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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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• USC’s Waymond Jordan set to return next season

  14-12-2025 06:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Running back Waymond Jordan is coming back to USC for his senior season instead of declaring for the NFL Draft.
  “I’m coming back for another year because I feel like we left a lot of things on the table,” Jordan said in a social media video. “We’re coming back for everything and we’ve got a great thing building here in LA.”
  View this post on InstagramJordan, a Hutchinson Community College transfer, rushed for 576 yards and five touchdowns on 88 carries b
  
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• LA Bowl: Washington cruises to win over Boise State

  14-12-2025 05:57 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — A purple haze hovered like a metaphorical halo over SoFi Stadium. How many times could Jedd Fisch set the record straight?
  Washington’s head coach had already addressed Friday that he was planning on remaining with the Huskies beyond the Bucked Up LA Bowl on Saturday night.
  Fisch had been linked to jobs across the nation as openings appeared — UCLA and Florida in particular — and the question is sure to arrive postgame once again after Arizona State coach Kenn
  
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• Swanson: UConn dominates USC — and that’s bad news for UCLA

  14-12-2025 05:02 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The No. 1 Connecticut women’s basketball team came to L.A. on Saturday and demolished No. 16 USC, 79-51 – and I’m so sorry, UCLA.
  I watched the Huskies – who came into the nationally televised non-conference showdown as 20-point favorites – run the Trojans out of their own gym and couldn’t stop thinking about the No. 4-ranked Bruins.
  The better-than-ever Bruins. The big-dreaming Bruins. The now-or-never Bruins who came into this season with
  
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• USC women’s coach Lindsay Gottlieb addresses shooting at Brown University

  14-12-2025 03:31 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — USC women’s basketball head coach Lindsay Gottlieb shared strong feelings regarding the school shooting that occurred at Brown University on Saturday.
  “The college football cycle has been in the news a million times and are we going to report about this? It’s the guns,” Gottlieb told reporters at the start of the postgame press conference that followed USC’s game against UConn.
  “We’re the only country that lives this way. Parents shou
  
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• Litmus Test gives Bob Baffert his 15th Los Alamitos Futurity

  14-12-2025 03:03 via ocregister.com
  
  CYPRESS — After chasing the presumptive 2-year-old champion Ted Noffey and a $3 million colt named Brant in his earlier races, Litmus Test faced a decidedly less star-studded field in the Los Alamitos Futurity on Saturday.
  But that’s not why Litmus Test won the $200,000, Grade II race, trainer Bob Baffert insisted after sending out the 1-2-3 finishers.
  “He’s getting better,” Baffert said in the winner’s circle. “He ran better today than he did in the Bre
  
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• Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza wins Heisman Trophy

  14-12-2025 02:28 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK — Fernando Mendoza, the mercurial quarterback of No. 1 Indiana, won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, becoming the first Hoosier to win college football’s most prestigious award since its inception in 1935.
  Mendoza claimed 2,362 first place votes. He beat Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia (1,435 votes), Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love (719 votes) and Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin (432 votes).
  Mendoza guided the Hoosiers to their first No. 1 ranking and the
  
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• No. 16 USC women shredded by No. 1 UConn

  14-12-2025 01:53 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — When UConn orchestrated, USC scrapped. The Trojans, who were a 20-point underdog at tipoff, let loose everything they had but were powerless against the No. 1-ranked women’s basketball team in the nation.
  No. 16 USC fell behind by as many as 21 points in the first half and lost 79-51 on Saturday at the Galen Center.
  Kennedy Smith led the Trojans with 16 points and seven rebounds. Londynn Jones scored 14 points off the bench.
  UConn’s Azzi Fudd, who is expected to b
  
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• Girls basketball coach Kerwin Walters is out at Sage Hill

  14-12-2025 01:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowKerwin Walters is no longer coaching the girls basketball team at Sage Hill, the school confirmed Saturday.
  Athletic director Megan Cid stated that Mike Farzley, an associate director of athletics at the school, will “step in as interim program head” just nine games into the season. Farzley, who has basketball coaching experience, will have two assistants to round out the coaching staff, Cid a
  
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• Laguna Niguel Holiday Parade welcomes Santa to town

  14-12-2025 01:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Laguna Niguel residents take their holiday party to the streets.
  The city’s more than 25-year-old parade marched down Crown Valley Parkway Saturday morning, Dec. 13, jingling all the way.
  With floats and marching bands, community groups and fancy cars, the event has all the trappings of a traditional parade, wrapped up in holiday ribbon with Santa Claus overseeing the merriment.
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• Lakers’ defense under review as their offense takes a hit

  14-12-2025 01:06 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — The Lakers’ Friday morning meeting heightened their attention to the team’s defensive struggles. And their Friday afternoon news was an example of why they need to have urgency when it comes to finding solutions.
  With the team announcing that star guard Austin Reaves will be sidelined for at least the next two games because of a left calf strain, the Lakers will be without the player coach JJ Redick said had “carried” the team for the previous six weeks
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday, Dec. 13

  14-12-2025 01:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Saturday, Dec. 13.
  Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register.
  The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
  SATURDAY’S SCORES
  FOOTBALL
  CIF STATE CHAMPIONSHIPSDivision 7-AA
  Redding Christian 16, Woodbridge 0
  BOYS BASKETBALL
  NORTH ORANGE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS
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• Woodbridge football’s remarkable run ends with loss in CIF state finals

  14-12-2025 00:56 via ocregister.com
  
  FULLERTON — The Woodbridge football team made an unexpected run to reach the CIF State Division 7-AA championship game on Saturday. But the Warriors weren’t able to add one more highlight to their amazing season.
  The Warriors had some success moving the ball but hurt themselves with turnovers and lost to Redding Christian 16-0 at Fullerton High School.
  The Lions finished their season unbeaten (15-0).
  Woodbridge’s David Bosley (5) leaps Redding Christian’s Jonah Day (17) f
  
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• No. 22 Navy rallies to beat Army for 2nd straight year

  14-12-2025 00:44 via ocregister.com
  
  BALTIMORE — Blake Horvath threw an 8-yard touchdown pass to Eli Heidenreich with 6:32 remaining – on fourth-and-goal – and No. 22 Navy rallied to beat Army 17-16 on Saturday.
  Horvath turned the ball over twice, and his fumble near the goal line nearly spoiled Navy’s key drive. On second down from the 1, the ball came loose when the Midshipmen (10-2) attempted a tush push, but Heidenreich fell on the ball back at the 8.
  After an incompletion, Navy – down 16-10 &ndash
  
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• Rams have playoff-clinching opportunity against Lions

  14-12-2025 00:24 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — You’d think if anyone were tracking it on the Rams, it would be Davante Adams. After all, it’s been a while since he was in this position, and it’s for this kind of opportunity that he decided to come to this franchise in the first place.
  But when asked this week about the Rams being able to clinch a playoff spot with a win over the Detroit Lions, Adams claimed ignorance. And without any of the dry smiles that typically accompany his sarcastic jokes.
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• Can a Rose Parade float help heal a politically fractured nation?

  13-12-2025 23:44 via ocregister.com
  
  When three majestic bald eagles soar 30-feet over Colorado Boulevard in the 137th Rose Parade on New Year’s Day, organizers hope they not only wow the crowd, but also begin to unify a fractured nation.
  America250 — the bipartisan organization established by Congress in 2016 to plan the nation’s semiquincentennial — is entering a float in the 2026 parade.
  It’s not the first time the U.S. government has had a hand in America’s favorite New Year’s Day tradi
  
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• Detroit Lions at Rams: Who has the edge?

  13-12-2025 23:01 via ocregister.com
  
  DETROIT LIONS (8-5) at RAMS (10-3)
  When: 1:25 p.m. Sunday
  Where: SoFi Stadium
  TV/Radio: FOX (Ch. 11)/710 AM; 93.1 FM; 1330 AM (Spanish); Sirius 381, 226
  Line: Rams by 5.5
  Notable injury designations
  Lions: OUT: DB Brian Branch (Achilles), S Kerby Joseph (knee); QUESTIONABLE: OT Taylor Decker (shoulder/rest), WR Kalif Raymond (ankle), S Thomas Harper (concussion), OG Kayode Awosika (foot), OG Christian Mahogany (fibula), RB Sione Vaki (thumb), TE Shane Zylstra (knee).
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• At least 2 killed and several more hurt in shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island

  13-12-2025 22:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By KIMBERLEE KRUESI
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — At least 2 people have been killed and several others injured in a shooting at Brown University, a law enforcement source told the Associated Press.
  The official could not publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
  University officials initially told students and staff that a suspect was in custody, before later saying that was not the case and that police were still searching for a suspect or
  
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• At least 2 killed and 8 hurt in shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island

  13-12-2025 22:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A shooting in the engineering building at Brown University on the second day of final exams left at least two people dead and eight injured and in critical but stable condition Saturday, Providence’s mayor said. The Ivy League school issued an active shooter alert and urged students and staff to take shelter.
  Police did not immediately release details about the number of victims, their conditions or the circumstance
  
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• Ducks, in 3rd game in 5 days, look the part in loss to Devils

  13-12-2025 22:41 via ocregister.com
  
  The Ducks were embarking on their third game in five days and it definitely showed Saturday.
  New Jersey’s Jake Allen stopped 30 shots as the Devils won for the first time in six games at home with four unanswered goals for a 4-1 victory at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
  The Ducks, coming off a 5-2 loss to the New York Islanders on Thursday as part of a five-game road trip, didn’t engineer a shot on Allen more than 10 minutes into the game and failed to convert on four power-pl
  
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• Air quality alert affecting Orange County Sunday

  13-12-2025 22:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County Coast, Orange County, San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys, Riverside County Mountains and San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning are included in an air quality alert reported by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 1:15 p.m. The alert is in effect until Sunday Dec. 14, at 1:15 p.m.
  The NWS San Diego CA says to anticipate, “The South Coast AQMD has extended a mandatory wood-burning ban for residents in the South Coast Air Basin. The No-Burn rule bans burning wood, pelle
  
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• Final score: Redding Christian 16, Woodbridge 0 in Division 7-AA championship

  13-12-2025 22:12 via ocregister.com
  
  The Woodbridge football team wasn’t able to put an exclamation point on its remarkable season, as the Warriors lost to Redding Christian, 16-0, in the CIF State Division 7-AA championship game Saturday at Fullerton High.
  The Warriors made it to the state championship game after starting the season 0-7.
  Woodbridge’s defense held the Lions to their lowest point total of the season
  Woodbridge freshman quarterback Waylon Stone passed for 76 yards.
  The game just ended. We’ll have a
  
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• Amber has been waiting for a family to call her own

  13-12-2025 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Breed: Vizsla, possibly a mix
  Age: 3 years
  Sex: Spayed female
  Amber’s story: Amber was rescued from a gas station by a good Samaritan who noticed her and brought her to rescue. From the moment she arrived at Friends of Orange County’s Homeless Pets, it was clear she is truly special. She’s warm, loyal and gentle and wants nothing more than to be part of a family that will treasure her. She loves to play – especially fetch – until the day is done, when she’ll c
  
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• Feline mom Bella, back, and her daughter, Misty, are affectionate and outgoing

  13-12-2025 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Breeds: Bella, Tuxedo cat; Misty, Russian blue mix
  Ages: Bella, 2 years; Misty, 6 months
  Sexes: Spayed females
  Bella and Misty’s story: Bella and Misty are a bonded mother and daughter ready for a loving home together. Bella is the sweetest, most easygoing cat. She’s truly a “go with the flow” girl who loves people and gets along wonderfully with cats and dogs. Misty, her daughter, has an equally gentle nature. She’s affectionate and curious and always ready for snu
  
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• USC men’s basketball wants to avoid ‘comfort zone’

  13-12-2025 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  The USC men’s basketball team is repeatedly having to find its identity. And with three players out due to injury, head coach Eric Musselman wants more from his team.
  “You never want players to take advantage of a role because the bench is thinner,” he told reporters after beating San Diego on Tuesday. “And I think we’re getting into a comfort zone right now with guys just knowing they’re going to get minutes because there’s nowhere else to turn.”
  
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• Lake Elsinore woman gets 15 years to life for role in Irvine car-to-car shooting death

  13-12-2025 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  A 22-year-old woman pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for her role in a fatal car-to-car shooting of a 19-year-old man in Irvine two years ago.
  Hailey Angelique Rangel of Lake Elsinore pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Co-defendant Jayden Browndorf, 23, of Irvine, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was also sentenced to 15 years to life in prison on Nov. 21.
  Co-defendant Noah Farmer, 24, of Tustin, is scheduled for trial Feb. 20. He is charged wi
  
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• Man suspected of killing wife in Lancaster, fleeing with kids to Peru, is arrested at LAX

  13-12-2025 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  A man suspected of killing his wife in Lancaster has been extradited to the United States from Peru.
  Jossimar Cabrera arrived at Los Angeles International Airport around 7:30 p.m. Friday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
  Jossimar Cabrera, 36, is allegedly seen on surveillance video dragging a large object in a large blanket or sheet from the Lancaster apartment he shared with wife Sheylla Cabrera, 33, whose body was found Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, in the Angeles Nat
  
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• High school football: Complete coverage of Saturday’s CIF state championships

  13-12-2025 18:47 via ocregister.com
  
  The Southern California News Group is ready to take you through a busy day and night of CIF State Championship football games.
  The games are being played at three different locations and at various times throughout the day, but we’ve made it easy for you to follow the action right here.
  We have links to all of our all previews.
  Our reporters will have updates from the games.
  And at the end of the day, we’ll have stories, photos, scores and more in one place — right here.
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• High school football: Scores from Friday’s CIF state championship games

  13-12-2025 18:44 via ocregister.com
  
  The scores from the CIF State football championship games on Friday.
  CIF STATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
  FRIDAY’S RESULTS
  DIVISION 1-AA
  Folsom 42, San Diego Cathedral Catholic 28
  DIVISION 2-AA
  Stockton St. Mary’s 27, Bakersfield Christian 24
  DIVISION 3-AA
  San Francisco St. Ignatius College Prep 42, Ventura 35
  DIVISION 6-AA
  Valley Center 36, San Jose Lincoln 35
  DIVISION 4-AA
  Barstow 17, Sutter 7
  DIVISION 5-AA
  Oakland Bishop O’Dowd 37, El Cajon Christian 0
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• Los Alamitos consensus picks for Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025

  13-12-2025 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Los Alamitos horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Eddie Wilson, Kevin Modesti and Mark Ratzky. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Saturday, December 13, 2025.
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