By MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr skipped a House hearing Thursday on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report, escalating an already acrimonious battle between Democrats and President Donald Trump’s Justice Department. Barr’s decision, made after a disagreement with a House committee over questioning, came the day the department also missed a…
A substitute teacher has been barred from teaching in Corona-Norco schools while educators investigate allegations that he took “inappropriate pictures” of college students working as tutors at Corona’s Raney Intermediate School, officials said this week. Corona police determined that no crime was committed. Clayton Turner, whose daughter attends Raney and accompanied a student who made…
Donna Atwood and Bobby Specht, stars of the 1951 edition of the Ice Capades, perform a “stag leap.”
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake hit about four miles southwest of Calistoga and was felt in Sonoma and Napa counties. More than 500 people reported feeling the shaking, which hit at 10:17 p.m. Wednesday, and reported it to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Did You Feel It? crowdsourcing website. Light shaking,…
SANTA ANA – A 32-year-old transient was behind bars on suspicion of groping a woman in Santa Ana on the evening of Tuesday, April 30. Shon Michael Sharp was booked on suspicion of sexual battery and was being held on $25,000 bail, according to jail records. Police were called at 9:40 p.m. Tuesday to an…
A motorcycle rider died in a crash on the 405 Freeway in Irvine on Wednesday, May 1, officials said. The crash happened in northbound lanes, just south of the highway transition to State Route 133, at about 6:15 p.m., Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Tony Bommarito said. The 26-year-old woman died at the scene of…
Almost 2,000 screaming kids greeted Angels players and Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer during the Orange County Gang Reduction and Intervention Partnership program, also known as OC GRIP, at Angel Stadium on Wednesday. Several coaches and players addressed the restless crowd before taking on the Toronto Blue Jays including locally-raised Noe Ramirez, second baseman…
Beginning Sunday, armed guards will be stationed at the Islamic Center of Northridge. The mosque, one of the largest serving the San Fernando Valley Muslims, have hired guards over the month-long Ramadan observance for several years. The guns, however, are a new addition. In the wake of a spate of deadly attacks on all Abrahamic…
Fullerton College geography professor Aline Gregorio knew something wasn’t right when a student she had never seen before sat in for her midterm exam, getting to number 37 on the 100-question test before standing up and leaving. A few minutes later, the student returned with a camera and an entourage of officials. That’s when everything…
The California bullet train authority, despite spiraling cost increases, schedule delays and technical snafus over the last five years, told the Legislature on Wednesday it has a solid plan to build an operating segment in the Central Valley that would economically transform the region. The report…
