Day: March 10, 2022

Ah yes, NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Certainly, you’ve heard of it before. After all, everyone has been talking about it all over the Internet. But what exactly are NFTs? To put it briefly, NFTs are digital assets that you can own and trade for actual money. Some people even see it as an investment, and…

LOS ANGELES — Clippers win, on three. No. 1 – With 31.2 seconds left in the Clippers’ 115-109 victory, the Clippers swung the ball to Nicolas Batum for a go-ahead 3-pointer gave his team a 111-109 lead. No. 2 – With the 6-foot-7 Amir Coffey defending the 7-foot-2 Kristaps Porzingis, he missed a 10-footer for…

By AAMER MADHANI WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday embraced calls for an international war crimes investigation of Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, citing the “atrocities” of bombing civilians, including a maternity hospital. Speaking alongside Polish President Andrzej Duda at a press conference in Warsaw, where she is demonstrating…

LOS ANGELES — Clippers win, on three. No. 1 – With 31.2 seconds left in the Clippers’ 115-109 victory, the Clippers swung the ball to Nicolas Batum for a go-ahead 3-pointer gave his team a 111-109 lead. No. 2 – With the 6-foot-7 Amir Coffey defending the 7-foot-2 Kristaps Porzingis, he missed a 10-footer for…

The Long Beach State women’s basketball team applied relentless defensive pressure against UC Davis on Wednesday night. LBSU forced 22 turnovers and held the Aggies to 36% shooting. It was Long Beach State’s misfortune that its offense was equally despairing all night. Third-seeded LBSU watched shot after shot clank off a rim, spin in-and-out or just…

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, March 9 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. WEDNESDAY’S SCORES BASEBALL FREEWAY LEAGUE Fullerton 5, Buena Park 0 Full: Fany (WP) CG, 0 R, Norman 1-2,…

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer urged a prosecutor to drop a pending auto theft case against the father of a 9-year-old boy killed in a mass shooting in Orange after top executives at the DA’s office worried that Spitzer’s contact with the father could impact the capitol murder case, according to a report outlining…

By Lauran Neergaard and Carla K. Johnson | Associated Press The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday. David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Doctors didn’t give an exact…

DALLAS — It was a miraculous display of misfiring. Rim clank after rim clank. The Mavericks could’ve built the Great Wall of China with all those bricks. The Knicks caught Dallas on the right night, at least the right first half, and, to their credit, fully capitalized in a 107-77 blowout victory Wednesday night. The…

By Jeremy Harlan | CNN Tina Peters, the county clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, and her deputy clerk, Belinda Knisley, have been indicted by a county grand jury stemming from an election security breach investigation by local authorities. District Attorney Dan Rubinstein announced Wednesday morning that Peters faces 10 counts, including three felony counts of…

DeMar DeRozan’s late-game heroics have become almost commonplace for the Chicago Bulls. But in Wednesday’s 114-108 road win over the Detroit Pistons, the Bulls needed their star forward off the court as much as on it. The Bulls needed a win, but they weren’t playing like it. The defense was sluggish and shooting was frigid.…

DALLAS — For the briefest of moments, Quentin Grimes felt his kneecap jerk out of place. He even saw the displacement, which, to any athlete or human being, is a scary visual. So it could’ve been worse. Nearly two weeks later, the Knicks rookie was still knocking on wood when recounting his good fortune. “Yeah,…

DALLAS — For the briefest of moments, Quentin Grimes felt his kneecap jerk out of place. He even saw the displacement, which, to any athlete or human being, is a scary visual. So it could’ve been worse. Nearly two weeks later, the Knicks rookie was still knocking on wood when recounting his good fortune. “Yeah,…

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer urged a prosecutor to drop a pending auto theft case against the father of a 9-year-old boy killed in a mass shooting in Orange after top executives at the DA’s office worried that Spitzer’s contact with the father could impact the capitol murder case, according to a report outlining…

By Lauran Neergaard and Carla K. Johnson | Associated Press The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday. David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Doctors didn’t give an exact…

By Jeremy Harlan | CNN Tina Peters, the county clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, and her deputy clerk, Belinda Knisley, have been indicted by a county grand jury stemming from an election security breach investigation by local authorities. District Attorney Dan Rubinstein announced Wednesday morning that Peters faces 10 counts, including three felony counts of…

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, March 9 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. WEDNESDAY’S SCORES BASEBALL FREEWAY LEAGUE Fullerton 5, Buena Park 0 Full: Fany (WP) CG, 0 R, Norman 1-2,…

With state and federal leaders placing a renewed focus on mental health care, Orange County officials are showing off the year-old Be Well OC campus in Orange – but they also acknowledge there’s more to be done to meet residents’ needs for services. U.S Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra visited Orange County on…

Each week, publications from the Southern California News Group’s 11 properties (Orange County Register, L.A. Daily News, Press-Enterprise, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Daily Breeze, San Bernardino Sun, Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts, Whittier Daily News and Pasadena-Star News) select the Athletes of the Week for their respective region. Each athlete is…

By EVGENIY MALOLETKA MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian airstrike devastated a maternity hospital Wednesday in the besieged port city of Mariupol amid growing warnings from the West that Moscow’s invasion is about to take a more brutal and indiscriminate turn. Ukrainian officials said at least 17 people were wounded in the attack. The ground…