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• Orange County’s reported coronavirus cases hit 834; still 14 deaths

  05-04-2020 21:29 via ocregister.com
  
  The daily count of coronavirus cases in Orange County grew by 49 to a total of 834 from Saturday to Sunday, April 5, according to health officials.
  As of noon Sunday, the number of people in the county who have died from COVID-19 remained 14, with no new reports of deaths.
  Public health officials said 137 people were being treated in hospitals for COVID-19. Fifty-six of those patients were in intensive care.
  Although widely varying in population — ranging from about 87,000 to 360,000 &mdas
  
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• Coronavirus cases reported in Orange County grow to 834; still 14 deaths

  05-04-2020 21:29 via ocregister.com
  
  The daily count of coronavirus cases in Orange County grew by 49 to a total of 834 from Saturday to Sunday, April 5, according to health officials.
  As of noon Sunday, the number of people in the county who have died from COVID-19 remained 14, with no new reports of deaths.
  By Sunday, 137 people were being treated in hospitals for COVID-19. Fifty-six of those patients were in intensive care.
  Although widely varying in population, Anaheim, Irvine and Newport Beach show similar numbers  &ndash
  
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• Team Message: Trabuco Hills track and field

  05-04-2020 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowEditor’s note: OCVarsity is publishing messages and memories from coaches, athletes and others to tell the story about a spring sports season stopped by the coronavirus crisis. Details about this project can be found here.To the Trabuco Hills Track and Field Community,
  This was hard for me to put into words. Maybe you are like me, and you’re still trying to figure out how you feel about all of thi
  
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• Coach Message: JT Ayers tells Trabuco Hills track and field ‘our mission remains the same’

  05-04-2020 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowEditor’s note: OCVarsity is publishing messages and memories from Orange County coaches, athletes and others who have been affected by the coronavirus crisis. Details about this project can be found here.This is a message from JT Ayers, the Trabuco Hills track and field coach: 
  To the Trabuco Hills Track and Field Community,
  This was hard for me to put into words. Maybe you are like me, and you&rsq
  
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• Coach JT Ayers’ message to Trabuco Hills track and field: ‘Our mission remains the same’

  05-04-2020 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowEditor’s note: OCVarsity is publishing messages and memories from coaches, athletes and others to tell the story about a spring sports season stopped by the coronavirus crisis. Details about this project can be found here.To the Trabuco Hills Track and Field Community,
  This was hard for me to put into words. Maybe you are like me, and you’re still trying to figure out how you feel about all of thi
  
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• Pension bomb fuse just got shorter

  05-04-2020 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Homeowners have enough to worry about in the current coronavirus crisis.
  They face an April 10 deadline for the second installment of their annual property tax bill and there is no relief — yet — coming from either the governor’s office or the majority of county treasurer/tax collectors.
  Many taxpayers have been furloughed or laid off and the chances are high that property values throughout America will take a hit — even in California.
  How could things possibly get worse?
  
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• OCVarsity wants to hear from the spring sports coaches, athletes

  05-04-2020 20:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOCVarsity wants to help Orange County’s spring sports coaches and athletes share their messages and memories about their season.
  We know there were a lot of games and events that the coronavirus crisis took away.
  We want to give coaches and athletes a chance to share a message to their team, or share a memory about their season.
  We want to hear from others as well — athletic directors, fans, boost
  
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• Coronavirus: Southern California homebuying plummets 30% to 6-year low

  05-04-2020 20:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Coronavirus fallout has slashed Southern California house hunting to the lowest level in six-plus years, according to one real estate tracker.
  It’s been a wild few weeks for California housing amid a battle to halt the pandemic’s spread. As business limits grew statewide, at least 1.5 million Californians filed for unemployment benefits.
  ReportsOnHousing tracks brokers’ listing services to gauge how many existing homes are for sale and pending sales contracts. The latest result
  
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• U.S. ‘wasted’ months before preparing for coronavirus pandemic

  05-04-2020 20:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL BIESECKER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment.
  A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies largely waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirat
  
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• The toxic side effects of coronavirus lockdowns

  05-04-2020 19:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Panic is dangerous. More people can be killed by the stampede than by whatever triggered it.
  Unfortunately, public officials in California have an incentive to fan the flames of panic.
  How else can a handful of elected officials with no specialized knowledge of anything except fundraising persuade millions of people to obey their directives to stay in their homes, watching from a distance as they lose their jobs and savings? It goes against human nature to sit quietly while being destroyed.
  Ther
  
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• California economy clobbered —for how long?

  05-04-2020 19:47 via ocregister.com
  
  We’ve all seen slow motion video clips of horrific damage from head-on automobile collisions staged in auto safety testing facilities.
  Something like that is happening to California’s economy.
  Until a few weeks ago, the globe’s fifth largest economy was humming along with record-high output and record-low unemployment. Employers were begging for workers and state and local governments were enjoying revenue surges.
  “California’s unemployment rate remained at its reco
  
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• The blessing of time on our hands

  05-04-2020 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Last week, I finally swallowed my pride and went to my local grocery store during their special senior shopping hour. This is a tough pill to swallow, especially in Hollywood, were too many candles on a birthday cake has killed more careers than the House Un-American Activities Committee.
  I needed a few things, needed them so badly, I was willing to risk death to get them. Toilet paper (of course) because we all recognize, toilet paper is the foundation upon which civilization is built, the only
  
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• Longtime Dana Point Harbor businesses fight to stay relevant despite coronavirus shutdown

  05-04-2020 18:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Donna Kalez, who operates Dana Wharf Sportfishing and Whale Watching, has spent the last weeks issuing more than $100,000 in refunds to hundreds of people and groups who had booked whale watching and fishing trips.
  For a while, she was hopeful trips booked in April might still be valid. But, earlier this week when President Donald Trump announced a continuing shut down to reduce the spread of coronavirus until the end of April, Kalez realized it was over for a popular, sold-out eight-hour whale
  
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• Former Los Angeles Rams kicker Tom Dempsey dies after contracting coronavirus

  05-04-2020 17:52 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS — Former NFL kicker Tom Dempsey, who played in the NFL despite being born without toes on his kicking foot and made a record 63-yard field goal, died late Saturday while struggling with complications from the new coronavirus, his daughter said. He was 73 years old.
  The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate first reported Dempsey’s death. Ashley Dempsey said Sunday that her father, who has resided in an assisted living home for several years after being diagnos
  
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• Take a #StayAtHome virtual tour of Disneyland with these 88 movies and shows during coronavirus shutdown

  05-04-2020 17:41 via ocregister.com
  
  From a galaxy far, far away to a whole new world, you can bring a piece of Disneyland home even if you can’t go to the Anaheim theme park during the continuing coronavirus closure.
  Join us as we take a virtual trip around Disneyland with our Disney+ #StayAtHome watchlist of 88 movies, shows and shorts inspired by each land of the park.
  There’s something available on the Disney+ streaming service from every corner of the park — from Main Street U.S.A. to Star Wars: Galaxy’
  
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• Coronavirus: Paid sick days save all of our lives

  05-04-2020 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Adam Schlesinger and his Fountains of Wayne co-writer Chris Collingwood created better, sadder, funnier songs about the angst of lonely women amid the awful blandness of office culture than anyone in American pop music. Their only contemporary rivals at making short-story like workplace scenes within the tiny confines of a tune are the English band Squeeze.
  For those who are less than fan-boys, the Schlesinger songs you know are the MTV hit “Stacy’s Mom,” who definitely had it
  
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• Letter to our readers from SCNG publisher and president Ron Hasse

  05-04-2020 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Dear Valued Readers,
  Right now, the breadth and scope of the challenges facing public health, let alone social and economic wellbeing, seem overwhelming. The coronavirus outbreak is the most serious crisis the world has faced in generations.
  At Southern California News Group, it is our sacred trust to meet readers’ needs for knowledge about the current public health crisis, and so much more.
  The demand for our local news coverage, and people’s appreciation for it, have never been gre
  
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• Former Trabuco Hills, Saddleback College standout pitcher Ryan Poe, 42, dies after infection

  05-04-2020 09:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Former Trabuco Hills High and Saddleback College standout pitcher Ryan Poe, 42, who became a successful youth baseball coach and a volunteered with Roosevelt High of Eastvale, died Friday at an Upland hospital from a staph infection that led to septic shock, his wife, Shelly, said.
  Poe, the father of four children, suffered a sudden medical decline after injuring his collarbone March 28, his wife said.
  Shelly said her husband was found to have undiagnosed diabetes and tested negative for the nov
  
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• Tenants advocates, landlord groups both say coronavirus eviction ban falls short

  05-04-2020 05:16 via ocregister.com
  
  In the week after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a statewide ban on evicting tenants unable to pay their rent because of the coronavirus outbreak, complaints surfaced from tenants and landlord advocates alike who say the executive order leaves both unprotected.
  Tenants rights advocates complained that while the governor’s order forbids the ouster of renters affected by the pandemic for 60 days, it doesn’t stop landlords from starting the process by filing new eviction cases in court.
  Durin
  
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• President Trump to view Riverside Harvest church’s streaming Palm Sunday service

  05-04-2020 04:51 via ocregister.com
  
  As many Christians plan to welcome the Holy Week from their homes through online streams due to the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that he will be tuning in to a stream of Riverside’s Harvest Christian Fellowship’s services on Sunday.
  “Palm Sunday is the beginning of a Holy week for many people of Faith and a great day to lift our voices in Prayer,” Trump said in his tweet.Palm Sunday is the beginning of a Holy week for many people of Fai
  
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• Watch as hundreds gather to show support to those at Mission Hospital

  05-04-2020 01:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Health care workers at Mission Hospital Mission Viejo look out the windows, some waving and others taking photos and video as hundreds of people fill the parking lot below on Thursday evening, April 2, 2020, in Mission Viejo, to show their support during the coronavirus pandemic.
  Members of the Crossline Community Church organized the gathering on social media which brought music, prayer as well as honking horns and flashing hazard lights in show of support for the doctors, nurses and patients a
  
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• Storm expected to bring unseasonable rain, cold to Southern California

  05-04-2020 00:30 via ocregister.com
  
  A powerful storm is expected to bring up to 2 inches of rain in Southern California valley and coastal areas and 6 inches of precipitation in the mountains starting Sunday, April 5, before it exits the region on Thursday, the National Weather Service said.
  The heaviest rain is expected Monday, but the biggest impact could come Tuesday, when the lowest temperatures of the slow-moving storm are forecast and the snow level — as low as 4,000 feet — could make travel on the 5 Freeway in t
  
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• LA County reports 28 new coronavirus deaths, pushing toll to 117

  05-04-2020 00:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles County reported 28 new deaths and 711 new cases of the coronavirus Saturday, April 4, bringing the county’s total to 117 deaths and 5,277 cases of the virus.
  Of those whose deaths were reported Saturday, officials said, 21 had underlying health conditions and 17 were over the age of 65. Nine people who died were between the ages of 18 and 65; six people who died in this age group had underlying health conditions.
  “This is the most dramatic increase in deaths we have seen
  
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• In biggest surge so far, LA County reports 28 new coronavirus deaths, 711 new cases

  05-04-2020 00:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Charting the biggest one-day leaps in Los Angeles County since the pandemic began, health officials reported 28 new deaths and 711 new cases of the novel coronavirus Saturday, April 4, bringing the county’s total to 117 deaths and 5,277 cases of the virus.
  Of those whose deaths were reported Saturday, officials said, 21 had underlying health conditions and 17 were over the age of 65. Nine people who died were between the ages of 18 and 65; six people who died in this age group had underlyi
  
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• Gov. Newsom says ‘I own’ coronavirus testing backlog in California

  05-04-2020 00:09 via ocregister.com
  
  California is making progress on reducing a massive backlog of coronavirus tests that experts had said made it hard to get a handle on the true spread of the deadly virus in the state, which now has more than 12,000 confirmed cases.
  At a news conference on Saturday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said he owned the backlog and announced that the number of tests pending had been reduced from nearly 60,000 to about 13,000. Newsom said the delay was personally frustrating, with some people waiting 12 days to get
  
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