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Chip Kelly finalizes UCLA football coaching staff

UCLA head coach Chip Kelly finalized his coaching staff Tuesday, announcing three new hires, including quarterbacks coach Dana Bible.

The new staff includes six new hires, most of whom have prior experience coaching with Kelly at the head coach’s stops in college and the NFL, and four returning assistant coaches.

Bible, 64, was most recently an offensive analyst for Kelly with the San Francisco 49ers in 2016. Although the Bruins will not have a separate offensive coordinator under Kelly, Bible has served as an offensive coordinator at seven universities and with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1998.

UCLA also announced the hiring of Roy Manning as outside linebackers and special teams coach. Manning spent the previous three years at Washington State coaching outside linebackers.

Manning and Vince Oghobaase, Kelly’s new defensive line coach, are the only defensive assistants without prior coordinating experience. Oghobaase, a former San Franscisco 49ers assistant defensive line coach who worked with Kelly in 2016, will work with defensive coordinator Jerry Azzinaro, previously the Cal defensive line coach, defensive backs coach Paul Rhoads and linebackers coach Don Pellum.

Kelly retained four assistants from the previous UCLA staff: wide receivers coach Jimmie Dougherty, running backs coach DeShaun Foster, offensive line coach Hank Fraley and Angus McClure, who will move from defensive line to tight ends.

McClure, entering his 12th season with the Bruins, is the longest-tenured assistant coach on the staff. Dougherty, Foster and Fraley all completed their first seasons at UCLA last year.

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Anaheim adds security as officials brace for homeless exodus

When Orange County Sheriff’s deputies began notifying people on Monday, Jan. 22, that it is time to vacate the Santa Ana River trail homeless encampment, Anaheim officials were prepared.

Some residents worried people leaving the camp would move to nearby parks or neighborhoods, but city officials said they’ve taken steps to ensure that doesn’t happen.

Officials said they’ll continue to offer people living along the river trail assistance such as hotel vouchers and bus tickets to rejoin family, but they’ve hedged against homeless settling down in city parks by hiring private security.

In addition to regular police patrols, guards from Lyons Security Services will patrol an unspecified number of parks across Anaheim during peak hours and after hours when parks are closed, city spokeswoman Erin Ryan said. She didn’t know whether the guards will be armed.

“We can’t allow the camping on the riverbed to be moved to other parks in our city,” Mayor Tom Tait said, but added, “The plan is that we won’t just tell people, ‘You can’t stay here’ without having a place for them to go.”

The security contract cost $50,000, and the city is putting $70,000 in leftover funding from its recent “community triage day” toward more homeless outreach and other services.

Tait said Orange County officials have indicated clearing the river trail encampments may take several weeks. The start of the operation appeared to go smoothly, with the county beginning trash cleanup and a handful of people packing up and departing Monday.

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