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• Orange County scores and player stats for Monday (12-23-19)

  23-12-2019 23:55
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats for the Orange County games on Monday, Dec. 23.
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  NONLEAGUE
  Tustin 49, Segerstrom 39
  GIRLS BASKETBALL
  SAVANNA HOLIDAY CLASSIC
  Kennedy 51, Portola 35
  Ken: Hudspeth 14 pts. Escalante 12 pts.
  Por: Maymoon 10 pts. Pabayoyoung 7 pts. Hno 7 pts.
  Irvine 46, Santiago 45
  Irv: Amino 19 pts. Lomri 11 pts.
  San: Landeros 11 pts. Jiminez 11 pts. Martinez 11 pts.
  Buena Park 55, Newport Harbor
  
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• Tickets on sale for Michelle Obama in conversation at the Honda Center

  23-12-2019 23:53
  
  Listen in on a conversation with former First Lady Michelle Obama in Anaheim.
  Tickets are now on sale for an April 2 visit by Obama to the Honda Center. The conversation’s moderator has yet to be announced.
  Obama, a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, started her career as a lawyer in Chicago before later working in the Chicago mayor’s office and at universities. As first lady from 2009 to 2017, she championed initiatives combating childhood obesity, supporting military fam
  
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• Long Beach approves modular housing purchase for homeless center

  23-12-2019 23:37
  
  A spending plan of just more than $5 million has been approved to create the first phase of the Atlantic Avenue Bridge Community — a year-round homeless shelter and service center in north Long Beach.
  In February this year, the City Council approved purchase of property at 6841-6845 Atlantic Ave. to build the shelter, paying $9.6 million. Preliminary plans call for a 125-bed shelter/transitional housing along with space for supportive services.
  The contract is with Williams Scotsman, Inc.
  
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• Orange County boys basketball top 25, Dec. 23

  23-12-2019 23:27
  
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  Orange County Top 25
  (Records through Dec. 22)
  1. Mater Dei (6-0): Monarchs went 2-2 in Tarkanian Classic, lost to two state top-10 teams.
  2. JSerra (10-2): Lions did not play last week, won championship of Capistrano Valley Christian tournament previous week.
  3. Capistrano Valley (11-2): Cougars rolled to surprisingly one-sided 70-33 win over La Habra at North/South Challenge.
  4. Fairmont Prep (8-2): Huskies did not play last week, play in Rancho Mirage tournament after Christma
  
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• How to navigate the holidays if you have dietary restrictions or food allergies

  23-12-2019 23:21
  
  The holidays are a particularly challenging time for people with dietary restrictions. Whether they are with family, friends or coworkers, festive gatherings around food can be stress-inducing for those who have limitations to what they can eat. We can all play a role of arming ourselves with information about dietary restrictions in order to be supportive and caring.
  Dietary restrictions go beyond typical concerns for healthy eating or even weight loss and affect those where the restriction is
  
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• Orange County girls athlete of the week: Alyssa Norada, Tustin

  23-12-2019 22:31
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County girls athlete of the week:
  Name: Alyssa Norada
  School: Tustin
  Sport: Basketball
  Noteworthy: The junior point guard averaged 17.5 points to help the No. 10 Tillers finish the week 4-0, including three victories in less than 24 hours. She tallied 16 points, five assists and five rebounds in a 50-35 triumph against Villa Park in her final game of the week.
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• Lakers Monday mailbag: Feeling insecure about the Lakers’ guard play

  23-12-2019 22:03
  
  Editor’s note: This is the Monday, Dec. 23 edition of the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.As much as regular success breeds confidence, it also invites insecurity.
  Very few teams in NBA history have begun the season better than the Lakers’ crackling 24-3 start out of the gate. But between some close calls against so-so teams and now a three-game losing streak, the deeply human thing to do is pay attention to the flaws, the c
  
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• How Congress and the Federal Reserve stole Christmas

  23-12-2019 22:00
  
  The bickering over impeachment did not stop the president and Congress from coming together last week to avert a government shutdown by passing a $1.4 trillion spending package.
  The bipartisan agreement has something for everyone — a $22 billion increase to bring total spending on militarism to $738 billion dollars, and a $27 billion increase to bring total spending on domestic programs to $632 billion. It also imposes a national ban on selling tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to
  
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• USC WR Bru McCoy’s return to practice is Christmas present for Trojans

  23-12-2019 21:39
  
  LOS ANGELES >> One of the advantages of bowl season, if you’re not one of the four teams competing for a championship, is extra practices. It’s a chance to iron out the lessons of the season and see players get a little bit more experience before the offseason begins.
  And if not for USC’s date to play Iowa in the Holiday Bowl on Friday, freshman wide receiver Bru McCoy would never have participated in a full practice.
  McCoy missed all of fall camp and most of the season&r
  
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• Fullerton courthouse to remain closed Tuesday over concerns about asbestos

  23-12-2019 21:34
  
  The Orange County Superior Courthouse in Fullerton will continue to be closed on Tuesday, Dec. 24, because of concerns over air quality related to asbestos.
  The North Court buildings were shuttered Friday when workers found potential asbestos material during routine maintenance of the air-conditioning system, said Kostas Kalaitzidis, an Orange County Superior Court spokesman.
  All scheduled cases were moved to the Central Justice Center. Cases will continue to be heard at the Santa Ana court on T
  
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• Pick Up Stix founder gives $500,000 for upgrades to Nixon Library’s East Room replica

  23-12-2019 21:04
  
  Just in time for the new year, the East Room of the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda is getting a face-lift courtesy of a $500,000 gift from Pick Up Stix founder Charlie Zhang and his wife, Ling.
  A new stage, projectors, screens, sound system and lights have been lined up for the presidential library’s event space, which is modeled after the White House’s East Room.
  The room’s hardwood floors will be sanded and polished and the drapes and chandeliers will
  
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• Nixon Library gets $500,000 gift for upgrades to East Room replica

  23-12-2019 21:04
  
  Just in time for the new year, the East Room of the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda is getting a face-lift courtesy of a $500,000 gift from Pick Up Stix founder Charlie Zhang and his wife, Ling.
  A new stage, projectors, screens, sound system and lights have been lined up for the presidential library’s event space, which is modeled after the White House’s East Room.
  The room’s hardwood floors will be sanded and polished and the drapes and chandeliers will
  
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• Festival of Lights shines brightly in Laguna Niguel with music, dancing and latkes

  23-12-2019 20:54
  
  A group of women dance together following the annual Menorah Lighting ceremony at the Laguna Niguel City Hall on Sunday evening, December 22, 2019. (Photo By Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  A group of women dance together following the annual Menorah Lighting ceremony at the Laguna Niguel City Hall on Sunday evening, December 22, 2019. (Photo By Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsRabbi Mendy Paltiel, from Chabad of Laguna Niguel, welcomes gue
  
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• Radio: How a disgraced DJ made his way to Southern California airwaves

  23-12-2019 20:44
  
  It is difficult to say with absolute certainty, but music and radio might have turned out far differently had Alan Freed not been involved.
  Born December 15, 1921 in Pennsylvania, Freed came of age when radio itself was in its infancy. In 1933, his parents moved to Ohio, and after high school he decided to attend college at Ohio State University. It was there that he began to develop an interest in radio.
  Now keep in mind that early radio was essentially what we now consider Old Time Radio &mdas
  
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• Radio: How a disgraced DJ made his way to KDAY

  23-12-2019 20:44
  
  It is difficult to say with absolute certainty, but music and radio might have turned out far differently had Alan Freed not been involved.
  Born December 15, 1921 in Pennsylvania, Freed came of age when radio itself was in its infancy. In 1933, his parents moved to Ohio, and after high school he decided to attend college at Ohio State University. It was there that he began to develop an interest in radio.
  Now keep in mind that early radio was essentially what we now consider Old Time Radio &mdas
  
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• Fullerton will buy 24 acres of West Coyote Hills to keep them open space

  23-12-2019 20:42
  
  The city is using $18 million in government and private grants to make sure no homes are built east of Gilbert Street in Fullerton’s West Coyote Hills.
  City Council members unanimously agreed last week to spend the money to buy 24 acres from Chevron-owned Pacific Coast Homes, saying they want to keep the entire 217-acre area east of Gilbert Street as open space. The council’s decision has long been expected after the state in 2018 set aside $15 million to help the city buy the land.
  
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• Medical device failures brought to light now bolster lawsuits and research

  23-12-2019 20:15
  
  By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News
  Lorraine Bonner felt as though she was the only one. The surgical staples used to seal her colon after surgery had leaked, she has alleged in a lawsuit, spurring additional surgeries and a long, difficult recovery.
  And then, just over a year after the ordeal, she read a Kaiser Health News investigation that described worse cases. KHN revealed that the Food and Drug Administration had allowed stapler maker Covidien to quietly file tens of tho
  
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• Limited-edition beauty sets make holiday giving a breeze

  23-12-2019 20:02
  
  CBD ON OUR LIPS
  Bliss, Nectar, Elixir and Alchemy. Four of the most popular Microdose Lip Gloss shades from Saint Jane are being packaged in a keepsake box for a limited edition holiday set ($75). Each gloss contains 50 milligrams of pure CBD. So a swipe across the lips imparts not only a wash of sheer color but a hit of wellbeing as well.
  For an extra dose of calm amid the holiday chaos, Lord Jones is offering its Old Fashioned CBD Gum Drops in Mango Chili and Sugarplum ($50 for a box of nine).
  
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• Bubble Watch: Will shrinking house gains scare off SoCal house hunters?

  23-12-2019 20:02
  
  “Bubble Watch” digs into trends that may indicate economic and/or housing market troubles ahead.
  Buzz: Southern California home-price appreciation has hit a seven-year low, by the math of one curious yardstick.
  Source: The Real Estate Research Council of Southern California
  The Trend
  Since 1943, the Cal Poly Pomona-based group has tracked local home-value movements twice a year by having volunteer appraisers re-evaluate a set of 308 single-family homes across seven Southern Californi
  
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• A vestige of segregation could go before California voters next year

  23-12-2019 20:02
  
  The repeal of a constitutional amendment discouraging public housing — a vestige of pro-segregation sentiment from the 1950s — could go before California voters next year.
  State lawmakers, backed by a coalition of developers, affordable housing advocates and cities, are considering approval of a ballot measure that would strike Article 34 from the California constitution.
  Advocates say repealing the article, which requires a local ballot measure to develop public housing, would make
  
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• From the last Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour to a hip Newport deli, here’s a recap of notable O.C. restaurants that closed in 2019

  23-12-2019 20:01
  
  Every restaurateur will tell you that they love what they do, but theirs is a risky business. Eateries typically die quickly when a concept doesn’t work. Still, some stalwarts endure for decades then sink swiftly when management shifts, fashions change or rent hikes force owners to throw in the towel.
  This year’s list of notable closures is no exception. Foodies saw the death of the last store in the old school Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour chain as well as the quick demise of To
  
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• Freelance journalists fight for their livelihoods against Assembly Bill 5

  23-12-2019 20:00
  
  On January 1, California Assembly Bill 5 will take effect. The new law changes the way freelancers are treated in the state.
  Most people paying even half attention to the news about AB5 might assume it’s only about rideshare companies, independent truckers, and freelance journalists. In fact, hundreds of professions and industries are threatened by the sudden reclassification from independent contractors to employees — everyone from medical transcriptionists, videographers, voiceover
  
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• Rain advisory issued for Orange County beaches

  23-12-2019 19:55
  
  Even if there’s a break in the rain, don’t take a chance and get in the ocean. You don’t want the gift of sickness for the holiday season.
  The Orange County Health Care Agency on Monday morning, Dec. 23, issued a rain advisory for the coast, alerting to the risk of dirty water that can cause illness.
  Rain flushes debris and contaminants downstream, where much of it ends up in ocean water and along beaches. The danger is especially bad near storm drains and river mouths suc
  
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• Along the Coast: Concordia presents new center, a new hotel aims for Newport Dunes and more construction news

  23-12-2019 19:54
  
  CONCORDIA PRESENTS NEW CENTER
  Concordia University Irvine unwrapped an early Christmas present for itself with the dedication of the university’s new Borland-Manske Center, a new home for Concordia’s music department and for its Christ College School of Theology and Church Vocations. Located on a 70-acre site purchased from the Irvine Company in the mid-1960s, Concordia is a Lutheran four-year liberal arts university with over 4,000 students.
  Borland-Manske Center is named for foundi
  
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• The Chainsmokers will light up Countdown NYE in San Bernardino

  23-12-2019 19:48
  
  Now that sinking album sales have forced the vast majority of bands to make the bulk of their income through touring, it makes sense for musicians to put more effort than ever into their live shows.
  Andrew “Drew” Taggart and Alex Pall — the musicians who make up the Chainsmokers — appear to have gone well above and beyond the call of duty for the first tour in support of the duo’s latest album, “World War Joy.” The duo will perform at Insomniac’s D
  
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• Orange County house hunters help SoCal median sales price hit record high

  23-12-2019 19:46
  
  Orange County homebuying rose and prices increased as Southern California’s median hit an all-time high in November.
  Home sales in the county totaled 2,800 in November — up 5.1% in a year, CoreLogic/DQ News reported. Orange County’s latest sales count is 10% off the November average of 3,115 since 1988.
  The countywide median selling price was $735,500 — up 2.5% over 12 months. The latest median is 0.6% off the county’s record high of $740,000 set in September 2018.
  
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• Lake Forest Civic Center is “a dream come true” for some residents

  23-12-2019 19:39
  
  Christmas came a week early for about 200 senior residents visiting the new Lake Forest Civic Center for the first time on Thursday, Dec. 19.
  As they played bingo, exchanged holiday gifts and ate a holiday lunch, the residents marveled at the size and design of the campus’ new senior center.
  “It’s the most gorgeous room for seniors. I’m happy,” Ricardo Teano, 78, said of the center’s banquet room that can fit more than 250 people.
  With a giant screen Christmas
  
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• The long road to college from California’s small towns

  23-12-2019 19:37
  
  Counselor Jill McWilliams encourages students to consider four-year colleges. Photo courtesy EdSource
  Only 20 percent of Shasta College’s students go on to secure bachelor’s degrees. Photo courtesy EdSourceSoundThe gallery will resume insecondsFactory closures killed off jobs and drove up poverty in Northern California. Photo courtesy EdSource.Bob Price, a retired firefighter, teaches at Shasta union High’s firefighting academy. Photo courtesy EdSource
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• Rancho Mission Viejo unveils Rienda, 2,700 new homes coming to third ‘village’

  23-12-2019 19:37
  
  The company that gave birth to Orange County communities like Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita and Ladera Ranch is unveiling its latest project for its one-time 19th-century cattle ranch, this time with plans to deliver smaller homes that are affordable to more buyers.
  Dubbed Rienda, the new “village” will consist of about 2,700 new homes carved out of the hills 4 miles east of San Juan Capistrano along Ortega Highway.
  The project will take about six to eight years to build, wit
  
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• Temple is hosting a menorah lighting nightly in the Orange Plaza

  23-12-2019 19:18
  
  The congregation of Temple Beth Sholom is sharing its celebration of Hanukkah with the community this week by holding a nightly Chanukiah lighting, commonly called a menorah, in the Orange Plaza.
  Various groups with in the temple are sponsoring the nightly events. Sunday night’s, the first evening, was hosted by the Preschool and Religious School.
  The community lighting will be held at 6 p.m. through Dec. 29, the end of the Festival of Lights.
  Rabbi Heidi Cohen leads her congregation in so
  
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• Community gathers for annual Festival of Lights celebration in Ladera Ranch

  23-12-2019 19:17
  
  The 17th annual Ladera Ranch Festival of Lights celebration was held at the Town Green on Sunday, Dec. 22, drawing a crowd of residents.
  The event is held in partnership with the Chabad Jewish Center of Mission Viejo and featured the traditional lighting of the menorah along with activities for families such as face painting and crafts to make.
  Foiled wrapped chocolate coins called gelt and other traditional treats were also shared.
  Jason Henderson, 5, of Ladera Ranch holds his candle during the
  
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• Baba Ram Dass, spiritual guru and LSD pioneer, dies at 88

  23-12-2019 19:15
  
  MAUI, Hawaii — Baba Ram Dass, the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and traveled to India to find enlightenment, returning to share it with Americans, has died. He was 88.
  Dass’ foundation, Love Serve Remember, announced late Sunday that the author and spiritual leader died peacefully at his home earlier in the day. No cause of death was given.
  He had suffered a severe stroke in 1997 that left him paralyzed on the right side and, for a time, unable to sp
  
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• Boeing CEO resigns amid controversy after two deadly Max 737 crashes

  23-12-2019 19:08
  
  By CATHY BUSSEWITZ
  Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg resigned Monday over the deadly Max 737 debacle that has plunged the aircraft maker into crisis and damaged its reputation as one of the stalwarts of American industry.
  The company’s board said a change in leadership was needed to restore confidence in Boeing as it works to repair relationships with regulators and others in the wake of two Max 737 crashes that killed 346 people in all.
  The Max was grounded worldwide after the two disasters &m
  
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• Curt Seeden: Capt. Matt Sheppard named Fountain Valley police chief, replacing retiring Kevin Childe

  23-12-2019 19:05
  
  Fountain Valley will have a new police chief effective Saturday, Dec. 28, but he’s certainly not new to the community.
  Matt Sheppard, a senior captain who has been with the Fountain Valley Police Department for almost 20 years, will replace Chief Kevin Childe, who announced earlier this month that he will retire.
  “Thanks to Chief Childe and our FVPD team, our Police Department is in a really good place, morale is good, we have a lot of energy in their building, and they are doing goo
  
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• A California housing crisis mystery: Rents are way up this decade, but eviction filings are way down

  23-12-2019 18:45
  
  By MATT LEVIN, CalMatters
  Shirley Gibson isn’t quite sure how to feel about these numbers.
  As directing attorney of the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County — which offers legal services to low-income tenants caught between the preposterously priced southern suburbs of San Francisco and the preposterously priced suburbs of Silicon Valley — she’s seen firsthand how California’s housing affordability crisis has overwhelmed her clientele.
  Rents in San Mateo County hav
  
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• Most Influential 2019: Scott Trowbridge, who led the creation of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, turns movie blockbusters into theme park fantasies

  23-12-2019 18:33
  
  Walt Disney Imagineering creative executive Scott Trowbridge was walking through Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge when he came across an 8-year-old boy who had just met a 7-foot-tall hairy fuzzball Wookiee.
  “So wait, Chewbacca is real?” Trowbridge overhead the boy ask his mother. “The Jedi are real? Star Wars is real?”
  The child’s sense of imagination and possibility had a visceral impact on the 53-year-old Disney executive who led Imagineering’s effort to desig
  
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• Laguna Woods council elects Noel Hatch mayor, Shari Horne mayor pro tem

  23-12-2019 18:22
  
  Beginning his second time at the helm, Noel Hatch took over gavel duties during a Laguna Woods City Council meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 18, as the five-member council elected him as the city’s mayor for 2020.
  By acclamation, the council named Councilwoman Shari Horne mayor pro tem.
  The mayor and mayor pro tem are elected by a majority vote and serve for one year.
  In his acceptance speech, Hatch explored what it means to be a destination city, citing articles that listed qualifiers such as c
  
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• Update: Remains found under Santa Ana house determined to be from animal, not a human

  23-12-2019 17:59
  
  Police and coroner officials were out at a four-plex in Santa Ana on Monday morning after workers found bones in the crawl space.
  While coroner officials initially thought they were human bones, it was later determined they belonged to animal.
  Authorities were called about 10 a.m. Sunday about the discovery at the home, at South Broadway and Bishop Street, Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said.
  “(The owners) are selling the four-plex and were doing work on the building itself &hellip
  
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• Santa Ana police investigate human remains found under house

  23-12-2019 17:59
  
  Police and coroner officials were out at a four-plex in Santa Ana on Monday morning after workers found bones in the crawl space.
  Authorities were called about 10 a.m. Sunday about the discovery at the home, at South Broadway and Bishop Street, Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said.
  “(The owners) are selling the four-plex and were doing work on the building itself … and the workers found them,” Bertagna said.
  The bones were under the home in the crawl space.
  “They&
  
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• Most Influential: Meet Orange County’s 100 top influencers for 2019

  23-12-2019 17:50
  
  Damien Arrula, Placentia’s city administrator, couldn’t get the Orange County Fire Authority to budge on rising service costs, so he took on a big challenge: starting a new city fire department. He bought equipment and is looking to hire firefighters and a chief so the department can begin operating in July 2020. (File photo by Bill Alkofer, Orange. County Register/SCNG)
  Orange County Democratic Party leader Frank Barbaro died April 15 but his influence continues as the local party g
  
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• Status Update: State launches websites for all those AB 5 questions

  23-12-2019 17:30
  
  The California Labor and Workforce Development Agency has launched a website designed to give businesses and workers detailed information on Assembly Bill 5, a new state law that closely monitors employers that hire independent contractors.The law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, is designed to protect workers who should be treated as an employee but are classified as a contractor, or a “gig worker,” by the employer.
  Labor.ca.gov/EmploymentStatus is set up as a one-stop-shop to provid
  
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• The 12 podcasts of 2019 you need to listen to

  23-12-2019 17:17
  
  My favorite podcasts of 2019 were those that seemed at first about one thing — Dolly Parton, the reality TV show “Cops,” the mysterious death of New York City punk rocker nearly four decades ago — and carried you away on tangents you never saw coming.
  Which, mind you, is not to say I lost all of my ardor for the tried-and-true-crime podcasts, such as “In The Dark,” my favorite of 2018, which just this week resulted in the release on bail of Curtis Flowers, a M
  
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• 20 most memorable Southern California concerts of 2019

  23-12-2019 16:33
  
  Though 2109 was filled with festivals, intimate one-off performances and major tours coming through Southern California, it was also a year with many farewell jaunts.
  We said goodbye to Elton John as he came through the area with several evenings of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, Peter Frampton made a couple of local stops on his Peter Frampton Finale: The Farewell Tour and the almighty Slayer went out in a blaze of glory with two final shows at The Forum. Had metal icon Ozzy Osbourne not
  
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• McConnell not ruling out witnesses in impeachment trial

  23-12-2019 16:16
  
  By ZEKE MILLER
  PALM BEACH, Fla. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that he was not ruling out calling witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial — but indicated he was in no hurry to seek new testimony either — as lawmakers remain at an impasse over the form of the trial by the GOP-controlled Senate.
  The House voted Wednesday to impeach Trump, who became only the third president in U.S. history to be formally charged with “high crimes
  
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• The bullet train and other California follies

  23-12-2019 16:00
  
  As oft-noted in this space, those in California’s state government — governors, legislators and agency directors — have an unfortunate habit of starting programs and projects that are never fully implemented.
  These governmental orphans fall roughly into two categories, those that have some valid rationale and those that don’t.
  For instance, applying technology to public services makes perfect conceptual sense, but we’ve lost count on how many “information tech
  
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• Most Influential: If animals could vote, Judie Mancuso would be president

  23-12-2019 16:00
  
  It’s been 16 years since Judie Mancuso walked away from a lucrative tech job so she could dedicate her life to the politics of saving animals.
  Since that switch, the Laguna Beach resident has spearheaded 36 bills aimed at making life better for non-humans, including 17 bills that have been signed into state law. Three of those new laws will take effect Jan. 1, following a record-setting run of legislation that led some in Sacramento to dub 2019 the “Year of the Animals.”
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• The 10 weirdest things that happened at Disneyland in 2019

  23-12-2019 15:38
  
  When you take one major destination devoted to fantasy and add in millions of guest visits each year,  weird things happen.
  Here’s our list of 10 weird ones, in chronological order. (We wish we could include Santa falling off his sleigh during the Christmas parade, but that happened in December 2018.)
  Feb. 1: Space Mountain escape
  Space Mountain was shut down for investigation after a guest deliberately climbed out of his seat during the ride. It reopened in Feb. 2019 (Photo by Jeff G
  
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• Rains flood freeways in Torrance, Long Beach and Burbank areas

  23-12-2019 15:11
  
  As overnight rain continued into the early morning hours Monday, the onslaught of water flooded freeways in the Torrance and Long Beach areas, according to the California Highway Patrol.
  The California Highway Patrol issued a SigAlert shutting down all southbound lanes of the 110 Freeway in the Torrance/Carson area at 4:16 a.m. due to flooding. Traffic was being diverted at Carson Street. Officials canceled the SigAlert by 5:55 a.m., and all lanes were open, according to City News Service.
  The C
  
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• Rich Archbold column: Pathways needs your help young women get on path to success

  23-12-2019 15:00
  
   
  For some young women, life is a nightmare of drugs, alcohol and abuse. It can be a downward spiral so painful some think life isn’t worth living.
  One of these women told me recently, “I hit a point where I knew that I was going to die or end up in prison. I remember thinking, ‘God, just please let it be over.” She contemplated suicide.
  But, fortunately for her, there was help available with Pathways to Independence, a nonprofit transforming the lives of women in tr
  
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• Saudi Araboa sentences 5 to death for Jamal Khashoggi’s killing

  23-12-2019 14:10
  
  By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI and AYA BATRAWY
  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death on Monday for the killing of Washington Post columnist and royal family critic Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year by a team of Saudi agents.
  The killing of Khashoggi stunned the international community and also many Saudi citizens, who were deeply shocked that a Saudi national could be killed by 15 government agents inside one of the kingdom&r
  
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