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• Newsom, Trump disagree on NFL’s return from coronavirus shutdown

  04-04-2020 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  President Donald Trump may want the NFL season to start on time, but Gov. Gavin Newsom, as he urges California to dig in for a long fight against the coronavirus, says don’t count on seeing stadiums packed with football fans in September.
  “I’m not anticipating that happening in this state,” Newsom said when asked Saturday whether he would allow NFL games with tens of thousands of fans in attendance when the season is scheduled to begin.
  And that doesn’t just apply t
  
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• These 60 photos from March are our Orange County photographers’ favorites

  04-04-2020 23:46 via ocregister.com
  
  We asked our photographers to choose their favorite photos from the month of March 2020 and here are some of the amazing images they selected.
  It’s no surprise, the majority of our pictures have something to do with the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. From empty shelves, to long lines, to testing to business effects – our photographers were there. But we also found some fun animals, a sinking ship and some amazing young girls.
  So, there’s no need to leave your home office
  
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• Knott’s halts annual passholder payments during coronavirus closure, extends passes through 2021

  04-04-2020 23:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Knott’s Berry Farm will halt annual pass payments for passholders who have paid for a full year and those on the monthly payment plan while the Buena Park theme park remains closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Knott’s suspended season pass payments effective Saturday, April 4, according to park officials.
  Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and interesting every week at Southern California’s theme parks. Subscribe here.
  Knott’s remains tempor
  
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• Hunt for coronavirus medical supplies creates marketplace of desperation

  04-04-2020 23:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By BRIAN WITTE
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Shady middlemen, phantom shipments, prices soaring by the hour, goods flown in on a private plane.
  What sounds like an organized-crime thriller is now the new reality for governors desperately trying to find the medical equipment their states need in the throes of a pandemic. With the federal stockpile dwindling fast, and the Trump administration limiting access to what’s left, state leaders are going to extraordinary measures on their own to secure fa
  
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• China-to-NY ventilator shipment shows coronavirus supply scramble

  04-04-2020 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER PELTZ, AMY FORLITI and DAVID RISING
  NEW YORK — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday the Chinese government was facilitating a shipment of 1,000 donated ventilators to his state, highlighting the extreme measures leaders are taking in what has become a cutthroat scramble to independently secure enough lifesaving devices during the coronavirus pandemic.
  In a sign of the disorganized response to the global crisis, Cuomo went out of his way to praise the collaboration of the Ch
  
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• Crackdown coming for those flying drones near the USNS Mercy

  04-04-2020 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Authorities are sending a message to those with thoughts of getting aerial footage of the USNS Mercy by flying their drones at the Port of Los Angeles: Don’t do it.
  Due to security restrictions around military vessels issued by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Defense, unmanned aircraft are not allowed within 3,000 feet laterally and 2,000 feet vertically of the ship, which docked last week at the port and began treating non-COVID-19 patients.
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• Orange County reports 14th coronavirus death, 75 more cases

  04-04-2020 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  The tally of coronavirus cases in Orange County reached 786 on Saturday, April 4, as health officials reported 75 new cases and another death since Friday.
  Of hundreds of cumulative cases in Orange County since the outbreak, 14 people have died from COVID-19, a disease caused by the new coronavirus. By Saturday, 112 people were hospitalized with the disease with 71 were in intensive care.
  Known cases around the county grew by an average of 59 per day this week. The biggest day-to-day jump occurr
  
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• CEO of Orange County’s toll road agency announces his retirement

  04-04-2020 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Less than a month after finalizing an agreement to end a decades-long debate over the extension of the 241 Toll Road, the CEO of Orange County’s toll road agency, Mike Kraman, is retiring.
  The agreement – coupled with recently establishing a plan for a bridge feeding the 241 Toll Road directly into the 91 Express Lanes – presented “a timely opportunity to transition to the next phase” in his life, Kraman said in a press release on Friday, April 3.
  Kraman had worked
  
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• Photos: Boxing-style workouts for Parkinson’s patients go online amid coronavirus outbreak

  04-04-2020 20:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Living with Parkinson’s disease is a challenge for anyone who has been diagnosed with the degenerative affliction. There is no cure, and for some, the best medicine came with a set of boxing gloves.
  Rock Steady Boxing, a program designed specifically for those with Parkinson’s, has been giving participants the physical activity that many studies have shown to favorably impact range of motion, flexibility, posture, gait and activities of daily living.
  Several times a week, students wo
  
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• Alexander: Rose Zhang hoped to be facing LPGA’s best, not hitting balls in her garage

  04-04-2020 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  If things were normal, Rose Zhang would have been hanging out at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage this week, making her second appearance in the LPGA Tour’s first major championship of the year and soaking up the examples set by the circuit’s very best players.
  Instead, the 16-year-old from Irvine is hitting golf balls at home.
  “I have a little range area in my garage,” she said in a phone conversation. “I just hit balls and then putt. There’s not m
  
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• Recipe: Homemade Chili Con Carne without the hassle

  04-04-2020 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Reminders of my early attempts at preparing homemade chili are recorded on the pages of my Chasen’s Chili recipe, clipped from some long-ago ’70s source. Rust-red splatters of chili powder-spiked sauce made artful designs atop the directions. A long list of ingredients seems a little daunting to me now. For example, it specified using a center cut of the best beef chuck, chopped into 1/4- to 1/2-inch chunks. I remember chopping the meat with my youthful hands.
  This much easier-to-mak
  
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• Whicker: Mike Bohn hears USC fans loud and clear, then sends his own message

  04-04-2020 19:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Mike Bohn came to USC and said his ears were wide open. The blood notwithstanding, they still are.
  The new athletic director detonated the Internet when he decided Embattled Clay Helton should coach the football team in 2020. He didn’t realize he would trigger such a torrent of #FireBohn hashtags. A Holiday Bowl loss to Iowa, with quarterback Kedon Slovis again knocked to the sidelines, added kerosene. So did a low-rated recruiting year.
  Bohn’s ears are still attached. He has been fa
  
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• Though people, and tips, are scarce, street musician carries on amid coronavirus-emptied streets

  04-04-2020 19:20 via ocregister.com
  
  At 7 p.m. on a normal night in Glendale, you can find Red Benson is his familiar seat in front of the In-N-Out on Brand Boulevard, crooning for a steady stream of passers-by.
  This Thursday evening, Benson’s was in place, but his familiar folk and country tunes fell upon the ears of only a few, his rendition of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” echoing off the storefronts along the typically bustling corridor.
  It wasn’t but every minute or
  
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• Kept from the water and each other, Los Al High team still stays competitive

  04-04-2020 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  One by one the faces appear as the Los Alamitos High students prepare for water polo practice.
  Before you get the wrong idea, they are not breaking the shelter in place mandate. Rather, the players are gathering virtually on a video conferencing platform for their four-times-a-week workout sessions that would have normally been scheduled for sixth period swimming.
  Los Alamitos girls water polo coach Dave Carlson speaks to his freshman and sophomore players on the girls varsity waterpolo team fro
  
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• Who else is joining Kobe Bryant in the Basketball Hall of Fame?

  04-04-2020 18:38 via ocregister.com
  
  A look at the newest members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, announced on Saturday:
  KOBE BRYANT
  Key stats: 25.0 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.7 assists per game in 20 NBA seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers.
  Career accomplishments: Five-time NBA champion (2000, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2010), 18-time All-Star, 2008 NBA MVP, No. 4 scorer in NBA history, 15-time All-NBA player, scored career-high 81 points vs. Toronto on Jan. 22, 2006, four-time All-Star Game MVP, two-time NBA Finals MVP, two
  
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• 14 real estate twists: coronavirus, essential sales, plummeting escrows

  04-04-2020 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Here are 14 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 real estate impact …
  1.Real estate selling deemed “essential” industry.But California Realtors told to use safe practices, no open houses.2.Agents worry about safety.Sales in coronavirus era have plenty of risks.3.Closing rea
  
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• Kobe Bryant elected to Basketball Hall of Fame in solemn moment for the sport

  04-04-2020 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  On Saturday morning, the Basketball Hall of Fame made a formal announcement that’s been unofficially marked on calendars since the Black Mamba retired: Kobe Bryant is a first-ballot honoree in the sport’s most hallowed ground.
  It is, however, an unexpectedly sobering moment in a world that has had to do both without basketball and without Bryant.
  The Laker legend whose 20-year career netted 18 All-Star appearances, five championships and one MVP award was a shoo-in for the Hall &ndas
  
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• Coronavirus delays UCLA pole vaulter Sondre Guttormsen’s Olympic dream

  04-04-2020 18:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Sondre Guttormsen is at home in Ski, Norway. He lives nine hours ahead of what would be his normal life at UCLA.
  The sophomore pole vaulter spends a good portion of his day inside on his computer doing online classes or in the basement of his family’s house lifting weights.
  Normally, he’d be outside, walking to classes and training in Westwood for the collegiate outdoor track and field season.
  This was supposed to be the season of a lifetime for him. Instead, Guttormsen finds himself
  
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• Artist of the Year 2020: Semifinalists announced for visual arts and film/animation

  04-04-2020 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The Register, in partnership with the Orange County Department of Education is proud to announce the semifinalists for Artist of the Year in the categories of film/animation, handcrafted visual arts and computer-assisted visual arts.
  Film/animation makers were nominated by their teachers in the specialties of directing and editing, cinematography, and animation and visual effects.
  Handcrafted visual artists were nominated by their teachers in the specialties of hand drawing and painting, ceramic
  
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• Artist of the Year 2020: Meet the semifinalists for film and animation

  04-04-2020 17:59 via ocregister.com
  
  From a list of 57 nominees, the following 13 students have been named as semifinalists for the 2020 Artist of the Year in film/animation. The students were chosen by a panel of teachers based on written statements, film samples and artistic résumés.
  Included is the specialty in which they were nominated and quotes about how they relate to their craft. We have not included links to students’ films because some film festivals, into which the students may submit their films, req
  
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• Artist of the Year 2020: Meet the semifinalists for handcrafted visual arts

  04-04-2020 17:58 via ocregister.com
  
  From a list of 128 nominees, the following 12 students have been named as semi-finalists for the 2020 Artist of the Year in handcrafted visual arts. The students were chosen by a panel of teachers based on written statements and art portfolios.
  Included are links to their work, the specialty in which they were nominated, and quotes about how they relate to their craft.
  Handcrafted visual artists have been nominated in the specialties of hand drawing and painting, ceramics, sculpting and metal wo
  
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• Artist of the Year 2020: Meet the semifinalists for computer-assisted visual arts

  04-04-2020 17:57 via ocregister.com
  
  From a list of 78 nominees, the following 12 students have been named as semi-finalists for the 2020 Artist of the Year in computer-assisted visual arts. The students were chosen by a panel of teachers based on written statements and art portfolios.
  Included are links to their work, the specialty in which they were nominated, and quotes about how they relate to their craft.
  Computer-assisted visual artists have been nominated in the specialties of computer drawing and painting, photography, and
  
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• Chihuahua-corgi mix Cookie loves treats, car rides and all kinds of fun

  04-04-2020 17:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Cookie is going to be happy to being active or laying around as long as it’s with her people. (Courtesy of K9 Spirit Organization)
  Breed: Chihuahua-corgi mix
  Age: 8 years
  Gender: Spayed female
  Cookie’s story: Cookie’s nickname is Cookie Monster because she loves all treats! She tries very hard to sit still for them, but her excitement means she can’t quite contain herself. She sleeps in a crate, but would prefer to sleep on a bed with her human(s). She is house-trained, k
  
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• Successful Aging: These are traits that help older adults in times of crisis

  04-04-2020 17:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Dear readers.Given the COVID-19 environment, it seems timely to identify the strengths older adults can rely upon to help cope with this unprecedented time. The literature provides a variety of age-related traits that can work in our favor. Check if some of these apply to you or your loved ones. 
  Resilience. Older adults have the capacity for resilience. By resilience, we mean recovering from difficult experiences, the ability to bounce back. In general, older adults adapt well to adversity
  
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• Pekingese-Chihuahua mix Jamie is a little love bug

  04-04-2020 17:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Jamie was hit by a car, but she’s healing and ready for a home. (Courtesy of Alura Always and Forever Pekingese Rescue)
  Breed: Chihuahua-Pekingese mix
  Age: 2 to 3 years
  Gender: Spayed female
  Size: 15 pounds
  Jamie’s story: Sweet Jamie was hit by a car in March and taken to a local shelter, which sent her to an emergency vet. With limited resources, the shelter sought a rescue to offer Jamie a better future, and Alura Always and Forever Pekingese Rescue stepped in. She had surgery to p
  
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• Q&A: USC AD Mike Bohn on the coronavirus challenges facing the Trojans

  04-04-2020 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Much like the rest of us, Mike Bohn is in the midst of an unprecedented situation.
  The USC athletic director describes the fallout of the COVID-19 spread and subsequent quarantines as the most difficult challenge he’s faced in his 22 years as an A.D., the primary reason being the disconnect from student-athletes.
  “When you don’t have a daily interaction, daily touchpoints with them to ensure that they’re safe, happy, inspired and growing,” Bohn said, “that&rsq
  
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• Blood drives set for Irvine to help with coronavirus-related shortage

  04-04-2020 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California is facing a blood shortage due to a severe downturn in donations because of the coronavirus pandemic, so Antis Roofing & Waterproofing in Irvine is opening its campus for American Red Cross blood drives.
  The drives are scheduled for Monday, April 6, and Monday, April 13, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in a 6,000-square-foot space that will be used for the donations.
  Potential donors must schedule an appointment at redcross.org. No walk-in donors will be accepted.
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• Wrestlemania 36: Live updates, projected match card and results

  04-04-2020 12:38 via ocregister.com
  
  As a result of COVID-19, the WWE had no choice but to adjust in order to keep its biggest show of the year, Wrestlemania 36, on track to air this weekend.
  Wrestlemania has normally been a one-day event held in one of the country’s biggest venues each year. The host city would usually serve as pro wrestling’s temporary hub during the week of the event with fans from around the world.
  None of it will apply this year but could return to its normal state when Wrestlemania returns to Los
  
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• Los Alamitos softball coach Rob Weil heartbroken season ends for his nationally top-ranked team

  04-04-2020 07:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Alamitos softball coach Rob Weil knows his program isn’t easy for players and shares that from the start.
  As the leader of one of the top teams in Southern California, Weil demands a lot in practice, weight training and team functions.
  And there’s a difficult, internal competition to earn coveted varsity spots, a journey that easily can begin on the junior varsity level for freshmen.
  But players commit to the rigors because of the reward often waiting for them at the end of the s
  
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• San Manuel Casino extends coronavirus closure, adjusts staff pay

  04-04-2020 04:53 via ocregister.com
  
  San Manuel Casino near Highland has extended its temporary closure due to the novel coronavirus through the end of April, tribal officials announced Friday, April 3.
  The tribe also announced that while employees would receive full benefits for the month, their pay would be reduced, with “senior staff impacted most significantly,” according to a statement from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.
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• 4.9 magnitude earthquake near Anza felt around Southern California

  04-04-2020 04:27 via ocregister.com
  
  A series of earthquakes – the largest with a magnitude of 4.9 – hit just southeast of Anza and near Palm Springs on Friday evening.
  The earthquake happened at 6:53 p.m., roughly 11 miles southeast of Anza, 23 miles southwest of Palm Springs, and 16 miles southwest of La Quinta, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
  The temblor had a depth of 6.6 miles. Following the initial jolt were five aftershocks.
  The strong quake was felt in parts of Orange County and throughout the San Diego are
  
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• Lakers’ Phil Handy extends his coaching passion with pandemic-proof app

  04-04-2020 04:19 via ocregister.com
  
  He has always done his best work on the court. But for a decade, as he built his training business, Phil Handy’s office was a silver Volkswagen GTI that rattled across roads all over Northern California.
  He loaded up his car in the morning from his home in El Dorado Hills – 30 miles east of Sacramento – and drove to Marin County, directly north of San Francisco. Sometimes he wound through the Bay Area to Stanford or St. Mary’s College or UC Davis or Berkeley. Many days, m
  
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• Senior residents protest hotel planned for homeless coronavirus patients, operator says it will be isolated and locked down

  04-04-2020 03:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Plans to temporarily use a hotel to house homeless people who may have contracted the coronavirus are meant to protect the community and easy the burden on local hospitals, officials said, but surrounding senior residents of Laguna Woods are protesting in fear they are being put at risk.
  “A lot of these folks, they are seniors and scared they are going to get sick and die from it,” said Tara Rystad, whose mom, aunt and uncle live in the community of about 18,000. “To me and oth
  
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• Coronavirus response: Orange County nonprofits coordinate community resources

  04-04-2020 03:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Inside the warehouse that Orange County Rescue Mission maintains at its Village of Hope campus in Tustin, a special place is set aside for one purpose: to stockpile and distribute personal care items donated to help babies and adults affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
  It’s key to the “things” part of a three-pronged outreach effort by the county to help people during the coronavirus epidemic. Other elements include money and, eventually, volunteering.
  In late March, the Orange
  
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• Coronavirus response: County nonprofits coordinate community resources

  04-04-2020 03:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Inside the warehouse that Orange County Rescue Mission maintains at its Village of Hope campus in Tustin, a special place is set aside for one purpose: to stockpile and distribute personal care items donated to help babies and adults affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
  It’s key to the “things” part of a three-pronged outreach effort by the county to help people during the coronavirus epidemic. Other elements include money and, eventually, volunteering.
  In late March, the Orange
  
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• O.C. sold 100,000 medical-grade coronavirus masks, citing expiration dates

  04-04-2020 03:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Just prior to the current scramble for hospital-grade N95 masks, Orange County auctioned about 100,000 expired masks — only to see Centers for Disease Control then ease guidelines to allow for the old masks to be used in some circumstances.
  Registered nurses, some wearing bandanas, at UCI Medical Center in Orange, hold signs during a protest of the lack of personal protective equipment for frontline health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic as they stand outside the UCI Health Dougl
  
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• Orange County players, coaches disappointed but not surprised by CIF move to cancel spring sports

  04-04-2020 02:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOrange County high school coaches and athletes already understood that the spring sports season was over before the CIF State announcement Friday that the playoffs and championships had been canceled because of the coronavirus outbreak.
  The CIF State organization and its 10 sections said given the recommendations by the state this week, they did not see way for the spring sports playoffs and championships to
  
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• Disneyland union leaders remain in talks with company: ‘The furlough is going to happen’

  04-04-2020 02:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland union leaders remain in negotiations with Disney labor relations officials over the details of an impending furlough that has already been issued to the company’s non-union theme park employees in the United States.
  “We’re in active talks with the company,” Workers United Local 50 president Chris Duarte said by telephone Friday. “The company’s initial offering is benefits protection during a furlough.”
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• 2 Orange County jail deputies contract coronavirus as battle escalates over early releases

  04-04-2020 02:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Two Orange County sheriff’s deputies assigned to county jails have tested positive for the coronavirus as prosecutors and defense lawyers battled Friday over the continued early release of inmates from behind bars.
  The deputies, one from Theo Lacy Facility in Orange and the other from Central Men’s Jail in Santa Ana, are the first two known to become infected in Orange County. Both are resting at home, said Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Carrie Braun. Five Orange County jail
  
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• Wife of former USA Gymnastics sports medicine and science director suspended

  04-04-2020 02:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The wife of USA Gymnastics’ former director of sports medicine and science was suspended by the U.S. Center for SafeSport Friday for physical and emotional misconduct.
  Amy Nyman, the owner of an Ohio gymnastics club was also suspended for retaliation, and a proactive policy violation. The suspension is subject to appeal.
  Nyman is the wife of Edward Nyman Jr., who was fired in 2019 after just one day on the job as USA Gymnastics’ first ever sports medicine and science director.
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• Coronavirus: Orange County House members, companies get out more protective gear

  04-04-2020 02:21 via ocregister.com
  
  MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley got a welcome delivery Friday afternoon, as Rep. Harley Rouda showed up with thousands of gloves, hundreds of face shields, 20 respirators and other equipment needed for healthcare workers and patients battling the coronavirus pandemic.
  All of the items were donated in response to a March 27 call from Rouda, a Democrat from Laguna Beach who represents the 48th District in coastal Orange County. Rouda said he’s been contacted hourl
  
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• Four-star Warren safety Xamarion Gordon commits to USC

  04-04-2020 02:18 via ocregister.com
  
  USC added the commitment of Warren safety Xamarion Gordon on Friday, as the rising senior announced his pledge on Twitter.
  “First off I want to thank God for putting me in the situation I’m in and for giving me the opportunity that you don’t see everyday,” Gordon wrote before announcing his commitment to USC.
  Gordon is a four-star prospect according to 247 Sports.com’s composite rankings. He is the 30th-ranked prospect in the state of California.
  The 6-foot-2, 190-p
  
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• Coronavirus: Immigrants have questions, heightened fears as pandemic takes hold

  04-04-2020 02:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Every day, for eight hours a day, five phone-line staffers at the Korean Community Services in Buena Park are peppered with questions from people worried about coronavirus and its many related problems.
  “How can people stay insured if they lose their job? Will accepting unemployment insurance affect my immigration status? I feel bad; where can I get tested?”
  The non-profit, which runs health clinics in Orange County, is a hub for the region’s Korean-speaking community. And many
  
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• DA clears Fullerton police in death of man who fought officers

  04-04-2020 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County District Attorney’s Office has cleared Fullerton officers in the death of a 22-year-old man who fought with police as they tried to take him into custody in front of his home.
  Daniel Flores Espinoza died from acute methamphetamine intoxication, according to a letter sent to the Fullerton Police Department outlining the results of the investigation by the DA’s Office.
  Last year, Espinoza’s parents filed a $7 million claim against the city, describing Espinoza a
  
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• Coronavirus survivor donates plasma, in experiment that could thwart the pandemic

  04-04-2020 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  St. Joseph Hospital in Orange this week transfused blood plasma from a man who has recovered from the new coronavirus into a hospitalized patient currently battling that virus, an experiment that could prove vital in fighting the pandemic.
  Plasma from coronavirus survivors carries antibodies, disease-fighting proteins, which doctors suspect can be injected into other people and used to fight COVID-19, the diseased caused by the coronavirus.
  That’s why physicians at St. Joseph and a handful
  
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• Busy stadiums? Rental cars flood Dodger, Angel stadium parking lots

  04-04-2020 01:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Empty parking lots have become a familiar sight as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage Southern California’s business community.
  With meetings, conferences and most other face-to-face activities now being conducted online or not at all, parking lots look like virtual ghost towns.
  But Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium and Santa Anita Park are overflowing with thousands of rental cars that are sitting idle amid a severe downturn in travel.
  Hundreds of rental cars are being temporar
  
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• Is simple breathing enough to spread coronavirus? Some experts now say yes

  04-04-2020 01:41 via ocregister.com
  
  For weeks, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said coronavirus spreads mainly through droplets expelled when sick people cough and sneeze.
  The risk of catching COVID-19 from someone with no symptoms at all, they said, was very low. Officials downplayed the need for widescale protective gear for all health care workers and dismissed the use of face masks for the general public as potentially dangerous.
  Now — as California’s governor encourages peopl
  
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• Local sweets and treats for delivery

  04-04-2020 01:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Make your sweet cravings a reality with delivery!
  If you have a sweet tooth, delivery might just be your fairy godmother for the next month or so. You’ve thought of all the ways to store and save on food, but I bet you forgot about dessert. Not to fear, delivery services are here and will gladly serve up something sweet. Keep scrolling to be in for a treat!
  Milk Bar
  Courtesy of Instagram | @MILKBARSTORES
  Milk Bar, as many may know, is a local LA business that makes it easy to crave ice cre
  
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• Major Orange County freeway closures planned: April 4-11

  04-04-2020 01:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Here are major construction project closures happening on Orange County’s freeways and toll roads between April 4 and April 11, according to the Orange County Transportation Authority, Caltrans and the Transportation Corridor Agencies. The public is asked by officials to travel only for essential jobs and errands to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. 
  57 Freeway
  Southbound #1, #2 and #3 lanes from Tonner Canyon Road/Brea Canyon Road to Imperial Highway/State Route 90:10 p.m. Mon
  
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• CDC recommends Americans wear face coverings in public to stem spread of coronavirus

  04-04-2020 01:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER, ZEKE MILLER and MIKE SCHNEIDER
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced new federal guidelines Friday recommending that Americans wear face coverings when in public to help fight the spread of the new coronavirus. The president immediately said he had no intention of following the advice himself, saying, “I’m choosing not to do it.”
  The new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention encourages people, especially in areas hit hard by
  
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