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Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

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We continue with a News Hour holiday tradition in which we ask members of the armed forces to record a holiday song. For ...

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Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

Here are selections, made with your help, of the 125 people who were vital parts of Orange County’s story for 2025.

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