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• Angels Notes: Yunel Escobar has strained hamstring, out 2-4 weeks

  15-05-2017 01:15 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — The Angels will be without Yunel Escobar, their primary third baseman and leadoff hitter, for up to a month after an MRI exam Sunday revealed a Grade 1 strain in his left hamstring.
  The team announced that Escobar will be placed on the 10-day disabled list and can expect a 2-4 week timetable for recovery. A corresponding roster move was not immediately announced.
  Escobar suffered the injury running the bases in the sixth inning of Saturday’s game against the Detroit Tigers,
  
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• Kings stifle Red Wings for 3rd straight win

  28-01-2026 04:20 via ocregister.com
  
  DETROIT — The Kings’ six-game trip is off to a strong start.
  Anton Forsberg made 26 saves – 17 in the third period – and the Kings beat the Red Wings, 3-1, on Tuesday night as Detroit winger Patrick Kane moved into a tie with Dallas’ Mike Modano as the highest-scoring American-born players in NHL history.
  Samuel Helenius, Andrei Kuzmenko and Corey Perry (empty net) scored for the Kings, who won their third straight game in the second game of their trip.
  Kane matched
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Tuesday, Jan. 27

  28-01-2026 04:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Tuesday, Jan. 27
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  GIRLS BASKETBALL
  605 LEAGUE
  Oxford Academy 53, Glenn 35
  ACADEMY LEAGUE
  NOVA Academy 35, Newport Christian 32
  GIRLS SOCCER
  NONLEAGUE
  Canyon 5, Northwood 0
  605 L
  
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• California officials criticize feds for lack of cooperation in Minnesota shooting probes; say federal agents can be investigated by local agencies

  28-01-2026 03:55 via ocregister.com
  
  California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a bulletin Tuesday, Jan. 27, reaffirming local and state agencies’ authority to investigate possible crimes committed by federal agents. One local district attorney for Orange County agreed, though he cautioned about what he called the bulletin’s partisan tone.
  The bulletin follows recent federal officer-involved shooting deaths in Minnesota and what the California officials describe as federal interference with state
  
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• Hollywood Burbank airport could be site of a mid-air crash, airlines warn feds

  28-01-2026 02:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Airline officials have warned of safety concerns at the Hollywood Burbank Airport, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board said during a hearing Tuesday, Jan. 27, to determine the cause of a mid-air collision that killed 67 people in Washington, D.C. last year.
  NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy told officials there were a series of failures by the Federal Aviation Administration before an American Airlines jet and Army Black Hawk helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan Washington National
  
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• Report: Clippers give Lawrence Frank a contract extension

  28-01-2026 02:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Clippers president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank and the team have agreed to a multiyear contract extension, according to The Athletic.
  Contract details were not disclosed, but it is believed to be for four years, The Athletic reported.
  Frank, 55, has served in the role since 2017 and under his leadership, the Clippers have the fifth-most victories in the NBA during that stretch, winning 58% of their regular-season games.
  Their deepest playoff run was in 2021, when Coach Tyronn Lue, wh
  
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• Bob Chesney’s UCLA football coaching debut set for Sept. 5 at Cal

  28-01-2026 02:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Bob Chesney’s UCLA coaching debut has been set.
  The Bruins and their new head coach will take on former Pac-12 rival Cal on Sept. 5 in Berkeley in their 2026 debut, as the Big Ten Conference released all 18 teams’ schedules Tuesday.
  UCLA’s schedule, which did not feature kickoff times, could be seen as favorable. The Bruins will avoid Big Ten matchups against reigning national champion Indiana and College Football Playoff semifinalist Ohio State.
  Chesney’s home debut will
  
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• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faces rising calls for her firing or impeachment

  28-01-2026 01:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A groundswell of voices have come to the same conclusion: Kristi Noem must go.
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• Trump administration announces 15 new drugs for Medicare price negotiation program

  28-01-2026 01:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALI SWENSON
  NEW YORK (AP) — Drugs that treat Type 2 diabetes, HIV and arthritis are among 15 new medications chosen for a Medicare drug price negotiation program that allows the federal government to haggle directly with drug manufacturers, the Trump administration said Tuesday.
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• USC football has tough road ahead with 2026 Big Ten schedule

  28-01-2026 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  The USC football team will play three Big Ten teams that finished in the top five of the AP Top 25 rankings in 2026: defending national champion Indiana, Oregon and Ohio State.
  Oregon and Ohio State – which finished No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, in the final rankings – will visit the Coliseum in the coming season, according to the 2026 Big Ten schedule that was released on Tuesday afternoon.
  The Trojans lost to the Ducks in 2025 in a game that essentially eliminated them from conten
  
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• Choosing the right care team and location for your ideal birth experience

  28-01-2026 01:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By Denise Castellanos, certified nurse midwife, MemorialCare Medical Group – Saddleback Medical Center (Women’s Health Pavilion)
  When you’re starting to grow your family, selecting the right care team and the location where you want to deliver is crucial for your ideal birth experience — but knowing where to start can be daunting. At The Women’s Hospital at MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center, we are here to meet you where you are and support you through your bir
  
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• Video shows flames flying from NASA plane that touched down without landing gear

  28-01-2026 01:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By JESSE BEDAYN
  A NASA research plane malfunctioned and had to touch down in Texas without landing gear on Tuesday, sliding across the runway on its belly and sending plumes of flame behind it, a video posted to social media showed.
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• A tally is only part of what homeless Point in Time Count starting in OC seeks to gain

  28-01-2026 01:36 via ocregister.com
  
  More than 100 volunteers packed the Santa Ana Civic Center well before dawn Tuesday, Jan. 27, bundled up in puffer jackets and sipping warm coffee against the cold outside.
  The atmosphere around the check-in tables buzzed, maps and instructions were passed around — a setup a lot like a marathon or a voter registration drive. These volunteers had a no-less taxing morning ahead of them: canvasing Orange County’s unsheltered population for the biennial Point in Time Count.
  Huntington Be
  
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• Mountain lions in Southern California up for additional protections

  28-01-2026 01:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Most people in Southern California have never seen a mountain lion in the wild. And never want to.
  Yet, these sleek, wild, predator cats roam the foothills and mountains from Ventura to San Diego, slipping in and out of millions of backyards and dozens of local canyons mostly unseen, except for those fuzzy images captured by trail cameras and home surveillance videos.
  But these powerful, top-of-the-food-chain animals have captured the hearts and souls of many Angelenos who want to help them avoi
  
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• Editorial: The chaos in Minnesota, and America, must end

  28-01-2026 01:08 via ocregister.com
  
  The chaos and bloodshed in Minneapolis, Minnesota is nothing short of tragedy. Not only because of the lives lost at the hands of federal agents, but because of what the heavy-handed immigration enforcement operations have revealed about the state of our nation.
  No serious person disputes that under the current laws of our country, people in the country unlawfully can and will be removed. However, what we’re seeing in Minneapolis is not run-of-the-mill immigration enforcement activity.
  It
  
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• Mountain lion roams posh San Francisco neighborhood before being captured

  28-01-2026 01:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and HAVEN DALEY
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 77-pound mountain lion set off a scramble Tuesday as it wandered through San Francisco’s wealthy Pacific Heights neighborhood before finally being captured as onlookers safely peered from their home windows or stood across the street.
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• How the fantasy ‘Fustuk’ blends food, Armenian heritage and Japanese manga

  28-01-2026 00:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Drawing pictures of food is its own form of art, and it’s one that Robert Mgrdich Apelian mastered while working on his first graphic novel, “Fustuk.”
  “It’s very difficult to draw appealing-looking food,” says Apelian on a recent video call. “I did a lot of practice to make sure that I could draw something that looked tasty, especially with the monochromatic palettes that I use in ‘Fustuk.’”
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• Update: Dense fog advisory for 5 Freeway through Grapevine and Tehachapi for Wednesday and Thursday

  28-01-2026 00:34 via ocregister.com
  
  5 Freeway through Grapevine and Tehachapi are included in an updated dense fog advisory released by the National Weather Service on Tuesday at 3:31 p.m. The advisory is valid from Wednesday 11 p.m. until Thursday Jan. 29, at noon.
  “Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog. Worst case scenario, visibilities down to zero,” can be anticipated according to the NWS Hanford CA. “Interstate 5, Highway 99 and 58.”
  “Low visibility could make driving conditions hazard
  
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• BRIEFLY: Starbucks CEO Niccol earned $31M in 2025

  28-01-2026 00:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Starbucks Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol total compensation was $31 million in fiscal 2025, a decline from the previous year when he received stock rewards and other incentives as part of a package to lure him over from Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.
  Niccol’s 2025 pay includes a $5 million bonus and nearly $20 million in stock awards, according to a filing from the coffee chain on Monday. In fiscal 2024, Niccol’s compensation was $96 million, the filing shows, and included a stock
  
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• Costa Mesa to invest opioid settlement money in recovery and prevention programs for the homeless

  28-01-2026 00:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Costa Mesa will direct millions in opioid settlement money to services supporting homeless people with substance abuse disorders.
  Councilmembers recently committed to using “past and future” settlement funds to subsidize legal fees as well as prevention and recovery efforts. Costa Mesa is set to receive $4.6 million over 15 years as part of the nationwide legal settlements against drug makers and pharmacy chains from 2021 and 2022. The city has so far received roughly $1.6 million, w
  
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• TikTok settles ahead of addiction trial

  28-01-2026 00:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kaitlyn Huamani and Barbara Ortutay
  The Associated Press
  TikTok agreed to settle a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff’s attorneys confirmed.
  The social video platform was one of three companies — along with Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube — facing claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm children. A fourth company named in the lawsuit, Snapchat parent company Snap Inc., settled the ca
  
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• Ducks’ Leo Carlsson won’t play in Winter Olympics

  28-01-2026 00:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Ducks center Leo Carlsson’s Olympic dream has been deferred.
  He was set to become the youngest player representing Team Sweden in Milan next month, but the 21-year-old’s availability was jeopardized by a procedure he underwent on his left thigh in mid-January.
  The Tre Kronor officially announced Tuesday that Carlsson would be replaced by Minnesota Wild forward Marcus Johansson. His Wild teammate, defenseman Jonas Brodin, will also miss the competition and be replaced by former Duck H
  
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• UPS retires fleet of MD-11 aircraft involved in deadly Kentucky crash

  28-01-2026 00:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By DYLAN LOVAN
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — UPS announced Tuesday that it has retired its fleet of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 cargo planes just months after one crashed during takeoff, causing 15 deaths in Louisville.
  CEO Carol Tome said during a fourth-quarter earnings call that UPS decided to “accelerate our plans and retire all MD-11 aircraft in our fleet.”
  The Nov. 4 Louisville crash killed the plane’s three-person crew and 12 others on the ground just outside the Muhammad Ali
  
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• ‘Striking Viking,’ a Palm Desert estate on 2 acres, seeks $5.5M

  28-01-2026 00:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A  modern Palm Desert estate in Cahuilla Hills is on the market for $5.5 million.
  Nestled on a 2-acre hillside, the 4,297-square-foot house, known as the “Striking Viking” after its late owner, has three bedrooms, five bathrooms and an open-concept floor plan. Records show Glen Heggstad bought the vacant lot in March 2009 for $700,000 and built the home on it.
  Award-winning architect Narendra Patel of Patel Architecture in Rancho Mirage designed the house for Heggstad, a former
  
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• Red Robin has new value combos; here’s what you get

  27-01-2026 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Red Robin’s latest version of its $9.99 meal is here.
  The Colorado-based full service chain expanded its value menu this week, but also added some higher prices.
  ALSO SEE: Cheap burgers, fried chicken, pizzas, churros and other new fast food deals
  It’s called Big Yummm Deals, and it includes seven mains. Last summer’s limited-time offer had almost the same name, the Big Yummm Burger Deal, but it only offered one burger.
  The current offer has three price levels — $9.99, $1
  
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• TikTok faces app deletions, censorship claims and glitches in days after its ownership change

  27-01-2026 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer
  Censorship claims, technical problems and a report of a surge in app deletions are just some of the challenges TikTok is facing as it adjusts to a new ownership structure in the United States that was finalized last week.
  The company said Monday it was experiencing a “major infrastructure issue triggered by a power outage” at one of its U.S. data center partner sites. The outage led to bugs such as creators temporarily seeing zero vi
  
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• Fed expected to keep rates unchanged

  27-01-2026 23:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By Christopher Rugaber
  The Associated Press
  After two weeks of intense political and legal scrutiny, the Federal Reserve will seek to make this week’s meeting about interest rates as straightforward and uneventful as possible, though President Donald Trump probably still won’t like the result.
  The central bank’s interest rate-setting committee is almost certain to keep its key short-term rate unchanged at about 3.6%, after three straight quarter-point cuts last year. Fed Chair
  
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• California consumer confidence tumbles to 5-year low

  27-01-2026 23:19 via ocregister.com
  
  California consumers started 2026 on an anxious note, with their collective confidence in the economy falling to a five-year low.
  My trusty spreadsheet’s review of the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index for California for January showed a 28% decline in this shopper-psyche measurement from December. It’s a sharp reversal from the steep jump in the index, which is based on consumer surveys, seen between November and December. 
  Taking a longer-term view, Calif
  
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• Judge issues temporary order barring removal of boy, 5, and father who were detained in Minnesota

  27-01-2026 23:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and VALERIE GONZALEZ
  A federal judge has issued a temporary order prohibiting removal of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father whose arrest last week in Minnesota quickly become another lightning rod for America’s divisions on immigration under the Trump administration.
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• Galaxy acquire João Klauss from St. Louis City SC

  27-01-2026 23:04 via ocregister.com
  
  CARSON — The Galaxy’s search for a top scoring threat at the forward position led the way to acquiring St. Louis City SC’s João Klauss.
  On Tuesday, the Galaxy completed a cash trade for Klauss, sending $2.375 million to St. Louis City SC. In three seasons in MLS, Klauss has scored 25 goals.
  “Going into the offseason, he was our top target,” Galaxy general manager Will Kuntz said. “We knew we needed a 9 (forward) and at that point in time, we thought we
  
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