The Democratic Party of Orange County is investigating allegations against a Santa Ana City Council candidate whom an ex-girlfriend alleges abused her. Phil Bacerra, a former city planning commissioner running for the Ward 4 council seat, denied the accusations made by Griselda Govea, who first posted about them on Facebook and has since talked to…
Tom Sachs could barely move from his bed. He lay lifeless — delirious with 103-degree fever, riddled with aches, chills and extreme weakness. “I had the chills where my body would shake from my waist to my head,” he said during an interview Monday, Oct. 15. Doctors told him he had the flu. After nearly…
Seal Beach police on Monday released surveillance footage of a man suspected of robbing a cell phone store on Sunday, Oct. 14. A man entered the T-Mobile store at 13936 Seal Beach Blvd. sometime before 7 p.m. and took three Apple iPhones that were on display, the Seal Beach Police Department said in a news…
Roni Salguero Casasola had heard from friends in Bakersfield that L.A. County sheriff’s deputies were pulling over Latino motorists on the 5 Freeway heading into Los Angeles. But even those warnings hadn’t prepared him for what happened next. As he and a friend drove toward a Glendale car dealership,…
The framework that holds a 405 Freeway sign has to come down, so the southbound lanes below will be closed overnight for two days this week for safety. The lanes will be closed between Seal Beach Boulevard and the connector to the eastbound 22 freeway from 11 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, to 5 a.m. Thursday,…
More than 3,700 customers were without power because of two outages that hit Orange County Monday morning, Oct. 15, during heavy Santa Ana winds. Southern California Edison reported that 2,146 customers in Aliso Viejo and 1,601 in North Tustin were without power at around 6 a.m. Crews were trying to determine what caused the Aliso…
Angry residents face off with representatives of the nonprofit group PATH Ventures that is proposing to build an affordable apartment complex for the formerly homeless in Carson, during a community meeting in the Normandale Recreation Center in Torrance on Wednesday, September 12, 2018. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer) Members of the Los Angeles Center…
By FAY ABUELGASIM, SUZAN FRASER and JON GAMBRELL ISTANBUL— Turkey and Saudi Arabia are expected to conduct a joint “inspection” on Monday of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, nearly two weeks after the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkish authorities said. The announcement from an official at Turkey’s Foreign Ministry comes as international…
Click for a larger image. LOS ANGELES — Strong Santa Ana winds, very dry air and low humidity will combine Monday to confront Southern California with a high risk of wildfires, according to the National Weather Service. Most of L.A. County is at risk. Red flag warnings denoting a high risk of wildfires will be…
By David W. Hart, Ph.D. Contributing writer My mother Carrie and I cared for my grandmother Janice, who was diagnosed with probable Alzheimer’s disease when I was 15 years old. For nearly eight years, the disease ravaged her brain and eventually her body. Over that course of time, my family found there were physical and…
