Two people were rescued from a house fire in Santa Ana on Friday night, a fire official said. One person was critically injured; the other had minor injuries, according to Capt. Alan Wilkes of the Orange County Fire Authority. Firefighters were dispatched at 10 p.m. to the 1000 block of North Olive Street. They encountered…
A pedestrian was struck and killed in Huntington Beach Friday night by a man suspected of driving under the influence, police said. The accident occurred at about 8:57 p.m., when the pedestrian entered the westbound lanes of Warner Ave. at Rotterdam Lane, Huntington Beach police said. The 54-year-old driver was in a black 2003 Chevrolet…
The Palomino Rides Again! For one night only, on Oct. 8. But hey, North Hollywood’s – and arguably California’s – most legendary country music club will be back in all of its twangy, cosmic cowboy glory with a number of acts and special guests who called the Lankershim Boulevard venue home for decades of the…
Q. I drove on the I-5 freeway to Oceanside last week and noticed that there was a blue “H” hospital sign along the southbound side of the freeway in San Clemente. Saddleback Memorial Medical Center San Clemente closed two years ago. If that sign is wrong, it should be covered until removed, so people in an emergency…
A judge overseeing the effort to reunify families at the border urged opposing attorneys to get moving on a solution that would allow all reunited children to pursue their own asylum claims rather than be immediately deported with their parents. In a court hearing here Friday, U.S. District Judge…
Last week, Yea Ji Sea packed her life into a Prius and began the long drive home from Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio to Los Angeles. Before starting out, she searched for information on the internet about immigration checkpoints. Instead of taking the shortest route home, she veered a couple hundred…
A special year ahead for football at Bellflower’s St. John Bosco High? Even for a school that’s won a national title and is accustomed to a lot of attention, that might be an understatement. St. John Bosco celebrates their first game in their new stadium 42-0 at halftime. @lbpt_sports pic.twitter.com/ssu0tQlGaN — Scott Varley (@VarleyPhoto) August…
Two Orange County GOP political hopefuls who recently failed to make the general election for a coastal Assembly seat want Orange County prosecutors to investigate whether a rival placed a decoy candidate in the contest to shape the results to his advantage. Greg Haskin and Long Pham, the third and fourth place finishers in the…
Some civil rights advocates called Friday for an independent criminal investigation into the improper recording of 1,079 telephone calls between Orange County jail inmates and their attorneys during the past three years. The recordings — dozens of which were accessed by law enforcement — appeared to be a felony violation of the attorney-client privilege under…
Before landing at the Coral Motel in Buena Park on June 1, Barbara Pincheira and Christopher Ramos sold drugs so they could take drugs, feeding a ferocious heroin habit that kept them living at the Santa Ana Civic Center for half a decade. They became friends and then a couple after meeting in the Plaza…
