La Habra High School senior Alex Avila celebrates after receiving his diploma during commencement ceremonies on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer) La Habra High School seniors grouped together for a raucous photo before their graduation ceremony. From left are Jason Hernandez, Serena Rowe and Maraya Zamora. (Photo by Bill Alkofer,…
Fullerton’s Giovanny Armas smiles for family members as he prepares to graduate on Wednesday May 29, 2019. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer) Fullerton graduates decorated their caps with a variety of themes and messages on Wednesday May 29, 2019. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Fullerton’s Angel Martinez…
A man was shot after refusing to give his belongings to a robber Wednesday night, May 29, in a Garden Grove neighborhood of single-family homes. Officers found the victim, a man in his 50s, at around 10:50 p.m. lying in the grass with a gunshot wound near McCains Street and Enloe Way, Garden Grove police…
At an April meeting of the Antelope Valley Union High School District’s board, trustee Jill McGrady questioned why the board had hired a $400-an-hour attorney despite having an in-house lawyer and a contract with an outside firm. Why hadn’t this new attorney provided a bill for two months of work?…
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…
