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• Buying a house in 2024: What’s changed?

  20-08-2024 21:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By Abby Badach Doyle | NerdWallet
  At the risk of jinxing it, things are looking up for home buyers.
  The average rate on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage has dropped for three consecutive months (and counting). Competition has calmed down a bit — and inflation has, too. And while we’re still technically in a sellers’ market, the inventory of homes for sale in June reached its highest level in more than four years.
  Hoping to buy in 2024? If you’re well prepared with a budget a
  
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• Convicted burglar charged with running over and killing a man in Garden Grove in 2020

  12-09-2024 08:11 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A 31-year-old convicted burglar was charged with murder for allegedly running over a car theft victim in Garden Grove four years ago, police said Wednesday.
  Roberto Saldana Perez was charged Sept. 3 with murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon. He did not enter a plea at his hearing in the jail courtroom in Santa Ana Wednesday and his arraignment was rescheduled for Sept. 26 in the West Justice Center in Westminster.
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• Man with DUI history charged with murder for fatal crash in Costa Mesa

  12-09-2024 07:52 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A twice-convicted drunken driver was charged with murder Tuesday for a fatal collision in Costa Mesa.
  Jose Santos Alejandretorres was charged with second-degree murder, driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, and DUI with a blood-alcohol level of .08% or more causing injury, all felonies. He also faces sentencing enhancements for inflicting great bodily injury on the victim.
  The defendant was accused of having a blood-alcohol content of .15, more than twice the l
  
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• ‘Incel’ pleads guilty to multiple hate crimes for Costa Mesa pepper spray attacks

  12-09-2024 07:37 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A 27-year-old Anaheim man pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison for multiple hate crimes for pepper spraying three women and a man in Costa Mesa.
  Johnny Deven Young pleaded guilty to a count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and four counts of illegal use of tear gas, all felonies, as well as five misdemeanor counts of hate crimes, according to court records. He also admitted sentencing enhancements for the pers
  
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• Shohei Ohtani moves closer to 50-50 as Dodgers start fast, outlast Cubs

  12-09-2024 07:36 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — A historic 50-50 season is coming so fast now, even the home runs are leaving the field quicker than ever.
  Shohei Ohtani hit a line-drive home run to right-center field at 118 mph off the bat as the leadoff batter in the first inning. He added a stolen base in the third. And even with the Dodgers hitting four home runs in the first inning, they still had to fend off the Chicago Cubs’ late rally for a 10-8 victory.
  Tommy Edman added two home runs, to give him four home r
  
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• Reports: San Diego State, 3 other Mountain West schools set to join Pac-12

  12-09-2024 07:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Four schools are set to announce as early as Thursday that they plan to depart the Mountain West to join the Pac-12, according to multiple reports on Wednesday night.
  San Diego State, Boise State, Colorado State and Fresno State have reportedly applied for Pac-12 membership to begin in the 2026-27 academic year.
  They would join Oregon State and Washington State, the conference’s two remaining school following its collapse last summer. Commissioner Teresa Gould and officials from the Pac-12
  
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• Football video: Steve Fryer and Dan Albano make their Week 3 predictions

  12-09-2024 07:00 via ocregister.com
  
  In this week’s OCVarsity Gridiron video, Steve Fryer and Dan Albano discuss Orange County’s top football games in Week 3 and make their predictions.
  This week they discuss: Foothill vs. Troy, Aliso Niguel vs. Capistrano Valley, Orange Lutheran vs. Bishop Gorman of Nevada, San Juan Hills vs. Crean Lutheran and San Clemente vs. Corona del Mar.Related ArticlesHigh School Sports | Dan Albano’s Orange County football Top 35 rankings, Sept. 11High School Sports | Fryer on Football: P
  
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• Letter: Grading the debate, I give Harris a C and Trump a D

  12-09-2024 06:54 via ocregister.com
  
  I am registered as an independent, but I vote Republican 98% of the time.
  My takeaway from Tuesday’s debate is as follows: Kamala Harris had Donald Trump on his heels. She was relentless and Trump handled himself very poorly.
  Having said that, I only believe 10% of what Harris said. She has reversed her stance 180 degrees on so many issues trying to make Trump’s stances her own.
  The four sentences I was waiting for Trump to say, he never did. All he needed to do was to look stra
  
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• Sparks can’t keep up with Storm down the stretch in loss

  12-09-2024 06:45 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The result of these late-season games might not determine much about the Sparks’ fortunes, but they are crucial to the future of players such as forward Azura Stevens.
  Stevens is under contract with the Sparks for 2025, but her role is far from secure.
  She understands these games present a chance for her to build toward next season. She’s certainly played like that over the last two games. On Wednesday night, she recorded her second double-double in as many games
  
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• Taylor Swift ties Beyoncé for most awarded artist in VMAs history

  12-09-2024 06:37 via ocregister.com
  
  MTVs Video Music Awards returned for their 40th year on Wednesday, September 11. The televised event had been originally scheduled for Tuesday, September 10, but delayed the date to not conflict with the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
  Many celebrities were in attendance at the annual award show, including Taylor Swift who won seven awards throughout the night including “Video of the Year” and “Artist of the Year.” Swift became the first person
  
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• ‘Overlooked’ no more, USC DL Gavin Meyer is playing key role for Trojans

  12-09-2024 05:23 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — It wasn’t like Gavin Meyer and his agent had never heard the name Bear Alexander.
  When the 6-foot-3, 290-pound Meyer arrived to USC in the spring, it seemed like a last-gasp effort to add stable depth to a thinned defensive line, Meyer entering and exiting the transfer portal at quite literally the 11th hour and 59th minute. Other names in the crop – Derrick Harmon (now with Oregon) and Damonic Williams (Oklahoma) – came and went. Meyer was the lone body rem
  
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• Phelan exotic animal sanctuary may have to move 200+ animals amid Bridge fire

  12-09-2024 05:22 via ocregister.com
  
  An exotic animal sanctuary in Phelan that is home to hundreds of animals could be forced to evacuate as the Bridge fire continues to grow.
  Forever Wild Exotic Animal Sanctuary houses more than 200 animals, including tigers, venomous snakes, monkeys, birds of prey, reptiles, a lion and a bear, said Arianna Almquist, a senior keeper.
  As of Wednesday, Sept. 11, the part of Phelan where the sanctuary is located was under an evacuation warning, from Highway 138 east to Baldy Mesa Road and Phelan Road
  
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• Dodgers get Teoscar Hernandez back to provide important ‘bridge’

  12-09-2024 04:35 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Teoscar Hernandez returned to left field on Wednesday and into the cleanup spot, with the task of extending the Dodgers’ lineup toward the on-again, off-again bottom of the order.
  Hernandez’s absence of nearly five full games was shorter than originally expected after he was hit in the left foot by an offspeed pitch from the Cleveland Guardians left-hander Matthew Boyd on Friday night. Hernandez departed in the first inning and missed the next four games.
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• Jack Kochanowicz burned by a couple of pitches in Angels’ loss to Twins

  12-09-2024 03:52 via ocregister.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — Jack Kochanowicz was just a little off, and that’s all it took.
  The Angels’ rookie right-hander gave up four runs in a 6-4 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday night.
  Kochanowicz, who lasted 5⅔ innings, was one out and one run away from a sixth straight quality start.
  Although the Angels (60-86) have been effectively out of the postseason race for months, on Wednesday night they were mathematically eliminated. The Angels have missed the postseason for 10
  
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• Cal State LA, UC Irvine earn funding and partnerships for diverse student development programs

  12-09-2024 03:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Thanks to a historic grant, two Southern California colleges can build up programs to enhance diverse student leadership development, officials said.
  The Honors College at Cal State Los Angeles is partnering with Tuskegee University, a historically Black campus in Alabama, through an education grant that will help develop an undergraduate curriculum that officials say will enhance the “education of character” for students at both schools.
  UC Irvine’s “Anteater Virtues&rdq
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Wednesday, Sept. 11

  12-09-2024 03:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, Sept. 11
  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
  GIRLS FLAG FOOTBALL
  PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
  Rosary 26, Laguna Beach 13
  EMPIRE LEAGUE
  Westminster 40, Buena Park 7
  BOYS WATER POLO
  NONL
  
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• Airport fire destroys cabins in historic Holy Jim Canyon

  12-09-2024 02:44 via ocregister.com
  
  On Monday morning, Holy Jim Canyon was home to 26 cabins.
  Tuesday afternoon, only a handful were still standing, surrounded by charred remains of homes that may never be rebuilt.
  Holy Jim Canyon is tucked away in the Cleveland National Forest, about three miles along a dirt road from Trabuco Creek Road. The cabin settlement is less than two miles from the remote-control airfield where the Airport fire broke out on Monday afternoon, Sept. 9.
  The remains of a cabin in Holy Jim Canyon after the Air
  
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• Chargers’ top draft picks make their marks in NFL debuts

  12-09-2024 01:46 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — If there were nervous moments, they weren’t apparent Sunday. If there were moments of indecision or uncertainty, they weren’t on public display at SoFi Stadium. If there was any reason to doubt the play of the Chargers’ top draft picks in their NFL debuts, it wasn’t evident.
  Joe Alt, Ladd McConkey and Junior Colson, the Chargers’ top three picks in the draft in April, were every bit as impressive at their positions as coach Jim Harbaugh and genera
  
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• Pasadena carriage house with a link to Abe Lincoln’s administration seeks $2M

  12-09-2024 01:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The largest of the three apartments is a two-bedroom, 1,800-square-foot apartment. (Photo by James Moss)
  The eat-in kitchen of the upstairs two-bedroom, 1,800-square-foot apartment opens to a balcony. (Photo by James Moss)
  The living room of this one-bedroom, 800-square-foot apartment opens to a private balcony. (Photo by James Moss)
  The Stanton Carriage House, now a triplex that generates $107,988 annually in rental income, is on the market for under $2 million. (Photo by James Moss)
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• 3 wildfires prompt local emergency declarations in Riverside, San Bernardino counties

  12-09-2024 01:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Riverside County has declared a local emergency due to the Airport fire.
  The county proclaimed the emergency on Wednesday, Sept. 11. The Board of Supervisors will vote on officially ratifying the proclamation at its next regular meeting, scheduled for Sept. 17.
  The emergency proclamation makes the county eligible for potential state and federal assistance, if it becomes available. It also allows the county to quickly acquire goods needed for emergency response and repair.
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• Mauricio Pochettino embarks on ‘journey’ with USMNT after turbulence at PSG and Chelsea

  12-09-2024 01:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer
  Mauricio Pochettino didn’t expect to be here.
  His appointment as United States men’s national team head coach was not in the plans when he signed a two-year contract at Chelsea last season and made his triumphant return to the Premier League.
  But soccer management is a fickle industry and the U.S. has taken advantage of the unexpected availability of a top-tier coach, who still has much to prove despite having already taken on some of the biggest jobs
  
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• ‘Shogun’ looks to dominate Emmys. How will ‘The Bear’ and ‘The Crown’ fare?

  12-09-2024 01:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By Andrew Dalton | The Associated Press
  The Emmys have become the “Shogun” show well before Sunday’s ceremony even begins.
  The FX series about political machinations among local lords, Portuguese traders and a wandering British sailor is already the winningest series for a single season in Emmy history after taking 14 trophies at the precursor Creative Arts ceremony on Sunday.
  The main Emmys show could not only extend its lead — it could bring historic wins for its lead a
  
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• Nixon Library keeps the memory of 9/11 victims and heroes alive

  12-09-2024 00:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Members of the Orange Community Master Chorale sing during a ceremony to honor the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, in the East Room of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. It was the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes speaks to an audience gathered in the East Room of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on the 23rd anniversar
  
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• Angels’ Jo Adell reflects on season, believes he’s found what works

  12-09-2024 00:32 via ocregister.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — In previous years, Jo Adell went into the winter trying to piece together a game plan from incomplete information.
  The Angels outfielder had played sparingly in the majors, so he was never totally confident in determining what needed to change.
  “I had to pull bits and pieces of my experience to create a way to go into the offseason to figure out what I needed to correct,” Adell said. “As opposed to having the everyday experience to be able to really find out
  
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• Dan Albano’s Orange County football Top 35 rankings, Sept. 11

  12-09-2024 00:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOCVarsity’s Dan Albano votes weekly in the Orange County football poll. Here is his how he voted this week for the Top 25 plus his “Next 10” in the county:
  ALBANO’S TOP 25 BALLOT
  1. Mater Dei (2-0)
  2. Mission Viejo (3-0)
  3. JSerra (3-0)
  4. Orange Lutheran (3-0)
  5. Santa Margarita (2-1)
  6. Servite (3-0)
  7. Los Alamitos (2-1)
  8. San Juan Hills (2-1)
  9. Tustin (3-0)
  10. Yorba Linda (3
  
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• This is what Southern California wildfires destroyed in 7 days

  12-09-2024 00:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Three major wildfires are raging out of control across Southern California, charring thousands of acres, putting homes at risk and damaging various landmarks and communities.
  Those fires span across Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange counties. The Bridge fire is burning in the Angeles National Forest in Mt. Baldy and Wrightwood, the Line fire is burning near Big Bear in the San Bernardino National Forest and the Airport fire is burning in both Orange and Riverside counties near La
  
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• Speaker Johnson postpones vote on a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown

  12-09-2024 00:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEVIN FREKING
  WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson postponed a vote Wednesday on a temporary spending bill that would keep federal agencies and programs funded for six months as opposition from both parties thwarted his first attempt at avoiding a partial government shutdown in three weeks.
  The legislation to continue government funding when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1 includes a requirement that people registering to vote must provide proof of citizenship. Johnson, R-La., signale
  
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• San Clemente employees skip work morning of 9/11 — but for good reason

  12-09-2024 00:11 via ocregister.com
  
  For these San Clemente city employees, tackling a steep staircase Wednesday morning, Sept. 11, was about more than getting out of the office to exercise and enjoy the ocean view.
  The outing, which drew about 50 city workers from various departments, was about taking a moment in solidarity to remember the victims who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks – and showing support for the first-responders who responded after the attacks and who put their lives on the line each day.
  “This
  
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• 98-year-old Keller Peak Fire Lookout falls as Line fire burns in San Bernardino National Forest

  11-09-2024 23:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Amidst the smoke and destruction caused by the Line fire burning in the San Bernardino National Forest, the fall of Keller Peak Fire Lookout has saddened community members and volunteers who were preparing to celebrate the tower’s centennial.
  The 98-year-old fixture outside Running Springs is the oldest remaining original tower in the forest, according to the Southern California Mountains Foundation.
  “It is with sadness we report the oldest continuous serving Fire Lookout on the San
  
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• UCLA football eager for Big Ten debut in the Rose Bowl

  11-09-2024 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The UCLA football team will take to its home field for the first time this season Saturday for its matchup against Indiana.
  It will also be the first Big Ten Conference game in program history, setting up a memorable experience for veteran players and freshmen alike.
  “Super excited, I love the Rose Bowl. It’s a great stadium, great environment, good grass, so it’s always good to play over there,” Bruins wideout J. Michael Sturdivant said after Wednesda
  
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