Orange County supervisors are confronting a dilemma at John Wayne Airport that illustrates the challenges of serving in local government: how to satisfy the demands of new, larger private planes, while also preserving a place for mom-and-pop pilots, and assuaging residents’ concerns about increased flights, noise and air pollution. The question is how, or whether,…
Francine Mundt, center, waits for the elevator with her son, Logan, left, her other son Hunter and Sherri Helm as she delivers lunch to the Huntington Beach Police Department to thank them for always showing compassion when dealing with Logan who has autism. Mrs. Mundt founded FRAAT.org — First Responders Autism Awareness Training. Her organization…
One group that likely will not complain about California’s high home prices: Sellers. The Golden State was home to the nation’s top four metropolitan areas for largest seller profits in the first quarter. That’s an eye-catching snapshot of the state’s home-price boom, which is good for sellers and not so good for wannabe owners, according…
Alexina Estrada, extra help foster coordinator for the OCAC community outreach team, leads a kitty bottle-feeding clinic, April 28, 2019, to teach fosters how to care for the hundreds of neonatal kitties coming to the shelter. Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer Bill Bower of Anaheim Hills feeds a kitten at the after attending a bottle-feeding clinic,…
A majority of Angelenos say they’re satisfied with their healthcare, public safety and neighborhoods — even their relationships with people with other races and religions. Yet their opinion on their overall quality of life is just meh. Why? It’s too expensive here, a new poll suggests. The high…
It was kind of refreshing on Monday to hear Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, vow that if he becomes president, he will put a halt to new oil and gas leases on federal land on Day One. Virtually every Republican candidate in 2016…
The targets kept changing, but investigators say Mark Steven Domingo’s mission remained as bloody as it was simple. In one conversation, prosecutors said, the 26-year-old U.S. Army veteran spoke of spraying a Los Angeles police cruiser with bullets. Other times, his rage allegedly redirected toward…
Homicide detectives will continue the search Tuesday for a missing 6-year-old boy whose body is believed to be in a landfill in Victorville. Duke Flores had been missing for two weeks, his mother, Jackee Contreras, told deputies with the Apple Valley Police Department on Thursday after a family…
William “Rick” Singer stepped into a conference room at a Newport Beach Marriott one morning last January to hear how his master plan was progressing. He had paid for the flights and hotel rooms to assemble a group that included an accomplished business executive from the sports world, a Hollywood…
CAMP PENDLETON — The moment country music artist Jason Aldean stopped singing at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017, two Marines in the crowd heard gunfire and their training kicked in. Sgt. Austin Cox, standing with is wife, Vanessa Cox, looks to his daughter, Adalina, 5, as she checks…
