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• U.S. ranked 48th in world in press freedoms

  04-05-2019 23:34
  
  Hey, we’re No. 48!
  Worse than Tonga and Romania, it’s true. But better than No. 49, Senegal!
  And sad to say the United States of America did slip from last year’s No. 45 on Reporters Without Borders’ 2019 World Press Freedom Index.
  I scrolled way up to the single digits from our neighborhood of semi-tyrannical nations and, damn. It’s enough to turn a person into a conspiracy theorist. Here’s your top five countries in terms of being able to exercise the freedo
  
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• LA Galaxy falls to to Red Bulls, ending 7-game unbeaten streak

  04-05-2019 23:27
  
  HARRISON, N.J. — Marc Rzatkowski and Derrick Etienne scored in the second half to rally the New York Red Bulls for a 3-2 victory Saturday, ending the LA Galaxy’s seven-game unbeaten streak.
  Rzatkowski made it 2-2 for the Red Bulls (3-4-2), finishing Connor Lade’s cross in the 59th minute with a left-footed shot from a yard behind the penalty spot. Etienne scored on a similar setup from Daniel Royer eight minutes later.
  Amro Tarek gave New York a 1-0 lead in the 15th minute. Rza
  
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• Reds release former Dodgers All-Star Matt Kemp

  04-05-2019 22:53
  
  CINCINNATI  — The Reds have released injured outfielder Matt Kemp just over four months after acquiring the 2018 All-Star from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  Cincinnati announced the move Saturday.
  Kemp hit .200 with one homer and five RBIs before Cincinnati placed him on the injured list April 23 with a broken left rib. Kemp was injured colliding with an outfield wall in San Diego.
  The 34-year-old was among four players acquired from Los Angeles in a seven-player trade in December along wi
  
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• Whicker: Golovkin’s new coach Jonathon Banks is asked to improve on near-perfection

  04-05-2019 22:43
  
  LAS VEGAS — Gennady Golovkin has fought 40 times as a professional.. He never lost until last September.
  Clearly it was time for a change.
  Out goes trainer Abel Sanchez, and not quietly.
  In comes Jonathon Banks, who is quiet and thoughtful and believes the 37-year-old middleweight has some punches left, depending on whether he throws them.
  “I saw his two fights with Canelo (Alvarez),” said Banks on Saturday, as the boxing world prepared for Canelo’s middleweight title mat
  
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• UCLA beach volleyball in NCAA final, USC still alive in contenders bracket

  04-05-2019 22:11
  
  One more win for No. 117.
  With a 3-0 win over No. 5 LSU on Saturday at the NCAA beach volleyball championships in Gulf Shores, Ala., No. 2 UCLA is one victory away from repeating as national champions and winning the school’s 117th NCAA title across all sports.
  The Bruins advanced to Sunday’s national final at 11 a.m. PT and will meet the survivor of the contenders bracket between the Tigers and No. 1 USC after the Trojans notched victories over No. 3 Florida State and No. 7 Hawaii t
  
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• Under heavy rocket fire, Israeli reprisals kill 3

  04-05-2019 21:48
  
  By FARES AKRAM
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian militants on Saturday fired over 200 rockets into Israel, drawing dozens of retaliatory airstrikes on targets across the Gaza Strip in a round of intense fighting that broke a monthlong lull between the bitter enemies.
  Three Palestinians, including a pregnant mother and her baby daughter, were killed, while three Israelis, including an 80-year-old woman, were wounded by rocket fire.
  The fighting came as leaders from Hamas, the militant gro
  
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• It’s Trump vs. Congress as both sides dig in

  04-05-2019 21:36
  
  By LISA MASCARO
  WASHINGTON — They’re talking about jailing people at the Capitol. Imposing steep fines. All sorts of extraordinary, if long-shot measures to force the White House to comply with Democratic lawmakers’ request for information about President Donald Trump stemming from the special counsel’s Russia investigation.
  This is the remarkable state of affairs between the executive and legislative branches, unseen in recent times, as Democrats try to break through Tru
  
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• CIF-SS baseball playoffs schedule, second round, Tuesday

  04-05-2019 21:14
  
  CIF-SOUTHERN SECTION BASEBALL PLAYOFFS
  SECOND ROUND
  TUESDAY, MAY 7 (all games 3:15 p.m.)
  DIVISION 1
  Orange Lutheran at Etiwanda
  Harvard-Westlake at Ayala
  Aliso Niguel at El Toro
  Bishop Amat at Huntington Beach
  La Mirada at Palm Desert
  Notre Dame/SO at Mira Costa
  Yucaipa at West Ranch
  Cypress at Capistrano Valley
  DIVISION 2
  Arcadia at El Segundo
  Damien at Santa Margarita
  Oaks Christian at Temescal Canyon
  Redondo at King
  Thousand Oaks at Crescenta Valley
  Maranatha at Quartz Hill
  St. Bonaventure at
  
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• With anti-Semitism on the rise, Jews must call out hatred on the left and the right

  04-05-2019 21:00
  
  Es iz schwer tzu sein a yid. It is hard to be a Jew. — Sholem Aleichem
  The recent deadly assault on the Chabad temple in Poway — just six months after a bloodier massacre in Pittsburgh — reflects the sad reality that anti-Semitism in all its hoary forms, is back.
  This is, if anything, even more the case in Europe, where Jewish populations are under siege and are almost one-third as large as right after the Holocaust.
  Sadly, confronted by such incidents, the Jewish community, re
  
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• 4 elements that made the Just Like Heaven music festival, well, heaven in Long Beach

  04-05-2019 21:00
  
  Just Like Heaven brought two days of indie and alternative rock bliss to music fans at the Queen Mary Events Park in Long Beach on Friday, May 3, and Saturday, May 4.
  Unlike other festivals, the back-to-back days were actually twin editions, rather than a multi-day festival. Tickets sold out for Saturday’s event so quickly that festival producer Goldenvoice added a second day with the same lineup, which included Phoenix, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beach House, MGMT and the Rapture, for Friday.
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• First case of measles in Long Beach reported for 2019

  04-05-2019 20:41
  
  A Long Beach resident has been diagnosed with measles, the first case in the city since 2015, the Health Department confirmed Saturday morning, May 4.
  The adult, whose gender and age has not been identified, is recovering at home, the department said in a statement. That person may have exposed others at eight Long Beach locations over the previous week:
  4/28: Pizzanista, 1837 E 7th St., 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
  4/28: Total Wine, 7400 Carson Blvd., 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
  4/30: Susan European Dress
  
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• CIF-SS Division 1 swim: Live results from Riverside (updated)

  04-05-2019 20:17
  
  The CIF-SS Division 1 swim finals:
  RIVERSIDE
  BOYS SWIMMING
  200-yard medley relay – 1. Loy 1:29.80 – new Division 1 record; AN DQ; 2. HW 1:32.00, 3. Hart 1:33.61
  200 free – 1. Ingram (Foot) 1:36.14, 2. Van Zandt (Cres) 1:36.32, 3. Mykkanen (Foot) 1:38.13
  200 IM – 1. Zinn (LaHi) 1:48.61, 2. Park (HW) 1:48.70, 3. R. Abdollahi (DH) 1:49.12
  50 free – 1. Lee (Loy) 20.09, 2. Martinez (Ser) 20.27, 3t. Lee (Uni) 20.34, 3t. B. Lou (Uni) 20.34
  GIRLS SWIMMING
  200-yard medley re
  
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• UCI student has 2nd case of measles reported in Orange County

  04-05-2019 19:58
  
  IRVINE – A UC Irvine graduate student has the second confirmed case of measles in Orange County this year, UCI officials say.
  “Yesterday evening, the Orange County Health Care Agency (OCHCA) notified UCI’s Student Health Center leaders that one of our graduate students has a confirmed case of the measles,” Chancellor Howard Gillman wrote in an online letter to “the UCI community” posted Saturday, May 4.
  School officials were told the student attended classes o
  
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• Trump attacks social media companies after Facebook bans

  04-05-2019 19:33
  
  STERLING, Virginia — President Donald Trump criticized social media companies after Facebook banned a number of extremist figures, declaring that he was “monitoring and watching, closely!!”
  Trump, who tweeted and re-tweeted complaints Friday and Saturday, said he would “monitor the censorship of AMERICAN CITIZENS on social media platforms.” He has previously asserted that social media companies exhibit bias against conservatives, something the companies have rejecte
  
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• Beer pong 2020: Will Gillibrand’s cool campaign pay off?

  04-05-2019 19:27
  
  By WILL WEISSERT
  NASHUA, New Hampshire — Her first shot landed short and her teammate’s bounced away. But Kirsten Gillibrand’s second ping pong ball splashed home and she threw both arms skyward while her opponents chugged, celebrating a beer pong victory in the most presidential way possible.
  The scene on a rainy Friday night in a bar in Nashua, New Hampshire’s second-largest city, follows a pattern for the 52-year-old New York senator. She’s trailed better-known r
  
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• Trump fixer Michael Cohen’s final weekend of freedom

  04-05-2019 19:18
  
  By JIM MUSTIAN and MICHAEL R. SISAK
  WASHINGTON — For months, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen tried — but failed — to position himself as a whistleblower in the vein of Watergate hero John Dean.
  As the time ticked down toward his deadline to report to prison, Cohen also lost the interest of the one group of people who could help him out: the federal prosecutors he desperately hoped would ask a judge to shorten his sentence.
  Since mid-March, prosecutors
  
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• Disney reveals lineup of Star Wars-themed beers and wines coming to Galaxy’s Edge

  04-05-2019 19:13
  
  After a long day exploring Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, there’s no better place for an ice cold Gold Squadron beer or a nice glass of Imperial Guard red wine than Oga’s Cantina, the wretched hive of scum and villainy at the center of the remote outer rim spaceport.
  A set of trademark patents recently filed by the Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm reveal the lineup of Star Wars-themed beers, wines and cider that will be on tap at the intimate spaceport tavern when Galaxy’s Ed
  
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• Recipe: Spanish Tortilla is a tasty tapas dish made with eggs and potatoes

  04-05-2019 19:07
  
  Spanish Tortilla, the frittata-like dish that’s rich in starchy sliced potatoes adrift in beaten eggs, is a beloved tapa dish in Spain. Cut into wedges, it’s scrumptious served cold, warm or room temperature. Add sautéed diced red bell pepper if you like; diced ham is another tasty addition. Garlic lovers may opt to top each wedge with a drizzle of aioli.
  It can be transformed into a passed appetizer by cutting it into bite-sized portions using a small round cookie cutter.
  Thi
  
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• Justice Clarence Thomas’ moment may finally have arrived

  04-05-2019 19:07
  By JESSICA GRESKO
  WASHINGTON — Clarence Thomas has been a Supreme Court justice for nearly three decades. It may finally be his moment.
  Many Americans know Thomas largely from his bruising 1991 confirmation hearing, when he was accused of sexual harassment charges by former employee Anita Hill — charges he denied. People may know he’s a conservative and has gone years without speaking during arguments at the court. But scholars say it would be wise to pay closer attention to Th
  
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• BeachLife Festival wraps its first-ever day with Bob Weir and Wolf Brothers, Slightly Stoopid and As the Crow Flies

  04-05-2019 18:48
  
  As Bob Weir, the longtime singer-guitarist of the Grateful Dead, wrapped his set with the Wolf Brothers at BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach on Friday, he chose the Dead’s gentle “Ripple” as his encore.
  The crowd sang along to lines such as “Let there be songs to fill the air,” while a hundred yards or so to Weir’s right, the waters of the Pacific Ocean softly surged in the darkness that only recently arrived.
  It was a beautiful moment, relaxed like nearly a
  
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• SpaceX launches resupply mission to ISS

  04-05-2019 18:20
  
  HAWTHORNE — Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched a resupply mission to the International Space Station early Saturday, May 4, in an operation that was delayed a couple of days due to electrical problems.
  “Dragon is on its way to the International Space Station! Capture by the @Space_Station crew set for early Monday morning,” the company tweeted Saturday.Dragon is on its way to the International Space Station! Capture by the @Space_Station crew set for early Monday morning pic.twitt
  
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• Despite trauma and turbulence, Southern California Muslims move into the month of Ramadan with prayer and positivity

  04-05-2019 18:00
  
  Sheik Atef Mahgoub is a proud Steelers and Penguins fan.
  As someone who considers Pittsburgh his home, and as an imam who has worked closely with the Jewish community in that city, Mahgoub, who is now religious director of the Islamic Center of Irvine, was devastated on Oct. 27 when a self-proclaimed white supremacist fatally shot 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, a beloved Jewish enclave, on Shabbat morning.
  The carnage didn’t end with Pittsburgh. On March 15, a wh
  
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• Facing the bleak picture of advancing climate change

  04-05-2019 17:39
  
  Christopher, 30, sat in the aisle seat next to me on my return flight from attending my son’s wedding in Minneapolis. After we both finished watching videos, he turned to me and started up a conversation — typical stuff about what I was watching on my iPad, where I lived and, of course, what I did for a living.
  When I told him I wrote stories about the environment and climate change as well as green transportation for a SoCal newspaper group, his response surprised me.
  “I don&r
  
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• What to consider when buyers request repairs

  04-05-2019 16:54
  
  So you’re in escrow to sell your house. You’re counting the days until it closes and counting the number of Benjamin’s that will be added to your bank account after the dust settles.
  Then your agent calls with the news that the buyers’ list of requested repairs is in, and it’s long and detailed. Your mood swings rapidly from exhilaration to exasperation.
  How can this be possible? You clearly indicated that the house is to be sold “as is,” and you ju
  
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• Santa Anita consensus picks for Saturday May 4

  04-05-2019 16:49
  
  The consensus box of picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Saturday May 4 at Santa Anita.
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• Single? Divorced? Tips on planning for a non-traditional family

  04-05-2019 15:00
  
  Family structures have evolved from the traditional household of a father, mother, and one or more children under the age of 21 living together in a household. A variety of other arrangements — couples in same-sex marriages, unmarried couples with children, blended families, grandparents raising grandchildren, and of course, single-parent households — also exist.
  Whether you’re living in a household as a single parent, a divorced parent, a same-sex partner, or cohabiting with y
  
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• No matter the technology, commercial real estate will always be a local trade

  04-05-2019 14:00
  
  When I started plying my trade in the early 80s, our means of sourcing new business were the phone, a Rolodex, shiny shoes, and a big smile! My, my, how things have changed.
  If you were engaged to find someone a building or secured an agency to list a vacant property, your methods of getting the word out we’re limited to the U.S. mail, newspaper ads, calls, signs, and telling your fellow brokers. Area specialization was key. Because there were no multiple listing services — local kno
  
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• Whicker: Dodgers look like they’ve been there before

  04-05-2019 08:46
  
  SAN DIEGO — “I didn’t see any panic,” Dave Roberts said.
  Not even when he saw Cody Bellinger crouched near first base, after he had dived unsuccessfully.
  Not even when Roberts learned that Bellinger’s right shoulder had somehow come loose from the rest of him, and then re-entered wherever it was supposed to be.
  “We did some strength testing with him, he took a few swings in the cage,” Roberts said. “I think he’ll be fine. But his shoulder pop
  
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• CIF-SS baseball playoffs: Friday’s scores, updated schedule

  04-05-2019 08:37
  
  The scores from Friday’s games in the CIF-SS baseball playoffs and the updated schedule.
  CIF-SS BASEBALL
  DIVISION 2
  First round
  Arcadia 6, Pacifica 2
  El Segundo 6, Santa Fe 4
  Santa Margarita 7, Tahquitz 1
  Damien 3, Sierra Canyon 2
  Oaks Christian 4, Agoura 1
  Temescal Canyon 5, La Quinta 2
  Redondo 10, Santa Barbara 2
  King 3, Bonita 2
  Thousand Oaks 3, Glendora 2
  Crescenta Valley 4, Rio Mesa 1
  Quartz Hill 8, Lakewood 4
  Maranatha 6, Trabuco Hills 1
  St. Bonaventure 1, Simi Valley 0
  Norco 5, Don
  
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• Max Muncy’s RBI single in 9th completes Dodgers’ comeback in San Diego

  04-05-2019 07:44
  
  SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – MAY 03:Clayton Kershaw #22 of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches during the third inning of a game against the San Diego Padres at PETCO Park on May 03, 2019 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
  San Diego Padres’ Ian Kinsler, right, is greeted by Manny Machado (13) after hitting a home run during the third inning of the team’s baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Friday, May 3, 2019, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Friday (5-3-19)

  04-05-2019 07:04
  
  Scores and stats for the Orange County games on Friday, May 3.
  BASEBALL
  SOFTBALL
  BOYS TENNIS
  CIF-SS TEAM PLAYOFFS
  OPEN DIVISION
  First round
  University 15, Corona del Mar 3
  Mira Costa 10, Arcadia 8
  Palos Verdes 9 (88), Northwood 9 (73)
  Harvard-Westlake 15, Peninsula 3
  DIVISION 1
  Second round
  Beckman 13, Great Oak 5
  DIVISION 2
  Second round
  Cypress 9 (72), Temple City 9 (66)
  Edison 10, West Torrance 8
  Foothill 13, Santa Barbara 5
  DIVISION 3
  Second round
  San Juan Hills 12, Long Beach Poly 6
  Redlands
  
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• Whicker: Padres are finally playing for something, and Kirby Yates is there to protect it

  04-05-2019 06:24
  
  SAN DIEGO — Kirby Yates felt a baseball career slipping through his fingers.
  So he split them.
  On April 13, 2017, he stood on a shivery mound in Salt Lake City, pitching for the Angels’ Triple-A team against Sacramento. Two innings, no hits, five strikeouts, almost exclusively on a split-fingered fastball that dove like a seagull.
  “I don’t know how many swings and misses I got that night, but there were a lot,” Yates said Friday. “Consistent movement, swings a
  
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• Orange County baseball/softball highlights for Friday, May 3

  04-05-2019 06:21
  
  Highlights and top performers from the Orange County baseball and softball games on Friday, May 3.
  BASEBALL
  Friday’s baseball scoreboard
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  First round
  DIVISION 2
  Matt McClure struck out 10 batters in six innings and No. 7 Santa Margarita tamed Tahquitz 7-1 Friday for its second road win of the week. Connor Bain and Trevor Clift had two RBI apiece for the Eagles (22-11), who come home to play Damien (17-11) in Tuesday’s second round.
  DIVISION 4
  Hector Garcia fired a thre
  
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• Villa Park baseball walks away with playoff win after 14-inning battle with Corona del Mar

  04-05-2019 06:16
  
  Villa Park’s Caleb Martin shows his excitement after drawing a walk-off, bases loaded walk in the fourteenth inning of a first round game of CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs against Corona del Mar at Villa Park in Villa Park on Friday, May 3, 2019. Villa Park won, 2-1. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)
  Villa Park’s Aaron Perez shows his excitement after getting out of a bases-loaded jam during a first round game of CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs against Corona del Mar at Villa
  
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• Villa Park baseball walks away with playoff win after 13-inning battle with Corona del Mar

  04-05-2019 06:16
  
  Villa Park’s Caleb Martin shows his excitement after drawing a walk-off, bases loaded walk in the fourteenth inning of a first round game of CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs against Corona del Mar at Villa Park in Villa Park on Friday, May 3, 2019. Villa Park won, 2-1. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)
  Villa Park’s Aaron Perez shows his excitement after getting out of a bases-loaded jam during a first round game of CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs against Corona del Mar at Villa
  
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• Ocean View’s Falcon takes home two titles, but not records, at Division 4 swimming finals

  04-05-2019 05:56
  
  RIVERSIDE – Ocean View swimmer Dominic Falcon went into the CIF SS Division 4 Finals on Friday at the Riverside Aquatics Center gunning for division records in the 200-yard free and 500 free.
  Falcon fell a bit short of that goal, but still finished well ahead of the competition in both races.
  Falcon won the 200 free in 1 minute, 38.79 seconds, more than three seconds ahead of second place finisher Dylan Hou of Diamond Bar.
  The senior came back later to win the 500 free in 4:29.54, nearly s
  
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• AVP Tour: April Ross, Alix Klineman start strong at Huntington Beach Open

  04-05-2019 05:54
  
  Alexa Strange gets to the ball as she and her partner Emily Hartong take on top-seeded April Ross and Alix Klineman during a second-round match of the AVP Huntington Beach Open on Friday in Huntington Beach. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Fans watch as Taylor Crabb serves on the main court during the AVP Huntington Beach Open next to the pier in Huntington Beach on Friday, May 3, 2019. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume inse
  
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• Death row prisoner who murdered infant in San Bernardino County in 1981 dies

  04-05-2019 05:44
  
  Death row inmate Brett Pensinger, 56, who murdered 5-month-old Michelle Melander in San Bernardino County in 1981, died of natural causes Thursday, May 2, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced.
  Pensinger, who at the time of the crime was a 19-year-old Orange County resident, abducted Michelle and her brother after drinking with their parents in a Parker, Arizona, bar. The brother, Michael, was dropped off and unharmed, but Michelle was found mutilated. Pensinger w
  
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• Death row prisoner who murdered girl in San Bernardino County in 1981 dies

  04-05-2019 05:44
  
  Death row inmate Brett Pensinger, 56, who murdered 5-month-old Michelle Melander in San Bernardino County in 1981, died of natural causes Thursday, May 2, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced.
  Pensinger, who at the time of the crime was a 19-year-old Orange County resident, abducted Michelle and her brother after drinking with their parents in a Parker, Arizona, bar. The brother, Michael, was dropped off and unharmed, but Michelle was found mutilated. Pensinger w
  
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• Arcadia fends off Pacifica rally, then pulls away for Division 2 first-round win

  04-05-2019 05:41
  
  ARCADIA — It was recently announced that Arcadia High, known for its academics, is ranked in the top two percent among the nation’s 19,000 public high schools, and is in the top two percent in the state as well.
  On top of that, Arcadia, which has an enrollment of approximately 3,300 students, had a graduation rate of a hundred percent last school year.
  Arcadia High is also making its mark athletically, and the baseball team, currently ranked 17th in the state by MaxPreps, is the late
  
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• Inland Empire NAACPs want break from national charter school moratorium

  04-05-2019 05:37
  
  By Esmeralda Fabián Romero || LA School Report
  NAACP branches in three Southern California counties that have some of the state’s largest populations of black students are calling to end the charter school moratorium adopted by their national board in 2016.
  The San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino branches have submitted separate resolutions to NAACP’s state board saying they oppose the moratorium, a move that breaks with the state organization’s education chair, Juli
  
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• Dodgers’ A.J. Pollock ‘resting and recovering’ after surgery with no timeline for return yet

  04-05-2019 05:00
  
  SAN DIEGO — Whatever expectations the Dodgers have for A.J. Pollock’s return to action, they are keeping them to themselves.
  Pollock underwent surgery Thursday to remove a plate and screws from his right elbow, hardware that was inserted after he fractured his elbow in 2016. Pollock is home “resting and recovering,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, and still taking antibiotics to treat a bacterial infection in the bursa sac in that elbow.
  How long Pollock will need to r
  
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• Esperanza softball scores two runs in sixth to beat Mater Dei in Division 1 playoffs

  04-05-2019 04:44
  
  ANAHEIM – The Esperanza softball team had a hard time figuring out Mater Dei pitcher Jolie Gustave for the first five innings of Friday’s game, but things changed in the sixth.
  With two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning, Aztecs cleanup hitter Taylor Halterman drove in two runs with a single. Those runs and Emily Gomez’s complete-game one-hitter gave Esperanza a 2-1 victory over Mater Dei in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs at Esperanza High.
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• Just Like Heaven festival doubles down in Long Beach with Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more

  04-05-2019 02:12
  
  When the lineup was announced for Just Like Heaven, the indie alternative music festival taking over the Queen Mary Events Park in Long Beach this weekend, Sarah Frazier immediately started texting her mom and her sister to make plans to attend.
  “This was the first cool music I listened to in middle school,” the 24-year-old Los Angeles resident said Friday afternoon as the band Tennis played on one of the two large stages. Frazier’s mom and sister drove up from San Diego to joi
  
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• Los Angeles’ urban-runoff projects expand, but dirty-water violators go unpunished, says NRDC report

  04-05-2019 02:00
  
  While the state agency responsible for policing Los Angeles County’s polluted urban and stormwater runoff boasts significant progress in its monumental task, a National Resource Defense Council report this week criticizes the water-quality panel for lackluster enforcement.
  Dozens of projects to cleanse or divert runoff are underway as the county wrestles with the problem of bacteria and chemicals washing from the concrete landscape into waterways, onto beaches and out to sea. And county vo
  
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• Are retail jobs in a funk? It’s complicated

  04-05-2019 02:00
  
  By Anne D’Innocenzio, The Associated Press
  The overall economy is adding jobs, but there’s one spot that appears to be in a funk: retail.
  Overall, U.S. employers added 263,000 jobs in April, according to the government data released Friday. The retail sector lost 12,000 jobs that same month.
  That decline wasn’t a blip; the sector has shed 49,100 jobs in the past 12 months despite the faster pace of economic growth.
  Retail job losses appear to reflect broader changes in the econ
  
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• Lab mix Mazzy will melt your heart

  04-05-2019 01:29
  
  Breed: Labrador retriever- shar-pei mix
  Age: 3 years
  Gender: Spayed female
  Size: 39 pounds
  Mazzy’s story: What a special girl Mazzy is. Her favorite thing to do is lay her head in your lap for loves. She is house-trained and super-sweet. Mazzy is a solid girl who loves her nightly romps at the park and would be a great partner to help you stay in shape. She gets along with and enjoys dogs of similar size or larger – but no small dogs or cats. You won’t be disappointed if you de
  
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• Long Beach State volleyball seniors thinking about legacy ahead of national title match with Hawaii

  04-05-2019 01:21
  
  LONG BEACH — The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team had 12 days between the Big West Tournament championship match and Thursday’s national semifinal. A dozen squares on a calendar in which the team could have dwelled on its loss to Hawaii in the conference title match.
  It would have only been human nature, with that much time on their hands shortly after a heartbreaking, five-set loss. But the 49ers didn’t linger on the defeat.
  “Right when we got in the locker r
  
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• Sweet bichon fries mix Missy would fit right into your home

  04-05-2019 01:19
  
  Breed: Bichon frise mix
  Age: 6 years
  Gender: Spayed female
  Size: 12 pounds
  Missy’s story: Missy is sweet, cute and lovable – and she doesn’t shed! She gets along well in her foster family, being well-mannered and good with children and other dogs. She is also house-trained. Missy had to have a mass removed from her mouth earlier this month. Bichon Rescue OC is awaiting the results of a biopsy. You can track Missy’s progress here. Missy has been recover
  
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• New Orange County Museum of Art expected to break ground this year

  04-05-2019 01:08
  
  Having recently secured Costa Mesa’s approval for its unique design, the Orange County Museum of Art’s new venue planned at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts could begin construction later this year.
  The building’s rooftop terrace, cascading sweep of outdoor steps and walls forming unpredictable angles and curves, which won a design award from Architecture magazine earlier this year, will round out the arts-and-culture campus that already includes a concert hall, three theater
  
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