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• Feds launch DA probe

  15-12-2016 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Justice launched a civil rights investigation of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Sheriff’s Department on Thursday over allegations that prosecutors and deputies withhold evidence and use jailhouse...
  
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• General manager Rob Pelinka addresses future of Lakers, Luke Kennard trade

  08-02-2026 04:31 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka publicly spoke for the first time since the season began and the franchise officially sold, addressing the team’s trade deadline strategy and the future of the team regarding investment on and off the court.
  Pelinka, who spoke to a group of local media, including the Southern California News Group, for nine minutes before the Lakers took on the Golden State Warriors on Saturday evening, called the team’s activity at the trade dea
  
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• Bob Baffert’s Plutarch wins at Santa Anita, jumps into Kentucky Derby picture

  08-02-2026 03:28 via ocregister.com
  
  ARCADIA — It’s never a shock when Bob Baffert trains the winner of a Kentucky Derby steppingstone race, but Saturday at Santa Anita, it looked like a surprise on the tote board.
  Baffert saddled the heavy favorite in the Robert B. Lewis Stakes, only to watch his less highly regarded colt, Plutarch, follow a sharp ride by Florent Geroux to a three-quarter-length victory at 4-1 odds.
  Baffert has won eight consecutive runnings and 10 of the past 12 in the $100,000, Grade III Lewis. This
  
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• UC Irvine women throttle UCSB with stingy defense

  08-02-2026 03:19 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE — UC Irvine women’s basketball coach Tamara Inoue will never get tired of beating UC Santa Barbara.
  The Anteaters took down the Gauchos again on Saturday afternoon in a Big West Conference showdown at the Bren Events Center, holding them to 28.3% shooting and getting double-doubles from Hunter Hernandez and Summah Hanson in a 63-41 victory.
  UCI has won 10 of the past 11 meetings against UCSB, which dominated Big West competition from 1997-2012, winning either a regular se
  
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• Patriots-Seahawks Super Bowl is not so much of a rematch as it is a matchup of contrasts

  08-02-2026 02:23 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA CLARA, Calif.  — A heralded defense vs. an underrated one. A celebrated second-year quarterback vs. a veteran QB who has gone from perceived bust to beloved. An All-Pro wide receiver vs. one of the NFL’s best young cornerbacks.
  This year’s Super Bowl matchup between the New England Patriots (17-3) and Seattle Seahawks (16-3) is all about contrasts.
  And it starts with the coaches who will lead their teams onto the field.
  Being a part of the final game of the NFL seaso
  
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• ‘We will pay,’ Savannah Guthrie says in desperate video plea to potential kidnappers of her mother

  08-02-2026 02:21 via ocregister.com
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — Savannah Guthrie told the potential kidnappers of her mother Nancy Guthrie on Saturday that the family is prepared to pay for her safe return, as the frantic search for the 84-year-old Arizona resident has entered a seventh day.
  “We received your message, and we understand. We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her,” she said in a video posted on social media, flanked by her siblings. “This is the only way we will have pea
  
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• Additional case of measles exposure reported at Disneyland, health officials say

  08-02-2026 02:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County health officials are warning of another possible measles exposure after a confirmed case visited Disneyland last month.
  The OC Health Care Agency on Saturday said an individual who was infectious with measles visited Disneyland Park on Thursday, Jan. 22 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Disney California Adventure Park from 3 p.m. until closing.
  Anyone who was at those locations during the listed times may be at risk of developing measles symptoms between seven and 21 days after exposure,
  
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• Winter Olympics: Japan’s Kagiyama tops Malinin in men’s short program

  08-02-2026 01:12 via ocregister.com
  
  MILAN — The Milano Ice Skating Arena has less ambiance than a truck stop on the way from Tucson to Tucumcari.
  The Olympic figure skating venue is so ugly that local officials seemingly stuck it 30 minutes from Milano’s city center, past the end of the Metro line, next to a freeway, in hopes no one would notice it on their way to Genoa.
  The arena known prior to the Games as the Milan Forum is 36 years old and although it seems decades older, the late 1980s time frame makes sense given
  
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• La Habra man arrested in fatal park shooting

  08-02-2026 01:06 via ocregister.com
  
  A 19-year-old La Habra man was arrested on Friday, Feb. 6 on suspicion of murder in a fatal shooting at El Centro-Lions Park late last year, police said.
  Officers responded to a report of a shooting at about 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 19, 2025, at the park on East Erna Ave., the La Habra Police Department said.
  When officers arrived, they found a 20-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
  Detectives arrested Isaac Gomez and booked him on suspicion of murde
  
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• Some accused of public nudity as 17 arrested at DD Café in Garden Grove

  08-02-2026 00:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Seventeen people were arrested, some for alleged public nudity, after police determined that a Garden Grove coffee shop was operating as a so-called bikini café, authorities said.
  Police investigating the DD Café, on the 10500 block of McFadden Avenue, found staffers wearing bikinis or in various states of undress while serving customers, Garden Grove police Sgt. Nick Jensen said.
  The operation violated city municipal codes related to public nudity, business operations and alcohol
  
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• Corona del Mar boys basketball lands in Open Division for CIF-SS playoffs

  08-02-2026 00:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Corona del Mar boys basketball coach Jason Simco wanted his team to be in the Open Division of the CIF Southern Section playoffs.
  He got what he wanted.
  The Sea Kings (27-1) are in the field of 12 teams in the section’s top division. They are seeded eighth.
  “I love it,” Simco said after playoff brackets were released Saturday. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I’m so proud of our kids.”
  The other 11 Open Division teams are, in order of seeding: Sie
  
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• Brad Arnold, lead singer of Grammy-nominated rock band 3 Doors Down, dies at 47

  08-02-2026 00:13 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Brad Arnold, the lead singer of the Grammy-nominated rock band 3 Doors Down, died Saturday, months after he announced that he  He was 47.
  The band said in a statement that Arnold “passed away peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, in his sleep after his courageous battle with cancer.”
  3 Doors Down formed in Mississippi in 1995 and four years later received a Grammy nomination for the breakout hit “Kryptonite.” Arnold wrote the song in math class wh
  
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• UCLA women prepare for Michigan, Michigan State

  08-02-2026 00:09 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The UCLA women’s basketball team is approaching its greatest pair of tests in Big Ten play with away games at Michigan on Sunday and Michigan State on Wednesday. The Bruins are preparing for these matchups, point guard Kiki Rice said, as if they were Elite Eight or Final Four games.
  But UCLA (22-1, 12-0 Big Ten) has a distinct advantage.
  “We have the advantage in the post and size-wise,” head coach Cori Close said. “Against both teams.”
  The top f
  
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• Sage Hill, Mater Dei to clash in Open Division of CIF-SS girls basketball playoffs

  08-02-2026 00:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowIn a girls basketball season full of parity in Orange County, Sage Hill and Mater Dei separated themselves from the pack late but never met on the court to settle the No. 1 ranking.
  That showdown will happen in the playoffs for the second time in three years.
  On Saturday, Sage Hill and Mater Dei were seeded No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, and placed in Pool D in an expanded, 12-team field for the Open Divi
  
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• Sage Hill and Mater Dei to clash in CIF-SS girls basketball Open Division

  08-02-2026 00:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowIn a girls basketball season full of parity in Orange County, Sage Hill and Mater Dei separated themselves from the pack late but never met on the court to settle the No. 1 ranking.
  That showdown will happen in the playoffs for the second time in three years.
  On Saturday, Sage Hill and Mater Dei were seeded No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, and placed in Pool D in an expanded, 12-team Open Division for the C
  
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• Poodle Cooper is ready to play whenever you are

  07-02-2026 23:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Breed: Poodle
  Age: 2 years
  Sex: Neutered male
  Size: 14 pounds
  Cooper’s story: Cooper has energy to burn. Although he’s an adult, he can play like a pup, pouncing, exploring and keeping you on your toes. He’s a happy boy who’s full of love and will bring lots of smiles to his new family.
  Adoption cost: $200
  Adoption procedure: Fill out the application at Friends of Orange County’s Homeless Pets website, fochp.org, or email [email protected]. The website has other pets
  
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• Terrance Gore, member of Dodgers 2020 World Series team, dies at 34

  07-02-2026 23:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Terrance Gore, a base-running specialist who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ 2020 World Series championship team, has died at age 34, the team announced Saturday.
  “The Dodgers express their sorrow over the sudden passing of Terrance Gore, a member of our 2020 World Series champions. We send our condolences to his loved ones,” the Dodgers posted on X.
  Gore died Friday due to complications from an unspecified surgical procedure, according to multiple media reports.
  He was bor
  
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• Get ready for that big American religious festival – the Super Bowl

  07-02-2026 23:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By Shaun Tumpane
  Laguna Woods Globe columnist
  With Super Bowl Sunday almost upon us, it behooves me to opine on this, the quintessential American sacred cow. Now, I’m not impugning worship of any kind; however, when over 120 million people do anything, one could argue that whatever they’re doing can be categorized as a religion.
  One need to go no further than to observe the painted faces, the plastic gold link chains sized to fit a gorilla, the rainbow-colored frizzy wigs, and the mi
  
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• Los Angeles mayoral race goes from compelling to disastrous

  07-02-2026 23:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles is a city in crisis.
  Corruption, rampant homelessness, high housing costs, pothole-filled streets with bounded by poorly-maintained sidewalks, rising utility prices, an unwelcoming business environment and unaccountable government have come to define what should be the greatest city on the West Coast.
  The Palisades fire and all that followed exposed how broken Los Angeles city government is. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass did essentially everything wrong from the moment she decided to
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday, Feb. 7

  07-02-2026 22:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Saturday, Feb. 7
  Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register.
  The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
  GIRLS WATER POLO
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  OPEN DIVISION
  Pool A
  Orange Lutheran 11, Long Beach Wilson 8
  Pool B
  Oaks Christian 12, Corona del Mar 10
  Newport Harbor 16, JS
  
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• Santa Margarita girls soccer to take on rival to begin CIF-SS playoffs

  07-02-2026 20:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSanta Margarita and Santiago of Corona won’t play for a CIF-SS girls soccer championship this year. And they won’t play for a CIF Southern California Regional title if qualifying follows the script.
  The rivals will still collide in the postseason.
  Santa Margarita and Santiago on Saturday were paired for a first round, home-and-away series to highlight the draw for an eight-team CIF-SS Open Div
  
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• Santa Margarita girls soccer draws rival Santiago Corona to open playoffs

  07-02-2026 20:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSanta Margarita and Santiago of Corona won’t play for a CIF-SS girls soccer championship this year. And they won’t play for a CIF Southern California Regional title if qualifying follows the script.
  The rivals will still collide in the postseason.
  Santa Margarita and Santiago on Saturday were paired for a first round, home-and-away series to highlight the draw for an eight-team CIF-SS Open Div
  
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• Yosemite placed under a winter weather advisory from Monday to Wednesday

  07-02-2026 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Yosemite is included in a winter weather advisory released by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 11:48 a.m. The advisory is valid from Monday 10 p.m. until Wednesday Feb. 11, at 4 p.m.
  “Total snow accumulations 12 to 18 inches above 7000 feet. Snow accumulations 4 to 10 inches above 6000 feet. Winds gusting as high as 40 to 50 mph at the highest elevations,” can be anticipated according to the NWS Hanford CA. “Heaviest snow expected Tuesday into Tuesday evening.”
  
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• Fullerton man gets 17 years for dealing deadly dose of fentanyl

  07-02-2026 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  A Fullerton man was sentenced Friday to 17 years in federal prison for selling a fatal dose of fentanyl to a childhood friend.
  Myles Ray Miller, 28, pleaded guilty Oct. 22 to distribution of fentanyl resulting in death and possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl.
  Miller, who has been behind bars since his arrest in May 2025, faced between 14 and 17 years, with federal prosecutors recommending the maximum punishment to U.S. District Judge John Holcomb.
  On March 18, 2022, Miller sold a d
  
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• Three Trinity League teams in Open Division of CIF-SS boys soccer playoffs

  07-02-2026 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Three Trinity League teams are among the eight teams in the CIF Southern Section Open Division field for the playoffs.
  League champion Mater Dei (12-1-2) is seeded No. 2 in the elite group. JSerra (7-4-3), last season’s Open Division champion and the league’s No. 2 team, is seeded at No. 6. Trinity League No. 3 Orange Lutheran (10-3-3) is seeded at No. 8.
  Servite (10-7-1), the Trinity League’s No. 4 team, is in the Division 1 32-team bracket as an at-large team.
  Empire League c
  
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• Three Trinity League teams in Open Division boys soccer playoffs

  07-02-2026 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Three Trinity League teams are among the eight teams in the CIF Southern Section Open Division field for the playoffs.
  League champion Mater Dei (12-1-2) is seeded No. 2 in the elite group. JSerra (7-4-3), last season’s Open Division champion and the league’s No. 2 team, is seeded at No. 6. Trinity League No. 3 Orange Lutheran (10-3-3) is seeded at No. 8.
  Servite (10-7-1), the Trinity League’s No. 4 team, is in the Division 1 32-team bracket as an at-large team.
  Empire League c
  
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• Masseur sentenced to 18 years for assaulting 2 clients in Huntington Beach

  07-02-2026 20:11 via ocregister.com
  
  A 33-year-old masseur was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison for sexually assaulting two clients in Huntington Beach.
  Mathew Wase Langmos was convicted Oct. 29 of a count of rape, four counts of sexual penetration by foreign object and a count of attempted sexual penetration, all felonies.
  Langmos was convicted of sexually assaulting one of the women on Sept. 22, 2021, and the other on Sept. 26, 2021, at the Healing Horizons Spa in Huntington Beach.
  He faced between 16 to 44 years in prison.
  
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• Lewd acts alleged in Fullerton shopping center parking lot lead to arrest

  07-02-2026 19:47 via ocregister.com
  
  A 73-year-old man with multiple prior convictions for indecent exposure has been arrested in two separate indecent exposure incidents at a shopping center parking lot in Fullerton, authorities said.
  The suspect was identified as Anaheim resident Marshall Leonard, who had been previously required to register as a sex offender for several decades, according to spokeswoman Kristy Wells of the Fullerton Police Department.
  Leonard was removed from the sex offender registry in 2024, Wells said.
  In 202
  
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• Lakers center Jaxson Hayes selected for next week’s All-Star Dunk contest

  07-02-2026 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Lakers backup center Jaxson Hayes earned a berth to the All-Star weekend’s NBA Slam Dunk Contest, the NBA announced on Saturday morning.
  A little over a week ago, during the Lakers’ Grammys road trip against the Chicago Bulls, Hayes pulled off an East Bay between-the-legs dunk on a fast break to give his team a 14-point lead in the eventual away victory on Jan. 26. A few days later, the 7-foot big man accepted a the invitation to the dunk contest next Saturday at
  
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• Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (Jan. 29-Feb. 5)

  07-02-2026 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5.
  Thach Che Hien Khanh, 9784 Westminster Ave., Garden GroveClosed: Feb. 5
  Reason: Cockroach infestation
  Reopened: Feb. 6Food service at Buena Park Grand Hotel & Suites, 7762 Beach Blvd., Buena ParkClosed: Feb. 4
  Reason: Rodent infestation
  Reopened: Feb. 4The Vintage 1979, 9252 Garden Grove Blvd., Garden GroveClosed: Feb. 3
  Reason: Insufficient hot water
  Reopened:
  
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