On Jan. 10, 2018, Orange County Sheriff’s Department investigators found 20-year-old Blaze Bernstein’s body in a shallow grave near Borrego Park in Foothill Ranch. Officials determined he had been stabbed 20 times, killed in an act of rage. Bernstein was gay and Jewish, the grandson of a Holocaust survivor. And for most of 2018, a…
A four-vehicle crash early Thursday prompted closure of two lanes of the southbound 5 Freeway near Avery Parkway in the Mission Viejo area, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash has since been cleared, according to reports. Related Articles Elderly woman saved after her car crashes into path of oncoming train in Santa Ana…
By AHMED AL-HAJ SANAA, Yemen — A bomb-laden drone launched by Yemen’s Shiite rebels exploded over a military parade for the Saudi-led coalition and its allies on Thursday near the southern port city of Aden, killing at least six people in a brazen attack that threatened U.N.-brokered peace efforts to end the yearslong war tearing…
In a good month, Jose Velasco, a painter, and his wife Maribel Cruz, a baker, make about $1,000. They have little left after they pay the rent on their El Sereno apartment. The thought of possibly having to hire someone to watch their 9-year-old son during a teachers’ strike upsets and overwhelms…
Five people are killed after 1988 cold snap hits Southern California.
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…
Students and staff at a Yorba Linda elementary school were told to shelter in place as sheriff’s deputies searched for suspects in the burglary of a nearby residence on Wednesday, Jan. 9. The precautionary measure was implemented at Fairmont Elementary School at about 8 a.m., according to Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the Orange County…
Ongoing talks to avert a teachers’ strike ended Wednesday without a deal between United Teachers Los Angeles and the L.A. Unified School District. The two sides will meet again on Friday. Dueling news conferences after the half-day session indicated that little to no progress was made. “We did…
By CATHERINE LUCEY, LISA MASCARO and LAURIE KELLMAN WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump walked out of his negotiating meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday — “I said bye-bye,” he tweeted— as efforts to end the 19-day partial government shutdown fell into deeper disarray over his demand for billions of dollars to build a wall on the…
A former Fallbrook neighbor of the slain McStay family testified Wednesday, Jan. 9, that she reviewed hours of video from her front-yard surveillance cameras after the McStays disappeared in February 2010, looking for anything that might help investigators. Jennifer Mitchley, who has since moved out of state, took the stand in the trial of Charles “Chase” Merritt,…
