53 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA – When Marcos Meza posted a yearbook photo online of his Mission Viejo High School classmate in 1993 predicting a Chicago Cubs championship this year he had no idea how viral it would go.
  “I have been busy all day,” the Menifee...
  
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• Parole denied for man convicted in 1982 killing

  26-10-2016 02:25
  A state board on Tuesday denied parole for a former Anaheim man convicted of killing his friend who was beaten and tossed out of a Cessna airplane in 1982. This was the fourth parole bid for Lawrence Cowell, convicted in 1989 and sentenced to 25 years to life for killing Scott Campbell.
  
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• Has United Airlines agreed to end sex discrimination?

  26-10-2016 01:50 via ocregister.com
  
  After a month of denials followed by silence, United Airlines reportedly promised the Orange County Board of Supervisors to end its discriminatory practice of moving passengers around when men say they can’t be near or served by women.
  In what...
  
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• Owner of Huntington Beach's Castle House is dead-set on scaring Halloween visitors

  26-10-2016 00:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Walking down a hallway in his home-cum-house of horrors, Dominic Menaldi spies some decorative cats’ eyes his decorator has strung up.
  “I don’t want no kiddy (stuff,)” he shouts. “Let’s put a dead body here.”
  On Halloween night, Menaldi...
  
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• Do you remember when Winnie the Pooh ran for president?

  26-10-2016 00:31 via ocregister.com
  
  There have been many write-in candidates for president, but none as friendly as that loveable old bear, Winnie the Pooh.
  Pooh first ran for president in 1968. It was not a big campaign, but the popularity of it surprised the Disney publicity machine....
  
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• CHOC given $150,000 to treat children sickened in dental clinic infection outbreak

  26-10-2016 00:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Children’s Hospital of Orange County will receive $150,000 in county funds to help provide complex treatment to children who contracted serious infections at an Anaheim dental clinic, the Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday.
  So far, 57 children...
  
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