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• Shakespeare’s ‘Henry V’ comes to Mission Viejo’s Village Green

  17-07-2019 23:57
  
  Enjoy an enchanting night under the stars experiencing one of Shakespeare’s most famous and dramatic plays – “Henry V” – performed by Shakespeare by the Sea, on Friday, July 19.
  The production begins at 7 p.m. along the Village Green near the Norman Murray Community Center.
  With its theme of heroism with king, queen, dukes, earls, lords, ladies and army captains in period garb, the play will appeal to young and old alike.  This free performance is sponsore
  
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• Park Life: Universal debuts new Jurassic World ride and Disneyland delays Rise of the Resistance attraction

  17-07-2019 23:35
  
  The Jurassic World water ride splashes down in Universal Studios Hollywood as Disneyland makes cuts to entertainment and postpones the opening of Rise of the Resistance — again — in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. The Park Life newsletter has all the good — and bad — theme park news this week.
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  The new Jurassic World ride debuts at Universal Studios Hollywood with updated technology, animatronics and appearances by characters from the films.
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• Almost 40% of U.S. homes are ‘free and clear’ of a mortgage

  17-07-2019 23:14
  
  By Shelly Hagan, Bloomberg
  More Americans are living mortgage-free.
  About 37% of U.S. households are “free and clear,” meaning they no longer have a home mortgage to pay, according to a Zillow data analysis. This number ticked upward after the Great Recession and over the past 10 years, the share of homeowners paying off their mortgages has risen 5.5 percentage points.
  “In general, higher home equity is financially preferable and the rise in mortgage-free ownership is in line w
  
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• Sunny Hills hires Kenny Knighten as softball coach

  17-07-2019 21:50
  
  Sunny Hills stayed within its family to find a new softball coach.
  The Lancers have hired Kenny Knighten, father of former standouts Marjani and Marshaylee Knighten, as their coach, athletic director Jon Caffrey said.
  “I’ve been trying to get him the last three or four years,” Caffrey said of Knighten. “He’s going to be a great hire.”
  Caffrey said Knighten recently retired as a fire department captain and also has coached travel softball with the Corona Angels
  
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• Data shows flood of opioids across U.S., many of them generics

  17-07-2019 21:30
  
  By GEOFF MULVIHILL and MATTHEW PERRONE
  WASHINGTON — The maker of OxyContin has been cast as the chief villain in the nation’s opioid crisis. But newly released government figures suggest Purdue Pharma had plenty of help in flooding the U.S. with billions of pills even as overdose deaths were accelerating.
  Records kept by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration show that 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pills — the vast majority of them generics, not brand names —
  
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• A whale of a time in Nantucket

  17-07-2019 21:11
  
  “Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.” —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  Nantucket is poised and spirited—a haven for adventure seekers, leisure lovers, boutique explorers, families, couples, friends. Time seems to linger longer on this revered Massachusetts island, due south of Cape Cod and east of Martha’s Vineyard. There is grace in the abundance of history, wildlands and simple elegance. It is the kind of place where being connected to the
  
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• Ag-gag laws are inconsistent with a free society

  17-07-2019 20:57
  
  Recording events from public land shouldn’t be a crime.
  Yet when a woman in Utah, standing by a public road, filmed farmworkers pushing a cow with a bulldozer, the farmer drove up to her and said, “You cannot videotape my property.”
  Soon the police came and local prosecutors charged her with “agricultural operation interference.”
  They dropped the charges several months later since she was on public land.
  But what if she’d posed as a farmworker, got a job on th
  
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• Price controls on prescriptions could backfire, hurt sick seniors

  17-07-2019 20:48
  
  Two in three Medicare beneficiaries live with multiple chronic diseases. A Trump administration proposal could make it harder for them to manage their conditions.
  The Department of Health and Human Services is considering sweeping changes to the way Medicare pays for potent, physician-administered medicines. HHS officials claim they can cut costs by imposing price controls on these drugs.
  In the long run, this price-capping scheme would reduce innovation and chronic disease patien
  
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• Theater review: At the Carpenter Center, ‘The Little Mermaid’ has legs

  17-07-2019 20:43
  
  Delights abound in Musical Theatre West’s production of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” at the Carpenter Center through July 28. The story has been adapted by Doug Wright, based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale in which a mermaid longs for a life onshore and gives up her voice for legs and the chance at love with a prince.
  However, in the fairy tale version, every step she takes feels like walking on knife points, and she doesn’t win the love of her prince.
  
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• SCOTUS caught imagining ‘illegitimate motives’ in census case

  17-07-2019 20:43
  
  In the much publicized case of Department of Commerce v New York (the Census Case), decided on the final day of the Supreme Court’s most recent term, the Court, by a 5-4 vote, decided that the Secretary of Commerce could not add a question pertaining to citizenship to the 2020 census.
  As with most Supreme Court decisions, media coverage focused on the specific result in the case, which was seen, and celebrated by many, as a defeat for President Trump. The result in the case may or may not
  
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• Radio: What the latest ratings mean for LA radio stations

  17-07-2019 20:25
  
  KOST (103.5 FM) was down almost a full point from May, but remained the top dog in the Los Angeles ratings race according to Nielsen Ratings, which released the June report last week. The soft-rock station earned a 5.8 share of the audience aged 6 and over compared with the 6.6 it had in May and 6.5 in February and April.
  Right behind was all-oldies KRTH (101.1 FM) at 5.4 … about what it has averaged over the past six months but down from the 5.8 peak it saw in May, and KTWV The Wave (94.
  
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• Newport Beach home of retired Ducks player Scott Niedermayer nabs buyer for $5.4 million

  17-07-2019 20:07
  
  Former Ducks defenseman Scott Niedermayer has parted with his family’s 5,646-square-foot Newport Beach home for $5.365 million, down $101,570 from the original listing in June.
  The new owners, a couple with young boys, were thrilled by the sports celebrity connection, according to Charlie Price of Villa Real Estate, who represented the buyer.
  But he said the regulation-size tennis court was the clincher. It’s one of few in the city, the listing claims.
  “When we got the keys, th
  
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• Scandal-scarred Wells Fargo, biggest U.S. mortgage lender, makes $6.2 billion

  17-07-2019 20:00
  
  Wells Fargo, the scandal-riddled bank that’s the nation’s largest mortgage maker, reported better-than-expected earnings despite falling interest income in the second quarter.
  San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co., still under growth restrictions by regulators after years of missteps and scandals, reported net interest income for the quarter of $12.1 billion. That’s down 4% from $12.5 billion in the second quarter last year and a 2% decline from the first quarter of 2019. A
  
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• Confusion, fear spread on Mexico border with new US policy

  17-07-2019 19:51
  
  By MARÍA VERZA
  NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Asylum-seekers gathered in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Texas, are grappling to understand what a new U.S. policy that all but eliminates refugee claims by Central Americans and many others meant for their bids to find a better life in America amid a chaos of rumors, confusion and fear.
  The policy went into effect Tuesday and represents the most forceful attempt to date by President Donald Trump to slash the number of people seeking asyl
  
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• U.S. building permits fall to 2-year low

  17-07-2019 19:47
  
  Applications for building permits nationwide, an indication of future construction, fell in June to its lowest since May 2017.
  The Commerce Department said Wednesday that permitting was down 6.1% in a month to 1.22 million. But U.S. home construction starts last month was running 6.2% above June 2018 levels though it’s slowed of late.
  Construction was started at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.25 million in June. On a month-to-month basis, that was down 0.9% from 1.27 million in May
  
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• Senior Moments: When your computer crashes, there’s really only one thing to do

  17-07-2019 19:47
  
  It wasn’t as loud as an earthquake, but I heard the sound very distinctly. It was kind of a sharp ‘ka-chink,’ followed by way too much quiet. Two blue blinks taunted me from the computer screen before it went dark.
  Please don’t let this be happening, I heard a pathetic voice whisper. That same voice had spoken those same words during the recent earthquake. Only this time there was no shaking, if you don’t count my hands as they touched a lifeless keyboard.
  And this
  
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• Who will win the British Open? Ten top contenders at Royal Portrush

  17-07-2019 19:43
  
  A capsule look at 10 top contenders for the British Open, to be played Thursday-Sunday at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland (listed in predicted order of finish):
  RORY MCILROY
  Age: 30.
  Country: Northern Ireland.
  World ranking: 3.
  Worldwide victories: 24.
  Majors: U.S. Open (2011), British Open (2014), PGA Championship (2012, 2014).
  2019 majors: Masters-T21, PGA Championship-T8, US Open-T9.
  British Open memory: Going wire-to-wire to win the claret jug at Royal Liverpool in 2014.
  Worth noting: He
  
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• USC RB Vavae Malepeai named to Doak Walker Award watch list

  17-07-2019 19:38
  
  Vavae Malepeai is representing Tailback U this preseason.
  The USC running back was named to the Doak Walker Award watch list on Wednesday. The award is given annually to the country’s best running back.
  The junior is USC’s leading returning rusher who hopes to benefit from the graduation of last year’s first-string tailback, Aca’Cedric Ware. Malepeai had 93 rushing attempts as a sophomore and gained 501 yards, an average of 5.4 per carry. He also scored eight touchdowns a
  
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• SDCC 2019: Her Universe founder Ashley Eckstein talks fashion, inclusion and mental health

  17-07-2019 19:31
  
  By Beatriz E. Valenzuela
  For the last six years, yards and yards of tafeta, cotton and even terrycloth bedazzled and festooned with sequins, feathers and crystals have sashayed their way down the runway during the Her Universe Fashion Show at Comic-Con International. In that short amount of time. the geek couture fashion competition has turned out dozens of winners who were given the opportunity to design a fashion line for Hot Topic.
  What the show also did, away from the lights of the runway an
  
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• Crew aboard sinking boat in 2,225-mile Transpac race gets rescued by Roy Disney’s Pyewacket

  17-07-2019 19:21
  
  Rule No. 1 in the sailboat racing handbook: Save lives.
  That’s just what the crew aboard the 68-foot Pyewacket did in the dark, early-morning hours Monday, July 15, when another boat, the Orient Express, started to sink during the 2,225-mile Transpacific Yacht Race.
  “There were no other choices for us, it was the obvious thing to do,” Roy Disney, captain of Pyewacket, said in a video interview with race officials after the rescue. “I don’t think any of us could live
  
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• Free tacos and cheap drinks Thursday as El Torito celebrates its 65th anniversary

  17-07-2019 19:04
  
  El Torito is marking its 65th anniversary on Thursday, July 18, the way its founder, the late Larry Cano, might have gone about it.
  “Larry was always looking for a reason to celebrate,” said Randy, Sharpe, chief executive officer of parent company Xperience Restaurant Group.
  El Torito will be throwing parties at all 31 of its locations from 3 p.m. to close on Thursday with free tacos and drink discounts, including $6 margaritas and $4 beers. Entertainment will include mariachis and d
  
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• Yorba Linda has to try again to sell its West Bastanchury property

  17-07-2019 19:03
  
  An agreement for a developer to buy a 13-acre city-owned property off Bastanchury Road in Yorba Linda has fallen apart.
  Pacific Cascade Group was supposed to purchase the property – once expected to house a private high school – from the city for $19.2 million to build 23 single-family homes, but couldn’t secure financing for the deal, City Manager Mark Pulone said.
  The city was expecting to receive $12.6 million from the deal, after deducting various fees and the cost to build
  
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• San Clemente Ocean Festival looks to offer fun on land and on sea

  17-07-2019 18:52
  
  The San Clemente Ocean Festival is celebrating 43 years of “The Greatest Show on Surf,” Saturday, July 20, and Sunday, July 21. Take in the competitions of ironman water and land events including the ever-popular dory boat races, 5K beach run, and 1-mile ocean swim.
  Family activities include kids dolphin dash beach run, “Groms Rule” surf contest, Pier Bowl surf contest and tandem boogieboard contest. There also will be a free beach concert, sand-sculpting contest, fishing
  
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• SDCC 2019: All the movie and TV panels to look forward to every day of Comic-Con

  17-07-2019 16:17
  
  Comic-Con International is a whirlwind four days of breaking entertainment news as pop culture icons and their fans gather in San Diego to geek out over comic books, movies, television and everything in between.
  Each day of the convention is filled with more information than any fan can digest whether you’re there in person or not. So we’re here to help narrow down the field a little and figure out which panels to pay attention to Thursday, July 18 through Sunday, July 21.
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• Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: Being prepared for the Big One

  17-07-2019 16:15
  
  Many people these days are thinking about earthquakes, and wondering if they’re prepared for the Big One.
  In fact, I have several friends inquiring if I’m ready, and I think the reason they’re asking me is so they can show off that their planning skills are better than mine.
  “Well, I have eight days of ready-made human kibble in the closet, plus 10 gallons of drinking water, an emergency space blanket, orange plastic cones, jumper cables and a first aid kit. Plus I’
  
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• Prayer vigil held for holy relics ahead of dedication of Christ Cathedral

  17-07-2019 15:42
  
  Relics of 10 martyrs and saints – including those of St. Junipero Serra and St. Pope John Paul II – were placed outside the doors of Christ Cathedral on Tuesday evening, July 16, following a prayer service in the arboretum. They were then to be watched over throughout the night, during a prayer vigil in English, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese.
  Come Wednesday, those relics – holy bone fragments – will be relocated by Bishop Kevin Vann to a reliquary under the cathedral alt
  
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• These aerial photos of Disneyland show just how uncrowded Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is

  17-07-2019 15:37
  
  New aerial photos taken of Disneyland on the Fourth of July show an uncrowded Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge on what is typically one of the busiest days of the year for the Anaheim theme park.
  The Nearmap aerial images show light crowds in Galaxy’s Edge with some areas of the new Star Wars land virtually empty.
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• OC Fair 2019: Things to do today, July 17

  17-07-2019 15:00
  
  Headed to the fair today? Here are some things to know.
  Hours: Noon to midnight
  Admission: $12 adults; $7 ages 60 and older, $7 ages 6 to 12; free 5 and younger
  Deals: We Care Wednesdays offer free admission and a carnival ride with a valid donation, which rotates between causes each week. From noon to 3 p.m. today, donate school supplies valued at $5 or more (receipt required), which will be given to Share Our Selves.
  Free admission for veterans and active-duty military with ID
  Buy a $35 w
  
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• Heat wave fizzles, but another’s on the way to Southern California

  17-07-2019 14:58
  
  LOS ANGELES — The heat wave that began Thursday has dissipated, but another one is coming, forecasters said Wednesday.
  The next heat wave should start Tuesday and last three or four days, said National Weather meteorologist Andrew Rorke. Its causes will include high pressure over the Four Corners area and decreasing offshore flow, just like the last one.
  “Standard fare,” Rorke said, emphasizing there is nothing remotely exotic in these weather patterns. “It’s summer
  
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• John Paul Stevens, dead at 99, evolved into Supreme Court’s liberal lion

  17-07-2019 14:35
  
  By MARK SHERMAN and CONNIE CASS
  WASHINGTON — John Paul Stevens moved left as the Supreme Court shifted to the right during his nearly 35 years as a justice.
  That’s how the bow-tie wearing Republican from the Midwest emerged as the leader of the high court’s liberal wing and a strong proponent of abortion rights, consumer protection and limits on the death penalty.
  Stevens, who died Tuesday at age 99 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, served longer than all but two justices and was th
  
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• Alexander: Are the Angels starting to make a wild-card run?

  17-07-2019 08:02
  
  ANAHEIM — Let’s take emotion out of it for a bit, even though it could be argued that the Angels have run on extra emotion and energy since the tragic death of teammate Tyler Skaggs.
  And let’s discount, for a moment, a post-All-Star break sweep of the Seattle Mariners, who are a bad enough baseball team that you wonder how General Manager Jerry DiPoto still has a job.
  But the fact is that the Angels have now won five in a row and eight of their last 11 games after Tuesday night
  
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• Angels win 5th straight, and get a little revenge against Astros’ Jake Marisnick

  17-07-2019 07:42
  
  Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Andrew Heaney throws to a Houston Astros batter during the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 16, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
  Houston Astros’ Alex Bregman, right, jump after striking out next to Los Angeles Angels catcher Kevan Smith during the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 16, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsHouston Astros starting pitcher
  
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• 4 arrested in Fountain Valley sting on suspicion of selling AR-15 rifles and drugs

  17-07-2019 06:19
  
  A sting operation in Fountain Valley on Monday, July 15, led to the arrest of three men and one minor suspected of selling drugs and guns.
  Authorities began monitoring a suspect earlier this month who had allegedly been advertising AR-15 rifles and narcotics for sale, Fountain Valley Police Department officials said in a statement. Detectives made arrangements to purchase a gun and various narcotics for $1,200, and set up a meeting at a pre-determined location at 4 p.m. on Monday.
  Officers arres
  
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• Home Tour: A family starts over in Ladera Ranch after Tubbs fire takes everything

  17-07-2019 06:02
  
  The Keegans plan to upgrade the backyard of their turnkey Covenant Hills house. (photography by Leonard Ortiz)
  It all happened in almost an instant. Sarah Keegan went to bed in her practically-perfect-in-every-way Santa Rosa home, having put her two young children to bed Sunday evening and said a long-distance goodbye to her husband, Matt, who is a race-car driver for Team Panoz Racing.
  Four hours later, she awoke to find a massive fire coming right at her.
  That was Oct. 9, 2017, the day &ldquo
  
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• Say g’day to Australia’s Gold Coast

  17-07-2019 05:31
  
  You might know tastemaker and restaurateur Jay Lewis as the man behind Costa Mesa’s fresh-to-the-table lunch and take-out dinner spot, Outpost Kitchen (with a second location coming this summer at 3420 Bristol Street). Lewis may now call Newport Beach his home with his wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Lennox Lazer, but he’s never far from his Australian roots. This month he makes a pitch for visiting the Gold Coast, where he grew up. “There is something for everyone there &ndash
  
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• Phillies answer Dodgers’ ninth-inning rally with one of their own

  17-07-2019 05:07
  
  Dodgers starting pitcher Walker Buehler wipes his face after giving up a three-run home run to Philadelphia Phillies’ Bryce Harper during the second inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, July 16, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
  Philadelphia Phillies’ Vince Velasquez pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tuesday, July 16, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsLos Angeles Dodgers&rsqu
  
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• Reports: Clippers poised to name Brian Sieman as Ralph Lawler’s successor

  17-07-2019 04:25
  
  Brian Sieman’s reference on his job application was impeccable: “He was my First and Only choice,” tweeted Ralph Lawler on Tuesday following media reports that Sieman would be named his successor as the TV voice of the Clippers.
  Lawler, the Hall-of-Fame-bound broadcaster, retired after last season, his 40th calling Clippers games.
  Sieman has spent nine seasons as a member of the Clippers broadcast team, handling radio play-by-play duties on AM 570 L.A. Sports.
  Witty and kn
  
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• County supervisors approve proposed homeless lawsuit settlement that would leave some south county cities without anti-camping enforcement

  17-07-2019 03:52
  
  The Orange County Board of Supervisors agreed in a closed session Tuesday, July 16, to a proposed settlement of the 2018 homeless lawsuit that already has led to developing a system of care that includes the opening of shelters, more permanent supportive housing units, stepped-up health care outreach to people on the street, and an increase in mental health care services.
  A copy of the settlement proposal was not yet available. But a court date before U.S. District Judge David O. Carter to
  
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• Angels loosening restrictions on reliever use for second-half push

  17-07-2019 03:38
  
  ANAHEIM — When Ty Buttrey came jogging in from the bullpen on Monday night to protect a four-run lead against the Houston Astros, it was a sign that the Angels’ season is reaching a new level of urgency.
  It was the third straight day that Manager Brad Ausmus had used Buttrey. Ausmus had used a reliever three days in a row just one other time all season, when he used Luís García from June 27-29.
  Ausmus said Tuesday that for “the rest of the way” he would loos
  
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• Could Julio Urias be the bullpen help the Dodgers need for October?

  17-07-2019 03:20
  
  PHILADELPHIA — Julio Urias has learned to like his new job.
  “Yeah, of course. The goal is always to be with this team and to help this team. And honestly, I do like it,” he said through an interpreter.
  “It’s not like they use me in high-leverage situations where I’m coming in with runners on second and third. They do use me for two or three innings which might help a bullpen that might be used a lot in the days previous or to save the bullpen for future days.
  
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• Bayern Munich, Arsenal kick off International Champions Cup on Wednesday in Carson

  17-07-2019 02:39
  
  Both Arsenal and Bayern Munich will kick off their respective upcoming seasons in less than 30 days.
  Arsenal will open the new English Premier League season on Aug. 11 against Newcastle United and Bayern Munich breaks the seal on the German Bundesliga on Aug. 16 against Hertha Berlin.
  What’s the best way to prepare? Head to Southern California, of course.
  The teams will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. in their opening game of the International Champions Cup at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson
  
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• Disneyland’s Splash Mountain marks 30 wet years on Wednesday, July 17

  17-07-2019 01:53
  
  Disneyland’s Splash Mountain reopened May 27, 2011 after several months of refurbishment. (Photo by Paul Hiffmeyer, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
  Tony Baxter, a longtime head Disney Imagineer, responsible for major projects such as Indiana Jones, Splash Mountain and Big Thunder Railroad (File photo by Joshua Sudock, Orange County Register) SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsRiders can get wet when they splash down on Splash Mountain. (File photo by Mark Eades, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  
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• Retail rivals crash Amazon’s Prime Day party

  17-07-2019 01:48
  
  By Mae Anderson and Anne D’Innocenzio
  The gravitational pull of Amazon Prime Day is so strong on shoppers it’s benefiting other retailers as well, according to an early analysis from a key data group.
  On Monday, the first day of its 48-hour sales event, large retailers, those that generated annual revenue of at least a billion dollars, enjoyed a 64% increase in online sales compared with an average Monday, according to Adobe Analytics, which measures 80 of the top 100 retailers on th
  
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• SDCC 2019: Comic-Con Museum opening in Balboa Park, and you don’t need a badge

  17-07-2019 01:37
  
  While it’s not quite ready to permanently open, the Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park will peel back the curtains during this year’s Comic-Con International in San Diego and give the public a sneak peek.
  A pop-up version of the museum, located at 2131 Pan American Plaza, will open for a fundraiser Wednesday night, July 17, and then open to the public Thursday through Sunday.
  During Wednesday night’s ticketed event, Batman will be honored following a black carpet reception that wi
  
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• New Laker Anthony Davis takes steps into the commercial spotlight

  17-07-2019 01:33
  
  On the board, his face looked serious and unflinching – as if carved from a sheet of granite.
  Standing next to the picture of himself, even in the same posture, the real-life Anthony Davis’ face broke into a craggy grin. Dressed in a ballcap and sweatshorts, the 6-foot-11 Lakers forward didn’t quite carry the same intimidation factor as he did on the cover of the next NBA 2K20 video game – in which he’s the featured star.
  It might have been the contrast between the
  
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• Ducks sign four players, including La Mirada native Chase De Leo

  17-07-2019 01:24
  
  The Ducks signed centers Chase De Leo and Justin Kloos and defenseman Chris Wideman to one-season, two-way contracts Tuesday, and they also made official the signing of defenseman Michael Del Zotto to a one-year deal worth $750,000.
  De Leo, Kloos and Wideman are expected to challenge for spots with the Ducks during training camp in September. Failing that, they will play for the Ducks’ AHL team, the San Diego Gulls. Del Zotto will likely be slotted into the fifth or sixth spot in the Ducks
  
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• Business briefly: Military supplier to pay $11M over whistleblower claims in Santa Ana

  17-07-2019 01:23
  A Southern California company will pay the U.S. government $11 million to settle allegations it sold electrical connectors to the military that lacked proper testing or had failed tests.
  The government announced Tuesday that ITT Cannon also agreed to follow strict manufacturing and testing protocols.
  ITT didn’t acknowledge any liability, however.
  The settlement resolves allegations filed in a whistleblower lawsuit by the former regional quality manager at ITT’s Santa Ana facility.
  In
  
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• House condemns Trump’s ‘racist’ tweets in extraordinary rebuke

  17-07-2019 01:16
  
  By ALAN FRAM and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
  WASHINGTON — In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump’s “racist comments” against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump’s Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn’t “a racist bone in my body.”
  Two days after Trump tweeted that four Democratic freshmen should “go back” to their home
  
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• Diane Keaton’s onetime Laguna Beach home lists for $4.3 million

  17-07-2019 01:15
  
  The kitchen. (Photo by Leigh Ann Rowe/Compass)
  A look at the open floor plan from the kitchen. (Photo by Leigh Ann Rowe/Compass)SoundThe gallery will resume inseconds(Photo by Leigh Ann Rowe/Compass)
  Through the door of the laundry room is the kitchen. (Photo by Leigh Ann Rowe/Compass)
  The house has a mud room. (Photo by Leigh Ann Rowe/Compass)
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  A view from the shared deck off the master suites. (Photo by Leigh Ann Rowe/Compass)
  Brick patio. (Photo by Leigh Ann
  
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• 1 suspect in Santa Ana robbery captured, other still at large

  17-07-2019 01:15
  
  Tips from the public helped detectives identify one of two men suspected in two armed robberies that were captured by surveillance cameras in Santa Ana earlier this month, police said Tuesday, July 16.
  Authorities named Brian Ho, 28, of Garden Grove as the mustache-wearing robber seen in footage of a heist that took place at about 7:09 a.m. on Thursday, July 4, at M & Toi Cafe, 4702 W. 1st St., Santa Ana Police Department officials said Wednesday in a statement.
  It was the first of two robbe
  
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