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• Coronavirus: Red Cross seeking donors after hundreds of blood drives shut down

  15-03-2020 23:42
  
  A Red Cross official Sunday urged healthy prospective blood donors to check the organization’s web site or call its toll-free number to find a donation center or a still-scheduled blood drive after hundreds were cancelled across the nation because of school-district shutdowns spurred by the novel coronavirus contagion.
  Blood drives at high schools are especially productive, with an average of 60 to 100 donors from each event, said Red Cross senior accountant Diana C. Boyd in a telephone in
  
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• St. Kilian packs up Friday night fish fry to go

  15-03-2020 23:31
  
  Over 50 volunteers help prepare dishes for parishioners waiting in the parking lot. Every Lent St. Kilian Catholic Church has a Fish Fry every Friday as a family fundraiser for the church. This year with the Coviod-19 virus, theyturned their remaining Lenten fish fry’s into a drive through Friday, March 13, 2020 in Mission Viejo.
  (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer)
  Volunteer Andrew Docheff gets some help from Gina Faccini as he gathers food for the parishioners in the p
  
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• USC student in Orange County tests positive for coronavirus, university says

  15-03-2020 23:27
  
  A University of Southern California student in Orange County has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, school officials said Sunday.
  The student was traveling abroad and returned home before ever going back to campus, said Sarah Van Orman, USC’s chief health officer, in an email to students and staff.
  “The patient has not been on or near the USC campuses,” she wrote. “The individual is in good condition and is currently in self-isolation at home under guidance of pub
  
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• Coronavirus: Gov. Newsom wants all bars to close; Californians 65 or older should isolate in homes

  15-03-2020 22:23
  
  All bars in California should close, and every person older than 65 should isolate themselves in their homes amidst a global pandemic of the novel coronavirus, Governor Gavin Newsom said during a news conference on Sunday, March 15.
  “We are doing this with our eyes wide open regarding the magnitude of what that means,” Newsom said.
  Six Californians have died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, Newsom said. The number of those confirmed to have been infected in the state ros
  
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• Coronavirus: Gov. Newsom orders bars to close; Californians 65 or older should isolate in homes

  15-03-2020 22:23
  
  LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday ordered all bars in California to close temporarily due to the coronavirus, directed restaurants to reduce their capacity by half, and said all state residents older than 65 are required to self-quarantine in their homes.
  When pressed about whether he was prepared to enforce the order, Newsom said he didn’t think it would come to that, and expressed confidence that the public, businesses and local governments would follow the directive.
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• Coronavirus: Gov. Newsom orders all bars closed; Californians over 65 should self-isolate at home

  15-03-2020 22:23
  
  LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom Sunday ordered all bars in California to close temporarily because of the coronavirus, directed restaurants to reduce their capacity by roughly half, and said all state residents older than 65 are required to self-quarantine in their homes.
  Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says all bars in the city would be closing.
  “Everything we do right now will determine the outcome of this crisis, and we can save lives if we stay calm, care for one another, and tak
  
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• Fed slashes rates to near zero, eases bank lending rules

  15-03-2020 22:22
  
  By Christopher Rugaber, The Associated Press
  The Federal Reserve took emergency action Sunday and slashed its benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point to nearly zero and announced it would purchase more Treasury securities to encourage lending to try to offset the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
  The central bank said the effects of the outbreak will weigh on economic activity in the near term and pose risks to the economic outlook.
  The central bank said it will keep rates at nearly
  
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• First case of coronavirus reported in San Bernardino County

  15-03-2020 21:25
  
  San Bernardino County on Sunday, March 15,  reported its first case of novel coronavirus.
  The patient is a 53-year-old woman who had returned from the United Kingdom sometime last week and presented herself to the Kaiser Fontana hospital emergency department on Thursday with symptoms “consistent with COVID-19,” a statement from the county said.
  The county was told Sunday that results of a test for the virus were positive.
  “The County Department of Public Health is working
  
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• Money can’t buy love, or elections

  15-03-2020 20:00
  
  Of the many conclusions that can be drawn from the March primary election in California, perhaps the most notable is that money doesn’t always translate into political success.
  Let’s start with the “bad” Proposition 13 — the $15 billion statewide school bond measure which, at this writing, is way behind in the polls. The Associated Press has already called the election for the opponents.
  The proponents of the bond had a lot of things going for them including the voc
  
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• On what would have been Selection Sunday, there is only March Sadness

  15-03-2020 19:40
  
  For all those who dreamed the impossible — making it a whole month without getting a single game wrong in the bracket — this is your year.
  Everything else about the NCAA Tournament that won’t happen this season — from Selection Sunday, to the jaw-dropping bracket busters and buzzer beaters, to the Sweet 16 to the Final Four. Call it March Sadness.
  Before fears about the coronavirus scrubbed sports for the foreseeable future, Sunday was supposed to be the Big Rev
  
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• Biden, Sanders to debate against backdrop of global pandemic

  15-03-2020 19:37
  
  By JULIE PACE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — When the two remaining Democratic presidential candidates return to the debate stage Sunday night, they will find that their party, the political stakes and the world look much different from when they last met less than three weeks ago.
  The fast-moving coronavirus was something of an afterthought in that debate. Now the escalating crisis is likely to dominate it. Rising infections in the United States and around the world have prompted a dramatic slowdown o
  
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• Top infectious disease expert open to a 14-day ‘national shutdown’ to slow coronavirus spread

  15-03-2020 19:35
  
  By HOPE YEN and AAMER MADHANI
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s top infectious disease expert said Sunday he would like to see aggressive measures such as a 14-day national shutdown that would require Americans to hunker down even more to help slow spread of the coronavirus.
  Still, Dr. Anthony Fauc i said travel restrictions within the United States, such as to and from hard-hit Washington state and California, probably will not be needed anytime soon.
  Fauci, the public face of the
  
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• Fed may take boldest steps in a decade to ease coronavirus impact

  15-03-2020 19:33
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is all but sure to take its most drastic steps Wednesday since the depths of the 2008 financial crisis to try to counter the coronavirus’ growing damage to the U.S. economy and the financial markets.
  With the virus’ spread causing a widespread shutdown of economic activity in the United States, the Fed faces a daunting task. Its tools — intended to ease borrowing rates, facilitate lending and boost confidence &m
  
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• Coronavirus pandemic shutters more Southern California casinos temporarily

  15-03-2020 19:17
  
  Harrah’s Resort Southern California is the latest casino on tribal land in Southern California that has announced its intentions so close amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
  The resort announced that it would close for two weeks, beginning at 6 a.m. Monday, March 16, until March 30, “while the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians evaluates the situation,” a Sunday morning news release read.
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• Mountain High, Mount Baldy still spinning lifts

  15-03-2020 19:11
  
  Two ski resorts — both advertising more than a foot of new powder– remained open to skiers and boarders on Sunday, March 15, while other resorts have suspended operations due to coronavirus.
  Mountain High in the Angeles National Forest is continuing operations, said John McColly, spokesman for the resort.
  “Conditions are changing day by day,” he said, adding guests should check the snow report before heading up.
  Presently, the resort reports light snowfall down to 6,000 f
  
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• 3 ski resorts remain open on Sunday

  15-03-2020 19:11
  
  Three local ski resorts — each advertising more than a foot of new powder– remained open to skiers and boarders on Sunday, March 15, while other resorts have suspended operations because of the coronavirus.
  Mountain High in the Angeles National Forest is continuing operations, said John McColly, spokesman for the resort.
  “Conditions are changing day by day,” he said, adding guests should check the snow report before heading up.
  Presently, the resort reports light snowfall
  
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• UCLA baseball’s season cut short by Pac-12 and College World Series cancellation

  15-03-2020 18:54
  
  The College World Series was three months away.
  UCLA’s baseball team had just finished its nonconference schedule and was preparing to start Pac-12 play on Friday. The Bruins were scheduled to host Oregon in a three-game homestand.
  But all that changed Thursday afternoon.
  Due to concerns about the spread of the novel coronavirus, the NCAA made the decision to cancel all its winter and spring sports championships. No College World Series.
  Then, two days later, an even bigger blow: the Pac-1
  
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• Motorcyclist from Cypress killed in Riverside crash

  15-03-2020 18:41
  
  A motorcyclist from Cypress was killed late Saturday night in Riverside when the rider and a flatbed tow truck crashed as the truck was making a turn, police said.
  The 54-year-old rider was not further identified until relatives are notified. The crash was reported at Arlington and Hillside Avenues at 9:47 p.m., authorities said.
  City firefighters freed the motorcyclist, who was trapped beneath the truck. They tried life support measures on the rider, who died at the scene, the department said.
  
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• Vying to become the next Cadbury Easter Bunny, Surf City pooch needs your votes

  15-03-2020 18:40
  
  Donald Ducky, a 10-year-old Pomeranian with heart disease from Huntington Beach, is one of 10 finalists and the last one in California, out of 4,000 entries in the Cadbury chocolate national contest for a chance to appear in the Cadbury chocolate Easter Bunny commercial.
  (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer)
  Donald Ducky, a 10-year-old Pomeranian with heart disease from Huntington Beach, is one of 10 finalists and the last one in California, out of 4,000 entries in the Cadbury
  
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• Coronavirus canceled their concerts, so artists like YungBlud are looking to live stream shows to fans 

  15-03-2020 18:35
  
  Uncertain times call for innovative measures, and English singer-songwriter Dominic Harrison, who goes by the moniker YungBlud, is ahead of the curve.
  The 22-year-old artist, who was set to kick off his North American tour at both weekends of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio in April, has watched his concert dates drop off as they’re either canceled or postponed in the wake of the global spread of COVID-19.
  As governments around the world mandate social distancing, Yun
  
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• Nominees announced for Orange County high school Artist of the Year 2020

  15-03-2020 18:00
  
  The Orange County Register’s Artist of the Year program, now in its seventh year, is proud to announce this year’s nominees.
  Related linksDance nominees
  Film/animation nominees
  Instrumental music nominees
  Vocal music nominees
  Theater nominees
  Computer-assisted visual art nominees
  Hand-crafted visual art nomineesA total of 750 students have been nominated by teachers and private instructors from 78 Orange County high schools and arts organizations as the standout arts students in the
  
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• Artist of the Year 2020: Dance nominees

  15-03-2020 17:59
  
  The following students have been named as nominees for the 2020 Artist of the Year in dance. Teachers and private instructors at Orange County high schools and arts organizations nominated 97 students.
  This arts discipline has been divided into four specialties: commercial dance, concert dance, street dance, and world/cultural dance. Semi-finalists in each specialty will be chosen by a panel of dance teachers and announced in April at ocregister.comThe nominees are listed with an endorsement fro
  
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• Artist of the Year 2020: Film/animation nominees

  15-03-2020 17:58
  
  The following students have been named as nominees for the 2020 Artist of the Year in film/animation. We received 57 nominations from teachers and private instructors at Orange County high schools and arts organizations.
  This arts discipline has been divided into three specialties: animation and visual arts, cinematography, and directing and editing. Semi-finalists in each specialty will be chosen by a panel of film teachers and announced in April at ocregister.com
  The nominees are listed with a
  
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• Artist of the Year 2020: Instrumental music nominees

  15-03-2020 17:57
  
  The following students have been named as nominees for the 2019 Artist of the Year in instrumental music. We received 117 nominations from teachers and private instructors at Orange County high schools and arts organizations.
  This arts discipline has been divided into five specialties: commercial and world/cultural music, jazz, piano and stings, and winds and percussion. Semi-finalists in each specialty will be chosen by a panel of music teachers and announced in April at ocregister.com
  The nomi
  
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• Artist of the Year 2020: Vocal music nominees

  15-03-2020 17:56
  
  The following students have been named as nominees for the 2020 Artist of the Year in vocal music. We received 90 nominations from teachers and private instructors at Orange County high schools and arts organizations.
  This arts discipline has been divided into three specialties: classical voice, commercial voice, and non-classical voice. Semi-finalists in each specialty will be chosen by a panel of music teachers and announced in April at ocregister.comThe nominees are listed with an endorsement
  
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• Artist of the Year 2020: Theater nominees

  15-03-2020 17:55
  
  The following students have been named as nominees for the 2019 Artist of the Year in theater. We received 183 nominations from teachers and private instructors at Orange County high schools and arts organizations.
  This arts discipline has been divided into three specialties: acting, musical theater performance, and theatrical design. Semi-finalists in each specialty will be chosen by a panel of theater teachers and announced in April at ocregister.com.
  The nominees are listed with an endorsemen
  
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• Artist of the Year 2020: Computer-assisted visual arts nominees

  15-03-2020 17:54
  
  The following students have been named as nominees for the 2020 Artist of the Year in computer-assisted visual arts. We received 78 nominations from teachers and private instructors at Orange County high schools and arts organizations.
  This arts discipline has been divided into three specialties: computer drawing and painting, graphic design and digital illustration, and photography (film and digital). Semi-finalists in each specialty will be chosen by a panel of visual arts teachers and announc
  
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• Artist of the Year 2020: Handcrafted visual arts nominees

  15-03-2020 17:53
  
  The following students have been named as nominees for the 2020 Artist of the Year in handcrafted visual arts. We received 128 nominations from teachers and private instructors at Orange County high schools and arts organizations.
  This arts discipline has been divided into three specialties: ceramics, hand drawing and painting, mixed media, and sculpting and metalwork. Semi-finalists in each specialty will be chosen by a panel of visual arts teachers and announced in April at ocregister.com.
  The
  
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• Coronavirus to property taxes to high rents: 12 SoCal real estate trends to know

  15-03-2020 17:36
  
  Here are 12 must-read stories about the local real estate market from the Southern California News Group’s Home Stretch newsletter. To subscribe to the free, twice-weekly email publication, just CLICK HERE!
  Let’s start with coronavirus and its impact …
  1.Can coronavirus sicken our healthy housing market?Think about a Plan B, contributor Jeff Lazerson writes.2.SoCal job growth in peril.Coronavirus puts many industries on edge.3.National Association of Realtors cancels two
  
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• NFL players approve labor deal with 17-game season

  15-03-2020 17:06
  
  NFL players have approved a new labor agreement with the league that features a 17-game regular season, higher salaries, increased roster sizes and larger pensions for current and former players.
  The deal, which runs through the 2030 season, was accepted by the 32 team owners last month. The NFL Players Association’s membership spent the last week voting on the 439-page document after its executive board narrowly rejected it by a 6-5 vote, and the player representatives voted 17-14 in favo
  
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• Will coronavirus kill local open houses and home sales?

  15-03-2020 16:00
  
  Ramifications of a global pandemic are starting to ripple through the Southern California housing market as virtual home tours replace in-person showings and homeowners cancel open houses to avoid coming face-to-face with potentially infected home shoppers.
  A sign in front of an open house on N. Valleyview Street at E. Bixby Avenue in Orange on Saturday afternoon, March 14, 2020. The ramifications of a global pandemic are starting to filter through the Southern California housing market as virtu
  
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• Cancel culture leaves us adrift

  15-03-2020 14:00
  
  I’ve had a hard time in recent months remembering what the more-or-less Millennial term “cancel culture” means, and sometimes have to look it up: “the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive.”
  It’s basically old-fashioned scarlet-letter shaming, plus social media.
  But I think “call-out culture” makes more sense for that —
  
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• Stand up and be counted in the 2020 Census

  15-03-2020 13:00
  
  In more ways than you can imagine, the upcoming Census has huge consequences for communities across California. Despite occurring once per decade, its impact is felt every day. Here are just a few ways how:
  At Paramount Elementary School in Azusa, the National School Lunch Program ensures that no child fights back the pangs of hunger while trying to learn. In Pomona, Parktree Community Health drives mobile health clinics and much needed medical services to people who would otherwise go without.
  
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• San Manuel, Pechanga casinos to close temporarily amid coronavirus fears

  15-03-2020 04:00
  
  San Manuel Casino in Highland and Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula announced Saturday, March 14, that they would  temporarily suspend operations through the end of the month, amid growing concerns over the novel coronavirus.
  San Manuel announced in statements on social media and on-site television screens that it would be closing through the end of the month starting at 5 p.m. Sunday, March 15 and Pechanga announced in a statement that it would be closing through the end of the month star
  
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• Wilson: It’s eerie but races go on without an audience at Santa Anita and other tracks

  15-03-2020 03:37
  
  Jockey Victor Espinoza, right, riding Ce Ce wins the Beholder Mile (Grade 1) seventh race past jockey Mike Smith riding Hard Not to Love who finished second as horse racing runs without any fans only credential media and personnel licensed by the California Horse Racing Board at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
  A lone man looks on as the eighth race of the day runs without any fans only credential media and personnel li
  
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• Ce Ce wins Beholder Mile at Santa Anita; Bob Baffert’s Charlatan also a winner

  15-03-2020 03:27
  
  A lone man looks on as the eighth race of the day runs without any fans only credential media and personnel licensed by the California Horse Racing Board at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
  A person with an umbrella walks past empty stands as horse racing runs without any fans only credential media and personnel licensed by the California Horse Racing Board at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (Ph
  
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• Mammoth, Big Bear ski resorts shut down indefinitely in response to coronavirus threat

  15-03-2020 03:20
  
  Just as a big snowstorm was expected to drop four feet at the summit of Mammoth Mountain this weekend, officials at Mammoth announced that the High Sierra ski resort will be closed indefinitely as of Sunday, March 15, because of concerns over the new coronavirus.
  On Saturday, wind gusts in excess of 100 miles at the mountain top prompted early closure of some lifts. By noon, the mountain had been shut down due to the wind storm.
  “After careful thought and deliberation of our duty in the fa
  
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• Angels’ Andrew Heaney is riding out the coronavirus delay in Arizona … for now

  15-03-2020 03:03
  
  Andrew Heaney has spent the past few days holed up in his rental in Arizona, with his wife and two dogs, and trying to figure out just what he’s going to do with himself until baseball resumes.
  “I have a lease till the end of the month and I’ll figure it out from there,” the Angels left-hander said by phone on Saturday. “I think it’s a situation where stuff changes so quickly that being in one place and taking things as they come is the prudent way to go about
  
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• Whittier megachurch holding services at homes in Orange, L.A. counties amid coronavirus pandemic

  15-03-2020 02:48
  
  Responding to concerns of the spread of the novel coronavirus, Freedom Christian Center, a megachurch with locations in Whittier and Santa Fe Springs, announced Saturday it will close its doors and hold worship services Sunday in the homes of more than 200 members throughout Orange and Los Angeles counties.
  With an average weekly attendance of 4,000 people, the church said in a statement the measures were precautionary for the healthy and safety of its members.
  Freedom Christian Center, a non-de
  
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• Guns and groceries: Saturday shoppers rush to stock up as coronavirus fears spread

  15-03-2020 02:32
  
  Kendall Franklin usually waits in a 5-minute line to buy a box of ammunition. On Saturday, at Turner’s Outdoorsman in San Bernardino, the wait was 40 minutes.
  The rush to be prepared for a weeks-long quarantine or illness clearly isn’t limited to shoppers trying to snag toilet paper or bottled water.
  Gun owners also worry about worst-case scenarios.
  Franklin was concerned that looting could start if there is a dearth of every day staples as the country grapples with coronavirus-spurr
  
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• Amid converging crises, protesters in L.A. aim to ‘reclaim’ vacant Caltrans homes

  15-03-2020 02:28
  
  In a protest that appeared to be a convergence of California crises, a group of housing activists on Saturday, March 14, aimed to “reclaim” vacant homes owned by Caltrans in the El Sereno community of Los Angeles.
  One-by-one, the activists filed up a set of front steps in an act of civil disobedience, carrying with them a small writing desk, dining chair, an ornate glass coffee table and other furniture into a two-bedroom house on Sheffield Avenue.
  Among them was 33-year-old Ruby Gor
  
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• Doctor says Trump tests negative for coronavirus

  15-03-2020 01:21
  
  By AAMER MADHANI and JILL COLVIN
  President Donald Trump has tested negative for the new coronavirus, according to the president’s personal physician.
  The White House released the test results Saturday night after Trump told reporters hours earlier that he had taken the coronavirus test, following days of resisting being screened despite the fact that he had been in recent contact with three people who have tested positive for the virus, including members of the Brazilian president’s
  
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• Frustrated Dodgers, Angels fans make the most of spring-training trips – no thanks to coronavirus

  15-03-2020 01:20
  
  GLENDALE and TEMPE, Ariz. – In one symbolic release of anger and disappointment, Dodgers fan Chris Donat actually turned to the one thing that had bothered him so much these past few months.
  Frustrated upon hearing spring-training games would be canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, just hours before he was set to make a 10-hour drive to the desert, Donat’s reaction came quickly … almost instinctively.
  “I took a baseball bat to a trash can just like the cheatin&rsqu
  
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• Toy aisles become focus of Sacramento’s latest absurd crusade

  15-03-2020 00:43
  
  A new bill by Assemblyman Evan Low would ban all gender-specific kids’ sections in stores. If that sounds like a solution looking for a problem, it’s because it is.
  According to the Bay Area Democrat’s office, boys’ and girls’ sections “pigeonhole children,” make it difficult for consumers to compare products and stigmatize kids for “wearing a dinosaur shirt or playing with a Barbie doll.”
  The bill only applies to companies with 500 or more e
  
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• Fake coronavirus test kits seized at LAX

  15-03-2020 00:42
  
  Counterfeit COVID-19 test kits were intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers when they arrived at the LAX International Mail Facility, authorities said Saturday.
  “On March 12, 2020, CBP officers discovered six plastic bags containing various vials, while conducting an enforcement examination of a parcel manifested as ‘Purified Water Vials’ with a declared value of $196.81,” CPB spokesman Jaime Ruiz said Saturday. “A complete examination of the ship
  
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• UC Irvine cancels graduation ceremonies amidst coronavirus concerns

  15-03-2020 00:39
  
  Graduation ceremonies at UC Irvine have been cancelled as a precaution to the outbreak of novel coronavirus, officials announced this week.
  “We are saddened to share that the UCI Commencement Ceremonies will not take place in the same way as previous years,” Willie L. Banks Jr., the vice chancellor for student affairs, said in a message to students Friday, March 13.
  Ceremonies were scheduled for June 12-15 and the announcement comes after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order banning gathe
  
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• COVID-19’s harsh impact on state pension systems and school districts

  15-03-2020 00:34
  
  With U.S. stocks just suffering their worst day since the 1987 crash, followed immediately by one of their best single days, some economists are saying buckle-up and worrying that the coronavirus may help send the economy into a recession. The turbulent economic conditions mean many state and local governments may face a reckoning on public pension payments and debts.
  Despite more than a decade-long period of sustained economic growth and increased tax revenues, many California cities have still
  
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• Clippers, Kings, Lakers, Staples Center to pay event staff during coronavirus hiatus

  15-03-2020 00:16
  
  Through the end of the NBA and NHL seasons, more than 2,800 hourly event staff who work Kings, Lakers and Clippers games at Staples Center will receive compensation for wages lost due to the suspension of events in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
  As the Southern California News Group reported Friday, the three teams and Staples Center joined forces to establish a fund to provide payments to ushers, security officers, ticket sellers, ticket takers, parking attendants, merchandise staff, food a
  
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• Alexander: Sports helps to keep us sane, so what do we do now?

  15-03-2020 00:15
  
  The first bracket crossed our Twitter feeds Friday night: The “Ultimate Fast Food and Fast Casual Restaurant Bracket,” posted by @JeffDLowe (or, as he has repurposed his Twitter handle for these specific purposes, “Jeff D Brackets.”)BRACKET TIME: Best Fast Food/Fast Casual Chain Restaurant
  (Sorry if your regional chain didn’t make it)
  What’s your FINAL FOUR? pic.twitter.com/QorBCrKHry
  — Jeff D Brackets (@JeffDLowe) March 14, 2020Aside from some of the sp
  
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• Ducks’, Kings’ skating facilities closed to public because of coronavirus pandemic

  15-03-2020 00:09
  
  Great Park Ice in Irvine, home of the Ducks’ practice facility, and Toyota Sports Performance Center in El Segundo, the Kings’ practice facility, are among a number of Southern California ice rinks and other community sports facilities that have been closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  All events and programs scheduled for The Rinks ice skating and inline facilities in Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Lakewood, Irvine, Poway, Westminster and Yorba Linda were suspended Saturday through
  
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