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• Ex-Santa Ana Councilman Bustamante Gets felonies reduced to misdemeanors

  29-01-2020 23:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Former Santa Ana City Councilman Carlos Bustamante, who pleaded guilty four years ago to sexual misconduct involving five women with whom he worked at the county public works department, got three felonies reduced to misdemeanors, his attorney said this week.
  Bustamante also sought to reduce his five-year probation by a year, which would allow him to work out of state. But when a victim and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office objected, Bustamante’s attorney Edwin Brown with
  
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• Kids loved Kobe. Here’s how to talk to them about his death

  29-01-2020 23:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Among the crowds paying homage to Kobe Bryant in the days after his death were scores of children.
  Outside Staples Center this week, you saw them — many of them no more than 10 years old — writing messages onto the LA Live pavement.
  “RIP Kobe.”
  Some sat in quiet reflection, cross-legged on the ground, chin resting on hands, in front of numerous growing vigils. They contemplated the life of a superstar they hadn’t even grown up with.
  And yet, they were processing the
  
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• Year-long grocery negotiations end as Ralphs’ pharmacists ratify agreement

  29-01-2020 23:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Pharmacists at Southern California’s Ralphs stores have unanimously approved a labor contract with the chain, ending a negotiation cycle for the region’s major supermarkets that lasted almost a full year.
  The 200 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers at Ralphs pharmacies voted on the contract over a two-week period. The ballots were counted Monday, with the results announced Wednesday on the website of Local 1167, which represents Inland Empire workers.
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• Ralphs’ pharmacists ratify agreement, ending year-long grocery negotiations

  29-01-2020 23:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Pharmacists at Southern California’s Ralphs stores have unanimously approved a labor contract with the chain, ending a negotiation cycle for the region’s major supermarkets that lasted almost a full year.
  The 200 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers at Ralphs pharmacies voted on the contract over a two-week period. The ballots were counted Monday, with the results announced Wednesday on the website of Local 1167, which represents Inland Empire workers.
  Pharmacists at Von
  
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• How Nick Rakocevic has grown at USC under Andy Enfield

  29-01-2020 23:03 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the hardest phone calls of Nick Rakocevic’s life came on the same day he made one of his most important decisions.
  The high school senior from Chicago had finally made his college choice. Sorting through 19 offers, he looked past the local schools and instead picked USC.
  And through the joy of that choice, Rakocevic had to call Creighton head coach Sean McDermott, someone he’d grown close to during the recruiting process, and break the news that he wasn’t coming to Omaha
  
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• Comedian Joy Koy adds third show at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage

  29-01-2020 22:57 via ocregister.com
  
  If you missed your shot to get tickets to Jo Koy’s shows on Saturday, April 18, and Sunday, April 19, at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa in before they sold out, don’t fret — the comedian has added a third show at the Rancho Mirage resort.
  Koy will also perform at 8 p.m. Friday, April 17, due to the high demand, Agua Caliente announced via a news release Wednesday.
  Tickets for the show, which range from $45-$65, go on sale to the general public at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, and c
  
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• Bill forbidding lies in rehab marketing re-introduced in state Senate

  29-01-2020 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Addiction rehabs and similar health businesses in California shouldn’t be allowed to lie to consumers with impunity, according to state Sen. Pat Bates, R-Laguna Niguel.
  Bates said Wednesday that she has re-introduced a bill to forbid false advertising and misleading marketing in the addiction and mental health treatment industry. Bates saw similar legislation vetoed last year.
  Dubbed “Brandon’s Law” after Brandon Nelson — a who committed suicide two years ago at a S
  
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• Vroman’s wine and beer bar The 1894 prepares for February opening

  29-01-2020 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Wandering around a bookstore may be one of the best ways you can spend your time, but you know what might make it even better? Having some beer, wine and snacks to go with all those great books.
  Well, it only took 125 years, but Vroman’s has added a beer and wine bar to its offerings, which include two floors full of books, stationery, gifts, toys and a coffee bar.
  The beer and wine bar, called The 1894, is named in honor of the year the bookstore opened.
  So, why now?
  Bentley Hale, bar man
  
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• Here’s what $1 buys on Del Taco’s new value menu

  29-01-2020 22:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Del Taco will launch a new value menu on Thursday, Jan. 30.
  All of its 15 items are $1 or less.
  “Folks want a deal, and they also want variety and flavor. How do we put more bold flavor in here, more fun. Build the fun into the menu,” said Anne Albertine, director of research and development.
  Her team put five new products on the value menu, including a couple with new ingredients.
  Del Taco created a creamy habanero sauce for a grilled chicken taco, Albertine said at a preview of the
  
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• Complete coverage of coronavirus in California

  29-01-2020 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
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• After his golf cart is stolen, a Laguna Woods man turns into a successful sleuth

  29-01-2020 21:53 via ocregister.com
  
  When Laguna Woods Village resident Dennis Hannan, 73, noticed his golf cart was missing from his carport, he called his daughter, whose husband is in law enforcement. Within minutes, the New Yorker found it featured in an Orange County Craigslist post.
  “Of course,” Hannan said. “The one time I leave it unlocked, somebody takes it.”
  The same morning, Hannan brought his findings to Jerod Morgan, salesman and cart builder at Cart Mart in Lake Forest, where he had purchased t
  
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• What’s closed for refurbishment at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure

  29-01-2020 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  The post-Christmas winter season always brings a flurry of annual refurbishments to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure as the holiday crowds recede and the Anaheim theme parks experience a brief respite with a bit more elbow room.
  Four Disneyland attractions are currently undergoing refurbishment with two more scheduled to join them. Across the esplanade, four Disney California Adventure attractions are scheduled to undergo refurbishment during the winter season.
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• Huntington Beach school board votes to close a school and oust transfers

  29-01-2020 21:02 via ocregister.com
  
  In what aptly could be described as whiplash, the Huntington Beach City School District board meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 28, ended quite differently from the way it started  – with trustees voting 3-2 to close an elementary school this summer and oust most transfer students.
  Out-of-district transfer students entering fifth and eighth grades next school year will be allowed to finish up their elementary or middle-school careers in HBCSD.
  Losing a yet-to-be-determined school next fall wil
  
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• Purple & Bold: Kobe inspired, encouraged and made ’em think

  29-01-2020 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: This is the Wednesday, Jan. 29 edition of the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.
  So many memories. Such great impact.
  Derek Fisher, pushing bravely forward, as Kobe Bryant would expect, took a few minutes Tuesday to call and talk about about his longtime Laker teammate, touching on what he learned during their time together, lessons thatFisher tries to implement now as head coach of the L.A. Sparks.
  It was a gift, Fish
  
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• CSUF physics major and new McNair Scholar has black hole research featured in documentary

  29-01-2020 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Teresita Ramirez thought 2018 was great.
  The junior physics major’s simulations of black holes crashing into each other and creating gravitational waves appeared in the December 2018 announcement of four new gravitational-wave detections from black hole mergers by two major scientific groups, LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and the European-based Virgo gravitational-wave detector.
  But along came 2019. She went to Rome over the summer to participate in an internat
  
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• Chris Stapleton will bring his All-American Road Show to Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino

  29-01-2020 20:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Award-winning country superstar Chris Stapleton has announced the return of his All-American Road Show and it has a slew of special guests for each stop including Willie Nelson & Family, Jamey Johnson, Sheryl Crow, Yola, Margo Price, Elle King and many more.
  The jaunt comes to Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino on June 6 with Dwight Yoakam and Mike Campbell with the Dirty Knobs.
  Stapleton Fan Club presales begin at 10 a.m. Feb. 4 via stapletonfanclub.com. The general public on-sale st
  
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• Chris Stapleton will bring his All-American Road Show to Glen Helen Amphitheater in Devore

  29-01-2020 20:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Award-winning country superstar Chris Stapleton has announced the return of his All-American Road Show and it has a slew of special guests for each stop including Willie Nelson & Family, Jamey Johnson, Sheryl Crow, Yola, Margo Price, Elle King and many more.
  The jaunt comes to Glen Helen Amphitheater in Devore on June 6 with Dwight Yoakam and Mike Campbell with the Dirty Knobs.
  Stapleton Fan Club presales begin at 10 a.m. Feb. 4 via stapletonfanclub.com. The general public on-sale starts at
  
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• Best thing I ate: This Thai shrimp salad is a game-changer

  29-01-2020 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  When placing my order at Sumran, a Thai restaurant in Westminster, I’m quickly ticking through a half dozen dishes. After each item, the waiter quickly nods without writing anything down, but the instant I mention “naked shrimp,” he raises his hand to stop me from going any farther.  
  “The shrimp in that dish are raw,” he says. 
  I nod my head yes.  
  75 Best Places to EatWhere to eat in Orange County: A map of the 75 best restaurants“And you sure
  
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• How long will powerful winds hit Southern California?

  29-01-2020 19:52 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — A windstorm will generate powerful winds across Southern California Wednesday and Thursday, forecasters said.
  “Damaging winds will blow down large objects such as trees and power lines. Power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult, especially for high-profile vehicles,” warned a National Weather Service statement.
  “People should avoid being outside in forested areas and around trees and branches. If possible, remain in the lower levels of your home d
  
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• Thrills! Chills! Movie posters! Meet the man whose memorabilia shop keeps old Hollywood alive

  29-01-2020 19:50 via ocregister.com
  
  There may not be a whole lot of classic Hollywood left on Hollywood Boulevard.
  Ron Borst, however, continues to pack a trove of movie memories in a small space just a few steps north of the world-famous street, across from the refurbished Egyptian Theatre and not far from such remaining landmarks as Musso & Frank Grill and Larry Edmund’s Bookshop.
  For more than four decades, Borst’s Hollywood Movie Posters store has bought and sold its title items, lobby cards, autographed star p
  
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• My Chemical Romance is back and bringing its 2020 tour to The Forum

  29-01-2020 19:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Following a sold-out reunion show at The Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles back in December, rock band My Chemical Romance has announced its first full tour in nine years.
  The reunion was a much sought-after ticket as it managed to sell out in just minutes; diehard fans — lovingly known as the Killjoys — showed up days before the performance to camp out just to be in the front row to see their favorite band again.
  MCR, which hails from New Jersey, will embark on an 18-date North Americ
  
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• What Trump’s new North American trade deal actually does

  29-01-2020 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By PAUL WISEMAN
  WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump signed a revamped trade agreement with Mexico and Canada into law Wednesday, he kept a campaign pledge to improve upon a deal that he had long condemned.
  His U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement replaces a 26-year-old version that he and other critics said was a job-killing disaster for the United States. The president’s overhaul is designed to update the pact to reflect the rise of e-commerce and other technological changes and to do
  
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• Quebec on ice

  29-01-2020 19:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The idea of an ice hotel might conjure pictures of a series of interconnected igloos, or rooms with austere angles formed from shimmery translucent bricks, an exotic sleepy retreat nestled north in Scandanavian lapland where, after a few shots of Absolut to warm the blood, you hunker down and somehow survive death-inducing temperatures.
  Hotel de Glace isn’t that. First of all, it’s in North America, the continent’s only ice hotel located in Quebec’s Village Vacances
  
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• US new-home sales hit 12-year high despite slow finish

  29-01-2020 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  It was a good year for builders as U.S. sales of newly built homes in 2019 climbed 10.3% to 681,000, the highest total in 12 years.
  The Commerce Department reported the best year for homebuilders since 2007 when 776,000 new homes were sold as the housing bubble was beginning to deflate ahead of the Great Recession. Last year’s gains were driven entirely by new homes purchased in the South and West. Sales of new homes slumped in the Northeast and Midwest in 2019.
  Cheap loans are a key story
  
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• People are jumping from burning Brentwood-area high rise; several are injured

  29-01-2020 18:48 via ocregister.com
  
  A fire broke out about 8:30 a.m. in a 25-story residential building in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, leaving several people injured.
  The flames were reported on the sixth floor of the Barrington Plaza Apartments in the 11700 block of Wilshire Boulevard at 8:37 a.m.
  “Persons … have reportedly jumped from that or nearby floors,” said Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department.
  As many as five people were being treated for unspecified injuries, according
  
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• Fire is out at Brentwood-area high rise; 8 are injured

  29-01-2020 18:48 via ocregister.com
  
  A fire broke out about 8:30 a.m. in a 25-story residential building in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, leaving eight people injured.
  One had CPR administered and was in critical condition at a hospital. Of the other seven, one was a three-month-old; there conditions were not disclosed.
  “No one jumped,” said Deputy Chief Armando Hogan of the Los Angeles Fire Department from the scene. “There are no fatalities.”
  At 9:56 a.m., the fire was out.
  Previously, the Fire Depart
  
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• The Captain’s Son lived in a van before Hollywood gigs and Long Beach digs

  29-01-2020 18:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Paige Byrd remembers those days when he, William Hopkins and Jarred Hayden first arrived in Southern California from the Midwest. They would spend the day trying to find a bar or local venue where his band The Captain’s Son could perform.
  Then at night, after the show, it was back to their 1990 Dodge Ram van to find a Walmart parking lot to park and sleep.
  They were having the time of their lives.
  “We were having a blast dude. We didn’t give a … that we were homeless. We
  
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• How a Long Beach band went from living in a van to playing Hollywood gigs

  29-01-2020 18:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Paige Byrd remembers those days when he, William Hopkins and Jarred Hayden first arrived in Southern California from the Midwest. They would spend the day trying to find a bar or local venue where his band The Captain’s Son could perform.
  Then at night, after the show, it was back to their 1990 Dodge Ram van to find a Walmart parking lot to park and sleep.
  They were having the time of their lives.
  “We were having a blast dude. We didn’t give a … that we were homeless. We
  
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• Johnny Ramone’s widow Linda talks new line of Happy Socks and band’s punk rock legacy

  29-01-2020 18:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Johnny Ramone, like all of the Ramones, shared an instantly recognizable sense of style: Black leather jacket, T-shirt, ripped jeans, sneakers. With that, you had a look as important to punk fashion as the Ramones’ ferocious music was to the punk rock sound.
  But Johnny did have a bit of flash and flair at times, his widow Linda Ramone says.
  “As the years went on, he incorporated different colored T-shirts,” she says from the backyard of the San Fernando Valley home she shared w
  
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• Bubble Watch: 8 trends that might make you nervous

  29-01-2020 18:36 via ocregister.com
  
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• New way to rethink urban housing? Density isn’t bad

  29-01-2020 17:45 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — Poised on a cliff above First Avenue, Tudor City was conceived during the 1920s by the storied developer Fred F. French as a high-rise community for thousands of middle-class residents. A century later, it remains a throwback to the early glamour days of skyscraper living: a dozen brick towers fancifully decorated with half-timbered lobbies, stone crests and other mock-Tudor details.
  I gather from “Housing Density,” a timely and thought-provoking show at the Skyscrap
  
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• Jimmy Buffett reveals ‘Escape to Margaritaville’ genesis before Southern California tour

  29-01-2020 17:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Ask singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett if he put anything in “Escape to Margaritaville” to please Parrotheads, his devoted legion of fans, and the answer is “everything I possibly could.”
  Buffett’s first Broadway musical has guitar-strumming actors in muumuus and Hawaiian shirts, thatched huts, guitars, beach balls flying into the audience, and nearly two dozen Jimmy Buffett hits, including “Come Monday,” “Fins,” “Volcano,” “It
  
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• Pop-up grocery coming to Venice

  29-01-2020 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Most people view grocery shopping as a quick in-and-out experience — grab what you need and head home.
  But what if your local grocery store offered a broad range of products not found in other stores, and also had a living room for lounging and gathering? And what if it hosted after-hours events for the community?
  Welcome to Pop Up Grocer.
  The New York-based company, which opened two pop-up markets in New York City last year, is coming to Venice. The 1,000-square-foot location at 62 Windwa
  
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• Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way home from the Galapagos

  29-01-2020 16:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way back from the Galapagos Islands, where I went for 10 days on a bucket list trip with Cheetah Boy and his girlfriend.
  You may be thinking to yourself, “Gee, Marla’s a poorly paid journalist. Did she win the lottery? If not, how can she afford to go on such a notoriously expensive trip?” And the answer is: I can’t.
  And, no, I didn’t win the lottery, but if you did, feel free to finance me. I’ll send you my Paypa
  
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• Corky Carroll: Saying goodbye to my music guru, Chris Darrow, who died at age 75

  29-01-2020 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  On Jan. 15 the world lost one of its most influential and beloved musicians, the legendary Chris Darrow.
  Chis, who passed away at age 75, was a heavyweight to music insiders, yet not all that well known to the general public unless you are a real student of music history, especially folk and what could be called West Coast Rock. He was a member of the Kaleidoscope, who Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) calls his favorite band ever, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Floggs and the Corvettes, among many oth
  
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• California unions add 99,000 members in 2019, biggest gain in 7 years

  29-01-2020 16:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Organized labor in California had a bounce-back year in 2019, with unions adding 99,000 members — the biggest gain in seven years.
  New federal jobs stats on union activity show California membership rebounding off a 14-year low up to 2.5 million last year. That came after unions dropped 146,000 members in the previous two years. It’s a far different picture than the rest of the nation where unions lost 269,000 members last year to 12.1 million after gaining 335,000 in 2017-18.
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• Adoption scam: OC couple inspires computer crimes bill in Virginia

  29-01-2020 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Internet meanness could get much for difficult in Virginia, thanks to an Orange County couple who pushed for legislation after falling victim to an elaborate adoption hoax.
  Senate Bill 1003, now working its way through the Virginia legislature, would make it a crime to commit malice and “heinous fraud” over the Internet, said one of the bill’s authors, Commonwealth Attorney Chuck Slemp. The bill will be discussed in committee in the next few weeks and, if approved and signed by
  
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• Americans evacuated from coronavirus zone in China en route to Riverside County

  29-01-2020 15:21 via ocregister.com
  
  The chartered jet carrying more than 200 Americans airlifted from Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus outbreak began, is headed for March Air Base Reserve in Riverside County.
  The flight made a brief stop in Anchorage, Alaska, for refueling before departing shortly after 2 a.m. The plane is expected to touch down in Riverside County just before 8 a.m., a flight tracker shows. Originally bound for Ontario International Airport, the flight was redirected late Tuesday.
  Officials in Alaska said all
  
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• Americans evacuated from coronavirus zone in China arrive in Riverside County

  29-01-2020 15:21 via ocregister.com
  
  The chartered jet carrying more than 200 Americans airlifted from Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus outbreak began, has landed at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County.
  The flight made a brief stop in Anchorage, Alaska, for refueling before departing shortly after 2 a.m. The plane touched down at 8:11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, in Riverside County. Originally bound for Ontario International Airport, the flight was redirected late Tuesday.The plane has landed. pic.twitter.com/IJxqDaKSGv
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• Virus cases in China top SARS as evacuations begin

  29-01-2020 14:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEN MORITSUGU
  BEIJING  — Countries began evacuating their citizens Wednesday from the Chinese city hardest-hit by a new virus that has now infected more people in China than were sickened in the country by SARS.
  The number of confirmed cases jumped to 5,974, surpassing the 5,327 in mainland China during the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003.
  The death toll rose to 132, which is still lower than the 348 people who were killed in China by SARS. Scientists say there are still many critical q
  
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• 5,974 coronavirus cases in China top SARS as evacuations begin

  29-01-2020 14:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEN MORITSUGU
  BEIJING  — Countries began evacuating their citizens Wednesday from the Chinese city hardest-hit by a new virus that has now infected more people in China than were sickened in the country by SARS.
  The number of confirmed cases jumped to 5,974, surpassing the 5,327 in mainland China during the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003.
  The death toll rose to 132, which is still lower than the 348 people who were killed in China by SARS. Scientists say there are still many critical q
  
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• GOP lacks votes to block Bolton, other impeachment witnesses

  29-01-2020 14:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER, ZEKE MILLER and LISA MASCARO
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is shifting to questions from senators, a pivotal juncture as Republicans lack the votes to block witnesses and face a potential setback in their hope of ending the trial with a quick acquittal.
  After Trump’s defense team rested Tuesday with a plea to “end now,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell privately told senators he doesn’t yet have the votes to brus
  
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• Cheering for Kobe Bryant was a ticket to Southern California life for many of the region’s Asian Americans

  29-01-2020 09:46 via ocregister.com
  
  With limited English, 10-year-old James Kim broke the ice at lunch with his new classmates talking about Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal, and how they took the Los Angeles Lakers to the championships in 2001.
  Now living in Long Beach, cheering for Bryant was how Anne Milo Shanahan still connected with cousins back home in the Philippines.
  Laker fans gather in front of a mural of Kobe Bryant on the 1300 block of Lebanon Street across from the LA Convention center in Los Angeles Monday, Jan
  
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• Presidential candidates offer freebies for everyone

  29-01-2020 09:10 via ocregister.com
  
  The Iowa Caucus, the real start of the 2020 presidential primaries, is next week. Who’s favored to win? Sadly, as I write this, the smart money says it’s the candidate who’s promised Americans the most “free” stuff.
  Six months ago, my staff and I tallied the candidates’ promises. All wanted to give away trillions — or more accurately, wanted government to tax you and spend your money on the candidates’ schemes.
  At that point, Senator Kamala Harris
  
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• California community college report ignores reality

  29-01-2020 09:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The Legislative Analyst’s Office, which advises state lawmakers on budgetary matters, prides itself on taking an independent, nonpartisan and even nonpolitical approach to important policy issues.
  That well-established tradition continues in a new LAO report on a pilot program that allows a few community college districts to offer four-year degrees in a few obscure subjects.
  However, by divorcing itself from the program’s political aspects in this case, it’s also separating its
  
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• Tuesday’s basketball highlights: El Dorado tops El Modena for first league win; Ocean View holds off Western

  29-01-2020 08:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowA roundup of the Orange County boys basketball highlights on Tuesday:Jake Duthoy’s 26-point performance propelled El Dorado to a 75-61 victory against El Modena on Tuesday in a North Hills League game at El Modena High.
  It was the first league win of the season for El Dorado (15-10, 1-2).
  El Dorado’s 6-foot-8 Oliver Penn and 6-7 John Bakke scored 15 and 14 points, respectively.
  El Dorado will host
  
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• California’s move to centrally plan away rideshare services

  29-01-2020 07:58 via ocregister.com
  
  California is experimenting with abolishing freedom. This week’s progress toward that progressive goal includes plans for the suffocation of the ride-share industry.
  Once upon a time, hailing a ride in California was the stuff of comedy monologues and horror movies about hitchhikers. Then technology and business innovation made it possible for someone who needed a ride to pay someone with a car, and to do it all with an app on their phones.
  This was achieved without the permission of the g
  
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• Trump’s Labor Department provides clarity on joint employment

  29-01-2020 07:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Three years into the Trump administration, we see a clear pattern forming.
  The Obama administration implemented labor rules that make the labor market less flexible, often at the expense of smaller businesses, but in ways that made unions happy. The Trump administration then takes these rules away. The latest example is the dismantling of the Obama Labor Department’s joint employer rule.
  As the new Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia and the Office of Management Director Mick Mulvaney explain
  
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• Schroeder adds spark as Villa Park basketball defeats Yorba Linda

  29-01-2020 07:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowYORBA LINDA — Villa Park’s Riley Schroeder got into early foul trouble and was forced to spend part of the first half on the bench in a nonleague game against Yorba Linda on Tuesday.
  In the second half, he made up for his early absence.
  Schroeder scored 23 of his game-high 27 points in the second half, including 14 in the fourth quarter, to lead the Spartans to a 70-60 victory over the Mustangs at
  
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• Minnesota bike rider dies days after Huntington Beach crash

  29-01-2020 06:56 via ocregister.com
  
  A bicyclist from Minnesota died four days after he was struck by a car and seriously injured while riding in Huntington Beach earlier this month, police said Tuesday, Jan. 28.
  Adam Nickelson, 30, of St. Paul, Minnesota, died at UCI Medical Center Thursday, Jan. 23, Orange County Supervising Deputy Coroner Eric Arellano said. He was hit by a 2016 Honda Civic along Beach Boulevard, near Indianapolis Avenue, at about 11:55 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, Huntington Beach Police Department officials said in a
  
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