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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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• Lakers’ Austin Reaves to miss at least 1 week with calf strain

  13-12-2025 02:55 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — Lakers guard Austin Reaves will be sidelined for at least the next week – and presumably the team’s next two games – because of a calf injury.
  The team announced on Friday afternoon that Reaves was diagnosed with a “mild” left calf strain and would be reevaluated in about one week.
  The Lakers play the Phoenix Suns in Arizona on Sunday and the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City on Thursday.
  They’ll return to Southern California for a matchup against
  
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• Top Angels executives deny team knew of Tyler Skaggs’ or Eric Kay’s drug use or ties

  13-12-2025 02:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Top Los Angeles Angels executives testified on Friday, Dec. 12 that they knew nothing about Tyler Skaggs’ opioid use or that a team communication staffer was providing Skaggs with illicit pills prior to the pitchers’ shocking 2019 death, as testimony in the high-profile wrongful death trial against the organization drew to a close.
  Molly Jolly, the team’s senior vice president of finance and administration, said she was “flabbergasted” to learn of the drug use invol
  
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• Dodgers officially add elite closer Edwin Diaz

  13-12-2025 02:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Newly signed Dodgers relief pitcher Edwin Diaz poses for photos with Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman, left, and general manager Brandon Gomes, right, on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
  Newly signed Dodgers relief pitcher Edwin Diaz speaks to reporters during his introductory press conference on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
  Dodgers president of
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Friday, Dec. 12

  13-12-2025 02:25 via ocregister.com
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Friday, Dec. 12.
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  FRIDAY’S SCORES
  GIRLS WATER POLO
  VILLA PARK CLASSIC
  At Villa Park
  Torrey Pines 18, Villa Park 8
  At Los Alamitos
  Ventura 15, University 4
  Irvine 7, Yucaip
  
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• LA Bowl: Washington and Boise State aim to go out on top

  13-12-2025 02:16 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — Rob Gronkowski stumbled around the podium, falling off balance to his left, before plopping into a chair behind Washington and Boise State helmets and jerseys.
  “It’s going to be a great game; we got two solid teams,” the former star tight end for the New England Patriots, who’s the enigmatic and energetic host of the Bucked Up LA Bowl between the Huskies and Broncos at 5 p.m. Saturday at SoFi Stadium.
  “I’m already drunk,” Gronkowski sai
  
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• New York is the 8th state found to have improperly issued commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants

  13-12-2025 01:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH FUNK
  New York is the eighth state found to routinely issue commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that are valid long after they are no longer legally authorized to be in the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday, and he threatened to withhold $73 million in highway funds unless the system is fixed and any flawed licenses are revoked.
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• Santa Margarita reaches state final a year after being rocked by hazing scandal

  13-12-2025 01:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Two images bookend Santa Margarita Catholic High School’s improbable journey from 2024’s scandal-ridden 5-7 season to a spot in the CIF State Open Division championship showdown with De La Salle on Saturday night and a game that has attracted national attention.
  One is after Santa Margarita’s 42-7 victory against Centennial in the CIF Southern Section Division I title game, first-year head coach Carson Palmer, the former Eagles standout, USC Heisman Trophy winner, NFL All-Pro q
  
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• GOP chairman threatens Clintons with contempt of Congress in Epstein inquiry

  13-12-2025 01:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee threatened Friday to begin contempt of Congress proceedings against former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton if they refuse to appear for depositions as part of the committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
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• US accuses Rwanda of violating the peace deal as M23 rebels seize a key eastern Congo city

  13-12-2025 01:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By EDITH M. LEDERER and MARK BANCHEREAU
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States accused Rwanda on Friday of violating a U.S.-brokered peace agreement by backing a deadly new rebel offensive in the mineral-rich eastern Congo, and warned that the Trump administration will take action against “spoilers” of the deal.
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• Lakers looking at ‘everything’ to fix issues with perimeter, transition defense

  13-12-2025 01:07 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — The Lakers are more than aware of the trends that have shown up in most of their seven losses through 24 games.
  A perimeter defense that struggles to contain quicker ball-handlers.
  And a transition defense that doesn’t get back quickly enough to slow potential fast-break opportunities.
  The Lakers’ defensive struggles aren’t “baffling” to Coach JJ Redick in light of the team entering Friday with a 116.7 defensive rating (points allowed per 100 poss
  
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• TSA renews push to end collective bargaining agreement for airport security screeners

  13-12-2025 00:57 via ocregister.com
  
  The Transportation Security Administration is renewing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s push to end a collective bargaining agreement with airport screening officers — the second such attempt this year and one that comes just a month after the longest government shutdown on record.
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• Navy investigation finds Osprey safety issues were allowed to grow for years

  13-12-2025 00:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After a spate of deadly accidents that have claimed the lives of 20 service members in the past four years, a Navy report acknowledges that the military failed to address a growing series of issues with the V-22 Osprey aircraft since it took flight almost 20 years ago.
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• Chargers QB Justin Herbert limited in practice, but set to play vs. Chiefs

  13-12-2025 00:22 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert was listed as a limited participant in the team’s practices on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, but they dropped him from their final injury report of the week, which means he’s good to go for Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium.
  As if there were any doubt, right?
  Herbert has played all but four games since assuming the Chargers’ starting quarterback role in Week 2 of his rookie season in
  
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• Trump was unable to insult his way to victory in Indiana redistricting battle

  13-12-2025 00:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By THOMAS BEAUMONT and ISABELLA VOLMERT
  If Indiana Republican senators had any doubt about what to do with President Donald Trump’s redistricting proposal, he helped them make up their minds the night before this week’s vote.
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• Michael Callahan resigns as Aliso Niguel football coach

  13-12-2025 00:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Michael Callahan has resigned as football coach at Aliso Niguel after six seasons.
  Callahan announced his decision to the team’s players Friday.
  He graduated from Aliso Niguel in 2005 and played football there.
  Callahan said in a statement that he has resigned so that he can commit more time to his family that includes two children.
  Aliso Niguel this season finished 8-4 overall and was third in the Foxtrot League with a 3-2 league record.
  The Wolverines beat Millikan 7-6 in the first round
  
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• Michael Calahan resigns as Aliso Niguel football coach

  13-12-2025 00:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Michael Calahan has resigned as football coach at Aliso Niguel after six seasons.
  Calahan announced his decision to the team’s players Friday.
  He graduated from Aliso Niguel in 2005 and played football there.
  Calahan said in a statement that he has resigned so that he can commit more time to his family that includes two children.
  Aliso Niguel this season finished 8-4 overall and was third in the Foxtrot League with a 3-2 league record.
  The Wolverines beat Millikan 7-6 in the first round of
  
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• Irvine to join local efforts to address radioactive waste in San Onofre

  13-12-2025 00:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Should Irvine look to take a lead in relocating and storing San Onofre’s 3.6 million pounds of radioactive waste?
  The Irvine City Council is split.
  Overlooking the coastline from its 84 acres on the northern edge of Camp Pendleton, just south of San Clemente, the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Plant has housed millions of pounds of spent nuclear fuel sealed in 123 stainless-steel canisters much longer than originally advertised.
  The plant was decommissioned in 2013 after its steam
  
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• What to know about Trump’s draft proposal to curtail state AI regulations

  13-12-2025 00:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By JESSE BEDAYN
  President Donald Trump is considering pressuring states to stop regulating artificial intelligence in a draft executive order obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, as some in Congress also consider whether to temporarily block states from regulating AI.
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• Gang member who murdered 5 in Banning is sentenced to death

  13-12-2025 00:03 via ocregister.com
  
  A death sentence was handed down Friday, Dec. 12 for a Banning gang member involved in five killings — sometimes just for sport — over multiple years.
  In October, after deliberating only a few hours, a Riverside jury recommended capital punishment for William Arnold Armendariz III, 28, for his deadly crimes.
  During a hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice on Friday, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Matthew Perantoni affirmed the jury’s recommendation, imposing the death
  
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• Humanoid robots take center stage at Silicon Valley summit, but skepticism remains

  12-12-2025 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT O’BRIEN
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui.
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• Critically wounded National Guard member being moved to in-patient rehabilitation

  12-12-2025 23:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOHN RABY
  A West Virginia National Guard member who was shot last month in the nation’s capital is being transitioned from hospital acute care to in-patient rehabilitation, a doctor said Friday.
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• Speaker Johnson scrambles to find a health care plan as Republicans remain divided

  12-12-2025 23:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it’s the House’s turn to show what it can do.
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• Kings return home looking to cool off the Flames

  12-12-2025 23:12 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings followed two of their strongest consecutive efforts of the season with a penalty-ridden collapse in Seattle, and now they’ll sneak home for a single match before hitting the road again.
  They haven’t been alone in their one-step-forward-one-step-back trajectory, with much of the NHL and most of the Pacific Division finding itself in a similar pattern, including the two teams at the top. The Ducks snapped a three-game winning streak Thursday on Long Island while Vegas is belo
  
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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)
  Show Caption1 of 5The living room. (Photo by Joel Danto Luxury Level)
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