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• Insurance companies ordered to refund premiums to California drivers amid coronavirus shutdown

  13-04-2020 23:55
  
  With shelter-in-place restrictions in place throughout the state amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many Californians are likely wondering why they’re still forking over money for auto insurance.
  Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Laura was wondering the same thing, and it prompted him to institute some temporary reforms.
  Laura announced Monday, April 13 that insurance companies must provide a premium credit, reduction, return of premium or other appropriate adjustments as soon as possible — an
  
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• Spring wrap-up: Q&A with Buena Park baseball coach Cody Gutierrez

  13-04-2020 23:30
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowEditor’s note: The Orange County Register is having the area’s spring sports coaches take part in a Q&A about the 2020 season that was cut short by the coronavirus crisis.
  Cody Gutierrez, Buena Park baseball
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: It’s been a little rough. I have been keeping myself busy with projects around the house and preparing our baseba
  
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• Rams sign two kickers to try to replace Greg Zuerlein

  13-04-2020 22:55
  
  The Rams have signed two kickers as potential replacements for Greg Zuerlein.
  The team announced on its website Monday afternoon that it has signed Lirim Hajrullahu, a Grey Cup hero in the Canadian Football League, and Austin MacGinnis, the leading field-goal kicker in the short-lived XFL.
  The two presumably will compete to fill the right shoe of Zuerlein, who signed with the Dallas Cowboys as a free agent March 27 after eight years with the Rams.
  Contract terms weren’t announced.
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• 14,000 people have been tested for coronavirus in Orange County as of April 13

  13-04-2020 22:44
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 1,283 confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Monday, April 13.
  Another 647 people had been tested according to the county’s latest update, bringing the total number of tests in the county to 14,175 – that works out to about four residents per 10,000.
  There were nine new cases of the virus noted, but that was with 21 of 25 Orange County hospitals reporting in.
  No new deaths were reported. So far, 19 Orange County residents have died from
  
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• Ducks players, families, pledge meals for staff at UCI Medical Center

  13-04-2020 22:38
  
  Amid the ubiquitous uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ducks players and their significant others sought to ease the burden on medical professionals as they pledged 200 meals a day for staff at UCI Medical Center.
  Ducks owners Henry and Susan Samueli had recently become the first North American pro sports ownership group to pledge to pay all part-time workers through June 30 as they sought to provide peace of mind during what has become an indefinite disruption of commerce, socialization
  
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• Coronavirus: Gov. Newsom says West Coast coordinating plans to end lockdowns

  13-04-2020 22:22
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a West Coast plan Monday for ending the statewide stay-home order he imposed March 19 to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic that will be coordinated with Oregon and Washington.
  The announcement came on a day when a widely respected model for predicting the hospital impact of the coronavirus said California would see its demand on hospital resources peak, a date about a month earlier of when Gov. Newsom has suggested the peak would hit.
  But Newsom said
  
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• Stimulus checks are coming – for some. Here’s what to know

  13-04-2020 22:13
  
  By Sarah Skidmore Sell, The Associated Press
  Americans are beginning to see the first economic impact payments hit their bank accounts.
  The IRS tweeted Saturday that it had begun depositing the funds into taxpayers’ bank accounts and would be working to get them out as fast as possible. The one-time payments were approved by Congress as part of an emergency relief package intended to combat the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic.
  The exact timing of when people get their money d
  
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• Newport Beach man helps NFL teams pick players

  13-04-2020 21:44
  
  With NFL free agency a hot news topic and the draft looming April 23-25, we introduce the best-kept secret in professional football, Mike Giddings.
  Most in the community know of the NFL’s connection to Newport Beach through Irrelevant Week, which has honored the last player picked in the draft since 1976.
  But few are aware of Giddings, a longtime Newport Beach resident and former pro and college football head coach. Giddings launched Proscout, Inc., a professional player evaluation service
  
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• Expecting a $12 million revenue hit, Laguna Beach furloughs employees, cuts spending

  13-04-2020 21:30
  
  Laguna Beach, a seaside town that relies heavily on tourism dollars to support city services, is expecting a $12 million loss in revenue as a result of the evolving coronavirus pandemic.
  Furloughs for some city workers will provide the biggest savings as city leaders adjust spending and put off some construction projects.
  The city’s general fund, which supports services such as police, fire and parks and recreation and community development, is expected to lose $6 million, which would be a
  
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• Spring wrap-up: Q&A with Newport Harbor baseball coach Evan Chalmers

  13-04-2020 21:19
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowEditor’s note: The Orange County Register is having the area’s spring sports coaches take part in a Q&A about the 2020 season that was cut short by the coronavirus crisis. Evan Chalmers, Newport Harbor baseball
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: I have two college-aged children and a freshman in high school. So having us all together is the silver lining
  
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• Sanders endorses former rival Biden for president

  13-04-2020 20:36
  
  By BILL BARROW and ALEXANDRA JAFFE
  WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders endorsed his former rival Joe Biden for president on Monday in a joint online appearance.
  “I am asking all Americans, I’m asking every Democrat, I’m asking every independent, I’m asking a lot of Republicans, to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy, which I endorse,” Sanders said.
  The backing is a crucial development for Biden, who must bridge the Democratic Party’s id
  
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• 13 ways coronavirus changed how we live, work, spend, play

  13-04-2020 20:20
  
  The battle against coronavirus is changing how we think about much of life.
  Various “stay at home” edicts have altered how we live, work, spend and play (or not!) … for better or worse. My email index is filled with data from opinion surveys and studies of consumer spending habits suggesting how the pandemic is altering society.
  Some switches are temporary, whether they may be needed twists or knee-jerk reactions. Other new habits will be long-run alterations due to re-alignme
  
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• These chain restaurants are selling cost-effective family bundles and do-it-yourself kits

  13-04-2020 19:56
  
  Even if you’re cooking at home for your family while you shelter in place due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, chances are you haven’t been shut in long enough to make chicken fried steak.
  Black Bear Diner has a solution for that: family meal bundles that put that blue plate special on your own crockery via take-out or home delivery.
  Bundles have become a popular promotion since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, offering people the opportunity to feed their families for less t
  
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• Conronavirus casts a dark cloud over once-thriving U.S. home market

  13-04-2020 19:53
  
  When Rebeka McBride and her husband put their home in Washington state on the market in early March, the coronavirus outbreak was just taking hold in the United States. They managed to hold two open houses and a smattering of private viewings before accepting an offer.
  But with the U.S. economy now collapsing, the family is less confident about their move to a Minneapolis suburb, where McBride sees brighter job prospects in her field of medical device research. She had worried that their buyer w
  
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• Daxon: Fetch some meals and support local businesses

  13-04-2020 19:51
  
  In my family, every Friday night was Friday Fetch.
  Friday Fetch meant that no one cooked dinner and instead we ordered take-out from our local restaurants.  We took turns choosing which restaurant to order from and always enjoyed it.
  And now, due to the coronavirus pandemic, we must stay home and to keep a 6-foot social distance when we venture out for groceries or other essentials. If we want a restaurant meal, we must fetch it curbside or have it delivered to our door.
  All of our restaura
  
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• One Metro West, proposing 1,057 apartments in Costa Mesa, at Planning Commission tonight

  13-04-2020 19:16
  
  A 15.23-acre residential and commercial project that’s been the talk of Costa Mesa for its square footage, height and density gets its first big public city hearing at the Planning Commission at 6 p.m. tonight, April 13.
  One Metro West would replace a warehouse used by Robinson Pharma and other industrial businesses between Sunflower Avenue and the 405 with a complex including six- and seven-story buildings holding 1,057 apartments, 25,000 square feet of offices and 6,000 square feet of re
  
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• How Stevie Wonder inspired this Orange County singer on ‘The Voice’ to quit his day job for music

  13-04-2020 19:16
  
  Nelson Cade III says he had a good thing going with his part-time career as a singer-guitarist as the spring of 2019 turned to summer.
  His day job paid the bills, but the four or five gigs he played each week were bringing in good money, too, and he could tell his musical chops were getting stronger and stronger.
  “I was trying to figure out, ‘Should I quit? When should I quit?’” the 27-year-old from Irvine says. “That’s when the whole Stevie Wonder thing happe
  
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• What you need to know about legal documents amid coronavirus pandemic

  13-04-2020 19:09
  
  Given the state of the world, and perhaps with some free time on your hands, your thoughts may have turned to getting your affairs in order. The current pandemic emphasizes just how important that is.
  But what does that mean in these emergency times, and how can you get these documents in place currently?
  Legal help
  Most attorneys are still working remotely or in-office for essential services, following protocols for social distancing and disinfecting. Legal documents are best done by attorneys
  
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• Trump says he’ll decide on easing guidelines, not governors

  13-04-2020 18:45
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ZEKE MILLER
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asserted Monday that he is the ultimate decision-maker for determining how and when to relax the nation’s social distancing guidelines as he grows anxious to reopen the coronavirus-stricken country as soon as possible.
  Governors and local leaders, who have instituted mandatory restrictions that have the force of law, have expressed concern that Trump’s plan to restore normalcy will cost lives and extend t
  
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• NASCAR’s Kyle Larson suspended for racial slur in virtual race

  13-04-2020 18:35
  
  By JENNA FRYER
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR star Kyle Larson was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR and without pay by Chip Ganassi Racing on Monday for using a racial slur on a live stream during a virtual race.
  Larson was competing in an iRacing event Sunday night when he appeared to lose communication on his headset with his spotter. During a check of his microphone, he said, “You can’t hear me?” That was followed by the N-word.
  “We are extremely disappointed by w
  
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• Putting strange time of coronavirus in focus for families, one image at a time

  13-04-2020 18:34
  
  Huntington Beach’s Joe Katchka cruised around town in his car, map in hand, texting each of the 40 or so families just minutes before his arrival to their homes.
  For some families, it was the first time they had plans in weeks – an excuse to get decked out, even put on some makeup. Some smiled wide for the porch portraits, while others wore face masks or stood six-feet away from family members on their lawns for their time-capsule memento.
  Tomi Ann Nerhus contacted Katchka to snap ph
  
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• Coronavirus patient’s recovery after 20 days on ventilator is a miracle for family, a welcome boost for doctors

  13-04-2020 18:08
  
  It was a story of Easter rebirth that one family needed very badly. And perhaps a medical team in Torrance — and healthcare workers everywhere — needed it even more.
  Carson resident Ramon Zuniga — who spent 28 days in the intensive care unit, 20 of them in a coma on a ventilator — went home from Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance on Easter Sunday.
  Zuniga had his family credit faith and perseverance. “This is a complete and total miracle,&rdquo
  
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• Have a movie night with one of these take out restaurants

  13-04-2020 18:00
  
  The weekend is coming up, which means an unlimited amount of content for a movie night. Grab a blanket, pick a film, and the most crucial choice to make – picking your food. Just like with movies, you have so many options of where to eat. You might be having a single night, date night, or even time with the entire family. But what matters the most is the dinner menu for the night. While all of these restaurants have been updating their safety and health regulations while closing their dini
  
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• Why Bob Iger is back fighting for Disney’s life

  13-04-2020 17:52
  
  The Walt Disney Co. turned franchises like Marvel and “Star Wars” into the biggest media business in the world, and last fall it was putting the finishing touches on the image of a storied character: its chief executive, Bob Iger.
  In late September, Iger, 69, published “The Ride of a Lifetime,” an engaging work of self-hagiography. The handsome executive, who seriously considered running for president this year, spent the next month on the kind of media tour that Disney i
  
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• Coronavirus: 42% of Orange County jobs in industries at high-risk of layoffs

  13-04-2020 17:26
  
  A new study estimates 42% of Orange County workers are in industries at high-risk of job loss.
  Researchers from the Economic Roundtable looked at statewide employment data and compared it with a job-loss risk list from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Fed economists found key employment traits with the highest risk factors due to business limitations imposed by the battle against the pandemic. The Economic Roundtable then translated those job-loss risk trends to California’s 39 large
  
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• Coronavirus test site opens Monday, April 13, at shuttered San Clemente hospital

  13-04-2020 17:25
  
  A new south Orange County coronavirus drive-thru testing site opens Monday, April 13, at the shuttered San Clemente hospital.
  Testing will be done by appointment for people who show telltale signs of the virus such as shortness of breath and fever. In order to be tested, people must have first contacted their doctor and secured a physician’s prescription for the test.
  The center is being opened in partnership with the city of San Clemente and MemorialCare. Testing will be done for 9 a.m. t
  
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• The Pac-12 Networks must rise to the occasion when football begins: We have an idea … a big idea

  13-04-2020 17:11
  
  When the new normal descends and college football awakens, the Pac-12 Networks will encounter the same challenges they have faced in the past, only against the backdrop of pandemic and devastation.
  The networks will need to engage their core audience, attract new viewers and promote the conference — all with an elevated sense of humanity.
  One analyst can help on every front.
  The Pac-12 should add Bill Walton to the football coverage.
  Whenever the season begins … whether it’s S
  
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• Bite Me Bambi’s videos show how ska still rocks Southern California

  13-04-2020 17:09
  
  With a lineup led by a face you may recognize from TV, Bite Me Bambi is a throwback to the heyday of Orange County’s ska-punk scene when bands like No Doubt, Reel Big Fish and Save Ferris exploded out of the area.
  Bite Me Bambi’s lineup includes members of OC bands My Superhero, Starpool and Save Ferris, so it’s no surprise the group keeps that musical sunshine alive and showing off its home turf in its latest videos.
  “We do very much have that original Orange County &rsq
  
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• Status Update: Los Angeles Chargers donate $100,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank

  13-04-2020 17:00
  
  Businesses in the South Coast Metro area have rallied to help local nonprofits and at-risk employees amid the coronavirus pandemic and related shutdowns. Here’s a brief rundown:
  Julie Buettner, general manager of the Courtyard Costa Mesa South Coast Metro, put together a recent donation of 500 facemasks for Kaiser Santa Ana. “So glad we had them. They were here within 10 minutes to pick them up,” she said.
  The Los Angeles Chargers, with their training facility in Orange County,
  
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• Status Update: LA Chargers donate $100,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank

  13-04-2020 17:00
  
  Businesses in the South Coast Metro area have rallied to help local nonprofits and at-risk employees amid the coronavirus pandemic and related shutdowns. Here’s a brief rundown:
  Julie Buettner, general manager of the Courtyard Costa Mesa South Coast Metro, put together a recent donation of 500 facemasks for Kaiser Santa Ana. “So glad we had them. They were here within 10 minutes to pick them up,” she said.
  The Los Angeles Chargers, with their training facility in Orange County,
  
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• Navy reports first coronavirus death from Roosevelt crew

  13-04-2020 16:46
  
  By ROBERT BURNS
  WASHINGTON — A member of the crew of the coronavirus-infected USS Theodore Roosevelt warship died Monday of complications related to the disease, the Navy said.
  The sailor, whose name and other identifying information were not publicly released pending notification of relatives, had tested positive for coronavirus on March 30 and was taken off the ship and placed in “isolation housing” along with four other sailors at the U.S. Navy base on Guam. On April 9, he w
  
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• New ‘Bachelor’: Very different, very Valley — with plenty of singing

  13-04-2020 16:41
  
  By STEVEN HERBERT | City News Service
  HOLLYWOOD – The newest element of the “Bachelor” franchise, “The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart,” premieres at 8 p.m. Monday with a two-hour episode.
  The six-episode series has 12 men and 11 women who are “talented musicians and people whose lives and work revolve around music” meeting and exploring their relationships while living together and going on “Bachelor”-style dates that focus on music, accordin
  
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• Suspected wrong-way driver nabbed on 605 Freeway near Long Beach/Orange County border

  13-04-2020 16:37
  
  A man was taken into custody Sunday after a pursuit ended with sheriff’s deputies using a PIT maneuver to crash his SUV into a center divider on the 605 Freeway, authorities said.
  The pursuit began in the Lakewood/Long Beach area about 5 p.m. Sunday.
  Deputies were trying to pull the SUV over because the motorist was driving on the wrong side of the road and running stop signs and red lights, the Sheriff’s Department said.
  A sheriff’s cruiser pulled off a successful PIT maneuver
  
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• Easter storms sweep South, killing at least 19 people

  13-04-2020 14:19
  
  By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
  JACKSON, Miss. — Severe weather has swept across the South, killing at least 19 people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains. Many people spent part of the night early Monday sheltering in basements, closets and bathroom tubs as sirens wailed to warn of possible tornadoes.
  Eleven people were killed in Mississippi, and six more died in northwest Georgia. Two other bodies were pulled from damaged homes in Arkansas and South Carol
  
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• Easter storms sweep South, killing at least 18 people

  13-04-2020 14:19
  
  By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
  JACKSON, Miss. — Severe weather has swept across the South, killing at least 18 people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains. Many people spent part of the night early Monday sheltering in basements, closets and bathroom tubs as sirens wailed to warn of possible tornadoes.
  The Chattanooga, Tennessee area and several nearby counties in Georgia appeared to be particularly hard-hit. At least 14 people were hospitalized in the Chat
  
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• Newsom has mostly shined so far in tackling the coronavirus: Dan Walters

  13-04-2020 09:33
  
  It may seem that the coronavirus crisis has been with us forever, but it’s been less than a month since California’s officialdom began imposing a quasi-quarantine to reduce the toll on human life.
  It’s also been a few weeks since the Legislature recessed indefinitely and entrusted Gov. Gavin Newsom to do whatever he deemed necessary to protect the state’s 40 million residents.
  So how has Newsom performed? After a couple of early miscues, he’s done extremely well, de
  
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• US shouldn’t take sides in Ethiopian dam negotiations

  13-04-2020 08:46
  
  A totally unnecessary conflict is growing in Africa between Egypt and Ethiopia. The conflict may grow larger, pitting the Arab League against the African Union.
  The United States had been a constructive force in fostering compromise and, to the extent agreement was not immediately possible, in containing the conflict to only the three nations directly involved: Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.
  At the end of February, however, the U.S. moved from the position of neutral mediator to becoming a partisan
  
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• Police investigating after body found in parking lot of Fullerton church

  13-04-2020 03:46
  
  Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was discovered on Sunday afternoon in the parking lot of a Fullerton church.
  Officers shortly before 2 p.m. responded to reports of a body in a parking lot near the Commonwealth Avenue and Gilbert Street intersection.
  The officers found the body of an elderly woman,  Fullerton police Sgt. Eric Bridges said. The cause of her death wasn’t immediately known and police didn’t say if there were signs of trauma to her body.
  Dete
  
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• Tiger Woods gets emotional talking about 2019 Masters win and kids

  13-04-2020 02:29
  
  The Masters over, Tiger Woods slipped on the green jacket again on the second Sunday in April.
  He just wasn’t at Augusta National this year.
  Woods got emotional Sunday after CBS re-aired his victory last year. In a video production from earlier in the week, Woods joined network host Jim Nantz to provide commentary during the final round, the first time in his 15 major victories that he came from behind to win.From a son hugging his father, to a father hugging his kids, there was no way to
  
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• Southern California’s clouds, high winds will give way to warmer weather

  13-04-2020 02:22
  
  A marine layer will linger over much of Southern California on Monday, giving way to partly cloudy skies and the week’s best weather through the middle of the week, before a more unsettled pattern brings more clouds, cool weather, and likely rain toward the weekend, the National Weather Service said.
  The clouds Monday will cover the coastal areas to the mountains. Less cloudy or even clear skies will be confined to the desert.
  A wind advisory was in effect until 8 a.m. Monday for Riverside
  
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• Southern California’s clouds, high winds will gave way to warmer weather

  13-04-2020 02:22
  
  A marine layer will linger over much of Southern California on Monday, giving way to partly cloudy skies and the week’s best weather through the middle of the week, before a more unsettled pattern brings more clouds, cool weather, and likely rain toward the weekend, the National Weather Service said.
  The clouds Monday will cover the coastal areas to the mountains. Less cloudy or even clear skies will be confined to the desert.
  A wind advisory was in effect until 8 a.m. Monday for Riverside
  
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• Southern California readers share family photos from Easter Sunday

  13-04-2020 02:12
  
  Readers from all over Southern California shared Easter Sunday photos of their families, pets and gardens.
  Virtual Mimosas and egg hunt with son in DC!Tim Godley, Tiffany Godley and Trevor Godley. (Courtesy of Tamerlin Godley)
  Dorothy Wilson, an RN at Fountain Valley a Regional Hospital, gets a visit from her mask-wearing grandchildren, Isaac and Lois, so they can get their chocolate bunnies and traditional Jell-o eggs. Afterwards the kids return to their home in Fountain Valley to have an Easte
  
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• Seal Beach mask order to curb coronavirus brings confusion – and a clarification

  13-04-2020 01:44
  
  Do I have to wear a mask while jogging? How about when walking my dog?
  Those questions – not to mention angry comments – lit up social media site Friday night, April 10, after Seal Beach officials announced late in the day that residents must wear masks “when they leave their homes or places of residence.”
  In an effort curb the spread of cornavirus, the heightened requirements would go into effect at 6 a.m. Saturday, the order said – adding that police would “
  
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