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• 17-year-old who police say was fatally shot while attempting to rob Santa Ana tire store is IDed

  12-02-2019 23:48
  
  The 17-year-old boy who was killed during a robbery attempt at a Santa Ana automotive business in which two of his alleged accomplices were also shot was Natanael Perez of Santa Ana, authorities said on Tuesday.
  He was fatally shot just before 3:45 p.m. Sunday at Pro Audio Wheels and Tires at 2015 W. 17th St., said Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna.
  Two other robbery suspects, whose names and ages were withheld, were also shot by someone in the store, Bertagna said. One of those men wa
  
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• Activision to cut 800 jobs after forecast shows revenue shortfall

  12-02-2019 23:44
  
  Activision Blizzard said Tuesday, Feb. 12 it plans to slash costs and hundreds of jobs across the company after reporting fourth-quarter sales that missed estimates and delivered a disappointing forecast.
  The largest independent U.S. video-game publisher reported revenue of $2.84 billion last quarter, missing the $3 billion projection by analysts. The company expects revenue of $1.18 billion in the current period, short of the $1.48 billion consensus.
  “While our financial results for 2018
  
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• California’s union membership falls to 14-year low

  12-02-2019 23:00
  
  California’s labor movement didn’t have a swell 2018 and shrinking membership could be bad for your wealth, union fan or not.
  Two blows hit organized labor last year. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can’t force government workers to pay union dues, and overall membership statewide fell to a 14-year low.
  Unions here and across the nation are dealing with an increasingly hostile environment for growth. Penny-pinching bosses fight hard against uni
  
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• Los Angeles to close 3 power plants in aggressive move toward green energy

  12-02-2019 22:58
  
  The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will be shuttering its three gas-fired coastal power plants over the next decade, a key step in the city’s aspiration to become the nation’s first metropolis to run entirely on renewable energy.
  Its plants in Long Beach, Wilmington and Playa del Rey had been slated for new, more efficient units run on natural gas. That would have extended the life of the plants until 2045, the state’s target for eliminating fossil-fuels as a source
  
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• New Uni football coach wants to make Trojans exciting and fun to watch

  12-02-2019 22:51
  
  University’s new head football coach, Chris Hernandez, wants the Trojans to be exciting to watch next season.
  “I definitely want to go no-huddle, and up-tempo,” he said. “That’s kind of the way the game is now and it’s entertaining for fans. Because you waste about 15 seconds while you’re watching kids huddle. You get more plays in. I told the kids we’re going to be fun to watch, we’re going to play with passion, play hard, play fast, play sm
  
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• Clippers reserve Lou Williams going above and beyond

  12-02-2019 22:34
  
  The Clippers’ comeback tour has concluded after six games in 12 eventful days that featured a flurry of transactions, a rabies scare and pyrotechnics aplenty — most of them sparked by reserve guard Lou Williams, whose historic effort Monday in Minnesota almost resulted in another come-from-way-way-behind victory.
  In the end, the Clippers coach Doc Rivers, unimpressed with the defensive execution, said his team “deserved” to drop the final game on their win-one-lose-one ro
  
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• UC Irvine most popular UC campus among California high school students applying to college

  12-02-2019 22:30
  
  UC Irvine has become the top choice in the UC system for California high school students.
  The university announced recently that the 70,540 soon-to-be graduates who applied to the campus for the upcoming fall semester were the most among the nine campuses in the University of California system.
  “We have very robust outreach efforts,” campus spokesman Tom Vasich said.
  That includes helping high school students realize they have the potential to attend college and helping them navigate
  
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• Driver accused of hitting 9 people in Fullerton out of jail after posting bond

  12-02-2019 22:27
  
  A 22-year-old Anaheim man suspected of driving under the influence of drugs and plowing into a crowd of people got out of jail Tuesday on bond.
  Christopher Solis was incarcerated for about two days following his arrest at the scene early Sunday, Feb. 10, before, jail records show, posting bond for his $100,000 bail early Tuesday morning, Feb. 12.
  Fullerton police were still working on the investigation, which will be turned over to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, Lt. Jon
  
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• AOC and the Democratic Party’s far-left, socialist shift

  12-02-2019 22:20
  
  Nov. 2017 Gallup poll: “58 percent of millennials prefer socialism/communism/fascism over capitalist system.”
  Politico (2017): “Poll finds majority of Democrats say socialism has positive impact.”
  It seems the party of John F. Kennedy would not even consider nominating him these days. It has moved so far left that even JFK’s “A rising tide lifts all boats” speech would be booed by the new Democrat Party as a capitalist statement.
  We know n
  
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• Dodgers announce spring training broadcast schedule

  12-02-2019 22:13
  
  SportsNet LA will televise 20 games from the Dodgers’ spring training this year with 17 games set for broadcast on AM 570. Additionally, eight games will be available in Spanish on KNTQ 1020 and five games will be available via webcast on www.dodgers.com.
  The SportsNet LA telecasts include Saturday and Sunday games each weekend during the spring.
  Here is the spring broadcast schedule:
  Feb. 23 vs. Chicago White Sox — SportsNet LA, AM 570 and KTNQ
  Feb. 24 vs. Angels — SportsNet L
  
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• Big West basketball: The key to Cal State Fullerton’s mid-season turnaround

  12-02-2019 20:07
  
  Don’t look now, but the Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team has slowly been making progress up the Big West standings.
  The Titans are winners of six of their last seven, a stretch that comes after Fullerton lost its first two games in conference play. The run has lifted the Titans into a tie for second place with UC Santa Barbara at 6-3, two games behind first-place UC Irvine.
  With the Big West tournament now just a month away, it’s a good time for the Titans to find thei
  
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• Taco Tuesday: These might be the best tacos al pastor you eat this month

  12-02-2019 20:02
  
  In last week’s Instagram poll I asked readers which style of taco everyone preferred — beef barbacoa or pork al pastor — and the overwhelming majority chose al pastor. So this week it’s high time that everyone knew about the incredible al pastor tacos at Gloria’s Mexican Food in Costa Mesa. 
  The pork is thickly sliced and heavily charred. The meat is infused with a red-chili marinade that seeps into its core and explodes with every bite. It’s so fatt
  
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• OC Fair 2019: Los Lobos, King of Pop and Sweet & Tender Hooligans added to The Hangar line-up

  12-02-2019 19:52
  
  With the OC Fair season still months away, promoters have begun to announce the acts performing inside The Hangar. Located in the heart of the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, The Hangar is a popular place to catch a myriad of music including legacy acts, tribute bands and a few big-name artists.
  East Los Angeles rock band Los Lobos will take the stage on Sunday, July 14; King of Pop: A Michael Jackson Experience will return on Wednesday, July 17; and the ever-popular Sweet & Tender
  
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• Ask the Lawyer: Who protects the kids?

  12-02-2019 19:47
  
  Q: My sister passed away tragically as a result of a car accident. We are fond of her husband, but he has not proven to do well with finances. There is a large settlement of a lawsuit now, and there are three kids, all under 18. Who makes certain the kids get their fair share of the funds?
  -L.K., Los Angeles
  Ron Sokol
  A:  California law requires court review and approval of how funds for the minor children will be handled. Specifically, Petitions for Approval of Minor’s Compromis
  
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• Anaheim’s 13th affordable housing project would have units for families making as little as $32,800 a year

  12-02-2019 19:45
  
  The city of Anaheim is contributing land and some funding to get an apartment complex built at Manchester and Orangewood avenues that would keep all 102 of its units affordable for lower-income families.
  The City Council recently approved the project with Jamboree Housing Corp. Expected to open in 2021, the complex will be the city’s 13th housing project dedicated to offering affordable rents.
  Jamboree Housing last helped open Anaheim’s Rockwood Apartments in 2016, serving families w
  
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• Theater review: Musical Theatre West stages ‘Oliver!’, and we couldn’t ask for more

  12-02-2019 19:23
  
  Its colorful characters, chasm-leaping plot twists and even the belting voices aren’t the main draw of “Oliver!,” in its production by Musical Theatre West. The draw is and probably has always been Lionel Bart’s lush, lilting, unforgettable score.
  The story, of course, is based on Charles Dickens’ novel “Oliver Twist.” Young orphaned Oliver (Travis Burnett) escapes the workhouse, run by the bumbling Mr. Bumble (William Hartery) and the corny Widow Corney
  
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• Álex Lora, the godfather of Mexican rock and roll, celebrates 50 years on the road with El Tri in Anaheim

  12-02-2019 19:22
  
  When Álex Lora played his first shows with Three Souls In My Mind, a Mexican band with English lyrics and a psychedelic name, it was October 1968. He was a 15-year-old kid from the state of Puebla, and his dreams only reached as far as the next gig, and then the one after that.
  Fifty years later, Lora is considered the godfather of Mexican rock and roll, his band, now named El Tri, is referred to as the Rolling Stones of Mexico, and his dream remains the same: Rock as hard you can on any
  
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• Connections: What’s the future of cursive writing in schools?

  12-02-2019 19:10
  
  Not having been blessed with grandchildren, the news came to me a little late. I couldn’t believe it. “Yes,” said the mother of my great nephew, “it’s true. Schools will no longer teach cursive writing.” Pictured memories came to me with smiles. “I remember that lined yellow paper on which we were taught cursive writing. I loved it and the paper.” It was like learning art, but this I could do. All the hours practicing were a delight for me.
  I alway
  
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• Trump says he’s not thrilled with GOP-backed border deal

  12-02-2019 19:07
  
  By ANDREW TAYLOR and ALAN FRAM
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s “unhappy” with a hard-won agreement to prevent a new government shutdown and finance construction of more barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but he didn’t say he wouldn’t sign the measure. GOP congressional leaders swung behind the proposed deal, selling it as a necessary compromise.
  Trump said he doesn’t believe there will be a shutdown, which could have hit hundred
  
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• Agua Caliente Casino works to bring in foodies with restaurant overhauls

  12-02-2019 19:03
  
  The Steakhouse restaurant at Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Rancho Mirage on Monday, February 4, 2019. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
  The Steakhouse restaurant at Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Rancho Mirage on Monday, February 4, 2019. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsBar area of the Steakhouse restaurant at Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Rancho Mirage on Monday, February 4, 2019. (Photo by Watc
  
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• Grand Central 20th

  12-02-2019 17:03
  
  A little over two years ago, Sarah Rafael Garcia, a master’s of fine arts in creative writing in hand, was struggling to find work.
  Leaving Texas, she returned to Santa Ana, where she had grown up, and discovered Grand Central Art Center. She met John Spiak, the director and chief curator, who invited her to become an artist in residence.
  That’s when everything took off. Rafael Garcia developed the multi-media project “SanTana’s Fairy Tales,” presented her Barrio Wr
  
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• Theater review: Punk rock opera ‘Lizzie’ in Anaheim lends a feminist edge to Lizzie Borden’s story

  12-02-2019 17:00
  
  It’s surprising how musicals — theater’s most cheerful, enlivening form — can successfully descend into horror.
  By many measures, it’s so: “The Phantom of the Opera” has seen more total performances on Broadway than any other show; “Sweeney Todd” is one of Stephen Sondheim’s most beloved creations; “Carrie” weds a strong score with more splattered fake pig blood than anyone could expect.
  Those stories are fictional. “L
  
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• How to watch the Queen Mary’s Highland Games like an expert

  12-02-2019 16:57
  
  See impressive feats of agility, skill and brute strength, plus lots of kilts when the Queen Mary honors its heritage with a weekend celebration of Scottish culture anchored by centuries-old games.
  The 26th annual Scots Festival & International Highland Games returns to the Queen Mary on Feb.16-17 with top athletes competing in the feats, which pretty much consist of throwing really heavy things really high or really far.
  “The Highland Games are challenging, they’re fun and every
  
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• Poor results in overdose crisis management call for a shift to harm reduction

  12-02-2019 16:00
  
  A recent report reveals California’s “Death Certificate Project,” is terrorizing doctors into under-prescribing or even abruptly terminating medication for acute and chronic pain patients. The project investigates doctors who have treated patients identified as overdoses on death certificates and considers rescinding their licenses or charging them with homicide.
  It is scandalous that we doctors and our patients are the latest victims of America’s war
  
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• Will Disneyland charge more to ride Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge attractions?

  12-02-2019 15:33
  
  Will Disneyland end up selling Fastpasses for its new Star Wars attractions?
  The thought of having to pay extra on top of the already expensive admission to get into the new Galaxy’s Edge land when it opens this summer at Disneyland might feel like being Force choked by Darth Vader. But Disney now is selling Fastpass reservations for its Star Wars-themed attractions at the Disneyland Paris Resort, and that’s making some fans wary about what the future holds in Anaheim.
  Although Disne
  
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• In Texas, Trump backs wall while O’Rourke rallies opponents

  12-02-2019 15:28
  
  By JILL COLVIN and WILL WEISSERT
  EL PASO, Texas — President Donald Trump charged ahead with his pledge to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, skimming over the details of lawmakers’ tentative deal that would give him far less than he’s been demanding and declaring he’s “setting the stage” to deliver on his signature campaign promise.
  In the first dueling rallies of the 2020 campaign season, Trump’s “Finish the Wall” rally in El Paso went
  
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• Mark Kelly announces run for McCain Senate seat in Arizona

  12-02-2019 15:20
  
  By JONATHAN J. COOPER
  PHOENIX  — Retired astronaut Mark Kelly, who rocketed to the national spotlight when his congresswoman wife Gabrielle Giffords was shot in a failed assassination attempt, announced Tuesday he’s running to finish John McCain’s last term in the U.S. Senate.
  Kelly, 54, is a top Democratic recruit to take on Republican Martha McSally in one of the most closely contested Senate races of the 2020 election.
  McSally is a former Republican congresswoman who wa
  
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• Man who fought with Fullerton police officers after acting erratically dies

  12-02-2019 15:17
  
  This 22-year-old man seen on surveillance video on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, trying to break into a Fullerton home died at a hospital after he fought with officers and paramedics and was subdued. (Image from CBS2 video)
  FULLERTON — A 22-year-old man died who police say was acting erratically in the street and fought officers died Monday at a hospital after being taken into custody.
  The man, whose name has not been released, was yelling at people as they walked by in the 200 block of Kellogg A
  
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• Bargain Hunter: Humphry Slocombe launches Ice Cream Happy Hour

  12-02-2019 14:09
  
  Humphry Slocombe, an artisanal ice cream shop in Venice, has launched Ice Cream Happy Hour 2-6 p.m. Wednesdays, during which you may purchase a single scoop and get one free for a friend. You may pick from six seasonal flavors, including black sesame, dirty chai and coconut lemon sorbet. The shop is at 1653B Abbot Kinney Blvd. For more information, call 424-387-8161 or go to www.humphryslocombe.com.
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• Man charged with trying to sexually assault woman cleaning an office in Irvine

  12-02-2019 09:09
  
  SANTA ANA — Criminal charges were filed Monday against a 21-year-old Santa Ana man accused of trying to sexually assault a woman cleaning an office in an Irvine commercial building.
  Eduardo Godoy Gonzalez. (Photo courtesy Irvine Police Department)
  Eduardo Godoy Gonzalez faces one count each of kidnapping to commit rape, assault with the intent to commit a sex offense, making criminal threats, second-degree burglary and false imprisonment, all felonies, as well as a misdemeanor count of bra
  
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• Albano’s FAB 5: Orange County girls basketball standouts last week, Feb. 11

  12-02-2019 08:47
  
  Dan Albano’s FAB 5 girls basketball players of the week, Feb. 11:
  Joleen Corona, Whittier Christian, Jr.
  The point guard made a 3-pointer and a breakaway layup off her steal to snap a tie and lead the Heralds to a 41-32 victory against Claremont in the second round of the Division 3AA playoffs.
  Cailyn Crocker, Mater Dei, Sr.
  The Cal-bound point guard scored all of her team-high 16 points in the second half to help the Monarchs tie Windward in the final minute of regulation in the Open Divi
  
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• Armed Long Beach man arrested after chase from Seal Beach to Lakewood

  12-02-2019 08:32
  
  SEAL BEACH — A 28-year-old man with outstanding drug- and weapons-related arrest warrants was taken into custody Monday afternoon after leading officers on a vehicle chase from Seal Beach to Lakewood.
  Just after 2 p.m., an officer came upon a vehicle blocking traffic at the intersection of Seal Beach Boulevard and Westminster Avenue and when the officer approached the vehicle, the driver took off, according to Seal Beach police Sgt. Mike Henderson.The suspect, later identified as Roy Thoma
  
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• Yes, Kiss played the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip and here are 3 things we’ll remember

  12-02-2019 08:25
  
  The marquee outside the Whisky a Go Go announced a sold-out show by Wicked Lester, but the banners and posters all over the building’s red stucco exterior made it clear who’d really be onstage at the venerable West Hollywood club on Monday.
  Kiss, the band Wicked Lester became in 1973 after Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons stumbled into the idea of creating comic book characters with wild face paint and crazy costumes, just embarked on its farewell tour, and along with the huge venues th
  
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• OCVarsity Student Section of the Week: A hot Mess was Edison’s secret weapon

  12-02-2019 07:14
  
  Before we get to this week’s OCVarsity Student Section of the Week, we have a special announcement.
  The OCVarsity Basketball Top 25 Student Section Rankings come out next week.
  For those student sections whose team is not in the playoffs, now is the time to make your case for being included in the Top 25 by showing off your best photos and videos of your student section on Twitter — and make sure you include #ocvfans.
  For those of you with a team that is still alive in the playoffs,
  
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• Orange County baseball highlights for Monday, Feb. 11

  12-02-2019 05:50
  
  Highlights and top performers from the Orange County baseball games on Monday, Feb. 11.
  Monday’s baseball scoreboard
  Canyon got a stellar pitching performance from William St. Marseille in a 7-0 win over La Habra in the first game of a doubleheader between the two teams. The Cal Baptist University commit pitched six shutout innings, allowed just two hits and struck out six. John Landry provided some offense for Canyon with two hits, three runs batted in and a stolen base. Ethan Schmidt was
  
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• Doug Kalitta wins second straight NHRA Winternationals Top Fuel title

  12-02-2019 05:32
  
  Funny Car winner Robert Hight celebrates after defeating Jack Beckman in the final round at the 59th annual NHRA Wnternationals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona on Monday, February 11, 2019. Doug Kalitta (Top Fuel), Robert Hight (Funny Car) and Bo Butner (Pro Stock) all took event titles in their respective categories Monday after eliminations were postponed Sunday due to weather. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
  Top Fuel driver Doug Kalitta (right) pulls away from Terry M
  
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• Overwatch League enters second season with eight new teams

  12-02-2019 05:17
  
  BURBANK >> New teams and talent will shake up the Overwatch League, a professional esports league for the team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game, in its second season, which begins on Feb. 14.
  Eight expansion teams were officially introduced at an ‘Insider Preview’ event at the Blizzard Arena in Burbank on Feb. 8.
  The change from 12 to 20 teams will bring new challenges and aspects to the league along with an influx of talent. It will also impact the schedule wi
  
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• Lou Williams scores 45 for Clippers, but they drop trip finale to Timberwolves

  12-02-2019 05:05
  
  LA Clippers’ Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, left, drives on Minnesota Timberwolves’ Josh Okogie in the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
  Minnesota Timberwolves’ Luol Deng, left, lays up over Los Angeles Clippers’ Danilo Gallinari in the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsLA Clippers’ Danilo Gallinari dunks against
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Monday (2-11-19)

  12-02-2019 04:44
  
  Scores and stats for the Orange County games on Monday, Feb. 11.
  BASEBALL
  SOFTBALL
  BOYS SOCCER
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Second round
  de Toledo 8, Fairmont Prep 1
  
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• Kings are no match for Capitals’ Evgeny Kuznetsov in finale of six-game trip

  12-02-2019 03:55
  
  Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin celebrates after assisting a goal scored by defenseman Christian Djoos during the second period of Monday’s game against the Kings in Washington. The Capitals won 6-4. (AP Photo/Al Drago)
  The Kings’ Drew Doughty skates in front of the Capitals’ Matt Niskanen during the first period of Monday’s game in Washington. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsWASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 11: Austin Wagner #51
  
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• Fryer on basketball: Crean Lutheran continues to exceed expectations

  12-02-2019 03:47
  
  Crean Lutheran might be the least-expected Orange County team to advance to the second round of the boys basketball playoffs.
  Crean might even be the least-expected county team to even make the playoffs.
  But here are the Saints, 16-13 and in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 2A playoffs after a 67-66 win over Sonora in the first round Friday. They play at home Tuesday against Redlands East Valley (24-4) in the 2A second round.
  Crean Lutheran won the 3AA championship last seas
  
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• Question of the Week: What do you think about third-party candidates for president in 2020?

  12-02-2019 03:29
  
  In most any other democracy on Earth, having a third- — or fourth-, or fifth- — party candidate become a major player in a presidential or prime ministerial election would not be an aberration at all. It would be the norm.
  In our nation, though the names of the two strongest parties often changed up until the mid-19th century, no third-party candidate has ever won the presidential election. Not that such candidates have not had an influence on presidential polling. In 1912, Theodore
  
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• FBI arrests man suspected of pouring bleach on grocery store goods in South Bay, West Los Angeles

  12-02-2019 02:58
  
  A 48-year-old transient was arrested last week on suspicion of pouring bleach on goods at grocery stores in the South Bay and West Los Angeles and has faced similar charges in Orange County and elsewhere, federal authorities said Monday.
  A man identified in a criminal complaint filed this month as David Claire Lohr was seen on security video picking up bottles of bleach at markets in Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Westwood and West Hollywood, where customers later complained of smelling bleach
  
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• No constitutional stalemate in a Congress-president tiff

  12-02-2019 02:14
  
  Most observers of the American political scene today would say that the president wants a border wall and the Congress does not.
  That, however, is quite inaccurate. “The Congress” is not Speaker Nancy Pelosi, nor any single member of the House or Senate. Constitutionally, the Congress expresses its will only one way: by passing legislation. It has no authority to issue orders having the effect of law, as the president does with executive orders, or the Judicial Branch does by issuing
  
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• Photos: Kalitta, Hight and Butner win event titles at 59th NHRA Winternationals in Pomona Monday

  12-02-2019 02:12
  
  Event winners Robert Hight (left), Funny Car, and Doug Kalitta (right), Top Fuel, celebrate their victories at the 59th annual NHRA Wnternationals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona on Monday, February 11, 2019. Doug Kalitta (Top Fuel), Robert Hight (Funny Car) and Bo Butner (Pro Stock) all took event titles in their respective categories Monday after eliminations were postponed Sunday due to weather. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
  Eventual Top Fuel winner Doug Kalitta (le
  
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• Construction firm that worked on Surf City apartments fined nearly $12 million for wage theft

  12-02-2019 02:11
  
  A City of Industry construction firm has been fined nearly $12 million in what state regulators are calling the biggest wage theft violation ever by a private company in California.
  The state Labor Commissioner’s Office announced Monday, Feb. 11 that it cited RDV Construction Inc. for violations that left more than a thousand workers waiting weeks or months to be paid, only to receive a portion of what they were owed.
  The company hired crews to provide framing, drywall and o
  
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• Fryer’s Five: Orange County boys basketball standouts last week, Feb. 11

  12-02-2019 02:03
  
  Steve Fryer’s five standout basketball players from last week:
  Nico Dasca, Costa Mesa: His final game as a Mustang was a bittersweet one for the 5-7 senior guard. Dasca, a high scorer all season, tallied 27 points in a 55-43 loss to Burroughs of Ridgecrest in a CIF-Southern Section Division 4AA first-round playoff game.
  David Lucio, Loara: Lucio, a 6-3 senior, scored 24 points with 10 rebounds as the visiting Saxons defeated Nogales 64-54 in a Division 4A first-round game.
  Makur Maker, Ora
  
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• 18.6 million trees died in California in 2018, Forest Service survey finds

  12-02-2019 01:58
  
  Millions of mature trees died last year in California, adding to the browning of the state’s forests and open spaces while providing fuel for the next round of wildfires that most assuredly will hit the state when warmer temperatures and hot winds return, federal officials said Monday.
  The Holy fire burns in the mountains in the Cleveland National Forest near Glen Ivy Hot Springs in Corona on Saturday, August 11, 2018. Dead trees can contribute to hotter and more intense fires.<br />
  
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• Appeal of 2525 N. Main St. apartment project back at next Santa Ana council meeting

  12-02-2019 01:50
  
  The developer of a large apartment complex that would be across the street from the Discovery Cube is hoping Santa Ana’s City Council will be more open to the project previously rejected by the city’s planning commissioners.
  Council members are expected to talk about the appeal on Feb. 19, after starting their hearing on the 476-unit project proposed at 2525 N. Main St. at their last meeting. The meeting was running late into the night when they decided to pick the hearing back
  
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• Tim Salter retires from Upland football

  12-02-2019 01:03
  
  It was quite simply time to step aside. That’s how Tim Salter described his decision to end a legendary career when he announced on Monday his resignation as the head coach of the Upland High School football team.
  As his retirement from teaching beckons, and without recalling what a summer away from football feels like, Salter put to a close a career that saw him win four CIF championships and turn Upland into a Southern California power.
  “It’s been a fantastic 25 years at Upla
  
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