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• LaMelo Ball returns to states, will attend high school in Ohio

  06-11-2018 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  After a European jaunt, the Ball family is coming home — in a manner of speaking.
  Both LaVar Ball and LaMelo Ball announced Tuesday via Twitter that LaMelo, the youngest of the basketball-playing Ball brothers, will go back to high school for his senior year. That high school, however, is Spire Prep Academy in Geneva, Ohio.I’ve decided to return to highschool and complete my senior year. I thank my dad for the JBA Experience and playing overseas. I’ve been accepted to attend Sp
  
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• Arnold Miller, noted Cal State Fullerton benefactor, dies at 90

  06-11-2018 23:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Arnold Miller, an honorary Cal State Fullerton alumnus and longtime university supporter in the field of gerontology, died Oct. 19. He was 90.
  The former president of Technology Strategy Group and corporate vice president of electronics operations for Xerox was instrumental in the invention of Xeroradiography, (X-rays that detect breast cancer, also referred to as Xeromammography). He had particular interests in science, continuing education and gerontology.
  He and his wife, Beverly S. Miller, s
  
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• More than 1,000 Marines at Camp Pendleton ordered to the border as migrant caravan advances

  06-11-2018 23:22 via ocregister.com
  
  CAMP PENDLETON — About 1,100 Marines in the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force will go to the U.S.-Mexico border this week in support of troops as a caravan of Central American migrants advances.
  The Marines will assist the Department of Homeland Security as part of Operation Faithful Patriot, said 2nd Lt. Fredrick Walker of the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force 7. The Marines will provide engineering support at the border, including building temporary barriers, barricades and
  
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• In hunt for HQ2, Amazon gets huge data grab from 238 cities, counties

  06-11-2018 23:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Amazon.com’s 14-month search for a second headquarters is coming to an anti-climatic conclusion: The company is said to be picking at least two, smaller locations, and will likely use data from the hundreds of cities that applied to plan a longer-term, more incremental expansion.
  Over the course of its much-hyped selection process, Amazon gathered information from 238 municipalities wooed into the running for the e-commerce giant’s next campus, which came with promises for 50,000 new
  
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• V.P. Peter Vagenas let go by Galaxy as club starts reconfiguration of front office

  06-11-2018 22:38 via ocregister.com
  
  CARSON >> The Galaxy announced Tuesday that Vice President of Soccer Operations Peter Vagenas had been relieved of his duties.
  Vagenas held numerous roles with the Galaxy since joining the front office, including General Manager and Director of LA Galaxy Academy. He was promoted to GM and Vice President of Soccer Operation prior to the start of the 2017 season.
  “He’s done a lot for this club, both as a player and in our front office,” club President Chris Klein said. &ldq
  
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• Bangladeshi immigrant convicted in New York City subway bombing

  06-11-2018 22:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By LARRY NEUMEISTER
  NEW YORK — A Bangladeshi immigrant convicted Tuesday of terrorism charges after setting off a pipe bomb in New York City’s busiest subway station at rush hour told the trial judge he was angry at President Donald Trump and didn’t carry out the attack for the Islamic State group.
  The verdict against Akayed Ullah was returned in Manhattan federal court after a trial in which the defense maintained that he intended to kill only himself last Dec. 11. Nobody died
  
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• UCLA’s Adarius Pickett keeps energy high despite punt miscues

  06-11-2018 22:23 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Adarius Pickett can’t quite explain it and definitely can’t change it. The best thing the redshirt senior can do after muffing two punts in as many weeks is move on.
  “Sometimes things don’t go how we would want them to go, but I feel like it was just a test,” Pickett said. “My team needed me to step up on defense.”
  After botching a punt against Oregon last week, Pickett tried to offset the miscue with a team-high 11 tackles, his fifth
  
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• Zlatan Ibrahimovic admits to interest from Europe, but confident Galaxy will meet his wishes for 2019

  06-11-2018 22:08 via ocregister.com
  
  CARSON >> Welcome to another off-season of uncertainty for the Galaxy.
  For the second consecutive season, the Galaxy missed out on the MLS Playoffs, finishing in seventh place in the Western Conference, despite fielding a team that scored 66 goals and went through a coaching change, promoting Dominic Kinnear after removing Sigi Schmid with six games remaining in the season.
  During the 2017 season, Schmid replaced Curt Onalfo in July.
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• 2018 Election Results: View vote totals for Southern California’s local, state races

  06-11-2018 22:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Find the results to all the election races that matter to you.
  Tuesday, Nov. 6 is the midterm election. Across Southern California there are school board, city councils, county supervisors, sheriffs and more seeking elected office while various state offices, like Governor, will be decided. Not to mention races for Congress that could swing the House.
  We have all the results for your local and state races here.
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• Election 2018: Can I wear my hat to vote? Here are do’s and don’ts at polling places

  06-11-2018 22:03 via ocregister.com
  
  At City Hall in Orange on Election Day, a woman waiting in line to vote was asked by a poll worker to remove her plain pink hat, reminiscent — though not identical — to those worn during the Women’s March in January 2017.
  The woman, who also was wearing a “Nasty Woman” T-shirt, removed the hat, albeit reluctantly.
  While the poll worker has some discretion to remove electioneering information at the polling station, his request to have a plain hat removed was off the
  
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• Murder charge filed against DUI suspect whose van struck and killed a Costa Mesa fire captain on his bike

  06-11-2018 21:56 via ocregister.com
  
  A Mission Viejo man suspected of DUI was charged with murder Tuesday, three days after his van struck and killed an off-duty Costa Mesa fire captain out for a morning bike ride.
  Prosecutors accused Stephen Taylor Scarpa, 25, of driving under the influence of a controlled substance early Saturday when his van collided with Mike Kreza, 44, who was cycling along Alicia Parkway in Mission Viejo. Scarpa allegedly drove “into the bike lane, onto the sidewalk” before striking Kreza&rsq
  
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• App developer takes new direction after advice from CSUF’s Startup Incubator

  06-11-2018 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  John Barton has learned firsthand that successful entrepreneurs sometimes have to abandon the plans they worked so hard to develop in order to move ahead.
  Earlier this year, with the help of the Cal State Fullerton Startup Incubator, Barton launched the Point ‘N Save app, which gave students discounts at about a dozen local businesses. The idea came out of his desire to give something back to students who are struggling financially, he said.
  But over the summer, Barton’s mentors
  
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• Next up for Rams: A rematch with the up and down Seattle Seahawks

  06-11-2018 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  There are no half measures this season with the Seattle Seahawks. They have a 4-4 record, with three double-digit victories, while the four losses have come by a total of 23 points.
  Seattle seemed to have gotten back on track in October. Their two-point home loss to the Rams was sandwiched between four victories, and the Seahawks found an identity with a strong run game.
  Then, last week, multiple breakdowns doomed the Seahawks in a loss to the Chargers. Now, it’s rematch time against the R
  
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• This singer’s elimination from ‘The Voice’ has inspired an upcoming song

  06-11-2018 21:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Delaney Silvernell was disappointed at first.
  After earning a spot on Season 15 of NBC’s “The Voice,” a show she’s watched for as long as she can remember, Silvernell – a former wrestler and graduate from the Berklee College of Music – was eliminated Monday, Nov. 5 following her performance of Kesha’s “Praying” during the knockout rounds taped back in August. But she’s “good” now.
  “I’ve spent the past few m
  
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• Whicker: The coaching circle of life leads Lorenzo Romar back to Pepperdine

  06-11-2018 20:40 via ocregister.com
  
  MALIBU — Has the ocean become bluer since 1999? Lorenzo Romar is the only coach in position to know.
  On a late October morning, he was sitting outside Pepperdine’s Firestone Fieldhouse, looking down at the best picture window in Division I basketball.
  Romar would like all potential recruits, especially from the occluded East, to re-read those words: “Late October” and “outside.”
  “That was my one thing about getting back in,” Romar said. “It h
  
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• So far, Clippers’ bench strength is second to none

  06-11-2018 20:22 via ocregister.com
  
  When the benches to clear Thursday night in Portland, it won’t be — hopefully — due to any on-court fracas, but because both teams really rely on their reserves.
  The Trail Blazers (7-3) are getting a substantial 41.5 points per game from their bench, second-most in the NBA.
  The only bench that was outscoring Portland’s as of Monday night? The Clippers’.
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• Voters report missing names at some O.C. polling places

  06-11-2018 20:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Several registered voters were surprised Tuesday morning to find their names were not on voting lists at their designated polling places.
  There were isolated reports in Irvine and Placentia of voters being unable to find their names on the rolls and being given provisional ballots.
  “I don’t know if it’s incompetence or what,” said Dan Chiappe of Irvine. He was voting at the Westpark Elementary School polling place where he has voted for the last seven years.I have a probl
  
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• Theater review: ‘Members Only’ aims for the soul, hits the eyes

  06-11-2018 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  It takes a few minutes to become accustomed to the hollow, echoey sound of the actors’ voices in the world premiere of Oliver Mayer’s “Members Only.” By the time our ears adjust, the backstory, from Mayer’s 1994 play “Blade to the Heat,” has been rapidly recounted.
  That should matter only slightly, because the focus here is on observing how badly we treat our fellow beings. And we can readily tell from the remaining dialogue, and from the action vividly
  
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• Election 2018: Voters face long lines, machine snafus, ‘mosh pit’ crowds

  06-11-2018 20:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL BALSAMO | Associated Press
  ATLANTA — Long lines and malfunctioning machines marred the early hours of voting in some precincts across the country Tuesday. Some of the biggest problems were in Georgia, a state with a hotly contested gubernatorial election, where some voters reported waiting up to three hours to vote.
  At a polling place in Snellville, Georgia, more than 100 people took turns sitting in children’s chairs and on the
  
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• Send food, not troops to the border

  06-11-2018 19:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Instead of deploying troops to Mexico’s border to meet the caravan of migrants from Central America, we should send food. Those fleeing Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador (The Northern Triangle) are coming here to escape hunger, violence and poverty. Let’s help them.
  President Trump ordering troops to the border to meet the caravan makes it sound like they are an invading force.
  “The migrant caravan includes hundreds of vulnerable children,” Carolyn Mile
  
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• Election 2018: Vote pits Trump’s incendiary politics vs. Democratic resistance

  06-11-2018 19:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEVE PEOPLES | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — A turbulent election season that tested President Donald Trump’s slash-and-burn political style against the strength of the Democratic resistance comes to a close as Americans cast ballots in the first national election of the Trump era.
  With voters going to the polls Tuesday, nothing is certain. Weather could affect turnout, with residents of several states in the Deep South and Mid-Atlantic contending with thunderstorms, high wi
  
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• The 2018 election could change the makeup of Fullerton City Council

  06-11-2018 19:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Fullerton has 3,300 more registered Democrats than Republicans, but Republican-endorsed candidates have made up the majority of the City Council for years.
  That could change after today’s elections, the first since the city switched to a district-based system. In previous elections, voters have marked ballots for whichever council seats were up for election, now they will be voting for a representative from their geographic district. Districts 3 and 5 are the first up – the other cou
  
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• Cal State Fullerton’s Pumpkin Launch tests teams’ spirit, scientific skills

  06-11-2018 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Aryanna Pham and her teammates watched as homemade devices on both sides of them sent small pumpkins soaring 200 to 300 feet away, to oohs and aahs from the crowd at the 11th annual Pumpkin Launch on Saturday.
  It was impressive, Pham said. But her team, Cal State Fullerton’s Society of Women Engineers, had their own strategy. They were focusing on accuracy, not power with the cross-bow catapult they had fashioned from scratch with recyclable materials.
  “We can win if the boys don&rsq
  
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• Election could reshape South Orange County city councils

  06-11-2018 19:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Are Laguna Beach residents happy with recent city decisions such as the Village Entrance project, an $11.1 million plan to beautify and improve safety at the entrance to the city’s downtown from the canyon road? How do they feel about a plan to bury utility lines along some of the city’s major evacuation routes outlined in the city-sponsored Measure P, which would impose a 1 percent sales tax hike?
  Or do they simply want change?
  Those issues could be key to shaping the City Coun
  
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• With 3 open seats, Santa Ana’s election will change the face of City Council – and maybe the mayor

  06-11-2018 18:39 via ocregister.com
  
  With half of the Santa Ana City Council’s six members termed out, voters will help decide their community’s future direction Tuesday, Nov. 6, when they elect three new representatives and chose one of two well-known officials to be mayor.
  Mayor Miguel Pulido has held the office since 1994, before voters imposed term limits on the position. His final reelection bid is being challenged by Ward 6 Councilman Sal Tinajero, who is termed out of his seat after 12 years.
  The three even-numbe
  
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• Newport Harbor boys earn invitation to expanded SoCal Regional water polo tournament

  06-11-2018 18:39 via ocregister.com
  
  When Newport Harbor’s top-ranked boys water polo team defeated Laguna Beach in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs last week, the Sailors became the first Orange County team this fall to earn an invitation to the expanded CIF State SoCal Regionals.
  More county teams could earn invites this week as the Southern Section playoffs roll on.
  The CIF State SoCal Regionals have expanded to three divisions from two in its maiden journey last fall. The regionals also have changed their
  
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• Election could set new direction for Irvine

  06-11-2018 18:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Two of Irvine’s council members opted not to seek reelection and the sitting mayor faces three challengers, which could spell changes for the city after ballots are cast Tuesday, Nov. 6.
  Mayor Don Wagner hopes to defeat Katherine Daigle, Ed Pope and Ing Tiong to win another term. To fill the seats council members Jeff lalloway and Lynn Schott will vacate, voters will choose among 12 candidates: Kev Abazajian, Gang Chen, David Chey, Lauren Johnson-Norris, Farrah N.
  
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• Trabuco Hills track sprinter Jake Burns commits to UCI

  06-11-2018 17:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Trabuco Hills senior Jake Burns, last season’s South Coast League champion in the 100 and 200 meters, committed to UC Irvine, Trabuco Hills coach JT Ayers announced on Twitter.
  Burns at the South Coast League finals ran a 10.56 in the 100 and a wind-aided 21.59 in the 200.
  
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• Orange High tennis courts dedication Saturday

  06-11-2018 17:11 via ocregister.com
  
  The tennis courts at Orange High School have undergone renovation. A dedication ceremony to unveil the revitalization of the courts Saturday also will honor Steve Johnson who was a major supporter of the Panthers tennis program. His son Steve Johnson played at USC and is ranked No. 34 on the ATP World Tour.
  The ceremony at Orange on Saturday begins at 2 p.m.
  
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• What explains the rent affordability gap between Los Angeles and San Francisco?

  06-11-2018 16:45 via ocregister.com
  
  How could San Francisco’s rental market be “affordable” in a national study that scores Los Angeles rather poorly?
  Data crunchers at apartment tracker RentCafe tried to measure the cost of renting a slightly different way — where are rental units the most affordable to the common paycheck.
  RentCafe analysts looked at Census Bureau housing data for the nation’s 50 most-populous cities to see how rents and incomes stacked up. These researchers defined “affo
  
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• Blue wave or red tide? Americans are casting votes to decide

  06-11-2018 16:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By CLAIRE GALOFARO and MARTHA IRVINE
  JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind.— Clara Swallows pulled herself out of bed. Her aching back made her want to stay put, but the 74-year-old in Indiana had somewhere she needed to be: the polls.
  Seven hundred miles away in Florida, Stephanie Kent suspended repairs to her home — flooded during Hurricane Michael — and drove 20 miles out of the way to circumvent a still-closed bridge just to cast her ballot, too.
  Like Swallows and Kent, more than 30 million
  
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• Radio: This station knows what’s missing from the airwaves and is starting to deliver it

  06-11-2018 16:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Power 106 (KPWR, 105.9 FM) is focusing on new music with the recently debuted program New at Night, which airs every Tuesday through Friday early morning, midnight to 2 a.m.
  The first hour of each show is hosted by personalities Felli Fel and Justin Credible; the second hour by Mando Fresko. The show is programmed and mixed by Few and Credible as well.
  “Over the years I have been able to watch artists like Kendrick, YG, Logic, J. Cole and Big Sean grow from our new music platforms to becom
  
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• These are the two candidates for state Senate District 34 voters in west Orange County, Long Beach will choose between in today’s election

  06-11-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
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  State Sen. Janet Nguyen will soon find out if the more conservative and heavily Vietnamese Orange County portion of her district will allow her to once again overcome an overall disadvantage in voter registration to win a second term in Sacramento.
  U.S. Army Col. Tom Umberg, a Democrat, hopes he has enough progressive credentials to energize liberals to vote for him as they head to the polls today,
  
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• Southern California house price gains taper to smallest increase in a year, CoreLogic reports

  06-11-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California house price appreciation tapered off during the past six months, falling to the lowest level in a year, according to the CoreLogic Home Price Index released Tuesday, Nov. 6.
  The CoreLogic HPI – the third major home price measure released for September – showed Los Angeles County’s house prices were up 7.1 percent in the 12 months ending in September, vs. an average gain of 8.1 percent during the previous six months. It was the lowest appreciation rate since
  
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• Election 2018: Tony Rackauckas and Todd Spitzer locked in fierce battle for District Attorney’s Office

  06-11-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Incumbent Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, who first took office in 1998, is for the first time fighting for his political life against onetime protégé, Supervisor Todd Spitzer, a former prosecutor and state legislator.
  Rackauckas campaigned on his record of keeping Orange County safe, explaining away past problems – such as the misuse of jail informants to gain convictions – as the overblown workings of a few employees and a feverish media. Spitzer is c
  
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• Election 2018: Orange County GOP battles an increasingly blue electorate

  06-11-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  While Orange County Republicans fight to hold their four congressional seats in today’s election, they’re up against a Democratic wave that’s been building for 28 years.
  In 1990, the county GOP’s 22-percentage point voter-registration advantage over Democrats marked an apex in one of the party’s most famous strongholds.
  That edge has been shrinking ever since and is now a negligible 1.2 points. The county’s Asian voters, once a reliable GOP vote, saw their reg
  
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• Election 2018: Don Barnes and Duke Nguyen lock horns in fight for Sheriff’s post

  06-11-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County Sheriff’s Department will get a new sheriff after today’s election, but not necessarily a new look.
  Undersheriff Donald Barnes, the hand-picked heir apparent to retiring Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, represents the status quo, campaigning on a “keep Orange County safe” platform and blaming past problems – such as the misuse of jail informants to gain convictions – as the work of a few rogue employees.
  Challenger Duke Nguyen, a political newco
  
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• Election 2018: Don Barnes and Duke Nguyen lock horns in fight for OC Sheriff’s post

  06-11-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County Sheriff’s Department will get a new sheriff after today’s election, but not necessarily a new look.
  Undersheriff Donald Barnes, the hand-picked heir apparent to retiring Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, represents the status quo, campaigning on a “keep Orange County safe” platform and blaming past problems – such as the misuse of jail informants to gain convictions – as the work of a few rogue employees.
  Challenger Duke Nguyen, a political newco
  
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• Need to recover from the political campaign? I’m going to Disneyland

  06-11-2018 15:55 via ocregister.com
  
  The election’s almost over? Then I am going to Disneyland.
  OK, I will be honest. I probably will go to Knott’s Berry Farm and Universal Studios Hollywood, too. Maybe I’ll also squeeze in a trip to Six Flags Magic Mountain sometime in the next few weeks, since that park is open every day now. But I will be going to theme parks this week because they are the best places to see just how resilient we Americans can be.
  Campaigns and interest groups have spent millions of dollars ove
  
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• Election 2018: Russia? Immigration? End of the world? 48th House race features all that plus Rep. Dana Rohrabacher and Harley Rouda

  06-11-2018 15:24 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s the second most expensive House race in the nation and perhaps the most interesting.
  The contest for Orange County’s coastal 48th Congressional District has put 30-year Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in the toughest fight of his political career. He’s challenged by Democrat Harley Rouda, a Laguna Beach real estate executive who, polls suggest, has turned a once reliably conservative seat into a coin flip.
  The race has attracted national attention due to its high stakes a
  
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• Elections 2018: Congressman Alan Lowenthal faces John Briscoe in re-election bid in California’s 47th District

  06-11-2018 15:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Upsets happen, but In a congressional district that straddles Los Angeles and Orange counties, Democrat Alan Lowenthal is favored to beat Republican John Briscoe on Tuesday, Nov. 6 in the race to represent California’s 47th District.
  Lowenthal – a key voice in the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” – was first elected in 2012 to represent a district that includes neighborhoods as diverse as Little Saigon and downtown Long Beach.
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• Elections 2018: In the 46th, Rep. Lou Correa is favored to stave off Russell Lambert

  06-11-2018 15:22 via ocregister.com
  
  If recent voter registration patterns continue, Orange County will turn blue — with more registered Democrats than registered Republicans — within a few months, if not weeks.
  But the blue tide has been on the rise for years among voters who live in what is now known as California’s 46th Congressional District. The district, which now includes Anaheim and Santa Ana — and is considered the most liberal in Orange County — started sending Democrats to Washington three d
  
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• Elections 2018: Congresswoman Mimi Walters in tough fight against Katie Porter in California’s 45th District

  06-11-2018 15:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Two-term Republican Rep. Mimi Walters is being challenged by Democrat Katie Porter in a tight race for inland Orange County’s 45th Congressional District.
  Walters has coasted to easy wins during her first two elections in the longtime conservative stronghold. But Porter’s candidacy – propelled by the region’s newly galvanized liberal activism and the district’s disapproval of President Donald Trump’s performance – has turned the race into a toss-up and p
  
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• Election 2018: One of most diverse House races, CA 39, features two minority candidates, Democrat Gil Cisneros and Republican Young Kim

  06-11-2018 15:15 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the key House races in the country, California’s 39th Congressional District, features Democrat Gil Cisneros, a Navy veteran and lottery winner, against Republican Young Kim, a former one-term Assemblywoman.
  Though the race to represent a district that touches parts of Orange, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties (and is by some measures one of the most racially diverse in the country) includes local issues, it’s largely centered around immigration and President Donald Trum
  
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• Elections 2018: Congresswoman Linda Sanchez aims for ninth term, faces Ryan Downing in California’s 38th District

  06-11-2018 15:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Congresswoman Linda Sanchez is a strong favorite to win her ninth term and her second consecutive general election against Republican Ryan Downing in California’s 38th District on Tuesday, Nov. 6.
  Sanchez entered the House of Representatives in 2003 and has risen to a prominent spot among Democratic leadership. She served the past two years as the Vice Chair for the House Democratic Caucus, which is considered the fifth-ranking leadership position among the party’s House members. San
  
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• 2018 elections: O.C. voters will decide key races for Assembly, state Senate

  06-11-2018 14:56 via ocregister.com
  
  While much of the nation focuses on congressional races this Election Day, there are five key state contests in Southern California to watch: Assembly districts 72, 74 and 65 and Senate districts 34 and 36.
  Some of those races could help Democrats in Sacramento hold a supermarjority in both houses, allowing them to unilaterally raise taxes.
  Four of the seats are held by Republicans but they have the potential of flipping to Democrats. Meanwhile, the fifth seat has flip-flopped between
  
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• Elections 2018: Democrat Bob Archuleta, Republican Rita Topalian vie for Tony Mendoza’s old state Senate seat

  06-11-2018 14:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Democrat Bob Archuleta and Republican Rita Topalian were running Tuesday for the state Senate seat formerly held by Tony Mendoza, capping a strange election season in the Los Angeles-area district.
  Voters were choosing their fourth state senator since 2014 in California’s 32nd Senate District, which includes the L.A. County cities of Artesia, Whittier, Pico Rivera, Downey and Norwalk, and parts of the Orange County cities of Buena Park and Orange.
  Following Sen. Ron Calderon, who pleaded g
  
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• Costa Mesa home catches fire

  06-11-2018 14:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Firefighters extinguished a blaze early Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, at this home at 1975 Wallace Ave. in Costa Mesa. (Google Street View)
  COSTA MESA — Firefighters needed just 15 minutes Tuesday morning to extinguish a house fire in Costa Mesa.
  Crews responded about 2:50 a.m to a home at 1975 Wallace Avenue and quickly extinguished the flames, according to a statement from the Costa Mesa Fire Department.
  One victim was transported to a hospital in unknown condition for evaluation, the statement
  
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• CIF-SS girls tennis playoffs: Monday’s scores, updated semifinals schedule

  06-11-2018 07:43 via ocregister.com
  
  The scores from Monday’s quarterfinal matches in the CIF-SS girls tennis playoffs, and the updated schedule for the semifinals Wednesday.
  GIRLS TENNIS PLAYOFFS
  OPEN DIVISION
  Semifinals, Wednesday, Nov. 7
  Corona del Mar at University
  Arcadia at Campbell Hall
  DIVISION 1
  Quarterfinals, Monday, Nov. 5
  Mira Costa 12, Marlborough 6
  Westlake 10, San Marino 8
  Dana Hills 10, Murrieta Valley 8
  Troy 9, King 9 (Troy wins on games, 66-62)
  Semifinals, Wednesday, Nov. 7
  Westlake at Mira Costa
  Troy at Dan
  
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• Balanced effort helps Clippers fend off Timberwolves

  06-11-2018 07:13 via ocregister.com
  
  The Clippers’ Tobias Harris drives to the basket as Minnesota’s Karl-Anthony Towns defends during the first half of Monday’s game at Staples Center.(Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
  LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 05:Jimmy Butler #23 of the Minnesota Timberwolves shoots between Patrick Beverley #21 and Danilo Gallinari #8 of the LA Clippers during the first half at Staples Center on November 5, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.(Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)SoundThe gallery w
  
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