A Vietnam veteran will finally get a high school diploma from an unexpected source after battling the school district where he attended 50 years ago. Ken Weiner, who was awarded the Purple Heart after being shot twice in Vietnam, will accept a diploma from the Riverside County Superintendent of Schools on Tuesday, Nov. 13 in…
Thirteen people are dead after a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a country dance bar holding a weekly “college night” Wednesday in Southern California, sending hundreds fleeing in terror including some who used barstools to break windows and escape, authorities said. The dead included 11 people inside the bar, the gunman and a…
Kevin de León spent his longshot campaign against Sen. Dianne Feinstein arguing that she was not sufficiently fighting against President Trump and his conservative agenda in Washington. But when election night came, De León ended up garnering strong support from some of California’s reddest counties,…
A suspect died in custody at a hospital following a late October altercation that sent two Anaheim police officers to the emergency room, officials said Wednesday. Both officers were discharged from medical care and recovering from serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries sustained after an encounter with a man suspected of assaulting an apartment complex employee near…
While Democrats claimed victory Wednesday in a pair of formerly GOP-held House seats, campaign officials said the huge number of mid-term ballots still to be counted mean many other key races throughout Southern California might not be decided for weeks. Electoral clarity came to two regional House districts, the 49th, which covers southern Orange and…
Authorities in Orange County suspect that a Los Angeles-based group, which claimed to have the ability to cure the sick in Spanish-language infomercials, bullied and intimidated people into paying thousands for faith-based healing. At least two Orange County residents may have been defrauded by Terapias Alternativas Aaron Inc., also known as Terapias Alternativas Angel Inc.,…
A jury has awarded $3.2 million in damages to a Muslim who claims he was harassed for years by his supervisors at Loma Linda University Medical Center and ultimately fired because of his Islamic beliefs, his lawyer said Wednesday. The award to Hugo Lizzaraga, 44, who worked 20 years as a warehouse employee at the…
Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer is on the verge of doing what was once unthinkable, unseating 20-year veteran District Attorney Tony Rackauckas despite solid backing by old guard Republican leaders. Rackauckas’ tenure has been marked by scandal and criticism that his department is a “ship without a rudder.” But he has never before faced such…
