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• Los Alamitos baseball runs into Hart ace, falls in first round of CIF playoffs

  18-05-2018 23:58 via ocregister.com
  
  NEWHALL – In 20 years of coaching, Los Alamitos manager Matthew Nuez has learned that at some point during the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs you will run into an arm.
  “You’d like to run into it later than sooner,” Nuez said.
  The Griffins ran into Hart ace Bryce Collins on Friday and were limited to two hits in a 3-0 loss to the Indians in the first round of the playoffs.
  Collins, an Arizona commit, struck out nine and walked three. The Indians bullpen stirred a
  
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• From the bowling alley and the baseball diamond, two Rams prospects have taken a long route to the NFL

  18-05-2018 23:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Codey McElroy walked on the Southeastern Oklahoma State football team as a tight end in late August after previously playing professional baseball and walking on the Oklahoma State basketball team. Now he’s trying to make the NFL as an undrafted free agent signee with the Rams. (Photo courtesy of Southeastern Oklahoma State)
  American team quarterback Luis Perez, right, of Texas A&M Commerce, gets set to pass during the first half of the Collegiate Bowl college football game against the
  
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• Alexander: Cal State Fullerton softball’s seniors keep the magic going

  18-05-2018 23:48 via ocregister.com
  
  CSU Fullerton starting pitcher Trisha Parks throws to the plate against Texas State in the first inning of the NCAA Division I softball regional championship at Easton Field on the campus of UCLA on Friday, May 18, 2018 in Los Angeles. CSU Fullerton won 2-1. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
  CSU Fullerton starting pitcher Trisha Parks throws to the plate against Texas State in the first inning of the NCAA Division I softball regional championship at Easton Field on the campus
  
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• Foothill continues to bang out hits as it romps to playoff win over Santiago

  18-05-2018 23:47 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA – Foothill’s baseball team put together a longball attack to power past Santiago of Corona 11-5 in the opening round of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs Friday afternoon at Foothill.
  The Knights (22-7) banged out five extra base hits, half of their hit total, and used the pitching of Ryan Taurek and Sean Higgins to advance to a second-round game at El Toro on Tuesday.
  Taurek (7-3) pitched the first six innings, allowed four runs (two earned) and struck out five. Higgins pitch
  
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• South Hills’ Nick Lugo gets key hit in 10th for baseball playoff win over Servite

  18-05-2018 23:29 via ocregister.com
  
  WEST COVINA >> The ninth come-from-behind and fourth walk-off win came at the right time for the South Hills High School baseball team Friday as the Huskies defeated visiting Servite 2-1 in 10 innings in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs.
  With the bases loaded, senior second baseman Nick Lugo hit a sharp grounder up the middle that scored Isaiah Ayala and that set off a wild celebration as the Huskies moved on to a second-round game against Capistrano Valley,
  
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• Tolman scatters five hits as El Toro starts baseball playoffs with victory over Dana Hills

  18-05-2018 23:21 via ocregister.com
  
  LAKE FOREST – El Toro took the first step in defending its CIF-SS Division 1 championship on Friday by beating Dana Hills 3-1 in a first-round matchup at El Toro High.
  El Toro (23-7-1) will host Foothill in the second round Tuesday. The Chargers beat Foothill in the quarterfinals on the way to winning the Division 1 title last season.
  Chargers ace Erik Tolman pitched a complete game and allowed just one run on five hits. The Cal Poly SLO-signee struck out six.
  “My fastball was there
  
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• Meyer, Starr make sure Ocean View gets past Brea Olinda in extra-inning playoff clash

  18-05-2018 23:13 via ocregister.com
  
  BREA – Adam Meyer came through at the plate – twice – and reliever Matt Starr didn’t allow a run over his six innings to leading Ocean View to an 11-inning, 7-3 victory over Brea Olinda in a CIF-SS Division 3 first-round baseball playoff game Friday at Brea Olinda High.
  The Seahawks will play at Redlands in a second-round contest Tuesday.
  Brea Olinda led 3-2 going into the bottom of the seventh when Meyer, who is going to UNLV on a football scholarship, hit a single to sc
  
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• Fountain Valley upsets Great Oak to win its first CIF-SS boys tennis title

  18-05-2018 22:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Fountain Valley head coach Hershel Patel leaps into the arms of Tommy Trinh after clinching the CIF-SS Division 2 boys tennis championship between Fountain Valley and Great Oak at the Claremont Club in Claremont on Friday, May 18, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Fountain Valley teammates celebrate after clinching the CIF-SS Division 2 boys tennis championship between Fountain Valley and Great Oak at the Claremont Club in Claremont on Friday, May 18, 2018. (Photo by K
  
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• Laguna Beach’s doubles team provides winning edge vs. Redlands East Valley in Division 4 tennis final

  18-05-2018 22:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Laguna Beach celebrates after the CIF-SS Division 4 boys tennis final between Redlands East Valley and Laguna Beach at the Claremont Club in Claremont on Friday, May 18, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Laguna Beach’s Mason Lebby hits the ball during the CIF-SS Division 4 boys tennis final between Redlands East Valley and Laguna Beach at the Claremont Club in Claremont on Friday, May 18, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe galler
  
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• Magic Kingdom boozes it up. What would Walt Disney think?

  18-05-2018 22:32
  Much to its founder's dismay, every sit-down restaurant in Orlando's original Disney World park is now serving booze. Actually, we don't know for sure how Walt Disney would feel.
  
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• Carter reprises hero role for Cypress baseball with HR in 8th to beat Mission Viejo

  18-05-2018 22:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Cypress’ Noah Carter swings for a walk-off homer in the eighth inning in a first round game of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs against Mission Viejo at Cypress in Cypress on Friday, May 18, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)
  Cypress’ Noah Carter throws his helmet after hitting a walk-off solo homer in the eighth inning in a first round game of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs against Mission Viejo at Cypress in Cypress on Friday, May 18, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong
  
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• Bernie Sanders will meet Disney workers in Anaheim on June 2, ahead of proposed ballot measure to raise wages

  18-05-2018 20:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders, a vocal critic of the Walt Disney Co. since his 2016 presidential campaign, is coming to Anaheim to meet with workers from businesses in and around the Disneyland Resort.
  Sanders will be in town Saturday, June 2, for a roundtable-type event where he’ll talk with a selection of people from a variety of industries that serve the theme park, nearby hotels and other related businesses, said Andrew Cohen, a spokesman for Unite Here Local 11. The event at River Church is ope
  
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• Mater Dei duo of Elias Ricks, Michael Martinez offered by Alabama

  18-05-2018 20:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Alabama signed Mater Dei All-County left tackle Tommy Brown in December.
  Now, the reigning national champions are working quickly to keep their connection with the Monarchs’ high school football powerhouse going.
  The Crimson Tide have offered rising sophomore defensive back Elias Ricks and junior tight end Michael Martinez in the past seven days.
  Ricks, a cornerback, announced his offer from Alabama on May 11 while Martinez posted news of his offer on Thursday night.I am so grateful and bl
  
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• Orange County high school schedule: Saturday, May 19

  18-05-2018 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County high school sports schedule for Saturday, May 19.
  BOYS VOLLEYBALL
  CIF-SS FINALS
  At Cerritos College
  DIVISION 1
  Newport Harbor vs. Corona del Mar, 6:30 p.m.
  DIVISION 2
  Orange Lutheran vs. Saddleback Valley Christian, 4 p.m.
  DIVISION 3
  Downey vs. Tustin, 11 a.m.
  DIVISION 4
  San Gabriel Academy vs. Murrieta Valley, 8:45 p.m.
  DIVISION 5
  Garden Grove vs. Diamond Ranch, 1:30 p.m.
  SWIMMING
  CIF STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
  At Clovis West High, Clovis
  Girls diving finals, 8:30 a.m.
  Swimming
  
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• Harvard-Westlake beats Peninsula for back-to-back Division 1 tennis titles

  18-05-2018 20:28 via ocregister.com
  
  CLAREMONT – Harvard-Westlake of Studio City won the early exchanges with crisp shots and cruised past rival Peninsula on Friday to capture its second consecutive CIF-SS Division 1 boys tennis title.
  No. 1 and No. 2 singles players Stanley Morris and Corey Marley each rallied in the first round as the No. 2-seeded Wolverines cooled off No. 4 Peninsula for a 13-5 victory at The Claremont Club.
  Harvard-Westlake’s Sacha Pritzker hits behind his doubles partner Timothy Li during the CIF-S
  
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• Promising Troy boys tennis team falls to Ventura in Division 3 final

  18-05-2018 20:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Troy’s Andy Hernandez serves during the CIF-SS Division 3 boys tennis final between Troy and Ventura at the Claremont Club in Claremont on Friday, May 18, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Troy’s Andy Hernandez hits the ball during the CIF-SS Division 3 boys tennis final between Troy and Ventura at the Claremont Club in Claremont on Friday, May 18, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsTroy’s
  
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• Laguna Beach officials telling motorists to keep quiet as they cruise the coast

  18-05-2018 19:56 via ocregister.com
  
  LAGUNA BEACH — When more than 75 motorcyclists recently stormed through town – some riding on the wrong side of Coast Highway and doing wheelies – City Councilwoman Toni Iseman said enough.
  Loud motors on cars and motorcycles have been a problem in town for years, jarring residents from their tranquility, setting off car alarms and rattling store windows along Coast Highway in this laid-back beach town, officials said.
  Now, Iseman and others want to find a way to stop the roar
  
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• Medical marijuana patients, providers feel left behind in California’s new cannabis market

  18-05-2018 19:47 via ocregister.com
  
  For Jakki Hernandez, taking 1,000 milligrams of cannabis a day is about survival.
  The 37-year-old Anaheim resident was born with a genetic disorder that causes benign tumors to grow throughout her nervous system, from her organs to her skin. Recently, she broke her foot and learned she has another rare neurological condition, one that means the pain from her injury will continue to worsen, even after it’s healed.
  Jakki Hernandez uses a PeaceMaker Bong in her Anaheim home. She is patient wh
  
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• For Adam Schiff, 2018 campaign is a road game

  18-05-2018 19:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Congressman  Adam Schiff was in Iowa one day this month to speak at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Cedar Rapids. People in the traditional first caucus state asked if he was testing the waters for a 2020 presidential campaign. He shrugged off the speculation with typical dry wit.
  “I had to confess to taking guilty pleasure that my presence in Iowa might cause certain heads on Fox News to explode,” Schiff said in an interview Thursday.
  Schiff, D-Burbank, has been all over
  
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• Yo NFL, do the right thing and say yes to the Rams throwback uniforms

  18-05-2018 19:38 via ocregister.com
  
  We get it, the National Football League has a lot on its plate right now.
  Among them, trying to make the game safer and sorting out the national anthem controversy and figuring out what constitutes a legal catch or not and adapting to the potential new world of legalized sports gambling.
  So we’ll cut the powers that be a little slack if they’re not taking seriously the uproar going on in Los Angeles about the Rams god-awful mix-matched uniforms and a bunch of frustrated fans who turn
  
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• The CA 39th: Candidates, intrigue, money and, now, a truce

  18-05-2018 19:38 via ocregister.com
  
  The tit-for-tat political attack ads between two Democratic congressional hopefuls suddenly disappeared from the web this week in the race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Ed Royce. So did their intraparty mudslinging websites.
  Then came an announcement on Friday: California Democratic Party Chair Eric Bauman had brokered an armistice between the two wealthy candidates to stop their negative campaigning in the name of party unity and an effort to beat Republicans.
  The abrupt ceasefire – follo
  
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• Here’s what’s happening with CraZanity, Six Flags Magic Mountain’s newest thrill ride

  18-05-2018 18:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Six Flags Magic Mountain has laid the foundation for the world’s tallest pendulum ride.
  But the installation of CraZanity, that’s still to come.
  The groundwork is now laid at Six Flags Magic Mountain for the new “CraZanity” ride which will open at the park this summer.The Italian-made 172-foot tall ride will be the world’s largest pendulum-style ride.( Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  Along with the new “CraZanity” ride at Six Flags, th
  
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• Aliso Viejo explosion: Investigators expect to spend another week going over the scene

  18-05-2018 18:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Painstaking crime-scene work at an Aliso Viejo day spa where an explosion this week left a woman dead and two others injured is expected to last for at least another week, Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials said Friday.
  Even as the arrest of Stephen Beal — the ex-boyfriend of Ildiko Krajnyak, the woman who was killed in the explosion Tuesday, and the co-owner of the destroyed business — became a focus of the public’s attention on Thursday, local and federal inve
  
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• Service Dog in Training Escapes From Angel Stadium

  18-05-2018 18:13
  A California Highway Patrol officer helped round up a service dog in training after it escaped from its handler inside Angel Stadium. The dog bolted across the 5 Freeway and ended up in a riverbed.
  
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• Knott’s HangTime rollercoaster is open, and here’s what riders are saying

  18-05-2018 17:48 via ocregister.com
  
  HangTime is open, and rollercoaster fans – the ones who made sure to be there on opening day – have spoken.
  “I thought it was awesome,” said Johnathan Tirado of Big Bear after his first ride on HangTime. “It was a lot better than I expected it to be. Once you’re on that break, you don’t expect the drop and it’s a rush. I want to get on again, but there’s probably a two-hour wait by now.”
  HangTime begins with each 16-passenger train asce
  
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• Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (May 11-18)

  18-05-2018 17:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Restaurants and other food businesses closed by health inspectors in Orange County from May 11 to 18, 2018:
  Best Vegetarian World, 5110 Westminster Ave., Suite I, Santa AnaClosed: May 18
  Reason: Cockroach infestationIncheonwon BBQ House, 13321 Brookhurst St., Garden GroveClosed: May 18
  Reason: Cockroach infestationRice N Spice Sri Lankan Cuisine, 1732 Euclid St., AnaheimClosed: May 17 (report)
  Reason: Cockroach infestationTommy Market, 203 Main St., Santa AnaClosed: May 17
  Reason: Rodent in
  
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• Dodgers rained out in Washington, will try to play two on Saturday

  18-05-2018 17:41 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON, D.C. — They’re not getting much done in Washington these days.
  The Nationals have played a total of six innings this week, none since Tuesday when rain suspended their game against the New York Yankees. Scheduled games Wednesday and Friday were also postponed due to the series of rain storms pounding the East Coast.
  The decision on Friday night’s scheduled series opener against the Dodgers was made more than two hours before the anticipated first pitch. The rain had
  
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• These folks are getting creative with childhood craft supplies to bulk up their brains

  18-05-2018 17:32 via ocregister.com
  
  The synapses in LD Malatka’s brain fire like a Fourth of July fireworks celebration as he sketches reverse images of designs in front of him.
  It’s not an easy task, but for Malatka it may be more difficult than for most. Now 81, he recently took a test for Alzheimer’s at the Hoag Neurosciences Institute and scored below the norm.
  Jenny Fee, Sally Shipp and Lin Duncan laugh while working on an project during a workshop by the Orange County Vital Brain Aging Program at the Hoag N
  
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• LAFC could have significant presence at World Cup

  18-05-2018 17:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Omar Gaber expects to earn his second start of the season for the Los Angeles Football Club during a noon clash on a synthetic turf field in Portland on Saturday. But just as the 26-year-old Egyptian rounds into form following an early season injury, he could be unavailable through at least the end of June.
  Following the contest in Portland, the swift 26-year-old defender must depart for Cairo, where he has been selected to compete for a spot on Egypt’s first FIFA World Cup team since 1990
  
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• You can get dinosaur-themed milkshakes at Sweetosaur in Riverside’s Galleria at Tyler

  18-05-2018 17:31 via ocregister.com
  
  A Tyrannosaurus rex has invaded the Galleria at Tyler.
  Its habitat is Sweetosaur, opening Saturday, May 19 on the second floor of the Riverside mall.
  Rachel Kanter makes a Wafflesaurus Rex ice cream cone at Sweetosaurus. (Fielding Buck, Staff)
  Wafflesaurus Rex has a dinosaur-shaped waffle cone.SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsSweetosaurus is on the second floor of the Galleria at Tyler.
  Joshua Solorzano, 4, of Fontana previews the dinosaur ride at Sweetosaur on Friday. (Fielding Buck, staff
  
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• Southern California’s foreign-owned businesses jump above 10,000, employ 428,000

  18-05-2018 17:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California is home to 10,378 foreign-owned businesses that employ 427,954 workers and generate nearly $27 billion in annual wages, according to a report from World Trade Center Los Angeles.
  The study, compiled in partnership with Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy and sponsored by American Airlines, says those employees represent 5.4 percent of the region’s total workforce.
  “The biggest thing this report shows is that international trade is creating j
  
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• Man with 2 prior drunken driving convictions charged in fatal DUI-related Irvine crash

  18-05-2018 16:26 via ocregister.com
  
  A Santa Ana man with two prior drunken driving convictions was charged with second-degree murder on Friday for allegedly plowing into an Irvine family of four on a sidewalk while driving with a blood-alcohol content nearly three times the legal limit, authorities said.
  Around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Jeongmi Choi, 44, was walking home with her husband and two teenage children on a sidewalk near Turtle Rock Drive when Kamal Akwette Attoh, 37, allegedly swerved off the road and hit them with his 2012
  
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• STDs, particularly congenital syphilis, spike in Southern California

  18-05-2018 15:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California is mirroring a statewide increase in cases of sexually transmitted diseases for the third year in a row.
  Of particular concern is the spike in the number of congenital syphilis cases, which are triggering a rise in the number of stillbirths caused by syphilis.
  California has witnessed a 45 percent surge in STDs with 300,000 cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis counted in 2017.
  The number of babies born with syphilis has quadrupled from 2013 to 278 in 2017. Syphilis can
  
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• Passenger jet crashes near Havana with at least 110 aboard; officials say 3 survived

  18-05-2018 15:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
  The Associated Press
  HAVANA  — A Cuban-operated airliner with at least 110 people on board crashed into a cassava field just after takeoff from Havana’s international airport on Friday. There appeared to be mass casualties as Cuban officials said three people had survived, but had yet to give an official toll.
  Authorities said there were 104 passengers and nine foreign crew members on the flight, operated by Cubana de Aviacion. An emp
  
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• California’s death with dignity law should stand

  18-05-2018 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: Breaking views are thoughts from individual members of the editorial board on today’s headlines.
  On Tuesday, a Riverside County judge overturned California’s death with dignity law, determining the law was improperly passed during a special session the Legislature called to deal with matters of healthcare funding.
  California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement that he will context the ruling.
  While the ruling appears to have been based on a mere t
  
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• Turpins’ 7 adult children never received education, prosecutor alleges

  18-05-2018 14:39 via ocregister.com
  
  The seven adult children of David and Louise Turpin, the Perris couple accused in a torture and child cruelty case, didn’t get an education at the Turpins’ home school, a prosecutor said Friday, May 18, revealing for the first time why David Turpin had been charged with eight counts of perjury related to documents he filed with the state Department of Education.
  Louise Turpin, left, talks with her attorney Jeff Moore before a hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice in Riverside, Cal
  
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• Abner Mares’ new attitude key to Leo Santa Cruz rematch

  18-05-2018 13:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Luis Garcia saw it with his own eyes – Abner Mares had become too big for his own britches.
  It’s not news, as Mares has already admitted to having big-head syndrome a few years back. But on a day when we asked the Mares camp to identify the difference between the Mares who lost to Leo Santa Cruz in 2015 at Staples Center, and the one who will take on Santa Cruz there in a June 9 rematch (on Showtime), it was intriguing to hear Garcia’s insight because no one has been close
  
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• Battle of the Bay III — for the championship

  18-05-2018 13:46 via ocregister.com
  
  The Battle of the Bay has moved north.
  The boys volleyball teams at Corona del Mar and Newport Harbor will play each other Saturday in the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 championship match.
  The 6:30 p.m. contest will be the third time the Sea Kings and Sailors boys volleyball teams will have played each other this season.
  Newport Harbor defeated Corona del Mar twice this season, 2-1 at the Orange County Championships on March 19, and 3-0 in a “Battle of the Bay” nonleague match Apri
  
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• Orange County unemployment hits 19-year low: 12 trends to know

  18-05-2018 13:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Bosses in Orange County added 29,400 jobs in the 12 months ended in April as the unemployment rate hit 2.6 percent, a 19-year low.
  Here are 12 trends you need to know from the state Employment Development’s monthly jobs report for O.C. …
  1. Total jobs: 1.64 million were employed in April vs. 1.61 million a year ago and an average of 1.55 million the last five years. Employers in Orange County added 11,100 workers vs. March.
  2. Job growth: Up 1.83 percent in last year vs. 1.95 percen
  
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• Ex-fugitive sentenced to life in prison for killing 16-year-old gang rival in Santa Ana

  18-05-2018 13:22 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA – An ex-fugitive who spent years on the county’s most-wanted list after he gunned down a 16-year-old gang rival and fled to Mexico was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday.
  Jesus Canales, 24, of Santa Ana spent five years on the lam before he was captured in July 2016 for the shooting death of Alberto Miller, who was sitting on his porch with friends in the 300 block of East Washington Avenue in Santa Ana on July 22, 2011.
  A jury in March
  
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• Trump picks acting director Robert Wilkie to head Veterans Affairs

  18-05-2018 13:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By ZEKE MILLER, HOPE YEN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
  The Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday he has chosen Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to permanently lead the beleaguered department, a surprise announcement that appeared to catch Wilkie off guard.
  Wilkie, a former Pentagon undersecretary for personnel and readiness, has led the department since Trump fired David Shulkin in March amid an ethics scandal and mounting rebellion within the building.
  T
  
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• Richard Foster, Team USA swimmer Dagny Knutson back in court in fraud case

  18-05-2018 13:13 via ocregister.com
  
  For the past 16 years attorney Richard Foster, the former USA Water Polo president and U.S. Olympic Committee board member, has taught “Sports Law and Ethics” for the Long Beach State’s graduate school’s sports management program.
  Former U.S. national team swimmer Dagny Knutson was surprised when she recently learned of Foster’s course.
  “My first thought was how ironic that someone on trial for fraud is teaching ethics,” Knutson said.
  Next Thursday at 9:
  
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• 2018 World Cup schedule plus group breakdowns, TV info and more

  18-05-2018 12:33 via ocregister.com
  
  TOPSHOT – A general view of the stands and the pitch of Mordovia Arena in Saransk on May 4, 2018. – The 44,000-seater stadium will host four World Cup matches. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP)(Photo credit should read MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images)
  A picture taken on May 16, 2018 shows the stands and the pitch of the Kazan Arena in the Russian city of Kazan. – The stadium will host four group games, a round of 16 matches and a quarter-final of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. (Photo b
  
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• Approved for ballot: Measure to let some homeowners keep Prop. 13 tax break even after moving

  18-05-2018 11:59 via ocregister.com
  
  An initiative allowing senior homeowners to take their low Proposition 13 property tax base with them anywhere in California after a sale has enough signatures to qualify for the statewide ballot in November.
  The Secretary of State’s office announced Thursday, May 17, a random sampling of signatures showed the petitions had at least 10 percent more than the required 585,407 signatures needed to qualify the initiative for the Nov. 6 ballot.
  The measure would allow homeowners who are 55
  
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• Whiting: Social Distortiona s Mike Ness challenges, inspires

  18-05-2018 11:28
  Mike Ness, founder, front man and song writer for seminal punk band Social Distortion performs at the House of Blues Anaheim in December. Mike Ness and Jonny "Two Bags" Wickersham of the Orange County band Social Distortion perform during the 13th annual Hootenanny at Oak Canyon Ranch in Irvine in 2007.
  
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• Rhonda Faehn forced out as USA Gymnastics senior vice president

  18-05-2018 11:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Rhonda Faehn, USA Gymnastics senior vice president for the women’s program, has been forced out in what has been described as a pre-emptive move by USA Gymnastics chief executive Kerry Perry ahead of expected tough questioning on Capitol Hill next week.
  USA Gymnastics also laid off its director for safe sport, according to a person famiiar with the situation.
  Faehn is believed to be the first USA Gymnastics official to learn of allegations that longtime U.S. Olympic and USA Gymnastics team
  
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• How to make dining alone an enjoyable restaurant experience

  18-05-2018 10:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Table for one?
  The mere thought of eating out alone can make some people cringe, but then there are those who relish the opportunity to dine solo or with a good book. We talked to some experts from across the Southland on the subject and got some tips, and even some psychological insight, into how to make it an enjoyable experience whether you do it by choice, circumstance or just convenience.
  Plus, if you ever get stood up for a date, now you know you can always just order some food and dig in.
  
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• The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle will return to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter inside Universal Studios Hollywood

  18-05-2018 10:00 via ocregister.com
  
  After officially opening within the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios in Hollywood last year, the dazzling Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle will return for a limited time starting Sunday, June 24.
  As the sun goes down in Hogsmeade Village, Hogwarts Castle comes to life in a brilliant, state-of-the-art spectacle that showcases the four houses of Hogwarts: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. The special projection is paired with an exclusive musical arrangement c
  
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• Retail-restaurant roundup: Did Paper Lantern boot Capital Seafood at Diamond Jamboree? Taco Bell’s steal a taco returns

  18-05-2018 10:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Cover-ups are a popular part of the ViX line, now available at the new Fashion Island location. Photo: ViX
  The brand born in Brazil, ViX, is known for its luxury swimwear line. Photo: ViXSoundThe gallery will resume insecondsViX by Paula Hermanny opened up its first West Coast shop at Fashion Island ealier this month. A grand opening will be held May 19. Photo: ViX
  The Laguna Beach-based jewelry brand Gorjana, created in 2004 by couple Gorjana and Jason Reidel, opened May 2 at Fashion Island. It
  
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• Southern California housing plans must grow by 80% just to be ‘average’

  18-05-2018 09:51 via ocregister.com
  
  It may seem like there’s lots of construction going on around Southern California, yet the region’s residential developers are in no way keeping up with the local hiring pace.
  In 2018’s first three months, permits were filed for 10,253 new residential units in the four counties covered by the Southern California News Group. Yes, that’s up 4.5 percent in a year, but it’s down 9 percent compared with the average permitting rate since 1988.
  My trusty spreadsheet tells
  
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