For decades, the weekly meetings of the Board of Supervisors have been family-friendly, orderly affairs — humdrum public discussions of the appointments, motions and ordinances that keep Los Angeles County’s $30- billion government in motion. Lately, though, those discussions have turned offensive. …
The Honduran cattle herder rubbed his hands nervously, perched on the edge of his seat in the baggage claim area of San Diego International Airport, scanning the crowd. Suddenly, a curly-haired teenager caught his eye. “That’s my son,” he said, his mouth widening into a grin as he launched himself…
On April 21, 1930, Ford Motor Co. opened its new Southern California assembly plant in Long Beach.
A small plane went down at the Fullerton Municipal Airport and was engulfed in flames on Thursday, April 18. The crash was reported at 7:51 p.m., according to a Metronet dispatcher. He said the plane had caught fire, and firefighters were immediately dispatched. Social media posts showed a raging fire sending a thick plume of…
A woman was sleeping on her living room couch early Thursday, April 18, when she was awakened by a man who broke into her home and later fled in her car, Santa Ana police said. It was around 5 a.m. when officers were called to the home in the 900 block of West Riviera Drive….
In another major reform growing out of the deaths of 23 horses at Santa Anita Park this season, the chief of the state’s regulatory agency said Thursday it will now assign an investigator and a steward to dig into every death at California racetracks, even if it means having to subpoena records. The state already…
The 2019 high school graduation season is upon us. Here’s everything you need to know about each graduation ceremony in Orange County.
The widower of a homeless woman who died in August after being struck by California Department of Transportation machinery along a highway in Modesto has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the state and the driver. Shannon Marie Bigley had been sleeping in a cardboard box in a grassy field…
Thirty-three utilities from three West Coast states have launched a study to assess what it would take to install electric charging stations along the 5 Freeway for long-haul trucks traveling between the Mexican and Canadian borders, they announced Thursday. Although battery-powered medium- and heavy-duty trucks have barely begun on-road service in a few states, many…
I woke up on a recent morning looking straight at the wall on the right side of my bed. Being a side sleeper and in the habit of lying on my left side, I wake up facing that same wall each morning. On that wall is my copy of Rick Griffin’s famous “Flying Eyeball” poster…
