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• Rachel Garcia pitches shutout, hits walk-off homer to send UCLA softball to WCWS championship series

  02-06-2019 23:43
  
  That’s why Rachel Garcia is the back-to-back USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year.
  The pitcher’s star rose to another stratosphere Sunday in Oklahoma City, pitching 10 shutout innings in an epic standoff against Washington in the Women’s College World Series and launching the walk-off three-run homer in the bottom of the 10th for a 3-0 victory that sends UCLA to its first WCWS championship series since 2010.
  After throwing 179 pitches and recording a season-high 16 strike
  
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• Angels looking for more success stories like Griffin Canning when draft begins on Monday

  02-06-2019 22:54
  
  SEATTLE — When Griffin Canning made his big league debut earlier this season, Angels scouting director Matt Swanson took a day off from draft preparation to fly to Anaheim to be there.
  “It really was an awesome thing to be a part of,” Swanson said. “Selfishly it’s really cool. From Billy (Eppler) all the way down to the area scouts and crosscheckers, that’s the guy we can point to as the first big leaguer from this group.”
  The Angels took Canning in the
  
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• Flash flood watch for Antelope Valley, mountains, as deep marine layer covers Southern California

  02-06-2019 21:01
  
  A low-pressure system drew a deep marine layer over Southern California Sunday, with a flash flood watch for the Antelope Valley and some Los Angeles County mountains in force until the evening, the National Weather Service.
  Cold air aloft was contributing to the unstable conditions, the NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard office said.
  The flash flood watch excludes the Santa Monica Mountains. Some slow-moving thunderstorms could develop with the system moving through the watch areas, creating flooding dange
  
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• College athletes deserve access to the marketplace

  02-06-2019 20:35
  
  When Paul Orfalea opened his first Kinko’s copy store while attending USC in 1970, he faced no risk of having to forfeit his college eligibility. The same was true of Michael Dell when he founded his first computer company in 1984 — the precursor to Dell Computers — while he was an undergrad at the University of Texas at Austin. Dell didn’t have to worry about being stripped of his academic standing because of his new business venture.
  Same with Bill Gates and Paul Allen
  
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• Desperate times and desperate measures

  02-06-2019 20:30
  
  In politics, strange things happen in the week preceding an election. It is no different with Measure EE, the controversial property tax hike proposed by the Los Angeles Unified School District. Although predicting the outcome of any election is dangerous it is clear that Measure EE is in trouble. In fact, its biggest problem might not even be the two-thirds vote threshold required for its approval. What is more disturbing for the district is the extent to which LAUSD has suffered multiple self-
  
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• Assange espionage indictment: classified hypocrisy and a prosecutorial Trojan horse

  02-06-2019 20:23
  
  The May 23 Espionage Act indictment of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange evoked justified outrage and condemnation from media organizations and free speech advocates. Federal prosecutors claim in the indictment that Assange illegally received classified U.S. government information on United States military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, State Department cables involving U.S. foreign relations and the identities of human sources helping American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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• Interest rate limit doesn’t fix poverty

  02-06-2019 20:14
  
  Last month, the Federal Reserve System issued a report on “the economic wellbeing of U.S. households” and it contained a rather disturbing bit of data.
  “If faced with an unexpected expense of $400,” a survey of American households found, “61% of adults say they would cover it with cash, savings, or a credit card paid off at the next statement – a modest improvement from the prior year.”
  Turning that around, 39% of American adults say they couldn’t
  
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• Taylor Swift celebrates the kick-off of Pride Month, Jonas Brothers reunite and more from KIIS 102.7/FM’s Wango Tango

  02-06-2019 19:46
  
  Despite the June gloom looming over Dignity Health Sports Park (formerly StubHub Center) in Carson on Saturday, thousands of fans were ready to party it up at KIIS 102.7/FM’s 2019 Wango Tango. Coinciding with the first day of LGBTQ Pride Month a lot of patrons showed their support with rainbow flags, pins, makeup and even some colorful sequins rompers.
  Wango Tango headliner Taylor Swift was all about it. Though the 29-year-old has mostly kept her politics to herself, she’s been speak
  
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• Maybe they’ll get serious about infrastructure now: Political Cartoons

  02-06-2019 19:39
  
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  Check out our regular cartoon gallery featuring some of the best cartoonists from around the world, and across the political spectrum, covering current issues and figures.
  
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• Throngs head to Cal State Long Beach as Phil, the rare ‘corpse flower,’ blossoms at last, unleashing its famous stench

  02-06-2019 17:57
  
  Some described the smell as onions gone bad. Others opted for the aroma of the county dump. Some said the stench was more like a dead animal.Phil stands tall (and smells baaad) at Cal State Long Beach pic.twitter.com/WROebBARNj
  — Tom Bray (@tbray) June 2, 2019Ladies and gentleman, a very special stench has arrived. Hundreds lined up at Cal State Long Beach Sunday morning, June 2, eager to see and smell the school’s rare “corpse flower” that blossomed at dawn at the univer
  
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• The rare “corpse flower” has blossomed at last at Cal State Long Beach, unleashing its famous stench

  02-06-2019 17:57
  
  Ladies and gentleman, the stench has arrived. The rare “corpse flower” has blossomed at Cal State Long Beach, the university announced early Sunday morning, June 2.
  And it does indeed stink, according to Brian Thorson, the botanical curator and botany technician in the university’s Department of Biological Sciences — and the rare flower’s caretaker. “Yes, it does reek,” he said early Sunday.
  Brian Thorson, the botanical curator and botany technician in t
  
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• Suspect wounded, later arrested after robbery attempt at Riverside’s Galleria at Tyler parking lot

  02-06-2019 17:45
  
  A suspect was wounded and later arrested after he confronted an off-duty sheriff’s deputy and his family in the parking lot of the Galleria at Tyler in Riverside and tried to rob them at gunpoint, police said Sunday.
  Neither the deputy, whose agency was not immediately identified, nor his family, nor bystanders in the parking lot were injured in the 9:45 p.m. Saturday incident. The suspect fled in a vehicle after the gunfire, Riverside Police Officer Ryan Railsback said.
  He showed up at a
  
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• Off the Hoof and Buqqa Mediterranean Grill now open at 4rth Street Market in Santa Ana

  02-06-2019 17:24
  
  When you specialize in the whole animal, you might as well go whole hog. That’s the thinking behind Off the Hoof, a new sandwich shop/barbecue stall at 4rth Street Market brought to you by Electric City Butcher.
  “Why not? We’ve been at 4rth Street for four years and doing a daily or weekly sandwich or special,” said ECB founder/chef Michael Puglisi who is starting this project with his business partner Steve Sabicer. “Why not try a spin-off concept using everything
  
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• Santa Anita consensus picks for Sunday June 2

  02-06-2019 17:10
  
  The consensus box of picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Sunday June 2 at Santa Anita.
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• Young driver killed in fiery crash on connector from northbound 5 to southbound 55 Freeway in Tustin

  02-06-2019 16:53
  
  CHP officers early Sunday investigate a fatal collision on the transition road between the northbound 5 Freeway and the southbound 55 Freeway. (Photo by Southern Counties News)
  CHP officers early Sunday investigate a fatal collision on the transition road between the northbound 5 Freeway and the southbound 55 Freeway. (Photo by Southern Counties News)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsCHP officers early Sunday investigate a fatal collision on the transition road between the northbound 5 Freew
  
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• 1 killed in fiery crash on road from northbound 5 to southbound 55 Freeway in Santa Ana

  02-06-2019 16:53
  
  CHP officers early Sunday investigate a fatal collision on the transition road between the northbound 5 Freeway and the southbound 55 Freeway. (Photo by Southern Counties News)
  CHP officers early Sunday investigate a fatal collision on the transition road between the northbound 5 Freeway and the southbound 55 Freeway. (Photo by Southern Counties News)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsCHP officers early Sunday investigate a fatal collision on the transition road between the northbound 5 Freew
  
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• Top Workplaces 2019: Where employees are a company’s most valuable resource

  02-06-2019 09:01
  
  When you own a business, employees are your most valuable resource.
  Whether you’re selling auto parts, insurance or providing web design services, your employees’ expertise, work ethic and ability to function as a team will largely determine the success of your company.
  But finding the right people isn’t easy. A 2018 report from Goldman Sachs reveals that 70 percent of small businesses struggle to find and retain skilled talent. Job seekers can afford to be choosier as a result
  
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• Nominate your business to Top Workplaces 2019 program

  02-06-2019 09:01
  
  In one of the tightest labor markets in recent history, it’s become open season for new jobs and better benefits.
  Employers are on the hunt for the best employees and in return have to produce top workplaces.
  We’d like to know all about these best places to work. The Orange County Register has launched its 12th Top Workplaces program, inviting the best of the best to show the county what makes them No. 1.
  Last year 150 companies and organizations were honored. The large company winne
  
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• Thousands of rubber duckies race for Huntington Beach shoreline to benefit philanthropic health care provider

  02-06-2019 08:37
  
  Ducks normally don’t take to the ocean, but on Saturday, June 1, thousands happily paddled about en masse.
  The 27th annual Duck-a-Thon was held at the Huntington Beach Pier Saturday, June 1, 2019. The event benefits AltaMed Medical and Dental Group, whichprovides medical and dental services for underserved families in Orange County. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer)
  Around 3,000 ducks float in the surf during the 27th annual Duck-a-Thon at the Huntington Beach Pier Sa
  
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• LMU baseball shocks top-seeded UCLA in NCAA regional

  02-06-2019 08:01
  
  LMU right fielder Trevin Esquerra (12) had two on his team’s three RBIs in a 3-2 win over UCLA in the NCAA regional at Jackie Robinson Stadium on June 1, 2019 (Photo courtesy of Brad Kinsella)
  Photo courtesy of Brad KinsellaSoundThe gallery will resume insecondsLMU right fielder Trevin Esquerra (12) had two on his team’s three RBIs in a 3-2 win over UCLA in the NCAA regional at Jackie Robinson Stadium on June 1, 2019 (Photo courtesy of Brad Kinsella)
  UCLA designated hitter Jake Pries
  
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• Paradise Woods stumbles at start, La Force wins Santa Maria Stake

  02-06-2019 07:49
  
  ARCADIA — It’s been a long journey for La Force in her attempt to win a graded stakes, but the moment arrived Saturday at Santa Anita in the 25th start of the 5-year-old mare’s career.
  La Force took advantage of a bobble at the start by Paradise Woods, costing the 1-5 favorite about two or three lengths, and went on to post a 1 1/4-length victory in the $200,000 Grade II Santa Maria Stakes as the 5-1 second choice with Drayden Van Dyke aboard.
  Paradise Woods, ridden by Mike Smi
  
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• Andy Ruiz Jr. stuns Anthony Joshua for heavyweight title at MSG

  02-06-2019 07:36
  
  Andy Ruiz, left, punches Anthony Joshua during the third round of a heavyweight title boxing match Saturday, June 1, 2019, in New York. Ruiz won in the seventh round. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
  Andy Ruiz poses for photographs after a heavyweight title boxing match against Anthony Joshua on Saturday, June 1, 2019, in New York. Ruiz won in the seventh round. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsAndy Ruiz, right, punches Anthony Joshua during the third round of a heav
  
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• LAFC wins battle in Portland, beats Timbers

  02-06-2019 07:34
  
  Los Angeles FC’s Carlos Vela, right, smiles after a goal during an MLS soccer match against the Portland Timbers on Saturday, June 1, 2019, in Portland, Ore. (Tim Brown/The Oregonian via AP)
  Portland Timbers’ Larrys Mabiala, back right, jumps for a head ball next to Los Angeles FC’s Mark-Anthony Kaye (14) and Walker Zimmerman (25) during an MLS soccer match Saturday, June 1, 2019, in Portland, Ore. (Sean Meagher/The Oregonian via AP)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsPortlan
  
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• Will Smith’s first MLB home run is a walkoff winner

  02-06-2019 07:22
  
  Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Chris Taylor can’t reach a ball hit for a triple by Philadelphia Phillies’ Rhys Hoskins during the sixth inning of a baseball game Saturday, June 1, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
  Los Angeles Dodgers’ Max Muncy, bottom, and Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Cesar Hernandez watch Chris Taylor, foreground, get thrown out at first for a double play, after Muncy was out at second during the fifth inning of a baseball game Saturd
  
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• How California discourages new candidates for office

  02-06-2019 07:00
  
  If you care about the First Amendment, keep an eye on a review of enforcement practices at an agency in Sacramento that you may never have heard of: the Fair Political Practices Commission.
  The FPPC makes and enforces regulations to implement the Political Reform Act, a campaign finance reform law first enacted by state voters in 1974, back in the Watergate era. The plan then was to limit the influence and control of powerful special interests.
  It was a road paved with good intentions, and like
  
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• All eyes on Los Angeles’ Tuesday elections: Doug McIntyre

  02-06-2019 06:51
  
  Los Angeles will throw an election on Tuesday, June 4. Excited? The big draw is Measure EE, a parcel tax projected to raise $500 million a year (for a dozen years) to once again save the nation’s second-largest school system from its own ineptness.
  On the undercard, a special election in the city’s 12th Council District, (mostly in the northwest San Fernando Valley) will ask voters to choose between 15 candidates to replace the replacement.
  City Councilman Greig Smith replaced Counci
  
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• Landon Donovan in middle of another USA-Mexico soccer rivalry

  02-06-2019 06:29
  
  ONTARIO >> Regardless of venue, North America’s top soccer rivalry matters. And Landon Donovan has seen it all.
  From leading the United States Youth National Teams as a teenager, to stardom in three World Cups with the U.S. Men’s National Team, the Inland Empire native is among the most revered and reviled players of his generation because of his commitment, in part, to the USA-Mexico rivalry.
  His headed goal to beat Mexico at the 2002 World Cup is legendary, and the game-winni
  
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• Will Smith makes strong first impression with Dodgers, but a return to Triple A is imminent

  02-06-2019 05:56
  
  LOS ANGELES — When Will Smith spent the spring in big-league camp, the Dodgers thought he was ready defensively to play in the major leagues and that his bat needed some refinement.
  As he is about to become a one-week veteran of the big leagues, that spring training scouting report looks pretty accurate.
  “For me, the thing that’s the most encouraging is something we expected the whole time; that his pulse was going to be good and the moment wasn’t going to be too big for
  
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• Protester grabs Sen. Kamala Harris’ microphone, disrupts presidential forum in San Francisco

  02-06-2019 05:15
  
  By Casey Tolan
  SAN FRANCISCO >> An animal rights protester grabbed Sen. Kamala Harris’ microphone and derailed a presidential candidate forum in San Francisco on Saturday.
  Harris was in the middle of discussing her plan for gender pay equality during a forum sponsored by the liberal group MoveOn when 24-year-old Oakland resident Aidan Cook jumped onstage. He strode over to Harris and grabbed the microphone out of her hand, saying he wanted to speak about “a much bigger issue&rd
  
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• Kole Calhoun’s late homer leads Angels to victory over Mariners

  02-06-2019 04:44
  
  Los Angeles Angels’ Kole Calhoun, center, shakes hands with Shohei Ohtani as Cesar Puello approaches them after the team’s 6-3 win over the Seattle Mariners in a baseball game Saturday, June 1, 2019, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
  Los Angeles Angels’ Cesar Puello, left, Kole Calhoun, center, and Hansel Robles celebrate the team’s 6-3 win over the Seattle Mariners in a baseball game Saturday, June 1, 2019, in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)SoundThe gallery will
  
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• Second trip makes it easier to enjoy Star Wars: Smugglers Edge says one Day 2 visitor

  02-06-2019 02:37
  
  Is it better to be a pilot or a gunner on the Millennium Falcon?
  A pilot, said Lydia Dupont of Huntington Beach, who got to be both in Smugglers Run, the simulator ride inside Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
  The ride seats six people at a time, and each plays a role in the flight that contributes to the success or failure of the mission.
  “Being a pilot is more fun because you’re right in the front,” she said in a phone interview Saturday.
  Dupont was one of the first to experien
  
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• Orange woman accused of dog hoarding has a ‘huge heart,’ colleague says

  02-06-2019 01:49
  
  The colleague of an Orange woman accused of canine hoarding said Saturday he’s known her to be “overly generous,” but never imagined that could have extended to keeping more than 140 dogs at her home.
  “Jo’s got a huge heart,” said Michael Simpfenderfer, who works with Josephine Reitkopp and her organization, Make California Great Again, a group that supports President Donald Trump.
  “She would go rescue anybody and help them out,” Simpfenderfer said
  
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• Long Beach celebrates its first Scout-O-Rama since allowing girls to participate

  02-06-2019 01:24
  
  From left, fourteen-year-old Zoe Adler of Ship 550 competes in a boat race with seven-year-old Evelyn Bradford of Cub Scout Pack 267 during Boy Scouts of America’s Scout-O-Rama in Long Beach on Saturday, June 1, 2019. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
  From left, fourteen-year-old Zoe Adler of Ship 550 and seven-year-old Evelyn Bradford of Cub Scout Pack 267 high-five during Boy Scouts of America’s Scout-O-Rama in Long Beach on Saturday, June 1, 2019. (Photo by Drew
  
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• Rough start drops Chapman baseball into elimination game at NCAA Division III CWS

  02-06-2019 01:08
  
  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – UMass-Boston scored nine runs in the first three innings and held on for a 10-6 victory over the Chapman baseball team on Saturday, dropping the Panthers into an elimination game at the eight-team NCAA Division III World Series.
  Chapman will face Washington & Jefferson (of Washington, Pa.) on Sunday at 8 a.m. PT. The winner of that Pool A game advances to play UMass-Boston later Sunday, in a game scheduled for 2:30 p.m. PT.
  Chapman defeated Washington & Jeffers
  
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• Long Beach plan to address climate change arrives with a sense of urgency and a sea of recommendations

  02-06-2019 01:06
  
  Chalk-drawn waves of blue, varying in shades and lengths, stretched across part of Long Beach’s Marine Stadium on a grey, gloomy morning.
  While the artistic waves set an upbeat tone for 500-plus attendees on Saturday, June 1, who came to the city’s first Climate Festival event — which aims to educate the public about climate change — they also held a more ominous meaning. The chalk-drawn waves gave a real-life representation of how areas around the city, like Marine Stadi
  
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• Angels surprised José Suarez with promotion after rough AAA outing

  02-06-2019 00:50
  
  SEATTLE — As it turns out, José Suarez got the call to the majors just after he stopped thinking about it.
  Suarez, one of the Angels’ top pitching prospects, will make his big league debut Sunday. The Angels are using him to give an extra day of rest to their other starters during this stretch of 20 games without an off day.
  Ironically, Suarez got the promotion after he gave up six runs in 3 2/3 innings at Triple-A, his first clunker after four strong outings to start the seas
  
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• Continent drifts to Greener pastures

  02-06-2019 00:11
  
  Usually when traveling, if you find a volume left in your hotel, it’s along the lines of a dog-eared copy of Frommer’s “Europe on Five Dollars a Day.”
  But last week, while getting a Renaissance education in Florence, we booked a room that had a shelf-full of everything from Noam Chomsky tracts and Seamus Heaney’s “Beowulf” translation to a paperback novel I hadn’t picked up in years: Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
  
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