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• RVIA's Pomona Show Sees Growth, Strong Sales

  17-10-2017 23:35
  Neither Southern California's Anaheim wildfires nor parking issues or thermometer-busting temperatures succeeded in dampening the continued growth of the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association's California RV Show, which closed The 65th California Show has more than doubled in size in the last six years, reports Western Show Director Tom Gaither, and this year's 9.6% growth - from 38,946 in 2016 to 40,167 attendees in 2017 - should go a long way toward securing its position as the preeminent We
  
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• Canyon Fire 2: Blaze now 100 percent contained

  17-10-2017 22:55 via ocregister.com
  
  The Canyon Fire 2 that ripped through the edge of development in northeastern Orange County, destroying buildings and brush in its path, is 100 percent contained, fire officials said Tuesday, Oct. 17.
  It took firefighters more than a week to get the blaze under control.
  Since it ignited on Oct. 9, thousands of firefighters have battled the moving flames around the clock, and in recent days gradually gaining ground on the fire that has scored 9,217 acres.
  Fire agencies from around the state desce
  
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• How to get invited to this super secret pop-up dinner

  17-10-2017 22:53 via ocregister.com
  
  The unique pop-up event,’Le Diner en Blanc’ will make it’s way to a secret location in Orange County on Nov. 2. (Photo Courtesy of ‘Le Diner en Blanc)A unique pop-up dinner event will be making its way to Orange County on Nov. 2, at a super secret location. Le Diner en Blanc, brings foodies  together – dressed all in white – to enjoy a large picnic. Originally created 30 years by French native, Francois Pasquier, this culinary event specializes in secrecy
  
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• Jingle Cruise docked for the holiday season at Disneyland Resort

  17-10-2017 22:40 via ocregister.com
  
  The Christmas holiday at Disneyland is right around the corner but one popular attraction is not returning this year.
  Jingle Cruise, a holiday overlay of the classic Jungle Cruise, is staying on the dock this holiday season, a Disneyland spokeswoman confirmed.
  A Disneyland spokeswoman did not elaborate on the reason why the attraction is not coming back this year. The Jungle Cruise will still operate and have touches of holiday decorations in the queue area but not on the rid
  
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• How are counties affected by DACA changes? New interactive map shows economic impacts of removing recipients from the workforce

  17-10-2017 22:40 via ocregister.com
  
  A new interactive map broken down by Congressional Districts illustrates the economic loss of removing DACA recipients from the workforce in regions across the nation.
  The map, provided by USC Dornsife’s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration and the Center for American Progress, also shows the number of people who are recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program by U.S. Congressional Districts.
  The Obama-era program, which has offered deportation
  
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• ‘Truth’ be told, retired Clipper Paul Pierce wants transition from NBA to ESPN to be authentic

  17-10-2017 22:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Honestly, Paul Pierce still believes he’s a truth-teller. As a TV talking head, that’s important and refreshing.
  Having turned 40 last week, and squeezing out the last two years of a 19-year NBA career with the Clippers, the former Inglewood High star says he finds it a natural, mature and essential transition to take over a full-time speaking gig at ESPN on their NBA shows. It’s a spot that came up when Bruce Bowen’s contract ran out, and he landed with the Clippers as t
  
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• Girls tennis: Corona del Mar’s Danielle Willson commits to USC

  17-10-2017 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Corona del Mar senior tennis player Danielle Willson, last season’s Orange County co-player of the year, has committed to USC as a preferred walk-on, Sea Kings coach Jamie Gresh said Monday.
  Willson is Corona del Mar’s top singles player and entered Tuesday with a 27-2 record.
  The Sea Kings are ranked No. 1 in CIF-SS Division 1.
  Please send tennis news to Dan Albano at [email protected] or @ocvarsityguy on Twitter
  
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• Orange County girls volleyball top 10 (10-17-17)

  17-10-2017 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  The Register’s girls volleyball O.C. top 10 for Tuesday, Oct. 17.
  GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
  O.C. TOP 101. Mater Dei2. Santa Margarita3. Corona del Mar4. Edison5. Huntington Beach6. JSerra7. San Juan Hills8. Los Alamitos9. Orange Lutheran10. Laguna BeachAlso considered (alphabetical order): Dana Hills; El Dorado; Trabuco Hills.
  
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• Record Store Day announces rare vinyl releases for Black Friday that include Paul McCartney, Snoop Dogg, Queen – and Leonard Nimoy?

  17-10-2017 21:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Record Store Day is the best day of the year for lovers of rare and unusual releases on vinyl, and while it officially arrives each year in mid-April for the past few years it’s also added Black Friday specials as a way to get music lovers into some 1,200 independent record shops around the United States on the day after Thanksgiving as the Christmas shopping season kicks off.
  So what cool new stuff will be on the shelves of stores around Southern California come Friday, Nov. 24? We’
  
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• UCLA tight end Austin Roberts hopes to keep growing into leading role

  17-10-2017 21:23 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES >> Austin Roberts knew the type of challenge he faced last week.
  Without Caleb Wilson, Roberts was going to be UCLA’s featured tight end against Arizona. The redshirt junior from Hollywood, Fla., poured over extra film to prepare for his leading role. He put in extra work on the field.
  Three days after he made his first start of the year, Roberts said he underestimated the task.
  “After assessing my performance, I realize I do have to do a little bit more,&rdquo
  
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• The Han Solo ‘Star Wars’ movie now has a title

  17-10-2017 21:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Add this to the list of closely guarded “Star Wars” secrets that are now fully out of the bag.
  Director Ron Howard has been filming the Han Solo origin story — in which we presumably see how the future space smuggler got his wings (literally and figuratively) and more importantly, how he and Chewbacca got their act together and took it on the road.
  And Howard, the child actor-turned-adult-actor-turned-director, thanked cast, crew and fans and revealed the title of the upcoming
  
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• Man charged with 2 murders and 2 attempted murders in Aliso Viejo

  17-10-2017 20:46 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA – A 26-year-old man was charged with two murders on Tuesday for allegedly shooting and killing his father and his father’s girlfriend and wounding two other men in an Aliso Viejo home.
  Luke William Ferguson is facing two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder for allegedly shooting the four at about 2:45 p.m. Thursday in a normally quiet neighborhood called The Hamptons.
  His father, 59-year-old Douglas Ferguson, and his father’s long-term gir
  
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• Junior player banned 15 games for sucker punch to Ducks prospect

  17-10-2017 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League handed Charlie Roy of the Shawinigan Cataractes a 15-game suspension for a violent punch to the head of Maxime Comtois, a Ducks forward prospect selected as the team’s top pick in this year’s NHL entry draft.
  In the contest played on Saturday, Comtois was attempting to fish the puck away from Roy in the offensive zone when the Victoriaville Tigres winger was knocked into the Shawinigan defenseman by a Cataractes teammates as all of them wound up
  
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• TV ads no substitute for doctors’ advice

  17-10-2017 20:24 via ocregister.com
  Eleanor NelsonOf all the admonitions to viewers that appear on the TV screen, one of the most aggravating — and certainly the most futile — is “Ask your doctor.”  This is usually in the final segment of a pharmaceutical commercial, and is designed by the company paying for it to stimulate action on the part of the viewer.  I think that a survey of viewers would show that what it actually stimulates is frustration.
  The name of the product is flashed on the screen
  
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• How ‘Only the Brave’ stars Jeff Bridges and Josh Brolin want to honor fallen firefighters

  17-10-2017 20:13 via ocregister.com
  
  As wildfires devastate parts of California and the West, “Only the Brave” serves as a timely reminder of the courage of those who protect others and of the sacrifices their own families make.
  Opening Friday, the movie stars Josh Brolin and Jeff Bridges. The two, who previously worked together on Joel and Ethan Coen’s remake of “True Grit,” have a familiar ease with each other as they discuss the new film.
  “Only the Brave” tells the true story of the Gran
  
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• Photos: See which Southern California fortunes are among America’s 400 wealthiest

  17-10-2017 20:10 via ocregister.com
  
  No. 28: Donald Bren, 85, of Newport Beach worth $16.3 billion from real estate.No. 55: Patrick Soon-Shiong, 65, of Los Angeles worth $8.3 billion from pharmaceuticals.No. 63: David Geffen, 74, of Beverly Hills worth $7.8 billion from movies and recording work. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images)No. 71: Eli Broad, 84, of Los Angeles worth $7.3 billion from investments. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)No. 264: Oprah Winfrey, 63, of Montecito worth $3 billion from numerous media ventures. (Stephanie Diani/The
  
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• The Rental Boutique, a costume hub for decades, will close Santa Ana shop in January

  17-10-2017 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Cheap and easy access to costumes online is forcing The Rental Boutique, for decades a hot spot for the best costume in town, to sell off its inventory and close shop.
  The Rental Bootique in Santa Ana is closing shop in January after more than 30 years in the costume rental business. (Compiled image)The Santa Ana shop first opened in 1988 on Bristol Street. The small, pink building was packed with thousands of costumes of all kinds, from period outfits befitting a Roman emperor to 1920s Great Ga
  
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• ACI announces winners of annual Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards

  17-10-2017 19:21
  The American Concrete Institute announced the winners of the 2017 Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards, who were honored during the Institute's Concrete Convention & Exposition, October 16, 2017 in Anaheim, Calif. The highest honor was presented to RA torsoA C, Tokyo, Japan.
  
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• Key senators say they have outline of health insurance deal

  17-10-2017 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALAN FRAM
  WASHINGTON  — Two leading senators said Tuesday they have the “basic outlines” of a bipartisan agreement to resume federal payments to health insurers that President Donald Trump has blocked. Both said in separate interviews that they still have unresolved issues but expressed optimism that a compromise was near.
  The agreement would involve a two-year extension of federal payments to insurers that Trump halted last week, said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. Unle
  
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• Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra dazzle Orange County for one memorable night

  17-10-2017 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and its music director, Riccardo Muti, acknowledge the warm applause following the orchestra’s performance of Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 on Monday, Oct. 16. (Photo by Todd Rosenberg)Maestro Muti’s unusual, expressive conducting technique was on full display during the performance of Schumann’s symphony. (Photo by Todd Rosenberg)Muti and the Chicgo Symphony Orchestra proved their mastery of Schubert’s challenging, inco
  
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• Q & A with Lawrence Frank, Clippers president of basketball operations

  17-10-2017 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The Clippers’ new president of basketball operations never played a single minute in an NBA game. He never laced up his high tops, never pulled on a uniform, never made a pass or a jump shot or grabbed a rebound. He never played in a college or high school game, either.
  “I was the bad Hollywood actor,” Lawrence Frank joked about his high school non-career during an extended conversation with the Southern California News Group. “The only word I heard was ‘cut, cut, c
  
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• O.C. ‘Real Housewife’ Kelly Dodd sells Corona Del Mar house for $5 million

  17-10-2017 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County “Housewife” Kelly Dodd has sold her ocean-view Corona Del Mar home for $5 million.
  The five-bedroom house went on the market in August 2016 for $6.25 million, but it’s had several price chops and was most recently listed at $5.495 million.
  In addition to the “Housewives” franchise, the house has another connection to Bravo TV.  One of the listing agents is Leo Goldschwartz of The McMonigle Team on the new Orange County-based show “Real Estat
  
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• Celebrate fall at annual Harvest Festival in Laguna Beach

  17-10-2017 18:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Meet neighbors, enjoy family fun and bring a dish and drinks to share.
  The annual Harvest Festival will be held from 2-5 p.m. at the South Laguna Community Garden on Sunday, Oct. 22.
  The event includes face painting, pumpkin decorating, prizes and live music. Reusable dinnerware will be provided for this zero-waste event.
  The South Laguna Community Garden Park is a public treasure enjoyed by Laguna Beach residents and visitors. There are individual or group garden plots, vertical
  
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• California lawmakers must look beyond Democrat or Republican solutions

  17-10-2017 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  We could accomplish a great deal if we thought as Californians instead of as Republicans and Democrats. Many issues illustrate that: public employee salaries, and water, are two.
  State employee salaries and benefits account for over $20 billion of California’s $183 billion state budget. How can we be sure we are paying our state employees fairly for their work, but not more than we should?
  Republicans point to studies like the 2011 Heritage Foundation Report, “that California public
  
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• Has Obamacare helped or hurt you?

  17-10-2017 17:47 via ocregister.com
  
  President Donald Trump has begun a series of executive actions that will make significant changes to the Affordable Care Act. He has ordered new federal rules to expand the availability of low-cost health insurance policies that offer fewer benefits, and association health plans that allow small businesses to get together and buy one policy, even if they’re in different states.
  Trump has also halted the payment of $7 billion a year in subsidies for insurance companies, money that was used
  
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• Think Orange County house hunting is hard? Try renting a warehouse

  17-10-2017 17:45 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the hottest things in Orange County real estate isn’t very sexy: warehouses, distribution centers and factories.
  The Newmark Knight Frank brokerage’s third-quarter report on local renting and building patterns for so-called “industrial” real estate shows you that house hunters aren’t the only Orange County real estate seekers with a big challenge.
  Only 2 percent of the roughly quarter-billion-square-feet of local industrial space was available to rent this su
  
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• Strong company earnings push Dow to record high 23,000

  17-10-2017 17:37 via ocregister.com
  
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average passed another milestone, topping 23,000 for the first time, as strong earnings from UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Johnson & Johnson helped push the more than century-old gauge to a record.
  It’s the sixth 1,000-point milestone reached in the past 12 months and the fifth since Donald Trump was elected president in November. The Dow average added 0.2 percent, or 44 points, to 23,000 at 11:06 a.m. in New York before retreating. It was at 22,977 at 11:33.
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• Burglars make off with goods from Los Alamitos jewelry store

  17-10-2017 17:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Alamitos police were investigating a burglary at a jewelry store early Tuesday, Oct. 17.
  Just before 3 a.m., officers were called to Crystal Gems at Los Alamitos Boulevard and Florista Street after the burglary alarm was activated. They found a window at the front of the business smashed open and set up a perimeter, said Los Alamitos Police Department Capt. Sean Connolly.
  The suspects had fled by the time officers arrived. They discovered the culprits had taken jewelry from display cases tha
  
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• Boys water polo: Mater Dei-Orange Lutheran showdown Wednesday night

  17-10-2017 16:45 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the biggest boys water polo matches of the regular season arrives Wednesday night.
  No. 1 Mater Dei plays host to No. 2 Orange Lutheran in a Trinity League showdown at 6 p.m.
  Orange Lutheran is the defending Trinity and CIF-SS Division 1 champion but Mater Dei won the teams’ match last month in the finals of the South Coast Tournament.
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• Why Disneyland and Universal Studios need to put guests into the action

  17-10-2017 16:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Let me tell you a story.
  It’s a story about a secret, pursued by many, but revealed to only a few. Those who discover the secret find in it reward: money, fame and adoration. Business leaders from shopping mall developers to movie studios look for the secret in spreadsheets, focus groups, and endless consultants’ reports.
  But those places are not where anyone finds the secret.
  So why I am telling you a story about this? Because that’s the secret. The secret is the story.
  Buildi
  
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• Trump: Drug czar nominee pulls his name from consideration

  17-10-2017 15:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MATTHEW DALY
  WASHINGTON — Rep. Tom Marino, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the nation’s drug czar, is withdrawing from consideration following reports that he played a key role in weakening the federal government’s authority to stop companies from distributing opioids.
  Marino “has informed me that he is withdrawing his name from consideration as drug czar,” Trump tweeted Tuesday. “Tom is a fine man and a great Congressman
  
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• See Tuesday’s top photos and viral videos from around the country and the world

  17-10-2017 15:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Roommates Almost Die Fleeing Fire
  Stadium Becomes Lake
  Anaconda is no match for fearless detective
  
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• Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom: It’s a dog’s life around our house, darn it

  17-10-2017 15:01 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’re a regular reader, you know that we have two dogs, because my teenage daughter Curly Girl is a dog-maniac. She never met a dog she didn’t like. If she came across Cujo, Stephen King’s rabid dog from hell, she’d bring him home for dinner. And she’s already in love with Fluffy, the three-headed beast from Harry Potter.
  Personally, I prefer cats. They groom themselves, aren’t particularly needy, hardly ever bark at the mail carrier, and they don’t
  
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• Roasted Pork Chops with Sweet Potatoes and Apples

  17-10-2017 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  This autumnal one-dish meal shows off apples, sweet potatoes and sweet onions. The vegetables soak up pan juices that are spiked with apple cider and apple vinegar. They cook along with thick-cut pork chops, meaty bone-in wonders that provide plenty of juicy flavor. The recipe calls for 4 chops, but I buy 3 large porterhouse-cuts because they fit better in my skillet, allowing enough room for the fruit and vegetables to surround them.
  Use the variety of sweet potatoes that you prefer.  I us
  
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• Haircut One Hundred's Nick Heyward released first solo LP in 18 years, touring

  17-10-2017 14:42
  Though he's best known as frontman for the fabulously sweatered early '80s pop band Haircut One Hundred, Nick Heyward went on to an acclaimed solo career, including 1993's excellent and underrated From Monday to Sunday , and 1998's The Apple Bed . He hadn't put out a solo album since The Apple Bed , but that changed with Woodland Echoes, which came out in the UK back in August and gets a US release on November 3. His ability to write literate, effortlessly catchy guitar pop hasn't diminished at
  
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• Book’s challenge: Can you do squats like Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg?

  17-10-2017 14:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By JESSICA GRESKO
  WASHINGTON  — Personal trainer Bryant Johnson hears it all the time: Four more years.
  That’s how long fans of his client, 84-year-old Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, tell him he has to keep her healthy so that a one-term President Donald Trump doesn’t get to name the liberal justice’s replacement on the Supreme Court.
  Johnson’s response: Why just four years? Why not 14?
  Interest in the workout of the Supreme Court’s oldest jus
  
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• U.S.-backed forces capture Syrian city used as IS headquarters

  17-10-2017 14:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By SARAH EL DEEB
  BEIRUT — U.S.-backed Syrian forces liberated the city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants on Tuesday, a senior commander for the force said, adding that clearing operations were underway to remove land mines left behind and search for the extremist group’s sleeper cells.
  Brig. Gen. Talal Sillo told The Associated Press that there are no longer clashes in the city, which had served as the extremist group’s headquarters and self-proclaimed capital of their so-c
  
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• Status Update: Braille Institute breaks ground; J.D. Power CEO to...

  17-10-2017 10:22
  The Braille Institute of America held its groundbreaking ceremony Thursday, Oct. 12 for its new Anaheim headquarters. The $10 million, campus will integrate new technologies into its curriculum.
  
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• Adam Silver and MJ: 1 man’s NBA garbage is another man’s beauty

  17-10-2017 10:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By BRIAN MAHONEY
  The Associated Press
  NEW YORK — Adam Silver’s NBA has endless action and daily drama.
  That’s the offseason.
  Then the regular season starts, and some of the intrigue ends.
  Most predictions again see Golden State and Cleveland standing above their challengers for a fourth straight season, a pattern of dominance that even has Michael Jordan fearing a league where 28 teams are “garbage.”
  Related Articles 2017-18 NBA Western Conference team previews 2017
  
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• 2017-18 NBA Western Conference team previews

  17-10-2017 09:47 via ocregister.com
  
  From Paul George and Carmelo Anthony joining the reigning MVP in Oklahoma City, to Chris Paul’s arrival in Houston, to the world champion Warriors, a team-by-team look at the Western Conference, in projected order of finish:
  1. GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS
  LAST SEASON: 67-15, won their second title in three years
  COACH: Steve Kerr (fourth season)
  PROJECTED STARTING FIVE: G Steph Curry (25.3 ppg, 6.6 apg, 4.5 rpg), G Klay Thompson (22.3 ppg), F Kevin Durant (25.1 ppg, 8.3 rpg, 4.8 apg), F Draymond
  
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• 2017-18 NBA Eastern Conference team previews

  17-10-2017 09:46 via ocregister.com
  
  From Kyrie Irving’s move to Boston and Dwyane Wade’s arrival in Cleveland, a team-by-team look at the Eastern Conference, in projected order of finish:
  1. CLEVELAND CAVALIERS
  LAST SEASON: 51-31, lost in NBA Finals
  COACH: Tyronn Lue (third season)
  PROJECTED STARTING FIVE: G Derrick Rose (18.0), G Dwyane Wade (18.3), F LeBron James (26.4), F Jae Crowder (13.9), C Kevin Love (19.0)
  KEY LOSSES: Kyrie Irving, James Jones
  KEY ADDITIONS: Rose, Wade, Crowder, G Isaia
  
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• LeBron James vs. Kyrie Irving the latest entry in NBA rivalries

  17-10-2017 09:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By Tim Reynolds
  The Associated Press
  MIAMI — LeBron James loves rivalries. Ohio State-Michigan. North Carolina-Duke. Cowboys-Redskins. Those are some of the favorite matchups he’s cited over the years, ones that have been honed by the flowing of bad blood over generations.
  Kyrie Irving left Cleveland only two months ago.
  By James’ own definition, he and Irving wouldn’t be rivals yet. The rest of the NBA might argue otherwise, and when Boston and Cleveland meet in the seas
  
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• O.C. boys water polo Top 10

  17-10-2017 08:06 via ocregister.com
  
  BOYS WATER POLO
  O.C. Top 10Oct. 16, 2017
  1. Mater Dei
  2. Orange Lutheran
  3. Huntington Beach
  4. Newport Harbor
  5. Santa Margarita
  6. Foothill
  7. Corona del Mar
  8. Laguna Beach
  9. Aliso Niguel
  10. Los Alamitos
  Other: San Clemente
  
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• Two fires burning at Camp Pendleton

  17-10-2017 07:13 via ocregister.com
  CAMP PENDLETON  (City News Service) – A pair of wildfires spread across open terrain at Camp Pendleton on Monday, Oct. 16, sending plumes of brown smoke over northern San Diego County but posing no threats to populated areas, authorities reported.
  One blaze erupted Monday afternoon in a training area at the Marine Corps installation north of Oceanside, according to the Camp Pendleton Fire Department.
  The other involved remaining areas of combustion from a fire that burned over th
  
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• Video: Trinity-Free Football Talk for the O.C. fans – Week 8

  17-10-2017 06:17 via ocregister.com
  
  OCVarsity contributors Zach Cavanagh and Michael Huntley take a different approach to talking about the Orange County football scene.
  In this week’s video, they discuss the impressive wins last week by Cypress, Westminster and Fullerton, the top match-ups this week, and their selections for player of the week.DID YOU SEE THIS?
  Video: Dan Albano recaps Monday’s football news, announcements
  
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• 911 calls on nursing home dying: ‘Oh my God, this is crazy’

  17-10-2017 05:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By TERRY SPENCER
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  — At first there was no hint of distress in the 911 calls, no sense of a crisis unfolding. But newly released emergency calls from a sweltering Florida nursing home that lost its air conditioning to Hurricane Irma showed staffers becoming increasingly agitated by a disaster that would eventually claim 14 elderly lives.
  The six calls made from the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills between 3 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 13, the day the first
  
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• Anaheim officials discuss fire response at town hall

  17-10-2017 05:52 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — A week after the Canyon Fire 2 tore through three Orange County cities, residents said one of their biggest concerns is reducing fire risk by getting local governments, homeowners associations and neighbors to clear brush and remove trees.
  Anaheim Hills residents Erin Williamson, left, and Sergio Gonzalez react to a city official who gives condolences to those who lost their home in the Canyon Fire 2. Williamson was one of those people. A town hall meeting discussing the blaze wi
  
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• Orange County high school schedule: Thursday, Oct. 19

  17-10-2017 05:22 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County high school sports schedule for Thursday, Oct. 19.
  FOOTBALL
  All games 7 p.m. unless noted
  Sunset LeagueLos Alamitos vs. Edison at Huntington Beach High
  Empire LeaguePacifica at Western
  Golden West LeagueLoara vs. Santa Ana at Santa Ana BowlOrange at Segerstrom
  Pacific Coast LeagueNorthwood vs. Corona del Mar at Newport Harbor High
  Garden Grove LeagueLos Amigos at Bolsa Grande
  Orange LeagueCentury vs. Katella at Glover Stadium
  Orange Coast LeagueGodinez vs. Calvary Chapel at Ora
  
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• U.N. chief urges support for Sahel force to fight extremists

  17-10-2017 05:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By EDITH M. LEDERER
  UNITED NATIONS  — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging strong international support for a 5,000-strong force to fight the growing threat from extremists in Africa’s vast Sahel region, warning that if urgent action isn’t taken “the stability of the entire region, and beyond, is in jeopardy.”
  The U.N. chief said in a report obtained Monday by The Associated Press that the security situation in the Sahel is in “a continuous downwa
  
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• Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta’s ties to tax havens

  17-10-2017 05:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN CALLEJA
  VALLETTA, Malta — A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation’s links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said.
  This undated photo shows Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese investigative journalist who exposed her island nation’s links with the so-called Panama Papers. Galizia was killed on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, when a bomb destroyed her car as she was
  
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