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• Rams waive former All-Pro returner Pharoh Cooper, sign running back C.J. Anderson

  18-12-2018 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  In a surprising late-season move, the Rams waived receiver and recent All-Pro return specialist Pharoh Cooper on Tuesday.
  In a corresponding move, the Rams signed veteran running back C.J. Anderson. Todd Gurley’s status for Sunday’s game at Arizona is day to day because of knee inflammation and backup Justin Davis’ status is the same because of a shoulder injury.
  Cooper, a 2016 fourth-round pick, never made an impact as a receiver — 25 catches for 190 yards — but ca
  
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• Remembering Penny Marshall, star of ‘Laverne & Shirley’ and trailblazing female director, dead at 75

  18-12-2018 23:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Penny Marshall, who found Hollywood fame as Laverne DeFazio on the sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” and went on to become one of the most successful women film directors in town, died Monday at her home in the Hollywood Hills of complications from diabetes. She was 75.
  Marshall, whose voice never lost the Bronx lilt of her childhood, was born to parents who worked in the entertainment industry — her mother a tap dance instructor, her father a film director and producer — a
  
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• Recount called off in tight race for District 3 seat on Newport Beach City Council

  18-12-2018 23:54 via ocregister.com
  
  NEWPORT BEACH — Supporters of District 3 council challenger Tim Stoaks terminated their recount on Tuesday, Dec. 18, after a review of 25 percent of the precincts showed no signs of changing the outcome of the race.
  Stoaks finished as runner-up, 36 votes behind District 3 winner Marshall “Duffy” Duffield.
  “This confirms in our mind that the count is accurate,” said Phil Greer, the attorney representing Newport Beach voters Susan Skinner, Tim Stephens and L
  
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• Sparks, new coach Derek Fisher tip off 2019 season May 26 in Las Vegas

  18-12-2018 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  The Sparks’ new head coach, former Lakers point guard Derek Fisher, will make his WNBA regular-season coaching debut on the road May 26 against the Las Vegas Aces, according to the schedule released by the league Tuesday. The Sparks’ home opener is May 31 at Staples Center against the Connecticut Sun.
  The Sparks’ season won’t be as condensed as it was a season ago, when the league decided against taking a break for international competition, instead playing the whole
  
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• CSUF alum returns to recount childhood in apocalyptic religious cult

  18-12-2018 23:39 via ocregister.com
  
  As a child in the Children of God cult, Flor Edwards knew several things.
  The word of leader David Berg was to be obeyed, even though he was never seen in person. Her parents’ first priority was not their 12 children but the need to go out into the world to save souls. And the order to quickly pick up and move — even as far as Thailand — was a fact of life.
  She also believed she would die in a 1993 apocalypse and become a “martyr for God.”
  Edwards, now 37 and a Cal
  
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• USC football in unfamiliar spot for early signing day

  18-12-2018 22:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Throughout the past two decades, few factors have slowed USC’s pursuit of highly touted high school football prospects.
  There have been five full-time head coaches, as well as severe NCAA sanctions that included scholarship reductions, but the Trojans have regularly brought in top talent.
  Since 2000, only three of their recruiting classes have fallen outside the top 10, according to the composite rankings used by 247Sports, and of those three, none was outside the top 20.
  The accomplished
  
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• Martha Davis and The Motels check in with Southern California dates

  18-12-2018 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Martha Davis’ distinctive voice and cinematic lyrics separated The Motels from the other New Wave bands that emerged from the came out of the 1980s.
  “It was time of extreme creativity in terms of the whole of the music business,” Davis said in a phone interview from her ranch outside Portland, Oregon. “That was really exciting. Shortly after that you started to get this homogenization that we see a lot of now.”
  Songs such as “Only the Lonely,” &ldqu
  
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• Disney’s World of Color show won’t be back until next year

  18-12-2018 21:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Disney California Adventure said Tuesday that its popular World of Color show will remain closed until next year, squelching speculation by fans that it might reopen in time for the holidays. It’s been closed since April, after going down under mysterious circumstances.
  “We know our guests love World of Color and we have been working diligently to bring this experience back as soon as we can,” resort spokeswoman Liz Jaeger said Tuesday. “We are hopeful the show will retur
  
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• These are the Top 10 TV shows of 2018

  18-12-2018 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Every year, it seems, the task becomes more overwhelming. How do you possibly pare down the massive avalanche of fresh content generated by the networks, cable channels and streamers into a tight little best-of list?
  Crazy, yes, but we weren’t about to duck the challenge. In order to ease the pain just slightly, we limited our selections to episodic scripted series. That means documentaries, movies and reality shows are out.
  Here, then, are the Top 10 TV shows of 2018:
  Alison Brie strikes
  
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• Laguna Hills Mall to close Dec. 31

  18-12-2018 21:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Laguna Hills Mall will close on Dec. 31 as the developer continues to shape plans for the Five Lagunas shopping center that will replace it.
  In announcing the shuttering of the mall’s interior, Merlone Geier Partners stated, “The closure of the three former department stores offers a unique opportunity to re-imagine the entire property, which will offer a comprehensive array of shopping, dining, entertainment, and living options.”
  Tenants outside the mall will remain open, incl
  
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• Clippers still believe despite December struggles

  18-12-2018 20:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The Clippers could be forgiven for feeling less than jolly about the month of December, which has come crashing down like a giant lump of coal.
  They’ve lost seven of nine. They’ve lost Lou Williams to a hamstring injury. They’ve even lost their mojo at Staples Center in their limited time there, dropping three consecutive after winning nine in a row at home.
  And they’ve lost their way defensively: Entering the month, they were middle-of-the-pack defenders allowing 107.6 p
  
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• All-league boys water polo ’18: Trinity League

  18-12-2018 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Mater Dei’s Warren Loth will play water polo at University of California Berekely. He was at Mater Dei’s signing ceremony on Wednesday, November 14, 2018. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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  2018 all-league teams in boys water polo
  TRINITY LEAGUE
  MVP: Warren Loth, Mater Dei, Sr.
  First Team: Ian Minsterman, Mater Dei, Sr., Cameron Reagan, Mater Dei, Sr., Kaden Kaneko, Mater Dei, Sr., Yurian Quinones, Santa Margarita, Sr., Will Kieckhafer, Santa
  
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• Rocker Tommy Lee’s Calabasas home – complete with music studio – on market at $4.65 million

  18-12-2018 20:29 via ocregister.com
  
  The three-story, six-bedroom home is set on a cul-de-sac in guard-gated Vista Pointe. Click through the slideshow for a tour. (Photo courtesy of Tomer Fridman)
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• Big West basketball: Long Beach State seeks comforts of home

  18-12-2018 20:27 via ocregister.com
  
  The Beach is returning home, and it can’t come soon enough.
  Long Beach State’s suffered through a road-heavy start to the season, with 75 percent of its first 12 games coming on the road or at neutral sites. LBSU is 1-8 in those contests, and 0-7 in true road games.
  Even with a couple of those trips simply going across the county to play USC or UCLA, it was a grueling stretch, and one that’s coming to an end with Long Beach State set to play three of its last four nonconference
  
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• Corky Carroll: One of my favorite Christmases had to do with surfing, of course, but also chess

  18-12-2018 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Seeing as how Christmas is just a few days away, I thought I would write about a favorite Christmas Day from my treasure trove of zillions of them that I have had the pleasure of being alive for.
  A few years ago I did this and talked about the one where I got my first surfboard. Today I am gonna tell you about one that I had in the late 1960s while I was staying on the North Shore in Hawaii.
  Every year from 1963 to 1971 I was on the North Shore for Christmas. It was the big winter surf contest s
  
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• Radio: KABC’s Doug McIntyre talks about leaving his morning radio show

  18-12-2018 19:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Yes, that was Leo Terrell filling in for Doug McIntyre this week on KABC (790 AM) mornings. Well, filling in is perhaps not quite the right word as McIntyre announced early last week that he was retiring from the station he called home for 22 years.
  “I’m ready,” he told me.
  “I’ve actually been thinking about it for a while now,” he explained. “There are so many things I would like to do, including the completion of a novel I’ve been working on
  
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• Flynn sentencing abruptly postponed amid judge’s blistering rebuke

  18-12-2018 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER and CHAD DAY
  WASHINGTON — A federal judge abruptly postponed the sentencing hearing Tuesday for Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, after a stunning hearing in which the judge accused Flynn of selling out his country.
  The delay allows Flynn to continue cooperating with the special counsel’s Russia probe and get credit for it in his punishment. Flynn pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts, just d
  
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• Conflict between UC Irvine professors plays out on social media

  18-12-2018 19:19 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE — A public dispute between two UC Irvine professors played out on Twitter Tuesday, prompting university officials to announce that one of the professors was given a police escort.
  Professor Kathleen Treseder, the chair of the school of ecology and evolutionary biology, claimed on Twitter that she has been harassed by professor Richard Symanski, who denied the allegations in an email to City News Service.
  Treseder tweeted that Symanski sent her a copy of his memoir and noted portions
  
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• Trump Foundation reaches deal to dissolve amid lawsuit

  18-12-2018 19:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK
  NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s charitable foundation reached a deal Tuesday to dissolve while Trump fights allegations he misused assets for business and political purposes.
  New York’s attorney general and Trump Foundation lawyers filed a joint stipulation in a court laying out a process for shutting down the charity and distributing its remaining assets to other nonprofit groups.
  Attorney General Barbara Underwood alleged in a lawsuit last spring that
  
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• Trump administration moves to ban bump stocks

  18-12-2018 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL BALSAMO
  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration moved Tuesday to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, and has made them illegal to possess beginning in late March.
  The devices will be banned under a federal law that prohibits machine guns, according to a senior Justice Department official.
  Bump stocks became a focal point of the national gun control debate after they were used in October 2017 when a man opened fire
  
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• Robot build-and-race event in Laguna Niguel offers kids a hands-on science lesson

  18-12-2018 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  LAGUNA NIGUEL — Ready, set, robot! Little, handmade robots waddled toward a finish line on Saturday morning, Dec. 15, with their similarly little creators cheering them on.
  Future Kids OC, a nonprofit organization that promotes “accurate and effective” science education for children, invited Orange County children and parents to their Laguna Niguel-based lab to work together to make a small robot with parts provided from a Tin Can Robot kit and a Coca-Cola can.
  Brett and his da
  
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• Don’t let computers make decisions for us

  18-12-2018 17:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Computers can tell us the square root of any number, the capital of any country, directions to the nearest Starbucks. Computers can defeat the best humanity has to offer in Jeopardy, chess and countless other games. Computers can find 300,000 web pages related to “artificial intelligence” in less than half a second.
  Because computers are so much better than us at these challenges, we tend to look right past the clear limitations of AI. The danger is that, in our misplaced sense of aw
  
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• SpaceX launch scrubbed; they’ll try again Wednesday

  18-12-2018 17:55 via ocregister.com
  
  HAWTHORNE — Hawthorne-based SpaceX on Tuesday postponed the launch of a U.S. Air Force GPS satellite into orbit from Cape Canaveral in Florida
  SpaceX said the order to abort was triggered by the flight computer onboard the Falcon 9 rocket that was to have been used for the launch. Together with an earlier delay due to upper-level wind disruptions, the slowdown pushed the rocket past its launch window.
  “Vehicle and payload remain healthy,” SpaceX tweeted. “Next launch atte
  
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• Fullerton Arboretum holiday visitors take Luminaria Stroll

  18-12-2018 17:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Visitors to the Fullerton Arboretum on Friday night walked through pathways and gardens glowing with lights at the Winter in the Woodlands Luminaria Stroll.
  The holiday event, which also was held Saturday, featured live music, ornament making opportunities, a visit from Santa and a winter market with vendors selling handmade items.
  Docents dressed in period costume welcomed guests for tours of the illuminated Heritage House, built by one of Fullerton’s pioneer doctors, Dr. George Crook Cla
  
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• White House pulls back from shutdown threat over wall funds

  18-12-2018 17:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO, JILL COLVIN and MATTHEW DALY
  WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday appeared to inch away from forcing a partial government shutdown over funding for a southern border wall, with Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying there are “other ways” to secure the $5 billion in funding that President Donald Trump wants.
  It was the first sign of a potential White House counter offer as the clock ticks down toward Friday’s deadline to fund the government.
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• Look in the sky for Delta IV Heavy rocket launch Tuesday night from Vandenberg Air Force Base

  18-12-2018 16:43 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The twice-delayed launch of a rocket carrying a reconnaissance satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County is scheduled Tuesday night, potentially giving the Southland a holiday-season aerial light show.
  According to United Launch Alliance, it will try again to launch the rocket at 5:57 p.m. The Delta IV Heavy rocket will be carrying a secretive satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
  Rocket launches from Vandenberg, particularly
  
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• This Rancho Cucamonga woman and her dog searched the ruins of the Camp Fire for remains

  18-12-2018 15:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Sharon Gattas spent Thanksgiving this year among the ruins of the largest fire in modern California history, the Camp Fire that leveled the Northern California town of Paradise.
  “I am not a firefighter, I don’t run towards fire,” the Rancho Cucamonga woman said. “My husband did that; he’s nuts.”
  What she can do, however, is train dogs to help in times of disaster.
  “The dogs we choose to do this are the dogs that most people throw away,” Gattas said
  
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• A theme park fan’s wish list to Santa

  18-12-2018 15:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Dear Santa Claus,
  Sorry about that little mishap with your sleigh at Disneyland last weekend. But it’s great to see that you’re back in action already, and I will be sure to put a little something extra out with the cocoa when you visit our home this Christmas Eve.
  I suspect that helping theme parks might not be high on your list after Disneyland left you hanging from your Christmas parade float Saturday afternoon, but we fans always have had your back. So as you are setting aside lu
  
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• SWAT arrests barricaded domestic violence suspect in Midway City

  18-12-2018 14:52 via ocregister.com
  
  MIDWAY CITY — A sheriff’s SWAT team burst into an apartment in Midway City early Tuesday and arrested a barricaded domestic violence suspect to end a standoff lasting almost eight hours, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department reported.
  Deputies responded to a domestic violence call at 7:40 p.m. Monday involving a woman and a man on the 1500 block of Pacific Street. By the time they arrived, the woman was out of the residence, and it is unclear if she suffered any injuries, said
  
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• Man stabbed in Old Towne Orange; treated for life-threatening injuries

  18-12-2018 09:36 via ocregister.com
  
  A man sustained life-threatening injuries, but was expected to recover, after he was stabbed near Plaza Square Park in the Old Towne area of Orange on Monday, Dec. 17.
  Dispatchers received a 911 call at 8:36 p.m. reporting an unspecified incident near the intersection of West Chapman Avenue and Glassell Street, according to Orange Police Lt. Fred Lopez. He said responding officers found a 27-year-old man bleeding in the street. The victim was transported to a nearby hospital.East Chapman will be
  
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• OC prosecutors: No criminal culpability by Anaheim officers who struggled with man who later died

  18-12-2018 08:25 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — Orange County prosecutors have concluded that an i-custody death in Anaheim that has led the suspect’s family to sue the city should not result in criminal charges, officials announced Monday.
  The family of Christopher Eisinger filed a wrongful death complaint Nov. 29 against the city of Anaheim and Anaheim Police Chief Jorge Cisneros. Eisinger, pictured here with his mother, died in March after a struggle when police officers tried to arrest him. (Photo Courtesy of the E
  
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• Clippers can’t catch Trail Blazers, lose 4th consecutive game

  18-12-2018 07:25 via ocregister.com
  
  The Clippers’ Montrezl Harrell dunks during the first half of Monday’s game against the Trail Blazers at Staples Center. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
  Portland Trail Blazers’ Nik Stauskas (6) drives to basket between Los Angeles Clippers’ Patrick Beverley, left, and Montrezl Harrell during the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsLos Angeles Clippers’ Danilo G
  
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• Orange County basketball highlights for Monday, Dec. 17

  18-12-2018 06:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Highlights and top scorers from the Orange County basketball games on Saturday, Dec. 15.
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  No. 18 Marina beat former Sunset League foe, Los Alamitos, 75-57 in a Sunset Conference crossover game Monday. The Vikings will play in the Wave League this season with Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley and Laguna Beach. Los Alamitos will play in the Surf League with Newport Harbor, Edison, and Corona del Mar. Lehigh commit Jakob Alamudun scored 30 points for Marina and 6-foot-9 center Dean K
  
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• CIF-SS girls water polo rankings: Monday, Dec. 17

  18-12-2018 06:22 via ocregister.com
  
  The CIF-SS girls water polo rankings released Monday, Dec. 17.
  As selected by the CIF-SS Girls Water Polo Advisory Committee.
  GIRLS WATER POLO
  DIVISION 1 & 2
  1 Laguna Beach
  2 Foothill
  3 Corona del Mar
  4 Orange Lutheran
  5 Mater Dei
  6 San Marcos
  7 Santa Margarita
  8 Dos Pueblos
  9 Los Alamitos
  10 Huntington Beach
  11 Schurr
  12 Long Beach Wilson
  13 Santa Barbara
  14 Newport Harbor
  15 San Clemente
  16 Agoura
  17 La Canada
  18 Harvard Westlake
  19 Murrieta Valley
  20 Los Osos
  Others: None
   
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• CIF-SS girls soccer polls: Monday, Dec. 17

  18-12-2018 06:02 via ocregister.com
  
  The CIF-SS girls soccer polls released Monday, Dec. 17.
  As selected by the CIF-SS Girls Soccer Advisory Committee.
  GIRLS SOCCER
  DIVISION 1
  1 JSerra
  2 Los Alamitos
  3 Upland
  4 Villa Park
  5 Aliso Niguel
  6 Harvard Westlake
  7 Newport Harbor
  8 Santiago/Corona
  9 Santa Margarita
  T10 El Dorado
  T10 Mater Dei
  Others: La Mirada, Corona del Mar
   
  DIVISION 2
  1 Flintridge Prep
  2 Sunny Hills
  3 Vista Murrieta
  4 Pacifica/Garden Grove
  5 Claremont
  6 University
  7 Moorpark
  8 Redondo Union
  9 Mira Costa
  10 Warren
  
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• Albano’s FAB 5: Orange County girls basketball standouts last week, Dec. 17

  18-12-2018 05:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Esperanza senior Sam Fries scored 25 points in a 58-40 victory at Orangewood Academy on Wednesday night to help the Aztecs advance to Saturday’s championship of the Spartan Classic. (Photo by Dan Albano, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Alyssa Frescas of Mater Dei has been selected one of Dan Albano’s FAB 5 players of the week for girls basketball. (Photo by Dan Albano, Orange County Register/SCNG) SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsRosary’s Asia Avinger has been selected one of
  
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• CIF-SS boys soccer polls: Monday, Dec. 17

  18-12-2018 05:40 via ocregister.com
  
  The CIF-SS boys soccer polls released Monday, Dec. 17.
  As selected by the CIF-SS Boys Soccer Advisory Committee.
  BOYS SOCCER
  DIVISION 1
  1 Loyola
  2 Cathedral
  3 Mira Costa
  4 Servite
  5 San Clemente
  6 Santa Barbara
  7 Santa Margarita
  8 Mater Dei
  9 Millikan
  T10 Santa Ana
  T10 University
  Others: Corona del Mar, Aliso Niguel.
   
  DIVISION 2
  1 Sunny Hills
  2 Long Beach Cabrillo
  3 Arlington
  4 Santa Ana Valley
  5 Godinez
  6 Santiago/Garden Grove
  7 Channel Islands
  8 Riverside Poly
  9 Lynwood
  10 Redlands East
  
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• Orange County girls basketball assists leaders: Monday, Dec. 10

  18-12-2018 04:54 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County girls basketball assists leaders through Dec. 16.
  Leaderboards are based on stats available each Monday morning.Name
  GP
  Ast
  APG
  Anaiyah Tu ‘ua, Troy
  11
  58
  5.3
  Jaidyn Decastro, Sunny Hills
  15
  71
  4.7
  Joleen Corona, Whittier Christian
  12
  56
  4.7
  Katie Kubo, Esperanza
  12
  52
  4.3
  Angie Choi, Oxford Academy
  12
  52
  4.3
  Mia Pitz, Laguna Beach
  15
  55
  3.7
  Nicole Pena, Foothill
  11
  36
  3.3
  
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• Tyronn Lue ‘comes around’ Monday for Clippers’ game against Portland

  18-12-2018 04:50 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Asked about the recognizable figure who showed up at Staples Center on Monday, Clippers coach Doc Rivers cautioned that Tyronn Lue was “just coming to a game, to be honest.” But then Rivers added: “That may change.”
  Lue was fired as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Oct. 28. A protege of Rivers’, Lue coached the Cavs to three consecutive NBA Finals, including the 2016 NBA championship, and was 128-83 on the job – but 0-6 when he
  
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• Tim Neverett joins Dodgers’ broadcast team as Kevin Kennedy exits

  18-12-2018 04:33 via ocregister.com
  
  The Dodgers added a new voice to their broadcast team and subtracted another.
  Tim Neverett, a veteran of the Red Sox, Pirates and Rockies’ radio and television broadcast crews, will call a partial slate of games on 570-AM and SportsNet LA in 2019. He will handle television play-by-play duties during Joe Davis’ national assignments and radio play-by-play duties for Charley Steiner, who requested to cut back on his broadcast schedule per a club announcement.
  The Dodgers announced a thr
  
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• Rajon Rondo goes on G League rehab assignment as he nears Lakers return

  18-12-2018 04:08 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — After a small setback last week in his recovery from a fractured hand, Rajon Rondo is set to take the next step in rehabilitation.
  The Lakers announced Monday that the veteran guard has been assigned to the South Bay Lakers of the G League, chiefly to get practice time on the court as he readies for a return after a month on the shelf.
  Rondo was cleared for basketball activities following a Saturday medical evaluation, but the Lakers opted not to send him East to rejoin the team
  
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• OC’s four frosh Dems could actually get something done

  18-12-2018 04:00 via ocregister.com
  
  There is a one-time opportunity for the four new Democratic members of Congress from Orange County, who replaced Republican incumbents, to have a major impact on public policy. Californians comprise 46 of the 234 Democratic representatives, the largest state contingent by far. Among all California Democrats, however, none carries political significance equal to the Orange Four. That the Democrats won every congressional seat in Orange County gave a tremendous boost to their national reputation.
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Monday (12-17-18)

  18-12-2018 03:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Scores and stats for the Orange County games on Monday, Dec. 17.
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  GIRLS BASKETBALL
  BOYS SOCCER
  NONLEAGUE
  Paramount 2, San Juan Hills 1
  Fountain Valley 4, Orange Lutheran 0
  Esperanza 1, Brea Olinda 0
  Valencia 1, Anaheim 1
  GIRLS SOCCER
  ACADEMY LEAGUE
  Samueli Academy 12, Brethren Christian 0
  Goals: (SA) Lucio 5, Duran 3, Zambrano 2
  Saves: Cruz (SA) 1
  NONLEAGUE
  Anaheim 5, Western 0
  Goals: (Ana) Carbajal, Carrillo, Roa, Nuno, Rivera
  Saves: Huitron (Ana) 3
  Warren 2, Ocean View 1
  Mission
  
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• Ducks rally from 2-goal deficit to defeat Penguins, extend winning streak to 4 games

  18-12-2018 03:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Ducks goaltender John Gibson makes a stop on the puck during the second period of Monday’s game against the Penguins in Pittsburgh. The Ducks rallied for a 4-2 win. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
  Pittsburgh Penguins’ Jack Johnson (73) and Anaheim Ducks’ Brian Gibbons (23) battle for the puck along the boards during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsPittsburgh Penguins’ Si
  
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• ACLU suit says authorities make it hard for migrant detainees to call attorneys

  18-12-2018 03:33 via ocregister.com
  
  One immigrant has been detained for over three years, first at a facility in Adelanto and now at another in Orange County, with little access to a phone to call an attorney and human rights activists.
  Another earns $1 a day, not enough to pay for such calls. A third can’t connect with an attorney because each time he calls one he gets a recorded greeting, and the detention center’s phone system requires that a live person answer and accept the call or it disconnects.
  Migrant detainee
  
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• UC Irvine leads in nationwide effort to get more lower-income students into top colleges

  18-12-2018 03:19 via ocregister.com
  
  UC Irvine enrolled nearly 900 more Pell grant recipients between the 2015-16 to 2017-18 academic years, leading the nation’s top colleges, according to a report released Monday, Dec. 17.
  The university estimates that 37 percent of its undergraduates receive Pell grants, which are federal scholarships for students from low-income households. That too is among the highest in the nation, the university said in a press release.
  The report is an update by the American Talent Initiativ
  
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• Orange County girls basketball scoring leaders: Monday, Dec. 17

  18-12-2018 03:13 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County girls basketball scoring leaders through Dec. 16.
  Leaderboards are based on stats available each Monday morning.Name
  GP
  Pts
  PPG
  Kenedy Lilly, El Dorado
  9
  259
  28.8
  Austyn Masuno,Oxford Academy
  12
  249
  20.8
  Kathy Tu, Western
  7
  142
  20.3
  Leah Manning,Capistrano Valley
  12
  241
  20.1
  Samantha Fries, Esperanza
  12
  217
  18.1
  Jessica Barrow,Sunny Hills
  15
  268
  17.9
  Megan Jones, Foothill
  11
  189
  17.2
  Taryn Uyematsu, Canyon
  10
  162
  16.2
  Serena Lleleji, Anaheim
  6
  
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• After difficult stretch, USC basketball looks to snap losing skid at Santa Clara

  18-12-2018 03:02 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — If there was a sequence Andy Enfield regretted from the USC basketball team’s 81-70 loss against Oklahoma last Saturday, it occurred about seven minutes into the second half.
  Freshman Elijah Weaver dribbled twice past midcourt, moving toward the top of the lane when he found senior Shaqquan Aaron open in one corner of the 3-point arc. Aaron hoisted a shot as most of the players on the team’s bench leaped from their seats in anticipation. A 3-pointer would cut the
  
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• Newsom must follow Brown’s lead in budget judiciousness

  18-12-2018 02:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Incoming Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature’s Democratic supermajorities certainly have a lot going for them. But they must take the state’s budget and full financial circumstances seriously.
  While much has been made of California’s budget surplus and the state of the annual budget relative to past budgets, this is a time for vigilance and greater fiscal restraint.
  Last month, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office released a report entitled “The 2019-20 Bu
  
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• Fryer on basketball: Cypress on right track as it tries to be great this season

  18-12-2018 02:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Cypress last season went undefeated in the Empire League and advanced to the quarterfinals in the CIF-Southern Section playoffs.
  That was a good season. Not good enough, though, for some.
  “This team wants to be better than last year’s team,” Cypress coach Derek Mitchell said. “They’re willing to work hard to get there.”
  The Centurions are off to the kind of start that suggests they could be better this season. They are 10-1, ranked No. 6 in Orange County and h
  
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