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• Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (July 16-24)

  24-07-2020 23:38
  
  Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from July 16 to July 24:
  Aloha Hawaiian BBQ, 3001 Bristol St., Suite E, Costa MesaClosed: July 21
  Reason: Cockroach infestation
  Reopened: July 22Bagel City Cafe, 19142 Beach Blvd., Suite FF, Huntington BeachClosed: July 21 (report)
  Reason: Cockroach infestation
  Reopened: July 22
  Updates since last week’s list:
  Cristi’s Restaurant at 821 S. Beach Blvd., Anaheim, which was close
  
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• Orange County Bird of Prey Center is finishing quick flight to new center

  24-07-2020 23:20
  
  Dr. Scott Weldy clasped his hand around the long yellow legs of a Cooper’s hawk and gave it one final look. He examined its wings and long tail and looked at its head.
  The bird, a few months old, was found three weeks ago in the Saddleback Valley area, injured by flying into a plate of Plexiglas. Now that its blunt trauma injuries have healed, the brown-and-white “shark with wings” was ready to take off again on its own.
  Dr. Scott Weldy of the Orange County Bird of Prey Center
  
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• San Clemente maintains court challenge to 241 extension idea

  24-07-2020 23:10
  
  Though Orange County’s toll road agency announced in March an agreement with other transportation agencies to drop planning for an extension of the 241 Toll Road through San Clemente, city leaders continue to seek a court ruling to settle the toll road’s future.
  This month, as a response, the Transportation Corridor Agencies’ Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency board approved spending another $600,000 to defend itself in the three-year-old lawsuit.
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• AVP Champions Cup: April Ross, Alix Klineman living up to ‘A-Team’ handle

  24-07-2020 23:06
  
  April Ross thought she was on the right track when, in late 2017, she asked Alix Klineman to be her partner in beach volleyball. She knew it for sure when they won an FIVB event in their first match together.
  “I think it was huge,” Ross said of that January 2018 victory at the Dela Beach Open in The Hague, Netherlands. “It gave me all the confidence in the world that we could make this work. To win an international event like that is a really, really big deal.
  “The fact t
  
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• Medi-Cal mystery: Millions of enrollees haven’t materialized in California

  24-07-2020 22:50
  
  By Rachel Bluth and Angela Hart | Kaiser Health News
  The predictions were dire: Coronavirus lockdowns would put millions of Americans out of work, stripping them of their health insurance and pushing them into Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income people.
  In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration projected that the pandemic would force about 2 million additional people to sign up for the state’s Medi-Cal program by July, raising enrollment to an all-time high
  
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• Gov. Newsom announces plan to expand California worker protections

  24-07-2020 22:48
  
  Bay Area News Group
  With days to go before extended federal jobless benefits expire, Gov. Gavin Newsom Friday announced his plan to extend protections for workers.
  As White House and Senate Republicans struggle to design a solution just a few days before the $600 weekly federal payment runs out, California lawmakers are working to expand worker’s protections beyond the current executive order.
  “We always take responsibility, try to do a little bit more, a little bit better to help su
  
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• LA-based Tesla designer reengineers the chocolate chip

  24-07-2020 22:22
  
  By Larissa Zimberoff | Bloomberg
  Remy Labesque has a compelling day job: He’s senior industrial designer at Tesla  in Los Angeles. But for three years, he’s worked on a side project that’s enviable to people outside Elon Musk’s universe.
  Labesque has reengineered the classic chocolate chip because, he says, the 80-year-old teardrop shape is ill-suited to its function.
  “The chip isn’t a designed shape,” says Labesque. “It’s a product of a
  
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• Disneyland cancels Oogie Boogie Bash due to coronavirus

  24-07-2020 22:15
  
  It’s only July but it’s already looking like the COVID-19 pandemic is going to ruin Halloween as Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood have been forced to cancel their lucrative seasonal events that bring hordes of haunt-happy fans to the Southern California theme parks.
  The Oogie Boogie Bash separate-admission event at Disney California Adventure will not return this Halloween season as Disneyland awaits theme park guidelines that have yet to be released by the state, according
  
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• LAFC must tighten details in MLS is Back Tournament knockout stage

  24-07-2020 22:05
  
  Los Angeles Football Club came within 10 minutes of winning Group F of the MLS is Back Tournament on Thursday night and drawing FC Cincinnati in the knockout stage.
  Jeremy Ebobisse’s header in the 81st minute pulled the Portland Timbers even in a match the LAFC had to win in order take the group, which was won by the Timbers. LAFC, as the Group F runner-up, is now set for a rematch of the 2019 Western Conference finals against the Seattle Sounders on Monday.
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• Perseverance rover will include the first helicopter to fly on Mars

  24-07-2020 21:57
  
  When NASA’s Perseverance rover lifts off from Cape Canaveral for its months-long journey to Mars, it will be packing a stowaway of sorts.
  Tucked securely in the craft’s underbelly will be Ingenuity, the first helicopter to fly on the red planet.
  Created in collaboration with Simi Valley-based AeroVironment Inc., the high-tech drone is the brainchild of Bob Balaram, a principal member of the Mobility and Robotics Systems Section at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and chief engi
  
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• Poll: Nearly half say job lost to virus won’t return

  24-07-2020 21:47
  
  By Josh Boak and Emily Swanson | The Associated Press
  Nearly half of Americans whose families experienced a layoff during the coronavirus pandemic now believe those jobs are lost forever, a new poll shows, a sign of increasing pessimism that would translate into roughly 10 million workers needing to find a new employer, if not a new occupation.
  It’s a sharp change after initial optimism the jobs would return, as temporary cutbacks give way to shuttered businesses, bankruptcies and lasting
  
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• Watch: California coronavirus cases continue spreading at a high rate

  24-07-2020 21:36
  
  California’s new case rate has remained high in California this month, as the Golden State’s case total has surpassed New York’s, making it the state with the most known coronavirus infections of any in the United States.
  Average new cases have flattened slightly in the past two weeks, after growing quickly in the previous weeks. To see where the virus is spreading, we calculated the rate of new cases in each county, the number of cases reported in the previous 14 days per 10,
  
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• How to get free guacamole at Del Taco today, Friday, July 24

  24-07-2020 21:20
  
  Del Taco is giving away free servings of its new, hand-mashed guacamole to drive-thru customers on Friday, July 24.
  The promotion is in honor of National Drive-Thru day. Yes, there really is such a holiday, although one might argue this year, with restaurant dining rooms closed, every day is a drive-thru day.
  The offer is good with any purchase from 10 a.m.-10 p.m., according to a news release. But in a Facebook post, Del Taco says participation may vary.
  The Lake Forest-based fast food chain is
  
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• Whicker: One college baseball coach sees a light at the end of the coronavirus

  24-07-2020 21:15
  
  Sometimes you’re the hammer, sometimes the nail. Sometimes you’re spending the summer with uncomfortable gloves.
  Carlos Arellano, shortstop for CSUN, should be picking grounders in a college league somewhere. Instead, he’s working construction in Mexicali, a job that goes extra innings every day.
  “He’s working 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., building houses in the heat,” said Dave Serrano, the CSUN coach. “I told him, don’t smash those fingers. He said he’
  
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• Police investigating circumstances surrounding body found near Santa Ana riverbed

  24-07-2020 20:52
  
  Detectives are investigating the death of a man whose body was found near the Santa Ana riverbed early Friday morning.
  Officers, shortly before 6 a.m., responded to reports of a man down on a dirt path adjacent to the riverbed, north of 5th Street.
  A bike rider on a nearby trail spotted the body, and asked a nearby construction worker to contact police, Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said.
  The officers found him unresponsive, bleeding from an “unseen injury,” police said. He was pronounced de
  
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• Revised Pac-12 football schedule features mid-September start and multiple dates for the championship game

  24-07-2020 20:30
  
  Pegged by many in college football as the conference most likely to cancel its fall season, the Pac-12 is plowing forward with plans for a 10-game conference-only schedule.
  The official announcement, with weekly matchups, is expected no later than the end of next week.
  But the Hotline has pieced together the framework of the preferred model based on information provided by sources familiar with the plan.
  Considering the coronavirus case counts and curve trajectories in several areas of the Pac-1
  
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• Galaxy’s current reality is bleak, but the future is bright

  24-07-2020 20:21
  
  The Galaxy didn’t have a successful return to play at the MLS is Back Tournament. And taking into account how the season began, the situation is dire.
  After five games this season, the Galaxy has just two points and is still winless after going 0-2-1 in Group F play, needing a 90th-minute penalty against Houston in the stage finale Thursday to secure the one point.
  If MLS does return, as is expected, the question facing the Galaxy (0-3-2) is will it be playoff contenders or pretenders.
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• Preventable diseases could come back as coronavirus has parents skipping kids’ vaccines

  24-07-2020 20:06
  
  Since the rise of COVID-19, pediatrician Eric Ball’s job hasn’t been the same.
  Before mid-March, when the first round of stay-at-home orders took hold in California, Ball tended to a steady flow of young patients. Their parents brought them to his Ladera Ranch office, Southern California Pediatric Associates, for regular well-child visits and, critically, childhood vaccinations.
  No more. Today, even with health fears gripping the community, Ball’s medical office is strangely qu
  
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• Coronavirus presents second health threat, low vaccination rate

  24-07-2020 20:06
  
  Since the rise of COVID-19, pediatrician Eric Ball’s job hasn’t been the same.
  Before mid-March, when the first round of stay-at-home orders took hold in California, Ball tended to a steady flow of young patients. Their parents brought them to his Ladera Ranch office, Southern California Pediatric Associates, for regular well-child visits and, critically, childhood vaccinations.
  No more. Today, even with health fears gripping the community, Ball’s medical office is strangely qu
  
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• Clear information essential to sound pandemic policies: Mike Morrell

  24-07-2020 19:55
  
  Experts in the medical field and those in positions to make decisions over our lives frequently use the word “science” in reference to the pandemic. Sometimes, though, scientific facts intersect with politics, leading to arbitrary and detrimental sets of restrictive government guidelines.
  I certainly have taken COVID-19 seriously, exercising the necessary precautions, as all of us should. However, I am concerned more damage may be done long term if the approach we adopt does not weig
  
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• Lou Williams is 3rd Clippers player to leave the bubble

  24-07-2020 19:46
  
  Lou Williams is the latest Clipper to leave the bubble, according to a league source. The veteran guard joins teammates Montrezl Harrell and Patrick Beverley as having departed with an excused absence.
  The Clippers, who are considered among the title favorites in Orlando, Florida, also continue to await the arrival of guard Landry Shamet and center Ivica Zubac, who have yet to be seen on the NBA campus, where the league is slated to restart its suspended season July 30.
  Williams played well in t
  
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• Queer the Census? This year, yes

  24-07-2020 19:44
  
  The national population survey that takes place once every decade is all about being counted and included.
  But a question on the 2020 Census is expected to increase participation by a segment of the population that historically has been undercounted and, as a result, felt excluded.
  For the first time ever, Americans who identify as LGBTQ have some options when answering a census question about their household relationships. They can choose to identify a significant other as “Same-sex husba
  
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• 2020 Census wants to know if you are LGBTQ, and advocates say it’s important

  24-07-2020 19:44
  
  The national population survey that takes place once every decade is all about being counted and included.
  But a question on the 2020 Census is expected to increase participation by a segment of the population that historically has been undercounted and, as a result, felt excluded.
  For the first time ever, Americans who identify as LGBTQ have some options when answering a census question about their household relationships. They can choose to identify a significant other as “Same-sex husba
  
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• Recipes: Burned out on baking? These bar cookies deliver sweetness without the hassle

  24-07-2020 19:37
  
  Stay-at-home bakers, I have good news. For those who may be suffering from a dose of baking burn-out, the quarantine culinary revolution can embrace simple-to-make indulgences too. Brioche and sourdough bread are delicious, but bar cookies can also be welcome culinary candidates. They come together quickly and provide delicious flavors and textures. Unlike one-at-a-time drop cookies or cut-out cookies, these bake-in-a-pan wonders are true time savers.
  Getting them out of the pan looking pretty c
  
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• Teachers unions won’t be satisfied with even billions more in new taxes

  24-07-2020 19:20
  
  California voters who are weary of ballot measures asking them to approve more debt and higher taxes for education will find no respite on the November ballot.
  Proposition 15 would make changes to Proposition 13 that would raise taxes on commercial and industrial property and split the revenue between local governments and school districts.
  Yet it turns out that this major tax increase would raise only a minor amount of the money that teachers’ unions say is needed to adequately fund publi
  
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• Home sellers back? New listings hit post-coronavirus high in Southern California

  24-07-2020 19:16
  
  Are Southern California homeowners back in a selling mood?
  Zillow’s weekly report on activity from brokers’ listing services in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties shows owners listed 5,117 existing homes for sale in the week ended July 18. My trusty spreadsheet tells me that’s up 3% vs. the previous week. But this nugget is more noteworthy: It’s the largest addition to the for-sale inventory in 19 weeks.
  One unsolved puzzle of the pandemic-riddled
  
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• Senior Moments: Glamorous outfits, tasteful jewelry and a doctor to cherish

  24-07-2020 19:14
  
  Glamour Girl met me in her waiting room, wearing a mask that matched her dress.
  My mother would have loved it. She was 85 when she moved from Virginia to a retirement home in California.
  After years with the same doctor, she was anxious about finding a new one. But from the first time she met Dr. Sylvia Preciado Mom loved everything about her, not the least of which was her fashion sense.
  “I saw my Glamour Girl today, and wait until I tell you what she was wearing.”
  “How was th
  
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• What’s next for Chargers’ Joey Bosa – contract extension or another holdout?

  24-07-2020 19:03
  
  It’s strange to see Aug. 2 as the earliest date the Chargers are able to have their first training-camp practice, and that’s if all goes well with coronavirus testing, with players required to have two negative results before entering the team facility.
  In a regular year, teams have their first training-camp workout toward the end of July.
  For Joey Bosa, an August start date might not be so weird.
  Let’s go back to the summer of 2016. Bosa, then a rookie defensive end, missed hi
  
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• Successful Aging: What can we do about ageism and the pandemic?

  24-07-2020 18:52
  
  Dear readers,My columns typically emphasize the upside of aging. Yet, it seems timely to address another aspect — ageism and the pandemic. This subject is featured in academic journals, social and print media, webinars and by think tanks as well as professional and advocacy organizations. One recent panel discussion presented in the form of a Zoomcast (a new word) is particularly relevant. Sponsored by the Longevity Project, an initiative from the Stanford Longevity Center, panelists
  
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• 15 SoCal real estate twists: 2.75% rates, records broken, delinquencies

  24-07-2020 18:51
  
  Here are 15 must-read stories about the local real estate market from the Southern California News Group Home Stretch newsletter. To subscribe to the free, twice-weekly email publication, just CLICK HERE!
  1.3.01%for a 30-year mortgage. Rates inch up off record lows.2.2.75% mortgage sound good?That’s projection of mortgage giant Fannie Mae.3.Are super cheap mortgages a blessing or ominous sign of next housing downfall?Jeff Lazerson’s thoughts on lending.4.House payments become a
  
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• Ex-Sparks C Kalani Brown reveals positive coronavirus test

  24-07-2020 18:47
  
  Former Sparks center Kalani Brown is recovering from the coronavirus after testing positive while in quarantine at IMG Academy, she wrote in a message posted on social media Friday morning.
  Brown, a 23-year-old former Baylor standout, played her rookie season for the Sparks last summer. On Friday, she shared some details of her illness in the post.
  She wrote: “On Thursday, July 9, I tested positive for COVID-19, 4 days after arriving at IMG and while in quarantine in preparation to play th
  
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• Ex-USC gynecologist faces more felony sex charges

  24-07-2020 18:43
  
  LOS ANGELES — USC’s former longtime campus gynecologist, who is accused of sexually assaulting 21 young women, is set to be arraigned Friday on six new felony charges.
  Prosecutors filed the latest charges — five counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person and one count of sexual battery by fraud — against George Tyndall, 73, on July 9.
  The new charges involve alleged crimes against five women while he was working at USC’s health center between 2011 and 201
  
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• LeBron James speaks out on Breonna Taylor and his frustrations with racial equity in America

  24-07-2020 18:42
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. >> In LeBron James’ eyes, Black Lives Matter is not a movement.
  Before he was a world-renowned athlete a millionaire several times over, James was poor and Black. He and his single mother moved from home to home, and James nearly had to repeat fourth grade because he missed 83 days of school while weathering housing instability.
  One gets the sense from James that he wonders where he would be if he had not had the gifts and work ethic that helped make him one of
  
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• Mammoth Mountain launches new e-bike trail designed for motorized bicycles

  24-07-2020 18:13
  
  Some people enjoy the pain of pedaling. Others would rather fly fast or just cruise, soaking in the scenery without a sweat, or covering more ground than their legs would normally allow.
  Mammoth Mountain announced  Thursday, July 23, a new trail built specifically for e-bikes, a growing craze that allows people on bikes to use the help of motors that propel the rider up to 20 mph.
  The latest trail, possibly the first of its kind in the country, is called the Bosch eMTB Flow Trail and spans
  
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• Fullerton voters to decide on banning safe and sane fireworks

  24-07-2020 17:59
  
  Fullerton voters in November will decide whether to ban the sale and use of “safe and sane” fireworks in the city to celebrate Fourth of July.
  Some council members and residents said they are tired of fireworks causing havoc in the city, from the cacophony they create to the flames they spark. It was a close 3-2 vote on Tuesday, July 21, to put the question on the ballot.
  Others argued the havoc is caused by illegal fireworks such as aerial mortar shells, not the state-approved safe
  
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• Photos: What Dodger Stadium looked like on Opening Day 2020-style

  24-07-2020 17:51
  
  The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants on Thursday, 8-1, on an Opening Day like no other at Dodger Stadium. There were no fans, Clayton Kershaw was scratched, Mookie Betts made his debut and Black Lives Matter was recognized. Here’s what it looked like, photos from Keith Birmingham:
  Enrique Hernandez #14 of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates with teammate Mookie Betts #50 after hitting a two run home run against the San Francisco Giants in the eighth inning of a MLB baseball
  
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• Scare Bnb? Dave Franco talks home-share paranoia in directorial debut ‘The Rental’

  24-07-2020 17:48
  
  For Dave Franco, the inspiration for the psychological thriller “The Rental” bubbled up from the paranoia that crept into his thoughts each time he booked a home-share rental.
  “I think about how the country is divided as it’s ever been, and no one trusts each other, yet we trust staying in the home of a stranger simply because of a few positive reviews online,” says the 35-year-old actor who co-wrote the screenplay and makes his feature directorial debut here.
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• Snacking is on the increase during the pandemic: How to make healthy choices

  24-07-2020 17:41
  
  Snacks are defined as small amounts of food eaten between meals, but there seems to be a big controversy over whether snacking is actually beneficial for health and nutrition. With more people working and learning from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, snacking is at an all-time high. While snacks may help manage hunger between meals, they may also lead to overeating and weight gain. Here are some key science-based considerations for your snacking habit.
  Decades ago, many adults didn’t sn
  
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• Casino Insider: Casino Morongo finds a new use for bingo space, goes smoke free 🚭

  24-07-2020 17:37
  
  Casino Insider is a weekly newsletter with all the best bets for food, entertainment and fun at Southern California’s casinos. It’s delivered to your inbox on Thursdays. Subscribe now. 
  Last week, we gave you an update on bingo and when that might return to Southern California’s casinos.
  This week, we know more about what the classic Casino Morongo did with its shuttered bingo space and the answer, for now, is to use the space for additional slots and table games.
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• Driver pursued by police jumps from freeway overpass in Anaheim, dies after struck by car

  24-07-2020 17:30
  
  A driver chased by police through various cities Thursday night jumped from an Anaheim freeway overpass and landed in the lanes where he was hit by a car and died, authorities said.
  It was around 11:30 p.m. when Fullerton police saw the suspect speeding and began a pursuit when the driver did not pull over, Anaheim police Sgt. Shane Carringer said. Fullerton police though called off the pursuit, Carringer, said, but an Anaheim police helicopter continued to watch over the vehicle as it drove err
  
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• Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights is canceled for 2020 due to coronavirus

  24-07-2020 17:16
  
  Horror fans holding out hope that the coronavirus pandemic would ease up in time for the haunting season are out of luck in 2020.
  Universal Studios Hollywood announced Friday that its annual Halloween Horror Nights has officially been canceled.
  “Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort have made the difficult decision to not hold Halloween Horror Nights events this year,” an emailed statement from the theme park read. “Universal Studios Hollywood continues to fa
  
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• Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights is canceled due to coronavirus

  24-07-2020 17:16
  
  Horror fans holding out hope that the coronavirus pandemic would ease up in time for the haunting season are out of luck in 2020.
  Universal Studios Hollywood announced Friday that its annual Halloween Horror Nights has officially been canceled.
  “Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort have made the difficult decision to not hold Halloween Horror Nights events this year,” an emailed statement from the theme park read. “Universal Studios Hollywood continues to fa
  
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• Real estate news: Ria expands HQ in Buena Park, leasing more space

  24-07-2020 17:00
  
  Ria, an international money transferring service, has signed a large office lease in Buena Park, expanding its Orange County base at Village Business Park.
  The company in a statement said it’s experiencing “rapid growth, driving the demand for additional space.”
  Ria has leased at the office complex since 2013 and wanted to remain at the property because of its central location. The Class “A” building at 7000 Village Drive is just off I-5 near the 91 freeway.
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• HOA Homefront: Can tenants speak at meetings?

  24-07-2020 17:00
  
  Q: Our HOA board has consistently said they are having meetings to do emergency actions. I know that they talk on the telephone, decide what to say and never send out meeting minutes. They have decided to keep our gym closed. Can they close an amenity and keep it closed long past state and local authorities on the basis of under-educated people without medical consultation or proof? We already have an open swimming pool. We have had no cases of COVID-19 in our building. — R.C., San Di
  
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• Orange County adds coronavirus contact tracers, trains for reaching diverse communities

  24-07-2020 15:51
  
  Since Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide call in May to mobilize 20,000 contact tracers – tasked with contacting people with the coronavirus and tracing who they might have spread it to – Orange County has more than doubled the size of its own force of disease detectives.
  By Thursday, July 23, the county’s Health Care Agency reported it had 185 staffers dedicated to its coronavirus response, including investigators who map the movements of virus carriers.
  And by next week, Tra
  
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• Hundreds gather in Huntington Beach to be baptized with cold dunk in the ocean

  24-07-2020 15:30
  
  The thought of walking into a cold church seems intimidating to Stefan Marchand. But the beach? Not so much.
  So, on a recent Friday, he joined hundreds of Christians in a revival worship and baptism in Huntington Beach, right by lifeguard tower 20. It was about 6 in the evening when Marchand, an actor, took a dunk in the cold water. He was enthralled by the “magical lighting” and sheer intensity of the experience, he said.
  “When I act, everything feels more intensified,”
  
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• Getting a driver license the old-fashion way — just showing up at the DMV

  24-07-2020 15:01
  
  Q. You’ve been referred to me by one of your readers in Huntington Beach. What appears to be simple right now is not! I’ve moved to California from New York and need to obtain a California driver license. My New York license is valid. The hold up is actually getting an appointment. How can I get this done?
  – Rick Kuhnla, Solana Beach
  A. Those folks in Huntington Beach are smart ones, Rick.
  Honk has the goods – but you won’t find the info good, Rick. To get a new lic
  
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• China tells U.S. to close consulate in Chengdu in growing spat

  24-07-2020 14:21
  
  By JOE McDONALD
  BEIJING — China ordered the United States on Friday to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades.
  The move was a response to the Trump administration’s order this week for Beijing to close its consulate in Houston after Washington accused Chinese agents of trying to steal medical and other research in Texas.
  The Chinese foreign ministry appealed to Washing
  
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• Judge blocks U.S. agents from arresting observers in Portland

  24-07-2020 14:10
  
  By GILLIAN FLACCUS
  PORTLAND, Ore.  — A federal judge specifically blocked U.S. agents from arresting or using physical force against journalists and legal observers at protests in Oregon’s largest city where President Donald Trump is testing the limits of federal power.
  Federal agents appeared to deploy tear gas early Friday to force thousands of demonstrators from crowding around the federal courthouse.
  Protesters had projected lasers on the building and attempted to take down
  
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• Federal siege of Portland is scarier than the protesters

  24-07-2020 11:12
  
  SACRAMENTO – A funny thing happened after unidentified federal agents – dressed like storm troopers from a dystopian novel – reportedly grabbed protesters off the streets of Portland, Oregon, and shoved them into unmarked rental vans. My “constitutional conservative” friends, who for years warned about federal overreach and championed states’ rights, sometimes cheered this show of power.
  These righties are thrilled that President Trump has vowed to send hundre
  
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