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• Social justice issues and visibility will be a big part of the NBA’s restart

  05-07-2020 23:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Activism in the NBA is not new. One of the most high-profile vocal athletes ever recently met virtually with the Lakers to remind them.
  In an online town hall meeting with players, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talked to the team about his background, which included boycotting the 1968 Olympics over unequal treatment of Black people in the United States, and continues to this day with public cries for reform of college athletics. While the move for social reform is experiencing a crescendo in many realms
  
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• Fire leads to closure of Irvine Regional Park in Orange

  05-07-2020 23:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Crews battled a fire on Sunday, June 5 that prompted the closure of Irvine Regional Park in Orange.
  The blaze was reported in the area of Peters Canyon Road at about 12:30 p.m., Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Greg Barta said. No structures were immediately threatened, and firefighters managed to halt the forward progress by 2:13 p.m.
  Nearly 100 firefighters worked to fully contain the fire, Barta said. An OCFA helicopter helped teams on the ground stop its spread.
  “We managed to make g
  
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• Capistrano Unified postpones start of sports

  05-07-2020 22:55 via ocregister.com
  
  The Capistrano Unified School District postponed the start of high school sports.
  High school athletics were scheduled to begin Monday (July 6) with practices and summer camps. Interscholastic sports and practices were shut down this past spring because of the spread of COVID-19. The district Friday informed its high school athletic directors that the re-launch of high school sports has been postponed indefinitely.
  Capistrano Unified high schools that participate in CIF-Southern Section sports a
  
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• Calls to Orange County firefighters jump 58% on July 4th

  05-07-2020 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Calls to firefighters in Orange County jumped significantly on July 4th, with crews racing around to put out more than 100 fires that day, authorities said.
  The call load for the Orange County Fire Authority on Saturday was 58% more than an average day, said Captain Greg Barta.
  The week leading up to this year’s July 4th holiday was also heavy with fire calls.
  “We definitely did notice an increase in firework activity throughout the entire last week,” Barta said, “culmina
  
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• Angels’ Griffin Canning says his elbow feels ‘normal’ after injection

  05-07-2020 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM >> Griffin Canning is cautiously optimistic that he can be a success story for platelet-rich plasma treatments.
  Most of the pitchers who have tried similar biologic injections to avoid surgery for injuries have ended up merely postponing the procedures. In recent years with the Angels, Andrew Heaney, Shohei Ohtani and Garrett Richards all had Tommy John surgery after failing to get adequate results from the PRP.
  Canning, though, has now been throwing to hitters for about two months
  
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• Drive-up fireworks show creates eye candy at Los Alamitos base

  05-07-2020 20:19 via ocregister.com
  
  As many cities canceled their fireworks events because of the coronavirus pandemic, illegal fireworks popped up all over the county. That created a disco-ball effect and coated cities in smoke.
  Los Alamitos offered residents an alternative – a colorful, half-hour, drive-up show at the Joint Forces Naval Base.
  “No pedestrians, walk-ins or bicycles,” the event announcement said.
  And the cars? Six feet apart.
  These images were taken with a cellphone.
  Hundreds of spectators watch f
  
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• Higher, wider berm stops more flooding in Newport Beach on Saturday night

  05-07-2020 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  An expanded berm prevented flooding in Newport Beach on Saturday night after Friday’s high-tide deluge, city officials said.
  The berm, quickly assembled on Saturday, had sand piled “significantly higher and wider” than the one the waves jumped the night before, said Newport Beach spokesman John Pope.
  The towering waves turned streets in the Balboa Peninsula into lakes and muddy messes on Friday night.
  On Sunday morning, Newport Beach residents said the waves seemed tamer. Jenni
  
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• Higher, wider berm stops flooding in Newport Beach on Saturday night

  05-07-2020 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  An expanded berm prevented flooding in Newport Beach on Saturday night after Friday’s high-tide deluge, city officials said.
  The berm, quickly assembled on Saturday, had sand piled “significantly higher and wider” than the one the waves jumped the night before, said Newport Beach spokesman John Pope.
  The towering waves turned streets in the Balboa Peninsula into lakes and muddy messes on Friday night.
  On Sunday morning, Newport Beach residents said the waves seemed tamer. Jenni
  
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• USC’s Anna Cockrell finds her voice outside the facade of perfection

  05-07-2020 18:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The moment has called for bold action, and Anna Cockrell cannot shrink away from it.
  As a movement calling for racial justice was spread across America, Cockrell wanted to do her part to create change within her own community, in USC athletics.
  So the track and field standout, in partnership with another half-dozen USC athletes, created the United Black Student-Athletes Association, a group calling for a more inclusive environment within the school’s athletic department.
  Cockrell helped dr
  
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• Bubble Watch: Appraisers don’t see drops in SoCal home values – yet

  05-07-2020 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  “Bubble Watch” digs into trends that may indicate economic and/or housing market troubles ahead.
  Buzz: The coronavirus has yet to hurt Southern California home values, according to a study done by a group of local appraisers.
  Source: One of our most curious housing yardsticks is crafted by the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California. Since 1943, the group based at Cal Poly Pomona has tracked local home-value movements twice a year with volunteer appraisers constantly
  
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• Locals volunteer to be infected with coronavirus to hasten vaccine development

  05-07-2020 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner noted that milkmaids who caught cowpox from their cattle seemed to escape a much deadlier scourge: smallpox.
  So the doctor collected pus from a cowpox blister on one of those milkmaids, rounded up his gardener’s 8-year-old son and rubbed the gunk into a fresh cut on the boy’s skin. The lad developed a trying but not lethal cowpox infection, and once he recovered, the doctor repeated the exercise — but this time, with the real thing. Smal
  
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• Newsom now owns the COVID-19 pandemic

  05-07-2020 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Just a few weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom was boasting about California’s apparent success in suppressing COVID-19 infections in implicit contrast to other states, such as New York, that were being clobbered by the pandemic.
  He called it “bending the curve” of the infection rate and decided to reopen vast sections of the economy that he had shuttered in March.
  “We have to recognize you can’t be in a permanent state where people are locked away — for months and m
  
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• How did wearing masks to combat coronavirus become such a political football?

  05-07-2020 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Of all the polarizing issues dividing Americans during the overlapping crises of a worldwide pandemic and nationwide civil unrest over police brutality, the facial mask has become an odd symbol of partisan passions. But there it is, sparking discord far and wide.
  While most other nations have quietly required face coverings to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, in this nation the ubiquitous pieces of paper and cloth have triggered an enduring debate over government authority versus persona
  
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• Family leave job protections expanded in bill backed by Newsom

  05-07-2020 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  BY LAUREL ROSENHALL, CalMatters
  California led the nation when, in 2004, it became the first state to give private-sector workers six weeks off with partial pay to care for a new baby or sick family member. But unlike other states that followed, California never required that many employers guarantee workers their jobs back after taking paid family leave — leading millions of Californians to pay into a system they could get fired for using.
  That would change under legislation moving throu
  
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• Want a (pandemic-fueled) divorce? Consider these tips first

  05-07-2020 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Nurturing significant relationships can be challenging. But the added strain of negative external influences such as COVID-19 and recent events around racial injustices can break a vulnerable marriage.
  Turbulent times have been known to increase the rate of divorce and breakups.
  Dealing with such circumstances can quickly throw us into “stress mode,” where we operate from the fight-or-flight part of our brain. This is activated chemically when the body thinks it’s under attack.
  
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• UCLA’s AD Martin Jarmond faces many challenges with new job

  05-07-2020 12:43 via ocregister.com
  
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  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Most new athletic directors who take over in July have the luxury of getting acclimated to their new school before things really ramp up in two months. That isn’t going to be the case for the start of Martin Jarmond’s tenure at UCLA.
  “You would like have something resembling normalcy, but I have to come in and embrace the challenges,” said
  
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• Former UCLA pitcher Tyson Brummett, 3 others die in plane crash

  05-07-2020 12:10 via ocregister.com
  
  AMERICAN FORK, Utah (AP) — A former UCLA pitcher and three others died in a plane crash in rural Utah.
  Ex-pitcher Tyson Brummett, 35, of Salt Lake City, was flying the small plane, which left from the South Valley Regional Airport in West Jordan and crashed near Box Elder Peak in American Fork Canyon just before 8 a.m. Friday, according to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.
  A witness said the plane went into a downward corkscrew motion as it crashed.
  TV station WPVI reports all four p
  
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• What it’s like to stand up to a police union: Cecilia Iglesias

  05-07-2020 11:57 via ocregister.com
  
  I took on police unions before it was in fashion, and I have the battle scars to prove it.
  My story is a microcosm of what reformers across the state and country face as they attempt to rein in police unions, which are largely responsible for the systemic police violence making headlines because they protect bad cops from consequences.
  As a member of the Santa Ana City Council, I voted in February 2019 against a $25.6 million police pay increase, including retroactive raises and additional money
  
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• You can’t cancel American history: Gloria Romero

  05-07-2020 11:53 via ocregister.com
  
  As an East Los Angeles Latina with a long history of police reform advocacy, I was horrified to see the brutal killing of George Floyd. I joined calls for the prosecution of officers involved in his murder, joining Americans of disparate political persuasions in this demand.
  But what started as a righteous, mostly peaceful protest against the horrific murder of George Floyd with chants that Black Lives Matter has morphed into a misguided attempted hijacking of, particularly, the Democratic Party
  
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• Don’t wave the white flag on America

  05-07-2020 11:48 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the very first things I did after moving into my house was put up a flag pole. I borrowed a posthole digger, mixed some cement, and set the pole overnight. I raised the flag the next morning and have flown it every day since, 20 years now, and it will fly again today.
  I don’t fly the flag as a partisan statement, and while I’m getting up there in age, I don’t need to see the flag to remember what country I live in. I fly the flag as an expression of pride and gratitude f
  
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• Proposition 19 is latest assault on taxpayers

  05-07-2020 06:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The assaults on California property owners and taxpayers never stop. And once again the California Legislature has advanced a massive tax increase at the last possible moment when they thought no one was paying attention.
  Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 11 (ACA11), approved by the California Legislature, takes away Proposition 13 protections that California families have under current law and replaces them with a billion-dollar tax increase. Voters will have an opportunity to reject this s
  
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• ‘Rodham’ makes for a new kind of Hillary

  05-07-2020 05:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Some people are obsessed with Hillary Clinton.
  I am not among them.
  It is mostly the many people who dislike all things Hillary Clinton for whom the ordinary mild interest in someone so connected, so famous, so accomplished rises to the O-word level.
  Years, decades, generations after alleged scandals involving commodities trading, real estate, a dead aide who just had to have been murdered, these people maintain a kind of Hillary cargo cult, re-hashing the old dust-ups and for all I know trading
  
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• Coronavirus: Orange County reported 413 new cases and 3 new deaths as of July 4

  05-07-2020 04:28 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency  reported three new deaths as of Saturday, July 4, increasing the total number of people in the county who have died from the coronavirus to 363.
  Of the 363 deaths, 190 were listed as people in skilled nursing facilities and two were listed as homeless.
  There were 413 new cases of the virus confirmed on Saturday. In the last three days, there have been 3,127 new cases reported.
  The cumulative case total is now 16,191 since testing began in March. The sev
  
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• Horse racing: Uncle Chuck earns easy win in Los Alamitos Derby

  05-07-2020 03:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Uncle Chuck and jockey Luis Saez win the Grade III, $150,000 Los Alamitos Derby on Saturday, July 4, 2020, at Los Alamitos Race Course. (Benoit Photo).
  Jockey Luis Saez guides Uncle Chuck to the winner’s circle after their victory in the Grade III, $150,000 Los Alamitos Derby, Saturday, July 4, 2020, at Los Alamitos Race Course. (Benoit Photo).SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsUncle Chuck and jockey Luis Saez win the Grade III, $150,000 Los Alamitos Derby on Saturday, July 4, 2020, at
  
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• Racehorse euthanized after suffering injury at Los Alamitos

  05-07-2020 01:21 via ocregister.com
  
  CYPRESS (CNS) – This Is Us, a 3-year-old gelding, has been euthanized after suffering an unspecified injury while racing at Los Alamitos Race Course, officials confirmed today.
  He “bobbled” at the start of Friday night’s fifth race and was vanned off, according to the official racing chart.
  Video of the race shows the horse throwing jockey Jairo Rangel after finishing fourth.
  His death was confirmed by Mike Marten, public information officer for the California Horse Racin
  
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• Orange County celebrates a socially distanced Fourth of July

  05-07-2020 00:46 via ocregister.com
  
  There might not have been huge crowds awash in red, white and blue, or as many firework shows booming across the skies, but Orange County still wished America an exuberant  “Happy Birthday” on Saturday, July 4.
  Most Fourth of July celebrations were at-home affairs, but a few communities held scaled-back, socially distanced versions of their annual bashes.
  In Laguna Woods Village, residents decorated their homes and lawns as well their golf carts, many riding their patriotic tran
  
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• Man killed, driver arrested in Santa Ana hit-and-run crash

  05-07-2020 00:43 via ocregister.com
  
  A pedestrian was fatally injured in a hit-and-run crash early Saturday, July 4, in the 2400 block of South Fairview Street in Santa Ana, police said.
  Around 1:20 a.m., police responding to several calls found the man in the road with major injuries, a Santa Ana Police Department news release said. The investigation found that a vehicle driving south on Fairview struck the man and then left the scene with a shattered windshield.
  Officers found the vehicle and traced it to a nearby home, where the
  
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• Los Alamitos consensus picks for Sunday July 5

  05-07-2020 00:06 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Sunday, July 5 for racing at Los Alamitos.
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