Glen Wood, the stock car racing pride of Virginia, scored 99 NASCAR Cup wins in a career that started in 1950. He and his brother Leonard are considered among the pioneers in the sport and played major roles in popularizing the sport in Southern California, a continent away from their native Virginia. Following a lengthy…
A jury on Friday found that a former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy lied to FBI agents about the beating of a visitor to a county jail. The guilty verdict against Byron Dredd, which came nearly eight years after the 2011 assault, served as a capstone on the sweeping investigation federal authorities…
A 24-year-old Dana Point man accused of stabbing three Marines outside a bar in San Clemente in August, has been sentenced to four years in prison. Alexis Moreno Aguirre pleaded guilty on Monday, Jan. 14, in Orange County Superior Court to two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm, according…
If striking Los Angeles teachers needed an omen as they rallied in Grand Park downtown Friday, Mother Nature obliged. After four days of picketing in rain and chill and gloom, the sun burst forth. “Do you feel your power?” union President Alex Caputo-Pearl asked the masses, who stretched from the…
Santiago Creek in the foothills of Santa Ana Mountains turns into a small river after this week’s series of rains. (Photo by David Whiting) Rushing water and slippery boulders make for dangerous stream crossing in the Cleveland National Forest following rains this week. (Photo by David Whiting) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Before: Photo…
Southern California Edison — fighting dozens of legal claims related to the Montecito mudslides that followed the Thomas fire — is pointing the blame on Santa Barbara County and Caltrans for failing to prepare for deadly debris flows they knew were inevitable. More than 75 lawsuits have been filed…
An Orange County doctor accused of illegally prescribing drugs was indicted this week on a half-dozen felony counts. The federal indictment came a month after prosecutors alleged that medication prescribed by Dzung Ahn Pham was found in the system of a driver suspected of fatally striking a Costa Mesa fire captain and in the hands…
By LISA MASCARO, ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and CATHERINE LUCEY WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he’ll make a “major announcement” on the government shutdown and the southern border on Saturday afternoon as the standstill over his border wall continues. The White House did not immediately provide details on Friday about what the president would…
A week ago, Los Angeles schools Supt. Austin Beutner went to Sacramento to nail down support for the school district if teachers decided to go on strike. He came back sounding very optimistic that lawmakers understood the district’s finances were so perilous that it could not afford what the teachers…
By CALEB JONES HALIEWA, Hawaii — Two shark researchers who came face-to-face with what could be one of the largest great whites ever recorded are using their encounter as an opportunity to push for legislation that would protect sharks in Hawaii. Ocean Ramsey, a shark researcher and conservationist, told The Associated Press that she encountered…
