A man wearing a wet suit was pulled from the ocean at Moss Street Beach in Laguna Beach and was pronounced dead at a local hospital, Marine Safety officials said Friday, Aug. 31. Lifeguards were called to the beach at 7:22 a.m. when someone reported that a person appeared to be floating 50 yards offshore,…
An Irvine attorney who describes herself as the top law school tutor in the United States has been the target of blistering criticism for an incendiary Facebook post mocking Orange County Asians. Christina Ignatius, who owns Law School Tutor and claims to have been involved in multimillion-dollar business and real estate deals, compared the county’s Asian…
A former Orange Coast College student was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail for vandalizing two campus security vehicles and violating an order to stay away from the Costa Mesa campus, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office. Robert Bouton McDougal, 22, also received three…
A bill that would penalize retailers that hire trucking companies which have legal judgments against them for labor law violations is now a signature away becoming law after it was passed by the California legislature on Friday, Aug. 31. Senate Bill 1402, authored by state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), was passed by a majority…
Five years ago, California became the first state in the nation to recognize the human right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water. Today, we look at how the state is working to ensure that right and where the biggest concerns for Californians are. The California Water Resources Control Board’s records show more than 266…
In just over two years, Eric Gonzales has lost 161 pounds. It took a lot of determination, fortitude and willpower. And, it took a village. When a family crisis threw his life into disarray last summer, the Los Alamitos resident could no longer afford his Weight Watchers membership. He shared his situation on Connect, the…
It’s not unusual for an audience to listen to a scientific presentation on climate change that outlines such effects as scorching temperatures, rising sea levels and intense wildfires — and then sink slowly into a blue funk. “They can feel very depressed,” Angelica Gonzales, conservation program manager for the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter, said. “They…
Golf bag, with broken clubs, left is downtown Los Angeles trash can.
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and ALINA HARTOUNIAN ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A blown tire on a semitrailer may be to blame for a deadly head-on crash with a commercial passenger bus along Interstate 40 in New Mexico near the Arizona border, according to authorities. At least seven people were killed, and many of the 49 passengers…
Anthony Grigore is a Democrat. But as he waited Thursday at an In-N-Out Burger in El Segundo for his meal, Grigore made it clear party loyalty would only go so far. Just hours earlier, the head of the California Democratic Party called for a boycott of the famed burger chain after a public filing…
