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• USC WRs Makai Lemon, Ja’Kobi Lane leading by example

  23-04-2025 04:24 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Heading into the final week of spring practice, the USC football team continues to progress as a whole, getting a better feel for one another while integrating new players and coaches into the program.
  One group in particular that has been making significant headway are the wide receivers.
  Standout receivers Makai Lemon and Ja’Kobi Lane return after leading the Trojans in receiving yards last season with 764 and 525 yards, respectively.
  Lane also scored 12 touchdowns, t
  
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• Galaxy winless through 13 games after giving up 2-goal lead in Philadelphia

  15-05-2025 05:05 via ocregister.com
  
  CHESTER, Pa. — The frustration continues for the Galaxy.
  Tai Baribo scored two second-half goals, including the game-winner in stoppage time, and the Philadelphia Union rallied to beat the Galaxy, 3-2, on Wednesday night.
  The Galaxy (0-9-4, 4 points) continued the worst start by a defending champion in MLS history despite Diego Fagúndez becoming the eighth player in league history to reach 75 goals and 75 assists in a career.
  Baribo scored in the sixth minute of stoppage time after
  
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• Man sentenced to 40 years to life for Stanton killing

  15-05-2025 04:54 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A 43-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years to life in prison for fatally shooting the on-again, off-again boyfriend of one of his drug-dealing associates in a Stanton motel.
  Joel Brandon Martinez was convicted Feb. 15, 2024, of second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit a crime and possession of a gun by a felon, all felonies. Jurors also found true a sentencing enhancement for discharge of a gun causing death.
  Co-defendant Amy Lynn Black was sentenced in April to
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Wednesday, May 14

  15-05-2025 03:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, May 14
  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
  BOYS TENNIS
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Semifinals
  OPEN DIVISION
  University 15, Peninsula 3
  Harvard-Westlake 12, JSerra 7
  DIVISION 4
  Villa Park 1
  
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• Altadena uphill vacant lot ‘priced low for a quicker sale’ at $175K

  15-05-2025 03:49 via ocregister.com
  
  A vacant Altadena lot, nearly a quarter-acre in size, hit the market this week “priced low for (a) quicker sale” at $175,000.
  Here’s the catch: It’s an uphill slope.
  Records show the property sold in March 2013 for $28,000.
  The owner, described as a retired general contractor and engineer, intended to “build a house for his son” but “due to (a) change in circumstances … decided to sell” the listing reads.
  Listing agent Eduard Khachatryan of
  
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• 3 years ago gunfire erupted in a Laguna Woods church — the suspect has pleaded insanity, but death penalty lurks

  15-05-2025 02:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Three years after a shooting at a Laguna Woods church left one dead and five others wounded, the suspected killer has signaled a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity defense in state court and the question of whether to seek the death penalty appears to be on the minds of prosecutors in federal court.
  The seemingly hate-driven attack on May 15, 2022, on the Taiwanese Presbyterian congregation on El Toro Road just outside the expansive retirement community of Laguna Woods Village shocked the quiet co
  
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• Award-winning LAUSD principal — and a wrangler of snakes

  15-05-2025 02:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Successful high school principals know that motivating students, teachers and staff is the key to academic achievement.
  But what do you do about snakes?
  When you are Grant High School’s Rebecca McMurrin — recently named principal of the year by Magnet Schools of America — you wrangle that snake.
  That was the situation about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Valley Glen campus after a student came into the office and reported seeing a snake.
  “My office manager and I went out to in
  
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• Victorville foster children kept journals of strangulation, other abuse, DA says

  15-05-2025 02:10 via ocregister.com
  
  For years, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson said, six foster children in the Victorville home of Kenneth and Tina Key suffered from physical and emotional abuse.
  Finally, one day in February, the eldest left the home and went to a grocery store, where she eventually contacted law enforcement, Anderson told a Southern California News Group reporter on Wednesday, May 14. The 16-year-old’s bravery triggered an investigation that Anderson said revealed that the Keys and t
  
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• Chargers open 2025 season against AFC West rival Chiefs in Brazil

  15-05-2025 02:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers will travel more air miles than any other NFL team during the 18-week 2025 regular season, an estimated 37,000, starting with a season-opening “home” game against the AFC West rival Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 5, after a 12-hour, 6,155-mile flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  Back in February, the league selected the Chargers to be the host team for the second game ever played in Brazil’s Corinthians Arena. But the league didn’t formally reveal the Chargers&rsq
  
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• Chargers’ 2025 opener vs. Chiefs in Brazil is 1 of their 5 primetime games

  15-05-2025 02:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers will travel more air miles than any other NFL team during the 18-week 2025 regular season, an estimated 37,086, starting with a season-opening “home” game against the AFC West rival Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 5, after a 12-hour, 6,155-mile flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  Back in February, the league selected the Chargers to be the host team for the second game ever played in Brazil’s Corinthians Arena. But the league didn’t formally reveal the Chargers’ o
  
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• Rams to open season at home vs. Texans; Eagles rematch set for Week 3

  15-05-2025 02:01 via ocregister.com
  
  For the first time in three years, the Rams will open their season at home.
  The NFL released its full schedule on Wednesday, revealing that the Rams will begin the 2025 season with an afternoon game against the Houston Texans at SoFi Stadium.
  Then the Rams will board planes for the first two of their nine road games, which will total 34,832 total miles traveled through the air. In Week 2, the Rams will travel to Nashville to face the Tennessee Titans and rookie quarterback Cam Ward, the first ov
  
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• Weinstein accuser rips defense lawyer: ‘You should be ashamed of yourself’

  15-05-2025 02:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former model reproached one of Harvey Weinstein ’s lawyers for suggesting that her sexual abuse allegations against the ex-studio boss are lies.
  “You should be ashamed of yourself,” Kaja Sokola retorted. In her fifth and final day of testimony at Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial, she maintained that she was telling the truth and that Weinstein’s alleged conduct in her teens had changed the course of her life.
  
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• South African leader and Trump will meet next week after US took in white South Africans as refugees

  15-05-2025 01:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By GERALD IMRAY and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press
  CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to meet at the White House next week following allegations by Trump — and denied by South Africa — that “genocide” is being committed against white farmers in the majority Black country.
  The meeting, announced Wednesday by the South African government and set for May 21, also comes after the U.S. wel
  
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• Swanson: USC student-superfan Crash ‘CrashLit’ Collier brings the energy

  15-05-2025 01:25 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Only natural. You see yellow caution tape and you want to know: What’s going on over there?
  Especially when you see a couple dozen adults wearing it around their heads.
  And I get paid to be nosy, so when I saw a bunch of people sporting strips of bright yellow plastic as headwear at the old Dedeaux Field that evening in May 2023, I asked one of them: “What’s going on with, you know, the caution tape?”
  The gentleman I asked – he had to have been a
  
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• Newsom forced to roll back unwise Medi-Cal expansions

  15-05-2025 01:17 via ocregister.com
  
  After the state unwisely expanding Medi-Cal in recent years, the program has descended into a fiscal crisis. Now Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes to roll back some of the expansions, but it may be too little too late given pending actions at the federal level.
  Covering more than one-third of Californians, the Medi-Cal program’s costs are projected to escalate from $179 billion in FY 2024-2025 to $194.5 billion in FY 2025-2026. Most of this money comes from the federal government, and these feder
  
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• Missouri lawmakers approve referendum to repeal abortion-rights amendment

  15-05-2025 00:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment’s repeal and instead ban most abortions with exceptions for rape an incest.
  The newly proposed constitutional amendment would go back to voters in November 2026, or sooner, if Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe calls a special election before then.
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• What happens next for the Menendez brothers?

  15-05-2025 00:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAIMIE DING and CHRISTOPHER WEBER
  A judge’s ruling made Lyle and Erik Menendez eligible for parole, but they still face multiple hurdles in their fight to be released from prison nearly three decades after they were convicted of murdering their parents in 1989.
  Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic reduced the brothers’ sentences from life without parole to 50 years to life on Tuesday, making them eligible for parole under California’s youthful offender law.
  
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• Angels reliever Ben Joyce to miss season after undergoing shoulder surgery

  15-05-2025 00:02 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN DIEGO — Angels right-hander Ben Joyce will be out for the remainder of the season after undergoing shoulder surgery, the team announced on Wednesday.
  The team did not release the nature of the surgery.
  Joyce, 24, has dealt with injuries throughout his brief professional career, a natural consequence of throwing a fastball that has reached 105 mph.
  Joyce was on the injured list because of elbow neuritis in 2023 and right shoulder inflammation in 2024. He also had Tommy John surgery whil
  
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• Supes right to be angry at Do wrist slap

  14-05-2025 23:55 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the most bizarre anecdotes from the debate about disgraced former Supervisor Andrew Do’s federal plea deal involving a “conspiracy to commit bribery” came from his attorney’s response to supervisors who think he ought to receive a tougher sentence: “Politically-motivated attempts to influence the justice system are reprehensible.”
  Sure, politicians always have political motives, but the real outrage should remain focused on Do and the actions he took th
  
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• The LA Phil announces The Ford 2025 season

  14-05-2025 23:53 via ocregister.com
  
  The LA Phil has announced its 2025 season at The Ford, running July 18 through October 31.
  Now in its sixth season with the LA Phil at the helm, the historic amphitheater continues to build on its legacy, offering an eclectic mix of performances in one of the region’s most peaceful and picturesque outdoor settings. From orchestral evenings to global music nights, the season reflects the venue’s growing role as a cultural haven tucked into the Santa Monica Mountains.
  This year’s
  
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• Newsom still doesn’t have the guts or ideas to get vagrants off our streets

  14-05-2025 23:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Homelessness policy in California is built around the idea that no one living on the streets will be compelled to accept shelter, treatment or services, not even housing. However, homeless housing providers can be compelled to accept residents who are actively using hard drugs. And taxpayers can be compelled to pay for homeless housing and services whether anyone on the streets chooses to use them or not.
  This is the system Gov. Gavin Newsom described in a recent news conference as “altern
  
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• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross announce first Future Ruins film-TV festival

  14-05-2025 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Award-winning composers, musicians, and longtime collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are putting together a lineup of some of the world’s most influential film and television composers for a one-day concert full of homages for film score lovers.
  The Future Ruins Festival, happening on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, will allow composers including Danny Elfman, John Carpenter, Questlove and more to reimagine their work for a live audience. The event will feat
  
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• Prosecutor in Trump classified files case takes 5th Amendment in private interview with Congress

  14-05-2025 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A key prosecutor on the classified documents case against President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a congressional interview Wednesday, declining to answer questions because of concern about the Trump administration’s willingness to “weaponize the machinery of government” against perceived adversaries, a spokesman said.
  Jay Bratt had been subpoenaed to appear before the Re
  
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• What the EPA’s partial rollback of the ‘forever chemical’ drinking water rule means

  14-05-2025 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL PHILLIS, Associated Press
  On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to weaken limits on some harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water roughly a year after the Biden administration finalized the first-ever national standards.
  The Biden administration said last year the rules could reduce PFAS exposure for millions of people. It was part of a broader push by officials then to address drinking water quality by writing rules to require the removal
  
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• Divisions emerge among House Republicans over how much to cut taxes and Medicaid in Trump’s bill

  14-05-2025 23:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Cheers broke out early Wednesday as Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee signed off on the GOP tax breaks bill after a grueling round-the-clock session that pushed President Donald Trump’s package past overwhelming Democratic opposition.
  But there’s still more work to do.
  House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also worked past midnight trying to resolve issues with Trump’s plan. Opposition is m
  
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• Kings hire Ken Holland as new vice president and general manager

  14-05-2025 23:26 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings officially named Ken Holland as vice president and general manager, the team announced in a Wednesday news release.
  He will be formally introduced Thursday at the Kings’ practice facility in El Segundo.
  Holland, 69, arrives to a franchise stuck in a first-round rut, having lost four consecutive opening playoff series to the Edmonton Oilers and failing to win a round since 2014. He brings a Hall of Fame résumé and the fifth-most wins of any GM in NHL lore to his new
  
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• Student found with gun, ammo on campus at Vista View Middle School in Fountain Valley

  14-05-2025 22:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Three sixth-grade students were detained this week after one of them was found to have a semiautomatic handgun and ammunition in his or her backpack at Vista View Middle School in Fountain Valley, authorities said.
  Officers responded to the school Monday afternoon after receiving a report of a student possibly in possession of a firearm, Fountain Valley police said.
  Officers detained the three students and searched their backpacks, police said.
  Two were arrested and booked in Orange County juven
  
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• In-N-Out Burger announces ketchup upgrade and removes artificial dye from lemonade

  14-05-2025 19:27 via ocregister.com
  
  In-N-Out Burger has confirmed it removed artificial coloring from its Signature Pink Lemonade and its strawberry shakes.
  The news broke Tuesday, May 13 in an article from Nation’s Restaurant News, which cited comments on an X fan account as its initial source.
  In-N-Out issued a statement describing the changes as “part of our ongoing commitment to providing our Customers with the highest-quality ingredients.”
  “We’re also in the process of transitioning to an upgrade
  
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• Rights groups say migrant workers are dying on Saudi job sites as kingdom prepares for World Cup

  14-05-2025 19:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By GABE LEVIN
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Scores of laborers from countries including India, Bangladesh and Nepal have faced preventable deaths from electrocution, road accidents, falling from heights, and more while working in Saudi Arabia, according to a report Wednesday by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch.
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• Chinese businesses view tariff pause with caution and uncertainty

  14-05-2025 19:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By HUIZHONG WU
  BANGKOK (AP) — While U.S. President Donald Trump has talked of victory after reaching a weekend deal with China to reduce the sky-high tariffs levied on each others’ goods, businesses in China are reacting to the temporary deal with caution.
  Related ArticlesSony racks up record profit on robust performance for music, movies and gamesSouthern California raises beat inflation for 8th straight quarterAmerican Eagle tumbles after pulling financial guidance for 2025Is a 202
  
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