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• California Supreme Court decision a win for police accountability

  28-08-2019 23:55 via ocregister.com
  
  When cheering another, possibly narrow, victory for transparency in California’s law-enforcement and judicial systems this week, observers may have heard the term “Brady list” bandied about.
  That’s a list of officers or deputies with significant discipline problems in their personnel records that police and sheriffs’ departments are required to maintain and share with criminal defendants and their attorneys when relevant to their defense.
  The fact that the United St
  
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• Ruby’s Shake Shop has found a new spot in Brea, where the last Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour closed

  28-08-2019 23:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Ruby’s Diner in Yorba Linda announced in January  that it was closing and moving to West Birch Street in Brea. Now signs have been posted at a different location: It’s landing at 215 S. Brea Boulevard, the same spot where the last Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour closed in June. The diner was slated to reopen in spring as a Ruby’s Shake Shop.
  At the time of the announcement, Ruby Restaurant Group in Newport Beach would not comment on the closure of the diner nor the openi
  
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• Long Beach jet-car racer Jessi Combs dies trying to break speed record

  28-08-2019 23:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By GILLIAN FLACCUS
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Long Beach jet-car speed racer Jessi Combs, known by fans as the “fastest woman on four wheels,” has died in a crash in Oregon’s Alvord Desert while trying to break a speed record, local authorities said Wednesday.
  Combs, 36, died Tuesday afternoon while racing in a dry lake bed in a desert in remote Harney County, sheriff’s Lt. Brian Needham said in a statement. The cause is under investigation.
  Terry Madden, Combs’ teammat
  
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• Orange County band Lit headlines final summer concert at Salt Creek Beach

  28-08-2019 23:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Folks of all ages are invited to Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point on Thursday, Aug. 29, to enjoy live music under the stars featuring Lit with opener Crash Boom Bang.
  With its roots in Orange County, Lit may be best known for its 1999 hit “My Own Worst Enemy.”
  Hosted by OC Parks, the free event opens at 5 p.m. for the beer garden, food trucks, and to save a spot on the grass for the concert.
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• What lurks beneath Knott’s Berry Farm? The Depths maze joins Halloween Haunt 2019

  28-08-2019 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Knott’s Berry Farm takes visitors inside the ominous caverns and eerie tunnels beneath an abandoned port village where rumor has it that vicious creatures dwell during Halloween Haunt 2019.
  The Depths is the latest haunted maze to join the lineup for Halloween Haunt 2019, Knott’s officials announced.
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• CSUF lecturer, author shines light on lost legacies of Hollywood’s female screenwriters

  28-08-2019 22:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Rosanne Welch has advice for female students who want to get their screenplays noticed: Speak up.
  A lecturer in screenwriting at Cal State Fullerton, Welch says she has seen a pattern — even in her master’s classes. When she asks her students to pitch their scripts, the men start talking while the women sit quietly, as if they’re waiting their turn.
  “They’re so polite,” Welch said about the women. “I say, Hollywood will never give you a turn. Open your m
  
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• After further review, CdM’s Ethan Garbers did not set Orange County record for TD passes

  28-08-2019 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  When Corona del Mar quarterback Ethan Garbers threw eight touchdown passes last week in a win over Downey, an examination of the CIF-Southern Section record book indicated he had broken an Orange County record for most TD passes in a game.
  Now days later, it has been revealed that Garbers does not have the record after all. Former Whittier Christian quarterback Quinn Commans holds the county mark, having tossed nine touchdown passes in 2016.
  How did this get left out of the record book?Support o
  
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• Want to make the Chargers’ final roster? Earn this man’s trust

  28-08-2019 22:37 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA — George Stewart rarely leads a dull special teams meeting. In his deep voice that resembles actor James Earl Jones, Stewart shares countless stories from his coaching career that spans over three decades.
  Jerry Rice, arguably the greatest wide receiver of all time, attended Stewart’s meetings in San Francisco, not just for laughs, but because he wanted to improve even in an area he wasn’t a part of on Sundays.
  Stewart, the Chargers’ special teams coordinator,
  
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• Park Life: Everything you need to know about Avengers Campus and Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway

  28-08-2019 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  As summer draws to a close, Southern California theme parks shift to what’s next: Halloween, 2020 annual passes and new rides for next year and beyond. This week’s Park Life newsletter has all the details you need to get ready for this fall and next summer.
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  Avengers Assemble
  The new Avengers Campus promises to wow visitors with Spid
  
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• Community meeting tonight, Aug. 28, on proposal to renovate part of the Brea Mall

  28-08-2019 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  A community meeting is planned tonight, Aug. 28, in Brea to present a proposal for using part of the Brea Mall property for homes, a fitness center and more stores.
  The proposal would make use of the shuttered Sears department store, its car service center and the surrounding 12-acres of parking lots. The mall property is 74 acres.
  A fitness center, 312-unit apartment complex, retail stores and outdoor plazas and communal areas are being looked at to replace more than 161,990 square feet of open
  
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• CSUF students zero in on food waste during trip to Copenhagen

  28-08-2019 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  As a biology major, Brittany Cook decided to focus on agriculture because she wanted to find a way to make sure enough food was available to those who need it.
  But a trip to Copenhagen over the summer has got her thinking that the distribution of food — not just producing more of it — might be an important factor.
  The 22-year-old Cal State Fullerton senior was one of 11 students who participated in a four-week study abroad program “Danish Foodways and Sustainability,” led
  
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• Anaheim school and museum making sure experiences of Japanese Americans in interment camps not forgotten

  28-08-2019 21:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Close to 80 years ago, Anaheim High School Principal Paul Demaree called for an assembly in the school auditorium.
  Speaking from the stage, Demaree announced to the student body that 14 Japanese-American students sitting in the front row were about to be separated from their classmates and friends.
  With a photo of the Poston, Arizona concentration camp projected on a screen behind them, Dr. Don Miyada, Robert Wada, Marlene Shigekawa, Gania Demaree, and Tom Leatherman, from left, take part in a p
  
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• Shareholders and stakeholders

  28-08-2019 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The Business Roundtable, representing CEO’s of America’s largest companies, recently issued a statement described as “reframing the purpose of business and corporations as stakeholder value, not solely shareholder value,” which listed customers, employees, suppliers, and communities as stakeholders, before mentioning shareholders. The statement received a raft of positive press.
  However, the kudos were grounded in a false dichotomy. The issue is not shareholders’ in
  
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• Titan Voice: A call for open hearts and a return to joy on campus

  28-08-2019 20:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By Fram Virjee
  Cal State Fullerton president
  Imagine a little boy…
  With those four words, prefaced only by my request for the special group of Titans gathered around me to close their eyes, I began my informal remarks.
  He is maybe 5 or 6 years old, rail thin, with cowlicks and too much hair, an open smile so bright not even the missing front teeth could dim its illuminating power. 
  Imagine this little boy running, laughing, and playing — simultaneously dreaming and living the d
  
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• Anaheim council agrees on key stadium issues ahead of Sept. 13 meeting with Angels

  28-08-2019 20:13 via ocregister.com
  
  The details will be hashed out behind closed doors, but Anaheim officials seem to agree on several major negotiating goals as they approach a Sept. 13 date to discuss a possible new stadium deal with the Angels.
  Among the priorities Mayor Harry Sidhu and council members say they share are: getting a fair rent for the city-owned stadium, getting a market-based price for any sale or lease of the surrounding 155-acre property, seeking community benefits including well-paying jobs for residents and
  
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• More homebuyers expect a recession by next year, survey says

  28-08-2019 20:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By Prashant Gopal, Bloomberg
  Recession fears are on the minds of a growing share of U.S. homebuyers, half of whom say they’ll pause their search if a downturn arrives.
  More than 36% of 755 active buyers surveyed this month said they expect the next recession to begin next year, according to a survey released Wednesday, Aug. 28 by Realtor.com. That’s up from less than 30% in March. About 56% of respondents to the latest poll said they would postpone home-shopping if the economy hits t
  
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• Best thing I ate: Argentinean steak grilled over a wood fire

  28-08-2019 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  The rib cap steak at Maro Wood Grill haunted me for months. Rib cap (sometimes called ribeye crown or deckle) steaks don’t show up on many steakhouse menus in the United States. Americans love their ribeyes, and the cap is that fatty outer ring of meat that is separated from the eye of the chop by a heavy ribbon of fat. Leaving it attached to the chop makes the ribeye (and prime rib) bigger and more valuable, so most American butchers leave it on. 
  But in Argentina (and often in Europ
  
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• UCLA football puts improved culture to test in season opener at Cincinnati

  28-08-2019 19:41 via ocregister.com
  
  CINCINNATI — A running back clutches two footballs in his arms as he log rolls across the width of a practice field at Wasserman Football Center. He gets to one side, turns back, then tumbles across the width of the field again. The other UCLA running backs watch the whole way as their teammate rolls across the hot, plastic turf.
  That’s the price of an in-practice fumble at UCLA. The punishment was levied by players, not the coaches.
  “We want to be a team that’s player-le
  
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• UCLA at Cincinnati: TV info, scouting report and prediction

  28-08-2019 19:39 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA at Cincinnati
  When: 4 p.m. PT Thursday
  Where: Nippert Stadium, Cincinnati
  TV/Radio: ESPN/AM 1150
  Records: UCLA (3-9 in 2018); Cincinnati (11-2 in 2018)
  2018 Cincinnati stats
  QB Desmond Ridder: 194-311, 2,445 yards, 20 TDs, 5 INTs, 583 rushing yards
  RB Michael Warren II: 244 carries, 1,329 yards, 19 TDs
  LB Bryan Wright: 55 tackles, 8.5 TFLs, 5 sacks
  S James Wiggins: 54 tackles, 4 INTs
  DE Michael Pitts: 34 tackles, 7.5 TFLs, 4 sacks
  Cincinnati injury report: OUT: RB Taivon Thomas; Q
  
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• Former Capistrano Unified School District Foundation fundraising director charged with embezzlement

  28-08-2019 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  The former director of the nonprofit once known as the Capistrano Unified School District Foundation has been charged with embezzling more than $42,000, prosecutors said.
  Michelle Hart, 44, of Fresno wrote checks to herself and made unauthorized purchases with the foundation’s bank card, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said.
  On Aug. 20 she was charged with six felony counts of misappropriation or embezzlement of monies by a public officer, according to the criminal compl
  
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• Al Jardine reveals how he and Brian Wilson will tap into the Beach Boys’ catalog on new tour

  28-08-2019 18:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Brian Wilson is going out on the road this week with a new show and some old friends.
  The tour is called “Something Great from ’68,” and it features British Invasion band the Zombies as well as Wilson’s Beach Boys bandmate Al Jardine.
  The tour starts Saturday, Aug. 31, in Las Vegas and will visit the “lower 48 and a couple of territories” but not Greenland, Jardine joked in a recent telephone interview.
  “These things pop up, and suddenly we’re on t
  
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• Who’d invest in mortgages with rates below 0%? Newport Beach’s Pimco!

  28-08-2019 18:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Bond traders at Newport Beach-based Pimco are embracing Danish mortgage-backed bonds, even as negative interest rates mean investors face built-in losses on some bonds.
  This month, Denmark’s Jyske Bank made history when it started offering a 10-year mortgage bond with a coupon of minus 0.5%. Nordea Bank’s Danish mortgage arm is offering 20-year bonds at 0%, and has laid the groundwork to sell 30-year bonds at negative rates. But investors have yet to balk.
  “We like the ass
  
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• 5 fun facts to know about Dierks Bentley’s ’90s country alter ego, Douglas Douglason, before his band comes to Irvine

  28-08-2019 18:05 via ocregister.com
  
  If it were up to Douglas “Big Rhythm Doug” Douglason, he’d be headlining FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine on Friday, Sept. 6. Instead, his struggling ’90s country band, Hot Country Knights, is stuck in the opening slot, taking the stage at 7 p.m. sharp.
  Douglason is an over-the-top, mullet wig- and tight jeans-wearing alter ego of country music star Dierks Bentley, who’s about to wrap up the final dates of his Burning Man Tour with a couple of shows in California. W
  
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• Old tax loopholes live again

  28-08-2019 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Everything old is new again, at least when it comes to punching loopholes in state tax laws to benefit corporate interests.
  As noted in a recent column, legislation is moving to re-establish “redevelopment” in California cities, albeit with a new name, just a few years after the program was eliminated.
  It’s a way for local officials to subsidize certain kinds of businesses with property tax funds that would otherwise go to schools, thus forcing the state to backfill school
  
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• OxyContin maker negotiating settlement worth a reported $12 billion

  28-08-2019 17:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Purdue Pharma and the thousands of state and local governments suing the maker of OxyContin over the nation’s deadly opioid crisis are negotiating a $10 billion to $12 billion settlement under which the Sackler family would give up ownership of the company, according to published reports.
  Under the proposal now on the table, the Sacklers would contribute $3 billion of their own money toward the total, and the company would file for Chapter 11
  
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• Nordstrom named boys basketball coach at St. Margaret’s

  28-08-2019 17:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Former Orange Lutheran boys basketball coach Chris Nordstrom today was named boys basketball coach at St. Margaret’s.
  Nordstrom three weeks ago resigned as Orange Lutheran coach, a position he held for 16 years. Orange Lutheran won two CIF-Southern Section championships during his tenure there.
  At St. Margaret’s Nordstrom replaces Brian Carmer who has been promoted to an expanded role in the school’s history department.
  Nordstrom, 48, was unsure of his coaching destination on A
  
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• Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: Have you ever noticed that most Hallmark movies have the same plot?

  28-08-2019 17:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Have you ever noticed that most Hallmark Channel movies have the exact same plot? It reminds me of watching Scooby Doo cartoons over and over again. Or looking at Thomas Kinkade paintings (Spoiler alert: There’s a cottage in the woods, lit from within.)
  In every Hallmark movie I’ve ever seen, an attractive young woman who doesn’t have love in her life (she might be widowed or mistreated by a boyfriend, leaving her afraid to be vulnerable) leaves the Big City and goes to a charm
  
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• Storm Dorian closing in on Puerto Rico near hurricane force

  28-08-2019 17:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By DÁNICA COTO
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico   — Puerto Rico on Wednesday faced its first major test of emergency preparedness since the 2017 devastation of Hurricane Maria as Tropical Storm Dorian neared the U.S. territory at near-hurricane force — and forecasters said it could grow to Category 3 status as it nears the U.S. mainland later.
  The storm was expected to move near the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, with landslides, widespread flooding and power outages possible
  
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• Calling alimony ‘legal extortion,’ Huntington Beach man aims to reform the law

  28-08-2019 17:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Steve Clark pays his ex-wife $1,000 per month in alimony. And he may have to continue doing so for a long time to come.
  “It’s legal extortion,” he groused.
  So the Huntington Beach resident is at it again – pounding the pavement for enough signatures to place his grievance on the 2020 California ballot. To achieve that goal, Clark must flag down 623,212 registered voters by Feb. 3.
  Huntington Beach resident Steve Clark is renewing a campaign to give voters a say over the s
  
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• Sparks’ Alexis Jones is making ’em believe

  28-08-2019 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — She includes the hashtag on all her tweets and Instagram posts, and though it seems self-explanatory, a reference to a young player seeking to prove herself on the big stage, there’s more to it.
  “#MakeEmBelieve?” Alexis Jones said in the Sparks’ locker room after one of their recent victories. “That’s my slogan just from overcoming all the things I’ve been through. From being in a car wreck at the age of 14, my dad being paralyzed, my
  
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• UK’s Johnson moves to suspend Parliament; opposition reacts with fury

  28-08-2019 14:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By DANICA KIRKA
  LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday to suspend Parliament, throwing down the gauntlet to his critics and causing outrage among opposition leaders who will have even less time to thwart a no-deal Brexit.
  Johnson told lawmakers he has decided to ask the monarch to give her speech that outlines the government’s legislative agenda on Oct. 14. Since Parliament is normally suspended before the speech, the decision means opposi
  
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• Woman charged with attempted murder, is suspected of trying to push high school cross-country runner off a bridge in OC

  28-08-2019 08:35 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — Authorities say a 23-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly trying to push a high school cross-country runner off a bridge in Southern California.
  The Orange County Sheriff’s Department said the boy’s Capistrano Valley High School teammates were able to fight off the woman after she assaulted two of them Aug. 23 in Ladera Ranch.
  Stephanie Redondo, 23, a transient, was arrested by Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies after sh
  
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• Dodgers’ offense comes back to life to back Walker Buehler in San Diego

  28-08-2019 07:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Dodgers starting pitcher Walker Buehler throws to the plate during the first inning of Tuesday’s game in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
  Dodgers starting pitcher Walker Buehler throws to the plate during the first inning of Tuesday’s game against the Padres in San Diego. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsPadres starting pitcher Cal Quantrill works against a Los Angeles Dodgers batter during the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Aug.
  
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• Kole Calhoun’s bases-loaded double lifts Angels over Rangers

  28-08-2019 07:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Angels starting pitcher Andrew Heaney throws to the plate during the first inning of Tuesday’s game against the Rangers at Angel Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
  Rangers starting pitcher Mike Minor throws to the plate during the first inning of Tuesday’s game against the Angels at Angel Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsANAHEIM, CA – AUGUST 27: Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Angels comes up to bat agaisnt the Texas
  
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• Orange County treasurer to auction off ‘delinquent’ time-shares

  28-08-2019 06:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Want to own an Orange County time-share?
  The Orange County Treasurer-Tax Collector’s office plans to hold its third online time-share auction Sept. 18, offering for sale close to 80 delinquent properties to recover unpaid property taxes.
  Bidding starts at 8 a.m., closing in batches starting at 1 p.m.
  Minimum bids range from $600 to $3,100. To check out the time-shares, go to OCtaxauction.mytaxsale.com.
  You must register to view the entire listing by clicking on the word “Register&rdq
  
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• McDonald’s expands delivery by partnering with DoorDash

  28-08-2019 06:02 via ocregister.com
  
  McDonald’s is supersizing home delivery through a partnership with DoorDash.
  The fast food giant has been partnering with UberEats on “McDelivery” since 2017. Working with DoorDash doesn’t change that arrangement but expands McDelivery to 10,000 restaurants in 50 states, according to a McDonald’s news release.
  DoorDash is an app-based service founded in 2013. Its delivery fees vary by restaurant, and the company is in the process of revising its base pay to drivers.
  
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• ‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’: Vicki trains her sights on Kelly as the rumors run wild

  28-08-2019 06:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Two weeks is only 14 days, but on “The Real Housewives Of Orange County” it feels like an eternity.
  Why it was only two weeks ago that Kelly Dodd’s daughter Jolie was dejected over the nasty Instagram messages people were sending her about her mom. Thanks a lot, Vicki Gunvalson, who made those claims at the end of the last season about Kelly and delivered some more at the end of last episode.
  That tempest in a tequila shot glass is old news now, though, because on the episode t
  
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• Sparks can’t keep up with sharp-shooting Mystics

  28-08-2019 05:39 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON — Some nights it seems like one team can’t miss and the other is battling a lid on the rim. That scenario played out for the Sparks on Tuesday night in the nation’s capital.
  Aerial Powers scored 20 points, Elena Delle Donne added 14 and the first-place Washington Mystics routed the Sparks 95-66 for their eighth consecutive home win.
  Washington (22-8) made six 3-pointers in the first quarter for a 33-22 lead and had nine by halftime. The Mystics finished 11 for 35 fro
  
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• USC offensive line looking to rebound from difficult 2018

  28-08-2019 05:14 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — There was a lot of talk about the USC offensive line in 2018. Most of it, not so positive. Fair or not (frequently fair) the unit took a lot of criticism and blame throughout the Trojans’ 5-7 campaign.
  “Obviously, any criticism that’s negative is hard to hear, no matter what,” said guard Andrew Vorhees, one of two returning starters from last year’s line. “I don’t really care from what point of view you look at it, it’s hard to
  
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• Angels’ Keynan Middleton makes emotional return from Tommy John rehab

  28-08-2019 04:53 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — One year, three months and 15 days can feel like a long time when you’re 25 years old. It can feel even longer when the duration is not a promise but a phantasm of a hope. For Angels pitcher Keynan Middleton, recovering from Tommy John surgery was both a physical and an emotional process.
  “Since the beginning … I told myself I’m going to learn from everything and not look at everything so negative,” he said Tuesday, his first day on the Angels&rsquo
  
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• Convicted arsonist now accused of torching Orange County buildings, burglarizing fire stations

  28-08-2019 04:44 via ocregister.com
  
  A former San Bernardino County fire explorer already in custody for an arson conviction is facing new charges after the Orange County Fire Authority said he burglarized fire stations in four counties and set a series of blazes.
  Christian David Saddler, 21, of Hesperia, was arrested at Corcoran State Prison, where he is serving a five-year sentence after being convicted of arson and burglary in Riverside County.
  Christian David Saddler, 21, of Hesperia, faces nine felony counts of arson and burgl
  
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• US new home sales slip from 12-year high

  28-08-2019 04:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Sales of new U.S. homes fell a steep 12.8% in July, but the drop came after revisions to June sales showed the sales highest growth in 12 years.
  The Commerce Department said Friday that new homes sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 635,000 units. That’s down from a sharply revised 728,000 in June. So far this year, sales have risen 4.1%, a sign that buyers are beginning to respond to lower mortgage rates.
  The volatility in home sales reflects broader uncertainty in the housing mar
  
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• Rams’ Dakota Allen plans to make most of his ‘Last Chance’ in preseason finale

  28-08-2019 04:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Rams linebacker Dakota Allen runs a play during a preseason game against the Denver Broncos Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
  The Rams’ Dakota Allen #51 drags down the Broncos’ David Williams#49during their NFL game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Saturday, August 24, 2019. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsRams linebacker Dakota Allen runs a play during a preseason game against the Denve
  
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• Dodgers’ Julio Urias will begin return from suspension Thursday with Rancho Cucamonga

  28-08-2019 04:02 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN DIEGO — Julio Urias’ return from a 20-game suspension for violating MLB’s domestic violence policy will begin Thursday with an appearance for Class-A Rancho Cucamonga.
  MLB concluded its investigation into a May 13 incident involving the Dodgers pitcher and his girlfriend and handed down the suspension on Aug. 17. It included five games Urias missed in May.
  Urias will be eligible to rejoin the Dodgers on Monday and is expected to be activated from the restricted list at that
  
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• Expert-EMS expands business in Tustin

  28-08-2019 02:21 via ocregister.com
  
  At a time when many California manufacturers have downsized or left the state, Expert-EMS is growing.
  An uptick in business prompted the Southland-based supplier of electronic manufacturing services to expand from 9,000 square feet to a new state-of-the-art facility at 14312 Chambers Road in Tustin that spans nearly 26,000 square feet.
  Much of the company’s growth has been fueled by businesses looking to reduce their footprint, according to CEO Jack Quinn.
  “Companies want to get rid
  
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• Whicker: Fresno State has upset USC before, and it surely was upsetting

  28-08-2019 02:15 via ocregister.com
  
  The bus turned the corner and Jesse Hardwick blinked. He wasn’t in Fresno anymore; he knew that. In fact, he and the Fresno State Bulldogs were in Anaheim, five minutes from his home in Garden Grove.
  But the flags and the tailgaters were all Bulldog red.
  “I knew everybody was excited about this,” Hardwick said the other day. “But I never realized how much until I saw that red wave.”
  That was 1992. Fresno State was playing in the Freedom Bowl. its first postseason tr
  
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• USC’s Jack Sears enters transfer portal following quarterback competition

  28-08-2019 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  USC quarterback Jack Sears has entered the transfer portal, he announced on Twitter on Tuesday.
  The decision comes a week after USC announced Sears, a redshirt sophomore, would be the fourth-string quarterback entering the season. Sears had been given a shot to win the starting job, which went to returning starter JT Daniels.
  True freshman Kedon Slovis earned the backup job, while Matt Fink was named the third-string QB.
  Related Articles Whicker: Fresno State has upset USC before, and it surely
  
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• How Marine Stadium offers first-responders practice for oil spills

  28-08-2019 01:50 via ocregister.com
  
  How do you prepare for an oil spill in a local water way? You practice. That’s just what the federal Environmental Protection Agency and a dozen other agencies were doing in Marine Stadium Tuesday, Aug. 27.
  The EPA is leading a three-day practice to prepare first-responders until more seasoned clean-up crews arrive. The training includes instruction on swift water booming and marine booming and classroom work.
  Eric Sandusky, an on-scene coordinator for the EPA, guides a boat pulling a boom
  
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• Chargers’ Trent Scott cooks up protection for Philip Rivers, food for his fellow linemen

  28-08-2019 01:48 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA — Trent Scott is finding his footing as a starting left tackle, but he already knows his way around a grill – a charcoal grill to be exact, because in the south, there’s no such thing as a gas grill.
  The Huntsville, Alabama, native is so confident in his grilling skills that he invited his Chargers offensive line teammates to his home for a backyard cookout – with his smoker grill as the main attraction.
  “I’m nice on the grill, though,” Scott
  
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• Rod’s Liquor has closed but Bosscat Kitchen & Libations will take its spot in Old Towne Orange in 2020

  28-08-2019 01:47 via ocregister.com
  
  The Bosscat (Basil Hayden, citrus, bitters and rosemary) is balanced with rosemary at Newport Beach’s Bosscat Kitchen + Libations.Bosscat Kitchen & Libations will open another Orange County location in Old Towne Orange in 2020. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Bosscat Kitchen & Libations will open another Orange County location in Old Towne Orange in 2020.Seen here, Dr. Seuss Bulldog (gin, house infused citrus, Cointreau, topped with frothy, pasteurized egg wh
  
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