The four bodyboarders were sucked out to sea in a strong rip current that pulled them far beyond the breaking waves. A lifeguard noticed them struggling and grabbed his red buoy, swimming out to help with the rescue. Another guard, watching from a nearby tower, also sprung into action, before a yellow lifeguard boat and…
Some Santa Ana police officers will soon sport a slightly different look: They’ll be wearing a vintage-inspired badge to celebrate the city’s 150th anniversary. “We knew we were coming up on the anniversary and people started asking ‘What are we going to do?’ and obviously the badge is symbolic,” police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. Though…
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department Harbor Patrol has shut down some public docking areas at its Newport Harbor headquarters despite being required to maintain them by state Coastal Act permits. The state Coastal Commission has responded with a letter calling on the Harbor Patrol to restore access to those areas, remove “Keep out” signs and…
Laguna Beach police said Thursday that they’ve identified four more children who may have been abused by a Costa Mesa man who was charged this week with sexually assaulting two boys while babysitting them. Authorities are also vetting 16 voicemails they received overnight after the arrest of Matthew…
By ANDREW TAYLOR WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday passed a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill by a broad bipartisan vote, but only after Democrats insisted on tossing out President Donald Trump’s $4.5 billion request to handle an unprecedented influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. The relief measure would deliver money to southern…
The Holtec Hi-Storm Umax dry storage system for spent fuel at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Courtesy Southern California Edison. The 75 reactor sites where nuclear waste is piling up across America. (Courtesy U.S. Government Accountability Office) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (File Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange…
One of Africa’s best known authors and gay rights activists, Binyavanga Wainaina, has died following an illness. He was 48. The Kenyan author, who lifted the profile of the LGBTQ community throughout Africa when he publicly revealed that he was gay, died Tuesday at his home in Nairobi, said Tom…
John Walker Lindh was one of the many perplexing stories of 9/11 America. The so-called American Taliban grew up in the affluent suburb of Marin County, a cradle of liberal values. But he ended up half a world away at a training camp run by Al Qaeda, conspiring with the enemy. Lindh spent 17 years…
By MATTHEW BARAKAT The California man who became known as the “American Taliban” after his battlefield capture in Afghanistan in 2001 was freed early from his federal sentence on Thursday, despite official concerns that he retains a radical ideology and still poses a risk to U.S. interests. John Walker Lindh, now 38, was released Thursday…
HAWTHORNE — Hawthorne-based SpaceX will make a third attempt Thursday to launch the first batch of what could ultimately be thousands of satellites providing space-based internet service around the globe. The launch of the 60 Starlink satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral was scrubbed twice last week, once due to upper-level winds…
