Homebuying in what we’ll call the “Beach Blvd. Corridor” — in and around Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove and Westminster — fell 16% in what was Orange County slowest nine months of sales since 2012. For nine consecutive months through April, CoreLogic housing stats show countywide sales failing to top the year-ago period. We…
University of California President Janet Napolitano vowed to get to the bottom of how UCLA handled allegations of sexual misconduct by a university gynecologist, saying “there were lessons learned” in the case. “What UCLA is doing is making sure… those kinds of issues don’t happen again,” she…
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON — Nursing facilities have failed to report thousands of serious cases of potential neglect and abuse of seniors on Medicare even though it’s a federal requirement for them to do so, according to a watchdog report released Wednesday that calls for a new focus on protecting frail patients. Auditors with the…
On a fog-steeped morning at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, a rocket from Hawthorne-based SpaceX powered its way out of the mist and into space early Wednesday. The Falcon 9 rocket recorded an on-time launch at 7:17 a.m., rising above a bank of fog and low clouds and into the skies. After separating from…
Back to the drawing board since February, the developer of apartments planned across the street from Santa Ana’s Discovery Cube has returned with a pared-down project. But it’s uncertain whether the revisions to the 2525 N. Main St. development will satisfy enough residents to avoid a repeat of February, when a grueling pair of City…
When Santa Barbara County opened the doors to large-scale cannabis cultivation, a largely unregulated rush led by moneyed interests ensued.
Measure EE, the parcel tax for L.A. Unified schools, got crushed at the polls last week. But it wasn’t as big a loser as my column on EE’s failure. Reaction is running about 90% thumbs-down on my take, in which I said that our schools are shamefully underfunded, but that a clear majority of people…
Kim Goldman wrote to O.J. Simpson a few years ago, asking to visit him in the Nevada prison where he was being held for robbery and kidnapping. She wanted to see the man she says killed her brother, Ron Goldman, and Simpson’s wife 25 years ago Wednesday outside Nicole Brown Simpson’s Brentwood…
Family builds underground shelter – not for protection from a-bombs – but for protection from smog.
An elderly man was found dead after a fire at a house in Fountain Valley on Tuesday, June 11. Firefighters were dispatched at about 7 p.m. after a woman at a home burning on the 18000 block of Plumosa Street called 911, Fountain Valley Police said in a press release. Crews managed to put out…
