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• USC lands WRs Bru McCoy, Kyle Ford in recruiting score

  05-01-2019 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  USC’s football recruiting class for 2019 received a major bump Saturday when a pair of five-star wide receivers committed to the school during the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio.
  In a span of less than two hours, both Mater Dei High’s Bru McCoy and Orange Lutheran High’s Kyle Ford announced on the nationally televised broadcast that they were to join the Trojans and quickly put on cardinal-colored hats as they revealed their decisions.
  Orange Lutheran’s Kyle F
  
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• Democratic 2020 candidates: less is more

  05-01-2019 23:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Forty-five years ago, while running for governor of California the first time, Jerry Brown embraced a new book with a memorable title: “Small Is Beautiful.” It was written by E.F. Schumacher, an Oxford economist who’d left his native Germany after Hitler came to power. Schumacher was an atheist as a young man, and a Marxist. He was a seeker throughout his life, however, who kept an open mind and heart. He helped the British government during World War II, and went to Asia after
  
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• How will California’s gender quotas impact women?

  05-01-2019 23:17 via ocregister.com
  
  This year California will begin implementing a new policy that requires companies to fill around 40 percent of corporate board positions with female directors. Governor Jerry Brown signed the gender quota law into effect last year, and it will phase in over the next three years. By 2021, the policy will require companies to appoint two female directors if the company has five directors and three female directors if the corporation has six or more.
  While unprecedented in the United
  
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• Mater Dei athlete Bru McCoy commits to USC

  05-01-2019 23:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Mater Dei senior Bru McCoy, The Register’s offensive player of the year this past football season, committed to USC during an announcement at the U.S. All-American Bowl in Texas on Saturday.
  McCoy, a standout wide receiver who also played part-time at outside linebacker, picked the Trojans over finalists Texas, Washington, Alabama and Oklahoma.
  UCLA also was in the mix late in the recruiting race for the top-rated athlete in the class of 2019.
  At USC, McCoy (6-3, 215) will rejoin forces wi
  
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• Clippers get out of ‘defensive rut’ in win over Suns

  05-01-2019 23:09 via ocregister.com
  
  It might’ve sounded cliché, but the Clippers knew what ailed them in their 119-113 New Year’s Day loss to the Philadelphia 76ers.
  “It was all defense,” Clippers Coach Doc Rivers said Tuesday. “Like, before the game, if you had told me, ‘OK, Doc, you’re going to score 28 in the first quarter and 30 in the second,’ you would say, ‘OK, we’re right there, should be winning.’ But we were not.”
  No, sir. The Clippers put up
  
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• Chargers TE Hunter Henry won’t play vs. Ravens Sunday

  05-01-2019 22:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Chargers tight end Hunter Henry will not be activated for Sunday’s wild-card game against the Baltimore Ravens, according to reports Saturday.
  Henry was hopeful to make his season debut in Baltimore after missing all of the regular season after tearing his ACL in May, but the Chargers did not add him to their 53-man roster. ESPN’s Eric Williams was first to report.
  Henry returned to practice Dec. 17 and worked with the first-team offense this week.
  “I worked hard to get here,&r
  
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• Jerry Brown’s warning of ‘fiscal oblivion’

  05-01-2019 21:13 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the biggest issues to face governments across California over the next several years will be the problem of rising public-sector pension costs.
  It shouldn’t be a revelation that all levels of government in California have long struggled with rising pension obligations.
  From school districts to municipalities to the state, pension obligations have continued to engulf larger and larger portions of public budgets.
  A report from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research publis
  
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• Shutdown reduces federal workers to bartering with the landlord

  05-01-2019 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  News item: “The agency that oversees the government’s civilian workforce is facing scrutiny after suggesting federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown barter with their landlords if they can’t make rent payments, advice that it later said was posted ‘inadvertently,’” the Washington Post reported.
  “On Thursday, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management tweeted sample letters to help the roughly 800,000 affected workers negotiate with cre
  
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• Shutdown reduces federal workers to barter with the landlord

  05-01-2019 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  News item: “The agency that oversees the government’s civilian workforce is facing scrutiny after suggesting federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown barter with their landlords if they can’t make rent payments, advice that it later said was posted ‘inadvertently,’” the Washington Post reported.
  “On Thursday, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management tweeted sample letters to help the roughly 800,000 affected workers negotiate with cre
  
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• Chargers prepare for Ravens with playoff experience a mixed bag

  05-01-2019 21:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Virgil Green had already been to a Super Bowl. He had nine games of postseason experience with three starts, but there Green was, short of breath, two days before Super Bowl 50.
  The tight end, who can pass off as a bodybuilder, was a nervous wreck.
  Green, a member of the Denver Broncos at the time, couldn’t control his thoughts, as adrenaline rushed through his 6-foot-5, 255-pound body.
  He was ambushed by anxiety.
  “I had a lot of anxiety and it wasn’t like I was scared,”
  
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• Orange Lutheran wide receiver Kyle Ford commits to USC

  05-01-2019 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange Lutheran standout wide receiver Kyle Ford committed to USC on Saturday, the senior announced moments ago.COMMITTED…………. #WLTH pic.twitter.com/jjXRBISb8c
  — Kyle Ford (@Ford_Kyle6) January 5, 2019More info to come.
  
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• Recipe: Team up blood oranges with chicken thighs and fresh fennel

  05-01-2019 20:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Blood oranges’ bold crimson hue is no-doubt stunning, but their taste is just as alluring. They offer flavor that hints of raspberry, their juice-packed segments slightly lower in acidity than most other orange varieties.  They are available December through February and generally those harvested toward the end of the season have a more intense red color.
  They are delicious teamed with chicken and fresh fennel in a one-dish meal. Oh, maybe you will want to include some rice or roasted
  
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• Waldner: What the UCLA basketball empire has taught us

  05-01-2019 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Once upon a time, there was the Roman Empire.
  That’s ancient history.
  Another once-upon-a-time involves UCLA basketball.
  The Bruins, coached by the incomparable John Wooden, won 10 of 12 NCAA championships from 1964 to 1975.
  In sports, this too is ancient history.
  Does history indeed help us understand what is going on today?
  Well, scholars of the professional and amateur variety continue to study the Romans. In similar fashion, their counterparts in sports have been prompted this week to
  
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• Golden Road Brewing will open a new restaurant and small batch brewery at Peter’s Landing in Huntington Beach later this year

  05-01-2019 20:01 via ocregister.com
  
  A new Golden Road Brewing restaurant will come to Peter’s Landing in Huntington Beach in mid to late 2019. (Courtesy of Cuaso Design Studio)
  A new Golden Road Brewing restaurant will come to Peter’s Landing in Huntington Beach in mid to late 2019. (Courtesy of Cuaso Design Studio)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsA new Golden Road Brewing restaurant will come to Peter’s Landing in Huntington Beach in mid to late 2019. (Courtesy of Cuaso Design Studio)
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• Gable House Bowl, a Torrance ‘institution’ known for fun, again site of shooting tragedy

  05-01-2019 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Gable House Bowl is known to longtime customers as a place where families hold birthday parties, and church and school groups enjoy a fun day of bowling free from safety concerns, experiences that belie the horrific scene at the Torrance alley Friday night where three people were shot to death and four others were wounded.
  Bowlers took to Twitter on Saturday to recall singing karaoke, playing laser tag and even throwing an occasional strike over a span of many years at Gable House, which is at 2
  
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• New book introduces mid-century design enthusiasts to Disney Animation’s Kem Weber

  05-01-2019 18:45 via ocregister.com
  
  When he retired from the Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2016, David A. Bossert got to take home his animation desk as a souvenir.
  As the retired animator turned author put it, “This furniture has a soul to it.
  Peter Blake Gallery’s installation at Design Miami where all five Kem Weber pieces designed for the Walt Disney Studios sold out by the close of the fair. (Courtesy of Peter Blake Gallery)
  The front cover of David A. Bossert’s new book features a photo of Kem Weber and
  
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• Ask the Builder: A better way to vent your clothes dryer

  05-01-2019 18:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I need your advice. My clothes dryer stopped getting my clothes dry. The problem was traced to the vent line being squished behind the dryer. I was also told the flexible plastic pipe was inferior. Can you share your magic way of connecting clothes dryers to vent pipes so they’re trouble free? — Valerie S., Mesquite, Texas
  A: When your clothes dryer is taking longer and longer to dry clothes, it’s often a sign of a clogged vent pipe, a clogged lint filter or a lint-clogged v
  
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• Allen Buchanan: 5 things I learned in 2018

  05-01-2019 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  With the year of 2018 in the books and 2019 ahead, what follows are the commercial real estate lessons I learned last year.
  Watch the housing market
  Actually, this was a 2008 lesson which unfolded again this year.
  A downturn in housing metrics can portend a bit of doom in the commercial real estate market. So much of our local economy is tied to housing — loans, brokerage, sub-contracting, construction, legal, accounting, home improvement retail. All of these sectors hire people, lease or
  
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• Commercial tenants: Beware of a landlord’s silence

  05-01-2019 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Happy new year to all our readers.  I recently received a call from a business owner concerning his right to extend a five-year option on a lease for his dental practice.
  At issue was a missed option exercise date to notify the landlord of his interest to extend the lease. The tenant had told me he had two months remaining on the lease and was not aware the option date had required specific advance notice of 180 days before the lease expiration date.
  I reviewed the lease provisions which co
  
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• Motorcyclist killed in crash on 73 in Newport Beach

  05-01-2019 17:11 via ocregister.com
  
  NEWPORT BEACH – A motorcyclist was killed Saturday morning in a traffic crash on the San Joaquin Hills Transportation (73) Corridor in Newport Beach, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said.
  The crash at MacArthur Boulevard occurred a little before 2:15 a.m., according to a CHP dispatcher, who added that it was unclear which direction the motorcyclist was traveling at the time of the crash.
  A representative from the coroner’s office was called to the location at 3:36 a.m., she sa
  
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• New-home communities in Irvine, Ontario and near Mission Viejo among nation’s fastest sellers

  05-01-2019 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A home being built in the the Irvine Co.’s Stonegate development in the Irvine Ranch master-planned community. (File photo by the Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Eastwood Village in Irvine Ranch includes the community of Morro by The New Home Company. (Courtesy Irvine Co.) SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsAn 8-acre park sits in the center of the Great Park Neighborhoods’ new Cadence Park neighborhood in Irvine. (Courtesy: Great Park Neighborhoods.)
  CEO of FivePoint Communities, Emi
  
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• How much of this roadway info did you already know?

  05-01-2019 15:03 via ocregister.com
  
  This new year’s week, Honk is thankful for his readers, who are the smartest, prettiest, handsomest, funniest, most creative and happiest people, and the sharpest dressers, too. Because of their questions during the past year, he has learned:
  (Second of two such columns this year, because readers have led us to such great tidbits.)
  – U.S. Postal Service employees must follow the same rules of the road as the rest of us; they cannot, for example, park in red-curb zones. There is one e
  
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• 3 dead, 4 injured in Torrance bowling alley shooting; police try to ID shooter or shooters

  05-01-2019 11:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Torrance police officers investigate a shooting at the Gable House Bowl in Torrance on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019. Early reports are that three people have been killed and four others injured in the shooting that followed a fight at the bowling alley. The shooting happened (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG)
  People gather outside of the Gable House Bowl following a shooting in Torrance on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019. Early reports are that three people have been killed and four others injured in t
  
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• 3 dead, 4 injured in Torrance bowling alley shooting

  05-01-2019 11:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Update: Officials early Saturday said three people are dead and four injured after the bowling alley shooting.
  Earlier coverage:
  Police are responding to a shooting early Saturday morning with possibly multiple victims at a bowling alley in Torrance.
  The Torrance Police Department says in a tweet there were “reports of shots fired with multiple victims down” at Gable House Bowl.
  Police are urging people to “stay away from the area” near the bowling alley.
  Gable House is d
  
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• Short-handed Lakers fail to finish off Knicks, drop to 1-4 without LeBron

  05-01-2019 07:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Lakers center Tyson Chandler, top, dunks as New York Knicks forward Kevin Knox watches during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
  New York Knicks forward Kevin Knox, right, dunks as Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsLos Angeles Lakers forward Brandon Ingram,
  
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• Freshman sinks 3 at buzzer, ending Marina’s 20-game losing streak against Edison

  05-01-2019 07:12 via ocregister.com
  
  HUNTINGTON BEACH – Going into Friday’s nonleague game between Marina and Edison, the Chargers had won 20 in a row over their crosstown rivals, Vikings coach Nick Racklin said.
  The streak came to a dramatic end, as freshman guard Eric Hodgkins hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give Marina a 56-55 victory that stunned the Chargers and their fans in the Edison High School gymnasium.
  “He made five threes in our last game, so I know he can shoot the ball,” Racklin said of Hodgk
  
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• Watch Lakers’ Kentavious Caldwell-Pope hurdle front row at Staples Center

  05-01-2019 06:56 via ocregister.com
  
  With a 1-point lead in the fourth quarter against the New York Knicks, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope of the Los Angeles Lakers hurdled over the fans in the first row at Staples Center in order to try and recover a loose ball.
  After clearing the front row, KCP found himself a seat right next to Jeanie Buss, the Lakers’ president and controlling owner.Kentavious Caldwell-Pope just hurdled the front row. Damn. pic.twitter.com/RqdvcjjFvQ
  — Mike Vorkunov (@MikeVorkunov) January 5, 2019Cal
  
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• Crean Lutheran enjoys memorable Empire debut with comeback win against Pacifica

  05-01-2019 06:55 via ocregister.com
  
  GARDEN GROVE – Crean Lutheran erased an 18-point deficit using long-range shooting and won its Empire League debut against Pacifica 67-61 Friday night at Pacifica High.
  The Saints (8-8), the CIF-SS Division 3AA champions a year ago, made an impressive entrance in their new league despite their slow start.
  Crean Lutheran was led by Aiden Gilbert, who scored a game-high 22 points, and Chris Swardstrom, who added 19 points.
  In a game of runs, the Saints made the final push with
  
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• Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf expresses frustration after losing streak hits 7

  05-01-2019 06:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Vegas Golden Knights’ Tomas Nosek, left, is defended by Anaheim Ducks’ Hampus Lindholm during the first period of an NHL hockey game Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
  Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, right, gives up a goal on a shot from Anaheim Ducks’ Daniel Sprong, not seen, during the second period of an NHL hockey game Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)SoundThe gallery will resume i
  
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• Tesoro dominates in all areas as it cruises to basketball win over Portola

  05-01-2019 06:41 via ocregister.com
  
  RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – No. 6 Tesoro cruised to a 67-23 win against Portola on Friday in a nonleague boys basketball game at Tesoro High.
  The Titans dominated from the opening whistle, particularly on the defensive end. Tesoro deployed a full-court press for the first three quarters of the game and forced 17 turnovers.
  “We tried to rotate as many guys as possible on senior night,” Tesoro coach Steve Garrett said. “We wanted to test the waters and see if they could handle
  
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• Santa Ana man with Alzheimer’s is missing

  05-01-2019 06:28 via ocregister.com
  
  A 71-year-old Santa Ana man with Alzheimer’s went missing on Wednesday and police are asking for the public’s help in finding him.
  Melvin Davis was last seen at his residence in the area of 3400 S. Ramona Drive, the Santa Ana Police Department said.
  Melvin Davis, a 71-year-old resident of Santa Ana, went missing on Wednesday. (Photo courtesy of the Santa Ana Police Department)
  “He is believed to be driving a black 2004 Chevy Silverado 2-door pickup truck with California license
  
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• Clippers use balanced effort to extend their dominance of Suns

  05-01-2019 06:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Clippers guard Patrick Beverley celebrates after making a 3-pointer against during the second half of Friday’s game against the Suns in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
  Clippers guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander drives around the Suns’ De’Anthony Melton during the first half of Friday’s game in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsClippers center Marcin Gortat takes a shot during the first half of Friday’s game against the Suns in Phoeni
  
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• Orange County basketball highlights for Friday, Jan. 4

  05-01-2019 05:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Highlights and top scorers from the Orange County basketball games on Friday, Jan. 4.
  *Will be updated.
  Friday’s top scorers
  BOYS
  Pts    Player, school
  25    J. Wohlgemuth, St. Margaret’s
  23    Hotmer, Trabuco Hills
  22    Gilbert, Crean Lutheran
  21    Stone, Corona del Mar
  20    Bopp, Orangewood Academy
  20    Fabisiak, Pacifica
  18    Barela, Newport Harbor
  17   
  
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• Late goal gives Mater Dei soccer a satisfying tie with Servite in Trinity League

  05-01-2019 05:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Mater Dei’s Bryce Lehner celebrates his game-tying goal against Servite during their Trinity League boys soccer game at Servite High in Anaheim on Friday, January 4, 2019. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Servite celebrates a goal by Dean Hirsch, second from left,during their 2-2 tie against Mater Dei in a Trinity League boys soccer game at Servite High in Anaheim on Friday, January 4, 2019. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will r
  
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• Kartje: Predictable New Orleans Saints are only Super Bowl choice in an unpredictable field

  05-01-2019 04:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Six weeks ago, as the Rams and Chiefs produced 105 points and 1,001 yards on an unforgettable Monday night at the Coliseum, it felt as if a new era of football was being ushered in before our eyes. The game, the first in history in which 50 points wasn’t enough to win, sent the football zeitgeist on a frantic search for meaning. Prognosticators immediately opined about the future of football, some welcoming the offensive onslaught, others bemoaning the untimely death of defense.
  It was all
  
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• Heisler: This season’s Lakers are holding auditions for next season’s Lakers

  05-01-2019 04:01 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s the best of times, or should be, in Lakerdom, once more the home of the game’s greatest player with the promise that more great stars are coming to join him.
  We’re talking about an all-but-guaranteed return to greatness.
  On the other hand, what have the Lakers done for anyone around here lately?
  Short-sighted as it is, today’s focus is inevitably on the season at hand, which is, and was always going to be, transitionary.
  Guess what? With expectations soaring, this se
  
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• Maritime jobs on tall ships are drawing more women and others seeking employment in non-traditional jobs

  05-01-2019 03:36 via ocregister.com
  
  At 14, and on a family sailing trip aboard a windjammer in Maine, Emma Hathaway became infatuated with sailing and the people who make up its community.
  For the next two years, Hathaway went back to Maine from her Lake Tahoe home to work summer sailing jobs.  At 15, she was the assistant cook aboard a schooner.  At 17, she was as a deckhand sailing from Hawaii to Canada.  She worked her way up, serving as an engineer, bosun, then third, second and first mate.
  Deck hand Peter Damga
  
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• New owner of Anaheim’s GardenWalk plans global food choices, a beer garden, and more entertainment

  05-01-2019 03:24 via ocregister.com
  
  The latest owner of Anaheim’s GardenWalk, its third in a decade, is hoping a slew of changes and new additions will lead to a level of success that has so far eluded the open-air mall that sits less than a mile from Disneyland.
  Whittier-based STC Management has signed leases with restaurants that will serve Indian street food, Japanese fusion cuisine, Taiwanese desserts, boba tea and more, company CEO John Hsu said. Also expected to fill out the mall’s vacant storefronts: a boar
  
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• Sheriff’s supervisors in Orange County jail snitch scandal promoted to top executive ranks

  05-01-2019 03:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County sheriff’s supervisors linked to the misuse of jailhouse informants during a scandal that rocked the county’s justice system more than four years ago were recently promoted to the upper echelons of the department.
  Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders, who uncovered the civil rights violations at the jail in 2014, said in court papers Friday that the promotions of Jon Briggs and William Baker to assistant sheriff showed the department’s insincerity in correcting
  
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• Dodgers sign outfielders Paulo Orlando, Cameron Perkins to minor league contracts

  05-01-2019 02:39 via ocregister.com
  
  The Dodgers signed outfielders Paulo Orlando and Cameron Perkins to minor league contracts on Friday and invited them to spring training.
  Orlando, 33, has 278 games of major league experience from 2015-18, all with the Royals. The Sao Paulo, Brazil native has a .263 career batting average with 18 stolen bases in 25 attempts.
  Perkins, 28, played 42 games for the Phillies as a rookie in 2017, batting .182. He spent 2018 in the Mariners’ system, batting a combined .247 with 11 home runs in 98
  
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• Goose pierced by arrow in Huntington Beach park is recovering physically, but its behavior has changed

  05-01-2019 02:30 via ocregister.com
  
   
  As wildlife technician Cynthia Peterson, left, holds a Canada Goose, Lisa Peronne, right, wildlife care manager with the Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach, cleans and sutures a wound in the neck after it was shot with an arrow last month in Huntington Beach, on Friday, January 4, 2019. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  As wildlife technician Cynthia Peterson, left, holds a Canada Goose, Lisa Peronne, right, wildlife care manager with the Wetlands
  
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• Olympic champions call for Congressional overhaul of U.S. Olympic Committee

  05-01-2019 02:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis and nearly 50 other former Olympians are calling on Congress to overhaul the U.S. Olympic Committee, insisting a major reorganization of the USOC is needed to ensure athlete safety.
  The Committee to Restore Integrity to the USOC on Friday demanded the near-complete resignation of the USOC’s senior administration and board of directors, in addition to asking Congress to rewrite the 1978 Amateur Sports Act and create a more athlete-centric governing body
  
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• These days are different for Kings defenseman Alec Martinez

  05-01-2019 02:19 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — It was defenseman Alec Martinez who scored the game-winning goal in the second overtime for the Kings in a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final on June 13, 2014, giving the Kings a 4-1 series win and their second Cup title in three years.
  It was the proverbial thrill of victory.
  These days, he’s dealing with an upper-body injury that has kept him out the past 12 games. It comes during a down season for the Kings (16-23-3, 35 points), w
  
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• Congressman to introduce bill requiring U.S. Postal Service to have AC in mail trucks

  05-01-2019 01:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Six months after a mail carrier died in her truck on a searing day in the San Fernando Valley, Rep. Tony Cárdenas said he plans to introduce a bill in the coming weeks that if successful would ensure that all U.S. Postal Service delivery vehicles have air-conditioning.
  Veteran carrier Peggy Frank, 63, was found dead in her non-air-conditioned mail truck in Woodland Hills on July 6, a day that temperatures soared to 117 degrees. Los Angeles County coroner’s officials have said t
  
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• Former Maywood teacher charged in fight with student pleads not guilty

  05-01-2019 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By Terri Vermeulen Keith | City News Service
  A former Maywood high school music teacher who was caught on widely circulated cell phone video punching a 14-year-old student during a classroom argument pleaded not guilty Friday, Jan. 4, to a misdemeanor charge.
  Defense attorney William Pitman entered the not guilty plea on behalf of Marston Riley, 64, of Anaheim, who was not required to appear in court for the arraignment since he is charged with a misdemeanor.
  Riley is charged with corporal
  
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• Chihuahua Daisy is a sweet little girl

  05-01-2019 01:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Breed: Chihuahua
  Age: 2 years
  Gender: Spayed female
  Size: 10 pounds
  Daisy’s story: Daisy is a sweet girl who will make a lovely companion. She’s good with other dogs and likes to spend the night in her crate, which can help her adjust to her new home. Wouldn’t you like to give her that home?
  Adoption procedure: Contact Ken-Mar Rescue at kenmarrescue.org
  
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• 14 Southern California restaurants fined $126,142 for labor violations

  05-01-2019 01:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Federal regulators have fined 14 Southern California restaurants a total of $126,142 for failing to pay kitchen workers all of the overtime wages they are owed and for not keeping accurate time records.
  Both are violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
  In an announcement released Thursday, the U.S. Department of Labor‘s wage and hour division said the eateries operate under five different banners: Phoenix Food Boutique Inc., with seven restaurants owned by Tommy Chang, May Cha
  
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• Black Hollywood filmmakers had a good 2018, but not so great for women movie directors

  05-01-2019 01:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Two new academic studies conclude that things have gotten worse for female movie directors.
  Black filmmakers, on the other hand, had a very decent year in 2018, at least according to the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s latest “Inclusion in the Director’s Chair” report.
  The USC study, however, found that of 2018’s 100 top-grossing fictional films, only four – “A Wrinkle in Time,” “Blockers,” “I Feel Pretty” and “Th
  
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• Happy German shepherd Sashi loves being at the center of it all

  05-01-2019 01:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Breed: German shepherd
  Age: 4 years
  Gender: Female
  Sashi’s story: Sashi is a happy girl who loves to make friends and be the center of attention. A little of that and she’ll be your friend for life. She’d like your friendship to be one-on-one, however; she isn’t interested in sharing you with other pets. She knows basic commands but needs a yard with a high fence. And please don’t leave her in that yard and ignore her. She doesn’t care for that.
  Adoption fee:
  
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• Chargers vs. Baltimore Ravens: Who has the edge in AFC wild-card game?

  05-01-2019 00:59 via ocregister.com
  
  When: Sunday, 10:05 a.m. PT
  Where: M&T Bank Stadium
  Line: Ravens by 2 ½
  TV/Radio: KCBS-2; 640-AM, 980-AM (Spanish)
  CHARGERS OFFENSE VS. RAVENS DEFENSE
  Philip Rivers and the Chargers offense haven’t been the same since they were pushed around by the Baltimore Ravens on Dec. 22. Before that 22-10 loss to the Ravens, the Chargers were a top-10 team in total offense, averaging 392 yards per game. Entering the postseason, they’ve fallen outside the top 10, averaging 237 yards i
  
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