Firefighters anticipate having the Emerald fire 90% contained by Saturday night, and are hopeful it will be fully contained by mid-week, authorities said. On Saturday morning, firefighters continued to keep the blaze under control, holding it to 154 acres overnight, with 60% containment, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Concialdi said. Despite another warm day…
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NEW YORK — Baseball negotiations lasted for an hour Saturday when Major League Baseball made a new proposal that lawyers for locked-out players thought had only minor movement. Major League Baseball eliminated the penalty of a third-round amateur draft pick for exceeding the luxury tax threshold. Management maintained its plan to increase the threshold from…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Saturday, Feb. 12. Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. SATURDAY’S SCORES GIRLS WATER POLO CIF-SS PLAYOFFS Quarterfinals DIVISION 2 Edison 13, Los Osos 6 DIVISION 3 Beckman…
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A man was arrested on suspicion of robbing a Costa Mesa bank with help from alert witnesses who provided a detailed description of him on Friday afternoon, Feb. 11, authorities said. Just before 1:50 p.m., the suspect walked into a bank in the 2300 block of Harbor Boulevard, handed the teller a note and walked…
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A third candidate for the Miami Dolphins’ offensive coordinator opening surfaced on Saturday. Los Angeles Chargers run-game coordinator and offensive line coach Frank Smith is interviewing for the job under new Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel on Saturday, according to an NFL Network report. Smith, 40, just completed his first season in that role for the…
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Several bus routes throughout Orange County could be disrupted starting Tuesday morning, Feb. 15, if hundreds of Orange County Transportation Authority bus drivers decide to go through with a threatened strike. The drivers, who are members of the Teamsters Local 952, voted last month to allow a walkout, and gave notice last week they would…
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In the beginning, there were the guys with the jetpacks. And the idea that coathangers, properly positioned as an outside antenna, could get around a local TV blackout. And a hero who not only broke curfew the night before the game but blew past it, thinking he wouldn’t even be needed the next day. Yes,…
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By Graham Dunbar | Associated Press BEIJING — One of the lawyers that will judge Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday is an American who was once picked by Maria Sharapova’s legal team for her appeal over a similar performance-enhancing drug. Jeffrey Benz was named Saturday by the…
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O.J. Simpson tossed the pregame coin and Michael Jackson performed the halftime show the most recent time the Super Bowl visited the Los Angeles area in 1993. The region had two NFL teams at the time, though both left within two years for St. Louis and Oakland and the league was something locals only watched…
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The true shame within Anaheim’s baseball stadium giveaway happened a year before what’s now the centerpiece of a legal war — a murky deal to sell the city-owned arena and surrounding land to a group headed by the team’s owner. The city and team owner Arte Moreno are battling state officials and local homeless activists…
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