It’s considered the Superbowl of SUP. The world’s best stand-up paddle athletes kicked off the Pacific Paddle Games at Doheny State Beach in big surf Saturday, Oct. 6, as a hurricane swell slammed the coast. The event brought about 400 paddlers – some elite competitors in the pro division and others in the open division – for…
If not for Nathaniel Ayers, I probably never would have met Jim Preis, a lawyer, and Vijay Gupta, a violinist. That’s the kind of journey it has been with Ayers, a homeless skid-row musician I met in 2005. He’s taken me places I’d never been to, like the White House, where he performed at the…
Montserrat Caballe, a Spanish opera singer renowned for her bel canto technique and her interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, has died. She was 85. Caballe died early Saturday at Hospital San Pau in Barcelona, hospital spokesman Abraham del Moral told The Associated Press….
A high-ranking Cal State Long Beach administrator was placed on leave days after a former employee she was accused of having a romantic relationship with showed up “disgruntled” at her office, triggering a police search before he allegedly killed two relatives hours later in Compton. An Associated Students Inc. hiring committee was unaware that Jamie Jajuan Williams,…
Shortly after President Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009, a group of citizens fed up with big government and excessive spending started a modern day Tea Party movement aimed at stopping a liberal political agenda. In the midterm of 2010, that Tea Party energy translated into votes. Republicans picked up 63 seats in…
A drunken driver who struck and killed a mother and her two young daughters as they were walking to their Placentia home was sentenced Friday to nine years and eight months in prison. Nicholas Stephen Munoz, 28, pleaded guilty earlier this year to three felony counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence while intoxicated for…
The controversial Poseidon desalination plant proposed for Huntington Beach is the least cost-effective option and carries the most fiscal risk of key water projects being pursued in Orange County, according to a newly released draft report. Additionally, the plant would produce far more water than needed except in the most extreme scenarios and most shortages…
The crash hurt my pride more than anything else, thanks to my trusty helmet. But at least it was a crash in the name of journalism. If you happened to be out and about near Pacific Avenue and First Street on Thursday morning, you know what I’m talking about. You were among the many who…
In the past three years, Irvine went from treating its parks and nature areas with more than 50 pounds and about 60 gallons of synthetic weed and pest killers annually, all the way down to zero. The city now uses organic products with ingredients such as corn gluten meal and oil from soybeans, lemongrass or…
With officials now looking into every way possible to open up Hollister Ranch, many have asked: How exactly did 8.5 miles of California’s most pristine coastline remain so private, and with so little scrutiny, for four decades? The answer lies in a special section of the Coastal Act.
