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• ABC promises sneak peek of Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

  22-12-2018 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  You probably know that Disney owns the ABC TV network, so it’s not terribly surprising that it’s airing the Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade on….Christmas Day. But what is interesting is that they’re promising via a tweet to show us a glimpse of the new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge land scheduled to open this summer at Disneyland and, then, in the fall at Walt Disney World.
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• D.A. takes over investigation into shooting at closed pot dispensary tied to San Bernardino mayor

  22-12-2018 22:45 via ocregister.com
  
  The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office has taken over the investigation into a robbery and shooting at a shuttered marijuana dispensary where San Bernardino Mayor John Valdivia was meeting people just hours beforehand.
  “We exhausted all our leads and have no information to follow up on,” Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said in an interview. “We just asked the D.A. to put a separate set of eyes on it.”
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• Rose Parade 2019: Equestrian units mount up for New Year’s Day

  22-12-2018 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Horse lovers are sure to love the 130th Tournament of Roses Parade. Like all of the processions that have come before, this one will feature a variety of outstanding equestrian units.
  Look for the U.S. Marine Corps Mounted Color Guard near the start of the parade, leading the U.S. Marine Corps West Coast Composite Band as it regularly does. Others making repeat appearances this year include the California Highway Patrol Mounted Patrol Unit, Norco Cowgirls Rodeo Drill Team and, of cours
  
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• Memorial for 235 homeless people who died within past year stirs emotions

  22-12-2018 21:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Candles were lighted and the names of 235 homeless people who have died within the past year were read aloud at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, Friday night, Dec. 21, in a  National Homeless Person’s Memorial Day remembrance.
  Over 100 people take a moment of silence as they attend an interreligious homeless persons memorial service on Friday night, Dec. 21, 2018 at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove. The service is for the 235 homeless people who died in Orange County in 2018.
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• Civil asset forfeiture reform is a unifying cause

  22-12-2018 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  USC football fans traveling to Notre Dame next year should drive cautiously: in Indiana, exceeding the speed limit by as little as 5 miles per hour can lead to police seizure of your car.
  Thus said Thomas M. Fisher, Indiana’s Solicitor General, in a statement to the United States Supreme Court last month.
  Fisher was speaking in the court on behalf of Indiana’s right to seize assets that may have been part of a crime.
  In Timbs v. Indiana, the Supreme Court will decide whether Indiana
  
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• Trump’s withdrawal of troops from Syria the right call

  22-12-2018 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  On Wednesday, President Trump ordered the withdrawal of American troops from Syria.
  In doing so, he is pulling the United States from a conflict initiated by President Obama without so much as a vote of Congress.
  That’s the right call, as some of Trump’s more principled critics are even willing to admit.
  “I strongly agree with the President’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria,” said Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance. “Congress never authorized the US to go to
  
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• Vegan options proposal will help the planet and expand consumer choice

  22-12-2018 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  This month I introduced legislation calling for vegan protein options to be added to all LAX restaurants, entertainment/sports arenas, city of Los Angeles concessionaires and movie theaters. Who hasn’t been caught in traffic or otherwise late to the airport, but then was eternally grateful to be able to grab food before boarding a seemingly endless five-hour flight? If you’re someone with any dietary restrictions, you understand how aggravating it is to not be able to find anything y
  
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• Mary Poppins’ penguins are from Pasadena

  22-12-2018 19:08 via ocregister.com
  
  They may be frolicking in London on film, but the penguins in “Mary Poppins Returns” are actually from Pasadena – as is the horse and carriage and the antique china bowl. They were created by Duncan Studio, which did the animation for the Rob Marshall-directed Disney movie.
  “The technique that we used was hand drawn on paper, which I think very few people still do that,” Duncan Studio owner Ken Duncan said. “People still do hand-drawn, but it’s on c
  
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• Mannheim Steamroller rolls into Cerritos and Riverside with Christmas show

  22-12-2018 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By L. Kent Wolgamott
  Correspondent
  Mannheim Steamroller is, as is always the case in December, on the move, bringing its popular brand of Christmas music to dozens of stages around the country.
  Now in its 31st year, this year’s Mannheim Steamroller holiday tour is the biggest and longest yet.
  “The tour starts earlier every year,” Mannheim Steamroller founder and leader Chip Davis said in a late-November phone interview. “We have close to 100 dates with the two tours.&rdqu
  
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• PG&E: State will consider breaking up or taking over utility giant, citing poor safety record

  22-12-2018 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO – Citing Pacific Gas and Electric’s “serious safety problems,” California utility regulators will now consider replacing its board of directors, breaking up the company in favor of smaller, regional energy suppliers and even taking it over and converting it to a public agency, they announced.
  In an extraordinary statement issued late Friday at the start of the holiday weekend, the state Public Utilities Commission announced it will deeply investigate PG&
  
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• Kartje: Is the New England Patriots dynasty finally finished?

  22-12-2018 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Could this finally be The End? If you’ve watched even a few minutes of sports programming over the past decade, it’s a question you’ve heard posed about the New England Patriots dynasty before.
  We’ve asked it so many times over so many seasons, while gleefully dancing on New England’s grave, that we can’t even fully comprehend when the question is actually worth asking anymore. Instead, we couch every sky-is-falling declaration with the subtle postscript that,
  
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• 5 factors that create a vacancy in commercial real estate

  22-12-2018 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California has experienced a nine-year run of great economic times which has created a shortage of commercial real estate. By most estimates, 99 of every 100 industrial buildings are occupied. As a result, rents and sales prices have sky-rocketed through a simple case of supply and demand.
  The tail end of 2018 has shown some signs of a cooling economy – which have been well documented in this space – a slowing housing market, rising costs of doing business, stock market gyra
  
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• $39 million Laguna Beach house is perched above a pool in the ocean

  22-12-2018 18:25 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Designed by Horst Architects, the 6,130-square-foot home has 80 feet of ocean frontage in Three Arch Bay. See more in the slideshow. (Photo courtesy of The Agency)
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• Robbery suspects in custody after high-speed chase from Pasadena to Hollywood

  22-12-2018 18:08 via ocregister.com
  
  PASADENA – Five suspects wanted for an armed robbery of a watch and clock repair shop in Old Town Pasadena led police on a high-speed chase across freeways and surface streets before they abandoned the Kia Soul they were in and fled on foot into an East Hollywood neighborhood where they were captured, authorities said Saturday.
  The gunpoint robbery occurred at 4:20 p.m. Friday at Shant’s Clock and Watch Repair at 8 E. Holly St., according to the Pasadena Police Department.
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• Ocean advocates, La Mer Maids, scour the sea for marine life and debris

  22-12-2018 18:02 via ocregister.com
  
  At first, it was about searching for wildlife out at sea.
  Balloons are a common sight out at sea, and La Mer Maids, a group dedicated to cleaning up the ocean while searching for sea life, are dedicating their time to the clean up. (Photo courtesy of Pattie VanOver Indictor)
  Dee Whitehurst and Cynthia Woo scoop up a balloon from the Santa Monica Bay. (Photo courtesy of Pattie VanOver Indictor)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsA group gather for a photo with their first balloon ever scooped u
  
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• Sliding down the dinosaur of life

  22-12-2018 18:01 via ocregister.com
  
  As every fan of the Flintstones knows, when the whistle blows at the end of Fred’s shift at the quarry, he “yabba dabba dos” his way home by sliding down the dinosaur.
  And that’s how I ended just about every radio broadcast I did over the past 22 years.
  “Down the dinosaur I go!”
  On Friday, Dec. 14, I slid down the dinosaur for the very last time. After thousands and thousands of hours of yakking on AM 790 KABC — five hours a day, five days a week —
  
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• Motorcyclist who died in Garden Grove crash is identified

  22-12-2018 17:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Officials have identified the man who died Thursday night, Dec. 20 after a crash involving a motorcycle and two other vehicles in Garden Grove as 20-year-old Bryan Chen.
  The Garden Grove Police Department said the accident happened at approximately 8:10 p.m., near the intersection of Euclid Street and Westminster Avenue.
  The motorcyclist, Chen, a Garden Grove resident, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:18 p.m., police said. One of the drivers of a vehicle involved in the crash had to be extr
  
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• 4 men sought in smash-and-grab jewelry store robbery in Westminster

  22-12-2018 17:38 via ocregister.com
  
  WESTMINSTER – Police are seeking four suspects accused of wielding hammers in a smash-and-grab jewelry robbery at the Asian Garden Mall.
  The crime, committed while employees were working in the store, was caught on tape by surveillance cameras.
  Suspect 1: 18-20 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 150 pounds and wore a black beanie, multi-color windbreaker jacket, black pants, checkered shoes and gloves with a diamond-shape design.
  Suspect 2: 20-25 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 170 pounds
  
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• Why reality TV real estate shows are so unrealistic

  22-12-2018 17:31 via ocregister.com
  
  As much as I love “Property Brothers,” “Fixer Upper,” and “Love it or List it,” I often find myself yelling at Chip Gains, Drew Scott, and Hilary Farr.
  The real estate professional in me kicks into hyperdrive the minute they come across an “unexpected” condition in the middle of a renovation project.
  How could you not have known that there was a leak in the attic, that there were rats nesting behind the stove, that the porch was converted into a be
  
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• Planning for 2019: Got debt? Put it on the goodbye list

  22-12-2018 17:31 via ocregister.com
  
  The end of 2018 is quickly approaching. If you have not begun to think about your finances for 2019, take a bit of time before the end of the year to plan for next year. Even if you’re retired or on track to retire as planned, it is always a good idea to review the following:
  Short- and long-term goals
  Are your 2019 goals obtainable without incurring additional credit card debt? Come up with a realistic plan to accomplish these goals within your budget.
  A budget is a personal plan to
  
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• Something free to do at the Disneyland resort: Tour the Grand Californian hotel

  22-12-2018 17:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Stained glass doors open to the lobby of Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel in Anaheim, CA, on Wednesday, Dec 19, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  The lobby of the Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel in is early 20th Century Arts and Crafts style in Anaheim, CA, on Wednesday, Dec 19, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsPaintings inside the Storytellers Cafe illustrate stories set in California at Disne
  
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• Most Influential 2018: Surfer Kanoa Igarashi enjoys the ride in, out of the waves

  22-12-2018 16:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Usually, before a big event, the nerves kick in.
  But the evening before the start of the Vans U.S. Open of Surfing last July, Kanoa Igarashi realized he was feeling a different emotion – excitement.
  “Years prior, I wouldn’t have been able to sleep because of the nerves,” said the 21-year-old surfer. “Having that change of being excited instead of nervous, this was new.”
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• Whicker: Zubac comes off deep bench, helps Lakers past Pelicans

  22-12-2018 08:51 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Could Ivica Zubac get through the final minutes Friday night without fouling out?
  Of all the burning questions that were supposed to confront the Lakers this season, that one was somewhere near absolute zero.
  But there it was. Zubac, the center from Croatia whom the Lakers picked in the second round in 2017, was carrying five fouls into the final minutes against New Orleans. He was getting those minutes because JaVale McGee was out with a particularly bitter case of the flu,
  
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• La Habra gets spark from long-distance shooting, cruises to win against Sunny Hills basketball

  22-12-2018 08:45 via ocregister.com
  
  LA HABRA – La Habra beat Sunny Hills 61-36 Friday night at La Habra High as the sharpshooting of Luke Liebrich-Ashford was the deciding factor.
  Liebrich-Ashford made five three-pointers and finished with 19 points to lead the Highlanders to their fourth win in a row.
  No. 8 La Habra (12-2, 2-0) had three players score in double figures. Cameron Dashiell had 15 points and Sam Howlin chipped in with 10 points.
  “We are confident in all of our players taking shots from
  
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• Cypress boys basketball team extends streak to 11 with win over San Clemente

  22-12-2018 08:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Cypress is not the tallest team in Orange County boys basketball.
  The Cypress players are well aware of that.
  So what the Centurions do is play at as fast of a pace as possible. They did that successfully Friday in a 72-62 win over San Clemente on the first day of the two-day Orange County North/South Challenge at Tesoro.
  Cypress moved its winning streak to 11 games. The Centurions, No. 6 in the Orange County top 25, is 12-1. San Clemente is 5-8.
  San Clemente’s Tritons took a 6-2 lead. The
  
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• Jia Dee wins WSOE 2 Hearthstone Showdown in Manhattan Beach

  22-12-2018 08:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Jia Dee of the Philippines competes in the WSOE 2 Hearthstone Showdown in Manhattan Beach.
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  Jia Dee of the Philippines after winning the WSOE 2 Hearthstone Showdown in Manhattan Beach.
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• Godinez, Capistrano Valley win basketball games in North/South Challenge

  22-12-2018 07:52 via ocregister.com
  
  RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – Godinez beat San Juan Hills 54-49 Friday in the first game of the North/South Challenge at Tesoro High.
  Sophomore Andrew Valdez led the Grizzlies with 16 points and Ilijah Robles scored 15 points and made four 3-pointers.
  “One of the things we like is when Drew (Valdez) can penetrate and attract people and kick it to Ilijah down the floor,” Godinez coach Greg Coombs said. “We did a good job breaking the press and getting down the floor to get
  
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• USC basketball routs Southern Utah to snap 4-game losing streak

  22-12-2018 07:46 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The basketball zig-zagged like a pinball during the series of passes.
  It was late in the first half of USC’s 91-49 rout of Southern Utah on Friday night when Derryck Thornton drew a pair of defenders as he drove toward the left side of the lane and found Shaqquan Aaron cutting along the opposite side. Without taking a dribble, Aaron bounced a pass toward Nick Rakocevic on the low left block as the lanky forward completed the rapid sequence by slamming a two-handed dunk.
  
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• LeBron James delivers triple-double as balanced Lakers outlast Anthony Davis, Pelicans

  22-12-2018 07:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Lakers’ Ivica Zubac, of Croatia, blocks a shot by New Orleans Pelicans’ Julius Randle during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, in Los Angeles. The Lakers won 112-104. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
  Los Angeles Lakers’ Ivica Zubac, center, dunks as New Orleans Pelicans’ Jrue Holiday, left, and Anthony Davis watch during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)SoundThe gallery
  
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• Newport Harbor basketball overwhelms Marina for another blowout victory

  22-12-2018 07:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Newport Harbor’s Elijah Firey makes a steal during Friday’s game. Newport Harbor was taking on Marina in a Sunset Conference boys basketball game at Marina High on Friday, December 21, 2018. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer)
  Newport Harbor’s Sam Barela grabs a rebound away from Marina’s Tim Fronek.
  Newport Harbor was taking on Marina in a Sunset Conference boys basketball game at Marina High. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe gall
  
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• Mater Dei girls basketball coach Kevin Kiernan ties state milestone

  22-12-2018 06:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Mater Dei girls basketball coach Kevin Kiernan tied the California record for career coaching victories Friday with a 57-31 triumph against Cherry Creek of Colorado at the Tournament of Champions in Phoenix, Ariz.
  Brooke Demetre had 18 points and eight rebounds and Alyssa Frescas added 16 points, including four 3-pointers, as Kiernan recorded career victory No. 761, tying him with Joe Vaughn of Buena for the most in California girls basketball history.
  Kiernan, who also coached the girls at Troy
  
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• Laguna Beach’s fast pace, depth overwhelms Mater Dei in girls water polo showdown

  22-12-2018 05:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Laguna Beach goalie Quinn Winter, right, reaches to block a shot by Mater Dei’s Janna Tauscher in a non-league game in Laguna Beach on Friday, December 21, 2018. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
  Laguna Beach’s Tea Poljack gets ready to fire a shot on goal against Mater Dei in Laguna Beach on Friday, December 21, 2018. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsMater Dei’s janna Tauscher, left, fights to get cont
  
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• USC adds Australian punter on final day of early signing period

  22-12-2018 05:13 via ocregister.com
  
  USC announced the signing of Australian punter Ben Griffiths on Friday, the final day of the early signing period.
  Griffiths is 27 years old and previously played eight seasons in the Australian Football League before retiring in January when he received a scholarship offer from the Trojans. He is a native of Melbourne.
  The addition of Griffiths brings USC’s early signing class to 19 players. They can add at least seven more players this offseason.
  The Trojans were in need of finding a pun
  
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• Chargers set to chase Lamar Jackson, better playoff seeding against Baltimore Ravens

  22-12-2018 05:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Geno Smith and Cardale Jones increased their heart rate this week attempting to impersonate Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson at practice.
  The backup quarterbacks for the Chargers can run all they want  — and there was a lot of running, according to Smith — but what Jackson has done since taking over as the starter has never been done before.
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• Orange County basketball highlights for Friday, Dec. 21

  22-12-2018 04:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Highlights and top scorers from the Orange County basketball games on Friday, Dec. 21.
  *Will be updated.
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  Atin Wright scored 30 points as No. 15 Fairmont Prep squeaked out a 59-56 win over Faith Lutheran of Nevada in the Tarkanian Classic at Las Vegas. The Huskies (11-4) will play Mars Area (PA) at 9:20 a.m. Saturday for fifth place in the Eastbay bracket.
  Edward Williams had 28 points and 13 rebounds to lead Katella past Pioneer 58-43 in a nonleague game.
   
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• Whicker: The Wild Horse might become a thoroughbred in Cincinnati

  22-12-2018 03:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig celebrates after hitting the game-winning two-run double to defeat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in the ninth inning of a game at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
  The Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig takes a photo with a camera during batting practice before a game against the Diamondbacks on Sept. 26, 2018 in Phoenix, Ariz. (Photo by Jennifer Stewart/Getty Images)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsLos Angele
  
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• Fantasy football players to watch in Week 16 of the NFL

  22-12-2018 03:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Our weekly look at the Fantasy Football picks to click:
  FANTASY PLAYER OF THE WEEK
  Derrick Henry, RB, Titans. For those of you who held onto Henry as he slogged through most of the season, congrats. But chances are most of you still playing picked him up after someone dumped him, and now you get to reap the benefits. Those benefits have been massive over the past two weeks, as Henry has put up 408 yards and six touchdowns over the last two weeks. That’s basically equal to his output over h
  
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• UC Irvine’s 10-game road win streak ends at Butler

  22-12-2018 03:16 via ocregister.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — UC Irvine’s 10-game road win streak proved no match for Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse on Friday night.
  Paul Jorgensen made five 3-pointers and finished with 19 points and seven rebounds as Butler defeated UCI 71-54 on Friday night for the Bulldogs’ 50th consecutive nonconference home victory.
  Butler (9-3) improved to 7-0 at home this season and ended UCI’s streak of 10 straight road victories, which had been the nation’s second-longest streak
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Friday (12-21-18)

  22-12-2018 03:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Scores and stats for the Orange County games on Friday, Dec. 21.
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  Sunny Hills 2, La Habra 0
  Troy 1, Buena Park 0
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  Santa Ana Valley 1, South Torrance 1
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  Villa Park 1, El Modena 0
  Fountain Valley 2, Los Alamitos 1
  Calvary Chapel/Downey 2, Oxford Academy 0
   
  GIRLS SOCCER
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  Rosary 2, Calvary Chapel 0
   
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  Laguna Beach 14, Mater Dei 6
   
  
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• Edward Shin made it seem like his San Juan Capistrano business partner was alive, but he had killed him months before

  22-12-2018 02:49 via ocregister.com
  
  How do you make another person disappear?
  For Edward Shin, faced with his friend and business partner lying in a pool of blood in their San Juan Capistrano office, it was a pressing question.
  For more than half a year, Shin found the answer: bold deceptions and brazen lies, taking over his dead friend’s emails and concocting wild tales of exotic trips across the world.
  Those tales, Shin’s own attorney would later admit, emotionally tortured Chris Smith’s increasingly worried pa
  
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• 6 Camp Pendleton Marines receive medals for saving life of Riverside motorcyclist severely injured near Big Bear

  22-12-2018 02:39 via ocregister.com
  
  CAMP PENDLETON — Sgt. Devon Espinoza describes how he and five other Camp Pendleton Marines saved the life of a Riverside man severely injured in a motorcycle accident as being in “Marine mode.”
  The rider, Floyd McGuirk, 58, was sprawled in the roadway, his right leg partially severed, on SR 330 near Big Bear on Nov. 4. He was in shock, losing blood and drifting in and out of consciousness.
  Two motorcyclists with him were frantically waving for help.
  Sgt. Devon Espinoza is
  
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• ‘Elvis’ brings his songs and signature dance moves to Laguna Hills seniors

  22-12-2018 02:12 via ocregister.com
  
  LAGUNA HILLS– About 90 patrons at the Florence Sylvester Memorial Senior Center in Laguna Hills were treated to a luncheon performance on Thursday, Dec. 20, by The King himself – or at least his doppelganger.
  “Elvis” — aka Scott Robertson — has been making the women at the senior center swoon for several years, and once again he didn’t disappoint.
  Entertainer Scott Robertson, playing Elvis Presley, sings to Rose Deguzman during lunch at the Florence Sylv
  
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• Homeless encampment cleared at Maxwell Park, more than 60 move to new shelter Anaheim opened this week

  22-12-2018 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim Police Officer Kenny Edgar talks Titus Atuatasi at 6:00 am in the Maxwell Park homeless encampment. The Anaheim Police Department and other agencies cleared out two-block long homeless encampment in Maxwell Park in Anaheim on Friday, December 21, 2018. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer)
  Andrew Clark boards a bus that will take him to a homeless shelter at 6:20 am on Friday morning. The Anaheim Police Department and other agencies cleared out two-block long homeless encamp
  
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• Man who vandalized Santa Ana mural honoring Mexican-American war veterans sentenced to prison

  22-12-2018 01:52 via ocregister.com
  
  A man who vandalized a Santa Ana mural honoring Mexican-American war veterans earlier this year was sentenced Thursday, Dec. 21 to 16 months in prison.
  In March, the “Among Heroes” mural was discovered desecrated by spray paint, much of it tainting some of the faces of 200 veterans it depicted. It took artist Carlos Aguilar four years to complete it and the vandalism left him and those who live in the Logan neighborhood  devastated.
  Eric Alan Cabrera, 25, will serve the 16-
  
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• Aqib Talib didn’t get his TD, but he has Rams’ pass defense back on track

  22-12-2018 01:44 via ocregister.com
  
  THOUSAND OAKS – Aqib Talib turned his attention to the chirping and smirked as he heard Rams teammate Marcus Peters say he should have returned last week’s interception against the Eagles for a touchdown.
  “Come on now,” Talib said. “Get your numbers up. Catch me if you can.”
  It had to feel good for Talib to be able to fire back with some mild trash-talking. Talib recorded his first interception of the season last Sunday against Philadelphia. It’s been a
  
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• Travel: Is it too soon for tourists to return to Puerto Rico?

  22-12-2018 01:35 via ocregister.com
  
  A year and a few months after hurricanes Irma and Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, I wondered if the time was right to visit. I knew my tourist dollars would go toward a good cause and help with recovery, but questions about safety, electricity and accessibility made me hesitant to book what is one of the easiest Caribbean islands to travel to.
  With a little bit of research, I gathered that most of the capital, San Juan, and other oft-frequented parts of the U.S. territory have been set to welcome tou
  
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• SpaceX readies again for GPS launch Dec. 22

  22-12-2018 01:28 via ocregister.com
  
  After multiple delays, SpaceX has once again lifted to vertical position its Falcon 9 rocket in Florida’s Cape Canaveral in hopes of launching a navigation satellite for the U.S. military at 5:55 a.m. Pacific Time, Saturday, Dec. 22.
  The launch can be viewed live at the video link below or by visiting SpaceX/webcast.The mission, dubbed GPS III, consists of a global positioning system satellite built by Lockheed Martin Corp. estimated to be worth $500 million. It represents the Hawthorne ro
  
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• Birds on the mend after overdosing on pills dumped at Huntington Beach park

  22-12-2018 00:22 via ocregister.com
  
  An unidentified person dumped hundreds of prescription pills at Carr Park in Huntington Beach on Monday, Dec. 17. At least two birds overdosed on the pills. They are now recovering at the Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach. (Photo courtesy ofWetlands & Wildlife Care Center)
  A ring-billed gull found ailing at Carr Park on Monday, Dec. 17, after eating from a pile of dumped medications is recovering at the Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center. (Photo courtesy of the Wetland
  
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• The important passage of the First Step Act

  22-12-2018 00:20 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s a mouthful, but it matters: the FIRST STEP Act — that’s The Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act — is the first big bipartisan victory in Washington, D.C. in some time.
  On Tuesday, the United States Senate voted 87-12 to pass the criminal justice reform bill. The House of Representatives followed on Thursday with the legislation passing 358 votes in support and only 36 in opposition.
  President Trump, who announced hi
  
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• Whicker: Julius Randle also tamper-worthy in New Orleans

  22-12-2018 00:14 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Triage has been kind to Julius Randle.
  When LeBron James came to the Lakers, somebody had to go. NBA players, no matter how young, see such things coming.
  Randle, the Lakers’ prized lottery pick in 2014, became a reliable horse down low, a fervent rebounder and a magnet for the defense, which in turn helped the guys outside.
  Amid the local jubilation over James’ commitment to the Lakers in late June, Randle knew he would be calling the movers. He landed in Ne
  
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