Dave Wilk was asked to help build a community garden in an under-served Anaheim neighborhood just east of Brookhurst Street and south of Crescent Avenue. Instead, Wilk, executive director of the activity-based program for disadvantaged youth called GOALS, is leading an effort to resurrect the neighborhood itself. GOALS Executive Director Dave Wilk stands on a…
NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO — Two Marines and two Navy SEALs took the stand Wednesday, June 26, as the defense team began presenting its case in the court-martial of Navy SEAL Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher, who is accused of the premeditated murder of a 15-year-old ISIS fighter and other war crimes during a deployment to…
A Navy SEAL witness could face a perjury charge after testifying that he — and not Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher— had killed a young Islamic State prisoner in Iraq, according to an email sent to a lawyer for the witness. Officials are considering charging Special Operator 1st Class…
The Santa Monica Mountains have a new resident, a young female mountain lion that was caught wandering in a Pacific Palisades trailer park, officials said. Dubbed P-75 by scientists, the mountain lion is the latest addition to their study tracking 10 lions in the Santa Monica Mountains. P-75, which…
Demogorgons and other mythological beings are infesting Santa Monica Pier this weekend and visitors will be taken back in time to the 1980s for an eerie “Stranger Things” beach experience. Ahead of the premiere of the popular Netflix program’s third season, the Santa Monica Pier deck parking lot…
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flock to Huntington Beach on the Fourth of July, some lining Main Street early in the morning for the holiday parade, others showing up for the fireworks over the Pacific Ocean after the sun sets. If the past is any indication, the town will be jam-packed for…
I get a ton of requests for stories about people and places from when I was a surf gremmie growing up here on the beaches of Orange County. So, with that mission in mind, I thought I would talk a bit about one of my favorite places to hang out back in the early 1960s,…
By ANDREW TAYLOR and ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON — It took last-minute changes and a full-court press by top Democratic leaders, but the House passed with relative ease a $4.5 billion emergency border aid package to care for thousands of migrant families and unaccompanied children detained after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The bill passed along party…
A man who police in San Jose say shot and killed four family members before turning the gun on himself had been upset that his wife was able to get visas for her relatives to travel from Vietnam to the United States, a relative of the man said. To Van Khuat told the Mercury News…
John Wayne Airport will get a new general aviation terminal with customs screening while keeping onsite storage space for smaller airplanes roughly as is, a unanimous Orange County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday. The planned upgrades to general aviation infrastructure at JWA offer new amenities…
