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• 2 convicted of human smuggling after Indian family froze to death on US-Canada border

  22-11-2024 21:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK VANCLEAVE and MICHAEL GOLDBERG
  FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — A jury convicted two men on Friday of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border during a 2022 blizzard.
  Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, an Indian national who prosecutors say went by the alias “Dirty Harry,” and Steve Shand, 50, an American from Florida, were part of a soph
  
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• Cook who kidnapped, raped woman walking home in Huntington Beach gets 30 years to life

  23-11-2024 03:36 via ocregister.com
  
  A Long Beach man pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Friday, Nov. 22 for his part in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 27-year-old woman in Huntington Beach.
  Angel Lopezevaristo, 33, pleaded guilty to kidnapping to commit a sexual assault, forcible rape and sexual penetration by foreign object with sentencing enhancements for kidnapping to commit a sex offense and inflicting great bodily injury in a sex offense, according to court records.
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Friday, Nov. 22

  23-11-2024 03:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Friday, Nov. 22
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  The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
  FRIDAY’S SCORES
  GIRLS TENNIS
  CIF/USTA PLAYOFFS
  SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL
  Round I
  Palos Verdes 6, San Luis Obispo 1
  Canyon Crest 4, Corona del Mar 3
  San
  
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• 80 Southern California independent bookstores need you. Here’s why

  23-11-2024 03:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Earlier this week, I had a passing thought to assemble a quick list of Southern California independent bookstores. But I found, even just writing down shops off the top of my head, that this list was longer than I’d imagined.
  I hit 10 stores, then 20, 35, 50. Finally, with some checking and a helpful nudge or two, I had tallied more than 70+ bookstores and counting, new and used. And that list didn’t include Barnes & Noble outlets, college bookstores, onl
  
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• Election 2024 Results: Derek Tran’s lead over Michelle Steel grows

  23-11-2024 03:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Democrat Derek Tran leads Rep. Michelle Steel, a Seal Beach Republican, by 519 votes in the race to represent California’s 45th congressional district, according to the tally released Friday evening from the Orange County Registrar of Voters.
  Tran, an Orange-based attorney, gained 59 votes over Steel in the latest count, which was limited to the Orange County section of the district. The Los Angeles County section of the district — which accounts for about 10% of CA-45 — did no
  
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• Dodgers agree to deals with Tony Gonsolin, Dustin May

  23-11-2024 03:08 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers tendered contract offers to eight of their 10 arbitration-eligible players before Friday’s deadline and even reached agreements with two of those players.
  Tony Gonsolin and Dustin May – neither of whom pitched in the majors in 2024 while recovering from surgeries – agreed to one-year contracts for 2025. Gonsolin will make $5.4 million, a significant raise from the $3.4 million salary he made while rehabbing from Tommy John surgery in 2024.
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• Angels non-tender Patrick Sandoval, making him a free agent

  23-11-2024 02:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Left-hander Patrick Sandoval, the Angels’ Opening Day starter last season, was one of four players who became a free agent by being non-tendered before Friday’s 5 p.m. PT deadline.
  Sandoval, who is rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, would have made about $6 million in arbitration if the Angels had tendered him a contract. The Angels can still negotiate with Sandoval. He is expected back from surgery sometime late in the 2025 season, so any deal he signs would likely be a two-year dea
  
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• Violent threats against LA FBI agents land Sun Valley man in prison for 15 months

  23-11-2024 02:38 via ocregister.com
  
  A San Fernando Valley man was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Friday, Nov. 22 for threatening an FBI field office in Los Angeles.
  Mark William Anten, 53, of Sun Valley, was convicted after a three-day trial in June of two federal counts of threats by interstate communication. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Wesley L. Hsu.
  From July to December 2023, Anten sent threatening messages to the FBI, including threats to bomb the FBI’s office in Westwood, according to authorities.
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• Suspected cartel member arrested in Riverside knew authorities were tailing him, document says

  23-11-2024 02:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Undercover federal agents realized that they’d been made —  the 37-year-old driver turned again and again, and then went into a BMW dealership on Adams Street just east of the 91 Freeway in Riverside and then into a Honda one.
  Cristian Fernando Gutierrez-Ochoa, who federal authorities say is a high-ranking member of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, was onto the Drug Enforcement Administration agents. He actually started following one of the unmarked agents’ v
  
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• Here’s to hoping Trump delivers on some of his Libertarian promises

  23-11-2024 02:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Back in May, former President Donald Trump spoke at the Libertarian Party’s national convention directly soliciting the party’s nomination or at least votes.
  It was an unusual move for a former president to make such a direct appeal to a third party, especially one so ideologically inclined as the LP. But he managed to speak very much like a standard libertarian.
  “Well, in the last year, I’ve been indicted by the government on 91 different things so if I wasn’t a li
  
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• Lakers looking to bounce back from 1st home loss

  23-11-2024 02:31 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Orlando Magic, one of the league’s best defensive teams, were struggling to find answers to slow the Lakers’ offense on Thursday night.
  The Lakers, one of the league’s best offenses, scored 67 first-half points against the Magic and their 74th point early in the third when Anthony Davis made a floater with 9:34 left in the quarter, giving the Lakers a nine-point lead.
  But once the Magic went from playing man-to-man defense to a 2-3 zone, the Lakers&rsquo
  
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• Del Mar horse racing consensus picks for Saturday, November 23, 2024

  23-11-2024 02:26 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Del Mar horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Eddie Wilson, Kevin Modesti and Mark Ratzky. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Saturday, November 23, 2024.
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• Imprisoned at 9 in Japanese internment camp, Sam Mihara to deliver 2024 Jefferson Lecture

  23-11-2024 02:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Sam Mihara (Courtesy photo)
  Historian and educator Sam Mihara will deliver the 2024 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on the history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and his personal experiences as a prisoner at a U.S. relocation camp on Jan. 15 at the Japanese American National Museum and the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center in Little Tokyo, it was announced Friday.
  The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor t
  
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• Monrovia’s refreshed F.W. Burr House hits market for $2.2 million

  23-11-2024 02:18 via ocregister.com
  
  The front porch. (Courtesy of The Hillier Group at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties)
  The entry hall. (Courtesy of The Hillier Group at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties)
  The dining room. (Courtesy of The Hillier Group at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties)
  The living room. (Courtesy of The Hillier Group at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties)
  The new gourmet kitchen. (Courtesy of The Hillier Group at Berkshire Hathaway
  
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• Here are the latest species counts for California’s gray wolf packs

  23-11-2024 02:15 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s wolf packs
  California has a growing number of gray wolves howling in the wild and have been tracked for more than a dozen years.
  Gray wolves are native to California, but starting in the mid-19th century, European colonizers started hunting wolves to protect livestock. By the 1920s, wolves had been completely removed from the state. In 2011, that changed.
  The gray wolf (Canis lupus) is a recovering endangered species protected under the California Endangered Species Acts and U
  
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• LAFC’s Olivier Giroud aims for ‘more important goals’ in MLS playoffs

  23-11-2024 02:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Grimaced expressions appear like involuntary reflexes on the faces of goalscorers when things don’t go their way.
  “It’s normal for an attacker to be frustrated when you don’t score,” said Denis Bouanga, Los Angeles Football Club’s back-to-back 20-goal man. “That’s the same for me.”
  Bouanga didn’t exactly light it up when he arrived during the 2022 summer transfer window, taking six matches before scoring his first goal for LAFC.
  The lon
  
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• Riverside man who ‘took selfies’ with pistol, then accidently killed woman, gets 1 year in jail

  23-11-2024 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  A Riverside man who accidentally killed a 21-year-old woman during gunplay at a Woodcrest property was sentenced to one year in jail on Friday, Nov. 22.
  Brady Matthew Castillo, 23, of Riverside pleaded guilty in June to voluntary manslaughter, along with a sentence-enhancing gun-use allegation.
  The plea was directly to Riverside County Superior Court Judge Gary Polk, with objection from the District Attorney’s Office. Polk did not indicate a potential sentence at the time of the plea.
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• Riverside man who ‘took selfies’ with pistol, then accidentally killed woman, gets 1 year in jail

  23-11-2024 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  A Riverside man who accidentally killed a 21-year-old woman during gunplay at a Woodcrest property was sentenced to one year in jail on Friday, Nov. 22.
  Brady Matthew Castillo, 23, of Riverside pleaded guilty in June to voluntary manslaughter, along with a sentence-enhancing gun-use allegation.
  The plea was directly to Riverside County Superior Court Judge Gary Polk, with objection from the District Attorney’s Office. Polk did not indicate a potential sentence at the time of the plea.
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• Mixto gets former jockey back for Saturday’s Native Diver Stakes at Del Mar

  23-11-2024 01:29 via ocregister.com
  
  DEL MAR — Pacific Classic long shot champion Mixto completes his 2024 season Saturday in the last dirt stakes race of Del Mar’s fall meeting.
  Mixto, who more recently ran 11th here Nov. 2 in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, is the early second-favorite among six older horses entered in the $100,000 Grade III Native Diver Stakes.
  Mixto will carry the high weight of 125 pounds in the 1⅛-mile race. But he will have a hot hand back in the saddle in Antonio Fresu.
  Fresu, who took th
  
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• Whooping cough cases in California six times higher than last year, report shows

  23-11-2024 01:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The number of cases of pertussis, more commonly known as whooping cough, in California is over six times more than last year, according to a Sept. 2024 report released by the California Department of Public Health.
  Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory tract infection. Last year, between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30, there were 288 reported cases. So far this year in that same time frame, the number of cases is 1,744.
  Three major Southern California counties are seeing significantly higher ca
  
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• High school football: Live updates from Friday night’s semifinal playoff games

  23-11-2024 01:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Welcome to the Southern California News Group’s high school football score updates for Friday, Nov. 22.
  We’ll have updates on the CIF-SS and L.A. City semifinals being played throughout the area.
  Stay on top of all of the action with our Friday Night Football host, John W. Davis. At the end of the night he will have a video that wraps up all of the news and highlights.
  Tonight’s scoreboard
  We’ll be updating the scores from all of tonight’s CIF-SS and L.A. City semif
  
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• Orange County Community Foundation celebrates 35 years with surprises

  23-11-2024 01:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Shelley Hoss shared a story with attendees at the Orange County Community Foundation’s annual gathering in 2023, and the CEO moved the crowd with the tale of her family’s longtime connection with a soldier.
  On Thursday, Hoss topped off the story by introducing that soldier, Army Master Sgt. Daniel Hadder, as a surprise guest at OCCF’s 35th anniversary celebration with a packed ballroom of approximately 750 people at the Hyatt Regency Irvine.
  The two met for the first time in pe
  
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• In-N-Out Burger’s 2025 collector T-shirt is on sale

  23-11-2024 01:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Once again, In-N-Out Burger celebrates California dreaming with its 2025 collector T-shirt.
  The garment is black and features an In-N-Out neon sign on the front with the word California underneath. The back features cars at sunset with the ocean on one side and an In-N-Out drive-thru on the other.
  Related linksIn-N-Out Burger-backed car cruise and dinner coming to Orange County
  In-N-Out Burger rocks to fight opioid abuse in House of Blues concertsCheck the cars and the pedestrians for Easter egg
  
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• Ravens QB Lamar Jackson is ‘one of one’ and Chargers’ next big test

  23-11-2024 00:43 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — Lamar Jackson is the kind of quarterback who has troubled the Chargers.
  Aw, who are we kidding?
  He’s the kind of quarterback who troubles everyone in the NFL.
  He’s a passer. He’s a runner. He’s a playmaker. He’s a destroyer of defenses.
  “He’s one of one,” Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter said Friday.
  Minter also called Jackson “the most electric quarterback in the history of the National Football League.”
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• Southern California expected to break travel record for Thanksgiving 2024

  23-11-2024 00:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California is gearing up for a busy week of travel this Thanksgiving, with 6.58 million residents expected to hit the roads, board trains and fly in planes.
  That’s a 2.8% increase from last year, the American Automobile Association states in its travel forecast.
  With many venturing at least 50 miles from home during the week, AAA predicts that Tuesday, Nov. 26, will be the busiest day for car travel.
  Between Tuesday, Nov. 26, and Monday, Dec. 2, nearly 80 million people across the
  
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• State championship reign for Santa Margarita girls golf ends with runner-up finish to Torrey Pines

  23-11-2024 00:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSanta Margarita’s reign as the CIF State champion in girls golf ended but not without a major stand.
  In their bid to capture a third consecutive state title, the Eagles placed a close second to Torrey Pines at the CIF State Championships on Wednesday at San Gabriel Country Club in the San Gabriel Valley.
  Santa Margarita shot an 18-over-par 378 to finish three strokes behind Torrey Pines, which fell
  
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• ‘Real Housewife’ Shannon Beador settles $75K facelift lawsuit filed by ex-boyfriend John Janssen

  23-11-2024 00:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Shannon Storms Beador of the “The Real Housewives of Orange County” and ex-boyfriend John Janssen have settled a lawsuit over an alleged $75,000 loan he gave her for a facelift, ending a legal dispute that largely played out in front of TV cameras rather than in a courtroom.
  Janssen earlier this month filed a notice of settlement in the Orange County Superior Court Case over payments he described as a loan but that she countered were gifts, clearing the way for the case to be dismiss
  
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• Lax oversight again blamed for $275,000 OC contract for services never provided

  22-11-2024 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County’s oversight of pandemic relief contracts is again under fire after revelations that the county paid $275,000 to a nonprofit health organization for services that were never provided.
  This latest black eye comes on the heels of a corruption scandal in which the county gave millions in pandemic relief funds to another charity for a nutrition program that provided only a fraction of the required meals.
  In this case, Mind OC, a wellness organization dedicated to solving Orange Co
  
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• Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ third bid to be released on bail won’t be decided until next week

  22-11-2024 23:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK
  NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs tried for a third time Friday to persuade a judge to let him leave jail while he awaits his sex trafficking trial, but a decision won’t come until next week.
  Judge Arun Subramanian said at a hearing that he will release his decision on Combs’ latest request for bail after Combs’ lawyers and federal prosecutors file letters addressing outstanding issues. Those letters are due at noon on Monday,
  
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• Fontana man gets life for robbing Secret Service agent in Tustin at gunpoint

  22-11-2024 23:37 via ocregister.com
  
  A 32-year-old Fontana man received 29 years to life in prison on Friday, Nov. 22, for robbing an off-duty U.S. Secret Service agent at gunpoint in a Tustin neighborhood shortly after a presidential event in Los Angeles.
  Jamonte Fitzgerald Johnson — a third-striker who was on federal probation for a weapons violation and parole for making criminal threats — was convicted in October of second-degree robbery with the use of a firearm for holding up the agent who was returning from worki
  
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