Dawn McKnight was out walking her two dogs along what’s left of the Capistrano Beach parking lot in Dana Point on Wednesday afternoon, April 3, when she stopped short of the construction work taking place on the sand. “Interesting,” she said of the massive sand cubes being set out like a makeshift wall. An estimated…
SANTA ANA – A last-second change of heart by a juror after a guilty verdict had already been read forced an Orange County Superior Court judge to declare a mistrial in the case of a Costa Mesa man charged with murder for a 2015 Irvine crash that left a woman and her granddaughter dead. Alec…
For the swarms of cameras, reporters and passersby stopping to gawk, what is about to unfold could be another red carpet appearance for Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. But the path, being cleared for them by police and Homeland Security agents, leads not to another awards show but to a courthouse…
A closely watched proposal that would allow apartment buildings to be built near public transportation hubs and job centers throughout California — regardless of local zoning rules — cleared its first hurdle late Tuesday afternoon. Senate Bill 50 marks the second attempt by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, to boost the state’s scarce housing…
Even by rappers’ standards, Fly Mac was full of braggadocio. His Instagram handle was “ima_god_in_da_streetz.” He sang of body bags, “38 gun blasts” and bloody homicides. On Tuesday, Fly Mac, whose legal name is Eric Holder, was arrested in connection with the shooting death of a far more famous…
Twenty Southern California hospitals have been named among the top 1,000 in the world, across 11 countries, in a list compiled for the first time by Newsweek in collaboration with Statista Inc., a global marketing research and consumer data company. Three of those area hospitals — Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and…
Inside the Back Bay Science Center in Newport Beach, Riley Roman, 17, left and Haley Wolf, 17, right, both students at Costa Mesa High School, search for various forms of sea life from water samples they collected in the Upper Newport Bay on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. It is the sixth and final time they…
Elon Musk has come under recent scrutiny from the SEC for some ill-advised tweets, from shareholders about closing stores, and even paparazzis for his relationship to indie musician Grimes. Those blows were probably softened by his $2.28 billion compensation last fiscal year from Tesla. That means his compensation is 40,668 times more than the median Tesla…
An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 produced light shaking from its epicenter in Orange County on Wednesday morning. The epicenter occurred in Anaheim Hills, close to the freeway interchange between highways 91 and 241. The earthquake hit at 5:06 a.m. and began just 2.4 miles underneath the surface,…
A 3.5-magnitude earthquake rattled parts of north Orange County and southern Riverside County Wednesday morning, kicking off a few house alarms but leaving no known damage in its wake. The quake struck just after 5 a.m., about 5 miles east-southeast of Yorba Linda, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The depth was less than two…
