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• How to navigate mortgage application landmines during a pandemic

  23-04-2020 23:45
  
  Boy, that was fast!
  In a matter of weeks, year-over-year home price appreciation rates in two big California metros made a U-turn, escrow contracts shrunk and millions of jobs have disappeared. The future for our housing market is bleak and lending is getting murkier by the day.
  Economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has already woven its way into home values with declines found in the Los Angeles-Orange County metro area, according to data compiled by the American Enterprise Institute.
  
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• Cyberattacks continue amid COVID-19 pandemic

  23-04-2020 23:31
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many people to work from home on computers that aren’t as well protected from cyberattacks, and industry experts are warning users to proceed with caution.
  But regardless of whether someone is working from home or the office, the threat is there.
  The city of Torrance found that out the hard way when it fell victim to a ransomware attack on March 1. Ransomware is malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a specified sum of money
  
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• NFL Draft 2020 Live Updates: Who will the Chargers take in the first round?

  23-04-2020 23:22
  
  The Chargers are projected to draft a quarterback in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft (5 p.m. Thursday), but which quarterback remains up for debate.
  Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa and Oregon’s Justin Herbert are considered as potential options for the Chargers with the sixth overall pick.
  RELATED: Complete 2020 NFL draft board
  Follow along for live coverage of the draft from the Southern California News Group’s NFL and college beat writers.
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• Cooking with Judy: Getting more fruits and veggies into our coronavirus-lockdown meals

  23-04-2020 23:22
  
  New definition of Happy Hour: 6  to 7 a.m. senior shopping at the market.
  The coronavirus has certainly changed the way we shop and cook. While I’m foraging for food on the Internet, braver souls than I don mask and gloves and social distance their way around the market filling their baskets in the 2020 version of the old TV show “Supermarket Sweep.”
  Whether you shop yourself, have someone do it for you or take delivery, produce seems to be a key concern. The gyms are clos
  
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• FBI looking for potential victims of man accused of sexual assault of minors

  23-04-2020 23:19
  
  The FBI is looking for potential victims in multiple cities of a man accused of sexually assaulting minors over a decade.
  Michael Frederick Fangman, 47, was arrested by the Carlsbad Police Department earlier this month on suspicion of sexually assaulting and giving narcotics to alleged victims who ranged in age from 16 to 22-years-old. He has since been charged with 28 felonies in San Diego County, according to a criminal complaint.
  Agents with the FBI’s San Diego office are now assisting
  
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• Coronavirus: Orange County reported 78 new cases and two new deaths as of April 23

  23-04-2020 23:14
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 1,827 confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Thursday, April 23.
  Two new deaths were reported, raising the total number of people who have died to 36 in the county. The county’s report said 24 of 25 hospitals reported in with stats for the daily update.
  There were 78 new cases of the virus reported as of Thursday.
  The daily update noted another 671 people have been tested in the county for the coronavirus. Some 20,816 people have been tested
  
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• Gov. Newsom: On deadliest day of COVID-19 pandemic, ‘there was some positive news’

  23-04-2020 23:09
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday marked the deadliest day since the coronavirus pandemic began in California as 115 people who had tested positive for COVID-19 died.
  During his Thursday press briefing, Newsom announced the state’s death toll spiked by 8.5% on Wednesday and the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases jumped by 5.6%.
  “We’re not out of the woods yet,” Newsom said. “I know there’s a deep desire, people are making calls on an hourly basis saying it&rsqu
  
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• L.A. went from 1,091 film shoots in February to zero in March

  23-04-2020 23:08
  
  By Kelly Gilblom, Bloomberg
  The shutdown of television and movie production in Los Angeles silenced more than 1,000 productions, and the city’s film office isn’t sure how the entertainment capital will recover from the impact.
  After Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued stay-at-home orders on March 20 because of the coronavirus outbreak, 644 projects across the city were shut down, according to a report by FilmLA. At that time, about half the 1,091 shows, commercials and movies film
  
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• Taco Bell turns its Irvine headquarters into a ‘truck-thru’ for coronavirus responders

  23-04-2020 22:03
  
  Open drive-thrus might not be much help to truck drivers seeking a meal, given the height and space restrictions to use them.
  That’s the thinking behind a Taco Bell program to help first responders amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
  The fast food chain is using its headquarters in Irvine as a “truck-thru” to provide free meals for front line workers using large essential service vehicles, including truckers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, law enforcement, and me
  
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• Phone tracing and our right to real privacy

  23-04-2020 21:51
  
  In her recent science-fiction novel “The Old Drift,” the Zambian writer Namwali Serpell imagines a surveillance future for her country in which the government installs free, compulsory Wi-Fi for all citizens — embedded in ball bearings medically injected into Zambians’ hands.
  This makes Web access superb wherever a person might go. Nice, right? Of course that same government uses the beads to monitor every move those citizens make.
  This near future posited by Serpell &mda
  
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• Home buying: Be ready to hit the ground running once the lockdown ends

  23-04-2020 21:22
  
  As all Californians wait for word of when we can begin Phase 1 of the re-opening of our state, and shortly thereafter return to some form of normal, be ready to hit the ground running.
  Your home search or home sale may be on pause now as we have all been staying safe at home. But things are likely to start moving quickly once we can get back outside and visit strangers’ homes in person, taking all the necessary precautions to protect each other from the spread of the virus.
  So the better p
  
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• Be ready to hit the ground running once the lockdown ends

  23-04-2020 21:22
  
  As all Californians wait for word of when we can begin Phase 1 of the re-opening of our state, and shortly thereafter return to some form of normal, be ready to hit the ground running.
  Your home search or home sale may be on pause now as we have all been staying safe at home. But things are likely to start moving quickly once we can get back outside and visit strangers’ homes in person, taking all the necessary precautions to protect each other from the spread of the virus.
  So the better p
  
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• Virtual PlayOn Fest announces set times; adds Lizzo’s Coachella 2019 performance to lineup

  23-04-2020 21:05
  
  Virtual festivals are popping up faster while people are sheltering at home during the coronavirus pandemic than real ones were in the before times.
  And some of the big corporations are getting into it, too. On tap for this weekend is Warner Music Group’s PlayOn Fest, supporting the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.
  The online festival, kicks off at 9 a.m. Pacific Friday, April 24, and will feature past performances from artists at such festivals as the C
  
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• Rains fuel above-average Southern California wildflower bloom

  23-04-2020 21:03
  
  The coronavirus pandemic brought the economy to a screeching halt. But Mother Nature kept right on going.
  Thanks to soaking March and April rains, colorful wildflowers are springing up from the sun-splashed hills of the Inland Empire to the fog-kissed coastal bluffs of Los Angeles and Orange counties.
  “It’s a strange year,” said Evan Meyer, executive director for the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants in Los Angeles’ Sun Valley. “We got a lo
  
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• Spring wrap-up Q&A: Santa Margarita softball coach misses ‘interaction with the players at practice’

  23-04-2020 21:00
  
  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.
  John Fitzpatrick, Santa Margarita softball
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: I’ve been catching up on projects that I’ve neglected for the past 16 years!
  Q: As a coach, what do
  
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• Anaheim Hills briefs: Churches, community groups finding ways to still help

  23-04-2020 20:26
  
  Hephatha Lutheran members finding ways to still help
  Members of Hephatha Lutheran Church are doing their part to help others during the coronavirus outbreak through two community outreach projects, which the community is invited help with.
  A “Cans and Cards” drive benefiting the Caring Hands Food Pantry in Fullerton began recently in an effort to reach out to others and give encouragement during this time of uncertainty. Church members and others in the community are encouraged to wr
  
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• How an explosion and its aftermath led to a piece of poetry

  23-04-2020 20:05
  
  “Do you remember what was going on in your life when you wrote this poem?” my daughter asked.
  It reads:
  L  augh often
  O ver little things
  V ery soon
  E verything dies
  In March of 1970, a militant group called the Weathermen accidentally blew up a townhouse in Greenwich Village. They had been making bombs in the basement of the residence at 18 W. 11th Street. Actor Dustin Hoffman and his wife lived in the brownstone next door, and I lived around the corner at 38 W. 10th Street.
  I
  
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• Review: The 20 best pizzas still available in Orange County during the coronavirus pandemic

  23-04-2020 20:02
  
  Just because you are quarantined doesn’t mean you have to subsist on beans and canned soup. You can still have pizza. Great pizza. Here are 20 of the best pizzas in Orange County that are still available right now for takeout or delivery. Stock up. Order a bunch. Eat pizza all week. You’ll want to have some wine handy. 
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  The spicy salame pizza here is absolute perfection, blotted with ricotta cheese and generously piled with salame, green olives and pickled Fresno chilies. A
  
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• 3.35 million California jobless claims, so far, in coronavirus era

  23-04-2020 20:02
  
  The battle against coronavirus has forced 3.35 million Californians to file unemployment claims in five weeks.
  The U.S. Department of Labor reported Thursday, April 23 that California had 533,568 filings in the week ended April 18. Yes, that’s down 121,904 in seven days. However, it brings the tally for the past five weeks to 3.35 million filings vs. 2.11 million combined in the previous 52 weeks.
  By the way, in the heat of the Great Recession, 3.88 million claims were made in all of 2009.
  
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• 3.35 million California jobless claims in coronavirus era

  23-04-2020 20:02
  
  The battle against coronavirus has forced 3.35 million Californians to file unemployment claims in five weeks.
  The U.S. Department of Labor reported Thursday, April 23 that California had 533,568 filings in the week ended April 18. Yes, that’s down 121,904 in seven days. However, it brings the tally for the past five weeks to 3.35 million filings vs. 2.11 million combined in the previous 52 weeks.
  By the way, in the heat of the Great Recession, 3.88 million claims were made in all of 2009.
  
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• Constitutional limits on government power don’t completely vanish during a crisis

  23-04-2020 19:52
  
  California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has been quick to file lawsuits against the federal government, exhibiting a hair-trigger sensitivity to potential overreaches of government power. But that sensitivity has vanished when it comes to the constitutional rights of Californians during the open-ended coronavirus emergency.
  While acknowledging that “the Constitution remains in place,” Becerra said in a recent interview with the Associated Press that it “has provisions in it
  
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• Best of BTS: Fans select their favorite BTS songs of all-time

  23-04-2020 19:36
  
  BTS was all set to kick off its highly anticipated North American tour this week in California, with multiple night stands at both the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.
  Then the novel coronavirus pandemic hit, forcing the biggest band in the land to postpone the biggest tour of the year.
  New dates have yet to be announced.
  The postponement certainly disappointed a number of fans, who had collectively snatched up well over a quarter million tickets for the five stadiu
  
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• Park Life: Disneyland cancels Grad Nites; analysts say attendance slump could stretch into 2021

  23-04-2020 19:34
  
  Did you know that the Club 33 mascot is an animatronic vulture named Alfred? Now you do. Find all the latest theme park news in the Park Life newsletter. Brady MacDonald is out this week so I’m Vanessa Franko, bringing you news and trivia about Southern California’s theme parks.
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  Grad Nite axed 
  One of the popular teenage tradit
  
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• Will police cite those protesting the stay-at-home order?

  23-04-2020 19:27
  
  As demonstrations protesting California’s stay-at-home break out, so do questions about those assembling:
  Why aren’t they cited or fined for gathering in groups?
  Protests have occurred in Southern California in the past week, in addition to those around the country, calling for an end to the quarantine and a return to business. Health experts in California have warned against lifting the order too early and credit social-distancing avoided more deaths.
  Some law enforcement agencies i
  
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• COVID-19’s very unequal toll

  23-04-2020 19:22
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic is a horrible human tragedy whose global toll is continuing to rise, but it’s also an exercise in collecting and examining data for clues to how it is spreading.
  The numbers change minute-by-minute but suggest that in America your chances of being infected may depend on where you stand on the economic ladder, how closely you live and work in the company of others, and how diligently you and your neighbors take precautions.
  Take, for example, the startling contrast bet
  
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• Top committed Orange County football recruits from the class of 2021

  23-04-2020 19:10
  
  Top committed Orange County football recruits from the class of 2021:
  Name, School, Position, Height, Weight, College
  Mavin Anderson, Mission Viejo, WR, 6-0, 190, Cal
  Peter Costelli, Mission Viejo, QB, 6-3, 200, Utah
  Raesjon Davis, Mater Dei, OLB, 6-1, 215, LSU
  Jake Garcia, La Habra, QB, 6-3, 185, USC
  Scott Giuliano, Corona del Mar, TE, 6-5, 225, Harvard
  Mason Murphy, JSerra, OL, 6-5, 287, USC
  Faaeanuu Pepe, Orange Lutheran, OL, 6-5, 320, Rice
  Kyron Ware-Hudson, Mater Dei, WR, 6-2, 205, Oregon
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• In Hawaii case, Supreme Court sees broad reach of Clean Water Act

  23-04-2020 18:58
  
  By MARK SHERMAN
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that sewage plants and other industries cannot avoid environmental requirements under landmark clean-water protections when they send dirty water on an indirect route to rivers, oceans and other navigable waterways.
  Rejecting the Trump administration’s views, the justices held by a 6-3 vote that the discharge of polluted water into the ground, rather than directly into nearby waterways, does not relieve an industry of comp
  
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• COVID-19 cases hold steady in Laguna Woods Village, CEO says

  23-04-2020 18:44
  
  No new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Laguna Woods Village, Village Management Services CEO Jeff Parker said during a regular meeting of the Third Mutual board on Tuesday, April 21, tallying the latest citywide count at seven.
  “We are all looking forward to returning to our normal, everyday lifestyle,” Third Mutual President Steve Parsons said, noting special strain on those missing family, longing to hold their grandkids. “But until that time, we must persevere and lo
  
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• Legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully hospitalized after fall at home

  23-04-2020 18:43
  
  LOS ANGELES — Legendary retired Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully was in a hospital Thursday recuperating from injuries suffered during a fall in his home.
  According to the Dodgers, the 92-year-old Scully fell in his home Tuesday afternoon.
  “He is hospitalized and resting comfortably,” according to the team.
  Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts points up to Don Sutton and Tommy Lasorda. Vin Scully was honored by having his microphone unveiled in the left field “Ring of Ho
  
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• The Eat Index: OC: Paella and one of O.C.’s best cocktails, at home

  23-04-2020 18:36
  
  The Eat Index: OC is a weekly newsletter that lands in your inbox on Wednesdays. Subscribe here.Main Course
   
  Some assembly required. DIY frozen Vaca tonic from the temporary takeout menu at Vaca in Costa Mesa (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  The Vaca tonic cocktail at Vaca in Costa Mesa is by now one of the most iconic drinks in Orange County. And now, you can make it at home.
  Critic Brad A. Johnson brought the cocktail and the paella Valencia from Amar Santana&
  
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• Master Gardener: The weird sex life of the avocado

  23-04-2020 18:28
  
  Q: I planted an avocado tree about 8 or 9 years ago at my home in Los Angeles. It had never fruited despite being a healthy-looking tree. Last year I stopped at the local nursery and asked someone in the garden department why it might not be fruiting and they suggested it needed fertilizing. I fertilized the tree with a citrus and avocado mix and then it fruited for the very first time. But the fruit never developed and all but one fell off. The one that was left never got bigger than the size o
  
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• ‘Fatal Attraction’ director talks film’s sex scenes, original ending for remastered re-release

  23-04-2020 17:44
  
  In just a few pages of its screenplay, director Adrian Lyne saw the huge potential of “Fatal Attraction.”
  “I just thought it was a page-turner,” Lyne said recently by phone from his New York City apartment. Paramount is re-releasing a freshly remastered version of his 1987 Oscar-nominated hit.
  “I was in France with my wife,” he continued. “We’d got a place in Provence in the south of France, and I was sitting on the stairs, quite late at night &mda
  
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• ‘Fatal Attraction’ director Adrian Lyne talks film’s sex scenes, original ending for remastered re-release

  23-04-2020 17:44
  
  In just a few pages of its screenplay, director Adrian Lyne saw the huge potential of “Fatal Attraction.”
  “I just thought it was a page-turner,” Lyne said recently by phone from his New York City apartment. Paramount is re-releasing a freshly remastered version of his 1987 Oscar-nominated hit.
  “I was in France with my wife,” he continued. “We’d got a place in Provence in the south of France, and I was sitting on the stairs, quite late at night &mda
  
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• DeVos excludes DACA recipients, foreign students from virus rescue grants

  23-04-2020 17:44
  
  By COLLIN BINKLEY
  The Trump administration is barring most international students and all students who entered the U.S. illegally from receiving emergency college grants approved by Congress as part of nearly $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package.
  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued the restriction in new guidelines released Tuesday telling colleges how to distribute more than $6 billion in grants meant to help students cover unexpected costs triggered by the pandemic. Earlier guidance from
  
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• Spring wrap-up Q&A: Villa Park softball coach says early success made ‘all the long hours worth it’

  23-04-2020 17:00
  
  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.
  Terry Williams, Villa Park softball
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: It’s unusual for sure, but every year the season comes to a screeching halt after that last game. I go from exha
  
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• Chicano Batman’s Bardo Martinez talks about new music while live audiences are forced to stay home

  23-04-2020 16:45
  
  Chicano Batman’s mix of feel-good music that blends romantic pop, Brazilian Tropicalia, psychedelic and soul with funk and groovy beats is best experienced live, but because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Los Angeles outfit won’t be hitting the road just yet. And for some other very good reasons, the members are absolutely fine with that.
  The band, made up of Bardo Martinez (lead vocals, keyboards, guitar), Gabriel Villa (drums), Eduardo Arenas (bass, guitar, vocals) and Carl
  
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• This backyard gardener is a true connoisseur of plants

  23-04-2020 16:10
  
  I don’t think there is anyone who appreciates plants more than Loren Zeldin. In clandestine corners of his garden you suddenly come upon the most brilliant, yet ephemeral, flowering plants — miniature polyanthus primroses, florists’ cineraria, and lisianthus or prairie gentian, for example. Although Zeldin knows they will live for no more than a few months in Reseda, where his half-acre backyard garden is located, he insists on planting them anyway.
  Or take fuchsias, known comm
  
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• Ladera Ranch man battles coronavirus ‘beast,’ gets second chance

  23-04-2020 16:00
  
  The phone rang just after 10 p.m. on a Friday. Already frazzled with fear, she answered.
  The caller, her phone said, was her husband.
  That was impossible, she thought. Brian Patnoe had been in an induced coma, on a ventilator, battling the coronavirus. The last report she had was that he still had a fever.
  As it turned out, the call was from a nurse at Mission Hospital. She had called on Brian’s phone. She wanted to FaceTime.
  Nikki Patnoe braced herself for bad news. Since Brian had been i
  
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• How to ensure you’ll have sweetest homegrown citrus

  23-04-2020 15:48
  
  1. Feed citrus trees again – the third of four annual feedings for mature citrus trees. We apply high-nitrogen citrus food about every six weeks in the first half of the year – in late January, mid-March, late April and mid-June. Apply four cups of ammonium sulfate, or two overflowing cups of ammonium nitrate, or 1.5 cups of urea, each time you feed your trees.
  2. Remember to get the sweetest-possible home-grown oranges and other citrus fruits be sure to apply micronutrients, such as
  
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• At least 7 dead as storms hit Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana

  23-04-2020 15:47
  
  MADILL, Okla.  — Severe weather moved through the South on Thursday after killing at least seven people in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a worker at a factory hit by an apparent tornado, a man whose car was blown off the road and a man who went outside to grab a trash can and was swept away in a flood.
  More than 150,000 customers from Texas to Georgia were without power Thursday as the severe weather blew eastward, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utility reports.
  
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• At least 6 dead as storms hit Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana

  23-04-2020 15:47
  
  MADILL, Okla.  — Severe weather was moving through the South on Thursday after at least six people died in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a factory worker whose body was found quarter-mile away after an apparent tornado struck his workplace and severely damaged the town nearby.
  More than 100,000 customers from Texas to Mississippi were without power Thursday as the severe weather moved through, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utility reports.
  Tornado warnings sent
  
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• 26 million have sought U.S. jobless aid since virus hit

  23-04-2020 15:43
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
  WASHINGTON — More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across an economy that remains all but shut down, the government said Thursday.
  Roughly 26 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the five weeks since the coronavirus outbreak began forcing millions of employers to close their doors. About one in six American workers have lost their jobs in the past five weeks, by far the worst string o
  
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• High winds, hot temps add danger to Southern California

  23-04-2020 15:08
  
  LOS ANGELES — Powerful winds will sweep areas of Southern California Thursday while temperatures continue to climb in the region’s first heat wave of the year, prompting forecasters to urge area residents to protect themselves against heat-related illnesses.
  A high wind warning will be in effect until 9 a.m. Friday in the San Gabriel Mountains, where north winds of 25 to 35 miles per hour will blow, most strongly in and around The Grapevine, gusting to 75 mph, according to the Nation
  
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• Corona del Mar tight end Scott Giuliano finds his ideal combination at Harvard

  23-04-2020 08:13
  
  Corona del Mar tight end Scott Giuliano wanted a college with a strong blend of football and academics.
  The junior found that combination during an early, spring visit to Harvard, and late last week, he committed to the Ivy League school.
  “I felt Harvard was the best place for me to reach my goals as a football player and as a person,” Giuliano said. “They have also put multiple tight ends in the NFL and that is very appealing to me.”
  Those NFL examples range from Kyle Ju
  
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• Update: Woman and her son missing from La Mirada are located and are safe

  23-04-2020 07:39
  
  LA MIRADA — A 25-year-old woman who suffers from autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder went missing Wednesday with her 3-month-old son in La Mirada. They were later found safe, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported.Above listed missing person has been located.Both Mom and baby are safe.Thank you for you assistance in this incident.
  — LASD Norwalk Station (@NorwalkLASD) April 23, 2020 
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• Officials seek help finding at risk-woman and her 3-month-old son missing from La Mirada

  23-04-2020 07:39
  
  LA MIRADA — A 25-year-old woman who suffers from autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder went missing Wednesday with her 3-month-old son in La Mirada.
  (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department)
  Lesitte Monique Felix and her son Josiah Anthony Felix were last seen about noon near their home in the 15000 block of Watkins Drive, between La Mirada Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue, according to Deputy Erin Liu of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Information Bureau
  
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• Santa Ana PD looking to ID armed robbery suspect

  23-04-2020 04:40
  
  SANTA ANA — Police Wednesday released surveillance video of the armed robbery of a doughnut shop in Santa Ana in the hopes it leads to the suspect’s arrest.
  The bandit, who was wearing a red bandanna over his face, held up Christy’s Donuts at 1212 S. Bristol St. about 10:50 p.m. on April 14, said Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna.
  The suspect asked the clerk to buy cigarettes, and when she asked for identification, he pulled out a handgun and pointed it at her as he demand
  
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• Bellflower man arrested, accused of manslaughter in 2019 street racing crash that killed 2 in Santa Ana

  23-04-2020 03:58
  
  A man suspected of vehicular manslaughter in connection with an April 2019 crash that left two people dead was arrested on Saturday after a year-long investigation by the Santa Ana Police Department.
  Damian Chavez, 24, of Bellflower, was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and hit and run causing injury. Police said Chavez was involved in a street race with another vehicle on Saturday, April 20, 2019 in the 3200 block of S. Bear Street.
  Orange County Fire Author
  
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• Mt. Baldy Resort opens in limited capacity after coronavirus closure

  23-04-2020 03:57
  
  Weeks after the coronavirus outbreak seemed to bring an end to ski season, Mt. Baldy Resort has reopened to the public in a limited capacity.
  “With coverage on the mountain about as good as it gets for April, and golf courses reopening around Southern California, we have decided to follow suit and open for ‘Ski & Ride Times,’” the resort posted on its website Tuesday, April 22. The resort welcomed skiers and snowboarders Wednesday.
  The move comes as San Bernardino Cou
  
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• NHL could complete season at regional sites, commissioner Gary Bettman says

  23-04-2020 03:35
  
  Bound and determined to complete the 2019-20 season and award the Stanley Cup, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday that games could be played doors closed to the public at as many as four regional league arenas with as many as three contests per day.
  The NHL suspended play March 12 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
  “Ideally from our standpoint – and it would resolve a lot of issues – would be if we could complete the regular season, even if it’s on a centraliz
  
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