Michael Cohen pressed on his crimes and lies as defense attacks key Trump hush money trial witness - Anaheim news - NewsLocker (2024)

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyers accused the star prosecution witness in his hush money trial of lying to jurors, portraying Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen on Thursday as a serial fabulist who is bent on seeing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee behind bars.
As Trump looked on, defense attorney Todd Blanche pressed Cohen for hours with questions that focused as much on his misdeeds as on

Beckman beats St. John Bosco with walk-off hit in 8th to win Division 3 baseball title

Beckman players celebrate after beating St. John Bosco in the championship game of the CIF-SS Division 3 baseball playoffs in Lake Elsinore on Saturday, May 18, 2024. Beckman won the game 2-1. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
LAKE ELSINORE – In the bottom of the eighth inning with two outs, the game tied and teammate Isaiah Kapur on second base, Beckman’s Jagger Snitko hit a line drive to right field.
Snitko rounded first base and took a look toward home plate t

University boys tennis defeats Torrey Pines to advance to first CIF State championship

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.Subscribe nowUniversity’s boys tennis team took a major step Saturday toward becoming the first state champion.
The 15-time CIF-Southern Section winner avenged an earlier loss against Torrey Pines by defeating the San Diego Section powerhouse 5-2 in the finals of the CIF/USTA SoCal regional at The Claremont Club.
The Trojans advanced to play California of San Ramon in the inaugural state final May 25 at Fresno P

Walker Buehler leads Dodgers past Reds

LOS ANGELES – Admitting that he was running out of patience in a not-so-long wait to become a dominating pitcher again, it turns out that was actually Walker Buehler’s competitive side returning to the forefront again.
Buehler went six scoreless innings in his third start since returning from a nearly two-year absence after elbow surgery and his first since saying last week that the “happy-to-be-here thing” had about run its course.
The Dodgers 4-0 victory over the Cincin

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Orange County track and field athletes hit their marks in Masters Meet

Most of Orange County’s track and field athletes who competed in the CIF-SS Masters Meet at Moorpark High School on Saturday knew there wasn’t much room for error if they were to advance to next week’s CIF State meet.
The majority responded with top marks and a few qualified for the state meet in more than one event.
The top six placers in each event qualified for the CIF State Championships in Clovis on May 24-25.
Pacifica thrower Zach Lewis was among the county’s double

Angels go hitless in 18 at-bats with runners in scoring position to lose marathon game

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Angels came up with clutch pitches and defensive plays, but no clutch hits.
The Angels were hitless in 18 at-bats with runners in scoring position in their 3-2, 13-inning loss to the Texas Rangers on Saturday, wasting a strong start from Patrick Sandoval.
Right-hander Carson Fulmer, working his second inning of the night, hit Nathaniel Lowe with a pitch with the bases loaded to push home the winning run.
The only runs the Angels managed were solo homers from Taylor W

Disneyland character performers vote to unionize

Mickey Mouse, Sleeping Beauty, Darth Vader and other Disneyland employees who work with Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars character performers have voted to unionize, according to the union organizing workers.
The National Labor Relations Board announced the results of the vote on Saturday, May 18 following a four-day union election at Disneyland by character and parade performers.
Disneyland’s 1,700 character and parade performers — calling themselves Magic United — will be

Redondo boys volleyball defeats St. Margaret’s to win first CIF SoCal Regional title

Redondo players celebrate win in CIFSS Regional boys volleyball final against St. Margaret’s Saturday May 18, 2024 (Photo by Robert Casillas, Contributing Photographer)
Redondo players and coaches hold up plaque after 5 set win against St. Margaret’s in CIFSS Regional boys volleyball final Saturday May 18, 2024 (Photo by Robert Casillas, Contributing Photographer)
Redondo players celebrate win in CIFSS Regional boys volleyball final against St. Margaret’s Saturday May 18, 2024

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The AVP’s solution for growing beach volleyball in America? Bullriding

HUNTINGTON BEACH — The day before the AVP Huntington Beach Open kicked off, one by one, the league’s Chief Operating Officer Robert Corvino welcomed a slew of competing teams in for a private presentation to sell a new vision for professional volleyball in the United States.
Bullriding. At least, its structure.
Despite the continued growth of beach volleyball as a sport in the United States, the AVP, as league veteran and Long Beach State grad Paul Lotman put it, has long struggled t

Doug O’Neill’s Preakness day win comes at Santa Anita

ARCADIA — Doug O’Neill was in the winner’s circle again on a Triple Crown race day. That it wasn’t the Preakness winner’s circle, or even the Pimlico winner’s circle, seemed not to bother him at all.
O’Neill enjoyed the victory by his filly Miss Lizzy and jockey Antonio Fresu in the $100,000 Mizdirection Stakes, a sprint down the hillside turf course, in front of a Preakness day crowd Saturday at Santa Anita.
The trainer best known for winning the Kentuc

Whatever your passion, you’ll find it in Laguna Woods

“We need men!” exclaimed Sandy Smolinsky, representing the Laguna Woods Village Square Dancers at the 2024 Club Expo held recently at Clubhouse 5.
“I’m dancing a lot of the boy parts now,” she added, laughing. “People don’t know how much fun square dancing is, and it’s good for your body and your brain.”
The Village Square Dancers garnered 30 signups of unspecified gender from the crowd that packed the clubhouse April 30.
“Classes will

LA Grand Prix: Benjamin, McLaughlin-Levrone back overcoming hurdles

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the USA wins the women’s 200m race with a time of 22.07 as Gabby Thomas finished sixth with a time of 22.68 during the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix track and field meet at Drake Stadium on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 18, 2024. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the USA wins the women’s 200m race with a time of 22.07 as Gabby Thomas finished sixth with a time of 22.68 during the USATF L

Dodgers’ pitching staff continues to get healthy

LOS ANGELES — On the way to becoming whole again after a myriad of injuries up and down the pitching staff, the Dodgers could be close to assuming a true identity soon.
Success has been a patchwork quilt of some strong starts, surprising success from a bullpen of interchangeable parts, solid infield defense, with bursts of power and production from the top of the order.
The Dodgers have always touted their depth and it has been key in keeping within reach of teams with the best records in

UCLA softball’s comeback kids advance to regional final

LOS ANGELES — According to UCLA softball coach Kelly Inouye-Perez, the best thing about freshman pitcher Kaitlyn Terry is that she owns things. Her maturity, Inouye-Perez says, is so impressive that when mistakes do occur she remains undeterred and settles right back in.
Terry has proven techniques, but also adapts to each situation. And as Virginia Tech kept scoring runs, Terry stayed calm.
Her poise paid off as the sixth-seeded Bruins shook off an early 4-0 deficit to storm back and adva

Oleksandr Usyk edges Tyson Fury to win undisputed heavyweight title

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Oleksandr Usyk has defeated Tyson Fury by split decision to become the first undisputed heavyweight boxing champion in 24 years.
Usyk (22-0) added Fury’s WBC title to his own WBA, IBF and IBO belts with a spectacular late rally highlighted by a ninth-round knockdown in a back-and-forth bout between two previously unbeaten heavyweight champs. Two judges favored Usyk, 115-112 and 114-113, while the third gave it to Fury, 114-113.
Usyk started quickly, but then ha

Seize The Grey cinches D. Wayne Lukas his 7th Preakness Stakes win

Seize the Grey went wire to wire to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas a seventh victory in the race and ending Mystik Dan’s Triple Crown bid.
The gray colt took advantage of the muddy track just like Lukas hoped he would, pulling off the upset in a second consecutive impressive start two weeks after romping in a race on the Derby undercard at Churchill Downs. Seize the Grey went off at 9-1, one of the longest shots on the board.
My

Oxford Academy’s ‘amazing’ run halted by Eastside in CIF-SS Division 7 softball final

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.Subscribe nowOxford Academy players pose with their runner-up trophy after losing to Eastside,11-2 in the CIF-SS Division 7 championship game in Irvine on Saturday, May 18, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
IRVINE — As Oxford Academy softball coach Bob Whitney joined his somber players in a postgame photo at the CIF-SS finals Saturday, he quickly offered an upbeat perspective.
“We m

Angels’ Willie Calhoun says he’s back after losing his way

ARLINGTON, Texas — This weekend Willie Calhoun is enjoying his career revival in the place where his big-league career started … and then got derailed.
Calhoun, a 29-year-old the Angels signed to a minor-league deal over the winter, had four hits Friday night to raise his average to .365 and his OPS to .959 in his first 13 games with the Angels.
“Willie Calhoun, when he was a youngster, was a pretty good hitter,” Angels manager Ron Washington said. “And for some re

Pacifica Christian baseball shut out by Azusa in first CIF-SS championship game

LAKE ELSINORE – The Pacifica Christian baseball team’s starting lineup Saturday included five freshmen, three sophom*ores and one junior.
For a CIF Southern Section championship game.
That youth showed up, and not in the best way.
Pacifica Christian’s Blake Hayes catches the ball during the CIF-SS Division 8 baseball championship game againstAzusa at Diamond Stadium in Lake Elsinore on Saturday May 18, 2024. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)
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Sparks come up short 89-82 against the Aces

The Sparks fell to 0-2 on the young season and Jackie Young was to blame.
The Aces guard finished with 22 points and 11 assists to lead Las Vegas to an 89-82 victory over the visiting Sparks on a nationally televised game Saturday afternoon inside the Michelob ULTRA Arena.
The Sparks shot 51.5% (34 of 66) from the floor, but committed 18 turnovers that led to 25 Aces points.
Sparks forward Dearica Hamby led all scorers with 29 points on 12-of-16 shooting and collected a team-high nine rebounds a

Exhibit looks back on Laguna Woods’ infancy

“Constructing the Village” is a new exhibit that celebrates the first days of what is now Laguna Woods Village at the community’s History Center next to the Village library.
Artifacts from the early 1960s as well as photographs and mementos offer a time capsule 60 years back to the birth of the Village. The exhibit is the second of three celebrating the community’s milestone 60th anniversary.
A display cabinet in an exhibit at the Laguna Woods History Center that details

La Mirada artistic swimming coach on U.S. Olympic staff is suspended amid investigation of abuse complaints

It was a special day, Hiea-Yoon Kang told the group of young athletes she was coaching at La Mirada Aquabelles, one of the nation’s most successful artistic swimming clubs, as they prepared for a practice in 2011.
It was Kang’s 29th birthday.
The swimmers, however, found no cause for celebration.
“She got us in the water and announced that we would be celebrating by doing 29 50s in the lap lane timed on 29 seconds for the 50 yards,” recalled Miranda Marquez, a member of t

Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday, May 18

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Saturday, May 18
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.
SATURDAY’S SCORES
BASEBALL
CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
Finals
DIVISION 8
Azusa 5, Pacifica Christian 0

No charges coming to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs after hotel video, LA County DA says

Los Angeles County prosecutors say no charges are forthcoming against rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs after the release of disturbing 2016 surveillance video taken in a Century City hotel, which appears to show the rapper and producer physically assaulting then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
“We are aware of the video that has been circulating online allegedly depicting Sean Combs assaulting a young woman in Los Angeles,” the District Attorney’s Office said in a statement pos

Capital punishment might satisfy retributivist instincts. But it’s still unjust and should be abolished.

Civil rights groups such as LatinoJustice and Witness to Innocence have filed a petition for the Supreme Court of California to issue a writ of mandate ruling that the death penalty is unconstitutional. Particularly, that the death penalty violates the right to equal protection under the law on the grounds that Blacks and Latinos are significantly more likely to receive the death penalty.
Among their arguments, the petitioners claim that the death penalty does not deter crime and that inst

4 family members, including minor, suspected in $7,000 in 10 retail thefts across 3 counties

Four family members were arrested this week on suspicion of committing at least 10 retail thefts in Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties, totaling more than $7,000 worth of losses, authorities said.
Riverside County Sheriff’s Department detectives began investigating on April 24, after deputies were called to a business in the 32100 block of Temecula Parkway and learned that multiple suspects had stolen $1,000 worth of merchandise, sheriff’s officials said Friday, May 1

4 family members, including minor, suspected in 10 retail thefts totaling $11K across 3 counties

Four family members were arrested this week on suspicion of committing at least 10 retail thefts at clothing stores in Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties, totaling more than $11,000 worth of losses, authorities said.
Riverside County Sheriff’s Department detectives began investigating on April 24, after deputies were called to a business in the 32100 block of Temecula Parkway and learned that multiple suspects had stolen $1,000 worth of merchandise, sheriff’s official

Thunderplump and blatherskite! What would we do without words?

Let’s face it, without words where would we be? Gratefully, they do exist, and from time to time, a word or group of words becomes newsworthy.
Here’s the latest “what’s what” about words.
Two years ago, a word game that Josh Wardle developed for his girlfriend became an overnight success. Six months later, The New York Times acquired it for a seven-figure sum and Wordle took off like gangbusters.
Tens of millions play the game of guessing a five-letter word in six a

Man City, Arsenal, Klopp brace for Premier League finales

Manchester City is bidding to make history. Jurgen Klopp is bidding farewell.
The English Premier League is heading toward a dramatic and emotional finale on Sunday, with the title race between Man City – seeking an unprecedented fourth straight top-flight championship – and Arsenal going to the wire and taking center stage on an afternoon when goals and tears usually flow.
Many of those tears will likely come at Anfield where Klopp, the eccentric German who has bestrode the league f

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