A 27-year-old man was charged Friday in the killings of his parents and their housekeeper in a Newport Beach home. Richard Nicholson, 64, and Kim Nicholson, 61, both of Newport Beach, and Maria Morse, 57, of Anaheim were found dead Wednesday night in a home at 36 Palazzo, according to the Orange…
In December, Zhoie Perez, a YouTube personality known for testing the limits of the 1st Amendment, stood on a sidewalk outside a church in Northridge filming with her iPhone. When two young men approached to question her, Perez said, giggling, “We’re going to try the silent treatment.” “Sir. How’s…
Lifeguards and other lifesavers listen to a presentation at Cal State Long Beach’s Shark Lab in Long Beach, CA, on Friday, Feb 15, 2019. The Lab is teaching people about how to save a person who has been bit, and other need-to-know info on the species, as part of a public education effort that will…
When our mother died last month, after a bungled transfer from hospital to residential hospice care that caused her unnecessary pain and distress, my siblings and I briefly considered suing. It wasn’t about money. As my sister said at the time, it just didn’t seem right to let the hospice agency…
Two people were transported to the UCI Burn Center early Saturday after a fire in a bedroom in Santa Ana, fire officials said. The patients were described as a man and woman in their 40s. The fire displaced five people. The house is located in the 4100 block of W. 5th St, the Orange County…
For the 22 business days ending Jan. 17, Orange County home sales fell 31.4 percent in a year as prices rose 0.1 percent, CoreLogic reported. Countywide, 2,102 homes sold vs. 3,064 a year earlier. Of 83 Orange County ZIPs tracked, sales rose in 12. The overall median price was $700,000 — up $1,000 in 12…
Q. Hello Mr. Honk: I read Mr. Ball’s question and your reply last week regarding the state requirement for a front-mounted license plate, in addition to the one in the back. We recently purchased a new car and there is nowhere to mount a front plate other than to drill holes and/or cover the cooling fans….
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who played Adolf Hitler cooped up in his Berlin bunker in “Downfall” and an angel in Wim Wenders’ “Wings of Desire,” has died. He was 77. German news agency dpa reported that Ganz’s management said Saturday that he died in Zurich. Ganz, a prominent figure in the German-language…
By Kat Schuster, contributing writer If you looked at some of the most well-known superheroes in pop culture, you’d see a few common, stereotypical ingredients: they’re mostly white, male and straight. This is a theme that is rapidly becoming undesirable in the comic book industry, according to Ivan Cohen, director of programming for Long Beach…
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge is poised to strike down challenges to a new state transparency law that requires police agencies to disclose misconduct records. Judge Mitchell Beckloff on Friday tentatively rejected separate requests by two police unions to extend temporary court orders now preventing two agencies from complying with the new law….
