By CATHERINE LUCEY, LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER , McALLEN, Texas — Taking the shutdown fight to the Mexican border, President Donald Trump edged closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an extraordinary end run around Congress to fund his long-promised border wall. Pressure was mounting to find an escape hatch from the three-week impasse…
Paige Holland had done so much with her brother, Michael, as she tagged along to Cub Scout camps. They shot arrows. They kayaked. They fired BB guns. But Michael aged out of the Cub Scouts, he soon was a Boy Scout, and Paige could no longer join him. “She felt like she was left in…
She works out or hikes five days a week, she can deadlift about 150 pounds and she spent her birthday on Thursday, Jan. 10, at the gym doing a routine inspired by her age: 82. Marguerite Skaggs – her kids call her Marge, but she prefers Maggie – was in fairly good shape until she retired from…
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Thursday three miles from Scossa, Nev., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:38 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 4.3 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 87 miles from Fernley, Nev., and 97 miles from Spanish…
A rainstorm expected to reach Southern California on Friday night, Jan. 11, is not expected to generate flooding or debris flows in the footprints of last summer’s wildfires, but forecasters are watching a string of storms expected to follow well into next week. National Weather Service meteorologist Rich Thompson said Thursday there will be “a…
The pursuit of competing in the Olympic Games has one constant: sacrifice. For former Oklahoma gymnast Allan Bower, it meant putting off medical school to train for the 2020 Olympic Games. Bower seemed to have everything to make his Olympic dream a reality and justify putting his other dream on hold. After helping the Sooners…
Blimp pilot Terry Dillard navigates the Carnival Airship over the ocean off Long Beach on Thursday, January 10, 2019. The airship announces the upcoming arrival of Carnival Cruise LineÕs newest ship, the Carnival Panorama. It will be the first Carnival ship to homeport in California in 20 years. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)…
In this high desert enclave, Rand Abbott is a well-known man of action. He’s a paraplegic rock climber; a vocal lightning rod at town hall meetings; and a tireless promoter for the desert landscape and its resident creatures. So it came as little surprise to friends two weeks ago when he volunteered…
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Thursday cleared the path for a Los Angeles teachers’ strike to start Monday. At issue was whether the union, United Teachers Los Angeles, gave a legally required 10-day notice to the school district that its members would no longer work under terms of…
