Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Only resilient teams and players can survive the Crestview League’s playoff race in softball. Canyon proved that again on Wednesday by rallying past visiting Pacifica 5-4 to prevent the Mariners from clinching at least a share of the league championship. Irma Urincho belted…
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Mikey Gray pitched a two-hit shutout for Trabuco Hills in a 6-0 win over Capistrano Valley on Wednesday in a crucial game in the South Coast League championship race. Trabuco Hills (19-7-1, 8-3) can clinch at least a share of the league title with a win Friday over the Cougars (11-14-1, 2-8-1). The Mustangs are…
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Lakers star LeBron James handles the ball as the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Julius Randle defends during the first half of Game 5 of their first-round playoff series on Wednesday night, April 30, 2025, at Crypto.com Arena. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Orange County Register/SCNG) Lakers guard Austin Reaves goes down on the court against Minnesota Timberwolves guard…
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HUNTINGTON BEACH — The Huntington Beach boys volleyball team gained momentum in the middle of the first set against Newport Harbor in an opening-round, pool-play match in the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs on Wednesday. The Oilers, the No. 2 seed, kept it up through the second set, faltered a bit in the third and then…
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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, April 30 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 BOYS…
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Yosemite and Yosemite Valley are the focus of an updated weather alert for strong thunderstorms issued at 3:22 p.m. on Wednesday by the National Weather Service. The alert is in effect until 3:45 p.m. The storms are forecast to bring pea-sized hail (0.25 inches). “At 3:22 p.m., Doppler radar tracked a strong thunderstorm over Yosemite…
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By BERNARD CONDON, Associated Press The Trump family company struck a deal Wednesday to build a luxury golf resort in Qatar in a sign it has no plans to hold back from foreign dealmaking during a second Trump administration, despite the danger of a president shaping U.S. public policy for personal financial gain. The project,…
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By REBECCA BOONE, Associated Press A federal appeals court says it won’t lift restrictions on the access that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has to Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans. The full panel of judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 9-6 to keep the ruling…
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It was an overcast morning Wednesday in Westminster, much like it was 50 years ago to the day in Saigon, when the South Vietnamese capital fell to communist forces and the last American troops left the city with as many allies as they could evacuate. Doan Hoang Curtis was just a toddler on April 30,…
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By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, two people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The reasons for the moves were not…
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