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• California governor orders some bars — including in L.A. County — to close as U.S. posts record COVID cases

  28-06-2020 21:38 via ocregister.com
  
  In a Twitter post Sunday afternoon, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the closure of bars in seven California counties.
  The message, posted by the governor around noon, said that “due to the rising spread of #COVID19, CA is ordering bars to close in Fresno, Imperial, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, San Joaquin and Tulare.
  The state is recommending that bars also close in the following eight counties: Contra Costa, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Stanislaus and Ventura.
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Friday, April 19

  20-04-2024 03:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Friday, April 19
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  FRIDAY’S SCORES
  BASEBALL
  EMPIRE LEAGUE
  Tustin 8, Valencia 1
  SURF LEAGUE
  Huntington Beach 16, Edison 3
  HB: Petrie 1-2, HR, 4RBI. Goldennetz 3-3, 2 2B, 2RB
  
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• Huntington Beach home with radiant heated floors, good feng shui seeks $7.7M

  20-04-2024 03:22 via ocregister.com
  
  The front seating area has a fire pit. (Photo by Anthony Gomez)
  The house blends mid-century and Prairie style architecture. (Photo by Anthony Gomez)
  The original garage has poured terrazzo flooring and a fireplace with a car engine insert. (Photo by Anthony Gomez)
  The property boasts two pools, including one in the original courtyard. (Photo by Anthony Gomez)
  The kitchen has green Poliform upper cabinets and painted window frames. (Photo by Anthony Gomez)
  Hydronic radiant heating circulates thr
  
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• Lakers not approaching Nuggets looking for revenge

  20-04-2024 03:05 via ocregister.com
  
  DENVER — The Lakers know that no matter how their first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets goes, it can’t make up for being swept by the Nuggets in last year’s Western Conference finals.
  Or the ensuing offseason trash talk from the series.
  So they aren’t going into Saturday night’s series opener (5:30 p.m. PT tipoff) with vengeance on their minds.
  “You can’t really get nothing back if you never had it, you know?,” All-Star big man Anth
  
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• Overwhelmed by the Grand Prix of Long Beach? City’s new sensory trailer is here to help

  20-04-2024 02:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim resident Kaleigh Ryan’s son is really into race cars.
  Yet, despite living in the same region as one of the country’s most-iconic IndyCar street races, they’d only ever attended NASCAR events — and not the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.
  Until now.
  Ryan and her 5-year-old son, who has autism and is nonverbal, attended the Grand Prix on Friday, April 19.
  But attending the Grand Prix can be chaotic: The concourse is vast, requiring a lot of walking to traverse. Thous
  
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• LAFC’s Aaron Long welcomes former Red Bulls teammates to Los Angeles

  20-04-2024 02:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Aaron Long joined the Los Angeles Football Club as a free agent following the 2022 season, agreeing to a cross country move after six productive years with the New York Red Bulls.
  While playing for the Red Bulls in 2019 after helping secure the team’s third Supporters’ Shield, Long experienced the atmosphere of an LAFC home match for the first time.
  The physical center back and his former teammates fell 4-2 at the then Banc of California Stadium.
  On the return flight back east, the n
  
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• Coachella 2024: Will Taylor Swift join Lana Del Rey for Weekend 2? Fans think so

  20-04-2024 02:16 via ocregister.com
  
  What started as a few lone Swifties casting early speculation that Taylor Swift would join Lana Del Rey doing her Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival headliner set has become a full-blown internet conspiracy.
  Taking to X and TikTok, fans of both songstresses have collected plenty of evidence for why they don’t think they’re crazy. Here’s the rundown of why they think it could happen:At #Coachella so can’t listen to #TaylorSwift album properly, buuuut I will likely
  
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• Amid valedictorian protest, USC scrubs outside commencement speakers, honorees

  20-04-2024 01:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Asna Tabassum, USC’s class of 2024 valedictorian and a first-generation, South Asian American Muslim, was previously announced as the school’s valedictorian, giving a speech at its Friday, May 10 commencement. But on April 15, officials backtracked the decision, citing safety issues after pro-Israel groups expressed concerns over Tabassum’s alleged antisemitic views. (Photo courtesy of Enjy El-Kadi, CAIR-LA)
  Following uproar over the decision to bar valedictorian Asna Tabassum
  
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• 4 Inland men sentenced to prison for roles in Jan. 6 Capitol riot

  20-04-2024 01:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Four Inland Empire residents who traveled together to Washington, D.C. to attend then-President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally and later crossed police lines to ascend the West Terrace of the Capitol carrying bear spray were sentenced to federal prison on Friday, April 19.
  Erik Scott Warner, 48, of Menifee, was sentenced to 2 years, 3 months; Felipe Antonio Martinez, 50, of Lake Elsinore, was sentenced to 1 year, 9 months; Derek Kinnison, 42, of Lake Elsinore, was
  
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• Coachella 2024: See photos of fans, fashion from Day 1 of festival’s Weekend 2

  20-04-2024 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  From music to fashion, here’s everything we saw during Day 1 of Weekend 2 at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Friday, April 19.
  Aissa Perico of Fresno poses for a photograph during day one of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on Friday, April 19, 2024. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
  Fans of DJ Sinca dance during her performance on the Do Lab stage at the Coachella Valley Music an
  
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• Coachella 2024: A trio of the art pieces join festival’s large-scale immersive show

  20-04-2024 01:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Dozens of people made their way toward the Coachella Stage shortly after the gates opened on the first day of weekend two of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Most people weren’t heading to the stage to save their spots for Jaqck Glam’s opening set though.
  Instead many headed to a trio of spots where they could take selfies, maybe get some inspiration, and even find a little shade as they explored Coachella’s immersive large-scale art displays.
  Festivalgoers navigat
  
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• Coachella 2024: 3 art pieces join festival’s large-scale, immersive show

  20-04-2024 01:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Dozens of people made their way toward the Coachella Stage shortly after the gates opened on the first day of weekend two of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
  They weren’t all going to the stage to save their spots for Jaqck Glam’s opening set, though.
  Instead many headed to a trio of spots where they could take selfies, maybe get some inspiration, and even find a little shade as they explored Coachella’s immersive large-scale art displays.
  Festivalgoers navigate th
  
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• Clippers navigated regular season filled with twists and turns

  20-04-2024 01:41 via ocregister.com
  
  The Clippers have arrived at the playoffs after a season of change, sacrifice and one late U-turn that led to a 51-win season, a Pacific Division title and a brush with the top seed in the Western Conference before landing at the No. 4 spot.
  The Clippers head into the postseason with high expectations of turning their season-long twists into an NBA championship, starting with Game 1 of their best-of-seven series against No. 5 seed Dallas Mavericks on Sunday afternoon at Crypto.com Arena.
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• The Audible: What’s better than playoff time in L.A.? (Maybe free chicken?)

  20-04-2024 01:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Jim Alexander: Before we get into what really is the best time of the year in this town – three playoff series going pretty much concurrently – one last charming NBA regular-season moment courtesy of the People’s Choice, Boban Marjanovic.
  It was last weekend’s Clippers-Houston season finale. The game was pretty much decided, the season was pretty much in the books (Clippers destined for Dallas, the Rockets headed home), and Boban went to the line for two free throws late
  
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• Chicago’s response to migrant influx stirs longstanding frustrations among Black residents

  20-04-2024 01:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT BROWN
  CHICAGO — The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black neighborhood it served, symbolizing a city indifferent to their interests.
  So when the city reopened Wadsworth last year to shelter hundreds of migrants without seeking community input, it added insult to injury. Across Chicago, Black residents are frustrated that long-standing needs are not being met while the city’s newly arrived are cared for with a sense of urg
  
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• Governor Xavier Becerra? We can’t think of worse idea

  20-04-2024 01:03 via ocregister.com
  
  We were taken aback by a report in Politico that U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, the former California attorney general and member of Congress, is mulling a run for governor in 2026. The sources were anonymous, but Becerra has amassed a large war chest. If you think Gov. Gavin Newsom has been a problematic governor, we’ve got news for you: It can always get worse.
  Becerra is far to the left in his policies, but as AG he also was a tool of powerful police unions. Wh
  
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• Angels’ Brandon Drury has special appreciation for Cincinnati

  20-04-2024 00:40 via ocregister.com
  
  CINCINNATI — The lineup wasn’t the only place Brandon Drury was happy to return to Friday night.
  After missing two games with a hamstring injury and being limited to pinch-hitting duties on Thursday in Tampa Bay, Drury was batting fifth as the designated hitter in his first return to Great American Ball Park since the Cincinnati Reds traded him at the deadline in 2022.
  “It’s actually pretty cool being back here because this is when I got my career back on track,” Dr
  
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• Aliso Viejo residents claim herbicide spraying near their homes is making them sick

  20-04-2024 00:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Carolyn McCuan, a 39-year-old marathon runner, had been feeling unusually tired for months when she decided on the afternoon of June 28, 2023, to take a rejuvenating walk along Aliso Viejo’s tree-lined, picturesque Wood Canyon Trail encircling Canyon View Park.
  As McCuan approached the entrance of the 12-acre park bordering her home, she spotted a white pickup truck belonging to Irvine-based Mission Landscape Cos. parked along Canyon Vistas.
  An ominous red decal with a skull and crossbones
  
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• Huntington Beach Councilmember Tony Strickland is running for state Senate

  20-04-2024 00:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach Councilmember Tony Strickland announced this week that he will run for state Senate in District 36, hoping to replace Sen. Janet Nguyen who is running for the OC Board of Supervisors.
  “We are unbelievably on the wrong track in every category,” Strickland said when asked why he was running. “Gov. (Gavin) Newsom and this (Democrat) supermajority seem dead set on turning California into San Francisco, and families around the state don’t want to turn into San
  
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• UCLA forward Emily Bessoir announces she is leaving

  20-04-2024 00:08 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA women’s basketball player Emily Bessoir announced in a social media post Friday that she is leaving the Bruins.
  “Words can’t describe how much the last four years have meant to me,” Bessoir wrote in the post. “I am overwhelmed by the support, generosity and love I received while playing, being injured and while being myself outside of basketball.”
  View this post on InstagramA post shared by Emily Bessoir (@embessoir)A spokesperson for UCLA women’s b
  
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• Disneyland replaces lamp posts as precautionary measure

  19-04-2024 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland has begun removing and replacing lamp posts throughout the Anaheim theme park as a precautionary measure after high winds in November toppled a Town Square lamp post that left several visitors injured.
  Disneyland has removed and is replacing lamp posts near the Jolly Holiday and Rancho del Zocalo restaurants and Pirates of the Caribbean attraction as a precaution.
  ALSO SEE: Disneyland’s Autopia cars to go fully electric by 2026
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• Why it’s not a happy 420 for many California cannabis dispensaries

  19-04-2024 23:53 via ocregister.com
  
  In cannabis culture, 420 — April 20 — is a day to celebrate.
  But for many in California’s legal cannabis industry, there’s little cause for revelry most days, according to experts who say high taxes, burdensome regulations and illegal sales are crushing entrepreneurs’ dreams.
  RELATED: How 4/20 grew from humble roots to marijuana’s high holiday
  “I get calls every week from mom-and-pop operators that were excited about legal cannabis, that invested their l
  
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• All-County boys wrestling: Fountain Valley’s Ryland Whitworth is the O.C. wrestler of the year

  19-04-2024 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  ALL-COUNTY BOYS WRESTLING TEAM 2023-24
  Fountain Valley wrestler Ryland Whitworth was the Gold Division champion at 215 pounds in the CIF Southern Section Masters Meet at Palm Springs High School. (Photo by Steve Fryer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  WRESTLER OF THE YEAR
  Ryland Whitworth, Fountain Valley, Senior
  Ryland Whitworth went into his senior season expecting that an injury-free season would be an award-winning season.
  That expectation came true.
  Whitworth was a CIF Southern Section champion
  
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• Kings’ playoff rivalry with the Oilers is now a trilogy

  19-04-2024 23:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Ali vs Frazier. Holyfield vs Bowe. The Kings vs. the Edmonton Oilers?
  In their third bout in three years, Anze Kopitar and Connor McDavid’s clubs might take their place among the storied heavyweight trilogies of all time, and this time all the punishment will be meted out on skates.
  In each of the past two Stanley Cup Playoffs, it was the Kings left battered and dejected on the icy canvas when the final bell rang. The Oilers eliminated them in a seven-game slugfest in 2022, followed by a s
  
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• USC spring football game preview: Breakout candidates and what to watch

  19-04-2024 23:10 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — A glint sparkled in Jacobe Covington’s eye when asked about USC’s new secondary schemes Thursday, a mischievous smirk creeping from the corners of his mouth.
  “We got a lil’ surprise for these other teams,” the junior cornerback said, voice building with excitement.
  Elements of such surprise will reveal themselves at noon Saturday, at USC’s spring game free to the public, where loyalists will stream in in droves for a glimpse at a new-look-r
  
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• California government can’t get education or homelessness right. Why trust it with your healthcare?

  19-04-2024 23:10 via ocregister.com
  
  California is losing taxpayers by the hundreds of thousands for several years running, largely due to the overall lack of affordability.  Fundamental programs like education, public health and public safety are failing.  California has the highest or close to the highest costs in the nation for housing, rent, electricity, gas, transportation, and even food.
  If single-payer health care in California wasn’t a pipe dream already, it must be now.  The massive costs of such a pro
  
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• Man who set himself on fire across from courthouse where Trump is on trial is in critical condition

  19-04-2024 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  The man who set himself on fire across the street from the courthouse where Donald Trump’s hush money trial is taking place is in critical condition in a burn unit, police said Friday.
  The man first walked into the park around 1:30 p.m., took out pamphlets espousing conspiracy theories and spread them around the park before he doused himself in an accelerant and set himself on fire, officials said.
  Officials believe the man had traveled from Florida to New York in the past few days.
  Author
  
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• Swanson: Clippers-Mavericks III could be epic – if Kawhi Leonard plays

  19-04-2024 22:31 via ocregister.com
  
  PLAYA VISTA – A word with the basketball deities, if I may?
  Small ask, please?
  Can we get Kawhi Leonard on the court for the Clippers’ first-round Western Conference playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks? Pleeease?
  Because, without Kawhi – currently considered questionable with what his team is describing as “very, very stubborn” right knee inflammation – this won’t be the first-round series basketball fans want to see.
  But with him? This will be t
  
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• Bomber targets Japanese workers in Pakistan; all survive

  19-04-2024 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By Adil Jawad | Associated Press
  KARACHI, Pakistan — A suicide bomber targeted a van carrying Japanese nationals in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on Friday, police said. The Japanese nationals escaped unharmed but officials later said one bystander was killed.
  Initially, police said the van was heading to an industrial area where the five Japanese nationals worked when it came under attack, local police chief Arshad Awan said. Police escorting the Japanese returned fire, killing a
  
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• Women animators create a safe space, support at CSUF

  19-04-2024 22:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Women in Animation was formed more than 30 years ago to support and grow the scant number of women working in the field of animation.
  The nonprofit has grown to 11,000 members worldwide and is a preeminent advocacy group supporting female-identifying and nonbinary people in animation, visual effects and gaming.
  WIA Student Collectives, including the WIA Cal State Fullerton Collective, have played a significant role in the nonprofit’s growth, enabling university students to build connection
  
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