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….
There is nothing quite like the last days of a close campaign, when hope, anxiety and fatigue collide. Even personal hygiene can take a hit. “I’ve been wearing the same clothes for two days,” said Joni Nichols, whose wardrobe lately has consisted entirely of rotating Harley Rouda T-shirts and jeans….
Portrait of science fiction fan Forrest J. Ackerman.
Police released surveillance footage on Monday, Oct. 29 of a suspect in an attack on an elderly man at a fast food restaurant in Garden Grove over the weekend. An 89-year-old man was attacked from behind while he was washing his hands in the bathroom of the McDonald’s at 13971 Harbor Blvd. at about 10:40 a.m. on…
Federal officials found 14 more children last week who had been separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border this year, according to court records. The government learned of the children during a records review, officials said in a status update for an ongoing class-action lawsuit regarding…
After ironing out issues with event coordinators, the UC Irvine College Republicans plan to bring back right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos as a speaker next year. The university rejected the club’s original request to use its Pacific Ballroom to host Yiannopoulos and, at a separate event,…
