UC Santa Cruz chancellor to retire at the end of the academic year
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal announced Tuesday that he plans to step down at the end of the academic year.
Animal rights group alleges UC Irvine negligence led to six research animal deaths
An animal rights group is alleging that UC Irvine researchers failed to properly administer anesthesia and provide adequate veterinary care to six research animals last year, leading to the deaths of four rabbits, a pig and a sheep. Michael A. Budkie, executive director of Stop Animal Exploitation…
Surgeon who appeared on reality TV dating show is accused of sexual assault and preying on drugged women
Dr. Grant William Robicheaux billed himself as an elite orthopedic surgeon catering to Newport Beach’s famous and wealthy. It was a lifestyle he pushed not only in his medical work but on realty TV, where he appeared on a Bravo dating show wearing his hospital scrubs and a wide smile. But Orange…
Chino man charged with sexually assaulting 4 girls in La Habra over 10-year period
SANTA ANA — A 42-year-old Chino man was arrested Friday and charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting four girls in La Habra between 1999 and 2008. Wesley Gerardo Estrada was charged with five counts of lewd acts with a minor and single counts of forced oral copulation, rape of an unconscious person and forcible rape, all…
Animal rights group files complaint alleging negligent treatment of UC Irvine research animals
An Ohio-based animal welfare group has filed a complaint with a federal agency about UC Irvine’s treatment of research animals that includes allegations a university spokesman said are “flatly inaccurate.” Stop Animal Exploitation Now sent a Sept. 15 letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture suggesting the 2017 deaths of four rabbits, a sheep and a…
Getting up close and personal to photograph homeless people is the focus of Long Beach man’s advocacy
Eye contact. A smile. A hand extended for a shake. David Freeman is making contact with two homeless women at a busy street corner in Anaheim. A Nikon d500 camera hangs from his neck, but he won’t take their photographs without asking first. “Hi,” he says, “my name’s Dave.” When they share their names, Freeman…
Laguna Woods Village condo board mulls revisions to decades-old appliance policy in 3-story buildings
LAGUNA WOODS — Laguna Woods Village’s Third Mutual board on Tuesday, Sept. 18 discussed revisions to a 20-year-old policy that bans the installation of washers and dryers in three-story buildings. Active since Dec. 15, 1998, the original alteration standard has prohibited third-story members from furnishing their manors with said appliances, while terminating variance requests to…
Disney, hotel workers reach tentative agreement to raise wages, grant $1,000 bonuses
After a year and a half of negotiations, Disneyland Resort hotel workers appear to have struck a deal with their employer, which would raise wages nearly $2 an hour and in same cases more. Unite Here Local 11 reached a tentative contract agreement with Disney late Monday that would cover about 2,700 of its 3,000…
Third Marine recruit files lawsuit against food service company, claiming negligence led to kidney and brain damage
A third Marine recruit has filed a lawsuit against a food provider claiming its negligent food handling caused him to become sick last year, leading to permanent kidney and brain damage and cutting short his Marine Corps career. In the lawsuit filed against Sodexo Inc., Tristan Abbott, 19, said exposure to undercooked beef in 2017 at…
California children enter school unprepared and never catch up, landmark research finds
When students enter school in California, they learn at a pace on par with — if not better than — those in other states. The problem is that they arrive far behind their national peers, and they never catch up. This conclusion, from a sweeping research project aimed at charting future education…