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• Lake fire grows to 27,041 acres north of Castaic

  20-08-2020 23:58
  
  LAKE HUGHES — A wildfire burning near Lake Hughes in steep and rugged terrain and fueled by bone-dry vegetation and drought-stressed trees has grown to 27,041 acres and was 48% contained Thursday morning.
  Nearly 2,000 fire personnel were assigned to battle the flames as of Thursday morning, when the containment figure was adjusted upward from the 36% figure reported on Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
  Firefighters anticipate another day of high temperatures T
  
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• Taco Bell announces smaller, faster restaurants for mobile customers

  20-08-2020 23:44
  
  Taco Bell has announced a new building design that reduces the space of its restaurants by almost half but adds a drive-thru lane for mobile pickups.
  The Irvine-based fast food giant calls the concept Go Mobile. As described in a news release, its most notable features are smaller buildings — 1,325 square feet as opposed to the current average of 2,500 square feet — and a dual drive-thru with a priority pickup lane for app orders.
  Other features are more familiar in recent months, in
  
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• Being a renter has become the national nightmare

  20-08-2020 23:40
  
  If homeownership is the American dream, then being a renter has become the national nightmare.
  Coronavirus has awkwardly exposed, no less amplified, the huge gap between the haves (who primarily own) and the have-nots (largely renters). And let’s be honest, this economic chasm is also split along racial lines. Without additional government intervention designed for the less fortunate, a satisfying economic recovery for all will remain a long-term dream.
  The killer virus has hit lower-incom
  
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• Ranch2 fire near Azusa burns 4,237 acres

  20-08-2020 23:39
  
  AZUSA — The arson-caused Ranch2 Fire, which has scorched 4,237 acres near Azusa in the past week, was 38% contained Thursday, authorities said.
  Crews coping with excessive heat had success Wednesday and into the early morning hours Thursday, and kept the fire from burning additional acres, reinforcing the northern and eastern flanks. Fire officials said they’re growing more confident each day that the lower edges of the fire near communities has grown cold.
  “In spite of rugged
  
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• Warm up with Lakers-Blazers Game 2 previews and social media takes; Tip-off at 6

  20-08-2020 23:25
  
  Follow Southern California Newspaper Group reporters Kyle Goon and Mirjam Swanson as they cover the Lakers and Clippers in the NBA playoffs. 
  Who: Lakers vs. Trail Blazers, Game 2, best-of-seven NBA playoffs, 6 p.m., (Blazers lead series, 1-0)
  What: Follow Thursday night’s Lakers and Trail Blazers highlight thread. We’ll post the best of social media video highlights, emojis and reaction.
  PRE-GAME
  Kyle Goon’s pre-game previews and social media tweets …“I slept
  
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• Helicopter pilot from Rancho Cucamonga dies in Central Valley crash

  20-08-2020 23:22
  
  A pilot from Rancho Cucamonga fighting one of hundreds of wildfires in the state was killed Wednesday, Aug. 19, when his helicopter crashed near Coalinga in the Central Valley, authorities said.
  The pilot, identified by the Fresno County Sheriff-Coroner Office on Thursday as Michael John Fournier, 52, a husband and father of two teen-aged girls, was contracted by Cal Fire to work a water-dropping mission on the Hills Fire in western Fresno County, according to Cal Fire.
  The Bell helicopter pilot
  
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• Irvine man was ringleader of scheme to defraud national retailer out of millions, feds say

  20-08-2020 23:12
  
  An Irvine man is accused of being the ringleader in a scheme that fraudulently obtained employee identification cards and discounts to buy millions of dollars worth of electronics from a national retailer, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
  A dozen people took part in the scheme, according to a federal grand jury. Four of them – including the lead defendant, Abdallah Osseily, 34, of Irvine – were arrested Wednesday by the FBI. Three of the defendants were arraigned that da
  
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• Calvin Mackey hired as girls basketball coach at Trabuco Hills

  20-08-2020 22:40
  
  Calvin Mackey has been hired as the girls basketball coach at Trabuco Hills High, the school announced Thursday.
  Mackey spent the last three years as a varsity assistant coach for the girls basketball team at El Toro, and coached at the school the past six years.
  Leigha Bednar was the Trabuco Hills coach for the 2019-20 season when the Mustangs went 7-21 overall and 2-6 in the South Coast League.
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• Ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon pleads not guilty in border wall scheme

  20-08-2020 22:39
  
  By LARRY NEUMEISTER, COLLEEN LONG and JILL COLVIN | Associated Press
  NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a southern border wall in federal court Thursday, hours after he was pulled from a yacht off the coast of Connecticut and arrested.
  He and three others were charged in an indictment unsealed Thursday in Manhattan federal court.
  At his hearing the sa
  
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• Coming soon to your refi: A half-point fee that could signal trouble for mortgage markets

  20-08-2020 22:31
  
  Chutzpah! Shock! Disbelief!
  Last week came announcements from mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that an “adverse market fee” of one-half point will be added to all refinance transactions effective Sept. 1.
  The fee is aimed at lenders but will be passed down to borrowers. For example, on a $500,000 loan, the fee adds $2,500. Or, converting this fee into the mortgage rate instead of the one-half point cost would raise your rate by roughly 0.125%.
  About 70% of the estimated $2.
  
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• “There is enough and better technology now” for online learning to be more successful, educators say

  20-08-2020 22:24
  
  When the world of education was thrust into online learning this past spring as the coronavirus spread, preparation was lacking.
  “I remember going to school on a Tuesday,” said Erica Gonzalez, a Santa Ana parent who had two children experience online education in the spring, “and finding out they were going to close the school on the next Friday.”
  But she is confident that lessons learned then, and the time spent since examining those lessons, will mean a superior online
  
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• ‘Tiger King’ zoo closes after animal treatment investigation

  20-08-2020 22:22
  
  WYNNEWOOD, Okla. — The Oklahoma zoo featured in Netflix’s “Tiger King” documentary has closed after federal authorities investigated it for alleged maltreatment of animals and suspended its license.
  The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park closed to the public after the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday suspended the exhibitor license for owner Jeff Lowe for 21 days.
  The zoo, previously run by Joseph Maldonado-Passage —also known as Joe Exotic— became f
  
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• SeaWorld San Diego cleared to reopen after coronavirus closure

  20-08-2020 22:09
  
  SeaWorld San Diego has been cleared by local officials to reopen the zoo portions of the marine park after a five-month coronavirus closure ahead of Disneyland and other California theme parks that must remain closed by state mandate.
  SeaWorld San Diego can reopen outdoor areas of the park while indoor aquariums, rides and attractions remain closed, according to a San Diego County spokesperson.
  “SeaWorld can open under state guidance for zoos,” San Diego County spokesperson Tegan Gla
  
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• Tesla rally pushes shares to $2,000 ahead of stock split

  20-08-2020 22:02
  
  By Esha Dey | Bloomberg
  Tesla’s market value has surpassed retail behemoth Walmart after an astounding surge in the electric-vehicle maker’s shares over the past five months.
  The stock, which touched a low of about $350 in March, has almost quintupled since then and briefly crossed $2,000, nearly 10 times the level it was trading at this time last year. Tesla shares jumped as much as 6.6% on Thursday, reaching a record intraday high. The stock has closed at records on three of the pa
  
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• Uber, Lyft win delay on converting drivers to employees

  20-08-2020 21:55
  
  By Joel Rosenblatt | Bloomberg
  Uber Technologies and Lyft were spared from having to rapidly convert their California drivers to employees after a state appeals court agreed they can keep their business models in place while challenging a judge’s order to comply with a state labor law.
  The decision Thursday is a big reprieve for the ride-hailing companies, whose leaders said they might need to temporarily shut down in their home state if forced on short notice to provide drivers with costl
  
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• Intended to help workers, Assembly Bill 5 restricts choice

  20-08-2020 21:29
  
  Across the country, it is taken for granted that just a few taps on a smartphone can get you just about anywhere you want to go. Ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft have revolutionized urban transportation and it’s easy to forget that this convenience didn’t exist even just 10 years ago.
  Now, California is set to return to those days this Friday—the day that Uber and Lyft say they will be forced to suspend operations in the state due to a new state law. The impending
  
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• Taco Asylum in Costa Mesa closes after nearly 10 years

  20-08-2020 21:26
  
  The hip taco joint at The Camp in Costa Mesa seemed ahead of its time when it opened in 2011, inviting guests at an opening media event to tweet its praises which were projected on a big screen over the counter.
  Taco Asylum won fans with its youthful energy, global approach to fillings and dedication to craft beer. It was riding high in 2015 when Carlos Anthony, its chef at that time, won the reality cooking show “Cutthroat Kitchen.”
  But the restaurant tweeted out a warning on April
  
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• The state continues to fumble with technology, to the detriment of Californians

  20-08-2020 21:16
  
  Our state government agencies must deal with an enormous number of requests and extremely complex challenges. Technology has long been California’s answer to handling both.
  For years, however, our state government has fumbled this task. We are the cradle of world-changing technology, but our government has relied on worthless technology and paid billions of dollars repeatedly for failed fixes. It’s proof that something is wrong with our state government—something that must chan
  
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• Welcome to the United States of San Francisco: John Phillips

  20-08-2020 21:12
  
  Back in 2018, in these pages, I wrote about the San Francisco-ization of the state of California.
  At this point, it’s undeniable that one tiny city, the size of a postage stamp, with a population of just under 900,000 people, controls virtually all the levers of power in the biggest state in the union.
  Think about it.
  California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom, is a former mayor of San Francisco.
  California’s junior U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, is the former District Attorney of San Francisco.
  
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• How to measure smoke levels in your neighborhood from California wildfires

  20-08-2020 20:55
  
  With dozens of major fires burning from Wine Country to the Santa Cruz Mountains, Salinas to the Mount Hamilton foothills, smoke levels are bad across the Bay Area and Northern California. Breathing it can harm your health.
  There are several websites to find real-time information about air quality and smoke levels in your community. All of the sites use the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index, which ranks air pollution levels on a 0-500 scale, with green and yellow bei
  
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• Sparks still learning how to play complete games

  20-08-2020 20:49
  
  Candace Parker was not satisfied.
  Her Sparks had just completed a season sweep of the Phoenix Mercury. Their defense had held firm in the final five minutes, making eight consecutive stops to clinch the win.
  But, after the Sparks held a 20-plus point lead, why were they in that position, desperately holding onto their advantage after the Mercury had cut its deficit to two?
  “I mean, where was our defense when they were doing that? Our second half was questionable,” Parker said after t
  
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• Del Mar horse racing consensus picks for Friday, Aug. 21

  20-08-2020 20:35
  
  The consensus box of picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Friday, August 21 for racing at Del Mar.
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• Yes on Proposition 17, No on Proposition 18

  20-08-2020 20:15
  
  Just as we celebrate the centennial of American women gaining the right to vote, two California ballot  measures this fall also deal with the commendable goal of increasing suffrage — of allowing, and encouraging, more people to be able to go to the polls and participate in our democracy.
  The editorial board believes one of them is worth supporting, while the other is not.
  Proposition 17 would change the state constitution to allow those who have served their prison sentences and are
  
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• Anaheim briefs: Remembering the Anaheim’s Halloween celebrations

  20-08-2020 20:14
  
  Anaheim’s nearly century-old tradition of gathering together for Halloween festivities is going to be a little different for 2020, but the celebration will continue.
  Getting ready for Halloween, the Anaheim Historical Society is documenting the memories of the years of Halloween in Anaheim.  Community members are invited to share either a specific memory or general recollections about the Halloween season here in town.
  Email contributions to [email protected] with a few
  
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• Review: Khan Saab’s halal kitchen draws a line from India to Afghanistan

  20-08-2020 20:10
  
  Fumes of star anise and fennel and the lingering incense of charcoal have haunted me for months. 
  Whenever I least expect it, there it is again, that haunting aura of fennel and charcoal, smoldering deep inside my head. This has been happening spasmodically since March, when I first tasted the Afghani lamb kabob at Khan Saab in Fullerton. As the calendar has slipped away since then, I have eaten countless kabobs from elsewhere, but rather than leave a lasting impression, most of those other
  
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• Review: Khan Saab’s halal kitchen connects the dots from India to Afghanistan

  20-08-2020 20:10
  
  Fumes of star anise and fennel and the lingering incense of charcoal have haunted me for months. 
  Whenever I least expect it, there it is again, that haunting aura of fennel and charcoal, smoldering deep inside my head. This has been happening spasmodically since March, when I first tasted the Afghani lamb kabob at Khan Saab in Fullerton. As the calendar has slipped away since then, I have eaten countless kabobs from elsewhere, but rather than leave a lasting impression, most of those other
  
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• Jonathan Klinsmann joins Galaxy after stops in Sweden and Germany

  20-08-2020 20:06
  
  The Galaxy added to its goalkeeper collection with the signing of Jonathan Klinsmann.
  Klinsmann, 23, the son of former U.S. men’s national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann, joins the Galaxy after previous stops in Europe, including FC St. Gallen in Sweden and Hertha Berlin in the German Bundesliga.
  Klinsmann has been training with the Galaxy this week.
  “It’s been pretty surreal for me being able to sign with the team that I have been supporting since I was young,” Klinsmann to
  
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• Drummond: PYLUSD and college district races take shape

  20-08-2020 19:52
  
  Carol Downey and Judi Carmona, who have served the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District in various roles for a combined 88 years, including a total 30 years as elected trustees, aren’t seeking re-election to the five-member board on the Nov. 3 ballot.
  Downey began her district career in 1965 as a teacher at the since-closed McFadden School. During her 35-year teaching career, she was elected to the Placentia City Council, serving 13 years, including two terms as mayor.
  She was ele
  
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• In his final days, Vietnam War medic finds home for his memories at Westminster museum

  20-08-2020 19:48
  
  As a medic for the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, Donald Greene experienced danger and devastation.
  But the battle that soon will take his life is the one he faces right now.
  For the past decade, Greene has fought prostate cancer that metastasized to his bones. Last December, he decided to quit chemotherapy and get his ducks in a row.
  High up on his to-do list: Find a home for the memorabilia he collected while serving across the Pacific Ocean.
  “My kids didn’t wan
  
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• Knowing the feeling of missing out on the big games

  20-08-2020 19:40
  
  Andre Woodward knows what it’s like expecting to play, and not playing.
  In honor of high school football players and athletes in fall sports unable to participate because of the coronavirus pandemic, Woodward has a saga that was tough to swallow his senior year at Newport Harbor High in 1994-95.
  After months of trying to understand his physical issues, it was discovered Woodward had a brain tumor the size of a marble. But Woodward didn’t find out right away.
  “My parents didn&rs
  
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• Here’s how you can enjoy Independent Bookstore Day 2020 in stores and online Aug. 29

  20-08-2020 19:40
  
  Independent Bookstore Day 2020 arrives on Saturday, Aug. 29 with a full day of virtual events with authors across many different genres.
  Sean Doolittle, a pitcher for the reigning world champion Washington Nationals baseball team, is this year’s Independent Bookstore Day ambassador. Doolittle has been an advocate for independent bookstores, having documented his visits to local stores around the country on his (now deleted) Twitter account.
  “I love indie bookstores because I love the
  
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• Bravo!: Girl Scouts honored for boosting relationship between police and mosque

  20-08-2020 19:36
  
  Orange County Girl Scouts bridge local relationships
  Girl Scout Troop 3408 earned the Girl Scout Silver Award (the highest award a Girl Scout cadette in grade 6-8 can earn) for their efforts to strengthen relationships between the local police community and their mosque.
  Girl Scout cadettes Dana Mussa, Jumana Mussa and Nahar Saeed from Troop 3408 out of the Islamic Institute of Orange County in Anaheim saw a need to improve relationships between local law enforcement and the Muslim community. Th
  
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• Cooking with Judy: Figuring out what to do with all those figs

  20-08-2020 19:24
  
  It’s no secret that I don’t have a green thumb.
  Please, when the COVID crisis ends and entertaining resumes, if you come to my house, do not bring me a plant. They take one look at me and think, why die a slow death? I’ll commit suicide now.
  It’s no wonder, then, that my mission fig tree, the first planting request I made of my landscaper when we redid our yard, has never borne fruit. (Or maybe the squirrels and birds are just very quick.)
  However, my neighbor’s tre
  
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• 250,000 acres burning across the Bay Area as state scrambles to find firefighters

  20-08-2020 19:13
  
  Hundreds of wind-driven, lightning-stoked wildfires tore through Northern California on Wednesday, touching every Bay Area county except San Francisco, rousting residents from bed, destroying dozens of homes from the outskirts of Vacaville and threatening thousands more from the Wine Country to the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Carmel Valley.
  By late Wednesday afternoon, firefighters rushed to protect the historic Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton above Silicon Valley, shut down Interstate 80 as
  
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• Judge removes DA’s office from rape case against Newport Beach surgeon, girlfriend

  20-08-2020 19:08
  
  The Orange County District Attorney’s Office was removed Thursday from handling high-profile criminal charges against a Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend accused of drugging and raping several women, after a judge determined that local prosecutors must be disqualified from proceeding with a case that has drawn international attention.
  Orange County Superior Court Judge Gregory Jones noted that District Attorney Todd Spitzer has accused his predecessor of “manufacturing”
  
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• Coronavirus unemployment: California jobless claims fall to lowest level in five months

  20-08-2020 19:08
  
  The number of first-time unemployment claims in California fell to their lowest level in five months last week, the government reported Thursday.
  An estimated 201,600 California workers filed first-time jobless claims in the week ended Aug. 15, down 900 from the 202,500 who filed initial unemployment claims the previous week, U.S. Department of Labor data shows.
  Nationwide, the number of unemployment claims rose above 1 million, totaling 1.11 million for the week ended Aug. 15, an increase of 13
  
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• Uber and Lyft threaten to suspend operations tonight in California

  20-08-2020 18:47
  
  LOS ANGELES — A group of Uber and Lyft drivers are expected to hold a rally at Los Angeles International Airport Thursday as the ride-hailing companies prepare to halt operations statewide due to a legal battle over classification of its workers.
  The drivers, organizing with the Mobile Workers Alliance, plan to gather at 9600 Will Rogers St. in Westchester at 10:30 a.m. then drive to the LAX-It lot at the airport. The drivers will be passing out masks and other safety equipment as part of
  
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• Lyft to suspend operations tonight in California

  20-08-2020 18:47
  
  Ride-hailing company Lyft confirmed Thursday in a blog post that it will suspend its operations across California beginning at 11:59 p.m. due to an ongoing legal dispute over the classification of drivers as employees or independent contractors.
  Related Articles Uber, Lyft to temporarily halt California service if drivers are reclassified as employees California wins preliminary injunction against Uber, Lyft
  
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• The Eat Index: OC: Why this Santa Ana gastropub is having its moment during the pandemic

  20-08-2020 18:46
  
  The Eat Index: OC is a weekly newsletter that lands in your inbox on Wednesdays. Subscribe here. 
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  Mesquite-grilled chicken takeout from Lola Gaspar in Santa Ana (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG)
   
  Brad A. Johnson admits he has eaten chicken for far too many nights in a row during the pandemic, and while some of it has been very, very good, he doesn’t think he’s had a better chicken dinner than the family-style one offered by Lola Gaspa
  
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• Presidential race will put California’s foibles on trial

  20-08-2020 18:17
  
  Joe Biden’s selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate is a source of great pride for California Democrats, understandably so.
  Their reactions generally project that a Vice President Harris will be the odds-on favorite to succeed Biden in either 2024 or 2028, so California will have an advocate in high places for many years to come.
  “California has been too often irrelevant in national politics since Ronald Reagan left in 1988,” Ace Smith, a top strat
  
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• What happens when a dwarf umbrella tree gets too wet

  20-08-2020 18:13
  
  Q: I purchased a Schefflera arboricola dwarf tree two weeks ago from a nursery. The soil was wet at purchase, two weeks have passed, and the soil is still moist! I don’t want to overwater, so I’ve left it alone. Worse, leaves have started to turn brown and fall off (but they are not dry or crispy). I have it indoors in a sunny (indirect light) and warm room. What can I do to help my little tree? I enclosed some pictures so you could see the leaf situation. It’s a lovely tree an
  
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• Rams players clearly don’t want to wear virus-blocking face shields

  20-08-2020 18:09
  
  THOUSAND OAKS — A few weeks ago, a promising plan for protecting football players from COVID-19 during practice and games involved the use of plastic face shields. They could help to keep the coronavirus away from noses and mouths. They fit easily onto helmets. They’re light, ventilated and transparent.
  Now, something else is transparent: Rams players’ disdain for the idea.
  In the few days that reporters have been allowed to watch practice, none of the 80 Rams players in traini
  
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• Survivors’ attorneys ask court to reject Terin Humphrey claim against Larry Nassar

  20-08-2020 18:07
  
  Attorneys representing a group of women who allege they were sexually abused by former U.S. Olympic and national team physician Larry Nassar have filed an objection to world champion Terin Humphrey’s motion to be included in civil claims against USA Gymnastics.
  Committee of Sexual Abuse Survivors attorneys asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana to reject Humphrey’s move to be included in part of a potential settlement with USA Gymnastics because she miss
  
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• Disneyland’s ’80s-era Star Wars rock band had a Wookiee bass player covered in yak fur

  20-08-2020 17:41
  
  A new documentary film about a short-lived Disneyland band that combined the spectacle of a Kiss rock concert with musicians wearing Star Wars costumes travels back to a magically silly moment in the early 1980s that remains uncharted history for most hard-core Disney fans.
  The Disney Records band Halyx that played Tomorrowland’s Space Stage in the summer of 1981 featured a 7-foot-tall Wookiee on bass guitar, a stormtrooper playing a mobile keyboard spaceship and an acrobatic alien amphibi
  
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• Small Santa Cruz County community braces for unprecedented battle as epic wildfire nears

  20-08-2020 17:25
  
  BOULDER CREEK – The volunteer firefighters who make up the Boulder Creek Fire Protection District were bracing for the challenge of their lives Wednesday: battling an unprecedented wildfire.
  By nightfall, the so-called CZU August Lightning Complex Fire had scorched an estimated 25,000 acres in the mountains of Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties. And Boulder Creek, a community of just 5,000 residents nestled in the middle of the Santa Cruz Mountains, was expected to be the most directly affe
  
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• How much should you water the roses in the garden?

  20-08-2020 17:12
  
  I received an email from the Platts who garden in La Habra. They have six hybrid tea tree roses, six floribunda roses and five Iceberg roses. Like all of Southern California, La Habra is under water restrictions and irrigation is allowed only three days a week.
  “Due to our last water bill,” they wrote. “We have decided to water Tuesdays and Saturdays. Is watering each rose ten minutes with a hose at its base enough water or too much? There is a layer of mulch (wood chips) of ap
  
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• Morning Wrap: Lakers say they’re not hitting the panic button, you believe them? Mavs even series with Clips

  20-08-2020 17:02
  
  The Morning Wrap shares the day’s top five stories from our reporters at the Southern California Newspaper Group. … Sign up to have our top sports stories delivered to your inbox with our daily newsletters
  ONE: The Lakers, the top seed in the Western Conferencd with playoff  championship aspirations, are under tremendous pressure to tie the best-of-seven series against Portland tonight after dropping game one on Tuesday, but players said they’re not feeling the pressure,
  
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• The tough questions pushing California toward an eviction cliff

  20-08-2020 17:00
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn’t want it to happen. Neither do powerful leaders in the California Legislature. Tenant groups desperately want to prevent it, and landlord associations say they also want to avoid it so long as they don’t bear an unfair portion of the cost.
  Seemingly all of the important actors trying to find a solution to the so-called “eviction wave” looming over California have a strong incentive to strike a deal. As the novel coronavirus pandemic has shuttered
  
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• Make time for all the tasks in the buying and selling process

  20-08-2020 17:00
  
  Despite challenges to many sectors of our economy, the residential real estate market is thriving.
  Multiple offers are not uncommon, although COVID-19 health and safety precautions make it difficult for both buyers and sellers today. Buyers are desperate to take advantage of historically low interest rates, but there’s not enough inventory to go around.
  Here are a few tips for navigating these uncharted waters.
  Sellers need to stock up on sanitizing supplies including anti-bacterial wipes,
  
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• 6 ways San Dimas rules in ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’

  20-08-2020 17:00
  
  When actors Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves popped onscreen to address the Class of 2020 during the San Dimas High School virtual graduation in June, it made perfect sense to anyone who’d ever seen “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.”
  After all, as William “Bill” S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan in that 1989 movie, they were fictional students at that very real school.
  And the fact that they weren’t actually in San Dimas for the
  
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