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• With no students, small college town worries over future

  21-06-2020 23:29
  
  What happens to a college town when the students disappear? Ithaca, a small upstate New York city nearby gorges and vineyards, is finding out.
  Most of the 24,000 students at Cornell University and 6,200 more from Ithaca College effectively vanished in March when the coronavirus pandemic struck, leaving behind struggling restaurants and shops. Locals still reeling from the outbreak and resulting exodus are wondering when — or if — things will get back to normal.
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• With no students, small college town worries about the future

  21-06-2020 23:29
  
  What happens to a college town when the students disappear? Ithaca, a small upstate New York city nearby gorges and vineyards, is finding out.
  Most of the 24,000 students at Cornell University and 6,200 more from Ithaca College effectively vanished in March when the coronavirus pandemic struck, leaving behind struggling restaurants and shops. Locals still reeling from the outbreak and resulting exodus are wondering when — or if — things will get back to normal.
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• President Trump’s intended show of political force at Tulsa rally falls short

  21-06-2020 23:26
  
  TULSA, Okla. — President Donald Trump used his comeback rally to try to define the upcoming election as a choice between national heritage and left-wing radicalism, but his intended show of political force during the pandemic was thousands short of a full house and partly overshadowed by new coronavirus cases among his campaign staff.
  Trump ignored health warnings and held his first rally in 110 days in what was one of the largest indoor gatherings in the world during an outbreak that has
  
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• Masks are critical to safely reopening and avoiding future lockdowns: Harley Rouda

  21-06-2020 23:05
  
  Local governments, small businesses, and families across the United States have been asking the same question for months, “how do we stay healthy without collapsing our economy?”
  The answer? Face masks.
  A recent study from researchers in California and Texas compared COVID-19 infection rate trends in Italy and New York before and after face masks were made mandatory. They found that mandatory mask orders prevented more than 78,000 infections in Italy and 66,000 in New York City.
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• We are called to act for Black lives: Ada Briceño and Kelsey Brewer

  21-06-2020 23:00
  
  In the early morning of April 4, 2019, Irvine police officers issued a search warrant for stolen guitars and amplifiers on Harcourt Street in Anaheim. Hearing sounds from the attic, officers called local Anaheim police for backup. Anaheim SWAT officers soon arrived with semi-automatic weapons, suits and helmets. They threw tear gas in the attic.
  According to a filed complaint and body camera footage, two young men in the attic called out, asking not to be shot. Despite being unarmed, police
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• CalPERS gambles on risky investment move

  21-06-2020 23:00
  
  The California Public Employees Retirement System, the nation’s largest pension trust, benefited greatly from the runup in stocks and other investments during the last few years, topping $400 billion early this year.
  CalPERS needed it because it was still reeling from a $100 billion decline in its investment portfolio during the previous decade’s Great Recession and was tapping state and local governments for ever-increasing, mandatory “contributions” to keep pensions flo
  
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• Grigor Dimitrov positive for COVID-19, exhibition tennis event canceled

  21-06-2020 22:36
  
  ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Grigor Dimitrov has tested positive for COVID-19, leading to the cancellation of an exhibition event in Croatia where top-ranked Novak Djokovic was due to play in the final.
  Goran Ivanisevic, one of Djokovic’s coaches, said the news from Dimitrov was “shocking” and that “now everyone will have to be tested.”
  Dimitrov, ranked No. 19 and a three-time Grand Slam semifinalist, is the highest-profile current player to say he has the virus. Hi
  
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• NASCAR race at Talladega Superspeedway delayed by rain

  21-06-2020 22:24
  
  TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Thunderstorms over Talladega Superspeedway have delayed the start of Sunday’s race.
  The race is the first amid the coronavirus pandemic in which NASCAR opened the gates for up to 5,000 fans. Those in the grandstands were urged to seek shelter roughly 30 minutes before the scheduled start.
  NASCAR allowed 1,000 military members to attend last weekend’s rain-disrupted race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The event was stopped several times for more than three h
  
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• A second wave of coronvirus cases? Experts say we’re still in the 1st

  21-06-2020 21:11
  
  What’s all this talk about a “second wave” of U.S. coronavirus cases?
  In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a piece headlined “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’” that the nation is winning the fight against the virus.
  Many public health experts, however, suggest it’s no time to celebrate. About 120,000 Americans have died from the new virus and daily counts of new cases in the U.S. are the highest they
  
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• A second wave of coronavirus cases? Experts say we’re still in the 1st

  21-06-2020 21:11
  
  What’s all this talk about a “second wave” of U.S. coronavirus cases?
  In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a piece headlined “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’” that the nation is winning the fight against the virus.
  Many public health experts, however, suggest it’s no time to celebrate. About 120,000 Americans have died from the new virus and daily counts of new cases in the U.S. are the highest they
  
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• ACA25 is wrong for California

  21-06-2020 21:00
  
  Times are strange indeed when the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association finds itself fighting on the same side as left-leaning organizations such as Voices for Progress, Common Cause and the ACLU. The saying that politics makes for strange bedfellows is never more true than in times of crisis and confusion.
  When the COVID-19 virus descended on California, it caused near panic throughout the state. Because we knew so little, our elected leaders were probably justified in heeding the advice of healt
  
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• San Clemente nixes Junior Guard program for the summer

  21-06-2020 18:11
  
  Children and teens who hoped to improve their ocean safety skills in San Clemente’s Junior Lifeguard program will have to wait until next summer.
  City officials have announced a final session planned for mid-July will not be held. Two earlier sessions had already been canceled due to state restrictions for the coronavirus pandemic.
  City officials said protecting the public’s health and safety was paramount to their decision, adding that the junior guard program would have begun befor
  
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• Play ball! Fullerton’s Golden Hill Little League playing over-the-line style during coronavirus concerns

  21-06-2020 18:04
  
  A year after its all-star team won the Little League Junior Division World Series, Fullerton’s Golden Hill Little League has found a way to keep its players practicing and playing, even during the coronavirus pandemic.
  Owen Zeiler, left, swings for contact as his teammates watch him from the bench, distanced at Golden Hill Little League baseball field in Fullerton on Thursday, June 18, 2020. The players play Over-the-Line socially distanced as the county of Orange allowed youth sports prac
  
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• Restructured Rams must be ready for improved NFC

  21-06-2020 18:00
  
  From all accounts, Rams players and coaches made themselves at home in cyberspace during the six weeks this spring when video-stream chats replaced traditional meetings and minicamp practices.
  Finding their way in the more familiar space of NFC football this season will be harder.
  With major roster moves complete and most teams finished with their “virtual offseason program,” it’s time to rest up for the (intended) start of training camp in late July and (scheduled) start of pr
  
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• Protests against racism, police brutality scheduled for Sunday in Los Angeles, Orange counties

  21-06-2020 17:14
  
  LOS ANGELES — Protest marches and other actions to call out racism and police brutality are scheduled Sunday in various parts of Los Angeles County.
  This is the fourth weekend of actions in Southern California and across the United States in response to the Memorial Day death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd was killed when a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and face-down on the ground
  The officer was fired and has been charged with s
  
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• Vote for Orange County’s best golf course

  21-06-2020 15:55
  
  Cast your vote in the Best of Orange County 2020 balloting.
  
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• ‘Backyard breeders’ import commercially bred pups, skirting spirit of new law

  21-06-2020 15:30
  
  Commercial breeders have sold scores of wiggly young Goldendoodles, Welsh corgis, yellow labs and Shiba Inus to folks in Southern California this year, apparently beyond the reach of a law designed to halt the sale of commercially bred puppies in the Golden State.
  Documents obtained by Bailing Out Benji — a nonprofit devoted to battling puppy mill abuses — show that breeders in Missouri and Iowa shipped at least 86 purebred and designer pups by truck and air to people, not pet stores
  
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• Measure twice, cut once: A retail lease that could have gone south

  21-06-2020 15:00
  
  I recently had a client, a soft goods retailer, who was leasing space in a shopping center under construction.
  The lease stated the square footage was 1,650 square feet, and there was no real concern to question the square footage. The landlord was going to install a wall separating the tenant’s sales floor area from the stock room. A floor plan was to be attached to the lease showing where the wall was to be placed.
  We noticed the floor plan drawn by the landlord’s architect showed
  
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• Daughter’s connection to her late father grows like his roses

  21-06-2020 14:00
  
  She thought of roses, her father’s roses.
  “Why don’t you grow them?” her friend asked. “You seem to have this fascination.”
  She explained that she couldn’t possibly grow roses. Roses require patience, which she has never had.
  That’s how it started.
  Marsha Buford had no idea she was about to experience the most amazing coincidence in the middle of a pandemic.
  It was April 10, about a month into the coronavirus lockdown. Marsha and her friend Darnell
  
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• Colt euthanized after fracturing knee following race at Santa Anita

  21-06-2020 08:38
  
  ARCADIA (CNS) – A 4-year-old colt fractured a right knee on the gallop out after the sixth race at Santa Anita Park today and was euthanized, at least the 16th horse to die in racing or training-related incidents at the track this season.
  Strictly Biz was transported to the Equine Hospital following the injury. After diagnostics and x-rays were performed, it was determined to be an unrecoverable injury and, per recommendation from the attending veterinarian, was humanely euthanized, accord
  
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• NFL Network, RedZone goes dark on DISH Network, Sling TV

  21-06-2020 07:32
  
  NFL Network and NFL RedZone went dark on DISH Network and Sling TV Thursday night as both sides try to reach a new distribution agreement.
  The league said in a release that “while NFL Media remains committed to negotiating an agreement and has offered terms consistent with those in place with other distributors, DISH has not agreed.”
  DISH said on its website that “the NFL has chosen to remove their channels during these unprecedented times” and that they hope to reach an
  
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• First Servite football coach Bill Miller dies after long battle with Parkinson’s disease

  21-06-2020 07:25
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowFormer Servite football coach Bill Miller, who in 1960 guided the Friars to a CIF-SS title in their first season and became a legendary figure in Northern California, has died at age 85 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
  Miller, who played for the Clare Van Hoorebeke at Anaheim High, led the Friars to a co-title with Santa Ynez in 1960. The teams played to a 26-26 in the final.
  He later
  
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• The bookish parade of paycheck patriots

  21-06-2020 06:15
  
  When I was still hosting an overnight radio show, a woman called in at zero-dark-thirty to brag she had just purchased her 26th anti-Bill Clinton book.
  “Didn’t the first 25 convince you Slick Willie is unfit for office?” I asked. “Or has it become a thing, like collecting Beanie Babies or Franklin Mint Harlequin plates?” I continued with my characteristic searing wit.
  “You can never have too much truth,” she said, putting me in my place. I mean, not even
  
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• Our patchwork approach to determining what the U.S. Constitution really means

  21-06-2020 06:03
  
  One of the most important United States Supreme Court decisions in American history was also one of the most controversial.
  The late Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in his 1977 memoirs that the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision “was of tremendous importance, and made a great impact on the life of the nation.” He wrote that the decision declared the principle of “equal educational opportunities for all races,” and the court did it “without benefit of legislat
  
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• Chihuahua-min pin mix Chespi is an active little dog

  21-06-2020 05:19
  
  Breed: Chihuahua-miniature pinscher mix
  Chespi is going to be happy running around your yard. (Courtesy of Ken-Mar Rescue)
  Age: 5 years
  Gender: Neutered male
  Size: 10 pounds
  Chespi’s story: Chespi is a little guy who loves to spend time running around in the yard. He needs a home with a secured yard so that he stays safe while doing that. He’s trained to sleep in a crate and is fully vaccinated and microchipped.
  Adoption procedure: Apply online at KenMarRescue.org.
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• Santa Anita consensus picks for Sunday June 21

  21-06-2020 04:19
  
  The consensus box of picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Sunday, June 21 for racing at Santa Anita.
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• Horse racing: Toinette wins Santa Anita’s Wilshire Stakes

  21-06-2020 03:51
  
  It was Keeper Ofthe Stars who brought a two-race winning streak into Saturday’s $100,000 Grade III Wilshire Stakes at Santa Anita, but the day belonged to Hall of Fame trainer Neil Drysdale.
  Toinette, the 3-5 favorite, gave Drysdale his first of two graded-stakes victories on the afternoon in the Wilshire, running away by 2 3/4 lengths while completing the 1 mile on turf  in 1:35.20 under the meet’s leading rider, Flavien Prat.
  Then, about 50 minutes later at Belmont Park, the D
  
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• Top Manhattan prosecutor leaves job after standoff with Barr

  21-06-2020 03:47
  
  By Michael Balsamo and Larry Neumeister
  WASHINGTON — An extraordinary standoff between the Justice Department and Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman ended Saturday when the prosecutor agreed to leave his job with an assurance that his investigations into allies of President Donald Trump would not be disturbed.
  The announcement capped two days of conflicting statements, allegations of political interference in prosecutions, and defiance from Berman. On Saturday, Attorney General Wil
  
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• Sheriff: 2 tons of pot, $1 million seized from Chinese operation in Southern California

  21-06-2020 03:17
  
  Two tons of marijuana and $1 million in cash were seized from an organization from China that was running an illegal growing operation in Southern California, authorities said Friday.
  Nineteen people were jailed on suspicion of maintaining a drug house, theft of utilities, marijuana cultivation, marijuana sales and conspiracy, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said. Authorities served 23 search warrants that resulted in the arrests of residents of Hemet, San Jacinto, El Monte, Rial
  
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• MLB players hold off on voting on proposed 60-game schedule

  21-06-2020 02:43
  
  It appears the stalemate between baseball owners and players will last a little longer, as the players have reportedly decided to wait a few days before voting on the most recent owners’ proposal for the Major League Baseball season.
  According to multiple reports, players were seeking more information about COVID-19 and the sport’s health precautions after reports of positive tests for players on several teams, including two with the Angels.
  Owners have offered the players a 60-game
  
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• Women’s votes will save the nation in November

  21-06-2020 02:00
  
  “Mr. President — have pity on the working man.”
  When Randy Newman sang those words in his eponymous song, I believe he was referring to President Coolidge.
  Little-remembered, thrust into the presidency the last time we had a Roaring ‘20s by the unexpected early death of President Warren Harding in 1923, Coolidge was a quiet New Englander. One biographer wrote: “That he did represent the genius of the average is the most convincing proof of his strength.”
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• 1 person struck, killed in 5-car incident on 5 Freeway in Lake Forest

  21-06-2020 01:49
  
  LAKE FOREST — One person was killed Saturday in an incident with five vehicles involved on the Santa Ana (5) Freeway in Lake Forest.
  The incident was first reported at 12:44 p.m. on the southbound Santa Ana Freeway at El Toro Road, according to the Califonria Highway Patrol.
  Witnesses reported that four or five vehicles were involved in the HOV and number 1 freeway lanes, the CHP said.
  At 1 p.m., a SigAlert was issued, closing the number 2 HOV lane and traffic lanes 1, 2, 3 and 4.
  At 1:36
  
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• Coronavirus: Number of Orange County cases nears 10,000

  21-06-2020 00:52
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported on Saturday, June 20, 413 new cases of coronavirus but explained the spike in the new count appears high because of a backlog in reporting.
  The increase includes 122 COVID-19 cases from Quest Lab’s State OptumServe test sites, said Health Agency spokeswoman Jessica Good.
  Removing the 122 from 413, the case count is 291, just 3 greater than Friday’s count of 288.
  The case total in Orange County rose to 9,988 in Saturday’s report.
  The
  
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• Protests against racial injustice, police brutality continue across Southern California on Saturday

  21-06-2020 00:44
  
  Dozens of protests unfolded throughout the Southland on Saturday, June 20, capping off the fourth week of demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice.
  The movement began after George Floyd, a Black man in Minnesota, died on Memorial Day after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes.
  Million Mothers Rally supporter Yvonne Trice, from Pomona, holds a picture of her late son Monte Russell who lost his life to gun violence during a rally in Pomona Saturday mor
  
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• Tiz the Law delivers, runs away with Belmont Stakes

  21-06-2020 00:17
  
  Tiz the Law has won an unprecedented Belmont Stakes, claiming victory Saturday at the first race of a rejiggered Triple Crown schedule and crossing the finish line in front of eerily empty grandstands.
  The 3-year-old colt from upstate New York charged to the lead turning to the frontstretch and now can set his sights on the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby and Oct. 3 Preakness. All three legs of this year’s Triple Crown schedule were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Belmont, usually the se
  
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• ‘Patriots for Police’ rally at Huntington Beach Pier demonstrations

  21-06-2020 00:08
  
  As about 100 people gathered near the Huntington Beach pier to protest police brutality Saturday, June 20, another group assembled across the street to show their support for law enforcement officers.
  The group of about 50 people, some carrying signs supporting the Huntington Beach Police Department, gathered in front of Jack’s Surfboard Shop for a “Patriots for Police” rally, which started about an hour after others had gathered for a Black Lives Matter protest.
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