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• Top Costa Mesa leaders receive first pay raises in nearly a decade

  19-04-2017 23:02 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA – Weeks after lower-tier city employees received a bump in pay, top administrators were granted salary increases after going nearly a decade without one.
  The pay hikes — approved without much discussion Tuesday by the City Council on a narrow 3 to 2 vote — range from 2 percent to 15.88 percent for division leaders up to City Manager Tom Hatch. 
  Council members Jim Righeimer and Allan Mansoor, while saying they appreciate the work the employees do, said they coul
  
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• Game 4 line rushes: Ducks vs. Flames

  19-04-2017 22:49 via ocregister.com
  
  CALGARY, Alberta – The Ducks have an opportunity to finish off a four-game sweep of the Calgary Flames when the teams meet Wednesday night in Game 4 of the Western Conference quarterfinals at Scotiabank Saddledome.
  On four prior occasions have the Ducks swept a playoff series – in the 2003 first round against Detroit and conference finals against Minnesota, in the 2006 semifinals against Colorado and the 2015 first round against Winnipeg.
  The Ducks have won six straight games against
  
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• Dispute looms over San Clemente outlet center’s signs along I-5

  19-04-2017 22:45 via ocregister.com
  
  San Clemente’s outlet shopping center and people who own homes across the freeway appear to be on a collision course over business signs that the center displays along I-5.
  The 325,000-square-foot Outlets at San Clemente, located along southbound I-5 between the Avenida Vista Hermosa and Avenida Pico exits, presently has 18 temporary, permitted banner signs. They are designed to blend with the walls to look like wall signs rather than banners.
  Developer Steve Craig is applying for a permit
  
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• 29 Orange County schools receive high academic honor

  19-04-2017 22:41
  The hallway walls at Samueli Academy i Santa Ana were designed to inspire students. The design side of the school features names of famous designers, quotes from famous designers, colleges of design and types of jobs in design.
  
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• Laguna Hills student athletes sign on the dotted line

  19-04-2017 22:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Laguna Hills senior Ryan Bishop is congratulated during the spring signing day ceremony in Laguna Hills, on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Bishop will go to Loyola Marymount University to play soccer. (Photo by Nick Agro, Orange County Register/SCNG)Laguna Hills senior Nick Delgado signs to the the Northwest Christian University track team during the spring signing day ceremony in Laguna Hills, on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. (Photo by Nick Agro, Orange County Register/SCNG)Laguna Hills senior softball pl
  
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• Knott’s Berry Farm gives $108,000 to help Susan G. Komen provide mammograms, raise cancer awareness

  19-04-2017 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  It was a big check with a big dollar figure that Jessica Rhee was handed by a couple of Knott’s Berry Farm’s characters for Susan G. Komen Orange County.
  Rhee, a member of the nonprofit’s board, was at the theme park to receive the check for $108,867 from Knott’s officials, bringing the total donated to Komen to more than $468,000.
  “This money will go toward free mammograms for those less fortunate, breast cancer awareness campaigns, and free breast exams,” Rh
  
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• Lunchtime club gives Sunny Hills High students crash course in table tennis

  19-04-2017 21:45 via ocregister.com
  
  When the textbooks close, the ping pong table opens.
  Every Tuesday lunch hour at Sunny Hills High, boys and girls gather inside of Soon-Ya Gordon’s foreign languages classroom to unwind, relax and show their friends whose domain they’ve entered.
  In its first year, the school’s table tennis club – launched by junior Robin Wang – has piqued the interest of more than 50 students of varying background and skill.
  On Tuesday, April 25, the club will hold the finals o
  
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• O’Reilly forced out at Fox News

  19-04-2017 21:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Bill O’Reilly has been forced out of his position as a prime-time host on Fox News, the company said Wednesday, after the disclosure of multiple settlements involving sexual harassment allegations against him. His ouster brings an abrupt and embarrassing end to his two-decade reign as one of the most popular and influential commentators in television.
  “After a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the company and Bill O’Reilly have agreed that Bill O’Reilly will
  
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• Costa Mesa to charge $50,000 in permit fees for medical marijuana businesses allowed by Measure X

  19-04-2017 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA – Medical marijuana businesses ushered in through the city’s Measure X will be required to pay close to $50,000 to apply for the necessary permits to operate in the city.
  The City Council Tuesday night voted unanimously in favor of a fee schedule to implement the voter-approved initiative that allows marijuana businesses — limited to research, manufacturing, whole distribution, testing and transportation of medical marijuana products — to operate in an industri
  
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• San Clemente news briefs: A new kind of training for Triton swim team, Micro-brew Fest on tap, more

  19-04-2017 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  San Clemente High School swimmers get off-campus training, including the mental approach to sport and life.(Courtesy of Cybil Streett)When it comes to friendliness, 6-year-old Cuddles can’t be beat. For adoption information, visit the San Clemente/Dana Point Animal Shelter, 221 Avenida Fabricanote, San Clemente, or call 949-492-1617. (Courtesy of San Clemente/Dana Point Animal Shelter)From left, Suzanne Diehl, Alli Maier and Robert Born star in Cabrillo Playhouse’s latest show &ldquo
  
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• Thousands of volunteers expected to show north Orange County cities love with day of service April 29

  19-04-2017 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Seven north Orange County cities will unite April 29 to host simultaneous service days with about 10,0000 volunteers expected to participate in a variety of projects.
  Anaheim, Brea, Buena Park, Fullerton, La Habra and Placentia all joined the movement in recent years. Orange jumps on board this year.
  “It’s something that I’ve wanted to do since I started at St. John’s Lutheran Church of Orange,” said Nathan Hausch, a Love Orange leader and pastor at the church.
  
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• Teenager who died in Lake Forest crash identified as Rancho Santa Margarita resident

  19-04-2017 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  LAKE FOREST A teenager who died Monday night when his Yamaha motorcycle collided with a Hyundai on Trabuco Road here has been identified at David LaDue, 18, of Rancho Santa Margarita by the Orange County Coroner’s Office.
  LaDue was headed northbound on Trabuco Road around 8:45 p.m. Monday, April 17, when he collided with a Hyundai that was making a left turn onto Rimhurst Drive near El Toro Memorial Park. He was declared dead at the scene but none of the three people in
  
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• Legends Bethany Hamilton, Mick Fanning to be inducted into Surfers’ Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach

  19-04-2017 20:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton signs an autograph for Isabella Hagopian during a meet and greet at Jack’s Surfboards in 2016. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)Bethany Hamilton of Hawaii competes in Swatch Women’s Pro at Lower Trestles in San Clemente last year. (Photo by Kyusung Gong, Orange County Register/SCNG)Bethany Hamilton speaks of God and her faith after her tragic shark attack with Pastor Greg Laurie during the 22nd annual Harvest Crusade at Angel
  
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• O’Reilly out at Fox News Channel

  19-04-2017 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID BAUDER
  NEW YORK — Bill O’Reilly has lost his job at Fox News Channel following reports that five women had been paid millions of dollars to keep quiet about harassment allegations.
  21st Century Fox issued a statement Wednesday that “after a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the company and Bill O’Reilly have agreed that Bill O’Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel.
  He had been scheduled to return from a vacation next Monday. O&r
  
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• San Clemente poised to challenge waste burial at San Onofre

  19-04-2017 20:29 via ocregister.com
  
  San Clemente is prepared to ask the California Coastal Commission to rescind a permit that it issued in 2015 to let Southern California Edison bury 3.6 million pounds of radioactive waste along the San Onofre shoreline.
  The City Council, at its meeting Tuesday, April 18, discussed sending a letter but postponed action to May so it can review a copy of a staff report that coastal commissioners had received before they approved waste burial at the retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
  The
  
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• Festival offers seven new plays in three days

  19-04-2017 20:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Playwright Zoe Kazan and Director Lila Neugebauer, 2013 PPF rehearsal of reading for Kazan’s “Trudy and Max in Love.” (Photo courtesy of South Coast Repertory)South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival marks its 20th anniversary this weekend with the usual compelling and often provocative line-up that mixes new work from some of America’s most important playwrights – this year the festival introduces plays by PPF regulars Amy Freed and Donald Marguli
  
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• Morongo Golf Club at Tukwet Canyon is in a good spot to appeal to a variety of golfers

  19-04-2017 20:06 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s fun golfing with people who play a course the way it was set up to be played, as in hitting fairways and greens and having reasonable putts for birdie.
  Such was the case in late March when I visited Morongo Golf Club at Tukwet Canyon to play a couple rounds with PGA professional and site general manager Henry Liaw and one with Symetra Tour professional Carleigh Silvers, who was at the Beaumont facility to play in the IOA Championship.
  I hadn’t been to the 36-hole site in about 1
  
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• 29 Orange County schools receive California Gold Ribbon honors

  19-04-2017 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  More than two dozen Orange County middle and high schools have been recognized as 2017 California Gold Ribbon Schools.
  Anaheim Union led Orange County school districts with five winners. Garden Grove Unified, Santa Ana Unified and Westminster each had three.
  Orange County had 29 winners in all.
  Nearly 500 hopefuls applied for the award, according to the state’s Department of Education, which announced the 275 winners this week. Of the 275 winners, north, central and south Orange County wer
  
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• Managers of damaged Oroville Dam made series of errors

  19-04-2017 19:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MICHAEL R. BLOOD
  OROVILLE, Calif.  — Late in the afternoon of Feb. 12, Sheriff Kory Honea was at the emergency operations center for the tallest dam in America when he overheard someone say something that stopped him in his tracks:
  “This is not good.”
  Over six straight days, the operators of the Oroville Dam had said there was no immediate danger after water surging down the main spillway gouged a hole the size of a football field in the concrete ch
  
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• Antigua’s spring offerings include spandex to allow golfers to swing away with ease and comfort

  19-04-2017 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Antigua is expanding its fabric usage by incorporating spandex into its Spring 2017 Men’s Collection.
  “Almost every style has incorporated this fiber into the construction of fashion fabrics for both function and form, eliminating any garment resistance throughout the golf swing and offering an enhanced supple hand, smooth drape and renewed recovery with every use,” said Sean Gregg, Antigua’s vice president of Product Development and Marketing Support.
  The self-collar sty
  
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• Stylish and adaptable belts will put you a notch above the rest on and off the course

  19-04-2017 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  When you let it all hang out on your par-5 drives, the last thing you want is that day’s belt to let loose and let it all hang out as well.
  But belts are more than waist cinchers these days, as both professionals and amateurs are using the accessory to complement and pull a wardrobe together.
  “Belts can be used to make a style statement, create a clear distinction as a sight line between your top and bottom half, add a personal touch to formal wear, tie a casual outfit together and a
  
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• Disneyland Encyclopedia': Everything to know

  19-04-2017 17:52
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• Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez dead after hanging self in cell

  19-04-2017 14:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By DENISE LAVOIE
  BOSTON — Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for a murder conviction and just days ago was acquitted of a double murder, died after hanging himself in his prison cell early Wednesday, Massachusetts prisons officials said.
  Hernandez, 27, was found by guards in his cell at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley just after 3 a.m., Department of Correction spokesman Christopher Fallon said in a statement.
  The former New England Patriot
  
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• Georgia House race down to 2 candidates, plus Trump, Pelosi

  19-04-2017 10:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL BARROW
  DUNWOODY, Ga.— A Georgia congressional election in a historically conservative district is headed to a runoff that raises the stakes in an early measure for President Donald Trump and both major parties ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
  Democrat Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old former congressional staffer, fell a few percentage points shy of an outright victory amid an 18-candidate scramble in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. Republican Karen Handel, a former Georgia
  
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• How Chris Paul’s aggressiveness sparked Clippers’ Game 2 victory against Jazz

  19-04-2017 09:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Clippers’ Chris Paul, left, works around Utah Jazz’s George Hill during the second half in Game 2 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Los Angeles. The Clippers won 99-91. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ORG XMIT: LAS116Los Angeles Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan, right, gets a rebound against Utah Jazz’s Derrick Favors during the first half in Game 2 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Los Angeles
  
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• Buena Park police say there may be more victims of serial flasher

  19-04-2017 09:08 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA – Buena Park police on Tuesday, April 18, offered more details about allegations against a 38-year-old registered sex offender charged in a flurry of flashing incidents in Orange County.
  Hyuh Woo Lee, who pleaded not guilty to charges Monday, is next due in court April 25 for a pretrial hearing. He is charged with three felony counts of indecent exposure with sentencing enhancement allegations for committing a similar crime while out on bail. Three alleged incidents took place on
  
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• Turkey key to United States’ Middle East strategies

  19-04-2017 09:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan successfully pushed through a national referendum giving him powers greater than any head of state since the sultans. Americans accustomed to pro-democratic rhetoric from the U.S. were surprised that President Donald Trump called the increasingly authoritarian leader to congratulate him on the narrow victory. Unfortunately, Trump’s diplomatic response reflects a new reality in the Mideast that has built up over time and is only now coming into full vi
  
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• Traffic amnesty program highlights the problem of temporary solutions to systemic poverty and racial bias

  19-04-2017 09:03 via ocregister.com
  
  As California struggles to solve the problem of millions of driver’s license suspensions imposed on people who cannot afford to pay off a traffic ticket, the state’s leadership would do well to learn from the classic parable of “babies in the river.”
  Once upon a time, there was a small village on the edge of a river. One day, a villager noticed a baby floating down the river. The villager quickly ran and swam out to save the baby from drowning. The next day, this same vil
  
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• ARTIC running out of financial options

  19-04-2017 09:02 via ocregister.com
  
  The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, which is still operating under a sizable deficit, is losing a chief funding source — and it should be losing all of our patience as well.
  “This fiscal year, the hub is expected to earn about $1.4 million of its $3.9 million annual budget,” the Register reported. “While recent advertising and an influx of tenants are chipping away at the deficit that is pulling $2.5 million from city coffers, hopes for more funding hel
  
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• Letters: Congress has abdicated its responsibilities on war

  19-04-2017 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Re: “Congress must have say in war-making decisions like Syria strike” [Opinion, April 12]: I am writing in strong support of your editorial. Our founding father, James Madison, said in 1793: “[T]he power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature … the executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.” That power is clearly enume
  
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• Goldenvoice aims high in 2017 with its award-winning Stagecoach Country Music Festival

  19-04-2017 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Since 2007, the staff at Los Angeles-based concert production company Goldenvoice have worked tirelessly to produce its annual Stagecoach Country Music Festival, the multi-day sister fest to its massive Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which occupies the Empire Polo Club in Indio the two weekends before Stagecoach takes over the venue.
  This year’s event, which takes place Friday, April 28-Sunday, April 30, features headlining sets by Dierks Bentley, Shania Twain and Kenny Chesne
  
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• Brea-based T-shirt maker AST Sportswear will add 120 jobs in former American Apparel building

  19-04-2017 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Brea-based AST Sportswear has moved into the former American Apparel facility in Hawthorne as it expands manufacturing into Los Angeles County.
  The company in late 2016 said the move would add more than 120 manufacturing jobs to its payroll.
  The Hawthorne dyeing and finishing plant “is an imperative addition to AST Sportswear, Inc.’s, production capacity,” Abdul Rashid, AST Sportswear’s chief operating officer,  said in a company statement last year.
  Rashid said the
  
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• 15 Santa Ana nonprofits to be awarded $769,151 of $5.7 million federal grants

  19-04-2017 08:52 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — More than $760,000 in federal money will be given to 15 Santa Ana nonprofit organizations, the city announced Tuesday.
  The City Council on Tuesday, April 18, approved allocating the funds, which are coming from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. On a 5-0 vote, with Councilmen Vincent Sarmiento and Sal Tinajero absent, the panel approved an estimated $5.7 million Community Development Block Grant Program for the 2017-18 fiscal year, which is subject to adjustm
  
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• Nolan Arenado’s two home runs send Dodgers to third straight loss

  19-04-2017 07:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu (99) pitches in the 1st inning against the Colorado Rockies, at Dodger Stadium. Los Angeles , Tuesday, April 18, 2017. ( Photo by Stephen Carr / Daily News / SCNG )Colorado Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado (28) celebrates at home after hitting a home run in the 1st inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers, at Dodger Stadium. Los Angeles , Tuesday, April 18, 2017. ( Photo by Stephen Carr / Daily News / SCNG )Colorado Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado (2
  
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• Man arrested on suspicion of faking his own kidnapping, trying to extort money from his mother

  19-04-2017 07:28 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A 31-year-old man was behind bars Tuesday, April 18, on suspicion of faking his own kidnapping and trying to extort $300 from his mother, Santa Ana police said.
  Robert Nunez’s mother contacted police Sunday, April 16, when she had not heard from her son for a few days then received a text message saying he was dead, Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said.
  A missing-person report was filed. Nunez struggled with drug issues, but his mother tried to help him,
  
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• Clippers take advantage of Rudy Gobert’s absence, beat Jazz to even series, 1-1

  19-04-2017 07:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan, center, dunks against the Utah Jazz during the first half in Game 2 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ORG XMIT: LAS103LA Clippers forward Blake Griffin #32 goes up to dunk the ball over Utah Jazz forward Joe Johnson #6 while LA Clippers center DeAndre Jordan #6 look on in the first half at Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA. 4/18/2017 Photo by John McCoy/Los Angeles Daily News
  
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• Boras Classic: Tuesday’s scores, Wednesday’s schedule

  19-04-2017 07:15 via ocregister.com
  
  The first-round results (with state ranking in parentheses) from the Boras Classic on Tuesday:
  First round games:El Toro 1, Corona 0Orange Lutheran (15) 8, Gahr of Cerritos 2Vista Murrieta 4, Chatsworth (2) 2Mira Costa of Manhattan Beach 2, JSerra 1Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (3) 6, Aliso Niguel 0Huntington Beach (5) 4, Damien of La Verne 1Santiago of Corona 3, Bishop Amat of La Puente (10) 1Mater Dei 5, La Mirada (13) 1.
  The Boras Classic continues Wednesday, April 19.
  In the championship quarte
  
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• Thomas throws complete game in Mater Dei win over La Mirada in Boras Classic

  19-04-2017 06:47 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — Michael Thomas pitched a complete game and Chad Call hit a home run and a double in Mater Dei’s  5-1 win over La Mirada in a Boras Classic first-round game Tuesday at Mater Dei High.
  The Monarchs (11-6) have a second-round game Wednesday against Santiago of Corona at Mater Dei at 6 p.m. Santiago had a 3-1 win Tuesday over Bishop Amat of La Puente, the champion of last week’s National Classic.
  Mater Dei is ranked No. 4 in Orange County. The Monarchs have won fou
  
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• Rockies at Dodgers, Wednesday, 7 p.m.

  19-04-2017 06:24 via ocregister.com
  
  ROCKIES AT DODGERS
  When: Wednesday, 7 p.m.
  Where: Dodger Stadium
  TV: KTLA/5, SNLA (where available)
  THE PITCHERS
  ROCKIES LHP TYLER ANDERSON (1-2, 8.59 ERA)
  vs. Dodgers: 2-0, 1.83 ERA (three starts)
  at Dodger Stadium: 0-0, 2.84 ERA (one start)
  Hates to face: Justin Turner, 7 for 12 (.583), home run, four RBI
  Loves to face: Kiké Hernandez, 0 for 8, three strikeouts
  DODGERS LHP CLAYTON KERSHAW (2-1, 2.53 ERA)
  vs. Rockies: 18-6, 3.17 ERA (33 starts)
  at Dodger Stadium: 73-29, 1.97 (139 starts)
  
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• Sage Hill opens new pool with Olympic-sized splash

  19-04-2017 06:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Sage Hill’s new 33-meter pool debut on Tuesday. Photo by Dan Albano, StaffSeveral O.C. Olympians turned out Tuesday for the opening of the Sage Hill pool, Photo courtesy of Genai KerrSage Hill’s Nicole Harvey cuts through the water polo in the 100-yard breaststroke on Tuesday. Photo by Dan Albano, StaffShow Caption of Expand
  NEWPORT BEACH – Taras Polakoff stepped atop the starting block, pounded his chest and dove into the pool to sounds never heard at Sage Hill before Tuesday
  
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• Franklin Gutierrez bides his time while Dodgers’ southpaw struggles continue

  19-04-2017 06:13 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Colorado Rockies shuffled their rotation so two left-handed pitchers, Kyle Freeland and Tyler Anderson, would start this week against the Dodgers. The Cubs lined up their lefties when the Dodgers visited Chicago last week, too.
  It’s a pattern the Dodgers expect will continue until their record against left-handed starters turns around. They were 2-5 against southpaws and 5-2 against righties through Monday. Last season, they were 22-24 against lefties, 69-47 against
  
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• Clippers Notes: Doc Rivers downplays Jamal Crawford’s Game 1 shooting struggles

  19-04-2017 06:04 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The shots weren’t falling for Jamal Crawford.
  That’s not the norm for a 17-year NBA veteran known for scoring in bunches on his way to three NBA Sixth Man of the Year awards. It does fit Crawford’s makeup, though, to shrug off a poor shooting night. Hence, Crawford’s reaction to the Clippers’ Game 1 loss to Utah on Saturday, when he had eight points on 4-of-12 shooting.
  “If you’re scared to fail, you can’t play in fear,&rdq
  
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• Southern California’s smog clean-up future is far from clear

  19-04-2017 06:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California has once again won the distinction of having the worst summer smog in the nation but earned praised for its long-term efforts to improve air quality.
  Such were results of this year’s American Lung Association State of the Air report, a national air pollution analysis.
  The good news was that in 2013, 2014, and 2015, 41 million fewer Americans were exposed to unhealthful levels of air pollution, compared to the three-year period that started in 2012.
  “We found an im
  
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• New Disney 'Star Wars' park

  19-04-2017 03:32
  The "Star Wars" universe is about to get a little bigger, according to a few Disney Imagineers and Lucasfilm luminaries. On Saturday, the group of creators revealed all new details of the upcoming Star Wars Land park at both Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif.
  
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• Whicker: ‘Nickenhagen’ is a 1-2 punch for Huntington Beach baseball team

  19-04-2017 03:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach seniors Nick Pratto, left, and Hagen Danner, who have played together since they were in fourth grade, are enjoying what likely will be their final games as teammates over the next few weeks. (Photo by Sam Gangwer, Orange County Register/SCNG)Huntington Beach’s Nick Pratto is met by teammate Hagen Danner for a high-five afer Pratto scored during a game in March. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)Huntington Beach starting pitcher Nick Pratto winds up for a
  
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• Huntington Beach gets spark from moment of chaos, beats Damien in Boras Classic

  19-04-2017 03:03 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Huntington Beach ‘s Cory Moore Is congratulated after hitting a three-run double in the bottom of the fifth inning to break open the game against Damien of La Verne in the first round of the Boras Classic at Mater Dei High. in Santa Ana, CA on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. (Photo by Sam Gangwer, Orange County Register/SCNG)Huntington Beach pitcher Nick Pratto kept Damien of La Verne to one run in the first round of the Boras Classic at Mater Dei High, pitching a complete game and winning
  
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• Buena Park has warrant to tear down vacated homeless shelter at First Southern Baptist Church

  19-04-2017 03:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Contractors board up and close the front door to the homeless shelter at First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park on Thursday, February 9, 2017. The city says the building has several safety vioations and needs to be removed. It has received a warrant from a judge to tear the structure down. (File photo by Ken Steinhardt, Orange County Register/SCNG)Beds at the homeless shelter at First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park after residents moved out and the building was boarded up and closed
  
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• Here’s what’s happening around town in Tustin

  19-04-2017 03:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Old Town Tustin Home and Garden Tour
  The 21st annual Old Town Tustin Home and Garden Tour takes place 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, May 6. Enjoy delightful houses, a horse-drawn trolley, a Maypole dance, quilt show, vintage cars and crafts vendors. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of. Information: tustinhistory.com.
  Dollars for Scholars Kentucky Derby Day
  Time to don those pearls and hats. It’s Kentucky Derby Day at the community center, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 6, at 300 Centennial Way.
  
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• Bids made on 14 of 286 timeshares in tax auction

  19-04-2017 03:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Only 14 out of 286 timeshares for sale drew bids Tuesday during the first eight hours of an online Orange County tax auction, the county’s website shows. Only three of those bids were for more than the minimum.
  The bidding is scheduled to end in batches of 10 from 9 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. Wednesday.
  The highest bid was $2,800, tendered for a timeshare at Laguna Surf, a beachfront resort. That’s $800 more than the opening bid of $2,000, an indication that multiple buyers bid on t
  
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• Here’s the latest in Irvine news and events

  19-04-2017 02:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Generous gift
  UC Irvine has received a $1 million gift from the estate of Christian Werner, professor emeritus of geography and former dean of its School of Social Sciences.
  A $1 million gift from the estate of Christian Werner, professor emeritus of geography and former dean of the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine will support graduate student research and scholarship in social sciences. Werner died in March 2016 at the age of 81. (Photo courtesy of Kathy Alberti)Werner died in March 2016
  
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