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• Former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda’s condition improves

  24-11-2020 23:38 via ocregister.com
  
  FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — Hall of Fame manager Tom Lasorda’s condition has improved while he remains hospitalized in Southern California.
  Los Angeles Dodgers spokesman Steve Brener said Tuesday that the team’s 93-year-old former manager has been taking online calls from former players and coaches at a hospital in Orange County. Lasorda lives in Fullerton. The team first announced he was hospitalized on Nov. 15.
  Lasorda attended the team’s Game 6 victory over the Tampa Bay
  
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• UCLA opens men’s basketball season at San Diego State in good litmus test

  24-11-2020 23:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our UCLA athletics coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now.The COVID-19 pandemic halted the UCLA men’s basketball team’s late-season run that included 11 wins in its last 14 games last season. Unfortunately, the Pac-12 Conference tournament never got played, and March Madness had nothing to do with basketball.
  Roughly eight months later, the Bruins are asking themselves if they can pick up where they left off in Wednesday night’s season opener at San D
  
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• Coronavirus: Here’s what tier each county in California is on Nov. 24

  24-11-2020 22:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Officials moved three more of California’s 58 counties to the most restrictive purple tier of the state’s four-tier coronavirus tracking system on Tuesday, Nov. 24.
  There are now 45 counties in the purple tier after Tuesday changes.
  Two counties that were categorized in the least restrictive yellow tier last week, were moved to orange. There are now five counties in the orange tier and eight in the red tier.
  Counties are assigned to a tier based on metrics showing the speed and the s
  
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• Dow crests 30,000 points on vaccine hopes, Biden transition

  24-11-2020 22:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Wall Street busted through its latest milestone Tuesday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 30,000 for the first time.
  It’s an attention-grabbing psychological threshold, and it’s an encouraging signal that the market’s rally is broadening beyond the handful of stocks that carried Wall Street through the pandemic. But the Dow at 30,000 means less to most investors’ 401(k) accounts than the fact that broader market indexes are also at record highs.
  
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• Whicker: Angels’ pitching mess caused by many whiffs in the draft

  24-11-2020 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The Dodgers weren’t the only history-makers this fall.
  The Angels wrapped up their fifth consecutive sub-.500 season. Regardless of how you view the 60-game hors d’oeuvre, they never had done that before.
  In related news, the Angels were 13th in the American League in run prevention. They have been 10th or worse four times in the past seven seasons. In WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched), the Angels have been eighth or worse five times in the past eight seasons.
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• USC looks to freshman star Evan Mobley as uncertain season approaches

  24-11-2020 22:44 via ocregister.com
  
  As USC senior Jonah Mathews backpedaled up the Galen Center floor following his step-back, last-second three against UCLA in the regular-season finale on March 7, the Trojans looked poised for their best postseason in more than a decade.
  Stocked with five seniors and a future NBA lottery pick, USC was the trendy dark horse pick for a deep NCAA Tournament run. Mathews’ game-winner, though, was the last of the season. Five days later the NCAA canceled March Madness as the coronavirus pandemi
  
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• California up, U.S. down: Split verdict on consumer confidence

  24-11-2020 22:28 via ocregister.com
  
  The ongoing trend of a nation with very divided opinions shows up in a consumer confidence poll: Shoppers are upbeat in California but nervous nationwide.
  The Conference Board reports that its consumer confidence index for California was at 100 for November — up from a revised 93.7 a month earlier and down from 113.8 a year ago. In the month, the economy slowly improved but the pandemic that created a recession was regaining strength.
  Oh, and President Trump was defeated in his reelection
  
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• Unemployment scam using inmates’ names — including Scott Peterson, Cary Stayner — costs California hundreds of millions

  24-11-2020 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A rash of fraudulent pandemic unemployment claims filed under the names of jail and prison inmates, including more than 100 on death row, has bilked California out of hundreds of millions of dollars, a law enforcement task force said Tuesday.
  In a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom, the task force, led by district attorneys from San Diego to Fresno County, asked for “significant resources” to combat “what appears to be the most significant fraud on taxpayer
  
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• Harrah’s Resort Southern California links a new progressive its table games

  24-11-2020 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Harrah’s Resort Southern California has a new dimension of play on its table games.
  The Valley Center resort announced via a news release late last month that it was rolling out a new “Impressive Progressive” where guests have the chance to win an estimated jackpot between $500,000 and $1 million. But you don’t have to go to any specific table game on the floor: All 50 of the casino floor’s non-electronic table games are tied into the jackpots.
  A progressive jackpot
  
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• Could Disneyland end up with rival Star Wars cantinas?

  24-11-2020 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Oga’s Cantina was one of the hardest places to get into before Disneyland’s coronavirus closure, but the hive of scum and villainy wasn’t the only watering hole envisioned for Black Spire Outpost, according to the ever-expanding backstory created for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
  Oga’s Cantina was the victor in a one-sided rivalry with Seezelslak’s Cantina that ended before Galaxy’s Edge debuted at the Anaheim theme park, according to a new virtual reality g
  
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• UCLA center Sam Marrazzo embodies the improved offensive line’s mentality

  24-11-2020 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  <p>UCLA starting center Sam Marrazzo is one of the key figures on an offensive line that has been one of the biggest surprises for the Bruins football team, which is averaging 228 yards rushing.</p><p>The running attack is helping UCLA average 37 points a game despite falling to 1-2 after last weekend's 38-35 loss to No. 11 Oregon.</p><p>UCLA will get a chance to move back to .500 in Saturday's game against winless Arizona (0-2) at 5 p.m. at the Rose Bowl.</p>
  
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• 3 O.C. cities look to unplug from Southern California Edison

  24-11-2020 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Three Orange County cities are preparing to pull the plug on Southern California Edison as their electricity procurer and take up the task themselves, a move they say will cut customer rates and hasten the move to clean energy.
  Edison would continue delivery of electricity. But Irvine, which is spearheading the effort, has been joined by Costa Mesa and Fullerton in initial approval for a joint powers authority that will do the actual purchasing of power before it reaches Edison’s transmiss
  
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• Is it likely the Supreme Court will decide the 2020 election? Ask the lawyer

  24-11-2020 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: Is the outcome of the 2020 election going to be decided by the Supreme Court?
  -B.G., Torrance
  Ron Sokol
  A: The United States Supreme Court has limited jurisdiction, and only takes a very modest number of the cases submitted to it. If there is an authentic federal question pertaining to the 2020 election (such that the Constitution is implicated), the high court could take up an actual controversy. To date, however, the legal challenges on behalf of the president have largely been unsuccessful
  
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• VIDEO: Watch UCLA QB Chase Griffin talk about his performance, and whether he will start Saturday’s game against Arizona

  24-11-2020 21:04 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA redshirt freshman quarterback Chase Griffin spoke to reporters on Tuesday after starting his first-game over the weekend in a 38-35 loss against No. 11 ranked Oregon. Griffin started in place of three-year starter Dorian Thompson-Robinson, who likely missed Oregon’s game due to being in quarantine after two players reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 last week, which forced several players to miss Saturday’s game.
  Griffin completed 19 of 31 passes for 191 yards and a touchdo
  
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• Dodgers Q&A: On Arenado, Estevez, Lindor, Turner, and more

  24-11-2020 20:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: This is the Tuesday, Nov. 24 edition of the Inside the Dodgers newsletter from reporter J.P. Hoornstra. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.The off-season news hit a natural, expected lull over the weekend. I figured it was time for my first question-and-answer newsletter since … 2018? (I’ve seriously lost track of time. Send help.)
  When I solicited questions on Twitter Monday, I quickly realized the answers were better served across multiple
  
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• LBSU athletic director Andy Fee working overtime during time of pandemic

  24-11-2020 20:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Andy Fee’s job as Long Beach State’s athletic director didn’t seem so complicated when he was hired in 2017. There were relationships to be forged, coaches to be hired, budgets to be balanced, schedules to be set and victories to be celebrated and losses to be endured.
  For decades, Long Beach State embraced its status as an NCAA Division I underdog epitomized by a baseball team known as the Dirtbags for its scrappy play against better-funded and higher-publicized programs aroun
  
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• What’s closed in Orange County on Thanksgiving Day?

  24-11-2020 19:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Thanksgiving is already a holiday when many businesses and the public sector close down, but with the coronavirus pandemic surging again even more will be shuttered Thursday.
  Here’s a little rundown of some places in Orange County that will be closed on the holiday:
  Government offices:  Thanksgiving Day is one of 10 federal holidays in 2018, so all non-essential federal, state and county offices will be closed. That includes the post office, so no mail delivery.
  Banks: Thanksgiving Da
  
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• Orange County home sales at 15-year high in October

  24-11-2020 19:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County’s homebuying rebound continued in October with sales hitting a 15-year high powered by historically low interest rates, coronavirus-led urges for more space and a limited inventory for house hunters to choose from.
  A study by DQNews of closed transactions in Orange County from October shows …
  • 3,779 homes sold, existing and new — up 23.7% in a year. It’s the most sales in any October since 2005. Year to date there have been 28,024 Orange County purcha
  
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• Biden signals stark shift with new national security team

  24-11-2020 19:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW LEE and ALEXANDRA JAFFE | Associated Press
  WILMINGTON, Del. — Declaring “America is back,” President-elect Joe Biden introduced selections for his national security team Tuesday, his first substantive offering of how he’ll shift from Trump-era “America First” policies by relying on foreign policy and national security experts from the Democratic establishment to be some of his most important advisers.
  Biden’s Washington veterans all have ties
  
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• Biden introducing his national security team

  24-11-2020 19:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW LEE and ALEXANDRA JAFFE | Associated Press
  WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden is set to introduce his national security team to the nation as he taps Obama administration alumni and other public-service veterans, signaling a shift from the Trump administration’s “America First” policies and a return to U.S. global engagement.
  Members of that team are slated to join Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in person in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tues
  
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• Randy’s Donuts coming to Costa Mesa with iconic sign

  24-11-2020 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  When Randy’s Donuts opens in Costa Mesa you’ll be able to see it a mile away.
  That’s because the popular doughnut house, which started nearly 60 years ago in Inglewood, received approval last night from the city to put up its famous sign.
  Its application was approved unanimously by planning commissioners who voted Monday, Nov. 23; one was absent, another abstained. If no appeals are filed by 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30, then the decision is final.
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• Despite surplus, California must hold line on spending

  24-11-2020 19:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Even as California shuts down much of the economy again in the wake of the latest coronavirus surge, the state has received a welcome dose of relatively good news. The economic rebound has been quicker than expected – and revenues are “consistent with a more positive economic picture,” according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.
  State analysts predict a one-time windfall of as much as $26 billion, which will help during the upcoming budget process. But the
  
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• Grammys: Beyoncé leads with 9 nominations, Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa and Roddy Ricch have 6

  24-11-2020 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By Mesfin Fekadu
  Beyoncé is bringing her black parade to the Grammys: The pop star’s anthem about Black pride scored multiple nominations Tuesday, making her the leading contender with nine.
  Beyoncé picked up song and record of the year bids with “Black Parade,” which she released on Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates when the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free. The song, which reached the Top 40 on the pop charts, is also nominated for
  
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• Coronavirus: California shatters daily case record with more than 20,000

  24-11-2020 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Counties in every corner of California set records on their way to the state’s highest daily case count of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to this news organization’s analysis of health department data.
  Altogether, there were 20,554 new coronavirus cases reported around California on Monday alone, shattering the previous single-day record of 16,521, which came following the July 4 weekend and included a significant backlog; Monday’s total includes up to three days worth of dat
  
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• Check out these Cyber Monday deals — and some are available now

  24-11-2020 18:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Howdy, Deals Diva here. As you know, a big holiday is coming up. No, I’m not talking about Thanksgiving, or even about Black Friday. I’m talking about Cyber Monday.
  This event, which showcases online deals, has become even more important this year since everyone’s become accustomed to buying everything online. It takes place on the Monday after Thanksgiving each year, which is Nov. 30, for those of you who don’t have a calendar in front of you.
  Even though many deals are
  
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• Poll confirms Californians’ sour mood on higher taxes

  24-11-2020 18:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Proposition 15 would have been the largest tax increase in California history and its defeat this month was, by any definition, a huge setback for its sponsors, primarily public employee unions.
  They had been yearning for decades to crack Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot measure that limits property taxes, and convinced themselves that singling out commercial property for new taxes would be a winner, especially in a high turnout presidential election.
  After Proposition 15 was defeated, its advoca
  
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• Small Business Saturday is more important than ever this year

  24-11-2020 18:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Small Business Saturday, a holiday that encourages Americans to patron Main Street enterprises, is just around the corner. While small businesses have been the backbone of the U.S. economy for decades, it’s more important to support them now than ever before. The coronavirus has pistol whipped pizza parlors, corner stores and flower shops from California to New York. The small business community is on life support.
  The difference in economic conditions compared to this time last year could
  
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• Anaheim Ducks owners submit plans for Honda Center development dubbed OC Vibe

  24-11-2020 18:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Plans for a $3 billion mixed-use entertainment development that will spring up around Anaheim’s Honda Center have gotten a few tweaks, but are still expected to hit the target of opening a first phase to the public in 2024.
  The concept for OC Vibe, as the development is called, was made public in June, and an official project application is expected to be filed with the city on Tuesday, Nov. 24, said Matt Hicks, a spokesman for Anaheim Ducks owners Henry and Susan Samueli’s H & S
  
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• The Night of Lights OC drive-thru experience will go on in Costa Mesa with modications for the curfew

  24-11-2020 18:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Over the weekend, promoters of the inaugural Night of Lights OC drive-thru experience announced it would be forced to postpone the event at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa due to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest stay-at-home guidelines.
  Those orders include a 10 p.m.-5 a.m. curfew that went into effect on Nov. 21 and is scheduled to last a month. Now, however, with clarification from county health officials and Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley, Night of Lights OC has been able to modi
  
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• USC football player tests positive for COVID-19, coach Clay Helton says

  24-11-2020 17:48 via ocregister.com
  
  A USC football player tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, Trojans coach Clay Helton said Tuesday. The unnamed player traveled with the team to Salt Lake City for Saturday’s game against Utah, but did not participate in team activities Sunday or Monday.
  The individual was symptomatic and quarantined.
  USC Student Health, the Utah athletic department and the Pac-12 have been notified and the Los Angeles County Department of Health was to be informed later Tuesday. Helton said further info
  
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• Southern California retailers face COVID-19 hurdles head-on this holiday season

  24-11-2020 17:33 via ocregister.com
  
  As COVID-19 tightens its grip on the nation’s economy, Southern California retailers are bracing for a holiday shopping season plagued by product shortages, social distancing and lots of uncertainty.
  “We’re hopeful, but like everyone else, we don’t know what to expect,” said Jeanie Viveros, who co-owns Tiddlywinks Toys & Games in Orange along with her husband, Gilbert. “It’s still that unknown that everybody is living with.”
  Tiddlywinks, a fixt
  
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• Lakers’ offseason roster reshuffling: 5 key takeaways

  24-11-2020 17:32 via ocregister.com
  
  A day after warning that complacency could be the Lakers’ greatest threat, General Manager Rob Pelinka showed how committed he was to shaking things up for the defending champions.
  The stars are the same, but much of the cast is profoundly different. In the first few days of free agency, the Lakers added Wesley Matthews, Marc Gasol and Montrezl Harrell, adding that trio to the trade for Dennis Schröder. They retained Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, and Markieff Morris but Avery Bradley, Raj
  
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• Oscar-winner John Ridley explores the lives of superheroes of color in ‘The Other History of the DC Universe’

  24-11-2020 17:06 via ocregister.com
  
  John Ridley remembers how he felt as a boy in the late ’70s when Black Lightning debuted as the first Black superhero with his own DC Comics series.
  “Here’s a hero who, you know, kind of looked like me,” Ridley says. “Black Lightning was certainly the first hero where I felt a connection that was more than just pure enjoyment, pure entertainment.
  “It was like, ‘Oh, this is something. This is unique, this is special,’” he says. “And I mo
  
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• Columnist: Why theme park fans should feel grateful in 2020

  24-11-2020 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  As a theme park fan, it is hard to feel much gratitude for 2020. The year delivered monthslong closures of theme parks around the world, the cancellation or delay of countless new attractions, and the layoff of tens of thousands of park employees, designers and contractors.
  For an entertainment medium whose greatest narrative cliché is “and then it all goes terribly wrong,” this was the year when everything really did go terribly wrong.
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• Thanksgiving could be make-or-break for US coronavirus response

  24-11-2020 15:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Associated Press
  In Pennsylvania, if you’re having friends over to socialize, you’re supposed to wear a mask — and so are your friends. That’s the rule, but Barb Chestnut has no intention of following it.
  “No one is going to tell me what I can or not do in my own home” said Chestnut, 60, of Shippensburg. “They do not pay my bills and they are not going to tell me what to do.”
  As governors and mayors grapple with an out-of-cont
  
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• New York City’s first African American mayor, David Dinkins, dies at 93

  24-11-2020 14:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEEPTI HAJELA | Associated Press
  NEW YORK — David Dinkins, who broke barriers as New York City’s first African American mayor, but was doomed to a single term by a soaring murder rate, stubborn unemployment and his mishandling of a riot in Brooklyn, has died. He was 93.
  Dinkins died Monday, the New York City Police Department confirmed. The department said officers were called to the former mayor’s home in the evening. Initial indications were that he died of natural causes.
  
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• Biden transition is OK’d to start as Trump runs out of options

  24-11-2020 14:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By ZEKE MILLER, DAVID EGGERT and COLLEEN LONG | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — The federal government recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election, formally starting the transition of power after President Donald Trump spent weeks testing the boundaries of American democracy. Trump relented after suffering yet more legal and procedural defeats in his seemingly futile effort to overturn the election with baseless claims of fraud.
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• Bicyclist struck and killed Monday evening in Fullerton

  24-11-2020 09:45 via ocregister.com
  
  A 33-year-old bicyclist was fatally struck in a traffic crash in Fullerton on Monday evening, the Fullerton Police Department reported.
  At about 5:43 p.m., officers responded to the area of Bastanchury Road and Lancer Way to the crash and began administering life-saving measures along with the Fullerton Fire Department. The bicyclist was transported to a local trauma center where he was pronounced deceased, the Police Department reported.
  The driver of the involved vehicle remained on-scene and
  
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• Bicyclist struck and killed in Fullerton

  24-11-2020 09:45 via ocregister.com
  
  A 33-year-old bicyclist was fatally struck in a traffic crash in Fullerton on Monday evening, the Fullerton Police Department reported.
  At about 5:43 p.m., officers responded to the area of Bastanchury Road and Lancer Way to the crash and began administering life-saving measures along with the Fullerton Fire Department. The bicyclist was transported to a local trauma center where he was pronounced deceased, the Police Department reported.
  The driver of the involved vehicle remained on-scene and
  
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• Whicker: Goff’s bodyguards keep his jersey clean enough to beat Bucs

  24-11-2020 06:51 via ocregister.com
  
  The Rams are 7-3 this morning because they had the better quarterback on a field that also included Tom Brady.
  The main reason Jared Goff was the better quarterback on Monday night is the capable friends he brought, even with a close one left behind.
  The Rams won, 27-24, when Jordan Fuller intercepted Brady at the end, on a night when Goff threw 51 times at Raymond James Stadium. Without injured left tackle Andrew Whitworth, who was carted away from last week’s victory over Seattle, they c
  
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• Rams’ Jordan Fuller has night to hold onto in win over Bucs, Tom Brady

  24-11-2020 06:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Jordan Fuller was a toddler when Tom Brady broke into the NFL.
  Monday night, the Rams’ 22-year-old rookie safety got something from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 43-year-old quarterback that he’ll cherish when he’s an old man.
  Fuller grabbed an interception of a Brady pass in the third quarter and held onto the ball as a keepsake, and then added a second interception and second memento late in the fourth to clinch the Rams’ 27-24 victory over the Bucs in Tampa.
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• Jared Goff, Rams outlast Tom Brady, Bucs in Tampa Bay

  24-11-2020 05:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Rams free safety John Johnson, left, breaks up a pass intended for Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans during the first half of Monday night’s game in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark LoMoglio)
  TAMPA, FLORIDA – NOVEMBER 23: Robert Woods #17 of the Los Angeles Rams celebrates after scoring a 4 yard touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the first quarter in the game at Raymond James Stadium on November 23, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
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• Jared Goff, Rams outlast Tom Brady, Bucs in Tampa

  24-11-2020 05:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Rams free safety John Johnson, left, breaks up a pass intended for Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans during the first half of Monday night’s game in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark LoMoglio)
  TAMPA, FLORIDA – NOVEMBER 23: Robert Woods #17 of the Los Angeles Rams celebrates after scoring a 4 yard touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the first quarter in the game at Raymond James Stadium on November 23, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
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• Donald Trump’s election denialism must be rejected

  24-11-2020 05:01 via ocregister.com
  
  President Donald Trump lost the Nov. 3 election clearly, decisively and legally.
  On Saturday, the president’s efforts to invalidate election results in Pennsylvania, where Joe Biden is ahead by 80,000 votes, were dismissed by U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann, who said the president’s team offered “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations … unsupported by evidence.”
  This is just the latest in a long line of dismissals across the country, w
  
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• Blaine Amendments and California charter schools

  24-11-2020 04:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Churches may not run any of California’s charter schools. A United States Supreme Court decision from last June might change that.
  Montana had established a scholarship, funded by private donations, whose donors received a state income tax credit. The state had promulgated a rule denying students from using such scholarships at religious schools.
  The court ruled, 5 to 4, that Montana did not have to establish the scholarship program but, since it did, it could not exclude students applying
  
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• ‘Gilligan’s Island’ and outdoor art at center of lawsuits involving Laguna Beach neighbors

  24-11-2020 04:07 via ocregister.com
  
  A $1 million lawn sculpture and alleged loops of high-volume sitcom theme songs have driven a heated dispute between investor Bill Gross and his tech-entrepreneur neighbor from their respective ocean-front Laguna Beach mansions to a Santa Ana courtroom.
  The former bond king and his girlfriend, former professional tennis player Amy Schwartz, are enmeshed in a legal battle featuring dueling lawsuits with Mark Towfiq and his wife, Carol Nakahara, with both couples sharing a property line along Sout
  
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• Drive-In OC in Anaheim to host house music series in December

  24-11-2020 03:28 via ocregister.com
  
  If the cars are rocking, it’s because people are dancing as the City National Grove of Anaheim’s Drive-In OC ramps up its live music calendar with the House Music Series.
  Electronic music veteran Green Velvet will perform Dec. 11 and Claude VonStroke will appear on Dec. 29 at the venue at 2200 E. Katella Ave.
  Tickets are $250-$500 per vehicle and go on sale at noon Nov. 25 via AXS.com. A maximum of five people per car will be allowed for the 6 p.m. shows.
  With a career spanning more
  
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• Craving rays of light in bleak 2020, Orange County residents jump start the holidays

  24-11-2020 03:08 via ocregister.com
  
  A sleigh with a reindeer flies across Grovesite Drive in Tustin toward the Mason family home with an arrow on the rooftop pointing toward the chimney as part of the Christmas decorations in the neighborhood, on Saturday, November 21, 2020, a week before Thanksgiving. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Ron Mason of Grovesite Drive in Tustin puts lights on the roof of his house on Friday, November 20, 2020, a week before Thanksgiving. Many of his neighbors on the street and sur
  
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• Fullerton council approves marijuana businesses; shops could start opening late next year

  24-11-2020 03:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Recreational marijuana shops and other cannabis businesses can open in Fullerton after months of debate on whether the city should license and tax shops to undermine an existing black market.
  The city’s new law, passed 3-2 during a council meeting Nov. 17, reverses the city’s ban on marijuana-related businesses, now allowing recreational cannabis shops, manufacturers, distributors and indoor cultivators – up to five of each type – and an unlimited number of testing l
  
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• Forum to discuss Orange County Sheriff’s cooperation with ICE

  24-11-2020 02:38 via ocregister.com
  
  A legally required annual meeting in which Orange County supervisors and the public review Sheriff Department cooperation with federal immigration agents – a meeting criticized in the past for not exploring key issues – is slated for early next month.
  The third Transparent Review of Unjust Transfers and Holds, or TRUTH Act community forum will be at 9:30 a.m. during the Dec. 8 meeting of the Board of Supervisors.
  The goal is to provide an update on how many undocumented immigrants th
  
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