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• Clippers’ recent success comes in all ages and sizes

  27-12-2025 23:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Sometimes victories come from the most unlikely players at the most needed times.
  It could be a rookie getting a rare opportunity or a star who overcomes an injury to lead a team. Or it could be a 37-year-old center who is nearing the end of a championship career but can still find the basket.
  Veteran Brook Lopez, who has spent the first 29 games coming off the bench or out of the rotation completely, hit nine 3-pointers Friday to help the Clippers (9-21) pull out of a double-digit deficit in th
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday, Dec. 27

  27-12-2025 23:16 via ocregister.com
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Saturday, Dec. 27.
  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.
  SATURDAY’S SCORES
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  TORREY PINES HOLIDAY CLASSIC
  Yorba Linda 74, Crawford 55
  YL: Waters 14 pts. Lewis 10 pts. Noriega 8 pts, 5 rebs. Burr
  
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• Poodle mix Rex just wants to find his forever home

  27-12-2025 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Sex: Neutered male
  Size: About 15 pounds
  Rex’s story: Rex has had several homes in his life, and, sadly, those changes have left him a bit anxious. He loves outdoor adventures, such as hiking, walks, adventures and playtime. He needs an owner who enjoys these activities also, as they help him feel less anxious. Rex also adores car rides, wind in his face, cuddling and snuggling. He doesn’t like to be left alone, but if he goes to a home with a doggy friend, he will adjust. His soft,
  
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• A tornado did touch down in Southern California after all

  27-12-2025 22:31 via ocregister.com
  
  A forecasted dry weekend follows a holiday storm that dumped more than a foot of rain in some mountain areas and brought a rare tornado, after all, to Boyle Heights.
  The National Weather Service on Wednesday, Dec. 24, night warned that a tornado could hit Alhambra and portions of Pasadena, Monterey Park, San Gabriel, El Monte and Temple City.
  Ten minutes later, the warning was canceled.
  LA gets most Christmas rain since 1971 and another storm is coming for New Year’s DayBut the next day an
  
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• Rams WR Davante Adams doubtful, LT Alaric Jackson questionable for Falcons

  27-12-2025 21:57 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Rams will need some extra time to determine who will be ready to play in Monday night’s game against the Atlanta Falcons.
  Left tackle Alaric Jackson (knee) and defensive end Braden Fiske (ankle) will be listed as questionable for the Week 17 game. Receiver Davante Adams (hamstring) will be listed as doubtful, while right guard Kevin Dotson (ankle) and defensive back Josh Wallace (ankle) were ruled out by head coach Sean McVay on Saturday.
  With Jackson and Fiske, McV
  
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• 5 Freeway north of LA under a high wind watch Sunday and Monday – gusts could peak at 65 mph

  27-12-2025 20:48 via ocregister.com
  
  5 Freeway corridor near Santa Clarita, Western Santa Monica Mountains Recreational area, Santa Susana Mountains and Western San Gabriel Mountains/Highway 14 Corridor are the focus of a high wind watch issued at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday by the National Weather Service. The watch is valid from Sunday 10 p.m. until Monday Dec. 29, at 3 p.m.
  According to the NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA, “North to northeast winds 25 to 40 mph with gusts up to 65 mph possible.”
  “Damaging winds could blow
  
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• From Craftsman style to modern and minimalist, a year into post-fire rebuild a vision emerges

  27-12-2025 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  For the past 12 months, fire survivors have been imagining their rebuilt futures.
  They can’t get back their homes lost in the Eaton and Palisades fires, but a growing number of grassroots real estate ventures have emerged in the aftermath of those January firestorms to help them envision what could lie ahead.
  A year into the recovery, such ventures provide a glimpse at what neighborhood homes and structures might look like in towns where the architecture and scale of dwellings themselves w
  
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• All-County girls cross country: Summer Wilson is the OC athlete of the year

  27-12-2025 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  ALL-ORANGE COUNTY GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY TEAM FOR 2025
  ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
  Summer Wilson, Irvine, Senior 
  Irvine senior Summer Wilson had a record-setting season.
  Wilson set a CIF State Championships record with her winning time of 16 minutes, 20 seconds over the 5,000-meters course at Woodward Park, which has hosted the CIF State meet since its inception in 1987.
  She won the CIF Southern Section Division 2 race in the CIF Southern Section Championships in November with a time of 15:14.50 on t
  
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• Corky: It’s Southern California, of course there are Christmas surfing memories to share

  27-12-2025 18:53 via ocregister.com
  
  I sincerely hope you all are having wonderful holidays and have been able to spend time with family and friends.
  I love this time of year with all the cool lights and just the overall feeling of hope and happiness that comes with the spirit.  I thought that for my wandering into the world of wordage this week, I would tap into what’s left of my memory bank and pull out a few surfing-related memories of Christmas past.
  The first would be Christmas Day 1957.  I was a small kid grow
  
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• Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (Dec. 18-25)

  27-12-2025 17:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from Dec. 18 to Dec. 25.
  The Kebab Shop, 3405 E. Imperial Highway, BreaClosed: Dec. 23
  Reason: Insufficient hot water
  Reopened: Dec. 24Pizza Hut, 116 S. State College Blvd., AnaheimClosed: Dec. 23
  Reason: Rodent infestation
  Reopened: Dec. 26Tawa, 5555 E. Santa Ana Canyon Road, AnaheimClosed: Dec. 22
  Reason: Rodent infestation
  Reopened: Dec. 23Mimi Garden, 3142 W. Balboa Blvd., Newport Bea
  
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• USC women’s basketball: 4 questions for the Big Ten Conference season

  27-12-2025 17:45 via ocregister.com
  
  The USC women’s basketball team has flown through the first 12 games of its schedule and has experienced a healthy mix of blowout wins and learning lessons against some of the best teams in the country to collect a 9-3 overall record.
  The Trojans have beaten the one conference opponent they’ve played so far – a 59-50 victory over Washington. Now that their nonconference schedule is over, they will return to conference play on Monday in Nebraska.
  The No. 17 Trojans are one of ei
  
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• Disneyland is already making plans for the 2026 Christmas holiday season

  27-12-2025 17:33 via ocregister.com
  
  The calendar may still say December 2025, but Disneyland is already making plans for the Christmas 2026 season with a familiar holiday lineup of parades, fireworks and live music with some new food options and character costumes.
  The 2026-27 winter holiday season will return to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure from Nov. 18, 2026 through early January 2027.
  Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and interesting every week at Southern California’s theme
  
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• UCLA women dive back into Big Ten play focused on defense

  27-12-2025 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Before UCLA’s game against Long Beach State last week, Cori Close was fit in a blue-striped suit talking to America as an analyst in the studio on Fox’s women’s college basketball coverage.
  Playing double-duty on television before returning to call X’s and O’s on the Pauley Pavilion hardwood, Close heard her colleagues list national championship contenders. Of course, the fourth-ranked Bruins were on that list. But so were Connecticut, South Caro
  
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• Susan Shelley: Who pays for California’s war on drivers? You do.

  27-12-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’ve hesitated to buy an electric car because it’s typically easier to find a gas station than a charging station, California has a solution for you.
  Fewer gas stations. And higher gas prices.
  You may see a number of gas stations closing down in 2026 due to Senate Bill 445, which requires the owners of single-walled underground storage tanks containing hazardous substances – gasoline, for instance – to permanently close or replace them. The deadline is this Wednesday
  
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• Housing reform’s missing capital is key to unlocking abundance

  27-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  For the first time in over a generation, the politics of scarcity are showing cracks. Even in California, infamous for gridlock, voters and policymakers are signaling a desire to remove bottlenecks and make progress possible again.
  Nowhere is this shift more visible than in housing.
  Daniel Lurie defeated incumbent mayor London Breed, in part, on a pledge to overhaul San Francisco’s outdated permitting system and accelerate construction timelines. Voters also ousted several members of the B
  
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• Many Southern California native trees offer vibrant fall colors

  27-12-2025 15:58 via ocregister.com
  
  At this time of year, we tend to think of trees with colorful leaves as native to colder climates than ours. But then Jenny Iyer from the Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District (RCRCD.org) comes along and reminds us that a large collection of California native species are garbed in foliar coats of many colors.
  “Many Southern California natives offer great fall color,” she writes, listing “Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii), western sycamore (Platanus racemosa), wil
  
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• Sandra De Anda responded to immigration operations with action, support

  27-12-2025 15:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Sitting in a downtown Santa Ana café, Sandra De Anda paused mid-conversation to take a call, confirming details of an immigration raid earlier in the day in Anaheim. Minutes later, her phone rang again — this time a caller reporting immigration activity to the Orange County Rapid Response Network’s hotline.
  De Anda switched into dispatch mode.
  Using the SALUTE method – size, activity, location, uniform, time and equipment – to document the sighting of immigration e
  
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• Want to read more in 2026? Here’s how to revive your love of books

  27-12-2025 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — People stop reading in adulthood for lots of reasons. But it’s never too late to turn the page on old habits and start again.
  Curling up with a good book can reduce stress, increase creativity and boost empathy. A recent analysis of U.S. government data found that the percentage of Americans who read for pleasure during an average day has fallen to 16% in 2023 from 28% in 2004. That includes not just books but audiobooks, e-boo
  
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• It’s been 25 years since America decided to save the Everglades. Where do we stand?

  27-12-2025 15:10 via ocregister.com
  
  The 20th century was horrible for the Everglades. The broad shallow river, one of the most unique ecosystems on the planet, was labeled wasteland and ruthlessly dammed, carved into parcels, dried out and diverted into near oblivion.
  But at the end of the century, 25 years ago this month, Democrats and Republicans from Florida and Washington, D.C., joined forces and signed the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan into law.
  The ambitious 68-project plan was supposed to cost $7.8 billion,
  
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• Raising children should be affordable: Beyond the baby steps of Reiner, Newsom

  27-12-2025 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The crushing cost of raising children troubles not only parents, it suddenly preoccupies political leaders as well. New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, seeks $6 billion to ensure free child care, starting with newborns. JD Vance pitches a higher child tax credit, while imploring women to simply bear more children.
  But after a half-century of policy forays, parents still confront a dizzying maze of child care options, including paid child minders and pre-K’s of varying quality. The
  
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• Americans face growing loneliness and social disconnection

  27-12-2025 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By PETER SMITH, Associated Press
  It’s been called an “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation. The “bowling alone” phenomenon.
  By any name, it refers to Americans’ growing social disconnection by many measures.
  Americans are less likely to join civic groups, unions and churches than in recent generations. They have fewer friends, are less trusting of each other and less likely to hang out in a local bar or coffee shop, recent polling indicates. Given all that, i
  
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• Clippers dominate 2nd half to beat Blazers for 3rd straight win

  27-12-2025 07:02 via ocregister.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Don’t look now, but the Clippers have momentum.
  James Harden had 34 points, Brook Lopez made a career-high nine 3-pointers on his way to 31 points, and Kawhi Leonard scored 18 of his 28 in the fourth quarter as the Clippers beat the Portland Trail Blazers, 119-103, on Friday night for their third straight win.
  Leonard added eight rebounds, six assists and three steals for the Clippers, who finished 20 for 40 from 3-point range, 29 for 31 from the free-throw line and
  
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• TikTok challenge of violently kicking doors unnerves residents, puts police on alert

  27-12-2025 05:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Murrieta police are warning of a new TikTok challenge that is a dangerous variation of a decades-old prank — one that police across the country are scrambling to stop.
  Some teens already have been arrested. Authorities in Florida, Washington state, Texas, New Jersey and Illinois, among other locations, have investigated the unsettling action.
  The challenge invites participants to bang on or kick doors in an effort to startle the residents, and then post a video online. But unlike ding-dong
  
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• Zain Majeed makes immediate impact for Mater Dei boys basketball

  27-12-2025 04:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Zain Majeed made an immediate impact for the Mater Dei boys basketball team Friday.
  Majeed, a 6-foot-8 junior forward who became eligible Friday, scored 20 points as the Monarchs defeated Otay Ranch 98-50 in a first-round game of the Desert Holiday Classic in Palm Springs.
  Majeed transferred from IMG Academy. His transfer required that Majeed had to sit out 50 percent of the total days of the boys basketball season.
  Junior guard Richie Ramirez led Mater Dei with 23 points. Ramirez is averaging 2
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Friday, Dec. 26

  27-12-2025 03:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Friday, Dec. 26.
  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.
  FRIDAY’S SCORES
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  ESTANCIA COAST CLASSIC
  Godinez 69, Rancho Alamitos 53
  Rowland 44, Santa Ana 39
  Woodbridge 65, Western 35
  OXFORD TOURNAMEN
  
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• Kyle Whittingham agrees to 5-year deal to coach Michigan

  27-12-2025 03:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer
  ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan has agreed to a five-year contract with Kyle Whittingham to replace fired and disgraced football coach Sherrone Moore, according to multiple reports.
  Two people familiar with the situation confirmed the hire to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity on Friday because the move had not been officially announced.
  Whittingham’s deal at Michigan averages $8.2 million per year over the course of the contract, ESPN reported.
  
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• Lakers’ Austin Reaves to miss at least 4 weeks with calf injury

  27-12-2025 03:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Lakers star guard Austin Reaves will be sidelined for at least the next month because of a calf injury.
  The team announced on Friday evening that Reaves will be re-evaluated in about four weeks after being diagnosed with a grade 2 left gastrocnemius (upper calf muscle) strain.
  Reaves suffered the injury during Thursday’s Christmas Day loss to the Houston Rockets.
  He had 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting in 15 first-half minutes before being ruled out just after halftime with what the team calle
  
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• Shhhh! It’s looking like rain on the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game on Jan. 1

  27-12-2025 01:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Keep the raincoats and umbrellas handy if you’re out and about on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena on New Year’s Eve and on Jan. 1.
  It just might get wet.
  Rain is in the forecast for New Year’s Day — and that means that the Tournament of Roses Parade could see rain for only the 11th time in its illustrious history.
  That’s right. There’s a 70% chance of precipitation on Thursday — New Year’s Day — according to the National Weather Service. That&
  
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• Interim coordinator Ben Kotwica believes Rams’ special teams can contribute to Super Bowl run

  27-12-2025 01:23 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — Sean McVay had never made an in-season coaching change prior to last weekend’s firing of special teams coordinator Chase Blackburn. With three of the 11-4 Rams’ losses coming as a direct result of special teams play, McVay felt like for the team to achieve its goals, he needed to make a change on that side of the ball.
  Speaking with reporters on Friday for the first time since being elevated to interim special teams coordinator, Ben Kotwica said his unit is prepared
  
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• LA gets most Christmas rain since 1971 and another storm is coming for New Year’s Day

  27-12-2025 01:18 via ocregister.com
  
  As a record-breaking Christmas storm wraps up across Southern California, sunny skies are in store for the weekend before rain returns on New Year’s Day.
  The storm prompted the wettest Christmas Eve-Christmas Day recorded for downtown Los Angeles in 54 years, the National Weather Service said, with the area catching 2.79 inches.
  Other Los Angeles spots actually broke records, with the wettest two-day totals for the holiday: Woodland Hills collected 4.64 inches, while near UCLA 3.10 inches
  
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• Man accused of 1996 Tupac Shakur killing seeks to suppress evidence

  27-12-2025 00:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By JESSICA HILL, Associated Press
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The attorneys for the man accused of killing rap icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 are pushing to suppress evidence obtained in what they claim was an “unlawful nighttime search.”
  Las Vegas criminal defense attorneys Robert Draskovich and William Brown filed a motion this week on behalf of their client, Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who was charged in the drive-by shooting of the iconic rapper off the Las Vegas Strip.
  Davis’
  
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• Wrightwood residents begin to dig out after Christmas storm leaves 50 wrecked homes behind

  27-12-2025 00:11 via ocregister.com
  
  The San Gabriel Mountains community of Wrightwood is expected to get a four-day reprieve from rain starting Saturday, Dec. 27, allowing residents and business owners whose properties were deluged by mud and water to assess and begin cleaning up the damage.
  Some 50 homes were “severely damaged” and likely uninhabitable, while 25 suffered minor to moderate damage, Ryan Beckers, a spokesman for the San Bernardino County Fire Department, said Friday. He referred anyone needing assistance
  
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