By Vladimir Isachenkov, Yuras Karmanau, Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller | Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday that he is “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, including an assault on the capital, as tensions spiked along the militarized border with attacks that the West called “false-flag”…
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Don Hansen, credited for bringing whale watching to Orange County and as the first to start a business in the Dana Point Harbor, is being recognized for his impact and commitment to giving the public greater access to life in the ocean. An 8-foot memorial sign will be added in Hansen’s honor – he died…
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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 Friday, Feb. 18. Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. FRIDAY’S SCORES GIRLS BASKETBALL CIF-SS PLAYOFFS Quarterfinals DIVISION 5AA Laguna Beach 45, Yeshiva (YULA) 33 BOYS SOCCER CIF-SS…
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Katelyn Polantz | CNN Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes will be held in jail while he awaits trial, a federal judge in Washington, DC, ruled on Friday after prosecutors revealed new Signal app messages where Rhodes allegedly called January 6 “the final nail in the coffin of our republic”…
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The consensus box of Santa Anita picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for races on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. Trouble viewing on mobile device? See consensus picks Enjoy the consensus horse racing picks online? Subscribe Sign up for Ponies Express newsletter and get the…
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By Andrew Millman | Associated Press Diana Toebbe, the wife of a US Navy nuclear engineer who earlier this week pleaded guilty in a scheme to sell US naval secrets to a foreign country, pleaded guilty Friday in a federal courtroom in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Toebbe, 46, will face up to three years in prison…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Coach JP Presley is back in Orange County football. Esperanza announced Friday that it has hired the former Orange Lutheran coach to replace Wes Choate, who resigned in January after three seasons. “It’s exciting to be in Orange County again and coaching,” Presley…
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The winter surge that filled emergency rooms and hospital beds with COVID-19 patients in late December through January and into early February is over. As Southern California enters the post-omicron surge phase, once-jammed hospitals are seeing fewer than half the number of infected patients, while incidents of infection in each county have dropped by as…
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By Marko Alvarez and Astrid Suarez | Associated Press PUERTO TRIUNFO, Colombia — Álvaro Molina has had his run-ins with the burly bunch of neighbors with disreputable contacts who showed up about a decade ago along the river in front of his house in Colombia’s Antioquia province. But he’s learned to live with them and…
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The Miami Dolphins revealed that they promoted from within for their vacant safeties coach position on the staff and retained last season’s struggling offensive line coach — with a demotion — in the team’s announcement of its full coaching staff Friday afternoon. Steve Gregory will coach Dolphins safeties under new coach Mike McDaniel after he…
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