Longtime friends, Bill Brooks, left, Jim Serpa, center, and Jim Long, pose for a portrait in the Halloween scenes in Long’s front yard in San Clemente on Thursday, October 25, 2018. The annual Halloween creation draws hundreds of people. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) A skeleton playing a piano is one of the…
In a previous life, the soda and beer cans held carbonated drinks that were sipped – or guzzled – but in their new form, these recycled cans will help a surfer ride waves. And, in the ’60s, sounds once filled the air from the two black vinyl records that are now used as the surfboard’s…
James J. “Whitey” Bulger Jr., the ruthless Boston mobster who topped the FBI’s most-wanted list and was found quietly living as a fugitive near the ocean in Santa Monica in 2011, has died in prison, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He was 89. Bulger was found unresponsive early Tuesday…
By MARYCLAIRE DALE and CLAUDIA LAUER PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh’s Jewish community began burying its dead Tuesday in the wake of the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history. The casket of Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, a family doctor known for his caring and kindness, was brought to the Jewish Community Center in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood for…
Catalina Island’s airport has a single runway. The U.S. Marines are helping repair the aging strip. (Google Maps) CATALINA — The U.S. Marines in conjunction with the Catalina Conservancy will help repair the aging runway on Santa Catalina Island’s only airport, officials announced Tuesday. The $5 million runway repair project will be funded by donations…
The Balboa Fun Zone is grooming pint-sized environmentalists. The historic waterfront amusement hub on Newport Bay, opened in 1936, has seen its ups and downs. It’s had at least 10 owners — including twice when bank trusts took over the struggling business — and has repeatedly fallen into disrepair. While the Ferris wheel remains, the…
Two years in, San Diego’s hepatitis A outbreak is finally over. Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county’s public health officer, said Monday that enough time has now passed to formally declare a curtain call for the contagion that killed 20, sickened nearly 600 and spurred a complete rethink of how the region…
Imperial Beach is near the U.S.-Mexico border. SAN CLEMENTE — Authorities in San Diego County on Tuesday identified a man who was killed when a sportfisher and a yacht collided offshore of Imperial Beach. Richard Neff, 66, of San Clemente, was injured shortly before 6 p.m. Friday when the Prowler, a 65-foot sportfisher, and the…
By LAURIE KELLMAN and CATHERINE LUCEY WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is intensifying his hardline immigration rhetoric heading into the midterm elections, declaring that he wants to order an end to the constitutional right to citizenship for babies born in the United States to non-citizens. With seven days to go before high-stakes elections that he…
Actor William Daniels, seen in a 2001 photo when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild, scared a burglar away from his San Fernando Valley home on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. Daniels, 91, is married to actress Bonnie Bartlett, 89. (Photo by Chris Weeks/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES — The Emmy-winning actor who portrayed Mr….
