By DAVID CRARY The Associated Press NEW YORK— Emboldened by the #MeToo movement, McDonald’s workers have voted to stage a one-day strike next week at restaurants in 10 cities in hopes of pressuring management to take stronger steps against on-the-job sexual harassment. Organizers say it will be the first multistate strike in the U.S. specifically…
Portrait of Leo Altoonian, 85, waiting in the lobby of the fire-damaged Barclay Hotel for his turn to get belongings out of his room.
Despite the name, it’s not just about the beach any more. What started as California’s Coastal Cleanup Day in 1985 eventually blossomed into an annual International Coastal Cleanup Day, with this year’s event taking place Saturday. Last year, nearly 800,000 people participated worldwide — often miles from the coast — and gathered 20 million pieces of…
SANTA ANA – One person was dead and another two injured following a crash after suspects fled when deputies were trying to pull them over Tuesday night, Sept. 11. An Orange County sheriff’s unit was in the Tustin area and tried to stop an SUV after seeing a suspect run into the vehicle, said Santa…
Tustin police arrested a man they said fled from officers in a stolen car and fought a police dog before he was Tased and taken into custody on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Dispatchers received word of a suspicious car near the 13200 block of Myford Road sometime before 5:51 am, according to a news release from…
SANTA ANA — Facing concerns over the improper recording of attorney-client calls at Orange County jails and a recent police dog attack on a public worker, a county supervisor said Tuesday that he’s fed up with the sheriff’s department’s gaffes. “The encyclopedia I could put together of times I’ve been told, ‘I guess we won’t…
The Historic Sewer Digester, built in the 1930’s, will be repainted and patched as part of the Village Entrance project in Laguna Beach on Tuesday, Sep. 11, 2018. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG) Workers demolish city buildings to make way for the Village Entrance project in Laguna Beach on Tuesday, Sep. 11, 2018….
LAGUNA WOODS — Marking a sizeable feat for transit patrons, the Golden Rain Foundation Mobility and Vehicles Committee voted unanimously in favor of the seven-day, fixed-route bus system’s return –– the petitioned-for daily service as it was prior to 2018 –– during a special meeting held to discuss weekend-service alternatives on Friday, Aug. 31. The…
Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday, Sept. 11, signed into law a bill that will allow Orange County and its 34 cities to form the Orange County Housing Finance Trust and jointly compete for state and federal funds to help house the local homeless population. The legislation, known as Assembly Bill 448, had enjoyed bipartisan support…
A man whose body was found floating in a reservoir Tuesday, Sept. 4 was not the victim of foul play, police said Tuesday. Investigators are no longer looking into the case as a possible homicide, and were waiting for a toxicology report to determine his cause of death, said Sgt. Daron Wyatt, a spokesman for…
