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• Home for the holidays in Laguna Woods

  17-12-2019 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Jill Amadio, left, interviews Susmita Mukherjee about her Indian traditions for “Welcome to my Home” holiday edition, airing through December on Village Television. (Courtesy of Suzanne Savlov)
  Tom Nash, left, and John Kelly, both from Australia, and Elisabeth Willback, right, from Sweden, discuss their Christmas traditions with interviewer Jill Amadio. (Courtesy of Suzanne Savlov)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsAnnie McCary, left, talks about Kwanzaa with interviewer Jill Amad
  
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• How California’s ‘woman quota’ is already changing corporate boards

  17-12-2019 22:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By Martha Groves, CalMatters
  For 46 publicly held companies in California with all-male boards, the clock is ticking.
  The corporations, including pharmaceutical, financial and software companies that tend to be on the smaller, younger side, have only until revelers ring in 2020 to name a woman to their boards of directors or face a $100,000 penalty.
  A bill signed into law by former Gov. Jerry Brown in September 2018 required public companies with headquarters in California to name at least one f
  
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• Appraisers: Orange County home-price gains drop to 7-year low

  17-12-2019 22:49 via ocregister.com
  
  More evidence home appreciation is cooling: Orange County price gains are running at a seven-year low, according to one novel yardstick.
  Home values in the county were appreciating at an annual rate of 1.5% in October, according to calculations by the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California. Since 1943, the group based at Cal Poly Pomona has tracked local home-value movements twice a year with volunteer appraisers re-evaluating a set of 308 single-family homes across seven Southern C
  
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• Cameron Richards of Laguna Hills named CIF Spirit of Sport honoree

  17-12-2019 21:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Laguna Hills senior Cameron Richards was named a CIF Spirit of Sport Award winner by the CIF State office on Tuesday.
  The CIF State recognizes on male and one female student-athlete who have, according to a CIF State release, “demonstrated the 16 principles of Pursuing Victory with Honor, are active in school and community service and exhibit leadership qualities.”
  Richards was the team captain of the Laguna Hills football team this past season. He also is involved in Associated Stud
  
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• Whicker: A tale of 3 quarterbacks and one team’s curse

  17-12-2019 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  On Sunday, the New York Giants gave Eli Manning his final game ball, after he quarterbacked them past the Miami Dolphins.
  On Sunday, the Chargers coughed up seven turnovers in a gruesome loss to Minnesota, and Philip Rivers acknowledged his time with the franchise, and maybe the game, was in doubt.
  On Monday, the New Orleans Saints throttled the Indianapolis Colts, and Drew Brees exceeded Rivers’ single-game completion percentage record and set the career NFL mark for touchdown passes.
  The
  
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• Orange County’s top committed football recruits going into Wednesday’s early Signing Day

  17-12-2019 21:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County’s top committed football recruits in the Class of 2020 going into the early signing period that starts Wednesday, Dec. 18:
  Name, School, Position, College
  Ender Aguilar, Servite, OL, Cal
  Jun Ahn, Sunny Hills, RB, Drake
  Nathan Cardona, Yorba Linda, OL, Boise State
  Kobah Fuamatu, Mater Dei, LB, San Diego State
  Ethan Garbers, Corona del Mar, QB, Washington
  Shaun Gold, Mission Viejo, WR, Yale
  Kameron Hawkins, Orange Lutheran, LS, Arizona
  Joey Hobert, San Juan Hills, WR, Washingto
  
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• Orange County’s top committed football recruits for Wednesday’s early Signing Day

  17-12-2019 21:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County’s top committed football recruits from the Class of 2020 going into the early signing period Wednesday, Dec. 18:
  Name, School, Position, College
  Ender Aguilar, Servite, OL, Cal
  Jun Ahn, Sunny Hills, RB, Drake
  Nathan Cardona, Yorba Linda, OL, Boise State
  Kobah Fuamatu, Mater Dei, LB, San Diego State
  Ethan Garbers, Corona del Mar, QB, Washington
  Shaun Gold, Mission Viejo, WR, Yale
  Kameron Hawkins, Orange Lutheran, LS, Arizona
  Joey Hobert, San Juan Hills, WR, Washington State
  Jo
  
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• House passes $1.4 trillion federal spending bill

  17-12-2019 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREW TAYLOR
  WASHINGTON  — The Democratic-controlled House voted Tuesday to pass a $1.4 trillion government-wide spending package, handing President Donald Trump a victory on his U.S.-Mexico border fence while giving Democrats spending increases across a swath of domestic programs.
  The hard-fought legislation also funds a record Pentagon budget and is serving as a must-pass legislative locomotive to tow an unusually large haul of unrelated provisions into law, including an expensi
  
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• UCLA looks to fill linebacker gap with early signing period

  17-12-2019 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  There are eight big-bodied holes in the Bruins’ linebacker group heading into next season.
  While replacing the large impact of its seniors, like defensive captains Josh Woods and Krys Barnes, will take time, having new bodies in the linebacker group could give UCLA the desperate boost it needs on defense after finishing the season ranked No. 115 out of the 130 defensive teams in the FBS.
  Entering the early signing period with 20 commits and one transfer, including 11 defensive players, UCL
  
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• How will USC close out early signing period?

  17-12-2019 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Much has been made of USC’s current standing in the 2020 recruiting rankings, and for good reason. The Trojans’ 10-man class is currently 82nd in 247Sports.com’s team rankings, and 11th in the Pac-12 ahead of only Utah.
  But as the saying goes, it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. And USC has the chance to finish strong heading into the early signing period, which begins Wednesday.
  First of all though, how many spots does USC have remaining in the class? It&r
  
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• Signing Day arrives Wednesday for Orange County football players

  17-12-2019 20:58 via ocregister.com
  
  The recruiting process ends Wednesday for Mater Dei quarterback Bryce Young and many of the other top high school football players in Orange County.
  Wednesday is the first day of the three-day early signing period for football, which allows seniors to officially sign a National Letter of Intent with a college. Once a letter of intent is signed other colleges and universities must cease recruiting the signee.
  Young will sign with Alabama on Wednesday morning. He had been committed to USC for more
  
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• Festive lights brighten Heritage Hill for the holidays

  17-12-2019 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Heritage Hill Historical Park shone bright and merry for its annual holiday celebration last week.
  For three days the historical site hosted candlelight tours of its decorated grounds. Holiday lights glowed from the trees and buildings, from the pathways and landscaping. Costumed carolers wandered the crowds and Santa Claus chatted with visitors old and young.
  There are tours and special events planned at the park in Lake Forest throughout the year, check the website, ocparks.com/historic/herita
  
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• Michael Calahan promoted to football head coach at Aliso Niguel

  17-12-2019 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Michael Calahan was named head coach of the Aliso Niguel football team on Tuesday.
  He replaces Kurt Westling, who is retiring after serving as the team’s head coach for the past 10 seasons.
  Calahan has been an assistant coach at Aliso Niguel for the past nine years. He most recently served as defensive coordinator. Calahan is a 2005 graduate of Aliso Niguel.
  “I love football and I absolutely love this school,” Calahan said in a release from Aliso Niguel. “The opportunity
  
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• Calahan promoted to football head coach at Aliso Niguel

  17-12-2019 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Michael Calahan today was named varsity football head coach at Aliso Niguel.
  He replaces Kurt Westling who is retiring. Westling was the Wolverines head coach for the past 10 seasons.
  Calahan has been a football assistant coach at Aliso Niguel for the past nine years. He most recently has served as defensive coordinator. Calahan is a 2005 graduate of Aliso Niguel
  “I love football and I absolutely love this school,” Calahan said in a release from Aliso Niguel. “The opportunity t
  
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• Third man charged in 1998 Riverside County slaying of woman who worked in San Juan Capistrano

  17-12-2019 19:47 via ocregister.com
  
  A third man was charged with murder on Tuesday for the death of his stepmom in 1998 in a homicide case filed after a judge last year found that the woman’s boyfriend had wrongfully spent 20 years behind bars for the strangulation.
  Googie Rene Harris Jr. was arrested Friday in Palm Desert and scheduled to enter a plea Tuesday afternoon in Riverside County Superior Court, Riverside County District Attorney spokesman John Hall said.
  Prosecutors say DNA evidence ties him the murder.
  Harris Jr.
  
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• Southern California house prices jump 7.5% in November, Realtors report

  17-12-2019 19:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California house prices jumped 7.5% in the 12 months ending in November, the biggest gain in the state, the California Association of Realtors reported Tuesday, Dec. 17.
  Sales gains also led the state, with existing single-family home transactions rising 4.6% last month from the November 2018 tally, the Realtors’ analysis of multiple listing service data showed.
  The gains marked the third straight month of a market rebound in the region after a year-long mortgage-rate nose dive fi
  
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• McConnell rejects Democrats’ push on impeachment trial witnesses

  17-12-2019 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
  WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is rejecting the Democrats’ push for fresh impeachment testimony against President Donald Trump and making a last-ditch plea for them to “turn back from the cliff” of Wednesday’s expected vote to send the case to the Senate for trial.
  McConnell’s remarks Tuesday effectively slapped the door shut on negotiations for a deal proposed by the Democratic leader, Sen. Chuck Sc
  
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• Even if I’m guilty, the lawyer can still seek to prove me innocent, right? Ask the lawyer

  17-12-2019 18:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I had too much to drink, was pulled over, and charged with a DUI. I have paid a pretty penny to a lawyer to represent me, and I may go to trial and seek to defeat the charge. Just to be sure: The lawyer’s job is to try to prove me innocent?
  -R.M., San Pedro
  Ron Sokol
  A: The lawyer has an ethical duty to zealously represent you, act competently and  maintain in confidence information you communicate, subject to certain limitations. One limitation is that the lawyer cannot assist you
  
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• LA’s Democratic presidential debate is on as Loyola Marymount cafeteria works reach labor agreement

  17-12-2019 18:48 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The next Democratic presidential debate will go on as scheduled Thursday after negotiators reached a tentative agreement Tuesday on a three-year contract, ending a labor dispute that had threatened to prevent the event from taking place at Loyola Marymount University.
  The labor dispute between a cafeteria workers union and a food services company at the university involved only about 150 workers but threatened to upend a nationally televised debate after the seven participati
  
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• Trump conservative critics launch PAC to fight reelection

  17-12-2019 18:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEVE PEOPLES
  NEW YORK — A small group of President Donald Trump’s fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president’s own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump’s reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers.”
  The new organization, known as the Lincoln Project, represents a formal step forward for the so-called Never Trump movement, which has been limited largely to social media commentar
  
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• Capo Unified students shine at Merry Monarch show in Dana Point

  17-12-2019 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Members of the Niguel Hills Middle School Chamber Choir perform at the Monarch Beach Club on Sunday, December 15, 2019 as part of an annual fundraiser for the Capistrano Unified School District. (Photo By Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  Members of an Elementary Choir Ensemble from George White and John. S. Malcom Elementary Schools perform holiday classics for proud parents during a Capistrano Unified School District fundraiser, with proceeds benefiting CUSD music programs, on Sunday,
  
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• When will Star Wars droids roam freely around Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge?

  17-12-2019 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  An orange and white maintenance droid named Jake wowed Disneyland visitors in 2017 as he roamed freely around Tomorrowland posing for photos with curious onlookers, speaking droid with Star Wars fans and even pausing for hugs from adoring kids.
  Which begs the obvious question as we head into 2020: When will Jake and other autonomous droids start rolling around Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland?
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• Radio: KFI/640 AM sets a record with Pasta-Thon holiday event

  17-12-2019 18:29 via ocregister.com
  
  KFI (640 AM) hosted a 17-hour Pasta-Thon earlier this month in order to raise funds and food to help feed local children in need. In doing so, the popular talk station was able to raise a record-setting $435,000 and over 109,000 pounds of pasta for Caterina’s Club.
  It was the ninth year for the event; this year KFI personalities Bill Handel, Jennifer Jones Lee, Gary Hoffmann, Shannon Farren, John Kobylt, Ken Chiampou and Tim Conway, Jr. were at the Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove encourag
  
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• Laguna Niguel goes big with holiday parade celebrating city’s 30 years

  17-12-2019 17:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Some of the over 100 entries in the Laguna Niguel Holiday Parade make their way along Crown Valley Parkway during the 22nd annual event on Saturday, December 14, 2019. (Photo By Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  Members of the El Bekal Shriners drive miniature cars as they participate in the annual Laguna Niguel Holiday Parade on Saturday, December 14, 2019. (Photo By Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsA group of neighbors and friends, from nea
  
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• 4 things to do at Southern California casinos (Dec. 20-26)

  17-12-2019 17:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Fantasy Springs Resort Casino
  Watch multi-platinum singer Adam Lambert when his tour makes a stop at the Indio casino. The “Whataya Want From Me” singer got his first taste of the national limelight as a contestant and runner-up on the eighth season of “American Idol.” He’s gone on to put out several albums, including 2009’s “For Your Entertainment” and 2012’s “Trespassing.” In September Lambert released “Velvet: Side A,&rdq
  
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• Angel Stadium property and sale are complicated to assess

  17-12-2019 17:03 via ocregister.com
  
  While some Anaheim city leaders appear convinced the proposed sale of Angel Stadium will benefit everyone involved, some experts say the deal’s complexity and numerous unknowns make it difficult to evaluate right now who wins – and whether anyone loses.
  The council is set to vote Friday, Dec. 20, on the first and perhaps most important component of the deal, the land sale to SRB Management Co. LLC, a new company in which Angels owner Arte Moreno is a partner. Later components would i
  
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• 2019 was a terrific year for movies. Here are 12 films you have to see

  17-12-2019 16:34 via ocregister.com
  
  It was a great year for movies.
  Funny thing to say about 2019?
  Well, yes, the exhibition business is going through one of its cyclical panic attacks, with box office receipts likely to fall several $100 million short of last year’s $11.823 billion record (and short of a few years’ before that). Once-reliable big studio franchises such as “Terminator” and “Charlie’s Angels” bombed bigger than those things usually do this year, giving the impression that o
  
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• Many Californians say they still can’t afford health insurance, but will 2020 reforms provide relief?

  17-12-2019 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By Michael Finch II, USC Center for Health Journalism News Collaborative
  Even with access to health insurance at a historic high in the state, a growing share of uninsured Californians say they struggle to afford coverage, according to new survey results.
  The new data show the share of people in the state who say cost is their main reason for being uninsured inched upward for the third consecutive year in 2018, according to UCLA’s California Health Interview Survey.Nearly four out of
  
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• Historian Phil Brigandi, who died Dec. 12, spent decades constructing Orange County’s story

  17-12-2019 16:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Former Orange County archivist and longtime local historian Phil Brigandi, who chronicled the area in more than a dozen books and countless articles, died Thursday, Dec. 12, at the age of 60.
  Brigandi, a native of Orange, had suffered a heart attack four days earlier, said Chris Jepsen, Brigandi’s longtime friend and president of the Orange County Historical Society.
  For more than four decades, Brigandi wrote about Orange County and its history, going beyond the dramatized, pop culture ver
  
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• Should Disneyland have more soft openings for its new rides?

  17-12-2019 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Now that Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance has opened to rave reviews at the Walt Disney World Resort, I suspect that many Disneyland fans are wondering if the new ride might open in advance of its scheduled Jan. 17 debut in Anaheim.
  It used to be standard practice for theme park attractions to get a “soft opening” before their official debuts. But many high-profile new rides have been going straight to “hard opens” in recent years, including Rise of the Resistance in Flo
  
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• Strong Santa Ana winds could cause damage in Southern California

  17-12-2019 14:38 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Strong and potentially disruptive Santa Ana winds will buffet Southern California Tuesday.
  The strongest winds are expected in the San Gabriel Mountains and the Santa Monica Mountains Recreational area. North-to-northeast winds of between 25 and 40 miles per hour have been blowing in both areas, and gusts of up to 70 mph are expected this morning, forecasters said.
  A high wind warning will be in effect in both mountain regions until 10 p.m., and a less serious wind advisory w
  
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• $1.4T spending package crammed with unrelated provisions

  17-12-2019 14:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREW TAYLOR
  WASHINGTON— House leaders on Monday unveiled a $1.4 trillion government-wide spending package that’s carrying an unusually large load of unrelated provisions catching a ride on the last train out of Congress this year.
  A House vote is slated for Tuesday on the sprawling package, some 2,313 pages long, as lawmakers wrap up reams of unfinished work — and vote on impeaching President Donald Trump.
  The legislation would forestall a government shutdown this weekend
  
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• To combat poverty, remove barriers to economic liberty

  17-12-2019 08:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: This commentary was submitted as part of the SoCal Policy Forum. To read other commentaries on poverty in Southern California, please visit SoCalPolicy.org.
  California’s state government, and many of its local governments, particularly in its largest metropolitan areas, have largely failed to learn the lesson that economic freedom leads to economic prosperity – for all income brackets.
  While many have been able to generate a great deal of wealth in spite of Calif
  
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• Man pleads guilty, gets year in jail for attacking woman on an Irvine trail

  17-12-2019 08:36 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A 28-year-old man pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to a year in jail for attacking a woman on a trail in Irvine, according to court records obtained Monday.
  Tyler Glenn Collier pleaded guilty Friday to a felony count of battery with serious bodily injury with a sentencing enhancement for inflicting great bodily injury on the victim.
  Charges of attempted murder, assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and false imprisonment were dropped in the plea b
  
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• With California in the spotlight, housing should take center stage

  17-12-2019 08:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Thursday night is the last primary debate of 2019 for Democrats vying for the presidency, and to this point in the race, we’ve heard only sparing mentions of housing policy from those who want the country’s top job.
  What better place than the debate stage in Los Angeles – a city at the epicenter of the housing affordability crisis – for a full-throated conversation about the problem and real solutions to bring relief to millions of Americans feeling squeezed by rising hou
  
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• Mira Costa’s Dalia Frias voted Southern California Girls Athlete of the Week

  17-12-2019 07:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California Girls Athlete of the Week
  Athlete: Dalia Frias
  School: Mira Costa
  Sport: Cross Country
  Noteworthy: Frias finished eighth in the championship race at the Foot Locker West Regionals this past Saturday, finishing with a  time of 17 minutes, 10.7 seconds at Mt. San Antonio College. Frias advanced to the Foot Locker Cross Country National Finals on Saturday at Balboa Park in San Diego.
  VOTE: Southern California Girls Athlete of the Week (Dec. 13)
  
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• El Monte’s Davon Booth voted Southern California Girls Athlete of the Week

  17-12-2019 07:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California Boys Athlete of the Week
  Athlete: Davon Booth
  School: El Monte
  Sport: Football
  Noteworthy: Booth became the state rushing leader in the Lions’ 30-18 victory over San Diego Serra in the CIF State Southern California Regional Division 5-AA championship. He rushed for a season-high 315 yards and three touchdowns to give him a state-best 2,722 yards this season. El Monte will play for the state title on Saturday.
  VOTE: Southern California Boys Athlete of the Week (Dec. 13)
  
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• El Monte’s Davon Booth voted Southern California Boys Athlete of the Week

  17-12-2019 07:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California Boys Athlete of the Week
  Athlete: Davon Booth
  School: El Monte
  Sport: Football
  Noteworthy: Booth became the state rushing leader in the Lions’ 30-18 victory over San Diego Serra in the CIF State Southern California Regional Division 5-AA championship. He rushed for a season-high 315 yards and three touchdowns to give him a state-best 2,722 yards this season. El Monte will play for the state title on Saturday.
  VOTE: Southern California Boys Athlete of the Week (Dec. 13)
  
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• Usual suspects in Sacramento exempt $424 million office from usual rules

  17-12-2019 05:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Californians who chide lawmakers for their lackadaisical approach toward addressing the state’s major problems – e.g., pension liabilities, creaking infrastructure, an incompetent Department of Motor Vehicles – might want to reconsider the Legislature’s abilities. A major Sacramento building project proves that legislators can indeed move mountains, at least when they have the motivation to do so.
  We’re referring to a plan to build a $424 million office in
  
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• Army dad surprises 6-year-old boy who asks Santa to bring father home for Christmas

  17-12-2019 05:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Santa carefully unfolded Connor Lee Murphy’s wish list and read it aloud. Topping the six-year-old boy’s litany of requests: Bring Daddy home for Christmas.
  Following Santa’s directions, Connor let loose a fistful of “magic snowflakes.” On cue, his dream came true – as U.S. Army Sgt. James Phillip Murphy rose from the super-sized gift box a few feet away.
  Looking happily stunned, Connor gave his dad’s combat fatigues the once-over. “The Army d
  
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• UC Irvine tops Kent State in Don Haskins Invitational opener

  17-12-2019 05:10 via ocregister.com
  
  EL PASO, Texas — Collin Welp had 18 points and Brad Greene added a career-high 16 as UC Irvine got past Kent State 74-68 in the opener of the Don Haskins Sun Bowl Invitational on Monday.
  Evan Leonard added 15 points and five rebounds for the Anteaters (7-5), and Eyassu Worku had six assists. Welp, who was 6 for 12 from the field, added a team-high seven rebounds and John Edgar Jr. had six.
  UCI was outscored 33-12 from 3-point range, but the Anteaters made up the difference by going 24 for
  
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• Inside CSUF athletics: From programs to players and personalities

  17-12-2019 05:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A little more than a year ago, I received an invite: “Why don’t you do a feature story a week on Cal State Fullerton athletics? You can do stories about all kinds of things, not just profiles.”
  “Why don’t you do something, for example, on a soccer player playing in her last game and what that experience is like.” With that suggestion from the Cal State Fullerton section editor, the wheels started turning.
  I’ve always been fascinated by the inner workings
  
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• Sean McVay tries to figure out why Rams can’t ‘stop the bleeding’ when they fall behind

  17-12-2019 04:44 via ocregister.com
  
  THOUSAND OAKS — The Rams’ blowout loss in Dallas on Sunday left them in a deep hole, in a season when they’ve replaced their climbing gear with digging tools.
  They go into Saturday night’s game against the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara knowing they’ll advance to the playoffs only if they win their last two games and the Minnesota Vikings lose their last two.
  They’re in this almost-impossible position in part because of a shortcoming that showed up again i
  
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• Chargers will see ‘who really loves football’ with two games left

  17-12-2019 03:38 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA — A healthy roster was supposed to change the Chargers’ fortunes. They spent most of the season waiting for key players to return, but now that nearly everyone is back, the results haven’t changed.
  The Chargers haven’t had an inactive player because of injury the past three games. They’re at full strength on the 53-man roster, but they delivered their weakest performance of the season on Sunday in an embarrassing 39-10 loss to the Minnesota Vikings at Dig
  
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• Birth tourism conviction means time served, likely deportation for Chinese woman in Irvine

  17-12-2019 03:36 via ocregister.com
  
  A Chinese woman living in Irvine was sentenced Monday to a 10-month prison term in what is believed to be the first sentence handed to a birth tourism operator helping foreign nationals commit immigration and visa fraud so they can have American babies.
  Dongyuan Li, 41, was released from jail late Monday, Dec. 16, for time already served. She has been imprisoned since her arrest on Jan. 31.
  Federal prosecutors sought a sentence of several years and expressed disappointment that Li was free. They
  
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• Lakers announce JoAnn Buss, mother of team president Jeanie Buss, has died

  17-12-2019 03:29 via ocregister.com
  
  JoAnn Buss, the former wife of Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss and the mother of current Lakers governor Jeanie Buss, has died after a long-term illness, the team announced on social media on Monday.
  Then JoAnn Mueller, she met and married Jerry Buss at the University of Wyoming when he was studying chemistry and she was a nursing student. The couple had four children – John Buss, Jim Buss, Jeanie and Janie Buss – before they got divorced.
  In lieu of sending flowers, the Lakers asked for
  
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• Ilya Kovalchuk leaves Kings, is placed on waivers

  17-12-2019 03:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The Ilya Kovalchuk saga has come to a close, although the Kings will continue to deal with its ramifications through the end of the 2020-21 season.
  The veteran forward left the team and was placed on unconditional waivers on Monday after a mutually disappointing 81-game stint with the last-place club. The Kings made the move “for the purpose of terminating his contract with the club,” they said in a statement.
  The 36-year-old Russian wing had three goals and six assists in 17 games u
  
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• Community mourns La Verne teacher killed during search for missing hiker on Mt. Baldy

  17-12-2019 03:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Hundreds of community members gathered at Damien High School in La Verne Monday, Dec. 16, to mourn the loss of Tim Staples, a teacher at the school who died while searching for a missing Irvine man on Mt. Baldy.
  Those who were at the prayer service, which was closed to the media, said the school’s gymnasium was packed with a standing-room-only crowd of about 300 people including family members, friends, representatives from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and members o
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Monday, Dec. 16

  17-12-2019 03:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats for the Orange County games on Monday, Dec. 16.
  BOYS SOCCER
  NONLEAGUE
  Los Amigos 1, Huntington Beach 1
  Goals: (LA) Lopez. (HB) Hammer.
  GIRLS SOCCER
  NONLEAGUE
  Orange 0, Garey 0
  GIRLS WATER POLO
  NONLEAGUE
  Orange at Buena Park, ppd. (pool malfunction)
   
   
  
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• Motorsports safety pioneer Bill Simpson dies after stroke

  17-12-2019 02:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNA FRYER
  Bill Simpson, a pioneer in motorsports safety credited with creating equipment that saved too many drivers to count from death or serious injury, died Monday from complications of a stroke suffered three days earlier. He was 79.
  The Motorsports Hall of Fame, which inducted Simpson in 2003 for his long career in racing, announced his death.
  Simpson, who was born in Hermosa Beach, suffered the stroke Friday; he also had a stroke earlier this year from which he recovered and returned
  
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