MEXICO CITY — Hurricane Willa grew into a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm and swept toward Mexico’s Pacific coast with winds of 160 mph (260 kph) Monday, threatening a stretch of high-rise resort hotels, surfing beaches and fishing villages. The hurricane was expected to pass over or near the Islas Marias — a set of…
With the Pacific Ocean in the background, drivers head up Thalia Street in Laguna Beach Thursday. Overhead power lines here and elsewhere in the city have long been a safety and aesthetic concern for city residents and officials. Downed power lines may have been a cause of the recent brush fire in South Laguna. (File…
By MARK STEVENSON TAPACHULA, Mexico — Thousands of Honduran migrants hoping to reach the U.S. stretched out on rain-soaked sidewalks, benches and public plazas in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, worn down by another day’s march under a blazing sun. Keeping together for strength and safety in numbers, some huddled under a metal roof…
Before O.J. Simpson, before Erik and Lyle Menendez, there was Joe Hunt. Handsome and charismatic with a boyish charm, Hunt led the Billionaire Boys Club, a social and investment fraternity. Club members, clad in Armani suits and driving high-end BMWs, dined at Spago and partied with supermodels….
Cal State Fullerton Police detained two suspects wanted in the robbery of an Anaheim Walmart on Sunday, Oct. 21. Two people robbed the Walmart Supercenter at 88 E. Orangethorpe Avenue, said Anaheim Police Sgt. K. Voorhis. A countywide alert to law enforcement helped Cal State Fullerton Police locate two suspects in a suspected getaway vehicle near the…
Antwan Toney, a police officer working in the Atlanta area, was on patrol Saturday afternoon when he got a call from his older sister. The 30-year-old moved to Georgia in 2015 to join the Gwinnett County Police Department, his first job in law enforcement after a lifetime of dreaming of becoming a cop. “He wanted…
GARDEN GROVE – Police are seeking anyone who saw a pedestrian struck by a car on Westminster Avenue early Sunday morning, Oct. 21. Garden Grove police officers dispatched to the scene just west of Euclid Street around 12:41 a.m. found the 72-year-old man had crossed northbound on Westminster Avenue in an area not marked as a…
According to my admittedly unscientific survey in numerous parking lots, people with expensive cars like to flaunt the law. That’s right. It appears the richer you are, the less you care about obeying law enforcement. Think I’m kidding? I’m not. Just check out for yourself the models of cars without front license plates. In case…
Teams from centers along the California coast look for entangled marine life in Newport Harbor. (Photo courtesy of PMMC) Teams look for entangled marine life in Newport Harbor. (Photos courtesy of PMMC) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Six marine mammal rescue organizations partner to train remote darting entangled marine mammals. (Photo courtesy of PMMC)…
O.C. “Real Housewife” Tamra Judge and husband Eddie are officially Coto de Caza homeowners, closing sale on a six-bedroom residence in the guard-gated enclave for $2.025 million. The home was listed on Sept. 14 at $2.095 million. It last sold in June 2017 for $1.78 million, according to property records. The couple sold their five-bedroom house…
