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• 2028 Los Angeles Olympics competition schedule announced, including a ‘Super Saturday’

  12-11-2025 18:12 via ocregister.com
  
  The majority of the competition schedule for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics was announced Wednesday by its organizing committee, LA28.
  The 2028 Games will be the largest in history with 51 sports. The opening ceremony is scheduled for July 14, 2028, with the closing ceremony set for Day 16, July 30, 2028.
  The first medal event will be the triathlon, which will be held in Venice on Day 1, July 15.
  However, as is custom, several team sports will begin preliminary competition before the opening cere
  
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• Emergency drilling in Newport Beach tackles methane and oil leaks from 1920s well

  07-12-2025 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Crews in Newport Beach are conducting an around-the-clock drilling operation to fix an abandoned 1920s-era oil well that leaked methane and oil into a home on the Balboa Peninsula.
  “The state of CA & city of Newport Beach are beginning emergency remediation of an abandoned 1920s oil well near Marcus Ave & 36th St.,” the Newport Beach Police Department announced Saturday on X. “A specialized drill rig has arrived, with nighttime and 24/7 operations for the next 10 days.&
  
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• Man stabbed, killed in drive-thru lane of chicken restaurant in Santa Ana

  07-12-2025 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  A man died at a hospital Saturday, Dec. 6, after he was stabbed in the drive-thru lane of a chicken restaurant in Santa Ana, authorities said.
  Santa Ana police were called to the Pollo Campero restaurant, 2320 S. Bristol St., about 4:30 p.m. after a man called police and told them he saw a man down in the drive-thru, Officer Natalie Garcia said.
  The stabbing occurred in the drive-thru lane, but the circumstances surrounding it were not known, Garcia said. Detectives canvassed the area for possib
  
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• Trump slams pardoned Democratic congressman as ‘disloyal’ for not switching parties

  07-12-2025 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL BARROW
  Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar is running again as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case.
  Trump blasted Cuellar for “Such a lack of LOYALTY,” suggesting the Republican president might have expected the clemency to bolster the GOP’s narrow House majority heading into the 2026 midterm elections.
  Cuellar, in a television interview Sunday after Trum
  
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• Chargers vs. Philadelphia Eagles: Who has the edge?

  07-12-2025 19:48 via ocregister.com
  
  CHARGERS (8-4) vs. EAGLES (8-4)
  When: Monday, 5:15 p.m.
  Where: SoFi Stadium
  TV/Radio: Ch. 7/ESPN; 640 AM/94.3 FM (Spanish)
  Line: Eagles by 2½
  Notable injury designations
  Chargers: OUT: TE Tucker Fisk (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: RB Omarion Hampton (ankle), RB Hassan Haskins (hamstring), QB Justin Herbert (hand), DL Otito Ogbonnia (elbow).
  Eagles: OUT: DT Jalen Carter (shoulders), OL Lane Johnson (foot). QUESTIONABLE: S Marcus Epps (shoulder), OL Myles Hinton (back).
  What’s at stake: The C
  
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• Man shot, killed by Anaheim police officer in residential neighborhood

  07-12-2025 19:47 via ocregister.com
  
  An Anaheim officer on patrol working a gang enforcement assignment shot and killed a man in front of a home Friday night, but what prompted the officer to fire was unclear, authorities said Saturday, Dec. 7.
  Two officers were on patrol around 9:30 p.m. in the 800 block of South Philadelphia Street when they stopped to talk with some people in front of a home, Sgt. Matt Sutter said.
  At some point during the interaction, one of the officers fired, hitting a man, Sutter said. The man died at the sc
  
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• Chargers prepared for ‘all scenarios’ if Justin Herbert can’t play Monday

  07-12-2025 19:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Justin Herbert’s toughness, his stubbornness, his willingness to play despite an injury has been one of the Chargers’ great strengths as their starting quarterback. In just the past three seasons, he’s played with fractured rib cartilage in 2022, a broken finger in ’23 and a sprained ankle in ‘24.
  Now, he has a fractured left hand, an injury that required surgery last Monday to insert a plate and screws to stabilize it. Officially, he’s listed as questionable
  
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• No. 1 Indiana will face Oklahoma or Alabama in Rose Bowl

  07-12-2025 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  PASADENA, Calif. — Top-ranked Indiana is headed to its first Rose Bowl in 58 years to face Oklahoma or Alabama.
  The Big Ten champion Hoosiers (13-0) made a storybook transformation into a college football powerhouse over the past two seasons, and now they’ll play in the most fabled venue in the sport on New Year’s Day.
  Indiana formally received its invitation Sunday to the 112th edition of the Granddaddy of Them All, which doubles as a College Football Playoff quarterfinal. Coa
  
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• Trump says he’s hosting the Kennedy Center Honors recognizing Stallone, Kiss, Gaynor and others

  07-12-2025 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and HILLEL ITALIE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sylvester Stallone, Kiss and Gloria Gaynor are among the luminaries being celebrated Sunday at the annual Kennedy Center Honors, with Donald Trump hosting the show, the first time a president will command the stage instead of sitting in an Opera House box.
  Since returning to office in January, Trump has made the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is named after a Democratic predecessor, a touchstone in a broader a
  
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• Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas will enter ceasefire’s second phase soon

  07-12-2025 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By MELANIE LIDMAN and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel and Hamas are “very shortly expected to move into the second phase of the ceasefire,” after Hamas returns the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza.
  Netanyahu spoke during a news conference with visiting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and stressed that the second phase, which addresses the disarming of Hamas and the withdrawal of Israeli troops
  
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• Hamas official says the group ready to discuss ‘freezing or storing’ its weapons

  07-12-2025 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY
  DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Hamas is ready to discuss “freezing or storing” its arsenal of weapons as part of its ceasefire with Israel, a senior official said Sunday, offering a possible formula to resolve one of the thorniest issues in the U.S.-brokered agreement.
  Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas’ decision-making political bureau, spoke as the sides prepare to move into the second and more complicated phase of the agreement.
  “We are open to h
  
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• Indiana gets top seed for College Football Playoff; Ohio State, Georgia, Texas Tech among top 4

  07-12-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Alabama and Miami are in, Notre Dame is out and Indiana is No. 1 in the College Football Playoff’s 12-team bracket released Sunday.
  The undefeated Hoosiers vaulted to the top spot based on their history-making win in the Big Ten title game against Ohio State, which fell one spot after its 13-10 loss. SEC champion Georgia was third and and Big 12 champ Texas Tech fourth. All four get first-round byes.
  Most of the drama surrounded the bubble teams, and it was Alabama at No. 9 and Miami at No
  
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• Bama, Miami in, Notre Dame out; Indiana No. 1 in College Football Playoff

  07-12-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Nobody paying attention for the past 24 months would be surprised to see Indiana – yes, Indiana – leading the way into this year’s College Football Playoff.
  But anyone paying attention over the last 24 hours knew the only sure thing beyond that was that the selection committee was destined to get destroyed when it released the pairings for this season’s 12-team bracket on Sunday.
  Most of that second-guessing and vitriol will be coming from Notre Dame, which was passed ove
  
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• Bama, Miami in, Notre Dame out and Indiana No. 1 in College Football Playoff

  07-12-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Nobody paying attention for the past 24 months would be surprised to see Indiana – yes, Indiana – leading the way into this year’s College Football Playoff.
  But anyone paying attention over the last 24 hours knew the only sure thing beyond that was that the selection committee that set this 12-team bracket was destined to get destroyed when it released the pairings Sunday.
  All that second-guessing and vitriol will be coming from Notre Dame, which was passed over for Alabama and
  
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• Dodgers head to Winter Meetings hoping to get better – but not older

  07-12-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Winning never gets old. But winning teams do.
  The Dodgers won their repeat championship with the oldest roster in MLB last season – an average age of 31.48.
  They will try to three-peat in 2026 with an aging core. Freddie Freeman (36), Max Muncy (35), Teoscar Hernandez (33), Mookie Betts (33) and Blake Snell (33 last week) are all well north of 30. Even Shohei Ohtani will turn 32 next July. The only position player younger than 30 who started more than 45 games for the Dodgers last season w
  
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• An amplifier, a family credo and a crisis led to an $80 million gift for UCI MIND

  07-12-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Dr. Joshua Grill, executive director at UCI MIND – the organization at UC Irvine that’s technically known as the Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders and is widely regarded as one of the nation’s most important hubs for research into Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia – is an expert at running scientific clinical trials.
  And while such trials can be wildly technical and arcane, most boil down to a fairly simple question of cause a
  
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• Costa Mesa will explore putting two tax increase measures before voters in 2026

  07-12-2025 17:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Costa Mesa may have voters decide next year if they want to impose higher taxes for hotel guests and business licenses to raise more revenue.
  A council majority this week asked city staffers to explore placing two tax increase measures on the ballot for the Nov. 3 election — Councilmembers Mike Buley and Jeff Pettis were opposed. The proposal focuses on increasing the city’s business license fee and transient occupancy tax, commonly referred to as a hotel tax, to raise general fund r
  
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• Remember Pearl Harbor, and the camps that followed

  07-12-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Although the Greatest Generation mostly is no longer with us, Americans always will remember the sacrifice that began Dec. 7, 1941. That’s when Imperial Japan attacked the U.S. bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, without warning. Of eight American battleships moored in the harbor, four were sunk and three damaged; 2,402 U.S. service members were killed, along with 57 civilians.
  A day after the attack, which President Roosevelt called “a date that will live in infamy,” Congress decla
  
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• Voter ID a fine idea, but don’t expect much

  07-12-2025 16:50 via ocregister.com
  
  An effort to qualify an initiative requiring voter identification has garnered more than 750,000 signatures of the approximately 1 million needed, according to the group behind it, Reform California. It’s likely it will reach the ballot given current signature-gathering deadlines.
  Voter ID is a popular idea, so we expect it to qualify.
  The measure requires voters to provide a government-issued ID for in-person voting and the last four digits of their Social Security Number for mail-in voti
  
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• Los Alamitos consensus picks for Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025

  07-12-2025 16:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Los Alamitos horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Eddie Wilson, Kevin Modesti and Mark Ratzky. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Sunday, December 7, 2025.
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• 10 questions (and answers) to test your knowledge of aging

  07-12-2025 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Aging is here to stay as more of us get older and live longer.  
  To test some of your knowledge (without exams or grades) about aging, take the following quiz. It is based on the “Facts on Aging Quiz” developed by emeritus professor of gerontology and sociology Linda Breytspraak and Lynn Badura, both from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. I have reworded some of the questions and updated the answers. 
  1. People age 65 and older currently make up about 10 pe
  
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• After series of denials, his insurer approved doctor-recommended cancer care. It was too late

  07-12-2025 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By Lauren Sausser, KFF Health News
  For nearly three years, Eric Tennant endured chemotherapy infusions, rounds of radiation, biopsies, and hospitalizations that left him weak and depleted.
  Related Articles Cancer stole her voice. She used AI, curse words and kids’ books to get it back City of Hope, Hoag and UCI Health chose to build in Irvine, what makes the area attractive for health-care investment? US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth After shutdown, f
  
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• One Tech Tip: Up your Christmas shopping game with AI tools

  07-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By KELVIN CHAN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
  Shopping assistant chatbots were a novelty a year ago. Now, they’re everywhere.
  Related Articles Prospective employees, companies negotiate fast-changing new world of AI Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion WhatsApp faces European antitrust investigation over artificial intelligence Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visits Republicans as debate over intensifying AI race rages AI’s impact could worsen gaps betwe
  
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• CPUC traps utilities in high-cost, bird-frying Ivanpah contract

  07-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’d ever like to visit a physical embodiment of the argument that government should get out and stay out of just about everything, take Interstate 15 from Southern California toward Las Vegas and stop near the Nevada border to gawk at the Ivanpah solar power plant.
  It looks like three alien amphitheatres, each sold-out with silver rectangular beings gazing at a spiky tower crowned with a glowing glass aquarium. On the ground, you may see the charred carcasses of birds that were sacrif
  
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• A modest proposal: What’s good for drug boats, even better for freeway chases!

  07-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The hand-wringers and pearl-clutchers are in full meltdown because on September 2nd, Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, ordered the United States Navy to attack an alleged drug smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela. Two survivors clinging to the gunwales of their sinking skiff were blown to pieces by a second missile, despite Article 118 of the Unified Code of Military Justice specifically prohibiting “firing upon the shipwrecked,” likening it to “murder.”
  Oh, boo-hoo! W
  
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• Senior Moments: When the need to let go comes full circle

  07-12-2025 15:58 via ocregister.com
  
  On the day that my daughter got her driver’s license at age 16, she asked me if she could take the car out for a spin on her own.
  “Of course,” I said, as we sat parked in front of our house. “I’m really proud of you for getting your license on the first try.”
  It was strange to be in the passenger seat for the first time with my daughter driving. I reached across and patted her hand, which was ready and waiting on the steering wheel. Then I just sat there.
  &ldq
  
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• 5 Freeway through Grapevine under a dense fog advisory until Sunday midday – limited visibility

  07-12-2025 15:42 via ocregister.com
  
  On Sunday at 6:33 a.m. the National Weather Service released a dense fog advisory in effect until 11 a.m. for 5 Freeway through Grapevine.
  The NWS Hanford CA states to anticipate, “Visibility down to quarter mile or less in dense fog.”
  “Low visibility could make driving conditions hazardous,” according to the NWS. “If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.”Navigating fog: Safety tips by the NWSIf a dense fog advisor
  
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• How to find yourself under the mess of proscrastination

  07-12-2025 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Most of us don’t set out to make a mess of things.
  Life gets full, days get crowded and we tell ourselves we’ll deal with that one small thing tomorrow. If we’re honest, most messes don’t begin with big decisions — they begin with the tiny avoidances we think won’t matter.
  But they do. They always do.
  And when the mess finally becomes visible, many people interpret it as failure.
  Let me offer a different view: Messes aren’t failures – they’re
  
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• John Seiler: Celebrating 30 years of Antiwar.com as the war machine rages on

  07-12-2025 13:00 via ocregister.com
  
  One of America’s national treasures, Antiwar.com, turns 30 on Dec. 9. It was started in 1995 by libertarians Justin Raimondo, a prolific polemicist who died in 2019, and editor Eric Garris, with occasional pieces turning into daily updates in April 1998.
  I’ve been reading it every day since 1999, when it provided key insights into President Clinton’s senseless bombing of Serbia for 78 days during the Kosovo War. Raimondo wrote daily commentaries attacking the war, and Garris li
  
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• Cal State Fullerton offense gets bottled up by Hawaii

  07-12-2025 08:59 via ocregister.com
  
  HONOLULU — The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team trailed by 14 points at halftime, and the Titans’ efforts to mount a second-half comeback came up short in a 69-59 loss to Hawaii on Saturday night at the Stan Sheriff Center.
  Landon Seaman finished with 17 points and five rebounds and Bryce Cofield had 16 points and six rebounds for Fullerton (3-6 overall, 0-2 Big West), which entered the game as the league’s top-scoring offense (88.4 points per game) but shot
  
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