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• Baseball’s minor leagues officially cancel 2020 seasons

  30-06-2020 23:58 via ocregister.com
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Baseball’s minor leagues canceled their seasons on Tuesday after Major League Baseball decided not to provide any players to its affiliated teams amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, the minor league governing body, made the long-expected announcement. The Professional Baseball Agreement between the majors and the minors expires after this season, and MLB has proposed reducing the minimum affiliates from
  
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• Whicker: Hockey folks show baseball purists that rule changes can be embraced

  30-06-2020 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  The 2020 baseball season, all 240 characters of it, will show us the difference between change and caricature.
  Sixty games is caricature.
  Beginning an extra inning with a man on second base is change.
  One is a Band-Aid, to plug an emergency. The other is worth studying.
  Purists will grow nauseated at the first sight of a man carrying the winning run without having to touch ’em all. That’s fine, but purists don’t pay the freight.
  “The only people there in the 15th inning a
  
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• Relationships have deepened in this crazy, coronavirus world

  30-06-2020 23:23 via ocregister.com
  
  The world around us is going crazy — coronavirus-crazy and rioting-crazy. We are frustrated to the nth degree with all of this chaos. Many are saddened to see this happening to our wonderful world.
  If I can find something wondrous in this chaotic and pandemic world, it is the change within me — which is good since I can do little to change the outside world.
  I’m fortunate to live here in Laguna Woods Village and to have wonderful friends and neighbors. However, pre-coronavirus
  
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• California budget punts on the big issues

  30-06-2020 23:18 via ocregister.com
  
  After lawmakers sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a budget plan that he signed on Monday, a northern California Assemblyman told a newspaper that, “the choices we have to make here are not perfect.” That summarizes this cobbled-together budget with nearly perfect understatement.
  The budget attempts to deal with a projected $54 billion deficit caused by the pandemic shutdowns, but mainly delays hard decisions until some future date. This is not the worst effort we’ve ever seen, as legislat
  
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• Ontario Fury midfielder Joseph Cairel dies in boating accident

  30-06-2020 22:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Ontario Fury midfielder Joseph Cairel died in a boating accident Friday in northern California.
  The Fury plays in the Major Arena Soccer League.
  According to a report in the San Jose Mercury News, Cairel fell into the water June 26 – his 29th birthday – in Indian Slough near Discovery Bay in the San Joaquin Delta.
  The club released a tribute to Cairel on Tuesday morning:
  “On June 26, 1991, Joseph Cairel came into this world, and he would live his life to the absolute fullest. H
  
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• Buena Park homeless shelter has started taking residents

  30-06-2020 22:54 via ocregister.com
  
  An assemblage of old shipping containers creatively turned into a homeless shelter, began accepting new residents on Tuesday, April 30, in Buena Park.
  Staff at the facility, called a navigation center, expected to process about 10 people a day, and said the shelter could reach it’s lower, pandemic-compelled capacity of 100 beds in 10 days.
  Located in an industrial area at 6494 Caballero Blvd., the center is the newest post in a growing cluster of homeless shelters in Orange County that aim
  
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• Thomas Sowell, an underappreciated American scholar, turns 90

  30-06-2020 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Dr. Thomas Sowell has been both a friend and a colleague of mine for over a half-century.
  On June 30, he will have completed his 90th year of life, and I want to highlight some important features of that life. Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1930. As part of the great black migration northward during the 1930s and ’40s, he and his family moved to Harlem, New York. Sowell attended the prestigious Stuyvesant High School but dropped out. In 1951, he was drafted into the milita
  
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• Orange County may close bars ahead of July 4th weekend, OC supervisor says

  30-06-2020 22:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County health officials may order closed the county’s bars after seeing steady and unrelenting increases in positive coronavirus tests and the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19, Orange County Supervisor Michelle Steel said Tuesday, June 30.
  Interim County Health Officer Dr. Clayton Chau “is considering the issuance of health orders to close bars in Orange County if, in his medical opinion, it is appropriate to do so,” Steel, who is the board chairwoman, said in
  
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• Angels GM Billy Eppler preparing players for non-traditional camp

  30-06-2020 22:31 via ocregister.com
  
  As Billy Eppler tries to change the behavior of his players in order to get through this pandemic, he wants the to change the way they think of the clubhouse.
  “Think of the clubhouse as more of a closet,” the Angels general manager said on Tuesday. “It’s where clothes hang. Absent of anything you need to do in the training room or weight room, get outside.”
  Eppler and the Angels will begin to see how that works out on Wednesday, when players officially report for th
  
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• When the coronavirus shut down live events, Insomniac took their festivals virtual

  30-06-2020 22:23 via ocregister.com
  
  As the number of positive novel coronavirus cases rose in the U.S. in early March, there was confusion and hesitation by many large-scale event production companies over whether to cancel, postpone or reschedule their concerts and festivals.
  Insomniac, a Beverly Hills-based EDM live events company, was all set for its annual two-day Beyond Wonderland festival at the NOS Event Center in San Bernardino March 20-21. However, coronavirus was officially declared a global pandemic by the World Health
  
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• Can I now get a divorce without ever leaving my couch? Ask the lawyer

  30-06-2020 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: My wife and I are going our separate ways, and each of us has a lawyer. We are being encouraged to have a remote mediation to seek to work things out. Is this really possible? I do not have to actually go to court?
  -B.W., Santa Monica
  Ron Sokol
  A: Because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, much is being done “remotely” now, which means conferencing over the internet. In addition, court appearances for lawyers are often done over the phone. Thus, your personal attendance is not c
  
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• Chinese man who ran birth tourism operation in Irvine sentenced

  30-06-2020 21:49 via ocregister.com
  
  A Chinese national who ran an Irvine-based travel company targeted by federal officials as a birth tourism operation was sentenced Tuesday to 37 months in prison.
  But Chao “Edwin” Chen wasn’t in court to hear his sentence. He fled to China in 2016.
  Chen, 35, was one of the operators of “You Win USA Vacation Resort,” which ran a thriving business at the Carlysle Apartments in Irvine. The company’s primary customers were well-to-do pregnant women, mostly from Ch
  
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• Billions of dollars in aid for small businesses go unclaimed

  30-06-2020 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By Joyce M. Rosenberg, The Associated Press
  Billions of dollars offered by Congress as a lifeline to small businesses struggling to survive the pandemic are about to be left on the table when a key government program stops accepting applications for loans.
  Business owners and advocacy groups complain that the money in the Paycheck Protection Program was not fully put to work because the program created obstacles that stopped countless small businesses from applying. For those that did seek loans
  
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• Spring wrap-up Q&A: Fountain Valley tennis coach says seniors deserved chance to ‘walk away with great memories’

  30-06-2020 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  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.
  This is the final Q&A in the series. Harshul Patel, Fountain Valley tennis
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: Watched lots of TV, spent lots of time with my family, finished lots o
  
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• Final Spring wrap-up Q&A: Fountain Valley tennis coach says seniors deserved chance to ‘walk away with great memories’

  30-06-2020 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  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.
  This is the final Q&A in the series. Harshul Patel, Fountain Valley tennis
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: Watched lots of TV, spent lots of time with my family, finished lots o
  
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• SpaceX launches US Space Force satellite

  30-06-2020 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off Tuesday, June 30, 2020, from Cape Canaveral in Florida to deliver a US Space Force GPS satellite into Earth’s orbit. (Image from SpaceX video)
  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that took off Tuesday, June 30, 2020, from Cape Canaveral in Florida heads into Earth’s orbit to deliver a US Space Force GPS satellite. (Image from SpaceX video)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that took off Tuesday, June 30, 2020, from Cape Canaveral in
  
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• SpaceX launches rocket carrying US Space Force satellite

  30-06-2020 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  HAWTHORNE — Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched a rocket carrying a US Space Force global positioning satellite into orbit Tuesday from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
  The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the GPS III SV03 satellite took off at 1:10 p.m. California time. It was pushed back from an original launch time of 12:55 p.m.
  The satellite launch was originally scheduled for April 29 but was delayed for two months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Space Force officials said the delay resulted in only
  
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• SpaceX aims to launch US Space Force satellite: Watch live

  30-06-2020 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  HAWTHORNE — Hawthorne-based SpaceX will attempt another rocket launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida Tuesday, this time carrying a US Space Force global positioning satellite into orbit.
  The launch window for the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the GPS III SV03 satellite will open at 12:55 p.m. California time.
  The satellite launch was originally scheduled for April 29, but it was delayed for two months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Space Force officials said the delay resulted in only minima
  
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• Southern California beaches get good water-quality marks — at least in the summer

  30-06-2020 21:01 via ocregister.com
  
  With Southern California beaches largely open again — and Los Angeles beaches expected to reopen after a timeout for the three-day holiday weekend — you might find latest Heal the Bay’s Beach Report Card on water quality reassuring when you head back to the ocean.
  Of 212 beaches surveyed in Los Angeles and Orange counties over the past year, 93% were awarded an “A” or “B” during the summer months and just 2% got a failing grade, according to the environm
  
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• Orange County beaches lauded in Heal the Bay water quality report

  30-06-2020 21:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County’s celebrated beaches just got a little more celebrated.
  The county is host to nearly half of the state’s 42 “Honor Roll” beaches in Heal the Bay’s 2019-2020 Beach Report Card, the environmental group’s 30th annual rating of water quality up and down the coast.
  The 20 county beaches on the list is double the number in last year’s report. Dana Point’s Strand Beach, Dana Point Harbor Youth Dock and the San Clemente beach at Avenida Calaf
  
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• Valley View Casino & Hotel reopens buffet, with modifications

  30-06-2020 20:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Valley View Casino & Hotel in Valley Center announced that has reopened its buffet, but with a different format.
  The casino wrote in a Facebook post Monday, June 29, that its new all-you-can-eat buffet dinner is available from 4-8:30 p.m. daily at $37.99 with offerings that include crab legs, prime rib and Maine lobster. The casino’s website noted that food would be brought to customers’ tables.
  The casino’s website says that the buffet will be open exclusively to qualified
  
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• Orange County football coaching changes for the 2020 season

  30-06-2020 20:08 via ocregister.com
  
  With Gus Martinez’s announcement Monday, June 29 that he is leaving Sonora, there are currently two schools with openings for a football head coach in Orange County.
  Here is a list of the coaching changes in the county since the end of the 2019 season.
  (Please send additions or updates to our list to [email protected])
  SCHOOL … … … NEW COACH … … …  FORMER COACHSonora: TBD  … Gus Martinez (resigned)
  Santa Ana Valley: TBD  &n
  
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• Taco Tuesday: How to make these red tacos at home

  30-06-2020 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  On a cold, drizzly day in March I discovered a new taqueria in Garden Grove that specializes in Tijuana-style birria tacos. 
  Birrieria El Bandido began as a food truck (technically a trailer), which the owners still operate. They park it behind the restaurant now. The brick and mortar serves as their new commissary kitchen as well. 
  On that strangely cold day which feels so distant now, I enjoyed truly outstanding beef birria tacos, some with cheese (quesotacos), some without. 
  Bi
  
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• Common Kings will headline two nights at City National Grove of Anaheim’s Drive-In OC

  30-06-2020 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Grammy-nominated Orange County reggae band Common Kings will headline two evenings at City National Grove of Anaheim’s Drive-In OC series July 17-18.
  Tickets are $200-$350 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, July 3 at AXS.com. Price is by vehicle, which can include up to six patrons. Both shows begin at 7 p.m.
  Common Kings hail from Costa Mesa and its debut album, “Lost in Paradise” was nominated in the best reggae album category at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2017. The
  
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• San Manuel Casino prohibits indoor smoking, limits alcohol service

  30-06-2020 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  San Manuel Casino announced that it was temporarily prohibiting smoking indoors and limiting alcohol service only to people playing at slots and table games.
  The changes, announced Monday, June 29, went into effect at the Highland-area complex at 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 30, in an effort to support face covering mandates and minimize opportunities for multiple person gatherings at bars during the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to a statement put out by the casino.
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• Coronavirus: New York imposes 14-day quarantine on California travelers

  30-06-2020 19:54 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo imposed a 14-day quarantine on all travelers from California and seven other states Tuesday, responding to the recent spike in new COVID-19 cases and other coronavirus metrics in the Golden State.
  “As an increasing number of states around the country fight significant community spread, New York is taking action to maintain the precarious safety of its phased, data-driven reopening,” Cuomo said. “We’ve set metrics for communit
  
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• Coronavirus rebound? California shoppers see reasons to be optimistic

  30-06-2020 19:46 via ocregister.com
  
  California shoppers recently showed a dash of financial hope to pollsters, thinking the worst of the pandemic’s economic wallop could be history.
  Two consumer confidence indexes showed some surprising resolve in June as the state economy was slowly reopening.
  Let’s start with the Conference Board’s overall consumer confidence index for the state. For June, this benchmark was at 77.6 — up from a revised 74.1 for May. Confidence bottomed in April, tumbling 32% that month, a
  
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• Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling

  30-06-2020 19:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for religious schools to obtain public funds, upholding a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling.
  The court’s 5-4 ruling, written by Chief Justice John Roberts with conservatives in the majority, came in a dispute over a Montana scholarship program for private K-12 education that also makes donors eligible for up to $150 in state tax credits.
  The Legislature created
  
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• Louise Goffin talks famous parents and finding her own place in the music world

  30-06-2020 19:43 via ocregister.com
  
  The daughter of legendary songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Louise Goffin spent her childhood and adolescence in Laurel Canyon, the epicenter of the L.A. music scene in the late ’60s and ’70s.
  Her live debut came when she was 17, opening up for Jackson Browne in 1977 at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. Her first album “Kid Blue” arrived on the major label Elektra/Asylum in 1979 before she’d even turned 20.
  Yet while those early memories used to remind Goffi
  
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• How a Los Angeles tattoo artist found happiness with a frozen dessert from his hometown

  30-06-2020 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  After the sudden death of his older brother, Lemeir Mitchell decided to finally pursue his lifelong ambition so he packed up his bags, said goodbye to his native Philadelphia and headed out of town, determined to do whatever it would take to become a tattoo artist in Los Angeles.
  But things didn’t quite work out that way for Mitchell, who instead of inking skin has found happiness in selling frozen treats.
  Mitchell has driven around Southern California for the past three years selling wate
  
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• KFI’s John & Ken: Remembering their early radio days as music DJs

  30-06-2020 18:34 via ocregister.com
  
  John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou — you know them as John and Ken — are the hugely popular afternoon drive team that helped build KFI (640 AM) into the tale radio juggernaut that it is.
  They arrived in Los Angeles in 1992, and except for a small stint doing mornings at KABC (790 AM), they have held been KFI’s afternoon stars, maintaining dominance in their time slot for most of their nearly three decades here.
  They are the guys that can drive you nuts. John is actually much like me,
  
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• 2 Irvine office buildings ‘flipped’ for $355 million

  30-06-2020 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  It may not have the drama of made-for-TV real estate flipping, but there’s been a noteworthy amount of buying and selling at a 73-acre office complex on the old El Toro airbase.
  Two office buildings, part of communications chipmaker Broadcom’s Orange County legacy, have been “flipped” by the developer of Irvine’s Great Park Neighborhoods, Five Point Holdings.
  Five Point announced June 26 that it signed an agreement to sell two buildings at the site holding Broadcom&
  
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• Grand jury report says TCA should focus on paying off its debt

  30-06-2020 17:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County’s toll road agency should focus on paying off its bonds and ending its operations – perhaps possible even more than a decade before its planned date in 2053 – the county’s grand jury said in a report published on Monday, June 29.
  “The (Transportation Corridor Agencies) clearly has the mission to operate the toll roads and pay off the bonds, but beyond that, any additional planning and activities could be considered out of its legislatively authorized s
  
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• Gus Martinez leaves Sonora to become head football coach at Nogales

  30-06-2020 17:35 via ocregister.com
  
  While some area high school football teams have been given the green light to begin summer conditioning workouts under strict guidelines because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are some schools still without head coaches.
  Nogales crossed its name off the list by naming Gus Martinez as its next football coach on Monday after getting school board approval, and Martinez let Sonora school officials know the same day, leaving a big coaching void for the Raiders to fill as July approaches.
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• Gus Martinez leaves Sonora to become football head coach at Nogales

  30-06-2020 17:35 via ocregister.com
  
  While some area high school football teams have been given the green light to begin summer conditioning workouts under strict guidelines because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are some schools still without head coaches.
  Nogales crossed its name off that list by naming Gus Martinez as its next football coach on Monday after getting school board approval, and Martinez let Sonora school officials know the same day, leaving a big coaching void for the Raiders to fill as July approaches.
  Gus Martin
  
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• Will Disneyland sell out in minutes when the park reopens?

  30-06-2020 17:27 via ocregister.com
  
  If you thought getting a boarding pass for Rise of the Resistance was tough, wait until Disneyland reopens with reduced attendance capacity limits following the extended coronavirus closure.
  Scoring a ticket to Disneyland after the COVID-19 closure ends will be next to impossible if the first few weeks of operations at the reopened Shanghai Disneyland and reservation requests for the soon-to-reopen Disney World parks are any guide.
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• EU reopens its borders to 14 nations but not to U.S. tourists

  30-06-2020 17:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By LORNE COOK
  BRUSSELS — The European Union announced Tuesday that it will reopen its borders to travelers f rom 14 countries, and possibly China soon, but most Americans have been refused entry for at least another two weeks due to soaring coronavirus infections in the U.S.
  Travelers from other big countries like Russia, Brazil and India will also miss out.
  As Europe’s economies reel from the impact of the coronavirus, southern EU countries like Greece, Italy and Spain are desperate
  
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• OC Auto Show canceled due to coronavirus worries

  30-06-2020 17:11 via ocregister.com
  
  More than 600 vehicles – ,mainly 2018 models-will be on display at the annual OC International Auto Show at the Anaheim Convention Center Sept. 28 to Oct. 1. (File Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  A 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air is one of several classic cars on display at the OC Auto Show at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA on Thursday, October 3, 2019. The show runs through Sunday. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resum
  
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• Carl Reiner, beloved creator of ‘Dick Van Dyke Show,’ dies at 98

  30-06-2020 16:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STEWART
  NEW YORK (AP) — Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a “second banana” to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy’s front ranks as creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and straight man to Mel Brooks’ “2000 Year Old Man,” has died. He was 98.
  Reiner’s assistant Judy Nagy said he died Monday night of natural causes his home in Beverly Hills, California.
  He was one of show business&r
  
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• Last chance to vote for Best of Orange County 2020

  30-06-2020 16:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Voting concludes at midnight for the 27th annual readers' choice survey.
  
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• Official launch of new Placentia fire department is Wednesday, July 1

  30-06-2020 15:54 via ocregister.com
  
  As of Wednesday, July 1, Placentia’s new Fire and Life Safety Department begins service, making the city the first to quit the Orange County Fire Authority and strike out on its own.
  While the change signals the end of Placentia’s more than 23-year relationship with OCFA, officials with both agencies said the city and surrounding communities can still expect a prompt response to 911 calls or any situation requiring fire fighting or medical aid.
  OCFA spokeswoman Colleen Windsor said t
  
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• Disney did the right thing on Splash Mountain — so what’s next?

  30-06-2020 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By deciding to change the theme of Splash Mountain, Disney did the right thing both ethically and economically.
  Those two don’t always go together. But they did here. As a multimedia entertainment giant, Disney wants three-tool franchises — ones that work in its theme parks, sell merchandise and play to large audiences in movies or on TV. Because of its roots in minstrelsy, Splash Mountain’s “Song of the South” franchise could not deliver that.
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• China approves contentious Hong Kong national security law

  30-06-2020 14:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By ZEN SOO and KEN MORITSUGU
  HONG KONG — China approved a contentious national security law that will allow authorities to crack down on subversive and secessionist activity in Hong Kong, a move many see as Beijing’s boldest yet to erase the legal firewall between the semi-autonomous territory and the mainland’s authoritarian Communist Party system.
  President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order promulgating the law after it was approved by the Standing Committee of the Natio
  
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• Sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019

  30-06-2020 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAMES LaPORTA
  Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported, according to U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the intelligence.
  The assessment was included in at least one of President Donald Trump’s written daily intelligence briefings at the time, according to the officials. Then-national security
  
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• Landlord and tenant plead guilty to sexually assaulting neighborhood girls in Laguna Hills

  30-06-2020 10:16 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A Laguna Hills landlord pleaded guilty Monday to sexually assaulting two 7-year-old girls, and one of his tenants pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting another 7-year-old girl.
  Tomas L. Fabian, 51, pleaded guilty to four felony counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor younger than 14, according to court records.
  Cleto Angeles Trejo, 59, who rented a room in Fabian’s home, pleaded guilty to six felony counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor younger than 14, ac
  
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• Nets’ DeAndre Jordan says he has coronavirus

  30-06-2020 06:06 via ocregister.com
  
  DeAndre Jordan says he has tested positive for the coronavirus and won’t be joining the Brooklyn Nets in Florida when the NBA season resumes.
  Jordan announced his status on Twitter, hours after fellow Nets player Spencer Dinwiddie told The Athletic that he had tested positive and was experiencing symptoms.
  They give the Nets at least six players who have tested positive for the virus. The other four were back in March, when Kevin Durant said he was one of them.
  Jordan wrote that he had lea
  
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• Missing Irvine hiker’s remains found on Mt. Baldy

  30-06-2020 06:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Hikers have found the remains of an Irvine man over six months after he went missing during a snowstorm on Mt. Baldy that prompted a desperate search, which led to the death of a volunteer rescuer.
  A pair of hikers reported finding human remains on June 19, near the top of Fish Fork on the northwest side of Mt. Baldy at an elevation of 7,800 feet, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department officials said in a Monday news release. Coroner’s officials confirmed Saturday, June 27, that
  
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• DeAndre Jordan, Spencer Dinwiddie have coronavirus, may not return with Nets

  30-06-2020 06:06 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Spencer Dinwiddie and DeAndre Jordan said Monday they have tested positive for the coronavirus, potentially leaving the Brooklyn Nets without two starters when the NBA season resumes.
  Jordan said he won’t be in Florida with the Nets when they return from the suspension of the 2019-20 season, while Dinwiddie told The Athletic that he was experiencing symptoms and it was unclear if he would be at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports complex.
  At least six players on
  
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• Beluga whale sighted off San Diego even has the U.S. Coast Guard looking for it

  30-06-2020 03:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Marine mammal experts and federal officials are stumped by what’s believed to be the first-ever West Coast sighting of a beluga whale off San Diego.
  Typically, beluga whales are found at the North Pole and along Russia’s northern coast – some 8,000 miles away from the Southern California coast.
  “It’s a remarkable surprise that nobody would have expected,” said Michael Milstein, spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “We would
  
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• ‘I saw the devil today’: Prosecutors, family members confront Golden State Killer in plea agreement hearing

  30-06-2020 03:46 via ocregister.com
  
  For seven hours Monday, family members of the dozens of victims of the Golden State Killer listened while he croaked out his guilty pleas.
  With a plastic visor covering his face, Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. — mouth agape, seated between his attorneys and dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit, sitting behind a table on top of a stage in the middle of a university ballroom — pleaded guilty to 13 murders and 13 kidnappings he committed over about 13 years across California.
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