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• Books to beat the blahs

  28-04-2020 23:57
  
  “The Knockout Queen” by Rufi Thorpe
  An epic tale of friendship, “The Knockout Queen” by Rufi Thorpe is at its core about two people who have a mutual desire to be loved and accepted. Bunny, a beautiful blonde, loathes the fact that her 6-foot-3-inch height makes her stand out among her classmates, and she suffers from the typical insecurities of high school girls. When she meets Michael, they form an immediate bond and he reveals his own secrets. When an incident in their
  
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• The NBA gave Daishen Nix a real-world choice, and he took it

  28-04-2020 23:48
  
  Playing basketball for UCLA doesn’t mean what it did, but we already knew that. Playing college basketball, anywhere, means even less.
  The jersey retirement ceremony for Daishen Nix has been canceled, at least at Pauley Pavilion. The 5-star recruit from Alaska, via Las Vegas, has decommitted. He has joined the NBA’s G League Pathway. It is a bypass on which traffic is building.
  Nix joined fellow high school seniors Isaiah Todd and Jalen Green. Their end run will take them past the on
  
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• Tesla’s Elon Musk may get a more than $700 million payday if company’s value keeps rising

  28-04-2020 23:08
  
  With Tesla’s share price rallying over the last month, Chief Executive Elon Musk is getting closer to a potential payout that could put more than $700 million into his pocket.
  That’s because Tesla’s market valuation of nearly $144 billion has brought the company’s six-month average valuation to around $95 billion. Should Tesla’s stock price continue to rise, and give the company a six-month average valuation of $100 billion, Musk would be in line for a stock-option
  
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• Bay Area’s shelter-in-place to last through May

  28-04-2020 23:03
  
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  As states across the country rush to restart economies battered by the coronavirus, the Bay Area is telling residents to buckle down — at least until June.
  Six Bay Area counties — Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo and San Francisco — and the city of Berkeley announced Monday they will be extending their first-in-the-nation stay-at-home order through the end of May. The current
  
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• Former Angel Hank Conger readies for baseball by coaching in South Korea

  28-04-2020 22:56
  
  While just about everyone that Hank Conger played with during his big league career is stuck in quarantine waiting for baseball to return in the United States, Conger is going to the ballpark every day and preparing for a season to start next week.
  Conger, who grew up in Orange County and began his big league career with the Angels, is beginning his first year coaching the catchers for the Lotte Giants of the Korea Baseball Organization.
  Although the start of their season was delayed just like t
  
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• Alum helps prepare ballplayers to manage their money

  28-04-2020 22:51
  
  By Bill Sheehan
  CSUF Athletics
  Bob Kargenian has a great love of Cal State Fullerton, baseball and finance. And for the last half a dozen years, he’s merged these passions to help Titan ballplayers improve their money management skills.
  Kargenian, the founder and president of Orange-based TABR Capital Management, conducts a yearly personal finance seminar for baseball and softball players. The class, which covers a raft of topics, teaches student athletes how to secure their financial futu
  
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• Newsom: California’s next school year may start in July as lower-risk businesses ‘gradually’ reopen

  28-04-2020 22:32
  
  The next school year may start as early as July or August to make up for learning lost this spring, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday.
  Although no firm decisions have been made, state officials are considering an earlier start to the 2020 school year — which would come with possible physical changes to school environments or staggered attendance.
  “We recognize there’s been a learning loss because of this disruption,” Newsom said. “We might want to consider getting that
  
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• Report: Biden accuser spoke to neighbor of alleged assault

  28-04-2020 22:16
  
  By ALEXANDRA JAFFE
  WASHINGTON — An associate of a former Senate aide to Joe Biden says the woman told her about her allegations of sexual assault against Biden — now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee — in the 1990s.
  The account, which was published Monday in Business Insider, comes a little over a month after Tara Reade first accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building when she worked in his office in the spring of 19
  
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• Coronavirus: 42 new cases in Orange County as testing increases to 27,737 as of April 28

  28-04-2020 21:58
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 2,151 confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Tuesday, April 28.
  Three new deaths were reported, raising the total number of people who have died of the virus in the county to 42. The county’s report said 23 of 25 hospitals reported in with numbers for the daily update.
  The county’s breakdown of deaths by age is the following:
  85 and older, 17% (7)75-84, 31% (13)65-74, 12% (5)55-64, 17% (7)45-54, 12%, (5)35-44, 7% (3)25-34, 5% (2)24 and
  
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• Coronavirus: 34 new cases in Orange County as testing increases to 27,737 as of April 28

  28-04-2020 21:58
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 2,151 confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Tuesday, April 28.
  Three new deaths were reported, raising the total number of people who have died of the virus in the county to 42. The county’s report said 23 of 25 hospitals reported in with numbers for the daily update.
  The county’s breakdown of deaths by age is the following:
  85 and older, 17% (7)75-84, 31% (13)65-74, 12% (5)55-64, 17% (7)45-54, 12%, (5)35-44, 7% (3)25-34, 5% (2)24 and
  
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• Southwest now tied with JetBlue for most slots at Long Beach Airport; Delta, Hawaiian expand

  28-04-2020 21:40
  
  JetBlue has surrendered even more of its flight slots at the Long Beach Airport — and Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Hawaiian Airlines have all benefited from that decision.
  JetBlue, which has historically held more flight slots at the airport than any other airline, gave up seven flight slots in January. Southwest and Delta have each received three of those flight slots, and Hawaiian Airlines was awarded one of them, according to a memo that Long Beach Airport director Cynthia Gu
  
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• First came their daughter’s cancer, then coronavirus, then their son’s brain surgery

  28-04-2020 21:17
  
  Chasing around a couple of energetic 3-year-olds is not easy under any circumstances. It’s even harder during the time of coronavirus – with entertainment opportunities limited and visits from friends curtailed.
  Yet still, the challenges and worries are exponentially greater when both of those children face health issues.
  Lori Shepler, left, her wife Terra Shepler, and their twin three-year-olds Ayla and Drew in Huntington Beach, CA, on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Both kids faced major
  
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• Coach Message: Jeremy Barnes tells Edison softball team ‘you never gave up in any game’

  28-04-2020 21:00
  
  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.This is a message from Edison softball coach Jeremy Barnes to his team.
  2020 Edison High School Varsity Softball Team,
  If someone would have told me at the beginning of the school year that the softball
  
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• Trump to sign order keeping meat processing plants open

  28-04-2020 20:53
  
  By JILL COLVIN
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday meant to stave off a shortage of chicken, pork and other meat on American supermarket shelves because of the coronavirus.
  The order will use the Defense Production Act to classify meat processing as critical infrastructure to keep production plants open.
  The order comes after industry leaders warned that consumers could see meat shortages in a matter of days after workers at major facilities tested posi
  
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• Tustin cafe owner throws herself and customers a drive-thru cupcake celebration

  28-04-2020 20:42
  
  The birthday girl did the baking for her own party.
  Of course, when you own a cafe it makes some sense.
  But it wasn’t a dozen or two cupcakes Kathy Gallardo of Tustin, a co-owner of the Best of Friends Cafe, made.
  A few of the 526 cupcakes baked by Kathy Gallardo of Tustin, a co-owner of the Best of Friends Cafe at the Tustin Sports Park, that she gave away to friends and customers during her birthday cupcake drive-by celebration at the parking lot of Tustin Ranch Elementary School in
  
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• High school sports leaders know complications, changes will be big part of 2020-21 schedule

  28-04-2020 20:20
  
  Yogi Berra, the Hall of Fame catcher for the New York Yankees and a former major league manager, long ago gave this humorous answer to a question about an upcoming baseball season: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
  That probably sums up the feelings of the high-ranking administrators in the CIF State and sectional offices when it comes to the 2020-21 athletic season.
  Without a framework in place at this time for students to return to campus due to t
  
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• Marvel Quinjet is visible at Disney’s Avengers Campus

  28-04-2020 20:04
  
  The Quinjet aircraft that will be the centerpiece of the new Marvel Avengers Campus has been spotted backstage at Disney California Adventure in aerial photos taken while the Anaheim theme park remains closed amid the coronavirus outbreak.
  The full-sized Avengers Quinjet — partially covered by a tarp — can be seen tucked into a backstage area next to the Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout attraction in new aerial photos provided to MiceChat, a Disney fan website.
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• 8 steps for keeping important relationships healthy during COVID-19 crisis

  28-04-2020 20:00
  
  We can approach our collective quarantine in a Jean-Paul Sartre “No Exit” kind of way — “Hell is other people” — or we can embrace a more John Donne “No Man is an Island” philosophy. Most of us will probably do a little of both.
  Hell, at times, can be other people, especially when you’re trying to work and certain daughters are nostalgia watching an old video in which kids march around 1970s-era Disneyland singing. And singing and singin
  
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• Reopening California’s economy needs a path forward; here are 5 precise steps how

  28-04-2020 19:52
  
  The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been devastating, and California must continue to act decisively to help mitigate the damage.
  As a California state senator representing the 8th Senate District, I have learned heartbreaking stories from employees and business owners who are seeing their dreams and investments dismantled. If lucky enough to have employment, many working parents are forced to juggle work with the new demands of homeschooling, often while vulnerable elderly fend
  
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• California paid 1 of every 8 new claims in March, lagging national average

  28-04-2020 19:52
  
  California’s embattled labor agency made first-time payments during March to only one out of every eight workers who filed initial unemployment claims, fresh evidence of the state’s flagging quest to pay people who lost jobs amid coronavirus-linked business lockdowns.
  The state’s Employment Development Department was noticeably below the nationwide average in the rate that the agency’s unemployment insurance unit was able to make its first payments to workers who had rece
  
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• Spanish Revival listed at $3.5 million is the priciest listing in Fullerton

  28-04-2020 19:44
  
  The kitchen. (Courtesy of The Boutique Real Estate Group)
  The living room. (Courtesy of The Boutique Real Estate Group)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsThe staircase of the rotunda entryway. (Courtesy of The Boutique Real Estate Group)
  The master bedroom. (Courtesy of The Boutique Real Estate Group)
  The master bathroom. (Courtesy of The Boutique Real Estate Group)
  A view of the swimming pool. (Courtesy of The Boutique Real Estate Group)
  A view of the backyard. (Courtesy of The Boutique Real
  
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• California’s reopening plan still lacks specifics

  28-04-2020 19:37
  
  Californians are anxious about this ongoing statewide shutdown that has ground normal life to a halt, added 3 million people to the unemployment rolls, and undermined the economy and local government finances. Officials have done a reasonable job limiting the health effects of coronavirus, but it’s time for them to provide specifics about when they will ease their rules.
  On April 14, Gov. Gavin Newsom was ahead of the curve when he announced a six-point roadmap for relaxing these grueling
  
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• California teachers unions fight to preserve flawed, costly status quo

  28-04-2020 19:32
  
  Teachers unions in California are vowing to fight any cuts to education funding during the recession caused by the open-ended coronavirus lockdown.
  For example, United Teachers Los Angeles President Alex Caputo-Pearl told members, “we cannot go back” to the type of cuts school districts experienced during the 2008 recession, when class sizes were increased, campuses were closed and teachers with less seniority were laid off.
  But he’s wrong. Not only can we go back, we likely wi
  
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• Coronavirus Q&A: Taxpayers who owe IRS money, still missing stimulus checks

  28-04-2020 19:27
  
  Q: I’m a taxpayer who owed the IRS money in 2018 and 2019, so the agency doesn’t have my bank information for a direct deposit. How will I get my stimulus payment?
  There’s a lot of confusion over the stimulus checks, called Economic Impact Payments. Who gets them, how and why hasn’t the $1,200 arrived yet?
  A month after the program launched under the $2 trillion CARES Act, millions of Americans are still waiting for their payments
  So far, the Internal Revenue Service repo
  
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• 5-star PG Daishen Nix decommits from UCLA in favor of G League

  28-04-2020 19:26
  
  The trend of big-time basketball prospects eschewing college basketball for a professional paycheck hit home for UCLA on Tuesday.
  Daishen Nix, the five-star point guard who signed a letter of intent to be a Bruin and play for head coach Mick Cronin in November, has decommitted from UCLA and will instead sign in the NBA’s G League, The Athletic reported on Tuesday.
  The loss is a tough one for Cronin and UCLA to swallow. Nix was the crown jewel of the Bruins’ 2020 recruiting
  
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• Amid crisis, California diddles around with AB5 exemptions rather than face law’s failure

  28-04-2020 19:22
  
  Members of the California state legislature got plenty of warnings about the likely negative unintended impacts of Assembly Bill 5, which required companies to reclassify most independent contractors as employees. The law was hurt hurting workers and businesses before the outbreak of COVID-19, but now its negative impacts are being amplified by the pandemic. As unemployment skyrockets and the economic downturn worsens, California should repeal the law.
  Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), commonly r
  
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• OC beach photo: Real news sometimes stranger than #fakenews

  28-04-2020 19:07
  
  Tens of thousands of Southern California residents flocked to Orange County beaches this past weekend.
  In normal times, that would not be news, but in these pandemic days, amid ongoing shelter-in-place orders, it’s practically unbelievable.
  In fact, when we reported the story, complete with the photos to prove it, many did not believe it and took to social media to tell us so.
  The most noteworthy photo, above, showed a veritable sea of sunbathers basking on the beach while the rest of Cali
  
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• Coronavirus fallout: California consumer confidence plunges to 6-year low

  28-04-2020 18:55
  
  California consumer confidence crumbled to a six-year low as the battle against coronavirus wreaks havoc on the economy.
  The Conference Board Index, based on a poll of shoppers’ impressions of economic conditions, fell to 75.2 for April vs. 107.5 the prior month and 116.7 a year ago. This was the biggest one-month drop in the index’s history that dates to 2007. The last time it was lower was October 2014.
  The state and national economies have been hammered by “stay at home&rdqu
  
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• Ohio’s mail-in primary tests voting during virus outbreak

  28-04-2020 18:38
  
  By WILL WEISSERT and JULIE CARR SMYTH
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — The first major test of an almost completely vote-by-mail election during a pandemic is unfolding Tuesday in Ohio, offering lessons to other states about how to conduct one of the most basic acts of democracy amid a health crisis.
  The process hasn’t been smooth as state officials have navigated election laws and the need to protect citizens and poll workers from the coronavirus. Ohio’s in-person primary was delayed just hou
  
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• Coronavirus: EDD preps new jobless benefits program while glitches continue

  28-04-2020 18:35
  
  The same state agency that presides over a broken call center and a glitch-ridden website that serves unemployed workers battered by coronavirus-linked job losses rolled out a vast new benefits program Tuesday, April 28.
  “We are currently receiving more calls than we have capacity to answer” was the familiar yet dreary automated call center recording that greeted displaced workers Monday as they tried to reach the besieged state Employment Development Department.
  Workers also continu
  
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• California doctors with dubious COVID conclusions debunked

  28-04-2020 18:24
  
  They dressed in scrubs. They sounded scientific. And last week’s message from two Bakersfield doctors was exactly what many stuck-at-home Americans wanted to hear: COVID-19 is no worse than influenza, its death rates are low and we should all go back to work and school.
  Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, who own urgent care centers in the region, had called a press conference to release their conclusions about the results of 5,213 COVID-19 tests they had conducted at their centers and te
  
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• Southern California housing was on track for record spring before outbreak

  28-04-2020 18:23
  
  The Southern California housing market was on track for record-setting prices and increased sales before the coronavirus outbreak hit, new numbers released Tuesday, April 28, show.
  The median price of a Southern California home — or price at the midpoint of all sales  — was $550,000 in March, according to CoreLogic numbers provided by DQ News.
  That’s an increase of $35,000, or 6.8%, from the March 2019 median and the highest median in records dating back to 1988.
  A total o
  
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• Mortgage chaos threatens to worsen once repayments are due

  28-04-2020 18:11
  
  By Joe Light, Bloomberg
  The mortgage market has been disrupted by millions of borrowers postponing payments because of coronavirus. But lenders and veterans of the 2008 financial crisis warn the real chaos won’t start until the pandemic passes.
  The problem is confusion over what will happen when borrowers have to make up those payments. Federal agencies that back most of the market have introduced policies, some of which could require documentation that overwhelms servicers, leading to lon
  
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• Will coronavirus outbreak delay Six Flags Magic Mountain’s 2021 coaster project?

  28-04-2020 17:40
  
  Six Flags Magic Mountain was quietly laying out plans for an innovative new single rail roller coaster in 2021 just before the Valencia amusement park was shuttered by the coronavirus outbreak and its parent company slashed spending on new projects.
  Six Flags Magic Mountain received approval in March for a “2021 roller coaster” from the County of Los Angeles Department of Regional Planning, according to public records.
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• Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach command takes two of the Navy’s highest awards back-to-back

  28-04-2020 17:10
  
  Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach and its Fallbrook and Norco bases have received two of the Navy’s top awards recognizing the command for its efforts at safety and protecting the environment.
  The awards – two of the Navy’s most prestigious – were handed out back-to-back. The Seal Beach base and its detachments in Fallbrook and Norco were honored with the 2019 Chief of Naval Operations Safety Award on April 22. And, the day before, base officials learned the command also w
  
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• Spring wrap-up Q&A: Pacifica softball coach had no doubt the team was ‘going to do something special’

  28-04-2020 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.
  Tony Arduino, Pacifica softball
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: My family has adjusted well. I have three of my own kids at home and they all play sports, so we have had a lot of time to
  
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• Who’s responsible for the public’s safety at theme parks?

  28-04-2020 15:33
  
  Who’s responsible for keeping people safe in public?
  When I started working at Walt Disney World as a college student, the first lesson I learned on my first day in the “Disney Traditions” training class was about safety. At every attraction I worked in the Magic Kingdom, I had to pass a safety test about that attraction before I could get on the schedule. Cast members who didn’t make their required safety checks or worked in an unsafe way would be reprimanded or even ter
  
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• How long will heat last in Southern California?

  28-04-2020 15:31
  
  LOS ANGELES — Southern California’s first heat wave of 2020 is almost a week old Tuesday, and highs in several communities will again climb into the 90s, as they did Friday, forecasters said.
  Tuesday’s temperatures will generally be 10 to 15 degrees above normal, said National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Hall. He said the one somewhat unusual aspect of the heat wave, which began last Wednesday, is that it showed up a little earlier than usual.
  Offshore, conditions will r
  
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• Motorcyclist killed on 405 Freeway identified as a Garden Grove man

  28-04-2020 09:46
  
  SEAL BEACH — A Garden Grove man was identified Monday as the motorcyclist killed after crashing into the right shoulder wall on the San Diego (405) Freeway in Seal Beach and falling into freeway lanes where he was run over by at least one vehicle.
  Robert Carson was 48, according to the Orange County coroner’s office.
  The crash was reported at 4:07 a.m. Sunday on the northbound San Diego Freeway just south of the San Gabriel River (605) Freeway, according to the California Highway Pat
  
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• Coronavirus curtails police and fire explorer programs in Southern California

  28-04-2020 06:08
  
  Israel Anaya-Morales felt fortunate to keep his job at In-N-Out in Signal Hill. But, like most Californians, his life changed drastically following the emergence of coronavirus this spring.
  The Cal State Fullerton student’s routine shifted from shuttling between work, classes and volunteer opportunities to finding himself restless at home in between shifts and digital lectures amidst the global crisis.
  The 20-year-old lieutenant in the Long Beach Police Department’s Explorer Post is
  
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• Laguna Beach council to talk about more beach restrictions, problems with nearby open sands

  28-04-2020 04:16
  
  The Laguna Beach City Council will discuss the beach scene in town over the weekend as well as look at beach visitor impacts in neighboring Newport Beach and in Huntington Beach during a meeting on Tuesday, April 28.
  The virtual meeting begins at 5 p.m.
  “The closures at the city beaches went well,” Laguna Beach Mayor Bob Whalen said on Monday, April 27. “South Laguna, it was what we feared. Too many people not social distancing and crowding into neighborhoods to park.”
  Wh
  
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• San Clemente will discuss Tuesday opening pier, lots and beach for “passive use”

  28-04-2020 04:15
  
  The city of San Clemente has called a special meeting to discuss loosening restrictions at the beach, city parks and businesses.
  The meeting, called for 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, will consider directing the interim city manager to plan and execute the reopening of all city parks no later than May 1.
  The meeting will also discuss sending a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom urging him to reopen businesses, with appropriate safeguards, no later than May 4.
  Also up for discussion is reopening beach parking lo
  
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• UCI doctor describes love, death and war during New York COVID fight

  28-04-2020 03:34
  
  The man had already spent two weeks on a ventilator at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, critically ill from COVID-19 and in a medically induced coma, when he and Dr. Sebastian Schubl met.
  Schubl, 43, a trauma and critical care surgeon at UCI Medical Center, saw a lot of patients during his recent week-long stint volunteering at the New York hospital — the same hospital where he started his career 15 years ago.
  But that one man on the ventilator made an impression.
  Maybe it was because Schub
  
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• UCI doctor describes love, death and war during New York coronavirus fight

  28-04-2020 03:34
  
  The man had already spent two weeks on a ventilator at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, critically ill from COVID-19 and in a medically induced coma, when he and Dr. Sebastian Schubl met.
  Schubl, 43, a trauma and critical care surgeon at UCI Medical Center, saw a lot of patients during his recent week-long stint volunteering at the New York hospital — the same hospital where he started his career 15 years ago.
  But that one man on the ventilator made an impression.
  Maybe it was because Schub
  
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• Anaheim woman dead after single-vehicle crash in Indio

  28-04-2020 03:32
  
  An Anaheim woman died after a single-vehicle crash on State Route 86 in Indio on Saturday afternoon.Traffic Collision w/Fire: RPT @ 3:04 p.m. Hwy 86 south of I 10 in Indio. One vehicle fully involved with fire. One victim with burn injuries, transported by Mercy Air to a burn center. BC, 3 ENG, 1 TRK, AMR, CHP #86INCIDENT
  — CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire Department (@CALFIRERRU) April 25, 2020The California Highway Patrol said the crash happened at around 3 p.m., just north of Dillon Road.
  
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• Coronavirus: How the U.S. has massively increased its testing capacity

  28-04-2020 02:46
  
  “Testing is the lynchpin to all public health measures put in place,” Johns Hopkins Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Lauren Sauer said on “Bloomberg Surveillance” this week. On February 27 there were 2 people tested in the U.S. for COVID-19. On March 27, total tests were 665,689 tested and on April 27 there were 5,593,495 tested and a capacity to test more than 200,000 per day in place. Of those more than 5.59 million tests 981,134 were positive with 4,077 pendin
  
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• Gov. Newsom calls out Newport Beach, other beaches over crowd concerns

  28-04-2020 02:11
  
  The coronavirus doesn’t take the weekend off, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. “This virus doesn’t go home because it’s a beautiful sunny day around our coasts.”
  Newsom started his daily speech admonishing crowds who flocked to some beaches on Saturday, including calling out Newport Beach, and saying there is danger in ignoring social-distancing mandates and that it could delay the state reopening businesses and easing health orders.
  “Those images are an example
  
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• Orange County names new health care agency head

  28-04-2020 01:54
  
  Dr. Clayton Chau, who previously spent more than a decade in the Orange County Health Care Agency’s behavioral health division, has been named the agency’s new director.
  The county announced the selection of Chau on Monday, April 27 – about a month after the position opened up when Richard Sanchez left it to head CalOptima, which provides health insurance to the county’s low-income residents.
  “Dr. Chau brings a wealth of experience to HCA, particularly within the re
  
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• Gene Autry’s Palm Springs ‘Rancho’ sells for $7 million

  28-04-2020 01:40
  
  The Palm Springs estate of “Singing Cowboy” and former Angels owner Gene Autry has sold for $7 million.
  It was listed at $8.25 million in January.
  Real estate agent James Gault of Bennion Deville Homes, who represented the buyer, said on Instagram that the transaction marks “the 5th most expensive home ever sold in Palm Springs.” The priciest was Bob and Dolores Hope’s estate, which sold in 2016 for $13 million.
  “It took almost two years of searching for one o
  
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• Amoeba Music’s Sunset Boulevard location will not reopen due to coronavirus; new location set to open in the fall

  28-04-2020 01:11
  
  Back in February, Amoeba Music officially announced that it would be moving to a new location, just blocks away from its original home at 6400 Sunset Blvd., in Los Angeles, next to the ArcLight multiplex Theater.
  It was supposed to be a seamless transition, with the former location remaining open until the new spot, located at the El Centro Complex at 6200 Hollywood Blvd. on the corner of Argyle Ave., opened sometime in the fall.
  However, once the global coronavirus health crisis hit Southern Ca
  
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