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• At least 10 killed in shooting rampage in Canada, police say

  19-04-2020 23:47
  
  ENFIELD, Nova Scotia — A 51-year-old man went on a shooting rampage across the northern part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia Sunday, killing at least 10 people, including a policewoman. Officials said the suspected shooter was also dead.
  The suspect was identified as Gabriel Wortman, who was found by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in a gas station in Enfield, Nova Scotia, northwest of downtown Halifax.
  “In excess of 10 people have been killed,” RCMP Chief Superintend
  
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• 16 killed in shooting rampage, deadliest in Canadian history

  19-04-2020 23:47
  
  TORONTO — A gunman disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires in a rampage across the Canadian province of Nova Scotia that killed 16 people, the deadliest such attack in the country’s history. Officials said Sunday the suspected shooter was also dead.
  A police officer was among those killed. Several bodies were found inside and outside one home in the small, rural town of Portapique, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of Halifax — what police cal
  
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• Coronavirus: Orange County nears 18,000 tested; 79 new cases on April 19

  19-04-2020 23:12
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 1,636 confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Sunday, April 19.
  No new deaths were reported in Orange County. according to the update. There have been a total of 32 deaths in a county of more than 3.2 million.
  Statewide there were 1,072 deaths attributed to COVID-19 as of Saturday.
  More: Map shows coronavirus cases in Orange County cities
  In Orange County, another 79 new cases of the virus were noted in Sunday’s update, with 24 of 25 hospitals
  
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• Medicaid should pay for coronavirus treatment: Gil Cisneros

  19-04-2020 22:51
  
  “Who’s going to pay for it?” After being told he needed to be on a ventilator, those were the grim last words of a patient who ended up dying of the coronavirus. The cost of COVID-19 treatment adds to the fear, anxiety, and uncertainty that so many Americans feel and who are already paralyzed by financial insecurity. We need to fix this.
  It’s why Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, and I introduced the Emergency Medicaid for Coronavirus Treatment Act to cover all coronavirus t
  
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• Hundreds protest stay-at-home order in San Clemente

  19-04-2020 22:38
  
  Hundreds of people gathered in downtown San Clemente on Sunday, April 19, calling for the end of a state-mandated stay-at-home order aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus.
  The protesters – tightly packed in defiance of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s social distancing guidelines – held American flags and signs with such slogans as “No Liberty, No Life, Re-open California,” and “I am an AMERICAN and I am FREE!” Most of the demonstrato
  
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• Hundreds protest coronavirus stay-at-home order in San Clemente

  19-04-2020 22:38
  
  Hundreds of people gathered in downtown San Clemente on Sunday, April 19, calling for the end of a state-mandated stay-at-home order aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus.
  The protesters – tightly packed in defiance of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s social distancing guidelines – held American flags and signs with such slogans as “No Liberty, No Life, Re-open California,” and “I am an AMERICAN and I am FREE!” Most of the demonstrato
  
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• Dodgers rookie Gavin Lux staying busy in video game tournament while waiting for return to field

  19-04-2020 21:35
  
  For as much as Gavin Lux is enjoying his time playing video games in the MLB The Show tournament, he’s ready to get back to the real thing, even if that means playing in empty stadiums in scorching heat in Arizona and being quarantined when away from the ballpark.
  “At this point,” the Dodgers rookie said, “you gotta do what you gotta do, so I wouldn’t complain about it.”
  Lux, who had played in 100-degree temperatures as a teenager in the Arizona Rookie League,
  
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• Second inmate at Terminal Island in San Pedro dies from coronavirus

  19-04-2020 21:15
  
  An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island in San Pedro has died from complications related to the novel coronavirus, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
  Michael Fleming, 59, died at a local hospital Sunday, April 19. Another inmate at the facility, 73-year-old Bradley James Ghilarducci, died last week. There were 33 positive cases at the prison among inmates and two among staff members, according to the latest figures posted online by the Bureau of Prisons, which opera
  
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• 2nd inmate at Terminal Island in San Pedro dies from coronavirus

  19-04-2020 21:15
  
  An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island in San Pedro has died from complications related to the novel coronavirus, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
  Michael Fleming, 59, died at a local hospital Sunday, April 19. Another inmate at the facility, 73-year-old Bradley James Ghilarducci, died last week. There were 33 positive cases at the prison among inmates and two among staff members, according to the latest figures posted online by the Bureau of Prisons, which opera
  
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• Prop. 13 opponents turn in their signatures

  19-04-2020 21:00
  
  With great fanfare, the proponents of an initiative to raise property taxes in California by $12 billion a year announced they had turned in over 1.7 million signatures to qualify the measure.
  Their press release was headlined “Schools and Communities First make history with most ever signatures submitted.”
  It’s a wonder they didn’t break their arms trying to pat themselves on the back.
  For those who have forgotten, the measure, entitled the California Schools and Local C
  
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• Two women discover a kinship that started 33 years earlier as newborns

  19-04-2020 17:39
  
  Jordyn Block stumbled across a Facebook message from Stephanie Unger sent more than a month ago.
  “This is super random,” it read, “but I was just looking at my baby book and it says our moms were roommates at Mission Hospital when we were born. You were born an hour before me.
  Stephanie Unger with her daughter, Scarlett. (Courtesy of Stephanie Unger )
  “Also, I just had a baby 12/2/2019 and I heard you had twins in January 2020. That is so cool!”
  Little did Unger kno
  
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• Suicide, help hotline calls soar in Southern California over coronavirus anxieties

  19-04-2020 15:30
  
  When Carolyn Levitan answered the phone, she heard the voice of a man having a full-blown anxiety attack about possibly having contracted coronavirus.
  He was speaking rapidly. He was worried he had it, and feared giving it to family members. He wondered if it would be alright for him to pet his dog. And then he worried about dying and leaving behind family because he knew others who had died from the virus.
  These are the types of panic-stricken calls Levitan has been taking as crisis line direct
  
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• All things considered, Rossi and Bourdais would rather be racing in Long Beach

  19-04-2020 15:00
  
  Imagine it’s Sunday afternoon. NTT IndyCar drivers Alexander Rossi and Sebastien Bourdais are on the starting line for the main event of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, hopeful of adding more to what they’ve already accomplished on the famed street course.
  Unfortunately, that would be nothing more than an episode of Fantasy Island. There is no race this year because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
  Rossi, who dominated the last two races, would have been looking to become just
  
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• Freedom in the Virus Age

  19-04-2020 10:46
  
  It didn’t take long. The willingness of Americans to social-distance and self-quarantine is beginning to fracture.
  Last week, 3,000 anti-stay-at-home protesters stood shoulder to shoulder in Lansing, Michigan, to push back against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s draconian (in their view) lockdown of nearly every aspect of normal life in the Great Lake State.
  One rule in particular represents the divide: canoes and kayaks are OK, but motorboats are verboten.
  Conservatives see this as a left-w
  
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• The promise of capitalism versus the mirage of socialism

  19-04-2020 10:40
  
  A friend of mine lost his job as a result of COVID-19-related cutbacks and lost his employer-based health insurance along with it.
  His story is not unique — more than 20 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the last few weeks, most losing coverage along the way.
  My friend, a Bernie Sanders supporter, added that this was why society needed to move away from employer-based coverage. He meant it as proof of the failures of capitalism and the need for a socialist, government-run he
  
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• Caltrans’ bias against road-widening

  19-04-2020 10:27
  
  Caltrans has come out against road-widening projects.
  Starting Sept. 15, highway projects that begin their required analysis under the California Environmental Quality Act will have to demonstrate that there will be no increase in driving as a result of the project’s completion.
  That means widening a road will be almost illegal in California.
  It won’t be 100 percent illegal, because “mitigation” of the increased driving may help to get the project approved. You won’
  
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• Californians complying, but for how long?

  19-04-2020 10:21
  
  Every day that Californians heed official exhortations to remain in semi-isolation reduces the spread of coronavirus infections and, therefore, deaths from COVID-19, and will hasten the day that social and economic restrictions can be eased.
  That’s the message that Gov. Gavin Newsom sent to Californians last week in laying out a “framework” of six conditions that must be met before he would restore a “semblance of normality.”
  There is, however, another side of Newso
  
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• Poetry in an April crueler than most

  19-04-2020 10:00
  
  Cruelly, it’s still April, and that means it’s still National Poetry Month, and writers and readers can still gather untogether to celebrate all words unprose.
  Because of the crazy present danger that is other people — rather than hell, they just represent death, or at least hard time on the respirator — the coolest annual Southern California celebration, the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards, had to be canceled last week.
  Those of us involved with the prizes, under t
  
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• Coronavirus: 2 Southern California front-line workers hope to rebound after their gear is stolen

  19-04-2020 06:21
  
  On his second night back home with his family after a month spent reporting to a growing number of people with flu-like symptoms and for some, the new coronavirus, Craig Heard, a Los Angeles County fire captain, was sleeping next to his wife in their Whittier house when a thief began to pick the lock of his pickup truck.
  Inside the covered bed of the truck sat all of his fire gear, personal protective equipment and uniforms. On a normal day, Heard would have plopped his things in the living room
  
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• Photos: 5 Year old Celebrates Birthday with Drive-by Celebration in Anaheim

  19-04-2020 04:28
  
  Family and friends celebrate the 5th birthday of Emma Ferguson with a drive by parade celebration due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Anaheim on Saturday, April 18, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
  Emma Ferguson celebrates her 5th birthday as family and friends do a drive by parade due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Anaheim on Saturday, April 18, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsFamily and friends celebrate
  
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• Bobby Winkles, former Angels manager, dies at 90

  19-04-2020 03:17
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — Bobby Winkles, the baseball coach who built Arizona State into a national power from scratch and went on to manage the Angels in the 1970s, has died. He was 90.
  Arizona State said Winkles died Friday with family and friends by his side.
  Winkles fielded the Sun Devils’ first varsity squad in 1959 and won national titles in 1965, 1967 and 1969. He went 524-173 in 13 years in Tempe.
  Winkles was a charter member of the College Baseball Hall of Fame and coached such stars a
  
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• Brea apparel maker donates thousands of masks in drive-through giveaway

  19-04-2020 02:38
  
  In normal times, AST Sportswear makes, well, sportswear. But when the coronavirus crisis temporarily halted its manufacture of tank tops, sweatshirts, vests and beanies, the Brea company switched gears to something more urgent – face masks.
  On Saturday, April 18, AST employees and volunteers were expecting to pass out 10,000 of those washable cotton masks in a drive-through giveaway starting at 10 a.m. But when COO Abdul Rashid arrived at the warehouse at 6:30 a.m, traffic was backed
  
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• Brea apparel maker donates 30,000 face masks in drive-through giveaway

  19-04-2020 02:38
  
  In normal times, AST Sportswear makes, well, sportswear. But when the coronavirus crisis temporarily halted its manufacture of tank tops, sweatshirts, vests and beanies, the Brea company switched gears to something more urgent – face masks.
  On Saturday, April 18, AST employees and volunteers were expecting to pass out 10,000 of those washable cotton masks in a drive-through giveaway starting at 10 a.m. But when COO Abdul Rashid arrived at the warehouse at 6:30 a.m, traffic was backed
  
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• John Muir DB Calen Bullock commits to USC football

  19-04-2020 02:24
  
  USC continued its hot week of recruiting on Saturday, adding its third commit in four days.
  On Saturday, it was John Muir defensive back Calen Bullock announcing his pledge to USC by sharing a video on Twitter.
  Bullock, who also plays wide receiver, is a four-star prospect according to 247Sports.com’s composite rankings. The 6-foot-2, 175-pound rising senior held offers from Oregon, Texas and Ohio State, among others.
  He joins Narbonne safety Anthony Beavers Jr. and St. John Bosco’s
  
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• Coronavirus has us climbing the walls so take your mind off it by entering our poetry contest

  19-04-2020 01:48
  
  We’ll be climbing the walls for a few more weeks during the global pandemic, so we have some ideas to help pass the time in a pleasant way. How about sending us a poem?
  Poems and humor month is here,And we all could use some good cheer.Try taking each one,Combine for funAnd send in your limericks here.
  Contest rules
  Limerick is an Irish town’s name.Is the birthplace of limericks the same?It’s not known for factWhere the first one was tracked,Shakespeare can’t take all the
  
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• The voices of the Lakers and Clippers feel the sting on what would’ve been the start of NBA playoffs

  19-04-2020 01:19
  
  In any other year, it would be the time to shine.
  Bill Macdonald would be ambling through the tunnels of Staples Center and into the soft spotlight that drapes the Lakers’ center court. He would be shaking hands with players and coaches and producers and friends made through a decades-long broadcasting career. He would be setting up mics and makeup and camera lighting, preparing to be the sound of basketball’s biggest stage.
  Instead, Macdonald, the TV voice of Lakers broadcasts on Sp
  
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• St. Joseph Hospital tests antiviral drug in COVID-19 patients

  19-04-2020 00:32
  
  A handful of COVID-19 patients at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange are undergoing a daily infusion of Remdesivir in an experiment to see if the antiviral drug helps people recover from the disease.
  If the medication proves effective, it could become one of few options healthcare workers have to treat critically ill people during the pandemic.
  But while early test results at one hospital appear promising, medical researchers participating in the nationwide study don’t yet know Remdesivir&rsquo
  
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• St. Joseph Hospital tests antiviral drug in coronavirus patients

  19-04-2020 00:32
  
  A handful of COVID-19 patients at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange are undergoing a daily infusion of Remdesivir in an experiment to see if the antiviral drug helps people recover from the disease.
  If the medication proves effective, it could become one of few options healthcare workers have to treat critically ill people during the pandemic.
  But while early test results at one hospital appear promising, medical researchers participating in the nationwide study don’t yet know Remdesivir&rsquo
  
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• Justin Herbert ‘checks all the boxes’ to potentially be Chargers’ next franchise QB

  19-04-2020 00:11
  
  Justin Herbert hasn’t looked back since his majestic 30-yard touchdown run with multiple red and white jerseys chasing him under the Pasadena night sky.
  The Oregon quarterback was named MVP of the Rose Bowl after scoring three rushing touchdowns in the win against Wisconsin. Herbert went on to collect another MVP trophy at the Senior Bowl and flourished during the NFL Scouting Combine workouts.
  Because of Herbert’s recent standout performances and his many physical traits, he’l
  
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• Coach Memory: Brea Olinda Gil Rotblum recalls swimming team’s success, meet in a rainstorm

  19-04-2020 00:00
  
  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.These are some memories from Brea Olinda swimming coach Gil Rotblum on the abbreviated 2020 season:
  My name is Gil Rotblum and I am the head swim coach of Brea Olinda High School. We had 10 senior boys
  
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