Ontario firefighters worked Tuesday afternoon to extinguish a blaze at a recycling plant west of Ontario International Airport. Smoke from the fire on East State Street produced a sizable black plume about two miles south of the 10 Freeway but didn’t affect airport operations. By 6 p.m., firefighters…
Attorneys have filed a second lawsuit against the Riverside Unified School District on behalf of three girls who allege they were sexually abused by Liberty Elementary School technology aide Fernando Figueroa over more than two years. In addition to Figueroa and the district, the suit filed last week names as defendants former Liberty Elementary Principal…
The U.S. Army veteran charged with planning a terrorist attack in Southern California was kicked out of the service several years ago following a clash in Afghanistan, sources told The Times on Tuesday. Mark Steven Domingo, a 26-year-old Reseda man who the FBI said Monday was plotting to detonate…
County officials received 14 bids for two of the condos in a property auction on behalf of deceased homeowners, but two Leisure World co-op units remain unsold after two auctions, a spokeswoman for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said. Details of the bid amounts are being withheld to give officials time to notify high…
The missteps at scandal-plagued USA Gymnastics continued Tuesday after the national governing body announced Dr. Edward Nyman, Jr. is out as the organization’s director of sports medicine and science after just one day. USA Gymnastics did not go into details about the departure of Nyman which came just hours after new chief executive officer and…
Patients were treated with an unconventional medicine, Tuesday, April 30, at St. Joseph Hospital’s Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment in Orange. The result? They reported feeling happy and upbeat, and they smiled a lot. They even said they looked forward to another dose. Six sweet-tempered dogs got into the center’s elevator and rode up…
A prosecutor on Tuesday painted an emotional and dramatic picture of three dozen partygoers dying in a fast-moving fire during an unpermitted music concert in a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse more than two years ago, as trial started for two men each charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. …
A man the FBI charged on Monday with plotting terrorist attacks in Long Beach recently arrived at the Islamic Center of Reseda seeking conversion to Islam, saying he had been “anti-Islam” but wanted to accept the faith as his own after he witnessed mistreatment of Muslims, said the mosque director Tuesday. Muhammad Ares said the…
The cost of building a 119-mile section of the California bullet train in the Central Valley is projected to increase by $1.8 billion, taking the total to $12.4 billion, according an internal draft report by the state rail authority’s staff. The estimate was made in preparation for a project update…
The 19-year-old man suspected of opening fire in a Poway synagogue Saturday entered a plea of not guilty to murder and other charges in his first court appearance Tuesday. John T. Earnest is charged with one count of murder, three counts of attempted murder and one count of arson. The judge denied…
