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• Southern California synagogues reconsider security measures after Pittsburgh shooting

  01-11-2018 23:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Most of Daniel Rosenberg’s family moved from Eastern Europe to Pittsburgh in the early part of the 20th Century as refugees, fleeing the pogroms when violent anti-Semitic street mobs mercilessly attacked Jewish families.
  “They thought Pittsburgh was paradise, that they were safe there,” said the music producer who grew up, attended synagogue and had his bar mitzvah in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, a well known Jewish enclave.
  But, on Saturday, Oct. 27, all he c
  
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• Knott’s Merry Farm is coming to welcome the holidays

  01-11-2018 22:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Over the next two weeks, visitors to Knott’s Berry Farm will notice that its seasons are changing. Holiday decorations are popping up in preparation of Knott’s Merry Farm. The winter event will warm the heart with a selection of shows, shopping and treats, plus snow and Santa, Nov. 16-Jan. 6.
  The popular show, “Merry Christmas, Snoopy!,” is back with vignettes of the beloved beagle and the Peanuts Gang getting ready for Santa’s arrival in between intricately choreog
  
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• Breeders’ Cup betting should keep two Brits in mind

  01-11-2018 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Pssst. Hey, over here.
  Looking for a little betting advice for Breeders’ Cup weekend today and Saturday?
  OK, this is just between the two of us, but … don’t sleep on a couple of Brits – trainer John Gosden and jockey Ryan Moore.
  OK, I’ll admit that Gosden’s Breeders’ Cup record is nothing special. He’s won only four races from 33 starters (12 percent), but trust me, the man can flat-out train.
  Still a little skeptical?
  Try this. He’s wo
  
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• Ducks penalties are down, but Carlyle wants aggression

  01-11-2018 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — The Ducks’ seasonal march to the penalty box has ended, but Coach Randy Carlyle wants them playing a more aggressive game. He says they’re too passive and too defensive, which helped to explain their six-game losing streak going into Thursday’s game against the New York Rangers.
  Carlyle wouldn’t mind seeing the team play with a harder edge than it did during the opening month of the season. There were some penalties he could live with, including
  
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• Anaheim trucks rolling to help with hurricane cleanup in Puerto Rican city

  01-11-2018 22:08 via ocregister.com
  
  This truck, one of three the city of Anaheim donated to the Puerto Rican city of Guaynabo, will help with post-hurricane cleanup. (Courtesy of city of Anaheim)
  After putting in their service with the city of Anaheim, two bucket trucks and a water-toting fire engine are heading to Puerto Rico to help a hurricane-battered coastal city recover.
  Anaheim officials donated the three trucks, which otherwise would have been sold at auction, to the city of Guaynabo on Puerto Rico’s northeast coast.
  
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• Game of the Week: Edison and San Juan Hills focused on Friday’s playoff game, not past result

  01-11-2018 22:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Sometimes it’s a good idea for football teams to suppress a detail or two for the sake of focus.
  That’s the approach No. 1 4 Edison and No. 15 San Juan Hills took in preparing for their clash Friday night in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs.
  For different reasons, neither side really wants to remember the results of their game on Sept. 9. Edison won 33-14 at San Juan Hills, also the site for Friday’s 7 p.m. kickoff.
  “It means nothing,” Edison secon
  
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• Dodgers start offseason with minor-league trade

  01-11-2018 22:04 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers traded Triple-A left-hander Manny Banuelos to the Chicago White Sox for Class-A infielder Justin Yurchak on Thursday.
  Yurchak, 22, was a 12th-round draft pick out of SUNY-Binghamton last year.  He hit .345 with a .968 OPS in 60 games at Rookie-level Great Falls last year with a five-hit game. Playing mostly first base and DH this year, he dropped to .245 with a .674 OPS in 95 games at Class-A Kannapolis.
  Briefly a big-leaguer with the Atlanta Braves in 2015,
  
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• #NoStrawNovember kicks off with a boost from aquariums nationwide, including Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific

  01-11-2018 21:33 via ocregister.com
  
  #NoStrawNovember, launched by a Monterey Girl Scout last year, continues to gain national momentum with Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific and 21 other aquariums across the country putting their shoulders behind the 2018 effort.
  The campaign calls for people to stop using plastic straws for the month, and to refuse them when they’re offered at eateries.
  Straws are among the plastic trash most commonly found during beach cleanups. Many more straws end up washing out t
  
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• UCLA WR Chase Cota returns to Oregon on familiar ground

  01-11-2018 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Of all the places Chase Cota will play this year, the freshman receiver could feel most at home in one of the nation’s most difficult venues to visit.
  Oregon’s Autzen Stadium is just north of the Willamette River and rises behind a tree-filled park. It’s known to trap crowd noise like few other stadiums in the country. It’s deafeningly loud. To the Medford, Ore., native and son of Oregon Hall of Famer Chad Cota, it’s practically home.
  “It&r
  
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• Rolling Hills estate with 5-story, indoor tennis court once priced at $53 million sells for $22.4 million

  01-11-2018 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The five-story, indoor tennis court at 1 Buggy Whip Drive in Rolling Hills can be transformed into a grand ballroom or car showroom. See more of the home in the slideshow. (Photo courtesy of Steve Brown/Sepia Productions)
  1 Buggy Whip Drive, Rolling Hills (Photo courtesy of Steve Brown/Sepia Productions)SoundThe gallery will resume inseconds1 Buggy Whip Drive, Rolling Hills (Photo courtesy of Steve Brown/Sepia Productions)
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• Real estate news: Chapman’s $130 million Keck Center completed

  01-11-2018 21:02 via ocregister.com
  
  C.W. Driver Cos. has wrapped up work on Chapman University’s Keck Center for Science and Engineering in Orange. The 149,697-square-foot education and research facility is the largest and most expensive project in the university’s history, according to the firm. The total cost of the center was $130 million, $87 million of which was completed by C.W. Driver.(Courtesy of Lawrence Anderson)
  C.W. Driver Cos. has wrapped up work on Chapman Universityâ€&#
  
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• Affordable jumbos: 40-year fixed rate, easy qualifying, interest-only for 10 years

  01-11-2018 20:25 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 fell by three basis points since the previous week, landing at 4.83 percent. The 15-year fixed averaged 4.23 percent, dropped six basis points from last week.
  The Mortgage Bankers Association reported a 2.5 percent decrease in loan application volume from the previous week.
  Bottom line: Assuming a borrower
  
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• Bo Butner leaving NHRA Pro Stock for family, business

  01-11-2018 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  As hard as it may be to believe, Bo Butner has been racing NHRA since only 2015. In that short period of time, the driver from Floyds Knobs in Indiana has been a solid contender and won a Pro Stock championship in 2018. However, he’ll bow out next weekend at the Auto Club Finals at Fairplex.
  Action starts Thursday morning. There will be two pro qualifying sessions Friday and Saturday and final eliminations will begin at 11 a.m. Sunday.
  Butner wants to focus his attention on his family
  
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• Drummond: Clean up continues of old gas station property on Lemon Drive

  01-11-2018 20:13 via ocregister.com
  A new contaminate source and residual hydrocarbon concentrations will increase the cost and lengthen the time required for remediation at the former gas station property between the Yorba Linda library and Imperial Highway at the Lemon Drive intersection.
  The library and the adjacent former gas station land is to be sold to In-N-Out once the library moves to a Lakeview Avenue location in 2020.
  Originally, the seven-year process to remove contaminates affecting groundwater under the city-owned pr
  
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• Orange County families deserve tax fairness

  01-11-2018 20:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: Rep. Mimi Walters has previously authored an op-ed defending the 2017 tax reform.
  Our nation’s economy works best when every American is on a level playing field: everyone plays by the same rules, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone shares in the prosperity. This starts with tax fairness and ensuring that the deck is not stacked against middle-class families.
  The Trump tax law punishes Californians and homeowners by limiting our families’ ability to dedu
  
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• This new tour in Long Beach will make you a cocktail expert

  01-11-2018 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  This three-hour guided tour isn’t going to end up with you marooned on a desert island, but you might end up with a nice buzz and some impressive knowledge of a vibrant Long Beach neighborhood.
  Beach City Food Tours, a Long Beach-based restaurant tour company, has just added a walking craft cocktail tour that mixes bar hopping with history and drink lessons in the East Village Arts District.
  The tours, which are $79 per person tour and run Friday nights, will take up to 12 people to four c
  
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• Angels Offseason Options: Kyle Gibson

  01-11-2018 20:01 via ocregister.com
  
  (This is the latest in a series of quick profiles on players who fit for the Angels to add over the winter. They are purely “informed speculation,” based on what we know about the Angels’ roster needs along with General Manager Billy Eppler’s preferences and history. We’ll have a new one every weekday, until the GM Meetings, which are the unofficial start of the hot stove season.)
  KYLE GIBSON, RHP, Minnesota Twins
  The basics: Gibson has been one of the mainstays of
  
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• DJ Diesel aka Shaquille O’Neal talks about playing his first L.A. DJ set in December

  01-11-2018 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Two Los Angeles legends are about to join forces for one big night of music. Music executive, concert producer and DJ Gary Richards, aka Destructo, and four-time NBA championship winner and former Lakers center, Shaquille O’Neal, aka DJ Diesel, are teaming up for Let’s Be Friends 2018 at the Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles on Saturday, Dec. 1.
  “L.A. will always be home to me,” O’Neal said via an email interview earlier this week, ahead of the tickets ($15-$40) going
  
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• Video of cop killer tweeted by Trump denounced by both parties as racist

  01-11-2018 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ZEKE MILLER
  WASHINGTON — The video shows a Latino man in court, smiling menacingly. And his words are clear: He’s killed cops and he’s “gonna kill more cops soon.”
  The man in the video, Luis Bracamontes, is an immigrant in the country illegally who was convicted this year of murdering two law enforcement officials. His image — complete with shaved head, long chin hair and accented English — is now the centerpiece of a video tweeted
  
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• Get flu shots and more at Aliso Viejo’s health fair on Saturday

  01-11-2018 18:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Aliso Viejo will hold its annual Health Fair & Flu Shot Clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3 at the Aliso Viejo Library. The event is open to residents from Aliso Viejo and beyond.
  This year’s expanded fair includes free flu shots while supplies are available along with health screenings. More than 30 vendors will be on hand with an array of resources, class information, senior programs, housing information and medical resources.
  Along with flu shots (for people 18 and old
  
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• Holiday fair in Mission Viejo will offer items handcrafted by local artists

  01-11-2018 18:13 via ocregister.com
  
  The Potocki Center for the Arts in Mission Viejo will celebrate its first-ever Holiday Artisan Faire and instructor showcase, from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4. Local artisans will showcase their unique handcrafted items that are perfect for holiday gifts. The Potocki Center for the Arts is at 27301 La Paz Road in Mission Viejo.
  IF YOU GO
  What: Holiday Artisan Faire
  When: Noon-4 p.m. Sun, Nov. 4
  Where: 27301 La Paz Road, Mission Viejo
  Cost: Free admission
  Information: 949-470-8470
  
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• Legoland California celebrates 20th anniversary with free admission for kids in 2019

  01-11-2018 18:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Legoland California will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2019 with five “birthday presents” for visitors, including free admission throughout the year to the Carlsbad park for kids 12 and under on their birthdays.
  The other Legoland “gifts” planned for 2019 include a new 4D movie, a new live show, a refurbished toddler area and an exclusive attraction tied to the new “Lego Movie.”
  Legoland kicked off the announcement of its year-long anniversary celebration
  
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• Uber driver allegedly threatens to kidnap several customers in Santa Monica

  01-11-2018 17:55 via ocregister.com
  
  The pursuit of an Uber driver who allegedly tried to kidnap several customers ended at Montana Avenue and Bundy Drive in the Brentwood area. (Google Maps)
  SANTA MONICA — An Uber driver remained jailed Thursday morning after allegedly threatening to kidnap several customers in Santa Monica.
  Police received a 911 call about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday from a woman in the area of 23rd Street and Santa Monica Boulevard stating an Uber driver was refusing to stop and let her out of the vehicle, accordi
  
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• UCLA football mailbag: What has to happen for the Bruins to become playoff contenders?

  01-11-2018 17:51 via ocregister.com
  
  In three weeks, UCLA went from one of the last winless FBS teams in the country to unexpected contenders in a crowded Pac-12 South race to the brink of its third straight losing season. It’s been a roller coaster season and there’s still a month left.
  Just one more loss in their last four games guarantees that the Bruins will be staying home for December, losing bowl eligibility and the accompanying 15 practices that could be beneficial for the young team. The tight rope walk starts
  
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• Master Gardener: What to do with dahlias in the winter

  01-11-2018 17:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: We’ve had great success with the giant dahlias we planted in the spring. The package instructions said it was necessary to lift the tubers and store them indoors for the winter. Is this correct for our climate?
  A: Giant dahlias, with their showy blossoms that can be 10 or more inches across, are attractive plants for the home garden. The flowers come in all colors, even bi-colors, and in many forms such as cactus, formal, informal, single and double. They grow from fleshy tubers that lo
  
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• Trump stumbles with latest ‘enemy of the people’ line

  01-11-2018 17:02 via ocregister.com
  
  President Trump is in full election mode. More than comfortable making the midterms a referendum on his own presidency, he is swinging away in public remarks against his now familiar foes.
  Trump has often proven highly effective at defining his targets in unflattering ways, much to their consternation. But his continued reference to the news media as the “enemy of the people” is different. It’s not just wrong, it’s bad politics.
  Election-year rhetoric is all about calcula
  
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• Pittsburgh synagogue suspect pleads not guilty; more funerals today

  01-11-2018 16:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARYCLAIRE DALE
  PITTSBURGH — The anti-Semitic truck driver accused of gunning down 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue pleaded not guilty on Thursday to federal charges that could put him on death row.
  Robert Bowers, 46, was arraigned one day after a grand jury issued a 44-count indictment that charges him with murder, hate crimes, obstructing the practice of religion and other crimes. It was his second brief appearance in a federal courtroom since the weekend massacre at Tree of Life s
  
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• HOA Homefront: Readers ask what if our annual meeting isn’t annual?

  01-11-2018 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: Our HOA hasn’t had an annual meeting in years. We receive notice the “annual meeting” will be held on a given date to “count ballots.” For the last two years, when we arrived, we were informed it wasn’t a meeting but only to count or collect votes for board members. We were invited to attend the board meetings that are held in someone’s home. I have always thought that HOAs were required by law to have an annual meeting. Is this incorrect? — E.Q
  
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• Yorba Linda almost finished replacing eagle statue at veterans memorial

  01-11-2018 16:22 via ocregister.com
  
  The city hopes to have a new eagle statue at Yorba Linda Veterans Memorial Park take flight by Veterans Day.
  An eucalyptus tree branch fell in the park in December, bending the statue and damaging a granite bench.
  The Yorba Linda City Council in August approved allocating more than $120,000 to repair the damage. Most of the money to replace the statue and the bench is coming from an insurance payout to the city.
  Gary Brattain, who built the original statue in 2009, is creating the replacement st
  
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• The ‘roomie’ effect: How Southern Californians are cutting their high rents

  01-11-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Local renters aren’t stupid. They’re downright crafty.
  When faced with few available units and sky-high rents many tenants co-opt each other, creating some of the nation’s most-crowded rentals.
  High-density living of all sorts — roommates, co-habitating and multi-generational arrangements —  significantly cuts the rent burden in Southern California. And while Californians debate housing politics at the ballot box Nov. 6, don’t forget: crammed rental
  
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• Gas tax is needed to meet key freeway projects, California emissions goals, bipartisan group says

  01-11-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A bipartisan group of elected officials gathered in Diamond Bar Wednesday to argue for continuation of gas tax and vehicle license fee hikes imposed by state lawmakers last year, saying the monies from SB 1 are earmarked for key freeway and light-rail extension projects that would be left undone without the extra dollars.
  If voters were to approve Proposition 6, a Nov. 6 ballot initiative that repeals the 12-cent per gallon tax on gasoline and 20-cent tax per gallon on diesel fuel, then completi
  
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• Senior Moments: Finding gratitude and comfort in letters from readers

  01-11-2018 15:53 via ocregister.com
  
  The ritual started almost immediately after we learned of my husband’s terminal cancer diagnosis. Each night, just before we went to sleep, we would tell each other what we were grateful for that day.
  Some days we had to dig deep, like when the surgery to remove his tumor failed or we learned the chemo that was making him sick did not help him get better. But we always found this one.
  “I am grateful for this day we had together.”
  I have continued the nightly gratitude sessions,
  
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• Man critically wounded in Fullerton shooting

  01-11-2018 15:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Fullerton police were investigating a shooting that happened early Thursday, Nov. 1 after a man was found wounded on the sidewalk.
  Officers saw the man with a gunshot wound near Pearl Drive and Cameo Lane shortly after getting a call reporting shots fired, according to the Fullerton Police Department.
  He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
  No arrests had been made in the shooting.
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• Design choices for your children’s rooms are no longer just kid stuff

  01-11-2018 15:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Once upon a time, kids’ rooms were mismatched afterthoughts in even well-designed homes. Then they morphed into overdone themed spaces; boys’ rooms sported race car beds or sports team wallpaper while girls could choose between ballet everything or horsey décor.
  The pendulum has swung again, this time stopping in the high-design but practical zone of rooms with personality that can easily change over time. Just ask Erica Bryen, principal designer of Erica Bryen Design, wh
  
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• Exclusive poll: Southern California voters eager, emotional and, in many cases, undecided about midterm election

  01-11-2018 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  More than 75 percent of registered voters in Southern California already have cast a mail-in ballot or plan to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 6, a level of enthusiasm that could translate into record turnout for the upcoming midterm.
  What’s more, clear majorities of voters who register as Republicans or Democrats describe themselves as “strongly” connected to their party, as opposed to somewhere in the middle. That could reflect an uptick in political passion in a state where for severa
  
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• This week’s best deals include free offers from Crepes Bonaparte, Gold’s Gym, Target and more

  01-11-2018 14:50 via ocregister.com
  
  November is upon us and so is the dash to the holidays. The focus of the deals this month is primarily on technology and electronics. On Black Friday you will find discounts on tablets, laptops, smartphones, activity trackers and gaming systems, plus televisions and home appliances. Some of these savings will continue on to Cyber Monday, which is also a great time to book your next vacation, as travel is usually a bargain on this day.
  FREE SCOOP
  Crepes Bonaparte will give you a free scoop of ice
  
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• How do you keep lawns green with restricted water use? Here’s what you said

  01-11-2018 14:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Two weeks ago I asked if anyone had succeeded in keeping a lawn green despite watering restrictions.
  Here are some of your responses:
  Jan Beyers, Moreno Valley: Where we live, it’s much drier than most anywhere in Los Angeles. For more than two decades we maintained a tall fescue lawn with never more than three days of watering per week. We had conventional spray sprinklers that ran only at night, at three intervals spaced 90 minutes apart. The lawn did fine till we took it out for the reb
  
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• Google employees walk out to protest treatment of women

  01-11-2018 14:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
  SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of Google engineers and other workers around the world walked off the job Thursday to protest the internet company’s lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct.
  It is the latest expression of a backlash against men’s exploitation of female subordinates in a business, entertainment and politics. In Silicon Valley, women also are becoming fed up with the male-dominated composition of the technology industry’s wor
  
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• Dapper Day brings 20,000 to Disneyland to ‘turn it all the way up’ with dashing fashions

  01-11-2018 14:33 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s that time of year again when parasols, bow ties, high heels and straw boater hats are more common at Disneyland than t-shirts, cargo shorts and flip flops.
  Dapper Day returns to Disneyland on Sunday with an influx of tens of thousands of visitors dressed in refined and elegant styles that recall an earlier era when people wore their Sunday best to attend the Anaheim theme park.
  After nearly a decade, the unofficial event has expanded to twice-a-year visits to Disneyland as well as Dap
  
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• Trump says border troops could hit 15,000, surprising Pentagon

  01-11-2018 13:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By ZEKE MILLER and ROBERT BURNS
  WASHINGTON  — President Donald Trump says the number of military troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexican border could reach 15,000 — roughly double the number the Pentagon said it currently plans for a mission whose dimensions are shifting daily.
  The Pentagon says “more than 7,000” troops were being sent to the southwest border to support the Customs and Border Protection agents. Officials said that number could reach a maximum of about 8,
  
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• Four chiropractors, 5th man charged in O.C. in alleged workers’ comp referral fraud

  01-11-2018 08:39 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — Four chiropractors and an alleged conspirator face multiple felony counts of insurance fraud for what the Orange County District Attorney’s Office alleged was a multi-million dollar workers’ compensation insurance referral scheme that exploited mostly Spanish-speaking communities.
  Charged Tuesday in Superior Court in Santa Ana were Fermin Alexander Iglesias, 38 of Glendale and chiropractors Bahar Danesh Gharib, 42, of Woodland Hills; Bryan Aun, 45, of Brea; Afsoun N
  
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• Police arrest man suspected of peeking through windows of Santa Ana home while naked

  01-11-2018 08:14 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A transient suspected of shedding his clothes and touching himself while peeking through windows at a Santa Ana home was arrested Wednesday, a day after police released surveillance video in hopes that someone would recognize the man.
  Daniel Posadas Renteria, 34, was booked on suspicion of attempted burglary, indecent exposure and peeping, said Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna.
  Daniel Posadas Renteria (Photo courtesy Santa Ana Police Department)
  A Santa Ana store owner wh
  
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• Fullerton man arrested on charges of illegally importing drugs, falsely marketing them as herbal supplements

  01-11-2018 08:02 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A Fullerton resident was arrested Wednesday on a federal grand jury indictment alleging he illegally imported and sold erectile dysfunction drugs that were falsely marketed as herbal supplements for men.
  Nam Hyun Lee, 60, who also goes by Daniel Lee, was taken into custody at his home, said Thom Mrozek of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
  Lee, a Southern Korean national suspected of being in the country illegally, is named in a 12-count indictment alleging conspiracy, three cou
  
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• Lakers survive scare, edge Mavericks on LeBron James free throw

  01-11-2018 06:28 via ocregister.com
  
  The Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma shoots during the first half of their game against the Mavericks on Wednesday night at Staples Center. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News)
  The Lakers’ JaVale McGee #7 shoots during their game against the Mavericks at the Staples Center in Los Angeles Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsDallas Mavericks’ DeAndre Jordan, right, blocks a shot from Los Angeles Lakers&rs
  
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• OCVarsity Football Student Section Top 25 Final Rankings: Villa Park’s Black Pack reigns in O.C.

  01-11-2018 06:15 via ocregister.com
  
  It is time to announce the OCVarsity Football Student Section Top 25 — and the new champion.
  This year we saw the powerhouse student sections do their thing, but also noticed a couple of student sections come from nowhere to become new powerhouses in the county.
  We saw crazy themes, incredible road warriors, attempts to use up all of the baby powder in the county and noise that shook neighborhoods on Friday nights. Myself and a few of my co-workers from OCVarsity were even spotted among th
  
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• Trump’s hateful rhetoric not making ‘America great’: Letters

  01-11-2018 05:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Regarding the suspect who mailed 13 pipe bombs to Democratic leaders, I ask why someone would be filled with so much hate against others that he wanted to kill them.
  The suspect was an acknowledged Trump supporter. He was living in a van with Trump signs plastered all over the outside. I think about Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again,” and realize that Trump’s rhetoric is doing just the opposite.
  Our leadership sets the tone for our nation. Our president must rise
  
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• Lakers’ LeBron James admires Mavericks rookie Luka Doncic

  01-11-2018 05:19 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Ask LeBron James about almost any young NBA player, and it becomes clear that he’s had his eye on him for a long time.
  In the case of Luka Doncic, the 19-year-old Slovenian rookie of the Dallas Mavericks, he employed additional eyes to help him scout. As Doncic was coming up in Europe and eventually becoming a Euroleague MVP for Real Madrid, James had people watching.
  “Two of my best friends from high school play overseas now,” he said Wednesday morning. &ld
  
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• USC hopes for better offensive line play after coaching staff changes

  01-11-2018 05:04 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Eight games have passed and the numbers have remained uninspiring for USC’s offensive line.
  The Trojans rank 116th in the nation in rushing offense, averaging 121 rushing yards per game, on pace to be their lowest since 2001.
  The shortcomings on the ground factored into the Trojans’ coaching staff changes earlier this week, including the firing of offensive line coach Neil Callaway.
  In place of Callaway, running backs coach Tim Drevno is also coaching the offensiv
  
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• Catalina Cruiser big favorite for Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile

  01-11-2018 04:29 via ocregister.com
  
  He’s been given lots of lofty labels, and he hasn’t even won a Grade I stakes yet.
  “The best horse nobody’s heard of.”
  “Next big thing.”
  “Land shark.”
  “He” is Catalina Cruiser, the 8-5 morning-line favorite in Saturday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Churchill Downs.
  The 4-year-old son of Union Rags has raced only four times and he’s won all four by a combined 20 1/2 lengths.
  But is he all hype, or the re
  
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• No. 1 Woodbridge upset in boys water polo playoffs by Riverside Poly in Division 2 thriller

  01-11-2018 04:03 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE – Riverside Poly’s boys water polo team wasn’t feeling overly confident Wednesday night but it had reasons to feel positive against top-seeded and host Woodbridge in the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs.
  The Bears lost just six days earlier to the Warriors at the same pool by one goal and didn’t have speedster Liam Davidson, who was sick.
  The eight-time section champion also had goalie Garret Griggs.
  The 6-foot-8 junior delivered a season-high 23 saves, including two cru
  
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