Anaheim news

• What did we learn from the Congressional Facebook hearing?

  18-04-2018 23:50 via ocregister.com
  What did we learn from the Congressional Facebook hearing?
  We definitely reaffirmed a lot of things we already knew, even if those things weren’t openly spoken of. For instance, we know that Congress is full of people with effectively no native working knowledge of digital life as it’s lived today.
  This goes beyond a working knowledge of the mechanics of the internet. It’s one thing to understand how to navigate around the most popular websites and apps — to use the inter
  
  Read more

• U.S. manufacturers seek relief from steel and aluminum tariffs

  18-04-2018 23:41 via ocregister.com
  By PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
  Rising costs. Delayed shipments. A baffling bureaucracy.
  President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported aluminum and steel are disrupting business for American companies that buy those metals, and many are pressing for relief.
  Hundreds of companies are asking the Commerce Department to exempt them from the 25 percent steel tariff and the 10 percent aluminum tariff.
  ICYMI: Here’s how Donald Trump’s steel tariff could whack Southern Cali
  
  Read more

• Rams to play Kansas City Chiefs in Mexico City on Nov. 19

  18-04-2018 23:35 via ocregister.com
  The Rams announced that their regular-season game in Mexico City, against Kansas City, will be played on Monday night, Nov. 19.
  The game, to be held at Estadio Azteca, will kick off at 5:15 p.m. Pacific time and will be televised by ESPN. It will be Rams’ first regular-season game in Mexico.
  The rest of the Rams’ 2018 schedule will be released by the league on Thursday at 5 p.m.
  –Rich Hammond
  
  Read more

• Mater Dei takes big step toward Trinity League title with sweep of Santa Margarita

  18-04-2018 23:24 via ocregister.com
  Santa Margarita blockers Trevor Sperle, left, and Evan Geiger, right, try to block a spike from Mater DeiÕs Joey Farney in a Trinity League boys volleyball game at Mater Dei High Wednesday night.
  in Santa Ana on Wednesday, April18, 2018. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)
  Santa MargaritaÕs Shane Suxho leaps to save a shot against Mater Dei in a Trinity League boys volleyball game at Mater Dei High Wednesday night.
  in Santa Ana on Wednesday, April18, 2018. (Sam Gangwer, Contri
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Man suspected of stalking Taylor Swift at her Beverly Hills home is released

  18-04-2018 23:20 via ocregister.com
  A 38-year-old Colorado man found outside Taylor Swift’s Beverly Hills home on Saturday,  April 14, 2018, was released from custody. (File photo by John Salangsang, Associated Press)
  BEVERLY HILLS — A Colorado man arrested on suspicion of felony stalking outside Taylor Swift’s home in Beverly Hills was released from custody today, pending further investigation.
  Officers were sent to the 1200 block of Laurel Lane about 2:40 p.m. Saturday on a report from Swift’s securi
  
  Read more

• Ducks’ Jacob Larsson says comeback from knee surgery has been challenging

  18-04-2018 23:03 via ocregister.com
  SAN JOSE — Jacob Larsson did not get into Game 4 of the Western Conference quarterfinals for the Ducks against San Jose but the journey to watching at SAP Center on Wednesday night left him appreciative regardless.
  The first full pro season in North America was one the Ducks’ top pick in the 2015 draft would like to file away as a learning experience and one to eventually put in the past. By his own admission, Larsson did not have the kind of year he wanted – and it had teammat
  
  Read more

• Excavator blamed for island-wide blackout in Puerto Rico

  18-04-2018 22:18 via ocregister.com
  By DANICA COTO
  The  Associated PressSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the U.S. territory struggles to repair an increasingly unstable power grid nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria. Officials said an excavator accidentally downed a transmission line.
  Officials said it could take 24 to 36 hours to fully restore power to more than 1.4 million customers as outrage grew across the island about the state of Puerto Rico’s Electric Po
  
  Read more

• Thumbnail

  18-04-2018 22:17
  Northgate Gonzales Markets, Anaheim, Calif., invited children to learn about healthy eating at a series of cooking classes at the store, with partner Fresh Fruits from Chile. Over the past few months, California children were introduced to fresh fruit through cooking classes sponsored by Fresh Fruits from Chile and Northgate Gonzales Markets.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• African-American students would get extra funding under proposal before Legislature

  18-04-2018 22:15 via ocregister.com
  By John Fensterwald, EdSource
  California districts with African-American students, currently the lowest-performing ethnic or racial student group, would receive additional funding under a bill that passed its first legislative hurdle last week with the support of organizations representing both school districts and charter schools.
  Asssemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, the primary author, said the bill is needed to correct the failure of the Local Control Funding Formula, as written, to add
  
  Read more

• Dodgers place Rich Hill on DL with cracked nail, starting rotation in flux

  18-04-2018 22:13 via ocregister.com
  SAN DIEGO — For want of a nail, the Dodgers’ starting rotation is in flux.
  Left-hander Rich Hill was placed on the DL on Wednesday, retroactive to his start on Saturday when the nail on the middle finger of his pitching hand cracked. Left-handed reliever Adam Liberatore was promoted from Triple-A Oklahoma City to fill his spot on the roster.
  “We thought we’d just monitor it until Friday, but unfortunately it hasn’t dissipated as much as we wanted it to,” Hill
  
  Read more

• Drug test spurs frank talk between hypertension patients and doctors

  18-04-2018 22:09 via ocregister.com
  By Blake Farmer, California Healthline
  There’s an irony at the heart of the treatment of high blood pressure. The malady itself often has no symptoms, yet the medicines to treat it — and to prevent a stroke or heart attack later — can make people feel crummy.
  “It’s not that you don’t want to take it, because you know it’s going to help you. But it’s the getting used to it,” said Sharon Fulson, a customer service representative from Nashv
  
  Read more

• You can write a condolence message to the family of former First Lady Barbara Bush at the Nixon Library

  18-04-2018 22:08 via ocregister.com
  Visitors to the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum on Wednesday, April 18, stopped in the foyer to pay tribute to another memorable figure in White House history: Barbara Bush.
  The former first lady died Tuesday at age 92.
  The Richard Nixon Foundation is collecting condolence messages to the Bush family. A book has been made available as part of a small memorial to Bush near the library’s entrance. Admission isn’t needed for that part of the library.
  Students from St. John the B
  
  Read more

• Hill tosses one-hitter as Dana Hills stays hot against Tesoro

  18-04-2018 22:00 via ocregister.com
  Dana Hills’ Chase Hill pitches a one-hitter for the Dolphins against Tesoro on Wednesday. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, contributing photographer)
  Dana Hills’ Chase Hill is congratulated by Dolphin head coach Tom Faris after he pitched a one-hitter against Tesoro on Wednesday. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, contributing photographer)
  Dana Hills’ Chase Hill is congratulated by Dolphins coach Tom Faris after he pitched a one-hitter against Tesoro on Wednesday. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, contribu
  
  Read more

• Nation’s top doc wants the overdose antidote widely on hand. Is that feasible?

  18-04-2018 21:57 via ocregister.com
  By Shefali Luthra and Rachel Bluth, California Healthline
  When Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory calling for more people to carry naloxone — not just people at overdose risk, but also friends and family — experts and advocates were almost giddy.
  This is an “unequivocally positive” step forward, said Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.
  And not necessarily a surprise. Adams, who p
  
  Read more

• First-ever Temecula Blues Festival coming to Old Town

  18-04-2018 21:55 via ocregister.com
  The Temecula Blues Festival got its start when Andy Doty, who runs the Old Town Blues Club, had a simple idea: Why not?
  “First of all, I have a deep love and affection for blues music,” Doty said about his motivation to tackle a music festival. “I looked around and noticed several Southern California cities have blues festivals, so why not Temecula? We are becoming a mecca for great music.”
  The inaugural event will fill the plaza in front of Temecula’s Civic Ce
  
  Read more

• USOC head: Center For Safe Sport not moving fast enough for sex abuse victims

  18-04-2018 21:44 via ocregister.com
  Describing it as “under resourced,” U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Larry Probst said the USOC created Center For Safe Sport needs to be more responsive to sexual abuse victims.
  With the American Olympic movement in the midst of the biggest sexual abuse scandal in U.S. sports history in the wake of the Larry Nassar and USA Swimming controversies, interim USOC chief executive Suzanne Lyons acknowledged the current infrastructure of the USOC and its national sports governing bodies nee
  
  Read more

• Philippe The Original’s famous french dip sandwiches now available online

  18-04-2018 21:10 via ocregister.com
  Will Philippe The Original’s French dip sandwiches still taste as good without the atmosphere?
  And by atmosphere I mean the corny old cafeteria line with jars of pickled pigs’ feet in the background: The landmark lunch spot in downtown Los Angeles, which hasn’t changed much since the 1920s, has announced that it’s now selling sandwiches online.
  A six pack of “The Original French Dip Sandwich” is $129, three jars of the eatery’s sear-your-sinuses mustard
  
  Read more

• LA supervisor wants to ‘decriminalize’ Metro’s Express Lanes on 110 and 10 freeways by letting drivers use them without first registering

  18-04-2018 21:04 via ocregister.com
  When a driver inadvertently enters a pay lane on a Los Angeles County freeway, he is breaking the law and must pay a fine.  If he ignores the fine, he faces add-on delinquent charges and a hold on his registration.
  The fines for illegal use of what Metro calls Express Lanes represented 36.4 percent of the revenues collected by Metro from 2014 to 2016, according to an audit obtained by this newspaper in a public records request. Total revenues reached $130.9 million, with $47.3 million from
  
  Read more

• U.S. Youth Soccer facing legal challenge over background check issue

  18-04-2018 20:07 via ocregister.com
  In 2005, U.S. Youth Soccer, the nation’s largest youth sports organization, conducted a survey of its 55 state associations on background checks of coaches, club employees and volunteers.
  USYSA asked the state associations if they conducted background checks and if so how often and who was checked? The survey also asked state officials if they had any “National Policy/Legislation Suggestions,” according to USYSA documents obtained by the Southern California News Group.
  “M
  
  Read more

• Most Californians believe they pay more taxes than they should, poll finds

  18-04-2018 19:37 via ocregister.com
  Editor’s note: Breaking views are thoughts from individual members of the editorial board on today’s headlines.
  Californians are saddled with some of the highest state and local taxes in the country and they’re becoming increasingly aware of this distinction, according to polling by the the Public Policy Institute of California.
  Polling data released last month by PPIC found that 72 percent of Californians thought California ranked near the top (49 percent) or above averag
  
  Read more

• LAFC breaks in its new stadium after dedication ceremony

  18-04-2018 19:35 via ocregister.com
  The Los Angeles Football Club’s 3252 support club chants during the unveiling of the LAFC’s Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
  LAFC Owners Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Peter Guber fist bump during the unveiling of the Los Angeles Football Club’s Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
  Nomar Gar
  
  Read more

• ‘Nerves of steel:’ She calmly landed the Southwest flight and broke barriers as a fighter pilot

  18-04-2018 19:20 via ocregister.com
  By SAMANTHA SCHMIDT
  The Washington Post
  The pilot’s voice was calm yet focused as her plane descended with 149 people on board.
  “Southwest 1380, we’re single engine,” Capt. Tammie Jo Shults, a former fighter pilot with the U.S. Navy, said. “We have part of the aircraft missing so we’re going to need to slow down a bit.” She asked for medical personnel to meet her aircraft on the runway. “We’ve got injured passengers.”
  “Injured pas
  
  Read more

• Coachella 2018: Weekend 2 camping delayed due to high winds; here’s what to do

  18-04-2018 18:50 via ocregister.com
  Due to bad weather, Coachella campers will have to pitch their tents a little later than planned this weekend.
  Originally slated to open Thursday morning, the campground for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is instead expected to open at 3 a.m. Friday, April 20, concert officials announced Wednesday afternoon, advising concert goers to delay their arrival until the weather has passed.
  The delay is due to a severe high wind warning issued by the National Weather Service.
  Sign up for o
  
  Read more

• International Champions Cup brings soccer’s best back to Rose Bowl

  18-04-2018 18:47 via ocregister.com
  European soccer powers AC Milan, Manchester United, Barcelona and Tottenham are headed to the Rose Bowl this summer.
  All four teams will participate in the sixth edition of the International Champions Cup.
  AC Milan will face Manchester United at 8 p.m. July 25 at the Rose Bowl. Three days later, Barcelona will take on Tottenham, also at 8 p.m.
  This will be the fourth time in the past five years Manchester United will spend its preseason in the U.S. Last season, the club played a friendly against
  
  Read more

• Ducks Gameday: Can they keep Sharks from bringing brooms out of closet?

  18-04-2018 18:32 via ocregister.com
  SAN JOSE — Nineteen years have passed since the Ducks were swept out the Stanley Cup playoffs and they’ll looking to avoid that ignominious feat Wednesday night when they face the San Jose Sharks in Game 4 of their Western Conference first-round series at SAP Center.
  The Ducks have been swept just twice in 29 playoff series in franchise history, with Detroit handing out both in 1997 and 1999. The two were among the first three they played. And they’re dealing with the first 3-
  
  Read more

• Musk doubles down on Model 3, with around-the-clock production

  18-04-2018 18:18 via ocregister.com
  Tesla will begin around-the-clock production at its Fremont assembly plant to boost Model 3 output, chief executive officer Elon Musk told employees.
  The electric-car maker will try to build 6,000 of the sedans a week by the end of June, Musk wrote in an email Tuesday first obtained by the blog Electrek. A Tesla spokesman declined to comment. The company’s shares rose as much as 2.9 percent in early U.S. trading on Wednesday.
  “As part of the drive towards 6k, all Model 3 production a
  
  Read more

• LA Kings season in review: A sweeping disappointment

  18-04-2018 17:27 via ocregister.com
  Winning Stanley Cup titles in 2012 and 2014 had to be euphoric for the players on those Kings teams. Many of them are still Kings — eight from 2012, 11 from 2014.
  But their faces were long late Tuesday night after the Kings were swept by Vegas in the first round of the playoffs, the final nail in the coffin coming by way of a 1-0 loss to the Golden Knights at Staples Center.
  Here’s a look at the Kings’ season:
  What went wrong
  The Kings averaged just 2.43 goals per game dur
  
  Read more

• Southern California has some of the worst air pollution in the country, report finds

  18-04-2018 17:26 via ocregister.com
  Southern California retains the dubious distinction of having the worst air quality in the nation, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association.
  Los Angeles, Riverside, Ventura, San Bernardino and Orange counties recorded the most unhealthful levels of ozone— the main ingredient of smog— in the nation, despite showing improvement.
  The Los Angeles-Long Beach metro area was ranked at the top of all cities in the United States for ozone pollution.
  The region
  
  Read more

• Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani surprise fans with Las Vegas set

  18-04-2018 17:19
  Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani surprised concertgoers in Las Vegas by putting on an impromptu show over the weekend . The couple attended the Academy of Country Music Awards together on Sunday and following the prizegiving Shelton announced on Twitter he was hosting a free concert at the House of Blues with "friends".
  
  Read more

• Southern California bankruptcies fall to 11-year low

  18-04-2018 17:01 via ocregister.com
  Slow business for Southern California bankruptcy courts is good news for the local economy.
  Local individual and business bankruptcy filings started 2018 with the seventh-consecutive, year-over-year decline to the slowest pace in 11 years.
  There were 8,815 bankruptcies in 2018’s first three months vs. 9,416 in the previous year — a 6.4 percent decline, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute. The tally of filings in U.S. Bankruptcy Court’s Central District for California
  
  Read more

• ACLU sues Los Alamitos over city’s move to exempt itself from California sanctuary laws

  18-04-2018 17:00 via ocregister.com
  The American Civil Liberties Union sued the city of Los Alamitos on Wednesday, alleging its move this week to exempt itself from California’s sanctuary laws violates the state constitution and wastes taxpayer money.
  The lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court comes two days after the Los Alamitos City Council approved a precedent-setting ordinance that exempts its police department from following the California Values Act, which limits police cooperation with federal immigration auth
  
  Read more

• California opens investigation of Tesla workplace conditions

  18-04-2018 16:55 via ocregister.com
  California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has opened an investigation into Tesla Inc. following a report about worker protections at the company’s lone auto plant in Fremont.
  The state agency “takes seriously reports of workplace hazards and allegations of employers’ underreporting recordable work-related injuries and illnesses” and “currently has an open inspection at Tesla,” said Erika Monterroza, a spokeswoman for the state’s indus
  
  Read more

• Tickets going on sale for Cheech and Chong at Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in August

  18-04-2018 16:52 via ocregister.com
  Cheech and Chong are coming to Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Rancho Mirage, and it’s a safe bet that some fans will be getting the giggles (and possibly the munchies) when the comedy duo performs on Saturday, Aug. 4.
  Tickets for the show go on sale Friday, April 20 – that’s 4/20, of course – and range from $40-$60. They can be purchased by calling 800-585-3737 or online at hotwatercasino.com.
  The marijuana-loving duo reached cult status after the 1978 hit f
  
  Read more

• Barbara Bush 1925 – 2018: Political Cartoons

  18-04-2018 16:35 via ocregister.com
  Show Caption of Expand
  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.
  
  Read more

• Is Mall of America heading West? Developer eyes vacant 47-acre Warner Center site

  18-04-2018 16:31 via ocregister.com
  The company that owns Mall of America is looking to develop a 47-acre site in Woodland Hills that once housed an Aerojet Rocketdyne engine manufacturing facility, an industry group reported Tuesday.
  CoStar, a real estate information and marketing firm, said Triple Five Group Ltd. is negotiating to buy the property at 6633 Canoga Ave. in the Warner Center business development from Rocketdyne’s former parent company, United Technologies Corp.
  James Abbott, execu
  
  Read more

• Whicker: Canelo gets a break, Golovkin gets a new foe, and we get the rematch in September

  18-04-2018 16:19 via ocregister.com
  Gennady Golovkin wanted a fight. Now he has two.
  Golovkin wanted to squeeze the public vise on Canelo Alvarez. Done.
  All parties involved wanted the money a Golovkin-Canelo rematch would shake from the sky. Check.
  And boxing writers wanted at least five more months to pile up as many groan-worthy references to “high steaks” and “prime-time” and “carne USADA” as possible.
  As of Wednesday, we are blessed.
  The Nevada State Athletic Commission truncated its suspen
  
  Read more

• Another day, another jump in gas prices for LA and OC motorists

  18-04-2018 15:50 via ocregister.com
  LOS ANGELES — The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose four-tenths of a cent today to $3.606, its highest amount since Aug. 27, 2015.
  The average price has increased seven of the past eight days, rising 2.8 cents, including three-tenths of a cent on Tuesday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service.
  The average price is 2.7 cents more than one week ago, 11.6 cents higher than one month ago and 55.5 cents greater than
  
  Read more

• ‘It smells like death:’ Alabama endures NYC ‘poop train’

  18-04-2018 15:21 via ocregister.com
  This April 12, 2018 photo shows containers that were loaded with tons of sewage sludge in Parrish, Ala. More than two months after the so-called “Poop Train” rolled in from New York City, Hall says her small town smells like rotting corpses. Some say the trainloads of New Yorkers’ excrement is turning Alabama into a dumping ground for other states’ waste. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
  By JEFF MARTIN and JAY REEVESAssociated Press
  PARRISH, Ala. — A stinking trainload of huma
  
  Read more

• Status Update: 3 veterans, 96 years combined, retire from DA’s office; Second Harvest gets $300,000 donation, 36,000 pounds of food

  18-04-2018 15:17 via ocregister.com
  Senior Assistant District Attorney Mike Lubinski retired March 30 after 34 years as a prosecutor withOrange County District Attorney’s Office. Lubinski, originally from Chicago, joined the OCDA in 1984. He was promoted to senior ADA in 2012 where he oversaw Special Projects. (Courtesy of OCDA)
  Joe D’Agostino retired March 29 after 33 years as a prosecutor with the team. D’Agostino, a Canadian by birth, joined the Orange County District Attorney’s Offic
  
  Read more

• Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: Looking for me? I won’t be covered with dust from Coachella

  18-04-2018 15:15 via ocregister.com
  I want to talk to you about Coachella, and I have plenty of time to do that because I’m not there.
  As many of you know, there’s a big honking music festival going on right now out in the desert near Palm Springs, and it attracts about 1.2 zillion young people every year because, well, because there are 1.2 zillion young people going, all with hormones raging.
  Oh, yeah, and Beyoncé. And other famed musicians who the ticket holders never actually get to see as more than a small
  
  Read more

• Watch live: SpaceX to launch NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft at 3:51 p.m. PDT

  18-04-2018 14:47 via ocregister.com
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-0uBIYYKk
  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a planet-hunting satellite for NASA was set to take off Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Hawthorne-based SpaceX will begin a live stream before the launch, which is scheduled for 3:51 p.m. Pacific time.
  NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will conduct a two-year survey to find potential planets orbiting stars relatively close to Earth. A drone ship on the Atlantic Ocean will attempt to land t
  
  Read more

• Los Alamitos finds MVP candidate in freshman Sophia Nugent

  18-04-2018 14:27 via ocregister.com
  HUNTINGTON BEACH – Before Los Alamitos freshman Sophia Nugent faced her first pitch in the third inning Tuesday night, Huntington Beach coach Jeff Forsberg called timeout and paid the Oilers’ pitcher a visit with runners on second and third and two out.
  Forsberg and sophomore pitcher Grace Uribe certainly knew what the rest of the Orange County softball community has learned this spring: Nugent is a hitter to be feared, or in the very least, respected.
  After the Oilers’ brief c
  
  Read more

• ‘Little Rascals’ kid tap dances at 94, stays ‘forever young’

  18-04-2018 14:27 via ocregister.com
  With a crowd cheering “lower,” Sid Hallburn, in black tap shoes, white trousers and a red jacket, dips down – and down.
  At first, I’m impressed, then I’m amazed. But as Hallburn squats ever closer to concrete, I worry we may soon witness Hallburn’s last moment alive.
  With white hair slicked back, ruddy cheeks and a passion for putting smiles on faces, Hallburn is 94 years old.
  Sid Hallburn tap dances as the Forever Young- America’s Oldest Act of Professi
  
  Read more

• Map: Nonprofit proposes potential sites for homeless shelters in south Orange County

  18-04-2018 14:16 via ocregister.com
  Representatives of iHOPE, a faith-based nonprofit that assists homeless people in south coastal Orange County, led a group of journalists and advocates — and two homeless people who once lived at the Santa Ana riverbed — on an unofficial tour of potential sites for shelters.
  The three-hour caravan on Tuesday, April 17, to locations in Dana Point, San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano took place two days before the mayors of south county cities convene to discuss how to satisfy a feder
  
  Read more

• Review: Harvest at The Ranch in Laguna finally gets its act together

  18-04-2018 13:03 via ocregister.com
  The hilltop restaurant at The Ranch in Laguna Beach got off to a rocky start. The revamped resort originally hired a great chef, but construction of the new dining room dragged on forever and he left before the restaurant officially opened a few years ago. They hired another chef just in time for the unveiling, and the kitchen did some great things for a moment, but then he was gone, too. Now there’s a third chef in charge, Kyle St. John, whose resume includes a stint at Selanne Steak Tave
  
  Read more

• Why LA’s graffiti art exhibit ‘Beyond the Streets’ is unlike any other

  18-04-2018 12:37 via ocregister.com
  Roger Gastman got into graffiti when he was in ninth grade, and he’s still into it today.
  These days, he’s a graffiti historian, urban anthropologist, author and filmmaker. Gastman was also a co-curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s 2011 exhibit, “Art in the Streets” and co-authored the 2011 book, “The History of American Graffiti,” with Caleb Nelson.
  “Everyone kept asking – no matter where I was or who I was with – when
  
  Read more

• Amazon’s next move: Partnering with Best Buy to sell smart TVs

  18-04-2018 12:32 via ocregister.com
  Amazon has cut a deal to sell voice-controlled TVs at Best Buy, the latest attempt by the online retailer to get its burgeoning suite of tech products out where people can see and touch them.
  Best Buy already sells the Amazon Kindle and other gadgets, but the deal announced Wednesday makes the electronics retailer the only other place where you can walk in and buy a TV powered by Amazon’s Fire TV software. Investors seemed to like the partnership: Best Buy’s stock rose 4 percent Wedn
  
  Read more

• Canelo Alvarez suspended 6 months for PED violations

  18-04-2018 12:30 via ocregister.com
  LAS VEGAS — Nevada boxing regulators suspended Canelo Alvarez on Wednesday for six months for doping violations.
  Alvarez also must undergo drug tests. No fine was recommended because past ones have been based on future purses. With Alvarez’s May 5 rematch with Gennady Golovkin canceled, there is no forthcoming purse.
  Caroline Bateman, a Nevada deputy attorney general, suggested a punishment of six months from the date of Alvarez’s first positive test, on Feb. 17.
  Bateman said A
  
  Read more

• Palo Alto may seek another hotel-tax increase

  18-04-2018 12:01
  The Palo Alto City Council's Finance Committee recommended placing a measure to raise the city's hotel-tax rate from 14 percent to 16 percent on the November ballot. File photo by Veronica Weber As construction costs continue to rise, Palo Alto officials are looking to place another hotel-tax increase on the November ballot to help fund their infrastructure priorities.
  
  Read more

• Major surf contest in Western Australia canceled due to shark attacks, fears

  18-04-2018 11:44 via ocregister.com
  A major surf contest in Western Australia was called off after two people at a nearby beach were attacked by sharks.
  The decision for the World Surf League to cancel the Margaret River Pro was announced Tuesday evening “as a result of exceptional circumstances surrounding this season’s event regarding sharks and the safety of our surfers,” according to a news release sent out by WSL CEO Sophie Goldschmidt.
  Both shark attacks happened on April 16 at Gracetown, about 3.7 mil
  
  Read more

Follow @Anaheim_NewsUS on Twitter!