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• Flogging Molly’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration will return to Hollywood Palladium

  13-01-2020 23:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Irish punk rock band Flogging Molly announced that it will bring its annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration back to the Hollywood Palladium this year along with Mad Caddies and Street Dogs.
  Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 17 via LiveNation.com.
  On top of the performances inside the venue, KLOS 95.5 is hosting the free parking lot pre-show with a traditional Irish acoustic set from Flogging Molly’s Matt Hensley and Dennis Casey, a DJ set from bassist-vocalist Nathen Maxwell,
  
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• Huntington Beach and state reach tentative settlement of housing lawsuit

  13-01-2020 23:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach and California reached a tentative settlement of the state’s first-ever lawsuit accusing a city of ignoring state affordable housing requirements.
  In a letter sent Friday, Jan. 10, the California Department of Housing and Community Development said a proposed amendment to the city’s housing plans “meets the statutory requirements” of the state law requiring cities and counties to plan for housing at all income levels.
  State housing officials gave the city
  
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• U.S. Center for SafeSport will not pursue sanctions against Charlie Wade

  13-01-2020 23:27 via ocregister.com
  
  The U.S. Center for SafeSport will not pursue sexual misconduct charges against Charlie Wade, head coach of Hawaii’s top-ranked men’s volleyball team, following a 17-month investigation, the Southern California New Group has learned.
  Wade was removed from SafeSport’s database of banned and suspended individuals last week after the center concluded its investigation without recommending sanctions against the coach.
  Although Wade had been suspended by the U.S. Center for SafeSpor
  
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• Clippers are a work in progress as they approach halfway point

  13-01-2020 23:18 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES >> The Clippers reach the halfway point of the regular season Tuesday, and they’ll tell you, they’re a work in progress.
  Their record has been spotty since they finished their six-game December road trip by blowing an early lead in a loss in Chicago.
  Counting that setback, they’re 7-6 in their past 13 games. And with Sunday’s 114-104 defeat in Denver, they’ve slipped to 27-13 for the season.
  Some perspective for the panicked: Last season through 40
  
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• After Boise ruling, California has several options for addressing homelessness

  13-01-2020 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  In response to Boise, Idaho’s, effort to remove homeless people from sidewalks, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the U.S. Constitution forbids punishing someone for a condition over which the person has no control.
  Since human biology compels sleep, if there are no other places to sleep than a public sidewalk, then the city can’t punish a person for sleeping on a public sidewalk.
  As the court put it:  “We hold only that . . . as long as there is no
  
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• Transient accused of killing man on Irvine bike trail found mentally incompetent to stand trial

  13-01-2020 22:53 via ocregister.com
  
  A 41-year-old transient has been found mentally unfit to stand trial for the stabbing death of a man on a popular Irvine bike trail.
  An Orange County Superior Court Judge on Friday ordered that Dennis Thomas Monson Jr. be committed to a state hospital for mental health treatment, court records show.
  The judge’s finding that Monson is not currently mentally competent essentially places his murder case, along with a related case alleging child-porn possession, on hold until it is determined
  
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• Ducks’ lack of consistency proving to be maddening for coach Dallas Eakins

  13-01-2020 22:53 via ocregister.com
  
  ST. LOUIS >> The Ducks returned Monday to the scene of one of their finest victories of the season, a 4-1 takedown of the defending Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues on Nov. 16. Repeat performances since then have been very few and very far between, however.
  Their search for that sort of comprehensive game has been ongoing, and it’s been frustrating because it’s been so elusive. It’s what set off Ducks coach Dallas Eakins after their disjointed effort in a 4-2 loss Sat
  
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• Tesla surges past $500 a share; Musk says cars will soon ‘talk’ to pedestrians

  13-01-2020 22:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Tesla made history on Monday, with a little help from its shareholders, as the electric carmaker’s stock price topped $500 a share for the first time.
  Company shares closed at $524.86 as investors continued to throw more weight behind the company and its prospects for future growth and success. Oppenheimer analyst Colin Rusch added to the enthusiasm Monday as he raised his price target on Tesla’s stock to $612 a share from $385.
  Rusch said there are several factors working in Tesla&r
  
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• Curt Seeden: There’s a reason they call the Fountain Valley Community Foundation’s charity 5K a ‘fun’ run

  13-01-2020 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The Fountain Valley Community Foundation’s annual charity 5K fun run isn’t just about seeing how quickly you can run or walk 3.1 miles. As its name implies, the Feb. 1 run is about both fun and giving back to the community.
  Why is it fun? Well, unless you’re training for the Olympics or the Boston Marathon, there is no pressure to break the sound barrier. You can run, walk, skip, or bring along your dog.
  However, for the record, runners will be able to see their times
  
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• Running back prospect transfers to Mater Dei

  13-01-2020 22:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Running back Raleek Brown, a top prospect from Fresno, has transferred to Mater Dei.
  Mater Dei athletic director Tia Meza today confirmed Brown’s enrollment at the Trinity League school.
  Brown (5-7, 165) is a sophomore who spent the 2019 and ’18 football seasons at Edison of Fresno. As a freshman he rushed for more than 1,700 yards. He has scholarship offers from many colleges including Alabama, Arizona State, Cal and Fresno State.
  CalHiSports.com ranked Brown as one of the top five
  
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• Running back prospect Raleek Brown transfers to Mater Dei

  13-01-2020 22:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowRunning back Raleek Brown, a top prospect from Stockton, has transferred to Mater Dei.
  Mater Dei athletic director Tia Meza on Monday confirmed Brown’s enrollment at the Trinity League school.
  Brown (5-7, 165) is a sophomore who spent the 2019 and ’18 football seasons at Edison of Stockton. As a freshman he rushed for more than 1,700 yards. He rushed for 996 yards and 16 touchdowns as a sophomore
  
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• Orange County boys basketball top 25, Jan. 13

  13-01-2020 22:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowBOYS BASKETBALL
  Orange County Top 25
  (Records through Jan. 12)
  1. Mater Dei (15-3): Quickly asserts itself as team to beat in Trinity League with wins over Orange Lutheran and Servite.
  2. JSerra (16-3): Lions lost to Santa Margarita at home then beat state-ranked St. John Bosco on the road.
  3. Capistrano Valley (17-1): Cougars beat Mission Viejo, San Clemente in South Coast League games.
  4. Fairmont Prep (12-
  
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• Long Beach Opera’s cartoon treatment of Purcell’s ‘King Arthur’ is an ill fit

  13-01-2020 22:18 via ocregister.com
  
  When an opera company makes the decision to radically update a creation from the past and superimpose a stridently pointed contemporary political message, that company is entering risky territory. However, when it works, as Long Beach Opera has consistently shown that it can, the result is a brilliant musical mirror on the past that offers a sharply focused reflection of our present condition.
  But when it goes wrong, as it does in LBO’s cartoon super-hero treatment of Henry Purcell’s
  
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• Families of 4 victims of Conception boat fire off Southern California coast sue vessel’s owners

  13-01-2020 22:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Lawyers representing families of a crew member and three passengers — who were among the 34 who died in a boat fire during a Labor Day dive trip off the Santa Barbara coast — on Monday sued the vessel’s owners for alleged wrongful death.
  The disaster killed 33 passengers and the one crew member who were sleeping below the deck of the Conception when the fire started at around 3:15 a.m. on Sept. 2. Five other people, the vessel’s captain and four crew members, also were ab
  
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• Here are 3 jaw-dropping moments you can expect with Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Volta’

  13-01-2020 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Inspired by BMX daredevils and rooted in theatrical performances and unbelievable acrobatic feats, Cirque du Soleil will bring the show “Volta” to Southern California.
  The three-year-old show, which is the company’s first ever sports-inspired performance, will make its Los Angeles debut at Dodger Stadium Jan. 18 with performances through March 8, before moving to the OC Fair and Event Center in Costa Mesa March 18-April 19.
  “The show is inspired by street sports, BMX, rop
  
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• Oscars deal ‘Joker’ 11 nominations, but lack of women directors and acting diversity is a joke

  13-01-2020 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  It only took them two decades to catch up with the defining film trend of the 21st Century, but Oscar voters finally gave their most nominations love to a comic book movie Monday.
  Admittedly “Joker,” which was listed in a pack-leading 11 categories for the 92nd Academy Awards, is not typical superhero fare. In fact, it’s more a study of a collapsing mind and society than anything 80 years of stories about Batman’s arch-villain would suggest.
  There isn’t a cape in si
  
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• New Boeing CEO inherits crisis created under his predecessor

  13-01-2020 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By David Koenig, The Associated Press
  Changing CEOs was the easy part. Now it’s up to Boeing’s new leader to deal with a crisis caused by two crashes and the grounding of the company’s best-selling plane.
  David Calhoun took over Monday as Boeing’s third CEO in the last five years, following the firing last month of Dennis Muilenburg.
  Calhoun will oversee Boeing’s legal strategy as it deals with dozens of lawsuits by families of the 346 people who died in crashes of
  
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• 11,000-gallon sewage spill closes Long Beach waters to swimmers

  13-01-2020 21:32 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — All ocean areas in Long Beach were off-limits to swimmers and surfers Monday due to a sewage spill that contaminated the water.
  According to Long Beach health officials, the spill occurred Sunday in Hawaiian Gardens, dumping roughly 11,000 gallons of sewage into the San Gabriel River, running to the coast. The spill was caused by a grease blockage, according to the city.
  Long Beach has roughly seven miles of public beach. The ocean water will remain off-limits until testing de
  
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• Orange County girls basketball top 30 rankings, Jan. 13

  13-01-2020 21:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowGIRLS BASKETBALL
  ORANGE COUNTY TOP 30
  (Records through Jan. 12)
  1. Rosary (13-8): Royals are No. 1 for the first time since Karina Figueroa starred at guard during the 2003-04 season.
  2. Mater Dei (18-2): Monarchs are 2-0 since losing to Rosary but face another test against visiting JSerra on Thursday.
  3. Troy (11-7): Warriors play Rosary at the Martin Luther King showcase at Orangewood Academy on Jan. 20
  4.
  
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• South Coast Repertory announces $60,000 playwright grant

  13-01-2020 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A major American playwright will receive a $60,000 commission to develop a new play under the Pinnacle commission, a new program announced today by South Coast Repertory in partnership with New York City off-Broadway theater Playwrights Horizons.
  The chosen playwright, who will be named this spring, will develop a new play at South Coast Repertory, where it will be workshopped and later read at the Pacific Playwright’s Festival. It will then travel to Playwrights Horizons to be further dev
  
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• Pearl Jam announces two shows at the Forum in Inglewood in April

  13-01-2020 20:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Pearl Jam thrilled fans with the announcement that the long-running band’s long hiatus will end this spring with a new album and a tour that includes two shows at the Forum in Inglewood in April in the week between Coachella weekends.
  It’s been a while since Pearl Jam has been this active. Frontman Eddie Vedder has kept busy with solo projects and curating his Ohana Festival at Doheny State Beach. The rest of the band had their own work, too, most prominently a 2016 reunion of the Se
  
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• Astros’ AJ Hinch and GM Jeff Luhnow suspended, then fired for sign-stealing

  13-01-2020 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By RONALD BLUM and KRISTIE RIEKEN
  HOUSTON (AP) — Astros manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow were fired Monday after the pair were suspended by Major League Baseball for the team’s sign-stealing during Houston’s run to the 2017 World Series title and during the 2018 season.
  In the sport’s largest scandal since the Biogenesis drug suspensions in 2013, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the discipline Monday and strongly hinted that current Boston manager Alex C
  
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• Astros’ AJ Hinch and GM Jeff Luhnow banned for season for sign-stealing

  13-01-2020 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By RONALD BLUM and KRISTIE RIEKEN
  NEW YORK (AP) — Houston manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow were suspended for the entire season Monday and the team was fined $5 million for sign-stealing by the team in 2017 and 2018 season.
  Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the discipline and strongly hinted that current Boston manager Alex Cora — the Astros bench coach in 2017 — will face punishment later. Manfred said Cora developed the sign-stealing system used by the Astros
  
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• Purples & Bold: Jared Dudley is there when the Lakers need him

  13-01-2020 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: This is the Monday, Jan. 13 edition of the Purple & Bold newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.Jared Dudley has established himself as an NBA veteran who is game to say just about anything off the court — and to try basically anything on it.
  What’s the worst NBA city to spend an off day? “Indiana. I’ve never done anything in Indiana,” Dudley told the Athletic’s Bill Oram during a recent interview in which t
  
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• California outmigration by moving van hits 13-year high

  13-01-2020 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The gap between who’s left California by major van lines, and who’s arrived, is now at its widest in 13 years.
  Every January three major van lines put out data on their state-to-state moving business. Such interstate moves by van lines are a shrinking migration niche for folks with deep pockets. Corporations have shied from paying the pricey tab for professional relocation services. Not to mention that Americans overall aren’t relocating like they once did.
  Still, the trends ar
  
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• Tuaniga named Gatorade state player of the year

  13-01-2020 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Mater Dei senior Mia Tuaniga is Gatorade girls volleyball California player of the year.
  Tuaniga, a setter, was this past season’s Orange County player of the year. She signed with Long Beach State. Tuaniga had team highs of 41 aces and 721 assists and was fourth among Monarchs in kills with 205 and second in digs with 256.
  Mater Dei’s Natalie Berty, now at Stanford, was last season’s Gatorade state player of the year. Two years ago the Gatorade state player of the year was San
  
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• Mater Dei’s Mia Tuaniga named Gatorade state girls volleyball player of the year

  13-01-2020 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowMater Dei senior Mia Tuaniga has been selected the Gatorade state girls volleyball player of the year.
  Tuaniga, a setter, was the the Register’s Orange County player of the year. She had team highs of 41 aces and 721 assists and was fourth on the team in kills (205) and second in digs (256). She was the Trinity League player of the year after leading the Monarchs to a 31-6 overall record and the Trinity
  
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• Clemson vs. LSU football: live updates and how to watch information

  13-01-2020 20:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence poses during media day for NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, in New Orleans. Clemson is scheduled to play LSU on Monday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert).
  LSU safety Grant Delpit speaks during media day for NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, in New Orleans. Clemson is scheduled to play LSU on Monday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip).SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsClemson
  
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• Anaheim community improvement effort holds second set of meetings on residents’ priorities

  13-01-2020 19:47 via ocregister.com
  
  The nonprofit Anaheim First, a collaboration between the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce and the city’s tourism bureau that is endorsed by Mayor Harry Sidhu, is holding a second series of meetings to get input from residents as it develops recommendations to give city leaders.
  Sidhu pledged last year that the city would join the effort and consider the group’s findings as it looks to invest a projected $250 million in new economic development revenue into community improvements over the
  
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• Queen agrees to let Harry, Meghan move part-time to Canada

  13-01-2020 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By FRANK AUGSTEIN and DANICA KIRKA
  SANDRINGHAM, England — Queen Elizabeth II agreed Monday to grant Prince Harry and and his wife Meghan their wish for a more independent life, allowing them to move part-time to Canada while remaining firmly in the House of Windsor.
  The British monarch said in a statement that the summit of senior royals on Monday was “constructive,” and that it had been “agreed that there will be a period of transition” in which the Duke and Duches
  
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• 5 USC players who broke out on offense in 2019

  13-01-2020 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  USC’s 2019 season was full of ups and downs, and perhaps that’s fitting given the amount of young players the Trojans were forced to rely on last year. The lack of seniors meant USC had to push previously-unproven players into primary roles.
  Several Trojans took these opportunities and turned them into breakout performances that helped provide optimism for the state of the program moving forward. Here’s a look at the five breakout players on offense this season for USC (check b
  
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• Anger in Iran over jet’s downing; gunfire disperses protests

  13-01-2020 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By JON GAMBRELL
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Popular anger swelled Monday in Iran over the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian jetliner and the government’s attempt to conceal its role in the tragedy, as online videos appeared to show security forces firing live ammunition and tear gas to disperse protests in the streets.
  Iranians, already suffering under crippling U.S. sanctions, expressed shock and outrage over the plane crash that killed scores of young people. They also decried
  
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• Hold still — if you can, you might be perfect for cast of Pageant of the Masters

  13-01-2020 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Allyson Doherty, left, measures the head of a potential cast member for the 2020 Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach on Friday, January 10, 2020. More than 250 people showed up at the Festival of the Arts to try for a role as a cast member.(Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer)
  Long-time volunteer Alan Perlmutter joked with Jeff Lam and pretended to measure his earlobe. More than 250 people showed up at the Festival of the Arts in Laguna Beach to try for a role as a cast member of
  
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• Even California Democrats aren’t big on Medicare for All

  13-01-2020 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s 2020, the Iowa caucus is weeks away and California’s March 3 presidential primary is just around the corner. Health care reform continues to be a major topic in the Democratic presidential race, with eight out of 10 likely Democratic primary voters in California saying health care is a top priority, according to a recent University of California-Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll.
  But, perhaps surprisingly, 57 percent of the state’s likely Democratic primary v
  
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• Orange County girls athlete of the week: Nicole Rodriguez, Rosary

  13-01-2020 18:50 via ocregister.com
  
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  The Orange County girls athlete of the week:
  Name: Nicole Rodriguez
  School: Rosary
  Sport: Girls basketball
  Year: Senior
  Noteworthy: The Loyola Marymount-bound guard scored 12 of her game-high 19 points in the fourth quarter to help the Royals defeat top-ranked Mater Dei 65-55, snapping the Monarchs’ 90-game winning streak in the Trinity League. She made three of her four 3-pointers in the final eight m
  
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• Whicker: Ed Orgeron has removed USC football from his rear-view, but not vice versa

  13-01-2020 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  LSU coach Ed Orgeron celebrates on stage after the team’s win over Georgia in an NCAA college football game for the Southeastern Conference championship on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, in Atlanta. (C.B. Schmelter/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)
  LSU coach Ed Orgeron, right, congratulates NCAA college football player, LSU quarterback Joe Burrow after they posed for a photo with the Heisman Trophy, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason Szenes)SoundThe gallery will resume insec
  
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• Democrat Cory Booker ends presidential bid after polling, money struggles

  13-01-2020 17:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALEXANDRA JAFFE
  DES MOINES, Iowa — Democrat Cory Booker dropped out of the presidential race Monday, ending a campaign whose message of unity and love failed to resonate in a political era marked by chaos and anxiety.
  His departure now leaves a field that was once the most diverse in history with just one remaining African American candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.
  Since launching his campaign last February, Booker, a U.S. senator from New Jersey, struggled to raise th
  
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• Irvine company lands $60 million for clinical trials to treat eyelash mites

  13-01-2020 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine-based Tarsus Pharmaceuticals has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round for a late-stage clinical trial of a new drug that treats Demodex blepharitis, an eyelid disease affecting an estimated 9 million Americans.
  Tarsus also will use the money to expand the company, hiring 20 more positions in 2020 as it develops the blepharitis treatment and other eyecare drugs, according to a statement.The financing was led by Vivo Capital and included Frazier Healthcare Partners, Flying L Partn
  
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• Irvine-based Tarsus lands $60 million for clinical trials to treat eyelash mites

  13-01-2020 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine-based Tarsus Pharmaceuticals has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round for a late-stage clinical trial of a new drug that treats Demodex blepharitis, an eyelid disease affecting an estimated 9 million Americans.
  Tarsus also will use the money to expand the company, hiring 20 more positions in 2020 as it develops the blepharitis treatment and other eyecare drugs, according to a statement.The financing was led by Vivo Capital and included Frazier Healthcare Partners, Flying L Partn
  
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• Anaheim performing arts center supporters face new challenge with city’s decision to sell Angel Stadium land

  13-01-2020 17:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim arts boosters say they haven’t given up on building a $700 million performing arts complex where the City National Grove now stands, but the city’s decision to sell the property as a part of the Angel Stadium deal appears to complicate their path forward.
  Art collector and philanthropist Howard Knohl, a retired doctor, has been planning for years to create a haven for the arts in Anaheim. In recent years, he hired an architect to draw up and then revise plans for a nearly 12-
  
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• Lava gushes from volcano near Manila as tens of thousands flee

  13-01-2020 16:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOEAL CALUPITAN and JIM GOMEZ | Associated Press
  TAGAYTAY, Philippines — Red-hot lava spewed from a volcano near the Philippine capital of Manila on Monday as tens of thousands of people fled through heavy ash and frightening tremors, and authorities made plans to evacuate hundreds of thousands more for fear of a bigger eruption.
  Clouds of ash from the Taal volcano reached Manila, 65 kilometers (40 miles) to the north, on Sunday, forcing the shutdown of the country’s main airport,
  
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• Thousands rode Anahiem’s free FRAN system in its first year

  13-01-2020 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  In its first full year offering rides around downtown Anaheim, the city’s network of minibuses has given more than 40,000 free lifts, officials said.
  FRAN, Free Rides Around the Neighborhood, debuted last January to move people around the Center City neighborhood and its popular Packing District and Center Street Promenade. Using the CtrCity Anaheim app, users can hail a free ride – typically within a few minutes – from an expanding number of stops.
  “Anytime you walk thro
  
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• If the US wants to be a force for good, it should leave the Middle East

  13-01-2020 16:27 via ocregister.com
  
  President Trump’s decision earlier this month to assassinate Iran’s top military general on Iraqi soil – over the objection of the Iraqi government – has damaged the U.S.  relationship with its “ally” Iraq and set the region on the brink of war.
  Iran’s measured response – a few missiles fired on an Iraqi base after advance warning was given – is the only reason the U.S. is not mired in another Middle East war.
  Trump said his decision to
  
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• Public-private partnerships bring mental health crisis care to uninsured

  13-01-2020 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Deepa Bharath and Nicole Hayden, USC Center for Health Journalism News Collaborative
  As the demand for mental health care in California continues to grow, several partnerships are forming to address one of the most pressing needs — mental health crisis care for the uninsured.
  Traditionally, uninsured Californians have had few options for mental health emergencies other than to show up in the emergency room, where they have limited or no access to specialized care. But that is beginning
  
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• More entitlements as the economy slows?

  13-01-2020 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom is tiptoeing into a political region that predecessor Jerry Brown purposely skirted — expanding expensive services and benefits that are difficult, and perhaps impossible, to shrink if California’s economy turns sour.
  They are called “entitlements” and Newsom’s own proclivities and pressure from a very liberal Legislature are slowly, but surely, expanding existing ones and adding new ones.
  The $222.2 billion budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year that
  
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• How a portable shower honors a deceased benefactor, uplifts Orange County homeless families

  13-01-2020 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Before she died last February from cancer, Claire Collins decided that any money from the sale of her mobile home would be used to assist people in need. The modest amount – $180,000 – became her way of giving back.
  A couple years earlier, Collins sought help from a neighbor at The Groves mobile home community in Irvine. She like to keep to herself, but, with a broken water heater, she needed help.
  In her 80s and deep in credit card debt, Collins endured four months without hot water
  
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• How a portable shower honors a deceased benefactor and uplifts homeless families

  13-01-2020 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Before she died last February from cancer, Claire Collins decided that any money from the sale of her mobile home would be used to assist people in need. The modest amount – $180,000 – became her way of giving back.
  A couple years earlier, Collins sought help from a neighbor at The Groves mobile home community in Irvine. She like to keep to herself, but, with a broken water heater, she needed help.
  In her 80s and deep in credit card debt, Collins endured four months without hot water
  
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• Lunar New Year 2020: 3 theme parks celebrate with special events, music and food

  13-01-2020 15:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Three of Southern California’s theme parks are commemorating the Lunar New Year with special events and foods.
  Disney California Adventure
  Disneyland Resort will welcome a year of good fortune with 24 days of Lunar New Year celebrations at Disney California Adventure from Jan. 17-Feb. 9, 2020, celebrating the Year of the Rat on the Asian zodiac. Naturally, since Disney is calling it the Year of the Mouse, you can expect special appearances from Mickey Mouse, the rodent who started the Disn
  
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• Disneyland test-and-adjust team fine tunes Rise of the Resistance for first riders in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

  13-01-2020 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  The first time Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge attractions senior leader Garett Heffner stepped foot in Disneyland’s new Rise of the Resistance he found himself in a massive Star Destroyer hangar staring at a 100-foot-wide space window.
  “It was still very much under construction and I just was in awe of the fact that this was just part of the queue,” said Heffner, senior production manager for attractions in the new Star Wars land. “I just thought, ‘What the heck did
  
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• ‘Joker’ tops Oscar nominations with 11, 3 other films get 10

  13-01-2020 14:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAKE COYLE | AP Film Writer
  Todd Phillips’ much-debated supervillain origin story and R-rated box-office smash “Joker” topped all films with 11 Academy Awards nominations, while Martin Scorsese’s elegiac crime epic “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino’s 1960s Los Angeles fairy tale “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and Sam Mendes’ World War I tale “1917” all trailed close behind with 10 nods apiece.
  Those four were am
  
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