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• Ian Kinsler’s home run caps comeback victory for Angels

  08-06-2018 23:12 via ocregister.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS, MN – JUNE 08: Zack Cozart #7 of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim slides safely into third base during the second inning of the game on June 8, 2018 at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)
  Los Angeles Angels pitcher Garrett Richards throws against the Minnesota Twins in the first inning of a baseball game Friday, June 8, 2018, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsMinnesota Twins pitcher Lance Lynn th
  
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• Steph Curry, Warriors sweep LeBron, Cavaliers for 3rd NBA title in 4 years

  08-06-2018 22:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Golden State Warriors teammates Kevin Durant, back, and Steph Curry embrace after they defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday night to complete a series sweep. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images)
  CLEVELAND, OH – JUNE 08:Kevin Durant #35 of the Golden State Warriors shoots against JR Smith #5 of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second half during Game Four of the 2018 NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena on June 8, 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio. NOTE TO USER: User expr
  
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• Dodgers rookie pitcher Dennis Santana to DL with right rotator cuff strain

  08-06-2018 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Dennis Santana walked into the home clubhouse at Dodger Stadium on Friday afternoon, five hours before first pitch, with his right arm in a sling.
  It was not an encouraging sign for the rookie starting pitcher.
  Santana, one of the Dodgers’ prized prospects, was headed to the 10-day disabled list with a right rotator cuff strain. The severity of the injury was not known following an MRI earlier Friday, according to Manager Dave Roberts, but could sideline him for weeks.
  
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• Anaheim executive charged with embezzling more than $184,000

  08-06-2018 22:03 via ocregister.com
  
  A 59-year-old longtime general manager of an Anaheim company has been charged with embezzling more than $184,000 over at least seven years, according to court records obtained Friday.
  Jeffrey Joseph Lenhardt was charged Wednesday with nine counts of computer access and fraud and a count of grand theft by embezzlement, all felonies. He also faces sentencing enhancements for property damage exceeding $65,000 and aggravated white collar crime between $100,000 and $500,000.
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• Would you send your exchange student to the U.S.A.?

  08-06-2018 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  For a country that isn’t this one, Pakistan’s gun laws are actually pretty lax, its menfolk harboring their own pistol-packing fantasies of living in some kind of 21st-century Wild West.
  Of course they — unlike us, yet — have an actual military dictatorship running the whole shooting match, so you could really gin up a satisfying excuse for a little open carry down in the bazaar. There are laws requiring registration of firearms, but few pay attention to them. The general
  
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• Cavaliers swept in NBA Finals, what’s next for LeBron James?

  08-06-2018 21:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue talks with LeBron James during the second half of Game 3 of basketball’s NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors, Wednesday, June 6, 2018, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
  Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James shoots as Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green defends during the first half of Game 3 of basketball’s NBA Finals, Wednesday, June 6, 2018, in Cleveland. (Gregory Shamus/Pool Photo via AP)SoundThe gallery will resume insecon
  
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• LAFC’s Steven Beitashour enjoys a trip home, even if he’d rather be in Russia

  08-06-2018 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Football Club’s media guide notes that three of Steven Beitashour’s four favorite sports teams are from the Bay Area.
  The Giants, Sharks and 49ers, with the Lakers as the Southern California outlier.
  No soccer team is mentioned, though the 31-year-old defender’s affinity for the sport and the San Jose Earthquakes is undeniable.
  This weekend Beitashour returns home to San Jose to take on a club he has cheered for since attending their inaugural game in 1996 as a
  
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• Orange County all-league boys volleyball: 2018

  08-06-2018 21:21 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County all-league boys volleyball teams for the 2018 season.
  (Email complete all-league teams to [email protected].)
  BOYS VOLLEYBALL
  ACADEMY LEAGUE
  First team: Ethan Hill, St. Margaret’s, Jr.; Lewis Smith, St. Margaret’s, Jr.; Tyler Aitken, St. Margaret’s, Sr.; Blaze Renezeder, Crean Lutheran, Jr.; Ben Stuewe, Crean Lutheran, Jr.;  Logan Senn, Sage Hill, Sr.; Ethan Xu, Whitney, Jr.
  Second team: Gavin Clarke, St. Margaret’s, Sr.; Cameron Dosanjh, St. Mar
  
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• Shohei Ohtani’s elbow injury will force Angels to scramble at two positions

  08-06-2018 21:03 via ocregister.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — For some, losing three of your teammates to elbow injuries in one season might make each dose of bad news easier to swallow than the last.
  Not Martin Maldonado. The veteran catcher didn’t sugarcoat his reaction to the news that Shohei Ohtani would miss at least the next three weeks after being diagnosed with a Grade 2 sprain of the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.
  “It’s sad, you know,” he said. “It was like that with JC (Ramirez), Ke
  
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• If someone else is profiting from your body, shouldn’t you profit from it, too?

  08-06-2018 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Do you own your own body? Well, of course you do. Society doesn’t have to have a #MeToo movement for that. Differently phrased: If someone else is profiting from your body, shouldn’t you profit from it, too? Models charge a fee for someone to take a picture of them and market it. If someone takes a piece of your pancreas and it helps them to create a lucrative medicine from it, shouldn’t you have a piece of that action?
  It’s a question rightly being asked a lot in these h
  
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• Tired of the 11th-grade high school assessment test? Proposal to instead use SAT or ACT heads to Senate

  08-06-2018 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  A bill that proposes that the SAT or the ACT be used as an alternative to California’s 11th-grade assessment test — and has strong support from Long Beach educators — passed the Assembly and is headed to the state Senate, the bill’s author announced Monday.
  The bill, known as AB 1951 or the Pathways to College Act, is sponsored by Patrick O’Donnell, D-Long Beach.
  It also proposes allowing students to take the SAT or ACT in their local classroom for free.
  “AB 1
  
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• Kartje: How NFL changed the rules to keep kickoffs from going away

  08-06-2018 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Since John Fassel took over as special teams coach in 2011, the Rams have returned exactly one kickoff for a touchdown. That lone score came last season, on the opening kickoff in Jacksonville. Pharoh Cooper caught the kick a few steps into the end zone. He faked inside and spun toward the sideline. A path of open turf cleared ahead of him. One hundred and four yards later, Cooper scored.
  It wasn’t a particularly thrilling return. But the Rams had waited an eternity for it. Through last se
  
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• Teamwork makes graduation an achievable milestone for Mission Viejo teen with autism

  08-06-2018 20:35 via ocregister.com
  
  When Tavan Cerda-Ofogh was heading to high school, his mother said school officials weren’t convinced he’d be able to meet all the requirements to earn a diploma.
  His autism sometimes made learning a challenge, and he was behind in math. But his mother, Laleh Cerda-Ofogh, said she knew Tavan could do the work with a little extra help.
  On Thursday, Tavan graduated from Tesoro High School with a 3.5 GPA. He’ll be taking classes this fall at Saddleback College toward an associates
  
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• Whicker: Huskies steal Titans’ identity in Super Regional opener

  08-06-2018 20:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Washington’s Levi Jordan hits an RBI single during the thirdinning of the first game in an NCAA super regionals against Cal State Fullerton at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Friday, June 8, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)
  Cal State Fullerton pitcher Colton Eastman throws a pitch during the first inning of the first game in an NCAA super regional game at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Friday, June 8, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)SoundThe galle
  
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• Just 20 votes separate the two Dems who want to face Rohrabacher in Nov.

  08-06-2018 19:58 via ocregister.com
  
  The fight to decide which Democrat will face incumbent Dana Rohrabacher in the 48th Congressional District seat in November became a nail-biter Friday, with just 20 votes separating stem-cell biologist Hans Keirstead from businessman Harley Rouda.
  With 150,641 ballots left to count, Keirstead’s lead fell to 17.3 percent against Rouda’s 17.2 percent. Whichever Democrat ends up ahead in the final results will challenge the first-place finisher GOP Congressman Rohrabacher in the ru
  
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• With quick action crucial, parents who know CPR can prevent child drownings

  08-06-2018 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Despite precautions parents take, children – if unsupervised even briefly – sometimes still fall into the backyard pool and can go unnoticed until they are unconscious.
  It’s then, pediatric physician Shamel Abd-Allah said, “Minutes count.”
  As temperatures rise and cool swims beckon, health and public safety officials in Southern California are urging parents to learn CPR so they can restart the heart and breathing while waiting for paramedics to arrive.
  Brain damage
  
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• Anaheim YMCA to build 16,800-square-foot facility near Betsy Ross Park

  08-06-2018 19:32 via ocregister.com
  
  The Anaheim Family YMCA is breaking ground later this month on a new facility next to Betsy Ross Park in central Anaheim.
  At first it will construct two soccer arenas, a field that can be use for various sports and outdoor games, lighting and parking. They are expected to open in May 2019.
  Later it plans to add buildings with multipurpose rooms, a gymnasium, a teaching kitchen and fitness room. Outdoors climbing walls, more fields and outdoor courts are planned.
  The 3.8 acre property is being pr
  
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• There’s a free Canter’s Deli tasting event to celebrate its new Pasadena location

  08-06-2018 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Hungry people in Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley and beyond no longer have to debate on whether they want to fight the freeway to go to Canter’s Deli. The historic restaurant has opened a satellite space in Kitchen United in Pasadena’s Playhouse District.
  “I think this is great, because people can come pick up food, take it home and they don’t have to drive an hour or 40 minutes, depending on how traffic is, to come to Canter’s,” Canter’s Deli owner Mar
  
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• Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Galaxy look to head into World Cup break on positive note

  08-06-2018 18:50 via ocregister.com
  
  CARSON — The Galaxy season has been one big adjustment, whether due to injuries or the addition of Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
  The club will play the 15th game of its 34-game regular-season schedule Saturday night when it hosts Real Salt Lake.
  Ibrahimovic, in 10 games, has had moments, both good and bad so far, from his two-goal debut against LAFC to his first red card against Montreal, leading to his first MLS suspension.
  “I feel like I’m getting to know the players (more) each day,&r
  
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• A note to readers from Charles Krauthammer

  08-06-2018 18:42 via ocregister.com
  
  I have been uncharacteristically silent these past 10 months. I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I’m afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me.
  In August of last year, I underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in my abdomen. That operation was thought to have been a success, but it caused a cascade of secondary complications — which I have been fighting in hospital ever since. It was a long and hard fight with many
  
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• Here are some Southern California eateries Anthony Bourdain featured on his TV shows

  08-06-2018 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  As ripples of shock and grief spread in response to the sudden death of author, chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain, we are taking a look at the love he bestowed upon Southern California eateries.
  Although Bourdain traveled to far-off destinations such as Ghana, Portugal and Uzbekistan shining a light on culture, people and food, he also highlighted areas in Los Angeles and Southern California desert communities on his popular shows “No Reservations” and “Anthony Bourdain:
  
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• Live NBA Finals updates: Warriors vs. Cavaliers, Game 4 on Friday night

  08-06-2018 18:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Join us for live news and analysis from Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday at 6 p.m. in Cleveland, where the Warriors have a chance to win their third NBA championship in four years.
  Kevin Durant’s huge Game 3 performance led the Warriors to a 110-102 win and put Golden State on the brink of sweeping LeBron James and the Cavs, who had a 13-point lead in the first half but had no answers for the Warriors in the fourth quarter.
  Related Articles Kevin Durant scores 43 as Golden State Warrior
  
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• Surfing pups? Diving dogs? Olympics-style event challenges canines in Huntington Beach

  08-06-2018 18:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Thankfully, the surf conditions weren’t too ruff for these pups.
  The Purina Pro Plan Incredible Dog Challenge kicked off at Huntington State Beach on Friday, a two-day event that showcases Olympics-style competitions for canine companions.
  The national championship includes competitions like a high-flying disc routine, large and small dog agility courses, Jack Russell hurdle racing, and dog diving, where dogs take a running leap off of a 40-foot dock into a 19,000-gallon pool of water.&nbs
  
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• Race fans can buy shares of top thoroughbreds with new app

  08-06-2018 17:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Want to own a piece of the action without breaking the bank?
  If you’re a horse racing fan, Experiential Squared has your way in. The Claremont-based company’s new app allows users to buy shares of top thoroughbreds for as little as $100.
  The online platform (MyRacehorse) offers equity-based shares that entitle investors to race winnings, awards and proceeds. Owners also receive exclusive updates about their horses as well as invitations to owners-only events, tours to meet
  
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• Pixar co-founder John Lasseter to leave Disney after ‘missteps’

  08-06-2018 17:47 via ocregister.com
  
  John Lasseter, the animation titan who has been on leave from the Walt Disney Co. since November because of what he called “missteps” that made some staff members feel “disrespected and uncomfortable,” will not return to the conglomerate.
  Disney said on Friday that Lasseter — the co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios who has long been one of Disney’s most important creative executives, serving as a force behind the “Toy Story,” “Cars” a
  
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• Washington takes advantage of Cal State Fullerton miscues to win Super Regional opener

  08-06-2018 17:35 via ocregister.com
  
  A ball hit by Washington’s Mason Cerrillo gets behind Cal State Fullerton center fielder Mitchell Berryhill during the third inning of Game 1 of their NCAA Super Regional on Friday at Goodwin Field. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)
  Cal State Fullerton pitcher Colton Eastman throws a pitch during the first inning of the first game in an NCAA super regional game at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Friday, June 8, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)SoundThe g
  
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• One baby deer dies, search on for his twin, after they were separated from mother in Aliso Fire

  08-06-2018 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  HUNTINGTON BEACH — A week-old fawn — likely separated from his mother during the 175-acre Aliso Viejo Wood Canyon fire that broke out last weekend — died 24 hours after being taken in by the Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center on Thursday, June 7.
  But now, a search is on to locate the baby deer’s twin near the Laguna Woods Garden Center II, said Lisa Peronne, director of the the Huntington Beach center.
  When the fawn was brought in on Thursday, he was extremely dehyd
  
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• Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (June 1-8)

  08-06-2018 16:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Restaurants and other food businesses closed by health inspectors in Orange County from June 1 to June 8, 2018:
  TLT Food at Irvine Spectrum Center, 705 Spectrum Center Drive, IrvineClosed: June 8
  Reason: Rodent infestation
  Reopened: June 8Oasis Mediterranean Cuisine, 330 N. Brea Blvd., suite A, BreaClosed: June 7 (report)
  Reason: Cockroach infestationAzadero Mexican Grill, 10500 Magnolia Ave., suite B, StantonClosed: June 7 (report)
  Reason: Insufficient hot water
  Reopened: June 7 (report)Big Gri
  
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• Report finds wage theft running rampant, and California tops the list

  08-06-2018 16:28 via ocregister.com
  
  More than 500 large U.S. companies have paid out $8.8 billion in wage-theft claims since 2000 and more than half are from California, a new report finds.
  The companies — including mega brands Wells Fargo, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, 24 Hour Fitness, Oracle and Smart & Final  — have boosted their profits by forcing employees to work off the clock or by not paying their required overtime, according to “Grand Theft Paycheck: The Large Corporations Shortcha
  
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• One last bit of baseball this weekend with the Ryan Lemmon Showcase

  08-06-2018 16:18 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s going to be a busy weekend of high school baseball at the 22nd annual Ryan Lemmon Showcase at Ryan Lemmon Stadium.
  Four games featuring seniors from five leagues will be held today, June 8 and Saturday, June 9.
  “For many players, it will be the last baseball game they will play,” said Dick Owens of the Ryan Lemmon Foundation. “For all of them, it is a chance to play one last high school game wearing their uniforms.
  “It gives everyone a chance to really talk wit
  
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• Another Target “mini” store coming to Orange County — this time in Mission Viejo

  08-06-2018 15:57 via ocregister.com
  
  A Target “mini” store is coming to Mission Viejo.
  The city’s website states the retailer is bringing one of its smaller format stores to a space that once housed Sports Chalet in the Puerta Real Shopping Center near Kaleidoscope Mall.
  “The Target, one of many opening across the country, is a small-format store designed to deliver a shopping experience that focuses on ease and convenience. It’s expected to open by November or December,” the posting said.
  The na
  
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• Anaheim sells property for new $170 million hotel

  08-06-2018 15:54 via ocregister.com
  
  The sale of city property near the Disneyland Resort for a hotel project will net more than $1.8 million for city of Anaheim coffers.
  The property on Anaheim Boulevard on the opposite side of the 5 Freeway from the theme parks will be used for the construction of a proposed Radisson Blu with 326 rooms, according to the city. The Radisson Blu chain is an upscale brand by Carlson with locations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa; Anaheim would join three in the United States. None ar
  
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• Former USC DB Jack Jones arrested on suspicion of felony burglary

  08-06-2018 15:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Former USC cornerback Jack Jones was arrested early Friday morning by the Santa Paula Police Department on felony charges of commercial burglary and conspiracy to commit a crime, according to online records.
  Jones, 20, was booked into the Ventura County jail at 8:46 a.m. and remained in custody as of early Friday afternoon. Bail was set at $20,000.
  Since last month, when Jones was declared academically ineligible for the 2018 season, his future with the Trojans has remained uncertain. Coach Clay
  
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• Angels place Shohei Ohtani on the DL with a grade 2 UCL sprain

  08-06-2018 14:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Angels two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani was placed on the disabled list on Friday with what the team called a grade 2 sprain of his ulnar collateral ligament.
  The club announced that Ohtani underwent platelet-rich plasma and stem-cell injections on Thursday. He will be re-evaluated in three weeks, and and most likely out a significant portion of the rest of the season, at least.
  It is the second time this week that one of the Angels key players suffered a significant injury, after Andrelton Simmons
  
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• Suspect barricaded in Brea house leads police to evacuate neighboring homes

  08-06-2018 14:45 via ocregister.com
  
  A man who allegedly assaulted a woman in her own driverway fled into a nearby home, barricading himself Friday in Brea for several hours before being taken into custody, officials said.
  At about 10:32 a.m. police received reports of an assault in the 1500 block of Hodson Avenue, according to Brea police Lt. Adam Hawley.
  Frank Simon, is shown here telling reporters how he tried to fight the<br />suspect who was assaulting his mother. He heard her screams and<br />intervened. He w
  
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• $5 million to Chapman University from billionaire Charles Koch sparks an uproar

  08-06-2018 14:44 via ocregister.com
  
  A Nobel laureate decries the “hate speech.” The university president accuses faculty critics of seeking to stifle academic freedom. Professors tar each other as “disingenuous,” spreading  “baseless lies and accusations.”
  The normally tranquil Orange County campus of Chapman University is in the throes of a bitter controversy — all due to a $5 million donation from the Charles Koch Foundation.
  The gift from the conservative billionaire helps fun
  
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• The ‘land of the free’ still leads the world in incarceration

  08-06-2018 14:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: Breaking views are thoughts from individual members of the editorial board on today’s headlines.
  Putting American incarceration rates into global context, the Prison Policy Initiative has broken down the incarceration rates of each American state in relation to incarceration rates across the world.
  Compared to the rest of the world, even the most “progressive” states are revealed to be overly reliant on incarceration.
  According to their analysis, Oklah
  
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• Winn will sign with Texas Rangers next week

  08-06-2018 13:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange Lutheran senior right-handed pitcher Cole Winn said he will sign with the Texas Rangers next week.
  According to MLB.com, Winn’s signing bonus “pick value” is $3.7 million.
  Winn said he will fly to Texas on Saturday, attend a Rangers game Sunday, undergo a physical on Monday and sign with the Rangers on Tuesday.
  Winn was enjoying his final day today in Orange County in the best way — at Disneyland with his family.
  
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• Palestinians killed in protest near Gaza-Israeli border

  08-06-2018 13:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By FARES AKRAM
  The Associated Press
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip  — Israeli troops fired live rounds and tear gas as thousands of Palestinians protested near the Gaza border fence Friday, and at least four demonstrators were killed, including a teenage boy, with over 600 wounded, Gaza health officials said.
  More than 100 of the wounded, including a photographer for the French news agency Agence Press France, were hit by live fire, the officials added, as the demonstrators burned tires, threw
  
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• Korean Americans in Southern California see glimmer of hope for peace, reunification

  08-06-2018 13:29 via ocregister.com
  
  It was 3 a.m. on April 27. Grace Ahn and her husband, Matthew, sat glued to the television in their Seal Beach home.
  The couple texted family members as they saw the leaders of North and South Korea, Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in smile, greet one another and walk hand in hand during a first-time meeting in Panmunjom, a truce village right in the middle of the Demilitarized Zone, which has divided the Korean Peninsula for seven decades.
  It was an eventful morning, which the couple marked with a cel
  
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• Fly to Vegas from JWA on a semi-private jet for $129 each way

  08-06-2018 13:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Feeling flush? Wanna skip the lines at JWA or LGB and hit up the Sin City casinos by nightfall?
  Irvine-based JetSuiteX is rolling out “semi-private” flights between John Wayne and McCarran International airports beginning June 29. A roundtrip flight midweek (with roughly 29 other people) will set you back about $260 with JetSuiteX. A similar flight on Delta runs $280 or $218 on JetBlue from Long Beach.
  Irvine-based JetSuiteX is offering a new route from John Wayne Airport to Las
  
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• See photos from graduations in the Capistrano Valley, Irvine and Tustin districts

  08-06-2018 12:51 via ocregister.com
  
  With the sounds of cheering family and friends, more Orange County high school seniors stepped forward this week to accept their diplomas.
  Commencements were held the last few days for graduates from the Capistrano Valley, Irvine and Tustin districts.
  Not only were they celebrating the end of their high school careers, but the bright futures ahead of them. Congratulations Class of 2018.
  Related linksMissed your graduation? Check all of our coverage
  There are so many impressive graduates in 2018,
  
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• Tips on how to avoid a shark attack, as mother recounts ‘worst nightmare’ seeing fins close to teen daughter

  08-06-2018 12:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Tammy Colbert was sitting on the sand with her son in Huntington Beach Wednesday when her daughter Bella came out of the water, the leash on her body board broken.
  The Velcro was still attached to her leg. And there weren’t any waves to cause great enough impact to break the leash in half.
  “There’s no way it would have snapped unless she hit a hard wave or something bit though it or snapped it,” she said.
  Her daughter went back into the water.
  When she saw two black fins
  
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• Beckman High School Graduation 2018 

  08-06-2018 12:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Beckman High held the commencement ceremony for its Class of 2018 on June 7 at Northrup Stadium.
  Beckman High School during the graduation ceremony at Tustin High School in Tustin on Thursday, June 7, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)
  Beckman High School during the graduation ceremony at Tustin High School in Tustin on Thursday, June 7, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsBeckman High School during the graduation
  
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• San Juan Hills High School Graduation 2018

  08-06-2018 12:00 via ocregister.com
  
  San Juan Hills High School held the commencement ceremony for its Class of 2018 on June 7 at the Bren Events Center in Irvine.
  Student speaker Erin Levinson throws air quotes as she speaks during the San Juan Hills High School commencement ceremony at the UC Irvine Bren Events Center Thursday.
  in Irvine on Thursday, June7, 2018. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)
  Jennifer Smalley, Principal of San Juan Hills High School gestures toward the Teacher of the Year at the commencement cerem
  
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• Disneyland reopens Pirates of the Caribbean without the bride auction

  08-06-2018 11:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland reopened its popular Pirates of the Caribbean ride Friday, June 8, after removing the bride slave auction vignette that some people found objectionable in the #MeToo era of sexual harassment, and added a twist: The saucy red-haired wench who for decades stood next in line to be sold has turned from a victim to a plunderer. She’s now one of the pirates, and can be found in the ransacked city going after the town’s precious supply of rum.
  Meanwhile, a character modeled after
  
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• Aliso Niguel High School Graduation 2018

  08-06-2018 11:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Aliso Niguel High School held the commencement ceremony for its Class of 2018 on June 7 on campus.
  Joshua Kerns dances around as he celebrates graduating from Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo on Thursday, June 7, 2018. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
  A graduating senior sees his family as he walks into the stadium during commencement at Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo on Thursday, June 7, 2018. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe
  
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• Is someone stealing from grandma? Could be family, caregiver or a contractor

  08-06-2018 11:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Grandma is an easy target. She’s probably trusting, alone and lonely. In this case, Grandma is a senior or elderly person. She also may have the beginnings of dementia. This makes her vulnerable to exploitation. She welcomes people who visit her, and she wants to please them. Is that situation safe for her financially?
  Family members
  Some family members truly want to help and may come to visit Grandma. During their visit, they might write out checks to pay Grandma’s bills. Grand
  
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• Blue whale sightings have rebounded, thrilling whale watchers. But will the behemoths stick around?

  08-06-2018 11:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By the turn of the century, blue whales could be extinct.
  It was a warning Alisa Schulman-Janiger remembers hearing as a child decades ago, a dire prophecy for the world’s largest animal, one that dwarfed even the biggest dinosaurs that once roamed on land.
  A calf/cow duo was seen last weekend by Newport Coastal Adventures. Recent sightings give hope for a healthy blue whale season. Photo: Mark Girardeau
  A blue whale shows its tail with Fashion Island in the background. Photo: Kristin Camp
  
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• Vaping industry trades scholarships for university marketing muscle

  08-06-2018 10:59 via ocregister.com
  
  A growing number of e-cigarette and vaporizer sellers have started offering college scholarships as a way to get their brands listed on university websites and to get students to write essays about the potential benefits of vaping. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
  By COLLIN BINKLEY | Associated Press
  A growing number of e-cigarette and vaporizer sellers have started offering college scholarships as a way to get their brands listed on university websites and to get students to write essays abou
  
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