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• Horse racing: Mark Casse going for history by running filly Wonder Gadot in Travers

  23-08-2018 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Trainer Mark Casse is going for history Saturday at Saratoga.
  It’s been 39 years since anyone was brave enough to enter a filly in the Travers Stakes and try to beat the boys. Davona Dale was the betting favorite in 1979, but she finished fourth behind the winner, General Assembly.
  Only seven fillies have won the Travers, the most recent being Lady Rotha in 1915. That was 103 years ago when Babe Ruth was just beginning his legendary career.
  Casse has a big, strong filly this year in W
  
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• UCLA DB Kenny Churchwell tears ACL, out for season

  23-08-2018 23:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Freshman Kenny Churchwell has torn his ACL and will miss the rest of the season, the safety revealed on Twitter on Thursday night.August 17, the day to remember foreverI torn my ACL at practice playing for my dream school..this is gods plan and a blessingthere is no doubt I am not done I am a warrior, I will be back next year even stronger ..I CAN I WILLsurgery soon pic.twitter.com/rfk1tkw1Ij
  — KennyChurch23 (@BabyChurch23) August 24, 2018Churchwell had not been seen at practice since last
  
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• Slimmed-down Cameron Smith hopes to be faster for USC

  23-08-2018 22:33 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The last time Cameron Smith had stepped on a scale before he spoke with reporters Wednesday revealed one development.
  Smith reported he weighed 233 pounds.
  It is the least the USC linebacker said he has weighed since his sophomore year of high school in Granite Bay.
  Since January, Smith has shed 22 pounds, his effort to slim down tied to becoming a more mobile presence in the middle of the Trojans’ defense, able to cover more area of the field in the pass-happy Pac-12.
  
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• Orange County high school schedule: Friday, Aug. 24

  23-08-2018 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County high school sports schedule for Friday, Aug. 24.
  FOOTBALL
  Games 7 p.m. unless noted
  Mater Dei at Bishop Gorman, 6 p.m., Whittier at Fullerton, Orange at Garden Grove, Centennial vs. Orange Lutheran at Orange Coast College, 7:30 p.m., La Mirada at Capistrano Valley, Loara at Estancia, Mary Star vs. Whittier Christian at Whittier College, Huntington Beach at Western, Woodbridge at El Modena, Rancho Buena Vista at Irvine, Hoover at Laguna Beach, Foothill at Tustin, Beckman at Sant
  
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• Sparks eliminated from WNBA playoffs with lopsided loss to Mystics

  23-08-2018 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Sparks forward Candace Parker (3) dribbles against Washington Mystics forward LaToya Sanders (30) in the first half of a single elimination WNBA basketball playoff game, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
  Washington Mystics guard Ariel Atkins (7) passes the ball against Los Angeles Sparks forward Candace Parker (3) in the first half of a single elimination WNBA basketball playoff game, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)SoundThe gall
  
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• Photos: Future Olympics boxing champions in Perris

  23-08-2018 20:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Legendz Boxing Club’s Jonathan Trevino, 12, is taped and ready for the first bout of the day during the Future Olympics Champions atLake Perris Sports Pavilion in Perris on Saturday, August 18, 2018. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
  United Boxing Academy boxer Evan Nahuat, 9, left shadow boxes as does his sister Mia Nahuat, 5, minutes before his bout during the Future Olympics Champions atLake Perris Sports Pavilion in Perris on Saturday, August 18, 2018. (Photo by Terry
  
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• Helmet rule forcing Chargers RB Melvin Gordon to change old habits

  23-08-2018 20:39 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA — Melvin Gordon might hurdle into the end zone. He might cut to the edge and streak down the sideline. Or, he might simply lower his helmet and pads, battering down defenders for extra yards.
  That last method could become a problem for the Chargers running back.
  “He was the poster child of striking people with the crown of his helmet,” Coach Anthony Lynn said this week.
  Gordon is the Chargers’ backfield workhorse, a 6-foot-1, 215-pound runner who has 722 rush a
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday (8-23-18)

  23-08-2018 20:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Scores and stats from the Orange County games on Thursday, Aug. 23
  GIRLS GOLF
  Yorba Linda 206, El Modena 225
  Riverview Golf Course (par 34)
  Medalist: Yerkes (YL) 35
  Santa Margarita 194, Long Beach Wilson 225
  Coto de Caza (par 36)
  Medalist: Chang (SM) 36; Cook (SM) 37
  Note: SM is 2-0
  Troy 190, Walnut 221
  Hacienda Golf Club (par 36)
  Medalist: Dimayuga (Tro) 36 with 4 birdies
  Tesoro 208, Trabuco Hills 228
  Dove Canyon CC (par 36)
  Medalist: Borja (TH) 31. Neale (Tes) 36.
  BOYS WATER POLO
  Sonora 12, Ca
  
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• It’s a dream come true for Rams’ Todd Gurley, who will sit out another preseason game

  23-08-2018 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  THOUSAND OAKS — Offensive rookie of the year. Offensive player of the year. Two thousand yards from scrimmage. A new $60-million contract. Add another item to Todd Gurley’s list of NFL accomplishments.
  Preseason non-participant, 2018.
  “That is everyone’s dream, to not play in the preseason,” Gurley said with a grin after the Rams practiced at Cal Lutheran on Thursday.
  Wish granted. Gurley won’t appear in Saturday’s preseason game against Houston, Coach S
  
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• Fining the homeless doesn’t solve any problems

  23-08-2018 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  When your well runs dry, there’s no point in running the bucket down to the bottom. You’re plumb out of water.
  Likewise, in the ongoing legal dance between homeless people in Southern California and law enforcement arresting them on “quality-of-life” charges — living in their cars or on the sidewalk, and drinking while they do so, for instance — there is simply no point in maintaining the charade that the perps in question can pay the fines the legal system ke
  
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• Fishing tournament to benefit fire explorers across the country

  23-08-2018 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By Karen Robes Meeks
  Contributing writer
  About 100 people from Southern California will compete in a fishing tournament to benefit fire explorers across the country.
  Participants will depart from Boathouse on the Bay in Long Beach Sept. 7 for a day of fishing in Catalina as part of the Fifth Annual Kevin Woyjeck Fishing Tournament.
  The sold-out event supports the Kevin Woyjeck Explorers for Life Association, a nonprofit that honors Woyjeck, one of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots who died in 201
  
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• Whicker: At Crespi, finding a way to make football fit

  23-08-2018 19:34 via ocregister.com
  
  ENCINO — Football isn’t good or bad by nature. It just tends to outgrow its frame, if left unsupervised.
  Dameon Porter was an assistant coach when Crespi defeated Mater Dei and Servite in the 2007 CIF-SS Pac-5 Division playoffs and lost to Long Beach Poly in the final.
  “It was off the chain here, standing room only,” said Porter, now the head coach, sitting in his office Wednesday post-practice. “It would take you five minutes to get from the field back to here.&rdq
  
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• Irvine Unified School District opens its 40th campus, Cadence Park School

  23-08-2018 19:31 via ocregister.com
  
  For the students of Cadence Park School, the end of summer was still a reason to celebrate … they were heading to a brand new campus.
  The playground for kindergarten students is visible behind a wall on first day of school at the new Cadence Park School in Irvine on Thursday, August 23, 2018. The K-8 school is district’s 40th campus. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  The flag flies on first day of school at the new Cadence Park School in Irvine on Thursday, Augu
  
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• Proposition 8 would interfere with good medical care in California

  23-08-2018 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Suppose for a moment that your favorite relative — father, mother, aunt, uncle, brother or sister — were getting urgently needed cancer treatment and California’s government suddenly decreed the doctor could not include his assistant’s pay in any fees he charged. So he fires his assistant and then has less time to devote to caring for your loved one.
  Would that constitute interference with the doctor-patient relationship, an act no sane politician would ever want to be ac
  
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• Daxon: Code for the Future comes to Fanning School

  23-08-2018 18:44 via ocregister.com
  Brea students head back to classes on Aug. 27, and this school year is beginning with exciting new learning adventures at William M. Fanning Elementary School, 650 N. Apricot Ave., which is now a Computer Science Immersion Magnet School.
  What does that mean?
  Basically that the entire student body, from transitional kindergarten through sixth grade will be learning via a new computer coding program, Code to the Future.
  And as a magnet school, students from both within and outside the Brea Olinda
  
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• UCLA football mailbag: Sorting through training camp secrets

  23-08-2018 18:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Welcome to the first UCLA football mailbag of the season. Surprisingly, it’s quarterback-question free. Perhaps it’s an indicator of the amount of uncertainty around the program that with an open floor for questions, no one asked about what’s considered to be the most important position on the field.
  Instead, I had questions about the linebackers, defensive line, offensive line and running backs. And there was one question about if there would be Chick-Fil-A in the Rose Bowl th
  
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• Vandals can’t keep public art from annual Sawdust Festival

  23-08-2018 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  LAGUNA BEACH — It has become a tradition to welcome visitors to the Sawdust Art & Craft Festival with a large mural that changes each year.
  But this summer, festival visitors were welcomed for many weeks by a large white void. Vandals had destroyed a mural of goddesses by artists Charmaine Olivia and Alec deMarco that was supposed to set the tone for the annual celebration of art.
  Walter Viszolay works on a mural outside the Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach on Thursday, August 23, 2018
  
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• Fryer on football: Previews and predictions for Friday’s games

  23-08-2018 18:25 via ocregister.com
  
  GAME OF THE WEEK
  Preview: No. 5 Santa Margarita (1-0) vs. No. 4 Mission Viejo (1-0)
  Winner: Mission Viejo
  OTHER TOP GAMES
  Centennial (1-0)  vs. No. 2 Orange Lutheran (1-0)
  Where, when: Orange Coast College, Friday, 7:30 p.m.
  TV: Prime Ticket
  Analysis: Centennial of Corona beat Arizona’s Chandler, at the time nationally ranked, 35-13 last week. Huskies junior receiver Gary Bryant, who has offers from many top college programs, had nine receptions for 265 yards and three touchdown
  
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• Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait rescues boy from surf — while fully clothed

  23-08-2018 18:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Through the window of Tom Tait’s oceanfront condo in South Laguna came the crash of waves below, last week’s big swell pounding on the rocks offshore Totuava Beach.
  As he and his wife, Julie, got ready to go out for dinner, the pleasantly dramatic soundtrack suddenly turned less pleasant and more dramatic.
  “I hear this screaming,” recalled the Anaheim mayor, who keeps a weekend retreat in the Laguna Lido complex. “‘Help! Help!’ And, ‘Help him! Help
  
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• Santa Ana police shoot, wound suspect near Cypress Avenue and East First Street

  23-08-2018 18:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Police in Santa Ana shot and wounded a male suspect sometime before 3 p.m. Thursday, Aug 23.
  Authorities said details regarding his condition or the circumstances of the shooting were not immediately available.
  The shooting occurred near the intersection of Cypress Avenue and East First Street, according to Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. He said the suspect has been transferred to a local hospital.
  The intersection is near a car wash.
   
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• Will underestimating their bullpen needs cost the Dodgers a playoff berth?

  23-08-2018 18:05 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — It is the decision that might have doomed the Dodgers’ season.
  As the trade deadline approached a month ago, bullpen help was clearly the team’s greatest need. Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman and GM Farhan Zaidi have both acknowledged this. But the team chose to spend its resources – seven prospects, one big-league player and the limited space the Dodgers had left under the luxury-tax threshold – on offense, trading for infield
  
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• California justices limit lawsuits over job injury treatment

  23-08-2018 17:49 via ocregister.com
  
  The California Supreme Court on Thursday, Aug. 23 sided with employers in a fight over the right of workers to sue over treatment for injuries that occur on the job.
  Workers receiving medical care through the workers’ compensation insurance of their employer generally cannot sue a doctor who decides whether treatment is needed, the court said in a unanimous decision.
  The ruling came in the case of injured worker Kirk King, who says he suffered seizures after a doctor discontinued his anxie
  
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• UCLA football team fights through training camp fatigue

  23-08-2018 17:41 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — For the first moment in nearly three weeks of UCLA training camp, the defense stopped moving. Coordinator Jerry Azzinaro, shouting as loudly as his hoarse, gravelly voice would allow, lined the UCLA defense up on the sideline and made sure it would be the final time they stopped for the entire practice.
  On his whistle, the players ran back and forth across the field. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. The 60-year-old New York native was determined to mine the fin
  
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• Treasury acts to stop high-tax states from skirting $10K cap on deductions

  23-08-2018 17:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By Marcy Gordon and Geoff Mulvihill, The Associated Press
  The Trump administration has laid down rules aimed at preventing residents in high-tax states from avoiding a new cap on widely popular state and local tax deductions. The action over the new Republican tax law pits the government against high-tax, heavily Democratic states in an election-year showdown.
  The Treasury Department’s rules released Thursday target moves by states like New York, New Jersey and California — where res
  
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• Festival Pass: Unleash your inner ’90s child and LA gets a block party with good eats and EDM

  23-08-2018 16:44 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. 23
  311 will headline Jack’s 13th Show at FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine on Sunday, Oct. 14. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
  You’ve got to trust your instinct, and let go of regret:
  
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• Successful Aging: How to create a more age-friendly world

  23-08-2018 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Dear readers.
  I recently returned from Toronto where I attended and presented at a conference offered by the International Federation on Ageing.
  More than 77 countries were represented with about 1,500 attendees from around the world. The theme was “Towards a Decade of Healthy Ageing,” with the goal of engaging stakeholders in meeting the challenges of global aging as well as those in their own communities.
  Dr. John Beard, an Australian physician and director of the Department of Agi
  
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• Jessica Alba’s Honest Company makes a deal with SAG-AFTRA after union issues ‘do not work’ order

  23-08-2018 16:01 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The baby and beauty products company founded by actress Jessica Alba has become the newest signatory to SAG-AFTRA’s commercials contracts, the union announced Wednesday.
  “I am thrilled that The Honest Company has chosen to provide our members with the protection of a SAG-AFTRA contract,” union President Gabrielle Carteris said. “This partnership is the result of meaningful collaboration between SAG-AFTRA and Honest and helps sustain and build a flouris
  
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• Galaxy takes on LAFC trying to forget Seattle blowout

  23-08-2018 15:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Wounded is how the Galaxy entered CenturyLink Field on Saturday, with five starters unavailable for a meeting with the Seattle Sounders.
  Embarrassed is how the Galaxy left Seattle, thanks to a 5-0 shellacking at the hands of the Sounders.
  If there was ever a time to have a short memory, this is it as the Galaxy (10-9-7, 37 points) heads into Friday’s third and final meeting with LAFC (7:30 p.m.; ESPN).
  “We have no choice,” Galaxy defender and captain Ashley Cole said of fo
  
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• Phone carrier that improperly recorded Orange County jail calls did the same thing in Florida

  23-08-2018 15:51 via ocregister.com
  
  The  telephone carrier that improperly recorded 1,079 attorney-client calls from the Orange County jail made the same mistake twice before in Florida, according to court testimony Thursday.
  George McNitt, vice president of technical services for Global Tel Link, testified that calls between inmates and their attorneys were mistakenly recorded in Pinellas and Charlotte counties within the past two years.
  Attorney Joel Garson asked McNitt if GTL notified its other customers nationwide of the
  
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• Leaker of secret report on Russian hacking gets 5 years

  23-08-2018 15:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By MEG KINNARD
  The Associated Press
  AUGUSTA, Ga.  — A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to mailing a classified U.S. report to a news organization was sentenced to more than five years in prison Thursday as part of a deal with prosecutors, who called it the longest sentence ever imposed for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media.
  Reality Winner, 26, pleaded guilty in June to a single count of transmitting national security information. The former Air Force tra
  
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• Sales slowdown gives homebuyers more leverage

  23-08-2018 15:26 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 4.51 percent, down for a third straight week, falling 2 basis points from last week’s 4.53 percent. The 15-year fixed averaged 3.98 percent, three basis points better than last week’s 4.01 percent. It was the first time since early July that the 15-year average has been below 4 percent.
  
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• 12 theater productions to see in Southern California this week, Aug. 24-30

  23-08-2018 15:15 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES COUNTY
  ‘The Glass Menagerie’
  International City Theatre’s production of the Tennessee Williams 1944 classic.
  Where: The Beverly O’Neill Theater, 330 E. Seaside Way, Long Beach
  When: 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays; continues through Sept. 9
  Also: Post-show “talkback” with the cast, Sunday, Sept. 2
  Tickets: $47-$49
  Information: 562-495-4595; ictlongbeach.org‘The Little Mermaid’
  The age-old fairytale has been adapted from the 1
  
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• Video: Krys Barnes on UCLA’s game planning process for Cincinnati

  23-08-2018 14:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Linebacker Krys Barnes talks about how the Bruins are slowing dipping into game film prep for Cincinnati next week, how he’s helping get outside linebackers Bo Calvert and Leni Toailoa caught up on the inside linebacker position and why defensive coordinator Jerry Azzinaro had to punish the defense during practice Thursday.Related Articles Video: Christian Pabico says there’s no separation in UCLA QB battle yet Highlights from UCLA football training camp Day 17 UCLA grad transfer Jus
  
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• Video: Christian Pabico says there’s no separation in UCLA QB battle yet

  23-08-2018 14:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Receiver Christian Pabico talks about the status of the quarterback battle as the Bruins wind down training camp, what it’s like seeing Kazmeir Allen with the ball in his hand and how the team is handling the dog days of camp.Related Articles Video: Krys Barnes on UCLA’s game planning process for Cincinnati Highlights from UCLA football training camp Day 17 UCLA grad transfer Justin Murphy healthy and hungry Video: Justin Murphy on his transition from Texas Tech to UCLA Highlights fr
  
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• LA’s newest music festival is a block party in Chinatown called Secret Project

  23-08-2018 14:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles is turning up the volume on underground dance music with a new music-festival-meets-block-party in Chinatown in October.
  Secret Project, which arrives Oct. 13 and 14, is the first of its kind daytime event with two main stages followed by a range of soon-to-be-announced after-parties at venues throughout Downtown L.A.
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• ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ contestant Hannahlei Cabanilla gets a new partner

  23-08-2018 14:08 via ocregister.com
  
  When her partner, Cole Mills, was eliminated on the third live episode of the Fox reality series “So You Think You Can Dance,” Hannahlei Cabanilla stood at the foot of the stage, heartbroken, and cried.
  These were her first tears of the competition.
  “I feel like he kept me sane,” she said of Mills. “We were always on the same page, motivating each other. He’s the best partner ever.”
  With Mills now gone, Cabanilla — an 18-year-old dance from Anaheim
  
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• CEO exiting Association of California Cities – Orange County

  23-08-2018 14:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Heather Dion Stratman spent her last day Thursday, Aug. 23 as chief executive officer of the Association of California Cities – Orange County, an organization that offers a collaborative voice and advocacy on regional public policy issues.
  Stratman, who has guided the ACC-OC since February 2016, plans to return to her own regional policy consultant agency. She will be replaced temporarily by retiring Newport Beach City Manager Dave Kiff.
  Stratman also tackled the thorny issues of
  
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• Businesses join environmentalists to warn Trump’s oil drilling plan might hurt California tourism

  23-08-2018 14:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Seeking to expand opposition to new offshore oil drilling beyond those concerned about the environment, activists are increasingly emphasizing the economic blowback they say will result if the Trump administration succeeds in its plan to open up new leases in U.S. waters — including those running the length of the West Coast.
  The potential impact on local businesses and tourism was emphasized by most of the panelists at a Wednesday forum at the Newport Beach Civic Center, one of four town
  
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• Angels catcher Francisco Arcia living his dream after 12 years in the minors

  23-08-2018 13:49 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Sometime in the middle of what was his 11th season in the minor leagues, Francisco Arcia had reached his breaking point.
  A catcher toiling away in his third organization after more than a decade since coming from Venezuela, Arcia told his wife he was ready to quit.
  “They don’t see me how I want them to see me,” Arcia recalled telling her. “I should start looking for something else to do, because I don’t feel good right now.”
  His wife talked him
  
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• Del Mar racing consensus picks for Thursday, Aug. 23

  23-08-2018 13:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Consensus box of picks come from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Thursday Aug. 23 at Del Mar.
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  Related Articles Del Mar racing consensus picks for Wednesday, Aug. 22 Whicker: The fast and furious story of Unique Bella Jockey Drayden Van Dyke ties Del Mar record with seven wins in one day Speaking of respect, Accelerate run
  
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• Book sales to help Anaheim libraries

  23-08-2018 13:33 via ocregister.com
  The Central Library will be the site for a book sale on Sept. 1 to support the Anaheim Public Library’s collection and the special programs the staff create year round.
  Hosted by the Friends of the Anaheim Library, the sale hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
  The Central, Haskett and East Anaheim branches also regularly have used books for sale in their Friends Book Nooks.
  For more information on library activities at all of the Anaheim library branches, visit the website at Anaheim.net/
  
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• Surfer, 10, helps rescue struggling adult swimmer at Doheny State Beach

  23-08-2018 13:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Colton Nordella was enjoying the last surf session of his summer vacation, when a struggling swimmer approached with a request.
  “Can I rest on your surfboard?” said the out-of-breath swimmer.
  The 10-year-old surfer didn’t hesitate to help, allowing the man to climb up on his surfboard and use it as a flotation device.
  It’s a rescue at Doheny State Beach that has gotten the not-yet-teenager notoriety for his swift action.
  Colton’s mom Elaina, reached by phone, s
  
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• Review: Playa Mesa is the best new Mexican Restaurant to come along in years

  23-08-2018 13:03 via ocregister.com
  
  After four visits, I still haven’t sampled the tacos at Playa Mesa in Costa Mesa. I keep meaning to order tacos. I mean, seriously, how can I review a Mexican restaurant and not taste the tacos? I always see something else on the menu that sounds even more tempting. The menu is extensive.
  “Enchiladas Suizas or chicken tacos?” I ask my waiter at brunch.
  “That’s a tough one,” he says, stopping to truly ponder that choice. “It depends on my mood, but today
  
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• Plan to strip H-1B visa holders’ spouses of right to work hits final stage

  23-08-2018 12:56 via ocregister.com
  
  A policy change to strip spouses of H-1B visa holders of their right to work has entered its final review, with senior leaders in the Department of Homeland Security moving toward approval, according to a new court filing.
  The proposed rule change was set in motion by President Donald Trump’s “Buy American and Hire American” executive order, according to Homeland Security.
  Those affected hold the H-4 visa, a work permit for spouses and under-21 children of H-1B workers. It rema
  
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• Trump suggests outlawing prosecutors’ deals with defendants

  23-08-2018 11:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By ZEKE MILLER, CATHERINE LUCEY and JONATHAN LEMIRE
  The Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, incensed over a deal his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen cut with prosecutors, says it might be better if “flipping” were illegal because people “just make up lies.”
  Trump, in a television interview broadcast Thursday, tried to play down his relationship his longtime “fixer” who claims the president directed a hush-money scheme to buy th
  
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• Experience Jurassic Park – The Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood before it goes extinct

  23-08-2018 11:13 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s the final countdown to extinction for Universal Studios Hollywood’s Jurassic Park – The Ride. The water attraction is based on Steven Spielberg’s 1993 summer blockbuster, “Jurassic Park,” and features familiar scenes and giant animatronic dinosaurs straight out of the feature film, along with a wicked and wet 85-foot drop.
  Though Jurassic Park – The Ride has remained a popular attraction within the park since it opened on June 21, 1996, earlier
  
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• Mater Dei facing more adversity at Bishop Gorman after forfeit

  23-08-2018 11:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Mater Dei’s top-ranked football team hopes to find its identity somewhere in the Las Vegas heat Friday night against nationally-ranked Bishop Gorman of Nevada.
  The desert conditions and challenging opponent will provide the type of adversity that could unite the reigning national champion Monarchs and help them figure out what they can become this season.
  “This is more of a team challenge, see what this team is all about since we haven’t really been faced with any adversity,&rd
  
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• US, China impose new tariffs as talks resume

  23-08-2018 10:38 via ocregister.com
  
  The U.S. and China imposed fresh tariffs on each other’s goods in the middle of trade talks aimed at averting the worsening conflict between the world’s two biggest economies.
  Both nations started levying the previously announced taxes on $16 billion of imports from the other country shortly after noon Beijing time. China also said it would lodge a complaint about the new American tariffs to the World Trade Organization, according to a Chinese Ministry of Commerce statement on its we
  
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• Southern California’s late mortgage payments at pre-recession lows

  23-08-2018 10:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Housing’s foreclosure crisis is far in the rear-view mirror as the number of Southern Californians skipping the monthly house payment has dropped to pre-recession lows.
  CoreLogic reports 2.5 percent of mortgaged homes in Los Angeles and Orange counties were late in May vs. 2.8 percent a year earlier. That’s the lowest since May 2007.
  L.A.-O.C. late payments peaked at 13.2 percent of all loans in February 2010. L.A.-O.C. delinquencies averaged 2.8 percent from 2000 through 2007, then
  
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• Sears to close 46 more stores, including a Kmart in Los Angeles

  23-08-2018 10:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Sears Holdings Corp. continues to clean house, announcing plans to shutter an additional 46 unprofitable stores in November.
  The struggling chain informed workers at the impacted stores this week, and liquidation sales will begin as early as Aug. 30. The move is “part of our ongoing efforts to streamline Sears Holdings’ operations, strengthen our capital position and focus on our best stores,” Sears said on its website.
  The list of affected stores includes 13 Kmart stores and 3
  
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