Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Tuesday, March 21 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. TUESDAY’S SCORES BOYS LACROSSE NONLEAGUE Foothill 11, Austin (TX) 6 Goals: (Foot) Fox 2, Pietras 2 GIRLS LACROSSE…
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Q. Hi Honk. It used to be that the left lane on a four-lane freeway was the No. 1 lane, and the right lane was the No. 4 lane. But with the dawn of the HOV lane, is that lane the No. 1 lane now? – Mike Foy, Westminster A. Good day, Mike – no.…
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By ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO — Some California lawmakers want to eventually ban all tobacco sales in the nation’s most populous state, filing legislation to make it illegal to sell cigarettes and other products to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007. If signed into law, it would mean by 2073 people wanting to buy cigarettes would…
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Q. When should I repot my houseplants? Is there anything I should know before I start? A. When your indoor plants start growing again, usually in the early spring when the days become longer, it’s time to give them some attention. Tip the plant out of its container and look at the roots. Have they…
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A bill aimed at ending offshore oil drilling in state waters calls for officials to negotiate with companies that own the leasing rights to the last three of those platforms, all off the coast of Orange County. State Sen. Dave Min, D-Irvine, said the goal of his bill, SB 559, is a quick and fair…
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1. There is a new variety of almond called Independence that has taken the almond industry by storm. Most almond varieties are self-sterile, meaning they need to be planted with another variety in order to produce almonds. Independence, however, is self-fertile, meaning it can produce almonds on its own. The advantage of growing Independence is…
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DK Nnuro’s novel “What Napoleon Could Not Do” opens with a divorce ceremony, which, in Ghana, is a custom when two families dissolve the marriage bond. But neither half of the fracturing couple, Jacob and Patricia, are there. The couple, whose relationship had been limited to letters, FaceTime and other modern communications have never even met…
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In a quiet, gated community in Dana Point, a Ukrainian flag flies atop one of the houses. Inside, 9-year-old Arsenii and 7-year-old Mark play while their mothers Maria Kobylianska and Liudmyla Maksymenko sit at the dining table sipping coffee and nibbling on Ukrainian cookies. Maksymenko is a refugee from Ukraine who came to the U.S.…
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Southern California residents awoke to some wild weather on Friday, Feb. 24 as a winter storm settled in along the west coast. A rare blizzard warning went into effect early this morning for the Los Angeles, Ventura County and San Bernardino mountains. Wrightwood received eight inches of snow, with some areas in Riverside receiving up…
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Few of us are experts on incarceration. But we are the ones who pay for it. Who, nominally, at least, have hopes for it. That it keeps us safer. That it treats with some kind of dignity those who through either deep faults of their own or, as they say, extenuating circumstances, get caught…
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