Ducks normally don’t take to the ocean, but on Saturday, June 1, thousands happily paddled about en masse. The 27th annual Duck-a-Thon was held at the Huntington Beach Pier Saturday, June 1, 2019. The event benefits AltaMed Medical and Dental Group, which provides medical and dental services for underserved families in Orange County. (Photo by…
By Casey Tolan SAN FRANCISCO >> An animal rights protester grabbed Sen. Kamala Harris’ microphone and derailed a presidential candidate forum in San Francisco on Saturday. Harris was in the middle of discussing her plan for gender pay equality during a forum sponsored by the liberal group MoveOn when 24-year-old Oakland resident Aidan Cook jumped…
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Saturday evening two miles from Glen Avon, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 7:19 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.2 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was four miles from Jurupa Valley, Calif., four…
A shallow magnitude 3.7 earthquake was reported Saturday evening 10 miles from Alamo, Nev., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:52 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 8.1 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 61 miles from Mesquite, Nev., 71 miles from Sunrise…
The colleague of an Orange woman accused of canine hoarding said Saturday he’s known her to be “overly generous,” but never imagined that could have extended to keeping more than 140 dogs at her home. “Jo’s got a huge heart,” said Michael Simpfenderfer, who works with Josephine Reitkopp and her organization, Make California Great Again,…
From left, fourteen-year-old Zoe Adler of Ship 550 competes in a boat race with seven-year-old Evelyn Bradford of Cub Scout Pack 267 during Boy Scouts of America’s Scout-O-Rama in Long Beach on Saturday, June 1, 2019. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer) From left, fourteen-year-old Zoe Adler of Ship 550 and seven-year-old Evelyn Bradford…
Chalk-drawn waves of blue, varying in shades and lengths, stretched across part of Long Beach’s Marine Stadium on a grey, gloomy morning. While the artistic waves set an upbeat tone for 500-plus attendees on Saturday, June 1, who came to the city’s first Climate Festival event — which aims to educate the public about climate…
California Democrats hold party convention attracting several presidential hopefuls including Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Beto O’Rourke.
By BILL BARROW COLUMBUS, Ohio — The center of presidential politics this weekend is the California Democratic Convention, but Democrats’ 2020 front-runner is almost 2,500 miles away, going it alone. Joe Biden will headline an LGBTQ civil rights gala Saturday evening in Columbus, Ohio. It’s an appropriate venue for a Democratic White House hopeful on…
By HANNAH GRABENSTEIN LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Crews were making a “last ditch effort” on Saturday to save low-lying parts of a small Arkansas city from floodwaters pouring through a breached levee, as authorities downstream were warning people to leave a neighborhood that sits across the swollen river from the state capital. The Arkansas River,…
