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• Longtime former Register columnist Gordon Dillow dies at 74, writes Gordon Dillow

  11-12-2025 00:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: Gordon Dillow, who was an Orange County Register columnist from 1996 to 2008, died Monday. He wrote his own obituary, which was shared with the Register and runs below as a final column of sorts.
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  After a lifetime of not taking care of himself, former Orange County Register columnist Gordon Dillow is dead at age 74.
  He died on Monday, Dec. 8, of undetermined health causes.
  But he wasn’t complaining. He led his life the way he wanted to, he exceeded hi
  
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• Leaders of religious group arrested on suspicion of murder in Hemet amid probe of missing congregants

  12-12-2025 22:44 via ocregister.com
  
  The leaders of a mysterious Inland religious group with ties to two missing men, along with a third person, were arrested on suspicion of murder in Hemet on Thursday, Dec. 11.
  Authorities, beyond acknowledging the arrests, have been tight-lipped about the case. Carl Baker, a Redlands police spokesman, cited the ongoing investigation in declining to say who police believe are the victims. Two former congregants of the His Way Spirit Led Assemblies, Emilio Ghanem, 40, of Nashville; and Ruben
  
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• Alexander: Here’s how to restore sanity to college football

  12-12-2025 22:36 via ocregister.com
  
  The world according to Jim:
  • It’s time. It’s past time, in fact.
  Time not only to change the process of deciding a college football champion, but time to change the entire face of the sport, after a 2025 regular season lurched to a conclusion and produced a 12-team playoff field that, to be honest, shouldn’t exactly make you feel good about college football’s future.
  Unless you consider the griping about who did and who didn’t get in – and which outside
  
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• Death behind bars: County jails embrace reforms to save lives, but will they work?

  12-12-2025 22:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Second of two parts
  Every death inside Southern California’s county jails is put under a microscope. Every cause of death is analyzed, every lapse in services or employee misstep is scrutinized.
  The question then becomes: What, if anything, can be done in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties to ensure jail time doesn’t become a death sentence?
  Today, sheriff’s administrators install high-tech scanners to curb drugs and use electronic systems to track safet
  
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• No accountability: Why California’s union-run school system can’t stop failing

  12-12-2025 22:17 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s education system really should be viewed as a bigger scandal than it is.
  In case you missed it, a damning report released last month from the University of California, San Diego laid out how underprepared many incoming freshmen are at one of California’s most prestigious UCs.“Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level increased nearly thirtyfold; moreover, 70% of those students fall below middle school levels, reach
  
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• Rams expect WR Davante Adams to play vs. Lions

  12-12-2025 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — As the Rams prepare for their chance to clinch a playoff spot with a win this weekend, they expect to be at full strength Sunday against the Detroit Lions.
  Wide receiver Davante Adams will be listed as questionable after missing practice Wednesday and Thursday with a hamstring injury he has been managing. While he was listed as a partial participant Friday, McVay said prior to practice that he would participate in team drills and is expected to play against the Lions.
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• Former Calabasas estate of actor John Stamos seeks $7.3 million

  12-12-2025 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  The living room. (Photo by Joel Danto Luxury Level)
  The kitchen. (Photo by Joel Danto Luxury Level)
  The bar. (Photo by Joel Danto Luxury Level)
  A view of the pool and grotto against the backdrop of Malibu Canyon. (Photo by Joel Danto Luxury Level)
  The Calabasas home built by John Stamos and remodeled by its current owners is on the market for $7.25 million. (Photo by Joel Danto Luxury Level)
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• UCLA men’s basketball faces Gonzaga set on raising ranking and revenue

  12-12-2025 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — A bubble in Indianapolis, a beach in Maui, a futuristic dome in Inglewood, it doesn’t matter where these West Coast powerhouses meet, the final moments tend to decide the game.
  This iteration of UCLA and Gonzaga will be a measuring stick for the 25th-ranked Bruins (7-2), who are rounding into form after a choppy start. They beat Washington and Oregon to open Big Ten play and will play consecutive contests with a fully healthy lineup for the first time this season. For t
  
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• No. 16 USC women host No. 1 UConn in Elite Eight rematch

  12-12-2025 21:53 via ocregister.com
  
  UConn women’s basketball sophomore guard Kayleigh Heckel looked astounded when head coach Geno Auriemma asked her if she was coming to the Huskies’ away game at USC.
  She assured him that she would be with her team for the trip that would take her back to her previous school, though Auriemma said she didn’t look him in the eye.
  “You lose your mind,” Auriemma told reporters, “because your emotions are like, ‘Oh my god, how are they going to treat me?&rsquo
  
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• South Africa eases affirmative action regulations on Starlink and others that Musk said were racist

  12-12-2025 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s communications minister ordered a policy change Friday that allows Elon Musk’s Starlink and other foreign-owned satellite internet providers to operate in the country without selling 30% of their local equity to Black or other non-white owners.
  The policy change published in a government gazette allows foreign companies seeking licenses to operate in South Africa’s communications sector to instead invest in “equity equiv
  
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• Stevie Wonder’s House Full of Toys benefit will play 4 nights at Fonda Theatre

  12-12-2025 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Stevie Wonder will bring his traditional House Full of Toys benefit concert to Hollywood this year with four nights at the Fonda Theatre on Dec. 18-21.
  The holiday benefit returns for a 26th year with its usual mission of helping children, people with disabilities and families in need during the holiday season. Concertgoers are asked to bring an unwrapped toy or gift to the concert.
  This run of four shows will be Wonder’s first House Full of Toys performance since 2022 when he played the P
  
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• Woman charged in unprovoked stabbing of tourist changing baby’s diaper in Macy’s Herald Square store

  12-12-2025 21:38 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A California woman changing her infant daughter’s diaper in the bathroom of the Macy’s Herald Square store in New York City was stabbed and injured by another woman in an unprovoked attack, police said.
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• Mom stabbed while changing infant at Herald Square Macy’s in unprovoked attack

  12-12-2025 21:38 via ocregister.com
  
  A 39-year-old mom from California holiday shopping at Macy’s Herald Square was repeatedly knifed in the back by a homeless stranger as she changed her infant daughter in the department store bathroom during a wild, unprovoked attack, officials said Friday.
  The victim was changing her 9-month-old daughter’s diaper in a seventh floor bathroom at Macy’s flagship store on W. 34th St. near Broadway at about 3:15 p.m. Thursday when Kerri Aherne, 43, rushed in and repeatedly
  
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• New Orleans jail escapee who evaded capture for months gets life sentence for double murder

  12-12-2025 21:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By JACK BROOK, Associated Press
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The last inmate caught after an audacious New Orleans jailbreak was sentenced Friday to two life sentences over a 2018 double murder, with the Louisiana judge rebuking him for the disruption caused by his five months on the run.
  Derrick Groves, 28, wore shackles and an orange jumpsuit in a New Orleans courtroom, two months after investigators tracked him down and captured him beneath a house in Atlanta. Groves and nine other inmates escape
  
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• Legoland California trains kid astronauts for flights aboard new Galacticoaster

  12-12-2025 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Aspiring young astronauts will design their own spaceships and train for intergalactic missions into the Lego Galaxy aboard the new outer space-themed indoor coasters coming to Legoland California and Legoland Florida in 2026.
  The new Galacticoaster will debut March 6 as part of the new Lego Galaxy themed land at the Carlsbad theme park.
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• Girls water polo preview: Talented Mater Dei focused on daily journey

  12-12-2025 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowFive seniors who signed with Division 1 collegiate programs. Two experienced juniors who are committed to USC. And a sophomore center on the rise.
  Mater Dei’s girls water polo program returns all of this, and more, from a team that won three regular-season tournaments last season and reached the semifinals of the CIF-SS Open Division playoffs.
  The Monarchs also advanced to the 18-under-final as a cl
  
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• Winter virus season so far is not too bad, but doctors worry about suffering to come

  12-12-2025 21:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — It may feel like you are surrounded by sniffles and coughs, but flu season activity is still low in many parts of the U.S.
  New government data posted Friday shows that as of last week, flu activity was high in four states — Colorado, Louisiana, New Jersey and New York — and minimal or low in most others. Severity indicators are increasing but are still within the boundaries of a “mild” season, said officials at the U.
  
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• Air quality alert for the Orange County and Santa Ana Mountains area until early Sunday

  12-12-2025 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County and Santa Ana Mountains area is the focus of an air quality alert reported at 11:54 a.m. on Friday by the National Weather Service. The alert is in effect until Sunday Dec. 14, at midnight.
  The NWS San Diego CA says to be ready for, “The South Coast AQMD has issued a mandatory wood-burning ban for residents in the South Coast Air Basin. The No-Burn rule bans burning wood, pellets, and manufactured fire logs in any indoor or outdoor wood-burning device.”
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• Army sergeant to face court-martial in Georgia base shooting that wounded 5

  12-12-2025 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press
  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A U.S. Army soldier accused of shooting five people at a Georgia base in August will stand trial in a military court on charges including attempting murder, Army prosecutors said Friday.
  Charges against Sgt. Quornelius Radford are being referred to a general court-martial, which handles cases involving the most serious crimes under military law, the Army’s Office of Special Trial Counsel said in a news release.
  Officials say Radfor
  
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• Russian police and National Guard will stay in Ukraine’s Donbas postwar, a Kremlin official says

  12-12-2025 20:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By DASHA LITVINOVA and ILLIA NOVIKOV
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior Kremlin official said Friday that Russian police and National Guard will stay on in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas and oversee the industry-rich region, even if a peace settlement ends Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine.
  The remarks by Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov underscore Moscow’s ambition to maintain its presence in Donbas post-war. Ukraine is likely to reject such a stance as U.S.-led negotiations dra
  
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• Hunger and makeshift shelters persist in north Caribbean nearly 2 months after Hurricane Melissa

  12-12-2025 20:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA and DÁNICA COTO
  PETIT GOÂVE, Haiti (AP) — Amizia Renotte sat on a broken piece of concrete and pointed to a large pile of dirt where her house once stood before the outer bands of Hurricane Melissa crumpled it as the storm lashed Haiti’s southern region.
  The Atlantic hurricane season may be over, but thousands of people like Renotte in this Carribean country and beyond are still looking for food and struggling to rebuild their lives nearly two mo
  
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• Germany summons Russian ambassador over alleged sabotage, cyberattacks and election interference

  12-12-2025 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO and STEFANIE DAZIO
  BERLIN (AP) — Germany summoned Russia’s ambassador Friday following accusations of sabotage, cyberattacks and election interference, an official said.
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• Watch: Skydiver dangles at 15,000 feet after parachute catches on plane’s tail in Australia

  12-12-2025 20:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By ROD McGUIRK
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian accident investigators on Thursday released dramatic images of a skydiver’s parachute becoming entangled on an airplane’s tail, leaving him dangling at 4,500 meters (15,000 feet.)
  The skydiver, Adrian Ferguson, used a hook knife to cut himself free and sustained minor leg injuries during the incident on Sept. 20 that began at Tully Airport in Queensland state. The pilot and 16 other parachutists on board the Cessna Caravan t
  
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• ‘Blood surrounding him’: Report details horrific Epic Universe death

  12-12-2025 20:15 via ocregister.com
  
  As the Stardust Racers roller coaster sped downward in the first descent of a mid-September ride, Kevin Rodriguez Zavala was flung forward, his head slamming into the seat in front of him repeatedly. Blood from his wounds splattered his girlfriend, who tried to hold him back while screaming for help.
  Dr. Anna Marshall, a vacationing medical doctor standing in line to board the Epic Universe ride, said that when the coaster returned and stopped, she heard someone screaming and ran to help. The ri
  
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• Justice Department sues 4 more states for access to detailed voter data

  12-12-2025 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By REBECCA BOONE, Associated Press
  The U.S. Justice Department is suing four more states as part of its effort to collect detailed voting data and other election information across the country.
  The department filed federal lawsuits against Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Nevada on Thursday for “failing to produce statewide voter registration lists upon request.” So far, 18 states have been sued, along with Fulton County in Georgia, which was sued for records related to the 2020 e
  
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• Russian lugers plan to race in Lake Placid next week. Ukrainian sliders say it shouldn’t be allowed

  12-12-2025 20:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By TIM REYNOLDS
  PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Russian athletes have told the International Luge Federation that they obtained visas and are coming to the U.S. for a World Cup race next weekend, a move that Ukrainian athletes believe is simply unfair.
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• UCLA promotes Gof Boyoko to women’s soccer head coach

  12-12-2025 20:07 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA promoted from within to replace Margueritte Bates (Aozasa), who left Westwood to become Texas’ women’s soccer head coach two weeks ago.
  Gof Boyoko, who served under Bates for her four seasons as head coach, including the Bruins’ 2022 national championship, is the seventh head coach in program history, UCLA announced Friday morning.
  “Through his four years on staff here, Gof has made a big impact on the program and on the student-athletes,” said athletic directo
  
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• Iran arrests Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, supporters say

  12-12-2025 20:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By JON GAMBRELL
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, her supporters said Friday.
  A foundation in her name said she was detained in Mashhad, some 680 kilometers (420 miles) northeast of the capital, Tehran, while attending a memorial for a human rights lawyer recently found dead under unclear circumstances.
  A local official reportedly acknowledged arrests had been made, but did not directly name Mohammadi, 53. It wasn’t clea
  
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• Belarus leader hosts US envoy as he seeks to improve his country’s ties with the West

  12-12-2025 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By YURAS KARMANAU, Associated Press
  Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday hosted a U.S. envoy for talks in the Belarus capital of Minsk, the latest step in the isolated leader’s effort to improve ties with the West.
  Lukashenko met with President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Belarus, John Coale, according to state news agency Belta and the presidential press service. The press service said the talks would continue Saturday.
  The last time U.S. officials met with Lu
  
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• Cut off by their banks and even iced out by Alexa, sanctioned ICC staffers remain resolute

  12-12-2025 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By MOLLY QUELL
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are trying to live and work under the same U.S. financial and travel restrictions brought against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Osama bin Laden.
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