DANA POINT >> More than 10,000 runners traveled the race course through Dana Point Harbor on Thanksgiving Day for the 41st annual Dana Point Turkey Trot. A signature event for the city, the race drew serious runners prepping for the race circuit, runners in costume and those who just wanted to burn some calories before…
A 78-year-old Huntington Beach resident died Tuesday, Nov. 20, from injuries he suffered in a bicycle crash. Charles Kam died at 11:05 p.m. at UC Irvine Medical Center. Kam was riding on an unidentified Huntington Beach street when he collided with a vehicle at 8:42 a.m. Sunday, the Orange County Coroner’s Office said. Huntington Beach…
Homebuying in Santa Ana fell 9 percent this summer vs. a year ago. It was the slowest-selling third quarter in four years for Orange County’s housing market, as buyers balked at high prices and expensive mortgages while homeowners and builders boosted the supply of residences for sale. Here’s what we learned when we looked at…
The Los Angeles County Health Officer Thursday, Nov. 22, advised residents planning to visit county beaches to avoid swimming, surfing and playing in ocean waters around discharging storm drains, creeks, and rivers due to the recent rainfall. As of 1 p.m., signs posted at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro warned swimmers to avoid the water…
The Thanksgiving holiday came to the communities devastated by California’s worst fire with rain, grieving and a haunting silence. In Magalia, a small town north of Paradise where the Camp fire ravaged so much, the hum of generators and the tap of rain echoed in a place suddenly devoid of many…
This is how I die. She is standing in the driveway of a sand-colored house — she doesn’t know whose — and the air is choked with smoke. The sky is a nuclear orange. Wind is hurling embers against her body and into her blond wavy hair. She has just seen an ambulance melt. Transformers…
Yes, it’s time for giving thanks, gathering with friends and family, watching football and enjoying a turkey dinner.
SANTA ANA — A 63-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to three years behind bars for fatally stabbing a homeless man in Santa Ana in 1984. John William Zelinski, 61, was extradited from Arizona and charged with the 1984 cold case murder of a transient man in Santa Ana. (2017 file photo) John William Zelinski pleaded…
SACRAMENTO — A former state senator convicted of lying about his residence and three refugees from Vietnam who could face deportation are among 38 people pardoned Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Brown’s pardons also include a man who just lost his Paradise home in a wildfire. The Democratic governor also…
A pedestrian in her 70s was killed in a hit-and-run incident in Norwalk on Wednesday night. Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel were called to the intersection of Pioneer Boulevard and Lindale Street in Norwalk at about 5:09 p.m. about a medical rescue, said Dispatch Supervisor Jeremy Stafford. A woman there was transported to a…
