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• Newport Beach resident, Compton company keep collecting N95 masks for hospitals

  14-04-2020 23:45
  
  In times of peril, some people can’t help but to help others.
  Denise Winn, a Newport Beach resident who early this month used her business connections to supply 10,000 N95 masks to Orange County and Southern California hospitals amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, hasn’t stopped yet. In fact, Winn, owner of WINN Expo Solutions, an Orange business that handles shipping for trade shows, has continued gathering N95 and surgical masks to donate to hospitals in dire need of supplies. A
  
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• Coronavirus sparks dramatic decline in overall ER visits, job losses for hospital workers

  14-04-2020 23:38
  
  In the weeks following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s March 19 stay-at-home order to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Dr. Brian Anderson noticed an unusual phenomenon at the eight emergency rooms he manages — a sharp decline in patient visits.
  “The volume has dropped as much as 50 percent in many of our ERs,” Anderson said. “We’ve never seen declines like this. It has caught most by surprise.”
  From left, Dr. Evan Houck, medical director,RN/MSN Pam Allen, directo
  
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• Angels’ Ty Buttrey working to improve his video game skills for MLB The Show tourney

  14-04-2020 23:29
  
  Ty Buttrey’s quarantine has become much busier lately.
  Since last week, Buttrey has split his time between prepping for real baseball and virtual baseball. Buttrey is the Angels’ participant in an MLB The Show tournament organized by Major League Baseball.
  “My wife isn’t too happy with it,” Buttrey said via conference call on Tuesday. “I’ve taken some time away from our Netflix shows, but I’ve got to practice this game. It’s been on my mind r
  
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• All aboard the high-speed train to Las Vegas: Fiona Ma

  14-04-2020 23:18
  
  An endeavor by Virgin Trains USA that would bring an all-electric, high-speed train between California and Nevada is moving down the track.
  For the better part of 18 months, the California Treasurer’s office, in coordination with Governor Newsom and state agencies, has worked to encourage significant private investment in our state’s transportation network. On Tuesday, the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee board approved a tax exempt bond allocation that will allow the $5 bi
  
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• One benefit of tort reform? Less pollution

  14-04-2020 23:08
  
  In the war against environmental degradation, politicians and pundits all-too-often rally behind grand initiatives filled with outlandish ideas. But what if large reductions in toxic releases can be achieved through smaller pieces of seemingly-unrelated legislation?
  Sure, “tort reform” doesn’t conjure up images of brave eco-warriors restoring the Love Canal. But state-level reforms designed to reign in runaway litigation in the health care sector may have the unintended, positi
  
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• Coronavirus biz news: Amazon fires 3 workplace critics; small business loans running out

  14-04-2020 23:08
  
  The battle to thwart the spread of coronavirus has throttled many businesses and changed operations in many industries. Here’s a summary of the latest news around Southern California…
  Amazon.com is hitting back at activists within its own ranks, terminating three employees who had criticized working conditions in its warehouses.
  The retailer confirmed on Tuesday that it had fired Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa for violating company policy. The two employees, who worked a
  
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• Coronavirus biz news: Amazon fires 3 workplace critics; small biz loans running out

  14-04-2020 23:08
  
  The battle to thwart the spread of coronavirus has throttled many businesses and changed operations in many industries. Here’s a summary of the latest news around Southern California…
  Amazon.com is hitting back at activists within its own ranks, terminating three employees who had criticized working conditions in its warehouses.
  The retailer confirmed on Tuesday that it had fired Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa for violating company policy. The two employees, who worked a
  
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• Coronavirus: Orange County has 23 new cases reported on April 14

  14-04-2020 22:41
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 1,299 confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Monday, April 14.
  Another 802 people had been tested according to the county’s latest update, bringing the total number of tests in the county to 14,977 – that works out to about 46.5 residents per 10,000.
  There were 23 new cases of the virus noted, with 22 of 25 Orange County hospitals reporting in.
  Los Alamitos was in the daily update’s city-by-city list for the first time today repor
  
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• Purple & Bold: All the Lakers’ offseason goals are now moving targets

  14-04-2020 22:10
  
  Editor’s note: This is the Tuesday, April 14 edition of the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.It’s getting toward the time when, in a normal year, teams would start working out and interviewing college prospects. But, Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka pointed out last week, it’s not a normal year. There won’t be in-person visits by potential draft picks for the foreseeable future with the COVID-19 pandemic restric
  
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• A hot wheels-themed birthday for a Lake Forest man

  14-04-2020 22:06
  
  A 78-year-old Terry Beezley got a birthday present like none he received before.
  On Monday, April 13, more than 30 hot rods and classic cars paraded past Beezley’s Lake Forest home, as he sat on the stone walkway out front. His neighbors sang “Happy Birthday” from yards away, practicing social distancing, of course.
  Terry Beezley, 78, waves to members of the Hot Rods Unlimited and Just For Fun car clubs as they drive past his home for his birthday in Lake Forest on Monday, Apri
  
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• Spring wrap-up: Q&A with Western baseball coach Lonnie Smith

  14-04-2020 22:00
  
  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.
  Lonnie Smith, Western baseball
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?A: It is a complete life change. Trying to become an effective teacher in this new paradigm is overwhelming and somewhat exhaus
  
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• Focusing on the big picture — from 250 miles above the Earth

  14-04-2020 21:56
  
  By Aaron Orlowski
  The perspective granted by logging more than 188 days some 250 miles above the surface of the Earth changes a person. Oceans glint and borders dividing countries cease to exist as the sun rises and sets every 90 minutes.
  And all around is the black expanse of the universe.
  “When you’re over a landmass you don’t see borders. You don’t see differences between people. You just see this beautiful planet and it is out in the middle of nowhere,” said NAS
  
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• Coronavirus: Gov.Newsom details roadmap for relaxing lockdown

  14-04-2020 21:51
  
  By JOHN WOOLFOLK and MARISA KENDALL
  Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a half-dozen criteria that he said would need to be met in order to lift his nearly month-long stay-at-home order to check the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
  The Governor said there is not a precise timeline for modifying the stay-at-home order, but that the six indicators will be the framework for making that decision.
  “While Californians have stepped up in a big way to flatten the curve and buy us time to prepare to fight
  
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• Coronavirus: California Gov.Newsom details roadmap for relaxing lockdown

  14-04-2020 21:51
  
  By JOHN WOOLFOLK and MARISA KENDALL
  Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a half-dozen criteria that he said would need to be met in order to lift his nearly month-long stay-at-home order to check the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
  The Governor said there is not a precise timeline for modifying the stay-at-home order, but that the six indicators will be the framework for making that decision.
  “While Californians have stepped up in a big way to flatten the curve and buy us time to prepare to fight
  
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• Coronavirus: California Gov. Newsom details roadmap for relaxing lockdown

  14-04-2020 21:51
  
  By JOHN WOOLFOLK and MARISA KENDALL
  Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a half-dozen criteria that he said would need to be met in order to lift his nearly month-long stay-at-home order to check the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
  The Governor said there is not a precise timeline for modifying the stay-at-home order, but that the six indicators will be the framework for making that decision.
  “While Californians have stepped up in a big way to flatten the curve and buy us time to prepare to fight
  
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• UCLA women’s basketball guard Jaden Owens enters transfer portal, according to reports

  14-04-2020 21:50
  
  UCLA women’s basketball guard Jaden Owens has entered the transfer portal, according to multiple reports.
  Owens, a 5-foot-8 guard, played in 27 games as a freshman with the Bruins. She averaged 2.6 points and 1.2 assists in 9.9 minutes per game, posting a season-high seven points in a February win over Arizona State.
  She came to Westwood from Plano (Tex.) West High after being named a McDonald’s All-American as a senior.
  
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• Is it difficult to get a trademark? Ask the lawyer

  14-04-2020 21:46
  
  Q: We have a company that is starting to do well, so we want to trademark the name. Is that something we can do ourselves? How difficult is it?
  -C.W., Redondo Beach
  Ron Sokol
  A: Is the name available for trademark? There is criteria to consider, such as whether the name is distinctive. In addition, it is critical to investigate if someone else already has trademarked the name, or a similar name, for like goods or services; if so, it may not be approved for trademark. Note that the Trademark Offi
  
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• Football coaches take innovative approaches to get their teams ready for 2020 season

  14-04-2020 21:43
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe high school football season might start in late August. Maybe it will start in mid-September.
  Maybe later, much later. The coronavirus COVID-19 changed everything in high school athletics and continues to do so.
  Whenever the football season does kick off, coaches are doing all they can now to make sure their team is ready for it.
  “Whenever we get the ‘go’ sign,’” said Mater D
  
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• Why Food Smackdown is rolling trucks out to feed health care workers during the coronavirus crisis

  14-04-2020 21:23
  
  The lifeblood of food trucks is serving crowds. But since Covid-19 restrictions against gatherings were ordered, that business has stalled. At the same time, the health care industry has never been busier.
  So, Steve Carlson, founder and CEO of food truck catering company, Food Smackdown Inc., put the two together and launched Feed the Frontlines OC on April 6.
  German YumTruck owner Samuel Caklo delivers lunch to Kori Johnson, RN, and her unit at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA, on Monday, Apri
  
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• STANDING STRONG: Coronavirus pandemic changed this award-winning photographer’s methods — perhaps forever

  14-04-2020 20:11
  
  This is the latest in a series of stories, “Standing Strong,” that shares how people are coping with the coronavirus crisis. Share your stories by emailing to Holly Andres at [email protected]
  —
  I have spent almost my entire adult life as a photojournalist.
  I have covered shootings, earthquakes, fire and floods. I’ve covered courtroom trials and crime scenes. I’ve shot professional sports and major award shows. If it made news, chances are, I’ve been there, cam
  
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• Coronavirus pandemic changed this award-winning photographer’s methods — perhaps forever

  14-04-2020 20:11
  
  This is the latest in a series of stories, “Standing Strong,” that shares how people are coping with the coronavirus crisis. Share your stories by emailing to Holly Andres at [email protected]
  —
  I have spent almost my entire adult life as a photojournalist.
  UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway will take on challenger Alexander Volkanovski, at UFC 245 on Dec. 14 in Las Vegas. Photographed at Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey, Thursday, Dec 6, 2019. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht,
  
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• Social Distortion releases ‘Social Distancing’ shirts for coronavirus relief, writes new music in quarantine

  14-04-2020 20:04
  
  Since the state-mandated stay-at-home order issued a month ago to combat the spread of coronavirus, Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness starting seeing his band’s famous Skelly skeleton logo used along with the new, but often repeated term, “social distancing.”
  Skelly was depicted wearing a mask, holding a box of tissues and spraying a bottle of sanitizing solution instead of sporting his signature grin and martini glass. Though it was creative, bootleggers selling the image o
  
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• Nutrition: Why this vitamin is especially important during safer-at-home measures

  14-04-2020 20:04
  
  Vitamin D is an essential nutrient for the body. This fat-soluble vitamin plays an important role in numerous processes in the body from bone health to immune function while aiding in chronic disease prevention. A limited number of foods naturally contain vitamin D. Typically, most people meet at least part of their vitamin D needs from sunlight exposure. The warmer and sunnier days of spring and summer are ideal for boosting vitamin D levels. With “Safer at Home” measures in place d
  
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• Bubble Watch: California homeowners aren’t selling in coronavirus era

  14-04-2020 20:02
  
  “Bubble Watch” digs into trends that may indicate economic and/or housing market troubles ahead.
  Buzz: Most California homeowners appear to be skipping the start of the prime selling season at a pace that’s above the national average.
  Source: Various data crunchers, the latest being Zillow, have analyzed the pace of existing homes being listed on the market.
  The Trend
  Zillow found the number of new sellers between March 1 and April 5 dropped in five of six California metro
  
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• Obama endorses Biden, says former vice president has ‘qualities we need’

  14-04-2020 19:42
  
  By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, JULIE PACE and BILL BARROW
  WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden on Tuesday, giving the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a boost from the party’s biggest fundraiser and one of its most popular figures.
  “Joe has the character and the experience to guide us through one of our darkest times, and heal us through a long recovery. And I know he’ll surround himself with good people,” Obama said in a 12-minute video, to
  
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• UCLA, USC expect quiet signing day after busy transfer market

  14-04-2020 19:41
  
  UCLA and USC men’s basketball missed out on their chances to add another five-star prospect to their 2020 recruiting classes this week ahead of Wednesday’s national signing day.
  Both were finalists for five-star Sierra Canyon guard Ziaire Williams, but saw the local star commit to Stanford on Sunday. Likewise, the Bruins and Trojans were contenders for the services of Mayfair guard Josh Christopher, but saw the blue-chip prospect commit to Arizona State on Monday.
  These recruiting de
  
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• 23 Disneyland facts and a rumor in this virtual tour of the park

  14-04-2020 19:39
  
   
  Disneyland may be closed, but you can take a quick tour through the Happiest Place on Earth and learn a few facts at the same time.
  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.
  Related Articles Park Life: Disneyland, Knott’s and Six Flags halt monthly payments and Disney furloughs employees 10 things you don’t know about Disneyland’s sort-of-secret Club 33 Park L
  
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• How to get your comedy degree online with the Groundlings

  14-04-2020 19:29
  
  Knock knock.
  Who’s there?
  Zoom.
  Zoom who?
  Azooming people wouldn’t mind being funny even while staying at home, the Groundlings Theatre and School has started offering comedy classes live online on the popular Zoom streaming platform.
  And they may just discover the next big name in comedy online.
  “There’s a future Groundling in one of these classes, I bet,” said Michael Churven, a company member and one of the online instructors.
  The Los Angeles-based Groundlings, w
  
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• Security firms hiring additional workers in Southern California

  14-04-2020 19:24
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted security firms to hire extra personnel to guard facilities related to everything from healthcare and government, to finance and technology — not to mention private properties.
  Here are two companies looking to hire:
  Allied Universal, a security firm with operations throughout North America, plans to hire more than 30,000 additional workers over the next two months, including 2,000 in Southern California.
  The company is offering regular and temporary, full
  
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• Extra $600 in unemployment payments tops $330 million in California

  14-04-2020 19:20
  
  Day one of state unemployment payments that included an extra $600 a week to cover job losses spawned by the coronavirus was accompanied by a head-spinning price tag: $336 million in payouts.
  Starting on Sunday, the state’s Employment Development Department began to deploy unemployment payments that consisted of the amount of the regular state distribution plus an extra $600 financed by the federal government as part of an effort to soften the economic battering caused by the coronavirus.
  
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• New Laguna Woods Village security chief ready to lead his department through pandemic and beyond

  14-04-2020 18:49
  
  Laguna Woods Village’s new Chief of Security, Carlos Rojas, began his job on Feb. 24 and hit the trail sprinting. With the COVID-19 threat in increasingly multitudinous minds and the overriding concern for his department and local first responders, he knew that measured study of what Village security concepts worked and what needed improvement had to be put on a backburner.
  “Due to the dynamics of the virus, I could not meet a lot of people. Instead of orderly transition, it felt lik
  
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• Los Angeles-based Americana rock band Mustangs of the West reunites to ride again

  14-04-2020 18:41
  
  With strong harmonies driving their rocking country music, the Mustangs were boot-deep into the Los Angeles cowpunk scene in the 1980s and early 90s.
  They were regulars at the Palomino club in the San Fernando Valley, the epicenter of the movement, and performed at festivals like SXSW and alongside bands such as The Stray Cats and Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark.
  While the Mustangs fizzled out in the mid ’90s the band is back with a new name —
  
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• Coronavirus fallout: Southern California gas prices lowest since 2016

  14-04-2020 18:38
  
  Southern California gasoline prices are at a low last seen in December 2016.
  The U.S. Energy Information Administration said gasoline at the pump in the five-county region was an average $2.77 a gallon for regular gasoline as of April 13. That’s down 12 cents over seven days and 43 cents cheaper than a year ago.
  Prices are down as efforts to battle coronavirus throttle the global economy. Fewer drivers are buying fuel, and the slowdown has slashed prices for gasoline’s key ingredient
  
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• Man shot to death outside Anaheim motel on Beach Boulevard

  14-04-2020 18:31
  
  A 51-year-old man was fatally shot outside an Anaheim motel on Beach Boulevard early Tuesday morning, police said.
  Officers were called to a shooting at about 6:50 a.m. to the Anaheim Lodg, Anaheim Sgt. Shane Carringer said.
  At the motel, just north of Ball Road, they found the man, who was taken to UCI Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
  It appeared the man was shot in the parking lot of the motel, Carringer said.
  Police did not immediately know what led to the shooting but detectives
  
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• Spring wrap-up: Q&A with Mater Dei softball coach Sean Brashear

  14-04-2020 17:45
  
  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.
  Sean Brashear, Mater Dei softball
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: Seems very surreal for sure but have been very busy working on things to help our athletes stay engaged not only physica
  
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• Photos from Laguna beaches on coronavirus lockdown showcase need for preservation

  14-04-2020 17:38
  
  With Laguna Beach’s picturesque coves and beaches on lockdown amid the spreading coronavirus pandemic, recent entries in the Laguna Bluebelt photo contest not only captured isolation, but also the presence of a rare species.
  The photographs submitted by 64 professional and amateur photographers to this year’s ninth annual contest included scenes from the sky, along beaches, underwater and along rock outcroppings.
  Christine K. Le won 2nd place with “Soft Cascade”, in the p
  
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• Photos from beaches on lockdown in Laguna Beach showcase their beauty

  14-04-2020 17:38
  
  With Laguna Beach’s picturesque coves and beaches on lockdown amid the spreading coronavirus pandemic, recent entries in the Laguna Bluebelt photo contest not only captured isolation, but also the presence of a rare species.
  The photographs submitted by 64 professional and amateur photographers to this year’s ninth annual contest included scenes from the sky, along beaches, underwater and along rock outcroppings.
  Christine K. Le won 2nd place with “Soft Cascade”, in the p
  
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• Amazing photos of Laguna Beach coastline show a different view

  14-04-2020 17:38
  
  With Laguna Beach’s picturesque coves and beaches on lockdown amid the spreading coronavirus pandemic, recent entries in the Laguna Bluebelt photo contest not only captured isolation, but also the presence of a rare species.
  The photographs submitted by 64 professional and amateur photographers to this year’s ninth annual contest included scenes from the sky, along beaches, underwater and along rock outcroppings.
  Christine K. Le won 2nd place with “Soft Cascade”, in the p
  
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• Mortgage delinquencies to spike due to coronavirus outbreak

  14-04-2020 17:37
  
  After hitting their lowest point in two decades, mortgage delinquencies are expected to spike in the months ahead due to the coronavirus outbreak, Irvine-based data firm CoreLogic reported Tuesday, April 14.
  Nationally, 3.5% of U.S. home loans were 30 days or more past due or in some stage of the foreclosure process.
  The rates were even lower in Southern California. In Los Angeles and Orange counties, 2.1% of mortgages were delinquent, and 3.4% we’re delinquent in the Inland Empire, CoreLo
  
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• Spring wrap-up: Q&A with El Dorado baseball coach Matt Lucas

  14-04-2020 17:30
  
  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.
  Matt Lucas, El Dorado baseball
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: Routine, routine, routine. Having a routine helps, so I have that in place with myself and my family.
  Q: As a coach, what d
  
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• There’s a new morning radio team on Southern California airwaves

  14-04-2020 17:18
  
  Adult album alternative Independent 88.5 FM is making changes to The Nic Harcourt Show, which is heard weekday mornings on the station from 6 to 11 a.m. Effective immediately, 88.5 personality Jet will join Harcourt on the newly-named Nic Harcourt Morning Show with Jet.
  Jet  — who has previously been heard on the air nights and weekends — will offer a “supporting voice” to Harcourt; Harcourt has been Jet’s mentor during her four years at the station.
  “I f
  
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• Fountain Valley Community Foundation, rotary spearhead support efforts amid coronavirus pandemic

  14-04-2020 17:08
  
  Fountain Valley nonprofit groups are stepping up to do whatever they can to help those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
  The Fountain Valley Community Foundation is partnering with several local organizations to provide assistance and funding, Foundation President Prem Balani said.
  A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the Community Foundation receives, invests and distributes charitable contributions for community projects and services in the city. The foundation annually is responsible for the city’s
  
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• Voters reject Trump’s pick in chaotic Wisconsin court race 

  14-04-2020 15:45
  
  By SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND
  MADISON, Wis.  — A liberal challenger on Monday ousted a conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice endorsed by President Donald Trump, overcoming a successful push by Republicans to forge ahead with last week’s election even as numerous other states postponed theirs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  Joe Biden also emerged victorious, as expected, in the state’s Democratic presidential primary. Biden’s easy victory became academic wh
  
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• Theme park rides showed us how to save the world

  14-04-2020 15:33
  
  So it turns out that theme parks really did predict the future after all.
  It’s been a long-standing joke among fans that theme parks do a really bad job of predicting what the future holds for us. Disneyland’s vision of a tomorrow with personal jet packs and commercial flights to the moon never arrived in the present before becoming a relic of the past.
  So which attractions accurately predicted our fate? The ones that didn’t really try.
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• 85-year-old man arrested after woman’s body found in Fullerton church parking lot

  14-04-2020 06:16
  
  An 85-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the death of a woman whose body was discovered Easter Sunday in the parking lot of a Fullerton church.
  Earl Westergaard was booked on suspicion of murder, Fullerton police Sgt. Eric Bridges said Monday evening, a day after an elderly woman’s body was found in a parking lot near the Commonwealth Avenue and Gilbert Street intersection.
  Authorities have not released the woman’s name. An autopsy scheduled for later in the week is expe
  
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• Martha Kirouac and a ‘storybook’ career on the golf course

  14-04-2020 06:09
  
  She had to ask for permission.
  That’s what led to Cal State Fullerton’s first women’s national championship in any sport. An 18-year-old freshman wandering the halls of the school’s physical education department, looking for someone with any authority who could tell Martha Kirouac that, yes, she could go to Seattle and represent the school at the 1967 Division of Girls’ and Women’s Sports  golf championships.
  There was Kirouac, known as Martha Wilkinson t
  
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• The best ratings: Political Cartoons

  14-04-2020 06:00
  
  Charles Bradley performs Sunday during Day 2 of FYF Fest at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. The Orange County Treasurer-Tax Collector is auctioning a timeshare at Capistrano Surfside Innat 34680 Pacific Coast Highway in Dana Point. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume inseconds Instructor Helen Clarke waits in the wings with one of her classes during The Music Room's 2016 recital.Singer Justin Guarini (“American Idol”) is 38. (Photo by Je
  
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• Mayfair guard Josh Christopher commits to Arizona State

  14-04-2020 05:43
  
  Schools from all over the country recruited Josh Christopher, the standout Mayfair shooting guard. But in the end, Christopher picked the team with the most familiar face.
  Christopher committed to Arizona State on Monday night in a video on Twitter. The move to Tempe reunites with his brother, Caleb Christopher, a guard who just finished his freshman season with the Sun Devils.
  “I have to thank my family for the support and guidance they have given me so far,” Christopher said in the
  
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• 3 Inland churches sue to keep services open during coronavirus pandemic

  14-04-2020 05:26
  
  Three Southern California churches that want to keep their doors open during the coronavirus outbreak sued Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials on Monday, April 13, arguing that social distancing orders violate the First Amendment right to freedom of religion and assembly.
  The suit, filed in the federal court for the Central District of California, also names state Attorney General Xavier Becerra and officials of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
  It seeks to block Newsom’s month-old
  
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• Golf, coronavirus and the long drive to Oklahoma

  14-04-2020 04:12
  
  By Bill Sheehan
  CSUF Athletics 
  For Dalton Daniel, the enormity of the novel coronavirus crisis became evident a few weeks ago during a trip to Arizona.
  A Cal State Fullerton golfer, Daniel and his teammates traveled to Phoenix for a tournament on Wednesday, March 11. During the flight, they learned their university would be shifting to virtual instruction because of the coronavirus outbreak. That same day, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic and the NBA suspended its s
  
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