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• Joseph Harper leaves his mark on Northwood football’s playoff win over Ayala

  09-11-2024 09:53 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE — He was the man on offense. The man on defense. The man on special teams. Joseph Harper was Mr. Everywhere on Friday night as he led Northwood to a decisive 34-20 victory over Ayala in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 6 playoffs.
  With their victory, the Timberwolves (9-2) will play on the road in the quarterfinals against fourth-seeded Murrieta Mesa, a 42-0 winner over Ontario Christian.
  Ayala finished 2-9, with nine consecutive losses, after a brutal schedule t
  
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• California is suing its way to higher energy costs

  12-11-2024 23:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Residents of California are suffering under some of the highest energy prices in America. So why then are some of the Golden State’s elected officials trying to make things even worse?
  In September of last year, Attorney General Rob Bonta launched a climate change lawsuit against energy producers with this objective appearing to be an express goal. At a discussion regarding the litigation in April, he said that one purpose of the lawsuit was to make oil and gas “m
  
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• Rams facing tough decisions on offensive line

  12-11-2024 23:28 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — In the first quarter of Monday’s 23-15 loss to the Miami Dolphins, the Rams faced 3rd-and-7 at their own 49-yard line, an obvious passing down, especially given how the run game had performed to that point.
  Dolphins defensive tackle Calais Campbell was in the one-technique between center Jonah Jackson and left guard Steve Avila, both on the field for the first time after lengthy stays on injured reserve. Defensive tackle Zach Sieler was outside Avila in the three-techniqu
  
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• UCLA kicker Mateen Bhaghani chasing records while inspiring others

  12-11-2024 23:09 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — UCLA kicker Mateen Bhaghani gets more attention than the average college football specialist. He even has his own nickname – “Money Bhags” – and took hold of the spotlight Friday when he drilled a 57-yard field goal against Iowa.
  “At first I saw it and was like, ‘Oh, how far was that?’ because obviously we saw it was far,” Bruins receiver Logan Loya said. “They said 57 yards and we were like, ‘Damn.’”
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• First look at Disneyland steakhouse coming to Downtown Disney

  12-11-2024 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A Michelin-starred chef will bring his old school Italian-American New York City restaurant to Downtown Disney when he opens a new steakhouse at the Anaheim outdoor shopping mall next to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
  New York City celebrity chef Joe Isidori will open the Arthur & Sons Steak and Bourbon steakhouse and Pearl’s Roadside BBQ barbecue joint on the footprint of the former Tortilla Jo’s location in Downtown Disney.
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• Lakers’ Anthony Davis says his eye is ‘fine’, plans to play Wednesday

  12-11-2024 22:40 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — Lakers star big man Anthony Davis said after Tuesday’s practice that his left eye is “fine” and that he’ll be available for Wednesday’s home game against the Memphis Grizzlies.
  ESPN’s Dave McMenamin reported that Davis had his eye examined by an ophthalmologist Monday, with Davis saying he was cleared to play.
  “Nothing happens next,” Davis said, with his left eye notably red. “I go about my days like I would any other day.
  
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• Orange County boys athlete of the week: Anthony Abad, Sonora

  12-11-2024 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County boys athlete of the week:
  Name: Anthony Abad
  School: Sonora
  Sport: Football
  Year: Senior
  Noteworthy: He rushed for 311 yards and four touchdowns on 35 carries in the Raiders’ 41-25 win over Alemany in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 9 playoffs. Abad (5-9, 175) this season has rushed for 1,920 yards and 25 touchdowns. He is averaging 8 yards a carry. Sonora (6-5) plays Quartz Hill (8-3) in the CIF-SS quarterfinals Friday at La Habra High.
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• NASA’s JPL to cut 325 positions amid budget tightening

  12-11-2024 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced Tuesday, Nov. 12, that it will lay off more than 300 employees—approximately 5% of its workforce—in an effort to align with budgetary constraints.
  In a memo sent to employees and posted on its website, JPL Director Laurie Leshin said that the organization will proceed with a workforce action on Wednesday, Nov. 13, cutting 325 positions across technical, business, and support sectors.
  “Despite this being incredibly difficult
  
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• Foothill football coach Doug Case not ready to ‘graduate’ after special playoff win

  12-11-2024 22:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowFoothill football coach Doug Case achieved a goal on his bucket list last month by participating in his team’s Senior Night activities.
  Accompanied by his wife Sonja, Case joined about 40 seniors and was recognized before a home game. Case, who announced in the summer that he will retire after this season, gladly posed for photographs after his turn.
  “It was pretty cool,” he said. &ldquo
  
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• Angels sign catcher Travis d’Arnaud to 2-year deal

  12-11-2024 22:27 via ocregister.com
  
  The Angels added veteran catcher Travis d’Arnaud on a two-year, $12 million deal, giving them a more experienced backup to pair with starter Logan O’Hoppe.
  General manager Perry Minasian said the Angels haven’t decided what they will do with Matt Thaiss, the backup catcher last season. They could keep three catchers, because Thaiss can also play first and third, or they could trade him.
  D’Arnaud, 35, hit .238 with 15 homers and a .739 OPS in 99 games with the Braves last
  
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• Holiday flights are cheaper this year — here’s how to book smart

  12-11-2024 22:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By Laurie Baratti, TravelPulse (TNS)
  The end-of-year holidays are fast approaching and, whether you’re planning a traditional trip back to the family homestead or an escape to a sun-drenched beach, having the inside track on when and how to book your holiday travel can save you substantial amounts of stress and money. But the windows for snagging flight deals for the upcoming holidays, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s, are by and large closed by the end of O
  
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• Violent attacks on Jews in Amsterdam should horrify the civilized world

  12-11-2024 21:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Recent scenes from Amsterdam were horrifying. Violence continued this week throughout the typically placid city after pro-Palestinian rioters violently attacked Jewish fans of the soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv. Palestinian supporters allege Israeli soccer fans instigated the riots, but news reports suggest it was orchestrated in advance via social media.
  Rioters burned trams and participated in what one Dutch official called a “Jew hunt.” In the latest news, the Israeli airline El Al
  
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• Don’t throw out expired COVID-19 tests, FDA says

  12-11-2024 21:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Morayo Ogunbayo | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  You probably have a cabinet full of rapid COVID-19 tests you’ve accumulated. The expiration dates have come closer and closer, with some tests even reaching them.
  The Food and Drug Administration, however, has said those expiration dates are subject to change, providing a list of the tests that have had their dates extended.
  COVID-19 rapid antigen tests allow people to check for SARS-CoV-2 infections without help from professionals.
  
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• Kings need to show more against Avalanche in Colorado

  12-11-2024 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  From the NHL city nearest the Canadian Rockies to the front yard of the American Rockies, the Kings left Calgary for Colorado on their mountainous two-step of a road trip.
  They fell 2-1 in Calgary, in a game wherein they didn’t get their first shot until more than 11 minutes into the match and immediately surrendered a two-on-one rush against. That was a microcosm of an effort in which the Kings had little fire against the Flames for much of the night.
  “We just didn’t show enou
  
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• Certifying this year’s presidential results begins quietly, in contrast to the 2020 election

  12-11-2024 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ALI SWENSON, Associated Press
  ATLANTA (AP) — Local officials are beginning to certify the results of this year’s presidential election in a process that, so far, has been playing out quietly, in stark contrast to the tumultuous certification period four years ago that followed then-President Donald Trump’s loss.
  Georgia is the first of the presidential battleground states to start certifying, with local election boards scheduled to vote throughout th
  
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• STD epidemic slows as new syphilis and gonorrhea cases fall in US

  12-11-2024 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell and chlamydia cases remained below prepandemic levels, according to federal data released Tuesday.
  The numbers represented some good news about sexually transmitted diseases, which experienced some alarming increases in past years due to declining condom use, inadequate sex education, and reduced testing and treatment when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
  Last year, cases of the most inf
  
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• 19-year-old arrested in fatal shooting of boy, 16, in Anaheim park

  12-11-2024 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  A 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of shooting to death a 16-year-old boy at an Anaheim park over the weekend.
  The shooting occurred Sunday evening, Nov. 10, in the parking lot area of John Marshall Park, at 2001 W. La Palma Ave. The boy was confronted by a group of suspects when one pulled out a handgun and shot him, Anaheim police said.
  It was unclear if the boy was alone when he was approached. The teen, whose name was not released, suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and died at a
  
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• How to go cashless while also avoiding credit card debt

  12-11-2024 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kimberly Palmer and Sara Rathner, NerdWallet
  Consumers broke up with cash during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it doesn’t appear that they’re rushing to reconcile.
  Before the pandemic, Steffen Kaplan, a social media and visual consultant in the New York area, preferred using cash to credit cards. When we spoke in September 2020, he said cash helped him avoid overspending, but the coronavirus changed his spending habits.
  “I don’t carry cash around with me anymore,” K
  
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• 8 Downtown Disney shops and restaurants announce opening dates

  12-11-2024 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Downtown Disney will open a bunch of new retailers and restaurants just in time for the Christmas shopping season as the Anaheim outdoor mall begins wrapping up another round of construction while work continues on other projects.
  Disneyland announced opening dates and timeframes for eight shops, restaurants and bars in Downtown Disney.
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• Cal State Fullerton experts expect a slowdown from the current economic upsweep

  12-11-2024 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Even Cal State Fullerton’s esteemed economists, Anil Puri and Mira Farka, acknowledge being a bit perplexed when trying to make sense on why the U.S. economy hasn’t slipped into a recession, given the uncertainty stemming from a litany of occurrences.
  These include an aggressive rate hike, high inflation, rising geopolitical risks, a banking panic and a contentious presidential race.
  “The script was so dark, few expected the U.S. economy to remain unscathed,” the economis
  
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• NCAA hits USC football with 1-year probation for coaching violations

  12-11-2024 21:22 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — USC football has been placed on one year’s probation, the NCAA announced Tuesday, after an investigation found the program violated NCAA rules around analysts engaging in on- and off-field coaching activities in 2022 and 2023.
  The investigation, conducted through the NCAA’s Division I Committee on Infractions, found that head coach Lincoln Riley “violated head coach responsibility rules,” the NCAA wrote in a release. Riley, however, will not be subject
  
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• San Diego is getting a new nonstop flight to a major overseas destination

  12-11-2024 21:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Starting in May of next year, San Diego’s international airport will get its third nonstop to a major European destination — Amsterdam.
  Operating the three-times-a-week flight between San Diego and Amsterdam will be KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, beginning May 8. The new route, announced Tuesday, marks San Diego’s first new nonstop to Europe in two years. Lufthansa Airlines currently offers a daily flight to Munich, and British Airways flies twice a day between San Diego and London.
  
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• Why Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham covered the debut ‘Buckingham Nicks’ LP

  12-11-2024 20:34 via ocregister.com
  
  From the moment Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham started to sing and play at the Troubadour one night at the end of September, the audience listened in rapt attention.
  The occasion? One of the first full performances of the two singer-songwriters’ new collaboration, the album “Cunningham Bird,” a track-by-track reimagining of “Buckingham Nicks,” the 1973 debut of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
  At the time, it earned the on-and-off lovers an invitation to joi
  
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• Two Sabrina Carpenter pop-ups are coming to Los Angeles

  12-11-2024 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Fans who feel like there are miles, time and mountains between them and pop star Sabrina Carpenter will get their chance to get a little closer to something short and sweet.
  A “Short n’ Sweet” Café pop-up is coming to West Hollywood’s Verve Coffee Roasters located at 8925 Melrose Avenue. The event, which also popped up in Chicago and New York, draws inspiration from her latest album. It will be open from Nov. 15 through 17, around the same dates as her performances
  
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• First look at Porto’s restaurant and bar coming to Downtown Disney

  12-11-2024 20:22 via ocregister.com
  
  The oft-delayed Porto’s Bakery coming to Downtown Disney will feature a table service restaurant and a full bar — a pair of firsts for the Cuban sweets and treats foodie phenom that was announced two years ago but has been stalled ever since.
  Concept art of the new Porto’s offers the first look at the eatery taking over the former La Brea Bakery location on the east end of the outdoor shopping mall next door to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
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• Haiti’s main airport and capital frozen a day after a plane was shot by gangs

  12-11-2024 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By EVENS SANON and MEGAN JANETSKY
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s main airport remained closed Tuesday, a day after gangs shot a landing airplane and injured a flight attendant when violence erupted as the country swore in its new prime minister in a politically tumultuous transition.
  Life in much of Haiti’s capital was frozen after the wave of violence, which came to a head when gangs shot a Spirit Airlines airplane Monday, forcing the airport to shut down. Photos and vid
  
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• FAA prohibits US airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after plane was shot by gangs

  12-11-2024 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By EVENS SANON
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration announced Tuesday that it will prohibit U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot a Spirit Airlines flight.
  The bullets hit the plane when it was about to land Monday in the country’s capital Port-au-Prince, hitting a flight attendant. It was part of a wave of violence that erupted in Haiti as the country swore in its new prime minister after a politically tumultuous process.
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• FAA prohibits US airlines from flying to Haiti and UN suspends flights after plane was shot by gangs

  12-11-2024 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By EVENS SANON
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration announced Tuesday that it will prohibit U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot a Spirit Airlines flight and the United Nations said it will suspend flights, “obviously limiting the flow of humanitarian aid and humanitarian personnel into the country.”
  The bullets hit the plane when it was about to land Monday in the country’s capital Port-au-Prince, injuring a flight a
  
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• Biden helped propel billions into U.S. transportation. Trump’s administration could roll back that historic momentum.

  12-11-2024 19:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Whether it’s for planes, trains or automobiles, transportation projects in California have built a reputation for being slow and expensive.
  That’s why it was big news when Golden State railroads were injected with nearly $280 million in federal grant funding last month — just a sliver of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s multibillion-dollar, multiyear effort to spur transit construction projects after decades of underinvestment.
  On Oct. 29, the Federal Railroad Admi
  
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• Recipe: Endive ‘boats’ are the perfect vessels for tasty appetizers

  12-11-2024 19:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Belgian endive leaves are an inviting vessel to hold a wide assortment of flavorful fillings. I like to call these appetizers “boats,” and stuff them with a mix of parsley, green olives, toasted walnuts or pecans, and feta cheese.
  Pomegranate molasses adds a lovely sweet-sour spark to the mix. It’s sold at Middle Eastern markets and in many natural food stores. If unavailable, substitute balsamic vinegar.
  Endive Boats with Green Olives, Parsley and Walnut Salad
  Yield: About 24
  
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