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• Ex-Angels player Doug Reinhardt linked to $9.5 million purchase of Laguna Niguel home

  17-03-2020 20:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Doug Reinhardt, the onetime Angels player turn reality star, is tied to the purchase of a French chateau-style estate in Laguna Niguel’s guard-gated Bear Brand Ranch.
  The house sold for $9.5 million.
  Property records show Reinhardt and mother Kelly Roberts, co-owner of the Mission Inn Hotel and Spa in Riverside, share ownership of the house.
  Constructed in 2009, the five-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate with floor-to-ceiling glass doors sits on close to 2 acres. It has unobstructed ocean vie
  
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• The most notable moments from the Tyler Skaggs wrongful death trial against the LA Angels

  18-12-2025 00:41 via ocregister.com
  
  An Orange County jury was still deliberating Wednesday in the Tyler Skaggs wrongful death case against the Los Angeles Angels, as they sifted through two months of evidence and testimony that provided a rare look at the darker side of professional baseball culture.
  Jurors, in deciding whether the Angels bear any responsibility for Skaggs’ death, must grapple with whether Skaggs was a secret drug addict who took advantage of an Angels employee, Eric Kay, and introduced other players to opio
  
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• Chargers next challenge? Slowing down Cowboys QB Dak Prescott

  18-12-2025 00:39 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — There’s little doubt as to what has sparked the Chargers during their three-game winning streak after their much-needed bye in Week 12. Their defense has risen to the occasion to start their six-game sprint to the finish line of the regular season, tormenting three quarterbacks in a row.
  In Week 13, the Chargers harassed Geno Smith of the Las Vegas Raiders while he completed 18 of 23 passes for 165 yards with two touchdowns and one interception, sacking him five times in
  
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• Sean McVay dealing with unique challenge ahead of Seahawks game

  18-12-2025 00:33 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — Sean McVay used to pride himself on how little sleep he could operate on as a coach. He’s gotten away from that mindset in recent years, but this week is testing that fortitude in a new way.
  On Sunday, McVay’s Rams beat the Detroit Lions to clinch a playoff appearance. McVay left SoFi Stadium and went to the hospital, where his wife Veronika gave birth to their second child, Christian, at 6 a.m. Monday. There was little time to savor the moment, as McVay turned arou
  
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• Founder of bankrupt subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings is charged with fraud

  18-12-2025 00:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By LARRY NEUMEISTER
  NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of Tricolor Holdings led other top executives of the subprime auto lender on a seven-year campaign to defraud its largest lenders out of nearly a billion dollars, authorities said Wednesday, as they announced two arrests and guilty pleas by two former executives.
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• Editorial: Anaheim’s gutsy decision to open stadium debates

  18-12-2025 00:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Perhaps the third time is the charm, as Anaheim figures out what to do with the city-owned Angel Stadium. City Council this month revisited that hot-button issue, which is a bold decision given the machinations surrounding the last attempted stadium deal landed the former mayor with a short prison term. But it’s a good idea for the city to raise this issue before any pressing deadline.
  “[W]e haven’t really worked with our communications team to go out there and ask the resident
  
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• Shooting of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro has police searching for a suspect

  18-12-2025 00:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL CASEY
  BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the killing of professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, two days after he was shot to death at his home outside Boston.
  Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his apartment in Brookline, Massachusetts. He died at a local hospital on Tuesday, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
  The prosec
  
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• While Adán Correa looks for a partner on ‘Love on the Spectrum,’ he creates a platform to advocate for the autism community at home

  17-12-2025 23:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Adán Correa is just trying to get Honda Center visitors through his security line safely and efficiently. But there’s a bit of a holdup when people recognize the celebrity in their midst and ask for selfies.
  Correa, 29, is a breakout star from Netflix’s “Love on the Spectrum,” a reality program that follows young people on the autism spectrum as they navigate the dating world.
  Fans of the Emmy Award-winning show have followed along with Correa from the first season
  
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• ‘Love on the Spectrum’ star Adán Correa is using his fame to advocate for the autism community at home

  17-12-2025 23:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Adán Correa is just trying to get Honda Center visitors through his security line safely and efficiently. But there’s a bit of a holdup when people recognize the celebrity in their midst and ask for selfies.
  Correa, 29, is a breakout star from Netflix’s “Love on the Spectrum,” a reality program that follows young people on the autism spectrum as they navigate the dating world.
  Fans of the Emmy Award-winning show have followed along with Correa from the first season
  
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• Struggling Clippers are trying to tune out the noise

  17-12-2025 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Between the Chris Paul-threw-a-party-and-no-one-came narrative and the NBA trade rumors, the Clippers are still playing basketball. And not doing it well.
  The team is on a four-game losing streak and has lost nine of its past 10 games after an embarrassing loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night. The Clippers continue to struggle defensively, can’t sustain leads, they turn the ball over at an alarming rate (15.4 per game) and face a real possibility of not winning again in 2025.
  The
  
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• Trump writes partisan plaques for predecessors in his newly installed Presidential Walk of Fame

  17-12-2025 23:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT BROWN and BILL BARROW
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Months after President Donald Trump refashioned a West Wing walkway into what he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame, he has added partisan and subjective plaques to the display, deepening his fingerprints on the White House’s aesthetic and continuing his effort to bend the telling of history to his liking.
  From “Sleepy Joe” Biden references to painting Republican icon Ronald Reagan as a fan of a young Trump, the plaques inc
  
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• Trump’s push to make oil drilling cheap again squeezes some states more than others

  17-12-2025 23:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By MORGAN LEE
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Republican push to make drilling cheaper on federal land is creating new fiscal pressure for states that depend on oil and gas revenue, most notably in New Mexico as it expands early childhood education and saves for the future.
  The shift stems from the sweeping law President Donald Trump signed in July that rolls back the minimum federal royalty rate to 12.5%. That rate — the share of production value companies must pay to the government —
  
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• FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to resign next month as bureau’s No. 2 official

  17-12-2025 23:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and was forced to reconcile the realities of his law enforcement job with provocative claims he made in his prior role as a popular podcast host.
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• Minneapolis police chief criticizes ICE tactics after clash with protesters

  17-12-2025 23:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By SARAH RAZA, Associated Press
  Minneapolis’ police chief is criticizing federal immigration agents after a confrontation with protesters and an attempted arrest of a woman in which an officer kneeled on her back as she lay atop a snow bank and then tried to drag her to a car.
  Tensions have been rising in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area as federal authorities continue an immigration crackdown focused on the region’s Somali community, the largest in the country.
  Onlooker video of the co
  
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• Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration policies limiting lawmakers’ access to ICE facilities

  17-12-2025 23:16 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in the nation’s capital has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing policies limiting Congress members’ access to immigration detention facilities.
  The judge ruled on Wednesday that it is likely illegal for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to demand a week’s notice from members of Congress seeking to visit and observe conditions in ICE facilities.
  U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, who was nominated to the
  
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• Anaheim’s new police chief starts Dec. 29

  17-12-2025 23:16 via ocregister.com
  
  A new Anaheim chief of police has been selected to serve Orange County’s most populated city.
  Manuel Cid, who currently heads Glendale’s police force of 450 people, will soon assume the Anaheim Police Department’s highest rank.
  Cid will become the city’s 38th chief of police effective Dec. 29, when he fills the vacancy left by Chief Rick Armendariz, who announced in July his plans to retire. He was appointed in 2023.
  The City Council unanimously approved Cid’s emplo
  
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• Imprisoned Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell seeks release, citing ‘new evidence’

  17-12-2025 23:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge on Wednesday to set aside her sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence, saying “substantial new evidence” has emerged proving that constitutional violations spoiled her trial.
  Maxwell maintained in a habeas petition she has promised to file since August that information t
  
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• Brea council approves revenue-sharing agreement with local developer to court a Costco

  17-12-2025 22:59 via ocregister.com
  
  The City Council decided Brea will enter an agreement with a Southern California real estate developer to pursue a Costco Wholesale in exchange for a portion of the resulting sales tax revenue if the big box store is landed.
  Under the agreement the council approved this week, 3-1, with Councilmember Christine Marick opposed and Councilmember Blair Stewart absent, Dwight Manley promises to purchase the 34-acre property at 200 and 250 S. Kraemer St. — currently the headquarters for Beckman C
  
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• All-County boys water polo: Kai Kaneko is the OC player of the year

  17-12-2025 22:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowALL-COUNTY BOYS WATER POLO TEAM 2025
  PLAYER OF THE YEAR
  Kai Kaneko, Newport Harbor, Senior
  Kai Kaneko dove into his senior season with a special experience that he hoped would benefit Newport Harbor’s boys water polo program.
  Just a few months after his 17th birthday, he made his debut with the U.S. national men’s team during a series of local matches against Australia in June. The Stanford co
  
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• Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator in do-over after Musk feud

  17-12-2025 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT BROWN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator on Wednesday, placing him atop the agency after a monthslong saga where President Donald Trump revoked his nomination as part of a feud with tech billionaire Elon Musk.
  Isaacman, who has promised to bring a business-minded approach to the space agency, was confirmed in a bipartisan vote, 67-30.
  He will take over after an unusual confirmation p
  
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• New California law lets immigrant parents name a caretaker for their child if they’re separated

  17-12-2025 22:46 via ocregister.com
  
  A new law allowing parents to designate someone to care for their child in the event they are detained or deported by federal immigration authorities will soon take effect in California.
  Starting Jan. 1, the Family Preparedness Plan Act expands the type of relative who can qualify as a “caretaker” and creates a process by which a parent may nominate a caretaker to be a “temporary joint guardian” through probate court.
  The new law also prohibits licensed child daycare faci
  
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• Some sanctioned oil vessels divert from Venezuela as Trump threatens blockade

  17-12-2025 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press
  MIAMI (AP) — Some oil vessels are diverting away from Venezuela after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened a “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving the South American country, a dramatic escalation in the White House’s pressure campaign on leader Nicolás Maduro.
  Trump said Tuesday on social media, in all caps, that he is ordering a “total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers” into an
  
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• Postal service plans to open last-mile delivery network to more shippers in money-raising move

  17-12-2025 22:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By SUSAN HAIGH, Associated Press
  The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it intends to open its “last-mile” delivery network, the most expensive part of the shipping process, to large and small shippers, expanding beyond current arrangements with giants such as Amazon and UPS.
  The goal is to diversify and boost revenue through the postal carriers’ final leg of delivery to millions of individual homes and businesses.
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• Ex-NFL player Hardy Nickerson named football coach at JSerra

  17-12-2025 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Former NFL linebacker Hardy Nickerson is the new football coach at JSerra, the school announced Wednesday.
  Nickerson, 60, was the head coach at Bishop O’Dowd High in Oakland the past four seasons. Bishop O’Dowd won the CIF State Division 5-AA championship Friday with a 37-0 win over El Cajon Christian at Fullerton High.
  Bishop O’Dowd head coach Hardy Nickerson on the sideline in a high school football game against Monte Vista at Monte Vista High School in Danville, California o
  
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• House to vote on resolutions to put limits on Trump’s campaign against Venezuela and drug cartels

  17-12-2025 22:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES and BEN FINLEY, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House was voting Wednesday on a pair of resolutions that would put a check on President Donald Trump’s power to use military force against drug cartels and the nation of Venezuela.
  Democrats forced the votes using war powers resolutions as Trump has stepped up his threats against the South American nation and Congress has questioned how the U.S. military is conducting a campaign that has destroyed 25 vessels all
  
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• Energy Department watchdog will audit Trump’s cuts of nearly $8B in clean energy grants

  17-12-2025 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALEXA ST. JOHN, Associated Press
  An internal watchdog in the U.S. Department of Energy will investigate the Trump administration’s termination of $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects across 16 states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
  The move is especially welcome for Democrats who said that the cuts — part of broader attacks from President Donald Trump on climate programs and clean energy funding —
  
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• Trump administration moves to dissolve national climate research lab in Colorado

  17-12-2025 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW DALY and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab that a top White House official described as “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.″
  White House budget director Russ Vought criticized the lab in a social media post Tuesday night and said a comprehensive review of the lab is underway. “Vital
  
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• Council public hearing on Anaheim Hills Festival Center housing project pushed to January

  17-12-2025 21:40 via ocregister.com
  
  The Anaheim City Council now plans to consider the housing development proposed to replace the cinema at the Anaheim Hills Festival Center next month.
  The council will also be considering at the Jan. 13 meeting a general plan amendment, amending the site plan for the shopping center area, a final site plan and a development agreement.
  Developers propose to turn the shopping center’s shuttered Regal Cinema into a four-story residential building.
  That project would bring 447 apartment units,
  
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• ‘Living shoreline’ solution being tried to protect eroding Talbert Marsh

  17-12-2025 21:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Just inland of the ocean and the cars zooming past on the busy Pacific Coast Highway, a wetland oasis is threatened.
  Erosion is chipping away at sensitive and critical habitat inside the Talbert Marsh, at an island area where endangered birds nest each year. Nearby, the loss of sediment is also worrisome for an electric pole that powers a street light at Brookhurst Street and PCH, where damage could cause a nightmare for drivers who use the busy roadways.
  But work is underway to slow the erosion
  
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• Trump pays respects to 2 Iowa National Guardsmen and interpreter killed in Syria as they return home

  17-12-2025 21:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE L. PRICE, Associated Press
  DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday paid his respects to two Iowa National Guard members and a U.S. civilian interpreter who were killed in an attack in the Syrian desert, joining their grieving families as their remains were brought back to the country they served.
  Trump met privately with the families at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware before the dignified transfer, a solemn ritual conducted in honor of U.S. servic
  
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