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• San Clemente cancels summer trolley service for 2020

  15-07-2020 23:38
  
  The summer trolley that has taken riders through San Clemente’s quaint beach town has been canceled for the season.
  The city announced the decision on Wednesday, July 15, citing the coronavirus pandemic.
  The original Memorial Day weekend start date had already been pushed back to Aug. 1 “to monitor the state’s progress toward moving into Stage 4 of the Pandemic Resilience Roadmap,”  officials said in the announcement. “Since that is now very unlikely to oc
  
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• Bezos, Gates, Obama among Twitter handles hacked in bitcoin scam

  15-07-2020 23:38
  
  By Sebastian Tong, Bloomberg
  Twitter handles belonging to billionaires Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk were among the high-profile social media accounts that were apparently hacked to promote a bitcoin scam.
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama also had their Twitter accounts hacked.
  Their accounts sent out tweets promising to double the money sent by anyone sending money via bitcoin within the next 30 minutes.
  Uber and Apple Twitter handles posted simila
  
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• Tesla has more than 130 employees test positive for coronavirus: report

  15-07-2020 23:15
  
  Tesla, which earlier re-opened its Fremont electric car factory in defiance of a coronavirus health order, has had more than 130 employees test positive for the deadly virus, according to a blog claiming to have received company information.
  “An internal data leak shows that Tesla is seeing a spike in COVID-19 ‘exposure,’ primarily at its Fremont factory in California,” the blog Electrek reported. “So far, more than 130 Tesla workers have tested positive with more t
  
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• What Disneyland Paris reopening could mean for Disneyland

  15-07-2020 23:14
  
  The reopening of Disneyland Paris offers a glimpse of how Mickey, Cinderella, Spider-Man and other characters could make appearances at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure when the Anaheim theme parks eventually reopen in the COVID-19 era.
  Disneyland Paris and Walt Disney Studios Park in France reopened on Wednesday, July 15 after a four-month coronavirus closure with more than a dozen “Selfie Spots” where fans could snap socially distanced photos with their favorites Disney,
  
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• Dave Roberts, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love headline UCLA’s 2020 Hall of Fame class

  15-07-2020 23:09
  
  UCLA announced the 2020 class for its Athletic Hall of Fame on Thursday, a nine-person class that includes current Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and NBA All-Stars Russell Westbrook and Kevin Love.
  The class is rounded out by women’s soccer star Lauren Holiday (nee Cheney), softball’s Keira Goerl, track and field’s Mike Powell, women’s basketball’s Noelle Quinn, gymnastics’ Tasha Schwikert and men’s water polo’s Adam Wright.
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• California homeowners are repeating their past wildfire mistakes

  15-07-2020 23:08
  
  By Leslie Kaufman, Bloomberg
  On Oct. 8, 2017, sparks from private electric equipment set fire to the dry hills of Northern California’s wine country, but it was only once the flames jumped from the grasslands to densely packed Santa Rosa that the destruction intensified.
  By the time the Tubbs Fire was fully contained, it had consumed some 5,600 buildings, making it the most destructive in California history.
  A year later, transmission lines owned by PG&E Corp. ignited brush in rural Bu
  
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• Hoornstra: Major league umpires, minus a few veterans, get a crash course in new baseball

  15-07-2020 22:59
  
  On the cusp of baseball’s noble but wobbly 60-game experiment, one team is losing 14 percent of its workforce. Eleven of the 76 men on its roster have opted out a week before Opening Day. The replacements are already lined up.
  This news should have made a whopping thud when it dropped Tuesday morning. Maybe it did, but the novel coronavirus pandemic has made us numb to the usual intonations of the news cycle. Maybe it will, when the idea of “replacement level” comes into sharp
  
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• Oscar De La Hoya planning boxing matches for Canelo, Ryan Garcia – and himself

  15-07-2020 22:47
  
  Oscar De La Hoya is accustomed to staging weekly boxing events, but the leader of Golden Boy Promotions hasn’t had much to promote since the sport took a hiatus because of the coronavirus outbreak.
  “It was frustrating,” De La Hoya said Tuesday. “It was a bit odd to say the least because we went from doing 50 shows a year to zero. It was just different. You didn’t know how to adjust. You didn’t know how to work from home or be still and not do nothing.”
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• Newport Beach tightens vacation rental rules

  15-07-2020 22:47
  
  The Newport Beach City Council has tighten up short-term rental rules in town after months of discussion and several community meetings aimed at balancing the booming business with the tension caused in the beach-side neighborhoods.
  On Tuesday, July 14, the council put a stamp on several new regulations first laid out at a previous meeting.
  Active short-term lodging permits in the city of Newport Beach. Active short-term lodging permits in the city of Newport Beach.
  Among the new rules: Operator
  
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• Park Life: Disney World reopening faces criticism and Hong Kong Disneyland recloses

  15-07-2020 22:41
  
  Should Disney World reopen while COVID-19 cases are spiking in Florida? How long will Hong Kong Disneyland be closed this time? Will Disneyland be crowded when the park reopens? Find all the latest theme park news in the Park Life newsletter.
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• Bob Baffert suspended 15 days by Arkansas racing officials

  15-07-2020 22:32
  
  By BETH HARRIS
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert has been suspended for 15 days by the Arkansas Racing Commission after two of his horses tested positive for a banned substance.
  The commission said in a ruling announced Wednesday that the suspension will run from Aug. 1 -15. The Oaklawn Park stewards found Baffert violated Rule 1233, which states that a trainer shall ultimately be responsible for the condition of any horse that is entered regardless of th
  
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• Whicker: Sunday’s upset at Kentucky won’t be Cole Custer’s last victory

  15-07-2020 21:59
  
  Four race cars don’t usually fit into three-car turns. They cause a musical-chairs game that leaves nobody standing.
  Nevertheless, Cole Custer saw a space that nobody else saw, primarily because it wasn’t there, and said, why not?
  He used the restart at Kentucky Speedway on Sunday to fit himself between the outside wall and Martin Truex Jr. He got through it clean, and Truex, Ryan Blaney and Kevin Harvick looked up from their own battles and watched their chances fly into the horizon
  
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• Sunday’s upset at Kentucky won’t be Cole Custer’s last stand-on-it victory

  15-07-2020 21:59
  
  Four race cars don’t usually fit into three-car turns. They cause a musical-chairs game that leaves nobody standing.
  Nevertheless, Cole Custer saw a space that nobody else saw, primarily because it wasn’t there, and said, why not?
  He used the restart at Kentucky Speedway on Sunday to fit himself between the outside wall and Martin Truex Jr. He got through it clean, and Truex, Ryan Blaney and Kevin Harvick looked up from their own battles and watched their chances fly into the horizo
  
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• California’s jobless claims backlog jumps to nearly 2 million

  15-07-2020 21:59
  
  Nearly 2 million unemployment claims filed in the state over the first three months of government-ordered business lockdowns have yet to be paid, an analysis of federal government statistics shows.
  The backlog is further evidence of the troubles plaguing the embattled state Employment Development Department, prompting the newly jobless to complain of an overwhelmed phone system and antiquated technology.
  The first-time claims have gone unfilled even as Gov. Gavin Newsom has promised reforms and
  
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• #WFH culture will cut 270 billions of miles of driving

  15-07-2020 21:28
  
  By Keith Naughton, Bloomberg
  Working from home and online shopping have become the new normal and that will reduce driving in the U.S. by up to 270 billion miles a year, according to new study.
  The research conducted by consultant KPMG International finds the cocoon culture Covid-19 has created is not going away — even if a vaccine is made widely available — and that will have potentially dire consequences for the auto industry. For starters, the decline in commuting will r
  
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• Newport Beach mom gets 5 weeks in prison for son’s online class cheating

  15-07-2020 21:22
  
  By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
  A California woman who paid $9,000 to have someone secretly take online college courses for her son and then demanded a discount when he received a C was sentenced Wednesday to five weeks in prison.
  Karen Littlefair, 57, of Newport Beach, said she’s “truly sorry” for her actions and asked the judge for leniency, calling the experience a “nightmare” for her family.
  “I acted out of love for my son but I ended up hurting my son greatly,&rd
  
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• The Rose Parade has been canceled before. Here’s why and what happened

  15-07-2020 21:15
  
  The Rose Parade, now canceled for 2021, hadn’t been canceled for 75 years, but it has happened.
  Here’s a comprehensive list of reasons: coronavirus and World War II. That’s it.
  Since 1890, the parade has rolled through Pasadena almost every year, but it was stopped in its Colorado Boulevard tracks three times during World War II — 1942, 1943 and 1945, according to Tournament of Roses Chief Executive David Eads, who spoke to this newsgroup on Tuesday.
  Slated for Jan. 1, 19
  
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• With Rose Parade canceled, will the Rose Bowl still be played?

  15-07-2020 20:41
  
  The parade won’t go on, but the game still might.
  On Wednesday, it was announced that the Rose Parade has been canceled for this coming holiday season due to the spread of coronavirus. It marks the first time the New Year’s Day celebration has been canceled since 1942, in the immediate aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  But for the time being, the Rose Bowl game is still scheduled to take place on New Year’s Day, Tournament of Roses executive director David Eads explained
  
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• The 2021 Rose Parade is canceled

  15-07-2020 20:00
  
  The 2021 Rose Parade has been canceled, Tournament of Roses officials announced on Wednesday, July 14, citing coronavirus concerns, although the Rose Bowl football game is still scheduled.
  What would have been the 132nd Rose Parade will instead be the fourth cancellation in the parade’s history, according to Tournament of Roses Chief Executive David Eads, who spoke to this newsgroup on Tuesday.
  He noted the previous three cancellations were all during World War II: in 1942, 1943 and 1945.
  
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• 2021 Rose Parade canceled amid coronavirus, move is 4th in its history

  15-07-2020 20:00
  
  The 2021 Rose Parade has been canceled, Tournament of Roses officials announced on Wednesday, July 14, citing coronavirus concerns, although the Rose Bowl football game is still scheduled.
  What would have been the 132nd Rose Parade will instead be the fourth cancellation in the parade’s history, according to Tournament of Roses Chief Executive David Eads, who spoke to this newsgroup on Tuesday.
  He noted the previous three cancellations were all during World War II: in 1942, 1943 and 1945.
  
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• Bubble Watch: L.A.-O.C., California home prices seen 5%-9% overvalued

  15-07-2020 19:58
  
  “Bubble Watch” digs into trends that may indicate economic and/or housing market troubles ahead.
  Buzz: Home prices in Los Angeles and Orange counties — as well as California — are seen as overvalued, between 5% to 9% too high.
  Source: Fitch Ratings’ quarterly review of housing valuations.
  The Trend
  Low mortgage rates may have boosted home prices despite business shutdowns tied to the coronavirus, but the economics backing those real estate values look shaky.
  This ho
  
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• Oklahoma’s governor says he has tested positive for COVID-19

  15-07-2020 19:41
  
  By SEAN MURPHY
  OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced Wednesday that he’s the first governor in the United States to test positive for the coronavirus and that he is isolating at home.
  Stitt, 48, said he mostly feels fine, although he started feeling “a little achy” on Tuesday and sought a test. He said his wife and children were also tested Tuesday and that none of them have tested positive.
  Stitt has backed one of the country’s most aggressive reopeni
  
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• ‘Restaurants on the Edge’ host and his business partner offer rescue advice

  15-07-2020 19:05
  
  On “Restaurants on the Edge” Nick Liberato and his team travel the world to help beleaguered businesses set in spectacular locations turn themselves around.
  So who better to dish up advice than Liberato and his company, 618 Hospitality Group, named after the Kentucky venue of a memorable Grateful Dead show? Liberato founded  the business with partner Mike Dalewitz, who specializes in turning startups into success stories, including tech company Cotup.com.
  The two met and hit it
  
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• Walmart, Best Buy, Starbucks latest to require customers wear masks

  15-07-2020 18:54
  
  Walmart will require customers to wear face coverings at all of its namesake and Sam’s Club stores, making it the largest retailer to introduce such a policy that has otherwise proven difficult to enforce without state and federal requirements.
  The company said the policy will go into effect Monday to allow time to inform stores and customers. The Arkansas-based company said that currently about 65% of its more than 5,000 stores and clubs are located in areas where there is already some fo
  
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• Orange County Soccer Club returns from coronavirus shutdown

  15-07-2020 18:53
  
  The Orange County Soccer Club opened the season with a scoreless draw against El Paso Locomotive FC in March.
  After a four-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 shutdown and an extra week of waiting, OCSC will finally resume its 2020 season Thursday, hosting Phoenix Rising FC (6 p.m., ESPN2) at Championship Soccer Stadium in the Orange County Great Park.
  The United Soccer League returned to play last weekend in the team’s respective home markets.
  “A lot of work, time and effort has gone i
  
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• US factories rebound, auto production doubles

  15-07-2020 18:46
  
  Production at America’s factories, utilities and mines surged last month, as automakers doubled their pace.
  The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that U.S. industrial production rose 5.4% in June, the second straight monthly gain after a 1.4% uptick in May. But it was still 10.9% below the level in February before the economy virtually shut down in the face of the coroanavirus.
  The June performance was better than economists had forecasts and reflected the reopening of many parts of the U.S.
  
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• TV academy sues to stop sale of Valerie Harper’s Emmys

  15-07-2020 18:36
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is suing to block a Beverly Hills auction house from selling Valerie Harper’s Emmy statuettes because the sale this week would tarnish the award, according to a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court.
  Harper’s four Emmy Awards from her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Rhoda” are estimated at $5,000 to $7,000 each on Julien’s Auctions’ website and ar
  
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• What playing in Talking Heads was really like, according to Chris Frantz’s new memoir

  15-07-2020 18:35
  
  Chris Frantz never had any doubt the band Talking Heads would make it big.
  “We all felt we were doing something we knew was going to succeed, but we were surprised at how quickly it happened for us,” recalled Frantz about bandmates David Byrne and Tina Weymouth during a recent phone interview. “I was prepared to work five years to get to the point where we got in about five weeks. We’d only done a few shows when our picture was on the cover of the Village Voice.”
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• Wife of Quicken Loans exec sues rival over raunchy text messages

  15-07-2020 18:31
  
  By Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press
  In the cutthroat world of mortgage lenders, rivalry among competitors can get nasty — real nasty.
  Just ask Theresa Niemiec, the wife of a Quicken Loans executive who claims her husband’s rivals “crowd shamed” her in a series of raunchy and misogynistic texts and videos as a way to hurt her husband’s employer.
  One man falsely accused her of performing sex acts with a competitor, she says, then mocked her husband in a follow-up text
  
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• Mortgage broker CEO sued over raunchy text messages

  15-07-2020 18:31
  
  By Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press
  In the cutthroat world of mortgage lenders, rivalry among competitors can get nasty — real nasty.
  Just ask Theresa Niemiec, the wife of a Quicken Loans executive who claims her husband’s rivals “crowd shamed” her in a series of raunchy and misogynistic texts and videos as a way to hurt her husband’s employer.
  One man falsely accused her of performing sex acts with a competitor, she says, then mocked her husband in a follow-up text
  
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• CIF-SS commissioner Rob Wigod hints that the 2020-21 sports season will not start on time

  15-07-2020 18:24
  
  CIF Southern Section commissioner Rob Wigod was on AM-570 with Fred Roggin and Rodney Peete during their lunchtime radio show on Tuesday and gave the biggest indication yet that the 2020-21 high school sports season that is scheduled to start with fall sports in late August, including football, will likely be pushed backed several months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  In mid-March, schools were ordered shut down and they finished the school year with online distance learning. The spring sport
  
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• Trump looks to scale back environmental reviews for projects

  15-07-2020 18:11
  
  By KEVIN FREKING and AAMER MADHANI
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is ready to roll back a foundational Nixon-era environmental law that he says stifles major infrastructure projects, but that environmentalists say has served for decades as a safeguard for low-income and minority communities.
  Trump was traveling to Atlanta on Wednesday to formally announce the changes to the National Environmental Policy Act, making it easier to build highways, pipelines, chemical plants and other proj
  
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• ‘Clueless’ turns 25: The fun, fashion and mystery of the missing plaid outfit

  15-07-2020 17:08
  
  Actress Alicia Silverstone had 60 costume changes in the 1995 comedy “Clueless,” but it was a yellow plaid suit from Dolce & Gabbana that helped make her character Cher iconic.
  Costume designer Mona May put that look — and all the others — together for writer-director Amy Heckerling. So, given the fashion statement it made, surely she’s kept tabs on the outfit over the years since “Clueless” arrived?
  As if!
  “If you tell me where it is, I’
  
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• America’s jobless are about to lose their weekly $600 lifeline

  15-07-2020 17:00
  
  By Reade Pickert, Michael Sasso and Maeve Sheehey, Bloomberg
  In about two weeks millions of Americans could lose a crucial economic lifeline of this pandemic: $600 a week in extra federal unemployment benefits.
  The scheduled end will ripple through households and the entire economy. The program accounts for a big chunk of the Treasury Department’s record jobless payments last month, which exceeded $100 billion. Without the additional cash, some of the hardest-hit households may be for
  
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• Remembrance: Toby Ruth Kalish

  15-07-2020 16:59
  
  Toby Ruth Kalish  August 9, 1928 – June 17, 2020
  Born in The Bronx, daughter to Sally and Jack Ekhaus, sister to Alex (deceased).
  Married at 19 to Melvin Kalish, her soulmate until his passing in 2005.  Madly in love they adopted the slogan “Me and you against the world”.  
  Toby has left behind their three children, Lauren, Randy, Mark and their spouses, as well as their grandchildren.
  Toby held various bookkeeping roles in retail, brokerage and import/expor
  
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• Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: When you’re stuck by the solar eclipse

  15-07-2020 16:04
  
  Here’s the funny thing, my friends. I’ve been having so much fun amusing myself by remembering all my many travel misadventures that I start to panic every time I think I’ve run out of stories to share. Realistically, I know this is impossible, because if anyone can screw up a perfectly good trip, it’s me, so I should have enough tales to last until the end of time.
  Luckily, my friend Kathy, who’s been involved in a lot of my adventures not to mention kooky schemes,
  
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• Spicy Green Book emulates historic ‘Green Book’ as virtual guide to Black-owned eateries

  15-07-2020 16:00
  
  Danilo Batson is 29, too young to have ever needed the “Green Book.”
  Formally known as “The Negro Motorist Green Book” or “The Negro Travelers’ Green Book,” Victor Hugo Green’s annual guide, which published from 1936 to 1966, was an essential tool for Black travelers driving cross country during the Jim Crow era. It offered up-to-date listings of establishments that served African Americans at a time when social rules and city laws often limited su
  
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• Radio Batuu broadcasts Star Wars music, news and sports about Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge

  15-07-2020 15:24
  
  A local Black Spire Outpost radio station broadcasts pop music from throughout the Star Wars galaxy as well as droid battles, dejarik tournaments and outlawed podraces that play on a continuous background audio loop in the Galaxy’s Edge themed land at Disneyland.
  A new Star Wars book from Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Imagineering reveals new details about the Black Spire radio station that plays in select locations throughout Galaxy’s Edge at the Anaheim theme park.
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• Apple wins EU court case over $15 billion in claimed taxes

  15-07-2020 14:06
  
  By RAF CASERT
  BRUSSELS — A European Union court on Wednesday delivered a hammer blow to the bloc’s attempts to rein in sweetheart tax deals between multinationals and individual member countries when it ruled that technology giant Apple does not have to pay 13 billion euros ($15 billion) in back taxes to Ireland.
  The EU Commission had claimed in 2016 that Apple had struck an illegal tax deal with Irish authorities that allowed it to pay extremely low rates. But the EU’s General
  
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• We need to stop putting so much faith in models

  15-07-2020 11:22
  
  Over 2 million Americans will die!
  That was the prediction from “experts” at London’s Imperial College when COVID-19 began. They did also say if there was “social distancing of the whole population,” the death toll could be cut in half, but 1.1 million to 1.2 million Americans would still die by this summer.
  Our actual death toll has been about one-tenth of that.
  Nevertheless, Imperial College’s model was extremely influential.
  Politicians issued stay-at-home
  
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• Man detained after Lake Forest hotel is evacuated and explosive devices are found

  15-07-2020 09:51
  
  Explosive devices and substances were found in a room in a Lake Forest hotel, which was evacuated Tuesday night, officials said.
  The Orange County Sheriff’s Department said on social media the devices and substances were rendered safe and the hotel on Orchard Road would reopen. The OCSD Bomb Squad and an Orange County Fire Authority hazardous materials team had assessed and dealt with the devices and substances.The OCSD Bomb Squad made entry to the room and discovered multiple homemade ill
  
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• The despicable behavior of today’s academics

  15-07-2020 09:07
  
  The Michigan State University administration pressured professor Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation because he touted research that found police are not more likely to shoot Black Americans. The study found: “The race of a police officer did not predict the race of the citizen shot. In other words, black officers were just as likely to shoot black citizens as white officers were.” For political reasons, the authors of the study sought
  
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• California budget ‘balanced’ with massive new debt

  15-07-2020 09:05
  
  Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a 2020-21 state budget he described as “balanced, responsible and protects public safety and health, education, and services to Californians facing the greatest hardships.”
  Whatever its other virtues may be, the budget is far from “balanced,” at least as most folks outside the Capitol would define it.
  The 2020-21 budget spends far more — at least $20 billion more — than projected revenues, even including billions
  
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• Tracking the fall sports plans for Orange County school districts and private schools

  15-07-2020 06:56
  
  A look at what the Orange County school districts and private schools have announced about their plans for the start of the 2020-21 school year.
  School campuses were shut down and all sports activities were stopped in mid-March during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools are currently working on plans for the new school year while receiving recommendations, from health agencies and other groups, regarding how to protect the well-being of students and teachers during the pandemic.
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• Two horses die at Los Alamitos after track placed on probation

  15-07-2020 06:43
  
  CYPRESS (CNS) >> Two horses died after suffering racing injuries at Los Alamitos Race Course on the weekend after the track was placed on probation by state regulators and ordered to address a recent rash of racehorse deaths.
  Tacy, a 5-year-old mare, was leading Sunday night’s fifth race when she was pulled up by jockey Christian M. Aragon and vanned off. She was later euthanized, officials confirmed Monday.
  Alltime Favorite, a 2-year-old gelding, was vanned off after suffering an in
  
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• O.C. School Board’s symbolic bid to put kids in class grabs attention

  15-07-2020 05:18
  
  The Orange County Board of Education, a five-member body with little power, on Monday voted 4-1 to issue a document saying students should return to traditional classrooms, without masks, when local schools resume next month.
  A day later, that symbolic vote – which urges a plan that, if implemented, could run counter to federal and state health guidelines – drew national media attention and a letter of rebuke from the county’s congressional delegation.
  “We are deeply conc
  
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• Mother allegedly abducts son from foster parents at Buena Park Mall, is sought by police

  15-07-2020 04:36
  
  Police asked for the public’s help Tuesday, July 14, in locating a 6-year-old boy and his biological mother, who is suspected of abducting him from his foster parents during a supervised visit in Buena Park on Sunday.
  Stephanie Szolatabic, 34, of Anaheim, along with her son, Wyatt Bowen, and the child’s foster mother were together at Five Below in the Buena Park Mall during a scheduled visit over the weekend, Buena Park Police Sgt. Mario Escamilla said. She left with the boy without
  
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• Santa Ana Unified decision to keep campuses closed in the fall likely to hinder high school sports returning

  15-07-2020 04:13
  
  The Santa Ana Unified School District announced on Tuesday, July 14 that it will start the 2020-21 academic year with distance learning only because of concerns about the well-being of its students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  SAUSD is the first school district in the county to announce that it will not reopen its campuses for the start of the new school year. Other districts are expected to announce their plans in the coming days.
  There are six high schools in the district — Century, God
  
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• Disneyland is turning 65 this week, so we look at how the Magic Kingdom came to be

  15-07-2020 03:39
  
  Building Disneyland
  The celebration at Disneyland for its 65th anniversary on July 17, 2020, will have to wait. Currently, there is no set reopening date for the parks. While the park gates are closed, we thought we’d look back to another time the gates were shut — during construction.
  Walt Disney dreamed of building a park decades before Disneyland opened. In 1932, Disney considered building a park on a vacant 16-acre lot directly across the street from his studios in Burbank. The i
  
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• Coronavirus fallout: LA-OC rents up 4%, smallest increase since 2015

  15-07-2020 03:34
  
  The cost of renting in Los Angeles and Orange counties rose at a 4% annual rate in June, the smallest jump since October 2015 as landlords struggle to collect monthly payments in the coronavirus era.
  The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index tracks rental costs by polling consumers vs. other measurements from landlord surveys. It showed rent growing at a 5.8% annual clip in June 2019.
  These dips are noteworthy as this L.A.-O.C. rent index rose 5.5% in 2019 and 4.6% in 2015-
  
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