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• Malinin melts down, finishes 8th after disastrous free skate

  13-02-2026 23:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Ilia Malinin of the United States reacts after competing while waiting for scores during the men’s free skate program in figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
  Ilia Malinin of the United States falls during the men’s free skate program in figure skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
  Ilia Malinin of the United States falls during the men’s fre
  
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• Federal agency flags safety shortcomings that ‘exposed’ workers to explosion at US Steel plant

  13-02-2026 23:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARC LEVY
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal safety agency investigating an August blast at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh that left two workers dead said it found a series of incomplete, outdated or inadequate procedures and practices that “exposed” employees to the explosion, which happened as workers were flushing a gas valve.
  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the company a total of $118,214 and issued 10 citations.
  The blast also injured 11 others
  
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• Alexander: New baseball season, same old refrain

  13-02-2026 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  The world according to Jim:
  • Just checking: Have the Dodgers ruined baseball yet? …
  • To hear others tell it, the Kyle Tucker signing on top of the Edwin Diaz signing earlier in the winter was the final straw, the act that almost certainly will lead to a lockout this December and quite likely will lead to a work stoppage next spring. You really think a Players Association that has steadfastly and successfully fought off previous efforts to implement a salary cap will fold this
  
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• A judge says she’ll rule that the US still cannot force states to provide data on SNAP recipients

  13-02-2026 23:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By GEOFF MULVIHILL
  President Donald Trump’s administration cannot force states to hand over detailed information on people who have applied for or received aid from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a judge said in a tentative ruling Friday.
  San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney last year blocked the U.S. Department of Agriculture from requiring states to provide the data, including on the immigration status of people who receive benefits and applicants, after
  
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• Activist Corona mom, grieving hit-and-run death of son, keeps his story alive

  13-02-2026 23:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Kellie Montalvo wasn’t sure about this activist thing.
  Montalvo’s 21-year-old son, Benjamin, was fatally struck by a texting, hit-and-run driver just before midnight on June 11, 2020, as he bicycled with friends on Rimpau Avenue in Corona. The impact catapulted him off the windshield and over the car.
  There are two lanes in each direction on that section of Rimpau near Centennial High, with a portion of the right lanes marked for bicyclists, though they are not dedicated bike lanes.
  
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• ‘Gut punch’ — driver who killed Corona bicyclist, 21, getting out after less than 3 years

  13-02-2026 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Already reeling from grief because a son was killed, Corona resident Kellie Montalvo said she and her husband are “infuriated” that the hit-and-run driver who she considers unrepentant is apparently getting released from prison after serving less than three years of a nine-year sentence.
  Neomi Renee Velado, imprisoned on July 26, 2023, was scheduled to be freed by Saturday, Feb. 14, said her attorney, John-Paul Serrao. She was still in custody at the California Institution for Women
  
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• Gifts and soup from ‘Uncle Jeffrey’: The Epstein ties that ended Kathy Ruemmler’s run at Goldman

  13-02-2026 23:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEN SWEET
  NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathy Ruemmler has had a storied legal career. As a federal prosecutor, she helped successfully prosecute Enron executives including Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. She was part of President Barack Obama’s administration, working in various roles for much of his two terms in office, including as White House Counsel.
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• More than one OC surfer didn’t find their way back from Hawaii

  13-02-2026 23:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Just about every top surfer who grew up in Orange County has gone to Hawaii at one time or another, most many times.
  Hawaii is where the big surf is and has always been a kind of “proving grounds” for the best surfers from all over the world.  Nowadays, there are other big wave locations surfers can get to, but the North Shore of Hawaii is still ground zero when it comes to seeing if ya got it or ya don’t.
  While just about everybody goes over there, most come back. Some mi
  
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• ‘Quad God’ Ilia Malinin falls twice in Olympic disaster, allowing Mikhail Shaidorov to claim gold

  13-02-2026 23:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVE SKRETTA
  MILAN (AP) — American figure skating sensation Ilia Malinin fell twice in a disastrous free skate that sent him tumbling all the way off the podium at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Friday night, allowing Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan to claim a stunning gold medal.
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• UCLA men face big test, opportunity vs. Michigan and Michigan State

  13-02-2026 23:17 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The UCLA men’s basketball team has won five of the last six games, rejuvenating excitement around its season. But the Bruins’ ceiling should be clear after this upcoming stretch.
  UCLA (17-7, 9-4 Big Ten) travels to No. 2 Michigan (23-1, 13-1) on Saturday and No. 10 Michigan State (20-4, 10-3) on Tuesday. Win, and the Bruins all but stamp their NCAA tournament ticket and change the discussion of how long they can dance in March. Lose, and missing March Madness beco
  
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• Trump administration urges nations to call for the withdrawal of a UN climate proposal

  13-02-2026 22:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By FARNOUSH AMIRI, EDITH M. LEDERER and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Trump administration is urging other nations to press a tiny Pacific island country to withdraw a United Nations draft resolution supporting strong action to prevent climate change, including reparations for damage caused by any nation that fails to take action.
  In guidance issued this week to all U.S. embassies and consulates abroad, the State Department said it “strongly objects” t
  
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• Conagra ordered to pay $25 million in lawsuit alleging Pam cooking spray caused lung disease

  13-02-2026 22:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Ajury awarded a Los Angeles man $25 million in a lawsuit against Chicago-based Conagra alleging its butter-flavored Pam cooking spray caused a rare chronic lung disease that will require a double lung transplant. 
  The verdict last week in the Superior Court of Los Angeles found that Conagra did not adequately warn consumers about the potential dangers of inhaling fumes from Pam cooking spray containing diacetyl, a butter-flavored chemical linked to respiratory illness. 
  During the tria
  
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• LA County cases retail theft in spotlight amid statewide crackdown

  13-02-2026 22:15 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s effort to crack down on organized retail theft has led to more than 29,000 arrests statewide over the past two years, with Los Angeles-area investigations playing a major role in recovering millions of dollars in stolen goods, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday.
  From October 2023 through September 2025, law-enforcement agencies made 29,060 arrests tied to organized retail crime and referred nearly 22,900 cases for prosecution, according to state officials.
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• Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani aims for fully healthy season on the mound

  13-02-2026 22:15 via ocregister.com
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. — As he enters the ninth season of his MLB career – third with the Dodgers – Shohei Ohtani’s list of accomplishments is long indeed.
  Four MVPs (two in each league), baseball’s first 50-50 season and now two World Series titles.
  What’s left? How about a Cy Young Award?
  “If at the end the result is getting a Cy Young, that’s great,” Ohtani said, speaking to the media after throwing a bullpen session during Friday’s first o
  
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• The knee that continues to haunt Chad Bianco — but really shouldn’t

  13-02-2026 22:12 via ocregister.com
  
  It was June 2020, barely a week after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by police officer Derek Chauvin.
  Tensions were high and would only get worse in the weeks and months to come as a racial justice movement swept the country, fueled in part by the ongoing despair and anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic.
  During a protest in Riverside, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and a group of his deputies addressed the crowd in a mature and sensible manner.
  “We want you all
  
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• City of Orange braces for potential electrical workers strike

  13-02-2026 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Electrical workers are poised to strike in Orange after labor negotiations with the city deadlocked.
  City leaders and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 47, which represents city employees in the maintenance and crafts and water divisions, have engaged in labor negotiations since spring 2025, a city statement said.
  The last contract the city and IBEW Local 47 agreed on ran out in June.
  Negotiations with IBEW Local 47 are “currently at an impasse,” and the union
  
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• Kirby Yates’ career comes full circle with return to the Angels

  13-02-2026 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — Maybe the Angels will get it right with Kirby Yates this time.
  It’s easy to forget that Yates became a two-time All-Star closer only after the Angels designated him for assignment – twice – in 2017.
  There was little reason for anyone to put much faith in Yates back then. He was a journeyman on his third big-league organization and he hadn’t yet fully demonstrated the splitter that became his signature pitch.
  Now, Yates, 38, is back with the Angels on
  
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• Kirby Yates’ career comes full circle with return to Angels

  13-02-2026 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — Maybe the Angels will get it right with Kirby Yates this time.
  It’s easy to forget that Yates became a two-time All-Star closer only after the Angels designated him for assignment – twice – in 2017.
  There was little reason for anyone to put much faith in Yates back then. He was a journeyman on his third big-league organization and he hadn’t yet fully demonstrated the splitter that became his signature pitch.
  Now, the 38-year-old Yates is back with the
  
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• US lawmakers limp to global security summit trailed by political crises at home

  13-02-2026 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES and MATT BROWN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of U.S. lawmakers were trying to make their way this weekend to the Munich Security Conference to assure allies of America’s reliability, but burdened with political crises at home, their entrance to the annual gathering of international leaders was more of a limp than a stride.
  Some didn’t make the trip at all. House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled an official delegation of roughly two dozen House member
  
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• Orange County boys wrestling rankings, Feb. 13

  13-02-2026 21:26 via ocregister.com
  
  ORANGE COUNTY BOYS WRESTLING RANKINGS
  The Orange County boys wrestling rankings as of Feb. 13
  (Provided by Matt Biagini)
  106 pounds: 1. Giovanni Suarez, Esperanza, So.; 2. Elijah Ramirez, Mission Viejo, So.; 3. Caz Baca, Servite, Jr.
  113 pounds: 1. Sammy Sanchez, Esperanza, So.; 2. Chris Qureshi, Fountain Valley, Sr.; 3. Uriah Correa, Servite, So.
  120 pounds: 1. Max Murillo, Esperanza, Jr.; 2. Hunter Jauregui, Fountain Valley, Sr.; 3. OJ Mendoza, Servite, Sr.
  126 pounds: 1. Aaron Meza, Esperanza
  
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• Orange County girls wrestling rankings, Feb. 13

  13-02-2026 21:22 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County girls wrestling rankings as of Feb. 13
  (Provided by Fernando Serratos)
  100 pounds: 1. Gabriella Martinez, Santa Ana, Sr.; 2. Dejah Aldridge, Trabuco Hills, Sr.; 3. Abigail Marquez, Marina, So.
  105 pounds: 1. Angelica Serratos, Santa Ana, So.; 2. Tessa Fortenbaugh, Canyon, Sr.; 3. Leila Rivera, El Toro, Sr.
  110 pounds: 1. Samantha Conejo, Esperanza, So.; 2. Alexas Smith, Orange Lutheran, Fr.; 3. Nohea Booth, Marina, Jr.
  115 pounds: 1. Aubree Gutierrez, Marina, So.; 2. Maggie Cor
  
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• Dodgers’ Alex Vesia addresses heartbreaking loss of newborn daughter

  13-02-2026 21:07 via ocregister.com
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. — It would be hard for one sentence to contain more heartbreak.
  “I was not prepared to not bring my baby girl home,” Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia said after Friday’s workout at Camelback Ranch, speaking publicly for the first time since the death of his infant daughter shortly after her birth in October.
  “But we’re carrying her with us every day. It’s been hard, but we’re doing OK.”
  Vesia’s statement echoed the video post
  
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• Zayn brings The Konnakol Tour to the Intuit Dome

  13-02-2026 20:50 via ocregister.com
  
  One Direction fans, have no fear. Zayn is back.
  Multi-platinum artist Zayn is heading back on the road with his largest solo outing yet. The singer, songwriter and producer announced The Konnakol Tour, a 31-date global arena and stadium run that will take him across North America, South America, Mexico and the United Kingdom throughout 2026.
  Southern California fans will have two chances to catch the singer live, with shows slated for Aug. 28 at Intuit Dome in Inglewood and Sept. 1 at Honda Cent
  
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• Winter storm watch affecting Yosemite from Sunday to Wednesday – gusts may reach 60 mph

  13-02-2026 20:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Yosemite is included in a winter storm watch issued by the National Weather Service on Friday at 11:46 a.m. The watch is valid from Sunday 10 p.m. until Wednesday Feb. 18, at 10 p.m.
  “Heavy snow with total snow accumulations 3 to 5 feet above 6,000 feet with 5 to 7 feet over the highest elevations and 1 to 2 feet down to 4,000 feet. Winds could gust as high as 60 mph,” can be anticipated according to the NWS Hanford CA. “Snow levels will begin at 5,500 to 6,000 feet on Sunday n
  
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• A US shipment of medicine to Venezuela signals a new era of cooperation

  13-02-2026 20:37 via ocregister.com
  
  MAIQUETIA, Venezuela (AP) — A shipment from the United States of medicine and medical supplies arrived in Venezuela on Friday, reflecting a new spirit of cooperation between the two countries following the stunning capture last month of then-President Nicolás Maduro.
  Laura Dogu, the U.S. top diplomat in the South American country, and Venezuelan diplomat Félix Plasencia, received the shipment containing 6 metric tons of supply at the airport outside Venezuela’s capital,
  
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• Lawsuit alleges school district employee caused Fullerton crash that led to death

  13-02-2026 20:36 via ocregister.com
  
  The family of a woman who died after “catastrophic” injuries in a June 2025 traffic collision at a Fullerton intersection has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Fullerton School District, alleging that an employee driving a district vehicle caused the crash.
  The lawsuit is tied to a two-car collision at the intersection of Bastanchury Road and Euclid Street on June 23, 2025, according to the suit, recently filed in Orange County Superior Court.
  Ofelia Barretto was sitting in
  
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• Chris Paul retires as All-Star weekend begins, ending a 21-season NBA run

  13-02-2026 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By TIM REYNOLDS | Associated Press
  Chris Paul, the “Point God” who was a 12-time All-Star selection and two-time Olympic gold medalist, announced his retirement on Friday in the capper of a 21-season career that will surely merit induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
  Paul made the announcement on the first day of the NBA’s All-Star weekend at the home of the Los Angeles Clippers in Inglewood, California. Paul spent his final season — an abbreviated one — with
  
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• Virginia redistricting election will go forward while court considers appeal

  13-02-2026 20:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID A. LIEB
  Virginia voters will get to cast ballots on a congressional redistricting plan benefiting Democrats while a court battle plays out over the legality of the effort.
  The Virginia Supreme Court said Friday that a statewide referendum can be held April 21 on whether to authorize mid-decade redistricting, and the court will decide sometime later whether the plan is legal.
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• Black History Month 2026: A new ‘Sinners’ exhibit in LA champions the film’s achievements

  13-02-2026 20:15 via ocregister.com
  
  “Sinners” made history as the most-nominated film ever, with 16 Oscar nominations, surpassing “Titanic” and “La La Land.” The cultural phenomenon is now taking over the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood to give fans an inside look during Black History Month.
  The new limited-time exhibit titled “Sinners” will be on display now through March 31, and opens the studio tour’s new Stage: 48 Script to Screen section. Warner Bros. Studio Tours run d
  
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• Disneyland to play Walt Disney and Abe Lincoln animatronic shows in rotation

  13-02-2026 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland will begin showing the Walt Disney and Abe Lincoln audio-animatronic shows in rotation after the Great Emancipator took a 10-month hiatus so the Anaheim theme park’s founder could hog the spotlight during the 70th anniversary celebration.
  “Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln” returned to the Main Street Opera House at Disneyland for a full day’s run on Friday, Feb. 13 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. while “Walt Disney — A Magical Life” remains dark for the d
  
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• Bravo! Act I of the Winter Olympics’ visit to Italy has been filled with drama, catharsis and tears

  13-02-2026 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By WILL GRAVES, AP National Writer
  CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Soaring arias. Wrenching tragedy. Joyful triumphs. Exotic backdrops. Climaxes often designed to produce tears, sad or otherwise.
  Perhaps more than anything, the operas that Italians began creating 400 years ago are designed to make you feel. To have the rest of the world melt away as you get lost in a story sung in a language you might not understand, but whose stakes are unmistakable.
  No wonder the country that inven
  
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• State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications

  13-02-2026 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By SUSAN HAIGH
  NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on and that has run smoothly for years.
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• Brazilian au pair gets 10-year sentence for scheme to kill lover’s wife and another man

  13-02-2026 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By OLIVIA DIAZ, Associated Press/Report for America
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An au pair who schemed with her employer-turned-lover to kill his wife and another man received a 10-year sentence on Friday.
  Prosecutors had recommended immediate release for Juliana Peres Magalhães in exchange for her guilty plea to a downgraded manslaughter charge in the February 2023 killing of Joseph Ryan. She testified that she fatally shot Ryan as Brendan Banfield was fatally stabbing his wife, Christine
  
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• A fugitive on the run for years is arrested when he turns up at the Olympics to watch hockey

  13-02-2026 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  ROME (AP) — A Slovak fugitive who had been on the run for 16 years was finally arrested when he turned up in Milan to support his national ice hockey team at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, police said Friday.
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• Minnesotans welcome the immigration surge drawdown but remain vigilant

  13-02-2026 19:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK VANCLEAVE and HANNAH FINGERHUT
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Trump administration’s drawdown of its immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities area has been met with relief, but state officials and residents say its effects on Minnesota’s economy and immigrant communities will linger.
  Thousands of officers were sent to the Minneapolis and St. Paul area for Operation Metro Surge, which the Department of Homeland Security called its “ largest immigration enforcement
  
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• A ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse will dazzle people and penguins in Antarctica

  13-02-2026 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN, AP Science Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — The first solar eclipse of the year will grace Antarctica, and only a lucky few will get to bask — or waddle — in its glow.
  Tuesday’s annular solar eclipse, known as a “ ring of fire,” will only be visible in the southernmost continent, home to research stations and diverse wildlife.
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• Norwegian biathlete wins another Olympic bronze medal, 3 days after confessing his infidelity

  13-02-2026 19:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARTHA BELLISLE
  ANTERSELVA, Italy (AP) — Norwegian biathlete Strula Holm Laegreid won his second bronze medal of the Milan Cortina Olympics on Friday — three days after making an unexpected personal confession during a post-race interview.
  Laegreid, who also won bronze in the 20-kilometer individual race on Tuesday, tearfully revealed during a live broadcast that he had been unfaithful to his girlfriend and hoped to win her back.
  Putting those personal issues aside for Friday&rsqu
  
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• Sex workers at Nevada brothel fight for the first-ever unionization

  13-02-2026 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By JESSICA HILL
  PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — Nevada is the only state where people can legally purchase sex, and now sex workers at one of the state’s oldest brothels are fighting to become the nation’s first to be unionized.
  “We want the same things that any other worker wants. We want a safe and respectful workplace,” said a worker at Sheri’s Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada, who goes by the stage name Jupiter Jetson and asked that her legal name not be used for fear of har
  
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• Time for action: Let’s work together to make gas more affordable for all Californians

  13-02-2026 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s 4th State Senate district is massive. Comprised of 13 counties, it spans the rugged Sierra Nevada and juts out into the Central Valley. As the state senator representing the district, I hear every day from families struggling with our state’s high cost of living. 
  California consistently has the highest gas prices in the nation. I’ve seen hardworking parents skip family outings or delay medical visits because filling the tank meant cutting back elsewhere. And
  
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• People — and robots — are getting ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year in China

  13-02-2026 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO
  BEIJING (AP) — It’s not just people — in China, the robots are also getting ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
  Friday was dress rehearsal day for four cute humanoid robots, each about 95 centimeters (3 feet) tall at a mall in western Beijing. Curious onlookers stopped to watch.
  Each robot got a colorful lion costume and within minutes the moves started: Bend the knees, up, to the left, to the right, shake the mask, and do it all again!
  Ahead of the Lu
  
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• Volunteers work on reversing erosion at Talbert Marsh in Huntington Beach

  13-02-2026 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Cars speed past Talbert Marsh along Pacific Coast Highway, as erosion creeps at about six inches a year toward the road.
  Workers with the Huntington Beach Wetlands Conservancy and OC Habitats hope to reverse the loss by installing coconut fiber logs, woven mats, and native plants to secure the shoreline.
  On the southern edge of the marsh, the shoreline is creeping toward a line of telephone poles that feed electricity to the lights on PCH, said John Villa, Executive Director of HBWC.
  Elena Monte
  
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• As electricity costs rise, everyone wants data centers to pick up their tab. But how?

  13-02-2026 18:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARC LEVY
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As outrage spreads over energy-hungry data centers, politicians from President Donald Trump to local lawmakers have found rare bipartisan agreement over insisting that tech companies — and not regular people — must foot the bill for the exorbitant amount of electricity required for artificial intelligence.
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• Wendy’s closes US restaurants and focuses on value to turn around falling sales

  13-02-2026 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Business Writer
  Wendy’s is closing several hundred U.S. restaurants and increasing its focus on value after a weaker-than-expected fourth quarter.
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• Heritage Barbecue’s Daniel Castillo headlines Ecology Center’s guest chef series

  13-02-2026 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano has released its 2026 roster for its Community Tables, a long-running dinner series that brings together renowned chefs and the center’s 28-acre organic farm.
  Held smack dab on the farmland, the series hones in on regenerative agriculture (think of it as a soil glow-up that heals the land instead of merely avoiding damage) and the direct relationship between the land and the plate. Each dinner features a rotating guest chef who designs a menu based
  
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• Disneyland lets attic brides get married at the Haunted Mansion — Husbands beware!

  13-02-2026 18:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion will soon serve as an eerie new wedding venue for brooding brides looking for a morbid place dripping with tales of mourning, dread and murder to exchange their wedding vows and begin their happily ever after.
  Disneyland will begin offering weddings in July for the first time in front of the Haunted Mansion starting at $25,000 to $40,000, according to the official Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings and Honeymoons website.
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• Trump’s Fort Bragg visit will spotlight special forces who captured Venezuela’s Maduro

  13-02-2026 18:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By WILL WEISSERT
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump headed to North Carolina on Friday where he planned to honor members of the special forces who stormed into Venezuela last month and whisked away Nicolás Maduro, the leader of the South American country, to face drug smuggling charges in the United States.
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• What can toughen Louisiana coast against worsening storms? 4 years and 30,000 trees

  13-02-2026 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By MELINA WALLING
  MERAUX, La. (AP) — Across the calm waters behind a pumping station near Lake Borgne, hundreds of saplings stand out in the mist, wrapped in white plastic cylinders.
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• Justice Department sues Harvard for data as it investigates how race factors into admissions

  13-02-2026 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is suing Harvard University, saying it has refused to provide admissions records that the Justice Department demanded to ensure the Ivy League school stopped using affirmative action in admissions.
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• World Cup means slashed wages and displacement for some workers in Mexico City

  13-02-2026 18:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By MEGAN JANETSKY and EDUARDO VERDUGO
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Montserrat Fuentes stands on the same street corner where she has worked for 20 years. But the sex worker’s normal rush of clients every Friday night is nowhere to be seen.
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• Logistics giant DP World replaces chairman named in Jeffrey Epstein documents

  13-02-2026 18:24 via ocregister.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Dubai has announced a new chairman for DP World, one of the world’s largest logistics companies, replacing the outgoing head who was named in the Jeffrey Epstein documents.
  The announcement by the government’s Dubai Media Office did not specifically name Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem. However, it said that Essa Kazim was named DP World’s chairman and Yuvraj Narayan was named group CEO. Those were positions held by bin Sulayem.
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