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• Southern California libraries object Trump’s defunding of grants that support free, inclusive services

  12-04-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  El Monte resident Jen Venegas is an avid fan of the local library. Venegas, who uses they/them pronouns, has been going to the Duarte Library several times a week for the last year and a half, looking for a comfortable space to accommodate their nephew J.D., who has ADHD.
  “Having this designated time in a low stimulation environment helps him move through his homework easier, and it’s a bonding experience for us,” Venegas, 42, said. “I’m also neurodivergent, so the
  
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• Rubio says the US will drop Ukraine-Russia peace efforts if no progress within days

  18-04-2025 13:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANGELA CHARLTON and HANNA ARHIROVA, Associated Press
  PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. may “move on” from trying to secure a Russia-Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress in the coming days, after months of efforts have failed to bring an end to the fighting.
  He spoke in Paris after landmark talks among U.S., Ukrainian and European officials produced outlines for steps toward peace and appeared to make some long-awaited progress.
  
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• Top reported Orange County swimming and diving marks

  18-04-2025 07:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowHere are the top reported Orange County swimming times and diving scores through April 16, 2025.
  Please send updates and corrections to Dan Albano at dalbano@scng.com.
  BOYS SWIMMING AND DIVING
  200-yard medley relay (O.C. standard 1:40.5) — SM 1:31.39; Uni 1:33.59; Port 1:34.82; Nor 1:35.13; Wood 1:35.18; MD 1:35.27; Troy 1:37.50; Irv 1:39.58; CL 1:39.69;
  200 free (1:44.9) — Maksymowski (Nor) 1
  
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• Beckman volleyball overpowers Tesoro, moves closer to another league title

  18-04-2025 07:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Beckman’s Gavin Looney, center, celebrates a point against Tesoro in a nonleague volleyball game in Irvine on Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
  Tesoro’s Finn Smith jumps as he tries to block a shot by Beckman in a nonleague volleyball game in Irvine on Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
  Beckman’s Josiah Suhr, right, tips the ball over Tesoro’s Max Draper in a nonleague volleyball game
  
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• Playoff-bound Kings drop regular-season finale to Flames

  18-04-2025 06:45 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings got through 60 minutes of their 5-1 loss to the Calgary Flames unscathed on Thursday night, the most important goal for a team bound for the playoffs and a Game 1 grudge match with the Edmonton Oilers on Monday.
  Kings goaltender David Rittich stopped 24 shots in the season finale at Crypto.com Arena, which was rescheduled from Jan. 8 because of the deadly wildfires. Taylor Ward skated in his first NHL game and for one of the six franchises his father Dixon played for in his career, and
  
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• Man gets more than 5 years for Anaheim crash that killed 1, injured 10

  18-04-2025 06:34 via ocregister.com
  
  A 38-year-old man pleaded guilty on Thursday, April 18, and was immediately sentenced to more than five years in prison for triggering a drug-fueled, eight-car crash that killed a woman in Anaheim.
  At about 2:15 p.m. on Dec. 22, 2022, Luis Javier Garcia-Pedroza drove through a red light going south on Magnolia Avenue and crashed into the car driven eastbound on Ball Road by Vianey Granillo Ivey, 36, of Hawaiian Gardens, killing her, police have said.
  Another victim was taken to a hospital for mo
  
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• Jordan Chiles, UCLA advance to NCAA gymnastics finals

  18-04-2025 06:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Jordan Chiles and the UCLA gymnastics team will compete for an NCAA title on Saturday after advancing out of their semifinal session on Thursday night in Fort Worth, Texas.
  Chiles, who was part of the U.S. team that won gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics last summer, won the NCAA uneven bars title for the second time and helped propel the Bruins ahead of No. 1 seed and defending NCAA champion LSU, which failed to advance in a thrilling second semifinal session at Dickies Arena. Fifth-seeded UCLA wi
  
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• San Juan Hills baseball leans on its strong pitching to beat Trabuco Hills

  18-04-2025 06:09 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — Stellar pitching has been the calling card for the San Juan Hills baseball team and it was on display Thursday against Trabuco Hills.
  Anthony Rasic, Cameron Morrissey and Alex Landie combined to shut out Trabuco Hills 1-0 in a nonleague game.
  San Juan Hills’ pitching staff has held opponents to two runs or fewer in 10 games this season.
  “They looked really good today against a good Trabuco Hills team who has been scoring a bunch of runs all year,” Sa
  
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• Best rugby ball

  18-04-2025 05:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Which rugby ball is best?
  Not to be confused with football, rugby is a great sport to watch and play, as it is popular among various countries around the world. Rugby is one of the top international sports in the world, but it is also a fun activity to play in the backyard, at the park and in other appropriate areas.
  The sport requires and helps develop strength, endurance, agility, speed and stamina. It may look like an intimidating sport at first, but rugby is commonly played on a pr
  
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• Car drives through railroad crossing arm in Orange and is struck by train

  18-04-2025 05:46 via ocregister.com
  
  A man was in critical condition after driving through a railroad-crossing gate in Orange and getting struck by a Metrolink train on Thursday night, April 17, police said.
  Orange police and firefighters responded just after 7 p.m. to Glassell Street and Taft Avenue, where the train struck a Jeep Cherokee, said Lt. Phil McMullin, a spokesman for the Police Department.
  The Jeep driver was traveling south on Orange Olive Road where it merges with Glassell and turned right onto Taft. The gate arms we
  
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• Yan Liu, Ashleigh Buhai share LA Championship lead with 1st-round 63s

  18-04-2025 04:52 via ocregister.com
  
  TARZANA — Yan Liu birdied the final three holes in chilly conditions Thursday afternoon for a 9-under-par 63 and a share of the first-round lead with Ashleigh Buhai in the LPGA Tour’s JM Eagle LA Championship.
  With the temperature barely reaching 60 degrees at El Caballero Country Club, Liu overcame an opening bogey to play the next nine in 7 under – making a 6-foot eagle putt on the par-5 16th and five birdies.
  “I got bogey and next hole I tell myself, ‘You have to
  
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• Coachella 2025: The festival’s 5 most aggressive acts to check out on Weekend 2

  18-04-2025 04:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Picking someone up in a mosh pit after they take a tumble is a common courtesy, even if it’s at a festival where Lady Gaga is headlining.
  “Some of the nicest people you’ll come across at this festival are in this tent right here,” said Jayson Santiago of Sacramento. “On the outside, I know people might look at it as crazy or violent, but there’s order and rules that aren’t found in other live music shows.”
  The tent that Santiago is referring to is
  
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• Angels lose 4th straight game, head home with .500 record

  18-04-2025 04:34 via ocregister.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas — The Angels are finally heading home.
  The grueling start to their season came to an end with a 5-3 loss to the Texas Rangers on Thursday night.
  The Angels began the season with 15 of their first 18 games on the road. No team had played with that many road games in their first 18 since 1957. A schedule switch because of hurricane damage to Tropicana Field in Tampa led to extra road games.
  Although the Angels lost the last four games and five of the past six, they nonethele
  
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• USC’s veteran defensive linemen mentoring their younger peers

  18-04-2025 04:20 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — It’s been a gradual ramp up at practice for one of the newest Trojans on the defensive line, Keeshawn Silver, who transferred from Kentucky and was one of the highest-ranked defensive linemen to hit the portal late last year.
  A huge addition to the defensive line, Silver hasn’t let a knee injury keep him from practicing every day so far in spring camp. He’s been doing non-contact work and participating in individual drills, all the while helping mentor the y
  
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• Coachella 2025: All the weekend two performances you can stream at home

  18-04-2025 03:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio is back for its second weekend at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on April 18-20. For those who missed some of the sets last weekend or won’t be there in person, there is still a chance to catch some of this year’s most prominent acts, including headliners Lady Gaga, Green Day, and Post Malone.
  Coachella will once again live stream a select number of performances on its YouTube channel and has partnered with the platform to offer
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday, April 17

  18-04-2025 03:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Thursday, April 17
  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.
  THURSDAY’S SCORES
  BASEBALL
  NONLEAGUE
  San Juan Hills 1, Trabuco Hills 0
  SJH: Rasic (W, 4IP, 3H, 0R, 2K). Landie (Sv, 1IP, 1H, 0R, 1K). Kessler 1-3, RBI.
  
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• Cal State Fullerton faculty and staff push back on cuts, disruptions to higher education

  18-04-2025 02:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Cal State Fullerton faculty and staff gathered Thursday, April 17 to push back against what they described as a coordinated assault on higher education and looming budget cuts brought by the state and federal governments to the university, joining a national day of action held at college campuses throughout the U.S.
  Cal State Fullerton student Brittany Pless hangs a hand-written message for the school administration during the “National Day of Action for Higher Ed,” sponsored by the
  
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• Segerstrom baseball must forfeit all of its wins, ineligible for playoffs

  18-04-2025 02:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Segerstrom’s baseball team has to forfeit all of its wins this season and is ineligible for this year’s playoffs due to rule violations, the CIF Southern Section announced Thursday.
  The CIF-SS announcement stated that Segerstrom has been placed on probation, in addition to the other sanctions, for violating the section’s bylaws regarding “Undue Influence,” “Authorized Participation” and “Administrative Oversight.”
  Segerstrom was 12-7 overall
  
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• Nearly 90% of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cut as Trump’s government downsizing continues

  18-04-2025 02:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRIS MEGERIAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is drastically shrinking the workforce and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, eviscerating an agency created after the Great Recession with the goal of protecting Americans from fraud, abuse and deceptive practices.
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• Zach Neto spotted in Long Beach, could be returning to Angels on Friday

  18-04-2025 01:54 via ocregister.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas — Zach Neto’s return to the Angels is seemingly imminent.
  A day after Neto completed back-to-back games in the field for Triple-A Salt Lake, which was considered an important test, he was photographed at the Long Beach airport on Thursday afternoon.
  Officially, the Angels have said nothing definitive about when Neto will be activated. Neto, who played in Sacramento on Wednesday night, was scheduled to simply be evaluated, which could be the purpose of his trip to Sou
  
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• Marine from Riverside identified as one of two killed in vehicle rollover during deployment to border

  18-04-2025 01:52 via ocregister.com
  
  A 22-year-old from Riverside and a 28-year-old from Fresno were identified Thursday, April 17, as the two Marines killed earlier this week when their vehicle rolled over on a road in New Mexico during a convoy movement to El Paso, Texas.
  Lance Cpl. Albert A. Aguilera, of Riverside, and Lance Cpl. Marcelino M. Gamino of Fresno, both combat engineers, died in the morning crash on Tuesday, April 15. They were among Camp Pendleton Marines deployed as part of the Joint Task Force-Southern Border, the
  
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• France’s president says that making Haiti pay for its independence was unjust

  18-04-2025 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By TOM NOUVIAN and SYLVIE CORBET
  PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that historic injustice was imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity to France in exchange for its independence 200 years ago.
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• A colossal squid is caught on camera for the first time in the deep sea

  18-04-2025 01:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTINA LARSON
  A colossal squid has been caught on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers steering a remotely operated submersible.The sighting was announced Tuesday by the Schmidt Ocean Institute.
  The squid filmed was a juvenile about 1 foot in length at a depth of 1,968 feet in the South Atlantic Ocean. Full-grown adult colossal squids, which scientists have uncovered from the bellies of whales and seabirds, can reach lengths up to 23 feet &mdash
  
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• 429,000 portable chargers are under recall after some consumers report fires, minor burn injuries

  18-04-2025 01:36 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — About 429,000 portable power banks are under recall because they can overheat and potentially catch fire while charging phones, posing a burn hazard to consumers.
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• JSerra, Los Alamitos beach volleyball teams among top seeds in Div. 1 playoffs

  18-04-2025 01:28 via ocregister.com
  
  The JSerra and Los Alamitos girls beach volleyball teams are among the top four seeds in Division 1 for the CIF Southern Section playoffs.
  Mira Costa, the two-time defending Division 1 champion, is the No. 1 seed. JSerra received the No. 2 seed, Redondo is No. 3 and Los Alamitos is No. 4.
  Division 1 is a 16-team bracket. Other Orange County teams in the division: Santa Margarita, Edison, Laguna Beach, Tesoro, Newport Harbor, San Juan Hills and Huntington Beach.
  Divisions 2 and 3 are 32-team
  
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• Fryer: Servite’s fleet of young, ‘incredible’ sprinters not wasting any time

  18-04-2025 01:12 via ocregister.com
  
  The Servite track and field team has assembled the greatest speed group Orange County history.
  “In state history, too,” said Rich Gonzalez, who runs PrepCalTrack.com.
  Servite’s 4×100 relay team tied the Orange County record in the event on March 3 with a time of 41.24 seconds in the Trabuco Roundup.
  Then the foursome broke the record with a 40.82 in the first Trinity Cluster Meet on March 20.
  The Friars broke their own county record with a 40.56 in the Trabuco Hills Invit
  
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• White House proposes eliminating Head Start funding as part of sweeping budget cuts

  18-04-2025 00:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOCELYN GECKER
  The Trump administration is asking Congress to eliminate funding for Head Start, a move that would cut early education for more than half a million of the nation’s neediest children and child care for their families.
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• Van Nuys man pleads guilty to federal computer spyware charge

  18-04-2025 00:56 via ocregister.com
  
  A Van Nuys man pleaded guilty Thursday to scheming to market and sell malware that gave purchasers control over computers and enabled them to steal victims’ private communications, login credentials and other personal information.
  Edmond Chakhmakhchyan, 25, entered his plea to a federal conspiracy charge for advertising a device as an interception device, transmitting a code to intentionally cause damage to protected computers and to intentionally access a computer to obtain information, a
  
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• George Santos is ‘unrepentant’ as he faces years in prison for fraud, prosecutors say

  18-04-2025 00:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By PHILIP MARCELO
  NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos “remains unrepentant” as he faces years in federal prison for fraud and identity theft, federal prosecutors say, citing a tirade of his social media posts in recent days.
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• Luka Doncic says Lakers are ‘willing to go to war’ for an NBA title

  18-04-2025 00:43 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — When Luka Doncic first arrived in Southern California after the shocking blockbuster that sent him from the Dallas Mavericks to the Lakers, he acknowledged that he still has more to accomplish.
  Despite all of the individual accolades he racked up in his first six full seasons in the league, there’s one major prize that the 26-year-old Slovenian star hasn’t accomplished: winning an NBA title.
  The urgency to accomplish that goal only grew when Doncic joined a franchi
  
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