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• USC Baseball Commit Drafted In Third Round

  13-06-2017 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  USC commit Nick Allen, a shortstop from San Diego, was drafted in the third round by the Oakland A’s on Tuesday morning. Allen is the third USC recruit drafted in the first three rounds.
  First baseman Nick Pratto of Huntington Beach was selected 14th overall by the Kansas City Royals. Pitcher Hans Crouse of Dana Point was the 66th pick by the Texas Rangers.
  Alllen, a 5-foot-9 shortstop out of Francis Parker High, was chosen No. 81 overall and projected by many publications as a first-round
  
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• Beware the revenge of Wild Wing

  14-01-2026 22:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Could it be the Curse of Wild Wing?
  Agitated fans have taken to the Interwebs by the thousands, bemoaning the fact that the Anaheim Ducks had a losing streak after the fierce fowl’s statue was removed from its prominent perch in front of the stadium before Christmas.
  View this post on InstagramAre the Ducks … drumroll please … cursed?
  Thousands reacted on Instagram, on Facebook, on Threads. “Coincidence?” “They’ve angered the hockey gods.&rdq
  
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• USC women on 3-game skid with No. 12 Maryland in town

  14-01-2026 22:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Kara Dunn bent down and put her hands on her knees. Her eyes were focused on nothing in particular. Moments earlier, the USC women’s basketball guard had sunk a buzzer-beating 3-point shot in Minnesota’s Williams Arena.
  It wasn’t enough. The Trojans still lost 63-62 and created their first three-game losing streak since the 2021-22 season.
  Dunn made her intentions as part of the USC women’s basketball team clear back in November:
  “I want to be there for my team, be
  
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• Mount Baldy trails reopen following 3 deaths, but dangers persist

  14-01-2026 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Recently closed trails around Mount Baldy have reopened, but the local Sheriff’s Department advised that conditions still may not be safe.
  Though trails have reopened, hazardous winter conditions still persist and hikers should come prepared to meet snow-covered trails, icy sections, limited visibility, and the possibility of sudden storms, said the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department in a news release. That means evaluating weather conditions, carrying appropriate gear, and u
  
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• Official says law Trump is using to seek legal fees in Georgia election case likely unconstitutional

  14-01-2026 22:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press
  ATLANTA (AP) — The head of a nonpartisan group that supports Georgia prosecutors said the new state law that President Donald Trump and others charged in an election interference case are using to seek millions in attorney fees and costs from the Fulton County district attorney’s office is likely unconstitutional.
  The law has “serious and potentially unconstitutional deficiencies,” notably because it denies county governments any sort of
  
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• Trump signs a law returning whole milk to school lunches

  14-01-2026 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONEL ALECCIA, Associated Press
  Whole milk is heading back to school cafeterias across the country after President Donald Trump signed a bill Wednesday overturning Obama-era limits on higher-fat milk options.
  Nondairy drinks such as fortified soy milk may also be on the menu in the coming months following adoption of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which cleared Congress in the fall.
  The action allows schools participating in the National School Lunch Program to serve whole and 2% fat mi
  
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• Grand jury indicts suspect in vandalism of Vice President JD Vance’s Ohio home

  14-01-2026 21:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A grand jury indicted the individual accused of vandalizing the Ohio home of Vice President JD Vance and causing other property damage on federal charges Wednesday.
  The three-count indictment charges William D. DeFoor, 26, of Cincinnati, with damaging government property, engaging in physical violence against any person or property in a restricted building or grounds, and assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers.
  DeFoor
  
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• John Moorlach: Sacramento still playing a costly game of chicken with Trump

  14-01-2026 21:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Nine years ago this month, the Sunday January 17th edition of the Orange County Register had front-page, top-of-the-fold headlines under the heading “The President-Elect.” It included “Hope and Fear on the Cusp of Trump.”  The subtitle was “Southern California prepares for the inauguration of a president unlike any other.”  It was by long-time reporter Martin Wisckol. 
  It was accompanied by a “Watchdog” piece by staff columnist Teri
  
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• ‘West Wing’ actor Timothy Busfield due in court on child sex abuse charges in New Mexico

  14-01-2026 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MORGAN LEE, Associated Press
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield is due in court for an initial appearance Wednesday, a day after turning himself in to authorities to face charges of child sex abuse stemming from allegations that he inappropriately touched a minor on the set of a TV series he was directing in New Mexico.
  Albuquerque police issued a warrant for his arrest last week on two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor
  
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• Trump claims killing of Iran protesters ‘has stopped’ even as Tehran signals executions ahead

  14-01-2026 21:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE L. PRICE, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s been told “on good authority” that plans for executions in Iran have stopped, even as Tehran has indicated fast trials and executions ahead in its crackdown on protesters.
  The U.S. president’s claims, which were made with few details, come as he’s told protesting Iranians in recent days that “help is on the way” and that his administration
  
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• Discussion extended again for proposed 447-unit housing project at Anaheim Hills Festival center

  14-01-2026 21:37 via ocregister.com
  
  After much discussion and pushback from concerned residents, the Anaheim City Council delayed making a decision on the housing development proposed at the Anaheim Hills Festival shopping center to Feb. 3.
  Developers want to turn the Anaheim Hills shopping center’s shuttered Regal Cinema into a four-story residential building, wrapped around a five-level parking structure. The public hearing held on Tuesday had been rescheduled from early December.
  That project would include 447 apartment u
  
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• A part that broke on a UPS plane that crashed in Kentucky failed 4 times before on different planes

  14-01-2026 21:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH FUNK, Associated Press
  Boeing warned plane owners in 2011 about a broken part that contributed to a UPS plane crash that killed 15 in November — but at that point the planemaker didn’t believe it threatened safety, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.
  The UPS plane crashed in November 2025 shortly after taking off in Louisville, when the left engine flew off the wing as the plane rolled down the runway.
  The NTSB said Wednesday that Boeing had documented in
  
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• NASCAR driver Greg Biffle’s North Carolina home burglarized weeks after plane crash, officials say

  14-01-2026 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies are investigating an alleged break-in and theft last week at the North Carolina home of retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, one of seven people who died in a plane crash last month.
  The alleged burglary and forcible entry into the Biffle home in Mooresville was reported Jan. 8, according to an incident report from the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office.
  Sheriff Darren Campbell said Wednesday that investigators believe someone entered a sa
  
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• Renee Good’s family hires George Floyd law firm to investigate Minneapolis ICE shooting

  14-01-2026 20:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press
  Renee Good’s family is accusing federal immigration officers of killing the Minneapolis mother as she attempted to follow agents’ instructions, and said Wednesday they have hired the same law firm that represented George Floyd’s family to press for answers and accountability.
  Her loved ones said in a statement they want Good, 37, remembered as “an agent of peace” and urged the public not to use her death as a political flas
  
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• Is Verizon down? Nationwide mobile service outage reported

  14-01-2026 20:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Verizon customers experienced a mobile service outage across the nation on Wednesday.
  More than 180,000 unconfirmed reports were made to Downdetector, peaking in the early afternoon. The hotspot map showed most of the reports coming from New York City, Chicago and Portland, Oregon.
  The network status section of the Verizon website appeared to have crashed, as well.
  The outage affected voice, text, and data service, but users reported retaining WiFi connections to use app
  
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• Trevor Noah to host Grammys for the sixth and final time

  14-01-2026 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Trevor Noah will be hosting the Grammy Awards for the sixth consecutive year, but this time, it’s being billed as a farewell gig.
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• Trump administration restores federal funding for family planning after ACLU lawsuit

  14-01-2026 19:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By KIMBERLEE KRUESI
  Reproductive rights advocates say they have dropped a legal challenge against the Trump administration for withholding millions of dollars of federal funding for family planning, contraception and other services after officials agreed to restore the money.
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• After Minnesota shooting, Democrats call for Kristi Noem’s impeachment

  14-01-2026 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By David Lightman, McClatchy Washington Bureau
  WASHINGTON — Reps. Doris Matsui and Mike Thompson want to impeach Homeland Secretary Kristin Noem. So do dozens of other Democrats.
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• When will Disneyland add Star Wars prequel characters to Galaxy’s Edge?

  14-01-2026 19:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Star Wars characters from the original trilogy and sequel trilogy will soon harmoniously coexist in Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland, which raises the obvious question: What about the prequel trilogy, Clone Wars and everything in between?
  Darth Vader, Han Solo and Princess Leia meet-and-greet characters will make appearances in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at the Anaheim theme park starting on April 29 when Walt Disney Imagineering introduces storylines from the “Empire Strikes Back&rdq
  
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• US overdose deaths fell through most of 2025, federal data reveals

  14-01-2026 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades.
  Federal data released Wednesday showed that overdose deaths have been falling for more than two years — the longest drop in decades — but also that the decline was slowing.
  And the monthly death toll is still not back to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, let alone where it was before t
  
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• Sales of a powerful Nvidia AI chip to China gets the greenlight, with conditions

  14-01-2026 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
  The Trump administration placed new security requirements on Nividia’s semiconductor sales to China, but essentially greenlighted the export of its powerful H200 artificial intelligence chips to Chinese buyers.
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• Trump administration lawyers blessed US operation to remove Maduro from power, memo shows

  14-01-2026 19:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before the U.S. military operation that removed Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro from power, Trump administration lawyers blessed the action by saying it would “not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense” and would serve “important national interests,” according to a legal opinion that articulates a muscular view of presidential power.
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• Tiger’s lost tooth in Cortina. Bode’s 1-ski show in Bormio. Olympic Alpine slopes filled with tales

  14-01-2026 19:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREW DAMPF and PAT GRAHAM, Associated Press
  Tiger Woods’ tooth might still be buried at the bottom of the Cortina downhill course ever since a wild day — and a record-breaking run — more than a decade ago by his girlfriend at the time, Lindsey Vonn.
  A decade earlier, and mountains away, Bode Miller turned in a famous performance on only one ski down the feared Stelvio course in Bormio.
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• Venezuela’s acting president vows to continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro

  14-01-2026 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Wednesday vowed to continue releasing prisoners detained under former President Nicolás Maduro during her first press conference since Maduro was ousted by the United States earlier this month.
  Rodríguez served as Maduro’s vice president since 2018, running Venezuela’s feared intelligence service and managing its crucial oil industry. A 56-year-old lawye
  
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• Diversity still a major issue at the Winter Olympics. The US is making some strides

  14-01-2026 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By TIM REYNOLDS, Associated Press
  LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — When USA Bobsled and Skeleton unveils its Olympic rosters, the most likely scenario is that either eight or nine women will wind up competing for that federation on the ice at the Milan Cortina Winter Games.
  Most of those sliders will almost certainly be women of color.
  By the time the Games open, this could be the most diverse U.S. Olympic winter roster ever assembled. The 2018 U.S. roster for the 2018 Games included 21 athletes o
  
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• Tina Peters’ lawyers try to convince Colorado court to overturn conviction for voting system breach

  14-01-2026 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By COLLEEN SLEVIN
  DENVER (AP) — Lawyers for former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters will try to convince a state appeals court on Wednesday to overturn her conviction in a case revolving around the 2020 presidential election as her supporters, including President Donald Trump, continue to pressure the state to set her free.
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• Blasting heat at home and still freezing? There are easy fixes to save money and stay warm

  14-01-2026 18:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By CALEIGH WELLS
  It’s that time of year again, when the fuzzy socks are working overtime, the heat is cranking and somehow lots of homes are still freezing.
  Related Articles Scientists call another near-record hot year a ‘warning shot’ of a shifting, dangerous climate Trump’s freeze on a NY offshore wind project is still being considered by a judge How will climate change reshape the Winter Olympics? The list of possible host sites is shrinking EPA proposes limiting power
  
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• How creating a peaceful space in your garden offers a simple sanctuary

  14-01-2026 18:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jessica Damiano | The Associated Press
  With temperatures dropping and dusk arriving early, the firepit section of my garden has been on my mind.
  It’s a simple setup. Eight colorful Adirondack chairs are arranged in a circle around a stacked stone hearth, surrounded, during the growing season, by easy-growing, low-maintenance button bush, hydrangeas, hosta, clumping Liriope and coleus.
  And simple is what makes it special. The important part is the feeling it provides – unfussy
  
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• US suspending immigrant visa processing from 75 countries over public assistance

  14-01-2026 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW LEE, AP Diplomatic Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Wednesday it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States.
  The State Department, led by Secretary Marco Rubio, said it had instructed consular officers to halt immigrant visa applications from the countries affected in accordance with a broader order issued in November
  
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• Disneyland adds John Williams’ Star Wars score to Galaxy’s Edge

  14-01-2026 18:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Star Wars fans will hear the iconic John Williams orchestral scores and themes playing as background music in Galaxy’s Edge that have been missing since Black Spire Outpost opened at Disneyland in 2019.
  Movie soundtrack themes from the first six Star Wars films will play as background music in Galaxy’s Edge at the Anaheim theme park starting on April 29 when Walt Disney Imagineering introduces new storylines in the themed land from the “Empire Strikes Back” and “Ret
  
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