By SUDHIN THANAWALA ATLANTA — New state abortion laws likely to become bogged down in legal challenges face another potential obstacle: prosecutors who refuse to enforce them. The Associated Press reached out to nearly two dozen district attorneys across seven states, and several said they would not file criminal charges against doctors who violate the…
Think of all the people we know but do not know, the neighbors and co-workers we see but don’t see every day. Sure, maybe we nod or wave. Maybe we even have a surface chat. How about this May gray or those Dodgers, that boss of ours, that abandoned couch down the street. But what…
On May 30, 1931, the passenger ship SS Harvard ran aground in fog at Point Arguello.
A shallow magnitude 2.8 earthquake was reported Wednesday evening one mile from Gardena, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 10:40 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 7.5 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was two miles from Westmont, two miles from Hawthorne and…
The screen in a San Bernardino courtroom showed photos taken inside the Fallbrook home of Joseph and Summer McStay and their two boys after the family vanished in 2010. There were no signs of blood or violence, but trash was strewn on the dusty floor. Food was left on counters and furniture. It…
Clashes between attorneys Wednesday, May 29, punctuated final arguments in the trial of Charles Ray Merritt, who is accused of killing the four-member McStay family in 2010. “This is the case of the People versus Charles Merritt,” San Bernardino County Deputy District Attorney Melissa Rodriguez told the panel during an approximately 14-minute late-afternoon rebuttal that…
Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do offered a spending plan Wednesday for CalOptima, the county’s health insurance for the poor, saying the agency needs to do more to improve its outreach to homeless people — a group that he noted is dying at an alarming rate. Do, a CalOptima board member, also called for a special…
The family of a blind man fatally shot by Orange County sheriff’s deputies in his Laguna Woods home sued the department and officers Wednesday for his wrongful death. Deputies shot Paul Mono, a 65-year-old retired cartoonist and screenwriter, after responding to reports of him acting erratically…
Students from César Chavez High School, Lorin Griset Academy, REACH Academy, and the Independent Study Program in the Santa Ana Unified School District participated in the Educational Options Graduation, a joint commencement ceremony, on May 28, 2019 at the Santa Ana Public Schools Sports Complex. Students from César Chavez High School, Lorin Griset Academy, REACH Academy,…
More than 1.1 million chickens have been euthanized at 10 egg farms in Riverside and San Bernardino counties since December in a fierce effort to eradicate the virulent Newcastle disease outbreak that started a year ago, state officials say. Poultry owners in both Inland Empire counties are so outraged by the slaughter that they have…
