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• Here is what’s offered at Irvine Barclay Theatre Feb. 22-28

  19-02-2018 23:48 via ocregister.com
  Feb. 22-24: Dance Visions
  UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts dance department will present its annual production “Dance Visions,” featuring original choreography from the faculty, including Lar Lubovitch, Molly Lynch, Donald McKayle and Lisa Naugle. The shows start 8 p.m. Feb. 22 and 23, and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Feb. 24.
  Feb. 25: Bumper Jacksons
  The Bumper Jacksons paint America’s story from the sounds of New Orleans to the hollers of the Appalachian Mountains
  
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• Free Irish dance party at the Segerstrom arts center

  19-02-2018 23:22 via ocregister.com
  Irish dance will be on display at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts this weekend.
  Dublin Irish Dance will take up the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza with an Irish céilí, also known as a traditional Irish gathering. The event in the plaza before the night’s show is free to attend.
  The Reelers will perform live Irish jigs and folk music. Refreshments will be sold.
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  When: 5 to 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 24.
  Where: Julianne and George Argyros Pl
  
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• APNewsBreak: Consumers Energy to stop burning coal by 2040

  19-02-2018 23:18 via ocregister.com
  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Consumers Energy will phase out electricity production from coal by 2040 to slash emissions of heat-trapping gases that cause global warming, the Michigan utility’s president and CEO told The Associated Press.
  The utility plans to generate 40 percent of its power from renewable sources such as wind and solar energy by then, Patti Poppe said in an interview ahead of the public announcement Monday. She said the utility will also will rely on natural gas, hyd
  
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• Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia asked staff to play ‘spin the bottle,’ new complaint says

  19-02-2018 23:08 via ocregister.com
  The Cristina Garcia sexual-harassment scandal expanded when a former aide said the California assemblywoman suggested staffers join her in a game of “spin the bottle” and fired him after he complained.
  First reported by Politico, the complaint filed Saturday with the state Department of Fair Employment & Housing by a former Garcia staffer identified as J. David Kernick follows allegations reported Feb. 8 that the Bell Gardens Democrat tried to grope a male legislative aide and a
  
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• Stars of the Olympics are changing the sponsorship game

  19-02-2018 22:12 via ocregister.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — A gold medal used to be the golden ticket for lucrative endorsements — think Mary Lou Retton on a Wheaties box. But in the age of social media, athletes are making a name for themselves well ahead of time.
  Even more so than in Rio in 2016 and Sochi in 2014, Pyeongchang athletes are Olympian at building brands.
  Before breakout star Chloe Kim won gold in the snowboarding halfpipe event, her infectious personality and heartwarming origin story had already won h
  
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• Orange County girls water polo athlete of the week: San Clemente’s Sophia Noble

  19-02-2018 22:10 via ocregister.com
  The Register’s girls water polo athlete of the week for Feb. 19.
  Sophia Noble
  San Clemente
  The UC Davis-bound senior recorded 12 saves in a 14-3 victory against Redondo and 15 blocks in an 11-9 triumph over La Canada to help the top-seeded Tritons reach the CIF-SS Division 2 semifinals. The first-year, full-time starter has 342 saves on the season.
   
  
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• San Clemente salutes exemplary residents, businesses and more

  19-02-2018 21:44 via ocregister.com
  Assemblyman Bill Brough, left, swears in the incoming 2018 San Clemente Chamber of Commerce Chairman Steve Ynzunza during the Chamber’s annual Awards Ceremony at the Bella Collina Towne and Golf Club on Thursday, February 15, 2018. (Photo By Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)The 2018 San Clemente Chamber of Commerce Board Members hold up their right hands as they take an oath of office during the Chamber’s annual Awards Dinner on Thursday, February 15, 2018. (Photo By Jeff Ant
  
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• Orange County boys soccer athlete of the week: Santa Ana’s Cesar Zamora

  19-02-2018 21:34 via ocregister.com
  The Register’s boys soccer athlete of the week for Feb. 19
  Cesar Zamora
  Santa Ana
  The sophomore forward scored twice to lead the Saints to a 3-1 victory against Corona del Mar in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs on Friday. Zamora has 14 goals for the season. “He’s having a good year,” Santa Ana coach Joe Penaflor said.
  
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• Orange students are learning the farm-to-table chain behind their meals

  19-02-2018 21:26 via ocregister.com
  Through the new Youth Food Literacy Program, Orange high school students are getting to sink their teeth into a world of food production, of which many of them were completely unaware.
  Thirteen juniors and seniors from El Modena and Orange high schools are participating in the program – a collaboration between Orange Home Grown, the city of Orange and the Orange Unified School District, with funding from the Picerne Family Foundation.
  “What we’re trying to do is give them an ex
  
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• 2 teens injured, 1 critically, after being hit by car in San Clemente

  19-02-2018 21:16 via ocregister.com
  Two teens were hospitalized, one with critical injuries, after being hit by a car driven by another juvenile in San Clemente on Sunday night, authorities said.
  The teen driver lost control of his vehicle in the 3000 block of Eminencia Del Sur and hit a parked truck and the two victims, who were nearby, Orange County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carrie Braun said Monday.
  The two victims were taken to a hospital after the 9 p.m. Feb. 18 crash. One of them had critical the other minor injuries.
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• Yimi Garcia hoping to resume place in Dodgers’ bullpen

  19-02-2018 21:06 via ocregister.com
  GLENDALE, Ariz. — For almost two years now, Yimi Garcia has worn the cloak of invisibility that comes with Tommy John surgery.
  “It was hard. You always want to play,” Garcia said through an interpreter. “That’s what we do. It’s hard to watch everyone out there playing without you.
  “Watching everybody and not being able to play — that was the hardest part for me.”
  A key piece of the Dodgers’ bullpen in 2015 (a 3.34 ERA over 59 appea
  
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• Facebook to verify ads with postcards after Russian meddling

  19-02-2018 21:04 via ocregister.com
  MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook will soon rely on centuries-old technology to try to prevent foreign meddling in U.S. elections: the post office.
  Baffled in 2016 by Russian agents who bought ads to sway the U.S. presidential campaign, Facebook’s global politics and government outreach director, Katie Harbath, told a meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Washington on Saturday that the company would send postcards to potential buyers of political ads to con
  
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• Aliso Viejo Little League opens 27th season with first all-girls T-ball team

  19-02-2018 21:04 via ocregister.com
  When the start of the season was announced during opening day of Aliso Viejo Little League on Saturday, Feb. 17, spectators were treated to something new — the league’s first all-girls T-ball team, the Indians.
  Made up of nearly a dozen 3 1/2- to 5-year-olds, the Indians joined 54 other teams comprising 610 players to open Aliso Viejo Little League’s 27th year.
  The T-Ball Indians pose for a photo as the league’s first all-girls T-Ball team during opening day for the Aliso
  
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• Summer openings: Toy Story Land at Disney Hollywood Studios, Pixar Pier at California Adventure Park

  19-02-2018 20:40
  The Slinky Dog Dash roller coaster will be one of the featured rides at Toy Story Land at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida. It opens June 30. Disney's Hollywood Studios is set to open Toy Story Land on June 30 at the Walt Disney World Resort theme park in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
  
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• California renters could get tax break, protections from new bills

  19-02-2018 20:34 via ocregister.com
  SACRAMENTO » California renters would gain new legal protections — and a doubled state tax credit — if lawmakers pass a package of bills announced amid pressure to help millions of people coping with the threat of eviction and lack of available rental housing.
  The proposals, introduced last week, aim to make it harder for landlords to evict tenants, give renters more time to respond to eviction notices, and bar landlords from evicting all of their tenants while remaining i
  
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• Long lost Yiddish songs documenting horrors Jews experienced during World War II to be performed at UC Irvine

  19-02-2018 19:50 via ocregister.com
  When Anna Shternshis stumbled on to a collection of Yiddish songs in the late 1990s, at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kiev, she had no measure of their value.
  Upon revisiting the collection nearly a decade later, Shternshis said, she “felt shock” to discover that they were written by Soviet Jews in the 1940s describing the horror, violence and destruction of the war in Nazi-occupied Europe.
  Russian-Jewish songwriter Pavel Lion, who goes by the pseudonym Psoy Korolenko,
  
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• See the Dirty Heads for free at Bear Mountain on Saturday

  19-02-2018 19:16 via ocregister.com
  Strap on your snowboard or skis and head to Bear Mountain to unleash your inner Chloe Kim or Shaun White and enjoy a free concert by reggae/rock band the Dirty Heads.
  The group will perform on the deck in front of Laybacks Bar on Saturday, Feb. 24.The Dirty Heads formed in Huntington Beach and released a new album, “Swim Team,” in October. The band is probably best known for the popular single “Lay Me Down,” featuring Rome Ramirez of Sublime, which climbed the charts
  
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• Trump revives push for limits on immigrants bringing family

  19-02-2018 18:42 via ocregister.com
  By DEEPTI HAJELA and AMY TAXIN
  NEW YORK — When the U.S. government approved Ricardo Magpantay, his wife and young children to immigrate to America from the Philippines, it was 1991. By the time a visa was available, it was 2005, and his children could not come with him because they were now adults.
  More than a decade later, his children are still waiting.
  Magpantay gets worried when he hears the White House is aiming to limit the relatives that immigrants-turned-citizens can sponsor, a pro
  
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• Football: Aliso Niguel wide receiver Tyler Jones commits to San Diego State as a preferred walk-on

  19-02-2018 18:41 via ocregister.com
  Aliso Niguel All-County football player Tyler Jones (6-2, 200) has committed to San Diego State as a preferred walk-on, the senior said.
  The Aztecs recruited the versatile Jones as a wide receiver. He was selected first-team All-County in 2017 as an all-purpose player. He also played for the winning South team in the Orange County All-Star Classic.
  Jones hauled in 94 receptions in the fall for 1,457 yards and 17 TDs. His yards ranked fourth in Orange County while his receptions were second
  
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• Seal Beach man, 55, arrested on suspicion of rape

  19-02-2018 18:21 via ocregister.com
  SEAL BEACH – A 55-year-old man was arrested Sunday, Feb. 18, on suspicion of raping a woman after they were in a Seal Beach restaurant together and she couldn’t remember how she got to an apartment, police said.
  “The victim reported she went to a local restaurant where the suspect served her an alcoholic drink,” Seal Beach police Sgt. Michael Henderson said Monday. “She later awoke in an unfamiliar apartment and was sexually assaulted. The victim does not remember h
  
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• How a rough childhood steered Theo Von into stand-up comedy

  19-02-2018 18:08 via ocregister.com
  Growing up as a smaller kid in a tough neighborhood outside of New Orleans made being funny a necessity for stand-up comedian Theo Von.
  “Humor is a free currency not everyone can have,” Von said in a recent phone interview. “Growing up poor, it was the one thing I could control. I couldn’t control money, but I could control if I was funny.”
  Von will return to the Improv Comedy series at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino on Friday, Feb. 23 and Saturday, Feb. 24.
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• Ducks’ J.T. Brown: Devante Smith-Pelly ‘shouldn’t have to go through’ racial taunts

  19-02-2018 17:35 via ocregister.com
  ANAHEIM — Ducks forward J.T. Brown lamented the behavior of fans involved in a racially charged incident with Washington’s Devante Smith-Pelly during the Capitals’ game Saturday night against Chicago.
  Brown saw where four spectators were escorted out of United Center after taunting Smith-Pelly with chants of “basketball, basketball, basketball” as the winger sat in the penalty box after a fight with the Blackhawks’ Connor Murphy.
  Smith-Pelly, a former Duc
  
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• Trump backs efforts to bolster FBI gun background checks

  19-02-2018 17:31 via ocregister.com
  By CATHERINE LUCEY and JONATHAN LEMIRE
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.— President Donald Trump offered support Monday for an effort to strengthen the federal gun background check system as he hunkered down at his private Florida golf course just 40 miles from last week’s deadly school shooting.
  Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president spoke on Friday to Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, about a bipartisan bill designed to strengthen the FBI database of prohibited gun buyer
  
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• Is Russian figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva ‘undefeatable?’

  19-02-2018 17:03 via ocregister.com
  GANGNEUNG, South Korea — For nearly two years, Russia’s Evgenia Medvedeva was so far superior to the rest of women’s figure skating that her rivals struggled to come up with ways to accurately describe her supremacy.
  “Undefeatable,” volunteered Mirai Nagasu, a two-time U.S. Olympian.
  Medvedeva, 18, was unbeaten from December 2015 through this past fall, winning 10 international titles including the 2016 and 2017 World Championships, leaving many to believe she was i
  
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• Huntington Beach Film Festival documentary looks into challenges of maintaining the host city’s parks

  19-02-2018 17:00 via ocregister.com
  Huntington Beach resident Matt Hanlon, 26, debuts his 20-minute documentary “Saving Green” at the Huntington Beach Film Festival, Saturday, Feb. 24. (Photo courtesy Matt Hanlon)Jean Nagy, founder of the Huntington Beach Tree Society, is profiled in “Saving Green,” a documentary about volunteers who have fought to keep up city parks for 20 years. The movie debuts Saturday, Feb. 24 at the Huntington Beach Film Festival. (Photo courtesy Matt Hanlon)A former journalist, Matt
  
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• Intersection closed after rollover crash in La Habra injures 1 driver

  19-02-2018 16:38 via ocregister.com
  At least one person was seriously injured after a high-speed rollover crash in La Habra Monday morning, police said.
  The crash was reported at 5:53 a.m. Feb. 19 at Beach Boulevard and Imperial Highway, said La Habra police Sgt. Ron Hurst.
  Hurst said there was only one car involved in the incident and traffic investigators are on scene and have closed off the intersection for an undetermined amount of time.
  No other details about the crash were immediately available.
  
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• Truck crashes into Brea house after teens throw toilet paper on another home, try to flee

  19-02-2018 16:14 via ocregister.com
  A pickup truck hit the garage of a house in Brea early Monday as a teenage driver and friends tried to flee after throwing toilet paper at another home, police said.
  The crash, which took place at about 12:40 a.m. in the 700 block of West Oakcrest Avenue, did not involve a driver being under the influence but speeding may have played a role, authorities said.
  No injuries were reported, according to police, but there was damage to some of the home’s utility lines.
  The Brea police traffic di
  
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• 2018 Winter Olympics photos | The best of Day 10

  19-02-2018 16:05 via ocregister.com
  Erin Jackson of the U.S. competes during the women’s 500 meters speedskating race at the Gangneung Oval at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)United States’ Lindsey Vonn competes in women’s downhill training at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Jeongseon, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)Gigi Marvin (19), of the United States, celebrates with her teammates after scoring a goal against Finland durin
  
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• Status Update: KidWorks Classic Golf Tournament seeking sponsors

  19-02-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  People on the move
  Mark Steiman has joined CHOC as executive director of human resources. He will lead employee relations and engagement strategies for the pediatric healthcare system. Most recently, Steiman served as chief operating officer and chief experience officer for the Newport Orthopedic Institute.
  Dr. Lisa Abaid, left, has been named co-director of gynecologic oncology for Hoag Memorial Hospital’s Breast & Ovarian Cancer Prevention Program. Abaid joins breast surgical oncologi
  
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• California’s livability ranking drops to 4-year low

  19-02-2018 15:45 via ocregister.com
  People have to be in a good frame of mind to spend — whether in corporate life or as a consumer.
  And while California’s “well-being” is slipping, according to one measurement, the state’s quality of life continues to rank among the nation’s most desirable.
  Pollster Gallup’s annual scoring of the quality of life in each U.S. state ranked California No. 14 for 2017. That was down one notch from No. 13 in 2016 to its lowest level since a 17th place ranking
  
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• Disneyland unveils limited edition rose gold churro

  19-02-2018 15:43
  Disney parks are all ears when it comes to pop culture trends. The parks have recently gone all-in on the rose gold trend, first releasing rose gold Minnie Mouse ears, and unveiling a short time later rose gold spirit jerseys.
  
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• Cold, windy storm could drop Southern California snow levels to 1,500 feet

  19-02-2018 15:41 via ocregister.com
  LOS ANGELES — A cold storm emanating from Canada and packing very little moisture is moving through California today, bringing the Southland’s coldest temperatures this year, snowfall potentially as low as 1,500 feet, furious winds and the risk of serious traffic disruptions, including road closures, forecasters said.
  Mountain roads that could be affected by weather conditions include Interstate 5 near the Grapevine and the 14 Freeway through Soledad Canyon, and Highway 2, the Natio
  
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• The roots of the Florida school shooting: Political Cartoons

  19-02-2018 15:00 via ocregister.com
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  Check out our daily cartoon gallery featuring some of the best cartoonists from around the world, and across the political spectrum, covering current issues and figures.
  
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• O.C. congressman waylaid by budget, misses Olympics

  19-02-2018 14:00 via ocregister.com
  The Buzz is the Register’s weekly political news column.
  If House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce had a message for North Korea when he saw Kim Yo-jong at the Olympic Games, he didn’t get the chance to relay it.
  The Yorba Linda Republican had been named to the White House’s seven-member delegation to the Games, led by Vice President Mike Pence. Others included Army Gen. Vincent Brooks, commander of U.S. and U.N. forces on the peninsula, and Marc Knapper, interim Cha
  
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• Cannabis business, and cannabis’ political clout, are growing up quickly

  19-02-2018 14:00 via ocregister.com
  As they work to grow their newly legal industry, many in California’s cannabis business are looking to grow their political clout.
  And, at all levels of politics, candidates and backers of many causes are likely to help them do just that.
  Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, left, gets a tour of Bud and Bloom dispensary from Kyle Kazan, a partner and board member, in Santa Ana on Friday, May 5, 2017 during a “meet and greet” and Cinco del Mayo celebration at the dispensary. (Photo by Leonard
  
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• KW debuts AI virtual assistant and referral platform

  19-02-2018 10:43
  Real estate franchisor Keller Williams debuted an artificial intelligence-based virtual assistant and referrals platform today, announcing to the world it has every intention of thriving in a changing industry. "We are a technology company.
  
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• Los Alamitos homebuying dips 5% as sellers don’t budge on prices

  19-02-2018 09:36 via ocregister.com
  Los Alamitos’s housing market looked struggling in the fourth quarter: Prices flat as sales fell.
  CoreLogic statistics for the October-to-December period compared with the same period a year earlier, show these five trends for Los Alamitos’s homebuying …
  1. 53 homes sold in the latest period vs. 56 a year earlier.
  2. That’s a one-year sales decline of 5.4 percent vs. a countywide homebuying loss of 1.3 percent.
  3. Median selling price in the latest period of $890,00
  
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• SoCal athletes’ 2018 Olympic Village

  19-02-2018 08:50 via ocregister.com
  The latest tweets and updates from Southern California athletes competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
  
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• Irvine police seek help in locating man

  19-02-2018 07:09 via ocregister.com
  Irvine police are asking the public’s help in locating a man who went missing at around 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 18, outside the 99 Ranch Market on Culver Drive.
  Police Lt. James Hutchcraft said that Yang Tun, 80, was with family members before he evidently walked away unnoticed. He is described as 5-foot-7-inches, 130 pounds, last seen wearing a red zip-up sweater and black pants with a green stripe on the sides.
  Anyone with information is asked to call Irvine Police Department at 949-724-7000
  
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• Oram: LeBron James steps up to win MVP and spares us another indefensibly sterile All-Star Game

  19-02-2018 06:33 via ocregister.com
  LOS ANGELES — When the NBA’s All-Star Game needed saving, LeBron James stepped up.
  Now if he’d only do it for the Lakers. But more on that later.
  If the goal on Sunday was to see stars, for most of the night banging one’s head against the wall might have been a more enjoyable method.
  But the NBA and its stars have a funny way of ratcheting up the drama and the intrigue and making you wonder why you had to be so cranky about the whole enterprise in the first place.
  Ninety
  
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• Villagers in Thailand save baby elephant that fell into muddy well

  19-02-2018 06:11
  Residents of a village in Thailand pulled together recently to help a baby elephant that became trapped in a muddy well. NBC 4 reports that the baby Asian elephant became stuck in the well in Kaeng Hang Maeo district of Chanthaburi Province after its herd of about 40 wandered onto a rubber plantation.
  
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• Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir no strangers to France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron

  19-02-2018 06:11 via ocregister.com
  GANGNEUNG, South Korea—It’s a safe bet that when the ice dance is over Tuesday (Monday on the West Coast) that the new Olympic ice dancing champions will hail from Centre Gadbois, a rink in Montreal.
  In 2014, France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron relocated to Quebec along with their coach Romain Haguenauer to train with coaches Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon. Two years later they were joined by Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the 2010 Olympic
  
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• Before visiting Pacific-leading Vegas, upbeat Ducks take a side trip — home

  19-02-2018 06:00 via ocregister.com
  ANAHEIM – Las Vegas can do a number on many who pay a visit. The city’s NHL team has joined in on that, having that kind of effect on those who enter into its playhouse.
  Bill Foley paid $500 million for the Vegas Golden Knights to come into existence and give Sin City its first professional team in one of the four major team sports. It has been an improbable ride ever since.
  The Golden Knights won eight of their first nine games and haven’t stopped winning. At 39-15-4, Vegas ha
  
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• LeBron James rises to occasion to lead his team to NBA All-Star Game victory

  19-02-2018 05:58 via ocregister.com
  LOS ANGELES — In the end, it was every bit of what it has become over the years. Nothing more, nothing less.
  The NBA’s 67th annual midseason celebration was part-basketball game, part-showbiz extravaganza, part-house party, and, by night’s end, everybody seemed to have had a good time at the All-Star Game on Sunday at Staples Center.
  Under the watchful gaze of legends Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell and Jerry West, who were seated together at courtside, Team LeBron James rall
  
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• Whicker: Close doesn’t count for Patrick Cantlay anymore (if it ever did)

  19-02-2018 05:21 via ocregister.com
  PACIFIC PALISADES — Apparently, Patrick Cantlay wasn’t happy. Which, in the long view, is a sign of health.
  It means that it’s not a victory anymore when he is able to strike a golf ball without feeling a steak knife attacking his back.
  It is not a victory anymore when he gets through four competitive rounds without keeling over.
  It is certainly not a victory anymore when he has the Genesis Open lead after 63 holes and then fades to fourth place, with 2-over-par golf on the fin
  
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• From waste to taste: Orange County sets Guinness record for recycled water

  19-02-2018 05:03 via ocregister.com
  Volunteer observer Dyana Pena looks at the monitors on the wall of the control room as the Orange County Water and Sanitation Districts kicked off an attempt to set a world record for converting the most wastewater into drinkable water in 24 hours Thursday. By Friday afternoon, the entities had converted 100 million gallons of wastewater into drinkable water. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)Theresa Slifko, left, volunteer observer, and Philip Robertson, right, adjudicator for the Guiness
  
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• Bubba Watson ends two-year drought with Genesis Open victory at Riviera

  19-02-2018 04:43 via ocregister.com
  Bubba Watson reacts on the 18th green after winning the Genesis Open golf tournament at Riviera Country Club Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018, in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Kang)Patrick Cantlay hits his second shot on the second hole during the final round of the Genesis Open golf tournament at Riviera Country Club Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018, in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Kang)Justin Thomas putts on the first hole during the final round of the Genesi
  
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• Religious intolerance circles the globe

  19-02-2018 04:30 via ocregister.com
  Religious intolerance is a global constant. The defeat of the Islamic State is good news, but widespread persecution remains.
  All faiths endure persecution, but Christians suffer the most. The group Open Doors figures that 215 million Christians were subject to high levels of persecution. More than 3000 were killed for their faith.
  Rising persecution in part reflects the spread of radical Islam, particularly through the Islamic State. But the Middle East is not the only source. Violent extremism
  
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• Los Angeles Chargers offseason analysis: Offensive linemen

  19-02-2018 04:08 via ocregister.com
  More Chargers position-by-position analysis: Quarterbacks | Running backs | Wide receivers | Tight ends
  Nearly five years had passed since Russell Okung’s lone Pro Bowl appearance. So when the Chargers signed the left tackle to a four-year contract worth up to $53 million last spring … well, the move raised a few eyebrows.
  Pro Football Focus called the deal a “multi-year millstone,” giving it an F grade. Bleacher Report put Okung on its &ldq
  
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• Proposition 13 turns 40 and may a face mid-life crisis

  19-02-2018 04:00 via ocregister.com
  This year is the 40th anniversary of Proposition 13, the iconic property tax limit measure that California voters overwhelmingly endorsed in 1978.
  It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that it’s also the 40th anniversary of efforts to repeal or alter Proposition 13’s provisions, and those on the left side of the political ledger – unions, particularly – may be trying once again this year to undo it.
  An initiative awaiting clearance for sign
  
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