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• 13 Orange County cities agree to participate in $300,000 study of sheriff’s department contracts

  27-09-2017 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  The 13 cities that contract with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department for police services are onboard to pay a portion of an estimated $300,000 for a study to find ways to reduce costs for sheriff’s contracts that have continued to rise — in some cases by nearly 25 percent over the past few years.
  Mission Viejo, which spearheaded the efforts with the other 12 cities last month and will pay the highest pro-rated cost — $45,038 — for the study, was the last to enter
  
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• Pablo Francisco to make tour stop at Irvine Improv Comedy Club

  27-09-2017 23:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Stand-up comedian Pablo Francisco — known for his off-the-wall sound effects, parodies and impressions — will take the stage in the evenings Sept. 29-Oct. 1 at Improv Comedy Club in Irvine.
  Francisco made a name for himself with his ability to morph himself into movie stars, singers, friends, family and a multitude of nationalities.His one-hour comedy specials “They Put It Out There” and “Ouch!” have aired on Comedy Central, and he’s prepa
  
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• Indie Bestsellers for the week of Sept. 24

  27-09-2017 22:35 via ocregister.com
  
  The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017, based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. A Legacy of Spies, John le Carré, Viking2. A Column of Fire, Ken Follett, Viking3. Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng, Penguin Press4. Glass Houses, Louise Penny, Minotaur5. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, David Lagercrantz, Knopf6. The Golden House, Sa
  
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• Volunteers spend day showing La Habra some love

  27-09-2017 22:15 via ocregister.com
  
  A red tide spread throughout La Habra on Saturday, Sept. 23.
  Volunteers wearing red Love La Habra shirts fanned out to conquer a number of community service projects from sprucing up parks to finishing projects for churches.
  Aletza Romero, 13, and Joselyn Brown, 13, volunteers with the Imperial Middle School PALS program clean and prep the Triceratops for a fresh coat of color at the Children’s Museum during the third annual Love La Habra event on Saturday, September 23, 2017.Members of Pac
  
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• Video: Fryer and Albano make their Week 5 football predictions

  27-09-2017 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  OCVarsity’s Dan Albano and Steve Fryer give their predictions – and share some of their insights – for some of the top games on the Week 5 high school football schedule in Orange County.
  Among the games they discuss are Edison vs. San Clemente, El Modena vs. Yorba Linda, Mission Viejo vs. El Toro and Capistrano Valley vs. Cypress.
  Check out what their predictions for this week …
  WEEK 5 GAMES
  FRYER
  ALBANO
  San Clemente vs. Edison
  San Clemente
  San Clemente
  Mission Viejo vs.
  
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• Orange County couple’s school in Haiti proves stronger than hurricanes

  27-09-2017 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  At a gleaming hospital in Irvine, Steve Toth gently builds a cast around a young woman’s broken ankle, not mentioning the hundreds of people he has helped in far more desperate circumstances.
  A colleague drops by and asks about a trip Toth and his wife, Erin, will soon make to Haiti. “How is your school? Was there much damage from the hurricane?”
  Without looking up and carefully trimming the hardening fiberglass on the woman’s foot, Toth says, “Some flooding. But th
  
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• As loyal donors age, centers seek young(er) blood

  27-09-2017 21:29 via ocregister.com
  
  When Corinne Standefer retires as a volunteer from the Lane Bloodworks in Eugene, Ore., this month, she will have donated 37 years of her life — and almost 19 gallons of blood.
  The 89-year-old gave her first pint decades ago to help a friend who had cancer.
  “When they called me and said ‘Could you donate again?’ I just started coming in,” she recalled.
  So, every eight or nine weeks, as often as it’s allowed, Standefer would roll up a sleeve and become one of t
  
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• Hogwarts Castle gets decked out, Minions get merry and the Grinch returns to Universal Studios Hollywood this holiday season

  27-09-2017 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Though Universal Studios Hollywood is in the thick of its annual Halloween Horror Nights, the park has announced less scary and more heartwarming plans for the 2017 holiday season.
  Both Universal Studios and Universal CityWalk will be transformed into a magical wonderland the day after Thanksgiving when “Christmas in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter” will open to the public on Friday, Nov. 24, and run through Sunday, Jan. 7. The experience will include the nightly illumination of
  
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• Hemp in California: Could marijuana’s mellow cousin be the next environmental and economic boon?

  27-09-2017 21:14 via ocregister.com
  
  The 40 or so people gathered in conference room 502B at Los Angeles Convention Center came from starkly different backgrounds.
  They included a San Joaquin Valley farmer, a Huntington Beach restaurateur, a Paramount fabric importer and a Denver attorney. Some were in suits and some were in shorts.
  But as they networked and shared stories, the depth of their common commercial passion extended to the very fiber of the hemp business cards they exchanged.
  Mention hemp to friends over dinner, and you
  
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• Can $46 billion buy a permanent home for nuclear waste stored at San Onofre, other sites?

  27-09-2017 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Congressmembers shifted on the dais during a meeting this week in Washington, D.C. on the long-term possibility of creating a national spot to store nuclear waste.
  “To put it bluntly,” said Anthony O’Donnell, chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, “the state and local governments have the federal government’s waste, and the federal government has our money.”
  O’Donnell joined David Victor, chair of San Onofre’s Commun
  
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• Smart City Joins City of Anaheim & Visit Anaheim for Grand Opening of the Anaheim Convention Center

  27-09-2017 20:13
  Part of the commitment included Smart City playing a key role in expansion efforts. The Smart City team worked in tandem with the design team to lay out an optimized wireless design to allow for elite technology integration into the design of the facility.
  
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• Latest: Crews douse hot spots in Southern California blaze

  27-09-2017 20:13
  In this Monday, Sept. 25, 2017 photo, firefighters battle to save homes as a blaze continues to burn in Corona, Calif.
  
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• Linda Vista Elementary students bring Revolutionary history to life

  27-09-2017 19:58 via ocregister.com
  
  History comes alive each year when Linda Vista Elementary School’s fifth-grade class presents “The Making of the Constitution” for fellow students and families.
  Librarian Linda McCausland, whose father, husband, son and father-in-law served in the armed forces, is the principle director, sharing her enthusiastic, patriotic spirit with the entire school.
  The cast of 22 students was garbed in the breeches, tri-cornered hats, long skirts and ruffled caps, appropriate to the time p
  
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• Style Week OC launches SoCal fall trends

  27-09-2017 19:49 via ocregister.com
  
  The return of Style Week OC to Fashion Island Sept. 15-16 heralded the arrival of lush fall fashion and a do-your-own-thing ethos.
  “It is a really fun time to get dressed,” noted Emmy-winning journalist and E! contributor Catt Sadler, who attended many of the Style Week events. “There are no rules, so just have fun. Fashion is all about creating yourself, expressively.”
  This year, opting for a more engaging, educative and inclusive format than the traditional runways of t
  
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• LAPD employee arrested in suspected DUI crash on 605 Freeway leaving 3 dead

  27-09-2017 19:42 via ocregister.com
  
  A Los Angeles Police Department employee was arrested on suspicion of driving drunk and causing a three-car crash on the 605 Freeway Tuesday night, killing three people who were trapped in a burning car.
  The suspect, Edgar Omar Verduzco, 26, of Santa Ana, suffered a broken nose. One of the drivers complained of pain, according to the statement from the California Highway Patrol.
  Verduzco, 26, was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence and gross vehicular manslaughter, according to Ca
  
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• Louisville places Rick Pitino, AD on administrative leave amid FBI probe

  27-09-2017 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Louisville has placed coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich on administrative leave amid a federal bribery investigation.
  Interim university President Greg Postel said at a news conference Wednesday that Jurich is on paid leave, while Pitino is on unpaid leave. The coach’s attorney, Steve Spence, told the Courier-Journal that Louisville has “effectively fired” Pitino.
  Neither Pitino nor Jurich attended the news conference.
  “I’m m
  
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• Helicopter reportedly has hard landing at Fullerton Airport

  27-09-2017 19:34 via ocregister.com
  FULLERTON Emergency personnel responded Wednesday, Sept. 27, to a report of a helicopter that had a hard landing at Fullerton Airport, according to police.
  Around 10 a.m., police were notified that a helicopter had gone down, but apparently, no one was injured, said police Sgt. Kevin Craig.
  A student pilot and instructor were inside the helicopter when it made a hard landing on a runway, Kathy Schaefer, division chief for the Fullerton and Brea fire departments.
  A small amount of fuel leaked fro
  
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• Paramore jarringly blends old and new in Greek Theatre show

  27-09-2017 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Near the end of a sold-out set at the Greek Theatre on Tuesday night, Hayley Williams asked the crowd to close their eyes, and imagine themselves 10 years ago. “What do you look like? How’s your hair? How are your mirror selfies? Your profile pictures?”
  It was a special moment, with Williams simultaneously poking fun at and embracing the unique place her band Paramore holds in music culture.
  Categorized by heavily side-swept bangs, uncomfortably tight jeans, pouty Myspace photo
  
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• Brea company wins grand prize in NFL competition for its head-protection technology

  27-09-2017 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  A motorcycle enthusiast and motocross rider, Bob Weber always thought to himself there must be a better way to make a helmet.
  One that would still provide the aerodynamic performance the sport required, while making it safer for the rider flying more than 20 feet in the air off of dirt ramps and taking hairpin turns at more than 50 mph.
  So when the economy came crashing down on his job as a general manager of a motocross apparel company in 2011, the competitive racer decided it was time to make
  
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• Police drag woman with severe pet allergy off LA-bound Southwest flight

  27-09-2017 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Southwest is apologizing after police physically removed a woman from a flight in the latest airline video to go viral.
  A Southwest Airlines spokesman said Wednesday that the woman said she had a life-threatening pet allergy but couldn’t show a medical certificate she needed to make the flight from Baltimore to Los Angeles.Spokesman Chris Mainz says crew members tried to explain that she could be denied boarding if she couldn’t travel safely with animals on board, but she refused to
  
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• Adding a drag queen act to Tiller Days, Tustin celebrates its agricultural past and diverse present

  27-09-2017 18:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Carson Leonti, 21, uses inexpensive, high quality make up in his drag queen routine. He’ll help kick off the 60th celebration of Tustin Tillers Days on opening night. Photographed on Weds., Oct.13. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)After flattening eyebrows by rubbing it with a glue stick and pressing it flat with back of a spoon, Carson Leonti, 21, applies powder that matches his skin tone at his Irvine home on Weds., Oct.13. He hopes his drag queen appearance on openi
  
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• Here’s your Music Tastes Good festival plan for maximum fun

  27-09-2017 18:08 via ocregister.com
  
  With more than 40 bands playing back-to-back music on two stages, and more than a dozen star chefs cooking up their best dishes, it’ll be pretty much impossible to fill up on everything the second annual Music Tastes Good festival has to offer.
  There’s no need stress though, because we’re here to help you get the most out of the festival when it returns to Long Beach Sept. 30-Oct.1.
  So relax and just show up, because we came up with pretty much the perfect schedule for the week
  
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• Girls tennis: San Clemente, Lindsay Hung beat Dana Hills in South Coast showdown

  27-09-2017 18:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Utah commit Lindsay Hung swept at singles to lead San Clemente’s girls tennis team past visiting Dana Hills, 10-8, in the South Coast League on Tuesday.
  Hung defeated Dana Hills junior Courtney Swift, 6-3, and won her other two matches, 6-0, 6-0.
  The South Coast League rivals plays again Oct. 12 at Dana Hills. The teams shared the league title last season.
  
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• Compare Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino County school test scores with this database

  27-09-2017 18:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California students showed modest improvements or held steady in standardized tests scores in the third year of state math and English tests, but scores remained more or less flat statewide, according to data released Wednesday, Sept. 27, by the California Department of Education.
  Statewide, 48.56 percent of all students met or exceeded English standards on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, while 37.56 percent did the same in math.
  Use the following dat
  
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• Fryer on Football — which games to feature?

  27-09-2017 18:01 via ocregister.com
  
  I am deciding which games to feature in the “Fryer on Football” predictions/analysis/schedule package.
  Here are my tentative choices … is there a game or two out there I should include, instead?
  ThursdaySonora at Aliso NiguelOcean View at UniversityTesoro-Los Alamitos at Veterans Stadium
  FridayEl Modena at Yorba LindaCapistrano Valley-Cypress at Handel Stadium/Western HSGodinez-Orange at Fred Kelly Stadium/El Modena HSCentury-La Quinta at Bolsa Grande HSEdison at San ClementeE
  
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• More than half of Orange County’s students test proficient in English; not quite half in math

  27-09-2017 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County students once again outpaced their Southern California peers in statewide standardized English and math testing, though scores remained about even with last year’s results.
  And, for the third year in a row, Orange County fell short of having at least half of its students considered proficient in math.
  Across Southern California, students showed modest improvements or held steady in the third year of the Common Core math and English exams that replaced STAR testing in 201
  
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• 28 arrested in protest against Disney hotels

  27-09-2017 17:47
  MOUSE ARREST: Unite Here 681 activist Eric Zuniga, dressed as Mickey Mouse, is arrested for refusing to clear out of a busy intersection In front of Disneyland Aug. 14. HOLDING HER EARS: A protester dressed as Minnie Mouse clutches her ears with bound wrists after being arrested by Anaheim Police for failing to clear a busy intersection during a protest in front of Disneyland Aug. 14. IN FORCE: Disney hotel service workers with their families in tow and an armada labor union members shut down a
  
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• Clippers plan to push tempo, be more versatile in post-Chris Paul Era

  27-09-2017 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Chris Paul controlled the ball for six seasons in a Clippers uniform. He pushed the tempo or slowed it down, as he saw fit. He took the big shots when time was short, or decided who else would. He directed almost everything his teammates did as the consummate floor leader.
  There was no debating the regular-season results.
  The Clippers won 50 games or more for five consecutive seasons with Paul as their point guard, and it probably would have been six in a row if not for the NBA lockout that shor
  
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• Occidental launches Obama scholarships ‘to bring about meaningful change in the world’

  27-09-2017 17:06 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Occidental College today announced the launch of its Barack Obama Scholars Program, saying the full scholarships to be offered will “empower exceptional students committed to the public good” consistent with “the principles President Barack Obama has advanced throughout his life.”
  Beginning in the fall of 2018, Occidental will endow two scholarships with the support of donors and thereafter “ramp up to 20 scholarships for a select group of studen
  
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• See Dana Point house selling for $40 million – but not built yet

  27-09-2017 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
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  The most expensive home for sale in Dana Point awaits construction. But it’s already on the Multiple Listing Service.
  Plans call for the six-bedroom house, a mix of glass, stone and w
  
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• Iraq’s Kurds say 92 percent voted in favor of independence

  27-09-2017 16:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By SUSANNAH GEORGE
  IRBIL, Iraq  — The Kurdish referendum on independence from Iraq was approved by more than 92 percent of voters, officials said Wednesday, as Iraq’s prime minister vowed to keep his country united without resorting to the use of force.
  Even with the strong support, the non-binding vote is unlikely to lead to formal independence, but it has escalated long-running tensions with Baghdad, which has moved to block flights in and out of the Kurds’ autonomous re
  
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• 6 must-see Southern California mural exhibits included in Pacific Standard Time

  27-09-2017 16:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Barbara Carrasco at a Pasadena storage facility with panels from her mural, which returns to Union Station for the first time in 25 years as part of the ¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/o Murals Under Siege exhibition. (Photo credit: Oscar R. Castillo)For the first time in 25 years, Chicana muralist Barbara Carrasco’s “L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective” is back on the walls of Union Station.
  The  43-panel mural, now on view through Oct. 22, is part of La Plaza de Cu
  
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• Trump, GOP tax plan cuts rates, nearly doubles deduction

  27-09-2017 15:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARCY GORDON and ANDREW TAYLOR
  WASHINGTON  — President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are proposing a far-reaching plan to cut taxes for individuals and corporations, simplify the tax system and nearly double the standard deduction used by most Americans.
  “Too many in our country are shut out of the dynamism of the U.S. economy, which has led to the justifiable feeling that the system is rigged against hardworking Americans,” says the blueprint, obtained by
  
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• Deadly and fiery crash closes southbound 605 Freeway in Santa Fe Springs

  27-09-2017 15:32 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA FE SPRINGS — The southbound lanes of the 605 Freeway in Santa Fe Springs were reopened this morning following a fiery crash that left three people dead and two others injured.
  The three-vehicle collision was reported at 10:15 p.m. Tuesday just north of Washington Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
  Authorities said 26-year-old Edgar Verduzco of Santa Ana was speeding in his 2016 Chevy Camaro in the carpool lane when he struck a 2014 Nissan and a 2010 Scion
  
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• More than 1,600 firefighters continue battle against Canyon Fire for third day

  27-09-2017 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  For the second day, firefighters have been able to hold the Canyon Fire to about 2,000 acres but increased containment to 15 percent, according to the latest numbers from Corona Fire officials.
  The orange glow of flames consuming brush visible Monday night into Tuesday morning was undetectable early Wednesday, however the acrid smell of smoke still hung in the air several miles from the burn area.
  More than 1,600 firefighters from various agencies, including Corona, Los Angeles County Fire, Oran
  
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• How real-life drug smuggling and CIA spy operations inspired Tom Cruise film ‘American Made’

  27-09-2017 15:15 via ocregister.com
  
  “American Made” is a jaunty study of a real-life rogue.
  As told in the film, Barry Seal was a bored airline pilot out of Baton Rouge who was delighted to be recruited by the CIA in the late 1970s to fly clandestine surveillance missions over Central American hot spots. This led to gun-running for the Nicaraguan contras by the early 1980s, during which time he started making side trips on his own to nearby Colombia. Soon he was transporting loads of cocaine for the nascent Medellin ca
  
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• In Santa Ana, ‘Twelve Angry Men’ commands and holds our attention

  27-09-2017 15:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Reginald Rose’s spiky, expertly written “Twelve Angry Men” shows us a jury at work, depicting the cultural norms of the 1950s while capturing that era’s flavor. Even decades later, the play is still utterly fascinating and compelling.
  At Attic Theater, director Kathy Paladino has assembled a solid cast that gets at the heart of Rose’s classic script.
  In the first-degree murder case depicted, the jury’s verdict must be unanimous either way, with 12 guilty votes
  
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• Remembering the late Harry Dean Stanton with ‘Lucky’

  27-09-2017 14:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Harry Dean Stanton may be gone, but the well-respected character actor has left a quirky, unsentimentally touching and rather delightful tribute to himself, a movie called “Lucky.”
  “It was certainly a movie inspired by Harry Dean Stanton, and then Harry Dean Stanton played the part inspired by him,” explains John Carroll Lynch, a character actor almost as admired as Stanton, who made his directing debut with “Lucky.” “That’s a weird set of circumst
  
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• ‘Nothing, nothing’: Aid lags in hurricane-torn Puerto Rico

  27-09-2017 14:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By BEN FOX and DANICA COTO
  MONTEBELLO, Puerto Rico — Relatives helped Maribel Valentin Espino find shelter when Hurricane Maria roared through her community in northern Puerto Rico. Neighbors formed volunteer brigades to cut fallen trees and clear twisty mountain roads after the storm had passed. Now, friends and a local cattle ranch provide the water they need to survive in the tropical heat.
  Valentin and her husband say they have not seen anyone from the Puerto Rican government, much les
  
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• Ex-Thai leader sentenced in absentia to 5 years in prison

  27-09-2017 14:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA
  BANGKOK — A Thai court on Wednesday sentenced former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose government was ousted in a 2014 military coup, in absentia to five years in prison for alleged negligence in a money-losing rice subsidy program.
  Yingluck, who has said the charges are politically motivated, is believed to have fled the country last month before the original date of the verdict. Her lawyers said on Wednesday that they have no idea where she is.
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• In Alabama, a Trump miscalculation in Senate primary

  27-09-2017 14:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL BARROW and KIM CHANDLER
  HOMEWOOD, Ala.— A firebrand Alabama jurist wrested a U.S. Senate nomination from an appointed incumbent backed by millions of dollars from national Republicans, adding a new chapter Tuesday to an era of outsider politics that ushered Donald Trump into the White House yet leaves his presidency and his party in disarray.
  Roy Moore’s 9-point victory over Sen. Luther Strange, backed by the White House and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, ranks as a misc
  
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• Congress at crossroads after another GOP health care failure

  27-09-2017 14:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
  WASHINGTON  — Congress is at a crossroads after Republicans’ stinging failure to repeal Barack Obama’s health care law. But what’s next — more partisan conflict or a pragmatic shift toward cooperation?
  Unless Republicans and Democrats in Congress can work together, and bring along an often unpredictable President Donald Trump, political conflict over health care may spread. Bipartisan talks on legislation to stabilize shaky insurance
  
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• Tustin High's Class of '72 time capsule reinstalled...

  27-09-2017 13:14
  Members of the Tustin High School Class of 1972 Kim DeBenedetto, left, of Tustin and Donna Marsh Peery of Tustin place the reconstituted time capsule into an alcove of the central quad stage area at Tustin High in Tustin on Wednesday, September 20, 2017. Members of the Tustin High Schoo Class of 1972 Donna Marsh Peery, left, of Tustin and Kim DeBenedetto of Tustin raise the new plaque for the alcove that houses the reconstituted time capsule at Tustin High School in Tustin on Wednesday, Septembe
  
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• UCLA Anderson Forecast offers solution to un-affordable housing in Southern California

  27-09-2017 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  The latest UCLA Anderson Forecast predicts modest employment growth for California through 2019, but it also proposes an interesting idea.
  The issue of housing affordability is certainly nothing new. It’s a well known fact that high home prices have excluded many would-be buyers from purchasing a home, and it has also discouraged others from moving to California.
  But what about targeted affordability?
  If having teachers live in the community where they teach is deemed to be important,
  
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• Powersoft's Quattrocanali DSP+D Nominated for Namm Tec Award for...

  27-09-2017 08:58
  Powersoft, a world-leading manufacturer of professional power amplifiers, announced that its Quattrocanali DSP+D - a powerful 4-channel rack amplifier designed for installations and featuring built-in digital signal processing - has received a nomination for Outstanding Technical Achievement in the Amplification Hardware-Studio & Sound Reinforcement Category for the 33rd Annual NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards. This is the second year in a row that Powersoft has received a n
  
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• Go-to joe: These are our favorite coffee houses in Orange County

  27-09-2017 08:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Ever since that fateful party in Boston where tea was emphatically NOT the beverage of choice, America has embraced coffee. For most of us, it’s a ritual, a necessity and the first little pleasure of the day: that perfect cup of joe, whether all dressed up in foam, reduced to its essence in a tiny espresso cup, or served unadorned, black and sugar-free in a plain white cup.
  Just as coffee drinkers develop preferences for how it’s prepared, we also gravitate toward those places that t
  
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• Dodgers clinch home-field advantage through NLCS with rout of Padres

  27-09-2017 07:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Dodgers’ Chase Utley, right, scores as San Diego Padres catcher Luis Torrens drops the throw from first baseman Wil Myers during the third inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Alex Wood delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Yasmani Grandal throws out San
  
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• Video: Capistrano Valley rides strong start into game vs. Cypress

  27-09-2017 07:44 via ocregister.com
  
  OCVarsity’s Zach Cavanagh was at Capistrano Valley’s practice on Tuesday to talk to the Cougars about their strong start — they are 5-0 – and their game this week against Cypress.
  The video includes highlights from practice, plus interviews with quarterback Nathan Manning and standout defensive linemen Zach Ritner and Nolan Reeve.
  See what the Cougars had to say …DID YOU SEE THIS?
  Video: Preview of San Clemente vs. Edison game O.C. FOOTBALL TOP 25
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• Tuesday’s boys water polo player of the day, scores

  27-09-2017 07:36 via ocregister.com
  
  BOYS WATER POLO
  Tuesday’s Player of the Day
  Jacob Walker, Yorba Linda
  The senior goalie made 18 saves in a 16-4 nonleague victory against El Modena.
  SCORES
  Garden Grove League
  Garden Grove 14, La Quinta 4
  Los Amigos 18, Rancho Alamitos 3
  Goals: (LA) Rodriguez 5, Nava 4, Ybarra 2. (RA) Soriano, Wong, Murgo. Saves: Leon (LA) 14. Mercado (RA) 5.
  Sea View League
  Laguna Hills 6, Mission Viejo 5
  Tesoro 9, San Juan Hills 7
  Goals: (SJH) Miller 3, Engelke 1, Smith 1, Bandetini 1, Baughman 1. (Tes)
  
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• OCVarsity Gridiron visits San Clemente

  27-09-2017 07:33 via ocregister.com
  
  The Gridiron guys – Dan Albano, Jonathan Khamis and Steve Fryer – travel to San Clemente to preview the Tritons’ huge nonleague game against Edison on Friday, Sept. 29. Included are interviews with Coach Jaime Ortiz and some of the Tritons’ key players.
  Also, the El Modena vs. Yorba Linda and Los Alamitos vs. Tesoro games this week are previewed.
  Video by Jonathan Khamis for the Orange County Register.
  DID YOU SEE THIS?
  Video: Preview of Capistrano Valley vs. Cypress
  
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