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• The holiday shopping season comes with tons of extra emissions. Here’s how to do it sustainably

  09-12-2025 15:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By CALEIGH WELLS, Associated Press
  We’re in the thick of the holiday shopping season, and U.S. residents are expected to shatter the spending record again this year. The National Retail Federation forecasts that 2025 will be the first time we collectively spend more than $1 trillion on year-end gifts.
  A lot of materials, energy, packaging and gasoline have gone into making and moving those gifts. All of those processes release planet-warming gases into the atmosphere.
  But a lot of that env
  
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• Ex-Compton councilmember admits to funneling $70,000 in bribes to Baldwin Park officials

  10-12-2025 03:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Former Compton Councilmember Isaac Galvan has admitted to funneling $70,000 in bribes to a corrupt Baldwin Park councilman to secure his votes on cannabis permits tied to Galvan’s clients.
  Galvan, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of bribery and one count of tax evasion in court Tuesday, Dec. 9, as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors. He agreed to pay $327,557 in restitution to the IRS for the nearly $600,000 in income he failed to report from 2017 to 2020.
  He faces a maximum of 10
  
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• Alec Sanders, the fallen Alhambra officer, is remembered, honored during his funeral

  10-12-2025 03:02 via ocregister.com
  
  An Alhambra Police officer wears Alec Sanders police number during his funeral service at Shepherd Church in Porter Ranch on Tuesday, December 9, 2025. Sanders was allegedly killed by a fleeing suspect in a reported stolen vehicle. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  Alhambra Police Officer Alec Sanders’ fiancée is comforted after his funeral service at Shepherd Church in Porter Ranch on Tuesday, Dec 9. Sanders was allegedly killed by a fleeing suspect in a rep
  
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• Galaxy, LAFC will begin 2026 in CONCACAF Champions Cup

  10-12-2025 02:58 via ocregister.com
  
  The Galaxy and the Los Angeles Football Club will kick off their 2026 seasons early with the first round of the CONCACAF Champions Cup.
  Dates haven’t been announced, but CONCACAF said the first leg of the opening round series could be played as early as Feb. 3. The Galaxy’s MLS opener is scheduled for Feb. 22. CONCACAF will announce the complete Round One and Round of 16 schedule “in the coming days.”
  The Galaxy will face Panamanian squad Sporting San Miguelito, which won
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Tuesday, Dec. 9

  10-12-2025 02:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Tuesday, Dec. 9.
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  TUESDAY’S SCORES
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  WESTERN TOURNAMENT
  Newport Harbor 73, Valencia 55
  NORTH ORANGE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS
  Cypress 75, Quartz Hill 54
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• After nearly 30 years Chain Reaction in Anaheim is closing its doors for good

  10-12-2025 02:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim’s all-ages club Chain Reaction announced that it will officially close its doors this month.
  “For almost 30 years, Chain Reaction has proudly fostered the alt-music scene by creating a space for a community that the outside world ‘just didn’t get’,” the Instagram post said. “From your local bands gaining their footing at their first shows, to the humble beginnings of huge acts you now love, we’re grateful to have held a place in this scene
  
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• 7 suspects arrested in Irvine home invasion robbery targeting cryptocurrency

  10-12-2025 02:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Seven people have been arrested in connection with a September home invasion robbery in Irvine, where residents were held at gunpoint, their hands and mouths duct-taped in an attempt to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency, prosecutors announced Tuesday, Dec. 9.
  The final outstanding defendant was arrested by U.S. Marshals last week in Las Vegas after a manhunt, the Orange County District Attorney’s office said.
  The break-in happened around 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 23 in the 5000 block of
  
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• Swanson: New UCLA coach Bob Chesney ready for his closeup

  10-12-2025 02:30 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Whether we just met L.A.’s next great coach or just the latest, merely mortal UCLA football head man, I don’t know.
  I do know that the Bruins’ band played Bob Chesney onstage Tuesday for his introductory acceptance speech, as if hoping the 48-year-old Pennsylvanian’s list of thank-yous grows exponentially by the season and that he’ll stay as long as he likes, and that that’s a long time.
  Time, of course, is the only thing that will tell how
  
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• Another class of trailblazers is inducted to Orange County Hall of Fame

  10-12-2025 02:17 via ocregister.com
  
  The first Asian American male Olympic gold medalist, a legendary film director and the first Latino county supervisor were among the third class of Orange County trailblazers inducted to the OC Hall of Fame.
  Families and friends gathered in Santa Ana Tuesday morning, Dec. 9, to celebrate the 10 athletes, entertainers, civic leaders and philanthropists in a ceremony hosted by the Orange County Board of Supervisors.
  Jacklyn Mitosinka, granddaughter of Eddie Sheldrake accepts his nomination into th
  
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• Eric Kay told detective that he spoke to Angels’ VP about doing drugs with Tyler Skaggs years before pitcher’s death

  10-12-2025 02:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Eric Kay, the Los Angeles Angels’ staffer who provided Tyler Skaggs with illicit opioid pills, told a Texas detective that years before the pitcher’s death Kay had informed a vice president of the ballclub that he had used drugs with Skaggs, according to testimony Tuesday, Dec. 9 in an ongoing wrongful death trial.
  Delaney Green, who investigated Skaggs’ death in a Texas hotel room at the start of an Angels’ road trip in July 2019, confirmed that Kay, in an interview with
  
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• EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming’s causes. Scientists call it misleading

  10-12-2025 01:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By SETH BORENSTEIN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. Now it only mentions natural phenomena, even though scientists calculate that nearly all of the warming is due to human activity.
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• What are parents to do as doctors clash with Trump administration over vaccines?

  10-12-2025 01:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE
  It’s normal for parents, or anyone, to have questions about vaccinations — but what happens if your pediatrician urges a shot that’s under attack by the Trump administration?
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• A symphony of woofs: This is what happens when 2,397 golden retrievers gather in an Argentina park

  10-12-2025 01:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By ISABEL DEBRE
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A passerby could hear the cacophony from miles away in the Argentine capital, the unmistakable sound of 2,397 dogs barking — and breaking the unofficial world record for the largest-ever gathering of golden retrievers.
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• DOJ ends monitoring of illegal dumping in Houston in retreat from environmental justice

  10-12-2025 01:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By JIM MUSTIAN and JUAN A. LOZANO
  HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with the city of Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods, part of the Trump administration’s broad dismantling of environmental justice initiatives.
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• The Rose Parade marching band from Japan is donating thousands for wildfire relief

  10-12-2025 01:26 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s expensive enough these days for a marching band from another country to raise money to be part of the Rose Parade on Jan. 1, 2026.
  Costs average out at $2,000 to $2,500 per band member. For example, if a band has 300 members, that equals $600,000 to $750,000, said Terry Madigan, executive vice president of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association. Heck, design and construction of a high quality float runs $275,000, according to the Tournament of Roses.
  But there was a band this ye
  
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• Wisconsin judge refuses to step aside as requested by former Trump attorney

  10-12-2025 01:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By SCOTT BAUER
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday refused to step aside as requested by President Donald Trump’s former attorney who faces felony forgery case related to the 2020 election in the battleground state.
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• Judge orders Georgia to continue hormone therapy for transgender inmates

  10-12-2025 01:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By JEFF AMY
  ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has permanently ordered Georgia’s prison system to keep providing some kinds of gender-affirming care for transgender prisoners, although the state plans to appeal.
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• Late actor Stephen J. Cannell’s refreshed Pasadena estate lists for $22M

  10-12-2025 01:10 via ocregister.com
  
  The entry hall. (Photo by Shawn Bishop)
  The butler’s pantry. (Photo by Shawn Bishop)
  The bar. (Photo by Shawn Bishop)
  The living room. (Photo by Shawn Bishop)
  The kitchen, breakfast nook and family room. (Photo by Shawn Bishop)
  The library. (Photo by Shawn Bishop)
  The primary suite. (Photo by Shawn Bishop)
  The primary bathroom. (Photo by Shawn Bishop)
  The primary walk-in closet. (Photo by Shawn Bishop)
  The pool and pool house. (Photo by Shawn Bishop)
  The tennis court and pavilion. (Photo b
  
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• Federal agents use pepper spray on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown

  10-12-2025 01:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK VANCLEAVE and STEVE KARNOWSKI
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents used pepper spray to push through an angry crowd that blocked their vehicles as they checked identifications in a heavily Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis on Tuesday, amid the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown targeting the community.
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• Luigi Mangione’s notes to self: ‘Pluck eyebrows,’ ‘Keep momentum, FBI slower overnight’

  10-12-2025 00:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK
  NEW YORK (AP) — Pluck eyebrows. Buy less conspicuous shoes. Take a bus or a train west toward Cincinnati and St. Louis. Move around late at night. Stay away from surveillance cameras.
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• FDA opens safety review of injectable RSV drugs approved for babies and toddlers

  10-12-2025 00:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW PERRONE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Food and Drug Administration officials have opened a safety review of two injectable drugs used to protect babies and toddlers from RSV, the respiratory virus that sends thousands of American children to the hospital each year.
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• Son arrested after Grammy-nominated singer Jubilant Sykes is stabbed to death at California home

  10-12-2025 00:28 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Grammy-nominated singer Jubilant Sykes was stabbed to death at his home in Santa Monica, California, and his son was arrested on suspicion of murder, authorities said Tuesday.
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• Senate heads toward dueling partisan votes on health care, with each likely to fail

  10-12-2025 00:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ALI SWENSON
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week after Republicans said Tuesday that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health care subsidies to expire.
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• Lakers’ Marcus Smart plans to return for NBA Cup matchup with Spurs

  09-12-2025 23:46 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — Veteran reserve guard Marcus Smart practiced Tuesday and expects to make his return to the court in the Lakers’ NBA Cup quarterfinal matchup against the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night at Crypto.com Arena.
  “Back’s feeling good,” Smart said after Tuesday’s practice. “Felt good in practice. We did some tests, passed the tests. We’re gonna give it a shot [on Wednesday], see how it feels. But right now, I’m playing. Hopefully, c
  
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• OpenAI names Slack CEO Dresser as first chief of revenue as ChatGPT maker aims to make a profit

  09-12-2025 23:45 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI said Tuesday it has picked Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue, a message to wary investors that the ChatGPT maker is serious about making a profit from its artificial intelligence technology.
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• Justice Department challenges court order limiting access to evidence in Comey investigation

  09-12-2025 23:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Tuesday challenged a court order that complicated efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey by making a trove of evidence off-limits to prosecutors.
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• Cracker Barrel lowers revenue forecast as traffic falls after logo blowup

  09-12-2025 23:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEE-ANN DURBIN
  Cracker Barrel posted lower-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter and trimmed its revenue forecast for the year as it continued to feel the fallout from a botched plan to revamp its logo and restaurants.
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• Shooting at Kentucky State University leaves 1 dead, 1 hurt and a suspect in custody, officials say

  09-12-2025 23:01 via ocregister.com
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Police say a shooting at Kentucky State University has left one person dead and one in critical condition on Tuesday.
  A suspect was in custody, according to the governor’s office.
  Police in Frankfort said they were responding to an incident on the campus.
  “We will share more information as available,” Gov. Andy Beshear said in a post on X. “Law enforcement are on scene, and a suspect has been arrested. Let’s pray for all those affected.&r
  
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• Angels acquire 2B Vaughn Grissom from Red Sox

  09-12-2025 22:28 via ocregister.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. — The Angels purchased another lottery ticket.
  The Angels swung a deal to get former top prospect Vaughn Grissom, an infielder whose status has fallen since disappointing performances with the Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox.
  The Angels sent Class-A outfielder Isaiah Jackson to Boston to complete the trade. Jackson was the Angels’ eighth-round pick last summer, and he’d played just 10 professional games, hitting .219.
  Grissom, who turns 25 next month, is out of
  
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• Shonique Williams, a criminal justice advocate, jumps into a House race to represent LA and Orange counties

  09-12-2025 22:19 via ocregister.com
  
  The race for California’s newly drawn 41st Congressional District is heating up, with another Democrat jumping into the race with a focus on housing and mental health services.
  Shonique Williams, 34, is a criminal justice advocate. Her platform includes proposing a mandatory cap on how much rent can be raised each year and an annual wage increase that would apply to businesses that employ a certain number of people, though she hasn’t decided what that figure should be just yet. She a
  
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