In 2018 the musical world outside Orange County experienced something that local classical music patrons have been well acquainted with for decades: the strengths and passions of Pacific Symphony music director Carl St.Clair. In the space of less than a month, St.Clair and his musicians — the largest American orchestra formed in the last half-century…
Q. Hello Honk: I was shocked to see a handicapped person in a motorized wheelchair crossing the street at Euclid Street and La Palma Avenue in Anaheim, chatting on her cell phone. Isn’t that against the law? Don’t motorized wheelchairs have the same rules as automobiles? – Mario Luna, Anaheim A. No, that isn’t illegal under state law. “The short…
As the tourist economy grows and development spreads at Big Bear Lake, bald eagles find themselves cornered in what remains of their historic lakefront foraging grounds.
Everywhere Chris Persson goes, people are still talking about the Camp fire. While shopping for groceries, the Chico resident was told the store had hired fire survivors from Paradise. At lunch, she overheard a fire evacuee say she was given a free tank of gas to run errands. “You can’t go anywhere…
San Joaquin County’s experiments with collaborative courts and other justice reforms demonstrate how an area struggling with poverty and crime has adapted to California’s prison downsizing.
Over a 50-year span, Bob Hope entertained American troops overseas. Many of his USO tours were completed over Christmas with his departures and arrivals often covered by Los Angeles Times photographers.
A federal judge sentenced a Walnut man to nearly four years in prison for a scheme to smuggle rifle scopes and tactical gear into Syria and Turkey to supply rebel groups, federal prosecutors announced Thursday, Dec. 20. Prosecutors argued that Rasheed Al Jijakli, 57, of Walnut, had smuggled rifle scopes, night-vision rifle scopes, laser boresighters,…
Parents of students at St. James Catholic School — past and present — have visited the Torrance Police Department in recent days to hand over bank records for an investigation into alleged embezzlement by two longtime nuns. On Tuesday and Thursday, the Police Department increased staffing to process years of bank records for tuition, fees…
An auto theft suspect led police through traffic Thursday on the 55 Freeway and surface streets in downtown Santa Ana before he was arrested. Officers responding to reports of a possible robbery at about 4 p.m. encountered a man in what was later confirmed to be a stolen 2002 Chevy Tahoe, according to Santa Ana…
Days after police launched an investigation into allegations that two nuns embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from St. James Catholic School in Torrance, the school is facing more legal trouble. On Monday, a federal appeals court ruled that a former fifth-grade teacher who was fired from the K-8 school after she was diagnosed with…
