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• Old Pros ring in the season with annual Yuletide show in Laguna Woods Village

  19-12-2018 02:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Laguna Woods Village residents and their guests were treated to a cornucopia of holiday entertainment on Sunday, Dec. 16, as the Old Pros theatre troupe presented its annual multicultural, multifaith celebration, ‘Tis the Season, at the Performing Arts Center.
  Backed by The Woods Combo, the sparkling performances by a cast of 30 included songs, readings, poetry, dramatizations and a festival of lights highlighting holiday traditions from Japan, Scotland, India and Scandinavia as well
  
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• Why Congress must rein in the modern presidency

  09-12-2025 03:52 via ocregister.com
  
  If there is one theme that has shaped recent American politics, it is the steady concentration of power in the presidency. Congress — under both parties — has repeatedly delegated authority that was never meant to rest in a single office. The consequences are now impossible to ignore. The actions of President Donald Trump reveal how fragile our liberties become when one person holds too much power.
  Consider immigration. Peaceful immigrants — individuals working, studying and co
  
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• Irvine’s Summer Wilson, Trabuco Hills girls team shine at Nike Nationals

  09-12-2025 03:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine High’s Summer Wilson continued her outstanding senior year with a 23rd-place finish in the Nike Cross Nationals on Saturday at Portland, Ore.
  Wilson’s time over the course of 5,000 meters was 17 minutes, 49.7 seconds. Natasza Dudek of Ann Arbor Pioneer won at 16:50.1.
  The Trabuco Hills girls team finished 11th in the team standings. JSerra’s girls finished at No. 21.
  San Clemente’s boys were 15th in the team standings, led by Yohan Anderson’s 71st-place finis
  
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• Half-ton bear settles in beneath an Altadena home, thwarting creative efforts to move him out

  09-12-2025 03:45 via ocregister.com
  
  A massive bear has entrenched himself for several days beneath an Altadena home, showing no intention of moving out amid persistent efforts to displace him and a throng of curious local residents looking to catch a glimpse of the half-ton beast.
  Despite myriad efforts by homeowner Ken Johnson and California Fish and Wildlife personnel, the 550-pound male bear remains under Johnson’s home, so far largely unfettered by radios blasting, ammonia and caramel and cherry scented-lures placed outs
  
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• Orange County football season stat leaders through Dec. 6

  09-12-2025 03:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowHere are the Orange County high school football stat leaders after the championship games in the CIF State Southern California Regional.
  The leaderboards are based on season stats published on MaxPreps.com.
  To be included, teams must have stats updated on MaxPreps each Monday by 2 p.m.
  Mission Viejo quarterback Luke Fahey throws the ball during an Alpha League game against San Clemente on Friday, Oct. 17
  
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• Tyler Skaggs’ widow questioned during testimony about Angel’s pitcher’s potential drug use at own wedding, texts calling him a liar

  09-12-2025 02:59 via ocregister.com
  
  An attorney for the Los Angeles Angels pressed Tyler Skaggs’ wife and his mother about the pitchers’ illicit drug use and spending habits during testimony in an ongoing wrongful death trial on Monday, Dec 8, as the high-profile case entered what is expected to be the final week of testimony.
  Carli Skaggs, Tyler’s widow, was asked repeatedly about her husband’s alleged drug use during his 2018 bachelor party and around the couple’s wedding, as the eighth week of the
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Monday, Dec. 8

  09-12-2025 02:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Monday, Dec. 8.
  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.
  MONDAY’S SCORES
  BOYS SOCCER
  NONLEAGUE
  Orange 2, Tustin 1
  Loara 6, Kennedy 4
  GIRLS SOCCER
  NONLEAGUE
  Kennedy 4, Whittier 0
  Rancho Alamitos 5, Bassett 0
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• Dodgers trading Teoscar Hernandez ‘doesn’t feel likely’

  09-12-2025 02:23 via ocregister.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. — The Dodgers did their best to douse water on the Teoscar Hernández trade rumors on the first full day of the Winter Meetings.
  “It doesn’t feel likely, but obviously you can never say never on those types of things,” Dodgers general manager Brandon Gomes said on Monday. “Like Teo, I know that’s come up. That’s not something we anticipate at all.”
  Earlier, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said that Hernandez is “one of my fav
  
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• Mendoza, Pavia, Love, Sayin named Heisman Trophy finalists

  09-12-2025 02:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Two days after leading Indiana to its first Big Ten championship in 58 years, Fernando Mendoza was announced as one of four finalists for the Heisman Trophy on Monday.
  Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia, Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love and Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin joined the Hoosiers quarterback as the finalists.
  The winner will be revealed Saturday night in New York.
  Mendoza defeated Sayin and the Buckeyes in the Big Ten championship game on Saturday to earn the No. 1 seed in
  
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• 5.5 miles of roses and waves: Here’s the 2026 Rose Parade route, and some rosey parade rules to go with it

  09-12-2025 01:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Call it the route for the roses, where year after year, mile after mile, Colorado Boulevard transforms from a commercial thoroughfare into some surreal floral spectacle.
  Jan. 1, 2026, will be yet another of those years, another one of those transformations as thousands gather to see the beloved Rose Parade first-hand.
  It’s still 5.5 miles beginning to end. Still, there’s a certain freshness to it every year, with new crowds, new grand marshals, Rose royal courts, and new floats conve
  
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• From the Boston Tea Party to ‘I Love Lucy,’ the Nixon Library reflects on America’s first 250 years

  09-12-2025 01:28 via ocregister.com
  
  To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States, take a walk down memory lane at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum.
  Travel back to 1773 and dump a chest of tea off the stern of a boat into a makeshift Boston Harbor.
  Take a close look at an 1820 engraving of the Declaration of Independence, commissioned by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams when the original document was becoming faded and difficult to read.
  Read, in his own handwriting, a letter President Abraham Lincoln se
  
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• Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy

  09-12-2025 01:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW DALY and JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
  Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order blocking win
  
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• How do bands make the Rose Parade? After tears turn to joy, come pizza sales, sponsorships and march-a-thons

  09-12-2025 01:08 via ocregister.com
  
  When you think Rose Parade, your mind goes to all those incredible floats covered in gorgeous flowers and the technical wizardry behind mechanical characters that move, spin, or belch smoke.
  But not so, if you’re a band geek. You think of horns, drums, flag teams and the like, marching for 5.5 miles to throngs of spectators.
  Any marching band lover or participant — but not many viewers — knows that each school or community marching band comes front-loaded with complex logistics
  
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• LA City Council raises questions about federal Olympic security funding

  09-12-2025 00:50 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Council members raised concerns about how $1 billion in federal funding for security for the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics will be allocated.Council members expressed reservations about ongoing contract talks between the city and LA28, the local organizing committee, over determining how LA28 will compensate the city for Games-related services.
  The Enhanced City Resources Master Agreement was supposed to be completed by October 1, but city officials remain in
  
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• ‘Great dad’ who died saving 7-year-old son from drowning on Lake Perris was strong swimmer, wife says

  09-12-2025 00:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Hadi Ahmadi was so fond of his son that he named his mechanical engineering business, Artin Hadi LLC, after the boy.
  “He loved him so much,” Ahmadi’s wife, Mojgan Manafi, 48, said Monday, Dec. 8.
  The 55-year-old father was credited with saving his 7-year-old boy’s life after their kayak capsized and the two spilled into the water on Saturday at the Lake Perris State Recreation Area. But Ahmadi lapsed into unconsciousness, and even though Artin kept his father afloat, Ahma
  
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• Trump says survivors of scrutinized US strike were trying to right boat before 2nd missile was fired

  09-12-2025 00:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday justified the U.S. military’s decision to fire a second missile in a heavily scrutinized attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea by claiming that two suspected drug smugglers were trying to right the vessel after it had capsized in the initial strike.
  Trump also backtracked on whether he was open to releasing the video footage of the second strike. Last week, Trump told reporters he saw “no prob
  
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• Swanson: Coolest gift? When athletes make time for who’s got next

  09-12-2025 00:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Two-time Olympic fencing medalist, Nick Itkin, right, teaches a young student fencing techniques during a free class as part of Itkin’s foundation to provide local youth a chance to learn the sport, at the Los Angeles International Fencing Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer)
  Young fencing students participate in a free class hosted by two-time Olympic medalist Nick Itkin at the Los Angeles International Fencing Center in Los An
  
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• Judge wants whistleblower to testify in contempt probe of Trump official over planes to El Salvador

  09-12-2025 00:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By SUDHIN THANAWALA, Associated Press
  A federal judge investigating whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should face a contempt charge over flights carrying migrants to El Salvador said Monday he wants to hear from a whistleblower and top Justice Department official.
  U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington ordered the government to make Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign available for testimony on Dec. 16. Boasberg wants to hear a day earlier from fired Justice Dep
  
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• Former Colorado clerk will remain in state prison after a federal judge rejects her bid for freedom

  09-12-2025 00:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By Colleen Slevin, Associated Press
  DENVER (AP) — A federal magistrate judge on Monday rejected a bid by a former Colorado county clerk to be released from prison while she appeals her state conviction for orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race.
  Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters filed a federal lawsuit asking that she be released on bond while her appeal is considered. Attorneys for the state had argue
  
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• Rams OC Mike LaFleur called plays vs. Cardinals with Sean McVay sick

  08-12-2025 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  With Rams head coach Sean McVay absent from Saturday’s final preparations for the team’s Week 14 matchup with the Arizona Cardinals, offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur stepped up in his place.
  McVay woke up sick in the middle of the night on Friday, leading to him traveling to Arizona on his own Sunday morning. He also stayed away from the Rams’ team facility on Saturday, to give himself time to recover and to limit his exposure to players and coaches.
  Because of that missed ti
  
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• Trump approves sale of more advanced Nvidia computer chips used in AI to China

  08-12-2025 23:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he would allow Nvidia to sell an advanced type of computer chip used in the development of artificial intelligence to “approved customers” in China.
  There have been concerns about allowing advanced computer chips to be sold to China as it could help the country better compete against the U.S. in building out AI capabilities, but there has also been a desire to develop the AI ecosystem with
  
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• After 31 years, Vic ‘Slick’ Corral signs off KOLA 99.9 for the last time

  08-12-2025 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  After 31 years, beloved on-air personality Victor “Vic Slick” Corral is retiring and signing off KOLA 99.9.
  His final afternoon show will air from 2-7 p.m., marking the end of an era for the Inland Empire radio listeners and fans.
  Corral began working at the radio station in 1994 as a nighttime host and steadily rose through the ranks, eventually landing a spot as the “Morning Show” host. His most recent role was as the “Afternoon Drive” on-air personality. Hi
  
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• Howard’s Appliance to file for bankruptcy protection

  08-12-2025 23:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Howard’s Appliance is expected to file for bankruptcy protection in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Dec. 9, blaming tariffs and declines in consumer spending, a bankruptcy lawyer representing the firm told the Southern California News Group. Seen here, a gate remains locked Monday, Dec. 8 in front of the company warehouse and headquarters along North Baldwin Avenue in City of Industry. (Photo by Pat Maio, Southern California News Group)
  Howard’s Appliance, a nearly 80-year-old retail chain i
  
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• Ducks head east for eventful 5-game road trip

  08-12-2025 23:36 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM –– The wheels were up and the wings were out as the Ducks got off the ground for their second of three five-game road trips this season, and this could easily be the most eventful of the trio.
  They’ll travel to Pittsburgh, where they’ll clash with Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang and the Penguins. They’ll wrap up the journey in Columbus against Zach Werenski’s Blue Jackets.
  In between, they’ll have a sojourn in the Big Apple for matches
  
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• The California Way: High taxes and government waste

  08-12-2025 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s tax burden is always a hot topic, especially now. With a state budget that is allegedly short of money (fact check: spending discipline is the only thing lacking) and multiple tax hike proposals being discussed for the 2026 ballot, voters are starting to pay attention to how much government is extracting from their pockets.
  The state’s tax troubles have resulted in the well-documented exodus out of California. The sole silver lining has been the high-tech industry which
  
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• Hockey at the Winter Olympics will be played on shorter ice than NHL dimensions

  08-12-2025 23:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By DANIELLA MATAR and STEPHEN WHYNO, Associated Press
  MILAN (AP) — Hockey, one of the premier events at the Winter Olympics and one that is welcoming NHL players back for the first time in more than a decade, will take place on ice that is shorter than NHL-regulation size.
  Men’s and women’s games at two arenas will be played in rinks that are 60 meters long by 26 meters wide, or 196.85-by-85.3 feet. NHL dimensions are 200 by 85 feet, so the Olympic ice will be slightly wider an
  
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• Here are several public Hanukkah celebrations planned in Orange County

  08-12-2025 23:21 via ocregister.com
  
  With the setting of the sun on Dec. 14, Orange County’s Jewish community will be celebrating Hanukkah. Throughout the eight-day festival of lights celebration, events planned around the county are inviting residents to join in the lighting of menorahs and enjoy traditional holiday treats and games.
  Here are several of the community events planned:
  Huntington Beach: Chabad of South Huntington Beach will host a public menorah lighting at 6 p.m. on Dec. 16 at Bella Terra, in the central park
  
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• Affordable Care Act enrollment is slightly ahead of last year so far, despite expiring subsidies

  08-12-2025 23:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALI SWENSON and NICKY FORSTER, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans signing up for Affordable Care Act health insurance for 2026 is moderately higher than it was at a similar time last year, initial new federal data shows, even as subsidies set to expire at the end of 2025 will make the coverage more expensive for many.
  Seen at face value, the data from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services seems to defy predictions that many Americans facing pricier plans wo
  
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• El Dorado beats La Habra to win Gary Raya boys basketball tournament

  08-12-2025 23:03 via ocregister.com
  
  El Dorado is having a terrific season.
  The Golden Hawks are 9-1 after beating La Habra 53-52 in the championship game of the Gary Raya Classic on Saturday at El Dorado High.
  Noah Nam’s reverse layup with three seconds remaining provided the winning points.
  El Dorado senior forward Noah Barker was named tournament MVP.
  La Habra senior guard Acen Jimenez scored a game-high 29 points in the final and became the school’s all-time leading scorer with 1,776 points. Jimenez signed with Dart
  
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• ABC signs Jimmy Kimmel to a one-year contract extension, months after temporary suspension

  08-12-2025 23:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press
  President Donald Trump won’t be getting his wish. ABC said Monday it has signed late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel to a one-year contract extension.
  Kimmel’s previous, multiyear contract had been set to expire next May, so the extension will keep him on the air until at least May 2027.
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