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• Mason Graham and Tetairoa McMillan found ‘another level’ at Servite on climb to NFL Draft

  23-04-2025 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowIn the fall of 2021, high school football in Southern California emerged from the pandemic and returned to its customary spot under the stadium lights on Friday nights. But not everything was the same at Servite.
  The Friars had their best team in about a decade, and advanced to play at St. John Bosco in the CIF-SS Division 1 semifinals. The result sent shockwaves through the region.
  Servite won 40-21 to j
  
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• Freebie of the week: Kids can enjoy a visit with Santa in Santa Ana

  15-12-2025 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Still need to take that classic photo with Santa Claus?
  On Saturday, Dec. 20, Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana is holding a holiday gathering that includes free photos with the Big Guy himself.
  This event in the Waverly Courtyard from noon until 2 p.m. includes face painting, story time featuring holiday tales and more fun for kids, including a candy cane crafting station.
  Location: 1702 Fairhaven Ave. Santa Ana. kvcr.org/calendar/#/details/free-photos-with-santa/17571899/2025-12-20T12
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• Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy protection; will be taken private under restructuring

  15-12-2025 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writer
  Roomba maker iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but says that it doesn’t expect any disruptions to devices as the more than 30-year-old company is taken private under a restructuring process.
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• Interstellar comet keeps its distance as it makes its closest approach to Earth

  15-12-2025 19:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARCIA DUNN
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles of our planet on Friday, the closest it gets on its grand tour of the solar system.
  NASA continues to aim its space telescopes at the visiting ice ball, estimated to be between 1,444 feet and 3.5 miles in size. But it’s fading as
  
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• Supreme Court will hear appeal of Black death row inmate over racial bias in Mississippi jury makeup

  15-12-2025 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a prosecutor with a history of dismissing Black jurors for discriminatory reasons.
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• Christmas 2025: These restaurants sell take-out feasts

  15-12-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’d rather spend Christmas Day in your den than in a hot kitchen, restaurant chains have solutions for you.
  Many are offering takeout feasts for as many as a dozen people. They typically include turkey or beef, potatoes, bread and sides. Some feasts also include desserts, frequently pumpkin or apple pies.
  Most feasts are heat-and-serve, meaning they take two or three hours to reheat but not the kind of effort required for making a traditional Christmas meal from scratch.
  Restaurants a
  
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• Recipes: Make these breakfast dishes for houseguests during the holidays

  15-12-2025 18:56 via ocregister.com
  
  The holidays can bring overnight houseguests. Bless their little hearts, they appreciate a delicious start to the day, breakfast dishes that make them feel like they are getting special treatment. These dishes are a delicious way to make the first meal of the day more festive.
  A combination of eggs and cheese is so inviting. Classically, bacon and egg quiche comes to mind, a recipe that can show off some shortcuts that neither jeopardize taste nor appearance. Another tantaliziing option is from
  
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• Trump administration says it needs to fight SNAP fraud, but the extent of the problem is unclear

  15-12-2025 18:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By GEOFF MULVIHILL
  President Donald Trump ’s administration is talking tough about SNAP, saying the government’s biggest food aid program is riddled with fraud that must be stopped.
  His appointees are looking at Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from an enforcement perspective, seeing fraud as a major and expensive problem, perpetrated by organized criminal organizations, individual recipients and retailers willing to break the laws for profit.
  “We know there are instan
  
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• Professors, students appeal ruling on Alabama law banning DEI initiatives at public universities

  15-12-2025 18:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAFIYAH RIDDLE
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A group of students and professors at public universities across Alabama are asking an appeals court to halt a state law that bans diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in public schools and prohibits the endorsement of what Republican lawmakers dubbed “divisive concepts” related to race and gender.
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• Trial begins for Wisconsin judge accused of helping immigrant evade federal authorities

  15-12-2025 18:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By TODD RICHMOND
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors Monday that a Wisconsin judge said she would “take the heat” for directing an immigrant to dash through a private courtroom door while federal agents were trying to arrest him.
  Opening remarks by Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Alexander kicked off an extraordinary trial for a public official. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan is charged with obstruction and concealment for her actions this spring during Pre
  
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• US tariffs are having an uneven effect on holiday prices and purchases

  15-12-2025 18:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By MAE ANDERSON
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Ah Louis Store in San Luis Obispo, California, turns into a winter wonderland every holiday season.
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• Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is ‘slop’

  15-12-2025 18:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANNA FURMAN
  Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year.
  Related Articles Authorities renew search for the Brown University shooter after releasing a person of interest Student wounded in 2019 Santa Clarita school shooting was on campus during Brown University attack Authorities sa
  
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• US stocks drift at the start of a week full of economic updates

  15-12-2025 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By STAN CHOE
  NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting in mixed trading on Monday at the start of a week full of economic reports that could drive where interest rates, and thus stock prices, go.
  The S&P 500 edged down by 0.1% in midday trading, coming off its first losing week in the last three. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 72 points, or 0.1%, as of 11:40 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% lower.
  Helping to keep the overall market in check were stocks in t
  
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• Rob Reiner’s son Nick arrested after director and his wife found dead at their Los Angeles home

  15-12-2025 18:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and MIKE BALSAMO
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rob Reiner’s younger son, Nick Reiner, was in police custody Monday for what investigators believe was the fatal stabbing of the director-actor and his wife at their Los Angeles home a day earlier, police said.
  Police Chief Jim McDonnell said Nick Reiner, 32, has been “booked for murder” and is being held on $4 million bail in connection with the deaths of his parents. McDonnell said the department’s
  
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• Trump sustains political attack on Rob Reiner in inflammatory post after his killing

  15-12-2025 18:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE L. PRICE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday blamed Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing, delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a shocking post that seemed intent on decrying his opponents even in the face of a tragedy.
  The statement, even for Trump, was a shocking comment that came as police were still investigating the deaths of the beloved director and his wife as an apparent homicide.
  
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• Chargers review: Is their defense playoff-ready after beating Chiefs?

  15-12-2025 18:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Is it possible? Could the Chargers actually make the playoffs with a so-so offense and a superb defense? Could they actually make a deep run with a defense that dominated the Philadelphia Eagles, the Super Bowl champs, and the Kansas City Chiefs, the runners-up, in back-to-back weeks?
  Here’s what we learned, what we heard and what comes next after the Chargers blanked the Chiefs in the second half on a 15-degree afternoon at Arrowhead Stadium, taking a 16-13 victory that moved them closer
  
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• Santiago Canyon College program closes the gap for low-income STEM students

  15-12-2025 18:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Joining with other community colleges in Orange County, Santiago Canyon College has launched its new MESA program this fall, offering multiple benefits for eligible students.
  MESA, which stands for math, engineering, science achievement, is a California-funded program that supports students majoring in those areas who come from underrepresented and economically disadvantaged groups.
  “The goal is to increase the rate of first-generation, low-income students pursuing a STEM degree,” sa
  
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• 4 charged with plotting New Year’s Eve attacks in Southern California, prosecutors say

  15-12-2025 17:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER WEBER
  Federal authorities on Monday announced the arrests of four alleged members of an extremist group who are suspected of planning coordinated bombing attacks on New Year’s Eve across Southern California.
  The suspects were arrested last week in Lucerne Valley, a desert city east of Los Angeles, where they were suspected of preparing to test improvised explosive devices ahead of the planned bombings, according to the federal criminal complaint filed Saturday, Dec. 13. They
  
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• Authorities renew search for the Brown University shooter after releasing a person of interest

  15-12-2025 17:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and AMANDA SWINHART
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police renewed their search Monday for the gunman who killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others, a day after they released a person of interest after determining the evidence pointed “in a different direction.”
  Officials announced the man’s release at news conference late Sunday, marking a setback in the investigation of Saturday’s attack on the Ivy League school’s campus and ad
  
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• Russia indicates it’s open to Ukraine joining EU as part of peace deal to end war, US officials say

  15-12-2025 17:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEFANIE DAZIO and AAMER MADHANI
  BERLIN (AP) — Russia has indicated it’s open to Ukraine joining the European Union as part of a potential peace deal aimed at ending Russia’s war on Ukraine, and there’s now consensus on about 90% of the U.S.-authored peace plan, U.S. officials said Monday.
  The officials said that robust negotiations between President Donald Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his t
  
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• How to keep your Christmas and holiday greenery fresh longer

  15-12-2025 17:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jessica Damiano | The Associated Press 
  I’ve planted the potted mums in the garden and packed away the scarecrows — now it’s time to deck the halls.
  That means filling vacant pots with evergreen branches foraged from my trees and shrubs, hanging cedar swags on the porch and placing a wreath on the door.
  They’ll look great at first, of course, but that threatens to change as December marches on. And since nothing says “The Addams Family” like a house ad
  
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• What to know about the attack on the Hanukkah festival in Australia that killed 15 people

  15-12-2025 17:26 via ocregister.com
  
  SYDNEY (AP) — A father and son are suspected by officials to have killed 15 people on a popular Australian beach, shocking a country where gun violence is rare. The government on Monday, a day after the shootings, proposed tougher new gun laws amid criticism that officials didn’t take seriously enough a string of antisemitic attacks.
  Here’s a look at what to know from the attack at Bondi Beach:
  The suspects attacked a Jewish beachside gathering
  Little is known about the suspect
  
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• Rob Reiner’s son Nick in custody after deaths of director-writer and his wife

  15-12-2025 17:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Rob Reiner’s son has been taken into custody after the deaths of the director-writer and his wife Michele, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
  Also see: Rob Reiner remembered as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation
  The official confirmed the 32-year-old Nick Reiner was in police custody on Monday. The official could not publicly discuss details of the investigation and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
  Online jail records show Reiner was booke
  
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• UCLA’s Sienna Betts could return against Cal Poly

  15-12-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Sienna Betts relaxed on a stool, resting her left leg below on a rung between the seat and the court as assistant coach Soh Matsuura repeatedly fed her the basketball.
  Just two feet from the rim, the freshman attempted shot after shot into the hoop, one-handed layups and two-handed shots – fit with a full follow-through – was the scene a month and a half ago as the rest of the Bruins hustled up and down the floor with sprints after UCLA coach Cori Close deemed def
  
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• Status Update: Manolo Blahnik one of several new stores open at South Coast Plaza

  15-12-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Manolo Blahnik is newly open at South Coast Plaza. The boutique — which features the brand’s luxury stilettos and classy mules — is a West Coast exclusive, mall reps said. Find it at Level 1, between the Jewel and Carousel courts. (Photo courtesy of South Coast Plaza)
  Manolo Blahnik is newly open at South Coast Plaza. The boutique — which features the brand’s luxury stilettos and classy mules — is a West Coast exclusive, mall reps said. Find it at Level 1, bet
  
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• 10 TV shows from 2025 you should catch up on before 2026

  15-12-2025 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By Alicia Rancilio
  If you’d rather stay in than brave the elements or deal with holiday crowds, it’s a great time to catch up on the year’s standout television shows. A number of titles got people watching and also talking.
  In no particular order, here are 10 shows that broke out in 2025.
  “Dept. Q”
  When it comes to his TV credits, Matthew Goode has a history of being a “late add” to TV shows. He swept in to be Mary’s love interest on “Downton
  
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• Californians have 4th-lowest credit card burden in US

  15-12-2025 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Californians suffer numerous stiff financial burdens, but on a national scale, credit card debt isn’t one of them.
  My trusty spreadsheet analyzed debt data from earlier this year for the 50 states, including estimates of personal credit card balances and late-paying card accounts from WalletHub, as well as federal wage data and credit scores. To judge the burden of overuse of the plastic cards powering your wallet, the number of days of work required to pay off common outstanding credit ca
  
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• More Trouble in Toyland: Fakes, toxins and choking threats abound

  15-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  From the California/U.S. Public Interest Research Group’s 40th annual “Trouble in Toyland” report
  Last of two parts. See Part 1 here.
  We’ve likely creeped you out about the new crop of A.I.-powered, little kid toys — some of which were prompted to chat about kinky sex, whether God exists, where to find knives and how to light matches. But that’s just the newest frontier in the “Trouble in Toyland” universe.
  The old frontier, and its dangers for kid
  
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• KNX 1070 AM is broadcasting local radio overnights – from San Francisco.

  15-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  There had been rumors, but they’d seemed unbelievable.
  Would Audacy really play the audio from KCBS/San Francisco overnights on KNX (1070 AM, 97.1 FM)? That just sounded too pathetic to be true.
  Turns out, yes, they are. Los Angeles now gets its “local” news from San Francisco between the hours of 12 midnight and 5 a.m. And by “local,” I mean local to the Bay Area, including their traffic reports. I found out about it myself when I started receiving emails from
  
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• Senior living: Wheelchair? Hearing aids? Yes. ‘Disabled’? No way

  15-12-2025 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Paula Span, KFF Health News
  In her house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Barbara Meade said, “there are walkers and wheelchairs and oxygen and cannulas all over the place.”
  Barbara, 82, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so a portable oxygen tank accompanies her everywhere. Spinal stenosis limits her mobility, necessitating the walkers and wheelchairs — and considerable help from her husband, Dennis.
  “I know I need hearing aids,” Barbara added. “My hearing
  
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