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• Online retailers boost physical store presence in greater Los Angeles, Orange County

  30-01-2020 23:55 via ocregister.com
  
  E-commerce giant Amazon is poised to open grocery stores in Woodland Hills and Irvine as the company taps into a “clicks-to-bricks” trend that finds online retailers expanding their reach by connecting with customers in a brick-and-mortar format.
  A company representative confirmed late last year that Amazon will launch its first Amazon Fresh location at 6245 Topanga Canyon Blvd. in Woodland Hills, the former site of a Toys “R” Us store. The Irvine location, at 13672
  
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• Click-to-brick concepts growing in Los Angeles, Orange counties

  30-01-2020 23:55 via ocregister.com
  
  E-commerce giant Amazon is poised to open grocery stores in Woodland Hills and Irvine as the company taps into a “clicks-to-bricks” trend that has online retailers expanding their reach by connecting with customers in a brick-and-mortar format.
  A company representative confirmed late last year that Amazon will launch its first Amazon Fresh location at 6245 Topanga Canyon Blvd. in Woodland Hills, the former site of a Toys “R” Us store. The Irvine location, at 13672 Ja
  
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• LFA 81: Jacob Rosales taking no breaks from his dream

  30-01-2020 23:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Jacob Rosales has had one goal since he was a kid: to fight in the UFC. After that, he was going to be hunting a title, fame and fortune.
  And while a broken leg might have slowed Rosales’ pursuit last year, it didn’t keep him from fighting.
  The La Habra lightweight returns to his lifelong aspiration Friday night, taking on Salaiman Ahmadyar in the LFA 81 co-main event at The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.
  Rosales says he is fully healthy after his third-round
  
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• Fryer: Kobe was ‘The Guy’ for this generation of high school basketball players

  30-01-2020 23:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowFor some of us it was Jerry West.
  For others, it was Magic Johnson. Or Michael Jordan.
  And then there was Kobe Bryant, who became the new star for a new generation.
  “Kobe was their hero,” said Canyon boys basketball coach Nate Harrison. “He was their Michael Jordan, right?”
  For many of today’s high school basketball players in Orange County and throughout the world, Kobe was the
  
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• Hotel room shortage may have led to diversion of coronavirus evacuees from Ontario to Riverside County

  30-01-2020 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Why did the federal government divert a plane full of evacuees leaving the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus in Wuhan, China, away from landing at Ontario International Airport as originally planned?
  A San Bernardino County official suggests it may have been the airport’s inability to provide comfortable accommodations for the 195 American passengers — most of them employees of the U.S. State Department — at temporary facilities it had set and the fact that March Air Reserve
  
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• Prime stock: Amazon’s now worth $1 trillion

  30-01-2020 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Amazon’s stock market value surpassed $1 trillion after the e-commerce reported a better-than-expected holiday season.
  The Seattle-based company reported Thursday, Jan. 30, net income of $3.27 billion, or $6.47 per share, in the three months ending in December. That was up from $3.03 billion, or $6.04 per share the year before. Analysts were expecting earnings of $4.04 per share in the latest quarter, according to research firm FactSet.
  Revenue jumped 21% to $87.44 billion, also beating ex
  
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• Novelist Attica Locke talks race, justice and ‘Heaven, My Home’ ahead of LA, Pasadena events

  30-01-2020 23:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Raised in Houston, Attica Locke spent a good part of her childhood watching East Texas pass by from the backseat of the family car as her family drove up and down Highway 59 visiting family.
  “I’ve said before that it’s almost as if I became a writer on Highway 59 because it was during a lot of these long car rides that I would just sit and daydream and make stuff up,” she says. “I could be just enthralled by thinking about the trailers I was passing, and the cr
  
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• Inland Empire leads nation in major warehouse deals — by a lot

  30-01-2020 23:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Expanding online retailing has driven up the demand for warehouse space across the country, but nowhere as much as in the Inland Empire, according to new data from CBRE.
  More than a fifth of the nation’s largest lease deals in 2019 involved San Bernardino and Riverside county properties, the commercial brokerage reported Monday. Of the 100 biggest deals — based on the buildings’ square footage — Inland Empire logistics operators signed 21 leases for 17.5 million square fe
  
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• IE leads the nation in major warehouse deals — by a lot

  30-01-2020 23:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Expanding online retailing has driven up the demand for warehouse space across the country, but nowhere as much as in the Inland Empire, according to new data from CBRE.
  More than a fifth of the nation’s largest lease deals in 2019 involved San Bernardino and Riverside county properties, the commercial brokerage reported Monday. Of the 100 biggest deals —  based on the buildings’ square footage — Inland Empire logistics operators signed 21 leases for 17.5 million squ
  
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• USA Gymnastics proposes settlement in Nassar suits

  30-01-2020 23:02 via ocregister.com
  
  USA Gymnastics filed a reorganization plan in U.S. Bankruptcy Thursday that would dismiss the `organization’s bankruptcy case, asks sexual abuse survivors to accept a $215 million settlement but would not provide documents detailing the extent the national governing body knew of sexual abuse of young athletes and the lengths USA Gymnastics and other organizations went to conceal that abuse.
  The filing is in response to a motion filed last week on behalf of the survivors of Larry Nassar&rsq
  
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• This Wonder Woman gets fresh start with ‘Diana’ illustrator Victoria Ying

  30-01-2020 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Victoria Ying always wanted to make comics. Back when she was a middle school kid in Glendora, her ambition was to move to Japan and write them herself.
  “That did not quite happen,” says the Pasadena-based artist by phone.
  However, in January she made her graphic novel debut illustrating the middle-grade Wonder Woman adventure, “Diana: Princess of the Amazons” written by Shannon and Dean Hale.
  “People have often asked me, what other DC characters would you want to i
  
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• Guilty pleas of aiding San Bernardino terror attack should be tossed, attorney says

  30-01-2020 22:07 via ocregister.com
  
  A Riverside man’s guilty pleas that he bought AR-style rifles used by two terrorists to kill 14 people and wound 22 in the Dec. 2, 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino should be thrown out, because the government wrongly aligned the gun purchases with plans for two earlier, aborted attacks, his attorney said Thursday.
  Enrique Marquez Jr. was in federal court in Riverside Thursday, Jan. 30, for the hearing on whether U.S. District Judge Jesus G. Bernal should let him withdraw his Februar
  
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• Natalie Chou raising her game as UCLA women’s basketball team enters toughest stretch

  30-01-2020 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  For the next two and a half weeks, the Bruins will be tested more than they have all season.
  Starting this weekend with a road trip to the Arizona schools, No. 8 UCLA begins its hardest stretch of the season, facing five Top-20 ranked teams in six games – three of which will be on the road.
  “It’s going to process some stuff up and kind of have a mirror in front of us,” junior forward Michaela Onyenwere said. “We know it’s going to be a battle every single game
  
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• 10 theater productions to see in Southern California this week, Jan. 31-Feb. 6

  30-01-2020 21:59 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES COUNTY
  ‘Aren’t a Woman? The Story of Sojourner Truth’ 
  Actress-writer Anike Tourse performs and discusses her one-woman show. Minimum age: 10.
  When: 4 p.m. Feb. 6.  
  Where: Platt Branch Library, Victory Blvd., Woodland Hills. 
  Information: 818-340-9386. bit.ly/2uu9uwn
  ‘The Elephant Man’
  The On Impulse Actors will perform this renowned play in the Bembridge House in Long Beach. A reception with refreshments and snacks happens 30 m
  
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• UN agency declares global emergency over new coronavirus from China

  30-01-2020 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN
  GENEVA  — The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has been exported to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of cases spiked more than tenfold in a week.
  The U.N. health agency defines an international emergency as an “extraordinary event” that constitutes a risk to other countries and requires a coordinated international response.
  China first informed WHO
  
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• Disney teases high-flying Spider-Man ‘stuntronic’ robot coming to Avengers Campus

  30-01-2020 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  A high-flying Spider-Man autonomous “stuntronic” robot will swing above rooftops and perform midair acrobatic feats when the new Avengers Campus opens this summer at Disney California Adventure.
  Disney posted a slow-motion video to social media of a Spider-Man stunt robot performing somersaults and backflips against a black background at a “top secret location.”
  “Spider-Man as you’ve never seen him before,” boasted Disney’s video post to Twitter. &
  
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• Report: Helicopter wreckage in crash that killed Kobe Bryant and 8 others is moved to Arizona

  30-01-2020 21:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Wreckage from the Calabasas helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others on Sunday has been transported from the site to a government facility in Phoenix for further analysis, according to a news report.
  Pieces of the helicopter, including the fuselage, tail and rotor, which separated from each other on impact when the aircraft slammed into a hill, were airlifted from the crash site and placed on the back of a flatbed truck, Fox 10 in Phoenix reported.
  The wreckage was then transpor
  
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• LBX will get Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream and Morning Nights restaurant

  30-01-2020 21:40 via ocregister.com
  
  An ice cream shop that serves everything from sundaes to popsicles and a speakeasy-style restaurant are the latest additions coming to the the Long Beach Exchange, the new retail center also known as LBX.
  A spring opening is expected for Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream, an Ohio-born chain that started serving scoops out of a gas station in 1945 and has since grown to include more than 60 locations across the nation. Handel’s will serve out of a walk-up window once it opens.
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• LBX in Long Beach will get ice cream and a speakeasy-style restaurant

  30-01-2020 21:40 via ocregister.com
  
  An ice cream shop that serves everything from sundaes to popsicles and a speakeasy-style restaurant are the latest additions coming to the the Long Beach Exchange, the new retail center also known as LBX.
  A spring opening is expected for Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream, an Ohio-born chain that started serving scoops out of a gas station in 1945 and has since grown to include more than 60 locations across the nation. Handel’s will serve out of a walk-up window once it opens.
  And also comi
  
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• Housing bill to overhaul California zoning dies after 2nd Senate vote

  30-01-2020 21:40 via ocregister.com
  
  After a two-day fight to muster votes, a controversial bill that would have overhauled California zoning law died in the Senate on Thursday.
  Senate Bill 50 fell three votes short of the 21 needed — the same place it was Wednesday during its first Senate floor vote.
  Even so, Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins promised that a measure to ramp up housing production in California — even if not SB 50 — will happen this year.
  “This is not the end of this story,” she said
  
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• Masks signal cultural disconnect as L.A.’s Chinese community braces for coronavirus

  30-01-2020 21:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By Anna Almendrala, Kaiser Health News
  Several staff members of a small community health clinic in L.A.’s historic Chinatown spoke on the phone with patients Tuesday while wearing face masks that muffled their voices.
  The masks are a recent phenomenon at the clinic, located inside the Chinatown Service Center, a nonprofit community assistance organization that serves mainly Chinese immigrants.
  At the Chinatown Service Center medical clinic in downtown Los Angeles, which serves pr
  
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• Drummond: Trimming trees is costing more

  30-01-2020 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  The cost of maintaining more than 32,000 city-owned trees within Yorba Linda’s 20-square-mile area will jump 25% under a contract extension approved by City Council members at a recent meeting.
  The contract with the Anaheim-based West Coast Arborists will total $6 million for a three-year period through June 2022, up from $4.8 million, based on two more extensions allowed under the current contract. The company has been maintaining city trees since 2011.
  West Coast Arborists will work on m
  
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• New FICO scoring model focuses on 24-month look back

  30-01-2020 21:03 via ocregister.com
  
  What’s in your FICO score?
  With mortgages in mind, your past 24 months of credit behavior, called trended data, will be front and center with the new FICO 10 and FICO 10T scoring models being released this summer.
  Paying bills on time and keeping balances in check are likely going to see a gain in score. Consumers with recent delinquency or high utilization are likely going to see a downward shift (in score) and depending on the severity, and recency of the delinquency it could be signific
  
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• Coronavirus evacuee quarantined at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County

  30-01-2020 20:47 via ocregister.com
  
  A Wuhan evacuee who was on the flight that landed Wednesday, Jan. 29, at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County has been quarantined after attempting to leave the base, Riverside County health officials said.
  County Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser issued the order requiring the passenger to stay for the entire incubation period, up to 14 days, or until otherwise cleared, officials said in a news release Thursday, Jan. 30. The order was made because of the unknown risk the person could have
  
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• Want to drink like a Viking? Mead is gaining popularity in Southern California

  30-01-2020 20:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Mead, the honey-based alcoholic beverage consumed by knights and vikings that dates back thousands of years, may seem like the kind of drink that someone would only crack out for a really intense game of Dungeons and Dragons or a “Game of Thrones” watch party, but the drink is finding a modern resurgence with an audience of craft spirit drinkers.
  Meaderies offering complex and flavorful options full of spices and fruit flavor are popping up all over the country. In Southern Californi
  
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• Van drives onto sidewalk in Garden Grove killing woman, injuring man

  30-01-2020 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Garden Grove police are investigating a crash where a van drove onto a sidewalk and plowed into a man and woman, killing her.
  Shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to Westminster Avenue, west of Brookhurst Street, Garden Grove police said Thursday.
  A 45-year-old man was driving a Toyota Sienna when for some reason it veered onto the north sidewalk, said Lt. Carl Whitney. It hit a 79-year-old man and 77-year-old woman and ended up on top of them.“We have a lot of pedestrian tra
  
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• Coto de Caza mansion once listed for $5 million sells in rare short sale

  30-01-2020 20:21 via ocregister.com
  
  The grand foyer has dual staircases. (Photo by Andrew Bramasco)
  The living room. (Photo by Andrew Bramasco)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsThe family room. (Photo by Andrew Bramasco)
  The family room. (Photo by Andrew Bramasco)
  The dining room. (Photo by Andrew Bramasco)
  The kitchen. (Photo by Andrew Bramasco)
  The kitchen. (Photo by Andrew Bramasco)
  Wet bar. (Photo by Andrew Bramasco)
  A view of the office/library. (Photo by Andrew Bramasco)
  The master bedroom. (Photo by Andrew Bramasco)
  A s
  
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• Silversun Pickups celebrate 20th anniversary with LA, Santa Ana shows – and rollerskating

  30-01-2020 20:06 via ocregister.com
  
  As Los Angeles rock band Silversun Pickups gets ready for its first lengthy jaunt in support of its fourth studio album, “Widow’s Weeds,” which dropped back in June, vocalist-guitarist Brian Aubert’s really has only one thing on his mind: Rollerskates.
  Though he, bassist-vocalist Nikki Monninger, drummer Christopher Guanlao and keys player Joe Lester were preparing for the tour, Aubert was hellbent on spending some precious downtime at home rollerskating with his four-and
  
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• U.S. reports 1st case of person-to-person spread of new virus

  30-01-2020 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE
  NEW YORK  — Health officials Thursday reported the first U.S. case of person-to-person spread of the new virus from China.
  The man is married to the Chicago woman who got sick from the virus after she returned from a trip to Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak. There have been cases reported of the infectious virus spreading to others in a household or workplace in China and elsewhere.
  The new case is the sixth reported in the United States. The other five were
  
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• U.S. reports 1st case of person-to-person spread of new coronavirus

  30-01-2020 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE
  NEW YORK  — Health officials Thursday reported the first U.S. case of person-to-person spread of the new virus from China.
  The man is married to the Chicago woman who got sick from the virus after she returned from a trip to Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak. There have been cases reported of the infectious virus spreading to others in a household or workplace in China and elsewhere.
  The new case is the sixth reported in the United States. The other five were
  
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• Red State-Blue State: Can job growth choose the next president?

  30-01-2020 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Our “Red State-Blue State” feature puts economic data into context as we look ahead to the 2020 presidential election.If “It’s the economy, stupid” decides political battles, let’s see how my trusty spreadsheet calculates state-by-state business trends when looking through a presidential election’s prism. Let’s remember, many voters make ballot-box decisions based on how their checkbook is feeling.
  Key factor: Job growth, because if bosses are hiri
  
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• Jeanie Buss says Laker Nation will mourn, cry, heal, love, ‘and win TOGETHER’

  30-01-2020 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Lakers governor Jeanie Buss made her first statement Thursday morning since the death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi Bryant and seven others in Sunday’s helicopter crash. On Instagram, Buss praised Kobe and Gigi for helping her find inspiration after the death of her father and longtime Lakers owner, Jerry Buss. Her mother, JoAnn Buss, died in December. Jeanie Buss also pointed in her post to the fund established to help the families, MambaOnThree.org.
  Here’s the text of Buss&rsqu
  
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• Jeanie Buss: ‘Laker Nation … We will mourn together, cry together but we will also heal together, love together and win TOGETHER’

  30-01-2020 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Lakers governor Jeanie Buss made her first statement Thursday morning since the death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi Bryant and seven others in Sunday’s helicopter crash. On Instagram, Buss praised Kobe and Gigi for helping her find inspiration after the death of her father and longtime Lakers owner, Jerry Buss. Her mother, JoAnn Buss, died in December. Jeanie Buss also pointed in her post to the fund established to help the families, MambaOnThree.org.
  Here’s the text of Buss&rsqu
  
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• Splash House festival in Palm Springs expands to 3 weekends

  30-01-2020 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Splash House, an experience that’s part pool party and part electronic dance music festival, has drawn thousands of music fans to Palm Springs over two weekends each year, but in 2020 the party is going on longer.
  Organizers behind the festival announced that Splash House will add a third weekend at The Palm Springs Renaissance, Riviera and Saguaro hotels for the first time this year from Aug. 14-16.  Weekend one will run from June 5-7 and weekend two will run from Aug. 7-9 at those s
  
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• Gardening: The days and nights of blooming chrysanthemums

  30-01-2020 18:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Did you ever wonder why, at your local supermarket, you can find potted chrysanthemums in bloom throughout the year while in your garden they bloom only from late summer to early winter?
  The facility of chrysanthemums to bloom in any season is due to manipulation of the amount of light they receive in the greenhouses where they are grown. Chrysanthemums are short-day plants, meaning that their natural bloom period is in late summer, fall, and early winter when days are shorter. (Long-day plants
  
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• Titan Voice: Exhibit at the Consulate of Mexico enriches everyone’s perspective

  30-01-2020 18:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By Shirley Villalobos
  Art is never easily understood. There are hundreds of ways a viewer can interpret and react to an artist’s work, but the beauty of art is that to each person that reaction is unique.
  As a Cal State Fullerton graduate student curator for the “Colores de la Vida” exhibition at the Consulate of Mexico, in Santa Ana, I have chosen pieces from the student collection at the CSUF Nicholas & Lee Begovich Gallery that invoke elegant and cultural emotions for th
  
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• Master Gardener: When to prune roses and how to tame a flax bush

  30-01-2020 18:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: When should I prune my rose bushes? They still have leaves but are not flowering now.
  A: Right now is an excellent time to prune your roses. Most roses should be pruned before they come out of dormancy. In warmer climates, this means January or February (even if there are still leaves present).
  First, remove all dead or diseased canes. Remove any suckers that are growing out from the roots or below the graft. Cut at a 45-degree angle just above an outward-facing bud. Remove any canes that are
  
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• What you should know about avocado trees right now

  30-01-2020 18:08 via ocregister.com
  
  1. If you have any kind of citrus tree in your yard, be on guard against Asian Citrus Psyllids – the little bugs with frog-like faces, that transmit a lethal disease to citrus trees. Visit this website for an interesting and informative presentation on these terrible pests: cisr.ucr.edu/pdf/grafton-cardwell,beth-asian_citrus_psyllid_and_the_citrus_disease_huanglongbing.pdf .
  2. Watch your avocado trees to see when they start blooming. They will only set fruit if night temperature
  
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• 5 things you should know about avocado trees right now

  30-01-2020 18:08 via ocregister.com
  
  1. If you have any kind of citrus tree in your yard, be on guard against Asian Citrus Psyllids – the little bugs with frog-like faces, that transmit a lethal disease to citrus trees. Download this PDF file for an interesting and informative presentation on these terrible pests.
  2. Watch your avocado trees to see when they start blooming. They will only set fruit if night temperatures remain above 58 degrees F during flowering time. If night temperatures dip below 58 degrees when the a
  
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• To process 1,500 untested rape kits, Orange County shifts focus to funding

  30-01-2020 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Using federal grant money and possibly some county dollars designated for crime fighting, Orange County officials hope to get about 1,500 sexual assault evidence kits tested and processed within about a year.
  District Attorney Todd Spitzer will ask supervisors on Feb. 11 to approve a $612,671 contract with a third-party forensics firm to test the rape kits, the oldest of which has languished for more than 40 years. He’s working with Supervisor Don Wagner to ensure enough funding is availab
  
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• Orange County plans how to fund clearing a backlog of 1,500 untested rape kits

  30-01-2020 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Using federal grant money and possibly some county dollars designated for crime fighting, Orange County officials hope to get about 1,500 sexual assault evidence kits tested and processed within about a year.
  District Attorney Todd Spitzer will ask supervisors on Feb. 11 to approve a $612,671 contract with a third-party forensics firm to test the rape kits, the oldest of which has languished for more than 40 years. He’s working with Supervisor Don Wagner to ensure enough funding is availab
  
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• Rapper Offset detained after report of man with a gun at the Grove shopping center

  30-01-2020 17:03 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Four people were detained, and two of those men eventually arrested, after police responded to a report of a man with a gun in a parking structure at the Grove shopping center, a Los Angeles Police Department officer said Thursday.
  The entertainment news website TMZ reported the rapper Offset was among those detained.
  The 28-year-old Offset, whose real name is Kiari Kendrell Cephius, is a member of the hip hop and trap music trio — Migos and — rapper Cardi B&rsquo
  
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• What Disney got right with Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland

  30-01-2020 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Walt Disney Imagineering took a big and ambitious risk creating a brand new planet in the Star Wars universe with its own unique backstory for the twin Galaxy’s Edge themed lands at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
  Imagineering doubled down on the risky bet by locking the timeframe for the new 14-acre lands into the current “Star Wars” trilogy — a choice that essentially locked Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Han Solo and many other popular characters out of
  
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• Trump’s defense shifts to not ‘impeachable’ even if true

  30-01-2020 14:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO, ERIC TUCKER and ZEKE MILLER
  WASHINGTON — In a striking shift from President Donald Trump’s claim of “perfect” dealings with Ukraine, his defense asserted at his Senate trial that a trade of U.S. military aid for political favors — even if proven — could not be grounds for his impeachment.
  Trump’s defenders relied on retired professor Alan Dershowitz, a member of their team, who told senators that every politician conflates his own intere
  
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• Dershowitz says his Trump impeachment defense distorted

  30-01-2020 14:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO, ERIC TUCKER and ZEKE MILLER
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz now says his headline-dominating argument against impeaching the president has been distorted.
  Meanwhile, Trump’s Senate trial headed into a final day of questions and answers before a vote on whether or not to call witnesses — a decision that could send the proceedings to weeks of further action or a relatively abrupt acquittal.
  In a day-after tweet, Dershowi
  
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• Who is too big to fail in California?

  30-01-2020 09:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Those to the left of the political centerline often complain — with good reason — about using taxpayer funds to bail out large corporations that are insolvent, or nearly so, due to mismanagement.
  The criticism erupted 41 years ago when the federal government saved Chrysler Motors from extinction and was aired again a decade ago when Chrysler, General Motors and major banks were rescued during a global economic crisis.
  These corporate bailouts gave rise to the phrase “too big to
  
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• Celebrating National School Choice Week

  30-01-2020 08:45 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s National School Choice Week, an annual period marked by national events and discussion of the importance of school choice in the United States.
  The fundamental idea that parents, students and education professionals alike deserve options is one that deserves a rigorous defense at a time when it is increasingly under attack.
  Today, the educational options parents across the country have vary significantly from state to state and even from district to district.
  Here in California, there
  
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• Michael Bloomberg’s labor problem

  30-01-2020 08:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending millions of dollars trying to convince Democratic primary voters that he is their best shot at defeating President Donald Trump in November.
  Part of this ad blitz is meant to change Bloomberg’s image from a law-and-order, business-minded Republican to a left-of-center, true-blue Democrat.
  Move over Madonna! It’s Michael Bloomberg’s time for a reinvention convention!
  However, this transformation may be a tough putt for the
  
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• Wednesday’s basketball highlights: Estancia claims share of first league title since 2005; Tesoro’s Mahlen scores 41 in win

  30-01-2020 07:36 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 Wednesday:
  Estancia beat Santa Ana 51-34 on Wednesday at Estancia High to clinch a share of its first league championship since 2005.
  The Eagles (22-3, 7-0), who can claim the league title outright with a win against Orange on Friday, were led by Brandon Pearson, who had a team-high 21 points and five 3-pointers.
  Jake Covey finished with 16 points a
  
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• Stamkos, Lightning rally past Kings in somber Staples Center

  30-01-2020 07:29 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings’ Ben Hutton #15 looks for an opening as the Lightning’s Kevin Shattenkirk #22 moves in during their game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Wednesday, January 29, 2020.(Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  The Kings’ Alex Iafallo #19 kicks the puck away from the l Ondrej Palat #18 during their game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Wednesday, January 29, 2020.(Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume ins
  
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