Twenty Southern California hospitals have been named among the top 1,000 in the world, across 11 countries, in a list compiled for the first time by Newsweek in collaboration with Statista Inc., a global marketing research and consumer data company. Three of those area hospitals — Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and…
Inside the Back Bay Science Center in Newport Beach, Riley Roman, 17, left and Haley Wolf, 17, right, both students at Costa Mesa High School, search for various forms of sea life from water samples they collected in the Upper Newport Bay on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. It is the sixth and final time they…
Elon Musk has come under recent scrutiny from the SEC for some ill-advised tweets, from shareholders about closing stores, and even paparazzis for his relationship to indie musician Grimes. Those blows were probably softened by his $2.28 billion compensation last fiscal year from Tesla. That means his compensation is 40,668 times more than the median Tesla…
An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 produced light shaking from its epicenter in Orange County on Wednesday morning. The epicenter occurred in Anaheim Hills, close to the freeway interchange between highways 91 and 241. The earthquake hit at 5:06 a.m. and began just 2.4 miles underneath the surface,…
A 3.5-magnitude earthquake rattled parts of north Orange County and southern Riverside County Wednesday morning, kicking off a few house alarms but leaving no known damage in its wake. The quake struck just after 5 a.m., about 5 miles east-southeast of Yorba Linda, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The depth was less than two…
Immigrant youth without permanent legal status would get a shot at paid work in Congress under a bill scheduled to be introduced Wednesday, April 3. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, and two other senators are introducing the “American Dream Employment Act,” which would amend current law to allow DACA recipients paid internships and other employment in…
A mountain biker lost control as he rocketed into a corner about three miles deep into a trail along Carbon Canyon in Brea on Monday, March 25. He went down hard in a remote area, was unable to get back up and sustained injuries to his neck and extremities that were likely to leave him…
More than three months after a combative Alejandro Jose Felix Hernandez was subdued by police with batons and fists at a San Bernardino gas station, county coroner’s officials have reopened an investigation into his death because they were never informed of the encounter with police. Alejandro Jose Felix Hernandez (Courtesy photo) Hernandez’s death on Feb….
Two federal lawmakers are calling for the suspension of horse racing at Santa Anita Park until investigators determine the cause of 23 horse deaths in the last four months. Growing outrage over the repeated deaths has put the industry in a perilous position and cast a national spotlight on the famed Arcadia horse racing venue….
By Julie Bosman, Mitch Smith and Monica Davey CHICAGO — Chicago became the largest U.S. city ever to elect a black woman as its mayor as voters on Tuesday chose Lori Lightfoot, a former prosecutor, to replace Rahm Emanuel. When she takes office in May, Lightfoot also will be the city’s first openly gay mayor. Lightfoot, who has never…
