Immigration officers in the United States operate under a cardinal rule: Keep your hands off Americans. But ICE agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, bad data and lax investigations.
There’s a badge on her uniform, possibly a gun on her hip, and her arms are spread a little, suggesting she’s ready for anything. You might think that you’re looking at a police officer walking a beat. But what you’ve seen on billboards and, more recently, the internet is an effort by MedMen Enterprises…
The Del Taco fast-food chain is being sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on allegations of allowing male supervisors to sexually harass young female employees since 2014, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court on Monday. For years, the young women at a Del Taco in Rancho…
Sheriff’s deputies are searching for a suspect in the sexual assault of an autistic man at the San Juan Capistrano Public Library in April. The alleged incident happened at about 1:15 p.m. on Monday, April 16, in the men’s bathroom of the library, according to a Monday news release from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department….
Actor-comedian Tom Arnold filed a report with the Los Angeles Police Department on Monday accusing “The Apprentice” TV executive producer Mark Burnett of battery at a pre-Emmy party when a verbal dispute over the comedian’s pursuit of information on President Trump for a TV show. Arnold and Burnett…
This month marks 10 years since Lehman Bros. became the largest bankruptcy case in U.S. history. Today, we look back at the Great Recession. U.S. GDP by quarter Here is the nation’s gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, by quarter, from 2004 to today: Historical perspective The 18-month-long contraction of gross domestic…
A Santa Ana jury on Monday ordered Suzuki Motor of America to pay roughly $6 million in punitive damages in a civil lawsuit by a motorcycle rider who was injured when the front brakes failed to work, causing a collision. The same jurors on Friday decided that Suzuki also should pay about $2 million in…
If you live or work in the Fountain Valley area, you might need to rethink your beaten path for the next year or so. As part of a five-year widening project, the Slater Avenue bridge over the 405 Freeway is scheduled to close at 1 a.m. Friday, Sept. 21, for about 12 months. Slater will be…
The founder of an international music program under investigation for possibly providing flutes contaminated with semen to hundreds of Southern California students has been arrested on federal child exploitation charges. John Edward Zeretzke, 60, of Ventura was taken into custody Thursday by officers with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department….
With the recent opening of a totally rebuilt Fire Station 1 and the roll out of a major change to ambulance service, the Costa Mesa Fire Department’s offerings could be called both new and improved. After contracting with Care Ambulance, a private company, for about 10 years, Costa Mesa now takes patients to the hospital…
