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• Dodgers Notes: Adrian Gonzalez returns from disabled list

  19-05-2017 06:22 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The last time Adrian Gonzalez collected a base hit before Thursday, it was the sixth inning of a game between the Dodgers and San Francisco Giants on May 2. The line drive left his bat at 82.5 mph, with enough height to beat the Giants’ defensive shift for a single.
  A couple days later, Gonzalez acquiesced to going on the disabled list for the first time in his career. Back and forearm injuries left him less than 100 percent healthy. He still wasn’t 100 percent wh
  
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• Kennedy boys basketball stuns Valencia with rally in fourth quarter

  23-01-2026 08:01 via ocregister.com
  
  PLACENTIA — The Kennedy boys basketball team erased a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter to pull off a stunning 69-63 win over Valencia on Thursday night at Valencia High.
  By winning the Fighting Irish (16-8, 4-2) remained tied for first place in the Empire League with Calvary Chapel. They have league games left against Fullerton and Calvary Chapel.
  Kennedy coach Jose Alvarez saw an opportunity for a comeback because of the Tigers’ fast pace of play.
  “I figured that they we
  
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• Beckman girls basketball rallies past San Clemente with big third quarter

  23-01-2026 08:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe steady rise of Beckman’s girls basketball team created a few new dynamics Thursday as it played host to San Clemente in an important South Coast League game.
  “There (was) more people than usually come to the games,” first-year Beckman coach Myron Jacobs said. “When you play in front of a big crowd, you get rattled.”
  The Patriots eventually overcame their nerves, and the t
  
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• Los Alamitos girls basketball extends league lead with win over Corona del Mar

  23-01-2026 07:42 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ALAMITOS — The Los Alamitos girls basketball team kept its unblemished league record intact with a commanding victory over Corona del Mar, 65-33, in a Sunset League game Thursday at Los Alamitos High School.
  With five league games remaining, the first-place Griffins (16-6, 7-0), who are ranked No. 19 in Orange County, hold a comfortable lead over the rest of the league.
  The Sea Kings (11-13, 5-3) are in a three-way tie for second with Marina and Huntington Beach.
  Los Alamitos coach May
  
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• Clippers fend off Lakers’ 2nd-half rally in Kawhi Leonard’s return

  23-01-2026 07:14 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — Kawhi Leonard was on the bench, his night seemingly over, as the Lakers climbed back into the game in the fourth quarter. But the Clippers star couldn’t sit still.
  He returned to the court in the final two minutes on Thursday night to help seal a 112-104 victory over the Lakers in what had been billed as one of the NBA’s rivalry games. It lived up to the hype with high-scoring performances from the teams’ biggest stars, raucous fans and even a late-game skirmi
  
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• Trabuco Hills girls basketball boosts league title hopes with win over Tesoro

  23-01-2026 07:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Trabuco Hills shooting guard Madeline Hales shoots a jump shot during a Sea View League game against Tesoro on Thursday, January 22, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  Trabuco Hills point guard Elizabeth Tapper shoots a contested layup during a 60-57 win in a Sea View League game against Tesoro on Thursday, January 22, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  Tesoro center Charlotte Marvin blocks a shot attempt by Trabuco Hills shooting guard Sam Rynders d
  
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• Cal State Fullerton men top Long Beach State to get back on track

  23-01-2026 07:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Long Beach State forward Petar Majstorovic, center, loses control of the ball as he tries to drive between Cal State Fullerton guards Christian Williams, right, and Josh Ward, left, during the first half of a Big West Conference game on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, at Fullerton’s Titan Gym. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
  Cal State Fullerton guard Josh Ward, left, gets in front of Long Beach State forward Shay Johnson Jr. to score during a Big West Conference game on Thurs
  
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• Brea Olinda district trustee absent from second school board meeting following arrest

  23-01-2026 05:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Brea Olinda Unified School District Trustee Christopher Becerra missed a second consecutive school board meeting Thursday night, Jan. 22, following his arrest in December.
  Becerra, 42, was arrested Dec. 18 by the Brea Police Department on suspicion of possessing child pornography, annoying or molesting a child, falsifying evidence and bribing, influencing, intimidating or threatening witnesses. As of Thursday, no formal charges had been filed by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office
  
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• USC women can’t overcome turnovers in loss to No. 13 Michigan State

  23-01-2026 05:25 via ocregister.com
  EAST LANSING, Mich. — Ball security – or a lack of it – proved pivotal for the USC women’s basketball team.
  Kennedy Blair scored 21 points, and No. 13 Michigan State feasted on 24 USC turnovers while holding off the Trojans late for a 74-68 win on Thursday night.
  Kara Dunn scored 23 points and Jazzy Davidson added 21 to lead USC (11-8 overall, 3-5 Big Ten), which has lost five of its past six games. Kennedy Smith scored 15 points.
  Michigan State (18-2, 7-2) opened the fou
  
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• Sovereignty’s Horse of the Year title isn’t an end result

  23-01-2026 05:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Thoroughbred racing’s Eclipse Awards didn’t just toast the best of 2025. They also whetted fans’ appetite for 2026.
  Sovereignty, named North American Horse of the Year as well as champion 3-year-old male in one-sided votes by racing journalists and executives, is one of an unusual number of champions expected to continue competing this year after being crowned Thursday at a dinner televised from Palm Beach, Fla.
  Sovereignty, the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner, receive
  
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• NAMM 2026: 6 highlights from Day 1 at the annual music show in Anaheim

  23-01-2026 03:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Percy Bady stood amid a throng of musicians and onlookers at a booth at the NAMM Show at the Anaheim Convention Center on Thursday, Jan. 22.
  As an R&B and gospel songwriter-producer, he’s responsible for cowriting such well-known tunes as R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly,” Yolanda Adams’ “Still I Rise,” the modern gospel standard “There Is No Way,” and BeBe and CeCe Winans’ “Hold Up the Light,” which featured Whitney Hous
  
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• Horse racing notes: Brilliantly, Juan Hernandez head Bob Baffert trio at Santa Anita

  23-01-2026 03:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Bob Baffert trains three of the six fillies and mares in the Grade III La Cañada Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday, and the jockey assignments help to identify the best of them. Juan Hernandez rides Brilliantly, the 7-5 favorite to handle 1-1/16 miles and the graded stakes level, while Kazushi Kimura has Nafisa and Tiago Pereira gets a shot on a Baffert horse with Ooty.
  The top non-Baffert threat is Doug O’Neill’s So There She Was with Emisail Jaramillo. An unofficial stat: Si
  
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• Agustina Vergara Cid: Iranian protesters deserve our moral support

  23-01-2026 03:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of people are protesting on the streets of Iran—women are ditching their hijabs, others are burning photos of the ayatollah and lighting cigarettes with them, and protesters are yelling “death to the dictator.” The protests are massive and existentially threatening to the Iranian theocracy. 
  It can be hard to fathom the degree of the depravity of the Iranian regime, and what these protesters are fighting to the death against. Understanding the nature
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday, Jan. 22

  23-01-2026 03:23 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. 22
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  GIRLS WATER POLO
  CENTRAL OC TOURNAMENT
  Aliso Niguel 15, Trabuco Hills 5
  CRESTVIEW LEAGUE
  Sunny Hills 17, Esperanza 6
  ORANGE LEAGUE
  Savanna 24, Loara 15
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• TikTok finalizes deal to form new American version of the app

  23-01-2026 02:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By KAITLYN HUAMANI, AP Technology Reporter
  TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American version of the app, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the U.S. that has been in discussion for years.
  Related Articles FAA is making the rules imposed after an airliner collided with an Army helicopter permanent NASA and families of fallen astronauts mark 40th anniversary of space shuttle Challenger accident A Kentucky cathedral called ‘America’s Notre Dame’ gets a rehab,
  
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• Santa Anita consensus picks for Friday, January 23, 2026

  23-01-2026 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Eddie Wilson, Kevin Modesti and Mark Ratzky. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Frday, January 23, 2026.
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• Newport Beach native Trinity Rodman signs new 3-year contract to remain with Washington Spirit

  23-01-2026 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Newport Beach native Trinity Rodman is staying with the Washington Spirit.
  Rodman entered 2026 without a contract, as her previous deal had expired at the end of last season, leading to speculation of a move to Europe. However, Thursday, the Spirit, at an event hosted at BMO Stadium, announced that Rodman had signed a three-year contract to remain with the club through the 2028 season.
  According to ESPN, the contract will see Rodman become the highest-paid player in the NWSL, “at a salary
  
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• Chargers’ defensive coordinator Jesse Minter hired as Ravens’ head coach

  23-01-2026 01:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh wasn’t engaging in hyperbole when he suggested during his season-ending news conference last week that it was a matter of “when” rather than “if” defensive coordinator Jesse Minter would be lured away from the team after two stellar seasons on their staff.
  The Baltimore Ravens said Thursday they had hired Minter to replace John Harbaugh, Jim’s brother, as their head coach. The Ravens fired John Harbaugh earlier this month after
  
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• FAA is making the rules imposed after an airliner collided with an Army helicopter permanent

  23-01-2026 01:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH FUNK, Associated Press
  The temporary rules imposed after last year’s collision of an airliner and an Army helicopter to improve the safety of the crowded airspace around Washington D.C. are being made permanent, the government announced Thursday.
  The Federal Aviation Administration took steps to make sure that helicopters and airplanes would no longer share the same airspace around Reagan National Airport shortly after the investigation into the Jan. 29 crash began. The rules also
  
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• How Kyren Williams has grown as a leader for Rams on the field and in the community

  23-01-2026 01:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Rams running back Kyren Williams, left, stiff-arms Chicago Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson during a touchdown run in the second half of their NFC divisional playoff game on Sunday in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
  Rams running back Kyren Williams celebrates after running for a touchdown during the second half of their NFC divisional playoff game on Sunday in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
  Rams running back Kyren Williams gestures after scoring a touchdown during the second half of their NF
  
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• Project to assemble prefab modular units into 65 new homes starts in Midway City

  23-01-2026 01:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Using prefabricated modular units, a new 65-residence housing complex breaking ground in Midway City could be ready in 12 months.
  That speed means spending less to create much-needed affordable housing, officials said. And that is quality housing.
  American Family Housing held a groundbreaking for Casa Colibri, a 65-unit housing complex in Midway City, CA on Thursday, January 22, 2026. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  American Family Housing held a groundbreaking for Casa Co
  
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• Susan Shelley: How much higher will sales taxes go in California?

  23-01-2026 00:32 via ocregister.com
  
  If Alfred Hitchcock was alive, he could make a horror movie about sales taxes in California. It would be a sequel to “Vertigo.”
  Anyone with a fear of heights should be terrified. The cities of Palmdale and Lancaster have the highest sales taxes in the state, 11.25%.
  It may be news to many California residents, but state law limits total sales taxes to 9.25%. According to Revenue and Taxation Code section 7251.1, the combined rate of all local sales taxes added on to the state tax rat
  
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• Editorial: In-House Opinions on Greenland from SoCal representatives

  23-01-2026 00:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Our mercurial president’s meanderings this week on his desire to possess Greenland have been so, well, all over the map, tanking Wall Street markets when he threatened war, allowing stocks to recover when he said he was just joshing about an invasion, that it can be awfully hard to keep up with the latest: Threatening actions that would lead to the end of the 80-year post-war transatlantic alliance. Mocking European leaders for their “stupidity.” Claiming that the United States
  
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• NASA and families of fallen astronauts mark 40th anniversary of space shuttle Challenger accident

  23-01-2026 00:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARCIA DUNN, Associated Press
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident gathered back at the launch site Thursday to mark that tragic day 40 years ago.
  All seven on board were killed when Challenger broke apart following liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986.
  At the Kennedy Space Center memorial ceremony, Challenger pilot Michael Smith’s daughter, Alison Smith Balch, said through tears that her life forever changed that frigid morning,
  
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• FACT FOCUS: White House shares altered image showing arrest of civil rights attorney in Minnesota

  23-01-2026 00:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By MELISSA GOLDIN
  The Trump administration on Thursday misrepresented the arrest of a prominent civil rights attorney for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.
  On its official X page, the White House shared an image of Nekima Levy Armstrong that showed her in tears with, her arms behind her back, standing in front of someone wearing a badge around their neck.
  The problem? Levy Armstrong wasn’t actually crying. The image was mani
  
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• K-pop girl group Twice delivers on first of 4 concerts at Kia Forum

  22-01-2026 23:35 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s about to be a very good year for the nine members of the K-pop girl group Twice, who on Wednesday, Jan. 21 played the first of four nights at the Kia Forum in Inglewood.
  To the casual music fan, there are two big names in K-pop. The boy band BTS is responsible in large part for breaking K-pop in the United States, selling out Honda Center and the then-Staples Center on their way to multiple nights at the Rose Bowl and SoFi Stadium.
  Then there’s the girl group Blackpink, who in 2
  
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• Fryer: Schools react to claim that Trinity League teams made offers to star player

  22-01-2026 23:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Cathedral Catholic football player Honor Fa’alave-Johnson provided a heck of a quote in a recent news story about his intention to stay at the San Diego school for his senior season.
  It all started with Fa’alave-Johnson’s social media post last week: “I appreciate all the different programs reaching out to my family and I. However, I’ll be staying in San Diego and playing my final season at Cathedral Catholic.”
  Asked by the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper ab
  
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• US completes withdrawal from World Health Organization

  22-01-2026 23:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE and DEVI SHASTRI, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Donald Trump announced America was ending its 78-year-old commitment, federal officials said Thursday.
  But it’s hardly a clean break.
  The U.S. owes more than $130 million to the global health agency, according to WHO. And Trump administration officials acknowledge that they haven’t finished working out some issues,
  
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• 50 years later: 11 classic albums that hit No. 1 on the charts in 1976

  22-01-2026 23:29 via ocregister.com
  
  In 1976, record shoppers knew what they liked – the Eagles and Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan – and they bought it in droves.
  Only 11 different albums reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart that year, with Peter Frampton and George Benson sneaking to the top between the better-known likes of Wings, Led Zeppelin, Earth, Wind & Fire, and a few other familiar acts.
  The singles chart, meanwhile, was all over the place, with radio stations in transition and not su
  
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• Walt Disney was ‘scared’ Disneyland would never be ready for opening day in 1955

  22-01-2026 23:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Walt Disney famously said Disneyland would never be complete “as long as there is imagination left in the world,” but the biggest dreamer of them all was scared Disneyland would never be finished in time for opening day, according to a new documentary about the making of the Anaheim theme park.
  Disneyland Art Director Harper Goff said Walt Disney was “scared” Disneyland would never be ready for opening day in July 1955 in the new “Disneyland Handcrafted” docum
  
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