Businessmen and philanthropists George Argyros and Larry Higby are interested in buying the Orange County Register, the Business Journal has learned.

Argyros, a real estate and investments billionaire, and Apria Healthcare Group Inc. Chief Executive Higby have talked with Flanders about their interest in buying the Register, according to sources familiar with the situation

Separately, the Register is said to be in talks with once-bitter rival the Los Angeles Times about combining some operations in a cost-sharing deal. The paper also is considering a switch to tabloid-size paper to save on newsprint. And the Santa Ana-based daily paper recently announced a trial project to cut costs by outsourcing some layout and copy editing to India.

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