CAMP PENDLETON — Staff Sgt. Joshua Braica was just weeks away from a deployment to the Indo-Pacific Command region when he was fatally injured in a training exercise at Camp Pendleton over the weekend. Officials from the U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command released his name Tuesday, April 16. Braica, 29, enlisted in the…
Clogging landfills, trashing beaches and fouling the oceans — in part via a massive junk ball off the coast — have been key reasons for the war on plastic bags, straws and bottles. Now, a researcher from UC Santa Barbara has added one more: They make the planet warmer. In one of the first-ever evaluations of…
MemorialCare and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim announced the provider — with its largest facilities in Long Beach — will become the team’s official healthcare partner on Tuesday, April 16. While MemorialCare has four hospitals and 200-plus care locations in Los Angeles and Orange counties, two of its largest facilities are Long Beach Medical…
Regardless of whether a court allows an Orange County nonprofit to run a mobile syringe exchange, the program’s organizers could find themselves barred under proposed legislation from working in the cities they hoped to serve. State Sen. John Moorlach is behind a bill that would require city or county officials to sign off before a needle…
For more than a year, some at San Gabriel Mission High School had expressed concerns about Juan Ivan Barajas. Officials received reports about suspicious behavior between the athletic director and students at the all-girls campus from a coach and a parent, as well as in at least two anonymous letters. …
California Highway Patrol Sgt. Steve Licon was known as a hard-working officer who got results. He deftly coordinated the air show at March Air Reserve Base, parades and other events. “If you wanted something done right, you’d give it to Steve,” CHP Inland Division Chief Bill Dance said. It was that diligence that placed Licon…
Warren Adler, a prolific novelist who launched a long and lucrative Hollywood career with his classic story “War of the Roses” — the story of a hollowed-out marriage that became a runaway movie hit in 1989, has died of complications from liver cancer. He was 91. Adler, who continued to write until…
It was a showdown of surf clubs. Twenty-two clubs from along the California coast, with more than 400 surfers from as far as Santa Cruz, came to San Onofre State Beach over the weekend for the annual Gathering of the Tribes, an event bringing camaraderie and competition to the surf. “The waves were just to…
The final farewell to California Highway Patrol Sgt. Steve Licon is underway Tuesday morning, April 16, as a police escort moved through Riverside streets and arrived at a church for the funeral for the fallen officer. Licon was killed Saturday, April 6, after being hit by a car on the 15 Freeway in Lake Elsinore…
LAGUNA WOODS — The United Mutual board has denied a resolution that would have reintroduced guarantors to the co-op. As defined in a Village Management Services report, a guarantor is a third party that “guarantees” to pay someone else’s financial obligations when a member cannot or will not pay, established by a guaranty agreement. Guarantors…
