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• UCLA vs. Oregon: TV info, scouting report, prediction

  20-10-2017 22:19 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA vs. Oregon
  When: 1 p.m. Saturday
  Where: Rose Bowl
  TV/Radio: Pac-12 Network/AM 1150 or AM 570
  Records: UCLA (3-3, 1-2 Pac-12); Oregon (4-3, 1-3 Pac-12)
  Oregon stats
  QB Braxton Burmeister: 19-36, 172 yards, 1 TD, 4 INTs
  RB Royce Freeman: 133 carries, 797 yards, 10 TDs
  LB Troy Dye: 62 tackles, 7 TFLs, 3 sacks, 1 INT
  DE Jalen Jelks: 31 tackles, 10.5 TFLs, 4.5 sacks
  CB Thomas Graham Jr.: 38 tackles, 2 INTs, 6 passes defended
  Oregon injury report: OUT: QB Justin Herbert (collarbone
  
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• Testimony begins in hearings tied to misconduct allegations in OC murder prosecution

  01-05-2024 02:05 via ocregister.com
  
  A former Orange County Sheriff’s Department investigator on Tuesday denied that he personally mishandled evidence related to a jailhouse snitch that was withheld from defense lawyers, resulting in the unraveling of a murder conviction.
  William Beeman, a former member of the sheriff’s Special Operations Unit, was the first person to take the stand in a special hearing held for a judge to determine whether a former high-level Orange County prosecutor, who is currently a judge, improper
  
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• Two charged with cutting down famous tree in England

  01-05-2024 01:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By Brian Melley | Associated Press
  LONDON — Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree that toppled over on Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday.
  Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged with causing criminal damage and damaging the wall built in A.D. 122 by Emperor Hadrian to guard the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire.
  They were ordered to appear in Newcastle Magistrates’ Court
  
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• UC Irvine men’s volleyball sweeps Penn State to reach NCAA semifinals

  01-05-2024 01:32 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — The UC Irvine men’s volleyball team lived to fight another day at the NCAA Championships, sweeping Penn State in the quarterfinals Tuesday afternoon at the Walter Pyramid.
  The fourth-seeded Anteaters slowly gained separation from fifth-seeded Penn State as the match unfolded and they eventually pulled away for a 26-24, 25-16, 25-19 win.
  Irvine (20-10) will meet top-seeded UCLA in the semifinals Thursday evening.
  “I feel like, at this point of the season, I’m
  
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• After up-and-down season, Lakers face an uncertain future

  01-05-2024 01:32 via ocregister.com
  
  DENVER — As star forward LeBron James sat at the Lakers’ podium inside Ball Arena on Monday night after the team’s season-ending 108-106 playoff loss to the Denver Nuggets, questions about his basketball future naturally arose.
  “I haven’t given it much thought,” James said after the Nuggets eliminated them for the second straight year, this time in five games. “Obviously at some point I’ll sit down with Rich [Paul], my agent, I’ll sit down wi
  
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• Marina’s Quinn Hartman named CIF State Scholar-Athlete of the Year

  01-05-2024 01:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Marina High senior Quinn Hartman has been chosen as a CIF Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the 2023-24 school year.
  It is a CIF State award.
  Hartman has served as Marina’s team captain on its cross country, soccer and baseball teams.
  He also leads several high school organizations.
  Hartman, who will attend Caltech, is the founder and president of the Marina Math Club, president of the Science National Honors Society, vice president of the Medical Career Club, vice president of California Sc
  
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• Taliban turn their attention to wooing tourists to Afghanistan

  01-05-2024 01:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By Riazat Butt | Associated Press
  KABUL, Afghanistan — Around 30 men are crammed into a Kabul classroom, part of the debut student cohort at a Taliban-run institute training tourism and hospitality professionals.
  It’s a motley crew. One student is a model. Another is 17 and has no job history.
  The students vary in age, education level and professional experience. They’re all men — Afghan women are banned from studying beyond sixth grade — and they don’t know a
  
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• 12 horse deaths last year at Churchill Downs brought change to Kentucky Derby

  01-05-2024 01:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Memories are made at the Kentucky Derby, most of them good. Whether cashing a winning ticket, sipping mint juleps or marveling at the horses, crowds pack Churchill Downs to experience a bucket list sporting event.
  Many left last year in tears, anger and questioning the safety of the sport after 12 horses died at the historic track in the days surrounding the race, including two on Derby day when racing enjoys its biggest attendance and highest TV ratings of the year.
  “You can’t ever
  
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• Angels star Mike Trout needs surgery for torn meniscus

  01-05-2024 01:01 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Angels star Mike Trout will have surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee, sidelining the three-time American League MVP indefinitely.
  The Angels believe Trout will be able to return this season, General Manager Perry Minasian said while announcing the injury Tuesday.
  Trout is batting .220 with a major league-leading 10 home runs, 14 RBIs and six stolen bases this year, but he will be sidelined by a major injury for the fourth consecutive season.
  “It’s just
  
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• Chad Brown has 2 shots at 1st Kentucky Derby victory

  01-05-2024 00:46 via ocregister.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — There was a brief moment three weeks ago when trainer Chad Brown’s Kentucky Derby outlook was jolted as one of his hopefuls resisted multiple attempts to enter the gate in a major qualifying race and then started slowly.
  Things turned out way better than Brown could have guessed as that testy colt, Sierra Leone, put any concerns to rest by storming from the back to win the Grade 1 Blue Grass by 1½ lengths at Keeneland. That stirring rally not only gave Brown
  
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• Three surf legends inducted into Hermosa Beach Surfers Walk of Fame

  01-05-2024 00:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Three individuals who made major contributions to the world of surfing were honored during the Surfers Walk of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday, April 27 — which marked the event’s 20th anniversary.
  David Nuuhiwa, Greg Browning and Mike Balzer — surrounded by family, friends and surfing afficianados — each took home a replica of the plaque that will eventually be installed on the Hermosa Beach Pier.
  The trio joined dozens of others feted over the last two decades, incl
  
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• UCLA’s offensive line continues to evolve

  01-05-2024 00:03 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES – UCLA’s offensive line depth continues to undergo significant changes as the Bruins finish out the final week of spring practice.
  Coach DeShaun Foster and the Bruins saw the departure of a pair of linemen after UCLA received two commitments from out of the transfer portal this week.
  Left tackle Bruno Fina leaves after four seasons with the program. Fina started all 13 games and helped the Bruins lead the Pac-12 in rushing yards per game (197.9). But Fina also struggled i
  
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• Kings’ season on the line in Game 5 at Edmonton

  30-04-2024 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Through peaks and valleys, the Kings have repeated the same maxim: “Check for chances.”
  But last they checked, they were all but out of chances, facing elimination Wednesday in Edmonton. There, the Oilers could continue their countdown after having ejected the Kings in seven, six and now potentially five games across three consecutive seasons.
  Their adjustments in this first-round series have been mostly futile, with Edmonton requiring all of two minutes to counter their recalibratio
  
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• Parents get life in prison for the torture murder of 4-year-old Noah Cuatro in Palmdale

  30-04-2024 23:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By TERRI VERMEULEN KEITH
  The parents of a 4-year-old Palmdale boy who was tortured and murdered were sentenced Tuesday to potential life prison terms.
  Superior Court Judge Robert G. Chu sentenced Jose Maria Cuatro Jr. to 32 years to life in prison, and Ursula Elaine Juarez to 22 years to life for Noah Cuatro’s July 2019 death, which was initially reported as a drowning.
  Cuatro, 32, pleaded no contest March 29 to one count each of first-degree murder and torture, and Juarez, 30, pleaded no
  
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• Tesoro softball follows battery of Loula-Rae McNamara and Kennedy Proctor into playoffs

  30-04-2024 23:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowTesoro softball coach Sara Higgins usually calls pitches for her teams. The former high school catcher, however, made an exception this spring that has produced impressive results.
  The Titans’ first-year coach has allowed senior catcher Kennedy Proctor to call pitches for ace Loula-Rae McNamara.
  “It’s hard but it’s only because it’s Kennedy,” Higgins said of relinquishi
  
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• Clippers, without Kawhi Leonard for Game 5, look to ‘take care of business’

  30-04-2024 23:12 via ocregister.com
  
  PLAYA VISTA — The approach to a Game 5, even without one of your best players, can be viewed in many ways.
  “I think at 2-2, it’s kind of like nothing’s really happened yet, even though a lot has,” Clippers reserve center Mason Plumlee said Tuesday. “It’s 0-0 and it’s the best-of-three now.”
  Coach Tyronn Lue agreed with Plumlee’s assessment of the status of the Clippers’ first-round series against the Dallas Mavericks that resumes
  
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• Netanyahu: Rafah invasion happening with or without a deal

  30-04-2024 23:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By Tia Goldenberg and Matthew Lee | Associated Press
  TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the almost 7-month-long war, just as cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas appear to be gaining steam.
  Netanyahu’s comments came hours before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was to arrive in Israel to advance the tr
  
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• Palestine protests: UCLA opens inquiry, USC president in talks with protesters

  30-04-2024 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  On Wednesday, UCLA announced it was investigating alleged attempts by protesters to block student access to class, while at USC President Caroline Folt entered the second day of talks with student protesters.
  University leaders at UCLA have ordered protesters to take down the metal barriers they were using to control foot traffic in and around Royce Quad, where the ‘Palestine Solidarity Encampment’ is now, on April 30, in its sixth day.
  An Israel supporter flys the Israeli flag at UC
  
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• Campus protests: The kids are (mostly) right about America’s misguided, unconditional support for Israel

  30-04-2024 22:36 via ocregister.com
  
  I’m too young to remember the campus convulsions of the 1960s, but older friends who were there tell me that the growing campus protest movement against US support for Israel’s war in Palestine bears a striking resemblance to those days.
  I happen to support that movement’s goals, at least to the extent of wanting to see the US government butt out of other people’s arguments.
  I’m told by some “pro-Israel” friends that the student protesters  are all
  
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• UCLA men’s volleyball opens NCAA Tournament with Fort Valley State sweep

  30-04-2024 22:34 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — The UCLA men’s volleyball team took its first step toward defending its NCAA title with a three-set victory against Fort Valley State in a quarterfinal match at the Walter Pyramid.
  The top-seeded Bruins strung together wins of 25-14, 25-15 and 25-15 against the eighth-seeded Wildcats, the first HBCU institution to qualify in tournament history.
  UCLA (24-5) will play the winner of fourth-seeded UC Irvine and fifth-seeded Penn State in the semifinals Thursday.
  The Bruins w
  
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• Southern California leads state’s 1st population gain since 2019

  30-04-2024 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  California posted its first population increase since the pandemic struck – a gain that was driven geographically from the south.
  The California Department of Finance counted 67,100 more residents in the past year to 39.13 million as of Jan. 1. State demographers connected the growth, the first increase since 2019, to legal foreign immigration and “natural” growth – births vs. deaths.
  California’s population dropped by an average 196,000 residents per year in 2020 t
  
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• Duo sentenced for 2021 Pasadena strip mall shooting that killed Azusa man

  30-04-2024 21:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Two men were recently sentenced for a shooting at a Pasadena strip mall where an Azusa man was killed and a Duarte woman injured three years ago.
  Dante Dejuan Ward of Irvine received 22 years in prison and Evan Roland Bynum of Los Angeles got six years in prison during their April 24 sentencing at Burbank Superior Court, according to court records and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
  The judge had sentenced the 36-year-old Ward to 11 years and doubled it because he h
  
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• Workers’ paychecks grew faster in the first quarter, a possible concern for the Fed

  30-04-2024 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By Christopher Rugaber | The Associated Press
  Pay and benefits for America’s workers grew more quickly in the first three months of this year, a trend that could contribute to higher inflation and raise concerns about the future path of price increases at the Federal Reserve.
  Compensation as measured by the government’s Employment Cost Index rose 1.2% in the January-March quarter, up from a 0.9% increase in the previous quarter, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Compared with the sa
  
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• Swanson: The Lakers’ best next move? Don’t panic

  30-04-2024 21:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Woke up Tuesday morning to the sounds of sirens blaring, alarms going off all across the city. Panic in the streets.
  Armageddon?
  No, a Lakers first-round playoff exit.
  Dang near everyone up in arms after the Denver Nuggets excused the Lakers 4-1 on Monday in about as competitive a gentleman’s sweep as one could imagine. I hear you all arguing about who’s gotta go! The coach! His boss! His staff! The players! Which players? All of ’em but the stars! The stars?! Be serious.
  Deep
  
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• Fairy gardens: How to conjure myth, magic and mirth when gardening with kids

  30-04-2024 21:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By Laura Sampson | The Associated Press
  Fairy gardens captivate the imagination, serving as miniature sanctuaries that offer a glimpse into a whimsical, enchanted world. These tiny landscapes are crafted to attract mythical fairy visitors, blending the allure of fantasy with the beauty of nature.
  The creation of fairy gardens is not just an artistic endeavor, but also an act of fun and whimsy played out with plants. They allow both the young and the young at heart to indulge in creative play and
  
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• Capistrano Valley Christian girls beach volleyball loses in CIF-SS final

  30-04-2024 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Capistrano Valley Christian advanced to a CIF Southern Section girls beach volleyball championship match for the second year in a row Saturday at Long Beach City College.
  The Eagles lost to Oaks Christian 3-2 in the Division 2 final.
  Capistrano Valley Christian got to the final by beating Crean Lutheran in the semifinals.
  Capistrano Valley Christian lost to Crean Lutheran in last year’s Division 2 championship match.
  This was the second season that the CIF Southern Section held girls beach
  
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• UC Irvine pro-Palestinian encampment lasts overnight, demonstrator asked to leave campus by police

  30-04-2024 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  A few dozen students at UC Irvine stayed overnight at a tent encampment that formed Monday, April 29, on campus, hoping to get the university to cut financial ties with Israel and raise awareness over the death of Palestinian people in the Israel-Hamas war.
  The protest is part of a nationwide movement across college campuses where pro-Palestinian demonstrators are erecting tent encampments. The UCI students say their encampment will last until the university meets their demands.
  Tuesday mor
  
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• UC Irvine pro-Palestian encampment lasts overnight, demonstrator asked to leave campus by police

  30-04-2024 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  A few dozen students at UC Irvine stayed overnight at a tent encampment that formed Monday, April 29, on campus, hoping to get the university to cut financial ties with Israel and raise awareness over the death of Palestinian people in the Israel-Hamas war.
  The protest is part of a nationwide movement across college campuses where pro-Palenstian demonstrators are erecting tent encampments. The UCI students say their encampment will last until the university meets their demands.
  Tuesday morning,
  
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• They staffed the Jan. 6 committee. Threats still follow them

  30-04-2024 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Chris Marquette and Michael Macagnone | CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
  WASHINGTON — A deep unease trickled through Jacob Glick’s entire body. He had started a virtual deposition of Jim Watkins, the large, scruffy QAnon conspiracy theorist who runs 8kun, a website filled with hateful, racist content that included calls for violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
  Glick, then an investigative counsel for the House select committee probing the Jan. 6 attack, made the customary introductions of his
  
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• Review: ‘Galilee, 34’ at South Coast Repertory offers a fresh take on the life of Jesus

  30-04-2024 20:55 via ocregister.com
  
  “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?”
  In “Galilee, 34” talented playwright Eleanor Burgess channels Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical question but ups the ante from his “Hamilton” lyric to hypothesize about the origins of an even bigger historical biography, aka, “The Greatest Story Ever Told.”
  This superbly written two-act play received its world premiere on South Coast Repertory’s Argyros stage this weekend.
  “Galilee, 34&rdquo
  
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