Orange County firefighters were called to a Westminster apartment complex after an explosion occurred Saturday, Nov. 3. (Courtesy of Orange County Fire Authority) A small SUV crashed into a wall in a parking garage, striking a water heater closet that caused a gas leak and led to an explosion at a Westminster apartment complex Saturday,…
A small brush fire started near Mt. Baldy on Friday but no homes are in its immediate path. The blaze, which started near Mountain Avenue and Shinn Road, was reported about 7:30 p.m. in a forested area and has grown to 20 acres, according to Ed Pickett, a supervising fire dispatcher with the Los…
Two years ago, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa kept his seat by 1,621 votes, making the race in his sprawling coastal 49th District in Orange and San Diego counties the closet congressional tally in the nation that year. Now the district, covering 54 miles of coastline and mansion enclaves, that has…
On Tuesday, voters will decide who should take over one of the most powerful law enforcement jobs in the nation, in a contest that few may even realize appears on the crowded Los Angeles County ballot. The race for sheriff could be historic. It pits the establishment incumbent against a lesser-funded…
Two years into the Donald Trump experience, with midterm elections coming up this week, political fault lines deeper than the San Andreas and political rhetoric flaring like a California wildfire, I got into my car and drove to Temecula. That was the deal I made last year with Dana Martin, proud…
Michael J. Goodman, a seasoned Los Angeles journalist who wrote riveting profiles on historical figures and in-depth investigations, has died at 76. Goodman, who had been battling a long illness, died in an Oxnard hospice facility on Thursday. In a journalism career spanning almost four decades,…
SANTA ANA – A parolee-at-large was arrested Friday following a high-speed chase in which the driver rammed police cars, prompting an officer to shoot out a tire of the evading vehicle. Two cars were stolen in a residential burglary in Garden Grove on Oct. 25. Police were able to locate one of the vehicles Friday…
Rita Ann Wilde appears on Row 159 of the spreadsheet where the Orange County coroner’s office tracks the deaths in 2018 of people who have “no fixed abode.” Homeless. More than one car hit Wilde on Sept. 20 as she stepped off the sidewalk late at night near the corner of Harbor Boulevard and La…
Q. Honk: You recently wrote about a sheriff’s deputy in Los Angeles County using the carpool lane without a passenger and that officers often shouldn’t do it. Today, there was a double-length Orange County Transportation Authority bus that was out of service with no passengers using the carpool lane on the southbound 55 Freeway near…
In the end, what is it all about? The question hangs over Tuesday’s election, like a star-spangled flag on a windless day waiting to be blown one direction or another by a breeze from the ballot box. In the view of those who are calling this the most important election of our lifetimes — and…
