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• Residents run for charity in inaugural Chamber of Commerce holiday 5K run

  17-12-2017 22:34 via ocregister.com
  
  LAKE FOREST — Hundreds of residents dressed in holiday wear flooded the Lake Forest Sports Park to take part in the inaugural Elf Yourself Holiday 5K event, Saturday, Dec. 16.
  Grace Lindsey, 2, of Lake Forest, prepares to start the inaugural Elf Yourself Holiday 5K and Fun Run with her parents Kurt and Jennifer in Lake Forest on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)Runners race past starter Jade Tully during the inaugural Elf Yourself Holiday 5K an
  
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• ‘They give up so much’: Firefighters’ sacrifice honored as Thomas fire victim returns home

  17-12-2017 22:22 via ocregister.com
  
  The procession for Cal Fire firefighter Cory Iverson, who died from injuries suffered while fighting the Thomas fire on Thursday, Dec. 14, moves down the 134 Freeway through Burbank on Sunday, Dec. 17. His remains were being returned to San Diego County. (Michael Meadows for SCNG)Firefighters and others stand on the Alameda Street bridge over the 134 Freeway in Burbank on Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, to pay their respects to Cal Fire firefighter Cory Iverson, who died from injuries suffered while figh
  
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• Person extracted from overturned vehicle in Newport Beach early Sunday

  17-12-2017 22:02 via ocregister.com
  
  One person had to be extracted from an overturned vehicle after two vehicles crashed in Newport Beach early Sunday morning, Dec. 17.
  The crash was reported at 7:12 a.m. at the intersection of Bison Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard, according to Newport Beach firefighters.
  One person was extracted from an overturned vehicle, treated by paramedics and transported to an area hospital in an unknown condition.
   
   
  
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• Person extracted from overturned vehicle early Sunday morning

  17-12-2017 22:02 via ocregister.com
  
  One person had to be extracted from an overturned vehicle after two vehicles crashed in Newport Beach early Sunday morning, Dec. 17.
  The crash was reported at 7:12 a.m. at the intersection of Bison Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard, according to Newport Beach firefighters.
  One person was extracted from an overturned vehicle, treated by paramedics and transported to an area hospital in an unknown condition.
   
   
  
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• Live-in boyfriend arrested on suspicion of Santa Ana woman’s death

  17-12-2017 21:34 via ocregister.com
  
  A woman who was killed in a Santa Ana apartment above the 4th Street shopping district on Saturday was identified by police Sunday, Dec. 17.
  Shannon Pearce Likens, 38, was discovered bleeding and unconscious by police officers at 11:33 a.m. Saturday at 316 W. 4th Street, police said. Paramedics declared her dead at 11:55 a.m. after both police and paramedics tried to save Likens’ life.
  Neighbors told police they saw Liken’s live-in boyfriend Prentis John Hill leave the scene.
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• Residents take in the sights and sounds of the season through annual stroll around the lake

  17-12-2017 21:10 via ocregister.com
  
  RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA — The evening stroll around Rancho Santa Margarita Lake included carolers, hot cocoa, candy canes and plenty of photo opportunities, as residents enjoyed the annual Carols ‘Round the Lake, Saturday night, Dec. 16.
  Hundreds of people watch musicians and singers perform during the Rancho Santa Margarita Landscape and Recreation Corporation’s Carols Round the Lake Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer)The Geoghegan f
  
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• Fire danger high Sunday because of strong winds and dry conditions

  17-12-2017 20:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Gusts of wind reaching up to 55 miles per hour are expected across Southern California through Sunday night, prompting the National Weather Service to issue fire danger warnings.
  The strongest winds are expected below the Cajon Pass in San Bernardino County and in the coastal foothills of the Santa Ana mountains, said National Weather Service meteorologist Derek Schroeter.
  Early Sunday gusts of 63 miles per hour were recorded at Freemont Canyon north of Irvine Lake while 58 mile per ho
  
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• See procession for fallen Thomas Fire firefighter Cory Iverson

  17-12-2017 19:59 via ocregister.com
  
  It is a somber morning in Southern California as many gather across freeway overpasses to pay tribute to firefighter Cory Iverson, who was killed fighting the Thomas Fire in Ventura County on Thursday, Dec. 14.
  The procession began in around 10 a.m., starting from the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s office, and will conclude around 1:20 p.m. in San Diego.
  Here is what it looked like at various overpasses and on the freeways, as people mourned Iverson’s deat
  
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• Rams vs. Seattle Seahawks: Live updates from CenturyLink Field

  17-12-2017 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  The Rams know the stakes in Sunday’s game against the Seattle Seahawks. Win and they position themselves nicely to finish first in the NFC West, host a playoff game, and perhaps get a first-round bye. Lose and they open themselves up to the possibility of falling out of the playoffs entirely.
  The Rams enter the game leading the division at 9-4, with a game at Tennessee and a home game against the 49ers still to play. The Seahawks are 8-5, but a win would give them a sweep of the two games
  
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• This week’s best deals: Visit Catalina for less, winter solstice in L.A.

  17-12-2017 17:01 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Snow, skating and winter fun in Costa Mesa
  Winter Fest OC – SoCal’s Ultimate Winter Experience – is coming back to the Orange County Fairgrounds, bringing along tons of snow, family fun and date-night charm. Attractions including a 150-foot ice-tubing slide, snow play, ice skating, rides, nightly fireworks, snow flurries and much more. $15 general admission (online pricing only); $10 children 12 and younger (ages 3 and under are free), $10 Snowflake Summit Fast Pass
  
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• Homeless to get more housing in revamped, Lego-like shipping containers

  17-12-2017 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Hope on Alvarado will rise to five stories, including a concrete podium with meeting rooms and parking, and above that, four stories of shipping container homes. The development will be located west of downtown in the Westlake area of Los Angeles. Construction is expected to take six months.(Courtesy rendering)An interior of a Hope on Alvardo unit. The building’s studio and one-bedroom apartments will be 400 to 480 square feet. The development is located in a dense area near public tr
  
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• Here’s how to pay tribute to fallen firefighter Cory Iverson today

  17-12-2017 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Thousands of people are expected to turn out along the route and on freeway overpasses to pay tribute to firefighter Cory Iverson on Sunday, Dec. 17, as his funeral procession travels to San Diego.
  Iverson, 32, an engineer with a state fire engine strike team based in San Diego, was killed Thursday, Dec. 14, while battling the Thomas Fire in Ventura County. He died from burns and smoke inhalation. He is survived by his pregnant wife and a 2-year-old daughter.
  Before working in San Diego,&nb
  
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• 5 free things to do in Orange County, Dec. 17-23

  17-12-2017 16:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Haven’t been moved by the Christmas spirit yet? Well then, it’s time to see the man in red and dive into some local holiday traditions. Here are some good free ones.
  The Anaheim Packing House is offering free organic candy canes while supplies last. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG )Sunday, Dec. 17
  Grab your wish list and get on over to Anaheim. Santa and Mrs. Claus will visit the Anaheim Packing House from 5-8 p.m. Free organic candy canes will be given while su
  
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• What $359,818 gets a new-home buyer in Orange County

  17-12-2017 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  New Homes Co. is building 10 homes in Rancho Mission Viejo. They’re priced at $359,818 and are a snug 700 square feet. Seen here is the compact living room. (Jonathan Lansner, Southern California News Group)New Homes Co. is building 10 homes in Rancho Mission Viejo. They’re priced at $359,818 and are a snug 700 square feet. The home features just one bedroom. (Jonathan Lansner, Southern California News Group)New Homes Co. is building 10 homes in Rancho Mission Viejo. They’re pr
  
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• Real estate briefly: Buena Vida at Town Center in RSM sells for $35 million

  17-12-2017 16:00 via ocregister.com
  Irvine-based Steadfast Apartment REIT III has acquired the Sugar Mill Apartments in the northeast Atlanta submarket of Lawrenceville for roughly $35 million. (Courtesy of Steadfasat Apartment REIT)Holliday Fenoglio Fowler has closed the sale of Perris Plaza, a 150,148-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center in Perris. The seller was the Coudures Family. Terms were not disclosed. (Courtesy of HFF and Patrick Tang of Take Flyt Imaging)CBRE has closed the sale of JP Apartments, a multifamily
  
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• 8 reasons why tourism matters in Orange County

  17-12-2017 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A tourism report ties $3 billion in spending by out-of-town visitors at both local eateries and retail stores. And tourism supports one-third of all local food jobs and 8 percent of retail employment. Seen here, window shoppers pass by the Gucci store at South Coast Plaza. (File photo by Mike Goulding, Orange County Register/SCNG)Despite all the local hotel construction you’ve witnessed, a new report says demand for local hotels has far outstripped new room supply. That’s a good reas
  
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• Deal of the Week: 13 bagels with cream cheese for 1960s prices

  17-12-2017 15:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Bruegger’s, a popular chain whose claim to fame is New York-style bagels, is offering a whole lot of them this Christmas – 13, in fact, along with two tubs of cream cheese, for $9.99. (Bruegger’s regular price for 12 bagels and two tubs of cream cheese is $13.99.) That’s a little over 75 cents per bagel with cream cheese, which is well below the break-even point in New York for a bagel with a shmear, according to Serious Eats. You have to click an online link to claim the
  
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• Santa Ana homebuying: Sales down, prices up

  17-12-2017 14:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Here are Santa Ana highlights of ReportsOnHousing house-hunting data for resales of existing detached and attached residences in the community.
  This analysis includes October trends based on closed sales: sale counts; average price vs. average list price; highest and lowest price paid in the month; average cost per square foot and average size; plus, based on broker listing networks stats on Nov. 30, the “market time” metric comparing supply of listings to new escrows opened in past
  
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• Detox can end in death at some ‘non-medical’ Southern California rehabs

  17-12-2017 14:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Part of our ongoing investigation into the Southern California rehab industry.
  “This is the beginning of your beautiful new life!”
  So began a contract for Above It All Treatment Center, a drug rehabilitation facility in Lake Arrowhead where, in February, Matthew Maniace signed himself in for detox.
  Matthew Maniace on his 19th birthday in 2015, the last birthday his family got to spend with him. (Photo courtesy of the Maniace family)He was a red-headed, freckle-faced sweetheart-turned
  
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• Urine empire, lax oversight expose flaws in California rehab laws

  17-12-2017 14:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Part of our ongoing investigation into the Southern California rehab industry.
  Philip Ganong, his wife and their 34-year-old son built a fast-growing, multi-million-dollar empire on urine.
  They collected it from drug addicts at their chain of Southern California sober living homes. They created labs to test it. And they charged insurance companies to analyze it.
  But the success story was a scam, according to prosecutors, who have accused the Ganongs of fraud. They say the family used a network o
  
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• Are drug rehab centers fueling homelessness in Southern California?

  17-12-2017 14:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Part of our ongoing investigation into the Southern California rehab industry.
  Thirteen-hundred miles from his rural Arkansas home, Tyler McCollough paces across a motel parking lot, veins bulging at his temple, anxiously gripping himself as the pangs of heroin withdrawal intensify.
  Newly homeless and dope sick on the streets of Costa Mesa, the 25-year-old says he’s thinking about stealing from a nearby store – anything to scrounge up the cash he needs to get drugs.
  Hours later, rela
  
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• Book events for the week of Dec. 17

  17-12-2017 12:39 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Award-winning author D. P. Lyle will be discussing and signing his latest Jake Longly novel, “A-LIST” at the Mystery Ink Bookstore. (Photo Courtesy of D.P. Lyle)Award-winning author D. P. Lyle will be discussing and signing his latest Jake Longly novel, “A-LIST” at the Mystery Ink Bookstore. (Photo Courtesy of D.P. Lyle)Author K.D. Mason will sign and discuss his new book, “Black Schooner,” at Book Carnival. (Photo Courtesy of Book Carnival)Show Caption
  
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• Trump and the imprecision of language

  17-12-2017 08:37 via ocregister.com
  
  In “The Giver,” Lois Lowry’s 1993 novel about a post-apocalyptic future, a regimented social order has been created to protect citizens from suffering and strife. The “elders” in this utopian community assign everyone roles that fit their gifts. If that was the extent of it, this could be your local Presbyterian Church. But that’s not all there is, as 12-year-old Jonas learns at the dinner table one night when he asks if his father loves him.
  “Jonas. You
  
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• Plots thicken in the FBI Russia investigation

  17-12-2017 08:34 via ocregister.com
  
  The allegations of Russian collusion in the last presidential election are serious, and our country is right to have the FBI investigating them.
  But at the same time the FBI has to be trusted, or its findings won’t be seen as credible. Recent reports of outspokenly anti-Donald Trump agents formerly serving the bureau in the investigation aren’t helping. Some GOP lawmakers are calling for a second special counsel to investigate the FBI and the Justice Department following the revelati
  
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• The new mandarins of the deep state

  17-12-2017 08:31 via ocregister.com
  
  The shocking defeat of GOP Senator hopeful Roy Moore may not spell the end of Trumpism, but you can see it from there. The president’s unconventional peasant rebellion has now reached its high-water market, with a countervailing tide threatening to inundate an increasingly vulnerable GOP.
  One good piece of news: the once common hysteria about Trump as a new authoritarian threat should start to recede. Constitutional limits, such as elections, tend to undermine even the savviest would-be di
  
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• Not just homeless but also unsheltered

  17-12-2017 08:16 via ocregister.com
  
  California is home to 31 percent of the nation’s homeless population, according to a recent report of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
  Reflective of what Californians across the state have probably seen with their own eyes, this sorry fact was in part driven by a 14 percent increase in the homeless population in 2016-17, the largest increase of any state.
  Troublingly, most of the 134,278 people who experienced homelessness in the Golden State in 2017 had no roof at all over
  
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• Mater Dei leaves no doubt, routs De La Salle to claim first CIF State crown

  17-12-2017 08:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Mater Dei’s Amon-Ra St. Brown makes a catch near the endzone over De La Salle’s Taveis Marshall in the CIF State Open Division championship game at Sacramento State in Sacramento on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)Mater Dei’s Amon-Ra St. Brown spins the ball in the endzone after scoring in the CIF State Open Division championship game at Sacramento State in Sacramento on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Reg
  
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• Mater Dei leaves no doubt, captures CIF State crown by thrashing De La Salle

  17-12-2017 08:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Mater Dei’s Amon-Ra St. Brown makes a catch near the endzone over De La Salle’s Taveis Marshall in the CIF State Open Division championship game at Sacramento State in Sacramento on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Register, SCNG)Mater Dei’s Amon-Ra St. Brown spins the ball in the endzone after scoring in the CIF State Open Division championship game at Sacramento State in Sacramento on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. (Photo by Matt Masin, Orange County Reg
  
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• California steps up its role as voice of ‘Trump resistance’

  17-12-2017 08:08 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO — “States’ rights” has long had a reactionary connotation because of its connection to segregation. Defenders of Jim Crow-era policies hid behind the rights of states to do as they choose as they backed noxious policies that denied basic liberties to African-Americans. The most iconic imagery comes from 1963, when Gov. George Wallace stood in front of a University of Alabama door in defiance of a federal order demanding the entry of black students.
  These days,
  
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• All Access: Orange falls in State title game (video)

  17-12-2017 07:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Go inside the locker room, and feel the emotion of the sidelines, as Orange rallied but ultimately succumbed to the Northern California squad.
  Orange High School hosted their first ever CIF State championship football game, but did not get the result they intended, losing to Strathmore 31-29.
  Video by Jonathan Khamis, for the Orange County Register.
  
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• Orange has rough night, falls short in bid to win 6-AA state football title

  17-12-2017 07:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange’s Jordan Schmidt takes off untouched on a 64-yard touchdown run in the first quarter of his game against Strathmore in the CIF State Division 6-AA championship game at El Modena High in Orange on Saturday, December 16, 2017. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Orange County Register/SCNG)Orange’s Syrus Collins breaks up a pass intended for Strathmore’s Armando Rodriguez in the first half of the CIF State Division 6-AA championship game at El Modena High School in Orange on Saturday,
  
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• Northwood toughens up and beats JSerra 51-41 to capture championship of Gary Raya Classic (video)

  17-12-2017 07:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Northwood’s Devin Owens (far left) and Seth Locke (middle) were named to the all-tournament team and guard Jacob Huynh was named MVP of the So Cal Elite Gary Raya Classic. Tim Burt photoNorthwood players hold the plaque they received for being the champions of the So Cal Elite Gary Raya Classic. Tim Burt photoNorthwood players celebrate after winning the So Cal Elite Gary Raya Classic Saturday night at El Dorado. Tim Burt photoShow Caption of Expand
  Northwood’s boys basketball team d
  
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• Long Beach State men’s basketball falls short against Eastern Michigan

  17-12-2017 07:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Bryan Alberts carrying the ball for Long Beach State against Eastern Michigan. Final score Long Beach 80 Eastern Michigan 85. Long Beach December 16, 2017. Photo by Brittany Murray, Press Telegram/SCNGLong Beach State bench during the game against Eastern Michigan at The Pyramid on Saturday night. Final score Long Beach 80 Eastern Michigan 85. Long Beach December 16, 2017. Photo by Brittany Murray, Press Telegram/SCNGJames Thompson IV scoring for Easter Michigan against Long Beach State at The P
  
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• Saint Mary’s stays strong down stretch, tops UC Irvine 73-66

  17-12-2017 06:02 via ocregister.com
  
  MORAGA — Jock Landale had 25 points and 10 rebounds, Calvin Hermanson and Emmett Naar scored 15 each and Saint Mary’s beat UC Irvine 73-66 on Saturday night.
  The Gaels (9-2) pulled away with a 6-0 run capped by Landale’s dunk to make it 65-56 with 4:54 left.
  The Anteaters (4-9) stayed close, but it was all but over when Hermanson’s 3-pointer from the left wing pushed Saint Mary’s lead back to nine with 48.4 seconds left. Hermanson finished 3 of 4 from 3-point range,
  
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• Josh Richardson scores 28 points, Heat beat Clippers 90-85

  17-12-2017 05:50 via ocregister.com
  
  MIAMI  — A slow start to the season is in the past for Josh Richardson.
  Richardson scored a career-high 28 points to help the Miami Heat beat the Los Angeles Clippers 90-85 on Saturday night.
  “J-Rich played unbelievable tonight,” Heat point guard Goran Dragic said.
  Richardson was 10 for 16 from the field to record his second 20-plus scoring game of the month and is averaging 16.3 points a game in December after averaging 8.8 points in his first 21 games.
  “I’ve
  
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• Chargers’ playoff hopes take a blow after loss in Kansas City

  17-12-2017 05:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers (17) calls a play during the second half of an NFL football game against the Kansas City Chiefs in Kansas City, Mo., Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers (17) calls a play during the second half of an NFL football game against the Kansas City Chiefs in Kansas City, Mo., Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Tyrell Williams (16) is tackled by Kansas C
  
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• Ovechkin’s OT goal lifts Capitals over Ducks 3-2

  17-12-2017 05:00 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Washington Capitals goalie Braden Holtby (70) watches the puck against Anaheim Ducks left wing Andrew Cogliano (7) during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)Anaheim Ducks center Derek Grant (38) celebrates his goal with center Dennis Rasmussen (22) during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Washington Capitals, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)Anaheim Ducks right wing Ondrej Kase (25
  
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• Chargers CB Casey Hayward starts against Kansas City despite calf injury

  17-12-2017 04:22 via ocregister.com
  
  KANSAS CITY — Casey Hayward was healthy enough to play. He didn’t look healthy enough to keep up.
  The Chargers’ Pro Bowl cornerback remained in the starting lineup on Saturday, playing through a calf injury that has bothered him for the last month. It was good news for the team, given that the alternative option was undrafted rookie Michael Davis, who entered the weekend with just 36 career snaps on defense.
  But less than nine minutes into the second quarter, Kansas City receiv
  
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• Jordan Eberle scores in overtime as Islander hand Kings third conecutive loss

  17-12-2017 04:00 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK – Jordan Eberle scored with 3:06 left in overtime to lift the New York Islanders to a 4-3 win over the Kings, dealing the Pacific Division leaders their third consecutive loss.
  Eberle got a pass from Mathew Barzal on an odd-man rush in the 3-on-3 period and fired a shot past Kings goalie Darcy Kuemper, who otherwise made 29 saves in giving Jonathan Quick a night off on a back-to-back scenario.
  After the Rangers’ Rick Nash scored a late tiebreaking goal Friday night, Anders L
  
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• Cal snaps Cal State Fullerton’s five game winning streak

  17-12-2017 03:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Darius McNeil scored a season-high 30 points but California needed late heroics from cold-shooting Don Coleman to hold off Cal State Fullerton 95-89 in overtime on Saturday.
  Coleman made just one of his first 12 shots, but scored 17 points in the final 3:35 of regulation and overtime as the Bears (5-6) won their second straight game. He converted a 4-point play with two minutes left in the second half and had eight points in the extra period, including six on free throws.
  “I was struggling
  
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• Early signing period forces college football coaches to scramble

  17-12-2017 03:52 via ocregister.com
  
  The middle of December used to be a time for college football coaches to focus on bowl practices or figure out what high school prospects they really wanted to sign in six weeks.
  But there is a new sense of urgency this year as colleges scramble to snare recruits with the early-signing period that begins Wednesday. For the first time, high school football players can sign with colleges before Christmas.
  That meant USC coach Clay Helton held a Cotton Bowl practice Monday, then flew to Utah for a
  
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• Kyle Clifford happy to be back in the Kings’ mix after long absence

  17-12-2017 03:33 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK – Kyle Clifford might have been away from the ice for two months, but the rugged Kings winger didn’t feel as if he was out of the loop.
  Clifford is only three games into his return to action after a lengthy absence caused by an upper-body issue. Given that he’s just six games into his season overall, this might seem like the real start of it.
  Not in his mind. He’s been there all along, even if at times it’s just in spirit.
  “I stayed pretty close to th
  
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• Bennie Boatwright picks up scoring as USC breaks out of slump

  17-12-2017 03:21 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Bennie Boatwright was in a slump.
  Over USC’s three games prior to Thursday, Boatwright averaged 9 points per contest and shot below 26 percent.
  Related Articles NFL Draft decisions await deep group of USC underclassmen USC beats Santa Clara to end three-game losing streakThe Trojans lost each of the three games, coming against NCAA Tournament-caliber teams Texas A&M, SMU and Oklahoma, as Boatwright struggled.
  Their fates changed against Santa Clara.
  USC halted its t
  
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• Two arrested, 16 cited at police checkpoints in Whittier, La Habra

  17-12-2017 01:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Overnight sobriety and driver’s license checkpoints held in Whittier and La Habra resulted in one arrest for driving under the influence of marijuana, one warrant arrest and 16 citations, police said.
  The checkpoints were held from 7:30 p.m. Friday to 1:30 a.m. Saturday at Whittier Boulevard and Mills Avenue in Whittier, as well as from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Beach Boulevard at La Habra Boulevard in La Habra, Whittier and La Habra police said, respectively.
  About 1,450 vehicles passed t
  
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• Michigan judge orders Lakers’ Kentavious Caldwell-Pope to remain in California, costing him at least three road games

  17-12-2017 01:32 via ocregister.com
  EL SEGUNDO – While Kentavious Caldwell-Pope said he has not addressed his teammates about a legal situation that will cause him to miss at least three upcoming Lakers road games, he said he does feel like he “let them down.”
  While a member of the Detroit Pistons, Caldwell-Pope was arrested in March in Auburn Hills, Mich., for suspicion of driving under the influence and later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of allowing someone to operate his motor vehicle while under the infl
  
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• Retired Alhambra professor accused of killing wife was at times funny, vulgar

  17-12-2017 01:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Police arrested retired East Los Angeles College instructor Russell Errett man on suspicion of murder after his wife died from falling from a multi-story parking garage at 26 N. First St. in Alhambra, Calif. early Thursday morning Dec. 14, 2017. (Photo by Leo Jarzomb, SGV Tribune/ SCNG)To some of his former students, retired East Los Angeles College instructor Russell Errett was an intelligent, funny and intense teacher. But others described him as a weird and vulgar man, who talked about his se
  
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• Rams hit rock bottom on last trip to Seattle; They return on Sunday with division title in sight

  17-12-2017 01:06 via ocregister.com
  SEATTLE – It seems almost unthinkable now considering just how rock bottom the Rams bottomed out on their last trip to the Pacific Northwest.
  Looking back now, comforted by one of the more remarkable turnarounds in NFL history and the bright future the Rams now face with Jared Goff and Sean McVay in place, it’s easy to forget how somber and daunting the cold hard truths they faced on that wet, cold, dreary Seattle night last December.
  That they return barely a year later with a chanc
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday (12-16-17)

  17-12-2017 00:55 via ocregister.com
  
  This is where you can find the scores and stats for the Orange County high school games on Saturday, Dec. 16.
  BOYS BASKETBALLSOCAL ELITE GARY RAYA TOURNAMENTBeckman 65, Tesoro 62 (OT)
  Beck: Thoerner 28 pts, Lee 9 pts, Muller 8 pts, 8 rebs. Tes: Duggan 22 pts, Broughton 9 pts, El Farra 8 pts.Note: Beckman places fifth in the tournament.
  Valencia 62, Huntington Beach 45Val: Noffal 19 pts, Sloniger 16 pts 3 3-ptrs, Jenkins 13 pts. HB: Tu 14 pts, Stenlund 8 pts.
  Tustin 49, Woodbridge 47Tus: Ramirez
  
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• Saturday shoppers are serenaded by trombone concert at Anaheim GardenWalk

  17-12-2017 00:53 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Nearly 200 trombonists, of varying levels of experience, gathered at the Anaheim GardenWalk to put on a special holiday concert for shoppers Saturday afternoon, Dec. 16.
  With players from novice to professional, the group played 16 numbers for a seated audience and passersby. Many of them were either dressed in holiday attire or decorated their instruments for the event.
  192 trombonists perform together during the Trombone Christmas event at the Anaheim GardenWalk in Anaheim on S
  
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• Turnovers punish UCLA basketball in loss to Cincinnati

  17-12-2017 00:29 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA Bruins’ Thomas Welsh applies defense against Cincinnati Bearcats’ Keith Williams during the first half at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)UCLA Bruins’ Kris Wilkes drives the lane Cincinnati Bearcats’ Nysier Brooks during the first half at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)UCLA Bruins’ Gyorgy Goloman drives
  
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