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• Jewish activists shut down GEO Group building in West LA Monday morning

  05-08-2019 23:57
  
  Chanting “never again is now,” more than 100 mostly Jewish activists protested Monday morning at a building in West Los Angeles near the Howard Hughes Center that is home to the western regional offices of the GEO Group, which operates several immigrant-detention centers in the U.S.
  The protest effectively shut the building down for the entire morning as it prevented people from entering. Seventeen people were arrested for blocking entrances.
  The demonstration was meant to draw atten
  
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• What to select for your book club in August

  05-08-2019 23:44
  
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  For fans of “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine,” Hazel Prior’s charming and quirky novel “Ellie and the Harp Maker” will give you all the feels. Set in the English countryside, the story follows Dan, an introverted harp maker, and Ellie, a wom
  
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• 20-year sentence for man who mailed pipe bombs to Rep. Waters, Sen. Harris, Clinton, Obama, De Niro, Steyer

  05-08-2019 23:43
  
  LOS ANGELES — A Florida man who mailed pipe bombs to top Democrats and Trump administration critics, including Los Angeles Rep. Maxine Waters, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison.
  Cesar Sayoc, 57, pleaded guilty in March in federal court in Manhattan to 65 felonies for sending 16 devices to 13 people last October, including former President Barack Obama, actor Robert De Niro and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
  Sayoc sent two devices to Waters — one that was intercep
  
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• China lets yuan drop, halts US farm purchases as it lashes back

  05-08-2019 23:19
  
  By PAUL WISEMAN and JOE McDONALD
  WASHINGTON — China decided Monday to meet President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat with defiance, letting its currency drop to an 11-year low and halting purchases of U.S. farm products.
  The moves, which came four days after Trump threatened more taxes on Chinese imports, knocked stock markets worldwide into a tailspin. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 850 points by mid-afternoon.
  Earlier, stocks tumbled from Sh
  
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• Unknowns in Ohio shooting: Did gunman target his sister?

  05-08-2019 22:53
  
  By JOHN SEEWER
  DAYTON, Ohio — Police worked Monday to pin down why a 24-year-old gunman killed nine people, including his sister, in a weekend shooting rampage in a popular nightlife area in Dayton, Ohio.
  Connor Betts, who was wearing a mask and body armor when he opened fire in the bustling Oregon District early Sunday, was armed with an AR-15-style rifle. If all of the magazines he had with him were full, which hasn’t been confirmed, he would have had a maximum of 250 rounds, said
  
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• Yield curve blares loudest U.S. recession warning since 2007

  05-08-2019 22:37
  The latest eruption in the U.S.-China trade dispute pushed a widely watched Treasury-market recession indicator to the highest alert since 2007.
  Rates on 10-year notes sank to 1.74% on Monday, close to completely erasing the surge that followed President Donald Trump’s 2016 election. In early trading, they fetched as much as 32 basis points less than three-month bills, the most extreme yield-curve inversion since just before the 2008 crisis.
  The move follows reports that China is respondin
  
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• 8chan down after El Paso mass shooting — for now

  05-08-2019 22:34
  
  After several hours of downtime, 8chan, the online message board that appears to have been used by the suspect in the El Paso mass shooting to post an anti-immigrant manifesto, was again accessible for a few hours Monday, then back down again.
  “8chan is coming back online around the world,” a message on the site read as of 10 a.m. Pacific time. “Shout out to our team working hard in the background to restore services.”
  Sunday night, 8chan said on its Twitter account that
  
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• Suspect takes CHP vehicle in high-speed chase that ends in Orange County

  05-08-2019 22:28
  
  A chase that made its way through three counties Monday, Aug. 5, ended after a man stopped by the California Highway Patrol in Riverside County got into the patrol car and took off, carjacked a vehicle in Temecula, then sped into San Diego County where he stole another car, authorities said, before driving north into Orange County.
  No injuries were immediately reported after the suspect pulled over and was taken into custody around 11:30 a.m. near San Juan Capistrano, CHP Officer Mike Lassig sai
  
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• Yes, ASAP Rocky will play the Real Street Festival after his release from a Swedish jail

  05-08-2019 22:17
  
  A$AP Rocky, the rapper who until recently had been held in a Swedish jail in connection with an assault case, will perform at the Real Street Festival in Anaheim on Sunday, Aug. 11, event officials confirmed.
  “We are elated that Rocky is finally coming home and will be taking the stage to headline our first Real Street Fest this weekend, as originally planned,” Doc Wynter, executive vice president of urban/hip-hop at iHeartMedia, said in a statement. “In the interim, Godspeed t
  
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• Lashing back, China lets yuan drop, halts US farm purchases

  05-08-2019 22:10
  
  By Paul Wiseman and Joe McDonald, The Associated Press
  China decided Monday to meet President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat with defiance, letting its currency drop to an 11-year low and halting purchases of U.S. farm products.
  The moves, which came four days after Trump threatened more taxes on Chinese imports, knocked stock markets worldwide into a tailspin. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 850 points by mid-afternoon.
  Earlier, stocks tumbled from
  
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• Mosquitoes collected in Orange test positive for West Nile virus; 9 birds also found with the disease around Orange County

  05-08-2019 21:39
  
  Mosquitoes found at El Camino Real Park in Orange have tested positive for West Nile virus, the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District announced Monday, Aug. 5. The mosquito sample, collected July 30, was the first batch to test positive for the virus in the county in 2019.
  The vector control district also announced, Monday, that a total of nine dead birds infected with the disease were found in Cypress, Buena Park, Huntington Beach and Tustin. Given the number of bird
  
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• Authorities capture fugitive Newport Beach millionaire charged in killing of wife

  05-08-2019 21:29
  
  A Newport Beach millionaire suspected of killing his wife in 2012 was captured by authorities on Sunday after being on the run for years and is now back in the United States, the U.S. Marshals Service confirmed Monday, Aug. 5.
  In January 2015, real estate investor Peter Chadwick was supposed to appear in court to face a charge that he strangled his wife and dumped her body in a trash bin in San Diego County. But he skipped out on the appearance and had been on the U.S. Marshals’ Most Wante
  
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• Orange County Football Preview 2019: Strong group of receivers leads No. 10 Tesoro

  05-08-2019 21:28
  
  The Register is counting down the top 10 teams in the Orange County football preseason top 10, starting with No. 10 Tesoro.
  The 2016 Tesoro freshman football team went undefeated.Support our high school sports coverage in the year ahead by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now.Now, those freshmen are seniors. The class includes Justin Schafer who leads what is perhaps the Titans’ strongest unit, the receivers.
  “I think we have the potential to be one of the best group of recei
  
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• Thousands of kids now ready for school after backpack, school supply giveaway in Anaheim

  05-08-2019 20:17
  
   
  Volunteers hand out backpacks filled with school supplies to elementary and middle school students at the during Karina’s Backpack Project event in the parking lot of Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Gael Damian Rocha, 6, center, helps his mother Petrona Hernandez carry free bags of groceries during Karina’s Backpack Project event in the parking lot of Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (
  
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• Hard Summer returned to Auto Club Speedway and these photos show you the vibe

  05-08-2019 19:58
  
  Hard Summer returned to the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana on Saturday, Aug. 3 and Sunday, Aug. 4 giving its visitors the chance to once again take in an assortment of hip hop and electronic music acts, including Kid Cudi, Major Lazer and a DJing Shaquille O’Neal (DJ Diesel).
  Sign up for our Festival Pass newsletter. Whether you are a Coachella lifer or prefer to watch from afar, get weekly dispatches during the Southern California music festival season. Subscribe here.
  In addition to those
  
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• Sparks’ Candace Parker caps successful return with WNBA Player of the Week honor

  05-08-2019 19:45
  
  She’s baaack.
  Sparks star Candace Parker was named WNBA Player of the Week along with Washington’s Elena Delle Donne, the league announced Monday.
  Parker returned last week after missing five games with a right ankle injury to lead the Sparks to a 2-0 record with convincing, key victories over the then-first-place Las Vegas Aces on Thursday and defending champion Seattle Storm on Sunday.
  In those games, the 32-year-old Parker averaged 18.5 points, 7 rebounds and 2 blocks. She led the
  
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• Report: USC picks up commitment of No. 1 basketball prospect, Rancho Christian star Evan Mobley

  05-08-2019 19:21
  
  Monday proved to be a big day for the USC basketball program, literally.
  The Trojans picked up the commitment of Rancho Christian center Evan Mobley, according to a report from ESPN. Mobley is the top-ranked prospect in the entire 2020 recruiting class, according to 247Sports.com.
  The commitment means the entire Mobley family will soon be in cardinal and gold. Mobley’s older brother, Isaiah, is a five-star power forward who signed with USC out of the 2019. Their father, Eric, is entering h
  
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• Fire engine and car collide on border of Buena Park and La Palma

  05-08-2019 19:11
  
  A fire engine responding to a medical call collided with a sedan on the border of Buena Park and La Palma early Monday, Aug. 5.
  It was shortly before 1:30 a.m. when Orange County Fire Authority Engine 61 was headed to a Buena Park scene with lights and sirens on, said La Palma police Sgt. Joe Guerrero.
  A car collided with the engine at the corner of Orangethorpe Avenue and Valley View Street, on the La Palma side.
  “It’s under investigation that the driver (of the car) may have g
  
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• 2 El Paso victims die at hospital, raising death toll to 22

  05-08-2019 19:11
  
  By CEDAR ATTANASIO, PAUL J. WEBER and MORGAN LEE
  EL PASO, Texas — Two more victims of the mass shooting at a crowded Walmart in El Paso, Texas, died Monday at a hospital, raising the death toll for the attack to 22.
  The Del Sol Medical Center did not release the names or ages of the patients who died, but hospital officials described one as an elderly woman.
  One patient who died had major abdominal wounds affecting the liver, kidneys and intestines. That patient also received a “mass
  
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• Here’s where Marie Callender’s Restaurants closed Sunday in Southern California

  05-08-2019 19:07
  
  The parent company of Marie Callender’s Restaurant & Bakery has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and is closing nearly half of the restaurants in the chain, according to a news release.
  Perkins & Marie Callender’s, LLC announced Monday morning that it had closed 19 Marie Callender’s locations on Sunday. Marie Callender’s website lists 46 restaurants in three states: California, Nevada, and Utah.
  Phone calls to Marie Callender’s restaurants in Southe
  
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• El Pollo Loco employee robbed at gunpoint in Garden Grove, makes off with cash

  05-08-2019 17:39
  
  An El Pollo Loco employee was robbed at gunpoint Sunday night, Aug. 4, by a suspect who made off with cash, police said.
  The robbery happened at around 9:45 p.m. when an employee who was preparing to close the restaurant was confronted by a man with a gun, said Sgt. Juan Delgado.
  The man demanded money and the employee gave it over and left on foot, Delgado said.
  Though it was immediately unknown how much money was taken from the establishment, in the 12900 block of Harbor Boulevard, author
  
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• El Pollo Loco employee robbed at gunpoint in Garden Grove

  05-08-2019 17:39
  
  An El Pollo Loco employee was robbed at gunpoint Sunday night, Aug. 4, by a suspect who made off with cash, police said.
  The robbery happened at around 9:45 p.m. when an employee who was preparing to close the restaurant was confronted by a man with a gun, said Sgt. Juan Delgado.
  The man demanded money and the employee gave it over and left on foot, Delgado said.
  Though it was immediately unknown how much money was taken from the establishment, in the 12900 block of Harbor Boulevard, author
  
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• Status Update: Longtime SOCO retailer HD Buttercup exiting Costa Mesa center

  05-08-2019 17:30
  
  Two new shops will join SOCO in Costa Mesa this year while a longstanding furniture and home decor mainstay is leaving.
  Here’s the rundown:
  Exiting SOCO: Seven-year tenant HD Buttercup exits SOCO this fall as it focuses its Southern California operations at its flagship store in Los Angeles.
  The retailer launched a store-closing sale Aug. 1 with 25% to 75% savings storewide.
  A SOCO representative said several showrooms within HD Buttercup’s Orange County location have expressed inter
  
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• UCLA training camp: Running back breakdown

  05-08-2019 17:04
  
  Chip Kelly stirred UCLA’s dormant running game in his first year, producing the program’s first 1,000-yard rusher since 2015. But for the coach who made his name with a dominant rushing game at Oregon, ranking eighth in the Pac-12 in rushing with 154.8 yards per game seems like just the tip of the iceberg.
  Here’s a look at where UCLA’s running back group stands.
  Key returnees: Joshua Kelley (redshirt senior), Kazmeir Allen (sophomore), Martell Irby (sophomore)
  Key losses:
  
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• How Southern California jails are changing the way they treat the mentally ill

  05-08-2019 17:02
  
  Rusty the miniature donkey patiently moved from man to man in a circle of chairs around him.
  Some eagerly reached out to pet his forehead or scratch behind his ears. Others engaged more cautiously.
  Rusty’s effect on the group of seven severely mentally ill inmates at the West Valley Detention Center, San Bernardino County’s largest jail, was obvious.
  As his handler, volunteer Janella Denney, moved him around the circle that November day, the inmates peppered Denney with question
  
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• Laguna Beach approves first phase of potential $166 million wildfire mitigation plan

  05-08-2019 16:45
  
  Laguna Beach Mayor Bob Whalen looked across a deep ravine — known as the “horseshoe” — along Bluebird Canyon Road.
  The area, flush with coastal sage, grasses and a cluster of more than two dozen eucalyptus trees standing nearly 80 feet tall, is an example of the 16,000 acres of open space that weaves through and around this seaside town.
  Whalen calls the location a chokepoint. It is the exact spot where all residents who live in the canyon can enter and exit via a narrow,
  
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• Dane Cook’s comedy has evolved from attitude and cool jeans to honesty and anxiety

  05-08-2019 16:35
  
  When Dane Cook performed before a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden in 2007, he delivered the observational, raunchy brand of comedy he had come to be known for — making fun of family, friends, relationships and sex as thousands of fans cheered so loudly it sounded like a roar. Twelve years later the comic has found a new source of comedic inspiration: himself.
  “I’ve always been considered more of a storyteller and observational comedian and that’s been my sweet spo
  
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• USC football training camp: Running back breakdown

  05-08-2019 16:30
  
  Another year, another leading rusher gone for USC.
  Aca’Cedric Ware has graduated, making it the second year in a row the Trojans have seen their leading rusher move on. This leaves USC younger at the position than it’s been in a couple of years, which could be a blessing or a curse.
  Here’s a breakdown of where USC stands at tailback entering 2019:
  Key returnees: Stephen Carr (junior), Vavae Malepeai (junior), Markese Stepp (redshirt freshman),
  Key losses: Aca’Ce
  
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• Put on your favorite faded Prince T-shirt and dance to ’80s tunes

  05-08-2019 16:30
  
  Popular ’80s cover band Flashback Heart Attack will perform in Huntington Beach Saturday, Aug. 10. (Courtesy of Flashback Heart Attack)
  Love ’80s tunes?
  Popular oldies cover band Flashback Heart Attack performs Aug. 10 at SeaLegs at the Beach restaurant.
  Come as you are or wear your favorite concert or band T-shirt – from any era and any genre. Rock, country, rap? It’s all good.
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• Number of public retirees in $100K Club skyrockets, but they’re just part of the burden on state pension system

  05-08-2019 16:30
  
  Back in 2005 — when Disneyland turned 50, George W. Bush began his second term in the White House and Microsoft released the Xbox 360 — a mere 1,841 people collected pensions exceeding $100,000 a year in the massive California Public Employees Retirement System.
  By 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated and Chesley Sullenberger landed an airliner on the Hudson River, this so-called $100K Club had more than tripled, to 6,133 retired workers.
  In 2013, when Nelson Mandela died and Prin
  
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• US stocks hammered as China’s currency hits 11-year low

  05-08-2019 16:29
  
  By DAMIAN J. TROISE
  NEW YORK — U.S. stocks nosedived in morning trading on Wall Street Monday as China’s currency fell sharply and stoked fears that the trade war between the world’s two largest economies would continue escalating.
  China let its currency, the yuan, sink to an 11-year low against the dollar and under the politically sensitive level of seven per dollar. A weaker Chinese currency can help boost that country’s exports while hurting foreign competition.
  The U.
  
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• Radio personality Ellen K talks about her life in radio from small-town Indiana to host of the KOST-FM morning show

  05-08-2019 14:05
  
  Radio host Ellen K says she was deep into a particularly intimate examination of a pregnant cow when it struck her that the life of a veterinarian might not be for her.
  “You have to get in there and make sure everything is in the right place, and then you get outta there,” she says of the barnyard epiphany that hit her one cold and snowy Indiana day in her sophomore year at Purdue University in the early ’80s. “It was a very dramatic day, actually, that I’ll never f
  
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• Morsels: 7 Days to EAT – A week of great bites in OC

  05-08-2019 08:59
  
  The OC sizzles in the summertime. Enjoy each day eating and drinking at sweet, gluten-free spots. Pig out on buzz-worthy vegan ice cream – made with sweet tomatoes – from Salt & Straw at Downtown Disney. Get your boba-fix filled with an artisanal strawberry coconut milk green tea at Omomo in Irvine. Or, need other sweet suggestions? Start here:
   
  MARGARITA MONDAY: Toast to Las Brisas’ 40th anniversary with the Laguna Beach restaurant’s signature margarita. :: las
  
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• First Person: Variety is the spice of life – and of food delivery services

  05-08-2019 08:42
  
  Like most children of immigrants who grow up in the United States, I was raised following two sets of cultural norms – the norms at home, influenced by my mother’s Ghanaian heritage, and the norms expected of me as an American kid as soon as I crossed the threshold of my front door. It’s a type of code switching, a version of the double consciousness coined by W.E.B. Du Bois in “The Souls of Black Folk.” For me, the difference was often not as stark as it was for ot
  
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• A plant-based culinary movement sprouts in Orange County

  05-08-2019 08:15
  
  The “p” word is on everyone’s lips.
  For decades, true gourmets would never consider there would be any appeal in eating like a hippie – you know, “vegan” and “vegetarian.”
  But no more. Credit everything from celebs like Tom Brady and Beyoncé to a profound collective awareness of climate issues facing our world, but “plant-based” eating has come of age.
  Repackaged and rebranded as chic, plant-based eating first gained momentum as
  
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• AnQi and Crustacean creator Chef Helene An shares her secrets of success

  05-08-2019 07:20
  
  Helene An’s signature dish, crab with garlic noodles, is ubiquitous in Asian-American cuisine. It’s imitated on countless menus across the country. You see it so often that you forget it’s not even a classic Vietnamese dish.
  Rather than scoff at her copycats, Helene An, the venerable chef at Crustacean in Beverly Hills and AnQi at South Coast Plaza, welcomes the homage. This Vietnamese immigrant and communism survivor has achieved the status of culinary icon. In 2007, her famil
  
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• Gun reform activists rally in Orange, demand action from Senate

  05-08-2019 06:47
  
  Dozens of protesters lined a street in Orange on Sunday, Aug. 4, to demand action from U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the issue of gun violence after a week marred by mass shootings in Texas, Ohio and California.
  At least 60 people gathered along the 1900 block of Chapman Avenue near Marks Street to attend a rally hosted by Brady Orange County, an advocacy group in favor of gun control. They dipped their palms in red paint and pressed them to signs with messages blaming McConnell
  
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• Los Alamitos confirms death of racehorse in July

  05-08-2019 05:57
  
  LOS ALAMITOS — A 4-year-old racehorse died last month after suffering a shoulder fracture in a race at Los Alamitos Race Course, track officials confirmed Sunday, Aug. 4.
  Cuervo Foose, a gelding, died sometime during the week of July 16-21, according to a spokesperson for the track. The death was included in the regular stewards’ report to the California Horse Racing Board.
  Los Alamitos is currently running nighttime thoroughbred and quarter-horse races. The track had some trouble fi
  
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• Young quarterbacks take leadership reins of UCLA offense

  05-08-2019 05:23
  
  LOS ANGELES — No matter who passes the test for the starting quarterback position, Chip Kelly will be handing the keys to his offense to an inexperienced driver this fall.
  The quarterbacks are the youngest position on UCLA’s young team. They’re just one of two groups without a single player who has spent at least four years at UCLA. The defensive backs, who still return three of four starters, are the other group. The most experienced quarterback, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, is s
  
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• Whicker: Dodgers staying on point, through the apparent pointlessness

  05-08-2019 05:14
  
  Los Angeles Dodgers’ Corey Seager, bottom center, scores the winning run on a walkoff double by Max Muncy as San Diego Padres catcher Francisco Mejia, top center, makes a late tag during the ninth inning of a baseball game Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
  Los Angeles Dodgers’ Max Muncy, second from right, is swarmed by teammates after hitting a walkoff double during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padre,s Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019,
  
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• Alexander: For Rams’ Cooper Kupp, no worries about the knee

  05-08-2019 05:02
  
  IRVINE — It is probably a natural inclination around football. A player returns from a serious injury, and at the first opportunity for contact everybody around him flinches or holds their collective breath, hoping for the best.
  No worries, Rams fans. Cooper Kupp has already passed that test.
  “A guy gives you a pop, you roll up, hit the ground and pop back up,” he said. “Honestly, I didn’t really realize I’d gone down. And it’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, my
  
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• Photos: Yago Dorago, Sage Erickson win US Open of Surfing events

  05-08-2019 05:00
  
  Here’s what it was like to be at the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach on Sunday. Yago Dora of Brazil and Sage Erickson of Ojai each won their respective events.
  Yago Dora of Brazil wins the 2019 men’s US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, CA on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Fans of Yago Dorago celebrate his win of the 2019 men’s US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, CA on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (Photo by Mindy Schauer,
  
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• Short start continues a troubling trend for Dodgers’ Kenta Maeda

  05-08-2019 04:42
  
  LOS ANGELES – The Dodgers made Kenta Maeda a full-time relief pitcher in August of last year. Pitching in high-leverage relief situations down the stretch, Maeda’s earned-run average fell. His strikeout rate rose. By the National League Championship Series, he was the team’s top right-handed set-up man.
  Now, Maeda’s declining performance – as well as the emergence of other starting pitchers – is threatening to relegate him to a relief role again.
  Rookie Tony G
  
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• US Open of Surfing 2019: Sage Erickson, of Ojai, overtakes OC surfer Courtney Conlogue

  05-08-2019 03:37
  
  Yago Dora of Brazil wins the 2019 men’s US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, CA on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Fans of Yago Dorago celebrate his win of the 2019 men’s US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, CA on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsSage Erickson celebrates her win in the 2019 women’s US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, CA on Su
  
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• Knott’s Berry Farm reveals first Halloween Haunt mazes for 2019

  05-08-2019 02:30
  
  Knott’s Berry Farm unveiled the first Halloween Haunt mazes for 2019 that promise to drop you in the middle of an apocalyptic zombie-killing video game and take you behind the scenes of an abandoned amusement park ride.
  Knott’s Scary Farm 2019, the granddaddy of theme park haunted attractions, will run on select nights from Sept. 19 through Nov. 2 at the Buena Park theme park.
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• Dodgers walk the Padres off the field on Max Muncy’s double

  05-08-2019 02:24
  
  LOS ANGELES – The Dodgers needed 3 hours and 54 minutes to complete nine innings of baseball Sunday. Most of that wasn’t consumed by Max Muncy’s final at-bat against Padres closer Kirby Yates. It just felt like it.
  Muncy ended an eight-pitch duel with Yates by hitting a double into the right-field corner to score two runs – the winning margin in the Dodgers’ 11-10 victory before an announced crowd of 44,110.
  Muncy finished 4 for 5 with two doubles and a home run. Th
  
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• Shooting leaves one dead in Garden Grove

  05-08-2019 02:05
  
  Police responding to reports of gunfire in Garden Grove found a man dead on Sunday, August 4, authorities said.
  The shooting took place on the 9600 block of Westminster Avenue at about 12:47 p.m., Garden Grove police said in a statement. A man suffered at least one gunshot wound, and was found dead in the rear yard of a residence on the block.
  Authorities were working to determine the man’s identity as of Sunday evening, police said.
  Garden Grove police were investigating the shooting as a
  
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• Chargers surprise Magnolia High with $10,000 donation to replace equipment lost in fire

  05-08-2019 01:56
  
  COSTA MESA — Football players from Magnolia High gathered on the field Sunday for what they thought was merely the obligatory team photo when away from campus.
  The players waited and had no idea why. Everyone was present, including head coach Desmond Hernandez and former Chargers running back Hank Bauer, an alumni of the Anaheim public school.
  Then the double horn sounded. They were waiting for the Chargers to finish practice to partake in the team photo.
  Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa w
  
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• Sparks stick to strengths in a victory over Seattle

  05-08-2019 01:28
  LOS ANGELES — They may not be at full strength yet, but the Sparks’ strengths were abundant in a 83-75 victory over the Seattle Storm at Staples Center on Sunday afternoon.
  The Sparks shot 52.5 percent from the field, as five players finished in double digits in the victory, with which L.A. evened the season series with the defending WNBA champion Storm (12-11) at one win a piece. They face each other again on Sept. 5.
  Candace Parker led the Sparks with 21 points, and Maria Vadeeva h
  
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• Why Dark Harbor’s new maze could make quite a splash at the Queen Mary

  05-08-2019 00:40
  
  The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor almost went overboard with its new maze.
  Inspired by the true story of a giant wave that almost capsized the Queen Mary as the ship crossed the ocean during a stormy night decades ago, Dark Harbor, the Long Beach attraction’s annual Halloween event, will debut a new maze this year that will put people in the middle of that terrifying moment.
  Dark Harbor announced the new maze called Rogue, as in rogue wave, during a Sunday afternoon panel at the Midsummer
  
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