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• Rich Archbold: Lance Cpl. Chris Louie was a hero in nightmarish war in Afghanistan

  09-11-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Chris Louie was only 21 when he dug into his fighting hole for another nightmarish day of combat against the Taliban in one of the deadliest places in the world at that time. It was Afghanistan in 2010.
  “We had to fight every day for our survival,” Louie said from his home in LaPalma last week, ahead of Veterans Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11.
  “Buddies were killed by bombs, and one had a bomb blow up in his face, blowing out his jaw and teeth,” Louie said.
  
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• Homeless encampment cleared from Santa Ana River marsh near Newport Beach

  10-12-2025 23:59 via ocregister.com
  
  County and federal officials cleared a homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River Marsh in Newport Beach on Wednesday, Dec. 10, collecting at least 8 tons of garbage in the process.
  OC Public Works, the OC Sheriff’s Department and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers coordinated the county’s first cleanup effort since its anti-camping ordinance went into effect last month. The new policy allows law enforcement to arrest and fine individuals camping on county properties, including floo
  
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• Oreo is bringing zero-sugar cookies to the US

  10-12-2025 23:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEE-ANN DURBIN
  Rejoice, New Year’s dieters: Oreos are getting a sugar-free option.
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  Mondelez said Tuesday that Oreo Zero Sugar and Oreo
  
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• Clippers’ inability to finish games has been ‘frustrating’

  10-12-2025 23:45 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — Clippers coach Tyronn Lue sees the games slip by and along with them, opportunities to turn around the season. With their record at 6-18, each loss makes the next game much more critical, down to the minute, even less.
  “Every second counts, every day counts, every possession counts,” Lue said after practice on Tuesday. “We’ve played better. We’ve been close. It’s just one turnover that you shouldn’t have (made) or one missed box out or
  
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• UCI Health – Irvine hits the ground running to take first patients

  10-12-2025 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Bruce Peterson drove an hour from Riverside County to support his wife of more than 50 years through her lymphadenectomy procedure at the new UCI Health – Irvine hospital.
  Peterson, 77, saw her off as she was wheeled into the operating room as one of the first patients admitted on the hospital’s opening day Wednesday, Dec. 10.
  Anesthesia staff take a photo on the opening day of UCI Health – Irvine in Irvine, CA on Wednesday, December 10, 2025. Officials opened what is described
  
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• San Francisco woman gives birth in a Waymo self-driving taxi

  10-12-2025 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By JANIE HAR
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Self-driving Waymo taxis have gone viral for negative reasons involving the death of a beloved San Francisco bodega cat and pulling an illegal U-turn in front of police who were unable to issue a ticket to a nonexistent driver.
  Related Articles West Virginia National Guard member killed in DC shooting is laid to rest Botulism outbreak sickens more than 50 babies and expands to all ByHeart products NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars
  
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• House passes defense bill to raise troop pay and overhaul weapons purchases

  10-12-2025 23:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES and BEN FINLEY
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted to pass a sweeping defense policy bill Wednesday that authorizes $900 billion in military programs, including a pay raise for troops and an overhaul of how the Department of Defense buys weapons.
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• Former Bolivian President Arce arrested in corruption investigation a month after leaving office

  10-12-2025 23:21 via ocregister.com
  
  LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian law enforcement officials on Wednesday arrested former President Luis Arce as part of a corruption investigation, the country’s vice president said on social media, opening an uncertain chapter in Bolivia’s politics a month after the inauguration of conservative President Rodrigo Paz ended 20 years of socialist rule.
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• First of 30 oil lease sales planned for Gulf of Mexico draws $279 million in bids from companies

  10-12-2025 23:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW BROWN and MATTHEW DALY
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region under Republican efforts to ramp up U.S. fossil fuel production.
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• Boat owner in fatal Long Beach harbor crash had blood-alcohol near twice the legal limit, evidence shows

  10-12-2025 22:52 via ocregister.com
  
  A 58-year-old man accused of crashing his 48-foot sport fishing boat into the jetty near Alamitos Bay last year, killing a passenger and leaving nearly a dozen others, including himself, with injuries, had a blood-alcohol level measured at 0.152 percent at the hospital after the crash, according to evidence presented at the man’s preliminary hearing Wednesday, Dec. 10.
  But Kevin John King’s attorney argued during the hearing that the measurement was too high considering he had lost a
  
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• How Ace Atkins mined his ’80s youth for spy thriller ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World’

  10-12-2025 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  For more than a decade, novelist Ace Atkins kept a rigorous schedule and a prolific pace in his small writing office in Oxford, Mississippi.
  A cup of coffee, and then to work, writing 21 books – 11 in his Quinn Colson series, another 10 in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series – from 2011 to 2022.
  “That was kind of my life for about a decade,” Atkins says. “I would write about North Mississippi and Sheriff Quinn Colson and the Dixie Mafia and that kind of thing.
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• West Virginia National Guard member killed in DC shooting is laid to rest

  10-12-2025 22:32 via ocregister.com
  
  GRAFTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia National Guard member who was fatally shot last month in the nation’s capital was laid to rest with full military honors in a private ceremony.
  Spc. Sarah Beckstrom’s funeral took place Tuesday at the West Virginia National Cemetery in Grafton, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement.
  “The ceremony was deeply moving and reflected the strength, grace, and love of a remarkable young woman and the family and friends who surrounded her,
  
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• Botulism outbreak sickens more than 50 babies and expands to all ByHeart products

  10-12-2025 21:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONEL ALECCIA, Associated Press
  Federal health officials on Wednesday expanded an outbreak of infant botulism tied to recalled ByHeart baby formula to include all illnesses reported since the company began production in March 2022.
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said investigators “cannot rule out the possibility that contamination might have affected all ByHeart formula products” ever made.
  The outbreak now includes at least 51 infants in 19 states. The new case definition
  
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• IOC president Coventry sets early 2026 target for new Olympic policy on gender eligibility

  10-12-2025 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By GRAHAM DUNBAR, Associated Press
  GENEVA (AP) — The IOC set a target Wednesday of early 2026 to detail a new policy on eligibility in female sports that could see transgender athletes excluded from the Olympic Games.
  International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry also stressed the Olympic body’s statutory belief in access to sport being a human right for all people at grassroots and recreational level.
  The two-time Olympic champion swimmer created a working group after ta
  
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• NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade

  10-12-2025 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARCIA DUNN, Associated Press
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade.
  Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this week that it was working fine before it went behind the red planet. When it reappeared, there was only silence.
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• What the life, and death, of my 10-pound chihuahua taught me about living

  10-12-2025 21:37 via ocregister.com
  
  [Editor’s note: This essay first appeared in the “Chapters of Our Lives” issue of PREMIUM Magazine, which featured personal storytelling.]
  My 16-year-old chihuahua, Nacho, died a few weeks ago. Technically, he wasn’t even my dog, at least not according to Los Angeles County. My girlfriend, Nico, found him before we met. But after years of living together, feeding him, walking him, sharing our bed, he became mine too.
  It doesn’t matter if you raise a dog from puppyho
  
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• Researching family history unlocks keys to the past – and, possibly, your future

  10-12-2025 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  [Editor’s note: This essay first appeared in the “Chapters of Our Lives” issue of PREMIUM Magazine, which featured personal storytelling.]
  I’ve always been interested in current events, which led me to a career in journalism. I’ve also been equally interested in history — world, U.S., you name it. Check my podcast playlist and you’ll find that “History This Week,” “History Daily” and “The Ancients” are among my most pl
  
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• How Melissa Etheridge hopes to change treatment options for addicts

  10-12-2025 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  There she was, strumming a guitar, singing her heart out on a stage, just as she had so many times before.
  But for multi-platinum-selling artist Melissa Etheridge, this October performance at VEA in Newport Beach wasn’t just another concert. It was “Rock Jam,” the inaugural fundraiser of the Etheridge Foundation.
  With celebrity pals Hugh Jackman and Ashley McBryde by her side, along with singer and philanthropist Erin Samueli, Etheridge raised $1.2 million that will go to fund
  
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• What does it mean to change your name after you marry?

  10-12-2025 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  [Editor’s note: This essay first appeared in the “Chapters of Our Lives” issue of PREMIUM Magazine, which featured personal storytelling.]
  “You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.”
   George Bernard Shaw, “Major Barbara”
  The Social Security Administration office in downtown Santa Ana is tucked inside a tall, smoky glass edifice that defies you to find its front door. Park in the lower depths and wend your w
  
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• Was our house haunted? Memories of the unexplainable are as perplexing today as they were then

  10-12-2025 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  [Editor’s note: This essay first appeared in the “Chapters of Our Lives” issue of PREMIUM Magazine, which featured personal storytelling.]
  I tell you this story only now, at the risk of sounding ridiculous.
  I like to think I’m a rational person. I’m an educated person. I’m not what you would call a fearful person by temperament. While I am, it’s true, prone to bouts of melancholy, I have never been diagnosed with a mental illness that would lead to psych
  
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• How ‘The Endless Summer’ ended for one surfer in 1966

  10-12-2025 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  [Editor’s note: This essay first appeared in the “Chapters of Our Lives” issue of PREMIUM Magazine, which featured personal storytelling.]
  South Orange County, 1966
  “They’re showing that surf film,” says Chris, my high school boyfriend. “Tonight. Back of the Coast Liquor. Can you come?”
  “I’ll meet you in the driveway” is my reply.
  I pull on a beach shift, puka shell necklace, and brush out my sun-streaked hair.
  “Going out wi
  
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• Author W. Bruce Cameron remembers the lost art of boredom

  10-12-2025 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  [Editor’s note: This essay first appeared in the “Chapters of Our Lives” issue of PREMIUM Magazine, which featured personal storytelling.]
  When I was a young boy, there was nothing so thrilling as exchanging the boredom of school for the boredom of summer vacation. I’d trudge through those last days of the academic year with fatigue weighing my every step. I’d sit at my desk, numb and dull, awaiting the last bell of the last day.
  And then, freedom! I’d burst f
  
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• What a red-tailed hawk taught me about the power of aging

  10-12-2025 21:34 via ocregister.com
  
  [Editor’s note: This essay first appeared in the “Chapters of Our Lives” issue of PREMIUM Magazine, which featured personal storytelling.]
  Nestled on my porch, a cup of coffee in one hand and binoculars in the other, I spent the spring watching my neighbors. I’ve been watching them for almost 20 years, and I can’t get enough of the drama, but this season’s storyline was hitting me harder than in years past.
  I bought my house in 2004, a 1925 Craftsman-style sur
  
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• Trump says the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela

  10-12-2025 21:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By AAMER MADHANI and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
  It’s the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States. The U.S. has conducted a series of deadly military strikes in th
  
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• What the Federal Reserve rate cut means for you

  10-12-2025 21:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By CORA LEWIS, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the third time since September, bringing its key rate to about 3.6%, the lowest in nearly three years. Before September, it had gone nine months without a cut.
  The benchmark rate is the rate at which banks borrow and lend to one another, and the Fed has two goals when it sets the rate: one, to manage prices for goods and services, and two, to encourage full e
  
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• Future USC football players get a new-era education in opportunity

  10-12-2025 21:14 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The top half of Deshonne Redeaux’s grill just didn’t fit quite right.
  So, the sixth-best running back in the class of 2026 walked around with a gleaming underbite during a private National Signing Day celebration, hosted by sports and culture agency StampX.
  “Deshonne’s got a vibe,” LAFC co-founder Shaun Neff told event guests. “He crushes it on the field, but he’s building his personality. He’s building his look. He’s got
  
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• Meet the Long Beach typewriter poet helping strangers navigate heartbreak

  10-12-2025 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Outside a bank on Long Beach’s 2nd Street, a woman is crying.
  Nico Patino, a street poet sitting at an antique table, takes in her turmoil. “Proud of you,” he says before turning back to his old Olympia typewriter and beginning to pound away at the keys.
  In a video posted to Instagram, an unnamed woman off-camera has just offered him a prompt for a poem. “Starting over late. I’m 57, got divorced, struggling a little,” she says. “I left almost five years
  
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• Kings sign prospect Vojtěch Čihař to entry-level deal

  10-12-2025 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the newest Kings prospects cemented a spot in the organization Wednesday, when 2025 second-round selection Vojtěch Čihař signed an entry-level contract, with an annual value of $975,000 for three seasons.
  Čihař went 59th overall in June’s draft, the second Czech forward taken after Chicago selected Václav Nestrašil in the first round (No. 25). The 18-year-old is the first Czech forward of 2025 to sign his ELC.
  Listed at 6-foot-1, he’s sma
  
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• CIF State football finals: Woodbridge vs. Redding Christian, Division 7-AA

  10-12-2025 20:51 via ocregister.com
  
  CIF STATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
  DIVISION 7-AA
  REDDING CHRISTIAN (14-0) VS. WOODBRIDGE (7-8)
  Where, when: Fullerton High, Saturday, 11 a.m.
  Live coverage: NFHS network
  Tickets: $6.25-$16.75 at GoFan.co
  Parking: Free
  Outlook: Both schools are making their debut in a CIF State football championship game.
  Woodbridge has made an unlikely and amazing run to get to a state championship game.
  The Warriors started the season 0-7 before winning two of their last three regular-season games. They won a coi
  
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• Woodbridge freshman QB Waylon Stone emerges as team leader

  10-12-2025 20:50 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE – Quarterback is a leadership position on any football team.
  In high school football, the team leader usually is a senior quarterback.
  Waylon Stone is a freshman, and he is a quarterback.
  Stone has earned his way to becoming a bona fide leader for Woodbridge’s football team, trailblazing the way as the Warriors have gone from being an 0-7 team to a CIF Southern Section champion and, this week, a team playing for a state championship.
  Woodbridge (7-8) plays Redding Christian (1
  
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