Orange County approved funding Tuesday for a first-of-its-kind mental health center and psychiatric emergency room, filling a void that has left mentally-ill patients in the county with inadequate treatment and burdened local hospitals. The Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to allocate $16.6 million to the $40-million project, which will be co-funded and jointly-operated with two…
Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday called for an audit of stops by the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite Metropolitan Division in response to a Times investigation showing the unit pulled over black drivers at disproportionately high rates. Garcetti said the report, which found that Metro officers…
Rain and chillier temperatures will pass through Southern California this week. High temperatures will drop in the region from the low 70s on Tuesday to the low 60s on Thursday, according to forecasts from the National Weather Service. They NWS reported a chance for showers beginning Wednesday evening that may persist through the weekend. Rainfall…
A shallow magnitude 3.6 earthquake was reported Tuesday evening four miles from Cushenbury, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:40 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 10 miles from Big Bear City, 17 miles from…
Shadows from the floor-to-ceiling windows are cast across the floor of the lobby of the Irvine Civic Center in Irvine on Tuesday, January 29, 2019. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) The Irvine Civic Center in Irvine on Tuesday, January 29, 2019. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) Sound The gallery will resume…
A man who was trespassing on the railroad tracks in Fullerton was struck and killed by a Metrolink train Tuesday, Jan. 29, authorities said. Fullerton police Sgt. Carin Wright said the unidentified man was pronounced dead at a hospital. The crash affected passenger train service throughout Southern California. Police investigate after a man was struck…
An 84-year-old woman suffering from dementia was placed in a cab after treatment at a Long Beach hospital and then dumped in the middle of the night outside a locked Alzheimer’s treatment facility, according to a complaint filed with the state by the woman’s daughter. “I’m pretty outraged,” said Costanza Genoese Zerbi, 51, of Long Beach,…
There is something in every person’s life, a moment, an era, a relationship, that could make a best-selling book or a masterful movie. Our stories are rich with learning and wisdom. The plot might be a single mom who is now a doting grandmother, the husband who carried his family forward for years working three…
Homebuying in Anaheim, Orange and Villa Park fell 8 percent from August through November vs. the same period in 2017 amid a steep countywide slowdown. Once primetime selling season ended in Orange County this summer, house hunters balked. That created the slowest-selling August-to-November period in seven years. Culprits were high prices and expensive mortgages. Meanwhile,…
By SUDHIN THANAWALA SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. filed for bankruptcy Tuesday as the largest U.S. utility faces billions of dollars in potential damages stemming from wildfires in California. The utility filed documents in a U.S. court seeking Chapter 11 reorganization despite state investigators determining last week that its equipment was not…
