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• Don’t Miss: 47th annual Dana Point Festival of Whales

  26-02-2018 23:23 via ocregister.com
  The briny ocean winds blow through your hair as you inhale the crisp, salty sea surrounding your steel vessel. You feel small and, yet at once, you realize that we are all a part of something bigger. Something grander. This feeling, triggered by seeing a majestic grey whale as it breeches from the blue waters, is echoed over and over by spectators and visitors of Dana Point’s annual Festival of Whales.
  The festivities, which begin on March 3-4 and culminate on March 10-11, will feature a w
  
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• Rams expected to land Marcus Peters for two draft picks

  26-02-2018 23:19 via ocregister.com
  Star cornerback Marcus Peters is set to come to the Rams, and he won’t cost much.
  The Rams and Kansas City Chiefs have agreed to a trade that will bring Peters to the Rams in exchange for their 2018 fourth-round draft pick and their 2019 second-round pick. The Rams also would receive the Chiefs’ sixth-round pick this year.
  Details of the trade, which was agreed upon Friday, first were reported Monday morning by NFL Network. The trade cannot be made official until March 14, when the l
  
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• Final Orange County boys basketball top 10 (2-26-18)

  26-02-2018 23:19 via ocregister.com
  The Register’s final Orange County boys basketball top 10 for the 2017-18 season.
  FINAL O.C. TOP 10(The poll voters are five members of the media)
  1. Mater Dei 22-6 (50 poll points)Monarchs, No. 5 in the CalHiSports.com California top 20, beat No. 3 Etiwanda to advance to the CIF-SS Open Division championship game.
  2. Santa Margarita 20-8 (45)Eagles lost to Crespi in Open Division consolation game, but still have at least two games remaining – Open Division consolation game vs. Ranch
  
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• J.T. Chargois: Being with Dodgers ‘like Disney World’

  26-02-2018 23:14 via ocregister.com
  GLENDALE, Ariz. – To say right-hander J.T. Chargois is happy to be in camp with the Dodgers might not fully capture it.
  “This place is crazy, man. This is awesome. It’s like Disney World or something,” he said, sitting at his locker Monday morning in the clubhouse at Camelback Ranch.
  “Look at this place – it’s so bright and merry. Even when I was playing catch yesterday I was like, ‘The ball is so light. Why is everything so light and fluffy here?'
  
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• Disneyland Adds New Open Air Market Overlooking the Jungle Cruise

  26-02-2018 23:14
  Big news for Disneyland food fans, as the company has just announced plans to add an entirely new dining space to Adventureland, right next to the Jungle Cruise. TimeOut LA was among the first to report the new announcement , which dropped without any fanfare on the Disney Parks Blog late last week.
  
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• Blues legend Buddy Guy comes to Musco Center

  26-02-2018 23:06 via ocregister.com
  Blues fans are in for a treat: the iconic singer and guitarist Buddy Guy is coming to Musco Center for the Arts at Chapman University on March 14 at 7:30pm.
  Arguably leading blues artist now living, Buddy Guy is a seven-time Grammy Award winner, Kennedy Center and National Medal of Arts honoree, inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and icon of Chicago Blues. His music has influenced a long line of other artists, including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and John Mayer. As noted
  
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• Orange County girls water polo athlete of the week: Newport Harbor’s Jessica Lynch

  26-02-2018 22:49 via ocregister.com
  The Register’s girls water polo athlete of the week for Monday, Feb. 26:
  Jessica LynchNewport Harbor
  The UC Irvine-bound senior scored the winning goal with three seconds left and played strong defense to help lead Newport Harbor past Santa Barbara 4-3 in the CIF-SS Division 2 final. The team captain also scored twice in an 8-5 victory against Santa Margarita in the semifinals.
   
  
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• Once classrooms for Orange Union High, Reeves Hall has been refurbished into a modern learning center by Chapman University

  26-02-2018 22:48 via ocregister.com
  If someone old enough to remember the early 20th century happened to stroll down Glassell Street, they might say the face of Chapman University – once the heart of Orange Union High School – hasn’t changed all that much in 100 plus years.
  That’s by design. Two identical buildings, known as “The Twins,” that made up Orange Union’s nerve center still stand as pillars of Chapman University today. One of them, Reeves Hall, has received a full renovation and
  
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• Trial begins for man accused of a 1974 murder in La Palma, the city’s oldest unsolved killing

  26-02-2018 22:34 via ocregister.com
  SANTA ANA – More than 40 years after a young divorcee from Arizona was strangled in her La Palma apartment, trial has begun for a retired postal worker who authorities say they have tied by DNA to the city’s oldest unsolved killing.
  On Monday, a jury for the murder trial of Larry Stephens, 68, learned how Patricia “Annie” Ross’ nude body was discovered in her bedroom on the evening of Dec. 11, 1974, while her small dog was found, unharmed, inside a nearby, closed dr
  
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• Women of Coast are the agents of change

  26-02-2018 22:31 via ocregister.com
  As we talk over coffee, I can’t help but notice Nichol Bridges’ eyes are an arctic blue, clear and intense as she holds my gaze.
  A Newport Beach native, Chapman University grad and now a financial professional, Nichol is tough. She is smart. She is funny. She is beautiful. She is the kind of woman you’d want to have as a daughter, or a best friend. And yet she is also one of the millions of women who have been sexually assaulted in her lifetime.
  Nichol isn’t allowing what
  
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• Local agencies plan educational seminar on active shooter responses at Orange Unified schools

  26-02-2018 22:26 via ocregister.com
  Parents can learn about the protocols and people ready to protect their children in a school shooting scenario during an Orange Unified School District informational seminar at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6, at Canyon High School.
  The seminar – a collaboration between the district, the county Department of Education, Supervisor Todd Spitzer, the OC Health Care Agency, Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the Anaheim and Orange police departments – is being held to give parents a
  
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• Favorites of Huell Howser to be exhibited at Orange County Great Park in Irvine

  26-02-2018 20:56 via ocregister.com
  The art gallery at the Orange County Great Park will host its latest exhibition, “Golden Parks: Huell Howser,” starting Sunday, March 4.
  The exhibit highlights the Golden Parks the late TV legend Huell Howser documented throughout his career and emphasizes their role in creating healthy communities, according to a news release. Howser was best known for his human interest show “California’s Gold,” which featured small towns, landmarks and other places in California.
  
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• Orange County house hunters have 6% fewer listings to choose from

  26-02-2018 20:48 via ocregister.com
  Orange County house hunters have six percent fewer listings to ponder.
  ReportsOnHousing tracks homebuying patterns for existing residences listed in real estate broker networks: supply (active listings); demand (new escrows in past 30 days); and “market time” (a measure of selling speed of days it takes a typical listing to enter escrow).
  As of Feb. 22, ReportsOnHousing found in Orange County that house hunters could review 4,178 listings, down 282 residences for sale in a year
  
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• Orange County boys soccer athlete of the week: La Habra’s Tanner Coombs

  26-02-2018 20:41 via ocregister.com
  La Habra’s Tanner Coombs is the OIrange County Register boys soccer of the week for Feb. 26, 2018.La Habra’s Tanner Coombs is the Orange County Register boys soccer player of the week for Feb. 26, 2018.La Habra’s Tanner Coombs is the Orange County Register boys soccer athlete of the week for Feb. 26, 2018.Show Caption of Expand
  The Register’s boys soccer athlete of the week for Monday, Feb. 26:
  Tanner Coombs
  La Habra
  The sophomore, who plays right outside midfielder, scor
  
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• Schedule for the CIF-SS boys and girls basketball championships

  26-02-2018 20:38 via ocregister.com
  The schedule for the CIF-SS boys and girls basketball championship games on Friday and Saturday, March 2-3.
  CIF-SS BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
  Friday, March 2at Walter Pyramid, Long Beach StateGirls Open Division: Windward vs. Harvard-Westlake, 6 p.m.Boys Open Division: Sierra Canyon vs. Mater Dei, 8:30 p.m.
  Friday, March 2at Azusa Pacific UniversityBoys Division 3A: Notre Dame/Riverside vs. Bishop Amat, 6 p.m.Girls Division 2A: Glendora vs. Downey, 8 p.m.
  Saturday, March 3at Azusa Pacific Universi
  
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• Bobcat Ridge Preserve and Trabuco Rose Preserve among new names announced for 7 nature preserves purchased by OCTA

  26-02-2018 20:36 via ocregister.com
  The Orange County Transportation Authority announced new names over the weekend for seven natural areas in the county it has purchased since 2011 to offset the environmental impacts of transportation projects.
  The agency gave community members about a month to vote on one of three possible names for each preserve.
  Residents explore the Ferber Ranch Preserve during a docent-led hike. The preserve is one of seven that will be renamed by the Orange County Transportation Authority after a public sur
  
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• Dunn Deal: Mike Giddings introduced a pro-style offense as football coach at Newport Harbor High

  26-02-2018 20:35 via ocregister.com
  (Second in a two-part series.)
  When Mike Giddings coached his fourth and final year at Newport Harbor High, Shane Foley was the quarterback and the Sailors produced offensive fireworks never seen before at Davidson Field.
  Foley and Giddings united as a cohesive tandem that mirrored more recent Super Bowl champions than a mid-’80s sleepy beach town high school, and the Sailors capped the school’s most successful four-year period, prior to the 32-year Jeff Brinkley era. The school open
  
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• Punk pioneers X and Mike Watt will perform at this San Pedro brewery

  26-02-2018 20:19 via ocregister.com
  With the help of a couple of punk pioneers, San Pedro’s Brouwerij West will celebrate its second anniversary on Saturday, March 3.
  Seminal L.A punk band X and San Pedro rocker — and Minutemen and Firehose founder —  Mike Watt are set to perform in the 17,000-square-foot outdoor space that it shares with Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles.
  They’ll be joined by all-female garage rock trio L.A. Witch.
  Doors open at 6 p.m and the music starts at 6:45 p.m.
  House
  
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• Laguna Woods’ senior mobility program faces fee hike

  26-02-2018 19:41 via ocregister.com
  The Laguna Woods City Council on Wednesday, Feb. 21 passed a resolution to adopt new fee proposals for the Senior Mobility Program.
  Since its inception in 2002, the subsidized program that offers discounted taxi fares for residents 60 and over has continued to run at a deficit to the city.
  “We do have some users who use it very heavily. We do have some users that use it more modestly,” Laguna Woods City Manager Chris Macon said. “But the program is designed to be as flexib
  
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• 14 reports of school threats ended with 12 students, 2 adults arrested in Southern California last week

  26-02-2018 19:27 via ocregister.com
  During the week of Feb. 18-23, law enforcement officials responded to numerous reports of school threats in Southern California, ultimately resulting in the arrest of 14 people.
  The incidents occurred one week after 17 people were killed in a Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
  Related: Timeline of Southern California school threats reported after the Florida shooting
  Experts say that these threats aren’t new, and it’s difficult to say if there has been an actual increase
  
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• Aliso Viejo mayor’s message: talk to your teens

  26-02-2018 18:57 via ocregister.com
  One of the worst calls a first responder goes to is suicide. My first day on patrol I was dispatched to a suicide involving a middle-aged man who was suffering mental health issues. The family watched as he slowly and uncontrollably fell into the abyss of mental illness, culminating in him taking his own life. They were helpless in the aftermath, asking me if there was something more they could have done. I had no answers. When, in subsequent years on patrol, it involved a child or teenager, it
  
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• Football recruiting: JSerra wide receiver MuNir McClain hauls in USC offer

  26-02-2018 18:20 via ocregister.com
  JSerra wide receiver MuNir McClain (6-4, 200) received a scholarship offer over the weekend that he has been longing for.
  The rising junior was offered by USC, who signed his brother, Malik McClain, in the early period in late December.
  “This is an offer I’ve been waiting for,” McClain said Monday of the Trojans. “USC is great academically and as far as football, they have a great program that produces great wide receivers.”Truly Honored To Receive An Offer From The
  
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• Individual tickets to ‘Hamilton’ in Costa Mesa go on sale today

  26-02-2018 18:08 via ocregister.com
  “Hamilton” fans, do you want to be in the room where it happens?
  Well, this is your chance.
  Tickets went on sale at 9 a.m., and more than 300 were lined up at the box office at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa. By 9:15 a.m. Monday, almost 53,000 had indicated interest in buying tickets to “Hamilton.”
  Lin-Manuel Miranda’s mega-hit musical about the life and career of U.S. Founding Father Alexander Hamilton is coming to Segerstrom Center for the
  
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• George Benson lets jazz fly at Spotlight 29 Casino

  26-02-2018 18:06 via ocregister.com
  Let Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter George Benson give you a night of funky jazz tunes at Spotlight 29 Casino on Saturday, March 3.
  Benson is best known for his late ’70s and ’80s hits  “Give Me The Night,” “Turn Your Love Around,” and “On Broadway.” 
  8 p.m. Saturday, March 3, Spotlight 29 Casino, 46200 Harrison Place, Coachella. $55-$75. 760-775-5566, spotlight29.com.
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• Orange County girls soccer athlete of the week: St. Margaret’s Lauren McCaffrey

  26-02-2018 18:00 via ocregister.com
  The Register’s girls soccer athlete of the week for Monday, Feb. 26:
  Lauren McCaffreySt. Margaret’s
  McCaffrey, a senior defender and team captain, led a Tartans defense that shut out Walnut 4-0 in the second round and Montclair 3-0 in the quarterfinals of the CIF-SS Division 4 playoffs. St. Margaret’s (20-5-0) has 22 shutouts this season, including eight in a row. McCaffrey, who had two assists against Walnut, signed to play soccer at Northwestern. She was Academy League MVP la
  
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• Steve Fryer’s Orange County boys basketball top 10 vote

  26-02-2018 17:45 via ocregister.com
  How I voted today in the final Orange County boys basketball media poll of the 2017-18 season …
  Mater Dei
  Santa Margarita
  Capistrano Valley
  Crean Lutheran
  Northwood
  Canyon
  JSerra
  Aliso Niguel
  Cypress
  Laguna BeachCrean beat two very good teams last week, San Gabriel Academy and St. Anthony; the win over St. Anthony, although sophomore Isaiah Thomas was a star in that one, was a complete-team win. I might have JSerra too high, Cypress too low. I second-guess myself all of the time with top
  
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• Heather Locklear arrested in Thousand Oaks

  26-02-2018 17:23 via ocregister.com
  Heather Locklear was arrested late Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018, in Thousand Oaks on suspicion of domestic violence and battery on a police officer, according to reports in the Hollywood Reporter and Variety. (2016 photo by Amanda Edwards/Discovery via Getty Images)
  HOLLYWOOD — Actress Heather Locklear was arrested in Thousand Oaks for domestic violence and battery of an officer, it was reported today.
  Locklear faces one count domestic violence, a felony, and three counts of battery on emergency
  
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• Status Update: Tax audits coming to small retailers in Santa Ana; jobs fair is March 8

  26-02-2018 16:30 via ocregister.com
  Tax audits
  Staff from the state’s Department of Tax and Fee Administration’s statewide Compliance & Outreach Program is planning to visit non-residential retail businesses in Santa Ana’s 92703 ZIP code.
  The visits help educate business operators about the CDTFA, its tax and fee programs, as well as identify gaps in compliance where businesses may be selling or leasing tangible personal property without a seller’s permit.
  During these visits, S
  
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• Promoting freedom by breaking down information barriers

  26-02-2018 16:30 via ocregister.com
  Where injustice thrives in the world protests naturally follow. The latest explosion was in Iran. Although the grievances were diverse, the frustrations were great. Many risked their freedom and lives to take a stand.
  But technology, too, is proving to be a hero. Twitter, YouTube and Telegram all empower the disenfranchised to make their voices known around the world. Everything from high-level diplomacy between heads of state to street protests by student activists now happens on the Internet,
  
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• Gabriel Iglesias, Jeff Garlin, Adam Devine and more will play KROQ/106.7 FM’s Kevin & Bean’s 10th Annual April Foolishness

  26-02-2018 16:30 via ocregister.com
  For its 10th year, the KROQ 106.7/FM Kevin & Bean’s April Foolishness is playing its biggest April Fool’s joke yet and having the show on Saturday, March 31.
  The show has also been moved from the Shrine Auditorium to Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live (777 Chick Hearn Court) and the line-up will include performances by Gabriel Iglesias, Brad Williams, Doug Benson, Sarah Tiana, Bryan Callen, Jeff Garlin, Adam Devine and DJ sets by Mike Relm.
  Instead of celebrating the 10th anniversary
  
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• Los Angeles burbs crack down on huge homeless camp near Disneyland, fearing new Skid Row

  26-02-2018 16:07
  The specter of homeless encampments steadily expanding across the downtown streets of San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco - bringing with them a public health crisis - has one southern California community taking tough action to dismantle a two-mile-long camp just a short drive from Disneyland. In a departure from the approach taken by other local governments in the state, officials in Orange County, Calif., have started to clear out the camp - by moving occupants and hauling away literally
  
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• Director Kevin Smith suffers massive heart attack while performing in Glendale

  26-02-2018 16:03 via ocregister.com
  Director Kevin Smith, known as both an actor and filmmaker for projects that include “Clerks,” “Mallrats, and “Chasing Amy,” is hospitalized today in Glendale after suffering what he calls a “widow-maker”-style massive heart attack the night before.
  Smith reported his own heart attack — and subsequent survival — over various social media outlets, including Twitter and Instagram.
  The actor-director says he started feeling nauseous Sunday betw
  
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• A $7.6 million teardown? Seller has bigger plans for Newport Coast mansion

  26-02-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
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• Supreme Court rejects administration appeal over ‘Dreamers’

  26-02-2018 15:50 via ocregister.com
  WASHINGTON (AP)— The Supreme Court is rejecting the Trump administration’s highly unusual bid to get the justices to intervene in the controversy over protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants.
  The justices on Monday refused to take up the administration’s appeal of a lower court order that requires the administration to continue accepting renewal applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. What made the appeal unusual is that t
  
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• Threat to Cerritos College and a Norwalk school is deemed not credible, says college president

  26-02-2018 15:20 via ocregister.com
  In a message on its web site late Sunday, Feb. 25,2018, Cerritos College reported a non-credible threat against the campus and a school in Norwalk. (Click for a larger image)
  After learning Sunday of social media posts regarding what is being called “an unspecified threat” targeting Cerritos College and another school in Norwalk, the president of the community college said the threat has been deemed non-credible, and the college will open today with an increased security presence.
  Ce
  
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• California is No. 2 state for sin, by this ranking! Who’s No. 1?

  26-02-2018 15:00 via ocregister.com
  For those who think California is a den of iniquity, here’s the poll just for you!
  Online financial advice website WalletHub compiled various social, economic and demographic patterns to judge which states are more “sinful” than others.
  After juggling 38 benchmarks from debt-to-income ratios to crime statistics to the levels of inactive adults to the frequency of addictions like drinking and gambling, California was ranked as the second-most sinful state, just be
  
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• Here’s a tax season ghost story that should scare you

  26-02-2018 14:30 via ocregister.com
  Be afraid of “ghost” tax preparers, experts warn those of us gearing up to file with the Internal Revenue Service.
  Ghost preparers take fees to help people do their taxes but lack credentials and don’t sign tax returns, as required by law.
  They run fly-by-night operations, setting up tables in shopping centers or even renting office space between February and April, according to Ruth Godfrey of Godfrey & Hardy Tax & Business Services in Upland.
  Then they disappear.
  
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• Ag Sec'y Perdue Adds A Second Presentation At Commodity Classic

  26-02-2018 11:10
  AG SEC'Y PERDUE ADDS A SECOND PRESENTATION AT COMMODITY CLASSIC Feb. 26, 2018 Source: Commodity Classic news release U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has added a second appearance at Commodity Classic in Anaheim, Calif. The 2018 Commodity Classic kicks off Tuesday, Feb. 27 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif.
  
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• Homebuying in and around Coto de Caza jumps 28%: trends to know

  26-02-2018 09:04 via ocregister.com
  Homebuying in South County’s 92679 ZIP code jumped at year-end as prices cooled.
  The region — which runs from Portola Hills through Trabuco Canyon and Coto de Caza to Wagon Wheel — had mixed results in the fourth quarter. CoreLogic statistics for the October-to-December period compared with the same period a year earlier, show these five trends for  92679 homebuying …
  1. 148 homes sold in the latest period vs. 116 a year earlier.
  2. That’s a one-year sales gai
  
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• Two die when car strikes power pole, is engulfed in flames

  26-02-2018 07:29 via ocregister.com
  ORANGE Two people died Sunday evening, Feb. 25, when a car struck a power pole, knocked down power lines and became engulfed in flames, authorities said.
  The crash was reported at 9:17 p.m. on Santiago Canyon Road at the 241 Toll Road, the California Highway Patrol reported. Authorities shut down both roads due to downed power lines, summoned Southern California Edison and declared a Sigalert until further notice.
  Firefighters extinguished the vehicle fire and confirmed the fatalities, the CHP s
  
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• Weinstein Co. to file for bankruptcy after deal talks collapse

  26-02-2018 07:19 via ocregister.com
  By BROOKS BARNESThe New York Times
  LOS ANGELES — The Weinstein Co. said in a statement late Sunday that it would file for bankruptcy after the collapse of sale talks with an investor group led by Maria Contreras-Sweet, who ran the Small Business Administration under President Barack Obama.
  TX Body: “While we recognize that this is an extremely unfortunate outcome for our employees, our creditors and any victims, the board has no choice,” the statement said. The beleaguered film
  
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• Congress returns with gun violence an unexpected issue

  26-02-2018 06:56 via ocregister.com
  By LISA MASCARO and MATTHEW DALY
  WASHINGTON — After a 10-day break, members of Congress are returning to work under hefty pressure to respond to the outcry over gun violence. But no plan appears ready to take off despite a long list of proposals, including many from President Donald Trump.
  Republican leaders have kept quiet for days as Trump tossed out ideas, including raising the minimum age to purchase assault-style weapons and arming teachers, though on Saturday the president tweeted th
  
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• Student of the Week: Taylor Fleitz, Bedford High School

  26-02-2018 06:42
  First Top Accomplishment: Becoming a district champion, state champion, and qualifying/competitor at the Internationals in Anaheim, California for DECA Quote from teacher: "Taylor has been an amazing leader throughout her high school career," said Christy Avalos, teacher, "but this year she is an all-star! Taylor single-handedly brought back our homecoming parade. This was an awesome event that both our students and the community immensely enjoyed! Taylor also planned a Trunk or Treat for our hi
  
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• Ducks’ need for more scoring might force GM Bob Murray’s hand at trade deadline

  26-02-2018 06:12 via ocregister.com
  For the past five seasons, the Ducks were putting trade deadline moves under consideration to further their chances at a deep playoff run that would end with them hoisting the Stanley Cup.
  It is very different this year. The Ducks aren’t cruising to a Pacific Division title. Nor is a playoff spot just an assumption that will eventually be a reality. They’re in a real battle to make the postseason.
  But the attitude of the organization, from owner Henry Samueli and General Manager Bob
  
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• ‘Blaze it forward’ – Friends, family celebrate the life of slain student Blaze Bernstein

  26-02-2018 05:23 via ocregister.com
  COSTA MESA — The shocking death of college student Blaze Bernstein made national headlines in January. But that was not what this gathering on Sunday, Feb. 25, was about.
  Rather, 2,500 people came together at Segerstrom Hall to honor Bernstein’s life — and to join in a “communal call for kindness.” 
   “I know everyone here is wondering, ‘How crazy are the Bernsteins?’ ” Blaze’s father, Gideon Bernstein, told the audience.
  
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• Rickard Rakell’s timely hat trick goes for naught as Oilers beat Ducks in shootout

  26-02-2018 05:17 via ocregister.com
  Fans watch the game-tying goal by Ducks center Rickard Rakell less than 10 seconds left in the third period during an NHL hockey game at Honda Center in Anaheim on Sunday, February 25, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)Ducks fans celebrate center Rickard Rakell’s game-tying goal in the third period during an NHL hockey game at Honda Center in Anaheim on Sunday, February 25, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)Ducks center Rickard Rakell celebrates ga
  
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• John Force escapes serious injury after spectacular crash in Arizona Nationals

  26-02-2018 04:48 via ocregister.com
  Funny Car driver John Force explodes his engine resulting in a high speed crash with Jonnie Lindberg during the quarterfinal round of eliminations Sunday February 25, 2018 at the NHRA Arizona Nationals at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, Arizona. Force was awake and alert and was transported to a local hospital. Lindberg was not injured. (Staff Photo by, Will Lester-Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)Funny Car driver John Force explodes his engine resulting in a high speed crash with
  
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• 25th anniversary: The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center

  26-02-2018 04:31 via ocregister.com
  By TOM HAYS
  EDITOR’S NOTE — On Feb. 26, 1993, a group of Islamic terrorists drove a rented van into the underground parking garage at the World Trade Center and set off a 1,200 pound bomb in a failed attempt to collapse the twin towers. The blast didn’t cause the destruction its planners intended. But it opened up a multi-story crater in the building, injured more than 1,000 people and ultimately killed six. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, investigators didn’t k
  
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• Dodgers’ Kyle Farmer hopes flexibility leads to more action behind the plate

  26-02-2018 04:29 via ocregister.com
  GLENDALE, Ariz. – Kyle Farmer wanted to improve his pitch-framing skills. So he spent the offseason … doing Pilates.
  “It has everything to do with pitch framing,” he said of an offseason devoted to improving his flexibility, particularly in his hips.
  The Dodgers’ Kyle Farmer talks with coaches during workouts at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz., on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan/Orange County Register/SCNG)The Dodgers’ Kyle Farmer signs aut
  
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• Play It Forward: USC hopes to lock up the top Pac-12 Tournament seed against UCLA

  26-02-2018 03:50 via ocregister.com
  NO. 1: COLLEGE BASKETBALL UCLA at USC Details/TV: At Galen Center, Saturday, 7:15 p.m., ESPN UC DAVIS at UC IRVINE Details/TV: At the Bren Events Center, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., ESPN3 HAWAII at CAL STATE FULLERTON Details/TV: At Titan Gym, Saturday, 3 p.m., Prime TicketWhether or not the Trojans (21-9, 12-5) or Bruins (19-10, 10-7) get their marching orders to appear in the Field of 68 that will be announced on March 11, the journey to this point has been extremely bumpy. Four weeks ago, UCLA used
  
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