A man brandished a gun during a Yorba Linda bank robbery on Tuesday, April 9, and fled with an unspecified amount of cash. The heist took place at the Opus Bank branch at 17672 Yorba Linda Blvd. at about 2:56 p.m., said Orange County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Wayne Rehnelt. He said a man carrying a…
Long Beach will play host to the California Democratic Party convention this November, almost certainly attracting candidates campaigning for the state’s presidential primary that will take place a little more than 100 days later, the city said Tuesday. Although the party hadn’t announced it yet, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia tweeted excitedly about the agreement…
Motorcyclists attempting to pass vehicles on the Ortega Highway resulted in two deaths on opposite sides of the highway on Sunday afternoon. The California Highway Patrol said the first crash happened at around 3 p.m., when a motorcyclist was driving his Kawasaki west on Highway 74, also called Ortega Highway, near the Riverside/Orange county border….
A former U.S. Army Reserve employee from Orange County pleaded guilty Tuesday, April 9, to stealing more than $400,000 by billing the government for phony expenses. Ramon Torry, 54, of Irvine, admitted to one count each of wire fraud and theft of government money during a court appearance Tuesday in San Jose, according to a…
Arrests have been made in the kidnapping of a Costa Mesa woman in Uganda last week while she was on safari in Africa, authorities said on Tuesday. Tourist Kimberly Sue Endicott and her guide Jean-Paul Mirenge-Remezo were kidnapped April 2 after they were ambushed in Queen Elizabeth National Park, a protected area near the border…
LOS ANGELES — Powerful winds will whip across Southern California Tuesday, forecasters said. L.A. County’s strongest winds will blow across the San Gabriel Mountains, according to National Weather Service meteorologists, who forecast northwest winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour with gusts of between 40 and 50 mph through this afternoon, increasing to between…
In announcing that she would plead guilty in the college admissions scandal, Felicity Huffman said she “will accept the consequences that stem from those actions.” But what will those consequences be? Here is a breakdown: The crime Prosecutors said Huffman paid $15,000 for a 36-year-old Harvard…
Prosecutors moved the college admissions scandal into a new chapter Monday, announcing that actress Felicity Huffman and more than a dozen other wealthy parents charged with participating in the scam have agreed to plead guilty. The plea agreements, which come less than a month after the government…
An image of the patio of the Robert Freeman College Union at Occidental College was used in the 1955-56 Know Your City photography series.
NEW YORK — TV actress Allison Mack pleaded guilty Monday to charges she was involved in a scheme to turn women into sex slaves for the spiritual leader of a cult-like upstate New York group, a development that came on the same day jury selection began for a federal trial in the case. FILE –…
