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• Where UCLA stands at linebacker entering the 2020 season

  08-06-2020 23:53
  
  After losing its core group of linebackers and more some to graduation and players transferring out of the program, the UCLA football program was tasked with refilling the position with depth and talent during the offseason.
  Aside from a few returners, the Bruins will be relying on a strong group of newcomers in the position next season in order to continue efforts in improving the team’s defense.
  Here’s a breakdown of UCLA’s linebacker position group heading into the summer:
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• Former OC deputies plead guilty to misdemeanors for mishandling evidence

  08-06-2020 23:50
  
  Two former Orange County sheriff’s deputies have pleaded guilty to misdemeanors for mishandling crime evidence, part of a widespread problem in the Sheriff’s Department.
  Joseph Anthony Atkinson Jr., 39, and Bryce Richmond Simpson, 31, were not given jail time but were sentenced Friday to one year each informal probation for single misdemeanor counts of willful omission to perform their official duty.
  Simpson had been an Orange County sheriff’s deputy since 2012. Atikinson was h
  
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• BP to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide amid virus pandemic

  08-06-2020 23:47
  
  Oil and gas company BP announced Monday that it will slash its global workforce by 10,000 jobs as the COVID-19 pandemic slams the energy industry.
  Chief Executive Bernard Looney said that the cuts will affect office-based roles in BP’s global workforce of 70,000 people and come mostly this year. The changes are expected to significantly affect senior levels, cutting the number of group leaders by a third.
  “We are spending much, much more than we make – I am talking millions of
  
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• Outstanding Senior: Jonny Long, Orange, baseball

  08-06-2020 23:32
  
  The Orange County Register is selecting an Outstanding Senior from each of the spring sports as a way to honor some of the top student-athletes who didn’t get a chance to have a normal and complete final high school season because of COVID-19.
  This is the Outstanding Senior for baseball:  The baseball season started well for Orange senior Jonny Long.
  He pitched a no-hitter in the Panthers’ season opener, a 1-0 nonleague win over Savanna on Feb. 15.
  Long would top that when
  
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• Renters work 60.9 hours every week to rent a 1-bedroom in LA metro area, report says

  08-06-2020 23:00
  
  LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles metropolitan area residents need to work 60.9 hours per week to pay the rent on a one-bedroom household in the city, according to a report released Monday that identified the toughest cities for residents to make rent across the country.
  Analyzing the median cost of rent as well as the median hourly wage in major cities, researchers at Self Financial determined that Los Angeles residents need to work the third most hours per week to afford rent, compared to other
  
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• It takes 60.9 hours of work a week to rent a 1-bedroom in LA, Long Beach and OC. Get ready for more OT if you want a 2-bedroom.

  08-06-2020 23:00
  
  LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles metropolitan area residents need to work 60.9 hours per week to pay the rent on a one-bedroom household in the city, according to a report released Monday that identified the toughest cities for residents to make rent across the country.
  Analyzing the median cost of rent as well as the median hourly wage in major cities, researchers at Self Financial determined that Los Angeles residents need to work the third most hours per week to afford rent, compared to other
  
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• A U.S. recession began in February in the face of coronavirus

  08-06-2020 22:59
  
  The U.S. economy entered a recession in February as the coronavirus struck the nation, a group of economists declared Monday, ending the longest expansion on record.
  The economists said that employment, income and spending peaked in February and then fell sharply afterward as the viral outbreak shut down businesses across the country, marking the start of the downturn after nearly 11 full years of economic growth.
  A committee within the National Bureau of Economic Research, a trade group, determ
  
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• Reopening schools: State guidance includes face coverings, a whole new look for classrooms

  08-06-2020 22:46
  
  When schools reopen, they will look different.
  The California Department of Education released a 62-page guidebook Monday detailing what it wants to see when schools reopen for the next school year. The state’s wish list includes face coverings and daily temperature checks for students and staff, campuses that minimize access to volunteers, and classrooms that separate students by six-feet, if necessary, by moving classes to cafeterias, auditoriums, gyms and outdoors.
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• MLB Draft: UCLA’s Garrett Mitchell highlights small group of Bruins in 2020 draft

  08-06-2020 22:33
  
  The first time UCLA baseball coach John Savage watched Garret Mitchell in high school was at Hart Park in Orange County.
  Mitchell hit a triple that day, impressing Savage immediately. Not long after, the Orange Lutheran High School alum took an official visit to Westwood. He committed that day in Savage’s office.
  “You just don’t see those types of players that often,” Savage said, recalling his first impression of Mitchell. “That power, body, that strength, that spe
  
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• Coronavirus: There were no new deaths and 113 new cases reported in Orange County as of June 8

  08-06-2020 21:50
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported no new deaths attributed to the coronavirus in its Monday, June 8, update.
  Of the 177 reported deaths since the start of tracking the virus in the county, 85 have been among skilled nursing facility residents.
  Some 77% of those who have died were older than 65.
  The county also noted another 113 positive tests have been reported in the last day, raising the total in the county to 7,527 since the start of testing in March.
  The average number of new cas
  
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• Public defenders across region protest police brutality, racial injustice

  08-06-2020 21:40
  
  Public Defender offices across Southern California marched in support of black lives Monday, June 8.
  Attorneys, investigators, other employees, clients and community members rallied outside courthouses in San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange and Los Angeles counties, calling for an end to police brutality and systemic racism in the criminal justice system.
  The rallies, which were held statewide, took place in Rancho Cucamonga, Victorville, Riverside, Santa Ana and Los Angeles.
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• New guidelines say school year will see some California students learning from home

  08-06-2020 21:29
  
  California education officials expect at least some students to be learning from home, at least some of the time, when the new school year begins, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues, under new guidelines released Monday, June 8.
  The California Department of Education’s guidelines on reopening the state’s 1,037 public school districts, “Stronger Together: A Guidebook for the Safe Reopening of California’s Public Schools,” was released on Monday, June 8, 2020.
  
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• The ’83 US Festival had a country day, and this unlikely band rode in between Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings

  08-06-2020 21:23
  
  It’s been nearly four decades since Riders In The Sky played the US Festival, but for the members of that long-running western swing outfit, the memories are as vivid as a blood-red sunset over the purple sage.
  “Most we’ve ever played for, except maybe the Hardly Strictly [Bluegrass festival],” says singer-guitarist Ranger Doug Green of the vastness of the crowd at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernandino on June 4, 1983.
  “Seeing the incoming barrage of missiles,
  
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• Q&A: Jamia Fields on race and soccer

  08-06-2020 21:16
  
  The Southern California News Group is partnering with Just Women’s Sports for a weekly stories. Sign up for the JWS newsletter here.Jamia Fields is a forward for the Houston Dash of the NWSL. A graduate of Florida State University, she helped lead the Seminoles to their first ever NCAA title in 2014.
  Why do you think it’s important to speak out now?
  “It’s very important because we all have our own experiences that I feel like we’ve been suppressing for so many year
  
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• Palmdale ban on flavored e-cigarettes draws lawsuit from vaping advocates

  08-06-2020 21:16
  
  LOS ANGELES — Vaping advocates are pushing back in federal court against a newly enacted Palmdale city ordinance banning the sale of flavored e-cigarette products, court papers obtained Monday show.
  The suit, filed by the California Smoke & Vape Association and tobacco retailer Cigs Plus against the city, alleges the law is “overbroad” and will “destroy Palmdale’s nicotine vapor product industry, and damage the livelihoods of the workers that it employs.”
  
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• Pala Casino, Spa and Resort will reopen its pool area Friday, June 12

  08-06-2020 21:15
  
  Pala Casino, Spa and Resort will reopen its pool area as of  9 a.m. Friday, June 12.
  Access will be free to hotel guests, and day passes will be available for $20, according to a Facebook post by the northern San Diego County resort. Cabanas and daybeds will also be available to rent.
  Pala closed March 18 amid efforts to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic but reopened Memorial Day weekend with reduced capacity and social distancing.
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• Beauty: No June Gloom

  08-06-2020 21:10
  
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  Crossrope, an ingenious weighted rope system with interchangeable cables and clip-on ergonomic handles. :: crossrope.com
  You can torch calories and tone your arms, legs, butt and core without leaving home, thanks to Crossrope, an ingenious weighted rope system with interchangeable cables and clip-on ergonomic handles. The ropes range in weight from 1/4 pound to 5 pounds to accommodate all fitness levels, and are tangle-free, so even those of us who sat on the
  
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• Along the Coast

  08-06-2020 20:47
  
  WESTMINSTER APARTMENTS A BRIDGE TO HOUSING FOR HOMELESS
  A NOTE FROM MARTIN…
  Yes, the coronavirus pandemic is throwing off virtually everything along Orange County’s coast, with nearly every business – including real estate – strongly impacted. But as a longtime columnist for Orange County’s premier lifestyle publication, I know this too will pass. While so much of real estate development is on hold, there is nevertheless still building planned for the future, and t
  
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• Boomer Babble: How escaping the hairy tarantula landed me in Laguna Woods Village

  08-06-2020 20:45
  
  I watched as the tarantula steadily and determinedly made its ugly way toward me. It was scary — my heart beat anxiously. But there it was — it was happening.
  Except that it wasn’t, of course. The tarantula wasn’t real, you see. But the anxiety, the horror of it all was. I was 63 years old with a very good job in a hospital working for the director of nursing research. I loved doing research, so this job was a good fit for me. Until it wasn’t.
  The tarantula in my li
  
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• Air Force sergeant suspected of killing Santa Cruz sheriff’s deputy with bombs and guns

  08-06-2020 20:40
  
  SANTA CRUZ — Investigators worked Sunday to find out what led an active-duty Air Force sergeant to allegedly attack two sheriff’s deputies with guns and explosives, killing one — and whether there were any links to the killing of a federal security guard in Oakland more than a week earlier.
  Air Force authorities confirmed Sunday that the man under arrest in the ambush, 32-year-old Steven Carrillo, was on active duty at the time of the shooting. Carrillo joined the 60th Security
  
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• Good eats, good stories. The culinary community’s good deeds inspire others to act

  08-06-2020 20:35
  
  Paderia Bakehouse in Fountain Valley donated hundreds of cookies to front-line workers, nurses and doctors at UC Irvine Medical Center, Hoag Hospital and CHOC Children’s Hospital. The give-back program allowed the community to participate by purchasing e-gift cards to fund the endeavour. The bakery continues to offer free Malasadas for health care workers who present their badge at pickup. :: paderiabakehouse.com
  7 Leaves Café thanked the cooks, staff and volunteers at Bracken&rsquo
  
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• The kids are okay? Make mental health a priority at home.

  08-06-2020 20:09
  
  Stay-at-home orders, school closures, summer camp delays and social distancing are leaving everyone more stressed these days. How should parents help their children navigate through this pandemic without frightening them?
  ONE THING AT A TIME
  “You have a house. Happiness comes to the door. Do you let it in?” asks Jessica Drew de Paz, PsyD and director of mindfulness services at the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute. “The children always say, ‘Yes! Let it in.&rsquo
  
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• The kids are OK? Make mental health a priority at home.

  08-06-2020 20:09
  
  Stay-at-home orders, school closures, summer camp delays and social distancing are leaving everyone more stressed these days. How should parents help their children navigate through this pandemic without frightening them?
  ONE THING AT A TIME
  “You have a house. Happiness comes to the door. Do you let it in?” asks Jessica Drew de Paz, PsyD and director of mindfulness services at the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute. “The children always say, ‘Yes! Let it in.&rsquo
  
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• Recession hit US in February, ending record-long expansion

  08-06-2020 20:07
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
  WASHINGTON  — The U.S. economy entered a recession in February, a group of economists declared Monday, ending the longest expansion on record.
  The economists said employment peaked in February and fell sharply afterward, marking the beginning of the downturn.
  The economists make up a committee within the National Bureau of Economic Research, a trade group that determines when recessions begin and end. It defines a recession as “a decline in economic activi
  
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• Last Southern California city lifts curfew as protests against police brutality remain peaceful

  08-06-2020 20:04
  
  Rialto, the last city in Southern California with a curfew in place, lifted its citywide curfew Monday, June 8.
  Last week’s series of peaceful protests against systemic racism and police brutality replaced earlier civil unrest that accompanied the earliest demonstrations honoring George Floyd.
  In a statement, city leaders and officials thanked the community for “the outpouring of support” in recent days and asked that residents “remain vigilant, keeping an eye on business
  
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• Hundreds line up for George Floyd’s memorial in Houston

  08-06-2020 20:00
  
  By JUAN A. LOZANO and NOMAAN MERCHANT
  HOUSTON — Hundreds of mourners lined up outside a church in George Floyd’s native Houston for a final public viewing Monday as his death two weeks ago at the hands of police continued whipping protesters, leaders and cities around the world into action over demands to address racial injustice and police brutality.
  As the doors opened at The Fountain of Praise church in Houston, where Floyd spent most of his life, Floyd was lying in an open gold-c
  
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• Coronavirus rebound: California mortgage applications up 5.5% in a year

  08-06-2020 19:43
  
  Another early sign of a housing comeback: California mortgage applications in late May rebounded, topping year-ago levels for the first time since March.
  The Mortgage Bankers Association has released the California slice of its widely watched national loan-application data. The association has been monitoring this data closely since early March when coronavirus-related “stay at home” orders began throttling the economy and initially slowed house hunting.
  Since mid-April, as business
  
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• We need a separation of medicine and the state: Ron Paul

  08-06-2020 19:15
  
  It seems like only yesterday. Americans were denied the right to go to their churches. They were denied the right to visit their loved ones in the hospital. They were denied the right to open their businesses and go to work to provide for themselves and their families. They were denied the right to go to restaurants, to bars, to hair salons.
  No laws were passed denying these rights. Even that would be illegal and immoral. But what happened was worse. They were denied these basic rights by govern
  
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• Rethinking work and life in lessons learned from COVID-19

  08-06-2020 19:06
  
  I must admit to a strong bias. I am old fashioned. I believe in going into the office, and appreciate the routine of rising early in the morning, drinking coffee, joining the flow of people commuting to work and retreating to my home sanctuary after a hard day’s work.
  Now, I work where I live, and for the first time I conducted the business of being a legislator not from the Capitol dome in Sacramento, but from my home in Salinas.
  Recently, I remotely participated in the first Se
  
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• Dinner can be delivered easily with Seamless

  08-06-2020 18:54
  
  Ordering a meal online just became more Seamless, pun intended. The food options come in all variations of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between. Even if you just want a snack – orders for delivery just made life easier. Take a look at our local spots to order your next meal and try something new for once!
  Emporio Sushi and Seafood
  Courtesy of Instagram/ @emporiosushiymariscos
  150 S Hewes St, Orange, CA 92869
  Everyone has a favorite sushi spot – and you might just have
  
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• Democrats unveil police overhaul, kneel at Capitol

  08-06-2020 18:54
  
  By LISA MASCARO
  WASHINGTON — Democrats proposed a sweeping overhaul of police oversight and procedures Monday, a potentially far-reaching legislative response to the mass protests denouncing the deaths of black Americans at the hands of law enforcement.
  Before unveiling the package, House and Senate Democrats held a moment of silence at the Capitol’s Emancipation Hall, reading the names of George Floyd and others killed during police interactions. They knelt for 8 minutes and 46 seco
  
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• Southern California demonstrators join in car processions for George Floyd memorial service

  08-06-2020 18:42
  
  Processions of cars are starting from various locations across Southern California Monday morning, June 8, and heading toward downtown Los Angeles for a mass memorial service for George Floyd.
  The lines of cars, each lead by a hearse, will be leaving from South Los Angeles, Long Beach, Santa Ana and Reseda.
  The event, organized by Black Lives Matter and clergy members, will culminate in downtown at 1st Street and Broadway, where a rally and service is set for noon.
  On top of honoring Floyd, orga
  
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• Southern California demonstrators join in car procession for George Floyd memorial service

  08-06-2020 18:42
  
  Processions of cars are starting from various locations across Southern California Monday morning, June 8, and heading toward downtown Los Angeles for a mass memorial service for George Floyd.
  The lines of cars, each lead by a hearse, will be leaving from South Los Angeles, Long Beach, Santa Ana and Reseda.
  The event, organized by Black Lives Matter and clergy members, will culminate in downtown at 1st Street and Broadway, where a rally and service is set for noon.
  On top of honoring Floyd, orga
  
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• Sewage spill in Laguna Beach shuts down stretch of ocean

  08-06-2020 18:39
  
  If you’re looking to hit the beach as the warm weather heats up the region, there’s a stretch of coast you might want to stay away from.
  The ocean from Sleepy Hollow Lane to Cleo Street in Laguna Beach has been shut down by the OC Health Care Agency’s Environmental Health Division following a raw sewage spill.
  The closure includes activities such as swimming and surfing, though the sand remains open.
  Related Articles The tall ship Pilgrim’s bell tolls one last time in Dan
  
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• Fullerton’s historic Hunt Library could become an art and cultural center

  08-06-2020 18:21
  
  Years after its closure to the public, Fullerton’s historic Hunt Branch Library could reopen as an art and cultural center hosting events, performances and festivals.
  The City Council last week directed city staff to work with two nonprofits, Heritage Future and Arts Orange County, on a joint plan to renovate and reuse the 58-year-old property designed by renowned architect William Pereira.
  Under the plan proposed by the nonprofits, the former library could host events such as conversation
  
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• Orange city leaders juggle budget shortfall with plans for new fire headquarters

  08-06-2020 18:09
  
  Orange City Council members are expected to decide Tuesday, June 9, whether to go ahead with financing $34 million to replace the city’s aging fire headquarters while the city also faces a $16 million shortfall for next fiscal year’s budget stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.
  Paying off the bonds that would be issued to raise the money for the Fire Department project would cost the city $1.05 million in the next fiscal year – it starts July 1 – and then $1.8 mill
  
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• MLB draft: USC players and roster facing challenges

  08-06-2020 18:00
  
  Not much has been normal about college baseball the past two months, but this week’s MLB Draft will only exacerbate the unique challenges facing the sport since the onset of COVID-19.
  Take USC’s Jamal O’Guinn for example. Any other year, O’Guinn would be getting ready to be drafted, and would be a lock to be selected in any of the typical 40 rounds.
  But that won’t be the case this year. Given the economic uncertainty facing the sport in the wake of the coronavirus,
  
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• Disneyland Rose adds color to the theme park and home gardens, too

  08-06-2020 17:56
  
  It’s no secret that Disneyland has some of the most beautiful landscaping around, but did you know it has its own rose?
  When the park opens up again, you can head to the Town Square in the New Orleans Square area, near the edge of Rivers of America, to see them. Those big copper-to-pink blooms on the rose bushes are actually a special type, specially chosen back in 2002 to become their own specimen creation. Since then, they’ve also been available to the public and adorn the gardens
  
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• 13 SoCal real estate twists: mood to buy, normal velocity

  08-06-2020 17:48
  
  Here are 13 must-read stories about the local real estate market from the Southern California News Group’s Home Stretch newsletter. To subscribe to the free, twice-weekly email publication, just CLICK HERE!
  1.More hints at a housing rebound.California mortgage applications jump 77% off pandemic’s bottom.2.House hunters in the mood to buy.Escrows jump 67% in LA-Orange County; up 60% in Inland Empire.3.Irvine’s Great Park home sales back to ‘normal velocity.’ Cor
  
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• Spring wrap-up Q&A: El Dorado swimming coach misses team’s ‘daily grind to do things better than the day before’

  08-06-2020 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.
  Bryan Swarm, El Dorado swimming
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: I’ve been very fortunate to have had the opportunity to coach year-round for longer than I would like to admit too,
  
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• University of Redlands football coach Mike Maynard placed on leave

  08-06-2020 17:12
  
  Mike Maynard, the longtime University of Redlands football coach, was put on administrative leave Saturday because a social media post on the nationwide protests over African-American George Floyd’s death “has been causing distress in our community,” according to a statement by athletic director Jeff Martinez.
  In response to a video he received from a friend showing an explosive device detonating inside a car during protests in Riverside last week, Maynard posted: “W
  
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• Status Update: Orange County spared latest round of J.C. Penney closures

  08-06-2020 17:00
  
  Bankrupt retailer J.C. Penney Co. will close 154 stores in the next 10-16 weeks, including two in the Inland Empire as it restructures its finances in the middle of long-running challenges and a pandemic-cooled economy.
  Orange County stores, of which there are four, are unaffected in this latest closure round, though the company said it would likely shutter 242 stores overall by 2021.
  The retailer’s bankruptcy filing said that 192 closures would take place in fiscal 2020, with the closing
  
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• Man struck by hit-and-run driver in Santa Ana

  08-06-2020 16:52
  
  A man suffered two broken legs late Sunday when struck by a hit-and-run motorist while crossing a Santa Ana street, authorities said.
  It happened about 11:40 p.m. at Bristol Street and Edinger Avenue, Santa Ana police Commander Andy Alvarez said.
  The victim was in a crosswalk when a vehicle headed south on Bristol struck him, Alvarez said.
  He was taken to a hospital, where he was expected to survive, the commander said.
  Investigators found a piece of a vehicle at the crash scene and were plannin
  
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• Unusual classmates: Mom, son succeed in college together

  08-06-2020 15:57
  
  The champagne waits.
  They haven’t cracked it open yet because it’s hard for them to believe the deserve it. They’re in almost-celebration mode. Almost believing what they’ve done, which is really unbelievable.
  Someday soon, Lorraine Limon (52 years old) and her son Danny (29) are going to pop the cork on that bottle and toast each other together. This mom and son duo answers the question: Who in their right minds would do this?
  Answer: They would. Two people who thought t
  
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• Police back off as peaceful protests push deep reforms

  08-06-2020 15:53
  
  By JAKE SEINER, LISA MARIE PANE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI
  Calls for deep police reforms gained momentum as leaders in the city where George Floyd died at the hands of police pushed to dismantle the entire department.
  Floyd’s death sparked nationwide protests demanding a reckoning with institutional racism that have sometimes resulted in clashes with police, but many officers took a less aggressive stance over the weekend when demonstrations were overwhelmingly peaceful.
  Two weeks after Floyd, a
  
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• A rift over closing California’s budget deficit

  08-06-2020 15:05
  
  As the COVID-19 pandemic alters life in California in ways never before seen, one impact is on the annual ritual of fashioning a state budget.
  With just a few days remaining until the June 15 constitutional deadline for enacting a 2020-21 budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom and his fellow Democrats in the Legislature are engaged in a fairly cordial debate over closing a deficit that Newsom pegs at $54 billion.
  It’s essentially a conflict over how much direct relief, if any, California can expect fro
  
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• Stop California’s cops from looting City Hall: Joe Mathews

  08-06-2020 15:02
  
  Don’t doubt California cops when they report looting. They’re experts. Indeed, our state’s most successful looters are the police themselves.
  California’s nearly 80,000 sworn officers have spent decades sacking the treasuries of local governments that employ them. Their escalating salaries, benefits, and pensions are swallowing up municipal budgets—and crowding out the other services, from libraries to summer programs. Police departments are by far the largest piece
  
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• Senior Living: Isolation can be just as deadly as coronavirus for seniors

  08-06-2020 15:00
  
  By Dr. Thomas LaGrelius
  Contributing writer
  Three weeks ago, I acquired a new patient. Jean is 88 years old and lives in an outstanding local retirement center. Her daughter and son-in-law, already my patients, asked me to assume her care in a crisis.
  Six weeks before, when the coronavirus stay-at-home orders started, Jean had been the life of the party. She was quite involved in the social life at the retirement center, arranging activities for her friends and co-residents. One or more of her f
  
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• Formula for volatile week of protests had been percolating years, race-relations experts say

  08-06-2020 14:30
  
  It was a trifecta of tragedy that sparked a week of protests volatile and peaceful alike, but decades of racial inequality and systemic injustices created a tinderbox that allowed it to flourish — and it’s going to take significant social reforms to get the fuel out of the fire, local race-relations experts said this week.
  If there’s one name to associate with the recent spate of protests and riots, it’s George Floyd, a black man who was killed by a white police officer i
  
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• Small earthquakes strike near Ridgecrest

  08-06-2020 07:55
  
  RIDGECREST — Several small earthquakes struck Sunday night near the Kern County community of Ridgecrest, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
  The largest one, a preliminary magnitude of 4.3, hit around 14 miles east of Ridgecrest about 9:15 p.m., the USGS reported.
  An earlier quake measuring magnitude 3.0 struck just more than 31 miles northwest of the town, about 8:25 p.m.
  No damage or injuries were reported.
  Last week, the area was hit by a 5.5. magnitude temblor, which experts calle
  
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