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• USC rests banged-up players for bye week practices

  02-10-2018 23:28 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — If Clay Helton could pick any spot on the schedule for USC’s bye week to land, it might be right now.
  “It’s a good time,” Helton said.
  The Trojans exited last Saturday’s 24-20 win at Arizona with a long list of banged-up players, including about a half-dozen starters.
  When they resumed practice Tuesday, many were held out in an effort for them to recover before the next game on Oct. 13 against Colorado. Outside linebacker Porter Gustin sat out wi
  
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• Man fatally injured in Lake Forest; two arrested on suspicion of homicide

  02-10-2018 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Authorities arrested two suspects on suspicion of homicide following a disturbance in Lake Forest on the morning of Monday, Oct. 1.
  A resident at the Forest Glen Apartment Community at 25092 Farthing St. called police at about 5:50 a.m. Monday after finding a seriously injured man who had collapsed in a courtyard, according to a news release from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
  It said a victim in his 20s was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was not immediately released
  
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• Lakers’ Josh Hart jumps into starting lineup after strong summer

  02-10-2018 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Before the start of almost every summer workout, Josh Hart took 15 minutes just to dribble.
  That’s the only way to improve your ballhandling: just keep doing it. Getting down the rhythm of a particular move can take long stretches of repetition, and dribbling isn’t the most enjoyable drill. But Hart kept at it – for four months.
  “When you get into the game, you don’t really think about it,” he said. “You kinda get more comfortable wit
  
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• Huntington Beach police arrest Irvine woman in slaying of mother, 92

  02-10-2018 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  HUNTINGTON BEACH — A 64-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her 92-year-old mother, authorities said Tuesday.
  Huntington Beach police say that on Sept. 4, officers responded to the 6800 block of Vista Del Sol Drive in Huntington Beach to perform a welfare check on 92-year-old resident Ruth Strange after a caller said Strange didn’t respond to attempts to pick her up for a doctor’s appointment.
  “Upon entry, officers discovered Ruth Strange deceased a
  
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• Alexander: Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf unfazed by team’s transition

  02-10-2018 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — A couple of weeks ago, SiriusXM’s NHL radio channel replayed Game 5 of the 2007 Stanley Cup Final, certainly an evening that Ducks fans remember fondly. The names still roll off the tongue: Scott and Rob Niedermayer, Chris Pronger, J.S. Giguere, Teemu Selanne, Sami Pahlsson, Travis Moen, etc.
  It’s been 11 seasons since Orange County’s first and, to date, only Stanley Cup champion was assembled. Ryan Getzlaf was a second-year NHL player then, scoring 25
  
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• USA Diving named in federal sex abuse suit

  02-10-2018 21:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Two divers have filed a federal class action law suit against USA Diving, former U.S. Olympic team coach John Wingfield and his Indiana diving academy alleging that Winfield and the academy ignored numerous sexual abuse complaints against coach Johel Ramirez Suarez, who later allegedly sexually assaulted them.
  The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Indiana also alleges at least one USA Diving employee knew that Suarez, a coach at Wingfield’s RipFest Diving, had sexually abused one of the
  
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• Orange County high school schedule: Wednesday, Oct. 3

  02-10-2018 20:39 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County high school sports schedule for Wednesday, Oct. 3.
  GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
  EMPIRE LEAGUE
  Pacifica at Tustin, Crean Lutheran at Cypress, Valencia at Kennedy
  SOUTH COAST LEAGUE
  Trabuco Hills at Aliso Niguel
  EXPRESS LEAGUE
  Avalon at Tarbut V’Torah
  NONLEAGUE
  Sage Hill at San Juan Hills
  BOYS WATER POLO
  WAVE LEAGUE
  Edison at Marina
  SURF LEAGUE
  Corona del Mar at Newport Harbor, Laguna Beach at Huntington Beach
  FREEWAY LEAGUE
  La Habra at Troy
   
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Tuesday (10-2-18)

  02-10-2018 20:33 via ocregister.com
  Scores and stats for the Orange County games on Tuesday, Oct. 2.
  GIRLS TENNIS
  TRINITY LEAGUE
  Santa Margarita 11, JSerra 7
  SOUTH COAST LEAGUE
  Dana Hills 10, Aliso Niguel 8
  ORANGE COAST LEAGUE
  Costa Mesa 16, Estancia 2
  SEA VIEW LEAGUE
  Trabuco Hills 14, Laguna Hills 4
  NORTH HILLS LEAGUE
  Brea 12, El Modena 6
  NONLEAGUE
  Tesoro 17, Mission Viejo 1
  GIRLS GOLF
  FREEWAY LEAGUE
  Troy 228, Buena Park 307
  La Mirada (par 36)
  Medalist: Gutierrez (Tro) 39.
  TRINITY LEAGUE
  Mater Dei 193, Rosary 231
  Willowick (par 3
  
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• Dodgers will start Hyun-Jin Ryu in NLDS opener, Clayton Kershaw in Game 2

  02-10-2018 20:29 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — For the first time since 2009, the Dodgers have qualified for the postseason but will not open with Clayton Kershaw on the mound.
  Kershaw has started Game 1 of the Dodgers’ first playoff series each of the past five seasons. But the team announced Tuesday that left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu will start Thursday in the first game of their best-of-five NLDS against the Atlanta Braves and Kershaw will start Game 2.
  The move keeps the two in the same order as the final series of t
  
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• Ex-LAUSD teacher pleads no contest in sex abuse case involving Canoga Park students

  02-10-2018 20:19 via ocregister.com
  
  A former teacher at a Los Angeles Unified elementary school in Canoga Park pleaded no contest Tuesday to two felony counts of lewd acts upon a child.
  As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, Rene Tenas, 39, is scheduled to be sentenced to five years in prison on Nov. 16 at the Van Nuys Courthouse, according to attorneys on both sides. Tenas must also register as a sex offender.
  Rene Tenas<br />Photo courtesy Juris Productions
  The two felony counts involve six children who were students at
  
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• Casino Night at Florence Sylvester rolls the dice for senior services

  02-10-2018 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  LAGUNA HILLS — The Florence Sylvester Memorial Senior Center held Casino Night on Saturday, Sept. 29. The annual event raises funds for the Meals On Wheels program and the many other resources the center provides. The evening featured games, refreshments and raffle prizes.
  Nicolet Araujo, Ingrid Papich and Nancy Bledsoe celebrate a winning Blackjack hand during Casino Night at the Florence Sylvester Memorial center on Saturday. More than 300 people attended the 19th anniversary of the fund
  
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• Laguna Woods modifies employee benefits, talks pesticides

  02-10-2018 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  LAGUNA WOODS — The City Council on Wednesday, Sept. 26, unanimously approved two resolutions that would modify the compensation schedule and employee benefits plan for city employees.
  Both a “prudent business practice” as well as federal-law compliance necessitated the changes, City Manager Chris Macon said. Other modifications were made for clarity as well as a general update to benefit offerings.
  “There will be some negative consequences to some employees, nobody is pre
  
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• Los Angeles Chargers, breast cancer survivors aim for stress-free zone

  02-10-2018 19:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Perhaps for a couple of hours on an overcast Tuesday morning, two dozen women were able to forget their cancer fight, as they smiled, laughed and connected through art … and football.
  Hoag Family Cancer Institute’s Creative Expressions class celebrated Breast Cancer Survivors month with a visit from athletes and members of the Los Angeles Chargers football team, including cornerback Casey Hayward, punter Drew Kaser and former Charger and Hall-of-Famer LaDainian T
  
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• Kids’ swim program to stay at pool 6, director announces bid for top job in Village

  02-10-2018 19:20 via ocregister.com
  
  LAGUNA WOODS — The Summer Kids Swim Program may find a permanent home at Pool 6 as the Golden Rain Foundation’s January call for a trial to relocate throughout the summer months met success and approval by the board upon first read in its regular meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 2.
  According to a staff report, more than 3,000 swimmers used Pool 6 from Memorial Day through the end of August — marking an increase of 2,000 swimmers over the same period in 2017. As a bonus, complaints and
  
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• As presidential wireless alert blares, Laguna Beach is first OC city with authority to send its own alert to cellphones

  02-10-2018 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  On Wednesday, Oct. 3, cell phones nationwide will buzz with an alert from the National Wireless Emergency Notification System – using a technology Laguna Beach officials already made sure they have access to when residents are in danger.
  This seaside town, which still remembers a devastating fire nearly 25 years ago that set ablaze 440 homes, became earlier this summer the first city in Orange County to get the authority to send out its own wireless emergency alerts.
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• GOP Super PAC drops sexual harassment TV ad against House candidate Gil Cisneros after accuser recants

  02-10-2018 19:05 via ocregister.com
  
  A woman who accused Democratic House candidate Gil Cisneros of sexual harassment earlier this year is rescinding her allegations, prompting a national conservative group to pull Southern California TV ads that highlighted the episode.
  Former Assembly candidate Melissa Fazli, who had accused Cisneros of sexually propositioning her at a February convention, wrote on Twitter Monday that after meeting with Cisneros this past weekend she determined the incident was a “huge misunderstanding.&rdq
  
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• Chargers cut punter/holder Drew Kaser, sign veteran to help kicking woes

  02-10-2018 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Confronted with the same questions about the Chargers’ ongoing kicking woes, following three missed kicks from Caleb Sturgis last Sunday, Coach Anthony Lynn suggested that he’d try a different approach to evaluating those issues this time around.
  “(It’s) not just the kicker,” Lynn said. “It’s the snapper, the holder. We’re looking at the whole entire process.”
  A day later, it was the holder who would be held responsible. Chargers punter Drew
  
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• How Wahoo’s Fish Taco got invited to host a dinner at the James Beard House in Manhattan

  02-10-2018 18:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Wahoo’s Fish Taco in the house! The James Beard House. Whut?! Isn’t that the fancy-dancy gourmet ivory tower in Manhattan where “Top Chef” contenders and Michelin-starred chefs cook multi-course dinners? Yes.
  But in this case the Beard House wants to be more inclusive and recognize fast casual restaurants by having them host events that showcase their style rather than focusing on a single chef tweezer plating caviar and foie gras dishes.
  Not many such restaurants have be
  
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• Pedestrian struck, killed while crossing street in Anaheim identified

  02-10-2018 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Authorities identified a man who died after he was struck by a vehicle while crossing a street in Anaheim on the evening of Monday, Oct. 1.
  Jose Huerta, 49, died on Lincoln Avenue, just west of Euclid Street following a collision that was reported at 7:33 p.m., according to a press release from the Orange County Coroner’s office. Huerta’s city of residence was not immediately reported.Traffic inv’s are investigating a fatal auto v pedestrian crash on Lincoln Ave west of Euclid
  
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• Mater Dei to play Marymount on Thursday in battle of highly-ranked girls volleyball teams

  02-10-2018 18:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Mater Dei’s girls volleyball team plays host to Marymount of Los Angeles on Thursday in a match between teams ranked in the top three in the CIF-Southern Section and in the top four in the state ratings.
  The match is at 5:45 p.m.
  Mater Dei lost to Marymount 2-0 in the championship match of the Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoenix on Sept. 22.
  Marymount (26-5) is No. 2 in the CIF-SS combined Division 1 and 2 rankings. Mater Dei (31-2) is No. 3 in the Division 1 and 2 poll produced by the
  
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• Can Clayton Kershaw, Kenley Jansen still carry the load for Dodgers this October?

  02-10-2018 17:40 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — They have been the load-bearing walls for what the Dodgers have tried to build each of the past five years and will try to do again this month.
  Over the past five falls, Clayton Kershaw and Kenley Jansen have combined to pitch 35.9 percent of the Dodgers’ 400 innings of postseason play. Over the past two years, nine of the team’s 26 postseason games were started by Kershaw and finished by Jansen. Last year, Jansen pitched in 13 of the Dodgers’ 15 postseason
  
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• Orange County boys athlete of the week: Cole Stark, Dana Hills

  02-10-2018 17:36 via ocregister.com
  
  The Register’s Orange County boys athlete of the week
  Name: Cole Stark
  School: Dana Hills
  Sport: Cross country
  Noteworthy: He ran a lifetime-best of 14 minutes, 51.9 seconds as the Dolphins won the McQuaid Invitational at Rochester, N.Y., this past weekend. Stark, a senior who transferred from Canyon, finshed fourth in the seeded race. Dana Hills coach Craig Dunn said Stark not only quickly fit in with his new teammates but also became a Dolphins leader. “He’s a great kid with
  
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• Edison, Los Alamitos hire volleyball coaches

  02-10-2018 17:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Two Sunset League schools announced the hiring of boys volleyball coaches.
  Edison’s new boys volleyball coach is Elias Perez who has been an assistant volleyball coach at Tesoro.
  Los Alamitos’ new volleyball coach is Katie Kelly who has coached at Diamond Bar. Kelly is Spanish teacher at Los Alamitos.
   
  
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• Clippers rookie Shai Gilgeous-Alexander focused on cardio

  02-10-2018 17:33 via ocregister.com
  
  PLAYA VISTA — Back and forth, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander shuffled between the foul line and the sideline, logging a day’s worth of defensive slides before practice began Tuesday at the Clippers training facility.
  The prized rookie guard hoped the extra conditioning – done, as Gilgeous-Alexander does most things on a basketball court, with a smile — would help him ditch the cement boots he’d found himself wearing in the second half of his pro debut Sunday.
  The No.
  
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• Meet the Kings: Here is their 2018-19 opening-night roster

  02-10-2018 17:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Opening-night rosters were due at 2 p.m. Tuesday, and here’s what the Kings look like:
  DEFENSEMEN
  Drew Doughty: A regular since age 19, Doughty, now 28, can play free and easy as he signed an eight-year contract extension over the summer.
  Jake Muzzin: He had a career-high 42 points a season ago and went from a minus-21 in 2016-17 to a plus-10 this past season.
  Alec Martinez: His points were down in 2017-18, going from a career-high 39 the previous season to just 25, but he improved from a
  
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• Kings: 5 games to watch on the 2018-19 schedule

  02-10-2018 17:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Here are five key games to watch during the Kings’ 2018 regular season. (See full schedule)
  Oct. 5: vs. San Jose
  The rival Sharks are one of the Western Conference teams that will vie with the Kings for a playoff spot.
  Nov. 6: vs. Anaheim
  This is the first game of the season against the freeway rivals. Enough said.
  Dec. 8: vs. Vegas
  This is the team that swept the Kings in the first round of the playoffs. Time for payback.
  Dec. 31: at Colorado
  New Year’s Eve games are always coo
  
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• Endangered baby yellow-legged frogs leave LA Zoo incubator for new home in Angeles National Forest

  02-10-2018 17:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Marlowe Robertson-Billet carefully scooped three-inch tadpoles from a fish tank into plastic bags, then quickly piped in pure oxygen from a steel tank.
  Along with a team of zookeepers and biologists working in a nondescript laboratory at the Los Angeles Zoo on Tuesday, Oct. 2, Robertson-Billet prepared about 150 baby southern mountain yellow-legged frogs for a six-hour journey to the eastern edge of Angeles National Forest near Wrightwood, where they were released into a wild creek for the first
  
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• Lazy Dog Restaurant adds a peanut butter and jelly burger to its fall menu

  02-10-2018 16:43 via ocregister.com
  
  A bacon burger topped with peanut butter and jelly is among the attention-getters on the fall menu at the Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar.
  The Huntington Beach chain rolled out the menu last week with several items featuring seasonal produce.
  Here are the highlights.
  PB & J Burger: A half-pound beef patty topped with candied bacon, Havarti cheese, peanut butter and grape jelly as well as lettuce, tomato, pickle and onion. $13.75 with choice of side.
  Lazy Dog has added a peanut butter and jelly
  
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• Beat LA! Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 100th birthday gala rocks!

  02-10-2018 16:42 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 100th season-opening celebration was a bash for the books.
  Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, it filled the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday with a potpourri of less than traditional musical offerings, spilled out onto Grand Avenue for a champagne-flowing block party that literally lit up the hall, and ended late into the night swaying to the sophisticated rhythms of Pink Martini!
  There was not a single note of Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Mahler or Mozart to
  
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• Whicker: Max Muncy has Dodgers and family digging the longball

  02-10-2018 16:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Lee Muncy is a geologist for TransAtlantic Petroleum, based in Addison, Texas. He’s into oil and gas exploration.
  The work periodically takes him to Turkey and Bulgaria. Early last week, he was in London.
  He didn’t think he needed more airports in his life, but his son Maxwell has taken care of that.
  Lee was in San Francisco last weekend when Max and the Dodgers swept that series and set up Monday’s 163rd game.
  As the champagne flowed in the clubhouse Monday, Max Muncy was aske
  
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• 4 California men, including 2 from Redondo Beach, arrested in connection with Charlottesville rally

  02-10-2018 14:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By Paul Duggan, The Washington Post
  Four California men – all alleged members of an organized hate group – were charged Tuesday with violating a federal rioting law during the violent 2017 white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., authorities said.
  The U.S. attorney’s office in Charlottesville described the suspects as members of a militant racist and anti-Semitic group called Rise Above Movement, based in California. The four were arrested by FBI agents in California ea
  
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• Poll: Half of young Americans see better financial future

  02-10-2018 14:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By Sarah Skimore Sell, The Associated Press
  About half of young Americans expect to be financially better off than their parents, according to a new poll, a sign that the dream of upward mobility is alive but somewhat tempered.
  The poll, by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV, found that half of 15- to 26-year-olds think they eventually will be better off than their parents in terms of household finances. About 29 percent expect to do as well as their parents, an
  
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• Upland’s ‘MurderCo’ escape room goes ‘Hardcore’ for Halloween in October

  02-10-2018 14:22 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’ve grown accustomed to the thrill of solving an escape room, “MurderCo: Hardcore” may get your heart going again.
  “Our mission from the initial launch of ‘MurderCo’ has been to create a highly produced, blood-pumping horror experience while maintaining a high fun factor,” said owner Jon Cooke, a former Knott’s Scary Farm designer. “’MurderCo: Hardcore’ is no different, however, after high demand, guests will no longer be vo
  
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• Gov. Brown rejects ethnic studies bill, saying high school students are overburdened

  02-10-2018 14:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Concerns about high school students being overwhelmed by homework, tests and graduation requirements led Gov. Jerry Brown to veto a bill allowing some schools districts to require ethnic studies classes.
  The legislation, AB 2772, would have set up a three-year pilot program allowing 11 school districts that would be picked from throughout California to require students to take a semester or year of ethnic studies in order to graduate. The bill was authored by Assembly members Jose Medina, D
  
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• El Dorado’s John Cyrus remembered as dedicated, principled tennis coach

  02-10-2018 13:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Steve Gullotti marveled as his longtime friend, John Cyrus, laid in a bed at the City of Hope in Duarte last spring for one of his transfusion treatments. With his body hooked up to tubes and a medical mask on his face, Cyrus picked up a small tablet device and started working.
  “Why don’t you relax,” Gullotti pleaded with the longtime El Dorado boys and girls tennis coach.
  “I’m fine,” Cyrus replied. “I have to get ready for practice.”
  That’s
  
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• Fed chair Powell calls economy ‘extraordinary’

  02-10-2018 13:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell welcomed recent increases in Americans’ wages while expressing confidence that low unemployment won’t spur a takeoff in prices that would force him to hike interest rates aggressively.
  “The rise in wages is broadly consistent with observed rates of price inflation and labor productivity growth and therefore does not point to an overheating labor market,” Powell said in a speech Tuesday in Boston. “Further, higher wage growth al
  
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• Wells Fargo’s reimbursement process not up to speed, regulator says

  02-10-2018 13:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Wells Fargo & Co. hasn’t yet satisfied one of the regulators responsible for deciding whether the bank is properly reimbursing customers who might have been harmed by recent scandals involving its auto-lending and mortgage businesses.
  “We are not comfortable where we are with them,” Joseph Otting, chief of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, told senators at a Tuesday hearing.
  In April, the third-largest U.S. bank was hit with a massive enforcement action that in
  
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• Presidential alert message coming to your cell phone Wednesday

  02-10-2018 13:36 via ocregister.com
  
  The same day weather from an offshore storm is expected to drop rain on Southern California, the U.S. government will send an emergency test message to cell phones around the nation.
  If all goes well, it will be just a test and not an actual warning of flash floods and mudslides. The test previously was scheduled for Sept. 26 but Florence, first a hurricane and subsequently a tropical storm, forced FEMA to push the alert to 11:18 a.m., Pacific time, Wednesday, Oct. 3.
  The Federal Emergency
  
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• Video: Michael Alves on UCLA’s improving rushing game

  02-10-2018 13:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Offensive lineman Michael Alves talks about the feeling of finally running the ball successfully, the challenge of facing Washington and how the offensive line looked with Boss Tagaloa at center.
  
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• Video: J.J. Molson on his career-long 50-yard field goal vs. Colorado

  02-10-2018 13:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Kicker J.J. Molson talks about what difficulties popped up when Chip Kelly called him on for a 50-yard field goal against Colorado, what’s gone into his stellar start to the year and how he feels he’s done on kickoffs.
  
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• Radio: Some good news for the oldies on KRTH 101.1 FM

  02-10-2018 11:07 via ocregister.com
  
  KRTH (101.1 FM) got some good news last Thursday (9/27) when the members of the National Association of Broadcasters got together for their annual Marconi Radio Awards dinner gala in Orlando. The celebration for broadcasting excellence singled out the station as the Classic Hits Station of the Year.
  Classic hits? Yes, as the term oldies has taken on a negative connotation in the radio world, even though the entire non-broadcast world still calls the music they play oldies. Purists, of course, sa
  
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• Here’s how your county and California did on the 2018 state test

  02-10-2018 11:00 via ocregister.com
  
  California students did slightly better in English and math on this year’s state test than they did last year, state education officials announced Tuesday morning, Oct. 2.
  In the state, 49.88 percent of students met or exceeded the English Language Arts/Literacy standards, a 1.32 percentage point increase from 2017, a news release states. In math, 38.65 percent of students met or exceeded standards, a 1.09 percentage point improvement from 2017.
  “We’re encouraged by what w
  
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• Heads up! Lakers get used to looking out for unexpected assists

  02-10-2018 11:00 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — It took only four seconds for the Lakers to lay out their vision.
  No sooner had JaVale McGee landed from the opening tip than he darted through a crowd of Denver Nuggets looking the wrong way. He was going for the hoop.
  Rajon Rondo hurled a pass from midcourt for an opening dunk, showing the potential that the Lakers have been talking about for the previous week: a team that can strike with speed at any moment.The 2018 Lakers season tips off with a Rondo to JaVale alley-oop.
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• Amazon ups minimum wage to $15, will advocate for higher pay nationwide

  02-10-2018 10:42 via ocregister.com
  
  BY Joseph Pisani and Michelle Chapman, The Associated Press
  Amazon, which has faced political and economic pressure to raise pay for thousands of employees, is boosting its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 per hour starting next month and said it will push for an increase in the federally mandated minimum wage, which now stands at $7.25 per hour.
  “We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s
  
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• O.C. ‘Real Housewife’ Tamra Judge sells her house for $1.75 million

  02-10-2018 10:40 via ocregister.com
  
  The master suite, with a sitting area and opening to a terrace, is one of five bedrooms in the home. (Photos by Antis Photography)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsShow Caption of Expand
  That was quick.
  “Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member Tamra Judge sold the Ladera Ranch house she bought in December 2017 for $1.75 million.
  The 3,930-square-foot home in the guard-gated Covenant Hills community went on the market at $1.799 million on Sept. 11 and hit escrow a week later
  
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• Rock ‘n’ roll meets ska at Sammy Hagar’s High Tide Beach Party, Oct. 6 in Huntington Beach

  02-10-2018 10:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Sammy Hagar’s High Tide Beach Party & Car Show brings together everything that makes him happy.
  “This is really what I love. I love to eat tacos, drink tequila, jump on stage, play music, walk on the beach, jump in the water. I’m a beach nut. That was my lifestyle. I thought I found it, it’s all good. I don’t know what took me so long to figure out I could share this with the rest of the world.”
  It takes place Saturday, Oct. 6, at Huntington State Beach wi
  
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• Orange County median home price at $727,000: 5 reasons it got there in August

  02-10-2018 10:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County home prices rose as sales counts dropped in August vs. a year earlier.
  That’s according to the latest homebuying report from CoreLogic. Here are five trends you should know about the local market, data for the month compared to 12 months earlier and how those results looked vs. the six-county Southern California region …
  1. All residences: $727,000 median, up 5.98 percent. SoCal? $535,000 median, up 7 percent. O.C. sales were 3,325 — off 10.93 percent. SoCal? 22,
  
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• Free tacos! 7 restaurants where you can get one on National Taco Day

  02-10-2018 09:56 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s always great to get something for free, and even better if that free thing is a taco. Many eateries are celebrating National Taco Day Thursday, Oct. 4, with various deals and here are seven that include a free taco.
  Acapulco
  Where: Throughout Southern California.
  Deal: Say “taco” to your server and receive a free crispy or soft beef machaca, chicken machaca or picadillo beef taco. Limit one per guest.
  Information: www.acapulcorestaurants.com.
  You can get a free taco at El
  
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• LAPD makes arrests in celebrity burglaries

  02-10-2018 09:35 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Detectives are expected to share details Tuesday about the arrests they’ve made in connection with recent burglaries at the homes of Los Angeles celebrities.
  Capt. Lillian Carranza, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Commercial Crimes Division, and detectives from that unit will detail the arrests at a news conference at 3 p.m. at LAPD headquarters, police said.
  Just last week, a burglary was reported at the home of Los Angeles Rams wide rec
  
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• When will Disneyland build another theme park in Anaheim?

  02-10-2018 08:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Will Disneyland ever expand to add a third theme park to the resort?
  Fans have been speculating about a third gate at Disneyland ever since it expanded to add its second gate, Disney California Adventure, in 2001. With sibling Walt Disney World in Florida offering four theme parks, many fans on the West Coast want to see Disney’s original theme park resort catch up.
  But fans can’t wish theme parks into existence like Aladdin with the Genie’s lamp. Walt Disney built Disneyland i
  
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