Authorities identified a pedestrian who died after he was struck by an automobile in Garden Grove on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 26. Freddie Brown Jr., 46, was pronounced dead following a traffic collision that happened sometime before 8:56 p.m., according to Orange County Coroner’s investigator Kelly Keyes. Officials did not know his city of…
Southern California got ready Monday for the first storm of the new rain season, due midweek, while also preparing for possible debris flows as the threatening remnants of tropical storm Rosa rolled through the mountain and desert areas. For a time Monday afternoon, authorities issued a voluntary flood evacuation for San Jacinto Mountain communities in…
It is officially Oktoberfest time in Huntington Beach. The 41st annual German festival kicked off this weekend at Old World Huntington Beach with a parade weaving through the village before the tapping of the first keg of the festival. The Old World festival continues through Oct. 28. Find out more online at oldworld.ws. Musicians march…
In a roundabout way, it was President Donald Trump’s rise to power that prompted Democrat Beatriz “Betty” Valencia to run for city council. Within a few months of Trump’s 2016 victory, the 47-year-old protested in the streets of Los Angeles with the Women’s March. Soon after, she began attending council meetings in her home town,…
Shattering 40 years of secrecy, police disciplinary records and body camera footage will be available for public scrutiny under two laws signed this week by Gov. Jerry Brown. Senate Bill 1421, by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, opens the once-private personnel files of officers using deadly force, involved in sustained acts of on-duty sexual assault…
It’a one thing to be named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. It’s another to be the only school in all of Orange County to receive that esteemed honor in a year. True to its name, Golden Elementary in Placentia took the gold medal this year – making it one of…
A masked man and woman made off with cigarettes and an unspecified amount of cash after robbing a convenience store in Stanton on Sunday, Sept. 30, officials said. The theft happened at about 3:20 p.m. at the ABC Liquor store at 8502 Chapman Ave., said Orange County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Tanabe. He said two suspects…
In a significant win for beach access rights in California, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Silicon Valley billionaire’s appeal to keep a beach to himself. The decision caps an all-out legal battle over a small stretch of sand in San Mateo County known as Martins Beach. What began as…
Hope can be plucked from a heap of dirt with gentle hands. A gold-rimmed teacup with a chip in its pedestal. A pink vest knitted for a niece. A canvas book bag carrying a bracelet and a headband. Once as brown as the angry earth that barreled down the hillsides of Montecito, hundreds of possessions…
How the proposed expansion of the Diamond Jamboree shopping center in Irvine will look at night.(Sketch courtesy Diamond Development Group) Popular Diamond Jamboree shopping center in Irvine will get an 11-store expansion come 2020. (Sketch courtesy Diamond Development Group) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Popular Diamond Jamboree shopping center in Irvine’s expansion will add…
