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• UCLA men’s basketball faces longtime foe Notre Dame in 1st road game of season

  13-12-2019 23:59 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA was tied, 62-62, against Notre Dame when Kris Wilkes caught Prince Ali’s pass with 0.2 seconds remaining.
  Without a second to think, Wilkes bent his knees and jumped. The 3-point shot was good, fans went wild in the stands and Wilkes’ teammates rushed to jump him in celebration.
  “That was pretty crazy,” said then true-freshman Tyger Campbell who watched last year’s buzzer-beater victory over Notre Dame from the bench while nursing a torn ACL last season.
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• UFC 245: How Amanda Nunes, with lessons in losing, keeps on winning

  13-12-2019 23:50 via ocregister.com
  
  UFC double champion Amanda Nunes, who will be defending her bantamweight title against former featherweight champion Germaine de Ramndamie at UFC 245 on Dec. 14 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  UFC double champion Amanda Nunes, who will be defending her bantamweight title against former featherweight champion Germaine de Ramndamie at UFC 245 on Dec. 14 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsUFC
  
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• 5 armed-robbery suspects who held up Walgreens in Garden Grove bail from car after engine catches fire

  13-12-2019 23:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Five armed-robbery suspects in Garden Grove got away on Friday morning despite the escape nearly getting foiled by their car’s burning engine.
  The group, clad in dark clothes and faces covering, entered a Walgreens on Euclid Street and Chapman Avenue at about 4:10 a.m., police said.
  “Five suspects entered the pharmacy, one of which was armed with a handgun, and jumped over the pharmacy counter and began taking codeine bottles and other merchandise,” Garden Grove police said in
  
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• 5 armed-robbery suspects hold up Walgreens in Garden Grove and bail from car after engine catches fire

  13-12-2019 23:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Five armed-robbery suspects in Garden Grove got away Friday morning despite the escape nearly getting foiled by their car’s burning engine.
  The group, clad in dark clothes and faces covered, entered a Walgreens on Euclid Street and Chapman Avenue at about 4:10 a.m., police said. The store is open 24 hours.
  “Five suspects entered the pharmacy, one of which was armed with a handgun, and jumped over the pharmacy counter and began taking codeine bottles and other merchandise,” Gard
  
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• All 7 Democrats threaten to boycott LA debate if labor dispute is unresolved

  13-12-2019 23:01 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — All seven Democratic presidential hopefuls who qualified for next week’s debate at Loyola Marymount University said Friday that they will skip the event if a labor dispute with unionized food-service workers at the Westchester campus goes unresolved.
  Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, businessmen Andrew Yang and Tom Steyer, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg all wrote
  
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• Chargers vs. Minnesota Vikings: Who has the edge?

  13-12-2019 22:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Vikings (9-4) at Chargers (5-8)
  When: 1:05 p.m. Sunday
  Where: Dignity Health Sports Park
  Line: Vikings by 1 ½
  TV/Radio: CBS (Ch. 2); 640-AM, 980-AM (Spanish)
  CHARGERS OFFENSE VS. VIKINGS DEFENSE
  Quarterback Philip Rivers and the Chargers’ offense had their best game of the season in last week’s 45-10 rout of the Jacksonville Jaguars, setting season highs in rushing yards (195) and total yards (525). But that was against a defense that had nothing to play for, and a head coach
  
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• Chargers injury report vs. Minnesota Vikings | Uchenna Nwosu questionable

  13-12-2019 22:53 via ocregister.com
  
  A look at Chargers players who were listed on the injury report this week and their status for Sunday’s home game against the Minnesota Vikings:
  Mike Williams, wide receiver
  Injury: Knee
  Participation status: Limited Wednesday-Thursday, full Friday
  Official status: Off injury report
  Outlook: Williams had his usual limited practices to start the week before being a full participant Friday. This has been Williams’ routine the past month because of a nagging knee injury.
  Uchenna Nwosu,
  
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• Man stabbed, suspects injured during Norwalk iPOD robbery

  13-12-2019 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  A La Habra man was stabbed in the head and robbed Thursday in Norwalk when he met up with someone claiming to sell an iPod, authorities said.
  The two suspects were injured during a fight with the victim and were later arrested when they turned up at a Norwalk hospital. Deputies recovered the $10 stolen from the victim but didn’t find his glasses or his iPod, Sheriff’s Sgt. Julio Saldana said.
  The victim used an online app and went to meet an iPod seller at Barnwall Street and Clarkda
  
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• Smell the tamales? It must be Christmas time in Placentia

  13-12-2019 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Always popular, the 2019 Placentia Tamale Festival again drew hungry crowds to the city’s Santa Fe Avenue.
  Lining the street where several restaurant booths selling tamales and other tasty treats to long lines of eager customers. There was holiday entertainment and a visit by Santa Claus among the other fun.
  Mario Aguayo, owner of B&B Burgers, is cooking fresh al pastor during the Placentia Santa Fe Merchants Association’s 25th annual Tamale Festival held in Old Town Placentia on
  
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• 7 convicted for $126 million scheme selling overpriced toner to charities, small firms

  13-12-2019 22:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Seven people were convicted Friday in federal court for running a decades-long, $126 million telemarketing scheme in which thousands of small businesses and charities were sold overpriced toner for printers and photocopiers.
  The scam, believed to date back to 1988 and targeting more than 50,000 victims, involved the defendants posing as the victims’ regular toner-products supplier, but selling them products with the price upped by as much as 10 times the regular retail cost, according to t
  
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• Ed Burgart, aka Mr. Los Alamitos, prepares to call final races

  13-12-2019 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California, home to former superstar sports announcers Vin Scully, Chick Hearn, Dick Enberg and Bob Miller, is about to lose another one of its legends Sunday night.Ed Burgart, 67, is hanging up his mic after calling quarter horse and thoroughbred races, mostly at Los Alamitos, for the past 40 years. His final call will fittingly be the Grade I Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity.
  Burgart calling anything less than a Grade I stakes race with millions in the balance on the final night of h
  
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• Beachfront Belmont Shore apartment complex sells for $28 million

  13-12-2019 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  The 60-unit, beachfront apartment complex Surf Terrace has sold for $28.6 million in Belmont Shore, according to the broker, Morgan Skenderian Investment Real Estate Group.
  The sale closed Dec. 4.
  The 60-unit, beachfront apartment complex Surf Terrace has sold for $28.6 million in Belmont Shore, according to the broker, Morgan Skenderian Investment Real Estate Group. The sale closed Dec. 4. Damien Breaux of Morgan Skenderian’s Newport Beach office represented the seller in this transaction
  
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• South Coast Singers warms the holidays with 3 concerts in south county

  13-12-2019 21:49 via ocregister.com
  
  The South Coast Singers, a 50-member non-profit choral group based in Orange County, invites residents to celebrate the holidays with their upcoming concert series, “Do You Hear What I Hear?” Under the direction of music director Perry Carter and backed by a live orchestra, the show combines old standards with new arrangements.
  Performances are 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 at San Clemente Presbyterian Church in San Clemente, 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15 at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna
  
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• Search now in Day 6 for Irvine man missing on Mt. Baldy

  13-12-2019 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  The search continued Friday, Dec. 13 for an Irvine man who went missing while hiking Mt. Baldy as 73 search and rescue volunteers from 10 counties in California helped in the mission, authorities said.
  Sreenivas “Sree” Mokkapati, 52, and three others went on a hike to Mt. Baldy Summit early on Sunday, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. During that hike, Mokkapati was separated from the group and hasn’t been seen since.
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• As California thins forests to limit fire risk, some homeowners resist

  13-12-2019 21:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By Matthew Brown and Christina Larson, The Associated Press
  Buzzing chainsaws are interrupted by the frequent crash of breaking branches as crews fell towering trees and clear tangled brush in the densely forested Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco.
  Their goal: To protect communities such as Redwood Estates, where giant redwoods loom over the houses of tech workers who live in the wooded community just 20 miles from the heart of Silicon Valley. With California’s increasingly warm,
  
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• 10 winners selected from 200 entries in ‘The Science of Gingerbread’ building contest at the Discovery Cube in Santa Ana

  13-12-2019 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  From large fairy tale mansions studded with gumdrops to tiny nativity scenes with frosted wheat cereal propped up as hay in the manger, some 200 edible creations were entered in “The Science of Gingerbread,” a building competition at the Discovery Cube in Santa Ana.
  Participants brought in constructions in categories that included: holiday theme, youth 5 and under, youth age 6-13, member of the Cube, science theme, organization, classroom, youth group/troop/scout. Notable chefs Elyss
  
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• Baby Yoda in Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge? Clever hoax, it is

  13-12-2019 20:58 via ocregister.com
  
  True, it is not.
  Turns out that image of the Baby Yoda diaper changing station in the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge bathroom at Disneyland is nothing more than a clever Photoshop hoax zipping around social media.
  Baby Yoda, or The Child as the Force-sensitive creature is known on “The Mandalorian,” exploded into the pop culture zeitgeist after the Star Wars series debuted on the new Disney+ streaming service.
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• Lisa May finishes her last day on radio with KLOS team Frosty, Heidi and Frank

  13-12-2019 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  There were tears, as she’d predicted, but the final moments on the air for radio personality Lisa May also unfolded with laughter, music, and a whole lot of love on Friday morning.
  May, whose career on Los Angeles radio included the last five years on KLOS-FM/95.5 and nearly 25 years on KROQ-FM/106.7, announced recently that she was leaving the airwaves for a new chapter as the owner and operator of a fitness center in the Coachella Valley.
  Comedian Brad Williams gives KROQ’s Lisa Ma
  
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• Flight security ‘hopelessly inadequate’ to stop another 9/11-style attack, whistleblower says

  13-12-2019 20:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Robert MacLean testified on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2015 before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s oversight hearing to examine the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) challenges.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
  Clouds serve as a backdrop to a plane coming in for a landing at John Wayne Airport on Wednesday, November 20, 2019. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsTravelers exit out of terminal
  
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• Casino Insider: Ideas for celebrating New Year’s Eve 🎉

  13-12-2019 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Casino Insider is a weekly newsletter that lands in your inbox on Thursdays. Subscribe now.If you haven’t started making your plans on how to celebrate the arrival of 2020, we’ve compiled what Southern California’s casinos are offering.
  Harrah’s Resort Southern California will be among the places to celebrate New Year’s Eve. (Courtesy of Harrah’s Resort Southern California)
  We’ve rounded up a total of 25 different New Year’s Eve thin
  
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• Blue-collar character actor Danny Aiello has died at age 86

  13-12-2019 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK KENNEDY
  NEW YORK  — Danny Aiello, the blue-collar character actor whose long career playing tough guys included roles in “Fort Apache, the Bronx,” “Moonstruck” and “Once Upon a Time in America” and his Oscar-nominated performance as a pizza man in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing,” has died. He was 86.
  Aiello (pronounced eye-YEL-o) died Thursday night after a brief illness, said his publicist, Tracey Miller, who runs Tracey
  
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• Blue-collar character actor Danny Aiello dies at 86

  13-12-2019 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK  — Danny Aiello, the blue-collar character actor whose long career playing tough guys included roles in “Fort Apache, the Bronx,” “Moonstruck” and “Once Upon a Time in America” and his Oscar-nominated performance as a pizza man in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing,” has died. He was 86.
  Aiello died Thursday night after a brief illness, said his publicist, Tracey Miller, who runs Tracey Miller & Associates. “The fam
  
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• Tips for navigating the Newport Beach Boat Parade, celebrating its 111th year

  13-12-2019 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  For five nights, the Newport Harbor will glisten as more than 100 boats draped in decorations weave through the water to the delight of spectators.
  But this is no ordinary boat parade.
  More than a million people flock to the seaside town annually to get glimpses of the holiday spectacle, standing shoulder-to-shoulder along public docks and walkways or snagging coveted restaurant reservations as early as September to watch while dining.
  The competition among the boat owners is fierce, some spendi
  
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• Is it ‘dumping’ or rescuing? OC Animal Care returns some stray cats to their neighborhoods 

  13-12-2019 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  It may not be common knowledge, but it is common practice. Shelters around the country, including OC Animal Care, release thousands of cats a year into the great outdoors.
  In a separate and widely recognized effort called “Trap-Neuter-Return,” volunteers round up feral cats for sterilization, afterward returning them to their stomping grounds. Feral cats, who grow up “wild” without human contact, generally do not make good house pets.
  Yet the less publicized project, &ldq
  
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• Curt Seeden: Fountain Valley residents, here’s a chance to get more involved in your city

  13-12-2019 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Interested in stepping up your civic involvement? Fountain Valley city officials are looking for volunteers who are interested in serving on the following committees, commissions and boards.
  Planning Commission
  The Planning Commission makes recommendations to the City Council about development within the city, subdivision of land, blighted and substandard areas of the city, zoning and land use. The Planning Commission meets at 6 p.m. on the second Wednesday of the month in the City Council
  
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• Disney reveals how Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run works at Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

  13-12-2019 19:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Walt Disney Imagineering revealed the magic behind the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge during a new Disney+ show that was offered unprecedented behind-the-scenes access inside the new Disneyland attraction.
  The sixth episode of “The Imagineering Story” docuseries on Disney+ debuting Friday, Dec. 13 shows the three-dimensional Swiss watch mechanism that allows Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run ride operators to get up to 1,800 riders per hour on the a
  
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• Dirty Heads’ Dustin ‘Duddy’ Bushnell strives for good vibes with his ‘Feelin’ Good With Duddy’ podcast

  13-12-2019 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Just weeks before Huntington Beach-based reggae-rock band Dirty Heads embarked on a summerlong co-headlining tour with 311 back in July, Dirty Heads guitarist Dustin “Duddy” Bushnell decided to explore the world of podcasting. As someone who travels a lot for work, Bushnell said he’d become a fan of listening to “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the improvised comedy podcast “Hello from the Magic Tavern,” and “The NoSleep Podcast,” which tells a ne
  
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• Why Andrew McMahon will be back home alone, playing his hits solo

  13-12-2019 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Andrew McMahon is ready to lay everything bare.
  His current tour provides a rare chance to see the Dana Point singer/pianist fly totally solo for an entire concert.
  “It’s something I had shied away from for a long time because you obviously don’t have a lot of cover,” admitted McMahon, in a phone interview. “There’s a lot to try and pull off dynamically.
  “When it works, I feel like they can be magical evenings where the audience kind of becomes the band.
  
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• Los Alamitos consensus picks for Friday, Dec. 13

  13-12-2019 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Friday, Dec. 13 for racing at Los Alamitos.
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• Could USC make a strong run to close out 2020 recruiting class?

  13-12-2019 18:42 via ocregister.com
  
  USC is coming into the home stretch before the early signing period next week, when the first wave of 2020 football recruits can put pen to paper and make their commitments official on National Letters of Intent.
  In the days leading up to it, the Trojans have undergone a bit of a shuffle at the offensive line position for their 2020 class. USC lost the commitments of two linemen in three days, with St. Margaret’s Kyle Juergens joining Bishop Manogue (Nev.) lineman Joey Wright on the open m
  
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• Mission Viejo defensive end Lance Keneley commits to Stanford

  13-12-2019 17:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Another top Orange County football recruit in the class of 2020 has picked Stanford.
  Standout Mission Viejo defensive end Lance Keneley (6-5, 247) has committed to the Cardinal, giving the rebuilding Pac-12 program another elite county prospect to pair with Corona del Mar senior wide receiver John Humphreys.
  The early signing period for football recruits begins Wednesday.Committed! @diablocjohnson @missionfootball @Coach_Diron @CoachDavidShaw @maeubanks @CoachL_Anderson pic.twitter.com/8JQ37bmOL
  
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• Fullerton Planning Commission approves a 150-bed shelter near the city’s airport

  13-12-2019 17:56 via ocregister.com
  
  After four hours of hearing comments from the community, Fullerton planning commissioners went ahead and approved a plan to build a 150-bed homeless shelter near Fullerton Airport.
  With just one commissioner opposed, the permit request by the Illumination Foundation cleared a major huddle on Wednesday, Dec. 11.
  But nearby residents said the location at 3535 W. Commonwealth Ave. is too close to schools, including a preschool across the street. The site also has too few parking spaces for clients,
  
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• Trump says US, China have reached deal; Sunday tariffs off

  13-12-2019 17:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOE McDONALD and PAUL WISEMAN
  WASHINGTON —President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. and China have reached a Phase 1 trade deal, de-escalating a 17-month dispute between the economic powers.
  The U.S. is dropping plans to impose tariffs Sunday on $160 billion in Chinese imports and is reducing some existing tariffs on Chinese goods. In return, Trump said, the Chinese have agreed to “massive” but unspecified purchases of American farm and manufactured products.
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• HOA Homefront: Who is minding the board?

  13-12-2019 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: Is there an oversight/audit department on a state level that oversees the management of an association? I am finding contradicting and wrong information in the minutes. — M.H, Laguna Woods
  Q: Is there a governing body that oversees all HOA groups? Ours is not enforcing its CC&Rs. What can we do besides sue them? — L.T., Rancho Bernardo
  Dear MH and LT: Some states, including Nevada, Colorado, and New Jersey, have agencies dealing with homeowner association problems, but statist
  
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• Judiciary committee advances Trump impeachment to full House

  13-12-2019 16:12 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee Friday morning approved two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in a straight party line vote. The charges now go to the full House for an expected vote next week.
  The abuse of power charge stems from Trump’s July phone call with the Ukraine president pressuring him to announce an investigation of Democrats as he was withholding US aid. The obstruction charge involves Trump’s blocking of House efforts to investigate
  
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• Impractical Jokers’ The Scoopski Potatoes Tour is coming to Pacific Amphitheatre

  13-12-2019 16:01 via ocregister.com
  
  TruTV’s “Impractical Jokers” stars will be bringing their The Scoopski Potatoes Tour to Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa during its 2020 season.
  The improvisational comedy troupe known as The Tenderloins, consisting of James “Murr” Murray, Brian “Q” Quinn, Joe Gatto and Sal Vulcano, have been pulling pranks on “Impractical Jokers” since 2011 and embarked on its sold-out global tour, dubbed Cranjis McBasketball World Comedy Tour, last year.
  
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• Coastal Commission stalls projects in Newport Beach, Dana Point

  13-12-2019 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The state Coastal Commission put the hold on two seaside Orange County development proposals  Thursday, Dec. 12, despite city councils in Newport Beach and Dana Point having granted final approvals for each project.
  A 51-room, six-level harbor-view hotel slated for the northeast corner of Green Lantern and Cove Drive on Dana Point’s Headlands was blocked, at least temporarily, for a variety of reasons, including insufficient detail of how the hotel would provide 25% of its rooms at &l
  
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• SuperShuttle shared van service to LAX and beyond will shut down at year’s end

  13-12-2019 15:49 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — SuperShuttle, the shared van ride that has served passengers heading to and from airports around the world, including Los Angeles International Airport, will cease operations at the end of the year.
  The company, which was founded in 1983 to serve LAX and expanded nationwide as well as to Latin America, Canada, Europe and Asia, has been plagued by competition from Uber and Lyft, the Los Angeles Times reported. In recent weeks it has pulled out of airports serving many cities,
  
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• License-plate holders can’t be so fancy as to block the number

  13-12-2019 15:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Q. Honk: I pull up behind some vehicles and their license plates are covered with plastic frames where you can barely read the plates’ numbers. How is that legal?
  – Jim Rahm, Chatsworth
  A. It isn’t if any letter or number is blocked.
  “Oh, yeah, that is illegal,” said Officer Casey Ramstead of the California Highway Patrol’s West Valley Area station house, which patrols your fine community. “We should have a clear and unobstructed view. … I’v
  
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• Suspect dies in officer-involved shooting in Anaheim

  13-12-2019 15:18 via ocregister.com
  
  A suspect was killed in an officer-involved shooting in Anaheim, police said Friday morning.
  Officers responded to a disturbance call at an apartment complex near East Street and Lincoln Avenue about 10:10 p.m. Thursday and, for reasons under investigation, an officer-involved shooting occurred about 11 p.m.,  Anaheim Sgt. Shane Carringer said.
  Three officers were on scene with body-worn cameras, but it was unclear how many officers fired on the suspect, described only as an adult male, he
  
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• Man dies after officer-involved shooting in Anaheim apartment complex

  13-12-2019 15:18 via ocregister.com
  
  A man in his 30s was killed in an officer-involved shooting at an Anaheim apartment complex late Thursday, police said.
  It was shortly after 10 p.m. when officers were called to a disturbance in a neighborhood near East Street and Lincoln Avenue.
  Anaheim police Sgt. Shane Carringer said callers had reported someone in the complex making noise, then about 15 minutes after officers went to the scene, they encountered the man who was in the underground garage.
  At some point the shooting occurred; a
  
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• Disney reveals how the Rise of the Resistance escape pod works in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

  13-12-2019 15:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Walt Disney Imagineering reveals how the dramatic Rise of the Resistance escape pod sequence works during a new Disney+ show that was offered behind-the-scenes access inside the new attraction coming to Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
  The sixth episode of “The Imagineering Story” docuseries on Disney+ debuting Friday, Dec. 13 shows how the Disney creative team combined three rides into one to create the signature finale experience in Rise of the Resistance.
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• West Nile death shows how one mosquito bite can change everything

  13-12-2019 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  On a wall calendar in her west Fullerton home, Kris Hogerhuis jotted notations in several squares from late September through October, the dates that rocked her family.
  Sept. 28: “Went to ER”
  Oct. 2: “West Nile”
  Oct. 6: “Really sick. So, so sick”
  Oct. 8: “Happy Anniversary palliative care talk”
  Oct. 9: “Immune Gobulen IV”
  Oct. 20: “Bye. I love you!”
  The last note was a farewell to her husband, John Hogerhuis, on the day he d
  
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• Caltrans must be held accountable for misspent funds

  13-12-2019 10:59 via ocregister.com
  
  It was clear from the beginning that voters didn’t trust Sacramento to spend new gas tax revenue for its promised purposes.
  In the push to pass Senate Bill 1 in 2017, Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature agreed to put a “lock box” measure on the ballot to protect the new transportation revenue from budget raids, and they also agreed to create a new position at Caltrans — an independent inspector general with the authority to investigate transportation projects and make su
  
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• OC booking scandal merits further scrutiny

  13-12-2019 10:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes and District Attorney Todd Spitzer are busy pointing fingers at each other over a new scandal involving evidence-booking policies, but it’s increasingly clear that an outside agency needs to take a close look at systemic problems in the county’s law-enforcement system. People’s constitutional rights are at risk.
  Barnes and Spitzer are new to their posts since the county’s “snitch” scandal, whereby the DA and sheriff’s off
  
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• One tax hike measure goes away

  13-12-2019 10:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Proposition 13, California’s iconic property tax limit, was overwhelmingly approved by California voters 41 years ago and for at least 40 of those years, efforts have been mounted to repeal or change it.
  Initially, it was attacked in the courts, but survived. Thereafter, pro-spending interest groups — public employee unions, particularly — floated various proposals in the Legislature and via ballot measure, to loosen its restrictions.
  Proposition 13’s opponents finally se
  
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• Alexander: Kings edge Ducks in latest installment of Freeway Futures Game

  13-12-2019 09:14 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Someday, the Ducks and Kings will be good again, and their games against each other will have playoff implications like the good old days. It could be sooner, but it more likely will be later.
  In the meantime, SoCal’s NHL rivalry is interesting in more subtle ways, as long as the observer understands the greater ambitions for these franchises. Success is measured in little things, in the ways the young players both sides possess stick to their systems, reduce mistakes and t
  
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• Top Workplaces 2019: Tait & Associates leads with a culture of kindness

  13-12-2019 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  As mayor of Anaheim, Tom Tait launched a campaign to make his town “a city of kindness.”
  It just wasn’t a feel-good thing, he said.
  “Kindness actually is serious business,” he wrote in a 2017 article. When a city is kinder, problems decrease, “including rates of crime, drug addiction, elder abuse, graffiti, bullying and school dropouts.”The campaign of kindness won Tait an invitation to visit the Dalai Lama in India, followed by an appearance by the Budd
  
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• Top Workplaces 2019: Smart Business Solutions keeps work fun, flexible and smart

  13-12-2019 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Before the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, Larry Treystman made the unexpected jump from real estate to home health.
  It was supposed to be a side investment.
  But as the economy crashed, Treystman warmed up to the business – not least because it’s where he met his wife, Mariam, a consultant for the firm. Together, they launched what is now Smart Business Solutions, a consulting, brokering and staffing provider to home health and hospice agencies, pharmacies and soon community ho
  
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• Top Workplaces 2019: Sidepath’s culture built by happy, productive team

  13-12-2019 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Jim Andronaco once read the foundation to a happier, more productive workplace boils down to three components — autonomy, mastery and purpose.
  So it’s no surprise they’re the lay of the land at Sidepath. The Laguna Hills-based information technology company, which Andronaco and Patrick Mulvee founded in 2002 and officially launched in 2006, claims the No. 1 Top Workplaces small-company honor in its fifth consecutive year in the program. The distinction is based on feedback from
  
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