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• MLS Cup final: Lionel Messi chases another trophy as Inter Miami meets Vancouver

  06-12-2025 02:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — For Lionel Messi, the MLS Cup final on Saturday will represent some endings. And, quite possibly, a new beginning.
  Messi and Inter Miami will take on Thomas Müller – one of his longtime rivals – and the Vancouver Whitecaps for the MLS championship. It’s the first final for both clubs, which means the league is about to have a first-time champion.
  “We know it’s going to be a very, very tough game. &h
  
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• World Cup final will be an afternoon match at MetLife Stadium, allowing prime-time viewing in Europe

  06-12-2025 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Cup final will kick off at 3 p.m. EDT next July 19 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
  FIFA announced the start times for the tournament’s 104 matches on Saturday, a day after the draw for the expanded 48-nation tournament. The kickoff time allows for prime-time viewing in Europe, where it will be 9 p.m., and Britain, where it will be 8 p.m.
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• Rams focused on rebounding in Arizona, not the playoffs

  06-12-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Perhaps it’s fitting that this week the Rams return to Arizona. State Farm Stadium was the site of their highest high last season, a smackdown of the Vikings to open the playoffs, but also their lowest low in a 31-point loss to the Arizona Cardinals.
  So much went into that Week 2 debacle, from an endless line of injuries to superhuman performances by the home team. But as memorable as it was for the outlier nature of it, it was also significant in how the Rams – d
  
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• Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (Nov. 27-Dec. 4)

  06-12-2025 18:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from Nov. 27 to Dec. 4.
  Pepz Pizza, 6304 E. Santa Ana Canyon Road, AnaheimClosed: Dec. 4
  Reason: None provided
  Reopened: Reopened Dec. 5Food sales at Days Inn & Suites, 333 Imperial Highway, FullertonClosed: Dec. 4
  Reason: None provided
  Reopened: Dec. 4Pool snack bar at Riviera Beach & Shores, 34630 Coast Highway, Dana PointClosed: Dec. 4
  Reason: Rodent infestationJon’s Fish
  
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• Tyler Adams sets bold goal of farthest US World Cup advancement

  06-12-2025 18:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By RONALD BLUM, AP Sports Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tyler Adams has set a bold goal for the U.S. soccer team, aiming to reach the World Cup semifinals for the first time since the inaugural tournament in 1930.
  “Everyone’s going to want us to say winning it is obviously the goal,” the American midfielder said Friday after the World Cup draw, “but I think setting the benchmark of the furthest the U.S. team has gone is also realistic.”
  The 14th-ranked U.S. will st
  
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• UCLA announces Bob Chesney as new football coach

  06-12-2025 18:23 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — It’s official. UCLA football announced Saturday morning that it has hired Bob Chesney, James Madison coach, as its 20th head football coach in program history.
  Chesney, 48, becomes the first sitting head coach that UCLA has hired since poaching Pepper Rodgers from Kansas in 1971. Friday night, Chesney led No. 25 James Madison to a Sun Belt Championship victory, defeating Troy 31-14 for its first conference title since joining the Sun Belt.
  James Madison now has a 12-1 r
  
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• UCLA’s Lauren Betts adjusting as the center of attention

  06-12-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Lauren Betts has not just changed how she’s played – the elements of being Lauren Betts have forced her to.
  Often triple-teamed and surrounded in the paint, the 6-foot-7 center’s shots might not be dropping at as high a rate to begin her senior season – averaging 13.3 points on 57.9% shooting compared to 20.2 points while converting 64.8% from the field a year ago – but the reigning Naismith Defensive Player of the Year’s intangibles are gr
  
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• When it comes to autumn foliage, these trees go well together

  06-12-2025 16:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Strolling in my neighborhood the other day, I saw two trees with autumn foliage that I thought would have made the most compelling combination had they been planted side by side.
  One was a ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba) whose leaves had turned an iridescent gold; the other was a crape myrtle that presented itself in boisterous burgundy. These are deciduous trees that will soon be bereft of foliage, but even then, there will be something to see.
  Ginkgo has a symmetrical upright growth habit and shor
  
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• Former Assemblymember Hector De La Torre to run for House seat representing LA and Orange counties

  06-12-2025 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  At least two political veterans have now announced their candidacies for California’s new 41st Congressional District, setting up a Democrat-on-Democrat contest to represent parts of Los Angeles and Orange counties.
  Former Assemblymember Hector de la Torre, who was elected to the South Gate City Council and was that city’s mayor before serving in the state legislature from 2004 to 2010, launched a bid for the 41st Congressional District this week.
  Also running is Rep. Linda Sá
  
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• Cancer stole her voice. She used AI, curse words and kids’ books to get it back

  06-12-2025 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By April Dembosky, KQED, KFF Health News
  When doctors told her they had to remove her tongue and voice box to save her life from the cancer that had invaded her mouth, Sonya Sotinsky sat down with a microphone to record herself saying the things she would never again be able to say.
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• Prospective employees, companies negotiate fast-changing new world of AI

  06-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Reports of recent job cuts, especially by tech companies, have spurred speculation about the impact of AI on the workplace: Will the advanced computing technology increasingly replace people on the job?
  That was on Kaitlyn McCormick’s mind as she pursued a bachelor’s degree in the information technology field. She is now working toward a master’s in artificial intelligence and machine learning through CSU Global, an online, fully accredited university that’s part of
  
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• Larry Wilson: The Pentagon puts the ‘fake’ into fake news

  06-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Working journalists aren’t saying that what we do toiling in the news vineyards has the lyrical insight of Emily Dickinson, the passion of Malcolm X, the prose style of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
  We just write the first rough drafts of history day in and day out, and many do it well, or well enough. We have been trained, either at university or in the harder school of the newsroom, to do the work: research the issues, ask the right questions of the knowledgeable or the powerful, cultivate sou
  
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• Direct-to-patient funding is the future of American healthcare

  06-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  American lawmakers showed their constituents the ugliest side of health care policy during this record-setting government shutdown. But if there’s one thing to learn, it’s this: our health care system isn’t about treating patients.
  Instead, the most advanced health care system on the planet has been engineered by politicians to transfer dollars from taxpayers to corporations and bloated government programs. President Trump called it out himself: Democrats were arguing to send m
  
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• City of Hope, Hoag and UCI Health chose to build in Irvine, what makes the area attractive for health-care investment?

  06-12-2025 15:21 via ocregister.com
  
  When Mayor Larry Agran moved to Irvine in 1975, it was to support his wife in her breakthrough admission to the UC Irvine School of Medicine as part of one of the first classes to include women.
  Agran has since served on the Irvine City Council on and off for the better part of five decades — and from the dais, witnessed the city’s health-care evolution.
  He was on the council when the city’s first hospital, Irvine Medical Center — later Irvine Regional Hospital — op
  
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• Former Cypress Mayor Paulo Morales is the latest to jump into Assembly race

  06-12-2025 15:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Former Cypress Mayor Paulo Morales is the latest to jump into the race for an open Assembly seat that includes communities in Orange and Los Angeles counties.
  Morales — only a recent Republican — has launched a 2026 bid for California’s 67th Assembly District. It is represented now by Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva, a Fullerton Democrat who is prevented from running again because of term limits.
  Before his time in city government, Morales spent more than two decades working
  
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• Deporting democracy, importing authoritarian logic

  06-12-2025 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  As tensions between Washington and Caracas intensify, over 250,000 Venezuelans living legally in the United States are set to lose their Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a temporary immigration status that allows individuals from certain countries to live and work in the United States if their home country is considered unsafe. 
  Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has framed keeping these Venezuelans in the country as “contrary to national interest.” In reality, revoking
  
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• Before the ball drops: Key real estate strategies for 2026

  06-12-2025 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  So here we are, the last month of 2025.
  Soon, families across Southern California will be lighting candles, trimming trees, gathering for Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa, and counting down the seconds to a brand-new year. It’s a festive season, one that always seems to arrive earlier and earlier, but I digress.
  December also brings something else: perspective. A reminder that 2026 will be here before you know it, and with it a new set of opportunities and challenges for commercial real est
  
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• Dense fog advisory active for 5 Freeway through Grapevine until Saturday midday – limited visibility

  06-12-2025 12:42 via ocregister.com
  
  At 3:39 a.m. on Saturday, the National Weather Service released a dense fog advisory in effect until noon for 5 Freeway through Grapevine.
  The NWS Hanford CA adds to be ready for, “Visibility down to quarter mile or less in dense fog.”
  “Low visibility could make driving conditions hazardous,” the NWS said. “If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.”Guidance from the NWS for navigating foggy conditionsIf a dense fog
  
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• Los Alamitos football loses to Cathedral Catholic in CIF SoCal Regional

  06-12-2025 08:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowLos Alamitos’ Gavin Vera (26) and Caeson Miller (19) grab into Cathedral Catholic Honor Fa’alave-Johnson (9) in the first half of during the CIF Southern California Division 1-AA Regional final, December 5, 2025, at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach.
  (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
  Los Alamitos Quarterback Colin Creason (3) holds onto the ball as Cathedral Catholic’s Jo
  
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• Woodbridge football shuts out San Fernando, advances to state championship game

  06-12-2025 08:16 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE – From an 0-7 start to a CIF State championship football game.
  It’s a story too fantastic to be true. But it is true.
  Woodbridge will play in a CIF State championship game next week after it beat San Fernando 13-0 on Friday night in the CIF Southern California Regional Division 7-AA final at University High.
  The Woodbridge football team pose for a photo with their CIF Southern California Division 7-AA Regional championship plaque in Irvine on Friday, December 5, 2025. (Photo b
  
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• La Habra football falls to Bakersfield Christian in CIF Division 2-AA regional

  06-12-2025 07:55 via ocregister.com
  
  La Habra’s football team rallied late but fell to undefeated Bakersfield Christian, 24-21, in the CIF Southern California Division 2-AA Regional championship Friday at Bakersfield Christian High.
  Junior quarterback DJ Mitchell ran for a touchdown for La Habra to cut Bakersfield Christian’s lead to 24-21 with 1:08 remaining in the game.
  La Habra (11-4) had all three of its timeouts and attempted an onside kick. A La Habra player recovered the ball but the ball did not travel 10 yards
  
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• Villa Park girls basketball charges past Orange Lutheran in Top 10 matchup

  06-12-2025 07:41 via ocregister.com
  
  VILLA PARK — There were several reasons to get excited about the girls basketball game between Villa Park and Orange Lutheran on Friday at Villa Park High School.
  The Spartans and Lancers came into the game – a pool play contest of the Villa Park-Brea Olinda Winter Shootout – ranked No. 5 and No. 7, respectively, in Orange County.
  Both teams came into the game undefeated and the schools are only two miles apart.
  The game itself, however, wound up being anticlimactic.
  Villa Park
  
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• Ducks bounce back, edge red-hot Capitals in shootout

  06-12-2025 07:20 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — The Ducks went toe-to-toe with a bona fide heavyweight, sending the Washington Capitals to the canvas, 4-3, in a shootout on Friday night at Honda Center.
  The Ducks rebounded brilliantly from their 7-0 shelling by the Utah Mammoth on Wednesday and handed the Capitals just their second loss in 11 games.
  In a tight affair in which the Ducks out-shot Washington 38-21, the Ducks were a perfect 3 for 3 on the penalty kill, but went 0 for 5 on the power play, dropping them to 3 for 37
  
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• High school football: Scores from Friday’s regional games, Saturday’s schedule

  06-12-2025 07:18 via ocregister.com
  
  The scores from the CIF Southern California Regional football finals Friday and the schedule for Saturday’s games.
  CIF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL FINALS
  FRIDAY’S RESULTS
  DIVISION 1–AA
  Cathedral Catholic 42, Los Alamitos 21
  DIVISION 2–AA
  Bakersfield Christian 24, La Habra 21
  DIVISION 3–AA
  Ventura 35, Arroyo Grande 28
  DIVISION 4–AA
  Barstow 13, Reedley Immanuel 12
  DIVISION 5–AA
  El Cajon Christian 27, Cerritos Valley Christian 13
  DIVISION 6–AA
  Valley
  
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• La Habra boys basketball knocks off San Juan Hills in Gary Raya Classic

  06-12-2025 07:01 via ocregister.com
  
  PLACENTIA — The La Habra boys basketball team continued its hot start to the season with a 69-55 win over San Juan Hills on Friday night in the Gary Raya Classic at El Dorado High.
  The Highlanders (8-1), ranked No. 8 in Orange County, will face the tournament host, El Dorado, in the championship game Saturday at 3 p.m.
  La Habra was led by Acen Jimenez, who scored a team-high 27 points, including four 3-pointers, and Josh Desatoff who added 13 points, with three 3-pointers.
  “I’m
  
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• Clippers go cold in 4th quarter of loss to Grizzlies

  06-12-2025 05:02 via ocregister.com
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The struggling Clippers put together a strong first half, but they were outkicked to the finish line in a 107-98 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night.
  Kawhi Leonard led the Clippers with 24 points and eight rebounds to lead the Clippers, who saw the Grizzlies close the game on a 9-0 run over the final 3:40 to hand them their ninth loss in the past 11 games.
  James Harden had 18 points and seven assists, John Collins scored 16 points and Kobe Brown had a season
  
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• With Luka Doncic and LeBron James out, Lakers get crushed by Celtics

  06-12-2025 03:50 via ocregister.com
  
  BOSTON — Once the Lakers’ injury report for Friday night was released, revealing that they would be without Luka Doncic, LeBron James and Marcus Smart against the Boston Celtics on the second night of a back-to-back set, the onus was once again implicity on Austin Reaves to raise his play to an even higher level.
  And after a slow start, Reaves eventually did, leading the Lakers with 36 points and eight assists. But it wasn’t nearly enough to make up for the overall struggles of
  
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• Luka Doncic could rejoin Lakers for Sunday’s game against 76ers

  06-12-2025 03:10 via ocregister.com
  
  BOSTON — Lakers star Luka Doncic was once again away from the team on Friday night because of personal reasons, but Coach JJ Redick didn’t rule out the possibility of Doncic rejoining the team for the end of the trip.
  Redick said ahead of Friday’s matchup against the Boston Celtics that Doncic would be back “soon” and that it was a possibility the 26-year-old star could be available for Sunday’s trip-ending matchup against the Philadelphia 76ers.
  After Sunday&
  
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• In Altadena, the first of 15 developer-built homes lists for $1.9M

  06-12-2025 03:06 via ocregister.com
  
   
  The first of New Pointe Communities’ 15-home project on a cul-de-sac in Altadena as part of the city’s first post-fire recovery is up for sale.Real estate professionals had an opportunity to tour the home on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025.(Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  The first of New Pointe Communities’ 15-home project on a cul-de-sac in Altadena as part of the city’s first post-fire recovery is up for sale.New Pointe Communitiespresident, Scot San
  
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• Los Alamitos consensus picks for Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025

  06-12-2025 02:36 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Los Alamitos horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Eddie Wilson, Kevin Modesti and Mark Ratzky. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Saturday, December 6, 2024.
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