Records fall as Long Beach wins
DAVIS – T.J. Robinson and Casper Ware each had record-setting games as Long Beach rolled to an 89-69 victory over UC Davis on Saturday night. Robinson finished with 11 rebounds to become the Big West...
View ArticleRemembering Whitney Houston, 1963-2012
It's such shocking news that even when the Associated Press alert hit, my first instinct was to wonder if it was a hoax. I can't have been alone. After all, the same publicist who confirmed her death...
View ArticleVisiting Washington's San Juan Islands
Heads popped up like periscopes on the glassy waters off Lopez Island in northwest Washington. "Wow, we've got otters off to the left," I whispered to my wife as we paddled along the coastline. We try...
View ArticleOutdoor art teaches children
An Anaheim youth program takes "en plein air" to heart.The free after-school Art in the Park program rotates among local parks on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The ArtMobile pulls up with free art lessons...
View ArticleRonald Stein: Air police arresting California economy
In the past 20 years, Southern California's population has doubled, but the air quality has gotten better, not worse. New rules by government bureaucrats, however, are coming into play that will...
View ArticleSurf’s Up in Housing?
Veteran Southern California real estate analyst G.U. Krueger adds his commentary on the housing market to this blog in a spot we call "Thursday Morning Quarterback." Here's his latest installment. ......
View ArticleBrian Calle: Obama plan shifts loan risk from banks to taxpayers
Editor's note: The Register's Opinion pages recently published online an op-ed from President Barack Obama in which he argues for his recent housing reform proposals. Here are responses to Mr. Obama's...
View ArticleMorning letters: Let council view beating video
FULLERTON, D.Q. Rosenow: Sarah Tully’s piece, “Councilman seeks Kelly Thomas video” [Local, Feb. 5], fairly presents both sides of whether the Fullerton City Council ought see the videotapes of Kelly...
View ArticleEditorial: Stop fooling around with payroll-tax cut
On the payroll tax cut, Republicans are playing tiddlywinks. Democrats are playing poker. President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress want to extend the 2 percentage-point cut in the payroll...
View ArticleFeb. 12 celebrity birthdays
See some of the people celebrating birthdays today. Notable personalities of the past who were born on this date can be found at the end of this slideshow. SEE BIRTHDAYS FOR A PREVIOUS DATE Celebrities...
View ArticleEditorial: California’s cap-and-trade slush fund
We warned long ago that the state of California's war on global warming never really had much to do with the globe getting warmer. Rather, it's always been about control and money. Now the pretense...
View ArticleHome prices slip in 90% of O.C.
Let's say a final goodbye to 2011 local housing with this thought: Taking sales volume in consideration, home-sale pricing was down last year in ZIP codes representing 90 percent of Orange CountyFor...
View ArticleRemember O.C. housing’s boom and bust?
What if our economic memory was focused for longer than last quarter, last month – or last hour? Can you think back to 2001, financially speaking, when we had a wobbly economy shaken by the terror...
View ArticleO.C. public school pay dips for second year
Nearly 3,200 public school administrators, teachers and other employees in Orange County earned more than $100,000 in 2010-11, and 10 of them crossed the $250,000 mark. Even so, overall compensation at...
View ArticleTripping? Beach injury? Debate heated on frivolous lawsuits
People sue; and for all kinds of reasons. What qualifies as a frivolous lawsuit is a debate that has bounced back and forth between consumer rights advocates and tort reform activists for years, with...
View ArticleWhitney Houston and others who died young
Whitney Houston's death got us thinking about all the celebrities – singers, actors, politicians – who died way too young. So we decided to offer a look at a few. Click through the photos, and tell us...
View Article'Detectives' for the dead: They solve mysteries left behind
The dead man's cash was stuffed inside the hollowed-out carcass of a lobster, wrapped in foil and stashed in the back of a freezer. Tim Beason has discovered money hidden that way – lobster and all –...
View Article142 big O.C. buildings are ‘distressed’
Paul Habibi is a lecturer at UCLA’s Ziman Center For Real Estate as well as principal and co-founder of Habibi Properties LLC, one of the largest private apartment owners in the Los Angeles area. We...
View ArticleHow will Whitney Houston's death affect the Grammys?
No one has any further information about how Whitney Houston died Saturday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, other than TMZ's ongoing (and not always entirely accurate) reports that she was apparently found...
View Article12 surprising things made in O.C.
When people think of Orange County, they think of the surfing, Disneyland, Angels baseball and Ducks hockey. They rarely think of manufacturing. Yet manufacturers are among the county's biggest job...
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