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• Western unleashes full attack on Peninsula, wins school’s first CIF-SS football title

  24-11-2018 08:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Western players hold the championship plaque aloft after winning the CIF-SS Division 11 championship game against Peninsula at Western High in Anaheim on Friday, November23, 2018. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)
  Western head coach Dan Davidson hugs one of his players after defeating Peninsula in the CIF-SS Division 11 championship game at Western High in Anaheim on Friday, November23, 2018. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsWestern players hol
  
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• Kings put 8-game home winning streak up against Tampa Bay

  03-01-2025 23:17 via ocregister.com
  
  As the Kings compiled the NHL’s best home record, there has been a party at Crypto.com Arena almost every time they have hit the ice this season, and on Saturday they’ll welcome the franchise that has celebrated more than any other during this decade.
  The Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup in 2020 and 2021 before reaching the Final in 2022 to nearly become the first team to win three consecutive titles since the New York Islanders captured four straight from 1980 to 1983.
  Yet th
  
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• USC’s Eric Musselman not changing much as Big Ten schedule deepens

  03-01-2025 22:54 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — For nine years, unless he got a chance to catch his late father Bill’s Minnesota Golden Gophers, Eric Musselman hardly ever watched a game of Big Ten basketball.
  He was in the Mountain West, far removed from the Midwest, for four years at Nevada. He was in Fayetteville, headspace wrapped up in the SEC, for five years at Arkansas. It wasn’t until this spring, shortly after Musselman hit it off with athletic director Jen Cohen in an initial interview for USC’s
  
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• Pilot, passenger dead after plane crash into building near Fullerton Airport, FAA says

  03-01-2025 22:51 via ocregister.com
  
  A pilot and passenger aboard a Vans RV-10 aircraft died when the plane crashed into a manufacturing building just short of the runway at the Fullerton Airport as the pilot tried to return to the airfield to make an emergency landing, according to a preliminary report released Friday, Jan. 3 by the Federal Aviation Administration.
  The identities of the pair killed has not yet been made public. The FAA’s report indicates they were the four-seater’s pilot and passenger.
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• 30-acre mountaintop retreat in Idyllwild lists for under $2 million

  03-01-2025 22:41 via ocregister.com
  
  The built-in desk of the office guest room. (Photo by Craig Bernardi Photography)
  A custom fireplace frames the great room, featuring a wet bar.(Photo by Craig Bernardi Photography)
  The dining room sits several steps above the living area and flows into the kitchen. (Photo by Craig Bernardi Photography)
  The kitchen. (Photo by Craig Bernardi Photography)
  The wine cellar. (Photo by Craig Bernardi Photography)
  The billiards room. (Photo by Craig Bernardi Photography)
  A granite boulder extends into
  
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• As losses pile up, Clippers need Kawhi Leonard to return

  03-01-2025 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  The Clippers need superstar forward Kawhi Leonard now. Not next week. Not next month but as soon as possible.
  As the season progresses and injuries take their toll, Leonard’s impending return, which could be as soon as Saturday when the Clippers play the Atlanta Hawks, is necessary, if the Clippers hope to stay among the top teams in the Western Conference.
  And given how their past two games turned out, they can’t wait much longer for the six-time All-Star to return from lingering kn
  
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• Dodgers sign Korean infielder Hyeseong Kim to 3-year deal

  03-01-2025 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — South Korean All-Star second baseman Hyeseong Kim and the Dodgers agreed Friday to a $12.5 million, three-year contract, the team confirmed.
  Kim’s deal includes team options for 2028 and 2029. His becomes the latest addition by the World Series champions in their offseason spending spree.
  Kim’s 30-day posting window expires at 2 p.m. PST and the deal must be finalized by then.
  Kim, who turns 26 on Jan. 27, has played eight seasons in South Korea, the last six with th
  
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• Dodgers and Korean infielder Hyeseong Kim agree to deal

  03-01-2025 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — South Korean All-Star second baseman Hyeseong Kim and the Dodgers agreed Friday to a $12.5 million, three-year contract, a person familiar with the talks told The Associated Press.
  Kim’s deal includes team options for 2028 and 2029, which must be exercised together and would raise the value to $22 million over five seasons, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been announced.
  His becomes the latest addition by the World Series c
  
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• Climate change-driven weather risks are reshaping the way US consumers travel

  03-01-2025 22:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By Mia Taylor, TravelPulse (TNS)
  The increasingly severe weather brought about by global climate change is weighing on the minds of travelers.
  In fact, it seems weather risks are playing a greater role in how Americans plan and experience travel, according to a newly released survey from Aon Affinity.
  The report found that more than half of Americans (56%) said the potential for bad weather – like hurricanes or blizzards – would make them less likely to book travel to certain destina
  
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• Several fast food chains offer burrito bargains for the new year

  03-01-2025 22:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California fast food chains are greeting the new year with cheap burritos.
  Del Taco, based in Lake Forest, has added two new burritos to its Del’s Real Deals lineup. The Bean, Rice & Cheese Burrito is made with cilantro lime rice, grated cheddar cheese and zesty red sauce  and costs. $2.49. The Chipotle Chicken Burrito is made with beans, cilantro lime rice, chipotle sauce and sour cream and costs $2.99.
  Del Taco has also added limited-time beverages to its menu. Dragon F
  
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• 88-year-old man killed in Irvine Spectrum parking lot mishap

  03-01-2025 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  An 88-year-old man died after getting wedged between his driver’s side door and his vehicle while paying for parking at the Irvine Spectrum Center.
  The situation was reported to the Irvine Police Department at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, according to Irvine police Sgt. Karie Davies. It occurred at the parking structure exit at 100 Spectrum Center Drive.
  Arriving officers found the man wedged between the partially open driver’s side door and his Mazda SUV, Davies said. A good Samaritan was tr
  
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• Judge sets Trump’s sentencing in hush money case for Jan. 10, but signals no jail time

  03-01-2025 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ
  NEW YORK (AP) — In an extraordinary turn, a judge Friday set President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — little over a week before he’s due to return to the White House — but indicated he wouldn’t be jailed.
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• You can now access your credit report once a week for free, rather than just once a year

  03-01-2025 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By Dave Lieber, The Dallas Morning News (TNS)
  If you’re someone who manages the family’s finances, worries about identity theft and values maintaining a good credit score, The Watchdog has the latest updates for you.
  Specifically, let’s dive into what credit reports and scores really mean, how you can access them and why staying on top of them is so important.
  I recently tuned in to a town hall on consumerism sponsored by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Much of i
  
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• Fannie, Freddie hit 5-year high on plan for ‘eventual release’

  03-01-2025 21:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By Josh Wingrove, Christopher Condon and Patrick Clark | Bloomberg
  The agencies that control mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac set out a roadmap for releasing the pair from government supervision, sending the entities’ common stock to the highest levels since 2019.
  The new guidelines released Thursday reinstate the US Treasury’s power to approve any such plan in a bid to keep the process “orderly.”
  Also see: Privatizing Fannie Mae would cause mortgage rates to so
  
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• Auto sales get year-end boost from Trump’s threat to end EV tax credits

  03-01-2025 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By Gabrielle Coppola, David Welch and Keith Naughton | Bloomberg
  The threat by President-elect Donald Trump to end tax credits for electric vehicles helped lift sales in the fourth quarter, giving US automakers a much-needed boost after a disappointing year.
  At General Motors Co., EV sales more than doubled to almost 44,000 in the quarter. Ford Motor Co. saw a 16% jump in the category to about 30,000 vehicles. Overall EV sales gained 12%, pushing the full-year total to a record 1.3 million, acco
  
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• El Dorado’s Zack LaMonda and Beckman’s Marcello Giuliano to coach O.C. all-star football game

  03-01-2025 21:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowEl Dorado’s Zack LaMonda and Beckman’s Marcello Giuliano have been selected as the coaches for the upcoming Orange County All-Star Classic football game.
  The game, sponsored by non-profit Costa Mesa United and the L.A. Chargers, is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 1 at Orange Coast College at 7 p.m., organizer Ron Amburgey said.
  Guiliano is coming off his best season with Beckman. He guided the
  
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• No. 1 UCLA women’s basketball emphasizing character over talent to maintain a high standard

  03-01-2025 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The No. 1 UCLA women’s basketball team beat No. 24 Michigan in its last outing, but head coach Cori Close still came down hard on her team.
  “When we do not take care of things under our control and the scoreboard doesn’t make it hurt, it’s my job to make it hurt,” she said. “At the same time, I always want them to play out of gratitude and joy. There’s this healthy tension where it’s not an either/or, it actually can be a both/and.”
  The Bruin
  
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• More education, research opportunities allowed by wildlife commission in coastal protected areas

  03-01-2025 21:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Marine science researchers and educators in Southern California are celebrating a recent decision by the California Fish and Game Commission to allow more access to some coastal Marine Protected Areas following a review that indicated the extra protections over the last decade have helped the local ocean ecosystem rebound.
  There are 124 Marine Protected Areas, or MPAs, now designated statewide, with 50 of them off Southern California – they were created to help restore heavily fished and i
  
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• Rams to rest Puka Nacua, Cooper Kupp, Kyren Williams, other offensive starters vs. Seahawks

  03-01-2025 21:31 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Rams offense will look a little different than it usually does in Week 18.
  Along with quarterback Matthew Stafford, the Rams (10-6) will allow receivers Cooper Kupp and Puka Nacua, running back Kyren Williams and offensive linemen Kevin Dotson and Alaric Jackson to rest in the regular-season finale rather than play against the Seattle Seahawks (9-7), head coach Sean McVay said Friday.
  The Rams have already clinched the NFC West, so they will only be playing for seeding ag
  
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• No. 15 UCLA men’s basketball’s depth will be tested

  03-01-2025 21:03 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Before the UCLA men’s basketball season started, the common storyline to latch onto was the Bruins’ depth. After all, they had added six notable transfers and two highly touted recruits. The players and coaching staff, seemingly, were prepared for that topic to be broached and each offered a different reason as to why it would be a strength.
  “With how deep we are, we can just tire out teams,” forward William Kyle III said Oct. 15.
  “I think we can
  
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• What’s on the table in 2025? Some predicted trends in food

  03-01-2025 20:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By KATIE WORKMAN, Associated Press
  As we tip into the New Year, we food writers are often tasked with putting on paper our predictions for what will be trending. Truly, this used to be a simpler task!
  Now, with food becoming more and more global, culinary innovations developing at the speed of light, social media weighing in, chefs feeling more empowered to break traditional rules — or to dig deep into their cultural roots — it’s kind of hard to know where to begin. But begin I
  
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• New Majority Leader Thune kicks off Senate session with pledge to preserve filibuster

  03-01-2025 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARY CLARE JALONICK
  WASHINGTON (AP) — New Senate Majority Leader John Thune is kicking off the new session with a promise to preserve the filibuster, saying in his first floor speech as leader that his priority will be to “ensure the Senate stays the Senate.”
  Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Republicans are taking power on Friday a little more than two weeks before Donald Trump will be inaugurated, cementing a firm GOP hold on Washington. And Thune will have to navigate his new res
  
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• Explore your options to keep costs in focus when buying new glasses

  03-01-2025 20:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Victor Stefanescu | (TNS) The Minnesota Star Tribune
  MINNEAPOLIS — On a recent cloudy winter Sunday, Peg McCormick, 72, was picking up a pair of sunglasses at the Warby Parker in the North Loop neighborhood of Minneapolis for an upcoming snow-escaping trip to Mexico.
  Related ArticlesHealth | Americans are drinking less milk, but devouring butter and cheese like never beforeHealth | Cancer derailed their lives. Then, they found each other.Health | Surgeon General calls for new label on drin
  
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• Questions remain about soldier’s motive in Cybertruck explosion outside Trump’s Las Vegas hotel

  03-01-2025 20:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By TARA COPP, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and COLLEEN LONG
  Investigators know that a highly decorated Army soldier shot himself in the head inside a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks just before it exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day, but authorities say there are questions about why he chose that car and location.
  “It’s not lost on us that it’s in front of the Trump building, that it’s a Tesla vehicle, but we don’t have inf
  
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• Starbucks has launched an espresso called Cortado; here’s what you get

  03-01-2025 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Starbucks has packed up its Christmas cheer and is rolling out its “winter provisions,” which include a new espresso and a vegan food item.
  The coffee giant’s winter menu 2025 debuted Friday, Jan. 3, although it was prematurely announced by some foodie websites on Thursday.
  The new beverage is called Cortado, which Starbucks describes as “small in size and strong in flavor.” It features steamed milk and three shots of ristretto, which Starbucks makes with less water
  
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• Supporters of Menendez brothers’ re-sentencing to meet with new DA Nathan Hochman

  03-01-2025 20:21 via ocregister.com
  
  A family-led coalition trying to secure re-sentencing for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life sentences without parole for the 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion, will meet Friday with Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman.
  Friday’s meeting with the Justice for Erik and Lyle Coalition will include more than 20 members of Jose and Kitty Menendez’s family, who organizers say are united in their support for a new sentence that &l
  
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• New Orleans attack and Vegas explosion highlight extremist violence by active military and veterans

  03-01-2025 20:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By JASON DEAREN, MICHELLE R. SMITH and AARON KESSLER
  While much remains unknown about the man who carried out an attack in New Orleans on New Year’s and another who died in an explosion in Las Vegas the same day, the violence highlights the increased role of people with military experience in ideologically driven attacks, especially those that seek mass casualties.
  In New Orleans, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a veteran of the U.S. Army, was killed by police after a deadly r
  
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• How to watch the 2025 Golden Globes: red carpet, streaming, nominees and more

  03-01-2025 20:09 via ocregister.com
  
  The 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards is setting the tone for an exciting awards season. Taking place this Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, the star-studded ceremony will air live on CBS and stream on Paramount+.
  Known as “Hollywood’s party of the year,” the Golden Globes celebrate excellence in film and television, spotlighting the past year’s standout performances, compelling stories, and artistic achievements. The Globes also mark the beginning of the televised awards season, pavin
  
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• Disney parks considering Simpsons themed lands, survey says

  03-01-2025 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Disney fans have long wondered when Bart, Homer and the rest of the Simpsons family would be moving into Disneyland and Walt Disney World after the entertainment giant nabbed the long-running animated TV show as part of a blockbuster deal to buy Fox.
  A new survey recently conducted by Disney asks respondents if they would like to see Simpsons themed lands, attractions and meet-and-greet characters in the company’s theme parks, according to Disney Dude vlogger Drew Smith.
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• Jay-Z can file for dismissal of rape lawsuit against him, Diddy: report

  03-01-2025 19:58 via ocregister.com
  
  A New York City judge on Thursday granted Jay-Z’s request to file a motion for dismissal of a lawsuit that accuses the rap titan of raping a 13-year-old with Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2000.
  Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York said Jay-Z’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, can file the motion by Feb. 6, according to court documents shared on X by legal affairs journalist Meghann Cuniff.
  Lawyers for the anonymous accuser, identified only as Jane Doe, would have until th
  
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