A mobile needle exchange program universally opposed by the county and four affected cities was approved this week by the California Department of Public Health. State officials decided Monday to let the Orange County Needle Exchange Program operate for two years starting Monday, Aug. 6, according to an email and letter from the department. Supporters say…
Fundraising has started to include a bronze monument in Westminster’s Mendez Tribute Park, a small park breaking ground in January to memorialize to the 1947 ruling with local ties that banned the segregation of Mexican American children in California schools. The City Council approved the park project in March, committing the $160,000 it will cost to convert a…
CSUF graduate Thabat Dahdoul, far right, traveled to Peru in the summer of 2017 with other BOLD scholars, from left, Dinorah Ortiz from CSUF and Enas Jahangir from Smith College, plus Annie Cohen, site coordinator of the program at Smith. The BOLD Women’s Leadership Network is funded by the Pussycat Foundation, established by former Cosmopolitan…
LAGUNA NIGUEL — Maya Davis is a lot like most 9-year-old girls—she enjoys listening to Taylor Swift, playing Pokémon and going to the beach. However, most 9-year-old girls aren’t national reigning USAT taekwondo silver medalists in sparring. Maya competed in her first USAT National Championships July 2-9 in Salt Lake City and made quite the…
Elderly patients spent over two weeks in uncontrolled pain or respiratory distress. Acute care was rare on weekends. And recruiters went door to door pitching fraudulent schemes, luring healthy patients to sign up for hospice in exchange for free housecleaning and medicine. These details appear in a report on hospice released Monday by a government watchdog agency…
Demi Lovato performs during 102.7 KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball at The Forum on Dec. 1, 2017. She was hospitalized Tuesday, July 24, 2018, following a possible overdose after an all-night party at her Hollywood Hills home. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia) LOS ANGELES — Singer/actress Demi Lovato was reported to be stable Wednesday…
A woman in her 20s died Tuesday night, July 24, in a fiery solo crash on Santiago Canyon Road, firefighters said. The burning car was found over the side of the road in the brush shortly after the 10:09 p.m. call on the 11-mile stretch of winding road near Williams Canyon Road, according to Orange…
For nearly 30 years, The John Henry Foundation has housed several dozen adults in a cluster of cottages on a quiet street in Santa Ana. The residents at the neatly landscaped campus are all mentally ill, diagnosed with schizophrenia. But a passerby wouldn’t know mental health patients lived there without entering the gate and paying…
By EMILIANO RODRIGUEZ MEGA The Associated Press NEW YORK — A huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, raising the possibility of finding life on the red planet. The discovery, based on observations by a European spacecraft, generated excitement from experts. Water is essential to life as we know it,…
By COLLEEN BARRY and TOM KRISHER The Associated Press MILAN — Sergio Marchionne, a charismatic and demanding CEO who engineered two long-shot corporate turnarounds to save both Fiat and Chrysler from near-certain failure, died Wednesday. He was 66. The holding company of Italian automaker Fiat’s founders, the Agnelli family, announced Marchionne had died after complications…
