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• Camp Pendleton Marines do more training with drones as the technology advances

  13-06-2025 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Cpl. Christopher Magana Pinawin remembers being in fourth grade when his father gave him a battery-powered drone to fly.
  The 21-year-old Marine from Fullerton was intrigued by the challenge of keeping it airborne, but limited battery power cut any flight after 10 minutes.
  Now, a decade later, Magana Pinawin, an intelligence specialist with the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, isn’t struggling to keep a toy in the air, but is learning how to expertly fly attack and reconnaissance drones, wh
  
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• Beckman girls basketball overcomes a few bumps to beat San Juan Hills

  09-01-2026 07:27 via ocregister.com
  
  San Juan Hills guard Adelyn Boberg, left, and Beckman forward Natasha Jafari both dive for a loose ball during a South Coast League game between the two teams on Thursday, January 8, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  San Juan Hills guard Finley Campbell shoots a contested layup during a South Coast League game against Beckman on Thursday, January 8, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  Beckman point guard Taylor Tam shoots a layup during a 49-40 win o
  
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• Beckman girls basketball isn’t perfect but still beats San Juan Hills

  09-01-2026 07:27 via ocregister.com
  
  San Juan Hills guard Adelyn Boberg, left, and Beckman forward Natasha Jafari both dive for a loose ball during a South Coast League game between the two teams on Thursday, January 8, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  San Juan Hills guard Finley Campbell shoots a contested layup during a South Coast League game against Beckman on Thursday, January 8, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  Beckman point guard Taylor Tam shoots a layup during a 49-40 win o
  
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• UC Irvine men lean on depth to dismiss Long Beach State

  09-01-2026 07:00 via ocregister.com
  
  UC Irvine guard Jurian Dixon takes a jump shot during the first half of a Big West Conference game against Long Beach State on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, at UCI’s Bren Events Center. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
  Long Beach State guard Rob Diaz can’t control a rebound during the first half of a Big West Conference game against UC Irvine on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, at UCI’s Bren Events Center. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
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• Carson Beck, Miami rally past Ole Miss to reach national title game

  09-01-2026 05:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer
  GLENDALE, Ariz. — Carson Beck scrambled for a 3-yard touchdown with 18 seconds left, and Miami will head back home for a shot at its first national championship since 2001 after beating Mississippi, 31-27, in an exhilarating College Football Playoff semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl on Thursday night.
  The 10th-seeded Hurricanes (13-2) had their vaunted defense picked apart by the sixth-seeded Rebels (13-2) in a wild fourth quarter, falling into a 27-24 hole aft
  
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• Ducks fall to Hurricanes as losing streak reaches 8 games

  09-01-2026 04:14 via ocregister.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — The struggling Ducks are searching for answers and finding none.
  Jalen Chatfield’s first goal of the season was a tiebreaker and former Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen snapped a personal nine-game losing streak as the Carolina Hurricanes handed the Ducks their eighth consecutive loss, 5-2, on Thursday night.
  Chatfield, a defenseman playing in his 300th career game, scored during the Hurricanes’ three-goal second period.
  Logan Stankoven, Taylor Hall and Chatfield
  
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• USC backup quarterback Husan Longstreet enters transfer portal

  09-01-2026 04:08 via ocregister.com
  
  USC quarterback Husan Longstreet is entering the transfer portal.
  “I’m incredibly grateful to USC, Coach Riley and the coaching staff, my teammates, and the entire Trojan Family,” Longstreet wrote in a social media post.
  “As a hometown kid, representing USC was an incredible opportunity I’ll always cherish. The relationships I’ve built will stay with me forever.”
  Longstreet got into four games last season as a backup for starting quarterback Jayden Maiav
  
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• Rain wasn’t going to stop these community elves in Santa Ana from giving gifts

  09-01-2026 03:19 via ocregister.com
  
  The reference is usually Christmas came early. In this case, it came two weeks late.
  Rain canceled the annual Downtown Santa Ana holiday celebration on Christmas Eve. But on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 8, some expected 500 families gathered for the rescheduled event, with children receiving donated presents and families receiving supplies of food. Volunteers had not wanted them to feel forgotten, one of the organizers said.
  Liam Estuardo Mendez holds on to his toy haul as he leaves the annual Downt
  
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• Angels terminate contract with their TV partner

  09-01-2026 02:31 via ocregister.com
  
  The uncertainty surrounding the Angels’ TV contract reached a new level when they terminated their contract with Main Street Sports Group on Thursday, raising questions about how their televised games will be delivered to fans and how much revenue the Angels will generate in 2026.
  Main Street, which is the struggling parent company of FanDuel Sports Network, missed payments to its baseball partners in the past month, so on Thursday all nine of them – including the Angels – term
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday, Jan. 8

  09-01-2026 02:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Thursday, Jan. 8
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  COAST LEAGUE
  Western 14, Rancho Alamitos 8
  Bolsa Grande 7, Anaheim 5
  GROVE LEAGUE
  Estancia 8, Saddleback 5
  ORANGE LEAGUE
  Loara 14, Orange 13
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• Big Ten’s power on display in Peach Bowl with Indiana facing Oregon

  09-01-2026 02:03 via ocregister.com
  
  ATLANTA — The Big Ten is marching into the heart of Southern football with a proud swagger, daring any conference to challenge its claim as the power to beat in the College Football Playoff.
  Undefeated No. 1 Indiana (14-0, CFP No. 1 seed) and No. 5 Oregon (13-1, CFP No. 5) have turned the CFP semifinal at Friday night’s Peach Bowl into a Big Ten celebration.
  Atlanta is home to the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Georgia Tech, and Mercedes-Benz Stadium is the annual site of the Sout
  
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• A year after the Palisades fire, she’s stayed behind, because leaving would abandon her son’s spirit

  09-01-2026 02:02 via ocregister.com
  
  For more than 330 days, Shelley Sykes has lived inside a greenhouse on her 17-acre Malibu property, bathing with bottled water and relying on friends and utility workers for basic necessities.
  There is still no permanent water or power. Permits to rebuild her main house remain stalled. Yet every morning, she wakes up on the land where her son died because leaving, she says, would mean abandoning his spirit.
  Sykes lost her son, Rory Sykes, during the Palisades fire that tore through Carbon Canyon
  
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• Man arrested nearly a month after alleged hate crime at ‘Hanukkah Town’ home in Redlands

  09-01-2026 01:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Police have arrested a 23-year-old man nearly a month after someone drove past a Redlands home decorated for Hanukkah, yelled an antisemitic slur and fired around 20 rounds from an airsoft handgun.
  Garrett Bailey Stater was arrested Thursday, Jan. 8, at his Redlands apartment on suspicion of terrorizing and making terroristic threats. Two other people were detained and released after questioning, police said.
  Rodgir Cohen said his family had returned from dinner on Dec. 12, when he and his eldes
  
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• Vance calls killing of Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer ‘a tragedy of her own making’

  09-01-2026 01:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE L. PRICE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed a federal immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on “a left-wing network,” Democrats, the news media and the woman who was killed as protests related to her death expanded to cities across the country.
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• China to probe Meta’s acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus

  09-01-2026 01:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHAN HO-HIM
  HONG KONG (AP) — China said on Thursday it would assess and investigate Meta’s acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus, in a move highlighting its technology rivalry with the U.S.
  Related Articles Google adds new AI features to Gmail, turning it into a personal assistant Elon Musk’s xAI to build $20 billion data center in Mississippi ‘Worst in Show’ CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells Chat platform Discor
  
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• Google adds new AI features to Gmail, turning it into a personal assistant

  09-01-2026 01:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
  More artificial intelligence is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most popular email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarize far-flung information buried in inboxes and deliver daily to-do lists.
  Related Articles China to probe Meta’s acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus Elon Musk’s xAI to build $20 billion data center in Mississippi ‘Worst in Show’ CES products include AI
  
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• Elon Musk’s xAI to build $20 billion data center in Mississippi

  09-01-2026 01:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By SOPHIE BATES
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday, calling it the largest private investment in the state’s history.
  Related Articles China to probe Meta’s acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus Google adds new AI features to Gmail, turning it into a personal assistant ‘Worst in Show’ CES products i
  
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• After delays, the missing Jan. 6 plaque will be displayed at the Capitol

  09-01-2026 01:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has agreed to display a plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, rebuffing House Speaker Mike Johnson who has said the commemorative memorial does not comply with the law.
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• Gavin Newsom’s final State of the State: An unbelievable fairy tale

  09-01-2026 01:15 via ocregister.com
  
  According to Gavin Newsom, everything is going great in California and it’s all thanks to government. Anyone who has paid attention certainly knows better.
  “California’s success is not by chance, it’s by design,” said the governor in his final State of the State address before the Legislature on Thursday. “We’ve created the conditions where dreamers and doers and misfits and marvels with grit and ingenuity come to build the impossible.”
  That sounds
  
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• Federal immigration officers shoot and wound 2 people in Portland, Oregon, authorities say

  09-01-2026 01:14 via ocregister.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, authorities said.
  Related Articles ‘Worst in Show’ CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 100 skulls and mummified body parts found in a Pennsylvania grave robbery case, police say The shooting outside a Utah church grew out of a dispute between funeral goers, police say FACT FOCUS: Minneapolis shooting prompts spread of misrepresented
  
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• Paradise Lake wins Frankel Stakes as Santa Anita reopens

  09-01-2026 01:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Paradise Lake and jockey Juan Hernandez held on in a three-way photo finish in the Robert J. Frankel Stakes to score the 5-year-old mare’s first stakes win as Santa Anita resumed racing Thursday.
  Paradise Lake paid $9 in the $100,000, Grade III race for fillies and mares on turf, becoming the second stakes winner of the young Santa Anita meet for trainer Peter Eurton, whose Gas Me Up scored a $28.20 win in the Grade II Joe Hernandez on Monday.
  “She’s kind of
  
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• Garden Grove woman found dead, man previously in a relationship with victim arrested

  09-01-2026 01:11 via ocregister.com
  
  A Garden Grove woman was found dead inside a home Wednesday night, Jan. 7, and a man with whom she previously had been in a relationship was arrested hours later on suspicion of murder, police said.
  Officers responded just before 8 p.m. to a residence in the 10400 block of Lampson Avenue after roommates found the woman unresponsive in her bedroom and called 911, according to the Garden Grove Police Department. The officers determined that the woman’s death did not appear to be from natural
  
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• UCLA LB Scott Taylor staying for sophomore season

  09-01-2026 01:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Linebacker Scott Taylor told the Southern California News Group that he is staying at UCLA for his sophomore season.
  After emerging as a freshman during the Bruins’ upset of No. 7 Penn State, the former Loyola High alumnus played in all 12 games as a reserve linebacker and on special teams. Taylor tallied 12 tackles, forced a fumble and blocked a field goal. He was a four-star recruit coming out of high school according to Rivals and a three-star according to 247Sports.
  “I’m re
  
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• ‘Worst in Show’ CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells

  09-01-2026 00:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT O’BRIEN
  The promise of artificial intelligence was front and center at this year’s CES gadget show. But spicing up a simple machine like a refrigerator with unnecessary AI was also a surefire way to win the “Worst in Show.”
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• Wind advisory in place for 5 Freeway north of LA until Sunday afternoon – gusts to hit 55 mph

  09-01-2026 00:39 via ocregister.com
  
  5 Freeway corridor near Santa Clarita, Southern Ventura County Mountains and Northern Ventura County Mountains are included in a wind advisory released by the National Weather Service on Thursday at 3:35 p.m. The advisory is valid from 8 p.m. until Sunday Jan. 11, at 1 p.m.
  The NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA said, “Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 55 mph expected.”
  “Damaging winds could blow down trees and power lines. Risk is increased due to recently saturated soils.
  
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• A Concert for Altadena offers music and healing on Eaton Fire anniversary

  09-01-2026 00:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Singer-guitarist Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes paused after kicking off A Concert for Altadena on Wednesday, Jan. 7 with Randy Newman’s “I Love LA,” taking a moment to thank the crowd inside the Pasadena Civic Auditorium for coming out on a date now forever tinged with tragedy.
  Exactly one year ago, the Eaton Fire roared out of the foothills above Altadena, devastating huge swathes of the city and leaving 19 residents dead.
  To honor the losses of that fire and raise funds for ongoi
  
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• 100 skulls and mummified body parts found in a Pennsylvania grave robbery case, police say

  09-01-2026 00:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SCOLFORO
  Bones and skulls visible in the back seat of a car near an abandoned cemetery on Philadelphia’s outskirts led police to a basement filled with body parts, which authorities say were horded by a man now accused of stealing about 100 sets of human remains.
  Officers say a Tuesday night arrest culminated a monthslong investigation into break-ins at Mount Moriah Cemetery, where at least 26 mausoleums and vaults had been forced open since early November.
  Investigators later sear
  
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• Fryer: Los Alamitos’ new gym as good as it gets in OC high school athletics

  09-01-2026 00:03 via ocregister.com
  
  A high school gym that is both functional and beautiful is a rare item.
  Los Alamitos has one.
  The school’s new gym is the best high school gym in Orange County. It is impressive looking on the outside, with its dramatic lighting and a large red-white-and blue Griffin mascot on a wall under “Griffin Center” lettering.
  The entryway foyer from the building’s front doors to the playing area is akin to a newer college facility.
  The Griffin Center, Los Alamitos High School&rsqu
  
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• The shooting outside a Utah church grew out of a dispute between funeral goers, police say

  09-01-2026 00:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By JACQUES BILLEAUD and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A complicated crime scene and uncooperative witnesses hindered Salt Lake City police efforts to investigate a shooting outside funeral services at a house of worship belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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• Dodgers avoid arbitration with Alex Call and Brock Stewart

  09-01-2026 00:01 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers reached agreement on one-year contracts with two more of their arbitration-eligible players, outfielder Alex Call and right-hander Brock Stewart.
  Call will make $1.6 million in 2026 and Stewart $1.3 million. They join relief pitchers Brusdar Graterol ($2.8 million) and Alex Vesia (a $3.55 million option exercised by the Dodgers) in avoiding arbitration this winter.
  The moves leave the Dodgers with just one unsigned arbitration-eligible player – left-handed r
  
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