A motorcycle rider died in a crash on the 405 Freeway in Irvine on Wednesday, May 1, officials said. The crash happened in northbound lanes, just south of the highway transition to State Route 133, at about 6:15 p.m., Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Tony Bommarito said. The 26-year-old woman died at the scene of…
Almost 2,000 screaming kids greeted Angels players and Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer during the Orange County Gang Reduction and Intervention Partnership program, also known as OC GRIP, at Angel Stadium on Wednesday. Several coaches and players addressed the restless crowd before taking on the Toronto Blue Jays including locally-raised Noe Ramirez, second baseman…
Beginning Sunday, armed guards will be stationed at the Islamic Center of Northridge. The mosque, one of the largest serving the San Fernando Valley Muslims, have hired guards over the month-long Ramadan observance for several years. The guns, however, are a new addition. In the wake of a spate of deadly attacks on all Abrahamic…
Fullerton College geography professor Aline Gregorio knew something wasn’t right when a student she had never seen before sat in for her midterm exam, getting to number 37 on the 100-question test before standing up and leaving. A few minutes later, the student returned with a camera and an entourage of officials. That’s when everything…
The California bullet train authority, despite spiraling cost increases, schedule delays and technical snafus over the last five years, told the Legislature on Wednesday it has a solid plan to build an operating segment in the Central Valley that would economically transform the region. The report…
Police arrested a 24-year-old Anaheim man who allegedly fled after an attempted traffic stop in Costa Mesa and fought with a police K-9 early Wednesday. Police said an officer conducted a traffic stop for a vehicle code violation around 2 a.m. Arthur Barajas Jr. allegedly refused to stop and tried to evade Costa Mesa officers…
The owners of Santa Anita racetrack are investing $500,000 in a new technology capable of scanning for hard-to-detect injuries while a horse is standing. The device, called a Longmile Positron Emission Tomography, or MILE-PET, eliminates the need for anesthesia and can detect damage at a microscopic level, according to Dionne Benson, the newly appointed chief…
Former First Lady Michelle Obama, who was told by her high school counselor that she wasn’t Ivy League material but went on to Princeton and Harvard anyway, urged thousands of students to follow her lead on Wednesday during a high-energy appearance at UCLA. It marked the first time that Obama chose…
The family of a Chinese student admitted to Stanford paid $6.5 million to the man at the heart of the college admissions scandal, whom they met through a Morgan Stanley financial advisor, sources familiar with the case told The Times. Yusi Zhao, who also goes by Molly, was admitted to Stanford…
The back-and-forth legal drama over an Impressionist masterpiece that hangs in a Spanish museum has seemingly come to the end of the road for a San Diego family, which is left with nothing to show for their decade-long battle to reclaim the artwork they say was seized from them by Nazis 80 years…
