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• Brea school officials say they prepare for an active shooter situation

  01-03-2018 23:34 via ocregister.com
  After the horrific mass shooting at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last month I wondered what safety policies were practiced in Brea’s schools.
  If it was up to me, every school would have metal detectors and cameras and visitors would have to show their ID and have their purse or bags inspected before leaving the check-in area. But it is not up to me, so I checked what safety measures are in place in our schools.
  Brea Olinda Unified School District Superintendent Br
  
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• After surviving Netflix, Redbox and a fire, Anaheim’s Movie Town is shutting down

  01-03-2018 22:25 via ocregister.com
  It outlasted Blockbuster.
  It lived through the advent of Netflix, Redbox and bootleg sites where films are free.
  Though it took more than a year, it even reopened after a 2005 fire gutted the store.
  After renting films in Anaheim for 25 years, Movie Town is finally closing.
  Movie Town video store in Anaheim is closing March 10 after 25 years because they can no longer afford their lease. Wednesday, February 28, 2018. (Photo by Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)A customer looks through movie
  
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• Uber starts offering rides to the doctor

  01-03-2018 21:46 via ocregister.com
  Uber is driving deeper into healthcare by offering to take patients in every U.S. market where it operates to their next medical appointment.
  The ride-hailing service said Thursday its Uber Health business will handle rides set up by doctor’s offices or other healthcare providers and then bill that business, not the patient, for the service. The company said rides can be set up within a few hours or days in advance. Patients won’t need access to a smartphone to use the service.
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• Kanye West songs will be ‘interpreted’ through Spanish wines at this Laguna Beach event

  01-03-2018 21:39 via ocregister.com
  Calling all wine-loving Kanye West fans. We’re not sure what “interpreted” means, but this SommX series event, “Kanye West’s Music Interpreted Through Spanish Wine,” presented by I Like This Grape on April 12 in Laguna Beach, will bring together abstract pieces by local artist Kathy Lajvardi, Kanye’s music, small bites and wine. We’re sure they’ll explain more about the experience as it unfolds because it’s just too tripp
  
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• New museum exhibit in Huntington Beach explores the early days of skate and surf

  01-03-2018 21:32 via ocregister.com
  An exhibit launching in Huntington Beach will explore the early-day connection between surf and skate culture.
  The International Surfing Museum’s new “SURF2SKATE” exhibit launches Saturday, March 3, and will examine how surfing influenced modern-day skateboarding.
  Both sports for the first time will be included in the 2020 Olympic games.
  The International Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach is launching a Surf2Skate exhibit Saturday, March 3, 2018. Courtesy of the International
  
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• The Galaxy hope the new MLS season isn’t anything like its dismal 2017

  01-03-2018 21:27 via ocregister.com
  CARSON – Coming off of the worst season in franchise history, change was a necessity for the Galaxy.
  The Galaxy managed just 32 points and failed to make the playoffs for the first time since 2008.
  “Hopefully this season will be better than last season,” defender Ashley Cole said. “New team, new season and hopefully we have a new start and put the Galaxy where they should be.
  “After a difficult season last season, maybe some of the faces here … maybe it was t
  
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• Initiative to repeal California’s rent control restrictions hits milestone

  01-03-2018 21:15 via ocregister.com
  A ballot initiative to lift California’s statewide restrictions on rent control has hit a key milestone, with 25 percent of the signatures it needs to qualify for the November ballot, the California Secretary of State’s office confirmed.
  Organizers vowed to take their fight directly to the voters after a bill to repeal the restrictions died in its first committee hearing this year at a raucous January meeting attended by over 1,000 people on both sides of the contentious issue.
  At is
  
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• Rams expected to move on from underachieving receiver Tavon Austin

  01-03-2018 21:06 via ocregister.com
  Tavon Austin’s tenure with the Rams, once filled with optimism and potential, soon will end in disappointment, less than two years after the team signed him to a massive contract.
  In an unsurprising move, the Rams are expected to release Austin, their top receiver in 2015, before the NFL’s free-agency period opens on March 14. NFL Network reported Thursday that the Rams might pursue a trade for Austin, but that seems unlikely, given Austin’s contract and his ineffectiveness las
  
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• Perris Auto Speedway ready for new season, same steady announcer

  01-03-2018 20:50 via ocregister.com
  Perris Auto Speedway officially begins its new season Saturday night as the World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series headlines the program that will also feature USAC/CRA Sprint Car, PAS Senior Sprint Cars and Young Guns. It’s also American Cancer Society Night, which benefit the Up, Down ‘n Dirty 4 a Cure
  “It’s going to be one heck of an opener,” said promoter Don Kazarian. “It’s so hard to believe that this is the 23rd season, it’s all gone b
  
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• With mortgage rates at 4-year highs, look for discounts

  01-03-2018 20:29 via ocregister.com
  What’s up with mortgage rates? Jeff Lazerson of Mortgage Grader in Laguna Niguel gives us his take.
  Rate news summary
  From Freddie Mac’s weekly survey: It’s official. The 30-year fixed rate now is at the highest level in more than four years, averaging 4.43 percent in this week’s survey. That’s up 3 basis points from last week’s 4.40 percent. Thirty-year rates have increased for eight weeks in a row following steady gains in long-term U.S. Treasury bonds.
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• Stock report: Hotline suggestion for the SiriusXM channel, Oregon State’s shrewd move and, of course, Arizona basketball matters

  01-03-2018 20:23 via ocregister.com
  A weekly assessment of Pac-12 news, quasi-news and (occasional) non-news …
  Rising: Pac-12 on SiriusXM.It’s official: The channel will launch March 5, giving the conference an entertainment, information and marketing path to 30+ million satellite radio subscribers.
  The move isn’t a game changer like, oh, carriage on DirecTV, but it’s not insignificant, either.
  This might come as a shock to Hotline readers, but I have a suggestion for the conference and the SiriusXM overlo
  
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• Massachusetts man charged in Donald Trump Jr. white powder hoax

  01-03-2018 19:37
  Deputy Randy Ross says they are als... -- The search for a Virginia mother who mysteriously disappeared on Tuesday from her front yard took a grim twist today when a body was discovered near her hom... -- Tensions escalated on Wednesday at the Trump International Hotel in Panama as the government dispatched police in riot gear to the luxury property ami... Anaheim, CA - Citing harm to the nation's agriculture economy, Judge William Shubb of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Cal
  
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• Laguna Niguel mayor: Things get solved when you get involved

  01-03-2018 19:16 via ocregister.com
  Laguna Niguel is blessed with an abundance of service clubs and charitable organizations comprised of committed community leaders who make the time, because they have heart to give. The common trait among our community leaders is “optimism”; they know that the good works of their organization will benefit those that they serve.  One of the most inspiring things about our city is that each year we have new volunteers with new ideas.
  The types of groups you can get involved with a
  
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• Arroyo Seco Weekend 2018 lineup includes Neil Young, Jack White, Robert Plant and Kings of Leon

  01-03-2018 19:00 via ocregister.com
  Arroyo Seco Weekend, which enjoyed a successful launch in 2017, returns to the picturesque grounds surrounding the Rose Bowl on June 23-24 with a strong lineup that includes Neil Young + Promise of the Real, former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and the Sensational Shape Shifters, the rock ‘n’ roll brother act of Kings Of Leon and bluesy rocker Jack White, making his first Los Angeles area appearance of 2018.
  Jack White, seen here at Coachella in 2015, will co-headline the 2018 Arr
  
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• ‘Do you think that homeless people choose to be homeless?’ Orange County United Way hopes to change public opinion on building supportive housing

  01-03-2018 17:48 via ocregister.com
  Orange County United Way’s next step in an effort to deflate the rising numbers of homeless people in local communities by building supportive housing might be the toughest: getting the general public on board.
  That’s the task of a newly formed leadership team of business, philanthropic, government and faith community representatives that United Way unveiled at a gathering Wednesday, Feb. 28, to kick off its “United to End Homelessness” initiative.
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• Girls basketball: Short-handed Mater Dei stays close but falls to Etiwanda

  01-03-2018 17:42 via ocregister.com
  Junior point guard Cailyn Crocker collected 19 points and eight rebounds but Mater Dei’s short-handed girls basketball team lost 51-44 at Etiwanda in the third-place game of the Open Division playoffs Wednesday night.
  The game was essentially for seeding purposes for the upcoming CIF State SoCal Regionals.
  Etiwanda will received the better seed for the Open Division tournament when the pairings are released Sunday afternoon/evening. The regionals start March 7.
  Mater Dei (23-5) played
  
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• 270 addicts have gotten help instead of handcuffs through Anaheim program

  01-03-2018 17:18 via ocregister.com
  ANAHEIM — Brian Prame had already hit bottom more than once when, about nine months ago, he told the Anaheim Police Department he wanted help for his drug addiction.
  Prame, 30, said he had spent several years on the street using heroin and methamphetamine. He’d been to jail more than half a dozen times, most recently serving six months after leading police on a high-speed chase while driving drunk.
  When he got released and started using drugs again, even though he didn’t w
  
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• Tigers claim first- and third-place trophies against elite competition in Anaheim

  01-03-2018 17:12
  The Notre Dame-Belmont pom squad returned from Anaheim this weekend as the 2018 Large Varsity Song/Pom Novice USA Spirit National Champions. The 12-member squad includes: Isabelle Collins, Emily Fletcher, Patti Chen, Jordan Toms, Emily Joss, Abby Rossi and Lilliana LoGiudice, plus Charlotte de Arantes Oliveira, Eliana Oro, Danay Barden, Kerrianne Hines and Mary Cost.
  
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• How to get a taste of our state at the Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival

  01-03-2018 16:21 via ocregister.com
  One of the food items offered during Disney California Adventure’s 2017 Food & Wine Festival is Verlasse Sustainable Salmon Tatami with Avocado Wasabi Puree & Furikake Dust. (Photo by Mark Eades, Orange County Register/SCNG) Taken in Anaheim at Disney California Adventure on Friday, March 10, 2017.Kids get to cook with Chef Goofy during the 2017 Food & Wine Festival at Disney California Adventure. (Photo by Mark Eades, Orange County Register/SCNG) Taken in Anaheim at Disney Cal
  
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• Justice Kennedy is right, public employee unions advocate for massive government, increasing taxes

  01-03-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Janus v. AFSCME, a case which could drastically alter the labor landscape in nearly half the country and carry important implications for California schools.
  The case focuses on the thousands of dollars in “agency fees” that Mark Janus, an Illinois Department of Public Health employee, must pay his workplace’s union, the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees. Janus isn’t a member, but I
  
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• The Oscars should create a #MeToo moment

  01-03-2018 15:30 via ocregister.com
  Americans are notoriously impatient, with the attention span of a goldfish — about eight seconds. So don’t be surprised if the titans of Tinseltown move quickly to change the subject in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein & Co. scandals.
  However, doing so would be an enormous mistake and would ensure that we would miss a chance to pause and reflect upon the enormity of the abuse and harassment that have been this nation’s norm for a very long time. The Oscars, Hollywood&r
  
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• Another winter storm bringing more rain, snow to Southern California

  01-03-2018 15:10 via ocregister.com
  Another storm will blow into Southern California starting Thursday night, March 1, bringing in rain and snow that is expected to last until Saturday, forecasters said. It follows showers earlier this week that brought much-needed moisture to a thirsty region.
  The winter squall may bring as much as 2 inches of rain to mountainous areas in San Bernardino County but most other places in the Southland will receive about half an inch, the National Weather Service said.Thursday temperatures will
  
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• Confetti! Rainbows! A ginormous pot o’ gold! Pop-up art exhibition Happy Place will reopen at the L.A. Live Event Deck in April

  01-03-2018 15:06 via ocregister.com
  Last November, Instagram and Snapchat were flooded with bold and bright images of folks in Los Angeles posing in a dome filled with zillions of pieces of confetti, jumping from a giant rainbow into a pot of gold with more than 25,000 smiley face foam coins and even taking proposal photos in the “XO” lip print room and celebrating birthdays with an over-sized cake and hundreds of wrapped presents in a “birthday room.”
  The pop-up art exhibition, appropriately dubbed Happy P
  
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• Jared Kushner gets his security clearance downgraded: Political Cartoons

  01-03-2018 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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• Dazzling Denim

  01-03-2018 15:00 via ocregister.com
  Jeans might fade, but in Southern California, these closet staples never go out of style. From elegant chandelier earrings to towering stiletto heels, accessories adorned with ornamental trimmings – turquoise, diamonds and leather – transform plain, rugged blue jeans into this season’s well-heeled look.
  The back rooms of Lugano Jewelers’ Grand Salon in Newport Beach house an array of artistically cut diamonds and rare gems. Chandelier earrings with hundreds of delicately
  
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• Putin boasts of new, indefensible Russian nuclear weapons

  01-03-2018 14:05 via ocregister.com
  By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
  MOSCOW  — Russia has tested an array of new strategic nuclear weapons that can’t be intercepted, President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday, marking a technological breakthrough that could dramatically increase Russia’s military capability, boost the Kremlin’s global position and also raise Western concerns about a potential renewed arms race in the 21st century.
  Speaking in a state-of-the-nation speech, Putin said the weapons include a nuclea
  
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• Taco Bell revives Naked Egg Taco; will test breakfast Chalupa

  01-03-2018 14:00 via ocregister.com
  Taco Bell will be turning breakfast inside out this month with the return of a nationwide summer promotion and a new item being tested in West Virginia.
  Beginning at 5 a.m. today, March 1, the Irvine-based chain is bringing its Naked Egg Taco back to its U.S. menu for a limited time. That’s the one that looks like a Salvador Dali painting with a fried egg in place of the hard tortilla shell and a filling of crispy potatoes, cheese and choice of bacon or sausage.
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• Adding Manufacturing to a Retail Setting

  01-03-2018 12:31
  Combining manufacturing and a retail store creates a unique opportunity for customers to see behind the scenes and witness the creation of their favorite products, Klarif's Klarif Kim tells GlobeSt.com. Get alerted any time new stories match your search criteria.
  
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• Volunteer ‘patients’ raise the bar for Cal State Fullerton nursing student

  01-03-2018 10:03 via ocregister.com
  By Amy Lee
  In May, I will graduate from California State University, Fullerton with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. Without a doubt, I can say that these past two years have been the toughest of my life, but have also been the most rewarding.
  Amy Lee — Photo courtesy of Cal State Fullerton
  I have spent sleepless nights cramming pathophysiology and pharmacology into my sleep-deprived brain. The Nursing Simulation Center, affectionately called the “Sim Lab,” became my secon
  
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• Cal State Fullerton pitcher Colton Eastman could help lift team past slow start

  01-03-2018 09:49 via ocregister.com
  By LOU PONSI
  Call it the most fortuitous dentist’s appointment of Colton Eastman’s life.
  The Cal State Fullerton pitcher threw just nine innings early in the 2017 season before being sidelined with elbow tightness in his pitching arm.
  “It wasn’t fun,” Eastman recalls. “I didn’t like it. I wasn’t used to sitting out a whole year before. It was my first major injury I ever had.”
  The right hander visited the dentist roughly two months later to h
  
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• Tom Petty, Alabama Shakes and actor Jeff Goldblum among the highlights of Day 1 at Arroyo Seco Weekend

  01-03-2018 08:40 via ocregister.com
  Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have 40 years on the books now — that’s the point of the band’s current tour — so it almost seemed unfair Saturday to get only 19 songs in a headlining set on the first day of the inaugural Arroyo Seco Weekend in Pasadena.
  But that ended up making for two hours of music, and in the end, the fans who packed — and we mean packed — the festival grounds in front of the Oaks Stage (more on that in a bit) probably heard most of t
  
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• Mumford & Sons, the Shins and more shine on a sweltering Sunday at Arroyo Seco Weekend

  01-03-2018 08:36 via ocregister.com
  Marcus Mumford looked out at the still-sprawling crowd Sunday during Arroyo Seco Weekend as the British rock band he leads reached the penultimate song of its festival-closing set, and sweaty and happy like the fans on the field invited everyone to come along with Mumford & Sons for the finish.
  “Let’s have a (bleepin’) dance, shall we?” Mumford shouted. The band struck up the opening notes of “I Will Wait,” one of its biggest hits, and everyone rallied to
  
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• Father of 9-year-old: a They took my boya

  01-03-2018 07:48
  Blue roses were left in memorial for Nicholas Vela Mortley, 9, killed while riding his bike at Orangewood Avenue and Loara Street. Outside his home Friday, Carlos Mortley shows a photograph of his son Nicholas Vela Mortley, 9. Nicholas was killed while riding his bicycle home from school on Thursday.
  
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• CHP seeks hit-and-run driver in O.C. crash that killed an Apple Valley woman

  01-03-2018 07:34 via ocregister.com
  SANTA ANA — California Highway Patrol officers on Wednesday asked for the public’s help tracking down a hit-and-run driver who caused a deadly crash on the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway.
  The crash happened about 2:25 p.m. Saturday on the freeway just north of the Garden Grove (22) Freeway, said California Highway Patrol Officer Tino Olivera.
  Seon Ho Choi, 69, of Apple Valley, was killed in the crash, according to Carrie Braun of the Orange County Coroner’s Office.
  The suspect was dri
  
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• Clippers, Rockets play nice in Houston’s 14th consecutive victory

  01-03-2018 07:18 via ocregister.com
  Rockets Chris Paul, #3, tries to pry the ball from Clippers Milos Teodosic, #4, as Austin Rivers, #25, assists on the play during second half action at Staples Center Wednesday, February 28, 2018. The Houston Rockets defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 105-92. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)Rockets Chris Paul, #3, passes the ball between Clippers Wesley Johnson, #33, and Milos Teodosic, #4, during first half action at Staples Center Wednesday, February 28, 2018. (Photo by David
  
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• 70-year-old woman in need of medication reported missing in Orange

  01-03-2018 07:13 via ocregister.com
  A 70-year-old woman with a medical condition walked away from her home in Orange on Wednesday morning, Feb. 28, and hasn’t been seen since.
  Orange police said Whan Soon Kim left her home on Lewis Street and Garden Grove Boulevard and needs medication.
  She was last seen wearing a black sweater with red and white long sleeves, blue jeans and black slippers, said Sgt. Phil McMullin of the Orange Police Department.
  Kim is Asian, 5-feet 3-inches, weighs about 135 pounds and has black hair and b
  
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• Cal State Fullerton crushes CSUN, clinches no worse than No. 4 seed for Big West tourney

  01-03-2018 06:39 via ocregister.com
  NORTHRIDGE — Kyle Allman finished with 23 points and Cal State Fullerton rolled to a 102-76 victory over Cal State Northridge on Wednesday night.
  Fullerton (17-10, 10-5 Big West Conference) shot 62.5 percent (20 of 32) and built a 23-point halftime advantage behind Allman. The junior guard had 18 of his points before halftime to surpass 1,000 for his career, becoming the 25th player in program history to reach the mark.
  Four Titans scored in double figures as they shot 57 percent overall a
  
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• Jason Chimera ready to go full speed ahead with Ducks

  01-03-2018 05:33 via ocregister.com
  ANAHEIM — Life can have its symmetry.
  Jason Chimera spent his Monday at Stratford Avenue School on Long Island. It is where his two kids, Cale and Ryann, attend and his role there was that of a supportive parent lending a hand to help out the school’s reading initiative.
  It was while he was filming a promotion that his cell phone went berserk.
  “I almost switched gears,” Chimera said Wednesday, standing outside the Ducks’ locker room at Honda Center. “I said, &
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Wednesday (2-28-18)

  01-03-2018 05:26 via ocregister.com
  Scores and stats for the Orange County games on Wednesday, Feb. 28.
  BOYS GOLFNonleagueEdison 188, Villa Park 218Medalist: T. Di Bernado (Ed) 35Note: P. Di Bernado shot a 36 for Edison
  St. Margaret’s 209, El Toro 248Medalist: Bannai (SM) 38. Latore & Pilligan (ET) 47
  Cypress 192, Marina 205Medalist: Aragon (Cyp) 37, Kadowaki (Mar) 37
  Huntington Beach 200, Santa Margarita 213Medalist: Pellizzon (SM) 38, Peterson-Cheek (HB) 38
  Newport Harbor 212, Trabuco Hills 224Medalist: Barnes (NH) 38
  
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• California ‘College for All Act’ doesn’t cure root problems behind costs

  01-03-2018 05:00 via ocregister.com
  Bernie Sanders may or may not have defeated Donald Trump if he received the Democratic Party’s nomination, but even here in California, his campaign against Hillary Clinton has inspired lasting political activity.
  The latest effort is a campaign to gain enough signatures to put making college tuition free for all on the ballot.
  Higher education is too highly priced for too many to afford. But charging the bill to Sacramento would only strike at the symptoms of the real problems behind coll
  
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• Man arrested on suspicion of killing woman after alerting police to her body at Costa Mesa park

  01-03-2018 04:51 via ocregister.com
  COSTA MESA A 24-year-old man was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 28, after a woman’s body was found in the brush at Talbert Regional Park with signs of blunt force trauma.
  Dispatchers received a call at about 7:10 a.m. from a man saying he had found a woman’s body at the nature preserve. Officers and detectives arrived at the park, at 1299 Victoria Street, and found the caller, whom they identified as Daniel Correa, Costa Mesa police said in a statement.
  Police described Correa as a transie
  
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• Clippers taking a cautious approach with injured guard Avery Bradley

  01-03-2018 04:46 via ocregister.com
  LOS ANGELES — Avery Bradley couldn’t play in the Clippers’ game against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night at Staples Center, their latest must-win game as they head down the regular season’s home stretch. When he plays again is anyone’s guess. He wasn’t about to make one.
  Bradley missed his fourth consecutive game because of a sports hernia, or what the Clippers have officially termed athletic pubalgia. It’s been an ongoing battle for Bradley, datin
  
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• Second suspect arrested by Laguna Beach police in July burglary at Shops at Cliffs; first of ‘well-dressed’ duo is serving 32-month sentence

  01-03-2018 04:34 via ocregister.com
  A second man suspected in the burglary of $200,000 worth of jewelry at the Shops at the Cliffs in Laguna Beach was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 28, police said.
  Laguna Beach police detectives had pursued the case since the July 26 early morning burglary of an art gallery, jewelry store and three other shops, in which two men dressed in fancy clothes were seen on surveillance video leaving the Cliff Shops.
  They located the man, in his 20s, at a residence in Oceanside around 4:30 p.m. Wednes
  
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• Immigrant rights group says ICE is holding Vietnamese in limbo

  01-03-2018 04:24 via ocregister.com
  Tung Nguyen hangs his head as he listens to a press conference about a lawsuit filed against ICE to stop incarceration of Vietnamese refugees in Santa Ana on Wednesday, Feb 28, 2018. According to Nguyen, he has a removal order from October 2011. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)Tung Nguyen talks with the media after a press conference about a lawsuit filed against ICE to stop incarceration of Vietnamese refugees in Santa Ana on Wednesday, Feb 28, 2018. According to Nguyen, he
  
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• USC riding momentum into Pac-12 women’s hoops tourney

  01-03-2018 04:20 via ocregister.com
  LOS ANGELES — The postseason hopes for USC’s women’s basketball team flickered last week.
  The Trojans trailed Utah by a basket in overtime of their second-to-last game of the regular season when Kristen Simon caught an inbounds pass atop the key in the final seconds. A loss had threatened to blemish the Trojans’ NCAA Tournament résumé.
  The play was designed to tie the score at 52 apiece and force a second overtime to extend the game. Simon had set a screen f
  
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• Orange County Baseball Preview: Preseason Top 10

  01-03-2018 04:11 via ocregister.com
  Orange Lutheran baseball players Caleb Ricketts, Zachary Lew, Jasiah Dixon, and Cole Winn, from left, in Orange on Thursday, February 22, 2018. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)Orange Lutheran infielder Zachary Lew in Orange on Thursday, February 22, 2018. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)Orange Lutheran pitcher/first baseman Cole Winn in Orange on Thursday, February 22, 2018. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)Orange Lutheran baseball playe
  
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• O.C. Baseball Preview: Top 9 players to watch

  01-03-2018 04:10 via ocregister.com
  Santa Margarita first baseman Chandler Champlain can’t reach a wide throw allowing Orange Lutheran Jasiah Dixon to reach first base in Thursday’s game. ///ADDITIONAL INFO: hsbase.0513 – 5/12/16 – Photo by PAUL RODRIGUEZ – Santa Margarita vs. Orange Lutheran in baseball.Chandler Champlain of Coto de Caza has committed to USC for baseball. Santa Margarita Catholic High School athletes gather Wednesday morning, November 8, 2017, in the school’s gymnasium in Ranch
  
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• Some Disneyland Employees Struggle To Pay For Food, Shelter, Survey Finds

  01-03-2018 03:09
  A new survey of union employees at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., has found that more than two-thirds of respondents say they are food insecure at the resort advertised as the "happiest place on Earth." Disneyland employs about 30,000 people, according to the company.
  
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• Orange County supervisors soften plan for oversight of taxpayer-funded mailers despite allegations of abuse

  01-03-2018 01:59 via ocregister.com
  Orange County supervisors have diluted a proposed plan to bolster oversight of their taxpayer-funded mailers despite recent allegations they’ve abused the communications, essentially using them as promotional material to campaign for re-election.
  Supervisors Todd Spitzer and Shawn Nelson recently proposed a ballot measure that would have required county lawyers to approve the design and recipient list of publicly funded mailers to ensure they don’t violate state law. But Supervisor L
  
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• Third-striker charged with injuring a police dog and assault after high-speed chase; could face life in prison

  01-03-2018 01:43 via ocregister.com
  A Riverside County man who fled from police in a stolen car — and whose capture was aided by a Santa Ana police K9 that lost some of its teeth during the pursuit — faces enhanced “third strike” penalties, including possibly life in prison, after being charged Wednesday, Feb. 28, with assaulting a peace officer and other felonies.
  Antonio Padilla Jr., 37, of Palm Desert, is facing more than a half-dozen felonies and misdemeanors, including assault with a deadly weapon, inj
  
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