PLACENTIA — The El Modena football team is clicking at the right time. The Vanguards posted their most impressive win of the season Friday night, rolling to a 38-10 victory against El Dorado in a North Hills League game at Valencia High. Quarterback Xzavior Guess led the charge, completing 27 of 33 passes for 365…
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GARDEN GROVE — Once again, things in the Garden Grove League are coming down to the wire. Rancho Alamitos’ football team beat La Quinta 21-14 on Friday night at Bolsa Grande High, thanks to a go-ahead, fourth-quarter touchdown by Cruz Gonzalez and a defense that collected five turnovers. Gonzalez, a junior, took over as the…
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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — Trabuco Hills’ football team ended San Juan Hills’ perfect season with a 24-17 upset win Friday at San Juan Hills High and clinched a share of the Sea View League championship. The Mustangs (6-3, 2-0) most recently won a Sea View League championship in 2021 when it shared the league title…
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LA HABRA – The Sonora football team collected six Troy turnovers and needed every one of them to pull away with a 34-14 victory Friday that moved the Raiders one step closer to winning the Freeway League championship outright. The Raiders intercepted four passes, with Renner Williard and Alexsay Nazaroff each returning a pick for…
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It was an unusual view above her South Laguna Beach home as Jinger Wallace sipped her morning coffee. It was late February and six or seven men dressed in white suits, some carrying packs with a liquid, were spraying on the hillside just about 100 feet above. Thinking something “wasn’t right,” Wallace, wearing flip-flops, climbed…
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By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMYA KULLAB and JOSEPH KRAUSS KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israel said Friday it does not plan to take long-term control over the Gaza Strip after an expected ground offensive to root out Hamas militants that rule the territory. The Israeli military punished Gaza with airstrikes, and authorities inched closer to bringing…
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As a horse owner and general manager of the popular Hansen Dam Horse Park, Marnye Langer has spent years managing its 38-acre equestrian facility in Lake View Terrace. Nestled between the 210 and 5 freeways in Los Angeles on the edge of the Hansen Dam Recreation Area, the facility can board as many as 200…
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Five Democrats running against each other for a single seat was too much, thought Jimmy Pham. So the Westminster attorney last week dropped out of the race for California’s 45th congressional district, opting to endorse one of his former primary opponents, Garden Grove Councilmember Kim Nguyen-Penaloza. And he set his sights on a different campaign:…
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No. 25 UCLA (4-2 overall, 1-2 Pac-12) at Stanford (2-4, 1-3) When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday Where: Stanford Stadium TV/radio: ESPN/570 AM Line: UCLA by 17 Notable injuries: STANFORD: OUT: S Jummy Wyrick (undisclosed); DOUBTFUL: WR John Humphreys (knee); QUESTIONABLE: TE Benjamin Yurosek (upper body). UCLA: DOUBTFUL: QB Collin Schlee (upper body); QUESTIONABLE: LB Ale Kaho…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial judge threatened Friday to hold the former president in contempt, raising the possibility of fining or even jailing him because a disparaging social media post about a key court staffer remained visible for weeks on his campaign website after the judge had ordered…
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