Dozens of police and fire personnel swarmed Costco in Corona Friday night, June 14, although few details were immediately available. Reports of shots fired near the location at 480 N McKinley Street spread on social media just after 8 p.m. Will Lungo, 45, of Corona, said he and his wife were near the refrigerated produce…
Garden Grove Unified School District’s Bolsa Grande High celebrated its Class of 2019 at a commencement ceremony on Friday, June 14, at Michael A. Monsoor Memorial Stadium in Garden Grove. Adam De Jesus celebrates after his name was called during the Bolsa Grande High School graduation at Michael A. Monsoor Memorial Stadium in Garden Grove…
A federal judge has granted the request to remove U.S. District Judge David O. Carter from presiding over a lawsuit concerning anti-camping ordinances in five south Orange County cities and the rights of homeless people. In a ruling issued Friday, June 14, fellow District Court Judge James V. Selna granted a motion sought by three…
Three Orange County state legislators announced Friday, June 14, they’ve secured $20 million in the 2019-20 state budget to build a veterans cemetery in Irvine. Assemblymembers Sharon Quirk-Silva, Tom Umberg and Tom Daly said in a news release the money gives them “renewed enthusiasm” about getting the project going. But earmarked funding is not a…
Officials on Thursday, June 13, dedicated the new Southern Region Interagency Operations Center — Southern Ops for short — where firefighting resources are being coordinated for large wildfires and other disasters involving multiple agencies from the Sacramento area to the Mexico border. The 12-acre site just east of March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County…
The family of a schizophrenic man who died last month at Theo Lacy jail in Orange filed a $5 million wrongful death claim Friday against the county. Diana Alvarez, mother of deceased inmate Anthony Aceves, complained for weeks that the Sheriff’s Department and District Attorney’s Office have kept her in the dark about the details…
Joseph Gilbert Solano had just gotten off work around 5 p.m. when he stepped out of uniform and ran an errand for his mother. Working in a profession known to be dangerous, he was trained to be alert to threats posed to deputy sheriffs like him. But the 50-year-old’s life was cut short after an…
On a cool night in Santa Clara, California, on Feb. 7, 2016, John Elway thrust the Lombardi Trophy into the air and hollered, “This one’s for Pat!” It came 18 years after Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen had declared, “This one’s for John!” following the franchise’s first Super Bowl championship,…
On graduation day, Nataly Buhr delivered a valedictorian speech straight out of a high school movie. The teenager stood on June 6 in front of 500 classmates, their loved ones, teachers, staff and administrators at San Ysidro High School. With such an audience, the possibilities of what could come…
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Friday morning 15 miles from Ukiah, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 10:43 a.m. PDT at a depth of 0.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 28 miles from Healdsburg, Calif., 31 miles from Clearlake,…
