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• LAFC, Galaxy take El Trafico rivalry to MLS is Back Tournament

  17-07-2020 23:03
  
  The names on the marquee have changed, as has the location, but all eyes will still be fixated on the first clash between LAFC and the Galaxy.
  Absent from the first El Trafico of 2020 are LAFC’s Carlos Vela, who chose to opt out of the MLS is Back Tournament, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who left the Galaxy in the offseason to play with AC Milan.
  In two seasons, their personal scoring battle was an opening act in the main drama between the Galaxy and LAFC.
  Vela scored seven goals and Ibrahimovi
  
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• High school coaches expect CIF to announce January start, shorter seasons due to pandemic

  17-07-2020 22:47
  
  High school fall sports will fall into winter, winter sports will spring into spring.
  And spring sports will be playing some contests when the school year is over.
  Those are the assumptions made by a few Orange County coaches and athletic directors as they anticipate Monday’s announcements from the CIF State and CIF Southern Section offices that will set the high school sports calendar for the 2020-21 school year.
  The COVID-19 pandemic shut down the spring sports season in March. COVID-19
  
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• Clippers’ Montrezl Harrell leaves NBA bubble for urgent family matter

  17-07-2020 22:44
  
  Clippers center Montrezl Harrell left the closed NBA campus to deal with an urgent family matter, the Athletic’s Shams Charania reported and league sources confirmed Friday. Harrell plans to return to the NBA restart at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, at a later date.
  Prior to the restart, the NBA and its players agreed on rules permitting players to leave campus for certain circumstances, such as the birth of a child, a death in the family or other medical or personal em
  
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• 3 ways to get a discount on National Ice Cream Day, July 19

  17-07-2020 22:08
  
  Southern California is enjoying milder weather this weekend, but if you want to cool off even more, National Ice Cream Day is Sunday, July 19.
  Here are a few promotions from chains that serve frozen treats:
  Afters Ice Cream: The Huntington Beach-based chain is using the holiday to introduce two new plant-based flavors from Eclipse Foods, Chocolate Chip Cookie and Java Chip, at all its locations. Guests can get a free scoop on Sunday with any ice cream purchase, according to a news release.
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• Artist of the Year 2020: Winning students receive their awards

  17-07-2020 22:05
  
  The Register’s Artist of the Year program finally wrapped up its seventh season earlier this week with the hand delivery of awards to the top students: Sean Oliu of Servite High School (vocal music), Lilah Dee Horton of Orange County School of the Arts (dance), Zayd Ezzeldine of Irvine High School (film/animation), Renee Tran of University High School (computer-assisted visual arts), Rey Mar Negrete of Aliso NIguel High School (handcrafted visual arts), Christina Tinde Jesenski of Orange C
  
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• Schools will reopen without in-person classes in most of California, Newsom says

  17-07-2020 21:48
  
  Citing the resurgent threat of the coronavirus pandemic in many parts of California, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday, July 17, that California schools will start the new school year with many students once again learning from home.
  “We all prefer in-person classroom education … but only if it’s safe,” Newsom said during his daily news conference. “Safety is foundational. And safety ultimately makes the determination about how we go about educating our kids.&rdqu
  
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• Will reopening U-turn kill Southern California’s record-setting jobs rebound?

  17-07-2020 21:31
  
  Before the state made a U-turn this week on reopening the economy, Southern California bosses were on a hiring spree.
  My trusty spreadsheet, filled with new state job figures, found local bosses added a record 259,900 jobs in June to a total 6.98 million positions in the four counties covered by the Southern California News Group. This staffing level, derived from a survey of employers, was up 3.9% from May as business limitations were eased.
  But the state’s overall economic rebound is in
  
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• Rams’ Andrew Whitworth says he and his family had coronavirus

  17-07-2020 21:26
  
  Rams tackle Andrew Whitworth said Friday he and members of his family tested positive for the coronavirus, and called the scare a lesson for NFL players going into the scheduled start of training camps in less than two weeks.
  Speaking on a video chat by NFL Players Association leaders with pro football reporters, Whitworth indicated that his own Covid-19 symptoms were “mild” but said his father-in-law had to be hospitalized.
  “Luckily for us, such a blessing, we got him home abo
  
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• Southern California businesses, homeowners can get civil unrest loans from the federal government

  17-07-2020 21:15
  
  LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Small Business Administration reminded Los Angeles business owners and residents Friday that the deadline is Aug. 17 to apply for a federal disaster loan to cover coasts related to property damage caused by the civil unrest that began May 26.
  Director Tanya Garfield of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West said businesses of all sizes, most private nonprofit organizations, homeowners and renters may apply for SBA federal
  
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• News flash: These are great times for right-leaning readers

  17-07-2020 21:00
  
  SACRAMENTO – The biggest news story from last week has nothing to do with spiking coronavirus rates or United States sanctions on communist China in the wake of its crackdown on Hong Kong protesters.
  The blockbuster news, according to some conservative publications and my social-media feed, is that a center-right columnist at the left-leaning New York Times tendered her resignation.
  My immediate, embarrassing thought after reading about Bari Weiss’ travails at The Gray Lady is that h
  
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• J.R. Smith, Dion Waiters find an easy early fit with the Lakers in the NBA ‘Bubble’

  17-07-2020 20:50
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. >> There’s chemistry that players talk about, and there’s chemistry that they show.
  It seemed telling that J.R. Smith, a Laker for all of three weeks, found himself video-bombed during a Friday afternoon interview with media by a masked JaVale McGee.
  “That’s my boy right here,” Smith said, as McGee cackled alongside him.
  In his short time as a Laker, the 34-year-old has made a lot of headway to ingratiate himself to teammates. From color
  
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• Senior Moments: The pandemic is hard, but love finds a way

  17-07-2020 20:26
  
  It takes so little to feel normal again, I wrote last week.I was referencing glimpses of hope during the shutdown. Regaining a sense of the familiar. Moments that bring us to tears by their sheer ordinariness, the missing pieces that put life right again.
  Maybe it’s a midsummer’s night soft ice cream run. Or the feeling of freedom driving up the California coast after months of quarantine. Or maybe it’s a simple reminder that love always finds a way.
  I could feel the joy jumpin
  
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• OC courts add online portal for easier access to traffic and criminal cases

  17-07-2020 19:37
  
  Orange County Superior Court on Friday introduced a new online portal for those with traffic infractions and lower-level criminal cases, part of an ongoing effort to help people avoid crowds at court facilities in the midst of the pandemic.
  The “Court User Portal dashboard” is meant to consolidate a variety of functions that were previously spread out across the court website and allows users to create one personal account to deal with multiple cases.
  Users can search for their cases
  
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• Angels’ Justin Anderson to undergo Tommy John surgery

  17-07-2020 19:36
  
  Reliever Justin Anderson will undergo Tommy John surgery next week, ending the Angels’ 21-month streak without having a major-league pitcher undergo the procedure.
  Anderson, a 27-year-old right-hander, had missed most of spring training with an oblique issue, but he was deemed healthy at the start of camp earlier this month. He pitched in one intrasquad game.
  Anderson subsequently underwent an MRI exam that showed damage to his ulnar collateral ligament, so the surgery was recommended. The
  
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• The horrors of opioid addiction are explored in LA writer’s memoir

  17-07-2020 19:26
  
  By Laura Schultz
  “She ties it tight. It takes a while to find a vein. She can’t use her arms anymore, her veins have collapsed. But at the back of the knee, she still has one that lights up for her. It glows blue in the gray of early morning. She places the tip of the needle at the pulsing, simmering center of the vein and slides it in. She is desperate, this close to the rush, but takes the time to pull the plunger back a little to make sure she has hit blood. For a second, the swir
  
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• Casino Morongo replaces former bingo space with slots and table games, goes smoke-free

  17-07-2020 19:16
  
  Casino Morongo, the smaller sister property adjacent to Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa, went smoke-free Friday, July 17, and also added 100 slot machines and eight blackjack tables in the casino’s former bingo room, a casino official said.
  Simon Farmer, executive director of marketing for the Cabazon-area casinos, wrote in an emailed statement that the new gaming space inside of the former bingo hall was supposed to be a non-smoking room, “but guest and Team Member feedback led the
  
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• Military medics deploy in California, Texas as virus surges

  17-07-2020 19:01
  
  By FREIDA FRISARO and DAVID CRARY
  MIAMI  — Teams of military medics were deployed in Texas and California to help hospitals deluged by coronavirus patients, as Miami area authorities began stepping up enforcement Friday of a mask requirement — echoing efforts in many parts of the world to contain surging infections.
  In California, military doctors, nurses and other health care specialists were being deployed to eight hospitals facing staffing shortages amid a record-breaking cas
  
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• Drive-through job fair to be held Saturday in Laguna Hills

  17-07-2020 18:58
  
  Laguna Hills Express Employment Professionals will host a drive-through job fair on Saturday, July 18.
  The event will run from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. outside the company’s office, at 23181 Verdugo Dr., Laguna Hills.
  The Laguna Hills Express Employment Professionals franchise began operation in 2013. It serves South Orange County areas with temporary help and direct-hire employees in a variety of fields, including administrative, accounting/finance, light industrial, sales, marketing and skil
  
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• World Surfing League announces 2020 season canceled, changes for pro surfing in 2021

  17-07-2020 18:50
  
  Pro surfing fans who follow the world’s best competitive surfers are in for a wave of change.
  The World Surf League on Friday announced the cancellation of the 2020 competitive year due to the coronavirus pandemic and a new schedule planned for the 2021 season.
  “After careful consideration and extensive discussions with key stakeholders, we have made the decision to cancel,”  WSL CEO Erik Logan said in an announcement.  “While we firmly believe that surfing is a
  
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• Clippers’ preparation seeks to incorporate new guys, new experience

  17-07-2020 18:50
  
  Who needs an arena full of fans when you’ve got Pat Bev in the building?
  Clippers guard Reggie Jackson said Friday that while he and his teammates prepare to get back to competing, they’re also readying themselves for the experience of playing NBA basketball without a crowd when scrimmages begin inside the NBA’s Bubble in Orlando, Florida.
  “For the most part, we know the statement is true now that we’re all that we’ve got, so we have to rely on each other,&rdq
  
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• Judge orders halt to Valerie Harper Emmy auction

  17-07-2020 18:47
  
  By FRED SHUSTER | City News Service
  LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles federal judge on Thursday ordered a Beverly Hills auction house to pull Valerie Harper’s Emmy statuettes from sale after the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences argued that the trophies are its property and are only loaned to winners.
  Harper’s four Emmy Awards from her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Rhoda” were valued at $5,000 to $7,000 each on Julien&rs
  
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• Pentagon bans Confederate flag in way to avoid Trump’s wrath

  17-07-2020 18:46
  
  By LOLITA C. BALDOR
  WASHINGTON — After weeks of wrangling, the Pentagon is banning displays of the Confederate flag on military installations, in a carefully worded policy that doesn’t mention the word ban or that specific flag. The policy, laid out in a memo released Friday, was described by officials as a creative way to bar the flag’s display without openly contradicting or angering President Donald Trump, who has defended people’s rights to display it.
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• Justice Ginsburg says cancer has returned, but won’t retire

  17-07-2020 18:34
  
  WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but has no plans to retire from the Supreme Court.
  The 87-year-old Ginsburg, who spent time in the hospital this week for a possible infection, said her treatment so far has succeeded in reducing lesions on her liver and that she will continue chemotherapy sessions every two weeks.
  “I have often said I would remain a member of the Court as long as I can do the job full steam
  
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• 15 SoCal real estate twists: raunchy texts, coronavirus, 2.98% mortgages

  17-07-2020 18:17
  
  Here are 15 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.Mortgage broker group’s CEO is sued over raunchy text messages.Wife of lending competitor targeted with ‘misogynistic’ messages.2.Have local home prices gotten too high?One study says virus-linked economic weakness means homes in LA-OC, and across California, are 5%-
  
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• Casino Insider: When will Southern California’s casinos bring back bingo?

  17-07-2020 17:37
  
  Though all of Southern California’s casinos are up and running, not everything is back online.
  Many amenities such as pools, spas, buffets and other spaces where there are lots of touch points and possibilities of exposure to the novel coronavirus remain closed at multiple casinos.
  Southern California’s casinos that have closed their bingo halls say they’re still working on getting them back open. (File photo by David Bauman, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
  Another space you can ban
  
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• California adds record 558,200 jobs in June — before reopening U-turn

  17-07-2020 17:19
  
  Before this week’s reopening U-turn, California’s economic rebound added a record 558,200 jobs in June as the unemployment rate fell to 14.9%.
  A Bureau of Labor Statistics report on Friday, July 17 shows that California employers had 15.67 million workers last month, a 558,200 gain from May  —  the largest among the states. Next was New York (up 301,600), then Florida (up 296,000).
  Considering California’s huge job market, the month’s 3.7% increase ranked
  
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• Successful Aging: How to handle the fear and isolation of the pandemic

  17-07-2020 17:10
  
  Q. I just celebrated my 80th birthday and am basically quite content. However, living through a pandemic is not how I envisioned my later years, living in fear, relative isolation and with tremendous uncertainty. I know there are no guarantees in life, but our current situation is one that I could never imagine or even prepare for. How does one come to grips with this? I hope change comes within my lifetime. F.S.
  Dear F.S.
  There likely are millions of older Americans who can identify with your f
  
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• Real estate news: VCA pet hospital building in Fountain Valley sells for $9.1 million

  17-07-2020 17:00
  
  The building that is home to VCA Animal Hospital in Fountain Valley has been sold for $9.1 million, according to SRS Real Estate Partners’ National Net Lease Group, which brokered the deal.
  The single-tenant, 23,800-square-foot property at 18300 Euclid St. was bought by a private, unnamed investor. The seller was a private family trust based in Orange County. Both sides were represented by SRS’ team: Managing Directors Matthew Mousavi and Patrick Luther and Executive Vice President R
  
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• Local high school football standouts selected for Sports Illustrated All-American watch list

  17-07-2020 17:00
  
  Several of the top high school football players in Southern California were selected for Sports Illustrated’s watch list for its 2020 All-American team.
  The list consists of 1,000 seniors and will be used to select the SI All-American team. The states with the most players on the list are Florida (142), Texas (130), Georgia (84) and California (79).
  Among the Southern California area players on the list are Centennial defensive lineman Korey Foreman, Oaks Christian linebacker Ethan Calvert
  
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• Report: Tamar Braxton hospitalized after possible suicide attempt

  17-07-2020 16:07
  
  Actress and singer Tamar Braxton was hospitalized this morning with stable vital signs after she may have tried to commit suicide inside a downtown Los Angeles apartment.
  Braxton was staying at the Ritz Carlton Residences, 900 W. Olympic Blvd., near L.A. Live, when she was found about 9:45 p.m. Thursday by her boyfriend, David Adefeso, who called 911 and said she was “unresponsive” and had been drinking and taken an unknown amount of prescription pills, The Blast reported. Sources to
  
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• Katie Porter, Young Kim lead in campaign fundraising for Orange County House races

  17-07-2020 16:00
  
  Democratic Rep. Katie Porter in the 45th District and Republican challenger Young Kim in the 39th District are the top fundraisers in the seven House races that touch Orange County, according to second quarter reports filed this week with the Federal Election Commission.
  Porter once again posted one of the biggest fundraising totals, nationally, of any representative who isn’t in House leadership; Kim reported one of the biggest hauls of any challenger across the country.
  The reports show
  
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• ‘Mr. Disney’ takes passion for Disneyland beyond his theme park job

  17-07-2020 15:39
  
  Karlos Siqueiros met his future wife at Disneyland, proposed to her at Disneyland Paris and they spent their honeymoon at Disney World.
  “Disneyland is a very romantic place,” said Siqueiros, 59, of Tustin. “Don’t ever go there with a girl or you’re going to end up marrying her.”
  You could say Siqueiros eats, lives and breathes Disneyland. His passion for all things Disneyland extends beyond his job in Disneyland food and beverage concept development and infuse
  
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• Virtual OC Fair kicks off with contests, how-to videos and musical performances

  17-07-2020 15:11
  
  OC Fair lovers won’t get to experience the sights, sounds and smells of the fair in person this year, but organizers are set to unleash a slew of fair-inspired things to watch, listen to and do online today, July 17.
  The 2020 Virtual OC Fair launches with videos of previous years’ entertainment, chances to vote on people’s contest entries, downloadable kids’ activities and things to do at home, including fair-themed craft projects, cooking demonstrations and the annual 5K
  
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• CHP officers temporarily switch from tan to dark-blue uniforms

  17-07-2020 15:01
  
  Q. Honk: The California Highway Patrol officers I’ve seen lately are wearing dark-blue or black uniforms. Have they switched from the traditional khaki color? If so, can you find out what prompted the change?
  – Tom Burfield, Seal Beach
  A. Honk intends to find out why, and he has the question into CHP officials in Sacramento. But he wasn’t able to unravel the mystery this week.
  What he can tell you now is that most, if not all, of the CHP’s officers are indeed wearing what
  
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• Rev. C.T. Vivian, key civil rights leader, has died at 95

  17-07-2020 14:09
  
  By DESIREE SEALS
  ATLANTA  — The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and later led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has died.
  Vivian died at home in Atlanta of natural causes Friday morning, his friend and business partner Don Rivers confirmed to The Associated Press. Vivian was 95.
  His civil rights work stretched back eight decades, to his first sit-in demonstrations in the 1940s in Peoria, Ill. He met King soon af
  
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• What can loss teach us about commercial real estate?

  17-07-2020 14:00
  
  Loss — “the state or feeling of grief when deprived of someone or something of value.”
  2020 so far has been a year of loss. Businesses bankrupted, careers cratered, freedoms foregone, routines re-routed, celebrations canceled – all losses – in some cases forever. We are required to change – like it or not.
  Last week, our family experienced loss in its most poignant form. Our father, Samuel A. Buchanan Jr., left us to be with the Lord. I’m certain this is
  
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• California’s $202 billion state budget fails to provide the basics

  17-07-2020 10:41
  
  California’s 2020-21 $202 billion state budget spends about three times as much per state resident, adjusted for inflation, as 30 years ago. But look around and you won’t see your tax dollars at work. You will see public schools in disrepair, potholes large enough to take out your rear axle and century-old water pipes bursting. Basic government functions are grossly inadequate.
  Just how bad is California’s infrastructure? California roads are among the worst in the country, so
  
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• California’s crackdowns on the gig economy

  17-07-2020 10:38
  
  California Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower has filed her office’s first lawsuit against a company for allegedly violating labor laws by classifying its workers as independent contractors instead of employees.
  Unlike independent contractors, employees in California are entitled to minimum wage, overtime, rest periods, reimbursement of business expenses, paid sick leave and various notifications, including specific information that must be printed correctly on pay stubs.
  But companies
  
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• Jim Beall, Scott Wiener go off the rails defending bullet train boondoggle

  17-07-2020 10:31
  
  This week, state Sens. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, and Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, took up the quixotic cause of defending the boondoggle that is the high-speed rail project.
  In an op-ed for CalMatters, the state senators insisted that Californians just show some patience and stop calling the boondoggle a boondoggle.
  “This project is moving along,” they note, and “is not only creating jobs but also connecting the major economic regions of our state.”
  Like the Golden Gate Br
  
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• Newsom, Cosmetology Board should open minds, heads, and doors to the great outdoors

  17-07-2020 10:27
  
  On March 19, 2020, Gov. Newsom issued a stay-at-home and shutdown order, dramatically changing our way of life. The shutdown order was catastrophic for many businesses and their employees, and even worse for the personal services industry, as salons, barbershops, nail salons, and other personal care providers were among the last allowed to reopen.
  Just as these businesses were beginning to get back on their feet, the governor announced this week that in response to the increasing rate of COVID-1
  
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• Placentia prevails over union tactics

  17-07-2020 09:05
  
  The official July 1 launch of Placentia’s new fire department should have been one of those non-controversial, good-news stories. City officials, facing soaring costs, found an innovative way to improve firefighting services while sparing its residents cutbacks in other community services or tax increases. What’s not to like?
  The city formed its new Fire and Life Safety Department after ending its long-standing fire and ambulance contract with the Orange County Fire Authority. Even O
  
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• Rookie of the Year favorite Gavin Lux ‘ready to go’ after being late to Dodgers camp

  17-07-2020 04:37
  
  LOS ANGELES — Gavin Lux has his own YouTube channel. But there are still some things he would like to keep private.
  One of several Dodgers who were unavailable to participate in the first handful of Summer Camp workouts, the Dodgers rookie would not answer questions about the reasons for that delay, saying it was “private information.” Of those late arrivals, only closer Kenley Jansen has acknowledged he tested positive for COVID-19.
  In Lux’s case, he returned to his home
  
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• BottleRock Napa Valley pushes festival to 2021 due to COVID-19

  17-07-2020 04:28
  
  BottleRock Napa Valley won’t take place in 2020.
  As long expected, organizers behind the popular festival have pulled the plug on this year’s event due to ongoing concerns with the coronavirus pandemic. They announced today that they are pushing the eighth installment of the festival to Memorial Day weekend, May 28-30, 2021.
  Headliners Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band and Stevie Nicks are still on the bill. The rest of the lineup will be released at a later date.
  “We k
  
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• Large dog was used to help steal Caltrans truck in Irvine, police say

  17-07-2020 03:34
  
  A Caltrans worker bolted from the cab of his work truck on Thursday, July 16 when a man tossed a large dog onto the passenger seat of the vehicle and then allegedly stole it.
  Irvine police pursued the truck, which crashed at John Wayne Airport.
  Caltrans employees were performing electrical work in the parking lot of Boomers! near Harvard Avenue and Michelson Drive at the time of the incident, Caltrans spokeswoman Angela Madison said. One worker was sitting in the truck and became startled when h
  
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• Large dog is used to help steal Caltrans truck in Irvine, police say

  17-07-2020 03:34
  
  A Caltrans worker bolted from the cab of his work truck on Thursday, July 16 when a man tossed a large dog onto the passenger seat of the vehicle and then allegedly stole it.
  Irvine police pursued the truck, which crashed at John Wayne Airport.
  Caltrans employees were performing electrical work in the parking lot of Boomers! near Harvard Avenue and Michelson Drive at the time of the incident, Caltrans spokeswoman Angela Madison said. One worker was sitting in the truck and became startled when h
  
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• Inspection plan for San Onofre’s nuclear waste gets green light from Coastal Commission

  17-07-2020 03:18
  
  About a dozen of the 73 nuclear waste canisters at San Onofre are slated for robotic inspection over the next 15 years, to the dismay of some critics who lobbied for more, according to the maintenance plan for its dry storage system approved by the California Coastal Commission.
  “I have a little bit of a gnawing feeling,” Commissioner Mark Gold said at the end of the 4 1/2-hour online meeting Thursday, July 16. “I know this is based on extensive data and what has occurred in th
  
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• Two Anaheim school districts won’t reopen campuses this fall

  17-07-2020 02:55
  
  After hearing that hundreds of students and dozens of staff members could be infected with the coronavirus when the new school year starts in August, school boards for two Anaheim districts opted to continue with distance learning for the foreseeable future.
  The Anaheim Elementary and Anaheim Union High school district boards both met Thursday, July 16, and voted to keep classes online this fall. Together, the two districts serve about 47,000 students.
  Making the decision not to welcome kids bac
  
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• The Eat Index: OC: The critic’s critics — See what Brad A. Johnson’s readers have to say 🖊️🍽️

  17-07-2020 02:27
  
  The Eat Index: OC is a weekly newsletter that lands in your inbox on Wednesdays. Subscribe here.Main Course
  When readers critique the critic. (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  “I am afraid you have finally done it, Mr. Johnson!,” a reader wrote Brad A. Johnson in an email recently. “Your taste buds need a level of ‘fire’ that only a dragon could understand!…It’s too bad that you have burned out your taste buds because you used to g
  
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• Coronavirus hits home for Long Beach State basketball coach Dan Monson

  17-07-2020 02:13
  
  Long Beach State men’s basketball coach Dan Monson on Thursday afternoon confirmed his 18-year-old daughter Mollie has been infected with the coronavirus.
  Monson said he can’t be certain, but that it’s possible she caught the virus while attending a Fourth of July gathering at a friend’s house. Along with her diagnosis, which was confirmed Wednesday, she contracted pneumonia and ran a fever as high as 104.7 degrees.
  “Fortunately, today she’s doing OK,” a
  
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• Why an All-American pole vaulter wants to be exposed to coronavirus

  17-07-2020 02:10
  
  While working on a research project on Irish folklore at the University of Pennsylvania last fall, Sean Clarke, an Ivy League champion and All-American pole vaulter, found words to live by in Gaelic phrase.
  Saol gan eagla
  Life without fear
  For Clarke the words rang out loud and true like church bells echoing through Dublin on a Sunday morning.
  “I loved it right away,” Clarke recalled.
  Three words that sum up how Clarke has spent his first 22 years.
  If you were a bully targeting your
  
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