SANTA ANA — A man was struck and killed by a vehicle Monday night in Santa Ana. Police responded about 9:30 p.m. to the intersection of First and Baker streets and located an approximately 50-year-old man who had been hit by a vehicle, according to Cmdr. R. Rodriguez of the Santa Ana Police Department. The…
A shallow magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Monday 12 miles from Petrolia, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 10:10 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 11.8 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 28 miles from Fortuna, Calif., 39 miles from Eureka,…
CERRITOS — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Monday sought the public’s help in locating an 11-year-old girl who was last seen Friday at the Cerritos Towne Center. Cristina Perry Ross was last seen about 11:30 a.m. Friday leaving the Ross store in the 12700 block of Towne Center Drive. She called her grandmother…
Over the past 20 years, I have found great satisfaction in volunteerism. I understand that we are all busy with work, families and other responsibilities. However, if you’d like to get more involved in your community, particularly in the civic arena, the city of Fountain Valley is accepting applications from volunteers to sit on city committees,…
When Rosanell Eaton first registered to vote in 1942, she rode in a mule-drawn wagon to the county courthouse in North Carolina where she was greeted by three white men. “What do you want, little girl?” one of them asked Eaton, who was African American and 21 years old. Upon hearing what business…
Four people were injured in a collision involving a police vehicle in Huntington Beach on Monday, Dec. 10. An officer was alone in her patrol car when she was involved in a collision at about 2:45 p.m. with a minivan occupied by a woman and two of her children at Algonquin Street and Heil Avenue,…
COSTA MESA — An armed robbery suspect who’s on the loose could be responsible for a string of stickups of fast-food restaurants and gas stations in Orange County, including a robbery Monday afternoon at a Shell station in Westminster. Several of the holdups occurred within a several-hour period on Sunday, beginning with an armed robbery…
A home decor big box retailer, At Home, is choosing Lake Forest as its first location in California. The 85,000-square-foot store will open in early spring at the Foothill Ranch Towne Centre near the 241 Toll Road, filling the space used by Sports Chalet and the Maiselle Fine Furniture, officials said. The store will carry furniture,…
Under mounting pressure and a national media glare, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles now plans to support criminal charges against two longtime nuns accused of embezzling as much as $500,000 from St. James Catholic School in Torrance. The reversal comes amid a “deeper” investigation into the alleged actions of Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper and Sister…
