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• Here’s how $2.3 trillion in stimulus money was doled out and what could be next

  17-05-2020 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  As Congress argues about a second stimulus package, here’s a look at how the $2.3 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act was divided up.
  The CARES Act became the largest economic stimulus bill in modern history, more than doubling the stimulus act passed in 2009 during the financial crisis.
  The CARES Act was signed into law on March 27. Now Congress is considering another stimulus package that could be even bigger.
  According to this CNBC/Change Research poll, 94% of Ame
  
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• Former USC athletes rise to the challenge of healthcare professions during coronavirus pandemic

  17-05-2020 22:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Adam Shilling knows his patient doesn’t have the proper equipment at home. They don’t have weights, elastic bands or any sort of workout machine for rehabilitation exercises. Still, as a physical therapist, he needs to come up with a way to administer rehab exercises for his patient’s shoulder through this virtual appointment.
  “How young is your brother? Can you give him a piggyback?”
  The young boy’s face on the other side of the screen lights up at the fun id
  
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• Coronavirus: Orange County tops 70,000 tests and reports 2 new deaths as of May 17

  17-05-2020 21:33 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 155 newly confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Sunday, May 17, increasing the total cases reported to 4,376 in Orange County.
  Two new deaths were reported, raising the death toll from the virus in Orange County to 88.
  With 24 of 25 hospitals reporting, there were 201 people in Orange County hospitalized by the coronavirus with 78 in intensive care units.
  Another 280 tests for the coronavirus were given in the last day, bringing the cumulative tes
  
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• ACLU sues over Terminal Island prison conditions

  17-05-2020 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit on behalf of inmates at Terminal Island federal prison in San Pedro, accusing the Bureau of Prisons of “deliberate indifference” for not releasing non-violent criminals based on recommendations from the U.S. Congress and Attorney General’s office.
  The group also accused the federal agency of violating the 8th amendment against “cruel and unusual punishment,” saying through a series of “unconscionable delay
  
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• Will the coronavirus pandemic lead to tax increases?

  17-05-2020 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  In January, Gov. Gavin Newsom presented a proposed budget for fiscal year 2020-2021 which envisioned a several billion dollar increase in spending for existing programs as well as a host of new programs. But that was before COVID-19 arrived at our shores.
  In over the course of just three weeks in March, it became obvious that the original budget plan would have to be scrapped because of the most rapid economic downturn America has ever seen.
  So it was with great interest that all those who follo
  
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• 2 LA firefighters remain in critical condition, 3 released after DTLA explosion

  17-05-2020 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Three firefighters injured in a massive Downtown Los Angeles firefight Saturday night, which injured nine others, have been released from Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
  Two of the firefighters remained in critical condition and a 12th firefighter was treated and released Saturday night for a minor injury, according to a morning update. A total of eight remained in recovery at the hospital.
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• ‘We are terrified’: Coronavirus outbreak reported at Chino women’s prison

  17-05-2020 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The women sat anxiously inside their prison cells at the California Institution for Women in Chino as a guard roamed about their cell block, yelling out an ominous announcement.
  A knock on a cell door, the guard said, meant that they tested positive for the coronavirus. They would be told to gather their things and prepare to be isolated for an indefinite amount of days.
  Screams filled the air. Women began to hurl questions at the guards.
  That scene, described by a 63-year-old inmate, was relaye
  
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• After breathing ‘superheated’ air, LA firefighters went on ventilators. Here’s why

  17-05-2020 18:29 via ocregister.com
  
  With much talk about ventilators in the Covid-19-era, it didn’t go unnoticed Saturday night that at least two firefighters ended up on the ubiquitous breathing machines.
  Ventilators have, to a degree, become a household word in the midst of the coronavirus, as they’ve become vital tools — at a premium in local hospitals — in helping virus-stricken patients breathe.
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• For coronavirus-jolted bridal shops, curb service just isn’t cutting it

  17-05-2020 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  May is usually one of the busiest months for White Tie Tuxedo owner Flor Vergara, who is used to spending long days in her San Fernando shop assisting grooms and their guests with tailoring tuxedos and suits.
  But as the coronavirus pandemic swept across Southern California, weddings, graduation parties, quinceañeras were canceled, put on hold or switched to no-frills virtual versions.
  Safer-at-Home orders, aimed at “flattening the curve” of the disease’s alarming spread,
  
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• Coronavirus: South OC food pantry sees big increase in first-time users

  17-05-2020 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Kindness has roots.
  Sherri Lex will never forget the helplessness, the sadness she felt when her son was in the hospital with a brain tumor. She would come home and there would be meals waiting for her, made by complete strangers.
  Chris O’Connor will never forget the down times, after he lost his job in the construction industry. Money was so tight, he found himself in line at a food pantry.
  Lex and O’Connor are the driving forces behind the RSM Cares Community Food Pantry. O’C
  
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• Reopen the nation, protect the vulnerable

  17-05-2020 16:15 via ocregister.com
  
  On May 6, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on “COVID-19: How New Information Should Drive Policy” and heard testimony from six experts.
  They didn’t all agree that it was necessary to conduct millions of tests and widespread contact tracing on everyone who tests positive. There was encouraging news about treatment for hospitalized COVID-19 patients. And there were hints of how the practical requirements of implementing a chos
  
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• California has a budget problem, but how big is it?

  17-05-2020 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  The first step to effectively deal with any problem is defining it accurately — and the recession-battered state budget is a case in point.
  There’s no doubt that the pandemic-induced recession is one of the worst in California history and that its negative fiscal effects — both increased spending and reduced revenues — are many billions of dollars.
  There is, however, much uncertainty about the dimensions of the budget crisis, and therefore what might be required to &ldquo
  
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• What is ballot harvesting and how is it affecting Southern California elections?

  17-05-2020 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  As housekeepers, maintenance workers and other staff spilled out of the Anaheim Hilton and Sheraton during a lunch break in February, some headed to the parking lot between the hotels, clutching their mail-in ballots for the upcoming March 3 primary.
  They were greeted by members of the Democratic Party of Orange County, who were hosting a “ballot party” focused on encouraging the workers to participate in the 2020 elections.
  Organizers gave speeches, answered questions and handed out
  
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• We’re all in this together… just kidding!: Doug McIntyre

  17-05-2020 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  My Rolls-Royce is making a funny noise. Not ha-ha funny; ka-ching funny. When I turn it on, the engine makes a loud screeching sound and I know it’s going to be pricey to fix. First murder hornets, now this! How much can one man take?
  You see, some people just don’t get how painful these COVID-19 shutdowns have been for us regular folks. Sure, the evening news has shown us videos of people queued up for miles to get a box of tacos and a can of Diet Pepsi, but those hundreds of thousa
  
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• Houses of worship struggle financially amid coronavirus pandemic

  17-05-2020 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  When the 97-year-old Second Baptist Church in Santa Ana closed its doors like most houses of worship in the aftermath of California’s shelter-at-home orders, donations plunged.
  Senior Pastor Ivan Pitts, who leads Orange County’s oldest African American church, said that’s because more than half of his 1,000-strong congregation typically placed their offerings on the plate during Sunday services, while some gave online.
  “But when you don’t have Sunday mornings anymor
  
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• Looking for comics relief

  17-05-2020 15:55 via ocregister.com
  
  You don’t read the comics?
  You’ve got all the time in the world, bub. Read the comics.
  I still clip the best strips out, for inspiration. Back when I had an office, when anyone had one, and therefore a cork bulletin board, when I was editing the news side of a newspaper, I cut out a “Rex Morgan, M.D.” and thumbtacked it up there to remind me of the real, sometimes burdensome, impact on people’s lives when they become news.
  The last frame of the daily strip depicted
  
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• Norco ’80, part 1: Before the bank robbery and 4-minute gun battle

  17-05-2020 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Dear Reader:
  We are proud to introduce today the first installment of “Norco ’80,” the incredible true story of a Southern California bank robbery that occurred 40 years ago this month. Peter Houlahan’s gripping account, which we will be bringing to you in regular installments over the next two weeks, is adapted from his 2019 book, “Norco ’80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Robbery in American History.” Serializing a story like this is a bit of a
  
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• New limits on IRAs lead to other opportunities, incentives

  17-05-2020 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  As discussed in last week’s column, the Secure Act passed in December 2019 made some changes to IRAs that were not beneficial to those people hoping to pass their IRAs down to their heirs in a tax-efficient manner.
  The opportunity to stretch distributions from an IRA over a beneficiary’s lifetime (and therefore accrue tax-free income inside the trust for a longer period) was effectively done away with for all but spouses.
  Then along came COVID-19 and the never-before-seen hit to the
  
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• Girl, 17, fatally stabbed in Anaheim — suspect in custody

  17-05-2020 09:04 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — A 17-year-old girl in Anaheim was fatally stabbed Saturday night, and a suspect was in custody, authorities said.
  At 8:30 p.m. police were called to the Leatrice Lane and Haster Street intersection where the incident occurred and found the victim clinging to life, according to Sgt. Shane Carringer with the Anaheim Police Department.
  The teenager was sent to UC Irvine Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, he said.
  A 23-year-old man from Anaheim was in police custody.
  Inve
  
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• Phyllis George, a female sportscasting pioneer as co-host of ‘The NFL Today,’ dies at 70

  17-05-2020 04:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Phyllis George, the former Miss America who became a female sportscasting pioneer on CBS’ “The NFL Today” and served as the first lady of Kentucky, has died. She was 70.
  A family spokeswoman said George died Thursday at a Lexington, Kentucky, hospital after a long fight with a blood disorder.
  Her children, Lincoln Tyler George Brown and CNN White House correspondent Pamela Ashley Brown, released a joint statement, saying:
  “For many, Mom was known by her incredible accompl
  
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• Why consider only one side of the lockdown equation?

  17-05-2020 03:45 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO >> As the pigs proclaimed in “Animal Farm,” “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
  The oinkers ruled the farm with an iron fist and didn’t want the horses, sheep and other critters to get any improper ideas. George Orwell’s novel, of course, was an indictment of the Soviet government, which ruled in the name of the “people” — but only select people had a say in what went on.
  The “Animal Far
  
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• Newsom’s budget revision misses an opportunity to reform: John Moorlach

  17-05-2020 03:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The coronavirus depression gave Gov. Gavin Newsom an opportunity to advance long-needed budget reforms. Instead, as have governors before him, he kicked the can down the road.
  The governor’s May revision to his January budget proposal is his first crack at dealing with the economic crisis. The proposed budget is missing real program and staffing cuts for contraction, except for “trigger cuts” pending the hope of additional federal funding (to subsidize state misspending). With
  
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• Bailouts don’t save jobs: Amihai Glazer

  17-05-2020 02:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The federal government is spending close to a trillion dollars in bailouts to firms.
  Even that has avoided massive economic pain: a recent job report showed employment losses of 20.5 million in April alone, and unemployment at 14.7 percent, far worse than during the Great Recession of 2008.
  Among the firms that got the money were the Lakers (almost $5 million, which they later returned), and a Dallas group of publicly traded hotel companies, which got $126 million (though these firms a
  
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• Camp Pendleton game wardens partner with Marines to develop award-winning ‘Operation Buck Rogers’

  17-05-2020 02:21 via ocregister.com
  
  It was 4:30 a.m. and Marine Sgt. Austin Olmos was high up on Camp Pendelton’s Horno Ridge on an intelligence training mission.
  The objective was complex: Selecting the right drone for the challenging environment to find an evasive target in an unknown rugged territory. In combat, intelligence Marines such as Olmos typically provide reconnaissance for missions and tactical surveillance for units on the ground.
  Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, and City Attorney Mike Feuer announce the
  
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• As 2 O.C. campgrounds reopen for overnight stays, campers free from home lockdown rejoice

  17-05-2020 02:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Maria Pope showed up at 7 a.m. Saturday to the entrance of O’Neill Regional Park in Trabuco Canyon, eager to get a camping site made available after a two-month, coronavirus shutdown of camping, hiking and fishing at wilderness and regional parks in Orange County.
  OC Parks opened a reduced number of camping sites and the parking lots (for day users) at Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park in San Juan Capistrano and at O’Neill beginning Saturday, May 16, along with access to parking lots
  
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• Now is not the time for social justice experiments like $0 bail: Todd Spitzer

  17-05-2020 01:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Presidential advisor Rahm Emanuel, speaking about the financial crisis in 2008, said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste … it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
  The California Judicial Council, a little-known state entity that controls the entire court system, decided to use the COVID-19 crisis to implement its views on pre-trial release. In doing so, its members put public safety at risk.
  The council is chaired by the chi
  
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• Garden Grove Elks provide hundreds of meals to the public at drive-thru barbecue

  17-05-2020 00:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Build it and they will come. That was the thinking when the Garden Grove Elks Lodge installed a Santa Maria-style barbeque grill in a trailer outside its hall earlier this year.
  And come they did: On Saturday, May 16, the Elks Lodge held its second drive-thru barbecue, open to the public, with expectations of plating some 600 meals.
  Jennifer and Brad Zerbst, right, of Yorba Linda, pickup their order at the Garden Grove Elks Lodge drive-up BBQ on Saturday, May 15, 2020 at the intersection of Tras
  
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