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• Disneyland attendance drops despite launch of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

  06-08-2019 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Attendance fell 3 percent at Disney’s domestic theme parks despite the launch of the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland during the most recent quarter, according to the company’s latest earnings report.
  Walt Disney Co. reported an increase in theme park revenue in its fiscal third-quarter 2019 results on Tuesday.
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• President Trump, Republican party sue over California tax return law

  06-08-2019 22:03 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO — The Trump campaign and Republican Party sued California on Tuesday over a new law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns to run in the state’s primary, legislation that was aimed at prying loose President Donald Trump’s returns.
  California’s law is “a naked political attack against the sitting President of the United States,” the state and national Republican parties argued in one of two lawsuits filed in U.S. District Cour
  
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• You can learn about beekeeping Thursday at historic Modjeska House

  06-08-2019 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  OC Parks’ Greenthumb Lectures will present a fascinating look at beekeeping on Thursday, Aug. 8, at Arden: Helena Modjeska Historic House and Gardens in Silverado. Join Orange County master gardeners as they explore how to keep honey bees, where to acquire and install honey bees for your home, what honey bees need to stay healthy and examine the commitment in time and money to take on this endeavor.
  Before the lecture, attendees can lend a hand working in the Modjeska House from 8:30 to 10
  
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• Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders campaigns in Northridge, where hundreds hear him talk about affordable housing

  06-08-2019 21:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talked affordable housing as he made a campaign stop in the San Fernando Valley on Tuesday.
  Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont, packed Temple Ahavat Shalom in Northridge, where around 800 people came to hear him.Presidential Candidate @BernieSanders speaks about affordable housing at Temple Ahavat Shalom in Northridge pic.twitter.com/SRxFu3pfwi
  — Olga Grigoryants (@OlgaGrigory) August 6, 2019Speaking from the temple’s pulpit, he lamented the
  
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• Here’s how all forms of jazz will be celebrated at the Long Beach Jazz Festival

  06-08-2019 21:53 via ocregister.com
  
  All forms of jazz — including smooth, Latin percussion and tunes that are more on the R&B tip — will be celebrated at the 32nd annual Long Beach Jazz Festival Aug. 9-11.
  Rainbow Lagoon will host the weekend celebration which includes more than a dozen acts, including headliners such as famed percussionist Poncho Sanchez, R&B and neo soul singer/songwriter Eric Benét, smooth jazz guitarist and singer Norman Brown and trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval.
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• Billie Jean King, reacting to Long Beach Main Library being named after her, compares feeling to receiving Medal of Freedom

  06-08-2019 21:32 via ocregister.com
  
  The Main Library is under construction and set to open Summer 2019 in Long Beach on Tuesday, January. 22, 2019. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
  A rendering of the new Long Beach Main Library, which is slated to open this summer. (Courtesy Long Beach Public Library Foundation)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsA rendering of the new Long Beach Main Library, which is slated to open this summer. (Courtesy Long Beach Public Library Foundation)
  Tennis great Billie Jean King watches
  
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• Democrats about to outnumber Republicans in Orange County

  06-08-2019 21:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County, a region once associated with John Birch, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, is about to be home to more Democrats than Republicans.
  At midnight, Aug. 6, the Registrar of Voters posted daily tracking figures showing just nine fewer registered Democrats than Republicans in Orange County, 547,385 vs. 547,394. Given that local Democrat registrations recently have outpaced Republicans by 50 to 100 a day, the flip is expected to become official the Registrar posts new numbers later today
  
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• David Wilhelm is back with Tavern House in Newport Beach

  06-08-2019 21:02 via ocregister.com
  
  When it comes to creating popular restaurant concepts in Orange County, David Wilhelm is the king: Kachina, Chimayo  Grill, Chat Noir, Savannah Chop House and the list goes on. So, as soon as Tavern House opened a couple weeks ago in Newport Beach the faithful have been welcoming him back enthusiastically.
  They all want to check out the new place, the former 3-Thirty-3 Waterfront, and to make really specific menu requests. “It’s been nice to see,” Wilhelm, who founded Newp
  
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• School is back in session for several Orange County school districts

  06-08-2019 20:59 via ocregister.com
  
  With one hand clinging onto their parents and a lunch bag in the other, several students at Holder Elementary School stared at the roster to find their new classroom for the school year.
  The Savanna School District campus kicked off the school year on Tuesday, Aug. 6, as the first wave of students in Orange County ready their backpacks to return to class after the summer break. Also heading back this week are schools in the Los Alamitos, Anaheim Elementary, Centralia, Cypress and Anaheim Union d
  
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• Orange County Football Preview 2019: Jonah Laban brings a physical approach for No. 9 Orange Lutheran

  06-08-2019 20:49 via ocregister.com
  
  The Register is counting down the top 10 teams in the Orange County football preseason top 10. Here is the preview of No. 9 Orange Lutheran.
  Orange Lutheran senior Jonah Laban first played tackle football at the age of 5.Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now.Laban remembers the uniform feeling baggy and cumbersome. He also remembers learning something right away about football.
  “As soon as you get in those pads,” he said, “you r
  
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• A plan to bring the ill-conceived bullet train to an end

  06-08-2019 20:39 via ocregister.com
  
  A decade ago, shortly after California voters narrowly approved a $9.95 billion bond issue to finance a statewide bullet train system, an official involved in early planning for the project confided a dirty little secret.
  While a 200-mile-per-hour bullet train was the sizzle sold to voters, he told me, the unspoken motive was getting more money to expand commuter transit services in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California without having to directly ask voters.
  The bond issue set aside
  
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• Desert Daze adds Wu-Tang Clan, Devo to October festival at Lake Perris

  06-08-2019 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Desert Daze, an eclectic music festival coming to Moreno Beach at the Lake Perris Recreation Area, has announced its final lineup with a few more notable names, including hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan and rock groups Devo and Ween.
  The festival, now in its eighth year, will run from Oct. 10-13. Other acts previously announced include The Flaming Lips,  Flying Lotus, Stereolab and Animal Collective.
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• House price gains fall to 7-year lows amid slowing sales

  06-08-2019 18:54 via ocregister.com
  
  June house prices hit all-time highs in Los Angeles and Orange counties, but the rate of price growth continued to fall as slowing sales cause home values to flatten out, new figures released Tuesday, Aug. 6, show.
  In Orange County, price gains were near zero, with values up by just 0.6 of a percent from June 2018 levels, according to the CoreLogic Home Price Index. That’s the smallest gain there since May 2012
  Inland Empire house prices rose 3.1% year over year, also the smallest gain for
  
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• Brainiac: Long live the King! It’s Elvis Month on Main Street in Garden Grove

  06-08-2019 18:52 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’ve got any burning questions, comments, story ideas you’d like Brainiac to check out in Westminster, Garden Grove, Stanton or Midway City, send us an email at [email protected] or a phone call at 714-796-7787.
  They say that Elvis Presley died 42 years ago, on Aug. 16, 1977 — but if that’s the case, what’s he been doing on Main Street in Garden Grove for an Elvis Festival every August for the last two decades?
  The 20th Annual Elvis Festival takes place from 10
  
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• Can my employer fire me while on pregnancy leave? Ask the lawyer

  06-08-2019 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I took leave from work because of my pregnancy. Shortly before I was to return, they said my position was eliminated as a result of a restructuring. They have offered a few weeks severance. Is this legal?
  -C.W. Santa Ana
  Ron Sokol
  A: Pregnancy discrimination arises when an employer treats a woman unfavorably as a result of her pregnancy, or because she plans to become pregnant, or has pregnancy-related issues. Discrimination can manifest in a variety of ways, such as failure to promote, not p
  
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• Where to watch the best street dance battle in Los Angeles

  06-08-2019 18:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Darren King is preparing for an intense street battle.
  Known as Outrage, he’s ready to throw some jabs, slam down a few stomps and do whatever else it takes to win this street fight.
  He should be careful though, because he could end up facing Lily Frias, and she has some moves of her own planned win at any cost.
  Just like the street battles in “West Side Story,”  Frias and more than a dozen others will fight it out the best way they know how, a dance-off.
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• Judge seals video of off-duty LAPD officer’s deadly Corona Costco shooting

  06-08-2019 18:42 via ocregister.com
  
  A Riverside County judge has temporarily sealed from public view the surveillance video that shows an off-duty Los Angeles police officer, who claimed he was under attack, fatally shooting an unarmed, mentally disabled man and seriously wounding his parents at a Costco in Corona in June.
  The order, signed July 22, was sought by the Riverside County District Attorney’s office, which is conducting the criminal investigation of the shooting. The judge’s one-year order, which limits view
  
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• UCLA football training camp: Wide receiver and tight end breakdown

  06-08-2019 18:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Having its leading returning receiver in a yellow, noncontact jersey was a bad way to start training camp for UCLA. Having Theo Howard be just one of three receivers nursing early training camp injuries makes it even worse.
  The Bruins are fighting through early training camp injuries to key pass catchers while trying to replace Caleb Wilson’s influence in the passing game. But between a deep group of receivers and tight ends, UCLA appears to have plenty of options to choose from if they&rs
  
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• USC football training camp: Wide receiver and tight end breakdown

  06-08-2019 17:57 via ocregister.com
  
  USC enters the 2019 season as talented as it’s been at both receiver and tight end in years, thanks to a strong returning core and a bunch of upstart true freshmen trying to seize away playing time. The collection of talent could lead to an exciting passing attack from the Trojans in 2019.
  Here’s a breakdown of where USC stands at receiver and tight end:
  Key returnees: Josh Falo (Jr.), Velus Jones, Jr. (Jr.), Erik Krommenhoek (Jr.), Michael Pittman, Jr. (Sr.), Amon-Ra St. Brown
  
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• No, rapper Big Boi hasn’t gone country, but he will rock the country music Tailgate Fest on Saturday

  06-08-2019 17:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Rapper Big Boi didn’t waste any time wondering why the organizers of the Tailgate Fest called up a co-founder of the hip-hop duo Outkast and invited him to be the only non-country act on the bill this year.
  You light up the signal for Big Boi, Big Boi appears.
  “When you make global music, there’s a certain global appeal,” he says when we called to satisfy our own curiosity about how he came to share a stage this weekend in Eastvale with the likes of Brett Eldredge, Brantl
  
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• China stabilizes currency, but tensions with US remain high

  06-08-2019 17:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOE McDONALD
  BEIJING — China stabilized its currency Tuesday, suggesting it might hold off from aggressively letting the yuan weaken as a way to respond to U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.
  The yuan declined to 7.0562 to the dollar before strengthening back to 7.0297 in the afternoon. That came a day after Beijing sent financial markets tumbling by allowing the currency to fall to an 11-year low. A weaker yuan can help neutralize U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods by making them more price-comp
  
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• Universal’s new theme park is an epic challenge for Disney and SeaWorld

  06-08-2019 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Universal Studios this month announced its plan to build the first new major theme park in the United States since Disney California Adventure opened in 2001. The new park, to be called Universal’s Epic Universe, will be part of the Universal Orlando Resort, but Universal is building it on a new plot land near the Orange County (Fla.) Convention Center, about four miles south of the current Universal Orlando property.
  Theme park experts have suggested that the U.S. market has not been show
  
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• Family of boy born with half a heart battling insurance company to get lifesaving surgery

  06-08-2019 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Noah Connally will turn 4 on Aug. 18.
  But already, the boy who was born with half a heart has been under the knife three times — first when he was still in his mother’s belly, again at seven days and a third time, at six months.
  On Thursday, Aug. 8, if he’s lucky, there will be a fourth time at Boston Children’s Hospital. This would be a marathon surgery that could last more than 10 hours and his doctors say it’ll give Noah the best prognosis he’ll ever h
  
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• San Clemente’s man-made reef, likely the world’s largest, is getting bigger

  06-08-2019 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s not your typical construction site.
  A half mile offshore of Calafia State Beach in San Clemente, a bulldozer scoops quarry boulders off a barge and dumps them in the ocean. Nearby, divers examine placement of July’s rocks to make sure they match the blueprint. And on the elevated deck of a nearby barge, two biologists keep watch for sea lions and other mammals, calling a temporary halt to work when any swim into the construction area.The project will more than double the size of
  
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• Authorities seek leads in mass shootings that left 31 dead

  06-08-2019 14:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT SEDENSKY and ASTRID GALVAN
  EL PASO, Texas — Authorities in two U.S. cities scoured leads in a pair of weekend mass shootings that killed 31, trying to piece together the motives that led two young men to unleash violence on innocent people in crowded public places.
  In El Paso, Texas, the death toll creeped upward Monday from the shooting two days earlier at a Walmart store, with two additional victims succumbing to injuries. Police zeroed in on a racist screed posted online before
  
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• After Ohio mass shooting, governor is set to address gun laws

  06-08-2019 14:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOHN SEEWER
  DAYTON, Ohio — Facing pressure to take action after the latest mass shooting in the U.S., Ohio’s Republican governor plans to outline his proposals designed to deal with gun violence and mental health.
  Gov. Mike DeWine said he’ll discuss those ideas in detail on Tuesday, a little more than a day after hundreds of people chanted “Do something!” while he spoke at a vigil for nine people killed in Dayton over the weekend by a gunman with an AR-15 style g
  
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• Matt Chapman’s drive to be better doesn’t stop with A’s

  06-08-2019 07:21 via ocregister.com
  
  The chip on his shoulder isn’t the direct reason for Matt Chapman’s incredible arm strength. The mind games Cal State Fullerton baseball coach Rick Vanderhook tried playing with him aren’t the reason Chapman seems to know what’s going to happen before it happens.
  The platinum glove sitting on his mantle, emblematic of Chapman’s status as the best defensive player in the American League, isn’t the direct result of a golden light flashing above him after his 201
  
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• Tony Gonsolin pitches six scoreless innings as Dodgers cruise past Cardinals

  06-08-2019 07:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Dodgers starting pitcher Tony Gonsolin #46 during their game against the Cardinals at Dodger Stadium Monday, August 5, 2019.(Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  Dodgers starting pitcher Tony Gonsolin #46 during their game against the Cardinals at Dodger Stadium Monday, August 5, 2019.(Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsDodgers manager Dave Roberts during their game against the Cardinals at Dodger Stadium Monday, August 5,
  
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• Whicker: The Fall could be the season for seasoned 22-year-old Julio Urias

  06-08-2019 06:44 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Tony Gonsolin and Matt Beaty have two things in common. Both are Dodger rookies who are older than Julio Urias.
  Josh Sborz and Brock Stewart shared the same thing. So did Alex Verdugo, Max Muncy, Rocky Gale, Caleb Ferguson, Dennis Santana and you get the idea.
  Urias has been with the Dodgers since 2016, yet he is just 22 years old. He finds this more amusing than the National League will someday. He smiled when someone asked him Monday if he felt like a kid or a veteran.
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• What a healthy Stephen Carr means for USC heading into 2019

  06-08-2019 05:56 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — USC tailback Vavae Malepeai missed practice on Monday with a knee injury. Head coach Clay Helton said MRIs came back negative on the knee, so the projected starter is currently day-to-day.
  But in his absence, Helton was pleased with what he saw from the rest of the USC tailbacks to start the first full week of training camp.
  What stood out to the head coach was the play of junior Stephen Carr. The former Summit standout made an early impression as a freshman in 2017, rushing
  
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• Dodgers’ Rich Hill progressing, open to bullpen role in postseason if necessary

  06-08-2019 05:45 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Over the next two months, the Dodgers’ bullpen will be populated by right-handers and left-handers — and a whole lot of hypotheticals.
  Add rehabbing starter Rich Hill to the list of unknowns.
  Hill is still in the early stages of a throwing program as he recovers from a flexor tendon injury in his left elbow. The veteran left-hander is throwing from 75 feet with off days in between each session. By the end of next week, he expects to be throwing from 120 feet and o
  
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• Rough start for opener Taylor Cole costs Angels in Patrick Sandoval’s debut

  06-08-2019 04:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Angels pitcher Patrick Sandoval follows through on a through in his major league debut during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Gary Landers)
  Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout, right, gives autographs to fans before a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Gary Landers)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsCincinnati Reds’ Jose Peraza (9) a
  
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• El Paso, Dayton shootings bring jitters, vigilance across Southern California

  06-08-2019 03:01 via ocregister.com
  
  As the nation mourns for the 31 killed and 50 injured from back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend, folks in Southern California are on edge — and so is law enforcement.
  Multiple law enforcement agencies in the area saw an uptick in calls for service in the wake of the weekend’s tragedies, and others are carrying out training exercises this week, preparing for  mass shootings. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department held a pres
  
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• CSUF women’s soccer team kicks off season with Blue/Orange Scrimmage

  06-08-2019 02:25 via ocregister.com
  The Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer squad officially began the 2019 season Monday as the team reported for the start of the camp, picked up their gear, took their headshots and had team meetings.
  See the team in action Saturday at 3 p.m. at Titan Stadium during the team’s annual Blue/Orange Scrimmage followed by the Kick-Off Fundraiser at 5 p.m.
  “I’m extremely excited for this season,” head coach Demian Brown said.
  “I know the coaching staff and the women o
  
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• Irvine man fatally shot during illegal marijuana deal in Garden Grove, 3 suspects from Arizona arrested

  06-08-2019 02:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Police arrested three people from Arizona early Monday, August 5, in connection with the shooting death of an Irvine man in Garden Grove on Sunday. Investigators believe the shooting happened during an illegal marijuana deal.
  Officers took Arizona residents Victor Rene Larios, 29, Jacob Alexander Ruiz, 24, and Joseph Anthony Ruiz, 27, into custody during a high-risk traffic stop in Los Angeles County at about 1:30 a.m., Garden Grove Police Department officials said in a statement. Authorities ha
  
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• Jared Walsh returns to Angels after torrid stretch at Triple-A

  06-08-2019 01:13 via ocregister.com
  
  CINCINNATI — Jared Walsh’s hot start at Triple-A earned him his first shot at the major leagues, but when he returned to Triple-A he went from hot to sizzling.
  It’s no coincidence.
  Walsh, who on Sunday was recalled for his third stint in the majors this season, said getting a taste at the majors helped him take his game to a higher level.
  “I think the game slows down a little bit,” Walsh said. “You are up here and you’ve seen the best of the best, then y
  
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• U.S. Center for SafeSport investigating USA Gymnastics rep Anna Li and her mother

  06-08-2019 01:11 via ocregister.com
  
  The U.S. Center for SafeSport has opened an investigation into allegations of verbal, physical and emotional abuse against Anna Li, a USA Gymnastics Athletes’ Council member, and her mother, Jiani Wu, according to four people familiar with the investigation and Center emails obtained by the Southern California News Group.
  The investigation by the Center, created and financed by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, comes amid growing demands within the sport that USA Gymnastics remove
  
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• Rams rookie Taylor Rapp hopes to inspire Asian-American athletes

  06-08-2019 00:29 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE – For Taylor Rapp, being drafted by the Los Angeles Rams is not just about getting to play under the NFL lights. For the 21-year-old of Chinese descent, it’s also about being able to be the role model he never had growing up.
  Drafted in the second round – he was the 61st pick – Rapp will join a modest contingent of Asian-American players to make it to the NFL, including veterans Hines Ward, Dat Nguyen, Johnnie Morton and Eugene Chung. Among 2019 draftees, Rapp join
  
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• Winning a race with the clock, speedboat races snag permit to return to Long Beach’s Marine Stadium

  06-08-2019 00:13 via ocregister.com
  
  The clock was running out, but Ross Wallach took his last shot and made it.
  Long Beach officials told him Monday that he would get a permit to conduct the 2019 Sprint Nationals speedboat races Aug. 17 and 18 at Marine Stadium.
  Wallach immediately went into high gear, notifying everyone from race teams to vendors that the event was a go.
  “I just heaved a sigh of relief,” Wallach said Monday. “Now I have to get done what normally takes eight weeks in 10 days. But I’m just&n
  
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