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• 1 detained as Little Mountain fire in San Bernardino burns 30 acres, threatens structures

  15-01-2025 23:57 via ocregister.com
  
  One person was detained after a vegetation fire broke out Wednesday, Jan. 15, in San Bernardino with the potential to threaten structures in the area.
  Crews responded around 2 p.m. to Little Mountain Drive and West Edgehill Road, where the Little Mountain fire was burning around 30 acres as of around 2:45 p.m., said Eric Sherwin, a spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Fire Department. That area is northeast of the 210 Freeway/215 Freeway interchange.
  San Bernardino police detained one pers
  
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• Huntington Beach football coach Brett Brown resigns after nine seasons

  16-01-2025 09:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowHuntington Beach football coach Brett Brown, who guided the Oilers to the playoffs the past three seasons, has resigned, Huntington Beach Union High School District athletic director Jim Perry confirmed Wednesday night.
  Brown, who would have entered his 10th season this fall, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
  Huntington Beach finished 7-5 this past season. The team placed third in
  
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• After humbling loss, JSerra boys basketball shows toughness in win over Mater Dei

  16-01-2025 08:56 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — JSerra’s boys basketball team has experienced the highest of highs in the Trinity League and the lowest of lows in the past five days.
  The Lions bounced back from their worst loss of the season to beat Mater Dei 60-52 on Wednesday at JSerra High.
  JSerra forward Ryan Doane can taste victory as he leaves the game with seconds left on the clock against Mater Dei in a Trinity League basketball game in San Juan Capistrano on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (Photo by Paul R
  
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• Kennedy boys basketball alone atop Orange Coast League after win over Katella

  16-01-2025 08:16 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — The Kennedy boys basketball team exploited its clear height advantage against Katella for a 74-66 victory in an Orange Coast League game Wednesday at Katella High School.
  Senior Kelvin Paul, who stands 6-foot-5, scored 18 points and pulled down 11 rebounds to help the Fighting Irish (18-4, 3-0) take over sole possession of first place in the league standings with their 15th win in a row.
  The Knights (12-6, 3-1) rode a nine-game winning streak into the contest.
  Also scoring in dou
  
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• Girls basketball roundup: Buena Park seniors achieve scoring milestones in league win

  16-01-2025 07:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSeniors Gloria Barrera and Mya Barnes reached major scoring milestones Tuesday as Buena Park’s girls basketball team continued to roll in the Empire League.
  Barrera recorded her 2,000th career point and Barnes notched her 1,000 career point in a 70-57 victory against visiting Segerstrom.
  Barrera, who entered the week leading Orange County in scoring with a 29.2 average, finished with 32 points. Barn
  
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• Clippers set franchise record with 59-point rout of Nets

  16-01-2025 07:19 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — Two days earlier, Clippers star Kawhi Leonard said he was content to take his comeback slowly, patient to play limited minutes while continuing to get his game in order after a lengthy layoff. He missed the first 34 games of the season while tending his right knee.
  On Wednesday night, he showed what he could do if the restraints came off.
  Leonard scored a game-high 23 points on 8-of-11 shooting in his first significant minutes since returning to the lineup three games ago. Afte
  
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• Larry Elder: California voters have only themselves to blame for this man-made mess

  16-01-2025 07:10 via ocregister.com
  
  I received this letter on the second day of the Palisades Fire, the largest of five fires burning in Southern California:
  “You f—-ing moron. You stupid republcans (sic) have denied climate change — and now you want to blame democrats? You are an anti intellectual idiot. … F—k OFF.”
  Here are the grim numbers: 24 dead; 12,000 structures, including homes and businesses, completely or partially burned; 300,000 people have been evacuated, with nearly 83,000 still
  
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• Lakers get defensive in 2nd half to beat Heat, end 3-game skid

  16-01-2025 06:52 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — When it came to the Lakers’ declining defense, “connected” was the buzzword ahead of their matchup against the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.
  Because in their eyes, when they’re in sync and playing defense as a unit, they can compete with any team in the NBA, Coach JJ Redick said.
  And in their 117-108 victory over the Heat, they showed exactly what that meant.
  After a pedestrian first-half defensive performance, the Lakers turned up their defensive exe
  
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• Aliso Niguel makes the plays at the end to beat Beckman in Sea View League boys basketball

  16-01-2025 06:44 via ocregister.com
  
  TUSTIN – When new leagues were created in Orange County boys basketball before this season, the concept was to create competitive groups that would play close games.
  Wednesday’s game at Beckman High was what was in mind.
  Aliso Niguel beat Beckman 55-53 in a Sea View League game in which both teams had the lead multiple times.
  Beckman had a 12-11 lead at the end of the first quarter. Aliso Niguel led 29-22 at halftime. Beckman was up 41-38 at the end of the third quarter.
  In the final
  
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• Aliso Niguel boys basketball makes key plays at the end to beat Beckman

  16-01-2025 06:44 via ocregister.com
  
  TUSTIN – When new leagues were created in Orange County boys basketball before this season, the concept was to create competitive groups that would play close games.
  Wednesday’s game at Beckman High was exactly that.
  Aliso Niguel beat Beckman 55-53 in a Sea View League game in which both teams had the lead multiple times.
  Beckman had a 12-11 lead at the end of the first quarter. Aliso Niguel led 29-22 at halftime. Beckman was up 41-38 at the end of the third quarter.
  In the final min
  
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• Letter: Kudos to Assemblymember Kate Sanchez for trying to protect female sports

  16-01-2025 06:32 via ocregister.com
  
  As a father and a grandfather of young girls who participate in organized sports, I salute Assemblymember Kate Sanchez for introducing a bill banning anyone born as a biological male from competing against young girls in high school sports.
  In Novembers election, American voters sent a clear message that our country was headed in the wrong direction, and we needed change.
  With the passage of Proposition 36, and proposals from leaders like Assemblymember Sanchez, maybe California voters are
  
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• More suspects linked to small fires are arrested and charged in LA County

  16-01-2025 06:24 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Two more people were behind bars Wednesday for allegedly setting small fires in Los Angeles amid high fire-danger conditions as crews continued efforts to contain two major blazes that have killed over two dozen people and destroyed thousands of structures.
  Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said officers responded at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday to Glenoaks and Van Nuys boulevards, where a resident had detained a suspect who allegedly set fire to a tree. The resident was able to do
  
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• UCLA women beat Penn State in relocated game to extend program-best start

  16-01-2025 05:59 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — UCLA did all it could to create a home environment inside of Long Beach State’s Walter Pyramid on Wednesday night. The Bruins’ top-ranked women’s basketball team brought its DJ and game operations crew. Blue lights shined from the ceiling and a blue “LA Strong” graphic stretched across the video board.
  The game between UCLA and Penn State was relocated from Pauley Pavilion to LBSU due to concerns about the ongoing wildfires across Southern Califor
  
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• Here’s what it’s like to manage Cal Fire’s aircraft during a massive wildfire

  16-01-2025 04:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Air attack
  How firefighting the Palisades and Eaton fires is coordinated from the sky.
  Busy skies
  Cal Fire had more than 60 aircraft within its firefighting fleet in the effort to combat fires throughout Los Angeles.
  Cal Fire’s fleet of fixed and rotary-wing aircraft make it the largest civil aerial firefighting fleet in the world.
  If air traffic controller is one of the most stressful jobs and firefighting is one of the most dangerous, then you get an idea of what it’s like to be an
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Wednesday, Jan. 15

  16-01-2025 03:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, Jan. 15
  Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register.
  The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
  WEDNESDAY’S SCORES
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  EXPRESS LEAGUE
  Samueli Academy 62, Acaciawood Academy 45
  BOYS SOCCER
  TRINITY LEAGUE
  JSerra 2, Santa Margarita 0
  ORAN
  
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• Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker races postponed due to wildfires

  16-01-2025 03:43 via ocregister.com
  
  The 47th annual Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker event scheduled for Feb. 1-2 has been postponed.
  “To our participants, volunteers, and local communities, the L.A. Chinatown Firecracker Run Committee (LACFRC) has made the difficult decision to postpone the L.A. Chinatown Firecracker Events to a later date in 2025,” the LACFRC wrote in a press release. “Virtual events will also be postponed to align with the live events. As fire conditions remain significant, a comprehensive up
  
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• Swanson: Think Justin Herbert is overrated? Jim Harbaugh thinks you’re wrong

  16-01-2025 03:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh speaks to reporters during a season-ending press conference on Wednesday at the team’s headquarters in El Segundo. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)
  Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh, right, speaks to reporters as general manager Joe Hortiz looks on during a season-ending press conference on Wednesday at the team’s headquarters in El Segundo. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)
  Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh speaks t
  
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• Rose Bowl becomes ‘home’ to thousands of first responders fighting Eaton fire

  16-01-2025 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Firefighters have come from all over California and even other countries to battle the flames sweeping through Los Angeles County.
  When they can get a reprieve from the front lines, they can’t go home to recharge, so in the closest way possible, a home has been created for them in an unlikely place: the Rose Bowl.
  It’s just 10 minutes away from where the 14,000-acre Eaton fire has destroyed homes and businesses by the thousands, but for at least a few hours it’s a place to rest
  
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• Rose Bowl becomes ‘home’ to thousand of first responders fighting Eaton fire

  16-01-2025 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Firefighters have come from all over California and even other countries to battle the flames sweeping through Los Angeles County.
  When they can get a reprieve from the front lines, they can’t go home to recharge, so in the closest way possible, a home has been created for them in an unlikely place: the Rose Bowl.
  It’s just 10 minutes away from where the 14,000-acre Eaton fire has destroyed homes and businesses by the thousands, but for at least a few hours it’s a place to rest
  
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• How Inland Empire residents are helping Los Angeles-area fire victims

  16-01-2025 01:52 via ocregister.com
  
  As two wind-driven and deadly wildfires continue to rip through the Los Angeles basin, Inland Empire residents — no strangers to the devastation of wildfire — are working to help support victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires.
  “Dude, how can you not?” Sunny Rozzi, co-owner of Olive Avenue Market in Redlands, said Tuesday, Jan. 14. “I grew up in this area and had experience with brush fires.”
  As of Wednesday, Jan. 15, the Palisades fire, which started in Paci
  
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• South Africa ends mine rescue operation with at least 78 dead and 246 survivors

  16-01-2025 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY
  STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies after hundreds of miners were trapped for months in one of the country’s deepest mines while working illegally.
  At least 78 miners were confirmed dead, police said, and 246 survivors had been rescued. The victims were suspected to have died of sta
  
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• Cooling inflation revives hopes for Fed rate cuts

  16-01-2025 01:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Benign inflation data has revived the case for additional Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts.
  On Wednesday, the 10-year Treasury yield fell 14 basis points to 4.65%, its biggest daily decline since August. The drop in yields occurred as traders resumed betting on another Fed rate cut by July.
  Traders ignored the strong December employment data released Friday, which sparked a surge toward the highest levels in months as it sowed doubts that policymakers would cut rates at all this year. The
  
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• Orange County boys wrestling rankings, Jan. 15

  16-01-2025 01:30 via ocregister.com
  
  ORANGE COUNTY BOYS WRESTLING RANKINGS
  (Data supplied by Calgrappler.com and The California Wrestler)
  106 pounds: 1. Sammy Sanchez, Esperanza, Fr.; 2. Chris Qureshi, Fountain Valley, Jr.; 3. Rikki Villasenor, Newport Harbor, Jr.
  113 pounds: 1. Hunter Jauregui, Fountain Valley, So.; 2. Max Murillo, Esperanza, So.; 3. Massimo Ortiz, Servite, So.
  120 pounds: 1. Liam Qureshi, Fountain Valley, Jr.; 2. Joseph Gonthier, Laguna Hills, Jr.; 3. Marcello Calavitta, Esperanza, So.
  126 pounds: 1. Kavi Garvey,
  
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• Angels ink Gabriel Davalillo, top catcher on international market

  16-01-2025 01:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The Angels signed catcher Gabriel Davalillo, considered the top available catcher on the international market, as one of their 18 signings on Wednesday, the first day of the international signing period.
  Davalillo, who is from Venezuela, was ranked 17th overall among international prospects by MLB Pipeline. The Angels signed him to a $2 million bonus, the largest of any of the players signed on Wednesday.
  Davalillo, 17, is 5-foot-11, 215 pounds, and he has the potential to be a 25-home run hitte
  
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• UCLA football breakdown: How the Bruins look in the secondary

  16-01-2025 00:57 via ocregister.com
  
  “YEE YEE.”
  It’s a phrase that’s going to be heard a lot around the UCLA football facilities and seen online countless times in the near future. It’s assistant coach Demetrice Martin’s signature sound.
  Martin was hired as the pass game coordinator and secondary coach for UCLA football on Dec. 16, marking his return to the Bruins. He previously coached in Westwood from 2012-2017.
  “Coach Meat knows what it takes to win at UCLA,” head coach DeShaun Fos
  
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• Rodney Nickerson, 83-year-old engineer with ties to Nickerson Gardens, among Eaton fire victims

  16-01-2025 00:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Rodney Nickerson, an engineer with deep family ties to the broader Los Angeles community, resisted pleas from his family to evacuate as flames approached the Altadena home where he had lived for more than five decades.
  “Despite the dangerous conditions, my grandfather insisted on staying in his home, a place that was deeply meaningful to our family,” Chase Newton, Nickerson’s grandson, wrote on GoFundMe. “His last words to my mother were, ‘I’ll be here tomorro
  
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• Chargers’ Jim Harbaugh, Joe Hortiz pleased but not satisfied by 2024 results

  16-01-2025 00:49 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh and general manager Joe Hortiz acknowledged the obvious during their season-ending session with reporters on Wednesday. They agreed they did not achieve the “ultimate success” in the NFL in their first seasons with the team.
  They did achieve plenty of success, though, and that’s more than enough to build on for next season.
  Harbaugh took responsibility for the Chargers’ AFC wild-card loss to the Houston Texans on Saturday, as
  
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• Albano’s Fab 5: Orange County girls basketball standouts last week, Jan. 15

  16-01-2025 00:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowDan Albano’s Fab 5 outstanding girls basketball players last week, Jan. 15:
  Sawyer Blumenkranz, Corona del Mar, So., G
  The point guard had 13 points and six rebounds to help the Sea Kings defeat Los Alamitos 50-31 in the Sunset League. Corona del Mar is 6-0 in league.
  Ashlee Inouye, Sonora, Sr., G
  Inouye scored 22 points, including seven 3-pointers, to help rally the Raiders past Pacifica Christian
  
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• Trump’s outsider Cabinet picks are rapidly gaining support for confirmation

  16-01-2025 00:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO
  WASHINGTON (AP) — One by one, all the president-elect’ s men, and women, are falling into place in his Cabinet.
  While Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth’s nomination was teetering toward collapse just weeks ago, he now appears on track for confirmation after a fiery Senate hearing that focused on his drinking, views of women in combat and lack of high-profile management experience for the top U.S. military job.
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• Writer Octavia Butler imagined an LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived

  16-01-2025 00:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By HILLEL ITALIE and CHRIS PIZZELLO
  ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch fire last week but suffered “minimal damage,” according to a statement on the cemetery’s web site.
  A spokesperson at the Mountain View cemetery confirmed the accuracy of the website’s announcement to The Associated Press, but would not comment on
  
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