The 19th annual induction ceremony for the International Surfboard Builders Hall of Fame is set for Saturday, Oct. 13. This year’s event will fittingly be held at the International Surfing Museum, 411 Olive Ave., in Huntington Beach. Previous inductees include surfboard building legends such as Phil Edwards, Skip Frye, Mickey Munoz, Mike Doyle, Bill Holden…
Santa Ana Police arrested a youth pastor on Tuesday, Oct. 2 on suspicion of a violent sexual assault on a 13-year-old member of his congregation. Authorities allege that, sometime in March, Jonathan Lamont Jenkins, 57, of Riverside, hid in a women’s restroom at Starlight Baptist Church at 1201 W. Second St., lying in wait for a…
Authorities charged a man who was in custody after officers said he attempted to flee from law enforcement on Monday, Oct. 1 in a stolen vehicle linked to an earlier bank robbery, initiating a chase from Stanton to Garden Grove. Walter Glenn Bennett, 56, was arrested and held at the Theo Lacy jail in Orange…
With the Holy fire drawing closer, Julie Hamilton was preparing to leave her house when an air tanker dumped pink retardant all over her white pickup. It was officially time to go. For weeks in August and September, the fire prompted mandatory evacuations as it burned through canyons and mountainous…
In the national cacophony that arose after Christine Blasey Ford testified that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school, one refrain from his supporters has begun to drown out all others: Our country has abandoned its cherished ideal that a person is innocent…
A team of sheriff’s deputies patrolling the Grapevine in northern L.A. County disproportionately stops and searches Latino drivers compared with other motorists, a Times investigation has found.
The UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies poll that the Los Angeles Times is releasing Thursday uses a method that differs from our past surveys. Here’s an explanation of how it works, and why we’re doing it this way. Like many surveys, the Berkeley IGS Poll, directed by veteran pollster…
Republicans are at risk of a wipeout in California’s six most hotly contested congressional races, a new poll shows — a result that could radically reshape the state’s political map, with major consequences nationally. But the poll, conducted for the Los Angeles Times by UC Berkeley’s Institute…
In response to a public records request, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department provided The Times with data on traffic stops that the Domestic Highway Enforcement Team made from its start in 2012 through 2017. The data included information on the race or ethnicity of people stopped and the…
Rising Orange County home prices combined with rising mortgage rates pushed a typical buyer’s house payment to a 10-year high in August. And that monetary pain — $3,467 a month — could have been worse. CoreLogic estimates monthly mortgage payments by looking at purchase prices, down payments and the use of fixed or adjustable financing…
