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• Orange County hip-hop rapper Michael Ramirez swept away in Kern River

  25-06-2017 23:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County hip-hop rapper Michael Ramirez’s friends treated him to a weekend at the Kern River for his 27th birthday.
  But the celebration soon turned to tragedy when Ramirez disappeared into the notoriously dangerous river on Thursday, June 22, his friends said on Sunday.
  Ramirez, of Buena Park, his girlfriend Erica Zambada and another couple worked up a sweat pitching tents at the Keyesville campground in Lake Isabella. At around 5 p.m., Ramirez decided to take a dip.
  “It wa
  
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• Artist of the Week: Samantha Spence

  25-06-2017 23:11 via ocregister.com
  
  After her sophomore year, dancer Samantha Spence of Kansas City, Mo., decided she needed a challenge. She had discovered the Westside Dance Project in Laguna Hills and was determined to find a way to study with the group. She did all her own research, including reaching out to the the director of admissions at JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano so she would have a plan for schooling while in California. Meanwhile, her mother had no clue that Spence was taking her dreams into
  
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• 20,000 Muslims gather at Eid prayer celebration in Anaheim

  25-06-2017 22:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Suheb Mussa, 1, and his mom Meriem attend Eid al-Fitr, a a prayer celebration that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Sunday, June 25, 2017. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)About 20,000 worshippers come together at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Sunday, June 25, 2017 to celebrate Eid-Ul-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The event was peaceful with no protesters as in the previous year.(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Regist
  
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• Box office: ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ debuts to a franchise low

  25-06-2017 22:41 via ocregister.com
  
  The hulking machines of “Transformers” are no longer box-office behemoths in North America. But they’re still big in China.
  Michael Bay’s “Transformers: The Last Knight,” the fifth installment in the Hasbro series, scored a franchise-low domestic debut with an estimated $43.5 million in ticket sales over the weekend and a five-day total of $69.1 million since opening Wednesday. All previous “Transformers” sequels opened with $97 million-plus.
  But P
  
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• Parker Bridwell outduels Doug Fister as Angels beat Red Sox

  25-06-2017 22:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Angels’ Parker Bridwell delivers a pitch against the Boston Red Sox in the first inning of a baseball game, Sunday, June 25, 2017, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) ORG XMIT: MASR101Boston Red Sox’s Doug Fister delivers a pitch in the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Sunday, June 25, 2017, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) ORG XMIT: MASR102Boston Red Sox’s Andrew Benintendi, below, is out while attempting to advance to second base on
  
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• Franklin Gutierrez lands on 10-day disabled list, Mike Freeman arrives from Triple-A

  25-06-2017 22:26 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers recalled utility player Mike Freeman from Triple-A Oklahoma City on Sunday and placed outfielder Franklin Gutierrez on the 10-day disabled list with symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis.
  Gutierrez has been dealing with the autoimmune disease, which affects his gastrointestinal tract, throughout the season. Freeman even flew in from Oklahoma City earlier this month as a precaution, then flew back the next day when Gutierrez’s symptoms diminished.
  Sunday, with C
  
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• Car smashes into Orange County Fire Authority gates – a recurring problem

  25-06-2017 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  A Tesla Model X crashed in the gates outside the Orange County Fire Authority headquarters at the end of Tustin Ranch Road in Irvine Saturday, June 24, night –  a bafflingly frequent event .
  The car hit the metal gates at 10:27 p.m. and burst into flames. One of the car’s two occupants was transported to a hospital with a minor hand injury, said Irvine Police Department spokeswoman Kim Mohr.
  Crews extinguished the blaze within 15 minutes, Mohr said. No arrests have been ma
  
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• Brad Paisley rocks and Dustin Lynch shines during Weekend Warrior Tour stop in Anaheim

  25-06-2017 20:35 via ocregister.com
  
  If getting the audience to forget the grind of a jam-packed workweek was the goal of Brad Paisley’s Weekend Warrior Tour, it certainly succeeded Saturday night at Honda Center in Anaheim. Rowdy fans partied hard and danced along in the sold-out arena, many with a large cup full of beer in each hand.
  Brad Paisley performs during his Weekend Warrior World Tour at Honda Center on Saturday. KELLY A. SWIFT, CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERBrad Paisley performs during his Weekend Warrior World Tou
  
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• Angels Notes: Tyler Skaggs’ setback is ‘disturbing,’ says Mike Scioscia

  25-06-2017 19:41 via ocregister.com
  
  BOSTON — When Mike Scioscia was asked about the setback Tyler Skaggs suffered in his rehab from a strained oblique, the Angels manager’s answers were short, and ominous.
  “It’s disturbing,” Scioscia said.
  Pressed further, he added: “Frustrating.”
  Skaggs has been out eight weeks, still short of the 10- to 12-week window originally expected for his rehab. He was scheduled pitch his first rehab game on Saturday in the Arizona League, but he had to be scratch
  
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• Karate laurels, local cross fit athlete to compete on world stage … Bravo!

  25-06-2017 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Fighting all odds: Brett Cutshall and Kathy Jahr have earned the rank of Brown Belt from the American Martial Arts Academy in Placentia.
  Students there for four-plus years, Cutshall, 44, has Down syndrome and Jahr, 38, is autistic.
  “I was almost in tears” at the promotion ceremony, said Nikhil Joshi, academy director and sensei. “When we opened up the school, our philosophy was to give every student the opportunity to succeed.”
  Aside from his “helping nature,”
  
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• 5 reasons why Amazon-Whole Foods won’t win grocery war

  25-06-2017 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Goodbye, Kroger? Safeway? Albertsons? Costco? Even Walmart and Target?
  Considering the reaction to Amazon’s announcement of its plans to buy high-end grocer Whole Foods, you might think the online shopping giant instantly won the highly competitive supermarket wars.
  Yes, Amazon has helped change how we all shop. Yes, its technological genius at online shopping – and perhaps more importantly, its logistics and shipping — has sent shudders through every executive suite in almost
  
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• This week’s best deals on baseball, patio, 4th of July, Metrolink and more

  25-06-2017 16:27 via ocregister.com
  
  REI is offering discounts on his hiking and camping gear and other products as part of its online garage sale. (File photo by Ed Andrieski, Associated Press)Hi, it’s me, Marla Jo, your columnist and deals maven. . If you know a great deal, let me know at [email protected]. You can also find me at Deals Diva on Facebook and Twitter. And don’t forget to read my humor columns on Wednesdays in the Register.
  WAREHOUSE SALE
  Vestal Watch is holding a three-day “Endless Summer” sa
  
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• Overturned oil tanker explodes in Pakistan, killing 153

  25-06-2017 15:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By IRAM ASIM
  BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan — An overturned oil tanker burst into flames in Pakistan on Sunday, killing 153 people who had rushed to the scene of the highway accident to gather leaking fuel, a hospital official said as the death toll continued to rise.
  Dr. Javed Iqbal at Bahawalpur’s Victoria Hospital in south Punjab said the latest deaths occurred at a hospital in Multan where some of the 50 critically injured, many of whom suffered extensive burns, had been taken.
  The death t
  
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• Real briefs: CBRE closes $33M luxe compound in Laguna Beach

  25-06-2017 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  CBRE Group has brokered the sale of a five-property retail portfolio in Laguna Beach to 4G Ventures for $32.9 million. The property includes the Seven-Degrees event center at 891 Laguna Canyon. (Courtesy of CBRE)CBRE Group has brokered the sale of a five-property retail portfolio in Laguna Beach to 4G Ventures for $32.9 million. The property includes a mixed-use housing property at 775-793 Laguna Canyon. (Courtesy of CBRE)CBRE brokered the $32.83 million acquisition of Alton Deere Plaza, a multi
  
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• Is Orange County housing in a new bubble? Here are 2 divergent views

  25-06-2017 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County’s recent history of ever-rising home prices, now amid a modest cooling of the local economy, brings out fears the local real estate market is getting overheated once again.
  You know, “bubble” talk.
  In some ways, an asset bubble is in the eye of the beholder. There is no formal definition of when any market reaches the bubble stage – but it’s typically when an asset’s value outstrips the underlying economic fundamentals behind ownership.
  For local
  
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• 5 free things to do this week in Orange County

  25-06-2017 15:18 via ocregister.com
  
  The 75-piece Huntington Beach Concert Band will perform “Patriotic Pastice” at 5 p.m Sunday.(File photo by Joshua Sudock, Orange County Register/SCNG)Why sit home because you don’t want to spend any money? Here are five things you can do this week that cost nothing at all.
  SUNDAY, JUNE 25
  The 75-piece Huntington Beach Concert Band will perform “Patriotic Pastice” at 5 p.m. in the amphitheater behind Huntington Beach Central Library. Bring a picnic, be
  
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• How high can Southern California home prices go? A lot, experts say

  25-06-2017 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  All hair stylist Erin Bond wants is a decent two-bedroom condo in Orange County, preferably in Huntington Beach.
  But all she can afford is $400,000 to $420,000.
  In a county where the median price of a condo in May was almost $500,000, she’s not sure there’s anything in her price range she can live with.
  “It’s pretty disappointing,” said Bond, 35. “You can’t even buy anything that low. I mean, there are things out there, but they’re not nice.&r
  
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• Crowd catches teen falling from park ride; no serious injury

  25-06-2017 14:48 via ocregister.com
  
  QUEENSBURY, N.Y. — A teenager fell about 25 feetfrom a stopped gondola ride at an upstate New York amusement park Saturday night, tumbling into a crowd of park guests and employees gathered below to catch her before she hit the ground.
  The unidentified 14-year-old girl from Greenwood, Del., was taken to Albany Medical Center in stable condition with no serious injuries, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office said.
  The accident happened on the “Sky Ride” at Six Flags Amusement
  
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• Why drive? Take this free trolley around Newport Beach’s Balboa Peninsula

  25-06-2017 14:36 via ocregister.com
  
  This new free trolley transports passengers around the Balboa Peninsula on summer weekends and 4th of JulyLike the quaint character of Balboa in Newport Beach? But parking’s a drag, right? Especially on weekends and holidays.
  Well, check out the new, free Balboa Peninsula Trolley, that runs Saturdays and Sundays until Sept. 3, and also on July 4, from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. I don’t know if it’s a jolly trolley, but it will get you around, because the route includes 18 designate
  
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• Teens with cancer attend 16th annual hospital prom at CHOC

  25-06-2017 13:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Children’s Hospital of Orange County celebrated its 16th annual oncology prom with an “Alice in Wonderland” theme for about 250 cancer patients and guests on Saturday night, June 24.
  The event provides a night of normalcy for teens who may have had to skip their high school proms because they were in the hospital or have weakened immune systems.
  Liliana Paez Gallardo danced with friends and CHOC staff during the hospital’s annual oncology prom. Former and current Children
  
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• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers deliver the hits to a packed crowd at Arroyo Seco Weekend

  25-06-2017 10:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have 40 years on the books now — that’s the point of the band’s current tour — so it almost seems unfair to only get 19 songs in a headlining set on the first day of the inaugural Arroyo Seco Weekend in Pasadena on Saturday, June 24.
  But that ended up making for two hours of music, and in the end the fans who packed the festival grounds in front of the Oaks Stage — and we really mean packed; more on that in a bit — probably hear
  
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• See photos of Primus, Clutch and Fantomas opening for Tool at Glen Helen Amphitheater

  25-06-2017 09:19 via ocregister.com
  
  See photos of the bands performing in San Bernardino County
  
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• How to take advantage of the retail apocalypse

  25-06-2017 09:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Amazon’s stunning acquisition last week of Whole Foods signaled an inflection point in the development of retail, notably the $800 billion supermarket sector. The massive shift of retail to the web is beginning to claw into the last remaining bastions of physical space. In the last year alone, 50,000 positions were lost in the retail sector, and as many as 6 million jobs could be vulnerable nationwide in the long term. Store closings are running at a rate higher than during the Great Reces
  
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• Should we hate cops, or hug them?

  25-06-2017 09:08 via ocregister.com
  
  The long-delayed release of the Philando Castile video, along with a Minnesota jury’s inexplicable decision to acquit the policeman who killed him, raises basic questions of self-governance in this country. I’ll mention three. First: Is competent, humane policing really that difficult? Second, does our criminal justice system even function in such cases?
  Thanks to the obtuseness of Minneapolis’ gay rights leaders and their enablers in the media, a third question arises: Why do
  
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• SoCal Republicans have Georgia on their mind

  25-06-2017 09:07 via ocregister.com
  
  For the last several months, all eyes have been on Georgia’s 6th Congressional District — a legislative seat that opened up when former Rep Tom Price vacated the post to become the secretary of Health and Human Services. Democrats, who raised and spent tens of millions of dollars on the race, touted political newcomer John Ossoff as the party’s best hope to capture a Republican district, in what they billed as a referendum on President Donald Trump.
  But, to borrow a phrase from
  
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• Public employee $100k club grows

  25-06-2017 09:07 via ocregister.com
  
  It pays to live off the taxpayers, especially if you work for the Orange County Fire Authority. Last year, an OCFA fire captain raked in $245,350 in overtime, bringing their total compensation to over $508,000. While they were OCFA’s largest earner, according to Transparent California, the average fire captain is doing just fine, receiving $301,791 in pay and benefits.
  Transparent California, a nonprofit which regularly publishes public employee compensation data, documents that 44 OCFA em
  
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• Gutting the state’s tax board is bad news for taxpayers

  25-06-2017 09:07 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO — When I first learned about the existence of something called the California Board of Equalization, it sounded like something that might have existed in the novel, “Animal Farm.” All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. Few things sound more totalitarian than a government agency in charge of equalizing things.
  But California’s BOE, founded in 1879, simply is a banal tax board that oversees collection of the state’s sales and excise tax
  
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• Letters: Pass tax reform

  25-06-2017 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Our nation’s tax code is a dumpster fire. Not only is it outdated and outrageously long, our own rules place the American economy, workers and businesses at a massive competitive disadvantage. The current tax code is so damaging that it actually encourages U.S. businesses to move money and jobs abroad rather than investing domestically, stifling the American economy. Thirty years, 75,000 pages and 2.4 million words after the last overhaul of the tax code, Washington policy-makers cannot wa
  
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• Once a novelty, now in the Olympics: Could 3-on-3 basketball catch on in America?

  25-06-2017 08:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Dan Mavraides drives past a Serbian player during the U.S. team’s quarterfinal loss in the 2017 3×3 World Cup in France on June 21. (Photo courtesy FIBA)Serbia’s Marko Savic goes to the basket during the U.S. team’s quarterfinal loss in the 2017 3×3 World Cup in France on June 21. (Photo courtesy FIBA)The U.S. team faces Serbia in the quarterfinals of the 2017 3×3 World Cup in France. (Photo courtesy FIBA)Former NBA player and players union deputy Roger Mason,
  
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• Dodgers top Colorado Rockies, 4-0, for ninth straight win

  25-06-2017 07:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn throws out the ceremonial pitch prior to a Major League baseball game between the Colorado Rockies and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, June 24, 2017 in Los Angeles. Los Angeles. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw after loading the bases against the Colorado Rockies in the first inning of a Major League baseball game at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, June 24, 2017 in Los Angeles. L
  
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• Galaxy can’t overcome first-half mistakes in defeat to Sporting Kansas City

  25-06-2017 07:52 via ocregister.com
  
  CARSON  For a brief moment in the second half, the Galaxy had hope of another batch of late-game heroics.
  Dave Romney’s 77th minute goal cut Sporting Kansas City’s lead in half, leaving the Galaxy with a chance to steal a point.
  Unfortunately, there would be no such delight this time around as the Galaxy fell 2-1 in front of 20,140 at StubHub Center.
  “Too defensive to start,” Romney said of the first half. “A little unlucky with the goals …too tentative
  
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• Vietnamese baseball team loses again in rematch — but wins off the field

  25-06-2017 06:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Thinh Nhu, center, of the Hanoi Capitals exchanges gifts with Tommy Escobar, right, of the Garden Grove Pony team in Garden Grove on Saturday, June 24, 2017. The teams played a rematch of their game seven years ago. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Orange County Register/SCNG)Tom Treutler, left, coach of the Hanoi Capitals makes out the line up before the start of the rematch game against the Garden Grove Pony team in Garden Grove on Saturday, June 24, 2017. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Orange County Regi
  
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• Ducks select forwards Maxime Comtois, Antoine Morand with first two draft picks

  25-06-2017 06:29 via ocregister.com
  
  As someone who cherishes his first-round draft picks, Ducks coach Bob Murray was in a unique place and not all that comfortable with it.
  The Ducks didn’t have one to use on the first night of the NHL entry draft at Chicago’s United Center and so they had to do all their heavy lifting Saturday, trying to unearth someone out of the five selections they had that could be a contributor down the line.
  Dipping into the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for their first two selections in the
  
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• Nothing ordinary about Anderson-Dolan, the Kings’ second-round draft pick

  25-06-2017 06:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Jaret Anderson-Dolan grew up on skates, which doesn’t make him all that different from most of Canada’s 35 million citizens. But he scored a hat trick in his first game as a 15-year-old with the junior-level Spokane (Wash.) Chiefs of the Western Hockey League, a sign he was extraordinary.
  Anderson-Dolan also had more points (76) than games played (72) during this past season with the Chiefs to cement his status as one of the top North American skaters eligible for the NHL draft this
  
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• Sunday media: The Drone Racing League propels ESPN into expanded definitions of sport

  25-06-2017 06:26 via ocregister.com
  
  note: a version has been put into Saxo with all corresponding hyperlinks … art has been emailed in 
  They called it “L.A. Pocalypse.”
  Converting the guts of an abused and abandoned former shopping mall in Hawthorne, with all its graffiti tagging, leaking roof and other sketchy surrounding, a quaint “Mad Max”-type TV venue was all there and more for the Drone Racing League.
  It was a setting better suited for a secret fight club instead of a half-dozen freaks and
  
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• On deck: Angels at Red Sox, 10:30 a.m., Sunday, Fox Sports West

  25-06-2017 06:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Where: Fenway Park
  THE PITCHERS
  ANGELS RHP PARKER BRIDWELL (1-0, 3.07)
  vs. Red Sox: First game
  At Fenway Park: First game
  Hates to face: None
  Loves to face: None
  RED SOX RHP DOUG FISTER (12-13, 4.64 in 2016)
  vs. Angels: 3-3, 2.78
  At Fenway Park: 2-2, 3.00
  Hates to face: Cameron Maybin, 4 for 11 (.364)
  Loves to face: Andrelton Simmons, 3 for 23 (.130)
  
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• Dodgers’ Corey Seager day-to-day with hamstring strain

  25-06-2017 05:52 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — For now, Corey Seager will avoid a trip to the disabled list.
  An MRI of Seager’s right hamstring on Saturday revealed he had suffered only a grade I strain, a positive development for the Dodgers’ star shortstop who was pulled from a 6-1 victory over Colorado the previous day after experiencing tightness.
  Manager Dave Roberts estimated Saturday that Seager might miss 3-4 days, a timetable that would allow him to return to the lineup at some point next week.
  Robert
  
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• Police: Prescription drugs stolen from Walgreens pharmacies in Fullerton and Orange

  25-06-2017 05:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Prescription drugs were stolen at a Fullerton Walgreens early Friday, June 23, about an hour after burglars unsuccessfully tried to break into the pharmacy of another Walgreens in Lake Forest, authorities said Saturday.
  Burglars broke into the pharmacy store chain in the 1200 block of East Chapman Ave. in Fullerton around 5:20 a.m. and took an unknown amount of prescription drugs from a pharmacy safe, Fullerton police Lt. Mike Chlebowski said.
  “They can be used to sell on the street,&rdquo
  
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• Arroyo Seco Weekend is the hometown festival you actually want to go to

  25-06-2017 04:45 via ocregister.com
  
  If the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is a party in the desert, Arroyo Seco Weekend is a hometown street fair that just happens to be the same size as a small city
  
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• JC Ramirez bounces back to pitch Angels to victory over Red Sox

  25-06-2017 04:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Angels’ Eric Young Jr. leans agains the center field wall during warm-ups before a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Saturday, June 24, 2017, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) ORG XMIT: MAMD101Boston Red Sox’s Mitch Moreland celebrates his solo home run with Hanley Ramirez (13) during the second inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Saturday, June 24, 2017, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) ORG XMIT: MAMD105Los Angeles Angels’ Kole Ca
  
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• Miller: LaVar makes Big Baller push for Lonzo, Lakers

  25-06-2017 04:29 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO – So, despite repeated claims to the contrary, LaVar Ball did have an impact on where his son was drafted.
  He helped Lonzo go higher.
  You know, maybe this one-man Mardi Gras parade, this boastful bag of gas, this big mouth everyone keeps telling to clam up, is more than just a burden on your mute button.
  To be honest, I’m guessing the Lakers would have taken Lonzo at No. 2 Thursday regardless, the kid’s talent such that Magic Johnson suggested Ball’s jersey, ev
  
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• Vanguard University to name baseball field after former second baseman Dean Harvey

  25-06-2017 04:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Vanguard University’s new baseball field is expected to open in November. (Courtesy Vanguard University)Vanguard University’s new baseball field is expected to open in November. (Courtesy Vanguard University)Vanguard University’s new baseball field is expected to open in November. (Courtesy Vanguard University)Vanguard University’s new baseball field is expected to open in November. (Courtesy Vanguard University)Vanguard University’s new baseball field is expected t
  
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• Chris Brown and The Game share MVP title at BET’s Celebrity Basketball Game in Los Angeles

  25-06-2017 03:07 via ocregister.com
  
  After one seriously competitive game, singer-songwriter Chris Brown and actor/rapper The Game came out on top, splitting the MVP title after their team, Ballers, won the 5th annual BET Celebrity Basketball Game on Saturday afternoon at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
  Chris Brown pushes past the defense during BET’s annual Celebrity Basketball Game at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Saturday, June 24, 2017. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)Carlos Smothers celebrat
  
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• On deck: Rockies at Dodgers, Sunday, 1 p.m.

  25-06-2017 02:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Where: Dodger Stadium
  TV: SNLA (where available)
  THE PITCHERS
  DODGERS RHP Brandon McCarthy (6-3, 2.87)
  vs. Rockies: 2-3, 4.57 (eight starts)
  At Dodger Stadium: 8-2, 3.60 (17 starts)
  Hates to face: Charlie Blackmon, 5 for 13 (.385), RBI, 2 BB
  Loves to face: Ian Desmond, 1 for 6 (.167), SO
  ROCKIES LHP Tyler Anderson (3-5, 5.75)
  vs. Dodgers: 2-3, 3.57 (six starts)
  At Dodger Stadium: 0-1, 3.18 (two starts)
  Hates to face: Justin Turner, 8 for 15 (.533), HR, 2 2B, 4 RBI
  Loves to face: Yasiel Puig, 1 f
  
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• Angels Notes: After opting out, Doug Fister gets his shot at Angels

  25-06-2017 02:29 via ocregister.com
  
  BOSTON — Doug Fister took a calculated risk, and now he has a chance to make the Angels pay.
  When Fister’s opt-out date arrived this week, he chose to exercise it rather than stay in the minors with the Angels. Fister was taking a chance that another club would want him in the majors, after he hadn’t pitched in the big leagues since last season.
  “It was something I was willing to take a risk on,” Fister said Saturday, a day after the Boston Red Sox claimed him and a
  
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• Musical highlights from opening day of Arroyo Seco Weekend

  25-06-2017 02:27 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s surely a different kind of music festival when actor Jeff Goldblum and his band, the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, draw a sitting-room-only crowd to the tent where they’re playing Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk, straight-ahead jazz on a hot and humid afternoon in Pasadena.
  But that’s the point of the Arroyo Seco Weekend, the inaugural edition of which kicked off its first of two days on Saturday on the golf course grounds that surround the Rose Bowl.
  Related: This is the
  
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• 2 Santa Ana teens run ‘anxiety camp’ to help other girls dealing with common mental health issue

  25-06-2017 02:24 via ocregister.com
  
  NOVA Academy graduate Dinah Martinez laughs during an ice-breaking exercise at the start of a camp to help teen girls deal with anxiety, in Santa Ana, on Monday, June 19, 2017. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)NOVA Academy graduate Janet Martinez is putting on a camp to help teen girls deal with anxiety, through the Global G.L.O.W. program that helps girls achieve success, in Santa Ana, on Monday, June 19, 2017. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)NOVA Academ
  
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• Irvine council gets final vote on hotel and 15-story office project across from John Wayne Airport

  25-06-2017 02:22 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE The City Council will decide whether a mixed-use project with a 389-room hotel and 15-story office building across the street from the John Wayne Airport can move forward.
  Proposed by Far East LLC., the seven-acre development is planned for the 18000 block of MacArthur Boulevard, with Douglas to the north and Campus Drive to the south. Addresses associated with the project include 18872, 18912, and 18952 MacArthur Blvd.
  Following the recommendation from city staff, the Planning Commission
  
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• Doheny Surf Festival showcases ’60s style surf scene

  25-06-2017 00:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Dan Mudra stood on the sand at Doheny State Beach, watching a delicate dance on the water.
  Mudra, of Mission Viejo, spent most of his day showing off his 1925 classic Woodie car, just one of several on display at the Doheny Surf Festival on Saturday. But when he heard the tandem surfers were out in the water, he couldn’t help but head down to the shoreline to cheer on the six tandem teams gracefully put on an exhibition for the crowds that gathered to watch in awe.
  “It’s a
  
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• O.C. pride parade, festival includes playful costumes, serious message

  25-06-2017 00:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Tom Sievers dons his dark blue “Ghostbusters” costume when he’s teaching science to kids or entertaining patients at local children’s hospitals.
  But on Saturday, June 24, the Anaheim resident and his three friends wore their costumes and proton pack backpacks in downtown Santa Ana for a different purpose: to support the LGBTQ community.
  “We all are just one person, one planet, one love,” said Sievers. “It’s a shame that there’s so much hate i
  
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