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• Boat capsizes at Lower Trestles as surfers try to score epic, empty waves

  08-04-2020 23:33
  
  The lure of empty waves at Lower Trestles was tempting, but the plan was foiled by the ocean.
  A live Surfline.com cam showed a boat at the famed surf break just south of San Clemente pounded by waves Wednesday afternoon and pushed to shore as State Parks lifeguards watched and waited for the vessel to hit dry land.
  It wasn’t immediately known whose boat it was, if they indeed caught any waves or if they’d face a fine for their attempts to bring in a boat to surf perfect 4- to 6-foot
  
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• Recall of Westminster mayor, two council members headed to failure

  08-04-2020 23:22
  
  In a recall election targeting three officials, Westminster voters apparently have decided to leave in office Mayor Tri Ta and council members Kimberly Ho and Chi Charlie Nguyen.
  Preliminary election results on Wednesday, April 8, showed early voters rejecting each of the three separate recall efforts. Ballots mailed in earlier this week are still being counted. They had to be postmarked by Tuesday.
  “The voters have given us a clear mandate and we take this mandate as a sacred duty to repr
  
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• A persistent storm system isn’t done yet with Southern California; more rain likely on the way

  08-04-2020 23:22
  
  A storm system that already has drenched much of Southern California this week isn’t done yet: Forecasters say it could drop another inch or so of rain in some areas before it finishes up Friday afternoon.
  This system has brought seven inches in Lytle Creek in San Bernardino County as of Wednesday afternoon. At Mountain High Ski Resort, officials reported 31 inches of snow, officials said. Coldwater Canyon in Orange County has seen more than five inches of rain over the past two days.
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• Alexis Lafreniere tops NHL’s draft-eligible prospects list

  08-04-2020 22:42
  
  When the NHL suspended the season March 12 because of the coronavirus outbreak, the Kings had the fourth-worst record and the Ducks had the fifth-worst mark in the 31-team league, giving them good odds to move up in the draft lottery and perhaps even secure the No. 1 pick.
  The league postponed the lottery and the draft, but Wednesday it revealed its final draft rankings for eligible players. As expected, Alexis Lafreniere retained the top spot in the rankings of North American skaters after lead
  
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• How Los Angeles band New Language found a way to perform together while isolating apart

  08-04-2020 22:41
  
  For a band itching to play new music, the timing for the release of New Language’s latest song couldn’t have been worse.
  About a week after Los Angeles based alt-rock band dropped new track “No Time,” the stay-at-home order was issued in Los Angeles.
  Since they all live in different homes, they couldn’t get together to rehearse the new music or even perform online.
  So like other musicians who are posting performances, New Language, which formed in 2016 and has playe
  
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• Disneyland reaches furlough agreement with union employees

  08-04-2020 22:32
  
  Disneyland has reached an agreement with hourly union employees on a temporary furlough triggered by the continuing closure of the Anaheim theme park during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  The agreement on a furlough beginning April 19 was reached with the Independent Employee Service Association that represents Disneyland security employees.
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• Park Life: Disneyland, Knott’s and Six Flags halt monthly payments and Disney furloughs employees

  08-04-2020 22:31
  
  Why did it take so long for theme parks to halt monthly payments by their most loyal fans? When will furloughs begin for Disneyland employees? What should you watch during the coronavirus closure of all 12 Disney parks? Find all the latest theme park news in the Park Life newsletter.
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• At Santa Anita racetrack, coronavirus cuts off horse caretakers from outside world

  08-04-2020 22:26
  
  More than 750 backstretch workers at Santa Anita racetrack now live and work in isolation, largely cut off from the outside world and increasingly from each other to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
  They sleep in worn dormitories, sometimes in pairs, tucked among the racetrack’s barns. New restrictions bar visitors, and even horse owners, from entering the historic grounds at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains.
  And though nothing prevents the workers from leaving the 320-acre Arcadia par
  
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• Garden Grove Unified donates 3,245 face masks to UCI Medical Center, CHOC

  08-04-2020 22:12
  
  Garden Grove teacher Janet Rudner discovered a treasure in her first aid kit at school. In fact, she found four — the much coveted N95 masks that can help protect against coronavirus.
  If each first aid kit in every classroom at Walton Intermediate School had four N95 masks, she figured, that could mean more than 100 masks at her campus alone. And if that was repeated across the Garden Grove Unified School District, that’s a lot of masks.
  “I thought if the hospitals need them, w
  
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• Orange County contract bus drivers laid off or furloughed as coronavirus shrinks ridership

  08-04-2020 21:56
  
  Two companies the Orange County Transportation Authority contracts with for drivers are laying off or furloughing employees as bus ridership drops during the coronavirus pandemic and service is reduced in response.
  The OCTA contracts with MV Transportation and First Transit for about 40% of the agency’s bus service, OCTA spokesman Eric Carpenter said in an e-mail. It’s own 650 drivers are not being affected by the job losses.
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• Live from the ocean: Whale watching company streaming virtual tours to help with coronavirus isolation

  08-04-2020 21:55
  
  There’s nothing like seeing a pod of 1,000 dolphins diving and flipping through the ocean off the Dana Point Headlands to feel uplifted.
  At least, that’s what Dave and Gisele Anderson, who operate Capt. Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Watching Safari out of Dana Point Harbor, think. So with their business at a stand-still because of the coronavirus shutdown, the couple has come up with a way to still bring whale and dolphin watching to Orange County and beyond.
  On Wednesday, April 8,
  
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• Centennial Corona football schedules clash with national power St. Frances of Maryland; adds wide receiver Malachi Riley of Calabasas

  08-04-2020 21:51
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowCentennial Corona’s football team is borrowing a page from Mater Dei’s playbook of 2019.
  The Huskies have scheduled a nonleague game on Sept. 4 with national powerhouse St. Frances Academy of Baltimore, Maryland at Cathedral Catholic in San Diego, Centennial coach Matt Logan confirmed.
  Last season, Mater Dei defeated St. Frances 34-18 in the Trinity League vs. The USA showcase at St. John Bosco.
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• Almost a third of tenants fail to pay April rent on time after coronavirus outbreak

  08-04-2020 21:28
  
  Almost a third of U.S. apartment tenants failed to pay their rent on time this month, according to a new survey by the National Multifamily Housing Council, the first indicator of how much distress renters and landlords face in the months ahead due to the coronavirus outbreak.
  Thirty-one percent of apartment households failed to pay any of their rent as of April 5, according to the “NMHC Rent Payment Tracker,” which aggregated data from several of the nation’s top apartment dat
  
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• Laguna Woods Village activates emergency operation center, furloughs 200 staffers until June

  08-04-2020 21:17
  
  In a special announcement during the Golden Rain Foundation meeting on Tuesday, April 7, Village Management Services Security Chief Carlos Rojas shared an update on the management company’s COVID-19 response.
  In coordination with Orange County Health Care Agency, Orange County Sheriff’s Department and Orange County Fire Authority, Rojas and his team have instituted phase two of emergency response, which includes activating an emergency operations center, based at the Laguna Woods Vil
  
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• San Clemente Mayor Dan Bane to resign, is moving out of state

  08-04-2020 21:16
  
  San Clemente Mayor Dan Bane will leave his seat on the City Council to take a job out-of-state.
  Bane made the announcement at the council meeting Tuesday, April 7. He said he will submit his resignation at 5:59 p.m. on April 21, just before the start of his last City Council meeting.
  Bane, his wife, and 1-year-old daughter will move back to his hometown of Blue Springs, Mo., where he will take a job as vice president and general counsel at Meyer Laboratory Inc., a firm that manufactures and sell
  
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• Big Tech surveillance and our privacy

  08-04-2020 20:30
  
  Everyone seems anxious to help out during the coronavirus pandemic.
  Google, for example, has created online reports in 131 countries to help governments find out where people have been.
  The company says the published information will not include any personally identifiable information, such as the location, contacts and movements of any single person.
  Google will only provide anonymous, aggregated data to show how many people visited six different types of destinations.
  Google knows who has visi
  
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• More CSUF students in need of food or financial assistance after transition to virtual campus

  08-04-2020 20:26
  
  Student requests for help with basic necessities haven’t decreased since Cal State Fullerton became a virtual campus — they have actually gone up.
  Tuffy’s Basic Needs Service Center has been hearing from more students who are in need of food or financial assistance since the new coronavirus pandemic prompted officials to transition to online classrooms, said Victoria Ajemian, basic needs center coordinator.
  “A lot of it is based around their financial impact, specifically
  
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• Coronavirus slowdown: Orange County toll road traffic plunges 67%

  08-04-2020 20:23
  
  Orange County’s toll roads lost two-third of their traffic in the coronavirus “stay at home” era.
  My trusty spreadsheet, filled with data from the Transportation Corridor Agencies and Orange County Transportation Authority, found Orange County drivers took 728,495 trips on the three local toll roads in the last week of March — that’s down 67% from the pre-coronavirus travel pace and off from 1.06 million trips the previous seven days.
  The Foothill-Eastern (241/261/1
  
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• Study abroad students at CSUF still shaken by sudden evacuations prompted by coronavirus pandemic

  08-04-2020 20:09
  
  Marley Uyemura was taking a spring break from her studies at Waseda University in Tokyo and looking forward to the 2020 Olympics this summer when she got an urgent email telling her to come home immediately.
  Uyemura counts herself lucky that she didn’t have to sign out of her classes like many of her friends did. But she was disappointed to have to leave the university she had attended for the last seven months and the elderly Japanese couple who had served as her hosts and helped her work
  
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• Best thing I ate: This is the best barbecue in Orange County, and it’s available now

  08-04-2020 20:02
  
  There isn’t a single food that I crave more frequently yet eat more rarely than real Texas-style barbecue brisket. This is the comfort food of my upbringing. 
  Thus there probably hasn’t been another new restaurant that I’ve looked forward to more than Heritage Barbecue, a genuine Texas-style smokehouse currently under construction in San Juan Capistrano. 
  I’ve been following Heritage Barbecue on Instagram for a couple of years as its founders Daniel and Brenda C
  
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• Newsom’s profligate agenda put on hold by coronavirus

  08-04-2020 19:54
  
  Faced with the unknown but certainly detrimental economic fallout prompted by the coronavirus outbreak, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature will need to put their most ambitious ideas on hold. We encourage state officials to keep the focus of any new spending commitments limited to addressing the impact of COVID-19, and be willing to make cuts where it makes sense.
  “The January budget is no longer operable,” Newsom said last week. “The world has radically changed since
  
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• ‘Remarkable’ nitric oxide being tested as coronavirus drug

  08-04-2020 19:51
  
  A drug known to relax blood vessels could help coronavirus patients with severely damaged lungs and will be tested at Massachusetts General Hospital
  The Boston hospital will be the first in the nation to rigorously test nitric oxide in coronavirus patients.
  “It’s a pretty remarkable drug,” said Dr. Lorenzo Berra, the critical-care specialist at Massachusetts General who is overseeing the new, international trial. “It has a risk profile that is minimal.”
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• Nitric oxide is one of 4 potential new coronavirus drugs now being tested

  08-04-2020 19:51
  
  A drug known to relax blood vessels could help coronavirus patients with severely damaged lungs and will be tested at Massachusetts General Hospital
  The Boston hospital will be the first in the nation to rigorously test nitric oxide in coronavirus patients.
  “It’s a pretty remarkable drug,” said Dr. Lorenzo Berra, the critical-care specialist at Massachusetts General who is overseeing the new, international trial. “It has a risk profile that is minimal.”
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• Nitric oxide —delivered through breathing machine — being tested as coronavirus drug

  08-04-2020 19:51
  
  A drug known to relax blood vessels could help coronavirus patients with severely damaged lungs and will be tested at Massachusetts General Hospital
  The Boston hospital will be the first in the nation to rigorously test nitric oxide in coronavirus patients.
  “It’s a pretty remarkable drug,” said Dr. Lorenzo Berra, the critical-care specialist at Massachusetts General who is overseeing the new, international trial. “It has a risk profile that is minimal.”
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• Congress is bankrupting America

  08-04-2020 19:46
  
  Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump signed the largest stimulus bill in U.S. history: more than $2 trillion.
  For once, both Republicans and Democrats agreed. The Senate voted 96-0. The House didn’t even bother with a formal vote.
  At the White House, a reporter asked the president, pointing out that the bill includes $25 million for the Kennedy Center, “Shouldn’t that money be going to masks?”
  “The Kennedy Center has suffered greatly because nobody can go there,&rd
  
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• Disneyland All-American band suspends 50th anniversary season due to COVID-19 pandemic

  08-04-2020 19:39
  
  The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Disneyland All-American College Band to suspend the upcoming 2020 summer season that would have marked the organization’s 50th anniversary at the Anaheim theme park.
  “As these times continue to prove unprecedented and ever-changing, we have made the difficult decision to suspend the All-American College Band program for 2020,” the organization posted on its Facebook page. “Due to the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemi
  
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• Laguna Beach hillside home designed by J. Lamont Langworthy seeks $1.5 million

  08-04-2020 19:28
  
  A view of the interior from the family room. (Photo by Modern Take)
  A glimpse of the kitchen. (Photo by Modern Take)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsThe open floor plan. (Photo by Modern Take)
  The deck. (Photo by Modern Take)
  A view of the deck. (Photo by Modern Take)
  The lush, tropical garden has a koi pond and a running stream with a bridge. (Photo by Modern Take)
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• Coach Message: Gabriel Cota tells seniors they have ‘elevated Irvine baseball’

  08-04-2020 19:21
  
  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 Irvine baseball coach Gabriel Cota to the seniors on his team, followed by his memories of each player:
  Dear 2020 Seniors,
  Although this year ended without expected closure, I wou
  
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• Coach Message: Gabriel Cota tells seniors they ‘elevated Irvine baseball’

  08-04-2020 19:21
  
  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 Irvine baseball coach Gabriel Cota to the seniors on his team, followed by his memories of each player:
  Dear 2020 Seniors,
  Although this year ended without expected closure, I wou
  
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• How California has contained coronavirus — and New York has not

  08-04-2020 18:56
  
  As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the country, a surprising trend has emerged: California, an early hot spot that logged its first infection in January, has seen its outbreak grow far slower than other states along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts that didn’t even record a case until last month.
  New York, with about half California’s population, marked its first COVID-19 infection March 1. That same day, its mayor urged residents on Twitter to “get out on the town” while his
  
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• Whicker: Is college football more ‘essential’ than coronavirus precautions?

  08-04-2020 18:31
  
  Our kids can’t learn together, our families can’t worship together, and the assembly lines are as silent as the freeways.
  Few of us really like it. Most of us can handle it. But most of us aren’t college football coaches. As their scepters and crowns slip away in the harsh adversity they once defined as a fumble, some have succumbed to the panic.
  Dabo Swinney of Clemson predicts that his game will return on schedule in the fall, just as large and in charge as it was before the
  
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• Tom Brady says it was ‘just time’ to leave Patriots

  08-04-2020 18:20
  
  TAMPA, Fla. — Tom Brady says it was “just time” to move on from the New England Patriots and begin another chapter in his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
  The six-time Super Bowl champion spoke Wednesday about a wide range of topics in an interview spanning more than two hours with radio talk-show host Howard Stern, including his marriage, Patriots coach Bill Belichick and the decision to leave New England after a historic 20-year run.
  “I would say I probably knew be
  
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• San Clemente closes beaches, trails in response to crowding during coronavirus outbreak

  08-04-2020 18:15
  
  As other areas shut down beaches to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, San Clemente became a go-to place for crowds looking to enjoy the coast.
  That’s just one of the reasons the city decided to shut down its beaches, effective April 8, along with its popular ocean-front trail and the trails along Sea Summit on the north end of town, the city’s announcement said.
  “The fact that every beach in LA and San Diego were closed, now is the time given the critical nature in the n
  
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• Sanders drops 2020 presidential bid, leaving Biden as likely Democratic nominee

  08-04-2020 17:37
  
  By WILL WEISSERT
  WASHINGTON  — Sen. Bernie Sanders, who saw his once strong lead in the Democratic primary evaporate as the party’s establishment lined swiftly up behind rival Joe Biden, ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, an acknowledgment that the former vice president is too far ahead for him to have any reasonable hope of catching up.
  The Vermont senator’s announcement makes Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge President Donald Trump in November.
  
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• Rain and snow will continue to fall on Southern California

  08-04-2020 17:18
  
  LOS ANGELES — Heavy snow fell Wednesday on the San Gabriel Mountains and will produce up to 9 inches of accumulation as rain continued to hit other areas of Southern California, National Weather Service forecasters said.
  A winter storm warning in effect in the San Gabriels will expire at 5 a.m. Friday.
  Travel in the San Gabriels ‘could be very difficult to impossible,” according to an NWS statement. “If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in your ve
  
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• ‘Record Safari’ film follows cross-country trek for records to sell at Coachella festival

  08-04-2020 17:14
  
  Alex Rodriguez chases his high in antique stores and obscure record shops across the country. He flips through musical history by hand, seeking out treasures to fill up his Ford Fusion as he hits the road again.
  The 40-year-old’s addiction to vinyl is now the subject of a documentary, “Record Safari,” which follows him around the country on one of his yearly road trips as he searches for albums to fill the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival record store.
  “Since I wa
  
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• Donations pile up outside Goodwill centers under coronavirus restrictions

  08-04-2020 16:00
  
  The coronavirus health crisis that’s changing so much of American life is wreaking havoc on a world that serves as an economic stopgap in Southern California – the operations of Goodwill Industries and the Salvation Army.
  Consider just one element of those businesses: Goodwill donations.
  Though housebound people this month continue to drop off excess stuff at Goodwill collection sites, those donations aren’t getting into the organization’s retail supply chain. In recent w
  
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• Coronavirus shutdown: unprecedented impact on Goodwill, Salvation Army

  08-04-2020 16:00
  
  The coronavirus health crisis that’s changing so much of American life is wreaking havoc on a world that serves as an economic stopgap in Southern California – the operations of Goodwill Industries and the Salvation Army.
  Consider just one element of those businesses: Goodwill donations.
  Though housebound people this month continue to drop off excess stuff at Goodwill collection sites, those donations aren’t getting into the organization’s retail supply chain. In recent w
  
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• Newport Beach closes West Jetty Park next to The Wedge during coronavirus outbreak

  08-04-2020 15:37
  
  West Jetty View Park at the end of the Balboa Peninsula will be closed starting Wednesday, April 8. Officials said youth especially haven’t been following social distancing orders when gathering there.
  The small park next to The Wedge is popular among locals and visitors as a place to watch surfers do some dramatic wave riding.
  More youth hanging out at the park during recent high swells prompted the city to take action, officials said.
  “Already tight areas have seen influxes of peop
  
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• Orange County says coronavirus hardship could be reason to waive late property tax penalties

  08-04-2020 15:28
  
  The deadline to pay Orange County property taxes remains Friday, April 10, but property owners may cite the coronavirus as a reason they want any late fees erased, OC Treasurer-Tax Collector Shari Friedenrich said.
  Some taxpayers have been seeking to get the deadline pushed back, as has been done for state and federal income taxes, but Friedenrich has said the state legislature sets the due date and she can’t change it.
  But on Tuesday, April 7, she had some good news after consulting with
  
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• CDC weighs loosening guidelines for some exposed to coronavirus

  08-04-2020 15:14
  
  By ZEKE MILLER
  WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering changing its guidelines for self-isolation to make it easier for those who have been exposed to someone with the coronavirus to return to work if they are asymptomatic.
  The public health agency, in conjunction with the White House coronavirus task force, is considering an announcement as soon as Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence said.
  Under the proposed guidance, people who are exposed to someone i
  
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• Social distancing in the unemployment line: Political Cartoons

  08-04-2020 15:00
  
  Rams wide receiver Tavon Austin runs a route during practice at UCI on Thursday. Paulina Mendez hopes to provide a space for aspiring female engineers to discuss obstacles and achievements. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume inseconds Michael Young of Laguna Niguel dresses the part as he waits for the start of the the Turkey Trot 10k in Dana Point on Thursday. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Orange County Register/SCNG) The Clippers' Blake Griffin shoots
  
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• Wuhan ends lockdown; Virus strains medical workers to limits

  08-04-2020 14:16
  
  By DANICA KIRKA AND ELENA BECATOROS
  LONDON — After 76 days in lockdown, the Chinese city at the heart of the global pandemic reopened Wednesday and tens of thousands immediately hopped on trains and planes to leave. Elsewhere, the economic, political and psychological toll of fighting the virus grew increasingly clear and more difficult to bear.
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent a second night in intensive care, the first major world leader confirmed to have COVID-19. His conditio
  
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• Orange County Diocese expects campuses to stay closed for rest of this school year due to coronavirus

  08-04-2020 06:36
  
  The Orange County Diocese announced Tuesday that its schools are expected to remain physically closed for the remainder of this academic year because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, a move that aligns the Trinity League members with most public districts in Orange County.
  Brea Olinda and Santa Ana are the only public school districts in Orange County that have not announced closures for the rest of this school year.
  The Diocese hoped its students would return to campuses around May 4
  
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• Coronavirus has now infected at least nine OCFA firefighters

  08-04-2020 06:34
  
  At least nine Orange County Fire Authority firefighters had contracted the novel coronavirus as of Tuesday, April 7.
  So far, four of those patients have recovered, Orange County Fire Authority spokeswoman Colleen Windsor said.
  Many of those cases were reported early during the outbreak of COVID-19 in Orange County, OCFA Chief Brian Fennessy said in a statement posted to social media on Tuesday.
  “That was early on, several weeks ago, and many of them have already returned to work,” Fe
  
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• Racehorse dies while training at Los Alamitos; 2-year-old had never raced

  08-04-2020 05:35
  
  LOS ALAMITOS (CNS) – Royal Callan Rocks, a 2-year-old colt who had not yet competed in a race, died during training Thursday at Los Alamitos Race Course, state records show.
  The horse, trained by Jose A Flores, was training on the dirt track Thursday, but no other information was immediately available.
  The California Horse Racing Board reported the death.
  Attempts to reach the track for comment Tuesday were not successful.
  Two horses died at Los Alamitos last month: Flokie, a 2-year-old ge
  
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• Coronavirus: California scrambles to issue extra $600 jobless payments

  08-04-2020 05:18
  
  More than 2 million Californians have recently filed for jobless benefits, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday, and state officials are scrambling to get newly out-of-work residents the larger unemployment benefits enabled by the federal CARES Act to ease coronavirus-spawned economic devastation.
  Gov. Newsom estimated at a news briefing on Tuesday, April 7 that about 2.3 million people have filed claims for unemployment insurance, a grim assessment that is likely only to intensify pressure to begin t
  
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• San Onofre State Beach, including Lower Trestles, closed to public amid coronavirus concerns

  08-04-2020 04:30
  
  If you were hoping to sneak down to Lower Trestles or San Onofre State Beach as this week’s swell hits, don’t bother making the trek.
  State Parks officials announced they are closing the popular surf breaks and the beach to the public, effective at 7 p.m. on April 7, according to Orange Coast Superintendent Kevin Pearsall.
  The closure was announced just before a new swell hits the region, expected to bring 4- foot to 6-foot waves by Thursday and Friday, according to Surfline.com.
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• Celebrated singer-songwriter John Prine has died at 73

  08-04-2020 04:09
  
  By MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press
  John Prine, the ingenious singer-songwriter who explored the heartbreaks, indignities and absurdities of everyday life in “Angel from Montgomery,” “Sam Stone,” “Hello in There” and scores of other indelible tunes, died Tuesday at the age of 73.
  His family announced his death from complications from the coronavirus; he died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, where he had been hospitalized last mon
  
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• Man arrested for alleged price gouging during coronavirus fears, selling box of N95 masks for $300

  08-04-2020 03:50
  
  Baldwin Park police had received a tip about a Craigslist advertisement of N95 respirator masks for sale.
  The listed price for a single box of 20 masks, which are currently in short supply in hospitals across the nation during the new coronavirus pandemic: $300.
  Detectives wearing plain clothes and posing as buyers contacted the man behind the post and met with him on Tuesday morning at a shopping center parking lot in West Covina, police said. As a part of the ruse, the detectives exchanged the
  
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