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• A RAD visit for campers stuck at home

  02-07-2020 23:47 via ocregister.com
  
  The excitement built all morning for camper Christine Horn and the anticipated arrival of RAD on the Road.
  RAD Camp, or Rising Above Disabilities, had a treat in store for her and fellow campers stuck at home.
  RAD camper Kimmy Bridgewaters and volunteer Cassie McDonald give a social distanced hug during a RAD on the Road visit to Kimmy’s house in Buena Park, CA on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Nathan Erskine poses for a photo during a visit
  
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• Sunny skies, warm breeze to make for a great Independence Day weekend

  02-07-2020 23:36 via ocregister.com
  
  While this won’t be the most traditional Independence Day celebration — because of restrictions put in place to stem the spread of the coronavirus — Southern Californians can plan for warm weather and clear, sunny skies for most of the holiday weekend, with temperatures climbing into the 80s as early as Friday, July 3.
  Cloud coverage and patchy fog in the early mornings along Los Angeles and Orange counties’ coastal areas, because of the marine layer, should burn off befo
  
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• Metrolink web site helps you maintain social distance during coronavirus pandemic

  02-07-2020 23:31 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Metrolink announced Thursday that it has launched an online tool to allow riders to check recent ridership levels of the train they plan to ride and to confirm that they will have the ability to maintain safe distances from other commuters.
  “We know that safety is top of mind with our customers,” said Brian Humphrey, Metrolink board chair. “Safety is foundational at Metrolink — and a shared responsibility. Riders are required to wear face coverings whi
  
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• 13 SoCal real estate twists: coronavirus confusion, $355 million flip, foreclosure fear

  02-07-2020 23:18 via ocregister.com
  
  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. Pair of Irvine office buildings flipped for $355 million.Great Park developer bought back the buildings in 2017.2.Coronavirus confidence rebound?California shoppers see reasons to be optimistic.3.COVID confusion drives disciplined homebuyers to distraction.Contributor Lesli
  
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• Lakers focus on player health and injury prevention ahead of restart

  02-07-2020 23:09 via ocregister.com
  
  For just about four months, Anthony Davis lived with the pain.
  After an injury during the opening slate of games last fall when he jammed his right shoulder, it was common, even for months afterward, to see the 6-foot-10 forward rolling the joint while wincing in pain. Davis gets these nagging injuries that are difficult to shake once in the rhythm of the season.
  So in one light, the hiatus has done him good: Without the physical toll of games and going through daily workouts – with plenty
  
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• More beach closures, including Orange County-run beaches, announced as July 4th weekend approaches

  02-07-2020 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  County-operated beaches and beach parking lots will be closed on Saturday, July 4, and Sunday, July 5, adding to the stretches of coast that will be shut down for the holiday weekend.
  The announcement on Thursday, July 2, followed several other Southern California beach communities planning closures in various forms for this weekend.
  Newport Beach, which voted to close on the Fourth of July after finding out two of its lifeguards tested positive for coronavirus and 23 others needed to be quarant
  
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• Veteran U.S. Forest Service firefighter charged with lewd acts, child porn possession

  02-07-2020 22:42 via ocregister.com
  
  A veteran firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service is facing criminal charges after police allege he inappropriately grabbed a 12-year-old girl and had a “significant amount” of child pornography.
  Jacob Daniel Carothers, 38, of San Jacinto, has been charged with a felony count of possession of child pornography and two counts of committing lewd acts with a child under the age of 14, according to an Orange County District Attorney’s Office statement.
  Carothers has worked as a fe
  
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• HOA Homefront: More myths about mold (Part 2)

  02-07-2020 22:40 via ocregister.com
  
  This column concludes a two-part series on the myths associated with common household mold.
  “You cannot handle it yourself.”
  Many mold consultants treat mold as if it were asbestos, typically developing repair protocols that are virtually identical to asbestos protocols.
  Asbestos is truly dangerous. Unlike mold, when inhaled into the lungs, the body cannot absorb or break down asbestos.
  Several trade organizations have created mold credentials and extensive (and expensive) cleanup pr
  
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• ‘Defund’ politicians who take public sector union cash

  02-07-2020 22:28 via ocregister.com
  
  As the nation looks for police-reform ideas in the wake of George Floyd’s death after his encounter with a Minneapolis officer, one issue keeps rising to the fore: the role police unions play in resisting meaningful reform and protecting police with a history of abusive behavior.
  The officer at the center of the Floyd controversy, for instance, had 18 previous complaints filed against him. That city’s council president has bemoaned how its police union has resisted reform. That&rsquo
  
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• Apple re-closes 15 Southern California stores as COVID-19 cases rise

  02-07-2020 22:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Apple has re-closed another 30 U.S. stores including 15 Southern California locations as cases of COVID-19 continue to flare up in regions around the country.
  Stores in Alabama, California, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada and Oklahoma closed  Thursday. That comes on the heels of 16 closures that took effect Wednesday in Florida, Mississippi, Texas and Utah.
  That brings the total number of stores that have been shuttered for a second time to 77. Apple has a total 271 stores in the United S
  
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• USC backs off plan for fall in-person classes, citing coronavirus spike

  02-07-2020 22:19 via ocregister.com
  
  The Tommy Trojan statue is seen on the USC campus. (2019 photo by Reed Saxon/Associated Press)
  LOS ANGELES — Reversing course from an announcement made one month ago, USC officials now say undergraduate fall courses will primarily remain online during the fall semester.
  “Public health guidelines continue to change, and Los Angeles County has yet to approve our plans for returning to full campus operations,” according to a joint letter released Wednesday night by USC Provost Cha
  
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• 5 questions as the Angels begin Summer Camp

  02-07-2020 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  The Angels and the other 29 teams are about to embark on a baseball season that will be about far more than baseball.
  On Friday, pitchers and catchers will hit the field at Angel Stadium and begin formal workouts for Summer Camp, the sport’s three-week training period to prepare for a season amid a pandemic.
  Unlike most seasons, in which the questions are about performance and avoiding injuries, this season all of those normal questions will also be beneath the overarching issue of whether
  
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• CIF-SS commissioner updates plans and requirements, looks at key dates

  02-07-2020 21:20 via ocregister.com
  
  CIF-Southern Section commissioner Rob Wigod today released an update on area high school sports and the impact COVID-19 has had on the current state of the section and potential future developments.
  July 20 is the big date on the local high school sports calendar. That is the day when the CIF State office and its 10 sections will announce its plans for fall, winter and spring sports for the 2020-21 school year. According to Wigod’s letter, on July 20 the CIF State office will announce its
  
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• A Corky tour of Orange County’s beaches

  02-07-2020 21:13 via ocregister.com
  
  This morning I was sitting here thinking about how Orange County has so many great surf spots to choose from.  No matter what time of year it is, there is always somewhere to go that is positioned to catch the swell.
  As I was pondering this, it also came to me how each of our different areas seems to have its very own personality, or “vibe” as you might want to call it in the hipper vernacular.  North county and south county are like the north and south pole, with the other
  
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• Hugh Downs, genial presence on TV news and game shows, dies at 99

  02-07-2020 21:08 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — Hugh Downs, a genial and near-constant presence on television on news, game and talk shows, has died at age 99.
  He died of natural causes Wednesday night at home in Scottsdale, Arizona, said his great-niece, Molly Shaheen.
  “The Guinness Book of World Records” recognized Downs as having logged more hours than any other TV personality until Regis Philbin passed him in August 2004 .
  Starting in the 1950s, he became one of television’s most familiar and welcome fac
  
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• Will foreclosures explode once the moratorium is lifted?

  02-07-2020 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Remember the nursery rhyme refrain, “We all fall down?”
  The incredible uptick of COVID-19 is like a raging California wildfire. Earlier this week Dr. Anthony Fauci surmised the U.S. could experience 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day. With the U.S. population at roughly 337 million, it would take just over one year for everyone in the U.S. to get this virus if its trajectory doesn’t change.
  Horrifying!
  Assuming more Americans take hold of safer social distancing and other pr
  
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• Americans are learning to live in a riskier world

  02-07-2020 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Even as the public discussion about COVID-19 risk becomes increasingly polarized, many Americans are slowly and quietly balancing the threat of infection against valued daily activities, and learning to live in a riskier world.
  On one hand, there are daily headlines expressing alarm about the dangers of reopening, citing rising cases and hospitalizations in early-opening states like Texas, Florida and Arizona. The implication often seems to be not just that we should carefully consider how and w
  
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• These 70 photos from June are our Orange County photographers’ favorites

  02-07-2020 20:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Parishioners are required to wear masks at Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Newport Beach. The church reopened on Sunday, June 14, 2020 after the coronavirus closure. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Susan Adams, a hearing-impaired physical therapist at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, talks about her struggling to communicate with her coworkers and patients because she couldn’t lip read through normal face shield coveringsduring the COVID-19 pandemic, unt
  
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• Coronavirus: How does California’s surge compare to Florida, Arizona and Texas?

  02-07-2020 19:46 via ocregister.com
  
  California is experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases unlike it has seen during the pandemic.
  But is the Golden State in the same, dire situation as Florida, Arizona and other states where the virus is spreading rapidly? Let’s take a look at the numbers.
  Confirmed cases: New cases slowed slightly in California on Wednesday, as county health departments reported 6,874 positive tests, shy of daily records set Monday and Tuesday but higher than any day prior to that, in addition to 81 more
  
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• When staying at home for the Fourth, add some sizzle with your grill

  02-07-2020 19:43 via ocregister.com
  
  With many activities canceled or restricted due to the coronavirus pandemic, our Fourth of July celebration will be a bit more subdued this year.
  But it needn’t fizzle out completely. You can still enjoy the holiday in your own backyard.
  You don’t need a crowd to get out the grill.
  I’m planning a festive dinner for two with a new chicken recipe – there will even be leftovers! By now beer can chicken is a bit of a bore, but have you tried grilling chicken in a bundt pan? F
  
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• Recipes: This lime pie is so delicious it saved a restaurant

  02-07-2020 19:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Initially, it was the title that grabbed me.  “The Lime Pie That Saved Us”
  Sounds like something I could use right now.
  Thumbing through the pages of Los Angeles baker Nicole Rucker’s cookbook, a pie’s title caught my eye. Rucker, the founder and owner of Fiona and Rucker’s Pie in Los Angeles, explains the name in her cookbook “Dappled: Baking Recipes for Fruit Lovers” (Penguin Random House, $32)
  “I opened my restaurant Fiona the week of Thank
  
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• 5 questions as the Dodgers begin Summer Camp

  02-07-2020 19:24 via ocregister.com
  
  And …. they’re back.
  The Dodgers have reconvened for “Summer Camp” – MLB even got Camping World to sponsor the unprecedented jumbling of the baseball calendar – 16 weeks after they left Camelback Ranch in Glendale amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  Starting with their first workout Friday, the Dodgers have three weeks now to prepare for a 60-game regular season. Here are the questions they will need to answer:
  Can they make this work?
  The same question lingers ov
  
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• Mark Schubert threatens lawsuit after attorney, survivors ask USA Swimming to ban him, seven others

  02-07-2020 19:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Former USA Swimming national team director and Olympic team coach Mark Schubert said he will file a defamation lawsuit against Bay Area attorney Robert Allard after Allard in an open letter Wednesday to USA Swimming CEO Tim Hinchey demanded the organization ban Schubert and seven other individuals.
  Writing on behalf of sexual abuse survivors, Allard called on Hinchey to “immediately purge the organization of individuals who have either sexually  abused or enabled the abuse of minor sw
  
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• Master Gardener: How to get fruit on a pineapple guava tree

  02-07-2020 18:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I have two pineapple guava trees that are three and four years old.  Both trees had many blossoms last year, but less than ten this year.  Neither tree has produced any fruit yet.  I water and fertilize them regularly.  They get full sun in the morning and partial afternoon sun. What can I do to get fruit?
  A: Feijoas (or pineapple guavas) are a popular landscape shrub or small tree. They are not especially fast-growing, so it’s easy to keep them small and manageable.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell arrested, charged in sex scheme

  02-07-2020 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By JIM MUSTIAN and LARRY NEUMEISTER
  British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by the FBI on Thursday on charges she helped procure underage sex partners for financier Jeffrey Epstein.
  An indictment made public Thursday said Maxwell, who lived for years with Epstein and was his frequent travel companion on trips around the world, facilitated Epstein’s crimes by “helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse ” girls as young as 14. It also said she participated i
  
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• Anti-Semitic hate crimes rise in California, but overall hate crimes decline

  02-07-2020 18:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEFANIE DAZIO | Associated Press
  LOS ANGELES — Anti-Semitic hate crimes in California rose nearly 12% in 2019, including a fatal shooting at a Southern California synagogue, even as hate crimes overall declined statewide by 4.8%, according to a state report released Wednesday.
  Hate crimes are historically under-reported and the 2019 data compiled by the state attorney general’s office does not include a recent rise in anti-Asian racism during the coronavirus pandemic, which began
  
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• Beach info: What’s open as of now, what will be closed for July 4th weekend

  02-07-2020 18:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Show up at some stretches of beach along the coast and you’ll be shoo’d away. At others, you can walk or bike in, but there won’t be parking in beach lots. Some areas have yet to see any restrictions set by officials.
  Changes along the coast about what’s allowed and what’s not are happening fast this week as official grapple with the warm holiday weekend coming up and concerns about the spread of coronavirus. Here’s a quick list that we’ll be updating as
  
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• Beach info: What’s open as of now, what will be closed at the coast for Fourth of July weekend

  02-07-2020 18:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Show up at some stretches of beach along the coast and you’ll be shoo’d away. At others, you can walk or bike in, but there won’t be parking in beach lots. Some areas have yet to see any restrictions set by officials.
  Changes along the coast about what’s allowed and what’s not are happening fast this week as official grapple with the warm holiday weekend coming up and concerns about the spread of coronavirus. Here’s a quick that we’ll be updating as chan
  
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• The Eat Index: OC: How you can have birria tacos for days 🌮

  02-07-2020 17:54 via ocregister.com
  
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  Beef birria queso tacos at home, made with a family pack of birria takeout from Birrieria El Bandido in Garden Grove (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Brad. A Johnson has been eating birria tacos at home for days. He’s taught himself how to make birria quesatacos and red tacos, but he’s not ready to give lessons just yet.
  He owes most of the cr
  
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• Which Disneyland shows and attractions will remain closed when the park reopens?

  02-07-2020 17:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The Magic Happens parade, Fantasmic nighttime spectacular, Mickey’s Mix Magic fireworks, “Frozen” stage show and more than a dozen attractions may not return until a later date when Disneyland and Disney California Adventure finally reopen.
  Social distancing measures will force Disneyland and Disney California Adventure to keep some parades, nighttime spectaculars, shows, rides and attractions closed once the parks reopen following an extended coronavirus closure.
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• How Inglewood’s D Smoke went from teaching school to winning a Netflix hip-hop competition

  02-07-2020 17:48 via ocregister.com
  
  On the title track of rapper D Smoke’s album “Black Habits,” the Inglewood native runs through tales of success and struggle, dropping references to Black icons and issues in a narrative that feels both timely and timeless.
  The track’s sincerity is typical of the entire album D Smoke released earlier this year. The inaugural winner of Netflix’s reality rap competition “Rhythm & Flow,” the performer credits his upbringing in gospel music and the churc
  
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• Supreme Court denies Congress access to secret Russia probe material for now

  02-07-2020 17:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is denying Congress access to secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation through the November election.
  The justices agreed on Thursday to hear the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court order for the material to be turned over to the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. The high court’s action will keep the documents out of congressional hands at least until the
  
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• British judge denies Venezuela’s Maduro gold in London bank

  02-07-2020 17:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By DANICA KIRKA and SCOTT SMITH
  LONDON — A British judge on Thursday refused to give Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro control of over $1 billion in gold sitting in a Bank of England vault, ruling that it is unlawful to give it to the socialist leader since Britain does not recognize him as president of the Latin American nation.
  Maduro has demanded the gold to help his cash-starved nation fight the coronavirus pandemic. But the central bank for the United Kingdom, whose government r
  
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• COVID confusion drives disciplined homebuyers to distraction

  02-07-2020 17:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Now that buyers are back in droves looking at houses, with all of the current COVID–19 guidelines in place it is a little like the wild, wild West out there in home shopping land.
  Here are a few recent examples of what it takes to get a showing scheduled, make everyone feel safe, and interpret the various guidelines.
  It is common courtesy to let the sellers or their agent know approximately what time you and your clients will be arriving to see their house, and get a confirmation that they
  
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• ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’ documents the life of an American hero

  02-07-2020 17:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Like any documentary, “John Lewis: Good Trouble” inevitably looks at events that have passed.
  But in this new documentary on the life and career of the 80-year-old civil rights leader and longtime congressman from Georgia, it’s impossible to keep the present out of the frame. You simply cannot deny the relevance of current events — the protests about racial injustice and demands for equality following the death of George Floyd while in police custody — to the life L
  
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• What I learned from Ron Finley, LA’s ‘gangsta gardener’

  02-07-2020 17:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Perhaps bromeliads hold the key to bringing peace and brotherhood to a fractured world.
  After all, the two share a first syllable, and the plant is eminently suitable for sharing as it displays a growth habit where offsets or pups are produced vegetatively around the mother plant before her death. These pups could be shared with friends and even with those who are not yet friends — but could be.
  I was enlightened about the plant and more during a visit with Ron Finley, who calls himself &l
  
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• Cal State faculty call for reforms to improve racial justice across system

  02-07-2020 16:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Faculty across California State University are calling for a series of reforms meant to advance racial justice across the 23-campus system, from requiring students to take a class in ethnic studies to disarming campus police.
  The California Faculty Association, the union representing faculty across the Cal State system, on Wednesday released a report titled “Anti-Racism and Social Justice Transformation Package,” which also calls on CSU to create Black studies departments a
  
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• Placentia’s new fire department begins service with ceremony, then an emergency call

  02-07-2020 16:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Placentia Fire Chief John “Pono” Van Gieson looked on from the edge of the driveway in front of Fire Station 2 on North Valencia Avenue at 8 a.m., Wednesday, July 1, when Orange County Fire Authority Engine 34 left the station for the last time.
  Moments later, a brand new engine for the new Placentia Fire and Life Safety Department backed in for the beginning of its first shift. As Placentia police blocked a lane of traffic, members of the new fire department gathered in the front of
  
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• Fourth of July: Beach and parking lot closures, big waves, rip currents could make for crazy holiday

  02-07-2020 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Heading to the beach for the Fourth of the July holiday, a time-honored tradition for Southern Californians, will be complicated this year.
  Some beaches will be closed, some open, and others – like Orange County’s state-run beaches – are shutting down parking lots to try to curb the crowds.
  The closures and restrictions are meant to limit holiday weekend crowds at the coast, where people cram onto swaths of sand and fill in the streets to celebrate. But shutting down beaches is
  
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• At Heroes Landing, homeless veterans find a safe harbor

  02-07-2020 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Rickey Jones, a homeless Army veteran, was so eager to move into the new veterans-only housing complex being built in West Santa Ana, that he started parking his cherished blue-on-white 1993 Cadillac DeVille a few blocks away every night. Just to be nearby.
  Homeless for most of the past decade, Jones, 63, had been sleeping in his car for more than a year and moved to his new parking spot in November. He says he grew so familiar to police, they would come by and knock on his window — not to
  
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• Make magic happen for your garden hollyhocks with this little trick

  02-07-2020 15:56 via ocregister.com
  
  1. Happy Fourth of July! Dead-head your roses whenever the aging flowers shatter. Dead-heading is the term for cutting off old blooms. Removing old flowers promotes higher-quality reblooming every six to eight weeks. Cut back to the first five-leaflet leaf low on the stem, or, to make it simpler, cut off all but about three inches of the spent flowering stem. Apply some rose food and water it in well. Then your roses will have the freedom to flower more beautifully.
  2. Here’s the best way
  
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• U.S. adds 4.8 million jobs as unemployment falls to 11.1%

  02-07-2020 14:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
  WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added a substantial 4.8 million jobs in June, and the unemployment rate fell to 11.1%, as the job market improved for a second straight month yet still remained far short of regaining the colossal losses it suffered this spring.
  The nation has now recovered roughly one-third of the 22 million jobs it lost to the pandemic recession. And with confirmed coronavirus cases spiking across the Sun Belt states, a range of evidence suggests that a
  
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• U.S. surpasses 50,000 new daily coronavirus cases for first time

  02-07-2020 14:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID RISING and JAKE COYLE
  BERLIN — The United States and South Africa have both reported record new daily coronavirus infections, with U.S. figures surpassing 50,000 cases a day for the first time, underlining the challenges still ahead as nations press to reopen their virus-devastated economies.
  The U.S. recorded 50,700 new cases, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, as many states struggled to contain the spread of the pandemic, blamed in part on Americans not wear
  
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• Landslide at Myanmar jade mine kills at least 123 people

  02-07-2020 14:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By ZAW MOE HTET and PYAE SONE WIN
  HPAKANT, Myanmar — At least 123 people were killed Thursday in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, the worst in a series of deadly accidents at such sites in recent years.
  A statement from the Ministry of Information said 123 bodies had been recovered from the site of the landslide in Hpakant, while the Myanmar Fire Service Department, which coordinates rescues and other emergency services, put the total at 126.
  “The jade miners were smot
  
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• It’s time to enforce the law and help at-risk kids

  02-07-2020 11:12 via ocregister.com
  
  During his second governorship, journalists occasionally would ask Jerry Brown what he was doing about California’s highest-in-the-nation poverty rate.
  Brown would tick off several actions, his centerpiece being the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which provides school districts with billions of extra dollars to upgrade the schooling of “at-risk” students, those from impoverished homes and/or English-learners.
  He was right to do so — on paper. Closing the
  
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• Sparks’ new additions Reshanda Gray, Te’a Cooper ready for WNBA bubble

  02-07-2020 05:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Down a couple of All-Stars, the L.A. Sparks have filled Chiney Ogwumike and Kristi Toliver’s slots at forward and guard with Reshanda Gray and Te’a Cooper — opportunities that feel fateful for both women.
  Gray is a 27-year-old native Angeleno who grew up going to Sparks games, screaming for T-shirts and waiting afterward to meet players: “When I put that Sparks jersey on, I think I might cry,” said Gray, who Wednesday sported a T-shirt that read “Change Has No
  
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• David Patrick Leaves UCR men’s basketball; Mike Magpayo new acting coach

  02-07-2020 04:53 via ocregister.com
  
  RIVERSIDE – David Patrick, who turned around the UC Riverside basketball program during his two-year stint on the Highlanders’ bench, resigned Wednesday to become the associate head coach at the University of Arkansas. In his place, Patrick’s former chief lieutenant, Mike Magpayo becomes UCR’s acting head coach.
  Magpayo’s promotion was his second in less than a month. In early June, Patrick promoted him to associate head coach. It is the 40-year-old Magpayo’s
  
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• Seal Beach, Huntington Beach to close beaches, parking lots and piers on Fourth of July

  02-07-2020 04:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Seal Beach and Huntington Beach officials are following other Orange and Los Angeles county cities in closing beaches for the busy Fourth of July holiday.
  The Seal Beach City Council, citing concerns about holiday crowds spreading the coronavirus, voted Wednesday, July 1, on the following:Effective Friday, July 3, at 6:00 p.m., all beach parking lots (1st, 8th and 10th streets) will be closed.
  Effective Friday, July 3, at 10:00 p.m., all Seal Beach beaches, the Pier, pier restrooms, tot lot play
  
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• House approves $1.5 trillion plan to fix crumbling infrastructure

  02-07-2020 03:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW DALY
  WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House approved a $1.5 trillion plan Wednesday to rebuild the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into projects to fix roads and bridges, upgrade transit systems, expand interstate railways and dredge harbors, ports and channels.
  The bill also authorizes more than $100 billion to expand internet access for rural and low-income communities and $25 billion to modernize the U.S. Postal Service&r
  
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• Mistake led to overcount of coronavirus testing in Orange County

  02-07-2020 03:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County erroneously inflated its COVID-19 testing numbers for more than a month — logging 30,000 more tests than it should have — before the error was discovered and fixed, officials acknowledged this week.
  The county has counted coronavirus testing in a way some consider misleading, reporting total tests performed, but not how many individuals were tested (some people are tested multiple times).
  This error may stoke further skepticism in the numbers.
  “That’s quite
  
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