A lifeguard tower at the famed Wedge surf spot in Newport Beach burned early Thursday. The simple elevated wooden structure with the letter “W” on its outer walls was a well-known sight and served as a lookout for lifeguards scanning the Wedge’s famously outsized waves. But about two hours before…
Everything about Orange County’s first pride parade and festival in 1989 was a question mark: Where would the event be? How long should the parade be? What should the response to protesters be? Naive about how to throw a community celebration – Where do you even get that many portable restrooms from? – members of…
Jim Pike, co-founder and lead singer of the Lettermen, whose lush vocal harmonies made the Grammy-nominated trio one of the most popular vocal groups of the 1960s, has died at age 82. Pike died June 9 at his home in Prescott, Ariz., his sister-in-law Becky Pike told the Associated Press. The cause…
Celebrities, it does not get any more basic than this: Live by the nude selfie, die by the nude selfie. I am always befuddled by the outrage of (almost always female) celebrities whose phones or cloud storage accounts have been invaded by (almost always male) creeps who try to profit somehow from…
The wealthy couple willing to pay him millions lived in Beijing, but William “Rick” Singer needed only to go to Pasadena to find them. Michael Wu, a financial advisor for banking behemoth Morgan Stanley, worked on the seventh floor of an office building in the city outside Los Angeles. Wu specialized…
Twelve people are killed after explosions aboard the tanker Markay sink the ship in Los Angeles Harbor.
The deputies pulled up to the South Los Angeles apartment complex, stepped out of the patrol car and quickly drew their weapons. Within 20 seconds, the incident turned tragic. Deputies fired 34 rounds at a white Kia that backed rapidly out of a parking space. The unarmed driver, Ryan Twyman, 24,…
Dagoberto Lopez begins each workday at Santa Anita Park at 4:30 a.m., checking on the five horses under his care: War Beast, Of Good Report, Carnivorous, Kissable U and Juggles. He checks their temperature. He makes sure they’ve had enough to eat. He gives them sponge baths. On race days, he braids…
A former teacher will spend more than 10 years in jail for molesting girls at the San Fernando Valley high school where he taught science and coached lacrosse, according to City Atty. Mike Feuer’s office. Scott Silva was convicted after a two-week jury trial of 25 criminal counts that included…
Los Angeles Trade-Technical College is facing a possible ban on postseason sports after an external review found evidence that it didn’t create educational plans for its student athletes and gave them special benefits. Such actions, if verified, violate state college athletics rules and could lead…
