Misconduct allegations in OC murder prosecution center stage in San Diego courtroom - Anaheim news - NewsLocker (2024)

In a San Diego courtroom, the Orange County district attorney’s office and a defense lawyer are set to clash this month over sweeping allegations that top prosecutors have for more than a decade hid evidence of law enforcement misconduct.
Orange County Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders will be asking a San Diego County Superior Court judge to order a special hearing on whether a former high-level Orange County prosecutor — now a judge — withheld evidence in a murder case

CIF-SS beach volleyball polls: Final 2024 season

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe final 2024 CIF-SS girls beach volleyball polls, released Monday, April 15
CIF-SS BEACH VOLLEYBALL POLLS
(Selected by the Girls Beach Volleyball Committee)
DIVISION 1
1. Mira Costa
2. JSerra
3. Redondo Union
4. San Marcos/Santa Barbara
5. Huntington Beach
6. Los Alamitos
7. Tesoro
8. Santa Margarita
9. Edison
10. Newport Harbor
DIVISION 2
1. Crean Lutheran
2. Oaks Christian
3. Long Beach Wilson
4. Campbell

Tesoro’s Loula-Rae McNamara, Esperanza’s Charley Duran deliver strong pitching performances

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.Subscribe nowA pair of aces from the same travel softball team delivered for their respective high schools Tuesday in league games.
Tesoro’s Loula-Rae McNamara pitched a perfect game in a 4-0 win against visiting Dana Hills while Esperanza’s Charley Duran struck out 12 in a 7-4 victory at No. 4 El Modena.
McNamara and Duran are teammates on the same Firecrackers’ Rico/Brashear team that includes Zoe

Strong start propels Beckman baseball to win over Woodbridge

IRVINE — Since the Woodbridge baseball team swept Beckman last season, the Patriots have had this week circled on their calendar.
Beckman started the week off right with a 6-1 win Tuesday at home.
It was the first game of a three-game series between the teams.
The Patriots (16-5-1, 12-3-1) are tied with Northwood for first place in the Pacific Coast League standings. Beckman went 0-2-1 in its series against Northwood so a tiebreaker would go to the Timberwolves.
Woodbridge (14-8, 10-6) was

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Mookie Betts fuels another Dodgers win with 5-hit game

LOS ANGELES — The ‘OKC Shuttle’ might need to make a few refueling stops this week with all the roster maneuvering the Dodgers have done.
After a brief pause, though, Mookie Betts’ MVP campaign is flying high again.
Betts went 5 for 5, drove in two runs and scored two as the Dodgers beat the Washington Nationals, 6-2, on Tuesday night, just their second win in the past six games.
Betts had a scorching start to the season and was batting .500 after eight games. He became m

Gabe Vincent finding his rhythm as Lakers enter playoffs

NEW ORLEANS — As Gabe Vincent checked in at the start of the second quarter for his first playing stint of the Lakers’ 110-106 play-in game victory over the New Orleans Pelicans, he was about to provide a glimpse of what they’ve missed from him this season.
Less than one minute into the second, Vincent provided what Austin Reaves called “one of the best plays of the game.”
Vincent dove on the court to steal a bad pass by the Pelicans’ Larry Nance Jr. before ki

Disney gives final pitch to Anaheim council for plans to grow theme parks

Disney gave its final pitch for its DisneylandForward proposal Tuesday evening, April 16, at the Anaheim City Council meeting, where the company is hoping to get approval to grow its theme parks in the city and invest at least $1.9 billion into new attractions, hotels and other amenities.
The proposed agreement maps out where new theme park development could occur over the next 40 years, giving Disney flexibility to determine what exactly would be built – though all still within the footpr

California continues bottom-dwelling economic ranking

At least California didn’t place last among the 50 states. It scored only 47th in the new Economic Outlook Ranking of the 17th Edition of Rich States, Poor States: The ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index. In 50th and worst place was New York, followed by Vermont and Illinois. Although this year California dropped from 45th place in 2023.
The index is produced by economists Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore and Jonathan Williams of the American Legislative Exchange Council. Laffe

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Does USC stick with its youth on the offensive line, or turn back to the portal?

LOS ANGELES — When USC first began recruiting offensive tackle Tobias Raymond in the dawn of Lincoln Riley’s regime, he weighed all of 250 pounds. New offensive line coach Josh Henson saw clear potential in a 6-foot-7 frame and plucked the kid out of Ventura.
Raymond was a project, a tall kid who hadn’t garnered overwhelming buzz out of high school. But USC needed projects. When Riley and Henson first entered, the coffers of the Trojans’ o-line were close to empty. Three

Angels blow 4 late leads in gut-wrenching loss to Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In the first 16 games of the season, the Angels did not have a single blown save.
Then they did it four times in five innings on Tuesday night.
The Angels gave up leads in the ninth, 10th, 11th and 13th innings of a gut-wrenching 7-6 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.
Angels relievers inherited a 3-1 lead in the sixth and then retired all 11 hitters they faced, just one away from victory, when it got away. Closer Carlos Estévez gave up an infield single, a ground bal

Lakers outlast Pelicans to clinch No.7 seed, will face Nuggets in first round

NEW ORLEANS — After their “Game 1” victory on Sunday, the Lakers expected a more aggressive and physical version of the New Orleans in Tuesday’s play-in tournament matchup.
And they withstood New Orleans’ best punches, beating the Pelicans, 110-106, to clinch the No. 7 seed in the Western Conference playoffs and secure a spot in a first-round series against the second-seeded defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets – a rematch of last season’s Western Confe

Orange Lutheran baseball beats Mater Dei with strong outing from sophom*ore Gary Morse

Orange Lutheran’s Gabe Fraser, left, applies a tag on Mater Dei’s Austin Palmares, right, after he slid off the bag during the game between Mater Dei vs. Orange Lutheran in a Trinity League baseball game at Hart Park on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)
ORANGE — Orange Lutheran starting pitcher Gary Morse had a bit of a shaky start in the Lancers’ Trinity League showdown against Mater Dei on Tuesday at Hart Park.
But after givin

Two-time Pulitzer winner Kim Christensen, who helped expose the UCI fertility scandal for the Register, dies at 71

The cheap start to an obituary about longtime Southern California journalist Kim Christensen would take you backward, maybe toss up a fact-filled recitation of his career followed by some quotes from people who knew him in the mid-1980s, when he started working at The Orange County Register.
Before he was a key member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for stories about fertility fraud at UC Irvine and abuse of immigrants by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, before his stories ab

Recovered from shoulder surgery, Andy Pages gets call from Dodgers

LOS ANGELES — When the call came, Andy Pages slept through it.
It wasn’t until midnight that Pages woke up and answered his phone. His Triple-A Oklahoma City manager Travis Barbary was on the other line telling him to pack up and head to the airport in the morning. The Dodgers had called him up to make his major-league debut on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.
“I don’t know what time the first call came, but the first call that I picked up was at midnight,” Pages sa

Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard reportedly gets final roster spot on U.S. Olympic team

PLAYA VISTA — Clippers star Kawhi Leonard, if healthy, will make his Olympic debut this summer after reportedly being named to the 12th and final roster spot for Team USA ahead of the Paris Games.
Leonard said recently he was happy to be considered for the upcoming event after earning a spot ahead o the postponed Tokyo Games in 2020.
“It’s great. Just them seeing my hard work, seeing I’ve been progressing and I’m happy to be a finalist,” he said.
Leonard, a tw

Agoura Hills vineyard estate once owned by Paper Mate, Schick exec seeks $6M

This Agoura Hills Spanish hacienda-style estate with vineyards, a barn and room for future equestrian facilities is on the market for $6.995 million. (Photo by Simon Berlyn)
The foyer. (Photo by Simon Berlyn)
The kitchen. (Photo by Simon Berlyn)
The wet bar. (Photo by Simon Berlyn)
A shell-shaped doorway topper sculpted in the plaster. (Photo by Simon Berlyn)
The primary bathroom. (Photo by Simon Berlyn)
The primary suite’s sitting area. (Photo by Simon Berlyn)
The entertainer’s back

Orange County scores and player stats for Tuesday, April 16

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Tuesday, April 16
Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register.
The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
TUESDAY’S SCORES
BASEBALL
SAN JOAQUIN LEAGUE
Fairmont Prep 8, Avalon 5
Southlands Christian 2, Tarbut V’Torah 0

Orange County boys and girls track and field leaderboard, April 16

The top outdoors times (wind-legal) and marks for Orange County track and field through April 14.
Compiled by Don Chadez/Flash Results West and MileSplit.com.
Send corrections to [emailprotected].
GIRLS LEADERS
(All race distances in meters)
100 – Avery Groves, Santa Margarita, Sr., 12.00; Ava Simos, Corona del Mar, Sr., 12.01; Justine Wilson, Rosary, So., 12:08; Nabile Alvarado, Mater Dei, Jr., 12.24; Nevaeh Lane, Marina, Sr., 12.25.
200 – Justine Wilson, Rosary, So. 24.29; Ava Simos

Angels maintain faith in struggling rookie Nolan Schanuel

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It’s a fine line that a major league team must walk with a struggling young player. The team wants to show confidence in the player, but not allow him to fail so much that he loses confidence in himself.
Angels manager Ron Washington said the team is still on the right side of the line with Nolan Schanuel.
“I have no problem constantly running him out there and letting him try to figure it out,” Washington said of his rookie first baseman. “I

Whitey Herzog, Hall of Fame manager who led St. Louis Cardinals to 3 pennants, dies at 92

By HILLEL ITALIE
NEW YORK (AP) — Whitey Herzog, the gruff and ingenious Hall of Fame manager who guided the St. Louis Cardinals to three pennants and a World Series title in the 1980s and perfected an intricate, nail-biting strategy known as “Whiteyball,” has died. He was 92.
Cardinals spokesman Brian Bartow said Tuesday the team had been informed of Herzog’s death by his family. Herzog, who had been at Busch Stadium on April 4 for the Cardinals’ home opener, died o

Jurors deadlocked on murder charge for Long Beach school officer who shot woman to death

Jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict Tuesday, April 16 over the murder charge against a Long Beach Unified School District safety officer who shot an 18-year-old woman to death as she sat in the passenger seat of a car fleeing a parking lot near Millikan High School nearly three years ago.
After deliberating for almost three days, the jury was unable to find consensus over the second-degree murder charge facing the former schools officer, 54-year-old Eddie Gonzalez of Orange.
Jurors were d

Jurors can’t reach a verdict in the murder trial against ex-Long Beach school cop

A mistrial was declared on Tuesday, April 16, in the case of a 54-year-old Orange man accused of murder in the slaying of an 18-year-old woman sitting in the passenger seat of a car, driving away, as the Long Beach Unified School District safety officer fired two shots near Millikan High School in June 2021.
Jurors deadlocked, with a 7-5 vote, with the majority favoring guilt on second-degree murder.
Jurors reached their verdict in their third day of deliberations after being handed the case aft

Trump goes from court to campaign at a bodega in his heavily Democratic hometown

By JILL COLVIN (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump plans to visit New York’s Harlem neighborhood Tuesday after spending his second day in a lower Manhattan courtroom as a criminal defendant.
Trump was expected to stop by Sanaa Convenient Store, a tiny bodega that sells chips, sodas and other snacks. Trump aides said the former president and current Republican nominee chose the store because it has been the site of a violent attack on an employee. He will also highlight co

Newport Beach library board moves contested children’s book to teen section in first appeals review

The Newport Beach Public Library board decided to move a book about a 10-year-old transgender child from the children’s section in a new appeal process that has been offered to patrons wanting to challenge decisions on where books should be shelved.
The library trustees decided Monday night that “Melissa” will move to the Newport Beach Library’s teen reading section, while also deciding the picture book “Prince & Knight” will remain in the children’s

Taylor Swift launches pop-up in Los Angeles for new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

It’s been an eventful week for Taylor Swift. Her new album “The Tortured Poets Department” comes out Friday, April 19, and despite announcing it after winning the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal album, she hasn’t spoken about it much aside from some of her Eras Tour performances and announcing different variants of the album with exclusive bonus tracks.
Related: Taylor Swift arrives at the Grove for the Eras Tour Premiere in Los Angeles
After the Coachella lineup was announced

House forces Senate to hold trial on Mayorkas impeachment

By Mary Clare Jalonick | Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House sent two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday, forcing a trial on allegations that he has “willfully and systematically” refused to enforce immigration laws.
While the Senate is obligated to hold a trial under the rules of impeachment once the charges are walked across the Capitol, the proceedings may not last long. Democrats are expected to try to

Eric Dailey Jr. commits to UCLA men’s basketball via transfer portal

LOS ANGELES — Oklahoma State transfer Eric Dailey Jr. announced his commitment to the UCLA men’s basketball team after a recent visit to Westwood, explaining that he believes being a Bruin will help him reach his dream of playing in the NBA.
Dailey, a 6-foot-8, 230-pound forward, averaged 9.3 points, and 4.8 rebounds, while playing 22.3 minutes per game and starting 16 of 32 games as a freshman. He also shot 49.6% from the field, 33.3% from 3-point range and 60.2% from the free-throw

‘Lord of the Rings’ star Sean Astin will be UCLA’s 2024 graduation speaker

Actor Sean Astin, best known for his roles in “Rudy” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, will be the keynote speaker at all three UCLA College commencement ceremonies in June, the university announced Tuesday.
“Throughout his career, Sean Astin has inspired millions through his portrayal of passionate, brave and strong characters,” Miguel García-Garibay, senior dean of the UCLA College and dean of physical sciences, said in a statement. “He bring

Esperanza’s Taylor Shumaker seeking wins more than home runs as she nears O.C. record

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.Subscribe nowTaylor Shumaker of Esperanza hears plenty about her charge toward the Orange County softball record for home runs in a single season.
“It’s hard not think about the record because so many people bring it up so often,” the senior said last week. “But I can’t think about that.”
Shumaker instead remains focused on “doing whatever I got” to help the Aztecs win.

LAFD recruit in collision, then killed after getting out of Jeep on 101 Freeway

A Los Angeles Fire Department recruit was involved in a two-vehicle collision on the 101 Freeway in Studio City then got out of his Jeep and was fatally struck by another vehicle, authorities said on Tuesday, April 16.
The collision occurred around 5:10 a.m. Monday on the northbound 101 at Campo de Cahuenga, near Vineland Avenue.
Jacob Fuerte, 22, was on his way to training in a a 2000 Jeep that collided with a 2021 Ford, authorities said. The other driver was not injured.
LAFD Recruit Firefight