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• Concordia University names Veterans Resource Center in honor of fallen alum

  13-06-2017 23:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Military color guard prepare to close a Memorial Day ceremony, presented by the City of Irvine at Col. Bill Barber Memorial Park. The City unveiled a new plaque at the park in memory of U.S. Staff Sgt. Matthew Thompson, an alum of Concordia University Irvine, who was killed in the line of duty on August 23, 2016 in Afghanistan. Concordia also announced the renaming of its Veterans Resource Center to the Staff Sergeant Matthew Thompson Veterans Resource Center. (Photo courtesy of Concordia Univer
  
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• Discarded clothing in a tree prompted brief police investigation in Downtown Disney

  13-06-2017 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim police determined an unknown object found in a tree near Downtown Disney Tuesday, June 3, afternoon was discarded clothing.
  A perimeter was set up briefly while police investigated the object, Sgt. Daron Wyatt, Anaheim  Police Department spokesman, said. At around 2 p.m. park goers shared photos on social media showing Disneyland Resort employees restricting access to some areas near the ESPN Zone. Downtown Disney is a retail area outside of the theme parks.
  No evacuations were orde
  
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• Fountain Valley gears up for summer

  13-06-2017 23:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The ever-popular movie Lilo & Stitch will be shown Aug. 11 at Cordata Park in Fountain Valley. (AP Photo/Walt Disney Pictures)Greg Finsley and the rest of Queen Nation – a Queen tribute band – will perform July 20 at the Rec Center and Sports Park in Fountain Valley. (FILE PHOTO: ED CRISOSTOMO, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER/SCNG)The delightful animated musical fantasy from Walt Disney Pictures, The Little Mermaid, will be shown on Aug. 1 at the Rec Center and Sports Park in Fountain
  
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• Art Affair at Laguna Woods Village draws hundreds to view local art

  13-06-2017 23:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Artist Ronald Rampley sits by his art during the annual Art Affair art show at Laguna Woods Village in Laguna Woods on Wednesday, June 7, 2017. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)Art enthusiasts examine artwork during the annual Art Affair art show at Laguna Woods Village in Laguna Woods on Wednesday, June 7, 2017. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)Jeweler Steve Kinney, left, helps Patrice Schieppati of Laguna Woods pick out a pair of earrings during the annu
  
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• Trinity Broadcasting Network on hook for entire $2 million judgment awarded to Jan Crouch’s granddaughter, judge says

  13-06-2017 22:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Trinity Broadcasting Network, which preaches the “prosperity gospel,” is on the hook for the entire $2 million in damages that a jury awarded to the aggrieved granddaughter of Trinity’s founders, a judge decided.
  After a trial that lasted nearly one month, a jury concluded on June 5 that late televangelist Jan Crouch behaved outrageously when she blamed and berated her then-13-year-old granddaughter for a suspected sexual assault by a Trinity employee. The granddaughter, Carra
  
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• Laguna Woods Village’s United Mutual terminates land-use policy

  13-06-2017 22:43 via ocregister.com
  
  After months of debate and a town hall, the United Mutual board approved a resolution to terminate the land-use policy, which would have allowed the exclusive use of common area for manor alterations.
  The resolution to terminate the policy was passed 5-2-2, at United’s meeting on Tuesday, June 13. Director Cash Achrekar spoke in favor of passing the resolution.
  “Common area is common area, it means for everybody else to use,” Achrekar said.
  Resident Dick Rader also spoke in fav
  
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• Irvine-based Conexant acquired by Synaptics for more than $300 million

  13-06-2017 22:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine-based chipmaker Conexant Systems has been acquired by Synaptics Inc. for $300 million in cash and 726,666 shares of Synaptics stock.
  Synaptics, a maker of touchpads, fingerprint sensors and more, is based in San Jose.
  The pairing will help the combined company be “positioned to invest in new opportunities that greatly enhance the human-machine-interface experience,” according to a statement by Conexant.
  “We have spent the past few years sharpening Conexant&rsqu
  
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• Facts behind Lake Forest’s homebuying dip

  13-06-2017 22:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Homebuying in Lake Forest and Foothill Ranch ZIP codes in 2017’s first three months could not keep pace with countywide sales gains.
  How did the local residential real estate market start the year? Using CoreLogic data, we compared homebuying patterns from January to March from this year and 2016.
  Sales in the area fell as 187 residences sold in the past 12 months vs. 200 a year ago.
  That’s a loss of 6.5 percent vs. a 3.5 percent increase countywide.
  Neighborhood trends in Foothill R
  
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• The Weeknd will bring the second leg of his 'Starboy' tour to Honda Center

  13-06-2017 22:26
  R&B star the Weeknd will bring the second leg of his tour to Honda Center in Anaheim in October. R&B singer-songwriter the Weeknd, who sold out his shows at the Forum in Inglewood back in April , has announced the second leg of his latest outing dubbed Starboy: Legend of the Fall 2017 World Tour.
  
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• Orange to upgrade 2,500 street lights to LEDs

  13-06-2017 22:18 via ocregister.com
  
  The city is upgrading 2,500 Orange street lights to energy efficient LED fixtures that will save energy, last longer and better illuminate local neighborhoods.
  City Engineer Frank Sun said the light-emitting diode fixtures are a big upgrade over the city’s current sodium-vapor lamps. The new lights shine considerably brighter while using less energy, and last up to 20 years versus the three to four years of the old-fashioned lamps, he said.
  Replacing the 2,500 lamps, a majority o
  
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• Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies: Calls suggestion of collusion with Russia an ‘appalling and detestable lie’

  13-06-2017 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By Sari Horwitz and Matt Zapotosky
  WASHINGTON – Attorney General Jeff Sessions opened his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Community Tuesday with a fiery assertion that he never had any conversations with Russians about “any type of interference” in the 2016 presidential election.
  “The suggestion that I participated in any collusion … is an appalling and detestable lie,” Sessions said.
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions smiles after being sworn-in on Capitol
  
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• Well-acted ‘Crimes of the Heart’ offers vintage Beth Henley

  13-06-2017 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  “Crimes of the Heart” offers vintage Beth Henley, exploring themes she would later consistently revisit.
  A Chekhovian portrait of three small-town Mississippi sisters circa 1974, Henley’s first professionally produced play, is popular with theaters for its choice female roles. “Crimes” isn’t so much a character study as a lovingly adorned family album, its script spanning an emotional spectrum anchored by familial tensions at one end, private in-jokes at the o
  
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• My View: Senior Expo is always a healthy choice

  13-06-2017 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  I am looking forward to the 12th annual Senior Expo on Tuesday, June 27. This is always a popular event, especially if you have neck or back pain, high blood pressure or you’re constipated.
  This is always a popular event, especially if you have neck or back pain or high blood pressure.
  There are many booths at the expo where you can get all sorts of helpful information about how to make your senior years the best they can be.
  I know because I’m an official senior citizen. I’d b
  
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• The Ranch Made-Simple Asparagus Salad

  13-06-2017 21:34 via ocregister.com
  
   
  The Ranch Made-Simple Asparagus Salad combines potatoes and green veggies for a filling yet light dish. (Cathy Thomas)The Ranch Made-Simple Asparagus Salad includes potatoes. (Cathy Thomas)The Ranch Made-Simple Asparagus Salad includes potatoes. (Cathy Thomas)Michael Rossi, award-winning executive chef at The Ranch, Anaheim, offers cooking classes two or three times a year. They are splendid events, replete with a multi-course lunch served after the class in the sixth-floor dining room.At
  
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• Adrian Gonzalez goes back to DL as Dodgers activate Joc Pederson

  13-06-2017 21:34 via ocregister.com
  
  CLEVELAND — Adrian Gonzalez went nearly 14 years before going on the disabled list for the first time in his major-league career. He took less than four weeks to go back.
  The Dodgers placed their veteran first baseman on the DL on Tuesday with lower back discomfort. Gonzalez has been dealing with a herniated disc for some years and the issue flared up again Sunday. He was removed from the game against the Cincinnati Reds and underwent an MRI on Monday.
  In early May, Gonzalez went on the DL
  
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• Laguna Niguel mayor highlights Crown Valley Park in State of the City address

  13-06-2017 21:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Mayor Jerry Slusiewicz highlighted current and future improvements at Crown Valley Park during his State of the City address delivered Friday, June 9 at El Niguel Country Club.
  At the luncheon, Slusiewicz spoke to a crowded room and offered an assessment of the city’s current priorities.
  “As always, public safety is job number one,” he said. “Being fiscally conservative is very, very important. We have $81 million in reserves. That’s really important to us that we h
  
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• Democrats push new rules to help them win Newman recall election

  13-06-2017 21:20 via ocregister.com
  
  BY JIM MILLER AND TARYN LUNA
  Democrats are pushing late-blooming bills to significantly improve state Sen. Josh Newman’s odds of surviving an effort by the state GOP and others to recall him from office.
  The proposed changes, which became public Monday morning, would add months to the existing timeline of certifying a recall election for the ballot. The measure would virtually assure that any recall election would be held at the regularly scheduled June 5, 2018 legislative primary election
  
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• UCI Professor Annie Lai honored for her work on immigrant rights

  13-06-2017 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  A UCI law professor who helps run the school’s Immigrant Rights Clinic was honored by the National Lawyers Guild of Los Angeles.
  Annie Lai, the clinic’s co-director, was recognized for her work in civil and immigrant rights at the guild’s annual awards banquet Sunday, June 11.
  “I’m grateful to the Guild for the honor,” Lai said Tuesday, June 13. “And I’m also grateful to the many unsung heroes here in Orange County with whom I’ve had the oppo
  
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• Riders on San Juan Capistrano’s new trolley take advantage of connections to Dana Point, Laguna Beach

  13-06-2017 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  What’s the best thing about San Juan Capistrano’s new summer trolley? Maybe it’s that T-R-O-L-L-E-Y spells freedom, whether you’re a local teenager too young to drive or you’re a visitor from Rancho Cucamonga weekending at Doheny State Beach in a motorhome.
  “It’s a quick way to get places for free,” said Elle Peloso, a 15-year-old San Juan resident who rode the trolley from downtown to the Marriott Residence Inn on Saturday, June 10, so she and her
  
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• After nine years, Saddleback College president moving on

  13-06-2017 20:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Tod Burnett will be stepping away from his position as President at Saddleback College to become executive vice chancellor at Brandman University in Irvine, starting Sept. 1. (Ed Crisostomo, File Photo)MISSION VIEJO After nine years of climate-shifting change as president of Saddleback College, Tod A. Burnett is off to his next administrative stop in the world of higher education.
  Burnett, 54, will assume the role of executive vice chancellor at Brandman University in Irvine, starting Sept. 1. H
  
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• Vintage Fullerton ads painted by county artist, local students to go near train station

  13-06-2017 20:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Fullerton millennials are recreating the 1950s brushstroke by brushstroke.
  Under the tutelage of Orange County artist Mike Tauber, local junior high and high school students have spent the past few months painting vintage advertisements on billboards to be hung at the train station.
  The five original pieces, designed by Tauber, incorporate Fullerton cornerstones, such as Tom Thumb Mini Golf and the old Studebaker Auto Dealership, into American pop art-styled billboards.
  Artist Mike Tauber helps
  
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• Federal agents searching Sovereign Health in San Clemente

  13-06-2017 20:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Dozens of federal, state and local police are searching the offices of Sovereign Health, a San Clemente-based company that owns a chain of drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in several states.
  FBI officials said they are executing a search warrant that is under seal, and that no arrests are expected today related to that warrant. Officials did not offer any further details.
  The recovery industry has come under fire of late for widespread insurance fraud, patient dumping and poor quality of
  
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• Local chorus to perform at Nixon Library

  13-06-2017 20:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The men and women of the Placentia Community Chorus will perform for the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum’s weekly Sunday concert series on June 18.
  The free concerts at the Nixon Library, held each Sunday, have been going on since the early 1990s.
  Doors open at 1:30 p.m. and the music begins at 2 p.m.
  The volunteer chorus rehearses weekly and welcomes new members from all voices. The chorus performs a selection of popular, traditional and season songs. Learn more about the group at
  
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• Pimco promotes longtime employees to co-chief operating officers

  13-06-2017 19:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Pimco has promoted two longtime executives to the role of co-chief operating officers.
  Emmanuel “Manny” Roman in May said he was looking to expand his staff at Pimco. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)In a statement, Pimco said Robin Shanahan and Peter Strelow will report to Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel Roman, who took the reins of the Newport Beach-based bond giant in 2016.
  Shanahan has been with the company for 10 years and is the firm’s global head of Human Resources. Strelow has
  
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• Bike event encourages residents to explore trails

  13-06-2017 19:51 via ocregister.com
  
  There are ways to make the streets north of Yorba Regional Park safe for bike-riding families.
  A community event on Saturday, June 10, tried to lead the way – showing how roads can be modified to create protected bike ways.
  The temporary street features, such as a two-way parking-protected bike lane, were set up around the staging area at Fairmont Boulevard and East La Palma Avenue for residents to try, along with bicycles folks could borrow and a children’s bike rodeo. The event&nbs
  
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• Revenue from La Palma’s new sales tax to be invested in community, technology

  13-06-2017 19:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The projected $1.3 million in revenue expected in the next 12 months from La Palma’s new 1 cent sales tax will be used to help fund community maintenance projects and city investments in technology.
  After facing a nearly $780,000 deficit last fiscal year, the City Council last week approved a balanced 2017-18 budget and officials expect to see a $765,000 surplus by 2018-19.
  “It’s a good feeling to finally be in a situation where we’re not in a cut-budget situation,&r
  
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• USC Baseball Commit Drafted In Third Round

  13-06-2017 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  USC commit Nick Allen, a shortstop from San Diego, was drafted in the third round by the Oakland A’s on Tuesday morning. Allen is the third USC recruit drafted in the first three rounds.
  First baseman Nick Pratto of Huntington Beach was selected 14th overall by the Kansas City Royals. Pitcher Hans Crouse of Dana Point was the 66th pick by the Texas Rangers.
  Alllen, a 5-foot-9 shortstop out of Francis Parker High, was chosen No. 81 overall and projected by many publications as a first-round
  
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• Grand jury: No systemic cheating from Orange County D.A., Sheriff in using jailhouse informants

  13-06-2017 19:39 via ocregister.com
  
  A Grand Jury report released today says the Orange County District Attorney and the Orange County Sheriff’s Dept. are not the prime drivers of the county’s ongoing jailhouse informant scandal, acknowledging the existence of isolated problems but saying suggestions of systemic cheating by police and prosecutors are unfounded.
  The 25-page report, “The Myth of the Orange County Jailhouse Informant Program,” includes a summary that exonerates local prosecutors and sheriffs de
  
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• Man arrested in Yorba Linda after 7-hour standoff with deputies

  13-06-2017 18:34 via ocregister.com
  
  YORBA LINDA A man suspected of assaulting his mother was arrested Tuesday following a seven-hour standoff with Orange County Sheriff’s deputies, according to authorities.
  Ryan Paul Custer, 36, was booked into the Orange County Jail on suspicion of making terrorist threats, resisting arrest and elder abuse, said Sheriff’s Department Lt. Wayne Rehnelt.
  The incident began around 11:25 p.m. Monday when emergency dispatchers received a phone call from someone at an area hospital reporting
  
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• Trolley Hop has record turnout to kick off Dana Point’s free summer trolley service

  13-06-2017 18:14 via ocregister.com
  
  DANA POINT At least 350 people joined the city’s third annual Trolley Hop, an event that marked the first day of the free summer trolley’s run this year.
  Riders who purchased and presented a $10 Libre Tequila specialty mug  were able to get off at each stop and enjoy discounts on food and drinks at 17 participating restaurants.
  “Luxe was hopping,” said Cindy Monroe, who operates Luxe Restaurant & Martini Bar in the Lantern District. “Luxe went through 20 bo
  
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• Documentary Screening of 'Set Free Posse: Jesus Freaks, Biker Gang, or Christian Cult?'

  13-06-2017 17:49
  Contact: David Trotter, 949-335-2925 ANAHEIM, Calif., June 13, 2017 / Christian Newswire / -- Pastor Phil Aguilar and Director David Trotter are hosting a pre-release screening of Set Free Posse: Jesus Freaks, Biker Gang, or Christian Cult? at 6:00PM on Tuesday, July 11, 2017, at Starlight Cinema City Theatres at 5635 East LaPalma Avenue in Anaheim, California. Tickets are $10 per person and must be purchased in advance due to limited seating.
  
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• Tool talks new music and its daylong band-curated event at Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino

  13-06-2017 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Tool has proven to be a band that doesn’t cave to convention.
  Since forming in Los Angeles in 1990, the Grammy award-winning heavy rock band known for hits such as “Sober,” “Schism” and “Stinkfist,” has enjoyed global success, critical acclaim and garnered hordes of die-hard fans even though it has experienced extended periods of inactivity and has only released four full-length albums.
  Amid circulating rumors back in March that vocalist Maynard James Ke
  
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• Summer 2017: Your guide to hundreds of Southern California concerts

  13-06-2017 15:24 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’re looking to get out, have some fun in the sun and to lose your voice singing along to live music this summer, there is certainly no shortage of big tours and ginormous multi-day festivals rolling through Southern California.
  In one of the busiest concert seasons yet, there are offerings in a wide variety of genres that include the recent concert tours of top-selling artists to one-of-a-kind festivals boasting legendary acts within rather robust daily rosters.
  Most summers, the Ros
  
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• Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom: I’m off to Sonoma. Will my house be standing when I get back?

  13-06-2017 15:13 via ocregister.com
  
  At Johnson’s Beach, Russian River, CaliforniaBy the time you read this, I’ll be lying on the beach with a book at the Russian River, up in Sonoma County. And I’m doing it with grave misgivings.
  Yes, there will be lots of wine consumed, and a nice cabin to sleep in, and friends to enjoy. But this is the first time I’ve left my kids back home alone without an adult present while I go on vacation, and I’m not entirely sure the house will survive.
  Technically, my kids a
  
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• Driver’s Seat: Mercedes E-class convertible takes off

  13-06-2017 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Every year about this time, I scour the automotive landscape for the latest and greatest in convertible motoring pleasure. This year, I didn’t have to work as hard. It’s not that I’m not bringing you some fine open-air conveyances; I just didn’t have to look around as much. That’s because when it comes to convertibles, Mercedes-Benz has you (un)covered.Twenty-one: That’s the seemingly absurd number of drop-top models in the Mercedes lineup. The options are alm
  
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• North Korea releases U.S. college student; former NBA player Dennis Rodman arrives

  13-06-2017 13:08 via ocregister.com
  
  The latest:
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says that North Korea has released Otto Warmbier, an American serving a 15-year prison term with hard labor for alleged anti-state acts.
  Tillerson says that Warmbier is on his way back to the U.S. to be re-united with his family. He says in a statement that the State Department secured Warmbier’s release at the direction of President Donald Trump. Tillerson says the State Department continues discussing three other detain
  
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• Former NBA player Dennis Rodman arrives in North Korea

  13-06-2017 13:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TALMADGE
  PYONGYANG, North Korea — Dennis Rodman, the former NBA bad boy who has palled around with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, flew back to Pyongyang on Tuesday for the first time in Donald Trump’s presidency. He said he is “just trying to open a door” on a mission that he thinks his former “Celebrity Apprentice” boss would support.
  Rodman, one of the few people to know both of the nuclear-armed leaders, sported a black T-shirt advertising a marij
  
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• OCVarsity Photos: Something special about Register’s Athletes of the Year for 2016-17

  13-06-2017 10:33 via ocregister.com
  
  They each accomplished great things in their own ways, and they were selected by the Register as the top athletes of the year for 2016-17.
  Now check out the OC Varsity slide show of the photos of the four athletes – Aria Fischer, Hagen Danner, Cierra Hall and Brett Super – featured in the Register’s Athletes of the Year special section, which was published June 9.
  Sage Hill’s Brett Super is the small schools All County Boys Athlete of the Year. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orang
  
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• Charter legislation a distraction, not a solution

  13-06-2017 09:06 via ocregister.com
  
  For the past several years, California lawmakers have sought to prohibit for-profit companies from operating or managing charter schools. The latest effort comes in the form of Assembly Bill 406, introduced by Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, which was approved by the Assembly on May 31 on a 50-24 vote.
  “The privatization of public education must end,” McCarty said afterwards. “Passage of AB406 puts student success ahead of corporate profits and affirms California&rsquo
  
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• Is NFL sending right message if it shuts out Colin Kaepernick?

  13-06-2017 09:05 via ocregister.com
  
  A month before National Football League teams begin preseason training, one of the league’s best-known players has yet to find a team willing to employ him.
  That may be because this player, Colin Kaepernick, is known lately as much for his political positions as for his performance on the field.
  Are NFL teams sending the right message if they keep Colin Kaepernick sidelined?
  That’s our Question of the Week for readers.
  Kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers the past si
  
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• Legislature needs to fix list of ‘violent’ crimes

  13-06-2017 09:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Words matter, we often hear in these days of a president notorious for loose verbiage.
  They also matter in the California Penal Code, where the label “violent” is not applied to many crimes most people with common sense would unquestionably define as violent. Some examples: assault with a deadly weapon, soliciting murder, elder and child abuse, arson, human trafficking, plus some forms of rape and forced sodomy.
  That word “violent,” or in this case “non-violent,&rdq
  
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• Letters: Our endless drug war

  13-06-2017 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  The “war on drugs” is sort of like a plague that just keeps on “giving.” Despite its somewhat benign appearance, it basically serves to keep our prisons, our police departments and our courthouses plush and humming with money. In earlier times it appeared as a “war” on alcohol, which supposedly was terminated in 1933. It then returned in full force, which an insecure President Nixon used to try to escape the harsh glare of Watergate. And now, in spite of thing
  
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• Commentary: It wasn’t as easy as Warriors made it look

  13-06-2017 09:00 via ocregister.com
  
  OAKLAND — They played like they knew this was coming, some way, some how, like it was inevitable, like it was everything they planned and dreamed back in July.
  The Warriors played like they had a vision of this long ago, and it was this, exactly this:
  An incredible crack of thunder to take the lead in a championship-winning moment, then just holding on tight, tough and together, and finishing off one of the greatest seasons in NBA history.
  Which was predicted, which was expected, which was
  
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• PlayStation Experience dates, location announced for 2017

  13-06-2017 08:50
  Sony's PlayStation Experience, Sony's massive fan convention is coming back to the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. The event is scheduled for December 9 and 10. PSX kicked off in 2014 in Las Vegas, and since then has become a big date on the Sony calendar.
  
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• Commentary: Steph Curry, the Warriors’ cornerstone, finds the redemption he sought

  13-06-2017 08:50 via ocregister.com
  
  OAKLAND — Steph Curry, with his youngest daughter Ryan in his arms, ran onto the championship podium. Screaming screaming into the sea of yellow, bouncing with with joy.
  This is what validation looks like.
  “It’s kinda hard to argue what I’ve done and what’s going on here,” Curry said, flashing a smile, acknowledging a rare moment of touting his own horn. “I will say that.”
  For nearly a calendar year, he has had to swallow the slights, the questions
  
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• A need for speed: CSUF student is a pro race car driver

  13-06-2017 08:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Kenton Koch, a business student at Cal State Fullerton, is a Mazda Motorsports pro driver who is now traveling the country and overseas racing and training other racers. Koch was pictured on Monday June 6, 2017, with a go cart like the one that got him hooked on racing in his youth. (Photo by Ana Venegas, Orange County Register/SCNG)Pro race-car driver Kenton Koch blazes down the track at speeds up to 180 mph, but he said it doesn’t feel like he’s moving fast at all.
  Sitting in a Lig
  
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• Teaming with Cal State Fullerton, cafe workers leaving foster care cultivate vegetables and a résumé

  13-06-2017 08:20 via ocregister.com
  
  During the first three months of this year, the I-CAN program harvested 136 pounds of onions from its plot at the Fullerton Arboretum. These were made into soup and other dishes at Monkey Business Cafe in Fullerton. (Photo courtesy of Cal State Fullerton)Lots of restaurants call themselves farm-to-table. At Monkey Business Cafe in Fullerton, the produce isn’t just locally sourced. It’s grown by some of the same people who work in the restaurant.
  The employee cooking the French onion
  
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• Cal State Fullerton students help foster kids grow produce and skills

  13-06-2017 08:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Cal State Fullerton student Miguel Aguayo weighs the harvest as part of the I-CAN project to grow produce for an off-campus cafe. (Photo courtesy of Cal State Fullerton)The flitting of bees and butterflies from flower to flower isn’t the only cross-pollination going on at the Fullerton Arboretum.
  Cal State Fullerton students work at the campus arboretum alongside teens and young adults emancipating out of the foster care system to grow produce that is then incorporated into meals serv
  
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• Cal State Fullerton student singers perform on European tour

  13-06-2017 08:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Robert Istad, center, leads the University Singers, who this school year recorded with composer John Williams two pieces created for Steven Spielberg movies. (Photo courtesy of Cal State Fullerton)Cal State Fullerton’s University Singers are raising their voices in Northern Europe this week in concerts that include more staging than is typical.
  “Normally a choir just stands and sings,” said Jim Taulli, professor of theater and dance, who staged the performances. “Staging
  
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• Rookie Aaron Judge lays down the law in Angels’ loss to Yankees

  13-06-2017 07:57 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Chants of “M-V-P, M-V-P,” rang out Monday at Angel Stadium.
  For once, they weren’t for Angels center fielder Mike Trout.
  No, strange as it sounded, this time they were for New York Yankees rookie sensation Aaron Judge, whose two-run homer in the eighth inning sent the Angels to a 5-3 loss in front of 36,245 and added another line to his already remarkable resume to start the season.
  Angels closer Bud Norris gave up a one-out double to Aaron Hicks, bringing up Ju
  
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