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• Rams’ balanced free agency keeps draft options open

  31-03-2025 21:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Entering draft month a year ago, the Rams had a glaring roster hole that needed addressing. Having spent free agency trying to fortify a strength in their offense, the Rams had not made any moves along the defensive line. Combined with the retirement of a certain future Hall of Fame defensive tackle, it was pretty clear what the Rams’ biggest need would be when the NFL draft rolled around.
  Sure enough, the Rams spent their first first-round pick in eight years on Florida State edge rusher
  
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• El Modena community group seeks to preserve the legacy of Lorenzo Ramirez

  18-02-2026 21:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Eight years before the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, a legal battle began in Orange County that helped set the stage for the Brown v. Board case.
  In Mendez, et al v. Westminster School District, et al, five Mexican American families in 1946 challenged school segregation, claiming their children were forced to attend separate schools in the Westminster, Garden Grove, Santa Ana and El Mod
  
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• Fed minutes: Lower inflation needed before many officials will support rate cuts

  18-02-2026 20:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Federal Reserve officials want to see inflation fall further before they would support additional interest rate cuts this year, particularly if the job market continues to stabilize, minutes of last month’s meeting show.
  The “vast majority” of the 19 participants on the Fed’s rate-setting committee said that there were signs the job market has stabilized, after the unemployment rate rose in late 2025, t
  
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• Disneyland tree falls on visitors during a ‘crazy windy’ night

  18-02-2026 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  A Nevada couple visiting Disneyland were hit by a large tree just off Main Street U.S.A. that snapped and fell on top of them during a “crazy windy” night at the Anaheim theme park, according to social media reports.
  “My husband and I were the ones hit,” LeWanda Joseph of Las Vegas wrote on the Disneyland Magic Keyholders Facebook group. “The tree fell directly on top of us.”
  A ficus tree fell on Tuesday, Feb. 17 around 11:40 p.m. on the Plaza Inn patio that w
  
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• Grandson of the inventor of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups accuses Hershey of cutting corners

  18-02-2026 20:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press
  The grandson of the inventor of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups has lashed out at The Hershey Co., accusing the candy company of hurting the Reese’s brand by shifting to cheaper ingredients in many products.
  Hershey acknowledges some recipe changes but said Wednesday that it was trying to meet consumer demand for innovation. High cocoa prices also have led Hershey and other manufacturers to experiment with using less chocolate in recent years.
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• Canada survives close call with Czechia in hockey quarterfinal

  18-02-2026 20:17 via ocregister.com
  
  MILAN — The Canadian men’s hockey team twice overcame Czechia leads, including one late in the third period, before finally securing a spot in the Milano Cortina Olympic Games semifinals with a 4-3 victory Thursday at the Milano Ice Hockey Arena.
  Mitch Marner’s game-winning goal, just 1 minute and 22 seconds into the 3-on-3 sudden-death overtime, capped a frantic game in which Czechia, 5-0 losers to the Canadians in the teams’ opening match, was less than four minutes fro
  
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• Jazzy Davidson has USC charging into final Big Ten stretch

  18-02-2026 19:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Jazzy Davidson’s freshman season has been anything but typical. And yet, she’s made it the norm to earn Freshman of the Week honors and score more than any of her USC teammates – many of whom have much more college basketball experience than her.
  “She makes kind of ridiculous stats look fairly ordinary for her, and they’re not ordinary,” Trojans head coach Lindsay Gottlieb told reporters.
  Davidson just added a sixth Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor to her aw
  
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• In-N-Out Burger opens a second Lake Elsinore drive-thru on Thursday, Feb. 19

  18-02-2026 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Travelers heading west from Lake Elsinore on the Ortega Highway will soon be able to start their journey with a Double-Double.
  In-N-Out Burger will open a new restaurant near State Route 74 on Thursday, Feb. 19, according to a news release from the Southern California chain.
  ALSO SEE: 12 Southern California chains that made fast food history
  The drive-thru is at 18490 Dexter Ave. It is also close to the 15 Freeway. Nearby businesses include a Walmart Supercenter.
  This restaurant is No. 433 in th
  
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• Pope laments ‘ashes of international law’ left by today’s conflicts in Ash Wednesday liturgy

  18-02-2026 19:51 via ocregister.com
  
  ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday and lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” that have been left by today’s wars and conflicts.
  Leo revived the traditional prayer and procession that Pope Francis largely delegated to others in his final years. He walked with dozens of monks, priests, bishops and cardinals from one Roman church to another and then sprinkled ashes on the heads of card
  
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• Loose dog makes Olympic cameo on the cross-country ski course at the Milan Cortina Games

  18-02-2026 19:46 via ocregister.com
  
  TESERO, Italy (AP) — A surprise participant in Wednesday’s action at the Milan Cortina Olympics had four legs and zero concern for race times.
  As elite cross-country skiers pushed to the finish in the women’s team sprint heats, a dog wandered onto the course and ran with athletes down the straightaway.
  In this image taken from video provided by Olympic Broadcasting Services, OBS, a dog runs onto the track near the finish during the heats of the cross-country skiing women’
  
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• Murder arrest after missing Hemet teen’s leg is found in California desert

  18-02-2026 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  A man who had been named by the family of a missing 17-year-old girl was arrested on suspicion of murder after the teen’s leg was found in the California desert.
  Notice about T’Neya Tovar on the missing-persons website of California’s attorney general.
  The leg was discovered just before Christmas in the community of Salton City, and on Feb. 12 the Imperial County Sheriff’s Office announced that DNA testing had revealed it was that of T’Neya Tovar, a Hemet girl who h
  
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• CIF-SS boys soccer playoffs: Schedule for Saturday’s games

  18-02-2026 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  CIF-SS BOYS SOCCER PLAYOFFS
  SATURDAY’S GAMES 
  Games start at 3 p.m. or 5 p.m. unless noted.
  OPEN DIVISION 
  Second game of 2-game series (cumulative score winner advances)
  Orange Lutheran at Valencia, 5 p.m. (Orange Lutheran leads 1-0)
  JSerra at Mater Dei, 5 p.m. (Mater Dei leads 4-3)
  SEMIFINALS
  DIVISION 1 
  Santa Monica at Canyon
  DIVISION 2
  Downey at Newport Harbor
  DIVISION 3 
  Los Alamitos vs. Godinez at Santa Ana Valley HS, 5 p.m.
  DIVISION 4
  University at Oxnard Pacific
  
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• Travel: Winter in Vienna is the season for music and fancy balls

  18-02-2026 19:33 via ocregister.com
  
  It started like most of my trips do, by coming across a cheap airfare. I’d only been to Vienna once, decades ago, loved it and always meant to go back. But did I really want to go in winter, when it’s bone-chilling cold, even if I could fly there for only $400 roundtrip? I’m a California girl, after all.
  The answer was yes, of course it would be worth it. I pondered going for the elaborate Christmas markets for which the city is famous, but it’s too hard to get away in De
  
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• Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential run inspired generations to carry his message

  18-02-2026 19:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT BROWN
  When the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his second presidential bid in 1988 in Pittsburgh, he saw the campaign as a chance for the country to realize its highest ideals.
  “If I can become president,” said Jackson, who grew up poor and Black in segregated South Carolina, “every woman can. Every man can. I’m giving America a chance to make a choice to fulfill the highest and best of an authentic and honest democracy.”
  While unsuccessful, the campaign captur
  
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• No garden space? Create a calming ‘nature nook’ with indoor plants

  18-02-2026 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jessica Damiano | The Associated Press
  Have you dreamed of creating a calm and cozy spot at home to relax and recharge, but don’t think you can spare the space?
  You don’t need a “man cave,” “she shed” or even a whole room to retreat to. Just one corner will do.
  One corner, warm lighting, a cozy chair and some plants, says interior and plant stylist Hilton Carter, who specializes in “nature nooks” — tiny wellness sanctuaries that calm the m
  
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• States want to limit AI in health insurance, but Trump wants to limit the states

  18-02-2026 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By Darius Tahir and Lauren Sausser | KFF Health News
  It’s the rare policy question that unites Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and the Democratic-led Maryland government against President Donald Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California: How should health insurers use AI?
  Regulating artificial intelligence, especially its use by health insurers, is becoming a politically divisive topic, and it’s scrambling traditional partisan lines.
  Boosters, led by Trump, are not only pushi
  
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• Angels’ Nolan Schanuel hopes increased bat speed leads to power

  18-02-2026 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — Nolan Schanuel continues to look for more bat speed.
  The Angels’ first baseman improved his average bat speed by 2.3 mph from 2024 to 2025, which was the sixth-best jump in the majors.
  He said he spent his winter doing the same type of drills, while acknowledging that he needs to maintain his swing too.
  “I worked on a lot of barrel control too,” he said, “because I feel like with the bat speed, you lose that barrel control because you’re so worr
  
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• New York’s BagelFest makes its Los Angeles debut in April

  18-02-2026 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  A famous New York bagel festival is coming to Los Angeles this April with the West Coast debut of BagelFest West.
  Tickets are now on sale for the celebration of all things bagels happening on April 12 at the Audrey Irmas Pavilion at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple.
  “A global bagel boom is underway, and the West Coast has fully arrived,” said Sam Silverman, producer of the Los Angeles event, in a statement. “BagelFest West is to celebrate the artisans who are breaking the outdated
  
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• Fugitive accused of kidnapping, raping Orange County teen captured in Guatemala

  18-02-2026 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  A registered sex offender accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old Orange County girl in 2025 and repeatedly raping her over several hours has been captured in Guatemala after an international effort to track down the fugitive.
  Westminster investigators previously identified Brian Estuardo Verbena-Martinez, 34, of Anaheim as the suspected kidnapper and rapist. With the help of the FBI, Verbena-Martinez was tracked to Guatemala and taken into custody last week, according to an Orange County District A
  
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• CIF-SS boys basketball playoffs: Schedule for Friday’s games

  18-02-2026 19:10 via ocregister.com
  
  CIF-SS BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS
  FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE
  Games start at 7 p.m. unless noted.
  OPEN DIVISION
  Quarterfinals 
  Santa Margarita at Sierra Canyon
  Play-in game for state tournament:
  Corona del Mar at St. John Bosco
  QUARTERFINALS
  DIVISION 1
  Crean Lutheran at Rancho Christian
  Inglewood at JSerra
  DIVISION 2
  Mater Dei at Hesperia
  DIVISION 3
  Gahr at Aliso Niguel
  DIVISION 4
  Norte Vista at Trabuco Hills
  DIVISION 5
  San Juan Hills at Pilibos
  DIVISION 6
  Valencia at Ramona
  Laguna Hills at Moren
  
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• The children of late civil rights leader Jesse Jackson honor his legacy a day after his death

  18-02-2026 18:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By SOPHIA TAREEN
  CHICAGO (AP) — From jokes about his well-known stubbornness to tears grieving the loss of a parent, the adult children of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. gave an emotional tribute Wednesday honoring the legacy of the late civil rights icon, a day after his death.
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• At the Olympics and beyond, women’s sports media outlets are writing their own playbooks

  18-02-2026 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By CLAIRE SAVAGE and ALYCE BROWN
  Veteran sports columnist Christine Brennan remembers when male colleagues used to laugh at her for insisting on covering women’s sports back in the 1990s.
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• Trump wants his Board of Peace to solve world conflicts. It still has a lot of work to do in Gaza

  18-02-2026 18:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAM METZ and SAMY MAGDY
  JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is set to meet for the first time on Thursday in Washington, an early test of whether one of his marquee foreign policy initiatives can gain broad support and advance the shaky ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.
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• Lindsey Vonn’s skis didn’t come off in her Olympic crash. A different binding system isn’t close

  18-02-2026 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREW DAMPF and PAT GRAHAM
  CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The images of Lindsey Vonn down on the snow, screaming in pain and then being airlifted off the course by helicopter after her crash at the Olympics were a stark reminder of the dangers of the downhill.
  So is this: Her skis didn’t come off.
  Vonn’s boots remained locked into her skis even after her pinwheeling fall at the Milan Cortina Games, pointing awkwardly in different directions as she slid to a stop in o
  
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• Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica’s near-freezing deep

  18-02-2026 18:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By ROD McGUIRK
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun’s rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight.
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• Tremors from the Epstein files rattle the age-old foundations of Britain’s House of Lords

  18-02-2026 18:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By JILL LAWLESS
  LONDON (AP) — Fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files has landed on the gilded wood and plush red benches of Britain’s House of Lords.
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• Quirky curling has turned into a betting magnet at the Milan Cortina Olympics

  18-02-2026 17:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEN MAGUIRE, AP Sports Writer
  MILAN (AP) — Hockey is the top Winter Games sport among gamblers, but curling with its sliding stones, spirited sweeping and cheating allegations has surprised oddsmakers.
  Bettors are showing significant interest in the quirky sport, which piques viewers’ curiosity every four years at the Winter Olympics.
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• UN Security Council to hold high-level meeting on Gaza before Trump’s Board of Peace convenes

  18-02-2026 17:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By FARNOUSH AMIRI and EDITH M. LEDERER
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is set to hold a high-level meeting Wednesday on the Gaza ceasefire deal and Israel’s efforts to expand control in the West Bank before world leaders head to Washington to discuss the future of the Palestinian territories at the
  first gathering of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.
  The U.N. session in New York was originally scheduled for Thursday but was moved up after Trump announced
  
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• UK police band together to assess Epstein revelations as scandal rocks royals and politics

  18-02-2026 17:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By DANICA KIRKA
  LONDON (AP) — British police forces are working together to assess potential crimes revealed in documents from the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including allegations of wrongdoing by the former Prince Andrew.
  The National Police Chiefs’ Council, which brings together police leaders from across the U.K., said on Wednesday that it had set up a national coordination group to support forces looking into iss
  
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• Brazilian snowboarder Pat Burgener’s Olympic journey spans the mountains to music

  18-02-2026 17:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICCOLÒ LUPONE and STEFANIE DAZIO
  MILAN (AP) — Brazilian snowboarder Pat Burgener feels complete when he combines his love of the halfpipe with his passion for music.
  The 31-year-old competed for Switzerland, where he was born and raised, in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games as well as the 2022 Beijing Olympics. His mother was born in Lebanon but grew up in Brazil, and Burgener has wanted to join their squad since the country hosted the all-Brazil FIFA Club World Championship in 2000.
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