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• Alexander: Yes, the Angels will be back on cable … but what happens down the road?

  16-11-2024 02:46 via ocregister.com
  
  The world according to Jim:
  • At last, the Angels have a TV destination for 2025. Diamond Sports Group, whose TV contracts with a bunch of major league teams were in jeopardy, has escaped bankruptcy, and all is right with the world again.
  Right? Right??? …
  • Actually, the world of televised sports is transforming rapidly around us, and it’s not a bad idea to begin preparing now. And it’s not just junk events, like the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul “fight” wit
  
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• Clippers routed by Rockets in their NBA Cup opener

  16-11-2024 05:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer
  HOUSTON — The Clippers got Texas two-stomped in Houston.
  Jabari Smith Jr. had a season-high 28 points with five 3-pointers, Alperen Sengun had a triple-double and the Houston Rockets never trailed in a 125-104 rout of the Clippers on Friday night in the NBA Cup Group Play opener for both teams.
  It was Houston’s season-high fourth straight victory and the team’s second straight over the Clippers after handing them an 111-103 loss on Wednesday n
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Friday, Nov. 15

  16-11-2024 04:34 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. 15
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  FRIDAY’S SCORES
  GIRLS TENNIS
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Finals
  OPEN DIVISION 
  Portola vs. Palos Verdes, Tuesday, 11 a.m., at University of Redlands
  DIVISION 2
  C
  
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• Anthony Davis, Lakers outlast Spurs to win NBA Cup opener

  16-11-2024 04:31 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN ANTONIO — After running the table in last year’s In-Season Tournament en route to winning the inaugural NBA Cup, the Lakers got off to a strong start in their request to claim back-to-back trophies.
  Anthony Davis had a season-high 40 points and LeBron James recorded his fourth consecutive triple-double as the Lakers beat the San Antonio Spurs, 120-115, on Friday night at Frost Bank Center in their first NBA Cup Group Play game.
  Davis shot 14 for 26 from the field (2 for 4 from 3-
  
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• Del Mar horse racing consensus picks for Saturday, November 16, 2024

  16-11-2024 04:26 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 16, 2024.
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• Former Dodger Al Ferrara, a 2-time World Series champion, dies at 84

  16-11-2024 03:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Former Dodgers outfielder Al “The Bull” Ferrara died on Friday, the team announced. He was 84.
  Ferrara was part of the Dodgers’ World Series championship teams in 1963 and 1965 and also hit 27 home runs over two-plus seasons with the San Diego Padres from 1969-71.
  “We are saddened to hear the news of Al Ferrara’s passing today,” Stan Kasten, the Dodgers’ president and CEO, said in a statement. “Not only was Al a memorable player for the Dodgers in
  
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• 21 migrants in 34-foot boat intercepted by Coast Guard off Newport Beach

  16-11-2024 02:52 via ocregister.com
  
  U.S. Coast Guard officials intercepted a boat carrying 21 migrants off the coast of Newport Beach, authorities said Friday, Nov. 15.
  The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Narwhal spotted the 34-foot boat Thursday evening outside Newport Harbor, and determined it was “operating suspiciously,” according to the Coast Guard.
  Coast Guard officials boarded the vessel around 7 p.m. and found 21 migrants aboard and took them into custody. They were later transferred to U.S. Customs and Border P
  
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• CalOptima audits Andrew Do’s tenure with the agency following corruption plea

  16-11-2024 02:39 via ocregister.com
  
  CalOptima Health, the multibillion-dollar health provider for Orange County’s low-income residents, has hired an outside auditor to review disgraced former county Supervisor Andrew Do’s tenure on the agency’s board of directors.
  CalOptima spokesperson Janis Rizzuto would not provide any details, but a source with the agency who requested anonymity said the independent audit is likely to be completed in January.
  Do, 62, pleaded guilty last month to a federal bribery charge for h
  
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• 2024 Election: These Orange County races remain tight

  16-11-2024 02:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Heading into the second weekend after Election Day, these local races in Orange County remain tight.
  Other races might not be as close, but with an estimated 74,700 ballots still to count in the county, as of Friday evening, these could potentially see a change. How results unfold as the Orange County Registrar of Voters continues its vote counting will impact who takes the helm of cities and school boards across the county.
  Workers process ballots at the Orange County Registrar of Voters in San
  
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• Austin Prock’s first championship put on hold at NHRA Finals

  16-11-2024 02:19 via ocregister.com
  
  POMONA — Austin Prock can enjoy his weekend in Pomona for the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Finals.
  But he usually enjoys all his visits to the Southern California drag strip.
  Prock, a driver for John Force Racing, is on the verge of winning his first NHRA Funny Car championship. He was 189 points ahead of teammate Jack Beckman in the Countdown to the Championship playoffs and only needed to make a qualifying run Friday to win the Funny Car championship.
  Whatever else happens this
  
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• Samuel Woodward, who killed and buried Blaze Bernstein in Lake Forest, gets life without parole

  16-11-2024 02:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Samuel Woodward, who admitted to killing former high school classmate Blaze Bernstein and burying his body at the edge of a Lake Forest park in what a jury agreed was a hate-crime murder, was sentenced on Friday, Nov. 15 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
  Woodward, now 27, was convicted in July of first-degree murder for the Jan. 2018 slaying of 19-year-old Bernstein, who also attended Orange County School of the Arts.
  Friday’s sentencing hearing was delayed when Woodward
  
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• 2024 Election Results: Too close to call from L.A. to Compton to Cerritos

  16-11-2024 02:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Ten days after the Nov. 5 election, a few city council, state legislature and congressional races in Los Angeles County are still too tight to call, from Los Angeles to Compton to San Pedro to Cerritos.
  State Senate District 35: In this tight race, election results on Friday, Nov. 15, showed Laura Richardson had 50.54% or 120,486 votes, while Michelle Chambers came in at 49.46% with 117,893 votes — 2,693 votes behind Richardson. The winner will represent Carson, San Pedro, C
  
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• Biden praises cooperation at meeting with South Korean, Japanese leaders amid North Korea worries

  16-11-2024 02:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By AAMER MADHANI and REBECCA SANTANA
  LIMA, Peru — President Joe Biden on Friday praised the cooperation between South Korea, Japan and the U.S. at countering what he described as North Korea’s “dangerous and destabilizing cooperation with Russia.”
  Biden spoke at the start of a meeting in Peru with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The talks came amid heightened
  
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• LA’s Chevalier’s Books sponsors a book drive for prisons

  16-11-2024 02:03 via ocregister.com
  
  When Nat Eastman was a kid growing up in the San Fernando Valley, she and her oldest brother would read Harry Potter novels and write letters to each other about the books.
  It wasn’t always easy to maintain the connection.
  “My oldest brother spent 17 years in California prisons,” says Eastman, the assistant manager and adult book buyer for Chevalier’s Books in the Larchmont neighborhood of Los Angeles. “But we had a little two-person book club.”
  Since her
  
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• Chargers list Khalil Mack as questionable to play again Sunday

  16-11-2024 01:59 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — If outside linebacker Khalil Mack sits out Sunday night’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals because of a groin injury, or even if he plays only a handful of snaps, the Chargers’ pass rushers will still be a formidable group, capable of seizing control of a game at any moment.
  The Chargers on Friday listed Mack as questionable to play.
  No position is as deep or as skilled from top to bottom as the Chargers’ outside linebackers. No question, Mack is the leade
  
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• Rui Hachimura sits out Lakers’ NBA Cup matchup against Spurs

  16-11-2024 01:51 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN ANTONIO — The Lakers’ frontcourt took another hit for Friday night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs, with starting forward Rui Hachimura sitting out because of a sprained right ankle.
  Dalton Knecht started in place of Hachimura alongside LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Austin Reaves and Cam Reddish.
  Friday was Knecht’s second start of the season, with the rookie wing coming off scoring a career-best 19 points and playing a career-high 31 minutes in Wednesday night&rs
  
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• Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic UFC heavyweight title fight is finally happening

  16-11-2024 01:46 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — Stipe Miocic chewed on his place in UFC history as he picked at a plate of food in between – and even during – questions ahead of his heavyweight clash with champion Jon Jones that should satiate the palate of most fight fans.
  After a year delay, and MMA pundits would argue this fight should have gone down much earlier than Saturday night, Miocic gets his shot at a third heavyweight championship reign when he fights Jones at UFC 309.
  Win or lose, Miocic isn’t t
  
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• Police say head found on Key Biscayne belonged to teen who went missing off Miami Beach

  16-11-2024 01:40 via ocregister.com
  
  MIAMI — The mystery of the human head found on a Key Biscayne beach has been solved. It belonged to a teen who went missing after getting caught in a rip current off Miami Beach last Saturday, police said Friday.
  Victor Enrique Castaneda Jr., 19, disappeared into the ocean after going for a swim with his younger sister off South Pointe Beach around 6 p.m. last Saturday.
  On Tuesday, a beach maintenance worker found a human head on the shore in front of the Oceansound Key Colony II condomini
  
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• JuJu Watkins reaches 1,000 career points as USC women dominate Santa Clara

  16-11-2024 01:36 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Gottlieb learned, five years ago, not to micro-manage. To avoid over-coaching. This was her first foray into the NBA, where loose offensive sets and general simplistic flow abounded, and when she first arrived in Cleveland as an assistant on John Beilein’s staff Gottlieb was confused as to when exactly the Cavaliers practiced.
  This was not college basketball, where Gottlieb had grown, spending the previous eight seasons as the Cal women’s head coach. After
  
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• Trump names Karoline Leavitt as youngest ever White House press secretary

  16-11-2024 01:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE L. PRICE
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt, his campaign press secretary, to serve as his White House press secretary.
  Leavitt, 27, currently a spokesperson for Trump’s transition, would be the youngest White House press secretary in history. Previously that distinction went to Ronald Ziegler, who was 29 when he took the position in 1969 in Richard Nixon’s administration.
  “Karoline Leavitt did a phenomen
  
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• Huntington Beach voter ID law is legal, judge rules

  16-11-2024 01:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach officials proclaimed victory Friday when an Orange County judge ruled that the city’s new voter ID law was legal, a setback for the California attorney general’s office, which warned that voter ID could soon throw the city’s 2026 elections “into chaos.”
  In the March primary election, Huntington Beach voters approved adding language to the city’s charter to start using voter ID in city elections starting in 2026. Earlier this month, voters also
  
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• High school football: Live updates from Friday night’s top playoff games

  16-11-2024 00:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Welcome to the Southern California News Group’s high school football score updates for Friday, Nov. 15.
  We’ll have updates from throughout the area, including highlights provided by our large group of reporters at the games.
  Stay on top of all of the action with our Friday Night Football host, John W. Davis, who will be providing comments and analysis. And make sure you check out his video at the end of the night that wraps up all of the news and highlights from the quarterfinals of
  
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• SCNG Guild approves its first labor contract

  16-11-2024 00:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The Southern California News Group Guild ratified its first labor contract Friday, Nov. 15, three years after newsroom journalists voted to unionize in 2021.
  The contract includes minimum pay rates and certain job protections for 120 Guild members employed by the 11-newspaper group.
  The contract for SCNG Guild, a unit of Media Guild of the West, includes 6% raises over two years for all members.
  The contract expires Nov. 15, 2026.Related ArticlesBusiness | Where are Kaiser mental health workers
  
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• Here’s what California’s plan for offshore wind farms might cost

  16-11-2024 00:40 via ocregister.com
  
  The winds in California get a bad name when they worsen devastating fires across the state but wind also is a clean form of energy the state is looking to harness further.
  The first big wind farms in the U.S. were built in California, then the industry boomed nationwide. There are now more than 60,000 turbines in the U.S., with the biggest clusters in the Midwest.
  California has some of the loftiest goals for renewable energy in the country. California, under state law, must run on 60% renewable
  
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• Previews for CIF-SS boys water polo championships Saturday

  16-11-2024 00:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowCIF-SS BOYS WATER POLO CHAMPIONSHIPS
  Previews of Saturday’s CIF-SS finals at Mt. SAC.
  All games to be streamed live on NFHS Network.
  OPEN DIVISION
  JSERRA (26-3) VS. NEWPORT HARBOR (30-0), 5:10 p.m.
  Outlook: The Orange County rivals collide for the Open Division title for the third consecutive fall. JSerra, the Trinity League champion, won the championship last season en route to an undefeated campai
  
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• Relatives of LA actress reported missing concede she’s been found

  16-11-2024 00:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Relatives of a Playa Vista actress who appeared in several episodes of “Gossip Girl” and on “Blue Bloods” and was reported missing a week ago conceded Friday that she has been found and said they would return donations made to a GoFundMe page created to help bankroll a search effort.
  The admission by the family came after the actress — Chanel Maya Banks, 36, — posted a video of herself on social media Thursday night, saying she was getting ready to take part i
  
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• Judge blocks Biden administration’s rule to expand overtime pay for millions

  16-11-2024 00:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S.
  In a Friday ruling, U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan sided with the state of Texas and a group of business organizations that argued the Labor Department exceeded its authority when it finalized a rule earlier this year to significantly expand federal overtime eligibility for
  
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• Here’s how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to remake the nation’s top health agencies

  16-11-2024 00:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By AMANDA SEITZ, MATTHEW PERRONE and JONEL ALECCIA
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and environmentalist, for years gained a loyal and fierce following with his biting condemnations of how the nation’s public health agencies do business.
  And that’s put him on a direct collision course with some of the 80,000 scientists, researchers, doctors and other officials who work for the Department of Health and Human Services, especially with President-el
  
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• Original Panda Inn reopens in Pasadena after a massive makeover

  16-11-2024 00:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The Panda Inn in Pasadena, the restaurant that preceded the quick service chain Panda Express, reopened Friday, Nov. 15 after a nearly two-year overhaul.
  The full service restaurant, at 3488 E Foothill Blvd., was opened 51 years ago by Andrew and Peggy Chrerng and Andrew’s father, Ming Tsai Cherng, a chef.
  Around 100 community members, loyal patrons, family friends and elected officials gathered in front of Panda Inn in Pasadena on Friday morning to celebrate the re-opening of the restaura
  
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• Rams TE Davis Allen is earning an expanded role

  15-11-2024 23:38 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Tight end Davis Allen was lying on the floor of the Rams’ training room when his back first started to seize up with spasms in Week 2. A fortunate location for an unfortunate situation.
  Allen would miss three games due to that injury, then slowly had to play his way into shape even as he still stiffly walked around the Rams’ locker room. But over the past four weeks, Allen has seen his snap count steadily increase from 12 in Week 7 to 27 to 42 to 56 in Week 10, in
  
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