The CIF-SS Track and Field Divisional Finals at El Camino College on Saturday, May 11, 2019 in Torrance. Oluwatob Adegoke of Los Osos places first with a distance of 23-00.50 in the boys Division 1 long jump competition during the CIFSS Track and Field Divisional Finals at El Camino College on Saturday, May 11, 2019…
The normally diplomatic Southern California Edison talks bluntly about power outages caused by metallic party balloons. “It is a problem that shows no end,” reads a written statement from SCE, the primary supplier of electricity in Southern California, serving 15 million people within 50,000 square miles. Mylar balloon-caused power outages in SCE territory have increased…
LOS ANGELES — Peggy Lipton, a star of the groundbreaking late 1960s TV show “The Mod Squad” and the 1990s show “Twin Peaks,” has died of cancer. She was 72. Beloved mother to Kidada & Rashida Jones, former wife of Quincy Jones, actress Peggy Lipton has died at age 72. Twin Peaks & Mod Squad…
NEWPORT BEACH — The owner of a Southern California yoga studio is accusing Dennis Rodman of helping three people steal more than $3,500 in merchandise from his business. Ali Shah says security cameras captured the former NBA star walking into Vibes Hot Yoga in Newport Beach on Tuesday with his alleged accomplices. Shah said the…
DANA POINT — Mother’s Day has always been special for Jay Bellamy. “To me, there’s only one love that comes close to the love of our Heavenly Father and that is the love of a mother,” he said. So this weekend is especially meaningful for Bellamy. Saturday, May 11, his mother, Joan Greenwall, would have…
Actress and former model Peggy Lipton, who rose to stardom in the late 1960s on the counterculture police series “The Mod Squad” and later starred on TV’s “Twin Peaks,” has died. Her death from cancer was announced Saturday by Kidada and Rashida Jones, her daughters from a marriage to famed music…
Long Beach’s only post for Veterans of Foreign Wars is poised to fight the national organization’s decision to shutter their branch. Its members opted during a Saturday, May 11, meeting to formally appeal the decision the VFW made last month to pull the branch’s charter for failing adhere to the organization’s bylaws, among other lapses….
Officials shut down southbound lanes on the 5 freeway in Irvine near Yale on Saturday afternoon after a big rig became engulfed in flames, the California Highway Patrol said. It wasn’t clear why the fire started, there was no reference to a collision on the CHP log. A videographer on scene said the driver, who…
By Joshua Rosen, Contributing Reporter Call it a commencement double-double. Unbeknownst to the anxious crowd of graduating seniors on Friday night, a little something extra was hidden inside every diploma at this year’s Spring Commencement ceremony at Biola University. “Thanks to the generosity of our commencement speaker (burger heiress Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson), 840 In-N-Out Burger cards…
Homebuying in Santa Ana fell 31% in what was Orange County homebuying’s slowest start to a year since 2009. CoreLogic stats show the lowest countywide sales count for any first three months of a year since the Great Recession. It also was the third-slowest-selling first quarter in the real estate tracker’s database that dates to…
