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• Sharp-shooting UCLA takes down Utah

  12-01-2018 07:18 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA guard Aaron Holiday shoots over Utah forward Chris Seeley during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. UCLA won 83-64. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)Utah forward Chris Seeley, middle, dunks between UCLA guard Aaron Holiday, left, and forward Gyorgy Goloman during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)UCLA center Thomas Welsh, right, shoots over Utah guard Kolbe Caldwe
  
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• TikTok finalizes deal to form new American version of the app

  23-01-2026 02:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By KAITLYN HUAMANI, AP Technology Reporter
  TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American version of the app, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the U.S. that has been in discussion for years.
  Related Articles FAA is making the rules imposed after an airliner collided with an Army helicopter permanent NASA and families of fallen astronauts mark 40th anniversary of space shuttle Challenger accident A Kentucky cathedral called ‘America’s Notre Dame’ gets a rehab,
  
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• Santa Anita consensus picks for Friday, January 23, 2026

  23-01-2026 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Eddie Wilson, Kevin Modesti and Mark Ratzky. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Frday, January 23, 2026.
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• Newport Beach native Trinity Rodman signs new 3-year contract to remain with Washington Spirit

  23-01-2026 01:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Newport Beach native Trinity Rodman is staying with the Washington Spirit.
  Rodman entered 2026 without a contract, as her previous deal had expired at the end of last season, leading to speculation of a move to Europe. However, Thursday, the Spirit, at an event hosted at BMO Stadium, announced that Rodman had signed a three-year contract to remain with the club through the 2028 season.
  According to ESPN, the contract will see Rodman become the highest-paid player in the NWSL, “at a salary
  
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• Chargers’ defensive coordinator Jesse Minter hired as Ravens’ head coach

  23-01-2026 01:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh wasn’t engaging in hyperbole when he suggested during his season-ending news conference last week that it was a matter of “when” rather than “if” defensive coordinator Jesse Minter would be lured away from the team after two stellar seasons on their staff.
  The Baltimore Ravens said Thursday they had hired Minter to replace John Harbaugh, Jim’s brother, as their head coach. The Ravens fired John Harbaugh earlier this month after
  
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• FAA is making the rules imposed after an airliner collided with an Army helicopter permanent

  23-01-2026 01:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH FUNK, Associated Press
  The temporary rules imposed after last year’s collision of an airliner and an Army helicopter to improve the safety of the crowded airspace around Washington D.C. are being made permanent, the government announced Thursday.
  The Federal Aviation Administration took steps to make sure that helicopters and airplanes would no longer share the same airspace around Reagan National Airport shortly after the investigation into the Jan. 29 crash began. The rules also
  
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• How Kyren Williams has grown as a leader for Rams on the field and in the community

  23-01-2026 01:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Rams running back Kyren Williams, left, stiff-arms Chicago Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson during a touchdown run in the second half of their NFC divisional playoff game on Sunday in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
  Rams running back Kyren Williams celebrates after running for a touchdown during the second half of their NFC divisional playoff game on Sunday in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
  Rams running back Kyren Williams gestures after scoring a touchdown during the second half of their NF
  
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• Project to assemble prefab modular units into 65 new homes starts in Midway City

  23-01-2026 01:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Using prefabricated modular units, a new 65-residence housing complex breaking ground in Midway City could be ready in 12 months.
  That speed means spending less to create much-needed affordable housing, officials said. And that is quality housing.
  American Family Housing held a groundbreaking for Casa Colibri, a 65-unit housing complex in Midway City, CA on Thursday, January 22, 2026. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  American Family Housing held a groundbreaking for Casa Co
  
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• Susan Shelley: How much higher will sales taxes go in California?

  23-01-2026 00:32 via ocregister.com
  
  If Alfred Hitchcock was alive, he could make a horror movie about sales taxes in California. It would be a sequel to “Vertigo.”
  Anyone with a fear of heights should be terrified. The cities of Palmdale and Lancaster have the highest sales taxes in the state, 11.25%.
  It may be news to many California residents, but state law limits total sales taxes to 9.25%. According to Revenue and Taxation Code section 7251.1, the combined rate of all local sales taxes added on to the state tax rat
  
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• Editorial: In-House Opinions on Greenland from SoCal representatives

  23-01-2026 00:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Our mercurial president’s meanderings this week on his desire to possess Greenland have been so, well, all over the map, tanking Wall Street markets when he threatened war, allowing stocks to recover when he said he was just joshing about an invasion, that it can be awfully hard to keep up with the latest: Threatening actions that would lead to the end of the 80-year post-war transatlantic alliance. Mocking European leaders for their “stupidity.” Claiming that the United States
  
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• NASA and families of fallen astronauts mark 40th anniversary of space shuttle Challenger accident

  23-01-2026 00:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARCIA DUNN, Associated Press
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident gathered back at the launch site Thursday to mark that tragic day 40 years ago.
  All seven on board were killed when Challenger broke apart following liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986.
  At the Kennedy Space Center memorial ceremony, Challenger pilot Michael Smith’s daughter, Alison Smith Balch, said through tears that her life forever changed that frigid morning,
  
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• FACT FOCUS: White House shares altered image showing arrest of civil rights attorney in Minnesota

  23-01-2026 00:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By MELISSA GOLDIN
  The Trump administration on Thursday misrepresented the arrest of a prominent civil rights attorney for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.
  On its official X page, the White House shared an image of Nekima Levy Armstrong that showed her in tears with, her arms behind her back, standing in front of someone wearing a badge around their neck.
  The problem? Levy Armstrong wasn’t actually crying. The image was mani
  
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• K-pop girl group Twice delivers on first of 4 concerts at Kia Forum

  22-01-2026 23:35 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s about to be a very good year for the nine members of the K-pop girl group Twice, who on Wednesday, Jan. 21 played the first of four nights at the Kia Forum in Inglewood.
  To the casual music fan, there are two big names in K-pop. The boy band BTS is responsible in large part for breaking K-pop in the United States, selling out Honda Center and the then-Staples Center on their way to multiple nights at the Rose Bowl and SoFi Stadium.
  Then there’s the girl group Blackpink, who in 2
  
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• Fryer: Schools react to claim that Trinity League teams made offers to star player

  22-01-2026 23:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Cathedral Catholic football player Honor Fa’alave-Johnson provided a heck of a quote in a recent news story about his intention to stay at the San Diego school for his senior season.
  It all started with Fa’alave-Johnson’s social media post last week: “I appreciate all the different programs reaching out to my family and I. However, I’ll be staying in San Diego and playing my final season at Cathedral Catholic.”
  Asked by the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper ab
  
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• US completes withdrawal from World Health Organization

  22-01-2026 23:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE and DEVI SHASTRI, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Donald Trump announced America was ending its 78-year-old commitment, federal officials said Thursday.
  But it’s hardly a clean break.
  The U.S. owes more than $130 million to the global health agency, according to WHO. And Trump administration officials acknowledge that they haven’t finished working out some issues,
  
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• 50 years later: 11 classic albums that hit No. 1 on the charts in 1976

  22-01-2026 23:29 via ocregister.com
  
  In 1976, record shoppers knew what they liked – the Eagles and Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan – and they bought it in droves.
  Only 11 different albums reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart that year, with Peter Frampton and George Benson sneaking to the top between the better-known likes of Wings, Led Zeppelin, Earth, Wind & Fire, and a few other familiar acts.
  The singles chart, meanwhile, was all over the place, with radio stations in transition and not su
  
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• Walt Disney was ‘scared’ Disneyland would never be ready for opening day in 1955

  22-01-2026 23:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Walt Disney famously said Disneyland would never be complete “as long as there is imagination left in the world,” but the biggest dreamer of them all was scared Disneyland would never be finished in time for opening day, according to a new documentary about the making of the Anaheim theme park.
  Disneyland Art Director Harper Goff said Walt Disney was “scared” Disneyland would never be ready for opening day in July 1955 in the new “Disneyland Handcrafted” docum
  
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• UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ hunger crisis in Nigeria as food aid funding runs out

  22-01-2026 23:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK BANCHEREAU
  DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program said Thursday that more than a million people in northeastern Nigeria could lose access to emergency food and nutrition aid within weeks unless funding is secured, as violence and hunger surge in the region.
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• VinylCon! returns to Los Angeles this Spring

  22-01-2026 23:10 via ocregister.com
  
  VinylCon! is set to return to Los Angeles this spring, bringing its growing vinyl-focused convention back for a two-day event at the California Market Center in downtown Los Angeles.
  The event will take place March 21–22, marking the second Los Angeles edition of the multi-city vinyl fair.
  The announcement follows VinylCon!’s debut Los Angeles outing last summer, which drew more than 2,500 attendees and featured over 80 record dealers from across the United States and abroad, includi
  
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• Recovery of missing dog Boro brings hope after Spain’s train crashes

  22-01-2026 23:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By SUMAN NAISHADHAM
  MADRID (AP) — After back-to-back fatal train crashes sent shock waves through Spain, some good news arrived on Thursday: Boro, the missing dog, was found.
  Days earlier, Boro’s owner Ana García issued a desperate plea to help find him after the dog bolted Sunday in the aftermath of the high-speed train crash in southern Spain that killed at least 45 people. García, 26, and her pregnant sister were traveling with Boro on the train that derailed.
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• Pasadena Chorale to celebrate Black American composers with free show

  22-01-2026 23:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The Pasadena Chorale is hosting a concert in honor of Black History Month that explores faith, hope, and social justice.
  I BELIEVE will celebrate the profound musical legacy of two Black American composers. The program will begin with original spiritual arrangements by Michal Dawson Connor, an Altadena-based composer whose music includes “My Lord, What a Morning” and “There Is a Balm in Gilead,” both of which draw on deep traditions of resilience, devotion, and communal s
  
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• A Kentucky cathedral called ‘America’s Notre Dame’ gets a rehab, gargoyles and all

  22-01-2026 22:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By PETER SMITH
  COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Gargoyles have watched over this small Kentucky city for more than a century from their lofty perches on a cathedral known as “America’s Notre Dame.” A new renovation will ensure they keep their posts for years to come on the meticulously restored facade of the towering stone sanctuary.
  Workers in recent weeks have been installing new terra cotta gargoyles as one of the final steps of a major, two-year restoration of the Cathedral Basi
  
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• Injured cougar cub found on Castaic road is on the mend

  22-01-2026 22:28 via ocregister.com
  
  State wildlife officials on Thursday said a mountain lion cub with an injured paw that was captured after being spotted crouching in the middle of a Castaic roadway is on the mend.
  On Wednesday, California Fish and Wildlife officials received a report of an injured mountain lion in the area of Hillcrest Parkway and Olympic Street, according to an agency spokesman.
  A female mountain lion kitten that is about 4 to 5 months old and weighing 16 1/2 pounds was found injured early Wednesday, Jan. 21,
  
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• ‘Heated Rivalry’ stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie to be torchbearers for Winter Olympics

  22-01-2026 22:19 via ocregister.com
  
  MILAN (AP) — The actors co-starring in the hit hockey romance TV series “Heated Rivalry” are set to be among the torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame on the way to the Opening Ceremony for the Milan Cortina Games.
  The organizing committee announced Thursday that Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie will take part in the torch relay. The Opening Ceremony is scheduled for Feb. 6.
  This image released by Crave shows Hudson Williams, left, and Connor Storrie in a scene from “
  
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• Lindsey Vonn, Chloe Kim, Mikaela Shiffrin headline US ski and snowboard squad named to the Olympics

  22-01-2026 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By PAT GRAHAM and EDDIE PELLS, AP Sports Writers
  Lindsey Vonn’s stirring return to ski racing in her 40s will hit its crescendo at the Milan Cortina Olympics, while the comeback quest of another U.S. gold medalist, snowboarder Jamie Anderson, came up short.
  Anderson, a two-time champion in slopestyle who returned to the sport after having two kids, failed to reach a podium this season and will not join the U.S. Ski & Snowboard team in the mountains of Italy.
  Mikaela Shiffrin made her f
  
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• Uvalde officer’s acquittal shifts focus to the next case over police response to attack

  22-01-2026 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — With the acquittal in the first Texas trial over the hesitant police response to the Robb Elementary School mass shooting, prosecutors must now decide how to try their case against the only other officer who was charged.
  Adrian Gonzales’ trial was a rare prosecution of an officer accused of failing to save lives by preventing a crime. For nearly three weeks, Uvalde County’s district attorney laid out a ca
  
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• At-a-glance: Southern California homebuying in November

  22-01-2026 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  A report from real estate tracker Attom showed Southern California homebuying dropped to its second-slowest pace for a November over the past 21 years.
  Here’s a summary of the homebuying data …Related Articles Zillow accused of referral monopoly, steering homebuyers to its lenders Wildfire insurance battles: California bills propose consumer-friendly regulations Home prices dip in 44% of OC. How did your ZIP do? Southern California homebuying dips to 2nd-slowest pace in 21 years La
  
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• Under Armour looking into data breach affecting customers’ email addresses

  22-01-2026 22:02 via ocregister.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Clothing retailer Under Armour is investigating a recent data breach that purloined customers’ email addresses and other personal information, but so far there are no signs the hackers stole any passwords or financial information.
  The breach is believed to have happened late last year, and affected 72 million email addresses, according to information cited by the cybersecurity website Have I Been Pwned. Some of the records taken also included personal information tha
  
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• House holding war powers vote to direct Trump to remove troops from Venezuela

  22-01-2026 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House was voting Thursday on a resolution that directs President Donald Trump to remove U.S. military forces from Venezuela as Democrats pressed the Republican-controlled Congress to curb the president’s aggression in the Western Hemisphere.
  The Trump administration told senators last week that there are no U.S. troops on the ground in Venezuela and committed to getting congressional approval before launching major military op
  
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• Could a president deploy wartime law against the Beatles? Trump administration says ‘yes’

  22-01-2026 21:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press
  A federal judge hearing arguments Thursday over President Donald Trump’s use of an 18th-century wartime law to deport Venezuelan gang members had a question: Could a president use the same law against a “British invasion” that was corrupting young minds?
  Jennifer Walker Elrod, chief judge of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, said her query — a reference to the moral panic in the 1960s over the arrival of the Beatl
  
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