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• Where is the cheapest place to live in California?

  13-01-2021 20:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Lifestyle bargains can be found in California according to a new study that shows the cost of living in nine of the state’s smaller metro areas runs below what the typical American pays.
  Once a year, the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis releases its “price parity” report comparing living expenses in 389 U.S. metropolitan areas. The math involves the cost of goods, services and housing and provides a yardstick for potential cost-of-living bargains. The report shows a 49% diff
  
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• Ducks’ 3-game win streak ends against Islanders

  12-12-2025 04:25 via ocregister.com
  
  ELMONT, N.Y. — There was no late magic that could have saved the Ducks this time around.
  Anders Lee scored twice and had two assists, and David Rittich made 31 saves as the New York Islanders beat the Ducks, 5-2, on Thursday night.
  Simon Holmstrom had a goal and two assists and defensemen Travis Mitchell and Ryan Pulock each scored as the Islanders won for the fifth time in six games.
  Leo Carlsson and Troy Terry scored for the Ducks, who saw their three-game winning streak snapped two nigh
  
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• Dense fog advisory for 5 Freeway through Grapevine until Saturday midday – visibility down to 1/4 mile

  12-12-2025 04:05 via ocregister.com
  
  5 Freeway through Grapevine is the focus of a dense fog advisory issued at 7:02 p.m. on Thursday by the National Weather Service. The advisory is in effect until Saturday Dec. 13, at 11 a.m.
  “Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog for elevations between 1,000 and 2,500 feet,” can be anticipated according to the NWS Hanford CA. “Mountain Highways included but not limited to: 41, 58, 152, 168, 198 and Interstate 5. With little change in conditions, the dense fog will re
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday, Dec. 11

  12-12-2025 02:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Thursday, Dec. 11.
  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.
  THURSDAY’S SCORES
  GIRLS WATER POLO
  VILLA PARK CLASSIC
  Pool A
  Mater Dei 22, University 4Pool B
  San Marcos 23, Huntington Beach 13
  Pool C
  Bishop’s
  
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• $8.4 million awarded to police officer in reverse discrimination case in La Palma

  12-12-2025 02:46 via ocregister.com
  
  A jury has awarded $8.4 million to a former White police officer who alleged he faced discrimination and retaliation by Korean-American command staff at the La Palma Police Department.
  Ross Byer joined the department in May 2022 and completed his training that August with positive performance evaluations, according to court records. His performance remained satisfactory until he was reassigned that year to a different sergeant.
  Byer alleged the sergeant, who is Korean-American, favored a Korean
  
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• Santa Margarita’s Ireland Real, Cypress’ Isabella Faro earn CIF-SS player of the year honors

  12-12-2025 02:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Santa Margarita junior Ireland Real and Cypress senior Isabella Faro have been selected as CIF Southern Section girls volleyball players of the year.
  Real was named the Division 2 player of the year. Santa Margarita won the Division 2 championship.
  Faro has chosen as the Division 3 player of the year. Cypress won the Division 3 title.
  The complete All-CIF Southern Section 2025 girls volleyball teams are here.
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• Huntington Beach challenge over state housing mandate hits another setback

  12-12-2025 02:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach’s long-running battle against the state’s housing mandate has hit another snag: the state Supreme Court on Wednesday, Dec. 10, denied the city’s appeal of a lower court order that required it to plan for more housing, including many affordable units.
  In September, a state appeals court gave Huntington Beach 120 days to update its housing element and zone for at least 13,368 units this decade — the city doesn’t have to be the builder of those units,
  
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• Trump signs executive order to block state AI regulations

  12-12-2025 02:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONATHAN J. COOPER
  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at blocking states from crafting their own regulations for artificial intelligence, saying the burgeoning industry is at risk of being stifled by a patchwork of onerous rules while in a battle with Chinese competitors for supremacy.
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• Amtrak’s 18,000 workers to receive $900 bonuses, funded by executive cuts

  12-12-2025 01:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAFIYAH RIDDLE
  More than 18,000 Amtrak workers will receive a $900 bonus before the end of the year, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced on Thursday evening.
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• Canyon hires Vinnie Lopez as football coach

  12-12-2025 01:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowCanyon has hired Vinnie Lopez as its football coach, Comanches athletic director Nate Harrison confirmed Thursday.
  Lopez guided Pacifica for seven seasons before resigning after the 2021 campaign.
  He led the Mariners to a share of two Empire League titles, five playoff appearances and compiled a 44-28 record.
  “We’re super excited,” Harrison said of the hire. “Vinnie has been succes
  
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• Senator says FAA administrator failed to sell multimillion-dollar airline stake as promised

  12-12-2025 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH FUNK
  The head of the Federal Aviation Administration has not sold off his multimillion-dollar stake in the airline he led since 1999 despite a promise to do so as part of his ethics agreement, according to a Democratic senator.
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• New coins will commemorate 250th anniversary of American independence. Here’s how they’ll look

  12-12-2025 01:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONATHAN J. COOPER
  The U.S. Mint unveiled the designs for coins commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence next year. They depict the founding documents and the Revolutionary War, but so far, not President Donald Trump, despite a push among some of his allies to get his face on a coin.
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• Trump pardoned them for Jan. 6. Now they want millions of dollars

  12-12-2025 01:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By Zoe Tillman, Bloomberg News
  WASHINGTON — Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government, according to their lawyer.
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• Rams preparing for 1-2 punch of Lions’ Jahmyr Gibbs, David Montgomery

  12-12-2025 01:09 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The Rams have avenged many dour days from a year ago in their run defense this year. Bottled up Christian McCaffrey twice. Set Saquon Barkley to stationary. Kept Alvin Kamara contained.
  Another test looms on the horizon this weekend as the Rams (10-3) prepare to face the Detroit Lions (8-5) and their running back duo of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery.
  The electrifying Gibbs crossed the 1,000-yard mark on Thanksgiving and has totaled 1,062 on 187 carries with 16 total touch
  
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• Oklahoma Black Lives Matter leader indicted for fraud, money laundering

  12-12-2025 00:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By SEAN MURPHY
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal grand jury indicted the leader of the Black Lives Matter movement in Oklahoma City over allegations that millions of dollars in grant funds were improperly spent on international trips, groceries and personal real estate, prosecutors announced Thursday.
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• House votes to nullify Trump order and restore bargaining rights for federal workers

  12-12-2025 00:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOEY CAPPELLETTI
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two dozen House Republicans joined Democrats Thursday to pass a bill that would restore collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees, an attempt to overturn an executive order that President Donald Trump issued earlier this year.
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• Brea man who gunned down neighbor for smoking on apartment patio gets 50 years to life

  12-12-2025 00:38 via ocregister.com
  
  A Brea man who gunned down a neighbor whom he was angry at for smoking too much on an outdoor apartment patio was sentenced Thursday, Dec. 11 to 50 years to life in prison.
  Sidney Bararchie Clarke, 31, was convicted earlier this year of first-degree murder with a sentencing enhancement for the use of the a firearm for the Aug. 30, 2023 slaying of 21-year-old Logan Kahmar at the Raintree Apartments in the 600 block of N. Tamarack Avenue.
  Clarke lived in the apartment unit above Kahmar, and for mo
  
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• US seizure of rogue oil tanker off Venezuela signals new crackdown on shadow fleet

  12-12-2025 00:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSHUA GOODMAN and MICHAEL BIESECKER
  MIAMI (AP) — The oil tanker was steaming near the coast of Guyana recently when its location transponder showed it starting to zigzag. It was a seemingly improbable maneuver and the latest digital clue that the ship, the Skipper, was trying to obscure its whereabouts and the valuable cargo stored inside its hull: tens of millions of dollars’ worth of illicit crude oil.
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• The Audible: Dodgers as villains, Chesney as hero, and Rivers as grandpa QB

  12-12-2025 00:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Jim Alexander: The Dodgers are again the villains of baseball, to no one’s surprise, following this week’s Winter Meetings. But here’s an interesting twist: Among the people complaining are fans of the only team that had a higher payroll than the champs this season, the (less than champion-like) New York Mets. Of course, Mets fans are irate that their own organization – and particularly President of Baseball Operations David Stearns, a small market executive running a big
  
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• Fryer: JSerra’s next football coach might be another ‘big splash’ hire

  12-12-2025 00:14 via ocregister.com
  
  As JSerra closes in on selecting its next football coach, the school’s leaders probably are looking at what has been happening at another Catholic high school a few miles away.
  Santa Margarita last December made a “splash” hire when it announced that Carson Palmer would be the school’s football coach.
  Palmer had been a great quarterback at Santa Margarita who went on to win the Heisman Trophy at USC before having a long and distinguished career in the NFL. This season, Pa
  
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• Director convicted of scamming $11M from Netflix and going on lavish spending spree

  12-12-2025 00:11 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A Hollywood director was convicted Thursday on charges that he scammed Netflix out of $11 million for a show that never materialized, while he instead used the cash for lavish purchases that included several Rolls-Royces, a Ferrari and about $1 million in mattresses and luxury bedding.
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• Holiday cheer and photo opps at Heritage Hill

  12-12-2025 00:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Heritage Hill Park in Lake Forest is lit up with Christmas lights, including the St. George’s Episcopal Mission (church), December 7, 2025, during the 39th annual Candlelight Walk.
  (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
  Families gather for a showing of The Wizard of Oz by The Puppets & Players’ Little Theatre, December 7, 2025, at the 39th annual Candlelight Walk in Heritage Hill Park in Lake Forest.
  (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
  The SoCal Hol
  
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• What are the 10 largest US lottery jackpots ever won?

  12-12-2025 00:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The Powerball jackpot has grown to an estimated $1 billion for Saturday night’s drawing after lottery officials said no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Wednesday night.
  The U.S. has seen more than a dozen lottery jackpot prizes exceed $1 billion since 2016. Here is a look at the largest U.S. jackpots won and the places where the winning tickets were sold:
  1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 7, 2022. The winning ticket was sold at a Los Angeles-area gas station.
  2. $1.787 billion, Powerb
  
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• Chapman economist sees ‘no gangbuster year’ in 2026

  12-12-2025 00:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Next year will be “no gangbuster year,” for the economy, according to one of Orange County’s leading economists, James Doti.
  Last year, the president emeritus at Chapman University and its team of economists predicted the nation’s gross domestic product, used to measure economic health, would slow to 1.8% in 2025, down from 2.7% the previous year. Their latest prediction says 2026’s growth will edge upward to a modest 2%.
  Without digging into the weeds of political
  
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• Mexico’s Congress approves tariff hikes on imports from China and others

  11-12-2025 23:58 via ocregister.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Congress approved Wednesday most of the tariff increases proposed by the government on more than 1,400 products imported from China and other countries that do not have free trade agreements with Mexico.
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• Chargers face reeling Chiefs taking nothing for granted

  11-12-2025 23:57 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — Jesse Minter isn’t buying the narrative. The Kansas City Chiefs aren’t history, as far as the Chargers’ defensive coordinator is concerned. They are still playing at a high level offensively despite a 6-7 record that would indicate otherwise. They’re still a challenge for any team.
  “I don’t believe any of that,” Minter said Thursday of the conventional wisdom that suggests the Chiefs’ dynasty has come to an end. “They still
  
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• Will Gavin Newsom’s record derail his White House bid?

  11-12-2025 23:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Following a series of off-year election wins, and amid growing frustration with the Trump administration, Democrats’ 2028 chances look much brighter than last year at this time.
  As such, California Gov. Gavin Newsom – the current Democratic frontrunner – would figure to have a slightly easier path to the Oval Office, assuming he wins the nomination.
  That being said, while Newsom has very successfully built his national profile, it would be a mistake to overlook his numerous vul
  
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• Crypto mogul Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years in prison for $40 billion stablecoin fraud

  11-12-2025 23:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK
  NEW YORK (AP) — One-time cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison after a $40 billion crash revealed his crypto ecosystem to be a fraud. Victims said the 34-year-old financial technology whiz weaponized their trust to convince them that the investment — secretly propped up by cash infusions — was safe.
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• Horse racing notebook: Los Alamitos Futurity is test for Doug O’Neill 2-year-old

  11-12-2025 23:23 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Alamitos Futurity on Saturday looks like a battle between two trainers with multiple Kentucky Derby victories, both on the lookout for more.
  Bob Baffert – with six Derby wins – has 4-5 morning-line favorite Litmus Test (Juan Hernandez riding) as well as 5-1 Blacksmith (Kazushi Kimura) and 5-1 Provenance (Kyle Frey) in the $200,000, Grade II Los Al Futurity.
  Doug O’Neill – with two Derbies – has 7-2 Acknowledgemeplz (Armando Ayuso), a ridgling trying to confi
  
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• Bulgaria’s government resigns after mass protests and just weeks before nation due to join eurozone

  11-12-2025 23:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By VESELIN TOSHKOV
  SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s government resigned on Thursday after mass protests gripped the country and just weeks before the European Union nation is due to join the eurozone.
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