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…
OK, what is it with these whiz kids from Granada Hills Charter High School? They did it again, as you may have heard. They won the regional academic decathlon competition, then swept the state, then snagged the national championship trophy on April 27 in Minnesota. That makes seven national titles…
LOS ANGELES – An Alaska Airlines flight from Portland to John Wayne Airport was safely diverted to Los Angeles International Airport tonight after a strong plastic smell was reported coming from the back galley, an airline official said. Flight 1154, an Airbus A320 with 146 passengers and five crew members aboard, was about 30 minutes…
Janet Rank, from left, Seantelle Peruch, Jynelle Pangelinan, Jason Lavender and Nicole Hayes-Lavender father with family, friends and church members honoring Exodus Foisia, the 19-year-old who was murdered on May 4 in Carson, as family members plea with the community to tell law enforcement any information about the murder during a press conference and vigil…
Kat Cressida has a lot to tell you. That’s appropriate, considering her accomplished career as a voice actor. Among her many animated characters are Dee Dee from “Dexter’s Laboratory” and “Toy Story’s” cowgirl Jessie. She’s matched what Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts and other famous voices sound like when the real things aren’t available. Cressida’s talked…
