Outrageous celebrity antics of the week
In some ways, this seemed to be a particularly outrageous week of Outrageous Celebrity Antics of the Week. You have relatives marrying. You have Octomom on the dole. You have a transgender beauty...
View ArticleBusiness goes to bat for baseball
When William Wu started Aminco International (USA) Inc. in Lake Forest in 1978, the company made belt buckles. But in recent years, the company has found gold in licensed merchandise. While Aminco has...
View ArticlePolice cracking down on Easter cruisers
UPDATE 9:08 P.M SUNDAY: Police out in force to regulate Easter cruising in Santa Ana had arrested three people for driving under the influence, parole and probation violations. 12 people were arrested...
View ArticleBowers highlights gold in two new exhibits
Gold is one of the world's most precious, desired and visually alluring metals. It has been used for centuries to adorn people in the form of jewelry, headpieces and other accouterments. Because of its...
View ArticleSpring Break crowds hit the coast
The beaches were starting to crowds come out as people got an early start to the holiday weekend. With unusually warm, summer-like weather expected this Saturday and Sunday, it's a perfect weekend to...
View ArticleTour remodeled historic beach home for sale
From the outside, a newly listed home in Laguna Beach's quaint Woods Cove area echoes its 1925 beginnings with its gabled roof, corner turret and English influence. On the inside it pays homage to its...
View ArticleAngels opener: A night for hope and expectations
ANAHEIM-- In a blizzard of flashbulbs, with hundreds of cell phone cameras held high to the night and tens of thousands of voices howling, Albert Pujols, the man batting third, playing first base and...
View ArticleArtist Thomas Kinkade dies at age 54
California artist Thomas Kinkade, whose brushwork paintings of idyllic landscapes, cottages and churches were big sellers for dealers across the country, died Friday, a family spokesman said. Kinkade,...
View ArticleAngels put the pedal to the metal in opener
ANAHEIM – They say speed never takes a day off. On Friday, the Angels showed that speed is still employed. Oh, there were other stimuli in this 5-0 opening night victory over the Royals, on the night...
View ArticleMMA: Askren retains welterweight crown at Bellator 64
By BRIAN KNAPP SHERDOG.COM Ben Askren did what Ben Askren does, and Douglas Lima was helpless against it. Askren (10-0, 7-0 BFC) utilized takedowns, his uncanny scrambling ability and a suffocating top...
View ArticleMMA: 'The Ultimate Fighter 15' Episode 5 recap
By MIKE WHITMAN SHERDOG.COM The episode begins at the UFC training facility, as Jon Anik reminds us that Team Cruz’s Jeremy Larsen will take on Team Faber’s Michael Chiesa at the end of the show. Last...
View ArticleWorth the wait: Angels win opener
ANAHEIM – Like new car buyers struggling to find their way around an unfamiliar dashboard, it took the Angels awhile to get things started Friday. The offense that was supposed to be so much more...
View ArticleFullerton rallies in ninth to stun UC Davis
Anthony Hutting's pinch-hit single over a drawn in outfield in the ninth inning drove home the winning run as No. 14 Cal State Fullerton rallied for three runs in its final at-bat to upend UC Davis,...
View ArticleFind your next rental via your iPhone
It seems there is an app for just about any service you can think of, so why should finding a place to rent be any different? Earlier this week, Trulia, a popular real estate search website, announced...
View ArticleReader Rebuttal (Jon Coupal): Special-interest initiative
Government in California is a horror. For every decade that the state has taxed and spent, for every year of bureaucratic bloat and absurd waste, government has pushed small-business owners against the...
View ArticleReader Rebuttal (Scott Baugh): Spitzer, public-sector union pensions
It's a good thing that Register editorial writers did not meet the woman at the well mentioned in the biblical book of John. The fact that she had five previous husbands and was living with a man who...
View ArticleSteven Greenhut: A political form of reefer madness
SACRAMENTO – Some Oakland residents are furious that on the same day a gunman murdered seven people this week at the private Oikos University in the city, SWAT teams raided a different educational...
View ArticleIrvine business news: Openings, promotions and more
New restaurants coming to SpectrumThree new restaurants will be coming to the Irvine Spectrum Center along with the expansions of two existing eateries by the end of this fall.Opening this spring,...
View ArticleReader Rebuttal (Todd Spitzer): Public-sector union pensions
Voters know we have a pension crisis. It's too bad the Register decided to play the blame game in its April 1 editorial ["Baugh, Spitzer and unions"], rather than acknowledge what I and others are...
View ArticleReader Rebuttal (David Pacheco): Private pension bill
There definitely is a lens out of focus in Steven Greenhut's column "Would you trust this bunch with your pension?" [Commentary, March 18]. Mr. Greenhut zeroed in on public pensions as he wrote about...
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