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• Coronavirus: More than 43,000 tested in Orange County, 3,092 cases as of May 7

  07-05-2020 23:39
  
  One more person has died in Orange County from the coronavirus, making for a total of 66 reported deaths, according to the Thursday, May 7, daily update from the Orange County Health Care Agency.
  The agency also reported 96 newly confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Thursday, making for 3,092 cases reported since testing began locally. The report noted that 271 cases were residents in skilled nursing facilities and 216 cases were among Orange County jail inmates.
  As of Monday, cases among pe
  
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• Why Dean Kim of OC Baking Company curates an eclectic pop-up in Orange

  07-05-2020 23:36
  
  He’s the king of the fine dining bread basket.
  Master baker Dean Kim’s fragrant, full-bodied breads are usually the first impression diners have of Orange County’s fanciest restaurants: The Ranch, Studio at Montage Laguna Beach, Vaca, Broadway by Amar Santana and more.
  Typically he bakes 20,000-30,000 loaves a day. But when restaurants were ordered to close as prevention against the spread of coronavirus, 90% of his orders disappeared almost overnight. “We saw it in China
  
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• Orange County cities are facing a financial mess

  07-05-2020 23:32
  
  The latest state budget forecasts are expectedly grim, with finance officials predicting revenue in the last quarter to be down an eye-popping 61 percent. But the COVID-19 related economic devastation isn’t confined only to the state general fund. It is wreaking havoc on local government finances in Orange County and across California.
  The most direct cause of local problems is a precipitous drop in sales- and hotel-tax revenue. With many stores and hotels closed, cities are losing a huge
  
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• UCLA softball’s Rachel Garcia, Bubba Nickles to return for senior seasons

  07-05-2020 23:08
  
  From leading UCLA to its 2019 national championship win in June to making the Team USA roster together in the fall, the Bruins’ softball star duo is back.
  Pitcher Rachel Garcia and utility player Bubba Nickles will be returning to Westwood to play their senior seasons in 2021 before rejoining Team USA to compete in the Tokyo Olympics next summer, as announced by UCLA on Thursday afternoon
  Garcia and Nickles redshirted the 2020 collegiate season while on tour with the USA Softball Women&rsq
  
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• Mission Viejo All-County linebacker Easton Mascarenas decides to join brother, teammate at Oregon State

  07-05-2020 22:49
  
  Another standout defensive player from Mission Viejo High is headed to Oregon State.
  Junior linebacker Easton Mascarenas, a first-team All-County linebacker last season who dueled against Upland star linebacker Justin Flowe in September, has committed to the Beavers.
  Mascarenas (6-0, 220) will join former Mission Viejo teammates Akili Arnold, also his step-brother, and JoJo Hawkins, on the Oregon State defense and will likely again face Flowe, a class of 2020 recruit who signed with Oregon.
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• Walkers, joggers return to San Clemente Pier, now open with restrictions

  07-05-2020 22:47
  
  They are as iconic as the Southern California beaches they hover above, a place where countless kisses and proposals have happened, a lookout point for watching the sun dip into the horizon and where anglers wait patiently to hook a meal.
  Piers across the region have been off limits for weeks, as areas of the coastline closed to curb crowds during the coronavirus pandemic. The opening of the San Clemente Pier this week is giving beach lovers in this small coastal town something to celebrate.
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• Be ready for the housing market’s reopening

  07-05-2020 22:39
  
  We hear so much every day about making decisions based on facts and data. Here’s a fact for you: Demand for homes are on the rise.
  According to Southern California real estate numbers guru Steven Thomas’ Reports on Housing, demand for homes in Orange County is up 9% from the low point two weeks ago.
  While the stay-at-home orders have not yet been lifted, we are all anticipating a loosening very soon, and qualified, motivated buyers are taking advantage of the essential services desig
  
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• Knott’s Berry Farm owner rolls out post-COVID-19 plan for reopening theme parks

  07-05-2020 22:24
  
  A plan for reopening Knott’s Berry Farm and other Cedar Fair theme parks will include advanced reservations, reduced attendance, virtual queueing, cashless transactions, social distancing and constant sanitization.
  Cedar Fair CEO Richard Zimmerman laid out a health and safety plan for when the company’s theme parks reopen following the COVID-19 pandemic during a conference call with analysts.
  “I am confident that our industry and Cedar Fair specifically can develop and execute
  
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• Finding Van Halen, Doobie Brothers and more in producer’s Ted Templeman’s memoir

  07-05-2020 22:22
  
  By ANDREW DALTON
  SOUTH PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — In a life full of magical musical moments, few compare for Ted Templeman to the night he first saw Van Halen in a mostly empty Hollywood club.
  The elite record-maker and Warner Bros. record executive who had spent the decade producing albums for The Doobie Brothers, Van Morrison, Carly Simon and many others had been invited to see the young rockers one night in 1977. He hid amid the crowd so the band wouldn’t know he was there and he cou
  
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• Newsom allows some California stores to open, but without customers

  07-05-2020 21:59
  
  By ADAM BEAM
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday issued the broadest loosening of his stay-at-home order so far, allowing some retailers to reopen but not have customers in stores.
  The announcement was the result of improvement in battling the coronavirus and it moves California into the second phase of a methodical four-step process to full reopening. It covers only a sliver of retail businesses as well as manufacturers’ warehouses considered low risk
  
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• California governor allows some retail reopening with limits

  07-05-2020 21:59
  
  By ADAM BEAM
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued the broadest loosening of his stay-at-home order so far, allowing some retailers to reopen but not have customers in stores.
  The announcement Thursday was the result of improvement in battling the coronavirus and it moves California into the second phase of a methodical four-step process to full reopening. It covers only a sliver of retail businesses as well as manufacturers’ warehouses considered low risk for
  
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• California homeowners can get up to 10 months to make up missed payments or sell

  07-05-2020 21:39
  
  Lori Devault survived and rebuilt her Julian home after it burned down in the 2003 Cedar Fire.
  Now she is worried she might not survive her mortgage lender as she is already two months into a maximum six-month mortgage forbearance agreement with Irvine-based Rushmore Loan Management Services.
  “Rushmore requires the missed payments to be made up by the end of the forbearance period,” said Devault. “I don’t have the money.”
  Her Julian home is worth about $695,000, wit
  
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• California homeowners can borrow up to 10 months to make up missed payments or sell

  07-05-2020 21:39
  
  Lori Devault survived and rebuilt her Julian home after it burned down in the 2003 Cedar Fire.
  Now she is worried she might not survive her mortgage lender as she is already two months into a maximum six-month mortgage forbearance agreement with Irvine-based Rushmore Loan Management Services.
  “Rushmore requires the missed payments to be made up by the end of the forbearance period,” said Devault. “I don’t have the money.”
  Her Julian home is worth about $695,000, wit
  
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• Frank Vogel optimistic as Lakers wait to reopen practice facility

  07-05-2020 21:31
  
  How long has this layoff lasted? Long enough that the Western Conference’s first-place team benefited from a reminder about just how well it was playing when the season was suspended March 11 after the Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19.
  Lakers coach Frank Vogel said his staff has been studying film of the 49-14 Lakers in preparation for the season’s resumption, whenever that might be, and that they like what they see.
  “Our video guys … Dru Anthro
  
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• County-operated beaches get go-head to open up, marking all O.C. beaches open but with restrictions

  07-05-2020 21:12
  
  A surfers rides a wave at Salt Creek Friday, May 1, 2020 despite California governor Gavin Newsom’s order that all beaches in Orange County be closed.(Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer)
  South Laguna Beach, Salt Creek, Strands Beach and Capistrano Beach – the last stretches of beach that remained closed this week – got the nod Thursday, May 7, from the state to reopen their beaches.
  The approval by the California Natural Resources Agency comes with the same s
  
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• County-operated beaches get go-head to open up, marking all O.C. beaches allowed open but with restrictions

  07-05-2020 21:12
  
  A surfers rides a wave at Salt Creek Friday, May 1, 2020 despite California governor Gavin Newsom’s order that all beaches in Orange County be closed.(Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer)
  South Laguna Beach, Salt Creek, Strands Beach and Capistrano Beach – the last stretches of beach that remained forced closed this week – got the nod Thursday, May 7, from the state to reopen their beaches.
  The approval by the California Natural Resources Agency comes with the
  
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• County-operated beaches get go-ahead to open up, marking all O.C. beaches allowed open but with restrictions

  07-05-2020 21:12
  
  A surfers rides a wave at Salt Creek Friday, May 1, 2020 despite California governor Gavin Newsom’s order that all beaches in Orange County be closed.(Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer)
  South Laguna Beach, Salt Creek, Strands Beach and Capistrano Beach – the last stretches of beach that remained forced closed this week – got the nod Thursday, May 7, from the state to reopen their beaches.
  The approval by the California Natural Resources Agency comes with the
  
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• All Orange County beaches approved to open with restrictions

  07-05-2020 21:12
  
  A surfers rides a wave at Salt Creek Friday, May 1, 2020 despite California governor Gavin Newsom’s order that all beaches in Orange County be closed.(Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer)
  South Laguna Beach, Salt Creek, Strands Beach and Capistrano Beach – the last stretches of beach that remained forced closed this week – got the nod Thursday, May 7, from the state to reopen their beaches.
  The approval by the California Natural Resources Agency comes with the
  
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• Justice Deptartment dropping Michael Flynn’s criminal case

  07-05-2020 21:02
  
  By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER
  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for the president and his supporters in attacking the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.
  The move is a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. It comes even though prosecutors f
  
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• Spring wrap-up Q&A: Western softball coach says ‘we were just turning the corner’

  07-05-2020 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.
  Joe Soto, Western softball
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: I must say that there is a restless feeling most afternoons and weekends because not only do I coach high school softball but t
  
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• How Netflix’s ‘Wrong Missy” brought Lauren Lapkus into the Adam Sandler film family

  07-05-2020 20:44
  
  When Lauren Lapkus landed in Hawaii to shoot “The Wrong Missy,” she quickly realized that when Adam Sandler is the boss you’re not just making a movie, you’re also now part of Happy Madison’s extended family.
  Happy Madison Productions, which Sandler launched two decades ago to produce movies for himself and his friends, made the Netflix comedy in which Lapkus stars as a cheerfully bonkers woman who won’t take no from the mild-mannered businessman played by Dav
  
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• Senior Moments: I wish I had danced around a maypole with my mother

  07-05-2020 20:20
  
  Her face would light up every time she told me the maypole story.
  It was an anchor of joy from my mother’s childhood. Her descriptions were so vivid that I could see the multicolored ribbons and each of the children grabbing one as they danced around the maypole. I always imagined that they sang as they danced, but that might be a memory add-on.
  I also pictured her in a pretty yellow sundress with ruffles, but that is also unlikely. Mom, the youngest of eight, was raised in a small apartme
  
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• Queen Mary suspends operations amid coronavirus pandemic

  07-05-2020 20:15
  
  The Queen Mary has suspended operations due to the statewide stay-at-home order to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus, the ship’s operator announced Thursday, May 7.
  The vessel, which is used as a hotel and event space, has remained open even as its restaurants and bars have shuttered and its gatherings have been canceled to comply with local and state health orders.
  Related Articles Coronavirus blows a $54 billion hole in California’s budget Beyond Wonderland cancels 2020
  
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• DMV opening 25 field offices on Friday for certain transactions

  07-05-2020 20:05
  
  The Department of Motor Vehicles will open 25 field offices on Friday, May 8, to those with appointments, the agency announced on Thursday.
  The stance comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom prepares to ease the stay-at-home order in California.
  The affected offices include those in Fontana, Fullerton, Glendale, Los Angeles and Santa Ana.
  They were picked based on “location, size, service capacity and the ability to offer enhanced service to commercial driver license customers,” the agency said i
  
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• DMV opening 25 field offices on Friday, appointments required

  07-05-2020 20:05
  
  The Department of Motor Vehicles will open 25 field offices on Friday, May 8, to those with appointments, the agency announced on Thursday.
  The stance comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom prepares to ease the stay-at-home order in California.
  The affected offices include those in Fontana, Fullerton, Glendale, Los Angeles and Santa Ana.
  Others are expected to open in waves.
  Employees will have access to masks, gloves and face shields.
  The number of customers inside at one time will be limited. Hand-washing
  
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• DMV opening 25 field offices on Friday

  07-05-2020 20:05
  
  The Department of Motor Vehicles will open 25 field offices on Friday, May 8, to those with appointments, the agency announced on Thursday.
  The stance comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom prepares to ease the stay-at-home order in California.
  The affected offices include those in Fontana, Fullerton, Glendale, Los Angeles and Santa Ana.
  They were picked based on “location, size, service capacity and the ability to offer enhanced service to commercial driver license customers,” the agency said i
  
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• DMV aims to reopen at least some field offices this month

  07-05-2020 20:05
  
  The Department of Motor Vehicles is hoping to start reopening field offices this month as Gov. Gavin Newsom prepares to ease the stay-at-home order in California, the agency’s director said.
  Some offices could open by the end of the month and offer limited services by appointment only, DMV Director Steve Gordon told the Sacramento Bee, and then other offices could open in phases.
  When they do open, employees with be equipped with masks, gloves and face shields, and customers will be requir
  
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• Review: Orange County’s 10 best Thai restaurants for takeout and delivery

  07-05-2020 20:02
  
  That tingly itch you get on the top of your head when you swallow a spoonful of hot, spicy green curry. That soothing, creamy comfort of a fast swig of Thai iced tea. That aromatic swoosh that fills the room when you pop the top of a container of tom yum with fresh prawns. The sweet, nutty scent of jasmine rice and the sour, exciting tang of green papaya salad. Despite all that’s wrong with the world right now, all of these things are still currently available. Here are the 10 best Thai re
  
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• Coronavirus blows a $54 billion hole in California’s budget

  07-05-2020 19:59
  
  A new memo Thursday from California’s finance department put the economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic in stark relief: a projected $54.3 billion hole in the state budget that’s nearly three and a half times the state’s Rainy Day Fund emergency reserves.Gov. Gavin Newsom, who ordered the country’s first statewide stay-home order March 19 to slow the virus’ spread, hinted Wednesday at the mounting economic toll of shutting all but essential businesses.
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• Beyond Wonderland cancels 2020 festival due to novel coronavirus

  07-05-2020 19:47
  
  Music festival promoter Insomniac Events has pulled the plug on electronic music festival Beyond Wonderland for 2020 due to the novel coronavirus.
  “The well-being of our headliner community has always been a guiding light at Insomniac. Though the world is moving in a more positive direction, it is still too early for us to gather at Beyond Wonderland SoCal in 2020,” a statement released on the festival’s social media accounts said. “While we are disappointed by this outco
  
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• Whicker: Hockey needs to use its only timeout, then come back strong in the fall

  07-05-2020 19:45
  
  The Kings have 12 games remaining. Should hockey resume, they would have 88 points if they won all 12.
  Eighty-eight points would not have gotten them in last year’s playoffs, which is why Drew Doughty, whose mask doesn’t filter anything, said his head is already in the offseason, with a bead on 2020-21.
  Rob Blake is the Kings’ general manager and can’t say such things. He does say that playing games “that don’t have any meaning” would be “difficult
  
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• Disneyland construction crews return for limited ‘essential work’ during coronavirus closure

  07-05-2020 19:32
  
  Disney construction crews have returned to resume limited “essential work” on Avengers Campus and Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway while the Anaheim theme parks remain closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
  In line with direction from government and health officials, essential work will be performed periodically by limited crews to protect Avengers Campus, Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway and other projects at the Disneyland resort, according to Disney officials.
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• California hit daily high of new coronavirus cases. It may not be as bad as it sounds

  07-05-2020 19:23
  
  California hit another grim milestone in the coronavirus outbreak this week, with its largest single-day number of new cases Tuesday — a statewide total of 2,546 COVID-19 infections coming amid torrid debate over whether it’s safe to start lifting economically crippling lock-downs.
  But although the Golden State now has surpassed 60,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, Tuesday’s new high number of daily cases doesn’t necessarily reflect a rapidly expanding contagion. It may si
  
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• Local pitmaster is awarded $10,000 from national charcoal manufacturer Kingsford

  07-05-2020 19:22
  
  He didn’t have to enter any contest or fill out application forms. All Daniel Castillo had to do was be a red-hot pitmaster and get noticed by national charcoal manufacturer Kingsford.
  The company has started a new program to support pitmasters across America by giving away $250,000 and another called Grill What You Got to provide free recipes to encourage home cooks to barbecue.
  “I follow them on Instagram,” said Castillo, founder of the popup Heritage Barbecue which plans to
  
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• Neiman Marcus bankrupt, idled by virus, crushed by debt

  07-05-2020 19:03
  
  By Katherine Doherty, Bloomberg
  Neiman Marcus Group filed for bankruptcy after efforts to manage its crushing debt load unraveled amid the spreading coronavirus pandemic.
  Creditors will take control of the luxury department store chain, according to plans outlined in a Chapter 11 petition filed in Houston. The move gives the Dallas-based luxury retailer a break by letting it stay in business while management works out a recovery plan.
  The company, led by Chief Executive Officer Geoffroy van Raem
  
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• Laguna Woods Village golf courses will reopen Monday with tennis courts to follow

  07-05-2020 18:56
  
  Getting back on the greens will be a reality for golfers by next week, starting Monday, May 11, Village Management Services CEO Jeff Parker announced during a regular meeting of the Golden Rain Foundation board on Tuesday, May 5.
  “That is, of course, going to be with restrictions and operational controls,” Parker said. “(This is to) ensure social distancing and to ensure that we have as few touch points as possible with regards to the structure of riding in the golf carts, the
  
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• South Bay church turns to drive-thru worship, others in Glendora, Agoura Hills, Tustin, San Clemente and Costa Mesa go digital for National Day of Prayer

  07-05-2020 18:47
  
  By STEVEN HERBERT | City News Service
  LOS ANGELES — While most events in Los Angeles and Orange counties marking Thursday’s National Day of Prayer will be virtual because of restrictions stemming from the coronavirus outbreak, Rolling Hills Covenant Church will conduct drive-thru prayer from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
  Prayer stations will be spread out across the front parking lot of the church in Rolling Hills Estates with pastors and the prayer team available to pray for participants while they
  
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• California must use data, not fear, to guide reopening of our state: Diane Harkey

  07-05-2020 18:38
  
  Over the course of my careers, I’ve worked with family-run businesses up to large multi-national corporations.
  People invest and immigrate to the United States because we have a stable political and economic system based on our Constitution and rule of law.
  This combination provides reasonable assurance that the time, effort and money invested cannot be taken away overnight, without due process.
  We also rely on our courts to ensure laws and other government mandates are not arbitrary and c
  
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• Curtailing the reckless California bullet train plan

  07-05-2020 18:28
  
  In an encouraging development, the Assembly Transportation Committee returned from lockdown exile and immediately advanced two bills to curtail a reckless plan by the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
  This editorial board has urged lawmakers to heed the warning from the Legislative Analyst’s Office to move quickly if it wants to make changes to the rail authority’s current plans, which call for signing 30 contracts this year to commit the project to costly and inflexible electrif
  
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• California Supreme Court weighs timely pension case

  07-05-2020 18:06
  
  It was purely coincidental that state Supreme Court justices heard arguments this week in a landmark case involving public employee pensions as state and local officials were beginning to wrest with the severe impacts of a pandemic-induced recession on their budgets.
  However, the health and financial crises occurring outside the court’s San Francisco chambers permeated inside, both visually and, perhaps, legally.
  Only two justices, both wearing infection-fighting masks, sat well-separated
  
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• How Daptone producer Gabriel Roth became Southern California’s soul spirit guide

  07-05-2020 17:31
  
  Gabriel Roth says he was at his best musically when he played bass on stage behind the dynamic Sharon Jones as part of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.
  The Grammy-winning performer, producer, record label owner and engineer, who is also credited under the alias Bosco Mann, said that a huge part of his life was gone following Jones’ death in 2016.
  “I was very grateful for the time that I had, but at the same time, as more time passed after her death, I kind of found myself floating a l
  
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• Spring wrap-up Q&A: Fountain Valley softball coach says ‘we were set to make a run at league, CIF’

  07-05-2020 17:30
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowEditor’s note: The Orange County Register is having the area’s spring sports coaches take part in a Q&A about the 2020 season that was cut short by the coronavirus crisis.
  Rick Aldrich, Fountain Valley softball
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: It’s not easy. I am missing being out on the field every day. Just trying to stay in touch with the teams.
  Q:
  
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• Get to know the Southern California soul artists on the new Penrose Records

  07-05-2020 17:30
  
  Riverside’s Gabriel Roth — who is perhaps better known to the musical world as Bosco Mann — has been hard at work bringing exposure to a blossoming Southern California “souldies” scene through his new label imprint Penrose Records.
  Here’s a look at the area’s artists on the label who will be releasing 45 RPM singles, most of which will be released in June.
  Thee Sacred Souls: The San Diego-based band, composed of members Alex Garcia, Sal Samano and Josh L
  
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• California restaurants envision big changes in reopening

  07-05-2020 17:27
  
  California restaurants have drafted a plan to allow the industry to reopen for sit-down dining with an array of safeguards while avoiding possible requirements imposed in other states that customers have their temperature taken or the number of tables be dramatically limited.
  The recommendations, obtained by The Associated Press, are to be submitted to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday. They envision a changed world within dining rooms, as an industry built on face-to-face contact and crowded tables
  
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• The Eat Index: OC: Bread therapy, without the baking 🍞

  07-05-2020 17:25
  
  The Eat Index: OC is a weekly newsletter that lands in your inbox on Wednesdays. Subscribe here.Main Course
  Sourdough bread baked by Orange County chef Karlo Evaristo (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  It seems like everyone is baking sourdough these days as a way to deal with being stuck at home. If you want to hop on the sourdough therapy train, but don’t want to go on a scavenger hunt for flour, you can do what Brad A. Johnson did — outsource yo
  
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• Why the Census extension may help California

  07-05-2020 17:00
  
  The expectation this year was that the 2020 Census would cost California one or two of its 53 congressional seats. Then came decisions by Republican-controlled states like Texas and Florida – believed to be America’s fastest-growing states – not to invest in making sure their residents were thoroughly counted.
  After that came the coronavirus pandemic. That led to current plans for pushing back the Census deadline four months, with final results likely to be reported by April 20
  
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• Bravo: Faculty, staff honored at Cal State Fullerton’s first virtual University Awards

  07-05-2020 16:51
  
  Cal State Fullerton President Fram Virjee and David Forgues, vice president for human resources, diversity and inclusion, hosted the university’s first virtual University Awards program to honor faculty and staff.
  The event, broadcast live April 29 over Zoom, featured both hosts wearing their infamous orange suits and adapting a “Titans Got Talent” format with video clips of Simon Cowell and other judges of TV’s “America’s Got Talent” along with cheering
  
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• Unanimous Supreme Court throws out ‘Bridgegate’ convictions

  07-05-2020 16:47
  
  By JESSICA GRESKO
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the convictions of two political insiders involved in New Jersey’s “Bridgegate” scandal, saying that “not every corrupt act by state or local officials is a federal crime.”
  The court said in a unanimous decision Thursday that the government had overreached in prosecuting two allies of then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni, for their roles in a political payback
  
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• New CSUF class explores food systems, food choices in coronavirus pandemic

  07-05-2020 16:36
  
  From sourdough starter and pandemic baking to contactless grocery shopping and virtual tip jars for restaurants on the fringe of survival, students in Sarah Grant’s new “Global Ethnographies of Food” class are seeing firsthand the complexities of food systems and food choices during the COVID-19 health crisis.
  Students are being encouraged to think about the food supply chain, the labor that goes into producing their food, advertising and packaging, and ultimately, wh
  
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• Hundreds evacuated as wildfires rage in Florida Panhandle

  07-05-2020 16:33
  
  PENSACOLA, Fla. — Firefighters in the Florida Panhandle have been battling wildfires that forced some 1,600 people to evacuate from their homes, and a stretch of Interstate 10 remained closed in both directions Thursday morning due to smoke, authorities said.
  A more than 575-acre fire in Walton County prompted about 500 people to evacuate. Authorities there said multiple structures were lost in the fire, which was 65% contained Thursday morning.
  Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson said
  
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