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• A softball season to remember: Freshmen gel as a team

  28-05-2019 23:48
  
  Sometimes, you just have to get away to find your way.
  Even as she refused to discuss winning Big West titles, Kelly Ford found herself trying to figure out a way to a win a fourth conference title with 10 freshmen on the roster and without her best pitcher, Trish Parks, who suffered a concussion during a throwing session just the day before.
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  So Ford, Cal State Fullerton’s softball coach, followed through with a planned team ge
  
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• Jonathan dos Santos has been a driving force for LA Galaxy this season

  28-05-2019 23:44
  
  Jonathan dos Santos doesn’t lead the Galaxy in goals or assists.
  He has scored just two goals, including a blast from approximately 22 yards in the Galaxy’s 1-0 win over Orlando City SC, Friday that snapped a four-game losing streak.
  Still, some will say that’s he’s the most important player on the Galaxy.
  Dos Santos has played in 13 of the Galaxy’s 14 games entering Wednesday’s visit to Sporting Kansas City (5:30 p.m.; Spectrum SportsNet). He sat out the May
  
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• Southern California house price gains shrinking, report confirms

  28-05-2019 23:40
  
  Southern California house prices increased by the smallest margin in seven during the first three months of the year, with the lowest gain among 20 key U.S. metro areas, yet another market tracker confirmed Tuesday, May 28.
  Prices were up 1.3% in the Los Angeles-Orange County region as of March, the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index reported. That’s the smallest housing appreciation rate for the two counties since July 2012.
  L.A.-Orange County tied San Diego for lowest house-price gain
  
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• Randell named new boys basketball coach at Irvine; Klamberg to spend more time with his family

  28-05-2019 23:24
  
  Irvine High’s varsity boys basketball team has a new coach.
  Shacolby Randell, former head coach at Mountain View High School in El Monte, has been named to replace long-time coach Kris Klamberg, according to Bob King, Irvine High assistant principal.
  Klamberg, who was Irvine’s coach for 14 years, will continue to teach health and physical education at Irvine, but said he will spend more time with his family.
  “At this point I am focusing on the present and enjoying spending time
  
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• Park Life: Your insider’s guide to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

  28-05-2019 22:57
  
  Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is about to open at Disneyland. Go inside the (Illustration by Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will have its soft opening in a few short days, so here’s a very special bonus Park Life for you superfans who can’t wait to get more details. Go inside the land with our interactive graphic with the shops, rides and food of Black Spire Outpost.
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• Purple & Bold: The Lakers’ facade of unity has been torn apart by infighting

  28-05-2019 22:44
  
  Editor’s note: This is the Tuesday May 28 edition of the Purple & Bold newsletter. To receive the newsletter from Lakers reporter Kyle Goon and NBA reporter Mirjam Swanson in your inbox, subscribe here.
  At the bedrock, when people talk about the prestige of the Lakers, they’re talking about history. In the Staples Center, it’s the banners hanging from the rafters. Outside on the plaza, it’s the statues of legends. In the Lakers’ own team practice facility, it&rs
  
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• ‘Emotional’: LA-area Sen. Susan Rubio’s domestic-violence bill advances

  28-05-2019 22:25
  
  A bill aimed at helping domestic victims by extending the statute of limitations on such offenses passed the California Senate Tuesday, a big step forward for a top legislative priority of Sen. Susan Rubio, D-Baldwin Park.
  The issue is personal to Rubio, herself a victim of domestic violence.
  “(Senate Bill) 273 is something really important to me, and not just to me but to so many victims around the country,” Rubio said in a phone interview from Sacramento.
  The bill, SB273,
  
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• Prosecutor uses death hammer found at graves during McStay family murder trial closing arguments

  28-05-2019 22:22
  
  A prosecutor told jurors Tuesday, May 28, that the only way the McStay family could disappear off the face of the Earth from their Fallbrook home in 2010 was murder, and that Charles Merritt delivered the deadly blows — then slammed a speaker’s stand with the three-pound sledge hammer recovered from their desert graves.
  “It wasn’t just one debilitating blow to incapacitate and remove them from the scene” prosecutor Britt Imes told the panel. “It was blow, afte
  
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• Memorials set for Latino activist Nativo Lopez in Orange County, Los Angeles

  28-05-2019 22:00
  
  Two memorial services are scheduled to honor and remember long-time Latino activist Nativo Lopez, who died last week at the age of 68.
  RELATED STORY: Obituary: Long-time voice for Latino rights, Nativo Lopez
  The first will be held at the Heritage Museum of Orange County, 3101 W. Harvard St., in Santa Ana from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on June 8.  The second will be at the Los Angeles River Center and Gardens, 570 West Avenue 26 in Los Angeles, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 9.
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• Driver on trial for suspected DUI crash in Westminster that left a passenger dead

  28-05-2019 21:33
  
  Trial began Tuesday for a driver accused of leaving his friend to die in the gutter after crashing in Westminster while driving drunk.
  Jonathan Samoff, 30, is facing a second-degree murder charge for the death of 25-year-old Isaias Tang Jr., a friend Samoff had met at the sober living home he was kicked out of hours before the 2014 crash.
  Senior Deputy District Attorney Dan Feldman, during opening statements in the trial, told a Santa Ana jury that Samoff was driving a friend’s Toyota Camr
  
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• MacKenzie Bezos pledges half her $37 billion fortune to charity

  28-05-2019 20:51
  
  By Joseph Pisani, The Associated Press
  MacKenzie Bezos, who finalized her divorce from Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos earlier this year, is pledging to give away half her fortune to charity.
  The novelist said Tuesday that she signed The Giving Pledge, a campaign to get the ultra-wealthy to pledge at least half their fortune to charitable causes. It was created in 2010 by billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates.
  Those who join can give
  
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• Orange County boys athlete of the week: Kyle Pham, Corona del Mar

  28-05-2019 20:49
  
  The Register’s boys athlete of the week:
  Name: Kyle Pham
  School: Corona del Mar
  Sport: Tennis
  Noteworthy: He finished second in the CIF-Southern Section Boys Tennis Individual Championships at Seal Beach Tennis Center. Pham, a senior who signed with Southern Methodist University, in the semifinals upset top-seeded Brett Brinkman of Chaminade of West Hills 6-3, 7-6. He lost to second-seeded Ian Freer of St. Francis of La Canada 6-3, 6-2 in the finals. This is the fifth season in a row in wh
  
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• Chinese tourism to US drops for 1st time in 15 years

  28-05-2019 20:46
  
  By Dee-Ann Durbin, The Associated Press
  After more than a decade of rapid growth, Chinese travel to the U.S. is falling. And that has cities, malls and other tourist spots scrambling to reverse the trend.
  Travel from China to the U.S. fell 5.7% in 2018 to 2.9 million visitors, according to the National Travel and Tourism Office, which collects data from U.S. Customs forms. It was the first time since 2003 that Chinese travel to the U.S. slipped from the prior year.
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• What did the Gulls’ extended playoff run mean for the Ducks’ future?

  28-05-2019 20:36
  
  Sam Steel lurked in the attacking zone, a lone forechecker on the San Diego Gulls’ penalty-killing unit midway through Game 3 of the AHL’s Western Conference final May 22, when Chicago Wolves goaltender Oscar Dansk attempted a routine outlet pass to a teammate.
  Then, with an extraordinary display of hand-eye coordination, Steel knocked the puck out of midair, gained control along the right wing a nanosecond later and rocketed toward Dansk’s net to deliver a deft shot through th
  
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• Doheny family estate in Lake Arrowhead lands on the market at $10 million

  28-05-2019 20:24
  
  The compound has a total of 14 bedrooms, including a boat house on the shoreline and a pair of guest houses. (Photo by Adam Latham)
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• Orange County girls athlete of the week: Lauren Memoly, Santa Margarita

  28-05-2019 20:19
  
  The Orange County girls athlete of the week:
  Name: Lauren Memoly
  School: Santa Margarita
  Sport: Track and field
  Year: Sophomore
  Noteworthy: Memoly finished sixth in the 400 meters (55.03 seconds) and helped the Eagles place seventh in the 4×100 relay (47.64) at the CIF State Track and Field Championships in Clovis. She clocked a personal-best and school-record in the 400 prelims with a 54.97, which ranks her sixth in Orange County history. The time also is the fastest by a sophomore in cou
  
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• Taco Tuesday: In case you missed it, here’s a perfect crispy chicken taco

  28-05-2019 20:03
  
  Here’s a taco I wrote about before this Taco Tuesday column became a thing. 
  It took me a long time to find what I considered the perfect crispy chicken taco. But here it is in all its glory. This is not fast food. Every crispy shell at Taqueros is fried to order. 
  They stuff these crisp-but-still-pliable tortillas with finely chopped chicken (still hot from the griddle), shredded lettuce (not iceberg), tomato and just a smidgen of grated cheese, California-style. You’re we
  
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• Curt Seeden: Memorial Day tribute draws standing-room-only crowd to Fountain Valley’s newly named Veterans Park

  28-05-2019 19:45
  
  Fountain Valley’s newly named Veterans Park attracted a big crowd for its first official event Monday.
  More than 400 people gathered at the park for the annual Memorial Day ceremony presented each year by the city and West Orange County Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Auxiliary Post 9557.
  The ceremony — as well as the annual Veterans Day ceremony — had been held in the grassy area east of the Fountain Valley Library, which is the site of the city’s Veterans Memorial.&nbs
  
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• UCLA men’s basketball schedules home-and-home series against UNLV

  28-05-2019 19:14
  
  UCLA men’s basketball added a nonconference home game against UNLV to its 2019-2020 schedule on Tuesday and signed a deal for a return game in Las Vegas on Nov. 17, 2020.
  The Bruins will host the Runnin’ Rebels at Pauley Pavilion on Nov. 15 in the first year under new head coach Mick Cronin.
  “We’re excited to add this home-and-home series with UNLV,” Cronin said in a statement. “I have the utmost respect for head coach T.J. Otzelberger and athletic director De
  
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• Pala Casino, Spa & Resort will have pool parties throughout the summer and here’s what they’ll be like

  28-05-2019 18:59
  
  Sure, there’s been cloudy, rainy weather in Southern California lately, but with summer on the horizon, Pala Casino, Spa & Resort has a schedule of poolside events to capitalize on the sunshine and warmer temperatures.
  The casino is holding a series of themed pool-party events with food, drinks and music at its Tourmaline Pools, an adults-only pool complex featuring five pools and two hot tubs. The pools opened in 2018 and this is the first year the resort is throwing the events, which
  
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• HOA Homefront: Can a resident keep their changes made to an exclusive-use area?

  28-05-2019 18:45
  
  Q: Many years ago, I was allowed by the board to raise the height of my deck. I paid for the architectural change. No board member or manager since has ever inquired about it. Most people don’t even see the change. So, do I have legal standing to keep my patio the way it is or at some time could I be forced to put it back the way it was originally built? — J.H., Huntington Beach
  A: When you modify an exclusive-use common area, it is still not owned by you. Common areas are norma
  
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• Three new standouts emerge for Mater Dei football at spring game

  28-05-2019 18:43
  
  Two wide receivers and one linebacker/defensive end were among the emerging standouts at Mater Dei’s spring football game Friday.
  Wide receivers Kody Epps (6-0, 175) and CJ Williams (6-2, 200) and outside linebacker/defensive end David Bailey (6-3, 220) were top performers for the Monarchs, the two-time defending national champion.
  Epps, slowed last season by injury, will be a senior in the fall and seeking a breakout season after playing in the shadows of Bru McCoy and Amon-Ra St. Brown.
  
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• 98 coming new homes for under $400,000 coming to Lancaster

  28-05-2019 18:37
  
  KB Home is bringing 98 homes to Lancaster. (Courtesy: KB Home)
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  Lancaster is getting 98 new homes priced below $400,000.
  KB Home is constructing Sapphire Dunes, a project with 98 single-story homes ranging from 1,400 to 2,300 square feet with up to five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a front porch and two-car garages. T
  
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• Medicare arbitration smothers drug cures

  28-05-2019 17:53
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering a monumental change to Medicare — and believes that President Donald Trump might support her plan.
  Her big idea? Binding arbitration — a method that empowers government-appointed “arbitrators” to dictate the price of new medications and treatments. She hopes it’ll lower drug spending.
  That would represent an enormous change from the status quo. Right now, drug makers negotiate directly with private insurers and healthcare pr
  
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• Supreme Court compromises on Indiana abortion law

  28-05-2019 17:47
  
  By MARK SHERMAN
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld an Indiana law that requires abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetuses in the same way as human remains, a sign that the conservative court is more open to abortion restrictions.
  But the justices rejected the state’s appeal of a lower court ruling blocking a separate provision that would prevent a woman in Indiana from having an abortion based on gender, race or disability.
  The high court, with two liberal justic
  
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• 9 museum exhibitions and attractions to see in Southern California this June

  28-05-2019 17:46
  
  Summer is practically here, making this a good time to get out and explore what’s happening at Southern California’s cultural institutions.
  See graceful dancers perform in historical costumes, sculptures inspired by wild animals of Africa and nearly 100 years of printmaking techniques – and that’s just for starters.Here are 9 museum exhibitions and attractions you don’t want to miss this June.
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• Disneyland braces for big crowds and long lines during Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge soft opening and beyond

  28-05-2019 17:33
  
  Disneyland visitors bound for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge during the initial reservation-only “soft opening” period can expect to wait in long lines to get into the new land, ride the Millennium Falcon attraction, visit the cantina and experience the build-your-own lightsaber and droid shops.
  Hardcore Star Wars fans heading to Disneyland for the May 31 grand opening of Galaxy’s Edge or on June 24 — the first date that reservations won’t be required — will a
  
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• Fracking saves low-income Americans’ lives

  28-05-2019 17:23
  
  Fracking helped save the lives of roughly 11,000 Americans each winter from 2005 to 2010, according to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper.
  How? By driving down energy prices and helping them affordably heat their homes.
  Demographers have long observed that low-income people die at higher rates during the winter months. This “excess winter mortality” has a simple, heartbreaking cause — people keep their dwellings uncomfortably cold to reduce their heating bills.
  
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• The keys to success in theme parks? New rides and free beer

  28-05-2019 15:33
  
  A leading theme park industry association released its annual attendance report last week. Disney’s theme parks, as usual, led the way, with Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom topping the global rankings with Disneyland in second place.
  Down the list, the numbers offer some interesting lessons about what works, and doesn’t, in drawing fans to theme parks. Want to move up the rankings fast? Build a new ride based on a popular entertainment franchise. Or better yet, give away a lo
  
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• Two middle school students will represent Orange County in national spelling bee today

  28-05-2019 15:00
  
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  Two Orange County students are spellers in the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee. The on-stage competition begins today from Washington D.C.
  Thirteen-year-olds Nicholas D’Sa of St. Cecilia Catholic School, from Tustin, and Dean Alkhairy of Fairmont Private School, from Newport Beach, will represent the OC at the national bee.D’Sa has studied French, Latin and Greek roots hoping it will help him figure out spellings of words he doesn’t know.
  Alkhairy competed in l
  
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• Tornadoes leave trail of destruction across Ohio, Indiana

  28-05-2019 15:00
  
  By ANGIE WANG, JOHN MINCHILLO and KANTELE FRANKO
  BROOKVILLE, Ohio ` — A rapid-fire line of apparent tornadoes tore across Indiana and Ohio overnight, packed so closely together that one crossed the path carved by another.
  There were no immediate reports of any deaths or serious injuries. The storms damaged homes, blew out windows, toppled trees and left debris so thick that at one point, highway crews had to use snowplows to clear an interstate.
  At least half a dozen communities from easte
  
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• Hundreds line up for the ‘world’s biggest strawberry shortcake,’ a Garden Grove Strawberry Festival tradition

  28-05-2019 06:55
  
  Honorary Director Mike Fenderson checks the schedule before the strawberry cake giveaway at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival on Friday, May 24, 2019. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer)
  A crowd of more than 3,000 people lined up for free cake during the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival on Friday, May 24, 2019. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsAlice Lim was among dozens of Pacifica High School students who helped pass out a
  
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• Gulls eliminated by Wolves in Game 6 of AHL’s Western Conference final

  28-05-2019 06:29
  
  The San Diego Gulls dropped a 3-1 decision Monday to the Chicago Wolves and were eliminated from the AHL’s Western Conference final, four games to two. Chicago advanced to play the Charlotte Checkers in the Calder Cup final, which begins Saturday.
  The Gulls, the Ducks’ AHL team, advanced to the conference final for the first time in their four-season history under Coach Dallas Eakins. After taking a 2-1 series lead over the Wolves, the Vegas Golden Knight’s top minor league aff
  
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• Cody Bellinger does it all in Dodgers’ win over Mets

  28-05-2019 06:08
  
  Los Angeles Dodgers’ Enrique Hernandez hits a three-run home run against the New York Mets during the sixth inning of a baseball game Monday, May 27, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
  Los Angeles Dodgers’ Enrique Hernandez, right, celebrates his three-run home run with teammate Russell Martin during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Monday, May 27, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)SoundThe gallery will resume insecond
  
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• Whicker: Bill Buckner barreled his way into years of brilliance, and one rough moment

  28-05-2019 04:59
  
  LOS ANGELES — Fred Claire’s first paragraph of Bill Buckner’s life happened on an early afternoon in the 70s.
  Buckner had turned an ankle the previous night. Yet there he was, sprinting on the grass,  no other Dodger in sight.
  Claire, vice-president of public relations, picked up the phone. “Get him off the field!” Claire yelled at somebody downstairs.
  That was a heavy request. Buckner’s life was a quest to get on a field and stay there.
  If a crowbar coul
  
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• Dodgers promote Will Smith, whose major league debut was years in the making

  28-05-2019 04:55
  
  LOS ANGELES – Will Smith’s arrival at Dodger Stadium was not sudden. He got into the tail end of a Freeway Series exhibition game here in April 2017, then did so again last March. In between he attended a rookie development camp and an off-season workout program. Last year, he traveled full-time with the major league club once the minor league seasons ended, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Dodgers’ catchers off and on the field.
  It wasn’t until Monday afternoon tha
  
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• Vasilika continues streak with Gamely Stakes win at Santa Anita

  28-05-2019 04:45
  
  Vasilika and jockey Flavien Prat win the Grade I, $500,000 Gamely Stakes, Monday, May 27, 2019 at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia CA. (Courtesy of Benoit Photo)
  Vasilika and jockey Flavien Prat, right, outleg Ahimsa (Brice Blanc), left, and Rymska (Irad Ortiz, jr.), second from left, to win the Grade I, $500,000 Gamely Stakes, Monday, May 27, 2019 at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia CA. (Courtesy of Benoit Photo)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsJockey Flavien Prat guides Vasilika to the winner’s c
  
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• Horse racing: Vino Rosso outduels Gift Box to win Gold Cup at Santa Anita

  28-05-2019 03:51
  
  Vino Rosso and jockey John Velazquez, right, outgame Gift Box (Joel Rosario) for victory in the Grade I $500,000 The Gold Cup and Santa Anita Monday, May 27, 2019 at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia CA. (Courtesy of Benoit Photo)
  Vino Rosso and jockey John Velazquez, right, outgame Gift Box (Joel Rosario) for victory in the Grade I $500,000 The Gold Cup and Santa Anita Monday, May 27, 2019 at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia CA.
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• L.A. County Sheriff’s Department looking for man with depression, last seen with infant daughter

  28-05-2019 03:02
  
  BELLFLOWER — Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives requested public help Monday to find a 30-year-old Northern California man suffering from depression who was last seen with his 8-month daughter driving in Bellflower.#LASD Seeking the Public’s Help in Locating “At Risk” #Missing PersonAlexander Echeverria, 30y/o, 5’6”, 160lbs, From Northern California, Last seen May 24, 2019. Call w/ ANONYMOUS TIPS 800-222-8477 @LACrimeStopper1or Detectives
  
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• Angels pitcher Trevor Cahill struggles again in loss to Oakland A’s

  28-05-2019 01:25
  
  Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani grounds out on a pitch from Oakland Athletics pitcher Chris Bassitt in the third inning of a baseball game Monday, May 27, 2019, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
  Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani fouls off a pitch from Oakland Athletics pitcher Chris Bassitt in the first inning of a baseball game Monday, May 27, 2019, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsOakland Athletics’ Matt Olson (28) tags ou
  
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• Orange County remembers its fallen heroes on Memorial Day

  28-05-2019 01:00
  
  Representatives of various organizations and cities participate in a Wreath Ceremony during the annual Memorial Day Observance at El Toro Memorial Park in Lake Forest on Monday, May 27, 2019. (Photo By Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  Bagpipers from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department perform “Amazing Grace” during a Memorial Day Observance at El Toro Memorial Park in Lake Forest on Monday, May 27, 2019. (Photo By Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe ga
  
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• In emotional interviews, ex-Boy Scouts open up about abuse

  28-05-2019 00:34
  
  By DAVID CRARY
  NEW YORK — Sharing their stories doesn’t come easily for these middle-aged men. At times, their eyes well up or their voices crack as they describe being sexually abused in the Boy Scouts and suffering from emotional damage long afterward.
  Looking back, they all remember vividly how excited they were to become Scouts.
  “I was real gung-ho about getting my badges — fishing and campfires and all of that,” said Darrell Jackson, now a 57-year-old New Yorke
  
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