Change is afoot for all seven coastal power plants in Orange and Los Angeles counties, thanks to a change in state policy governing the plants and a move by plant operators to more efficient electricity-producing units. Ocean-cooled engines are being phased out, with the new units using air-cooled technology. New, upgraded operations are generally smaller…
Line dancing teachers and choreographers Paul and Karla Dornstedt showed off their footwork at a dance party to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary in Hemet in November. (Photo by Diane A. Rhodes, contributing photographer. The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Paul and Karla Dornstedt, at right, “Keep the Magic” alive during a line dancing party to celebrate their 60th…
More rain and snow are hitting the Southland, prompting National Weather Service to issue a flood warning for southern and central Los Angeles counties early Thursday morning. The organization tweeted out radar images around 4:30 a.m. of a large band of showers moving over the region. The warning was first set to expire at 6 a.m.,…
By WILL WEISSERT, NOMAAN MERCHANT and CALVIN WOODWARD HOUSTON — George H.W. Bush, who shaped history as 41st president and patriarch of a family that occupied the White House for a dozen years, is going to his final rest Thursday in Texas. More than 11,000 people paid their respects to Bush as his casket lay…
SANTA ANA — A man in his early 20s was shot and wounded Wednesday night in Santa Ana. The shooting was reported about 8:20 p.m. in the area of First Street and Harbor Boulevard, according to the Santa Ana Police Department. Calls of shots fired were received, but officers were directed to an area away…
By TED ANTHONY NEW YORK — His nation celebrated George H.W. Bush this week as a statesman, a veteran, a loving and committed family man who was a totem of respect, humility and mildness. But something else seeped into all the praise as Americans gathered Wednesday to send him on his way. Bush was also…
The person who wins the open Los Angeles school board seat in a March special election will serve less than two years and enter the fray during a period of budget strain and labor unrest. The campaign might overlap with a teachers strike. Even so, at least nine candidates have stepped up, gathering…
Frustrated and angry after being displaced for nearly a month by the deadly Camp fire, some Paradise residents on Wednesday morning finally got the news they’d been waiting for: They were allowed to return to their properties. The Butte County Sheriff’s Department used text alerts and automated…
A former congresswoman, a millionaire businessman and a handful of local public officials are running or thinking about running for a soon-to-be-vacated Orange County Board of Supervisors seat. Former Democratic congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is the most prominent of the candidates who say they’ve entered the race to replace 3rd District Supervisor Todd Spitzer, who was…
An Orange County prosecutor on Wednesday gave a murder defendant who has admitted to posing as his deceased business partner for months through email “one last chance” to tell authorities the location of the man’s body, as testimony in the trial came to a close. Senior Deputy District Attorney Matt Murphy presented Edward Younghoon Shin…
