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• How will college football’s new kickoff rule impact USC?

  09-08-2018 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — John Baxter didn’t waiver.
  “I don’t think anything changes in college football,” Baxter said.
  Like other coaches across the country USC’s special teams coordinator enters this season dealing with a new kickoff rule. It allows for returners to signal for a fair catch anywhere inside their 25-yard line, resulting in a touchback and allowing the team to take possession at the 25.
  The Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved the rule in April after NCA
  
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• Lake Forest man in custody after leading police on freeway chase

  09-08-2018 23:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Police arrested a Lake Forest man after he refused to pull over for a traffic stop and led officers on a high-speed chase that ended when he crashed into a residence in Santa Ana, officials said.
  Andrew Mora, 30, was on parole for narcotics violations when officers tried to stop him for a traffic violation near the corner of Newport Blvd. and Del Mar Ave. at 3:48 p.m. on Wednesday, August 8, officials said.
  He attempted to evade officers, initiating a chase.
  The suspect drove erratically, occasi
  
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• Dodgers ambush Rockies late to win battle of bullpen meltdowns

  09-08-2018 23:20 via ocregister.com
  
  The Dodgers’ Kike’ Hernandez cheers with teammates after Chris Taylor hit a go-ahead solo home run off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Wade Davis during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
  Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Tyler Anderson works against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsLos Angele
  
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• Rams QB Sean Mannion and other reserves struggle in preseason loss to Baltimore Ravens

  09-08-2018 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Rams quarterback Brandon Allen (8) fumbles in front of Baltimore Ravens linebackers Patrick Onwuasor, left, and Tim Williams in the second half of a preseason NFL football game, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
  Los Angeles Rams quarterback Sean Mannion walks on the field between plays in the first half of a preseason NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)SoundThe gallery will resume inse
  
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• Sparks lose to short-handed Dream in Atlanta

  09-08-2018 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  ATLANTA — Jessica Breland scored 19 points, Alex Bentley made a late go-ahead 3-pointer and the short-handed Atlanta Dream beat the Sparks 79-73 on Thursday night.
  It was Atlanta’s first victory without star Angel McCoughtry, who will miss the remainder of the season with torn ligaments in her left knee, the team announced just before tipoff. She was averaging 16.5 points, including a career-high 39 points at New York earlier this year.
  Bentley finished with 13 points and Elizab
  
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• Doctors discharge teen after reattaching arm severed in Laguna Beach accident

  09-08-2018 21:10 via ocregister.com
  
  A 15-year old boy whose arm was reattached after it was crushed by a boulder at Emerald Bay in Laguna Beach is going home after spending three weeks recovering at UCI Medical Center in Anaheim.
  Doctors discharged the patient on Thursday, Aug. 9 following seven hours of initial surgery, a total of seven operations and intense physical therapy. A collection of specialists reattached bone, blood vessels and nerves, coordinating to repair the boy’s right arm.
  An x-ray shows the damaged right a
  
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• Dodgers’ Dave Roberts wants hot-hitting Yasmani Grandal in lineup from both sides

  09-08-2018 20:53 via ocregister.com
  
  DENVER — Last season at about this point, Yasmani Grandal was losing playing time. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts turned more frequently to Austin Barnes at catcher down the stretch and in the playoffs.
  Not this year.
  Grandal has been the Dodgers’ hottest hitter since the start of July. In 29 games before Thursday, Grandal was batting .330 with a 1.170 OPS. Barnes, on the other hand, has been unable to shake a season-long slump and recapture the level of performance that made him a via
  
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• Holy fire smoke — and rain? — fill Southern California skies Thursday

  09-08-2018 20:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California has been having some off character humidity this summer, unlike the usually dry heat it gets around this time this year.
  It got so humid on Thursday evening that water started falling from the sky. Yes, it rained. And yes, of course, people freaked out.
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  But for good reason. With the Holy fire consuming thousands of acres of land in the Holy Jim and Tra
  
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• Rickie Fowler one shot off PGA Championship lead after first-round 65

  09-08-2018 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Gary Woodland walks to the 15th green during the first round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Bellerive Country Club, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
  Tiger Woods reacts to his second shot on the eighth hole during the first round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Bellerive Country Club, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsRickie Fowler reacts to missing a putt on fifth hole during t
  
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• Foot injury to Joey Bosa opens door for Chargers’ Isaac Rochell

  09-08-2018 20:06 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA — Chargers fans can exhale.
  Two days after Joey Bosa walked off the practice field with an injured left foot, the Pro Bowl defensive end looked perfectly healthy. He didn’t practice on Thursday, but he also paced along the sidelines at Jack Hammett Sports Complex without a significant limp. No protective boot, no visible brace or sleeve of any kind.
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• Backing charter schools as their growth rate slows in California

  09-08-2018 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Compared with the rest of our nation, California lives in a charter-school bubble, with fully 10 percent of our public-school students now attending such campuses.
  That’s about 630,000 students in our state, according to an analysis by Louis Freedberg, executive director of the website EdSource.
  Since charter schooling — overseen by independent boards and administrators, paid for in much the same manner as other public schools — was created here in 1992, that’s been our n
  
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• Pujols’ Strike Out Slavery movement grows, but it’s not done yet

  09-08-2018 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Deidre Pujols’ husband has hit 632 home runs, more than all but five players in baseball history, but she is the force of power in their mission to end what they term modern slavery.
  Their Strike Out Slavery effort debuted in 2017 at an Angels game where education and awareness about human trafficking were combined with a postgame concert by Nick Jonas. Angel Stadium will play host to its second Strike Out Slavery Day on Sept. 15 when the Angels play the Seattle Mariners, and Jonas again w
  
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• Kevin de León is aiming for an upset win for the ages in US Senate race

  09-08-2018 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein had almost $10 million on hand after winning a 44.2 percent plurality of the June primary election vote; state Sen. Kevin de León had far less than $1 million left over after finishing second with just over 12 percent, enough to get a spot in the November runoff election, but insufficient to scare anyone.
  Feinstein even won fellow Democrat de León’s own state Senate district in Los Angeles County by a comfortable 10 percent margin.
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• Pension costs will burden California school districts for years to come

  09-08-2018 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Despite beating investment return assumptions last year, rising contributions to the California State Teachers Retirement System will continue to put a strain on state and school district budgets for years to come.
  While it is good news that CalSTRS earned 8.96 percent on its money in the year ending June 30, such returns cannot be relied upon in the long term. And indeed, they are not being relied upon, with CalSTRS assuming 7 percent annual returns over time.
  In 2010, the CalSTRS board lowered
  
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• Coastal Commission votes to tear down illegal seawall, double recommended fine on Laguna Beach homeowners to $1 million

  09-08-2018 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Environmentalists are celebrating a precedent-setting vote Thursday by the California Coastal Commission to tear down a seawall protecting an oceanfront home in Laguna Beach.
  After the previous owner received retroactive approval for the previously unpermitted seawall, Jeffrey and Tracy Katz bought the home on Victoria Beach. They performed an extensive remodel, which was completed in January and increased the value of the home from $14 million to $25 million.
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• Broadcom tech billionaire Henry Nicholas arrested in Las Vegas on suspicion of drug trafficking

  09-08-2018 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Tech billionaire and crime victims advocate Henry T. Nicholas III has been arrested in Las Vegas on suspicion of drug trafficking.
  Nicholas, co-founder of  Irvine tech giant Broadcom, was arrested Tuesday, Aug.7 at the Wynn Encore hotel on the Las Vegas Strip on suspicion of trafficking heroin, cocaine, meth and ecstasy, Las Vegas police said.
  Police responded to the casino-resort following a report from security, which found contraband in a room, Police Officer Larry Hadfield said.
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• LAPD investigating alleged trauma, sexual assault of pit bull found in South Los Angeles area

  09-08-2018 18:38 via ocregister.com
  
  A  local rescue group is calling for an investigation into animal cruelty after coming to the aid of a dying female pit bull dumped in a South Los Angeles neighborhood.
  Members of Ghetto Rescue – a nonprofit animal rescue group based in Anaheim Hills – were alerted Monday evening, Aug. 6, by a resident in the 100 block of West 85th Street in Florence that a gray and white pit bull had been dumped from a small, dark-colored car by two men, according to a Facebook post.
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• Hundreds of young athletes compete in JCC Maccabi Games in and around Orange County

  09-08-2018 17:52 via ocregister.com
  
  More than 2,500 Jewish young people from around the United States and five other countries have been in a variety of sports and socialized during the week-long JCC Maccabi games in Orange County.
  The Olympic-style event, now in its 36th year, ends Friday, Aug. 10. It’s open to Jewish teens, some of whom grow up in tight-knit religious communities, Merage Jewish Community Center Assistant Executive Director Julie Holdaway said, adding, “This is kind of to open their eyes to a larger c
  
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• No. 2 Orange Lutheran has talent, togetherness to make this a memorable football season

  09-08-2018 17:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Wide receiver Kyle Ford, part of the Orange Lutheran football team which starts the 2018 season ranked No. 2 in Orange County, on their practice field in Orange on Friday, August 3, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Quarterback Ryan Hilinski, part of the Orange Lutheran football team which starts the 2018 season ranked No. 2 in Orange County, on their practice field in Orange on Friday, August 3, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gall
  
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• OC Fair 2018: ‘Damsels’ in distress? No, these women are the queens of demolition derby

  09-08-2018 17:34 via ocregister.com
  
  The demolition derby, long an entertainment staple of county fairs, is still going strong despite the increasing scarcity of the durable, hulking old tanks that populated U.S. roads and highways in decades past.
  At the OC Fair, six days of derby events – including a battle of motor homes and police versus firefighters – began Wednesday and continue on Friday, Aug. 10, with “Damsels of Destruction,” a contest featuring 16 women drivers. There are demolition event
  
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• Fiesta Music Festival returns to San Clemente with bands, art, exhibits and the popular Salsa Challenge

  09-08-2018 16:51 via ocregister.com
  
  There will be something for everybody at the San Clemente Fiesta Music Festival, which takes place 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 12 on the 100 & 200 blocks of Avenida Del Mar.
  Music takes top billing, with such bands as Turn the Page-Tribute to Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, The Trip, Tunnel Vision, Daniel Bonte & The Bona Fide, Pier Pressure IV, Merissa Macchiorola – COA Performer, The Arts Project of Orange County, Adam’s Attic, Dale Hight Band, Brother
  
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• Art of Dr. Seuss comes to Narrative Gallery in Laguna Beach for limited engagement

  09-08-2018 16:49 via ocregister.com
  
  What’s your favorite Dr. Seuss book? Chances are you’ll find it represented at The Art Dr. Seuss Collection – 20th Anniversary Celebration, opening Friday, Aug. 10 at Narrative Gallery in Laguna Beach.
  Visitors can explore and acquire works from Dr. Seuss’s best-known children’s books, as well as The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, a collection based on decades of artwork which Dr. Seuss created at night for his own personal pleasure.
  Each of these Esta
  
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• UCLA cornerbacks embrace new aggressive mindset

  09-08-2018 16:15 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Darnay Holmes didn’t imagine UCLA would be like this. When he decided to wear the blue and gold, he thought he was going to be playing for Jim Mora.
  It was “the worst nightmare you (could) have” seeing the former coaching staff get fired last year, the sophomore cornerback said. Less than a week into fall camp under the Chip Kelly regime, the nightmare has become an unexpected dream as Holmes and the rest of the secondary are embracing the new coaching staff
  
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  09-08-2018 16:01 via ocregister.com
  
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• Lake Forest to spend $7 million on renovations at 10 parks throughout the city

  09-08-2018 16:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Lake Forest is investing $7 million to renovate 10 city parks.
  Conceptual designs for improvements at Borrego Overlook Park, Pebble Creek Park, Cherry Park, Rancho Serrano Park, Darrin Park, Regency Park, Montbury Park, Sundowner Park, Peachwood Park and Vintage Park were recently approved by City Council members and final plans are now being developed by RJM Design Group – a landscape architecture firm based in San Juan Capistrano.
  A sign saying ‘Area Under Renovation’ is post
  
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• Whicker: USC LB Jordan Iosefa brings the passion of his islands

  09-08-2018 15:50 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Jordan Iosefa was like you and me. He was dumbfounded when Alabama coach Nick Saban audibled at halftime – at halftime of the College Football Playoff championship – to a freshman quarterback.
  Well, maybe not quite like you and me.
  Iosefa was wondering why Saban was waiting.
  “I’m thinking, ‘Put him in earlier, what are you doing?’’’ Iosefa said the other day after USC’s practice. “If they don’t p
  
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• Maturity, growth emerge from Del Mar Race Track tragedy

  09-08-2018 15:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Assael Espinoza already has shown what he can do on a race track since his career began in February at Santa Anita. After Saturday’s horrific spill in the 10th race at Del Mar, he’s shown he’s just as impressive off the track as well.
  Espinoza, the 18-year-old apprentice jockey who was aboard the horse that caused last weekend’s accident, resulting in injuries to two other riders and the death of a horse, has assumed full responsibility for the nightmarish incident and sh
  
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• 10 theater productions to see in Southern California this week, Aug. 10-16

  09-08-2018 15:14 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES COUNTY
  ‘Mamma Mia!’
  This frothy jukebox musical features a smorgasbord of classic ABBA hits.
  Where: Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, 1935 Manhattan Beach Blvd . Redondo Beach
  When: 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 12 (also Aug. 17-26 at Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts)
  Tickets: $25-$110
  Information: 714-589-2270; 3dtheatricals.com
  ‘The Women’
  The Group Rep presents a staged reading of the play by Cla
  
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• Festival Pass: Music and tacos are coming to Long Beach and Music Tastes Good lands a big name

  09-08-2018 15:09 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, Aug. 9
  Morrissey performs on the first of two sold-out nights at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Friday, November 10, 2017. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
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• Holy fire community meeting planned in Lake Elsinore Thursday night

  09-08-2018 15:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Fire officials battling the Holy fire are holding a community meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9, in Lake Elsinore to give an update.
  The public can ask questions during the meeting at Pins ‘n Pockets, a bowling and entertainment center, 32250 Mission Trail.
  Representatives from the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies helping battle the 9,614-acre blaze will give information about the fire, which remains at 5 percent containment.
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• Ex-NFL QB Erik Kramer, who survived 2015 gunshot suicide attempt, is suspected of assaulting wife in Agoura Hills

  09-08-2018 15:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Former NFL quarterback Erik Kramer, seen above following a 1998 game for the Chicago Bears, is slated to be arraigned Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, on a charge of misdemeanor battery for allegedly assaulting his wife in Agoura Hills in mid-June. He survived a suicide attempt in 2015 after he shot himself in the head in a Calabasas hotel room. (Photo by Tom Pidgeon/Getty Images)
  VAN NUYS — Former NFL quarterback Erik Kramer, who played for the Falcons, Lions, Bears and Chargers during a more than
  
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• First time ever: Standalone fixed-rate second mortgages allow 100% cash-out

  09-08-2018 14:45 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 4.59 percent, down 1 basis point from last week’s 4.60 percent. The 15-year fixed rate averaged 4.05 percent, 3 basis points better than last week’s 4.08 percent.
  The Mortgage Bankers Association reported a 3 percent decrease in loan application volume from the previous week. The refina
  
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• As Holy fire continues to burn, air quality degrades

  09-08-2018 14:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Smoke from a series of Southern California fires — the Holy fire in Orange and Riverside counties and the Cranston fire near Idyllwild — has led to poor air quality.
  As the ash continues to fall in portions of Riverside County, health officials there warn residents to “wait until conditions improve,” before starting to clean. Residents should not begin the clean-up while ash is still falling and the situation is unpredictable, according to a news release from Ri
  
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• How the Angels’ Kole Calhoun turned his season around

  09-08-2018 14:30 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — If it’s possible to have a “successful” injury, Kole Calhoun had one.
  In the seven weeks since Calhoun returned from a stint on the DL to recover from a strained oblique, he has engineered a remarkable turnaround to his season.
  By the numbers, he went from being one of baseball’s worst hitters to one of the best.
  He was hitting .145 with a .374 OPS when he hit the disabled list June 1. His OPS was the worst in the majors, with a minimum of 100 plate appear
  
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• Video: Darnay Holmes calls UCLA’s new coaching staff a ‘blessing in disguise’

  09-08-2018 14:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Defensive back Darnay Holmes talks about his reaction to getting a new coaching staff, how they’ve elevated the sophomore’s game and what Chip Kelly wants to bring to the team this year.Related Articles Video: Theo Howard expects freshman receivers to make early impact Highlights from UCLA football training camp Day 6 Video: Chip Kelly says UCLA football in ‘chaos’ so far in training camp Chip Kelly and UCLA hope to recreate Oregon-like rushing numbers Highlights from UCL
  
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• Panda Express brings Cheesecake Tea, its version of a popular Chinese drink, to Pasadena

  09-08-2018 14:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Cheese tea is taking the nation by storm, according to the Food Network. But in order to try it, people have to be able to find it.
  Panda Express Chinese Kitchen is making that task a little easier, at least for people who live within driving distance of Pasadena.
  Through Aug. 27, the fast casual chain is serving the sweet beverage, which it is calling Cheesecake Tea, at its Innovation Kitchen.
  “It’s really the space to test how far we can take innovation,” Christina Caceras, b
  
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• 17 ways to survive Disneyland on a hot day

  09-08-2018 14:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland can be brutal on a hot day, because all that pavement just bakes you, and the tall buildings keep out the breeze. But here are some tips that can make it enjoyable anyway:Be in the park for “rope drop.” This means arriving at the Mickey and Friends parking garage 90 minutes before the park opens. Yes, 6:30 a.m. on most summer days. I know, you’re rolling your eyes at me and thinking, “No freaking way,” but ponder this: You’re investing a ton of
  
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• Israel launches scores of airstrikes as Gaza fire persists

  09-08-2018 13:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By ILAN BEN ZION
  The Associated Press
  JERUSALEM — Israeli warplanes struck dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip and three people were reported killed there, while Palestinian militants from the territory fired scores of rockets into Israel in a fierce burst of violence overnight and into Thursday morning.
  The flare-up comes as Egypt is trying to broker a long-term cease-fire between the two sides. At least three Palestinians died — a pregnant woman, her 1-year-old daughter and a
  
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• Low End Theory says goodbye with guests including Tyler, the Creator and Tokimonsta

  09-08-2018 13:38 via ocregister.com
  
  After 12 years of beats in a venue in Lincoln Heights, the Low End Theory ended Wednesday, Aug. 8 with a final sold-out show  packed with special guests at the Airliner.
  The long-running residency was a launchpad for artists including Flying Lotus and Tokimonsta, the latter of whom was a special guest on Wednesday night.
  Related linksThese photos show you the history of the Low End Theory at the Airliner in Los AngelesResident DJs Daddy Kev, D-Styles and Nobody performed, as did Tyler, the
  
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• Holy fire suspect refuses to leave jail cell for first court appearance, faces 6 felonies

  09-08-2018 13:12 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA – Forrest Gordon Clark, accused of igniting the still-raging Holy fire, refused to leave his jail cell for his first court appearance on Thursday, so an Orange County Superior Court commissioner postponed the arraignment until Friday.
  Clark, 51, who owns a cabin in Holy Jim Canyon is accused of sending an email last week – “this place will burn down” – and then on Monday setting off the blaze that has so far burned more than 9,000 acres in Orange
  
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• Yemen rebels say Saudi coalition airstrike in north kills 50

  09-08-2018 13:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By AHMED AL-HAJ
  The Associated Press
  SANAA, Yemen – An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels hit a bus driving in a busy market in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing at least 50 people including children and wounding 77, Yemen’s rebel-run Al Masirah TV said citing rebel Health Ministry figures.
  The Saudi-led coalition, meanwhile, said it targeted the rebels, known as Houthis, who had fired a missile at the kingdom’s south on Wednesday, killing one person
  
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• Del Mar racing consensus picks for Thursday Aug. 9

  09-08-2018 13:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Consensus box of picks come from Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Thursday Aug. 9 at Del Mar.
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• Review: Dim sum breaks the mold at the Anaheim Packing District

  09-08-2018 13:02 via ocregister.com
  
  New restaurants at the Packing House in Anaheim have vastly outpaced the neighborhood’s capacity for parking. But if by chance you find a place to park, you can now enjoy some very good Chinese dim sum at this popular food complex.
  The new restaurant, 18 Folds, is not actually located inside the main food hall but rather in an adjacent free-standing building, a charming greenhouse-like structure with floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook Farmer’s Park, a small lawn that’s land
  
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• Highlights from UCLA football training camp Day 6

  09-08-2018 13:01 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA suited up in full pads for the second straight day Thursday, putting an emphasis on tackling during the open portion of practice. Here are notes and observations from UCLA’s sixth practice of training camp.
  Injury notes
  Colin Samuel returned to practice wearing a yellow, non-contact jersey. Chip Kelly said he was dealing with an ankle injury and is “day-to-day.”
  Marcus Moore was in a yellow jersey Thursday, his first day among the injured players this training camp. Other
  
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• Already? First wave of Orange County students heads back to the classroom

  09-08-2018 12:35 via ocregister.com
  
  The hot summer’s in full force, but in the next few weeks most districts in Orange County will kick off the 2018-19 school year.
  Among the earliest to start school was Anaheim’s Ben Franklin Elementary, where on Thursday, Aug. 9, parents streamed in from the neighborhood to drop students off for their first day.
  Principal Bernadette Grzechowiak receives a hug from a student on the first day of school at Ben Franklin Elementary School in Anaheim on Thursday, August 9, 2018. (Photo by
  
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• Football video: Camp Chronicles at Sunny Hills High

  09-08-2018 12:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Get an all-access look at the Sunny Hills football team as it gets ready for the upcoming season in the “Camp Chronicles” video series by Jonathan Khamis.
  See all of the Register’s 2018 high school football preview stories, lists and more
  In this episode, fourth-year head coach Pete Karavedas opens up about his program, which has been on the upswing in recent seasons, and discusses the similarities between the current teams and the championship-winning Lancers teams of th
  
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• Melania Trump’s parents are sworn in as U.S. citizens

  09-08-2018 12:11 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — First lady Melania Trump’s parents have been sworn in as U.S. citizens.
  A lawyer for Viktor and Amalija Knavs says the Slovenian couple took the citizenship oath on Thursday in New York City.
  They had been living in the U.S. as permanent residents.
  The Knavses raised Melania in the rural industrial town of Sevnica while Slovenia was under Communist rule.
  Viktor was a car dealer. Amalija worked in a textile factory.
  They came and went from the ceremony at a Manhattan federa
  
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• Video: Chip Kelly says UCLA football in ‘chaos’ so far in training camp

  09-08-2018 12:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Head coach Chip Kelly talks about why his team is still in a state of chaos heading into the sixth practice of training camp, who he has working at center and how the team must develop playable depth before the season starts.Related Articles Chip Kelly and UCLA hope to recreate Oregon-like rushing numbers Highlights from UCLA football training camp Day 5 Video: Nate Meadors on embracing UCLA’s new aggressive defensive mindset Video: Bolu Olorunfunmi discusses his off-season weight-room tra
  
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• These are Disneyland’s new Halloween popcorn buckets for 2018

  09-08-2018 11:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Calling all crazy popcorn bucket people — and you know who you are — Disneyland has just revealed its limited edition popcorn buckets for the Halloween season, and they’ll be on sale Sept. 7 through Oct. 31 only.
  The big story this year in the popcorn-bucket-collecting world is the one that will be available only at Disneyland. And another that’s returning.
  The new bucket is a plastic “magic” black cauldron that appears to be bubbling over with green goo, that
  
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• Southern California heat wave won’t end Thursday; minor coastal flooding possible

  09-08-2018 11:55 via ocregister.com
  
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  LOS ANGELES — An excessive heat warning is in force Thursday throughout Los Angeles County, where temperatures are forecast to reach triple-digit territory in several communities, but the heat wave is coming to an end, forecasters said.
  The warning is scheduled to be in force until 8 p.m. in the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains; the San Fernando, Santa Clarita, San Gabriel and Antelope Valleys; and the L.A. coastal zone, which consists of beach cities, metro
  
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