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• Alexander: Clippers might have sent a message with who they didn’t pick

  21-06-2018 23:58 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Only part of the intrigue on draft night involved the men the Clippers actually acquired. There was also the matter of what they didn’t draft: A big man.
  There might have been a message there.
  The Clippers filled a couple of spots in their backcourt Thursday night, trading with Charlotte to move up from No. 12 to 11 and nab 6-foot-6 point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of Kentucky – who is no relation, by the way, unless he becomes really, really good –
  
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• Lakers go European for draft with selection of Michigan’s Moe Wagner, 2 others

  21-06-2018 23:31 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — Moe Wagner made one giant leap from Berlin to Ann Arbor, Michigan, as an unheralded college recruit. He managed to attract the attention of Wolverines coach John Beilein, who traveled to Germany to see him in person after viewing a highlight-reel video of his play.
  The next jump will take the 21-year-old Wagner from the University of Michigan campus to Los Angeles after the Lakers picked him 25th overall in the NBA draft on Thursday. Wagner, a 6-foot-11 forward, was simpl
  
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• Whicker: Moe Wagner might win over L.A. (or Cleveland or San Antonio …)

  21-06-2018 23:15 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — A quick check of phone records shows no evidence of a call from Cleveland to El Segundo and the following mumble: “Take Moe Wagner.”
  And there were no texts from any South Texas wine cellars, or from the 512 area code, that might have commanded the Lakers to do the same.
  With the 25th pick in the first round of the NBA draft, the Lakers did take Wagner. There’s every possibility that he will stay here, that he will become yet another brick in their wall.
  But
  
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• Estancia High School Graduation 2018

  21-06-2018 23:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Estancia High School held the commencement ceremony for its Class of 2018 on Thursday, June 21 at Jim Scott Stadium.
  Alexis Osso proudly shows off her diploma during the Estancia High School graduation at Jim Scott Stadium in Costa Mesa on Thursday, June 21, 2018. (Photo by Kevin SullivanOrange County Register/SCNG)
  Amy Bishop gives her commencement address during the Estancia High School graduation at Jim Scott Stadium in Costa Mesa on Thursday, June 21, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange C
  
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• 2018 NBA Draft: Who is Svi Mykhailiuk, the Lakers’ 47th pick?

  21-06-2018 22:49 via ocregister.com
  
  With the 47th pick of the 2018 NBA Draft, the Lakers selected Kansas’ Sviatoslav “Svi” Mykhailiuk.
  Here’s a quick look at who the Lakers are getting:
  School: Kansas
  Year: Senior
  Age: 21
  Position: Shooting Guard
  Height: 6-foot-8
  Stats: He averaged 14.6 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game for the Jayhawks.
  Honors: All-Big 12 second team, he broke the Kansas single-season record for 3-pointers made with 115 in his senior season.
  What they say: Mykhailiuk was the yo
  
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• What’s the status of the Long Beach breakwater modification plan? Officials met with dismay at Thursday meeting

  21-06-2018 22:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Army Corps of Engineers officials were greeted with dismay and agitation Thursday from activists worried that the agency might abandon plans to remove the Long Beach breakwater.
  Corps and city officials told the Southern California News Group this month that the federal agency’s three tentative proposals to improve marine habitat in the San Pedro Bay excluded any modification to the breakwater. City alternatives that would include demolishing at least a portion of the 2.5-mile rock structu
  
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• Church handyman accused of molesting 4-year-old girl in Santa Ana

  21-06-2018 22:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Jose Trinidad Tavarez (Courtesy)
  Santa Ana police Thursday asked for the public’s help identifying additional victims of a church handyman charged with molesting a 4-year-old girl on Father’s Day.
  Jose Trinidad Tavarez, 51, was charged Tuesday with a single felony count of lewd acts on a child. Tavarez’s arraignment on Tuesday was rescheduled for July 6.
  Tavarez is a transient who was living out of his van at Oasis Christian Church, where he worked for the past year as a handym
  
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• 2018 NBA Draft: Who is Isaac Bonga, the Lakers’ 39th pick?

  21-06-2018 22:22 via ocregister.com
  
  With the 39th pick of the 2018 NBA Draft, the Lakers (via the Philadelphia 76ers) selected Isaac Bonga.
  Here’s a quick look at who the Lakers are getting:
  School/team: Fraport Skyliners (Germany)
  Year: N/A
  Age: 18
  Position: Forward
  Height: 6-foot-9
  Stats: Averaged 14.2 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists per game in the German Pro B.
  What they say: Bonga is a classic point forward and has flashed signs of brilliance as a facilitator for the Skyliners. In addition, Bonga is the second-youngest
  
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• Rancho Santa Margarita tire slasher gets jail time

  21-06-2018 22:14 via ocregister.com
  
  A Tustin man who slashed the tires of more than 20 vehicles in Rancho Santa Margarita over a five-month period was sentenced Thursday to two years in jail.
  My Ngoc Tien Nguyen, 38, was convicted Jan. 25 of a felony count and two misdemeanor vandalism counts. He was acquitted of two additional counts.
  When Nguyen was arrested in April of last year, sheriff’s deputies said the first reported incidents of vandalism happened in late 2016, but the tire slashing escalated from there, prompting r
  
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• Pixar Pier: Your guide to the Incredicoaster and everything else new at Disney California Adventure

  21-06-2018 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  The park may be called Disney California Adventure, but with the new Pixar Pier – which opens to the public on Saturday, June 23, with attractions themed around some of the studio’s biggest hits – some of the last vestiges of Disney’s ode to the Golden State have been drawn over by its modern-day blockbusters.
  Fans who ponied up $299 get to be part of a VIP preview on Friday, June 22, and will be among the first to scream on the new Incredicoaster – themed afte
  
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• UCLA’s Aaron Holiday goes 23rd in NBA Draft, Thomas Welsh 58th overall

  21-06-2018 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Aaron Holiday wasn’t the only former UCLA player getting restless during Thursday’s NBA Draft.
  As the first round stretched into the 20s, Holiday, who was projected to go as high as 16th overall, fidgeted at his table in the green room. His former teammate Ike Anigbogu took his nerves out on social media.
  “Don’t know how Aaron Holiday is still on the board,” Anigbogu, a rookie with the Pacers, tweeted prior to the 20th overall pick, “but I wouldn’t mind
  
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• JSerra’s D’Aquila named national player of the year

  21-06-2018 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  JSerra girls soccer player Isabella D’Aquila today was named Gatorade national player of the year.
  D’Aquila was surprised by the presentation of the award as she was being interviewed by a previous Gatorade national player honor, Seattle Reign player Morgan Andrews. The presentation can been seen here.
  D’Aquila, a junior, was Orange County player of the year for the second year in a row and earlier this week was named Gatorade State player of the year. She scored 39 goals
  
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• Dana Point asks nonprofit feeding homeless at Doheny to stop, after study shows it hurts effort to curtail homelessness

  21-06-2018 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Mirta Feinberg with Welcome Inn, feeds the homeless at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, CA on Monday July24, 2017. “Next week we’ll have more food,” she tells people as food runs out. File photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  A homeless man uses chopsticks to eat Chinese food passed out by volunteers with with Welcome Inn at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point on Monday July24, 2017. (File photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will r
  
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• Easterseals Southern California to transform Santa Ana headquarters into service center for about 200 clients

  21-06-2018 19:09 via ocregister.com
  A $1.75 million donation from the David and Molly Pyott Foundation will allow Easterseals Southern California to break ground Friday afternoon, June 22, as officials convert the Santa Ana headquarters into an adult day services center.
  The Southern California branch of the national Easterseals organization, which provides support services to people with disabilities or other special needs, will relocate its corporate office to Irvine on Monday.
  The Santa Ana center is expected to serve up to 200
  
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• NBA Draft: Follow along with live, pick-by-pick updates

  21-06-2018 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Arizona center DeAndre Ayton is the No. 1 pick of the 2018 NBA draft, as selected by the Phoenix Suns. What will the Lakers and Clippers do with their draft picks? Follow the draft here.
  
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• After 27 years on the force, Tustin Police Chief Celano decides to retire – with a little nudge from his son

  21-06-2018 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  A few weeks ago, Tustin Police Chief Charlie Celano’s 12-year-old son suggested he retire, telling his dad: “I think you’d feel better.”
  “That touched my heart,” Celano said, already on the same page and mulling over a possible career change with his wife.
  “It was time for me to move on, to do something with more flexibility that would allow me more time with my family,” said Celano, who has three of his five children still at home. “I&r
  
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• Pixar Pier preview: How the Pixar Pal-A-Round is different from Mickey’s Fun Wheel at Disney California Adventure

  21-06-2018 18:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Pixar Pier officially opens to the public on Saturday, June 23, at Disney California Adventure and one of the re-themed attractions is the Pixar Pal-A-Round. You probably know it as the giant Ferris wheel that originally opened as the Sun Wheel and then got a makeover and became known as Mickey’s Fun Wheel, complete with Mickey Mouse and his friends on the gondolas.
  The Pixar Pal-A-Round includes the iconic face of Mickey Mouse on the Paradise Bay side of the wheel and a Pixar pal on each
  
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• Kings 2018-19 schedule: Home much of November and March

  21-06-2018 17:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Schedules were announced Thursday for the upcoming NHL season, and Kings fans should be happy to know that much of November and March will be spent playing in the friendly confines of Staples Center.
  The Kings will play nine home games in each of those months, but there is so much more for which to look forward after the Kings open their 2018-19 campaign Oct. 5 at home against rival San Jose.
  The Kings will host the crosstown rival Ducks twice – on Nov. 6 and March 23. The Kings will
  
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• After rough start, Kenley Jansen looks more like … Kenley Jansen again

  21-06-2018 17:40 via ocregister.com
  
  CHICAGO — It was a poor choice of words.
  In the Dodgers’ fifth game this season, they trusted Kenley Jansen with a 6-3 lead, just about the safest place in baseball to put a three-run lead since Jansen became a full-time closer in 2014.
  He blew it. Chris Owings hit a three-run home run sending the game into extra innings. Then he blew it again. Responding to reporters’ questions after the game, Jansen tried to put the game into perspective – five games into a 162-gam
  
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• Melania Trump dons ‘I really don’t care, do u?’ jacket; president claims it was a dig at media

  21-06-2018 17:22 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump wore a jacket that read “I really don’t care, do u?” as she boarded a flight Thursday to a facility housing migrant children separated from their parents.
  The green, hooded military jacket from Zara had the words written graffiti-style on the back.
  When asked what message the first lady’s jacket intends to send, spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said: “It’s a jacket. There was no hidden message. After today’s impor
  
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• See deputy free bear trapped in Subaru

  21-06-2018 16:26 via ocregister.com
  
  In two images from a video that has gone viral, a Placer County, California sheriff’s deputy breaks a window on a Subaru Outback after a bear managed to break into the car and couldn’t get out. Once the deputy breaks the window, left, the bear was able to climb out of the badly damaged vehicle.
  CAMELIAN BAY, Calif. — A bear that managed to break into a car needed help from a sheriff’s deputy to get out.
  The Placer County Sheriff’s Office in California says it happen
  
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• Ducks might look to supplement aging core with No. 23 pick of NHL draft

  21-06-2018 16:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The end is coming, either by choice or the inevitable passage of time. The Ducks eventually will move on from their core of talented forwards, and perhaps this year’s draft will provide another replacement.
  The Ducks hold the No. 23 overall pick in the draft, which begins Friday in Dallas with first-round selections. As ever, the possibility of a trade up or down looms, but if the Ducks retain their initial pick, they face an interesting choice as they ponder life beyond Ryan Getzlaf, Core
  
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• NHL draft preview: Kings look to bolster offense

  21-06-2018 15:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Scoring just three goals while getting swept in four playoff games by Vegas in April told the Kings one thing.
  They still don’t have enough consistent scoring.
  It therefore stands to reason they will be looking to improve upon that for the upcoming season and beyond, and step one in that direction could be the draft, which will take place Friday and Saturday.
  The first round will be Friday, with rounds two through seven going down Saturday. The Kings will pick 20th and will have a total of
  
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• California bill would give free postage for mail ballots

  21-06-2018 15:49 via ocregister.com
  
  “I Voted” stickers were given to voters who showed up at polling places Tuesday in Los Angeles County. A bill that cleared the state Senate on Thursday, June 21, 2018, would require return ballot envelopes for voting by mail to have prepaid postage. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers are considering providing free postage for vote-by-mail ballots statewide.
  A measure that cleared the Senate Thursday would require return ballo
  
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• Turpins to stand trial on 91 of 92 felony counts in Perris torture case

  21-06-2018 15:43 via ocregister.com
  
  David Allen Turpin and Louise Ann Turpin, parents of 13 children who authorities say were abused, neglected and held captive — sometimes in chains — in their filthy and smelly Perris home will stand trial on a collective 91 felony charges, a judge ruled Thursday, June 21.
  One count of child endangerment was dismissed. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Schwartz said the youngest child, 2 years old, did not appear severely malnourished as did most of the other 12, some w
  
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• Confusion and uncertainty at the border after Trump acts

  21-06-2018 15:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By NOMAAN MERCHANT and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
  The Associated Press
  McALLEN, Texas — The federal government wrestled with the fallout Thursday over President Donald Trump’s move to stop separating immigrant families, with no clear plan to reunite the more than 2,300 children already taken from their parents and Congress again failing to take action on immigration reform.
  Democratic mayors and other leaders traveled to the border to step up pressure on the White House over its hardline im
  
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• World Cup: Croatia crushes Argentina, Messi

  21-06-2018 15:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Argentina’s Lionel Messi reacts after the third goal of Croatia during the group D match between Argentina and Croatia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in Nizhny Novgorod Stadium in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Thursday, June 21, 2018. Croatia won 3-0. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
  Argentina goalkeeper Wilfredo Caballero holds his head after Croatia’s Ante Rebic, background right, scored the opening goal during the group D match between Argentina and Croatia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in Niz
  
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• Self-employed can get seconds and HELOCS with bank statements

  21-06-2018 15:14 via ocregister.com
  
  What’s up with mortgage rates? Jeff Lazerson of Mortgage Grader in Laguna Niguel gives us his take.
  Rate news summary
  From Freddie Mac’s weekly survey: The 30-year fixed rate averaged 4.57 percent, down 5 basis points from last week’s 4.62 percent. The 15-year fixed averaged 4.04 percent, down 3 basis points from last week’s 4.07 percent.
  The Mortgage Bankers Association reported loan application volume increased 5.1 percent from the previous week.
  Bottom line: Assum
  
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• American occupation has been great for Afghanistan’s opium trade

  21-06-2018 14:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: Breaking views are thoughts from individual members of the editorial board on today’s headlines.
  After over 16 years of war and military occupation, and $8.6 billion of U.S. counternarcotics spending, opium production has hit record levels in Afghanistan, according to John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
  For context, when the U.S. first invaded Afghanistan, the country had just 7,606 hectares of opium poppy cultivation. By
  
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• Festival Pass: This weekend will be off the hook with Arroyo Seco, Coastal Country Jam and more

  21-06-2018 14:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Festival Pass is a weekly newsletter that lands in your inbox on Thursdays during Southern California’s prime music festival season (April-October). When we cover festivals in the field, you get bonus editions, too! Subscribe now.
  Festival Pass for Thursday, June 21
  Coming up: With Arroyo Seco Weekend, the BET Experience and the Coastal Country Jam all happening this weekend, we’ve got bonus editions of Festival Pass headed to your inbox in the coming days if you subsc
  
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• Vestal Village will take over Bolsa Chica State Beach with live music, tent and RV glamping and you can even bring your own yacht

  21-06-2018 14:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Typically held out in an undisclosed location in the desert as an exclusive invite-only event during the annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio in April, Vestal Village has grown to be one of the most popular live music and entertainment experiences of the season.
  This year the general public can get in on that exclusivity as Vestal Village hosts its 10th anniversary event at SeaLegs at the Beach on Bolsa Chica State Beach in Huntington Beach Friday, June 29-Sunday, July 1. F
  
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• 1,500 seasonal workers to be hired for annual OC Fair

  21-06-2018 14:33 via ocregister.com
  
  The OC Fair and Event Center is bolstering its year-round staff of about 150 with 1,500 seasonal workers to run the annual fair, which runs from July 13 to Aug. 12.
  Jobs range from ticket seller to being a costumed character. Sign language interpreters and lighting technicians are also among the workers needed.
  Employees are given free admission to the fair and get deep discounts for family and friends. Applicants must be at least 16 and be able to provide a work permit if underage. Some jobs ma
  
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• Former Anaheim insurance agent gets 15 years for defrauding clients of $2 million

  21-06-2018 14:28 via ocregister.com
  
  A former insurance agent who admitted to stealing more than $2 million dollars from his clients was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay $3.5 million-plus in restitution and fines.
  Brian Smart, 41, agreed to an Orange County Superior Court offer requiring him to plead guilty to 15 felonies, including grand theft, theft from an elder and money laundering.
  Along with the prison sentence, Smart was ordered to pay about $1.8 million in restitution and $1.8 million in fines, ac
  
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• LA Sparks need to rebound in Friday’s matchup with Dallas Wings

  21-06-2018 13:55 via ocregister.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas — The Sparks will hit the road for a one-game trip, battling the Dallas Wings on Friday.
  Los Angeles (9-2) easily dispatched the Indiana Fever on Tuesday, as the Sparks outscored Indiana 19-6 in the fourth quarter to pull away after a spirited effort from the one-win Fever. With the victory, the Sparks moved into a tie for first-place in the Western Conference with the Phoenix Mercury (10-3).
  Nneka Ogwumike, who had an uncharacteristically poor shooting performance from th
  
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• First lady visits migrant children at Texas detention center

  21-06-2018 13:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
  The Associated Press
  McALLEN, Texas — Melania Trump made an unannounced visit to a Texas facility Thursday, talking with children and staff as she got a first-hand look at some of the migrant children sent there by the U.S. government after their families entered the country illegally.
  The first lady’s stop at Upbring New Hope Children’s Center came the morning after President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting the practice of separating these
  
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• This mom’s experience with an ALS clinical trial shows what patients and their families face in search of hope

  21-06-2018 13:26 via ocregister.com
  
  When Lisa Wittenberg got a van in April that could accommodate her wheelchair, she got her nails done, ate at In-N-Out Burger and shopped at Target.
  Three things she loved to do before ALS.
  “That van is the biggest piece of (expletive) we’ve ever bought, but it’s been a life-changer,” she said with a grin, lying on a bed at UCI Medical Center on a recent morning.
  The 46-year-old mother of two was diagnosed in August 2017 with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.  A
  
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• Whicker: Bob Baffert’s Triple Crown barn leans on Jimmy Barnes

  21-06-2018 13:20 via ocregister.com
  
  ARCADIA — Jimmy Barnes is sometimes known as the man behind Bob Baffert’s scenes. Actually he’s not behind anything. He is the scene.
  No one is witnessing at 4 a.m., when Barnes beats the sun to Santa Anita. He checks the feed tubs to make sure Baffert’s horses are eating like champions. He studies their eyes and their disposition.
  “You have to read your horse,” he said. “The horse can’t tell you how it’s feeling.”
  Baffert and Barn
  
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• World Cup: Mbappe gets France past Peru, into 2nd round

  21-06-2018 12:51 via ocregister.com
  
  YEKATERINBURG, Russia — Kylian Mbappe’s first World Cup goal put France into the round of 16.
  The teenage forward tapped in a ball headed toward the goal in the 34th minute to give France a 1-0 victory over Peru on Thursday.
  At 19 years and 183 days, Mbappe became the youngest scorer in France’s World Cup history.
  With two wins from two matches in Group C, France is through to the next round with a match to spare while Peru has been eliminated.
  France coach Didier Deschamps mad
  
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• Chargers training camp scheduled to start July 28

  21-06-2018 12:09 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers have generated their fair share of NFL offseason hype. Next month, they’ll have a chance to turn that into local buzz.
  The team announced Thursday its full schedule for training camp, which starts July 28 at Jack Hammett Sports Complex in Costa Mesa. That Saturday session will be the first of 14 open practices the Chargers will host this summer, opportunities for the franchise to connect with the public as it tries to snap a four-year playoff drought.
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• Southern California home prices soar but sales sink in May

  21-06-2018 11:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California home prices hit record highs in May, real estate data firm CoreLogic reported Thursday, June 21.
  Sales, on the other hand, sank, a sign that buyers either couldn’t find a home amid limited listings or balked at high prices, rising mortgage rates or both.
  The median price of a Southern California home, or price at the midpoint of all sales, hit a record $530,000 last Month, up 8.2 percent from May 2017’s median.
  In all but one county, prices set records or hit thei
  
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• Master Gardener: Why bell pepper plants are dropping flowers and fruit

  21-06-2018 11:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: My bell pepper plants have been growing well, and have set many fruits that are now almost full-sized. Lately, I’ve noticed that the flowers and tiny newly-set fruits have been dropping off. Can you suggest a possible cause?
  A: I hear this complaint frequently so I’ll cover it more generally possibly to help others who might have similar situations.
  My references list boron deficiency, extreme temperature and excessive nitrogen fertilization as possible causes of fruit d
  
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• Six Flags Magic Mountain adds more July 4th fireworks shows than ever before

  21-06-2018 11:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Six Flags Magic Mountain has big plans for Fourth of July.
  For the first time, fireworks will light up the sky over the Valencia amusement park for five consecutive nights as part of the “Coca-Cola July 4th Fest,” beginning Saturday, June 30.
  Each finale is expected to start around 9:30 p.m. and last for about 14 minutes.
  Related: Here’s what’s happening with CraZanity, Six Flags Magic Mountain’s newest thrill ride
  Full Throttle Plaza and the main gate provide
  
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• How to make your house do more of the cleaning and housework

  21-06-2018 10:48 via ocregister.com
  
  When I saw the recent viral video of a human-like robot jogging through a park and leaping over a log, all I could think was, “Can they make it stop running and jumping long enough to come clean my house?”
  My childhood dreams – shaped by “The Jetsons” of my own Rosie the robot sparing me from housework – have morphed into near-demands as an adult with a full-time job, family and two extremely furry pets.
  While that Rosie future isn’t here yet,
  
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• Koko, the gorilla that learned to communicate using sign language, has died

  21-06-2018 10:36 via ocregister.com
  
  WOODSIDE, Calif. — Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, has died.
  The Gorilla Foundation says the 46-year-old western lowland gorilla died in her sleep at the foundation’s preserve in California’s Santa Cruz mountains on Tuesday.
  Koko was born at the San Francisco Zoo, and Dr. Francine Patterson began teaching the gorilla sign language that became part of a Stanford University project in 1974.The foundation says Koko’s capacity for language and empathy opened the
  
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• ‘As We Babble On’ by East West Players: Ethnicity, social media made graphic

  21-06-2018 10:24 via ocregister.com
  
  It is a large order: give an empathetic sense of what life is like for artistic persons of color trying to get ahead. Inject humor, avoid or explode stereotype, and evince hope using forms interconnected with the comparatively youthful generation beginning to feel empowered to make or coordinate change.
  The good news: by and large Nathan Ramos’ “As We Babble On,” receiving its world premiere at East West Players, in association with the Los Angeles LGBT Center, does quite a lot
  
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• Retail-restaurant roundup: Bookman moving in Orange (he needs help); Bottega Angelina to open 3rd eatery; Hobby Lobby comes to La Habra

  21-06-2018 10:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Taco Bell has added a Watermelon Freeze to its menu. (Courtesy of Taco Bell)
  At Angelina’s, the diavola pizza is made with spicy salame, mozzarella and pepperoncini oil. (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsThe second branch of Angelina’s Pizzeria Napoletana, located in Irvine’s Los Olivos Marketplace, is much fancier than the original in Dana Point. (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Penne and meatbal
  
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• World Cup: Australia stuns in Group C draw with Denmark

  21-06-2018 09:46 via ocregister.com
  
  SAMARA, Russia — Mile Jedinak’s penalty kick gave Australia a 1-1 draw against Denmark and new life at the World Cup on Thursday.
  The 38th-minute penalty was set up after Denmark forward Yussuf Poulsen was called for a handball following a video review. Poulsen was also given a yellow card and will be suspended for the team’s final group match against France because of accumulation.
  The goal was Jedinak’s second from the spot at this year’s World Cup, and it snapped
  
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• Supreme Court: Online shoppers can be forced to pay sales tax

  21-06-2018 09:41 via ocregister.com
  
   
  By JESSICA GRESKO
  The Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says states can force online shoppers to pay sales tax.
  The 5-4 ruling Thursday is a win for states, who said they were losing out on billions of dollars annually under two decades-old Supreme Court decisions that impacted online sales tax collection.
  The high court ruled Thursday to overturn those decisions. They had resulted in some companies not collecting sales tax on every online purchase. The cases the court
  
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• Grand jury tells Orange County to reconsider taking other counties’ trash

  21-06-2018 09:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County has plenty of landfill space … for now.
  What it didn’t have after its 1994 bankruptcy was money, so it started allowing haulers from Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties to pay a fee and dump their trash across county lines. Los Angeles County was pressed for landfill space while some Inland Empire trash companies were attracted by Orange County’s cheaper rates.
  But the bankruptcy debts are largely paid off while the flow of imported trash continues
  
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• Chinese men charged with trying to smuggle dozens of US turtles out of LAX for Asian market

  21-06-2018 09:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Two Chinese flight crew members are charged with attempting to smuggle U.S. turtles, some of the spotted variety, through LAX. The turtles apparently command high prices in Asia. Above, a spotted turtle is seen at the Buffalo Zoo in a 2007 photo by Dave Pape. (Photo is released in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons)
  LOS ANGELES — A flight crew member for a Chinese airline is expected to plead guilty Thursday to a federal charge alleging he attempted to smuggle two-dozen spotted and bo
  
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