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• Swim: Aliso Niguel backstroker Victoria Gong commits to Brown

  05-10-2017 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Aliso Niguel backstroker Victoria Gong has committed to Brown, the senior swimmer announced on Twitter.
  Gong placed eighth in the 100-yard backstroke at the CIF-SS Division 1 finals in May, stopping the clock in 57.23 seconds.I am beyond excited to announce my verbal commitment to swim for and attend Brown University! Go Bruno!! ❤️🐻 pic.twitter.com/T1ajx9DZpH
  — vic (@victoriagong316) October 5, 2017She also led off the Wolverines’ 200 medley relay that touc
  
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• Gun control war dramatically changes with GOP, NRA agreeing to regulations

  05-10-2017 23:33 via ocregister.com
  Two proposed laws — one with NRA backing and supporting concealed weapons, the other introduced this week to outlaw “bump stocks” — are shaping up to be a crucible for gun control.
  In the wake of the Mandalay Bay massacre, congressional Republicans and even the National Rifle Association on Thursday agreed to support or at least be open to regulating “bump stocks,” devices that turn semi-automatic weapons into machine guns.
  But the true test of how far the GOP
  
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• Dodgers player profiles: Yasiel Puig

  05-10-2017 23:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Yasiel Puig plays to the crowd following a postgame interview with Kelli Tennant. (Photo courtesy Spectrum SportsNet LA)Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Yasiel Puig #66 catches a ball hit by San Diego Padres right fielder Jabari Blash #32 in the 3rd inning. The Los Angeles Dodgers played the San Diego Padres in the last home game of the year. Los Angeles, CA 9/27/2017 (Photo by John McCoy, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)Los Angeles Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig celebrates in the locker room after the
  
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• Luke Bryan reschedules five California concerts including Mattress Firm Amphitheatre in Chula Vista and Glen Helen Amphitheater in Devore

  05-10-2017 23:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Country singer-songwriter and recently announced “American Idol” judge Luke Bryan is rescheduling several stops on his Huntin’, Fishin’ & Lovin’ Everyday tour in California including Friday, Oct. 27, at Mattress Firm Amphitheatre in Chula Vista, which will now take place on Wednesday, Oct. 25.
  The next stop, at Glen Helen Amphitheater in Devore was originally scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 28, but has been moved to Friday, Oct. 27. He also rescheduled gigs at Conc
  
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• Dodgers player profiles: Chris Taylor

  05-10-2017 23:21 via ocregister.com
  
  The Dodgers’ Chris Taylor broke UC Irvine hearts with his two-out, game-winning hit for Virginia in the 2011 NCAA Charlottesville Super Regional. Six years later, he’s doing his best to remain on the Dodgers’ major league roster. (Photo by Victor Decolongon/Getty Images)Los Angeles Dodgers’ Chris Taylor, right, and Justin Turner, center, celebrate after Taylor hit an inside the park home run off Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Nick Pivetta during the first inning o
  
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• Harvey Weinstein takes leave of absence after NY Times details sexual-harassment history

  05-10-2017 23:14 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Award-winning film producer Harvey Weinstein announced today he will take a leave of absence from his production company in the aftermath of a New York Times story outlining a series of sexual harassment claims against him.
  “I came of age in the 60s and 70s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces were different,” the 65-year-old producer said in a statement following the article’s publication. “That was the culture then. I have since learned
  
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• Dodgers player profiles: Curtis Granderson

  05-10-2017 23:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Curtis Granderson celebrates in the dugout after scoring a run on an RBI single from teammate Adrian Gonzales in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Lon Horwedel)Dodgers Curtis Granderson, #6, scores as Giants Nick Hundley, #5, can’t make the tag in time during 2nd inning action at Dodger Stadium Sunday, September 24, 2017. The Dodgers defeated the Giants 3-1.(Photo by David Crane, Lo
  
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• Chargers sign familiar face in kicker Nick Novak, waive Younghoe Koo

  05-10-2017 23:12 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA — The Chargers signed a new kicker. Or rather, they brought back their old kicker.
  On Tuesday, the team waived rookie Younghoe Koo and replaced him with veteran Nick Novak, the second-most accurate kicker in franchise history. Koo, who missed a potential game-winner against Miami in Week 2, leaves the Chargers having made just three of six field goals.
  “It was time to bring in someone with a little more consistency and a little more experience,” said Coach Anthony Ly
  
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• ‘The heroes we need to hear about’: How strangers helped strangers after Las Vegas mass shooting

  05-10-2017 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  A Southland ICU nurse who survived the mass shooting in Las Vegas was still haunted days later by the violence, which she said was far beyond the death she is trained to deal with.
  She is trying to focus on the stories of the heroism she witnessed, beginning moments after the bullets started and continuing through the long night.
  “I cannot stress enough how much people here helped people,” said Lindsay Okray, 33, of Riverside. “Those are the heroes that we need to hear about. &
  
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• L.A. Kings place Alec Martinez on injured reserve for at least first two games

  05-10-2017 21:17 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO – The Kings were less than 48 hours from opening the season when the first significant occurred since training camp began three weeks earlier.
  Defenseman Alec Martinez sustained a lower body injury during Wednesday’s practice serious enough for the team to place him on injured reserve and call up Paul LaDue from their AHL affiliate in Ontario.
  One of the team’s top four defensemen, Martinez will miss at least the season’s first two games, but will be eligible t
  
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• Fairy-tale manor

  05-10-2017 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Wolf and witch: Siblings Ryen Olthoff, 11, and Parker Olthoff, 13, both of Mission Viejo (Photo by Ralph Palumbo)Wolf and Witch: This odd pair became fast friends upon learning of each other’s existence. Together they will wreak havoc on their unsuspecting guests at the manor this Halloween.
  Pictured: Siblings Ryen Olthoff, 11, and Parker Olthoff, 13, both of Mission Viejo
  Makeup: Butterfli Me in Irvine
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  Location: Heritage Museum of Orange County’s Kel
  
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• Beach events give back to charity, community

  05-10-2017 21:13 via ocregister.com
  
  These surf events aren’t just about riding waves — they’re about giving back.
  Several beach gatherings this weekend aim to raise money and awareness for various causes.
  The Sea Dog Skim Challenge, a one-day skimboarding event to raise money and funds for the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, will be at Aliso Beach in southern Laguna at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 7. Cost to enter the contest, in its second year, is $40 for amateurs, $60 for professionals.
  Last year, the Chal
  
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• College Football Week 6 in the L.A. TV market: Washington’s Petersen throws shade on ‘Pac-12 After Dark’ issues

  05-10-2017 21:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Look on the bright side. This is all about what it means to be among the elite in the Pac-12.
  Washington’s Chris Petersen, coach of the nation’s AP sixth-ranked and still unbeaten squad, has a darker view of all this.
  His team has a home game against Cal on Saturday that kicks off at 7:45 p.m. It’ll end closer to 11:30 p.m. Next week, the Huskies’ game at Arizona State is also now locked in at 7:45 p.m.
  Washington, as it turns out, hasn’t started a game so far this
  
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• Here’s a list of Southern California McDonald’s locations getting the 1998 cult classic Szechuan Sauce

  05-10-2017 21:02 via ocregister.com
  
  McDonald’s is bringing back a 19-year-old cult classic, Szechuan Sauce, for one day only in select markets across the country, including five locations in Central and Southern California.
  The dipping packets, served only with the chain’s newly introduced buttermilk crispy tenders, is available Saturday, Oct. 7 at two Los Angeles area restaurants: 8507 Artesia Blvd., Bellflower and 1231 S. La Brea, Los Angeles. No locations are serving the savory and sweet sauce in Oran
  
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• Congressional bills could fuel a new race to the bottom 

  05-10-2017 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  What’s up with mortgage rates? Jeff Lazerson of Mortgage Grader in Laguna Niguel gives us his take.
  Rate news summary
  From Freddie Mac’s weekly survey: The 30-year fixed rate averaged 3.85 percent, up two basis points from last week’s 3.83 percent. The 15-year fixed averaged 3.15 percent, also up two basis points from last week’s 3.13 percent.
  The Mortgage Bankers Association reported loan application volume was unchanged from the previous week.
  Bottom line: Assuming
  
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• Pinka s 2018 a Beautiful Trauma Worlda tour makes several Southern...

  05-10-2017 20:34
  Pink's next tour in support of her upcoming album will make several Southern California stops including one in Ontario. The Grammy Award winner will kick off her Beautiful Trauma World Tour 2018 on March 1 in Phoenix and will end the tour at the Forum in Inglewood on June 2. She will also stop at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario on May 23, Honda Center in Anaheim on May 25, Valley View Casino Center in the San Diego area on May 28, Staples Center in Los Angeles on May 31 and The Forum on
  
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• California becomes ‘sanctuary state’ as governor signs bill

  05-10-2017 20:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONATHAN J. COOPER
  SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Jerry Brown signed “sanctuary state” legislation Thursday that extends protections for immigrants living in the United States illegally — a move that gives the nation’s most populous state another tool to fight President Donald Trump.
  Brown’s signature means that police will be barred from asking people about their immigration status or participating in immigration enforcement activities starting Jan. 1.
  Jail
  
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• Whicker: How Torey Lovullo, Dave Roberts became Gary Adams’ honor students at UCLA

  05-10-2017 20:07 via ocregister.com
  
  He found his neutral corner in Tehachapi, at 4,500 feet.
  He and his wife Sandy operate a winery in Bear Valley Springs. When ballgames are on he’ll watch, but otherwise Gary Adams sounds the familiar, sardonic lament of the pensioner: “I’m busier than I was when I was working.”
  On Friday, Adams will carve out time for the National League Division Series. If he has the urge to coach both teams, maybe that’s because he coached the guys who will.
  Adams was UCLA’s
  
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• Hoffarth: How to watch the Dodgers playoffs on TBS, TNT and … TBD

  05-10-2017 19:56 via ocregister.com
  
  This is the time of the MLB season when one needs to pay attention to TBD, TBS and TNT.
  TBD — to be determined — is often what’s noted when no one knows yet what time an MLB playoff game will start. Sometimes that blank isn’t filled in until 24-to-48 hours ahead, because it depends on what other games are in play, what major-market team has been eliminated, and how much the TV decision partners are motivated to creating a purpose-driven viewership.
  It also means they&rsqu
  
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• Dodgers player profiles: Justin Turner

  05-10-2017 19:17 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner has seen his batting average drop significantly since the All-Star break, but he said he’s never been concerned with winning a batting title. (Photo by Stephen Carr, Daily News/SCNG)Los Angeles Dodgers’ Justin Turner points over to first after scoring on a single by Chase Utley during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres in San Diego, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)Los Angeles Dodgers’ Justin
  
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• Dodgers player profiles: Corey Seager

  05-10-2017 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Los Angeles Dodgers’ Corey Seager watches his solo home run off San Diego Padres relief pitcher Kirby Yates during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)The elbow pain that limited Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager to pinch-hitting for 11 games remains a problem and probably will be until he can deal with it in the offseason. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)The Dodgers’ Corey Seager celebrates
  
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• Pink’s 2018 ‘Beautiful Trauma World’ tour makes several Southern California stops — including one in Ontario

  05-10-2017 18:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Pink’s next tour in support of her upcoming album will make several Southern California stops – including one in Ontario.
  The Grammy Award winner will kick off her Beautiful Trauma World Tour 2018 on March 1 in Phoenix and will end the tour at the Forum in Inglewood on June 2. She will also stop at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario on May 23, Honda Center in Anaheim on May 25, Valley View Casino Center in the San Diego area on May 28, Staples Center in Los Angeles on May 31 and
  
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• House passes GOP budget in key step for upcoming tax debate

  05-10-2017 18:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREW TAYLOR
  WASHINGTON  — The House Thursday passed a $4.1 trillion budget plan that’s a critical step for the party’s drive to rewrite the tax code later this year.
  The 2018 House GOP budget promises deep cuts to social programs and Cabinet agency budgets and reprises a controversial plan to turn Medicare into a voucher-like program for future retirees. Republicans controlling the chamber have no plans to actually implement those cuts, however.
  Instead, the budget pl
  
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• Philip Rivers, Eli Manning meet again as NFL’s most durable quarterbacks

  05-10-2017 17:51 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA — Emmitt Smith punched in a game-winning touchdown. Mike Sherman coached against Mike Tice. Billy Volek threw for 334 yards.
  These were all events that transpired on the second weekend of November 2004 — the last time the NFL regular season went without either Eli Manning or Philip Rivers as a starting quarterback. Since being traded for each other more than 13 years ago, they have put together a couple of impressive streaks: Manning has started 203 consecutive games
  
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• Gun-control issue unlikely to sway hot Congress races: Here’s why

  05-10-2017 17:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Despite the vast divide between many Republicans and Democrats on gun control, experts say the issue is unlikely to play a major role in Southern California’s six hotly contested congressional races next year.
  The Las Vegas massacre, like other mass shootings in recent years, is amplifying Democrats’ cries that such tragedies — as well the high rate of inner city shootings — will continue unless laws are tightened.
  But Southern California’s GOP Congress members, six
  
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• Small Corona del Mar shopping center sells for $23 million

  05-10-2017 17:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Here’s more evidence the shopping center isn’t dead yet: A local real estate investor has paid $23 million for a small, oddly shaped one in Corona del Mar.
  The recent wave of fresh cash flowing to local shopping centers — big and small, for purchase and/or refurbishment — suggests there are more than a few deep pockets who still believe in brick-and-mortar shopping.
  Take Mark Moshayedi who just bought 33,404 square feet of shopping space on 1.5 acres of triangular-shaped
  
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• This woman wins awards for scaring people at Six Flags Magic Mountain’s Fright Fest

  05-10-2017 17:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Margarita “Maggie” Barriga knows it doesn’t take much to scare people.
  For the past four years, her unassuming terror tactic has been slow walking and approaching thrillseekers to Six Flags Magic Mountain’s Fright Fest when they least expect it.
  And it’s made the 46-year-old Inglewood woman, known as Innocence Willoughby, a favorite among guests and her fellow scare actors.
  “Innocence is why I got into this,” says Tabitha Bennett, a scare actor from Sant
  
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• All that fancy tech in your car is distracting you, AAA says

  05-10-2017 17:16 via ocregister.com
  
  The infotainment technology that automakers are cramming into the dashboard of new vehicles is making drivers take their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel for dangerously long periods of time, an AAA study says.
  The study released Thursday is the latest by University of Utah professor David Strayer, who has been examining the impact of infotainment systems on safety for AAA’s Foundation for Traffic Safety since 2013. Past studies also identified problems, but Strayer said the &ldqu
  
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• Blue state Republican success stops at the California border

  05-10-2017 17:14 via ocregister.com
  
  In the 2016 contest for California’s open U.S. Senate seat, state Republicans failed to even get a candidate on the November ballot. State Attorney General Kamala Harris ended up besting Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez in the Democrat-on-Democrat race, and recent polling indicates history may repeat itself — the California GOP could fail to get a candidate into the 2018 general election matchup to replace outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown. GOP insiders say they’re also having a hard time
  
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• First look at new Honda Center foods for Anaheim Ducks opening game

  05-10-2017 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  When it comes to reinventing a major culinary section of the Honda Center, the arena’s food team is looking to score a hat trick.
  The first Anaheim Ducks home game launches Thursday, Oct. 5 with a $2 million makeover of the ever-changing south entrance. Standing O, a full-service restaurant, has been gutted and transformed into three food and beverage concepts: The Kitchen, Sierra Nevada Draught House and Express Eats.
  The new options are expected to ease congested lines at surrounding con
  
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• Cruze Fitness to open Anaheim health club in early 2018

  05-10-2017 16:19
  Chuze Fitness, a family-owned business founded in Carlsbad in 2008, is developing a 44,800-square-foot health club at the intersection of Beach Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue in the city's southwest neighborhood. The gym will serve as a co-anchor along with Walmart Neighborhood Market in a shopping center at 135 Beach Blvd. Seen here is a club in Littleton, Colo.
  
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• ‘Boogie Nights’ turns 20: Your guide to its San Fernando Valley film locations

  05-10-2017 16:04 via ocregister.com
  
  The glamour. The period detail. The poor taste.
  “Boogie Nights,” which hit theaters 20 years ago this month, looked back on the late 1970s and early ’80s San Fernando Valley from when it was shot in the mid-1990s. The area was already in transition at the time, and still is.
  That’s partially why one of the movie’s key locations, sex film auteur Jack Horner’s cool pool party house, wasn’t even in the Valley. The vintage 1950s interiors director Paul Thoma
  
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• Chuze Fitness to open Anaheim health club in early 2018

  05-10-2017 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Chuze Fitness continues its muscled march across Southern California with a new location slated to open early next year in Anaheim.
  It will be the fifth Chuze Fitness for Orange County.
  The company, a family-owned business founded in Carlsbad in 2008, is developing a 44,800-square-foot health club at the intersection of Beach Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue in the city’s southwest neighborhood. The gym will serve as a co-anchor along with Walmart Neighborhood Market in a shoppi
  
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• Southern California weather turning hotter, but cooldown is on the way

  05-10-2017 15:57 via ocregister.com
  
  High pressure and Santa Ana winds are bringing warmer temperatures to Southern California on Friday and Saturday. (Enhanced infrared satellite image for Thursday, Oct, 5, 2017)LOS ANGELES — Southland temperatures will climb sharply Friday and Saturday — thanks to high pressure aloft and weak off-shore winds — but dip precipitously starting Sunday, National Weather Service forecasters said today.
  Highs are expected to be around 10 degrees above normal Friday and 15 degrees above
  
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• Screamfest horror film festival has a movie that’s making audiences cry

  05-10-2017 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Mexican filmmaker Issa López is going to be introducing audiences to her first-ever horror feature at Screamfest.
  The film, which screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, is part of the 17th annual film festival.
  This year’s event showcases 21 feature films and more than 40 shorts from around the world. It opens Tuesday, Oct. 10 and runs through Thursday, Oct. 19 at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood, including parties and filmmaker events in addition to the screenings.
  Juan Ra
  
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• Honda Center unveils new venue upgrades before Ducks season opener tonight

  05-10-2017 15:10 via ocregister.com
  
  With the Anaheim Ducks officially kicking off their season Thursday, Oct. 5 against the Arizona Coyotes, its home, Honda Center, has unveiled three new food and beverage concepts, an expanded team store and a new 10,000 square foot gathering place at its south entrance.
  The expansion creates a large and welcoming open space for fans to meet that will be typically open 90 minutes before an event. It’s located in between the new Anaheim Ducks team store and the new food and beverage options.
  
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• Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize for ‘uncovering abyss’

  05-10-2017 14:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By JIM HEINTZ and DAVID KEYTON
  STOCKHOLM — Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-born British novelist best known for “The Remains of the Day,” won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday.
  The selection of the 62-year-old Ishiguro marked a return to traditional literature following two years of unconventional choices by the Swedish Academy for the 9-million-kronor ($1.1 million) prize.
  “He’s a very interesting writer in many ways,” said Sara Danius, the academy’s
  
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• Some in GOP open to banning gun accessory used in Vegas

  05-10-2017 14:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERICA WERNER
  WASHINGTON — Senior congressional Republicans say they are open to considering legislation banning “bump stocks” like the shooter in Las Vegas apparently used to make semi-automatic rifles perform more like fully automatic weapons.
  The comments from lawmakers including the No. 2 Senate Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, marked a surprising departure from GOP lawmakers’ general antipathy to gun regulations of any kind. But they were far from a guarantee of a
  
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• T. Jefferson Parker, Jennifer Egan top new must-reads

  05-10-2017 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Seven years after nabbing a Pulitzer for “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” novelist Jennifer Egan leaves experimental fiction behind to journey to World War II-era New York City with “Manhattan Beach,” an emotional story of a young woman working in a naval yard, who confronts a mobster to find the truth behind her father’s disappearance.In “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates reignites a fir
  
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• Coto De Caza or Dove Canyon: Where’s housing hotter?

  05-10-2017 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Homebuying rose, prices dipped, in Coto De Caza and Dove Canyon in August.
  ReportsOnHousing’s house-hunting data tracks resales of existing detached and attached residences in the communities. Analysis includes August trends based on closed sales: sale counts; average price vs. average list price; high and low price paid in the month; average cost per square foot and average size; plus, based on broker listing networks stats on Sept. 7, the “market time” metric comparing supply
  
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• Food drive will aid hungry CSUF students

  05-10-2017 08:37 via ocregister.com
  
  The Epsilon Nu chapter of Sigma Pi fraternity is mounting a food drive to raise monetary and food donations for hungry Cal State Fullerton students.
  The fraternity members were motivated by what they noted was a staggering number of their fellow students who have reported a lack of food security. A 2016 CSU system report showed that more than 20 percent of students across all CSU campuses lack regular access to food.
  Fraternity members will man a table along Titan Walk from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on
  
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• Northwood water polo team holds off late charge by Beckman to win, 6-5, in PCL match

  05-10-2017 07:35 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Northwood’s Andrew Wraith looks for an open teammate as Aviv Zolman of Beckman defends Tuesday. Photo courtesy Michael AnNorthwood’s Cameron An (right) and Beckman’s Eli Schwarz battle for the ball Tuesday. Photo courtesy Michael AnBeckman’s Travis Ruoff takes a shot over Northwood’s Spencer Sellwood Tuesday. Photo courtesy Michael AnNorthwood’s Leon Shi gets ready to make a save during Tuesday’s game. Photo courtesy Michael AnSpencer Sellwood of
  
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• Football recruiting: Santa Margarita running back Chad Magyar commits to UNLV

  05-10-2017 07:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Surging Santa Margarita running back Chad Magyar (6-2, 200) has committed to UNLV, the senior announced on Twitter on Wednesday.
  Magyar has rushed for 676 yards and nine TDs on 75 carries (9.0 yards per carry) in five games. He also is an excellent receiver with a team-high 18 receptions for 194 yards and two scores.
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  Santa Margarita plays No. 1 Mater Dei on Friday at Laguna Hills. Magyar is coming off a 112-yard rushing performance against No. 2 Mis
  
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• Wolf: 10 things USC needs to fix against Oregon State

  05-10-2017 06:49 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — USC’s loss to Washington State was such a model of underachievement, an almost-endless list could be compiled to note the Trojans’ shortcomings.
  Instead, this will stop at 10. Here is what USC needs to fix against Oregon State. USC will win even if they don’t against the lowly Beavers. But they need to fix these things to beat the other teams on the schedule.
  1. Wake up the coaching staff: Is the McKay Center a velvet coffin? Does anyone feel a sense of
  
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• Dodgers will face a very familiar opponent in Diamondbacks

  05-10-2017 06:31 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks played 19 times this season, twice more in spring training.
  And they’re not done with each other yet.
  In a sprawling wild-card game that featured 14 pitchers and four triples (including one by one of those pitchers – Diamondbacks reliever Archie Bradley), the Diamondbacks turned a 6-0 lead into a nail-biting 11-8 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday.
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• USC offensive guard Viane Talamaivao out for season with pectoral tear

  05-10-2017 06:19 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — USC right guard Viane Talamaivao will miss the remainder of the season after tearing a pectoral muscle, a setback for the Trojans’ already banged-up offensive line.
  Talamaivao, a senior, will undergo surgery, Coach Clay Helton revealed after practice on Wednesday. He has started at right guard since 2014, making a total of 37 in that span, including 13 last season.
  “Viane has been a rock for us for four years, very much a leader near and dear to our hearts,”
  
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• Riverside’s Angela Gomez, slain in Las Vegas mass shooting: ‘Please … remember who she was’

  05-10-2017 06:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Hundreds of friends and family came together Wednesday night to remember with tears but also laughter 20-year-old Riverside City College nursing student Angela Gomez , who graduated from Riverside’s Poly High School in 2015 and was killed in Sunday’s Las Vegas mass shooting.
  The group nearly filled the 1,200-seat-capacity Landis Auditorium on the RCC campus to listen as family members — Angela’s two brothers and two sisters, her parents Steve and Julie, spoke of
  
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• Lonzo Ball sits out Lakers’ preseason loss with sprained ankle

  05-10-2017 06:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma, left, dribbles past Denver Nuggets’ Malik Beasley during the second half of an NBA preseason basketball game, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, in Ontario, Calif. The Nuggets won 122-104. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The Lakers Julius Randle (30) drives to the basket as Denver’s Trey Lyles (7) defends during the first quarter Wednesday night in Ontario. The Los Angeles Lakers play the Denver Nuggets Wednesday October 4, 2017 in a National Basketball Association
  
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• Lonzo Ball sits out Lakers’ preseason game with sprained ankle

  05-10-2017 06:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma, left, dribbles past Denver Nuggets’ Malik Beasley during the second half of an NBA preseason basketball game, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, in Ontario, Calif. The Nuggets won 122-104. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The Lakers Julius Randle (30) drives to the basket as Denver’s Trey Lyles (7) defends during the first quarter Wednesday night in Ontario. The Los Angeles Lakers play the Denver Nuggets Wednesday October 4, 2017 in a National Basketball Association
  
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• Mater Dei closes in on Trinity League golf championship

  05-10-2017 05:56 via ocregister.com
  
  YORBA LINDA – When Mater Dei girls golf coach Ramon Aguirre saw two Monarchs share an embrace and ignore everyone else, he told them he never wanted to see that again.
  If one girl gets a hug, he told them, everyone on the team better get one too.
  Cliques have created a toxic atmosphere on the school’s team in the past, and he wasn’t about to have that happen again.
  He told the Monarchs no one was going to talk behind anyone’s back, and no one was going to blame anyone for
  
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