Former astronaut Owen Garriott, who spent 60 days in space aboard the United States’ first space station and whose son followed him into orbit, has died at 88. Garriott died Monday at his home in Huntsville, Ala., NASA announced. “Dad had a great 88 orbits around the sun!” tweeted his son Richard…
Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer J. Mossimo Giannulli, are vowing to fight charges accusing them of participating in an elaborate fraud to get their children into college. Their attorneys have not revealed much about their legal strategy. But as more parents file court papers, one…
Anne Goldfarb answered the door of her Mar Vista home, her dog Coco at her side, and promptly delivered an announcement. “The Angels just homered,” she said with the same all-in grin I’ll bet she wore as a child in Studio City, playing baseball in the street with neighborhood boys. Goldfarb led…
Ceremonies in 1946 as Western Air Lines celebrates its 20th anniversary at Lockheed Air Terminal. In back of cake-cutting is a Douglas M-2 biplane. On right is the front portion of a Douglas C-54 Skymaster. In background is Douglas C-74.
The Laguna Beach City Council voted Tuesday night to keep an American flag design on city police cars. The vote came after days of national debate about the design for the police vehicles, one that some local officials believed got out of hand. At least 200 people packed the council chamber, where…
By KATHLEEN FOODY and COLLEEN SLEVIN LITTLETON, Colo. — Denver-area public schools will be closed Wednesday as authorities search for a young Florida woman who flew to the city and bought a gun after becoming “infatuated” with the mass shooting at Columbine High School. The FBI said Sol Pais, 18, is “considered to be extremely…
By Virginia Gaglianone and Yesenia Amaro, The USC Center for Health Journalism Collaborative More than anything else, Claudia Navarro wanted health insurance for her children when she arrived in the United States. Navarro’s daughter has spina bifida — a congenital condition her doctors in Mexico said would kill the girl within a year. But Navarro didn’t…
A Laguna Beach black and white police car sports a new American Flag police graphic in Laguna Beach, CA on Monday, April 15, 2019. Laguna’s police cars where all white, the police department added the logo when they went to the black and white cars. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) A woman, who…
SANTA ANA — A 35-year-old man faces 14 years in prison for an alcohol-fueled, wrong-way crash on State Route 241 in Anaheim that killed a woman and her son. Two people were killed in a crash on the 241 freeway south of the 91 freeway in Anaheim. (Photo by Southern Counties News Service) Two people…
Deputies arrested a man suspected of randomly targeting strangers in a violent crime spree in Lake Forest that left two women hospitalized on the evening of Tuesday, April 16. Preliminary investigation suggests it began when a man had been involved in a fight near the Salvation Army store near the intersection of Mercury Road and…
