A Huntington Beach police officer on his way to work on his patrol motorcycle was involved in a crash on the Butterfield Ranch Road onramp to the southbound 71 Freeway in Chino Hills Wednesday morning, prompting authorities to shut down the onramp, California Highway Patrol officials said. “It appears the officer and a civilian vehicle…
Mexican officials discovered a sophisticated cross-border tunnel that began in a home in the town of Jacume less than a football field away from the U.S. border. A team made up of members of the U.S. Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations and the Drug Enforcement Administration determined…
A man reported missing near the border of Brea and Rowland Heights remained unaccounted for after multiple law enforcement agencies searched nearby foothills for more than three hours on Tuesday, Oct. 9. A construction company contacted authorities at about 3 p.m. after an employee failed to return from a delivery to a residential job site…
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s detective said while the recent reports of a burglary suspect possibly armed with a rifle near Malibu Creek State Park were “concerning,” there was no evidence that the man was connected to the deadly shooting of an Irvine father at a nearby campground in June. Lt. Eddie Hernandez, one of…
His last name has five letters, but Republicans running for office in Southern California are as reluctant to mention “Donald Trump” as they are to drop one of the few still forbidden four-letter words in public. It’s a reality of the double political life many candidates on both sides of the political aisle are leading…
Mel Mermelstein kept looking for pieces from a place that tried to kill him. Stones and bits of barbed fence. Forks and spoons for whatever scraps he and others were fed. A photo of him, squeezed among dozens of other prisoners, in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Dr. William Kott and his daighter-in-law, Lisa Kott, examine a picture…
LAGUNA BEACH — Visitors to Aliso Beach on Tuesday, Oct. 9, couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw a silver rocket sitting on a trailer in the parking lot. “Oh my God, it’s been crazy,” said Dustin Otterbach, the driver of the trailer. “Some people thought it crash-landed on the beach, others thought it was…
An elderly motorist lost control of her SUV, which crashed into a parked vehicle, pushing both SUVs into a thrift store in Placentia and injuring herself as well as four other people on Tuesday, Oct. 9, officials and witnesses said. The 88-year-old woman behind the wheel of a white Chevrolet Suburban crashed into a silver…
How conservative is Ramona, Calif.? At the Turkey Inn, the town’s oldest watering hole, there’s a portrait of President Trump in a place of honor above the cash register. “We’re just a good, down-home blue-collar bar,” bartender Erin Smidt said. “Lots of vets and military, and lots of people mad…
Orange County’s existing homes are taking an estimated 38 more days to sell this year as 34 percent more homes are listed for sale. ReportsOnHousing tracks homebuying patterns found in real estate broker networks: supply (active listings); year-to-date increase in supply; demand (new escrows in past 30 days); and “market time” (a measure of selling…
