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• ‘Star Wars’ Land update: Disneyland’s Rivers of America route nearly done

  05-05-2017 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  The steel is climbing out of the ground as “Star Wars” land continues to take shape at Disneyland.
  But while that land will open in 2019, crews are rapidly finishing work on the rockwork and landscaping around the new route for the Rivers of America. The waterway is scheduled to be open to boat traffic again in the latter half of 2017, as is the Big Thunder Trail that connects Frontierland to the back side of Fantasyland.
  Related to that work, the steam engine of the Disneyland Railr
  
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• ‘Jazz Night Out’ at San Juan Hills Golf Club to raise funds for community

  05-05-2017 20:54 via ocregister.com
  
  San Juan Hills Golf Club will host a “Jazz Night Out” concert to raise funds for CREER, a local community education, athletics and cultural outreach organization to assist families and bridge cultural gaps.
  The concert will feature live music by Dean Grech and Greg Vail and their band.
  IF YOU GO
  What: “Jazz Night Out”
  When: 6:30 to 10 p.m. May 18
  Where: San Juan Hills Golf Club, 32120 San Juan Creek Road, San Juan Capistrano
  Admission: $30 for concert only; $60 including
  
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• Receiver Tavon Austin to miss rest of Rams’ offseason program with wrist injury

  05-05-2017 20:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Rams receiver Tavon Austin will miss the rest of the team’s offseason on-field program because of a wrist injury, but he is expected to return for the start of training camp in July.
  Austin underwent an arthroscopic surgical procedure on his wrist and won’t be on the field this month and next month for OTA workouts and mini-camp.
  This is considered a big season for Austin, who totaled only 509 yards and three touchdowns in 2016 after he signed a four-year, $42 million contract extens
  
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• Newport to Ensenada yacht race set sail for the 70th time

  05-05-2017 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  The 70th Annual Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race took off from Balboa Pier in Newport Beach on Friday April 30, 2017. Hazardous winds and choppy sea warnings did not deter the over 180 boats willing to challenge Mother Nature and a hearty group of competitive sailors. Although records were not set, Mighty Merloe and Mod 70 Phaedo 3, both catamarans, reached Ensenada in under six hours.
  Lawrence SherwinMerloe and Phaedo crews (above) reached Mexican shores in under six hours. Congratu
  
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• Help clean up Aliso Creek in Lake Forest

  05-05-2017 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Grab your sunscreen and a hat and volunteer to help clean up Aliso Creek from 9-11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 13.
  For the 10th consecutive year, volunteers will meet at Cherry Avenue and Fernbank Street in Lake Forest to fight the battle against litter and debris at Aliso Creek with community groups, city staff and representatives from Wal-Mart.
  Gloves, trash bags, reacher sticks, a volunteer shirt, snacks and beverages will be provided.
  All volunteers must sign a waiver form, which is available at t
  
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• Pink slips lead to a special court hearing for hundreds of local teachers facing possible layoffs

  05-05-2017 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The judge wore a suit, and the hearings featured a court reporter, thousands of pages of court exhibits and plenty of testimony.
  Still, this was no ordinary courtroom.
  Teacher Cynthia Case of Valley High School attended the Santa Ana School District’s RIF hearings in Santa Ana on Thursday, April 20, 2017. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Orange County Register/SCNG)Teachers Eulalla Wiedrock, left, and Michelle Schrock of Heninger Elementary School look through the Santa Ana School District’
  
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• Why comic books and movies make a dynamic duo

  05-05-2017 19:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Saturday, May 6 is Free Comic Book Day and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” opens in theaters. Here’s a look at the evolution of the comic book adaptations to the big screen and the impact of the comic book genre on moviemaking.
  Compiled by CHRIS RAMOS and KURT SNIBBE/Southern California News Group
  OG: ORIGINAL GUARDIANS
  Invading pop culture with their blockbuster 2014 film, the Guardians of the Galaxy have gained instant success. Using characters based on the 2008 comic s
  
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• Oculus closes its short-film division Story Studio

  05-05-2017 19:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey and CEO Brendan Iribe, left, before Luckey left the company. (ANA VENEGAS, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER) Oculus VR is a gaming hardware and software startup in Irvine working on the next generation video game console – one that can we worn on the head. Oculus raised $2.4 milliion on Kickstarter and they will be shipping developer kits to gamemakers within a few months. Palmer Luckey, 20, the inventor of the virtual reality head gear.Oculus VR hardware engineer
  
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• Mother, son will graduate the same day from Concordia University

  05-05-2017 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Mother and son, Danette Bonfield Bonillo, 52, and Mitchell Piantanida, 21, will be graduating on the same day, May 6, from Concordia University in Irvine. Bonillo will be getting a doctorate in education and Piantanida a bachelor’s in music. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)Mother and son, Danette Bonfield Bonillo, 52, and Mitchell Piantanida, 21, will be graduating on the same day, May 6, from Concordia University in Irvine. Bonillo will be getting a doctorate in educa
  
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• Yoga + goats = goat yoga, the strangest, cutest exercise ever

  05-05-2017 19:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Young pygmy goat kids roam the yard at the Happy Trails Goat Farm in Calimesa on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The goats will be participating in a baby goat yoga up coming event at Monty’s Montessori Academy in Calimesa. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)Sheppardess Kristen Forbes, 19, interacts with her young pygmy goat kids at the family’s Happy Trails Goat Farm in Calimesa on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The goats will be participating in a baby goat yoga up coming event
  
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• Pedestrian struck, critically injured by van on 55 freeway

  05-05-2017 18:10 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA  A man laying down in a lane on the 55 freeway was critically injured when a van struck him early Friday, according to authorities.
  The incident was reported around 1:20 a.m. near Edinger Avenue, said California Highway Patrol Officer Florentino Olivera.
  The man was reported to have been laying down in the slow lane when he was struck by a white minivan, he said.
  He sustained major injuries and was transported by ambulance to Orange County Global Medi
  
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• U.S. employers add strong 211,000 jobs; unemployment 4.4 percent

  05-05-2017 14:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring in the United States rebounded in April as employers added a brisk 211,000 jobs, a sign that the economy’s slump in the first three months of the year could prove temporary.
  The unemployment rate dipped to 4.4 percent — its lowest point in a decade — from 4.5 percent in March.
  The figures suggest that businesses expect consumer demand to rebound after a lackluster first quarter, when Americans increased spending at the sl
  
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• 'May the Fourth' attracts fewer Star Wars fans in...

  05-05-2017 13:04
  Zoe Schack, dressed as Poe, left, Tess Rimmel, dressed as Han Solo, Alex Hazen, dressed as Kylo Ren, and Sarah Berry, dressed as Rey, right, on Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, on Thursday, May 4, 2017. Star Wars fans everywhere have claimed May the Fourth as their day and typically it is nowhere more evident than Disneyland.
  
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• ‘The Monster Builder’ play explores the good versus evil of monstrosity architecture

  05-05-2017 09:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Danny Sheie as Gregor, on floor, feigns death from a heart attack in a scene from The Monster Builder at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Susannah Schulman Rogers, as Rita, Gareth Williams as Andy Colette Kilroy as Pamela and Aubrey Deeker as Dieter, from left, move in to see if Gregor has really died. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Orange County Register/SCNG)Director Art Manke watches a scene from The Monster Builder during a rehearsal session at South Coast Repertory
  
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• Newport Mesa Unified holds senior art show at Gray Matter Museum

  05-05-2017 09:30 via ocregister.com
  
  People view student work on display at Gray Matter Museum in Costa Mesa on Friday, April 28, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)Works of art from Newport-Mesa USD seniors hangs on the wall at Gray Matter Museum in Costa Mesa on Friday, April 28, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)Work by Kaitlin Evans on display at the Newport-Mesa Unified School District show at Gray Matter Museum in Costa Mesa on Friday, April 28, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange C
  
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• Things to do in Orange County this week (May 5-11)

  05-05-2017 09:23 via ocregister.com
  
  The Association of Volleyball Professionals Pro Beach Volleyball Tour runs through Sunday at Huntington Beach Pier.FRIDAY, MAY 5
  Association of Volleyball Professionals Pro Beach Volleyball Tour: The nation’s premier beach volleyball tour will officially kick off the 2017 season featuring top names in the sport including AVP stars and Olympians. Fans can enjoy an interactive beach festival experience that includes free falling into the AVP Jump Zone, partaking in top local food option
  
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• Republicans deal first blow to Obamacare

  05-05-2017 09:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The second time proved to be the charm for the House GOP, whose first effort to begin repealing and replacing Obamacare had to be pulled from a vote for lack of support.
  This time, a bill with enough votes to pass raced through, prompting spontaneous celebrations from one side of the aisle while Democrats on the other joined in a chant meant to predict a bloodbath for yea-voters the next election cycle. Now, all eyes are the Senate — where Republicans hope to somehow improve on Obamacare a
  
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• Trump is somewhat ‘normalized,’ but still scary

  05-05-2017 09:06 via ocregister.com
  
  With near unanimity, my never-Trump friends confess a sense of relief. It could have been worse. They thought it would be worse. A deep apprehension still endures but the international order remains intact, the republic still stands, and no “enemy of the people” has (yet) been arrested.
  Admittedly, this is a low bar. And this is not to deny the insanity, incoherence and sheer weirdness emanating daily from the White House, with which we’ve all come up with our own coping techni
  
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• Low housing supply pushing rents higher

  05-05-2017 09:05 via ocregister.com
  
  As has been known for a long time, Southern California is an increasingly expensive place to live. With the construction and availability of new housing stock not keeping pace with the population, housing prices have continued to grow. According to several recent reports, rental markets have been especially impacted, with renters seeing consistent — and at times sharp — increases in their rents.
  According to a recent report by Reis Inc., a commercial real estate data firm, rents cont
  
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• Empower parents to better educate their kids

  05-05-2017 09:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Two easy questions. First, who is in a better position best to choose where and how a child should be educated, the child’s parents or the government? Virtually everyone agrees that it is the parents. Second question: What is the goal of our educational system, to educate our children, or to protect below-average teachers? So how should we go forward?
  The answer is to empower parents to choose where the government’s money will be spent for the education of their children. And the par
  
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• Price for modern day vassals can be steep

  05-05-2017 09:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Weaker countries often rely on stronger ones to protect them. The downside is that the weak do not have a say in whether their protector nation starts a war. In 431 B.C., Sparta “led” a league of city-states that were consulted before going to war with Athens. But everyone knew that Sparta was the strongest, and would make the final decision for everyone. Fifteen hundred years later, the rules of Middle Ages’ feudalism were formal. As a junior European lord, you paid taxes, if
  
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• 15 things to do in Orange County this weekend (May 5-7)

  05-05-2017 08:58 via ocregister.com
  
  If you get tickets in advance, your kids ages 12 and under can ride Amtrak for free with a paying adult to the downtown Fullerton Railroad Days event coming up May 6-7. (File photo by Mark Eades, Orange County Register/SCNG) //// ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Fullerton Railroad Days held at the train station in Fullerton, includes model railroads, a Disneyland Railroad engine, a steam locomotive and more. – Date of photo: 04/30/16 – fullertonrrdays — Photo by: MARK EADES, STAFF PHOTO
  
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• Photos — Cal State Fullerton baseball action

  05-05-2017 08:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Cal State Fullerton, 26-15, went 2-1 in its series against UC Irvine ending Sunday. CSUF next plays at Hawaii on Friday.
   
  Cal State Fullerton’s Scott Hurst is safe at second base as UC Irvine’s Christian Koss can’t hold onto the ball during a game Sunday in Fullerton. Cal State Fullerton lost 12-4. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer)Cal State Fullerton’s Dillon Persinger makes the double play to first base as UC Irvine’s Alex Guenette is ou
  
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• Angry Whittier residents oppose proposed Motel 6 on Whittier Boulevard

  05-05-2017 08:32
  A Motel 6 is proposed for this site with vacant buildings at 14116-14130 Whittier Boulevard between California and Calmada avenues pictured May 3, 2017. WHITTIER >> A proposed Motel 6 on Whittier Boulevard has drawn the wrath of many residents, who say the street already has too many motels they claim are draws for crime, drugs and prostitution.
  
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• Griffin Canning, Chase Strumpf lead UCLA past USC in series opener

  05-05-2017 08:19 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES – Former Santa Margarita High standout Griffin Canning pitched a shutout with 10 strikeouts, and Chase Strumpf (JSerra High) hit a two-run home run as the UCLA baseball team beat USC, 2-0, in their series opener Thursday night at Dedeaux Field.
  It was Canning’s second shutout of the season and the sixth complete game of the junior right-hander’s career. He scattered seven hits and walked one.
  Canning (5-2) has pitched seven or more innings in five of his last s
  
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• Boys and girls lacrosse playoffs: Thursday’s scores, Saturday’s schedule

  05-05-2017 08:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Scores from Thursday’s games in the boys and girls U.S. Lacrosse Southern California playoffs, and the updated schedule for Saturday’s regional semifinals.
  BOYS LACROSSE
  ORANGE COUNTY AREA
  Quarterfinals, ThursdayCorona del Mar 9, Servite 1St. Margaret’s 15, Santa Margarita 11Foothill 13, Tesoro 6San Clemente 8, El Toro 6
  Orange County semifinals
  Saturday at Portola HighCorona del Mar vs. St. Margaret’s, 2:30 p.m.San Clemente vs. Foothill, 5 p.m.
  LOS ANGELES AREA
  Quarterfi
  
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• Godinez boys, Laguna Beach girls win team titles at highlight-filled Orange Coast League Finals

  05-05-2017 07:43 via ocregister.com
  
  LAGUNA BEACH >> The Orange Coast League track and field finals showcased two different ways to take a team title.
  Godinez’s boys got an incredible performance on the track by Marcus Harrell, and Laguna Beach’s girls had eight different individual winners plus two relay wins as each helped their squads to the team league titles Thursday at Laguna Beach High.
  Harrell, who was selected athlete of the meet, had individual wins in the 100 and 200 meters along with being part of a wi
  
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• Swim: Top-3 results from Academy, Orange, Sea View, South Coast finals

  05-05-2017 07:34 via ocregister.com
  
  BOYS SWIMMING
  Academy League finals
  Team scoring: Sage Hill 157, Crean Lutheran 101.5, St. Margaret’s 99.5, Whitney 54, Oxford Academy 53, Calvary Chapel-Downey 26
  200 medley relay – 1. Sage Hill 1:41.12, 2. Crean Lutheran 1:43.30, 3. St. Margaret’s 1:53.47
  200 free – 1. Chao (CL) 1:44.02, 2. Drobenko (SH) 1:53.51, 3. Young (SM) 1:55.28
  200 individual medley – 1. Schreiber (SH) 1:55.31, 2. Fitzgerald (CL) 2:05.72, 3. Spessert (OA) 2:13.47
  50 free – 1. Lew (CL)
  
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• Alex Meyer struggles in Angels’ loss to Mariners

  05-05-2017 07:10 via ocregister.com
  
  SEATTLE, WA – MAY 4: After forcing out Ben Gamel #16 of the Seattle Mariners at second base shortstop Andrelton Simmons #2 bobbles the ball and cannot turn the double play on a ball hit by Robinson Cano #22 of the Seattle Mariners during the first inning of a game at Safeco Field on May 4, 2017 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Alex Meyer throws against the Seattle Mariners in the first inning of a baseball game, Thursday, M
  
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• Foothill’s Araujo and Tustin’s Ullrich represent high school teams at boys all-star boys basketball game

  05-05-2017 06:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Tustin’s Haakon Ullrich (second from right) looks on during the introductions at Saturday’s Orange County all-star basketball game at Cypress College. Tim Burt photoFoothill’s Paulo Araujo is introduced before Saturday’s Orange County all-star basketball game. Tim Burt photoShow Caption of Expand
  Tustin’s Haakon Ullrich and Foothill’s Paulo Araujo represented their schools Saturday night at the Orange County all-star basketball game at Cypress College.
  Ullrich
  
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• Woodbridge tennis sweeps Pacific Coast League championships

  05-05-2017 06:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Five days after finishing as the runner-up in the prestigious Ojai Tournament, Woodbridge sophomore Stefan Dostanic carried over that momentum and remained in top form as he captured the Pacific Coast League singles title with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Irvine’s Koki Takabatake on Thursday afternoon at Corona del Mar High.
  The Warriors would also capture the doubles crown as juniors Leo Hibi and Paul Diamontopolous knocked off Corona del Mar Kyle Pham and Diego Fernandez del Valle in straight set
  
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• St. Margaret’s holds off Santa Margarita with strong fourth quarter

  05-05-2017 06:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The St. Margaret’s boys lacrosse team lost the third quarter against visiting Santa Margarita in the second round of the U.S. Lacrosse Southern Division playoffs Thursday night.
  The message from Coach Glen Miles, however, remained positive.
  “There was a lot of momentum for Santa Margarita and we told them it was a two-goal quarter, you guys are fine,” Miles said. “Keep doing what you’re doing, nothing is wrong.”
  In the fourth quarter, all the pieces came toget
  
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• ‘As One’ turns transgender issues into opera

  05-05-2017 05:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Kimberly Reed, a filmmaker, used her own story as inspiration for “As One.” (Photo courtesy Long Beach Opera)Composer Laura Kaminsky enlisted the help of a transgender filmmaker help create her opera, “As One,” about a man who becomes a woman. (Photo courtesy Long Beach Opera)How do you write an opera about a man who becomes a woman? One ingenious solution: split the role between two performers, one male, the other female.
  That’s the path chosen by “As One,&rd
  
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• Miller: How pivotal is winning Game 5? Not so much based on the Ducks’ history

  05-05-2017 04:54 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM – The question was valid, probing and completely necessary, Randy Carlyle half-joking in his response but wholly serious in his answer.
  “You’re going to put all the emphasis on it by asking the question now,” the coach said Thursday, before allowing the slightest of smiles. “You just applied all the pressure.”
  The harshness of the Ducks’ situation was underscored by the fact the inquiry came from a reporter employed by the team.
  But then Dan Wood
  
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• USC’s Coliseum renovation plan includes relocating season-ticket holders, pricey donations

  05-05-2017 04:19 via ocregister.com
  
  As part of the planned renovations to the Coliseum, the historic stadium that has housed USC’s football team since 1923, a majority of season-ticket holders will be relocated as soon as 2018. The school began mailing pamphlets, detailing the upcoming changes, to donors and its 10,000 season-ticket holders this week. (Courtesy of USC)Luxury boxes and club suites are to be added to the Coliseum near midfield along the south sideline, included in the building of a 2,200-seat, so-called schola
  
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• Orange County sheriff asking to expand undocumented-immigrant detention contract

  05-05-2017 04:08 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County Sheriff’s Department wants to increase the number of federal immigration detainees that are held in county jails and will ask the Board of Supervisors next week for permission to do so by expanding its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
  The new agreement would allow the county to hold up to 120 additional undocumented immigrants, recouping 60 percent of the local capacity lost when ICE ended its contract with Santa Ana city jails earlier this year. It
  
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• Track and field: This week’s league final results

  05-05-2017 03:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Here are the results from this week’s league track and field finals in Orange County.
  (Coaches, please email your results to [email protected])
  GARDEN GROVE LEAGUE FINALS
  At Orange Coast College
  Wednesday, May 3
  GIRLS
  Team results: 1. Bolsa Grande 142.50; 2. La Quinta 93.50; 3. Los Amigos 90; 4. Garden Grove 76; 5. Rancho Alamitos 35; 6. Santiago 26.100: 1. Nguyen (Bolsa Grande) 13.01; 2. Agu (Garden Grove) 13.63; 3. Nguyen (Bolsa Grande) 13.82.200: 1. Nguyen (Bolsa Grande) 26.89; 2. Ag
  
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• County opens first year-round homeless shelter and service center,...

  05-05-2017 03:52
  Paul Hyek, who has been homeless for two years, explores the new Bridges at Kraemer Place in Anaheim on Thursday, May 4, 2017. He will be moving into the shelter this weekend when it officially opens.
  
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• OVATIONS: Reno Jazz Festival

  05-05-2017 03:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Last weekend, the Reno Jazz Festival held their annual event in Reno, Nevada which brings together talented students and world renowned jazz musicians to participate in concerts and workshops. This year, adjudicators and clinicians evaluated students from 150 middle school, high school and college jazz groups. Rankings for top Southern California high schools are listed below. Complete information on the festival can be found at unr.edu/rjf.
  Ayala High School, Chino Hills – 
  
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• On deck: Astros at Angels, Friday, 7 p.m.

  05-05-2017 03:35 via ocregister.com
  
  ASTROS at ANGELS
  When: Friday, 7 p.m.
  Where: Angel Stadium
  TV: Fox Sports West
  THE PITCHERS
  ANGELS RHP JESSE CHAVEZ (2-4, 4.50)
  vs. Astros: 3-2, 2.70
  At Angel Stadium: 2-5, 3.51
  Hates to face: Jose Altuve, 7 for 22 (.318)
  Loves to face: Brian McCann, 1 for 12 (.083)
  MARINERS LHP DALLAS KEUCHEL (5-0, 1.21)
  vs. Angels: 10-2, 3.50
  At Angel Stadium: 6-1, 3.45
  Hates to face: Mike Trout, 14 for 38 (.368), 2 HRs
  Loves to face: Albert Pujols, 7 for 34 (.206)
  UPCOMING
  Saturday — Angels (RHP J.C. Ra
  
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• ‘Inside the Rams’ podcast, Ep. 27 – Recapping the draft and talking Gerald Everett with South Alabama coach Joey Jones

  05-05-2017 03:29 via ocregister.com
  
  A week after the dust has settled on the NFL draft, SCNG NFL writer Ryan Kartje talks about the ongoing fallout from last year’s Jared Goff trade, before he and Rams beat writer Rich Hammond look back and analyze the team’s draft selections. Then, South Alabama’s Joey Jones, who coached new Rams tight end Gerald Everett the last two seasons, joins the podcast to break down Everett’s game and his development from a little-known, 200-pound receiver to a second-round NFL dra
  
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• Angels notes: Mike Trout sits with hamstring tightness

  05-05-2017 03:28 via ocregister.com
  
  SEATTLE — Mike Trout was not in the Angels lineup for the first time this season on Thursday, dealing with a tight hamstring.
  Manager Mike Scioscia said it was a “recharge day” and the hamstring tightness isn’t serious.
  “If this was a playoff game, he’d be playing,” Scioscia said. “But we’re in a stretch of 42 games in 44 days, so we want to make sure these guys have a chance to recover when they can.”
  Trout was the only player from the
  
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• A reunited and re-energized At the Drive-In brings new music to the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles

  05-05-2017 03:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Reunited rock band At the Drive-In will headline the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 13 in support of its new album, “in•ter a•li•a,” which dropped on Friday, May 5. (Photo courtesty of At the Drive-In)Reunited rock band At the Drive-In will headline the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 13 in support of its new album, “in•ter a•li•a,” which dropped on Friday, May 5. (Photo courtesty of At the Drive-In)Reunited
  
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• Self-service gas station will add to Placentia revenue

  05-05-2017 01:30 via ocregister.com
  
  A new self-service gas station that will be renting city property at Placentia and Crowther avenues will help bolster city finances, officials said.
  The 76 Station, operated by Galaxy Oil, would generate $25,000 a year in rent for the city and annual royalty payments between $200,000 to $350,000, depending on the volume of fuel sold.
  “It really depends on how much people buy,” City Administrator Damien Arrula said. The gas station is one of several projects the city has been wor
  
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• St. Jude hospital in Fullerton receives $3 million gift for stroke care from estate of former patient

  05-05-2017 01:18 via ocregister.com
  
  St. Jude Medical Center has received a $3 million gift for stroke research and treatment from the estate of a Huntington Beach man who was a stroke patient there two decades ago.
  The gift from Marvin Blaski, who was 84, will pay for clinical advances and an endowed medical directorship to attract top doctors to the Fullerton hospital.
  Blaski, who died in June 2016, had a stroke in 1996.
  “We are deeply grateful for this generous gift which will benefit those who have suffered a stroke not j
  
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• San Clemente man arrested on suspicion of sexual assault of a boy and giving him drugs

  05-05-2017 01:18 via ocregister.com
  
  A 50-year-old San Clemente man was arrested Thursday, May 4 on suspicion of sexually assaulting a boy and giving him marijuana and controlled substances, Orange County Sheriff’s deputies said.
  Investigators began looking into Christian Reed late March after someone reported that he was having “inappropriate conversations” with an underage boy online. On March 24, deputies served a search warrant at Reed’s home, according to Jaimee Blashaw of the Orange County Sheriff
  
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• May festivals and events in Southern California

  05-05-2017 01:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Whether you’ve got the blues or want to hang out in Joshua Tree, these are the big events happening in Southern California in May 2017.
  Want more ideas for the whole year? Check out our list of 2017 Southern California fairs and festivals.
  Soka University International Festival
  The 16th annual event will boast 900 musicians and dancers on four stages and more than 250 non-profit, craft and business exhibitors. Admission is free; on-campus parking is $10 per car (cash only).
  When: May
  
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• Here’s where you can find the Frork, the french fry utensil from McDonald’s

  05-05-2017 01:16 via ocregister.com
  
  McDonald’s will be giving away a limited supply of these silicon Frorks. *(McDonald’s)McDonald’s will be giving away a limited supply of these silicon Frorks. *(McDonald’s)McDonald’s will be giving away a limited supply of these silicon Frorks. *(McDonald’s)McDonald’s will be giving away a limited supply of these silicon Frorks. *(McDonald’s)Show Caption of Expand
  In its effort to attract millennials with gimmicky marketing campaigns, McDonald&rsqu
  
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• OVATIONS: Musical Theatre West Footlighters Awards

  05-05-2017 01:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Musical Theatre West’s Footlighters presented $1,000 scholarships to 11 Orange and Los Angeles county students at its annual awards, held at Sycamore Plaza in Lakewood. The Footlighters is a nonprofit auxiliary organization that supports the education and fundraising efforts of MTW.
  Students are nominated by their performing arts teachers, then audition for executives from MTW and other musical theater professionals. Scholarship winners are listed below.
  DRAMATIC ALLIED ARTS GUILD SCH
  
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• ‘Secret’ tropical garden on tour a labor of love for late Laguna Beach fire captain

  05-05-2017 01:02 via ocregister.com
  
  The view from Joanie Rowe’s top floor gives a birds-eye view of her half-acre tropical garden in Laguna Beach on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Rowe and her late husband Ron spent decades years creating the garden with includes stone bridges and a stream. The garden will be on the Laguna Beach Garden Club’s A Gate & Garden Tour on May 5. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)The memorial service program, center, for Ron Rowe is surrounded by family photos taken over the l
  
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