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• What’s more important than California Democratic Party leader? How about president?

  30-05-2019 23:57
  
  In theory, state political conventions are supposed to be about local control, not national issues. So it’s natural to wonder what might get more attention than questions about state party leadership during this weekend’s California Democratic Party State Convention.
  Try this:
  No fewer than 14 Democrats who hope to be elected president in 2020 are scheduled to address the three-day gathering that starts Friday, May 31 in San Francisco.
  Given that the Democratic field actually include
  
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• Hit Cooking Channel show ‘Man Fire Food’ airs new episodes just in time for barbecue season

  30-05-2019 23:30
  
  It’s barbecue season and that marks the return of new episodes of “Man Fire Food” on the Cooking Channel. The program, which first began airing in 2012, just marked its 101st show. So, what better time to check in with multi-talented host Roger Mooking? He’s a trained chef and a musician, a Juno Award winner, who released his fourth album,  “Eat Your Words,” on Wednesday, May, 15.
  For Season 8, Mooking traveled throughout the South to bring fans fresh ins
  
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• Jurors begin deliberating in McStay family murder trial

  30-05-2019 23:22
  
  Jurors began deliberations Thursday, May 30, in the murder trial of Charles Ray Merritt, charged in the 2010 bludgeoning deaths of the McStay family.
  The killing, prosecutors said, was motivated by the lure of gaining access to business accounts of patriarch Joseph McStay.
  “You don’t get to murder an entire family and get away with it,” San Bernardino County Deputy District Attorney  Melissa Rodriguez told jurors during the prosecution’s rebuttal Thursday morning, be
  
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• Galaxy begins U.S. Open Cup play vs. Orange County FC

  30-05-2019 23:05
  
  The Galaxy will host Orange County FC in the fourth round of the U.S. Open Cup on June 12.
  The game will start at 7:30 p.m. at the Dignity Health Sports Park Track and Field Stadium.
  The fourth round is when Major League Soccer clubs enter the tournament.
  Orange County FC is the last amateur club remaining and has earned the $25,000 prize for accomplishing that feat after knocking off USL clubs Orange County SC and the Las Vegas Lights.
  OCFC is coached by former U.S. World Cup member Paul Caligi
  
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• Disneyland goes to the dark — and grimy — side with Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, and it works

  30-05-2019 22:58
  
  Words you don’t associate with Disneyland are suddenly rushing through my mind.
  Dirty. Rusty. Broken. Seedy. There are electrical cords dangling and broken droids all over the place. The drinks have unexpected little fruity polyps in the bottom of the glass.
  Some of the food is slimy, gooey and spicy.
  And those words are compliments. Daring and edgy apply here.
  Droids at Droid Alley in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (Photo by Jeff G
  
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• Senior Moments: The cat’s in the cradle and on the sofa and at the computer

  30-05-2019 22:26
  
  One of my favorite New York magazine covers had a picture of a long-haired young man in a wheelchair being attended by his well-dressed mother. The caption, which oozed sarcasm about a pampered child (or “paralyzed generation,” per the magazine), read, “Of course he can walk. Thank God, he doesn’t have to.”
  I was thinking about the article last night while I was on my hands and knees cleaning off the bottom shelf of a bookcase near my desk. It would be the perfect s
  
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• Gang members brawl in courtroom after getting convicted of killing 9-year-old Anaheim girl

  30-05-2019 22:13
  
  A pair of gang members brawled in a Santa Ana courtroom on Thursday shortly after getting convicted of killing a 9-year-old Anaheim girl during a 2014 confrontation with a rival gang.
  The altercation between Alfredo Aquino, 24, and Ricardo Cruz, 23, erupted while the two were sitting alone at the counsel table, their attorneys back in the judge’s chambers and jurors in the jury room completing portions of the verdict forms they had inadvertently left blank.
  Minutes earlier, jurors had foun
  
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• CSUN fires baseball coach Greg Moore after six seasons

  30-05-2019 21:51
  
  The Cal State Northridge baseball team is searching for a new head coach.
  CSUN athletic director Mike Izzi announced Thursday via a press release that coach Greg Moore and his staff are no longer with the program.
  “We thank Greg for his service to our baseball program, and we wish him success in the future. However, now is the time for us to take the program in a new direction,” Izzi said.  “Our student-athletes and recruits have our full support, and the future is bright
  
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• Feeling the heat? There’s an icy pool at Six Flags Hurricane Harbor and here’s how you can get in it

  30-05-2019 21:37
  
  Valencia waterpark Six Flags Hurricane Harbor is partnering with Special Olympics for a splashy fundraiser.
  Held June 21, on the first day of summer, anyone who raises a minimum of $100 to benefit the sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities can take the Six Flags Solar Plunge into a giant pool filled with blocks of ice.
  Related links13 water parks to visit as temperatures heat up this summer
  Six Flags Magic Mountain closed its Green Lantern ride – and fan
  
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• Triathletes set to compete Sunday at OC International Triathlon in Mission Viejo

  30-05-2019 21:16
  
  The Orange County International Triathlon returns to Mission Viejo on Sunday, June 2. The race will consist of a 1.5k swim in Lake Mission Viejo, a 40k bike beginning on Marguerite Parkway, north to El Toro Road and out through Santiago Canyon, and a 10k run, beginning on the Aliso Creek Bike Trail, following various trail systems leading back to Lake Mission Viejo.
  Other events include an Aquathon, consisting of a .5k swim followed by a 2.5k run and a Duathlon consisting of a 2k run, 40k bike a
  
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• Los Angeles Lakers announce their 2019 preseason schedule

  30-05-2019 21:16
  
  Coach Frank Vogel will begin his tenure with the Lakers by packing a little bit of history and a lot of travel in six preseason games before the 2019-20 season officially tips off.
  The Lakers on Thursday released their preseason schedule, which will tip off Oct. 5, when they’ll be the Golden State Warriors’ first guests at the opening of the Chase Center in San Francisco.
  The Lakers will then head to China for the 13th edition of the NBA China Games, where they’ll face the Broo
  
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• Uninsured small businesses hope for affordable health care under Gov. Newsom

  30-05-2019 21:15
  
  By Sammy Caiola and Yesenia Amaro, The USC Center for Health Journalism Collaborative
  Laneesha Senegal washes her hands before deciding which finger to prick. She’s prediabetic, and it’s been two days since she last tested her blood sugar.
  The 42-year-old Fresno woman is trying everything she can to keep track of her levels. Her diabetic mother is on insulin, and she doesn’t want to get to that point.
  “It’s really not something you should play around with,” sh
  
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• J.D. Wilson, 80, isn’t slowing down at Perris Auto Speedway

  30-05-2019 21:13
  
  J.D. Wilson wanted to set the record straight and went right to the source.
  “J.D. called me one day last week,” said longtime Perris Auto Speedway announcer Scott Daloisio. “He was telling me that I was announcing to the fans that he was in his upper 70s and he wanted me to stop doing that.  I thought he was mad, but then he told me to tell them his real age, which is now 80!”
  The Costa Mesa resident will be back in action Saturday night at the PAS. The third “
  
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• 30-year mortgage rates drop below 4% for first time in 18 months

  30-05-2019 20:58
  
  What’s up with mortgage rates? Jeff Lazerson of Mortgage Grader in Laguna Niguel gives us his take.
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  Rate news summary
  From Freddie Mac’s weekly survey: For the first time since January 2018, the 30-year fixed is under 4%, averaging this week averaging 3.99%. That’s seven basis points lower than last week. The 15-year fixed-rate averaged 3.46%, down 5 basis points from last week.
  The Mortgage Bankers Association reported a 3.3% percent decrease in loan application vo
  
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• Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opens Friday and here’s everything you need to know

  30-05-2019 20:55
  
  A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Disneyland announced the arrival of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, and tomorrow Black Spire Outpost on the planet Batuu FINALLY becomes a reality for park goers with reservations.
  This is a big deal for Disney, a $1 billion bet, and it’s going to reshape the park, Anaheim and the Disney universe. The tourism boost from the new land could pump $14 billion into the area over the next 40 years.
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• Saddleback Valley students run the mile in annual elementary school meet

  30-05-2019 20:36
  
  These kids wanted to run the laps.
  Runners from Saddleback Valley Unified School District elementary schools ran four laps in a race for medals on Wednesday, May 29, at the annual Elementary Mile Meet. Each elementary school sent the top two boy and girl runners in each grade to the meet.
  Trabuco Mesa’s Jaxson Salazar, center, receives his first place medal next to the other top finishers in the 5th Grade Boys race during the Saddleback Valley Unified School District’s annual Element
  
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• Investment firm to buy Carlsbad desalination plant for more than $1 billion

  30-05-2019 20:33
  
  By Gillian Tan, Bloomberg 
  An affiliate of Aberdeen Standard Investments has agreed to buy the Carlsbad desalination plant in Southern California for more than $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
  A transaction could be announced as soon as this week, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. The Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, named for a former mayor, is owned by Orion Water Partners LLC, the
  
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• Review: Galaxy’s Edge reveals layers of Star Wars storytelling that will take many visits to fully explore at Disneyland

  30-05-2019 20:30
  
  Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge reveals itself like an onion with so many layers of storytelling and immersion to peel back that you’ll need multiple trips to explore all of the newest themed land at Disneyland.
  I visited Galaxy’s Edge during a three-day media preview ahead of the official grand opening on Friday and found the new 14-acre Star Wars land to be too much to take in during a full day of exploration.
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• Pac-12 dominates NBA Finals rosters: What that says about the conference’s past, present and future

  30-05-2019 20:21
  
  The NBA Finals start tonight, and guess which conference dominates the rosters?
  It’s the conference that has experience unprecedented criticism and epic failure the past two years.
  The conference that hasn’t won a national championship since the 1990s and sent just one team to the Final Four in the 2010s.
  The Pac-12 has more players on the Toronto and Golden State rosters than the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and Big East.
  In fact, it has more than twice as many as any other Power Six:
  
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• Drummond: Students wrapping up testing on their advanced studies

  30-05-2019 18:33
  Again this month, I spent 14 days administering Advanced Placement examinations to ninth- through 12th-grade students at Valencia High School in the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, a rewarding task I’ve enjoyed for 16 years.
  Successful scores on these exams can earn university credits and often allow students to bypass introductory courses at the universities they attend. The AP program certainly prepares students for higher-level academics.
  AP classes and exams are offered
  
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• Master Gardener: Tips for keeping slugs and snails from destroying your garden

  30-05-2019 18:23
  
  Q: We have been overrun by slugs and snails this spring. They are eating our tender, young transplants as well as some of our established plants. What can we do to control them?
  A: Slugs and snails are very destructive members of the mollusk family. They are primarily nocturnal and leave silvery slime trails of death in their wake.
  In order to reduce the slug and snail population, you want to remove (or at least reduce) their hiding places. Ice plant and other overgrown ground cover, debris, boa
  
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• Four game times announced for UCLA football

  30-05-2019 18:14
  
  The Pac-12 announced game times for UCLA’s 2019 nonconference schedule and its one non-Saturday Pac-12 game Thursday.
  The Bruins open the season at Cincinnati on Thursday, Aug. 29 at 4 p.m. on ESPN. The game is the second leg of a home-and-home with the Bearcats after Cincinnati defeated UCLA at the Rose Bowl last year.
  With a long week of preparation between its first and second games, UCLA’s home schedule starts at 1:15 p.m. on Sept. 7 against San Diego State on Pac-12 Networks. Th
  
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• These sweet candy shops are popping up across Southern California

  30-05-2019 18:03
  
  Southern California has no shortage of places to buy candies.
  But in recent years, the region has seen small, homegrown candy shops open in downtown areas and malls designed with the goal of providing people of all ages with sweet nostalgia in colorful and whimsical settings that would make Willy Wonka proud.
  With a large jawbreaker and Whirly Pop owners Austin Pearlman and Sam McDougall pose before their selfie wall at their candy store AusSam Candy on Chatsworth Street in Granada Hills on Thur
  
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• President Trump lashes special counsel Robert Mueller after he says no exoneration

  30-05-2019 17:53
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump blasted special counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday, calling him a “never Trumper” who led a biased investigation on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and failed to investigate his opponents who didn’t want Trump to be president.
  Trump’s eruption came a day after Mueller pointedly rejected his repeated claims that he was cleared of obstruction of justice allegations and that the two-year inquiry was merely a “w
  
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• Former U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi dies at 81

  30-05-2019 17:41
  
  JACKSON, Miss. — Former U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, who served seven terms and used seniority to steer billions of dollars to his home state of Mississippi, has died. He was 81.
  Cochran’s final chief of staff, Brad White, said Cochran died Thursday at a veterans’ nursing home in Oxford.
  Cochran was elected to the U.S. House in 1972. When he won a Senate seat in 1978, he became the first Republican since Reconstruction to win statewide office in Mississippi.
  He led the Appropriation
  
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• Graduation 2019: La Habra High commencement photos

  30-05-2019 17:06
  
  La Habra High School senior Alex Avila celebrates after receiving his diploma during commencement ceremonies on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer)
  La Habra High School seniors grouped together for a raucous photo before their graduation ceremony. From left are Jason Hernandez, Serena Rowe and Maraya Zamora. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsFriends and family in the stands cheer on the La Habra High Sc
  
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• Graduation 2019: Fullerton Union High commencement photos

  30-05-2019 17:00
  
  Fullerton’s Giovanny Armas smiles for family members as he prepares to graduate on Wednesday May 29, 2019.
  (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)
  Fullerton graduates decorated their caps with a variety of themes and messages on Wednesday May 29, 2019. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsFullerton’s Angel Martinez holds his diploma holder aloft after graduating on Wednesday May 29, 2019. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Cont
  
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• Man shot during robbery in Garden Grove

  30-05-2019 16:41
  
  A man was shot after refusing to give his belongings to a robber Wednesday night, May 29, in a Garden Grove neighborhood of single-family homes.
  Officers found the victim, a man in his 50s, at around 10:50 p.m. lying in the grass with a gunshot wound near McCains Street and Enloe Way, Garden Grove police said.
  They began administering first aid to the man’s wound on his upper torso. The suspect had fled in a dark, box-style car, Sgt. Nick Jensen said.
  Officers learned the suspect, who had
  
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• Prosecutors push back on enforcing new state abortion laws

  30-05-2019 15:52
  
  By SUDHIN THANAWALA
  ATLANTA  — New state abortion laws likely to become bogged down in legal challenges face another potential obstacle: prosecutors who refuse to enforce them.
  The Associated Press reached out to nearly two dozen district attorneys across seven states, and several said they would not file criminal charges against doctors who violate the laws. Even a few who left open potentially charging doctors said they would not prosecute women for having an abortion, which some le
  
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• 5 ways to improve your garden this week, June 1-6

  30-05-2019 14:16
  
  1. Compost with the most
  If you are able, start a compost pile for mulch to use in your garden and flowerbeds – there’s nothing better than homemade compost to enrich the soil or grow container plants or mulch your plants – and keep down weeds. Use grass clippings, leaves, shredded paper and newspaper, fruit and vegetable debris, coffee grounds and just about anything organic except meats and feces from meat-eating animals. Chopped items compost faster than bulky ones, and in h
  
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• Dodgers rally for four runs in ninth inning to beat Mets

  30-05-2019 08:01
  
  The Dodgers’ Max Muncy #13 slides into home to score as Mets catcher Wilson Ramos #40 applies the tag in the bottom of the third inning during their MLB game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  Dodger starting pitcher Walker Buehler #21 during their MLB game against the Mets at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume
  
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• Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge dedication ceremony brings out Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and more

  30-05-2019 06:49
  
  Disneyland dedicated the new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge land at the Anaheim resort on Wednesday, May 29, in a ceremony that included some pretty famous names in the Star Wars universe.
  Star Wars creator George Lucas was on hand, as were some of the biggest stars from the film franchise, including Harrison Ford, who played Han Solo, Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker and Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi.
  
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• Zlatan’s return helps Galaxy win at Kansas City for 1st time since 2007

  30-05-2019 06:08
  
  L.A. Galaxy forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, right, celebrates with midfielder Jonathan dos Santos after scoring a goal late in the second half of the team’s 2-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City on Wednesday night in Kansas City, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
  Sporting Kansas City forward Johnny Russell (7) and LA Galaxy midfielder Jonathan dos Santos compete for the ball during the first half of an MLS soccer match Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in Kansas City, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)SoundTh
  
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• Dodgers’ Dave Roberts has faith bullpen will get better

  30-05-2019 04:32
  
  LOS ANGELES — Dave Roberts is obviously a man of great faith.
  “I do believe it will pass,” the Dodgers manager said Wednesday of his faith that the team’s bullpen will produce better results than it has through the first 55 games of the season. “I believe in the guys that we have in the ’pen.”
  Roberts’ faith has continually been tested by those guys. Despite a 15-game stretch at the start of May when the bullpen had a 2.07 ERA, the Dodgers’ r
  
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• Attorneys clash during final arguments of McStay family murder trial

  30-05-2019 04:29
  
  Clashes between attorneys Wednesday, May 29, punctuated final arguments in the trial of Charles Ray Merritt, who is accused of killing the four-member McStay family in 2010.
  “This is the case of the People versus Charles Merritt,” San Bernardino County Deputy District Attorney Melissa Rodriguez told the panel during an approximately 14-minute late-afternoon rebuttal that she will resume Thursday.
  “I think, after listening to the arguments by both defense counsel, that’s b
  
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• Orange County Supervisor tells CalOptima how to spend $60 million for homeless health care

  30-05-2019 04:27
  
  Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do offered a spending plan Wednesday for CalOptima, the county’s health insurance for the poor, saying the agency needs to do more to improve its outreach to homeless people — a group that he noted is dying at an alarming rate.
  Do, a CalOptima board member, also called for a special June 14 meeting of the agency’s directors to consider his proposal that the agency “immediately” spend $60 million of a $100 million package approved by C
  
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• Bronny James, Zaire Wade expected to attend Sierra Canyon

  30-05-2019 04:24
  
  The Sierra Canyon high school basketball program isn’t just reloading with talent, it’s reloading with more sons of NBA royalty, according to multiple sources close to the Sierra Canyon boys basketball program.
  LeBron James Jr., known as Bronny and the son of Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James, and Zaire Wade, the son of newly retired Dwyane Wade, are expected to team up for Sierra Canyon in Chatsworth next season.Bronny James to Sierra Canyon has been a “done deal&rdquo
  
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• We drank the blue milk at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, plus more from the new menu

  30-05-2019 03:59
  
  What do they eat on Batuu? We got a first taste of the comestibles today at a sneak peek of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge before the land opens on Friday, May 31.
  Here are our first impressions of the grub so far – and yes, the blue milk.
  Outpost popcorn available at The Marketplace at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Felucian Garden Spread (lunch only)
  Plant-based ÒKefta,&
  
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• Ducks’ slow-moving coaching search appears to be picking up steam

  30-05-2019 03:46
  
  Conventional wisdom suggested for many months that Dallas Eakins would be the preferred choice when General Manager Bob Murray selected the Ducks’ next coach. In fact, one NHL source said Eakins had been promised the job not long after Randy Carlyle was fired Feb. 10.
  No question, Eakins would be a logical pick, having played a key role in the development of so many of the Ducks’ top prospects in his four seasons as coach of the San Diego Gulls, the franchise’s AHL team. P
  
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• The public pension crisis is an especially big threat to women

  30-05-2019 03:37
  
  When it comes to fostering the financial empowerment of women through public policy, we think of issues such as equal pay, paid maternity leave, and affordable childcare. However, there is an under-the-radar issue that may soon negatively impact millions of women—the country’s growing pension debt.
  State and local governments have promised retirement benefits to millions of workers, many in professions predominantly occupied by women, but haven’t saved the money needed to keep
  
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• UC Irvine baseball team looked NCAA-bound all season – until it wasn’t

  30-05-2019 03:35
  
  IRVINE — From the moment two respected college baseball publications started projecting the field of 64 for the 2019 NCAA Tournament, UC Irvine was always in their mock brackets.
  Until the very end, when they were swallowed whole by those on earth who make decisions on things like a bracket.
  The Anteaters went 37-18 this season and won 13 of their 15 three-game series, one of just five programs in the nation to win that many. They finished tied for second in the Big West Conference, five o
  
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• Review: I flew the Millennium Falcon at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland and it will blow your mind

  30-05-2019 03:00
  
  The Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run ride in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland puts riders in the pilot, gunner or flight engineer seats on an intergalactic journey that’s so thrilling, fun and realistic that you’ll really believe you’re flying the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.
  The mind-blowing new Smugglers Run ride at Disneyland will exceed the expectations of every Star Wars fan who has dreamed of flying the Millennium Falcon for the past four decades.
  Sign
  
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• Inside Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge — These 50 photos show you what it’s like

  30-05-2019 03:00
  
  It’s finally here — Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has its soft opening on Friday, May 31, and we got inside for a sneak peek of what it’s like inside Black Spire Outpost on the planet Batuu.
  Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and interesting every week at Southern California’s theme parks. Subscribe here.
  These photos take you inside the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, Oga’s Cantina, Droid Alley and beyond.
  Star
  
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• Jacaranda trees: Invasion of the purple flowers bring peace, beauty (and some mess) to SoCal

  30-05-2019 02:46
  
  Like many of their human counterparts, they are transplants to Los Angeles, trying to make it in a town of newcomers.
  For two weeks in late spring, they burst forth in their fancy best, shedding their leaves to make way for a dazzling display of unimpeded purple haze.
  A man walks under the blooming jacaranda trees along Del Mar Boulevard in Pasadena on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Some say the jacarandas are the West Coast’s version of the cherry blossom. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena
  
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• Justin Williams-Bell named boys basketball coach at Santa Margarita

  30-05-2019 02:34
  
  Santa Margarita on Wednesday named Justin Williams-Bell as its boys basketball head coach.
  Williams-Bell has been associate head coach of UC Riverside men’s basketball in recent years and previously was associate head coach at Concordia University. He was an assistant basketball coach at De La Salle of Concord.
  He replaces Jeff Reinert who resigned this month to take the men’s basketball coaching position at College of Southern Idaho.
  Santa Margarita won the CIF-Southern Section Divi
  
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• Angels outlast A’s in wild 11-inning game

  30-05-2019 02:25
  
  OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – MAY 29:Griffin Canning #47 of the Los Angeles Angels pitches against the Oakland Athletics in the first inning at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on May 29, 2019 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
  Oakland Athletics’ Liam Hendriks pitches against the Los Angeles Angels during the first inning of a baseball game in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsLos Angeles Angels pitcher G
  
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• Sections of 405 Freeway in Westminster to close overnight both this weekend and next

  30-05-2019 02:08
  
  As a massive widening project continues, portions of the 405 Freeway that run through Westminster are scheduled to fully close overnight Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1, near Westminster Boulevard. Another closure is planned the following weekend, the Orange County Transportation Authority announced.
  Starting at 10 p.m. Friday, northbound lanes between Westminster Boulevard and Springdale Street will be out of commission for about 10 hours. The southbound carpool lane and the two regular la
  
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• Charter-school network run by Australian and Long Beach man accused of stealing $50 million from California

  30-05-2019 02:04
  
  By ELLIOT SPAGAT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
  SAN DIEGO — A network of charter schools in California stole more than $50 million from the state by creating phantom institutions that enrolled unwitting students it found through other schools and youth programs, prosecutors said Wednesday.
  A3 Education recruited small public school districts to sponsor the charter schools in exchange for oversight fees. Prosecutors say A3 enrolled about 40,000 students throughout the state, none of whom received an
  
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• Sparks will be without Candace Parker in their home opener on Friday

  30-05-2019 02:02
  
  LOS ANGELES – The Sparks won’t have Candace Parker to help them protect their home court for the first time this season when they face the Connecticut Sun on Friday.
  The star forward remains sidelined with a hamstring injury and the Sparks have no intention of rushing her back, Coach Derek Fisher said after Wednesday’s practice at Staples Center.
  “I don’t think she’s far off,” Fisher said. “Hamstrings are tricky though, you know? If you push it too
  
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• Capture Dana Point: Standup paddle boarders enjoy the harbor

  30-05-2019 01:59
  
  Under clear, cloudless skies, a group of standup paddle boarders cruise through the still waters of Dana Point Harbor on Tuesday morning, May 28, 2019, in Dana Point. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  After a morning of surfing at Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point, Trevor Sperle of Laguna Hills makes his way through the mural-painted tunnel and back to his car on Tuesday morning, May 28, 2019. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  After leaving the Dana Point H
  
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