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May Parade comes back to Old Towne Orange after decades on hiatus

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After a 28-year hiatus, the May Parade is coming back to Old Towne Orange on Saturday, May 4, with thousands expected to be in attendance. Orange Chamber of Commerce officials have long been planning to revive the parade – which was discontinued in 1992 because of a lack of funding – to showcase the city’s…

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Trump says asylum seekers should have to pay a fee to apply

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By JILL COLVINocr-z-trump-asylum-0430OCR-Z-TRUMP-ASYLUM-0430 WASHINGTON  — President Donald Trump is proposing charging asylum seekers a fee to process their applications as he continues to try to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants seeking to cross into the U.S. In a presidential memorandum signed Monday, Trump directed his attorney general and acting homeland security…

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Orange County faces balancing act with John Wayne Airport plans

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Orange County supervisors are confronting a dilemma at John Wayne Airport that illustrates the challenges of serving in local government: how to satisfy the demands of new, larger private planes, while also preserving a place for mom-and-pop pilots, and assuaging residents’ concerns about increased flights, noise and air pollution. The question is how, or whether,…

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Best place to sell a home in the U.S.? Top 4 markets are in California

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One group that likely will not complain about California’s high home prices: Sellers. The Golden State was home to the nation’s top four metropolitan areas for largest seller profits in the first quarter. That’s an eye-catching snapshot of the state’s home-price boom, which is good for sellers and not so good for wannabe owners, according…

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Volunteers get emergency training on how to bottle feed kittens, as feral population soars at Orange County animal shelter

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Alexina Estrada, extra help foster coordinator for the OCAC community outreach team, leads a kitty bottle-feeding clinic, April 28, 2019, to teach fosters how to care for the hundreds of neonatal kitties coming to the shelter. Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer Bill Bower of Anaheim Hills feeds a kitten at the after attending a bottle-feeding clinic,…