Fifteen minutes after South Carolina won the NCAA women’s basketball championship Sunday night, Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley sent a text to Sytia Messer. An hour before the title game between South Carolina and UConn tipped, Messer had been named the next head coach of UCF women’s basketball. “Dawn texted ‘Congratulations. What a great opportunity. What…
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A group of nearly 30 rideshare and delivery drivers will rally Wednesday, April 6 in Los Angeles, demanding increased support for workers who are threatened, attacked or injured on the job. The drivers, supported by Mobile Workers Alliance, will gather outside Uber’s Greenlight Hub in Historic Filipinotown. The alliance is a driver organizing campaign that’s…
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A former Orange County coroner’s official pushed back in court Tuesday, April 5, against conspiracy theories reportedly advanced by a father and daughter who buried a stranger thought to be their loved one in 2017. David Ralsten, who was deputy coroner for the county at the time, took the stand during the second day of…
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Ryan Getzlaf, a center from Regina, Saskatchewan, poses with Anaheim Mighty Ducks team officials after being selected in the first round of the NHL Draft on June 21, 2003, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Ryan Remiorz) The Ducks’ Ryan Getzlaf cleans up some hats and towels with his stick after teammate Andy McDonald scored his…
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LOS ANGELES — When Chip Kelly was making a name for himself at Oregon more than a decade ago, a 28-year-old first-year offensive coordinator was taking notes from across the country. It was Lincoln Riley, a name that would soon become a household one in college football when he coached at Oklahoma and – 12…
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Editor’s note: Today’s case counts reflect Saturday and Sunday’s results. The OC Health Care Agency reported 288 more cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday, April 5, increasing the cumulative total since tracking began in the county to 547,557. There were 1,649 new cases reported in the last two-week period as of Tuesday. On Tuesday, there…
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By Krishna Sharma | Kaiser Health News Many so-called night people feel that, when it comes to society’s expectations about when the workday should start, they drew the short straw. Research shows that “night owls” are hard-wired to sleep later, yet 9-to-5 work schedules force them to battle their physiology and wake up early. Research…
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The downward spiral of a San Juan Capistrano property manager and avid fisherwoman led her from a comfortable life as a wife and mother to a deadly night piloting her boat in the ocean waters off Dana Point Harbor as a man was shot in the back of the vessel and left to drown, attorneys…
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A runner gets a facefull of color during The Color Run at Huntington State Beach in Huntington Beach on Saturday, March 19, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) Runners get doused with color during The Color Run at Huntington State Beach in Huntington Beach on Saturday, March 19, 2022. (Photo by Mark Rightmire,…
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A man was arrested after Seal Beach police received multiple reports of a man brandishing a firearm at the pier Sunday afternoon, police said in a news release Tuesday, April 5. The firearm was actually a replica Airsoft 9mm “Beretta” BB gun. The BB gun usually has an orange tip, but it was removed an…
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