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• O.C. girls basketball top 10 rankings (2-12-18)

  12-02-2018 23:46 via ocregister.com
  
  The Register’s Orange County girls basketball top 10 for Feb. 12.
  O.C. TOP 10(Records entering Monday, Feb. 12)
  1.Mater Dei (22-3)
  Monarchs went wire-to-wire as the county’s No. 1 team in regular season. Now Ribet Academy and the Open Division awaits.
  2. Brea Olinda (22-4)
  Seeded second in Division 1, the Ladycats are seeking their first section title since 2010 and 18th overall. Their journey starts against visiting Orange Lutheran on Thursday.
  3. Fairmont Prep (18-9)
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• Broadcom lines up biggest ever debt financing –$106 billion — for Qualcomm

  12-02-2018 23:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Broadcom Ltd. has lined up as much as $106 billion of debt financing to back its proposed acquisition of Qualcomm, winning what would be the biggest corporate loan on record at a precarious time for credit markets.
  As much as $100 billion of the funding would be provided by a group of 12 lenders including Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., Broadcom said in a statement Monday, a record loan financing. The banks provided a firm commitment to fund the deal, a step up from their pre
  
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• Firefighters battling fire in Anaheim commercial building

  12-02-2018 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM – Firefighters were battling a blaze in a commercial structure that sent black smoke billowing into the sky Monday afternoon, Feb. 12.
  A representative with Anaheim Fire & Rescue said the blaze, which started sometime before 2 p.m., was first reported as a vehicle fire in a “shop.” It was immediately unknown what kind of business was in the structure affected.
  Soon after, it was deemed a commercial structure fire and firefighters from Anaheim, Fullerton, Brea, Orang
  
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• Laguna Niguel social media star says ‘yes’ to a dance invitation from Chicago teen with cerebral palsy

  12-02-2018 23:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Sometimes life can be sweet –– like glazed with pink sprinkles sweet.
  That’s why Chicago-based teen June Osborn, 14, took a shot in the dark when she asked a social media star from across the country, Michael Gilgan, 16, of Laguna Niguel, to her winter formal.
  Osborn, whose suffers from cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, wasn’t planning on going to the dance. It was only two weeks away. Then, on a whim of “why not?” she tagged his handle in a post featuring
  
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• Brian Setzer brings ‘Rockabilly Riot!’ tour to Pala Casino Spa & Resort in June

  12-02-2018 23:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Brian Setzer will rock the house at Pala Casino Resort & Spa when he brings his “Rockabilly Riot!” summer tour to town on Saturday, June 2.
  The legendary singer/songwriter and frontman of the Stray Cats and Brian Setzer Orchestra is known for his high-energy shows filled with hit songs such as “Stray Cat Strut,” “Rock This Town,” and “Jump Jive An’ Wail.”
  The tour date happens after the Stray Cats will reunite and headline the Viva L
  
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• Galentine’s Day evolves to become part of #MeToo

  12-02-2018 23:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By TAMARA LUSH
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — When Kelly Smith thought about when to hold her kickoff event for a county commission campaign in suburban Florida, she chose a day symbolizing women supporting women: Galentine’s Day.
  The unofficial holiday began as an idea on a popular sitcom. But this year, many women like Smith are turning it into part of the #MeToo movement.
  “Galentine’s Day is about celebrating women working together, and that’s how we’re going to wi
  
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• Orange County boys basketball scoring leaders: Feb. 12 update

  12-02-2018 23:09 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County boys basketball scoring leaders through Feb. 11.
  Leaderboards are based on stats available each Monday morning.
  No.
  Name
  GP
  Pts
  PPG
  1
  Alex Bray, University
  26
  710
  27.3
  2
  Isaiah Vargas,Brethren Christian
  21
  530
  25.2
  3
  Dominick Harris,Pacifica Christian
  22
  536
  24.4
  4
  Brendan Harrick, Esperanza
  25
  547
  21.9
  5
  Blake Burzell,Laguna Beach
  28
  599
  21.4
  6
  Dylan Thoerner, Beckman
  23
  479
  20.8
  7
  Stone Sinek, Fullerton
  25
  520
  20.8
  8
  Nico Dasca,Costa Me
  
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• Trump says ‘OK with me’ if plan to rebuild roads flounders

  12-02-2018 23:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEN THOMAS
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sent Congress a sweeping plan Monday to rebuild the nation’s depleted roads and bridges — then immediately raised doubts about how committed he was to delivering on that campaign promise.
  “If you want it badly, you’re going to get it,” Trump told state and local officials during a meeting at the White House. “And if you don’t want it, that’s OK with me too.”
  Trump suggested that his prop
  
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• Kancigor: Choosing the unexpected when sharing a favorite recipe with friends

  12-02-2018 22:56 via ocregister.com
  I met Tony Cipriano at Mitzvah Meals where we both volunteer to cook for the homeless.
  I was struggling with a knife that was too large to core the apples I was working on. Tony reached in his pocket and said, “Here. Try this,” and handed me a melon baller, and my immediate thought was: Wow! A man who cooks. More fodder for my column.
  Cipriano, a college biology teacher who lives in Buena Park, grew up in New York, the son of a Sicilian father and a Yemenite Jewish mother.
  When I ask
  
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• Don’t ban kratom, end the War on Drugs instead

  12-02-2018 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: Breaking views are thoughts from individual members of the editorial board on today’s headlines.
  For hundreds of years, people have used kratom leaves or powders for pain relief.
  Currently legal in the United States, millions of Americans have safely used kratom for therapeutic and recreational purposes.
  In recent years, federal agencies which have no regard for individual liberty like the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration have set th
  
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• How California’s smoking bans are broadening

  12-02-2018 22:06 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s been 20 years since California became the first state to ban smoking in bars and other public places. Today, California cities are still leading the way in many anti-smoking campaigns, including smoking bans on sidewalks.Smoke-free sidewalks
  Statewide efforts: Last April, the California excise tax on cigarettes increased $2, and in January the California Air Resources Board declared cigarette smoke a toxic pollutant. State-level policy changes have helped California’s rate for l
  
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• Orange County girls water polo athlete of the week: Segerstrom’s Jacqueline Lopez

  12-02-2018 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  The Register’s girls water polo athlete of the week for Feb. 12
  Jacqueline Lopez
  Segerstrom
  The senior goalie helped the Jaguars defeat Santa Ana, 16-2, and rival Ocean View, 17-8, to complete a 7-0 run to the Golden West League title and earn the No. 2 seed for the CIF-SS Division 4 playoffs. “She’s a wall,” Segerstrom coach Michael Varela said. “We get to make a lot of decisions (on defense and the counterattack) because we trust her.”
  
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• Costco stores in Tustin, Pacoima test computerized food-court ordering kiosks

  12-02-2018 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Costco stores in Tustin and Pacomia are testing a new computerized ordering system at the big-box retailer’s food court.
  Imagine a churro, hot dog and Pepsi in about a minute. No line, no wondering where to shove your cart full of goodies while you wait.
  The self-serve kiosk at the Tustin District location was installed two weeks ago, a Costco employee said Sunday. So far, it’s been a great success and wait times have been cut substantially, he said.
  The new food-ordering kiosk
  
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• Toll road agency report criticizes San Clemente’s campaign against toll road, city fires back

  12-02-2018 21:17 via ocregister.com
  
  This is where one of two potential routes for the 241 Toll Road through San Clemente would merge onto Interstate 5, through the Shorecliffs Golf Course corridor. Houses line the golf course on each side. (File photo by Fred Swegles, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  The chairman of the agency that governs the 241 Toll Road directed agency staff on Feb. 8 to send inside information about San Clemente’s anti-toll road campaign to the California Fair Political Practices Commission.
  Foothill/Easter
  
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• Orange County girls basketball athlete of the week: Brea Olinda’s Stephanie Lee

  12-02-2018 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  The Register’s girls basketball player of the week for Feb. 12
  Stephanie Lee
  Brea Olinda
  The junior guard set an Orange County record for 3-pointers in a game with 12 during a 40-point performance against El Modena. “She shot extremely well and didn’t force shots,” said Brea Olinda coach Bob Walton of Lee, who broke the record of 11 shared by former Ladycats star Nicole Erickson.
  
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• Lunar New Year a colorful spectacle at the Outlets at San Clemente

  12-02-2018 21:07 via ocregister.com
  
  A 30-foot-long ‘dragon dance’ gyrated through the crowd at a Feb. 10 celebration of Lunar New Year at the Outlets at San Clemente. (Photo by Fred Swegles, Orange County Register/SCNG)Spectators at a Feb. 10 celebration of Lunar New Year at the Outlets at San Clemente take a selfie as a lion approaches behind them. (Photo by Fred Swegles, Orange County Register/SCNG)Graceful movements characterized dancers from the South Coast Chinese Cultural Center and Irvine Chinese School performi
  
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• Target will roll out same-day delivery test as it faces off with Amazon

  12-02-2018 20:59 via ocregister.com
  
  As Target makes a splashy entrance on the same-day delivery front and goes head to head with Amazon, its test battleground will be the Twin Cities.
  The retailer will begin offering home delivery through Shipt of groceries, essentials, electronics, toys and other products in its hometown starting March 1. This will be one of the first new markets for Shipt since it was bought by Minneapolis-based Target late last year — and will be followed by many more in coming months.
  When it rolls out h
  
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• Families show little ones a good time at Baby Date festival in Costa Mesa

  12-02-2018 20:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Young guests and their families filled the OC Fair & Event Center on Sunday, Feb. 11 for the inaugural Baby Date festival.
  Activities included photo booth shots, face painting, fashion shows, arts and crafts and a chance to meet mermaids.
   
  Hayden Bae of Rancho Cucamonga examines her new facepaint during the inaugural Baby Date festival at OC Fair & Event Center on Sunday, February 11, 2018 in Costa Mesa, Calif. (Photo by Josh Barber, Contributing Photographer)Lulu Telleria of
  
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• CIF-SS girls soccer playoff pairings

  12-02-2018 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  The CIF-SS girls soccer playoff pairings were released Monday, Feb. 12.
  GIRLS SOCCER
  DIVISION 1First round, Thursday, Feb. 15Los Alamitos byeRancho Cucamonga at NorthwoodVista Murrieta at San ClementeLong Beach Poly at La MiradaDana Hills at JSerraBeckman at Chino HillsWestlake at HartMillikan at Santiago/CoronaSanta Margarita byeEsperanza at Long Beach WilsonLos Osos at EdisonAliso Niguel, byeFoothill at TroyMoorpark at Harvard-WestlakeHuntington Beach at San Juan HillsUpland bye
  DIVISION 2Wild
  
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• Has Disneyland finally passed the limit for price increases?

  12-02-2018 20:17
  The reported $1 billion-plus price tag for Disney's new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge lands at its Anaheim and Orlando parks is cited as a reason for its latest round of price increases. But will visitors keep paying more and more? A lot people both in and outside of Disney are justifying Disneyland's latest annual price increase by talking about the expense of building the park's upcoming Star Wars land.
  
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• Boys basketball: Fryer’s top 10 vote

  12-02-2018 20:05 via ocregister.com
  
  How I voted today in the Orange County top 10 media poll …
  Mater Dei
  Santa Margarita
  JSerra
  Capistrano Valley
  Canyon
  Laguna Beach
  Trabuco Hills
  Aliso Niguel
  Ocean View
  CypressConsidered: Edison, Saddleback Valley Christian, Newport Harbor, Northwood.
  Trabuco is a hot team right now. Before losing to Capo Valley in the regular-season finale, Trabuco had defeated Aliso Niguel, Tesoro, San Clemente and El Toro in consecutive games.
  
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• Seed bombs are a great way to get spring gardens to bloom

  12-02-2018 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Winter, or what passes for it in Southern California, seems to be behind us already.
  So it’s time to think ahead to spring gardens, right? If so, two words come to mind: Seed bombs. You can begin planning now to create your own wildflower frenzy with these simple sowing wonders.
  The bombs, or some peace-minded folks prefer to call them seed balls, consist of compost, seeds and water, made into small mixtures resembling dirty meatballs.
  Making these mini planting projectiles is an easy
  
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• Brea’s newest public art piece, “Centennial Door,” in honor of its 100th anniversary is unveiled

  12-02-2018 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Brea residents took at look through a gateway to the city’s future on Saturday.
  A ceremony unveiled for the community the sculpture commissioned to celebrate the city’s 100th anniversary.
  “Centennial Door” is artist Carlos Terres’ vision for the community’s future. The sculpture is 6-by-6 feet of carved stone. It was placed in Lagos De Moreno Park, which is shared with Laurel Elementary Magnet School.
  Terrés, who is from Lagos de Moreno, Brea&
  
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• 36-year-old Huntington Beach woman in critical condition following officer-involved shooting in Laguna Beach

  12-02-2018 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Laguna Beach police investigate the scene around a blue gray Lexus SUV at the end of St Ann’s Drive where a woman driving the car was wounded in an officer involved shooting in Laguna Beach on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. (Photo by Dave Margolin, contributing photographer)The District Attorney Mobile Command Center, right, arrives at Cleo Street near the scene where a woman was wounded in an officer involved shooting with the Laguna Beach Police in Laguna Beach on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. (Erika I
  
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• CIF-SS boys soccer playoff pairings

  12-02-2018 19:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The CIF-SS boys soccer playoff pairings were released Monday, Feb. 12.
  BOYS SOCCER PLAYOFFS
  DIVISION 1First round, Friday, Feb. 16Servite byeHarvard-Westlake at WarrenCentury at San ClementePalos Verdes at EdisonNotre Dame/Sherman Oaks at CathedralParamount at El DoradoRedlands East Valley at El RanchoMillikan byeLoyola byeCorona del Mar at Santa AnaFountain Valley at DowneyMission Viejo at Mater DeiGodinez at Capistrano ValleySanta Margarita at KatellaCrespi at PeninsulaSanta Barbara bye
  DIVISI
  
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• Has Disneyland finally passed the limit for ticket price increases?

  12-02-2018 19:17 via ocregister.com
  
  A lot people both in and outside of Disney are justifying Disneyland’s latest annual price increase by talking about the expense of building the park’s upcoming Star Wars land. Magic isn’t cheap, they say.
  And they are right. Disney never publicly confirms what it spends building its theme park attractions, but top-quality new rides can cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge project, which includes new lands at Disneyland and Disney&rsqu
  
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• Trump’s $4.4 trillion budget moves deficit sharply higher

  12-02-2018 18:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREW TAYLOR
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.4 trillion budget for next year that heralds an era of $1 trillion-plus federal deficits and — unlike the plan he released last year — never comes close to promising a balanced ledger even after 10 years.
  The growing deficits reflect, in great part, the impact of last year’s tax overhaul, which is projected to cause federal tax revenue to drop. And Monday’s budget submission does not yet reflect last
  
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• Esteban Loaiza, ex-MLB pitcher and husband of Jenni Rivera, suspected of possessing 44+ pounds of narcotics

  12-02-2018 18:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Esteban Loaiza, seen above pitching for the Dodgers on April 27, 2008 in Los Angeles, has been arrested on suspicion of possessing more than 44 pounds of narcotics.  He was married to singer Jenni Rivera, who died in a 2012 plane crash. (Photo by Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty Images)
  LOS ANGELES — Former Major League Baseball pitcher Esteban Antonio Loaiza, who started eight games over parts of two seasons with the Dodgers and was married to late singer Jenni Rivera, was in a San Diego-area j
  
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• Mobile Readers Make OCTA Bus Boarding Easier

  12-02-2018 18:14
  Boarding a bus in Orange County got easier starting Sunday, Feb. 11 when the Orange County Transportation Authority fully implemented mobile ticketing on its fleet systemwide. Riders who purchase bus fares via the OC Bus app on their smartphone or other mobile device will now be able to call up a QR code and quickly scan it on the onboard reader.
  
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• Football recruiting: La Habra’s Clark Phillips III still sizzling, adds Utah offer

  12-02-2018 18:10 via ocregister.com
  
  There is no slowing La Habra All-County cornerback Clark Phillips III (5-11, 175) on the college recruiting trail.
  The rising sophomore and first-team All-County pick in 2017 was offered by Nevada on Sunday and Utah on Thursday, the day after National Signing Day.
  Phillips was offered by UCLA during his All-County season and also holds offers from Washington and BYU.Slow day for biz, but got little work…#Nota7on7dude#Justgettinwork #KingofIE7on7 pic.twitter.com/3Q0YV18Dqm
  — Clark Ph
  
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• Football recruiting: La Habra’s Clark Phillips III still sizzling, adds Pac-12 offer

  12-02-2018 18:10 via ocregister.com
  
  There is no slowing La Habra All-County cornerback Clark Phillips III (5-11, 175) on the college recruiting trail.
  The rising sophomore and first-team All-County pick in 2017 was offered by Nevada on Sunday and Utah on Thursday, the day after National Signing Day.
  Phillips was offered by UCLA during his All-County season and also holds offers from Washington and BYU.Slow day for biz, but got little work…#Nota7on7dude#Justgettinwork #KingofIE7on7 pic.twitter.com/3Q0YV18Dqm
  — Clark Ph
  
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• Why ’80s rockers Loverboy embrace the band’s cheesy lyrics

  12-02-2018 18:01 via ocregister.com
  
  When Loverboy’s party anthem “Working For The Weekend” comes on it’s hard to sit still and not think about, well, partying and red leather pants.
  The band formed nearly four decades ago in Canada and started hitting the charts with the release of its self-titled debut album and the hard-charging single “Turn Me Loose.” The follow-up album “Get Lucky” came out a year later in 1981 spawning the hits “Working For The Weekend” and “Wh
  
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• San Diego’s Breakfast Republic, home of Oreo pancakes, to replace flagship Veggie Grill

  12-02-2018 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  San Diego’€™s fastest-growing restaurant, Breakfast Republic, is coming to Irvine in late fall 2018. (Rendering Courtesy Breakfast Republic)
  A fast-growing boutique breakfast chain in San Diego is racing north to Orange County.
  Breakfast Republic, which has seven locations in the San Diego area, is opening its first Orange County restaurant later this year in Irvine. It’s replacing the Veggie Grill at University Center near UC Irvine.
  “Our lease expired after 10 years
  
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• Los Angeles Chargers offseason analysis: Running backs

  12-02-2018 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Only nine NFL teams rushed for fewer than 100 yards per game in 2017. The Chargers were one of them — despite hiring a run-focused head coach and returning a Pro Bowl running back.
  Anthony Lynn spent years overseeing running backs before his stint in Buffalo as an offensive coordinator and interim coach helped springboard him to the head job in Los Angeles. He was greeted with a backfield led by Melvin Gordon, who had just broken out for 1,416 yards from scrimmage after a disappointing roo
  
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• Chloe Kim tweeting about ice cream during her halfpipe competition is all of us after a long day of work

  12-02-2018 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Is there anything better than ice cream after a long day’s work? Or, if you’re Chloe Kim, in the middle of a halfpipe qualifier?
  Related Articles Winter Olympics 2018: Here’s the latest on Southern California athletes competing in the Games Can snowboarder Chloe Kim revive the Olympic movement?
  The 17-year-old made an impressive debut at the Winter Olympics, hitting a 95.50 in her qualifying runs. She is the top qualifier by a large margin and is also favored to win Gold for Te
  
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• Dodgers enter 2018 motivated to avenge World Series disappointment

  12-02-2018 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Not long after Game 7 of last fall’s World Series, Kenley Jansen was back at Dodger Stadium to work out.
  The memories were too fresh.
  “It took me awhile,” the closer said of absorbing the Dodgers’ loss in baseball’s final game last year. “To be honest with you, I came here a week after and worked out for a weekend. I started to get pissed off and angry. I just walked away.
  “It took me at least three weeks. I think when I went home to
  
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• Police say they’re looking for man who followed, groped Cal State Long Beach student

  12-02-2018 16:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Police are looking for a man who groped a Cal State Long Beach student in an off-campus housing complex Sunday morning, according to authorities.
  Police said the sexual battery happened around 9:45 a.m. to a male student who’d been sitting on a lawn near the Beachside housing complex on Pacific Coast Highway just southeast of the Traffic Circle.
  A man, who looked to be in his mid to late 20s, approached the student, sat down next to him and put his arm around the student, police said in a
  
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• Status Update: Free pre-apprenticeship program to help get students into construction field

  12-02-2018 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Apprenticeship program
  Santa Ana College’s School of Continuing Education is offering a pre-apprenticeship program to prepare people for entry-level apprenticeship positions with local trade unions. 
  The free program for adults over age 18 requires a high school diploma, authorization to work within the U.S. and valid driver’s license. Students will learn skills in cabinet making; green technologies; plumbing; cement masonry; heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), sur
  
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• 2018 Winter Olympics photos | The best of Day 3

  12-02-2018 16:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Mirai Nagasu of the United States performs in the ladies single skating free skating in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)Nika Kriznar, of Slovenia, soars through the air during the women’s normal hill individual ski jumping competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)A fan of Sarka Pancochova, of the Czech Republic,
  
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• 6 reasons you’re to blame for California’s auto insurance rate increase

  12-02-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  I’m not sure I need to tell you this, but your auto insurance bill is getting larger.
  The cost of a typical California policy has risen by 6.3 percent in the past year — the nation’s No. 2 jump — part of the five-year rise totaling 44 percent and No. 7 among the states.
  Will it make you feel any better if you knew that this typical insurance bill — $1,713 for a 30-year-old male driving a 2013 Honda Civic — is only the ninth-highest in the nation, according to
  
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• ‘Black Panther’ puts Africa at the center of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

  12-02-2018 15:48 via ocregister.com
  
  You bet it’s political.
  Marvel’s “Black Panther” movie is an almost all-African superhero spectacular, something previously unseen. It’s built around the title character, who is also known as T’Challa, leader of the mythical, secretive and super-advanced kingdom of Wakanda.
  Played by American Chadwick Boseman (“42,” “Marshall”), Black Panther was introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe two years ago in “Captain America: Civil
  
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• Aussie snowboarder Scotty James comes out swinging

  12-02-2018 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  PYEONGCHANG, South Korea—Australian snowboarder Scotty James’ trademark is a pair of red boxing gloves he wears on the slopes.
  The gloves are a tribute to a national symbol of Australia, the red gloved boxing kangaroo.
  But the gloves also personify the Melbourne 23-year-old: pugnacious, flamboyant and always ready to rumble.
  The gloves say, he said, “I’m Scotty James and I here to play.”
  Indeed James arrived at the Olympic Games swinging.
  At two-time Olympic half-pi
  
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• Philharmonic Society will bring famed orchestras and soloists to Orange County in 2018-19 season

  12-02-2018 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Performances by musical heavyweights such as Murray Perahia, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Joshua Bell, the return of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the annual visit by the Los Angeles Phiharmonic and an evening of klezmer music by Itzhak Perlman are among the offerings in the Philharmonic Society of Orange County’s 2018-19 season, announced today.
  The society’s 65th season will feature 27 performances ranging from programs of revered repertoire such as Tchaivoksky’s Piano Concerto
  
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• When war becomes your normal

  12-02-2018 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Stepping off the C-130 plane that July day was like stepping into a very dusty, smothering oven. It was 126 degrees with windstorms periodically surging into sandstorms. There were maybe two random palm trees surviving among the flat, gray buildings and worn, tan tents. Machine gun fire and pistol shots rang out – interrupted only by the sounds of bombs.
  I had joined the United States Army to serve my country, to help save lives, to do my part. I was deployed to the Iraq War in the middle
  
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• Democrats’ endorsement process spurs claim of corruption

  12-02-2018 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The Buzz is the Register’s weekly political news column. 
  Eleven days after congressional candidate Harley Rouda finished a distant second in a straw poll of local Democratic Party insiders, he sent an email to supporters condemning the vote.
  “It is a rigged process, with widespread corruption,” wrote the Laguna Beach businessman and first-time candidate.
  Party officials refuted the claim, including specifics that Rouda’s campaign said supported the accusation.
  Relat
  
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• World Classic Rockers To Perform For Commodity Classic Evening Of Entertainment

  12-02-2018 11:49
  WORLD CLASSIC ROCKERS TO PERFORM FOR COMMODITY CLASSIC EVENING OF ENTERTAINMENT Feb. 12, 2018 Source: National Corn Growers Association news release The Evening of Entertainment at the 2018 Commodity Classic will be rocking with classic rock hits, performed by the artists that first made them famous as World Classic Rockers take the stage. The Evening of Entertainment at the 2018 Commodity Classic on Thursday, March 1 puts the cherry on top of America's largest farmer-led, farmer-focused convent
  
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• Dodgers offseason roster moves: who’s new and who’s gone?

  12-02-2018 11:02 via ocregister.com
  
  As the Dodgers arrive for spring training, here’s a reminder of what roster changes have taken place …WHO’S BACK?
  Almost everybody including last year’s NL Rookie of the Year (1B Cody Bellinger) and the rest of the Dodgers’ six All-Stars from last year’s game (3B Justin Turner, LHP Alex Wood, LHP Clayton Kershaw, RHP Kenley Jansen and SS Corey Seager).
  WHO’S GONE?
  RHPs Yu Darvish and Brandon Morrow both signed as free agents with the Chicago Cubs.
  
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• Dodgers key spring training dates

  12-02-2018 11:00 via ocregister.com
  
  DODGERS KEY DATES (all times Pacific)
  Tuesday: Pitchers and catchers report
  Wednesday: First workout, pitchers and catchers
  Feb. 18: Full squad reporting day
  Feb. 19: First full-squad workout
  Feb. 23: First Cactus League game, Dodgers vs. White Sox, Camelback Ranch, Glendale, noon
  March 7: Dodgers vs. Angels, Tempe Diablo Stadium, noon
  March 22: Angels vs. Dodgers, Camelback Ranch, Glendale, 7 p.m.
  March 25: Dodgers vs. Angels, Angel Stadium, 6 p.m.
  March 26-27: Dodgers vs. Angels, Dodger S
  
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• 5 garden tips for this week, Feb. 10-16

  12-02-2018 08:57 via ocregister.com
  
  1 Timely suggestion
  This week has Valentine’s Day, so here’s a friendly reminder to share your love, not only with chocolates but with produce from your garden. And, just for the fun of it, look around your yard for the annual weed that I always call the “I-Love-You Plant.” It has low, feather-like leaves close to the ground and wiry, upright, 20-inch flower spikes sporting lots of seed capsules that look like little hearts.
  To me, it’s amazing that this plant
  
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• CIF girls basketball playoffs: Division 5-AAA breakdown

  12-02-2018 08:44 via ocregister.com
  
  OCVarsity breaks down Division 5-AAA of the CIF-SS girls basketball playoffs:
  Top seeded teams: 1. Desert Christian Academy (23-2), 2. Hueneme (8-17), 3. Santa Clara (16-6), 4. Big Bear (19-5)
  O.C. teams in this division: Calvary Chapel (17-5), Capistrano Valley Christian (12-7)
  Analysis: Calvary Chapel and Capistrano Valley Christian are the two county teams in the field. The Eagles, the runner-up to Godinez in the Orange Coast League, play host to University Prep of Victorville (9-9) in the fi
  
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