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• Rhonda Faehn asked to resign as USA Gymnastics senior vice president

  17-05-2018 23:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Rhonda Faehn, USA Gymnastics senior vice president for the women’s program and a key figure in the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal, has been asked to resign by USA Gymnastics chief executive Kerry Perry, the Orange County Register has learned.
  Faehn is believed to be the first USA Gymnastics official to learn of allegations that Nassar had sexually abused U.S. national team members, a club coach first approaching her with concerns about Nassar in June 2015, 16 months before Nassar’
  
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• Suspect steals OCTA bus in Irvine, crashes while being chased

  17-05-2018 22:34 via ocregister.com
  
  A suspect stole an Orange County Transit Authority shuttle bus in Irvine Thursday night and led officers on an approximately half-hour chase that ended with a crash into a guardrail on a freeway in Costa Mesa.
  The bus, which was empty, was taken about 6:20 p.m. in the area of Barranca Parkway and Harvard Avenue, according to Irvine police.
  A motorcycle officer spotted the bus on the 5 Freeway and tried to pull it over, but the suspect didn’t yield and allegedly tried to run down the office
  
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• Pacheco’s pitching, hitting guide Segerstrom to victory in first round of baseball playoffs

  17-05-2018 22:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Basilio Pacheco had an outstanding game on the mound and with the bat for Segerstrom on Thursday as the host Jaguars beat Santa Ynez 8-1 in a CIF-Southern Section Division 4 first-round playoff game.
  Pacheco, who signed with Long Beach State, pitched six innings in which he gave up two hits and struck out nine. He also drove in two runs. Andrew Barajas had three RBIs for the Jaguars (24-5) who play at home against Northview (21-9) of Covina in the second round Tuesday.
  Segerstrom won a coin fli
  
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• Boring Co.’s Elon Musk takes his underground transit dreams to the people

  17-05-2018 22:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Elon Musk and Hawthorne Mayor Alex Vargas inside of The Boring Co. tunnel entrance. (Photo courtesy Alex Vargas)
  The Hawthorne-based Boring Co. is digging a Hyperloop tunnel in Baltimore, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced this week.SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsElon Musk shared this photo of the entrance to The Boring Co.’s proposed Hawthorne-to-LAX tunnel in SpaceX’s old parking lot on his Instagram account.
  This Boring Co. photo shows the tunnel-boring machine in the entr
  
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• California’s wildfire reality needs this new plan

  17-05-2018 22:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Wildfires in California, which for the first time in living memory know no season — the state is dry at all times of the year — are vastly different from the old notion of “forest” fires in mostly unpopulated places.
  That’s why a fresh initiative out of Sacramento in Gov. Jerry Brown’s May revision of his budget forecast is right to include $96 million in new annual spending, from various funding sources, to support up-to-date firefighting that acknowledges ne
  
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• Wilson pulls off stunning comeback to beat Irvine in Division 3 softball playoffs

  17-05-2018 22:17 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH – With its season on the verge of coming to an end, the Long Beach Wilson softball team scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh for a 3-2 win over Irvine in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 3 playoffs at Joe Rodgers Field on Thursday.
  The win was the Bruins’ first in the postseason since 2011.
  “It just shows (how) these kids have been all season,” Wilson coach George Molina said. “They support each other. If it’s not one person the
  
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• Beckman uses seven-run inning to roll to playoff victory over Village Christian

  17-05-2018 22:15 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE – Beckman scored seven runs and batted around in the second inning en route to an 8-0 win over Village Christian in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 2 baseball playoffs.
  The Patriots have won 14 consecutive games and will host Rio Mesa of Oxnard in the second round on Tuesday, May 22.
  Beckman (23-3-1) sent 12 batters to the plate in its half of the second inning.
  With runners on the corners, Ricky Teel hit a run-scoring single to put Beckman in front 2-0. Mylan Jones and Matt
  
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• Antonio Villaraigosa says he’s going up while Newsom goes flat

  17-05-2018 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Antonio Villaraigosa reads the polls, both his own campaign’s internal surveys and the public ones reported frequently via newspapers and television. These days, they make him feel good.
  “I’m on the ascendancy,” the former Los Angeles mayor and onetime state Assembly speaker smiles when asked to assess how his campaign is doing. Yes, he’s still in second place in almost every poll reported so far, but his numbers look far better than they did early last year, when h
  
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• Dana Point is changing how council members are elected

  17-05-2018 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  DANA POINT — Residents in this small seaside town will no longer have a voice in selecting all of their City Council members, beginning with the November election.
  Instead, the city is joining a number of other Orange County communities and changing its election process to a by-district system, carving Dana Point into five geographic regions with registered voters of each district choosing a City Council representative.
  Three districts will be voted on in November’s election; the oth
  
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• Vote yes, with some caveats, on California Prop. 69

  17-05-2018 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Whatever one believes about the wisdom of recently enacted gas tax and vehicle-registration fee increases, most will likely agree that those revenues should be used to improve California’s transportation infrastructure.
  Proposition 69 offers Californians an opportunity to ensure that the additional taxes and fees from Senate Bill 1 actually go toward transportation.
  Currently, the state constitution ensures the bulk of SB1 revenues will go to transportation infrastructure. Revenues from ga
  
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• Anaheim briefs: Free art festival at Pearson Park for kids this weekend

  17-05-2018 20:47
  The Anaheim Children's Festival will be held 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 19, at Pearson Park. The festival is all art, all day, and is free for kids and their families.
  
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• Angels’ Keynan Middleton to undergo Tommy John surgery

  17-05-2018 20:22 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Keynan Middleton sought a second opinion for his elbow injury, but it didn’t bring any better news.
  Middleton said on Thursday that he has decided to undergo Tommy John surgery, which will have him out for the rest of this season and perhaps much of the 2019 season too. The normal rehab time is 12 to 18 months, although Middleton has a chance to be at the shorter end of that because he’s a reliever.
  “It’s really unfortunate the situation I’m in,&rdqu
  
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• DJ who got the Rolling Stones to San Bernardino for their first U.S. concert dies at 88

  17-05-2018 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Bill Watson, a popular Inland radio disc jockey who was instrumental in bringing the Rolling Stones to San Bernardino for their first concert in the United States, died Tuesday, May 15, in San Diego. He was 88.
  Watson helped propel San Bernardino-based KMEN into the top radio station in the region in the 1960s.
  “He was able to project himself as a really cool guy,” said Chuck Street, a San Bernardino native and longtime radio personality. “He had a presence on the rad
  
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• Spring Forward

  17-05-2018 20:17 via ocregister.com
  
  SWIG STYLISHLY:
  I have Marie Kondo-ed the cabinet in my kitchen that was devoted entirely to
  water bottles and replaced them all with a single stainless-steel BPA-free canteen from Fountain Valley-based Elemental. Holding a generous 25 ounces, the bottles are available in more than a dozen colors, from glossy gray or robin’s egg blue to
  matte black and teal, and they’ll keep liquids cold for 24 hours, hot for 12. The
  bottles come with a bamboo cap (for toting on errands or keeping on
  
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• Beauty Bites: Marla Beck puckers up with a new vegan lipstick

  17-05-2018 19:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Marla Beck, CEO and founder of Bluemercury Inc.
  Since I became a mom I’m constantly searching for quick easy beauty tips. I admit to having numerous mornings where I’m applying makeup en route to the kids’ school drop off. So, when Bluemercury creator Marla Beck launched her makeup line for ladies on the go, I had to get all the details.
  “For years, my time-starved friends have asked me which makeup products they should use and how to apply them,” says Marla Beck, C
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday (3-17-18)

  17-05-2018 19:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Scores and stats for the Orange County games on Thursday, May 17.
  BASEBALL
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  DIVISION 2
  Tahquitz 3, Laguna Beach 1
  LB: Silva 2-3 R 2B, Holm 2-3, Clawson 1-3 RBI, Loechner (L 4IP 2H 3R 2ER 2BB 5K)
  DIVISION 4
  Segerstrom 8, Santa Ynez 1
  Seg: Pacheco 1-3 2RBI (W 6IP 2H 1R 0ER 4BB 9K), Aguilar 2-2 2B RBI, Barajas 1-4 2B 3RBI.
  Records: Segerstrom 24-5
  Glenn 7, Calvary Chapel 0
  Note: Jake Tallo had CC’s only hit.DIVISION 6
  Savanna 13, San Jacinto Valley Academy 0
  Sav: Showalter (W,
  
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• Hear the 911 call: Woman says West Covina Mayor Mike Spence ‘may have overdosed’ in hotel room

  17-05-2018 19:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Costa Mesa police have released the 911 call audio reporting that West Covina Mayor Mike Spence was unconscious possibly due to a drug overdose early May 4.
  Emergency responders responded shortly after midnight on May 4 to a call from the 2000 block of Newport Boulevard that involved two people, one of whom was Spence, police spokeswoman Roxi Fyad said Monday. Officers found controlled substance items at the scene, and while no one was arrested, the department intends to submit its investig
  
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• Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia used ‘vulgar language,’ but groping claims not substantiated

  17-05-2018 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  An Assembly investigation into allegations that Bell Gardens Democrat Cristina Garcia groped a former legislative staffer concluded that the accusation “could not be substantiated,” officials said Thursday, although the probe found she had violated Assembly policy by using “vulgar language.”
  Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, said that despite the “most egregious allegations” not being substantiated, Garcia still “engaged in a pattern of behavi
  
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• Attorney for David Turpin of Perris torture case seeks dismissal of perjury charges

  17-05-2018 19:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The attorney for Perris torture defendant David Turpin will ask a judge Friday, May 18, to dismiss the eight counts of perjury filed against his client this month, or refile them separately from the previous charges.
  The felony charges are related to the documents Turpin submitted to the state Department of Education to register the homeschool where some of the family’s 13 children were supposed to be educated.
  Perris residents David and Louise Turpin, accused of torturing 12 of their 13 c
  
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• Santa Ana suspends updating council wards pending lawsuit over voting rights

  17-05-2018 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  After holding two of five scheduled public hearings on changing the boundaries of City Council wards, Santa Ana officials have canceled the remaining hearings and are delaying any action until a voting rights lawsuit is resolved.
  Cities with district- or ward-based representation periodically redraw the boundaries to ensure fair representation. Goals may include balancing the number of residents in each district or creating a ward that gives an underrepresented minority group a bigger voice.
  Hea
  
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• Man arrested on suspicion of attempted rape in Tustin

  17-05-2018 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  A 28-year-old man is under arrest on suspicion of attempted rape, sexual assault and kidnapping after he allegedly attacked a woman walking along Mitchell Avenue in Tustin, May 12, authorities said.
  Detectives with the Tustin Police Department identified the suspect through surveillance and a canvas of the area. They linked the suspect to the crime through DNA evidence found at the scene, Lt. Robert Wright said in a release.
  Norman Ibarra, 28, of Tustin. (Courtesy of Tustin Police Department)
  No
  
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• D. Wayne Lukas explains why Justify could win Preakness

  17-05-2018 18:14 via ocregister.com
  
  There are few horsemen in the country better served to handle questions about horse racing than the man they call “the Coach.”
  D. Wayne Lukas was tagged with the nickname because he coached high school basketball for a bit before moving to horse racing, where he’s left quite a mark in the quarter-horse and thoroughbred industries.
  Lukas, 82, trained 25 world champions while in the quarter-horse business and, since making the move to thoroughbreds, he’s won the Kentucky De
  
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• Brea Museum seeks help preserving old newspapers

  17-05-2018 17:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Did you know the Brea Museum has copies of the Brea Progress newspaper dating back to 1911?
  The museum also has a photo of the newspaper’s office on Pomona Avenue, now Brea Boulevard. The sign over the door says, “The Brea Progress – A Newspaper with a Personality.”
  When I started writing this column in 1999, it was published in the Brea Progress, but the “newspaper with a personality” line was long gone.
  It is great Brea has had a newspaper for more than 100
  
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• UCLA softball balances star power, depth entering NCAA regional

  17-05-2018 17:36 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Kelly Inouye-Perez glances toward the UCLA championship fence. Signs from each of UCLA’s 12 Women’s College World Series championships line the wall from foul line to foul line.
  While images of Lisa Fernandez, Debbie Doom, Lisa Longaker and other former UCLA stars decorate the wall, Inouye-Perez thinks about those players who aren’t pictured but without whom there would be no dynasty to celebrate.
  “It’s that second part of the lineup that can get
  
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• No deal: ‘Real Estate Wars,’ set in O.C., not renewed by Bravo TV

  17-05-2018 17:18 via ocregister.com
  
  “Real Estate Wars,” the Bravo TV reality show featuring 10 luxury Orange County agents, is officially kaput.
  The show, which debuted last fall, won’t get a Season 2, according to an email sent from the production company to cast members this month.
  “While everyone loved the show, the ratings were simply not where they needed to be to justify more episodes,” it stated.
  The McMonigle Team is toasted by a friend during a premiere showing of the new Bravo TV show, &ldqu
  
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• Bumble Bee CEO indicted on charge he fixed canned tuna price

  17-05-2018 17:16 via ocregister.com
  
  U.S. prosecutors filed a criminal charge Wednesday against the CEO of Bumble Bee Foods as part of an ongoing investigation into price fixing in the packaged seafood industry.
  A grand jury in San Francisco indicted Christopher Lischewski on one count of price fixing, alleging that from November 2010 to December 2013 he conspired with others in the industry to eliminate competition by setting prices for canned tuna.
  Three other people, including a former StarKist tuna company executive, have previ
  
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• Two local chocolate factories closing, one will move to Canada, the other, Valenza Chocolatier, will reopen with a bigger and better shop in June

  17-05-2018 16:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Bon bons from Valenza Chocolatier which has closed but will reopen in a permanent 400-square-foot space at The Hood Kitchen on June 4. (Courtesy Valenza Chocolatier)
  Bon bons from Valenza Chocolatier which has closed but will reopen in a permanent 400-square-foot space at The Hood Kitchen on June 4. (Courtesy Valenza Chocolatier)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsAmy Jo Pedone’s Valenza Chocolatier has closed but will reopen in a permanent 400-square-foot space at The Hood Kitchen on Ju
  
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• Tom Petty’s onetime Encino home hits the market at just under $5 million

  17-05-2018 15:49 via ocregister.com
  
  The residence, once destroyed in a fire and rebuilt, has six bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. See more in the slideshow. (Photo courtesy of The Agency)
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  Late rock star Tom Petty’s onetime home in Encino has landed on the market for $4.995 million.
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• Chris Taylor trying to find his way back to being offensive catalyst for Dodgers

  17-05-2018 15:38 via ocregister.com
  
  MIAMI – Chris Taylor has been putting up numbers this season. The wrong kind.
  Recently demoted from the Dodgers’ leadoff spot against right-handed pitching, Taylor leads the team with 48 strikeouts – a total that puts him in the National League’s top 10. An inordinate number of them have come on called third strikes.
  “I don’t know. I try not to think about it, I guess,” Taylor said when asked if the strikeouts were a symptom of something off in his appro
  
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• Southern California house prices up 7.3 percent in April, Realtors report

  17-05-2018 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Home prices and sales increased last month in Southern California and across the state, with median house prices hitting their highest levels since the summer of 2007, the California Association of Realtors reported Thursday, May 17.
  The median price of an existing Southern California house — or price at the midpoint of all sales — was $515,000 for a second straight month in April. That’s the highest median for the region in more than a decade.
  The Southern California house pri
  
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• ‘Love & Hip Hop’ star accuses ex of revenge porn, says rapper 50 Cent made it worse

  17-05-2018 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  “Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood” star Teairra Mari says her ex-boyfriend Akbar Abdul-Ahad posted sexually explicit images of her online after she ended their relationship, and she claims rapper 50 Cent reposted one of the photos to his 18 million Instagram followers. Abdul Ahad told TMZ that he allegedly found Mari smashing the windows of his SUV with a metal pole in North Hollywood. (Photo by John Sciulli/Getty Images)
  WOODLAND HILLS — Singer and television personality Teairra
  
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• How to get tickets to Nine Inch Nails’ quartet of Palladium shows on Saturday

  17-05-2018 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  In an effort to further the face-to-face human connection in the digital age and cut down on the number of scalped and resale tickets, rock band Nine Inch Nails announced that the only way its fans could get their hands on tickets is by showing up to the venues on its Cold and Black and Infinite North American tour in person.
  The band announced that it will play the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles for four nights Dec. 7-8 and 11-12. On its website, the message was clear and the band wants fan
  
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• Senate votes to confirm Haspel as 1st female CIA director

  17-05-2018 15:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO
  The Associated Press
  WASHINGTON  — The Senate confirmed Gina Haspel on Thursday as the first female director of the CIA following a difficult nomination process that reopened an emotional debate about brutal interrogation techniques in one of the darkest chapters in the spy agency’s history.
  The 54-45 vote split both parties, with six Democrats joining most Republicans in support. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who is battling brain cancer, was absent fo
  
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• Ticks carrying Lyme disease are not a major threat in Southern California – yet

  17-05-2018 14:52 via ocregister.com
  
  With summer approaching and more people hiking or simply enjoying the Southern California sunshine, concerns about blood-sucking ticks spreading Lyme disease are real.
  The western blacklegged tick is the most common variety found in California. File photo.
  However, while the disease infiltrated California nearly 30 years ago, the number of cases are way below those reported in the Northeast and Midwest. Vector-borne disease experts say Lyme disease is simply not a serious problem in Southern Cal
  
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• Successful Aging: When your spouse retires and you start spending all day, every day together

  17-05-2018 14:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Q.  I am a stay-at-home dad and have been one for the past 30 years. My wife just retired as an (aggressive) assistant prosecutor and has not yet figured out what she wants to do next. At the moment she is at home — full time. I work at home tutoring high school students on their college essays and entry exams. I am happy my wife is home; however she speaks loudly on the telephone and invades my space when I work with students around the living table. We had an initial retirement chat
  
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• Lowell Herb makes pre-rolled marijuana joints and is looking to hire non-violent cannabis offenders

  17-05-2018 14:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Lowell Herb Co., a Los Angeles-based maker of marijuana cigarettes, is looking to hire more employees and the company is giving special consideration to non-violent cannabis offenders.
  Company CEO David Elias said many of them are having difficulty finding work.
  “One of the first questions many employers ask on a job application is whether you have been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony,” he said. “When an applicant reveals a marijuana-related offense, they are typicall
  
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• Justin Turner drives in five runs as Dodgers beat Marlins to snap losing streak

  17-05-2018 14:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Dodgers’ Kenta Maeda, of Japan, delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Thursday, May 17, 2018, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
  Los Angeles Dodgers’ Kenta Maeda, of Japan, blows on his hands as he prepares to pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Thursday, May 17, 2018, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsMiami Marlins’ Caleb Smith delivers a pit
  
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• 33 arrests, 40 guns seized in Anaheim gang crackdown

  17-05-2018 14:16
  Many firearms are presented in a display to the media as part of a press conference given by ATF and Anaheim Police. A detail of a crafted hand grip to a sawed-off shotgun is part of many firearms presented in a display to the media as part of the press conference.
  
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• Wells Fargo employees improperly altered client documents, WSJ reports

  17-05-2018 13:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Wells Fargo found employees in its wholesale unit were adding information to internal customer records without the clients’ knowledge, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
  The bank discovered the improper activity and reported it to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which is investigating, the newspaper said. The employees altered the documents in 2017 and earlier this year as they sought to satisfy regulatory demands related to ant
  
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• Kaya toast is the best breakfast sandwich you’ve never heard of

  17-05-2018 13:03 via ocregister.com
  
  “What the heck is kaya toast?”
  I assumed everyone knew what kaya toast was when I casually referenced the dish in last week’s article about my favorite cheap eats in Orange County. Apparently not. People wanted to know what I was talking about. They demanded answers.
  Kaya toast is a breakfast staple in Southeast Asia, namely Singapore, but also Malaysia, Vietnam and beyond. Kaya is coconut jam. Sometimes it looks like peanut butter. Sometimes it looks like lemon curd. Other tim
  
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• Senior Moments: A heated exchange of words over the old Scrabble board

  17-05-2018 12:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Husband George and I used to love to play Scrabble. You remember? Big board with 225 squares – some scoring double and triple values for letters and words? 100 tiny wooden letter tiles? Pencil and paper scoring?
  This was long before Words with Friends, an online derivative that does everything but play the word for you. It draws your letters, adds your score, and most importantly, it allows you to try out words you’re not sure of without penalty. It tells you when you try to play wha
  
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• Hot-hitting Long Beach State softball heads to NCAA regional

  17-05-2018 12:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Kim Sowder knew her team was going to be better this year.
  There was nowhere else to go after ranking last in the Big West in batting average last season. But even the Long Beach State head coach didn’t think things would get this good this fast.
  “Did I think 42 wins right out of the gate?” Sowder said. “I’m not sure.”
  A renewed sense of confidence and commitment to preparation helped Long Beach State (42-12) rocket from worst to first in the Big West in batti
  
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• Seniors lead Big West champ Cal State Fullerton softball into NCAA regional

  17-05-2018 12:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Eight ranked nonconference opponents and eight losses. Kelly Ford nearly ran out of postgame loss speeches in the midst of a brutal early season schedule. There are only so many ways the head coach could repeat her mantra of focusing on improvement and not the overall record.
  So the seniors took over.
  “Before conference play started, I feel like they were driving a bus and they came by the field and opened the door, and they said, ‘Hey, who’s going to the conference championshi
  
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• Multiple people hurt after school bus, dump truck crash

  17-05-2018 12:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By SETH WENIG
  The Associated Press
  MOUNT OLIVE, N.J. — A school bus and dump truck collided on a New Jersey highway Thursday, ripping apart the bus, knocking it on its side and injuring multiple people, according to police.
  The school bus was on the median of Interstate 80 in Mount Olive and the front end of the bus appeared to be crushed or ripped off. It was also sheared off its undercarriage and a piece of the front end of the bus with the steering wheel visible was lying on top of the
  
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• Master Gardener: What is a Tower of Jewels and four ways to tell if watermelons are ripe

  17-05-2018 12:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I have a plant called Tower of Jewels that is similar to Pride of Madeira but different in flower color. What can I expect from it?
  <strong>Tower of Jewels is a biennial plant that spends its first year as a large gray-green rosette of long, narrow leaves. The second year, a single flower spike grows from the center of the leafy rosette in early spring. (Ottillia “Toots” Bier, Contributing Photographer)</strong>
  A: Many gardeners are familiar with the blue-flowered Pri
  
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• Hawaii volcano erupts anew, sends huge ash plume into sky

  17-05-2018 12:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By SOPHIA YAN and AUDREY McAVOY
  The  Associated Press
  HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted anew before dawn Thursday, shooting a steely gray plume of ash from its summit about 30,000 feet into the sky that began raining down on a nearby town.
  The explosion came shortly after 4 a.m. following two weeks of volcanic activity that sent lava flows into neighborhoods and destroyed at least 26 homes.
  The explosion probably lasted only a few minutes, and the ash accumulation
  
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• Sample what Fullerton has to offer at annual Taste of the Town

  17-05-2018 11:49 via ocregister.com
  
  You know it as the site of Thursday afternoon’s Fullerton Farmers Market, but on June 2, catchy tunes from the Swing Cats and enticing aromas from 23 local restaurants will beckon you to Fullerton’s Downtown Plaza as the Assistance League of Fullerton hosts its biggest fundraiser of the year, the 39th annual Taste of the Town.
  Tickets are $65, and attendees can sample as many restaurants as they wish.
  “Usually we’ve had beer and wine, but Matador asked if they could bring
  
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• Man in custody after short pursuit in which he tried to ram Santa Ana police officers

  17-05-2018 11:40 via ocregister.com
  
  A man was in custody on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a brief pursuit in Santa Ana on Thursday morning, May 17, authorities said.
  The pursuit caused a brief lockdown of two Santa Ana schools, said Cpl. Anthony Bertagna of the Santa Ana Police Department.
  Officers responded to a call about 6:30 a.m. of a black pickup truck doing doughnuts at the intersection of Glenwood Place and Raitt Street, Bertagna said.
  The call also indicated that someone had been breaking windows at a nea
  
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• Joseph Diaz Jr. finds patience pays off with title shot

  17-05-2018 10:14 via ocregister.com
  
  It must be gratifying for a boxer when that first world title fight comes along. Especially when it has been earned.
  Take Joseph Diaz Jr. of South El Monte. He told us two years ago he thought he was ready to fight for the featherweight championship. But he had to win six more times before his hard work would bear fruit.
  The time has finally come, as Diaz on Saturday will challenge Gary Russell Jr. for his belt at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. (on Showtime).
  It took Diaz 5 1/2 years to g
  
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• Bring your documents: Shredding and e-waste event is Saturday in Santa Ana

  17-05-2018 10:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Still have some spring cleaning to do?
  You can shed unwanted paperwork and electronic waste Saturday, May 19 in Santa Ana. All goods that can be recycled ultimately will benefit young patients at CHOC.
  Orange County’s Credit Union is teaming up with Williams Data Management and Orange County’s Employee Association to host a paper shredding and e-waste recycling event from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
  The credit union will welcome all Orange County residents who want to take advantage of the free
  
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