More than two decades after an 11-year-old girl was kidnapped off a Santa Ana street and repeatedly raped, the first of two men to face trial for the violent sexual assaults received a sentence of 25 years to life on Friday. Jose Andres Plascencia, now 42, wept in a Santa Ana courtroom as he heard…
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The marks, which are through April 10, are based on information compiled by Don Chadez/Flash Results West and MileSplit.com. GIRLS LEADERS (Race distances are in meters) 100 – Brooklyn Davis, Los Alamitos, Sr., 12.13; Avery Groves, Santa Margarita, Sr., 12.14; Justine Wilson, Rosary, Fr., 12.14; Neveah Lane, Marina, Jr., 12.26; Ava Simos, Corona del Mar,…
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Republican politicians need to get some new material. On Wednesday, Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin and Sheriff Chad Bianco held a news conference to complain about crime and called on the state to revisit criminal justice reforms so more people can go to prison. “They don’t care what we think, they care what voters…
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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, April 14 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. FRIDAY’S SCORES BASEBALL BORAS CLASSIC SOUTH Cypress 15, San Dimas 3 Villa Park 2, Santiago/Corona 1
There’s no such thing as a temporary tax, at least not in California. That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from Assembly Bill 241, the latest attempt to renew a “temporary” increase in vehicle registration fees. This temporary tax began its existence about 15 years ago with the passage of Assembly Bill 118, titled…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Leading times in O.C. swimming and diving marks through April 13. Submit updates to dalbano@scng.com. BOYS SWIMMING 200-yard medley relay (O.C. record 1:29.97, Santa Margarita 2023) — SM 1:29.97 200 free (O.C. record 1:33.26 Shoults 2016 SM) — Cehelnik (SM) 1:38.65 200 IM…
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The gates have opened — and the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is officially underway. Friday, April 13, marks the start of the 48th iteration of the Grand Prix, with the city’s biggest annual event also taking over downtown on Saturday and Sunday. Day 1 of “Southern California’s 200-mph beach party,” as the event…
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Most everyone seems to think that members of the press operate hand in glove with Big Government, serving as some kind of public-relations agency for the electeds and their minions, offering up without skepticism what tidbits the bureaucracies in our various capitols and executive offices disseminate as “news.” Those everyones have never been reporters. The…
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“You have tried to wipe us out, but we are here.” This is the message of the Partisans’ Song — “Zog Nit Keynmol (Never Say)” in Yiddish — often recited at events commemorating Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, in the spring. The Jewish community in Los Angeles solemnly remembers the Holocaust, when millions of…
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A new word entered the California political lexicon the other day, when two of the five elected supervisors running America’s largest county decided they could greatly reduce crime by depopulating Los Angeles County’s many jails and other penal facilities. The new word: decarceration. This is the process of supposedly fighting crime by letting people out…
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