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• When war becomes your normal

  12-02-2018 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Stepping off the C-130 plane that July day was like stepping into a very dusty, smothering oven. It was 126 degrees with windstorms periodically surging into sandstorms. There were maybe two random palm trees surviving among the flat, gray buildings and worn, tan tents. Machine gun fire and pistol shots rang out – interrupted only by the sounds of bombs.
  I had joined the United States Army to serve my country, to help save lives, to do my part. I was deployed to the Iraq War in the middle
  
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• Australian Open: Sinner overcomes cramps; Keys, Pegula advance; Osaka withdraws

  24-01-2026 09:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOHN PYE and DENNIS PASSA AP Sports Writers
  MELBOURNE, Australia — Limping and desperately trying to stretch out cramps in his arms and legs, Jannik Sinner had just gone down a break in the third set when the extreme heat rules saved him.
  Play was suspended for eight minutes while the roof was closed on Rod Laver Arena on Saturday afternoon (Friday night PT), and the two-time defending Australian Open champion returned a revitalized man.
  After seemingly being on the verge of an unlikely
  
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• El Dorado basketball takes step toward league title with win over Villa Park

  24-01-2026 09:04 via ocregister.com
  
  El Dorado center Brian Dean gets the ball in the open to score against Villa Park in a Freeway League basketball game in Placentia on Friday, January 23, 2026. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
  Villa Park guard Jordan Garcia, right, finds his path blocked by El Dorado guard Evan Nam in a Freeway League basketball game in Placentia on Friday, January 23, 2026. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
  Villa Park guard Hayden Hakala, center, struggles to get a shot be
  
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• La Habra boys basketball clinches playoff berth with win over Cypress

  24-01-2026 08:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Acen Jimenez #24 of La Habra tries to block a shot by Emmanuel Igbekoyi #14 as Gavin Kroll #22 of Cypress looks on. Cypress played La Habra in a Crestview League basketball game on Jan. 23, 2026 in La Habra, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)
  Aaron Wilson #1 of La Habra tries to get past Brennen DeLa Cruz #15 of Cypress. Cypress played La Habra in a Crestview League basketball game on Jan. 23, 2026 in La Habra, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)
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• Godinez girls basketball surges in the fourth quarter to beat Segerstrom

  24-01-2026 08:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowA nonleague schedule featuring a Trinity League school and five other teams ranked in the Orange County girls basketball Top 25 prepared Godinez for the challenge it faced entering the fourth quarter Friday.
  The Grizzlies trailed Segerstrom by two points with the Jaguars’ loud home crowd on their side.
  But Godinez responded with a 16-0 run to open the fourth quarter and collected a 61-54 victory to
  
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• Boys basketball roundup: Sonora earns important league win over Yorba Linda

  24-01-2026 07:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Sonora moved into second place in the Freeway League standings with a dominant win, 67-45, over Yorba Linda in a league game Friday at Yorba Linda High.
  Tyler Holmquist had a triple-double for Sonora (18-8, 4-2) with 10 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. Jayden Barnes led Sonora with 24 points and had five steals.
  Luca Pirona added 12 points with seven rebounds for the Raiders.
  Sonora jumped over Villa Park, which lost to El Dorado on Friday, in the league standings.
  Yorba Linda (9-15, 1-4) sit
  
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• Fourth-quarter burst carries Crean Lutheran boys basketball past Canyon

  24-01-2026 07:47 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — The Crean Lutheran boys basketball team has shown the ability to combine defensive muscle and offensive firepower on multiple consecutive possessions.
  As a result, the Saints have broken open close games in one short burst.
  That dominance on both ends of the court enabled the Saints to pull away from Canyon in the fourth quarter and defeat the Comanches, 60-47, in a Crestview League game Friday at Canyon High School.
  With La Habra’s 60-57 victory over Cypress on Friday, the
  
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• Streaky Ducks beat Kraken for 6th straight win

  24-01-2026 07:03 via ocregister.com
  
  SEATTLE — Cutter Gauthier and Pavel Mintyukov each had a goal and an assist, Lukas Dostal made 21 saves and the Ducks beat the Seattle Kraken, 4-2, on Friday night for their sixth consecutive victory following a nine-game losing streak.
  Ryan Poehling scored short-handed, Chris Kreider added a power-play goal and Mintyukov banked in a long empty-netter. The Ducks have three games left on a five-game trip they opened with a 2-1 shootout victory at NHL-leading Colorado on Wednesday night.
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• Disneyland’s Lunar New Year: 12 new things to eat and drink ranked from best to worst

  24-01-2026 04:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The annual Lunar New Year festival at the Disneyland resort is perfect for foodies who love to sample and share while grazing from one food booth to the next on an Asian-inspired epicurean adventure.
  I set out to taste all the new food items available this year using the Sip and Savor pass during the grand opening of the food festival on Friday, Jan. 23 at Disney California Adventure.
  The 2026 Lunar New Year festival celebrating Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese cultures and traditions runs through
  
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• Suspect arrested after reports of car thefts in San Bernardino by driver of an unmarked tow truck

  24-01-2026 04:04 via ocregister.com
  
  A suspect in various car thefts across San Bernardino County involving an unmarked white tow truck taking cars was arrested Thursday, Jan. 22, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced.
  Andy Joel Bonilla, 30, of Colton was identified by the sheriff’s department as a suspect in the thefts, which have occurred over the past several months. He was arrested at a residence on the 900 Block of Ellen Street in Colton, the sheriff’s department said.
  Investigators said th
  
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• Key executive at OC emergency medical services leaves amid controversy

  24-01-2026 03:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Dr. Carl Schultz quietly retired this week as Orange County’s controversial decision-maker for emergency medical services, four months after fire chiefs countywide called for his termination.
  As EMS medical director, Schultz ruffled feathers by what the Orange County Fire Chiefs Association called his brash decisions preventing paramedics from using innovative medical techniques already employed statewide.
  Schultz also banned first responders from taking stroke patients to Orange County Gl
  
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• Big Bear bald eagles Jackie and Shadow welcome first egg of 2026

  24-01-2026 03:13 via ocregister.com
  
  The eagle egg has landed.
  RELATED: 2026 nesting season underway for Big Bear’s famed bald eagles
  Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow, two of Big Bear’s most famous birds, have welcomed their first egg of 2026.
  A screen grab shows a close-up look at Jackie and Shadow’s first egg of the 2026 nesting season Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Big Bear. (Courtesy of Friends of Big Bear Valley)
  The 24-7 camera footage, installed by the environmental nonprofit group Friends of Big Bear Valley to cap
  
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• Ex-Olympic snowboarder on FBI’s most-wanted list is arrested in Mexico, flown to Ontario

  24-01-2026 03:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MIKE BALSAMO and AMY TAXIN, Associated Press
  Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, a top FBI fugitive, was arrested in Mexico and on Friday flown to the U.S. to face charges related to running a multinational drug trafficking ring and the killing of a federal witness.
  FBI Director Kash Patel, during a press conference on the tarmac at Ontario International Airport, said the capture of Wedding, 44, resulted from a manhunt by U.S. investi
  
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• Why the two people who discovered gold in California never cashed in

  24-01-2026 02:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Missing a golden opportunity
  How the two primary people of the gold discovery in California failed to cash in.
  On Jan. 24, 1848, gold was discovered on the American River. James Marshall, the first to find it, never made a fortune from it. On May 12, a pioneer named Sam Brannon ran through the streets of San Francisco shouting, “Gold, gold from the American River!” This ignited the “gold fever” that changed the course of the area. The area’s population doubled in a
  
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• Ex-OC church employee secretly recorded two juvenile congregants in their bathrooms, suits allege

  24-01-2026 02:13 via ocregister.com
  
  A Laguna Hills church is entangled in a federal child pornography case against a former employee that has triggered lawsuits alleging he gave two juvenile congregants computers equipped with software allowing him to secretly record them nude in their bathrooms.
  Court documents in the federal prosecution of the employee, Jacob Melvin Hart, indicate there could be more juvenile victims from Crossline Community Church. Several staff members of the church have resigned in the aftermath of the breach
  
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• Prosecutors allege gang members tried to kill Indiana judge to derail domestic abuse trial

  24-01-2026 02:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By TODD RICHMOND
  Members of a motorcycle club and a street gang worked together in an attempt to kill an Indiana judge in hopes of derailing a domestic abuse case against one of their own, prosecutors alleged Friday, hours after police announced they had arrested five people in connection with the investigation.
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• Judge rules US Justice Department filed a lawsuit over Georgia voter data in the wrong city

  24-01-2026 01:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By JEFF AMY and CHARLOTTE KRAMON
  ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge in Georgia on Friday dismissed a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit seeking voter information from the state, ruling the federal government had sued in the wrong city.
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• Lori Coble, Ladera Ranch mother who lost 3 children in 5 freeway crash, dies at 48

  24-01-2026 01:53 via ocregister.com
  
  A Ladera Ranch mother, whose tragic story of losing her three young children in a freeway accident in 2007 broke the hearts of so many, has died.
  Now, nearly 20 years later, her story of loss — and hope restored with the birth of triplets in 2008 — continues to resonate with a community who loved her then, and now.
  Coble, 48, was diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer and breast cancer in August and since word of her illnesses broke across social media, community members in Orange Co
  
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• California sues the Trump administration over plans to restart oil pipelines along the coast

  24-01-2026 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By SOPHIE AUSTIN
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California sued the federal government Friday for approving a Texas-based company’s plans to restart two oil pipelines along the state’s coast, escalating a fight over the Trump administration’s removal of regulatory barriers to offshore oil drilling for the first time in decades.
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• Meta pauses teen access to AI characters

  24-01-2026 01:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Meta is halting teens’ access to artificial intelligence characters, at least temporarily, the company said in a blog post Friday.
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• Powdered whole milk could be a culprit in the ByHeart botulism outbreak, tests show

  24-01-2026 01:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONEL ALECCIA
  Powdered whole milk used to make ByHeart infant formula could be a source of contamination that led to an outbreak of botulism that has sickened dozens of babies, U.S. health officials indicated Friday.
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• Palisades Charter High returns home Tuesday, marking a new chapter in fire recovery

  24-01-2026 01:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Palisades Charter High School will return to its main seaside campus Tuesday morning, more than one year after the deadly Palisades fire destroyed nearly 40% of the school and forced students and faculty into temporary classrooms during extensive reconstruction and environmental remediation.
  The reopening marks a defining moment for the Pacific Palisades community, signaling not only the physical restoration of campus facilities but the emotional return of daily rituals, shared spaces, and a sen
  
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• Lifeguard statue planned for San Clemente making waves

  24-01-2026 01:23 via ocregister.com
  
  The beach was starting to get busy.
  San Clemente was just 2 years old and word was spreading about the pristine “Spanish Village by the Sea.”
  The railroad was bringing droves of people to the pier and “many thousands of campers” were hanging out on the sand. Transcripts from nearly a century ago show a city meeting where concerns were voiced about sharp pieces of wood on the south ramp of the pier causing injury to beachgoers who were seeking first aid, sweeping currents
  
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• DUI driver who killed 2 OC teens, then reentered U.S. illegally after prison, is sentenced

  24-01-2026 01:20 via ocregister.com
  
  A twice-deported undocumented immigrant previously convicted of the DUI deaths of two teens in an Orange County freeway crash was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 23 to three years and ten months in federal prison for illegally reentering the U.S.
  He reentered the country months after his release from prison, after serving only about a third of his sentence for the DUI case, which ignited a national uproar that drew in the governor’s office and the Trump administration.
  The early release last yea
  
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• DUI driver who killed 2 OC teens sentenced for illegally re-entering U.S.

  24-01-2026 01:20 via ocregister.com
  
  A twice-deported undocumented immigrant previously convicted of the DUI deaths of two teens in an Orange County freeway crash was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 23 to three years and ten months in federal prison for illegally reentering the U.S.
  The early release last year of Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano after he served 3 1/2 years of a 10-year sentence for the Nov. 13, 2021 deaths of Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin in a high-speed crash on the southbound 405 Freeway near Seal Beach Boulevard d
  
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• Are Luka Doncic, Lakers having trust issues on the court?

  24-01-2026 01:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Like other players around the league, the free agents on the Lakers are looking at the present to secure their future, whether it’s in L.A. or elsewhere. And the key to staying on the NBA level is more minutes that can translate into more shots and eye-catching numbers.
  Coach JJ Redick understands that. “I’ve been there,” said Redick, who played 15 years in the NBA, including four with the Clippers. He called it a “human element.”
  “Guys are worried about
  
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• Spanish prosecutors drop sexual assault complaint against Julio Iglesias

  24-01-2026 01:07 via ocregister.com
  
  MADRID (AP) — Spanish state prosecutors said Friday they were shelving an initial investigation into accusations of sexual assault by Julio Iglesias in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic after concluding that Spain’s National Court lacked jurisdiction to judge the matter.
  Earlier this month, Spanish prosecutors had opened an investigation studying allegations that the 82-year-old Grammy-winning global singing star had sexually assaulted two former employees at his residences in t
  
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• Vance touts the Trump administration’s record against abortion at a Washington rally

  24-01-2026 01:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By MEG KINNARD, Associated Press
  Vice President JD Vance on Friday encouraged anti-abortion activists to “take heart in how far we’ve come” on the quest to limit the practice, listing the Trump administration’s accomplishments including an expansion of a ban on U.S. foreign aid for groups supporting abortion services.
  “There is still much road ahead to travel together,” Vance told attendees at the annual March for Life demonstration, which draws tens of thousa
  
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• Private guard called 911 in ICE detainee homicide, saying man ‘kept going’ after suicide attempt

  24-01-2026 00:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By RYAN J. FOLEY and MICHAEL BIESECKER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Cuban immigrant at a Texas detention center tried to hang himself, was restrained by guards in handcuffs, and stopped breathing during a subsequent struggle, according to a 911 call from a private security contractor.
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• After critical win over Purdue, UCLA men look to stack up wins on the West Coast

  24-01-2026 00:53 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Mick Cronin wasn’t pleased with the travel to start UCLA’s Big Ten schedule.
  The Bruins played at Washington, then had a home matchup with Oregon in early December. They began the New Year on a trip to Iowa and Wisconsin, returned briefly to welcome Maryland, before venturing to Penn State and Ohio State.
  To top it off, UCLA (13-6, 5-3 Big Ten) hosted No. 4 Purdue on two days’ rest when the Boilermakers were settled in Los Angeles after playing USC five days
  
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