The mother of a former Stanford student acknowledged Thursday that she paid $6.5 million to the man at the heart of the college admissions scandal, but said she was tricked into believing the seven-figure sum would go toward scholarships, university salaries and programs for needy students. The…
Yusi Zhao’s mother says she thought she was helping needy students at Stanford — not buying her daughter’s admission — when she paid $6.5 million into a foundation controlled by college admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer. One day after the Times identified the Zhaos, of Beijing, as the…
Family, friends, and fans filled “The Hornet’s Nest” recently to honor this year’s inductees into the Fullerton College Athletic Hall of Fame. Seven outstanding athletes, and two national championship teams, were presented their awards by legendary local sports broadcaster, Ed Arnold, who served as the master of ceremonies. Hall of Fame inductee Chris Smith delivers…
A Rose Hills Memorial Park and Mortuaries salesman has accused his employer of discriminating against him because he’s not of Asian descent, unlike a large number of the cemetery’s clients. Bill Conlon is suing his employer, Rose Hills Memorial Park and Mortuaries (Photo courtesy BOHM Law Group) Building rapport with the Asian community in Southern…
Ubaldo Arroyo, who has lived most of his life in Orange County, is being held as an undocumented detainee at the James A. Musick Detention Facility in Irvine, unsure where he will be sent following the Orange County Sheriff’s announcement that it will no longer house detainees while their deportation cases are pending. Bashir Abdi…
Actor Peter Mayhew, who played the original Chewbacca, arrives for the premiere of the film ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ in Hollywood, California on May 10, 2018. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP) Actor Peter Mayhew, right, who played Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” movies, poses with a Chewbacca character, on May 27, 2005,…
Mike Doyle first put his feet on a board in 1953 when surfing was — at best — a cultish hobby shared by a handful of hardened, sun-blazed surfers. They called him “Malibu Mike,” a tall kid from the wrong side of Interstate 5 who rode the waves with a muscular aggression many on the…
Sherry Guo came to California five years ago, a teenager from China with dreams of attending an elite university. Her attorney does not dispute she got into Yale through the machinations of William “Rick” Singer, a Newport Beach consultant who defrauded the Ivy League school and similarly selective…
LOS ANGELES — The Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance will hold its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration Thursday, with the theme, “Value, Morality and Justice.” Rabbi Marvin Hier, the center’s founder and dean, will make a commemorative address at the museum focusing on the rise of anti-Semitism around the world. The center…
The phone isn’t yet off the hook and the website still allows guests to make dinner reservations. But brown parchment paper covers the windows of Traxx, signaling the closure of the longtime Union Station eatery. Inside, darkness fills the Art Deco space. The only light that emanates comes from…
