By David W. Hart, Ph.D. Contributing writer One of the questions that I receive most frequently goes something like this: why are there so many more people being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias today compared to two or three generations ago? The simple answer is that more of us are living longer…
Q. Honk: I bought a used car from a dealership. The dealer put those new temporary paper plates on, having removed the existing permanent plates and throwing them away. I asked the salesman about it, and he said they take all plates off of all used vehicles. Not efficient. Hopefully I’ll receive new plates from…
By Dennis Hwang, MD Contributing writer March 10, 2019 is Daylight Saving Time. Daylight Saving Time normally signals the incoming spring season, extra sunshine in the evenings for those late walks, but for some, like parents with young children, you’re dreading the hour of sleep we are all going to lose on Sunday – and…
Daylight saving time began at 2 a.m. today, so let’s take a minute to talk about time. Assembly Bill 7 After a failed attempt to end daylight saving time in California in 2016, Proposition 7 passed with 59.75 percent in favor of ending daylight saving time in 2018. It’s going to take time before daylight…
The death of the girl whose body was found near a horse and hiking trail in Hacienda Heights was ruled a homicide, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced Friday, March 8. The case was previously considered a suspicious death investigation. The girl’s identity remains unknown. The Sheriff’s Information Bureau received a call at about…
COSTA MESA – A suspect robbed a bank Friday in Costa Mesa. Officers responded about 2:40 p.m. to a report of a robbery at a Citibank branch at 234 E. 17th St., authorities said. “While en route to the call, it was determined that a man had entered the bank and fled the scene with…
Western State College of Law students in Irvine were told by a March 7 email from their dean that the campus “will be able to hold classes at least through March 22.” Since January, third-year students at Western State College of Law in Irvine haven’t known from one week to the next if final exams…
A San Diego federal judge has expanded his authority and will now oversee the cases of potentially thousands of additional children who were separated from their families at the border during the Trump administration. Dana M. Sabraw ruled late Friday that his authority applies to any families that…
In response to the death of 21 horses since opening day Dec. 26, Santa Anita Park is imposing new rules that will increase its scrutiny of every horse that runs on the renowned venue’s tracks. Trainers will have to apply for permission to conduct certain high-intensity exercises at least 24 hours in advance. Those horses…
Seven years before James Alan Neal allegedly kidnapped, sexually assaulted and strangled 11-year-old Linda Ann O’Keefe in Newport Beach, he sat in an Orange County jail cell lamenting his miserable life and long rap sheet. “I want to make up for all the hurt I have caused myself and my parents, especially my mother,” Neal,…
