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• Western Conference-leading Sparks travel to Seattle

  27-06-2018 23:57 via ocregister.com
  
  The first time the Sparks and Storm met this season, Seattle dealt L.A. its worst home loss under current coach Brian Agler, dominating en route to an 88-63 victory at Staples Center.
  The Sparks (11-3) have won seven of eight since that June 7 game, including Tuesday’s dramatic come-from-behind victory over the Dallas Wings sans Nneka Ogwumike at Staples Center.
  Yet the loss still looms large for the Sparks, one of few blemishes in what has otherwise been a dominant season. The Sparks will
  
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• Angels lose another game to Red Sox, another pitcher to injury

  27-06-2018 22:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Boston’s Eduardo Nunez slides home with the go-ahead run past Angels catcher Martin Maldonado during the seventh inning of Wednesday’s game at Fenway Park. (Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images)
  Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Andrew Heaney delivers during the first inning of the team’s baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston, Wednesday, June 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsLos Angeles Angels starting pitcher
  
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• Janus v. AFSCME a win for taxpayers and workplace freedom

  27-06-2018 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  In a victory for freedom of speech and taxpayers across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Illinois employee Mark Janus on Wednesday.
  The 5-4 decision written by Justice Samuel Alito makes clear that public employees should not be compelled to subsidize public sector unions with which they disagree, arguing “this arrangement violates the free speech rights of nonmembers by compelling them to subsidize private speech on matters of substantial public concern.”
  Janus,
  
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• Wild pitches gone wild: why the ball is getting past the catcher more than ever

  27-06-2018 21:56 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Rich Hill needed a moment to think about this one. Neither the question nor the answer had occurred to him before: Why is Major League Baseball on pace to set a record for wild pitches in 2018?
  Hill is 39 years old. His professional career began in 2002. He paused.
  “I think it’s a combination of multiple things,” he said.
  This pause was nearly the universal response. Between players, coaches, executives and analysts, no one had a quick, one-size-fits-all ans
  
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• Photos: Mexico World Cup fans celebrate team reaching round of 16

  27-06-2018 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  A Mexico fan kisses a copy of the World Cup trophy prior to the group F match between Mexico and South Korea at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Rostov Arena in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
  A Mexico fan pins a flower into her hair before the group F match between Mexico and South Korea at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Rostov Arena in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsA M
  
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• A political hurricane is headed for Washington DC — and Nancy Pelosi doesn’t know it

  27-06-2018 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Even casual Weather Channel watchers know hurricanes just don’t appear over night.
  They start out as a tropical disturbances, according to NASA, which are rain clouds building over warm ocean waters.
  These disturbances sometimes grow into “tropical depressions,” rotating thunderstorms with winds of 38 miles per hour or less.
  A tropical depression becomes a tropical storm if its winds reach 39 mph.
  A tropical storm becomes a hurricane if its winds reach 74 mph.
  At that point, if
  
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• Dodgers likely to figure prominently in ‘white noise’ of trade speculation

  27-06-2018 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — One of the TVs in the Dodgers’ clubhouse was inexplicably tuned to “Duck Dynasty” on Wednesday afternoon. The others were showing a panel discussion on MLB Network.
  Former Yankees manager Joe Girardi and other talking heads were discussing the possibility of Baltimore Orioles shortstop Manny Machado being traded to the Dodgers – speculation fueled by a USA Today story pegging the Dodgers as “clear-front favorites” to land the biggest prize
  
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• Let cities regulate their own nightlife, pass SB905

  27-06-2018 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Local communities across California should be free to make their own rules about when “last call” should be.
  Senate Bill 905, introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, is an important step towards respecting local control on such matters.
  Currently, the state imposes a uniform, top-down last call of 2 a.m., which not only constrains local communities with a thriving nightlife, but does so in a manner which is rarely seen in major cities not only across the United States
  
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• Sacramento Democrats kill another common sense occupational licensing reform bill

  27-06-2018 20:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: Breaking views are thoughts from individual members of the editorial board on today’s headlines.
  Democratic politicians like to present themselves as advocates for the poor and working California. In reality, Democrats in Sacramento are too often merely proponents of leveraging bigger government to the benefit of politically advantageous special interest groups to the detriment of poor and working Californians.
  Their resistance to occupational licensing reform is
  
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• Moorpark two-sport star Drake London commits to USC for football and basketball

  27-06-2018 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Drake London, a dual-sport athlete from Moorpark, committed to USC for both football and basketball on Wednesday.
  London is a part of the class of 2019, an incoming senior at Moorpark High, and considered a top prospect in both sports. The 247 Sports’ composite rankings list London as a four-star wide receiver and rank him in the top 75 nationally in basketball, where the 6-foot-4 recruit is a shooting guard.
  His scholarship is to count toward the 85 allotted football scholarships for foot
  
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• Orange County will explore potential veterans cemetery site in Anaheim

  27-06-2018 19:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County supervisors will consider several possible avenues to put a veterans cemetery on a piece of county-owned land near where the 91 and 241 freeways meet in east Anaheim.
  County Supervisor Todd Spitzer said Wednesday officials asked to get information at an August meeting about the process to turn 288 acres of open space into a resting place for those who have served in the military and their families. It could entail working with the federal Department of Veterans Affairs; the corresp
  
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• Angels’ Zack Cozart set for season-ending shoulder surgery

  27-06-2018 19:23 via ocregister.com
  
  BOSTON — Zack Cozart is expected to miss the rest of the season after being diagnosed with a torn labrum that will require surgery, the result of an awkward fall attempting a diving play earlier this month.
  The Angels’ third baseman was initially diagnosed with a subluxation of his left shoulder. He had been taking some swings, but the lack of progress apparently prompted him to seek a second opinion.
  On Wednesday, the Angels announced that Cozart is set to undergo surgery. The Angel
  
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• John Lamb heads to DL, forcing Angels to go to their 12th starting pitcher

  27-06-2018 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  BOSTON — John Lamb added his name to the list of injured Angels pitchers on Wednesday, pushing Deck McGuire into the rotation.
  Lamb was placed on the disabled list a day after lasting just 1-2/3 innings against the Boston Red Sox, diagnosed with elbow and shoulder inflammation.
  “After he came out he was getting little stiff in his shoulder,” Manager Mike Scioscia said. “His arm didn’t feel great, so we’ll take a step backwards with John and get him evaluated a
  
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• Irvine gives notice it may exit Orange County Fire Authority in 2020

  27-06-2018 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Following Placentia’s similar decision last week, Irvine officials will formally notify the county’s regional emergency services provider the city may withdraw from the agency in 2020.
  Irvine and Placentia are two of 23 cities that get fire and emergency medical services from the Orange County Fire Authority, a joint powers agency that also serves unincorporated areas of the county.
  After several years of debate over how to get its fair share of services, the Irvine City Council on T
  
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• Mother’s boyfriend arrested on suspicion of murder in death of Anthony Avalos, 10

  27-06-2018 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Sheriff’s deputies arrested the boyfriend of the mother of Anthony Avalos on Wednesday on suspicion of murder after the boy was found dead in the family’s Lancaster home last week.
  A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that the boyfriend was arrested. He did not give the man’s name.
  Child protective services officials from the county agency that had been in contact with the family for years over several allegations of abusive behavior said
  
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• More recordings released from Las Vegas mass shooting describe chaos, police efforts

  27-06-2018 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  A Las Vegas police officer rushing a wounded colleague to safety, teams of officers stalking a stairwell in the search of a shooter and more cellphone pleas for help marked the newest release on Wednesday of public records from the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
  Police released the latest sequence of officer body-camera video clips and redacted recordings of 911 dispatch calls under court order in a lawsuit by media.
  The records have provided gripping accounts of drama and dange
  
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• Lakers’ draft picks Moe Wagner, Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk will play with summer league team

  27-06-2018 18:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Draft picks Moe Wagner and Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk will join second-year players Josh Hart, Alex Caruso and Thomas Bryant on the Lakers’ summer league team, the club announced Wednesday. Lakers assistant coach Miles Simon will coach the squad.
  The Lakers will begin summer league play in the California Classic on Monday in Sacramento and then open NBA Summer League play July 7 in Las Vegas. The Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma-led Lakers were the NBA Summer League champions last year.
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• Bookman is booking it to its next location after 29 years of business

  27-06-2018 17:43 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s a bibliophile’s paradise.
  Bookshelves line the walls and fill the spaces in-between, the worn spines of nearly 300,000 books about anything as niche as Harlequin American Romance to the history of American aviation stacked as high as they can go.
  Co-owner Paul Bonaventure, Jr., helps a customer at his store the Bookman in Orange on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Bonaventure and his co-owner David Hess, not pictured, are planning to move their thousands of books to a new home at 320 E.
  
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• La Palma City Council drops idea of allowing some marijuana-related businesses

  27-06-2018 17:34 via ocregister.com
  
  La Palma might be small, but its citizens were loud and clear Tuesday night: They don’t want their city to become what one resident described as “the pot capital of northwest Orange County.”
  Citizens overflowed the City Council Chambers, some having to sit in an adjoining room, to oppose changing city laws to allow some cannabis-related businesses. Many residents learned of the meeting from flyers left on their doorsteps, calling them to the meeting to voice their opinions.
  Cou
  
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• Kohl’s hiring seasonal workers throughout Southern California

  27-06-2018 17:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Looking for work?
  Kohl’s is hiring for its back-to-school, fall and holiday seasons with seasonal positions available at more than 300 stores, including several in Southern California.
  “We are hiring associates earlier than ever to ensure our teams are fully staffed, trained and ready to support peak shopping seasons,” Ryan Festerling, Kohl’s executive vice president of human resources, said in a statement.
  Lots of local locations
  Local stores in need of seasonal workers
  
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• Immigrant children, including some held in Southern California, ordered returned to their parents

  27-06-2018 16:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Some of the children separated from their parents in recent weeks by federal immigration officials are being cared for in an Orange County shelter, awaiting reunification with their families as ordered by a federal judge late Tuesday night.
  Crittenton Services for Children and Families is taking care of 16 immigrant children, ages 8 to 17, who had traveled from Central America to the U.S. border, where they were separated from their parents.
  “Despite what the separated children have experi
  
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• Lakers extend qualifying offer to Julius Randle

  27-06-2018 15:32 via ocregister.com
  
  The Lakers extended a qualifying contract offer to big man Julius Randle on Wednesday, making him a restricted free agent and possibly setting the stage for his departure after 238 career games over four seasons in Los Angeles.
  Randle played all 82 games at center this past season, starting 49. He averaged a career-high 16.1 points on 55.8 percent shooting while helping the Lakers to 35 victories, their highest win total since 2012-13. He also averaged 8 rebounds and 2.6 assists.
  Randle’s
  
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• World Cup: Switzerland moves on after Costa Rica draw

  27-06-2018 15:20 via ocregister.com
  
  NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia — Switzerland has qualified for the round of 16 at the World Cup despite twice losing the lead in a 2-2 draw with Costa Rica, which had already been eliminated.
  Costa Rica scored from Bryan Ruiz penalty kick in stoppage time to tie the match on Wednesday night, but it didn’t affect Switzerland’s progression as the second-place team in Group E.
  Brazil topped the group after a 2-0 win over Serbia and will play Mexico. Switzerland will play Sweden.
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• World Cup: Brazil tops Serbia, gets Mexico next round

  27-06-2018 15:10 via ocregister.com
  MOSCOW — Worried no more, Brazil is through at the World Cup.
  Paulinho and Thiago Silva scored a goal each Wednesday to give the five-time champions a 2-0 victory over Serbia and first place in their group.
  Brazil struggled in its opening two matches, first held to a 1-1 draw and then needing late goals to win the other. But they controlled this one.
  Paulinho gave his team the lead when he met a lofted ball from Philippe Coutinho in the 36th minute. The defensive midfielder let the ball bo
  
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• 77-year-old man charged with murder in shooting, killing of Long Beach fire captain

  27-06-2018 15:08 via ocregister.com
  
  A 77-year-old man accused of setting off an explosion in his Long Beach apartment this week and opening fire on first-responders, claiming the life of a fire captain and injuring two other people, was charged with murder Wednesday.
  Thomas Man Kim allegedly sat at the end of of a hallway opposite his apartment in the Covenant Manor senior living apartment building after setting off the explosion early Monday morning, then shot two firefighters and a resident, police said on Wednesday.
  Police said
  
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• Next step in Kimberly Long’s second-degree murder appeal delayed to July 20

  27-06-2018 14:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Kimberly Long, the Corona woman whose appeal of her second-degree murder conviction was handed a setback in May when appellate judges reversed a ruling that could have overturned the guilty finding,will be back in court July 20. A hearing scheduled Wednesday morning was pushed back.
  Long was convicted in her second trial in 2005 for the bludgeoning death of her boyfriend Oswaldo “Ozzy” Conde in 2003. She maintains she did not do it. Her first trial, also in 2005, ended with a hu
  
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• House rejects Republican immigration bill despite Trump’s endorsement

  27-06-2018 14:45 via ocregister.com
  
  The Republican-led House resoundingly rejected a far-ranging immigration bill on Wednesday despite an eleventh-hour endorsement by President Donald Trump, as the gulf between the GOP’s moderate and conservative wings proved too deep for leaders to avert an election-year display of division.
  The bill was killed 301-121, with nearly half of Republicans opposing the measure. The depth of GOP opposition was an embarrassing showing for Trump and a rebuff of House leaders, who’d postponed
  
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• Donation fund launched for slain Long Beach fire Capt. David Rosa

  27-06-2018 14:44 via ocregister.com
  
  A donation fund has been created for the family of Long Beach Fire Capt. David Rosa, who was fatally shot in the line of duty this week while responding to an explosion at a downtown Long Beach senior-living apartment building.
  The Long Beach Fire Department shared a link Wednesday morning to a page on the nonprofit Friends of Long Beach Firefighters website, where donations can be made to benefit Rosa’s wife and two sons, ages 25 and 16.CAPT. ROSA UPDATE: An official site for donations in
  
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• Huntington Beach warehouse catches fire

  27-06-2018 14:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Firefighters fought a blaze that broke out in the warehouse of a golf supplies business in Huntington Beach on Wednesday morning.
  The fire, which was reported around 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, June 27, burned through a portion of the roof of the building at 15675 Chemical Lane. Huntington Beach firefighters said the one wall of the structure collapsed.
  They were able to extinguish it by 11 a.m. The cause of the fire was unknown. It was not immediately known if there were any injuries.pic.twitter
  
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• Orange County sports leagues for the 2018-19 school year

  27-06-2018 14:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Some changes in league affiliations will be in place for the 2018-19 high school sports year.
  The changes include some football-only league configurations, Crean Lutheran joining the Empire League, Corona del Mar’s departure from the Pacific Coast League, the introduction of Portola to the Pacific Coast League and Garden Grove not being in the Garden Grove League for the first time since 1965.
  These league groupings will be used for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years.
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• Thoroughbreds hit the dirt at Los Alamitos for 12 days

  27-06-2018 14:17 via ocregister.com
  
  A warning to bettors who like to handicap turf races: There will be no grass racing in Southern California for the next three weeks as Los Alamitos Race Course begins its 12-day Summer Thoroughbred Festival on Thursday with an eight-race program.
  The Festival is the first of three race meets that will be hosted this year by Los Alamitos, which has never had a turf course but, at 1,380 feet, has the longest stretch in the country.
  Even without a turf course, there figures to be enough quality dir
  
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• Senior Moments: Facing my biggest fear again with the help of new friends

  27-06-2018 13:26 via ocregister.com
  
  “So, could you do it again?” a reader asked after my column last week about finally taking an elevator. It was the same question I asked myself during the sleepless night that followed my successful ride to my husband’s eighth-floor hospital room.
  Daughter Sara had patiently walked me through that first elevator ride. But the next day, I was on my own. When I arrived at the medical center, I stood in the lobby to decide: stairs or elevator?
  Because I had walked down the stairs
  
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• HBO ‘Motel Kid’ discovers mentors through Hope Mobile, after years on the street

  27-06-2018 13:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Workers with Hope Mobile wash cars at a location in Costa Mesa on Thursday, June 21, 2018. The organization employs those in need to help them live independently. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Zachary Brewster washes a car with Hope Mobile at a location in Costa Mesa on Thursday, June 21, 2018. The organization employs those in need to help them live independently. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsRick Valdez and
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says he’s retiring, giving Trump another high-court pick

  27-06-2018 13:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement Wednesday, giving President Donald Trump the chance to cement conservative control of the high court.
  The 81-year-old Kennedy said in a statement he is stepping down after more than 30 years on the court. A Republican appointee, he has held the key vote on such high-profile issues as abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, guns, campaign finance and voting rights.
  Kennedy said he has informed his colleagues and Trump of his plans,
  
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• Car splits in half, catches fire after driver hits pole in Santa Ana

  27-06-2018 13:10 via ocregister.com
  
  A driver escaped serious injuries after slamming into a pole and splitting his car in half early Wednesday morning, June 27.
  The driver was going about 60 to 65 mph when it hit a bump then crashed into the pole at Dyer Road and Main Street, said Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Tony Bommarito.“Half of the car was on fire so one of the engines dealt with that. … Another one handled the patient,” Bommarito said of the 1:40 a.m. crash.
  The flaming back half of the sedan en
  
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• Best thing I ate: The perfect omelet on a deck overlooking the Newport Beach harbor

  27-06-2018 13:02 via ocregister.com
  
  The short-rib chili omelet isn’t exactly what I was expecting. I guess I expected an omelet smothered in chili, which sounded like a decent idea at the time. I received something else: chili-braised beef short ribs smothered in an omelet. And it was fantastic, far exceeding my expectations. I’m not sure I would describe it as chili. Rather, a more apt description might be chili-infused short ribs. The slow-cooked meat is incredibly tender, served as large, knife-and-fork pieces. The
  
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• Where you can celebrate July 4th in Orange County with festivities and fireworks

  27-06-2018 12:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Many Orange County communities are preparing to celebrate the Fourth of July with fireworks shows, festivals, parade or runs/walks. Following is a listing of the options for how to spend your Independence Day.
  You can also check out the Orange County Fire Authority’s website, ocfa.org, for a listing of where professional fireworks shows are planned and information on the communities that allow safe and sane fireworks with some safety tips from the fire agency.
  Events are on the Fourth of J
  
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• Woman found dead in Anaheim house after boyfriend calls 911, telling police he killed her

  27-06-2018 12:51 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — A woman was found dead inside a house Wednesday morning, after her boyfriend called police to tell them he thought he had killed her, police said.
  The man called 911 at around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 27.
  “The resident advised that his girlfriend was inside the residence,” said Anaheim police Sgt. Daron Wyatt. “He believed she was deceased and said that he was the one that had taken her life.”
  The home is in the 800 block of South Cardiff S
  
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• Trump warns Harley-Davidson: ‘We won’t forget’

  27-06-2018 12:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEN THOMAS | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump warned Harley-Davidson on Wednesday “we won’t forget” about the company’s decision to shift some motorcycle production overseas, and suggested that the Wisconsin-based company will lose out to its competitors.
  His comments extended his feud with Harley-Davidson into a third day, tweeting that the motorcycle manufacturer, which already has some production in foreign markets, “should stay 100 p
  
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• Can California’s public employee unions thwart U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus decision?

  27-06-2018 12:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Soft spoken and bespectacled, Diana Corral, a 36-year old Orange County social worker, hardly fits the stereotype of union boss.
  “I love my job because I love helping people,” she said of her work as an eligibility specialist who guides the poor, the disabled and the homeless in applying for food stamps, Medi-Cal heath insurance and cash assistance.
  But as president of Local 2076 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, with 1,450 members, Corral is one of
  
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• Wagoner on Radio: A legend of Orange County radio passes away

  27-06-2018 12:40 via ocregister.com
  
  You may not know the name Arnie McClatchey, but if you grew up in 1970s Orange County, you probably heard him … even if only indirectly.
  He was a personality at KWIZ/Santa Ana (1480 AM) in 1966; in 1967 became programmer at 1190 KEZY/Anaheim and was the man who changed it to a powerhouse top-40 station around 1968. In 1975, he left to program and later purchase KYMS/Santa Ana (now KALI, 106.3 FM), a station he switched to contemporary Christian music – among the first in the nation
  
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• Officer charged with homicide in fatal shooting of teen

  27-06-2018 10:16 via ocregister.com
  
  People start a protest march against the shooting death of Antwon Rose Jr. on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, in Pittsburgh. Rose was fatally shot by a police officer seconds after he fled a traffic stop June 19, in the suburb of East Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
  EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa. — A white police officer was charged Wednesday with criminal homicide in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager who fled a traffic stop and investigators say the officer gave inconsistent statements
  
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• Supreme Court deals big setback to labor unions

  27-06-2018 10:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can’t be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious financial blow to organized labor.
  The justices are scrapping a 41-year-old decision that had allowed states to require that public employees pay some fees to unions that represent them, even if the workers choose not to join.
  The 5-4 decision fulfills a longtime wish of
  
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• Where are the Southern California OB-GYNs? Los Angeles, Riverside on a nationwide list facing severe shortages by 2025

  27-06-2018 10:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A new national study released Wednesday June 27 is warning women about an OB-GYN shortage that could hit Southern California, particularly the Los Angeles and Riverside areas by 2025.
  The study by San Francisco-based Doximity, a professional-social network for medical professionals, is titled “2018 OB-GYN Workforce Study” and features a nationwide top-10 list of cities at risk of facing serious OB-GYN shortages.
  Los Angeles and Riverside are number two and number seven on that list.
  
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• Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: I did something on my vacation that scared me

  27-06-2018 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  One of my first precepts as I get older is, “Do things that scare me.” I give lectures on this topic, I write about it, and, once in awhile, I actually even follow my own advice.
  The reason you want to do things that scare you throughout your life you is very simple: If you don’t, you eventually turn into one of those doddering old folks who sits in a rocking chair and knits doilies or, if you’re a guy, tinkers in his shop all day doing absolutely nothing.
  And you also mi
  
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• DOJ says Congress must fix immigration after judge’s order

  27-06-2018 08:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANNE FLAHERTY | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday said a judge’s order to reunite families separated at the border “makes it even more imperative” that Congress pass legislation that would enable it “to simultaneously enforce the law and keep families together.”
  Otherwise, the administration says, “lawlessness at the border will continue.”
  The administration was responding to a federal judge’s order Tuesday
  
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• Travel ban ruling stirs dismay among immigrants, advocates

  27-06-2018 08:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By JEFF KAROUB and JULIE WATSON | Associated Press
  DETROIT — Maryam Bahramipanah is torn between staying with her husband, who came to Michigan from their native Iran, and returning home to see her mother, who suffered a stroke.
  With the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday to uphold President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries, she expects that she can’t do both.
  “I’m very sad,” said Bahramipanah, who cried when she
  
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• Anaheim hit-and-run leads to hours-long standoff on roof

  27-06-2018 08:02 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — A hit-and-run crash in Anaheim early Wednesday turned into a standoff when the driver climbed onto the roof of a nearby home and refused to come down for three hours.
  The suspect threw a rock through the window of his girlfriend’s home, then fled and was involved in a hit-and-run crash around 12:15 a.m. in the 1700 block of Castle Avenue, according to Sgt. M. John with the Anaheim Police Department.
  The man fled the crash scene and climbed onto the roof a home in the neighb
  
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• Taco Bell is bringing back Nacho Fries and the Sly Stallone movie ‘Demolition Man’

  27-06-2018 07:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Taco Bell is bringing back Nacho Fries on July 12 and taking them to San Diego Comic-Con the following week.
  The seasoned fries served with nacho dipping sauce is the most popular launch in Taco Bell’s history.
  It was only available on the value menu for a few weeks between late January and early April, but when Taco Bell  pulled it from the menu the Irvine-based company promised to bring it back in the summer.
  Along with the fries, Taco Bell is bringing back “Demolition Ma
  
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• Cal State Fullerton expert finds the Monkees were a steppin’ stone to cultural change

  27-06-2018 04:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Rosanne Welch, Cal State Fullerton lecturer in cinema and television arts, is the author of a book on the Monkees.
  Rosanne Welch is a lecturer in cinema and television arts at Cal State Fullerton. (Photo courtesy of Rosanne Welch)SoundThe gallery will resume inseconds“It was the critics who didn’t take their music seriously. But their music had legs,” saysRosanne Welch, a lecturer at Cal State Fullerton who has written a book on the 1960s band and its television show. (AP file
  
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