By CHRIS MEGERIAN and FARNOUSH AMIRI, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is resurrecting the travel ban policy from his first term, signing a proclamation Wednesday night preventing people from a dozen countries from entering the United States. The countries include Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran,…
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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 Wednesday, June 4 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. WEDNESDAY’S SCORES BASEBALL…
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A Santa Clarita man pleaded guilty Wednesday to hacking the personal computer of an employee of the Walt Disney Co. last year in order to illegally download confidential data from the Burbank-based company. Ryan Mitchell Kramer, 25, entered a plea in downtown Los Angeles to federal counts of accessing a computer and obtaining information, and…
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A Whittier man told a detective that a Fullerton College student was still alive after he shot her in the head while at Penn Park in Whittier, put her in the bed of his Tacoma and drove her to Moreno Valley where he tried to rape her twice on Aug. 20, 2023. Gabriel Esparza couldn’t…
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By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam abolished its long-standing two-child limit on Tuesday to try and reverse declining birth rates and ease the pressures of an aging population. The National Assembly passed amendments scrapping rules that limit families to having one or two children, state media Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday. The…
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Butterflies need our help. During the past four decades, scientists have documented a 1.6 percent decline per year in the number of butterflies in the southwestern United States. Doesn’t sound like much? Consider how that figure compounds over the years. “This means that since 1977, scientists have observed a whopping 64 percent drop in butterfly…
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As a San Francisco transplant in Landers, CA, Danielle Wall didn’t exactly plan to become the High Desert’s go-to snake wrangler. But one encounter with a rattlesnake in the middle of the road — paired with a lifelong soft spot for misfits and misunderstood creatures — changed her trajectory. What started with a stick and…
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By LaTresa Pearson I feel as though I’ve just passed through a magical portal. One moment, I’m walking across a gravel parking lot for San Diego’s Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve, accompanied by the hum of traffic from the nearby roads and freeways. The next, I’m enveloped by western sycamore trees, coast live oaks and arroyo…
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Some 12 miles off the California coast near Ventura, the rugged volcanic ridges that form the spine of Anacapa Island, or more precisely its three closely connected islets, thrust upward from the Pacific. It’s an intimidating and austere environment, a cliff island, with only one small beach that can only be reached by boat and…
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As you drive through the gates into Pinecrest Retreat from Highway 79 — known as the “Firefighter Steven Rucker Memorial Highway” — about three miles south of Julian, you can sense the layers of everyday stress and anxiety starting to peel away. The entrance sign at Pinecrest Retreat off Highway 79, near Julian, CA. (Photo…
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