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• Faced with 20,000 dead from coronavirus, nursing homes seek shield from lawsuits

  03-05-2020 22:52
  
  NEW YORK — Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s nursing homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with a sweeping lobbying effort to get states to grant them emergency protection from claims of inadequate care.
  At least 15 states have enacted laws or governors’ orders that explicitly or apparently provide nursing homes and long-term care facilities some protection from lawsuits arising from the crisis. And in the case of New York, w
  
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• SeaWorld and Legoland roll out post-COVID-19 plan for reopening San Diego parks

  03-05-2020 22:35
  
  A plan for reopening SeaWorld, Legoland and other San Diego attractions will include face masks for visitors, temperature checks for employees, reduced attendance, cashless transactions, social distancing and constant sanitization.
  The San Diego Tourism Authority laid out a health and safety plan for when the region’s theme parks reopen following the coronavirus outbreak.
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• As lockdowns ease, some countries report new coronavirus infection peaks

  03-05-2020 22:34
  
  ROME — While millions of people took advantage of easing coronavirus lockdowns to enjoy spring weather, some of the world’s most populous countries reported worrisome new peaks in infections Sunday, including India, which saw its biggest single-day jump yet.
  Second in population only to China, India reported more than 2,600 new infections. In Russia, new cases exceeded 10,000 for the first time. The confirmed death toll in Britain climbed near that of Italy, the epicenter of Europe&r
  
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• Whicker: The ring is empty, but Jose Ramirez fights on

  03-05-2020 21:43
  
  Somebody Up There doesn’t want Jose Ramirez to fight.
  So Ramirez found himself touring the farms of the Central Valley on Friday, the fields from which he sprouted.
  That wasn’t just because COVID-19 had postponed his 140-pound championship bout with Viktor Postol for a second time. But now, teaming with the Bautista Foundation, he could throw his mind and muscle into a project that gave the farm workers boxes of hand sanitizers, masks, water, gloves and vitamins C and D.
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• Families of prisoners at Terminal Island protest outside facility

  03-05-2020 21:32
  
  About 20 family members and friends of inmates at the Terminal Island prison in San Pedro demonstrated outside the facility’s gates Sunday morning to demand better treatment for their loved ones.
  More than half of the 1,050 inmates at the federal correctional facility have tested positive for the coronvirus. As of Sunday, 620 inmates and six staff members acquired the virus and five inmates have died.
  “We want justice!” they shouted, carrying signs with messages such as “
  
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• Matt Keough, former Oakland A’s pitcher and ‘Real Housewives’ figure, dies at 64

  03-05-2020 21:02
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. — Matt Keough, the former Oakland Athletics pitcher and special assistant, has died. He was 64.
  Keough, who graduated from Corona del Mar High School in 1973, was also an occasional figure on the Bravo series the “Real Housewives of Orange County,” which featured his ex-wife Jeana Keough and their children, Kara, Shane and Colton.
  The Athletics announced the death Saturday night without providing details.
  “Matt was a great baseball man and a proud Oakland
  
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• Of nuclear-powered airplanes and the bullet train

  03-05-2020 21:00
  
  A long-forgotten aspect of the nuclear arms race was the costly undertaking by the United States to develop a nuclear-powered aircraft as a strategic bomber.
  Even before Allied powers defeated Nazi Germany in 1945, both the United States and the Soviet Union were battling for post-war superiority. With the successful detonation of two atomic bombs — bringing the Pacific Theater hostilities to an abrupt halt — the U.S. had a brief period of nuclear superiority over the USSR.
  That woul
  
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• Police hand out 126 tickets in 6 hours on Pacific Coast Highway

  03-05-2020 19:54
  
  Four police agencies cracked down on 126 motorists who were either speeding or had loud exhausts along Pacific Coast Highway on Saturday, May 2.
  The special enforcement was prompted by incidents the weekend before in which more than 100 motorists — some in supercars such as Lamborghinis and Ferrari’s and motorcyclists — sped through the coastal towns, drawing ire from residents. In Laguna Beach, more than 100 residents complained to the police department in emails and phone cal
  
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• 126 citations issued in 6 hours on Pacific Coast Highway

  03-05-2020 19:54
  
  Four police agencies cracked down on 126 motorists who were either speeding or had loud exhausts during a special enforcement campaign along Pacific Coast Highway on Saturday, May 2.
  The highest number of tickets were handed out by Californa Highway Patrol officers who worked an unincorporated segment along the highway between Newport Coast and Laguna Beach. Officers cited 60 motorists along that stretch.
  The weekend campaign, headed up by Laguna Beach police Capt. Jeff Calvert, also included of
  
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• Why is Orange County’s coronavirus death rate lower than its neighbors’?

  03-05-2020 17:00
  
  In the grim accounting of a pandemic that has killed more than 2,100 Californians, epidemiologists and sociologists are both clapping their hands and scratching their heads over the relatively low number of COVID-19 deaths so far in Orange County.
  Researchers don’t know exactly why, or how, Orange County – which reached a milestone 50 reported deaths Friday, May 1 and reported two more Saturday – saw far fewer fatalities than neighboring counties at the end of what was the dead
  
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• Kent State’s perpetual wound still painful after 50 years

  03-05-2020 16:30
  
  Dean R. Kahler’s first college semester was nearing an end when he went home for the weekend 50 years ago this month to celebrate his 20th birthday.
  The northeast Ohio country boy had worked in the Republic Steel melt shop in Canton to help pay for school and got a late start on college. He had a high draft number, so he didn’t worry about going to Vietnam. He looked forward to four years of academics to launch his chosen career in public service.
  When he returned to campus Sunday af
  
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• Yet another ballot measure threatening major tax increases

  03-05-2020 11:38
  
  While everybody’s stuck at home waiting for the lockdown to be lifted, this would be a good time to tell you about an initiative set for the November 3 ballot that could sharply raise property taxes for your children if anything happens to you.
  Back in 1986, voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 58, which created an exclusion from reassessment for property transferred between parents and children, meaning the property tax bill would stay the same. And then in 1996, voters adopted Prop
  
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• Newsom’s order is no day at the beach

  03-05-2020 11:31
  
  In the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers promised, “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
  We are to enjoy these rights via a government that derives its power from the “consent of the governed.” But what happens when the governed withdraw their consent?
  Two words: repression or rebellion.
  After last weekend’s “Beach Blanket Biohazard” in Orange County, California Gov. Gavin Newsom took the velvet glove off the iron fist of governme
  
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• California’s budget will take a very big hit

  03-05-2020 11:22
  
  A bit of fiscal history is in order.
  The Great Recession that hit California 13 years ago had a devastating effect on the state budget.
  General fund revenues — principally personal income taxes paid by affluent Californians — dropped by about 20% and to maintain basic services, the Legislature and then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ran up deficits and covered them with borrowed money.
  They shifted money from special funds, such as highway construction and maintenance, to prop up the gen
  
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• For Earth Day, Trump lets the mercury rise

  03-05-2020 11:10
  
  Back when the smog disappeared in March and April, I always thought we were patting ourselves on the back too soon, saying it was all because nobody — well, nobody but those UPS vans zooming up and down my street — was driving.
  Turns out it was mostly because of what clear air is always about in Southern California: stormy weather. It takes either wind or rain to clear out what even the earliest gringo explorers saw from their ships off San Pedro: The Valley of the Smokes. That&rsquo
  
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• South Korea says troops exchange fire with North Korea along border

  03-05-2020 05:49
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea says its troops have exchanged fire with North Korea along their tense land border.
  The Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul says North Korean troops fired several bullets at a South Korean guard post inside the heavily fortified border between the countries on Sunday.
  The military says in a statement South Korea fired two rounds in response after issuing a warning broadcast.
  It says South Korea suffered no casualties.
  Sunday’s fire exchange took place a da
  
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• Some Orange County restaurants and shops reopen despite statewide orders

  03-05-2020 03:32
  
  Stopping by Nomads Canteen in San Clemente at lunchtime on Saturday felt a bit like jumping in a time machine and going back two months, before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered businesses across the country and changed life for everyone.
  Dozens of diners sat at tables on the sunny deck or inside around the beach-themed bar, toasting margaritas and enjoying poke bowls. People stood a foot or two from each other, waiting for tables to open up. And almost no one, from the staff to the customers,
  
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• Charlatan, Nadal give trainer Bob Baffert sweep in Arkansas Derby

  03-05-2020 03:22
  
  HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Charlatan romped to victory by six lengths in the first division of the Arkansas Derby and Nadal won the second division, giving Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert a sweep Saturday when the Kentucky Derby was postponed.
  The 146th Derby usually would have dominated the first Saturday in May, but it was pushed back to Sept. 5 by the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, 20 3-year-olds ran in two divisions of the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn, each worth $500,000.
  Each race was worth 1
  
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• Secretariat edges Citation, Seattle Slew to win virtual Kentucky Derby

  03-05-2020 03:13
  
  Secretariat won a virtual Kentucky Derby against 12 fellow Triple Crown winners, 47 years after the chestnut colt won the real race at Churchill Downs.
  The 1 1/4-mile race featuring computer-generated imagery was held Saturday, the same day the 146th Derby had been scheduled until it was postponed by the coronavirus pandemic. The Derby has been reset for Sept. 5.
  Secretariat was the 7-2 favorite, although there was no wagering. Instead, fans selecting the winning horse online were entered to win
  
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• Reade: ‘I didn’t use sexual harassment’ in Biden complaint

  03-05-2020 01:42
  
  By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, DON THOMPSON and STEPHEN BRAUN
  WASHINGTON — Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who alleges Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, says she filed a limited report with a congressional personnel office that did not explicitly accuse him of sexual assault or harassment.
  “I remember talking about him wanting me to serve drinks because he liked my legs and thought I was pretty and it made me uncomfortable,” Reade said in an interview Friday with The As
  
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• OneOC announces Spirit of Volunteerism honorees

  03-05-2020 00:59
  
  OneOC held its annual Spirit of Volunteerism event in virtual fashion Thursday, April 30.
  Here is the full list of honorees, as provided by OneOC:
  Simon Alison, Philista Almquist, Dave Atkinson, Aulani Reservation Sales Team, Autumn Trail, Connie Baca, Pat Bacerra, Cheryl Bartetzko, Kathy Bastas, John Begg, Dawn Bingaman, Susan Bjork, Teresa Blanco, Grace Boihem, Rob Boldt, Eniko Bolivar, Matthew Borja, John Boyle, Darla Brockus, John Buckles, Devin Bunch, Khouloud Bustami, Judi Butler
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• Man arrested trying to quarantine on private Disney island

  03-05-2020 00:19
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida deputies arrested a man who had been living out his quarantine on a shuttered Disney World island, telling authorities it felt like a “tropical paradise.”
  Deputies in Orange County, Florida, found Richard McGuire on Disney’s Discovery Island on Thursday. He said he’d been there since Monday or Tuesday and had planned to camp there for a week, according to an arrest report.
  The 42-year-old said he didn’t hear numerous deputies searching
  
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• Watch ‘Cake Boss’ make 8-foot-long Millennium Falcon cake at Disneyland’s Star Wars land

  03-05-2020 00:16
  
  A realistic-looking 8-foot-long Millennium Falcon cake complete with a quad laser cannon, sensor dish and blaster scorch marks will play a starring role in the “Buddy Vs. Duff 2” finale filmed at Disneyland.
  The Food Network’s “Buddy Vs Duff 2” final challenge was recorded earlier this year in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland.
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