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• SGE, promoter of festivals such as Back to the Beach, Surf City Blitz, Musink and more, will shut down

  14-08-2019 23:55
  
  Following the successful two-day hip hop Real Street Festival at Honda Center in Anaheim, the first-ever full outdoor festival and concert experience to be held at the venue, on Aug. 10-11, Billboard reported Wednesday, Aug. 14, that one of the festival promoters, Synergy Global Entertainment (SGE) will effectively shut down.
  The Laguna Hills-based production company, spearheaded by founder John Reese, is responsible for some of the biggest festivals in the area including Back to the Beach, Surf
  
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• Mission Viejo will take part in nationwide pet adoption event Saturday

  14-08-2019 23:31
  
  Mission Viejo Animal Services Center will take part in the annual Clear the Shelters event on Saturday, Aug. 17, offering every homeless pet available for adoption at a huge discount.
  Every year, NBC stations team up with hundreds of animal shelters to host the nationwide pet adoption drive. Since 2015, Clear the Shelters has resulted in more than 250,000 pet adoptions nationwide.
  In Mission Viejo, every homeless pet at the Animal Services Center will be available that day to approved applicants
  
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• LA’s Secret Project music festival is returning to Chinatown, and here’s what you need to know

  14-08-2019 23:07
  
  Intimate electronic music festival Secret Project is returning to Los Angeles for its second year, and festival guests will see a lineup of electronic artists from around the world, local street art, a diverse array of food and craft cocktails.
  The festival will take place Oct. 12 and 13 on Naud Street in Chinatown and will feature such acts as Swiss electronic duo Adriatique, English DJ Daniel Avery, Russian DJ Nina Kraviz and American DJ Honey Dijon.
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• Corona ramp, from northbound 15 Freeway to westbound 91, to close Thursday night

  14-08-2019 22:56
  
  Corona-area motorists beware, if you will be driving late at night Thursday, Aug. 15.
  For eight hours overnight, you won’t be able to drive on the sweeping connector ramp that drops northbound 15 Freeway cars onto the westbound 91 Freeway.
  That ramp is scheduled to close from 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15, until 4 a.m. Friday, Aug. 16, the Riverside County Transportation Commission reported. The closure is being triggered by the continuing construction of toll lanes on the 15 through the Corona
  
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• Call State Fullerton students discover cultural melting pot in Berlin

  14-08-2019 21:45
  
  Scott Torres has been to Germany three times, but his recent trip to Berlin gave him a new perspective.
  “It’s very overwhelming and multicultural,” said Torres, a graduate student in the history of modern Europe at Cal State Fullerton. “There are people from all walks of life. It’s a true melting pot.”
  Torres was one of 12 students who accompanied CSUF history professor Cora Granata on her five-week Study Abroad trip to Berlin. Granata asked her students to re
  
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• Clowns do more than lift spirits at children’s hospitals, they change brains

  14-08-2019 21:14
  
  If you don’t believe that laughter is good medicine, then you haven’t met Dr. Billy.
  You see, Dr. Billy isn’t a regular doctor. In fact, Dr. Billy isn’t even a real physician. Still, he manages to change the chemistry in the brain of a little girl stricken with cancer using nothing more than liquid soap.
  OK, liquid soap and a tiny bubble wand.
  Known as Billy Murray when he’s not wearing giant yellow shoes and a healthy dose of rouge on his nose, Dr. Billy leads a re
  
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• Slain Moreno Valley CHP officer honored in bell-toll ceremony

  14-08-2019 21:07
  
  Slain California Highway Patrol Officer Andre Moye Jr. was honored Wednesday with a traditional bell tolling at the California Highway Patrol Academy in West Sacramento.
  The solemn ceremony took place instead of a planned celebration for the CHP’s 90th anniversary.
  Moye, 34, of Moreno Valley, died Monday when authorities said Aaron Luther, 49, of Beaumont pulled a rifle from his truck and shot the officer during a traffic stop.
  The CHP said Moye had pulled over Luther’s white 2002 GM
  
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• Whicker: The helium hasn’t run out on Will Smith’s high ride

  14-08-2019 21:02
  
  It was Dec. 4, 2015, and a short, chilly sunset. As darkness fell, the Arizona Diamondbacks triumphantly signed Zack Greinke to a six-year, $206 million contract and threw the Dodgers into reverse.
  Meanwhile, Will Smith was hitting caged baseballs and blocking bad pitches at the University of Louisville facility.
  He was a great-field, mediocre-hit catcher, heading into his junior draft year, hoping to pick up the slipstream from all the future pros in his clubhouse.
  It’s amazing how we lon
  
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• Video: Martell Irby helps pick up slack without injured Joshua Kelley

  14-08-2019 20:57
  
  Running back Martell Irby talks about how the running back group has responded without Joshua Kelley, how he’s grown up since the senior’s injury and his history playing the tenor saxophone.Related Articles Video: Keegan Jones already taking leadership role as true freshman UCLA training camp: Otito Ogbonnia translates track success to football field Video: Chip Kelly says training camp can be ‘Groundhog Day’ Wade Lees extends Australian punter pipeline to UCLA football V
  
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• Video: Keegan Jones already taking leadership role as true freshman

  14-08-2019 20:51
  
  Running back Keegan Jones talks about how spring practice helped him graduate from true freshman status so quickly, how he’s using the experience to help his younger teammates and what practice has been like without Joshua Kelley on the field.Related Articles Video: Martell Irby helps pick up slack without injured Joshua Kelley UCLA training camp: Otito Ogbonnia translates track success to football field Video: Chip Kelly says training camp can be ‘Groundhog Day’ Wade Lees exte
  
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• Find out when Disneyland annual passholders can get back into the park

  14-08-2019 20:42
  
  Been missing the Disneyland Resort? Well, we have good news and bad news.
  If you have the deluxe level of annual pass, you can get into Disney California Adventure starting today, Wed. Aug. 14. However, you won’t be able to get into Disneyland park until next Monday,  Aug. 19.
  But what about the rest of you, who make up the bulk of annual passholders? Well, you don’t have too long to wait.
  Here’s when you can return:Signature Plus: You’re already in
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• Orange County Football Preview 2019: Defense could be difference-maker for No. 3 Mission Viejo

  14-08-2019 20:34
  
  The Register is counting down the top 10 teams in the Orange County football preseason top 10. Today we preview No. 3 Mission Viejo.
  The 2019 football season is a reunion season for some Mission Viejo players.
  Seniors Lance Keneley, Logan Schwenke and Keanu Tanuvasa and junior Chase Nenad were teammates on the Mission Viejo Cowboys youth football team.
  Keneley and Tanuvasa started their high school careers at Mission Viejo while Nenad and Schwenke chose Santa Margarita.Support our high school sp
  
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• Laguna Woods Village co-op board reverses policy on guarantors

  14-08-2019 20:33
  
  Guarantors may make a comeback in United Mutual as the board voted in favor of allowing them during a regular open meeting, on Tuesday, Aug. 13.
  Guarantors — a financially obligated, third party that agrees to cover a member’s costs, if needed — were allowed through 2017. The board disallowed them thereafter as “a practical matter,” according to a Village Management Services staff report.
  Now — with an included revision to authorize United to file UCC financin
  
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• Lakers, Clippers are StubHub’s most in-demand NBA teams

  14-08-2019 20:26
  
  The Lakers have long been a hot ticket in the entertainment megalopolis that is L.A.
  Now, the Clippers are too.
  According to data shared by StubHub Wednesday, two days after the NBA released the 2019-20 schedule, the Lakers and Clippers are the Nos. 1 and 2 most in-demand NBA teams, respectively. And traffic for the teams’ matchup on Oct. 22 — which is the Clippers’ home opener — is higher than any other event this season. (The cheapest ticket on the site at the moment: $
  
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• Halloween Horror Nights: Rob Zombie’s ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ returns to Universal Studios

  14-08-2019 18:16
  
  Rock star and horror filmmaker Rob Zombie will bring his very first horror flick, the 2003 cult classic “House of 1000 Corpses,” back to Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights this year.
  The all-new attraction will bring to life Captain Spaulding’s Museum of Monsters and Madmen, the film’s roadside tourist attraction which showcases some of the country’s most notorious serial killers including Dr. Satan, a surgeon who has gone mad.
  After escapin
  
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• Sometimes you need a break from reading. OK, break’s over

  14-08-2019 17:30
  
  Even for the most passionate reader, there comes a time for a reading respite.
  What’s that, you ask? It’s a break from reading books.
  For those who read a book or more a week, it’s unsettling to find oneself without a book or even the desire to read. It feels a little like a plane circling; landing is inevitable but it’s unsettling in the meantime.
  This sort of break can occur during an emotionally or physically draining stretch when reading seems a luxury worth foregoing
  
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• Live and Bush will perform at Pechanga Resort Casino and here’s how to get tickets

  14-08-2019 17:21
  
  Two alternative rock bands that both put out big albums in 1994, Bush and Live, are on tour together and one of their next Southern California stops is Pechanga Resort Casino.
  The Altimate Tour, which celebrates the 25th anniversaries of Live’s “Throwing Copper” and Bush’s “Sixteen Stone,” will make a stop at the Temecula resort’s Pechanga Summit at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct 20.
  “Throwing Copper,”  includes such Live hits as “Lightning
  
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• Stocks slide after bond market warns again of recession

  14-08-2019 17:03
  
  By Stan Choe, The Associated Press
  Stocks fell sharply Wednesday after the bond market threw up another warning flag on the economy.
  The yield on the 10-year Treasury briefly dropped below the two-year Treasury’s yield Wednesday morning for the first time since 2007. The so-called inversion has correctly predicted many past recessions and is the loudest warning bell yet about a possible recession ahead.
  Investors responded by dumping stocks, more than erasing gains from a rally the day bef
  
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• Santa Ana home sales tumble 16% in Orange County’s worst first half since 2011

  14-08-2019 17:00
  
  Homebuying in Santa Ana fell 16% as Orange County sales hit an eight-year low.
  CoreLogic homebuying stats show 2019’s first six months were Orange County’s slowest-selling first half since 2011, just after the Great Recession ended.
  House hunters’ resistance to buy was certainly key to the countywide median selling price running flat over the year. Falling mortgage rates could not override slipping consumer confidence and a cooling California economy.
  ICYMI: California home val
  
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• Ontario Ranch getting 334 more new homes by 2021

  14-08-2019 17:00
  
  Landsea Homes, a Newport Beach-based developer, has bought land in Ontario Ranch to build 334 new homes.
  Construction is expected to start late next year, with an opening in 2021 anticipated.
  Ontario Ranch, one of Southern California’s largest master-planned community under development, boasts an 8,200-acre tract of residential and retail developments west of Interstate 15 and south of Highway 60, bordered by Euclid Avenue to the west. Landsea bought land for its project in the tract&rsquo
  
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• California’s costly local government pension profligacy

  14-08-2019 17:00
  
  When it comes to dealing with mounting pension costs, California is certainly not alone. But California unfortunately sets itself apart in the magnitude of the problem.
  According to a report by UC Berkeley professor Sarah Anzia, local government pension costs are up across the nation, especially in states with stronger public unions.
  California, as readers of these pages know too well, is a state in which public-sector union influence over all levels of government is widespread and persistent.
  I
  
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• Bold funding experiment for The Toll Roads pays dividends decades later

  14-08-2019 16:30
  
  As chairwoman of the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency, which — along with the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency (collectively, the Transportation Corridor Agencies) — is responsible for planning, financing, building and operating Orange County’s toll roads, I hear public comments from community members at almost every board meeting.
  Both our boards welcome and encourage community engagement in the public process.  However, oftentimes outdated
  
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• Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: Blabbermouths have more fun. It’s a fact.

  14-08-2019 16:29
  
  Are you a blabbermouth like me? I’m one of those people who can’t help yakking everywhere I go.
  Standing in line at the grocery store, getting on the bus, waiting for my chai latte, getting checked out at Target, buying a movie ticket. If I see someone with a T-shirt from a place I recognize, or a particularly cute dress, I’m the one who’s going to strike up a conversation. If it’s ridiculously hot and I feel sympathy for the perspiring checkout clerk, I’m goi
  
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• Big issues still up in the air in the California Legislature

  14-08-2019 16:05
  
  The California Legislature’s 2019 session began last winter amidst great hopes and fears.
  The hopes were strongest among advocates for social, medical and environmental causes and labor unions.
  The state’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, was outwardly more supportive of those causes than predecessor Jerry Brown had been, Democrats had won even bigger majorities in both legislative houses, and the state’s political atmosphere was drifting leftward in reaction to President Donald Tru
  
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• A$AP Rocky found guilty of assault by Swedish court

  14-08-2019 15:48
  
  By DAVID KEYTON
  STOCKHOLM — A Swedish court on Wednesday found American rapper A$AP Rocky guilty of assault for his role in a June 30 street brawl in Stockholm that drew the close attention of U.S. President Donald Trump.
  Though the 30-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, and his two bodyguards were found to have hit and kicked the victim during the brawl, the three defendants did not face the prospect of an immediate prison term and did not have to attend the verdict by the S
  
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• Poor pitching sends Angels to second straight loss to Pirates

  14-08-2019 08:19
  
  Los Angeles Angels’ Kole Calhoun, right, slides before being tagged out by Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Jacob Stallings while trying to score on a ball hit by Matt Thaiss during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
  Pittsburgh Pirates’ Josh Bell, right, is congratulated by Starling Marte after hitting a two-run home run during the fifth inning of the team’s baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday
  
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• Back at the Lakers facility with Team USA, Brook Lopez shakes off the past

  14-08-2019 06:07
  
  EL SEGUNDO — A North Hollywood native, Brook Lopez surely has plenty of old haunts in Los Angeles.
  Maybe one of the last you’d expect is the Lakers practice facility, given that the 31-year-old center has been with the Milwaukee Bucks for more than a year. But shooting 3-pointers — his late-career specialty — in the closing minutes of a Team USA practice on Tuesday night, Lopez didn’t appear to harbor any strange feelings about taking reps where his former team prac
  
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• ‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’: Vicki returns to confront Kelly while Braunwyn has a steamy Valentine date

  14-08-2019 06:05
  
  It’s house party time on this week’s episode of “The Real Housewives of Orange County.”
  Shannon Storms Beador is, in fact, throwing down tequila at Tamra Judge’s new pad in Coto de Caza. She and Kelly Dodd show up with identical bottles of their favorite fiery fuel. It’s their housewarming gift for Tamra and her hubby Eddie Judge, who are moving to a mini-mansion in Coto de Caza.
  And then things get interesting when Vicki Gunvalson finally arrives, fashionably
  
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• Horse racing: Pacific Classic looks like a wide open field at Del Mar

  14-08-2019 05:59
  
  DEL MAR — There’s no McKinzie, Gift Box or Catalina Cruiser in the field, but the 10-horse lineup for Saturday’s 29th running of the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar makes for, what on paper, appears to be a wide-open race.
  California racing has taken a huge publicity hit this year, but it’s not deterring horsemen from out of state from taking a swing at a $600,000 payday. An unusually high four horses from out of state, including 3-1 morning-line favorite Seeking th
  
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• Member of Fullerton gang living in Oklahoma accused of illegally shipping guns to Orange County

  14-08-2019 05:50
  
  Fullerton police and federal authorities said Tuesday they arrested and charged a known Fullerton gang member living in Oklahoma on suspicion of shipping firearms to alleged gang members in Orange County.
  Manuel “Flacco” Delatorre Jr., 23, was taken into custody and accused of unlawfully transferring a firearm to an out-of-state resident, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives officials said in a news release. The defendant is not a licensed firearms distributor, and all
  
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• The Rams’ Taylor Rapp making the most of his first NFL preseason experience

  14-08-2019 05:22
  
  Safety (24) Taylor Rapp of the Los Angeles Rams practices against the Oakland Raiders during Training Camp, Thursday, August 8, 2019, in Napa, CA. (Photo courtesy of the Rams)
  Safety (24) Taylor Rapp of the Los Angeles Rams against the Oakland Raiders during the Rams 14-3 loss to the Raiders in an NFL football preseason game, Saturday, August 10, 2019, in Oakland, CA. (Photo courtesy of the Rams)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsSafety (24) Taylor Rapp of the Los Angeles Rams practices again
  
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• Understanding the needed reforms to Endangered Species Act regulations

  14-08-2019 05:00
  
  When the Trump administration announced revisions to Endangered Species Act regulations for listing and reclassifying species, some people reacted to the news as if the president had tweeted a photo of himself with a bucket of Kentucky Fried Condor.
  From the perspective of property owners, the Endangered Species Act itself is the bird of prey. Under the law, privately owned land that was acquired for the purpose of farming or ranching, for example, can be declared “protected habitat”
  
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• Will Smith leads Dodgers’ home run barrage in Miami

  14-08-2019 04:47
  
  Los Angeles Dodgers’ Will Smith watches his solo home run during the fourth inning of the team’s baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, in Miami. At right is Marlins catcher Jorge Alfaro. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
  Los Angeles Dodgers’ Justin Turner is congratulated in the dugout after hitting a two-run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)SoundThe gallery will res
  
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• Ethnic studies proposal for high schoolers called leftist, anti-Semitic

  14-08-2019 04:22
  
  Inaccurate. Misleading. Anti-Jewish.
  That’s what the California Legislative Jewish Caucus thinks of a an ethnic studies curriculum plan that was drafted for high school students in California and is under consideration in Sacramento.
  The public can still weigh in on the proposed curriculum (deadline is Thursday, Aug. 15), but the initial version has drawn so much backlash that it’s already being sent back for further review.
  The Jewish Caucus, in a July 29 letter to the California De
  
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• Alexander: Aaron Long’s improbable soccer journey

  14-08-2019 03:33
  
  Aaron Long was in the New York Red Bulls’ lineup at Banc of California Stadium Sunday night, in front of 50 or 60 friends and family members from the Inland Empire, when his team faced MLS-leading LAFC.
  And this is an indication of just how far Long has come in four years: If things had worked out differently before the international transfer window had closed a week ago, Long could instead have been playing in a Premier League opener last weekend.
  In late July, stories began circulating t
  
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• Anne Heche is unloading her vintage waterfront Lake Arrowhead home for $1.05 million

  14-08-2019 03:18
  
  The front door. (Photo by Josh Karela)
  A view of the combined living-dining area, kitchen and loft. (Photo by Josh Karela)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsThe river rock fireplace is original to the house. (Photo by Josh Karela)
  The galley kitchen and laundry. (Photo by Josh Karela)
  The loft. (Photo by Josh Karela)
  One of three bedrooms. (Photo by Josh Karela)
  The upper deck. (Photo by Josh Karela)
  The view from the upper deck. (Photo by Josh Karela)
  The lower deck overlooking Lake Arrowhea
  
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• Angels sticking with struggling José Suarez in the rotation

  14-08-2019 02:50
  
  ANAHEIM — A day after José Suarez allowed six runs in three innings — the shortest of his 11 big league starts — he was penciled back into the rotation for another turn on Saturday.
  Suarez’s rough outing against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday raised his ERA to 6.57. He has allowed at least four runs in his last three outings. Suarez, 21, has only had two games so far in which he’s pitched at least five innings and allowed three runs or fewer.
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• Watchdog group seeks overhaul of California’s recycling program

  14-08-2019 02:17
  
  Consumer Watchdog is urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to overhaul operations at CalRecycle, the state department that oversees California’s recycling programs.
  In a letter sent to Newsom on Thursday, Aug. 8, the Los Angeles-based organization said the recycling programs are falling apart, citing the recent collapse of rePlanet, which closed its remaining 284 redemption centers Aug. 5, and a shrinking number of options for customers to retrieve bottle and can deposits. 
  The watchdog group says
  
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• Bloodhound, drone, part of massive effort to locate San Clemente couple’s missing golden retriever

  14-08-2019 02:14
  
  Barb Moore feels like she’s lost her best friend.
  For more than two weeks, Moore, of San Clemente, has been desperately searching for Bodie, a 12-year-old golden retriever missing since July 25.
  “He’s just an amazing dog,” she said. “Everyone knows him more than me — they just know me as his owner.”
  Moore and her daughter and her daughter’s two dogs were playing in the greenbelt behind Moore’s Talega home in the Verona community when Bodie ra
  
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• Trump bows to economic concerns, delaying some China tariffs

  14-08-2019 02:07
  
  By Shawn Donnan, Jenny Leonard, and Olivia Rockeman, Bloomberg
  President Donald Trump bowed to pressure from U.S. businesses and concerns over the economic fallout of his trade war with China, delaying the imposition of new tariffs on a wide variety of consumer products including toys and laptops until December.
  Tuesday’s move to at least hit the pause button in his fight with China came as senior officials on both sides had their first phone conversation since Trump threatened the tariffs
  
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• Dodgers have a big lead in the NL West but race for best record overall is tight

  14-08-2019 01:57
  
  MIAMI — The race is on.
  The Dodgers long ago put the National League West in their rear-view mirror — their lead was 18 1/2 games over the Arizona Diamondbacks going into Tuesday’s games. And they hold a healthy nine-game advantage over the Atlanta Braves for the best record in the NL.
  But the competition to finish with the best record in baseball — and thus homefield advantage through a potential return trip to the World Series — has become much tighter. Going into
  
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• Galaxy return home looking to snap three-game losing streak

  14-08-2019 01:45
  
  After a losing three consecutive games on the road by a combined score of 9-1, the Galaxy will look to bounce back with a pair of important Western Conference games this week.
  First, the Galaxy will host FC Dallas, Wednesday (7:30 p.m.; Spectrum SportsNet) and will host the Seattle Sounders on Saturday.
  “I think we need to work but we have to feel the pressure, which can be hard.” Galaxy coach Guillermo Barros Schelotto said. “The players have to give us more because we need th
  
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• Slain Riverside-area CHP Officer Andre Moye Jr. remembered as ‘very giving and caring person’

  14-08-2019 01:40
  
  Even in training, California Highway Patrol Officer Andre Moye Jr. stood out.
  California Highway Patrol Officer Andre Moye Jr. gives a motorcycle riding demonstration during an open house at the CHP’s Riverside office on Sept. 29, 2018. Moye was shot to death Aug. 12, 2019, during a traffic stop in Riverside. (Courtesy of Dan Cupido)
  “He was very confident, very positive in his abilities,” recalled CHP Inland Division Chief Bill Dance about meeting Moye while he was training to
  
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• Rare sight: Sperm whales — which have the world’s largest brains — spotted off Palos Verdes

  14-08-2019 01:33
  
  Two sperm whales were spotted off of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Monday evening, Aug. 12, by crew members of Harbor Breeze Cruises. It’s a rare sight off Southern California, only happening every few years.
  The whale-watching charter reported the whales about three miles off the coastline at about 6:30 p.m.
  Two sperm whales werespotted by HarborBreeze Cruises on Aug. 12, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Matt West/Harbor Breeze Cruises)
  Two sperm whales werespotted by HarborBreeze Cruises on Aug. 12
  
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• United Way CEO hikes 5 miles — and then some — in Orange County’s 34 cities, to get to know the communities she serves

  14-08-2019 01:29
  
  Orange County United Way CEO Sue Parks chats with supporters before a walking tour of Garden Grove on Saturday, August 10, 2019. Every month Parks embarks on a walking tour of a different city in Orange County. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Orange County United Way CEO Sue Parks chats with supporters during a walking tour of Garden Grove on Saturday, August 10, 2019. Every month Parks embarks on a walking tour of a different city in Orange County. (Photo by Kevin Sulliva
  
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• LA Opera to investigate claims against Placido Domingo

  14-08-2019 01:29
  
  Two music companies canceled appearances by Placido Domingo and the Los Angeles Opera said Tuesday it would launch an investigation in response to an Associated Press story in which numerous women accused the opera legend of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior spanning decades.
  Domingo has been general director of the LA Opera since 2003 and previously served as the company’s artistic director, jobs that gave him the power to cast roles and — his accusers say — make, o
  
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• Heat wave bringing triple digits to San Bernardino, Riverside counties this week; coastal areas spared

  14-08-2019 01:25
  
  Stay inside, if you can, and drink plenty of water, weather forecasters are saying this week, with another summer heat wave expected to bake Southern California.
  A heat advisory was in effect for western San Bernardino and Riverside counties starting Tuesday and expected to last through Thursday,  National Weather Service officials said. Temperatures there will likely hit the upper 90s, with some vaulting into triple-digits, officials said.An overall warming trend is expected over the next
  
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• Stocks rebound on US plan to delay some China tariffs

  14-08-2019 01:24
  
  By Stan Choe and Alex Veiga, The Associated Press
  And back up goes the stock market.
  Investors flipped back into buying mode Tuesday after the U.S. said it would hold off on tariffs of Chinese imports of mobile phones, toys and several other items typically on holiday shopping lists. China also said the two sides held discussions on trade overnight and would talk again the next two weeks.
  The latest turn in the U.S.-China trade war helped the market make up much of the losses from the previous t
  
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• Dana Hills High School welcomes a new principal

  14-08-2019 01:24
  
  Principal Brad Baker will be among the new faces at Dana Hills High School when school starts on Tuesday, Aug. 20.
  Baker, who for the past three years has been principal at Shorecliffs Middle School in San Clemente, was appointed to the position by Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees on July 1. He replaces Josh Porter, who is now an assistant superintendent in the Temple City Unified School District in Los AngelesCounty.
  Baker has worked in the district in different capacities f
  
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• No matter how they write it, split roll is a public sector union money grab

  14-08-2019 01:09
  
  Proponents of a split-roll property tax system announced Tuesday they were pulling their original proposal and will file a new, revised version for the November 2020 ballot. Regardless of how they dress up their proposal, it’s ultimately an unnecessary tax hike.
  The so-called Schools and Communities First campaign, backed by public sector unions and even some local governments, seeks to raise nearly $10 billion a year from commercial properties with higher property taxes.
  But they’ve
  
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