Democrats running for President in 2020 are expected to come to Orange County in September for a first-of-its-kind candidate forum that’s being organized by local and national Asian American groups. The event, expected to draw leading contenders for the nomination, is another signal of the county’s growing role in national Democratic politics and the emerging…
The first time Melissa Castro saw her husband in the hospital, on Feb. 8, he was in a coma, having suffered a brain hemorrhage a day earlier. On that day, Jose Luis Ibarra Bucio also was in custody, an immigrant detainee being held at the ICE Processing Center in Adelanto. As lines and tubes connected…
Police arrested a 22-year-old youth leader associated with a Santa Ana church Wednesday, April 10, on suspicion of sexually assaulting two girls. An 11-year-old girl told authorities that a youth leader involved with the music program at Iglesia De Restauracion church, 1621 E. 17th St., had sexually abused her on March 5, according to a…
A potentially disruptive split has been averted: Irvine will not leave the Orange County Fire Authority, now that both have agreed to a $50 million deal to give the city what officials consider a fairer share of the public safety agency’s resources. Irvine gave notice last year that in 2020 it might leave the authority,…
The Huntington Beach City Council has postponed a vote on a proposed homeless shelter for at least two weeks, City Manager Fred Wilson said Wednesday, April 10. “Things have been moving quickly, and we are just not ready,” Wilson said. Rather than set a possible vote on the item for April 15, the City Council…
The Jockeys’ Guild is postponing an apparent stunt in which jockeys planned to ride without whips Friday at Santa Anita racetrack. The guild’s leadership said it had intended to collect feedback from jockeys about how horses respond in situations where a crop would have been used, according to a letter from the Guild to the…
Los Angeles has been anticipating a shock wave from schools Supt. Austin Beutner, who worked for months on a plan to “reimagine” the nation’s second-largest school system and confront its staggering challenges. Now Beutner says that he has settled on a significantly less radical shift than many…
Prosecutors said Wednesday they will seek the death penalty for the man accused of being the Golden State Killer. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. is suspected of raping some 50 women and holding entire families hostage during a reign of terror in Sacramento and the Bay Area in the late 1970s, then progressing…
There will be extensive security presence at the memorial at Staples Center for Nipsey Hussle on Thursday as well as a procession from the memorial through the streets of South L.A. The Los Angeles Police Department will pull in officers from divisions across the city to maintain a peaceful and…
Los Angeles police suspect that a gunman tried to kill another person at a vigil outside Nipsey Hussle’s store, another burst of violence in the same spot where the rapper was fatally shot the day before. The shooting on the night of April 1 left two women wounded and occurred amid a massive stampede…
