Day: November 17, 2023

Santa Ana holds on for victory over California in consolation round tournament game

Santa Ana players celebrate Friday’s victory over California. (Photo: Tim Burt, OC Sports Zone). It looked like Santa Ana High School’s boys basketball team would coast to a consolation round victory over California of Whittier Friday night in the Santa Ana Varsity Tournament. The Saints built a 16-point lead in Read More

OC high school boys and girls basketball highlights and final scores for Friday, Nov. 17

BOYS BASKETBALL SANTA ANA VARSITY TOURNAMENT Consolation semifinals Huntington Beach 83, University 66: The Oilers (2-1) were led by Oliver Nakra, who had 25 points and four 3-pointers; Danny Huynh, who had 20 points and six 3-pointers; and Logan Barker (15 points) and Kai Labistre (14 points). University (1-2) was Read More

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and singer Cassie settle lawsuit alleging abuse 1 day after it was filed

Sean “Diddy” Combs and singer Cassie said Friday that they’ve settled a lawsuit containing allegations of beatings and abuse by the powerful music producer one day after it was filed. The settlement was announced in a release sent by attorney Douglas Wigdor, who represents Cassie, whose full name is Casandra Ventura. The Read More

Veteran legislative leader named Costa Mesa’s new Governmental Affairs Manager

City Manager Lori Ann Farrell Harrison announced that veteran legislative affairs leader, Jay Barkman, has been named the City’s new Governmental Affairs Manager. “We are looking forward to having Jay fill this much-needed role to build even stronger relationships with other government agencies and our elected officials at the County, Read More

IBM, EU and Lionsgate pull ads from Elon Musk’s X as concerns about antisemitism fuel backlash

Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with billionaire owner Elon Musk inflaming tensions with his own tweets endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory. IBM said this week that it stopped advertising Read More