La Habra football holds off Etiwanda to open CIF-SS title defense

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La Habra quarterback DJ Mitchell (1) carries the ball on a quarterback keeper play during a CIF-SS Division 4 first round playoff game against Etiwanda in La Habra on Thursday, November 5, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Orange […]

Pacifica football no match for Barstow in first round of CIF-SS playoffs

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GARDEN GROVE – Barstow won CIF Southern Section and CIF State football championships last season.

The Aztecs on Thursday played like they might add to their championship rings collection.

Pacifica was outplayed in every way as they lost to the Aztecs, 41-14, in a CIF-SS Division 7 first-round playoff game at Bolsa Grande […]

Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday, Nov. 5

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Scores and stats from Orange County games on Thursday, Nov. 5

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The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.

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Newport Beach City Council incumbents headed to second terms, Measure H fails

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Joe Stapleton, Erik Weigand and Lauren Kleiman have maintained their leads since the close of polls Tuesday and appear poised for second terms on the Newport Beach City Council.

Councilmember Robyn Grant already secured her return with no challenger in District 4.

Tina Babajanians jumped into the District 1 race, attempting to unseat […]

Controversial plan for rocks, seawalls and sand approved to protect rail in San Clemente

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The Orange County Transportation Authority has the green light to add to rock revetments and build a 1,223-foot-long seawall along south San Clemente to protect train tracks where they run beachfront from a threatening sea; a plan that also includes adding sand to the north and south ends of town as a buffer […]

Newsom’s move to commute hundreds of death penalty sentences draws anger, praise

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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to commute hundreds of death row sentences surprised and angered some victims’ families, and drew widely mixed responses from prosecutors and defense attorneys.

The move would reduce the sentences of 548 inmates from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole, though the California Supreme Court, which […]

What are you grateful for? Anaheim school kids sketched their answers

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Twelve-year-old Mikaela Wright, illustrating her answer to the prompt “Gratitude,” focused on life’s basics to fit her thoughts into a small space: “Friends, games, money, food and family.”

Wright, a sixth grader at Sunkist Elementary School in Anaheim, is one of a few dozen students at the school who, under the creative guidance […]

For nearly 1,000 years, the mesa in all its forms has been an American icon

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By DARIO LÓPEZ-MILLS

PHOENIX (AP) — Spanish explorers named them mesas, meaning tables, when they came upon them. But in geological terms, a mesa is simply a flat-topped mountain or hill. Millions of years of constant erosion — from the eternal forces of gravity and wind — have created the iconic mesas of […]

GM recalls 67K EVs for software glitch that can mean loss of braking

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By Summer Ballentine, The Detroit News

General Motors Co. is recalling more than 67,000 electric vehicles over a software glitch that can cause loss of braking at low speeds.

At issue is software that helps prevent slipping by tracking wheel movement. The software does not always correctly interpret wheel movement, which in some […]

5 retired MLB umpires — including Joe West — sue benefit plan, alleging they are owed more money

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By RONALD BLUM

NEW YORK (AP) — Five retired umpires have sued their retirement plan from their work for Major League Baseball and the plan’s retirement committee, alleging they are owed additional money.

Joe West, Tom Hallion, Gerry Davis, Larry Vanover and Jerry Layne filed the lawsuit on Sept. 29 in federal court […]