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• OCVarsity’s Student Section Report for Week 2

  29-08-2018 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: Manny Alvarez will be writing for OCVarsity about the loud, proud, outrageous, innovative and dedicated high school student sections during the football season. If you have suggestions for topics, please let us know: [email protected] or tweet @MAlvarez02.
  The Student Section Report will be online each Wednesday during the football season.
  Social media is your friend . . . and sometimes your enemy . . . but mainly your friend.
  It is an honor to be the man who picks t
  
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• Ex-congregant links Inland Empire religious group’s ‘Prophetess’ leader to deaths in murder case 

  10-02-2026 06:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Shelley “Kat” Martin, leader of the Inland Empire-based His Way Spirit Led Assemblies, concocted a cover story after a 4-year-old boy whose ruptured appendix was treated with nothing more than prayer died in 2010, a former congregant testified on Monday, Feb. 9.
  That ex-congregant, Kelli Byrd, also testified in Superior Court in San Bernardino about 40-year-old Emilio Ghanem, who departed the church and formed his own pest control company in competition with one operated by the churc
  
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• Final Orange County boys basketball stats leaders

  10-02-2026 06:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThese are the final Orange County boys basketball stat leaders that OCVarsity.com will publish for the 2025-26 season. The leaderboards are based on stats published on MaxPreps.com.
  SCORINGName, school
  GP
  Pts
  PPG
  Richie Ramirez, Mater Dei
  31
  698
  22.5
  Matthew Ahern, Capo Valley Christian
  25
  561
  22.4
  Josh King, Orange Lutheran
  21
  471
  22.4
  Zain Majeed, Mater Dei
  17
  368
  21.6
  Maxwell Scott, Corona Del Mar
  27
  
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• Lakers’ Kobe Bufkin is ‘excited to get to work’ as team’s new addition

  10-02-2026 04:29 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Just ask Kobe Bufkin. Sharing the same first name as Kobe Bryant while playing in the arena that the “Black Mamba” called home is worth sharing, even when not asked about it.
  Bufkin, the Lakers’ new signee, took fewer than 30 seconds to bring up the fact in the minutes before the Lakers took on the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night.
  “My name being Kobe is very cool,” Bufkin told the Southern California News Group on Monday. “I’m j
  
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• Victorville man awarded $27.3 million from deputy shooting that left him partially paralyzed

  10-02-2026 03:33 via ocregister.com
  
  A federal jury has awarded $27.3 million to a Victorville man left partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair from a shooting by a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy.
  The award to Steffon Barber, 39 — believed to be the highest in a nonfatal police shooting case out of U.S. District Court in Riverside — included $7.25 million for past pain and suffering, $18.25 million for future pain and suffering, and $1.85 million for future economic damages, his attorneys announce
  
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• Speedskating diva Jutta Leerdam delivers drama, celebrates gold medal

  10-02-2026 03:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands celebrates winning the gold medal in the women’s 1,000 meters speedskating race at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
  Netherlands’ Jutta Leerdam, who won the gold medal in the women’s speedskating 1,000-meters final, celebrates as she arrives on stage at the Dutch House at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
  Netherlands’ Jutta Leerda
  
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• Seahawks face challenges to repeat as Super Bowl champions

  10-02-2026 03:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREW DESTIN AP Sports Writer
  SAN FRANCISCO — Less than 24 hours removed from hoisting the Lombardi Trophy for the first time, Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald was aware of his team’s new standing across the league.
  After beating the New England Patriots, 29-13, on Sunday to win the team’s second Super Bowl, the Seahawks will now have to avoid becoming complacent if they are to join other NFL franchises that have won back-to-back championships.
  “We use the t
  
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• Final Orange County boys soccer Top 10: Mater Dei stays at No. 1

  10-02-2026 03:01 via ocregister.com
  
  FINAL ORANGE COUNTY BOYS SOCCER TOP 10
  (Records through Monday, Feb. 9)
  1. Mater Dei 12-1-3: The Monarchs finished first in the Trinity League with a 6-1-3 record. Their only league loss was to Servite, 2-1. Mater Dei last week beat JSerra, 4-1. Mater Dei is seeded second in the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs that begin Wednesday. Previous ranking: 1
  2. Orange Lutheran 10-3-3: The Lancers are the No. 8 seed team in the CIF-SS Open Division bracket that has eight teams. They tied JSe
  
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• Final Orange County boys soccer top 10: Mater Dei reigns at No. 1

  10-02-2026 03:01 via ocregister.com
  
  ORANGE COUNTY BOYS SOCCER TOP 10
  (Records through Jan. 19)
  1. Mater Dei 12-1-3: The Monarchs finished first in the Trinity League with a 6-1-3 record. Their only league loss was to Servite, 2-1. Mater Dei last week beat JSerra, 4-1. Mater Dei is seeded second in the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs that begin Wednesday Previous ranking: 1
  2. Orange Lutheran 10-3-3: The Lancers are the No. 8-seeded team in the CIF-SS Open Division group of eight teams. They tied with JSerra for second
  
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• Dodgers invite 32 non-roster players to spring training, including top prospects

  10-02-2026 02:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The Dodgers have invited 32 non-roster players to major-league spring training this year, including 11 players with major-league experience and some of their top prospects.
  Pitchers and catchers report on Thursday, with the first workout scheduled for Friday. The full squad reports next Monday (Feb. 16) with the first full-squad workout on Feb. 17.
  The 11 players with major-league experience include pitchers Cole Irvin, Ryder Ryan (older brother of pitching prospect River Ryan), Garrett McDaniel
  
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• First gray wolf enters Los Angeles County in 100 years

  10-02-2026 02:40 via ocregister.com
  
  For the first time in a century, biologists have documented a gray wolf in Los Angeles County over the weekend, a sign that these predators that were eliminated from the state by hunters are making a comeback.
  “I am rooting for her,” said Beth Pratt, the California regional director of the National Wildlife Federation. “It is a hard go for a wolf in urbanized areas, because of the roads and development. But she has some gumption.”
  The 3-year-old female black wolf —
  
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• China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in a Hong Kong security case

  10-02-2026 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By KANIS LEUNG
  HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent.
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• When conflict meets competition: Trump’s immigration agenda roils opening days of Winter Olympics

  10-02-2026 01:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEVEN SLOAN and EDDIE PELLS
  LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — As the Winter Olympics opened in Milan, Vice President JD Vance hailed the competition as “one of the few things that unites the entire country.”
  That unity didn’t last long.
  The early days of the Milan Cortina Games have been roiled by the tumultuous political debate in the U.S. American athletes have faced persistent questions about President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement agenda and their co
  
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• Hong Kong fire victims long for home as Lunar New Year stirs painful memories

  10-02-2026 01:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By KANIS LEUNG
  HONG KONG (AP) — The deadliest fire in Hong Kong in decades last year left thousands of residents without some of their friends, family or the place they called home. More than two months later, the occupants of the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex are not only waiting for answers about what happened, but longing for a new place.
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• Immigration officers can still wear masks in California for now, federal judge decides

  10-02-2026 01:10 via ocregister.com
  
  A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction Monday, Feb. 9, allowing federal immigration officials to continue wearing masks during California operations, while a lawsuit plays out between the Trump administration and the state.
  U.S. District Judge Christine A. Snyder in Los Angeles granted the Trump administration’s request for a temporary order halting enforcement of SB 627, the No Secret Police Act, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in September amid ongoing waves of federal
  
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• Democrats and White House trade offers as shutdown of Homeland Security looms

  10-02-2026 00:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARY CLARE JALONICK, KEVIN FREKING and SEUNG MIN KIM
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have begun tentative talks with the White House on their demands for “dramatic” new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, trading offers just days before funding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to expire.
  Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that Democrats had sent the White House their list of demands for Immigration and Customs Enfor
  
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• Disneyland throws Super Bowl victory parade for Seahawks stars

  10-02-2026 00:42 via ocregister.com
  
  The notoriously loud and loyal Seattle Seahawks 12s fan base showed up in force at Disneyland for a victory parade down Main Street U.S.A. with quarterback Sam Darnold and running back Kenneth Walker III celebrating the team’s Super Bowl championship.
  Darnold and Walker made good on their televised post-game promises of “We’re going to Disneyland” on Monday, Feb. 9 after the Seahawks defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX the night before in Santa Clara.
  Sign
  
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• Clayton Kershaw will start broadcast career as an analyst for NBC

  10-02-2026 00:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Clayton Kershaw is going to have an active retirement.
  The future Hall of Famer announced the end of his playing career following the 2025 season last fall but will return to competition this spring as a member of Team USA in the World Baseball Classic. Following that, the former Dodgers pitcher will begin a new career in television.
  NBC Sports announced that it had hired Kershaw and fellow former major-leaguers Anthony Rizzo and Joey Votto to be part of the broadcast crew as NBC returns to base
  
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• La Quinta football coach James Stewart resigns, replaced by Lucas Alexander

  10-02-2026 00:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowLa Quinta football coach James Stewart has resigned and been replaced by offensive coordinator Lucas Alexander, Stewart and Garden Grove Unified School District athletic director Dave Mamelli said Monday.
  Stewart said he resigned to spend more time watching his sons’ athletic events. He remains a teacher at La Quinta.
  Stewart guided La Quinta the past eight seasons in his second tenure as coach. He
  
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• Why David Guterson was waiting his whole life to write ‘Evelyn in Transit’

  10-02-2026 00:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Evelyn Bednarz is an outsider from the start, the sort of person who’s too outspoken, too ungainly and too determined to go her own way. And so she does, traveling the country, taking on odd (sometimes very odd) jobs like carrying one thousand stones up a mountain to help build a Buddhist shrine. 
  That particular job is not accidental in David Guterson’s latest novel, “Evelyn in Transit.” The book occasionally leaves Evelyn’s rambles to follow a young Tibetan b
  
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• Clippers’ Lawrence Frank says ‘difficult decisions’ were necessary

  10-02-2026 00:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Ivica Zubac was loved. James Harden was appreciated, and Chris Paul was an all-time great. But when it came to the Clippers’ long-range plans and short-term goals, each was expendable.
  Lawrence Frank, the Clippers’ president of basketball operations, explained the decisions behind trading each player last week, difficult moves that he believes will ultimately help make the team better.
  The 36-year-old Harden, who wanted to join a contender, was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers for D
  
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• Gabbard’s office warns attorney against sharing classified complaint with Congress

  09-02-2026 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID KLEPPER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The general counsel for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Monday warned the attorney for an anonymous government employee not to directly share a top-secret complaint about Gabbard’s handling of classified material with members of Congress.
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• Lindsey Vonn says she sustained complex tibia fracture during Olympic crash

  09-02-2026 23:48 via ocregister.com
  
  CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn sustained a “complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly” after her devastating crash in the Olympic downhill, the skier said in a social media post late Monday.
  Vonn posted on Instagram about her left leg injuries following her fall in Sunday’s race.
  “While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have
  
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• Kaiser, nurses union spar over workers as strike enters 3rd week

  09-02-2026 23:40 via ocregister.com
  
  As the strike at Kaiser Permanente expands to include thousands more workers in its third week, union representatives for 34,000 employees and the healthcare giant remain far apart on the issues, leaving patients in a lurch.Michael Nestor, a retired emergency room doctor with Kaiser, is upset with the company’s entire medical system. The 74-year-old Huntington Beach resident suffers from two medical conditions he characterizes as life-threatening. Neither is being treated urgently as the s
  
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• The US has a new center in Texas to disperse sterile screwworm flies to block a parasite it spawns

  09-02-2026 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOHN HANNA and ERIC GAY
  EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — The first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades opened Monday in Texas, part of a larger effort to keep the flesh-eating parasite they spawn from crossing the Mexican border and wreaking havoc on the American cattle industry.
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• Trump administration’s changes to the CFPB cost Americans $19B, a new report says

  09-02-2026 23:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEN SWEET
  NEW YORK (AP) — One year after the Trump administration took control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog has largely retreated from enforcement and regulatory work, changes that consumer advocates and Democrats now estimate have cost Americans at least $19 billion in financial relief.
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• At an LA watch party, fans reflect on what Bad Bunny’s halftime show means to them

  09-02-2026 23:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Growing up in Southern California, Victor Ramos didn’t encounter many fellow Puerto Ricans and Dominicans.
  “Being born and raised in LA, I always sought representation as a child and young adult for my Afro-Caribbean culture,” Ramos said. “To see Bad Bunny on this grand stage has been very special to me.”
  Ramos, aka Chef Vic, and his sister Gabriela Ramos operate Casa de Lola, an LA-based catering and pop-up company that blends traditional Dominican and Puerto Rican
  
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• Reigniting tax war with foreign partners isn’t a good idea for California

  09-02-2026 23:21 via ocregister.com
  
  California businesses struggle to survive under the weight of chaotic federal trade policies, high taxes and increasing costs, and some state lawmakers are threatening a tax hike that would make things worse – an idea so ill-conceived that it would renew a trade war with California’s international partners at the worst possible time.
  The multibillion-dollar tax hike would be imposed by repealing the “water’s-edge election,” a policy that keeps California from taxing
  
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• Valentine’s Day Super Bowl is coming to SoFi Stadium in 2027

  09-02-2026 23:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Now that the dust has settled from the Seattle Seahawks’ victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XL, the countdown has begun for the big game’s return to the Los Angeles area after a five-year absence.
  The Los Angeles Super Bowl Host Committee, led by the Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission, officially received the handoff of Super Bowl LXI that will be played at SoFi Stadium on Feb. 14, 2027.
  “We are thrilled to return to the world-class SoFi Stadium
  
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• How Matthew Pearl decided to have some fun with his dark novel ‘The Award’

  09-02-2026 23:18 via ocregister.com
  
  David Trent craves success as a writer … perhaps even more than he wants to write.
  Trent’s ambitions are clear early on in Matthew Pearl’s “The Award” when he creates a forged recommendation from a well-known writer to help launch his career. But Trent is still struggling when he and his girlfriend Bonnie move into a weird third-floor apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  The place is riddled with problems, but it turns out his downstairs neighbor is the esteemed
  
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