SANTA ANA — A 38-year-old convicted drunken driver pleaded guilty Wednesday, May 15, to an alcohol-fueled hit-and-run collision that killed a homeless woman in April. Alberto Solano Diaz of Santa Ana admitted a felony count of hit-and-run with permanent and serious injury and one misdemeanor count each of vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence and driving…
LAGUNA NIGUEL — Officials say a mother has been banned from a Southern California school after she threatened a classroom full of students over the alleged bullying of her daughter. Cellphone video aired Wednesday by KCBS-TV shows a woman confronting a class at Niguel Hills Middle School. Look closely at the tickets left in a…
Once, an extra $10 a month on government assistance checks kept nearly half a million poor Californians from being eligible for the federal program that puts food on people’s tables in other parts of the country. But starting June 1, changes in a state law that dates back to 1974 will allow California recipients of…
Kris Singh, CEO Holtec International (Courtesy Holtec) Douglas R. Bauder (Courtesy Southern California Edison) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds David Victor, UCSD professor and chair of San Onofre Community Engagement Panel (Courtesy UCSD) The Holtec Hi-Storm Umax dry storage system for spent fuel at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Courtesy Southern California Edison. This…
Even before the Angels came along, Long Beach had big plans for the 13-acre waterfront parking lot where a Major League Baseball stadium is now being proposed. Among a trove of documents that Long Beach released on Monday, May 13, was a five-part presentation on the array of possibilities the so-called “elephant lot” just east…
Anyone with keyboard skills who doesn’t mind playing for strangers can help make traveling a little more pleasant at John Wayne Airport, where the “Play Me! Piano” program launched this month. Inspired by “Play Me, I’m Yours,” a project of British artist Luke Jerram that has placed street pianos in more than 60 cities worldwide,…
Investigators with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection have concluded that Pacific Gas & Electric equipment caused the devastating Camp fire that destroyed nearly 14,000 homes and killed 85 people, most of them elderly, last year. The conclusion of the Cal Fire probe marks…
Irvine’s City Council again has a full complement of five members, after Planning Commissioner Mike Carroll was chosen Tuesday, May 14, to fill a vacant seat on the dais. Though Councilwoman Melissa Fox and some residents maintained that voters should pick the new council member, Carroll’s appointment averts a special election that would have cost…
Leonard Bailey, the Loma Linda surgeon who opened new doors in medicine when he transplanted a baboon heart into an infant girl but then endured withering criticism for harvesting an organ from an animal to help save the life of a human, has died after a years-long fight with cancer. He was 76. …
The son of a Los Angeles executive who admitted paying a $400,000 bribe to secure a spot at Georgetown for his child as a tennis recruit sued the university to prevent it from kicking him out and nullifying his college credits. Ten hours after the lawsuit landed in the federal court system early…
