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• Dodgers’ Kike’ Hernandez tired of being left out against righties

  15-03-2018 23:51 via ocregister.com
  GLENDALE, Ariz. — It stings Kike’ Hernandez a little more each time he is called a “lefty killer.”
  It’s as if a chef is praised only for the way he runs a blender, a bricklayer for the way he handles a trowel, an Uber driver rated well for the way he merges. A back-handed compliment – it’s part of the job. But not all of it.
  Hernandez has spent his three seasons with the Dodgers valued for what he does well – but also labeled with what he doesn&rsq
  
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• Miguel’s will close its flagship sit-down restaurant in Corona for remodeling

  15-03-2018 23:03 via ocregister.com
  Miguel’s California Mexican Cocina, a full-service restaurant owned by the same family as the quick-service Miguel’s Jr. chain, is getting a face lift.
  The Corona restaurant will shut down beginning Monday, March 19, and reopen a couple of weeks later with a very different look, according to marketing director Stephen Rezner.
  The company wanted to refresh the property in tandem with the completion of the 91 Freeway expansion, Rezner said in a phone interview. It is on the south
  
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• Trump’s company turning over documents to investigators

  15-03-2018 23:02 via ocregister.com
  By CHAD DAY
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s company said Thursday that it has been turning over documents for months in response to requests from the special counsel looking into Russian election interference and possible coordination with Trump associates.
  Trump said last year that special counsel Robert Mueller would be crossing a red line by looking into his personal finances — and those of his family — that are not related to Russia. The Trump Organization is ma
  
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• Lawsuit aimed at protecting humpback whales filed against Trump Administration

  15-03-2018 22:45 via ocregister.com
  Several conservation groups have joined together to file a lawsuit that claims the Trump Administration has failed to protect humpback whales from fishing gear, ship strikes and oil spills.
  The Center for Biological Diversity, Turtle Island Restoration Network and Wishtoyo Foundation announced Thursday they have sued the Trump Administration for “failing to protect humpback whale habitat in the Pacific Ocean.” The lawsuit was filed in the federal district court in San Francisco.
  
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• Retired Marine Ernie ‘Gunny’ Napper’s voice goes silent at Disneyland’s flag retreat

  15-03-2018 22:38 via ocregister.com
  There’s some anger festering in The Happiest Place on Earth, and you just know Walt Disney wouldn’t have liked it.
  Ernie “Gunny” Napper, 68, has been a part of the flag retreat at Disneyland since 1992. Photo by Sandra Cortez
  The voice of Marine Corps Sgt. Ernie “Gunny” Napper, one of Disneyland’s most popular, inspiring figures to veterans and their families attending the nightly Flag Retreat Ceremony on Main Street, has been silenced in favor of a pre-
  
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• Get a first look at Splitsville Luxury Lanes in Downtown Disney

  15-03-2018 22:36 via ocregister.com
  Custom bowling balls at Splitsville Luxury Lanes, celebrate their grand opening at the Downtown Disney District in Anaheim on Thursday, Mar 15, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)The new Splitsville Luxury Lanes has a California feel including hand painted locally-themed murals at the Downtown Disney District in Anaheim on Thursday, Mar 15, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)Filet sliders with tenderloin beef topped with an onion ring and horseradi
  
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• 36 candidates vie for two open Southern California congressional seats that could help Democrats reclaim House

  15-03-2018 22:02 via ocregister.com
  The contests to replace two retiring Southern California Republican congressmen are staggeringly cluttered, with 36 candidates vying for seats that could help shift the balance of partisan power in Washington, D.C.
  The 39th and 49th Congressional Districts – which combined include portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, and San Diego counties – are targeted by national Democrats.
  Incumbents Republican U.S. Representatives Ed Royce and Darrell Issa both announced in January t
  
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• Ford looks to topple Toyota hybrids, Jeep SUVs in brand overhaul

  15-03-2018 21:41 via ocregister.com
  Ford Motor Co. plans to topple Toyota Motor Corp. to become the U.S. hybrid king and will take a shot at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s Jeep brand with a series of new sport utility vehicles within the next few years.
  The automaker will build gas-electric versions of all of its most popular vehicles by 2021, including the F-150 pickup, Escape crossover and Mustang muscle car. Five new SUVs will hit showrooms within the next two years, including a small, rugged off-roader aimed at the popul
  
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• Anaheim man gets 56 years for attacking three women, sexually assaulting two of them

  15-03-2018 21:41 via ocregister.com
  An Anaheim man who attacked three women, sexually assaulting two of them, in three different Orange County cities over the course of a week was sentenced Thursday to 56 years and eight months in state prison.
  Raymond Martin Boykin, 21, was found guilty last year by a Westminster jury of more than a half-dozen felonies, including oral copulation with force or injury, assault with intent to commit sexual offense, robbery, car theft and evading an officer.
  During Boykin’s trial, Deputy Distri
  
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• Laguna Beach man admits to three schemes that defrauded investors of more than $6 million

  15-03-2018 20:36 via ocregister.com
  A Laguna Beach man federal authorities have described as a “serial con artist” pleaded guilty Wednesday to running three investment fraud schemes, admitting he stole a combined $6.8 million from investors across the country.
  Under the terms of his plea agreement, Peter Heinrich Conrad Reinert, 63, admitted to a federal wire fraud charge, and agreed to forfeit $300,000 seized by the FBI, along with a 2009 Mercedes Benz S63 AMG and a 2011 Mercedes Benz, according to the U.S. Attorney&r
  
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• Whicker: Cal State Fullerton coach’s son looks to deliver an NCAA memory

  15-03-2018 20:33 via ocregister.com
  DETROIT — Four years ago, Mercer beat Duke.
  No, not in a father-and-son game in the Ellington household.
  Mercer beat Jabari Parker, Rodney Hood, Quinn Cook and the rest of Duke in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
  “It’s still a vivid memory for me,” said Jamal Smith, sitting in a locker room at Little Caesars Arena on Thursday morning. “I hope that’s us this year.”
  On Friday morning, Cal State Fullerton plays its first NCAA tournament game in
  
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• A league of her own: Kerry Walsh Jennings splits from AVP, launches new beach volleyball circuit

  15-03-2018 20:25 via ocregister.com
  Imagine if LeBron James, instead of taking his talents to South Beach, started an entirely new professional basketball league. Or what if Serena Williams said that instead of competing at Wimbledon, she would be forming her own professional tennis association?
  Well, that’s exactly what Kerri Walsh Jennings is doing.
  The most successful female volleyball player of all-time recently announced she is officially parting ways with the Association of Volleyball Professionals and creating a new b
  
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• O.C. poker pro accused of ripping off investors in suspected Super Bowl, World Cup ticket-flipping scheme

  15-03-2018 20:23 via ocregister.com
  A federal grand jury has indicted an Orange County poker pro for allegedly bilking investors out of more than $6 million in a suspected Super Bowl and World Cup ticket-flipping scam.
  The indictment charges Seyed Reza Ali Fazeli, 49, of Aliso Viejo with two felony counts of wire fraud tied to a Las Vegas-based ticket business that Fazeli ran named Summit Entertainment, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Thursday
  According to the indictment, Fazeli from May 2016 through at least May 2017 r
  
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• Pedestrian bridge collapses at Florida college, crushes 5 cars, injures several people

  15-03-2018 20:19 via ocregister.com
  MIAMI — A brand-new pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a highway at a Miami-area college Thursday, crushing at least five vehicles. Several people were seen being loaded into ambulances and authorities said they were searching for people.
  There was no immediate report of injuries or any fatalities from authorities.
  Gov. Rick Scott tweeted that he had spoken with Miami-Dade County Police Chief Juan Perez about the bridge collapse at Florida International University.
  “I will be in consta
  
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• Stagecoach 2018 set times: Find out when Keith Urban, Kacey Musgraves are performing

  15-03-2018 20:00 via ocregister.com
  We’re a little more than a month away from the Stagecoach Country Music Festival, which returns April 27-29 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.
  This year, the headliners are Florida Georgia Line on Friday, Keith Urban on Saturday and Garth Brooks, who will make his Stagecoach debut, on Sunday.
  Other performers include Kenny Rogers, who is on his farewell tour, Kacey Musgraves and Jake Owen.
  Here is the complete list of set times by day and stage.Friday, April 27
  Mane Stage
  10:15 p.
  
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• Grunion season kicks off: 12 tips for watching the little fish run along Southern California beaches

  15-03-2018 19:52 via ocregister.com
  They flop and slip and make sweet love on the sand under the full moon’s light.
  Grunion — unique little fish found only in Southern California and down south in Baja — are little marine critters that mate on the sand when the waves wash them to shore. When the grunion are running, people in the know show up in the dark of night to wait and watch, some ready with buckets to collect the critters to eat, when catching them is allowed.
  A male grunion wraps around a female as she la
  
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• Foo Fighters-curated Cal Jam 18 fest early bird tickets are on sale now

  15-03-2018 19:51 via ocregister.com
  After the success of the Foo Fighters-curated Cal Jam 17 it was announced that the fest would return for Cal Jam 18 on Oct. 6 at Glen Helen Regional Park and Fair Grounds in San Bernardino.
  Though we do not know the line-up aside from the Foos jamming once again, fans can get a jump on tickets as early bird passes went on sale on Wednesday.
  In the coming weeks, promoters will announce the 15-plus bands playing on Oct. 5 in the Cal Jam 18 campground and the acts taking the stages during the main
  
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• How the French rescued Irish whiskey

  15-03-2018 19:45 via ocregister.com
  The saddest thing about St. Patrick’s Day used to be the whiskey.
  Ireland’s sweet, smooth nectar was once popular worldwide, but the Emerald Isles’ troubles, along with other unhappy developments, almost brought an end to it throughout most of the 20th century. For decades Ireland produced only a modest amount of the national spirit.
  Late in Queen Victoria’s reign, dozens of large Irish distilleries were shipping their products to thirsty customers around the globe. (Scot
  
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• It’s Tomatomania! From heirlooms to hybrids, conditions are ripe for spring planting

  15-03-2018 19:34 via ocregister.com
  Dust off your gloves and prepare to get down and dirty, because Tomatomania is hitting Southern California.
  The annual convergence of tomato lovers is in full-swing, just in time for planting and future bragging rights on who has the biggest, best and juiciest tomatoes in the neighborhood.
  “I love this time of year. Southern California tomato time is when the nights start to warm up. Our days have been OK, but in any garden climate it’s all about the nights,’’ said Scott
  
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• Remember Sadlands, Anaheim's unofficial skate park once a...

  15-03-2018 18:09
  Roland Sanchez, left, Marc Johnson, center, and Mike Rodriguez at the spot they used to skate in the 1980s in Anaheim on Thursday, Mar 8, 2018. The skateboarders are leading an effort to create a beginning-level skate area at the park that's reminiscent of the 1970s-era moonscape there that they used to love skating.
  
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• Driver suspected of DUI arrested after hitting Fullerton police car

  15-03-2018 16:55 via ocregister.com
  A woman was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol after she collided with a Fullerton police car early Thursday morning, March 15.
  At about 1 a.m. the officer was driving westbound on Orangethorpe Avenue at the intersection of Lemon Street when it collided with a black sedan that was traveling southbound, said California Highway Patrol Sgt. Matt Petrella.
  Fullerton police requested that the California Highway Patrol conduct the investigation into the crash involving a
  
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• Football: Mission Viejo, Santa Margarita agree to play next two seasons

  15-03-2018 16:39 via ocregister.com
  The Mission Viejo-Santa Margarita football rivalry, which has helped highlight the Orange County nonleague seasons in recent years, will continue in the post Bob Johnson Era.
  The Diablos and Eagles have signed a two-year agreement to play in 2018 and 2019, Santa Margarita assistant athletic director Jim Hartigan said.
  Santa Margarita will play at Mission Viejo in Week 1 this fall while the Eagles will host the South County rivalry in 2019, perhaps at the new stadium at Saddleback College, Hartig
  
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• US accuses Russia of hacking energy grid, imposes sanctions for election meddling

  15-03-2018 16:28 via ocregister.com
  The Trump administration accused Russia on Thursday of a concerted, ongoing operation to hack and spy on the U.S. energy grid and other critical infrastructure. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said, “These targeted sanctions are a part of a broader effort to address the ongoing nefarious attacks emanating from Russia.” (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
  By MATTHEW LEE and JOSH LEDERMANAssociated Press
  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration accused Russia on Thursday of a concerted, ongoin
  
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• Snow falls on Inland Empire mountains with more expected for St. Patrick’s Day weekend

  15-03-2018 16:08 via ocregister.com
  Local ski resorts are enjoying the several inches of snow the latest weather system dumped on Inland Empire mountains and more is expected through St. Patrick’s Day weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
  “This current storm sets up Snow Valley and the Southern California mountain communities for a fantastic spring break,” said Snow Valley Vice President and General Manager, Kevin A. Somes in an email.
  The Running Springs resort received 4 inches of new snow overnig
  
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• Remember Sadlands, Anaheim’s unofficial skate park once a favorite of Tony Hawk? These guys want to rebuild it

  15-03-2018 15:36 via ocregister.com
  A park based on a 1960s vision of a lunar landscape became an iconic Anaheim skateboarding spot before its demise in the late 1980s.
  But with support from locals who fondly remember skating there, the spot known as Sadlands is poised for a comeback.
  The expanse of smooth-lipped concrete craters and stalagmites at Brookhurst Park was intended as a creative setting for space-themed playground equipment such as a rocket-shaped jungle gym and colorful UFOs.
  Mike Rodriguez shows off a Sadlands hat at
  
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• Russia vows to expel UK envoys in spy poisoning dispute

  15-03-2018 15:11 via ocregister.com
  Soldiers wearing protective clothing prepare to lift a tow truck in Hyde Road, Gillingham, Dorset, England as the investigation into the suspected nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal continues Wednesday March 14, 2018. The army cordoned off a road in Dorset on Wednesday as the investigated the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Authorities have cordoned off several sites in and near Salisbury, 90 miles (145 kilometers) southwest of London as part of their prob
  
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• New bill to ‘protect journalists’ is unnecessary political pandering

  15-03-2018 15:00 via ocregister.com
  Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Dublin, and several other Democratic congressmen recently introduced a bill that they say is necessary to protect journalists from violent attacks caused by the Trump administration’s “toxic culture.”
  The bill, called the Journalist Protection Act, would make it a federal crime to intentionally cause bodily harm to a journalist, either while the journalist is taking part in newsgathering, or with the purpose of intimidating or impeding the journalist&
  
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• Adults, it’s your move, students say after historic walkouts

  15-03-2018 14:41 via ocregister.com
  By COLLIN BINKLEYAssociated Press
  They bowed their heads in honor of the dead. They carried signs with messages like “Never again” and “Am I next?” They railed against the National Rifle Association and the politicians who support it.
  And over and over, they repeated the message: Enough is enough.
  In a wave of protests one historian called the largest of its kind in American history, tens of thousands of students walked out of their classrooms Wednesday to demand action o
  
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• California residents need real legislation to access a truly open internet

  15-03-2018 14:30 via ocregister.com
  A congressional effort pushed by big online companies to promote net neutrality through an obscure legislative tool ignores a simple truth: It will not permanently protect a free and open Internet and will continue to leave many rural residents in California on the wrong side of the digital divide. Rather than spending time on a legislative Hail Mary with virtually no chance of becoming reality, Congress should develop a comprehensive bill that levels the Internet playing field and expands acces
  
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• Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: I thought I was looking at a death mask, then I realized she was alive

  15-03-2018 14:10 via ocregister.com
  I saw a beautiful woman at the fanciest mall in town the other day, but I thought she was dead.
  Then, I realized she was actually alive. She just had that popular “death mask” look, caused by opening her wallet many, many times in order to be shot up with muscle-paralyzing neurotoxins. As you know, that’s all chic and trendy nowadays, and you see it everywhere in parts of town where people have far too much time on their hands.
  That’s right, she would have been a beautifu
  
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• The unexpected wedding planner, a Cal State Fullerton alum, writes her own script

  15-03-2018 10:09 via ocregister.com
  By Sophia Chang
  The future — it’s not set in stone and it never goes as planned. As Doc Brown from “Back to the Future” said: “Your future hasn’t been written yet. No one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it.”
  Sophia Chang Photo by Kyle Simon StudiosTo kick off her role as lead planner of The Special Day Inc., Sophia Chang recently planned and designed a styled photo shoot for 2018’s Pantone color — ultra violet. Photo by Kyle Sim
  
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• Cal State Fullerton center Daeja Smith wins league honors

  15-03-2018 09:43 via ocregister.com
  Cal State Fullerton center Daeja Smith was named to the Big West Conference All-Conference Second Team on March 5.
  Smith led the Titans in points per game with 12.5 and rebounds per game with 9.3, nearly averaging a double-double for the season. Her 12.5 point scoring average average ranks 10th in the conference and her 9.3 rebounds per game is third in the Big West.
  The redshirt junior totalled 350 points this season to give her 808 points for her career at Cal State Fullerton while moving
  
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• Co-owner of SoCal drug treatment centers pleads guilty in massive billing scheme

  15-03-2018 09:14 via ocregister.com
  LOS ANGELES — The co-owner of a company that operated drug and alcohol treatment centers in Southern California and Colorado pleaded guilty Wednesday to all 46 felony counts against her involving a $175 million health-care billing scheme.
  Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo immediately sentenced Kirsten Wallace, 44, to 11 years in state prison following her plea to 28 counts of money laundering, seven counts of grand theft of personal property, six counts of identity theft and five count
  
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• Whicker: Villanova bears the burden of this bracket pick

  15-03-2018 08:43 via ocregister.com
  My annual NCAA Tournament bracket, also known as The Shape Of Water:EAST
  Xavier over Texas Southern:  TSU’s Health and Physical Education Center was homecourt for two NCAA teams this year, the home team and Houston.
  Missouri over Florida State: Even with Michael Porter Jr. struggling to sync up, the Tigers are too good here.
  South Dakota State over Ohio State: Mke Daum loses his title as Least-Known Good Player.
  Gonzaga over UNC Greensboro: UNCG hasn’t seen anybody like Rui Hach
  
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• Kike’ Hernandez drives in five as Dodgers pound Rockies, 11-6

  15-03-2018 06:50 via ocregister.com
  THE GAME: Kike’ Hernandez drove in five runs and the Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 11-6 on Wednesday night at Camelback Ranch.
  PITCHING REPORT: RHP Ross Stripling made what is likely to be his last start of the spring (he will roll back into more of a reliever’s schedule). He gave up back-to-back doubles to Raimel Tapia and Gerardo Parra to start the game then allowed just two more hits and struck out four in his three innings. … LHP Scott Alexander struggled through a one
  
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• Lakers run out of gas against Kevin Durant and Warriors ‘B’ squad

  15-03-2018 06:28 via ocregister.com
  Los Angeles Lakers’ Isaiah Thomas (3) drives the ball around Golden State Warriors’ Kevon Looney during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)Los Angeles Lakers’ Alex Caruso, left, looks to pass the ball around Golden State Warriors’ Kevin Durant (35) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)Los Angeles Lakers’ Lonzo Ball (2
  
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• Puppy’s death in overhead bin on United flight raises questions about airline’s track record

  15-03-2018 06:20 via ocregister.com
  By DAVID KOENIG
  United Airlines, under siege over the death of a puppy on one of its flights, says the flight attendant who ordered a passenger to put her pet carrier in the overhead bin didn’t know there was a dog inside.
  The airline’s account was contradicted by the family that owned the French bulldog, and also by other passengers on Monday night’s flight.
  Eleven-year-old Sophia Ceballos told NBC News that her mother told the flight attendant, “‘It’s a dog,
  
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• Jason Chimera finds his groove as Ducks pile on struggling Canucks, end skid

  15-03-2018 05:57 via ocregister.com
  The shot by Anaheim Ducks defenseman Brandon Montour (26) makes its way through a crowd of Vancouver Canucks including center Bo Horvat (53) for the goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, March 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)Anaheim Ducks goalie John Gibdon (36) protects the goal as Vancouver Canucks center Brandon Sutter (20) attacks during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, March 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)Anahe
  
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• Jason Chimera finds his groove as Ducks pile on struggling Canucks

  15-03-2018 05:57 via ocregister.com
  The shot by Anaheim Ducks defenseman Brandon Montour (26) makes its way through a crowd of Vancouver Canucks including center Bo Horvat (53) for the goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, March 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)Anaheim Ducks goalie John Gibdon (36) protects the goal as Vancouver Canucks center Brandon Sutter (20) attacks during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, March 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)Anahe
  
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• Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma doubts ankle sprain a ‘big deal,’ but is held out against Warriors

  15-03-2018 05:08 via ocregister.com
  OAKLAND — The waiting line for the training table in the Lakers’ locker room keeps getting longer.
  A night after scoring 26 points to lead the Lakers to a 112-103 win over the Denver Nuggets, Kyle Kuzma was held out against the Golden State Warriors due to the sprained right ankle he suffered at the end of the third quarter against Denver.
  Before the game at Oracle Arena, Coach Luke Walton said Kuzma “came over earlier, tried to push through it a little bit, so it isn’t r
  
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• Bonsignore: New Ram Marcus Peters has answers (and questions) for critics

  15-03-2018 04:41 via ocregister.com
  Marcus Peters wants to make something clear.
  If you’re going to criticize the Rams new lockdown cornerback for caring too much, for being so emotionally invested in the game that, from time to time, he might lose his composure or get into the face of an opponent or a teammate or a coach, or even cross a line every once in awhile and get flagged for an emotionally charged penalty … go for it.
  All fair game. No excuses.
  He’s crossed an emotional line a time or two during his you
  
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• Aliso Niguel savors the moment as it defeats No. 4 Mission Viejo in league opener

  15-03-2018 04:20 via ocregister.com
  ALISO VIEJO – Aliso Niguel got a clutch outing from starting pitcher Quinn Mathews and took control of the game with a five-run sixth inning to defeat fourth-ranked Mission Viejo 7-3 in the teams’ South Coast League baseball opener Wednesday at Alison Niguel High.
  Mathews had six strikeouts, allowed one hit and walked one batter over four innings.
  “Our league is so difficult and every game is going to be an absolute battle, so to come out to get the first one is huge,” Al
  
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• Healthy Adam Liberatore could make impact for Dodgers’ bullpen

  15-03-2018 04:12 via ocregister.com
  GLENDALE, Ariz. — Adam Liberatore has his priorities and nothing this spring has changed them.
  “No, not at all,” the Dodgers left-hander said. “I just wanted to be healthy. Pretty much that was it. I just felt like throughout my career wherever I was at as long as I was healthy I pitched really good.
  “I just wanted to come back and not only prove to everybody but prove to myself that I still got this and my body is going to hold up. Because I had all kinds of doubts
  
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• Invest in UC system or lose a key California asset

  15-03-2018 03:30 via ocregister.com
  Public universities in our nation, very much including the massive “land grant” institutions of the Midwest and then the West, were 19th-century America’s great good gift to both general knowledge and economic progress in the world.
  If the Oxfords and Sorbonnes of the Old Word were nominally public places, they were in reality for the most part bastions of upper-class privilege.
  Our pluralistic society would allow the quality of our public universities to fall at our peril.
  And
  
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• With Ducks scraping to make playoffs, Ryan Miller is again part of games that matter

  15-03-2018 03:21 via ocregister.com
  ANAHEIM — The last time Ryan Miller was the man in net for a playoff game was three springs ago with Vancouver, the team the Ducks were facing Wednesday night. His choice to come to Southern California could, in some ways, play out just as he hoped.
  Miller is a different role with the Ducks, backing up John Gibson on most nights like this one. And if they do make the Stanley Cup playoffs, the 37-year-old knows that the Game 1 start will go to Gibson as long as the netminder is healthy and
  
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• In Pennsylvania special election, all politics is still local

  15-03-2018 03:00 via ocregister.com
  When it came to campaigns and elections, former Speaker of the House Thomas Phillip “Tip” O’Neill religiously subscribed to the philosophy that, “all politics is local.”
  While O’Neill acknowledged that a national profile and a focus on wider issues could be useful at generating interest, raising money or impressing Washington insiders, ultimately the Massachusetts Democrat was convinced that whichever candidate best addressed the issues and concerns back home
  
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• Police: Man barricaded in Santa Ana apartment, throws knife and laptop at officers

  15-03-2018 02:16 via ocregister.com
  A man barricaded himself in a Santa Ana apartment for at least three hours Wednesday and lobbed objects – including a knife – at police after threatening his mother, police said.
  Santa Ana Police Department officers arrived at the apartment on South Fairview Street in response to a call about a son threatening his mother with a knife. Police got the mother out safely but the son, an adult, then barricaded himself in the apartment, police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said.
  During the ensuing
  
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• Santa Ana and Florida students Skype about gun safety

  15-03-2018 02:14 via ocregister.com
  Although 2,700 miles apart, the pair of classrooms mirrored one another on screen – whiteboard-covered walls, fluorescent lighting tucked inside ceiling panels and crowded with desks practically touching.
  The students also had much in common, including the speech and debate classes. Their debate teachers – Santa Ana High’s Corin Serrano and Nova High’s Courtney Chipman in Florida – arranged for the students to Skype on Wednesday, March, 14, after the National S
  
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• Students honor Parkland victims while pressing for change

  15-03-2018 02:13 via ocregister.com
  Using handmade signs, chants and phone calls to members of Congress, young people around Southern California turned fear and frustration into activism Wednesday, joining peers nationwide to protest gun violence in schools.
  The national school walkout — held a month to the day after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida — was observed by thousands of students from the region.
  Local demonstrations unfolded with no reported arrests or major safety iss
  
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• Hoornstra: Pace of play rule could put pitching prospects at greater risk for injury

  15-03-2018 01:50 via ocregister.com
  Stan Conte, the former head athletic trainer for the Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, once remarked that the human shoulder is made for throwing. But, he said, “it may not have been designed to throw as hard as it can 120 times in a two-hour period.”
  If baseball were to create a rule to increase the risk of injuring its pitchers, it might look like the one announced Wednesday.
  All Double-A and Triple-A pitchers will be required to deliver a pitch within 15 seconds when there are no
  
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