Like many of their human counterparts, they are transplants to Los Angeles, trying to make it in a town of newcomers. For two weeks in late spring, they burst forth in their fancy best, shedding their leaves to make way for a dazzling display of unimpeded purple haze. A man walks under the blooming jacaranda…
As a massive widening project continues, portions of the 405 Freeway that run through Westminster are scheduled to fully close overnight Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1, near Westminster Boulevard. Another closure is planned the following weekend, the Orange County Transportation Authority announced. Starting at 10 p.m. Friday, northbound lanes between Westminster Boulevard and…
Artist Beau Stanton has agreed to make changes to a mural in Koreatown that’s attracted criticism from some activists but that also inspired many others opposed to political censorship to come to his defense. The mural at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools is dominated by an image of actress…
A former youth basketball coach who worked in Santa Clarita Valley schools pleaded no contest Wednesday to sexually assaulting nine teenage boys who either played on his teams or trained with him privately. Jeremy Andre Haggerty, 34, pleaded no contest to six counts of lewd acts on a child and…
A fire at the Hope Development School in Playa del Rey on May 31, 1924, left 24 people dead. The victims were mostly mentally disabled girls and young women.
Robert L. Bernstein, a publishing executive and human rights activist who presided over a generation of dynamic growth at Random House and advocated for dissidents around the world, from the Soviet Union to Argentina, has died after a brief illness. He was 96. The tall, sandy-haired Bernstein,…
In Tustin, at least, summer officially begins this weekend. Going on 35 years, the Tustin Street Fair and Chili Cook-off is the city’s biggest event of the year – attracting some 35,000 folks. They come to sample a wide array of chili offerings, drink craft beer and try their feet at line dancing in the…
WASHINGTON — The Latest on special counsel Robert Mueller and the Russia investigation (all times local): 11:25 a.m. Special counsel Robert Mueller is not ruling out testifying before Congress but is serving notice that he does not intend to go beyond what has already been revealed in his report. Mueller said Wednesday he and the…
A pedestrian was hospitalized with moderate injuries from getting struck by a vehicle in Orange. Officers responded to Chapman Avenue and Haster Street at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and found the victim, who was taken to a hospital with moderate, non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Orange Police Department. Details of what led up to the…
By JULIE WRIGHT AND JOHN HANNA KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A vicious storm tore through the Kansas City area, spawning tornadoes that downed trees and power lines, damaged homes and injured at least a dozen people in the latest barrage of severe weather that saw tornado warnings as far east as New York City. The…
