Jose Segovia Benitez, who was brought to the United States from El Salvador when he was 3, joined the U.S. Marine Corps at 18, eager to serve what he’s always considered to be his country. He saw combat, in Iraq, and after five years was honorably discharged. But when he came home, in 2004, Segovia…
In the aftermath of several controversial police shootings in California, activists and victims’ families have hoped their anguish would lead to action. They have protested, pleaded and lobbied for a law that would clear long-standing hurdles to criminal prosecution in some cases. But the focus…
It was just after noon Tuesday when authorities got their big break in the slaying of rapper Nipsey Hussle. About 14 hours earlier, the Los Angeles Police Department released a photo of Eric Holder, 29, saying he was the suspect in the Sunday afternoon attack. That image pinged across social media…
The deputy charged onto the scene and kicked the door of a truck, threatening to shoot the man inside. After yanking the man onto the ground, the lawman punched him several times in his back and shoulders as other officers wrangled the suspect onto his stomach and into handcuffs, according to law…
Two men were behind bars Wednesday, April 3, on suspicion of stabbing a woman during an altercation in downtown Huntington Beach. Police were called about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday to Main Street and Walnut Avenue on a report of an argument that escalated into violence, said Huntington Beach police Officer Angela Bennett. Officers arrived to find…
Police found a large haul of suspected narcotics in a car that crashed Wednesday in Santa Ana after the driver fled from federal agents in San Clemente and temporarily evaded authorities. Federal agents attempted to stop a white four-door sedan at about 8:40 a.m., on Interstate 5 near the Customs and Border Patrol station that’s…
Anaheim Union High School District Superintendent Michael Matsuda wrote a letter of recommendation to the Duarte Unified School District on behalf of a Kennedy High School principal who police said failed to report sexual misconduct allegations to law enforcement or Child Protective Services as mandated by California law. A Kennedy water polo coach allegedly began…
The Fairview Developmental Center, with its 125-acre Costa Mesa campus sitting nearly empty, has repeatedly been suggested as a place to house homeless people. Now, two of Orange County’s state legislators are pushing bills that could determine the center’s future, at least in the short term, and both ideas could involve the homeless. The developmental…
For a generation of Southern California music fans, the phrase “Wolf & Rissmiller Presents” was synonymous with live performances by the cream of the crop of rock and pop music superstars, from the Rolling Stones to Elton John. As one of the region’s premier concert promoters, the team of Steve…
Dawn McKnight was out walking her two dogs along what’s left of the Capistrano Beach parking lot in Dana Point on Wednesday afternoon, April 3, when she stopped short of the construction work taking place on the sand. “Interesting,” she said of the massive sand cubes being set out like a makeshift wall. An estimated…
