Anaheim celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a four-day festival that lasted through the holiday on Sunday, May 5. Leah Martinez, 8 months, laughs at her dad, Hugo Martinez, during the annual Cinco de Mayo festival at La Palma Park on Saturday, May 4, 2019. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer) The Baja California Dance Company…
The city of Orange on Saturday, May 4, paraded like it was 1991. After a 28-year hiatus, the Orange Chamber of Commerce brought back the Orange May Parade, with marching bands, Miss Orange pageant winners and a dozen floats traveling down Chapman Avenue and around the Old Towne Plaza. The parade ended at Almond Avenue…
SANTA ANA – A 44-year-old ex-con charged with two counts of murder stemming from the killings of a man and woman in a Newport Beach apartment might have planned to commit more crimes, police said in court documents. Jamon Rayon Buggs of Huntington Beach appeared before a judge Monday at the Harbor Justice Center in…
The annual Love Our Cities campaign had a new participant this weekend, as residents in Yorba Linda joined the army of volunteers who headed out on Saturday, May 4, into several north Orange County cities to tackle dozens of community service projects. Yorba Linda Mayor Tara Campbell and several other volunteers got together to spruce…
By FARES AKRAM GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian militants on Saturday fired over 200 rockets into Israel, drawing dozens of retaliatory airstrikes on targets across the Gaza Strip in a round of intense fighting that broke a monthlong lull between the bitter enemies. Three Palestinians, including a pregnant mother and her baby daughter, were…
By LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON — They’re talking about jailing people at the Capitol. Imposing steep fines. All sorts of extraordinary, if long-shot measures to force the White House to comply with Democratic lawmakers’ request for information about President Donald Trump stemming from the special counsel’s Russia investigation. This is the remarkable state of affairs between…
A new investigation into how the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and California’s 11 other Roman Catholic dioceses handled sex abuse cases could uncover more disturbing details of misconduct and institutional failures. But it’s an open question whether it would lead to more criminal charges. News of…
A Long Beach resident has been diagnosed with measles, the first case in the city since 2015, the Health Department confirmed Saturday morning, May 4. The man is a graduate student at UCI, Orange County health officials said. He is recovering at home. His age and personal details were not released. But he may have…
Here we go again, tumbling down the shaft and into a bizarro world in which school libraries lock out students who need them most. L.A. Unified elementary school libraries are on the chopping block once again, and library aides, many of whom could lose their jobs, are screaming for justice. Some…
The adrenaline was flowing through Maria Korcsmaros’ body as she tread water Friday afternoon, May 3, taking a break during a swim near the second buoy bobbing off the Corona del Mar coast. It was at this exact spot three years ago on May 29 that an estimated 10-foot great white shark sunk its teeth…
