Perhaps you’ve never thought of Slater Avenue as a trailblazer. But the thoroughfare’s bridge in Fountain Valley has taken the lead in the overhaul of the 405 Freeway. Of the 18 Orange County bridges affected by the $1.9 billion freeway-widening project, Slater’s new span will debut first – likely within the next two years. That means…
Rudy Meredith, the former Yale women’s soccer coach, admitted in federal court in Boston Thursday to pocketing bribes from parents and pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and conspiracy. Judge Mark L. Wolf accepted the guilty plea from Meredith, who has been cooperating with authorities in Massachusetts…
Sundays @ Soka with the Pacific Symphony continues as Maestro Carl St.Clair leads Pacific Symphony through an afternoon of music with Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished” and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor. Returning to the Soka stage on Sunday, March 31, is 24-year-old pianist Conrad Tao. These 70-minute, informal concerts are perfect…
A shallow magnitude 6.1 earthquake was reported Thursday afternoon 163 miles off the coast of Ozernovskiy, Russia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 3:06 p.m. PDT at a depth of 5.6 miles. Ozernovskiy is a town on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. There was little or no…
The San Diego Unified School District reached a settlement last week with five families who challenged the district’s “Anti-Islamophobia Initiative” in court, claiming it gave special treatment to Muslim students. The lawsuit, filed in 2017 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California,…
Legal experts have said some of the parents accused in the far-reaching college admissions scandal have an uphill battle because of the evidence provided by the mastermind of the scheme, who is cooperating with authorities. Prosecutors have some defendants on wiretaps talking about cheating and…
A corroding old pipe left sticking out of a Laguna Beach sidewalk makes for a fine hat for a lucky little leprechaun. Artist David Zinn uses the ordinary – a brick in the wall, the corner of a curb, a stone in a pillar – to make whimsical characters to delight audiences as long as…
My examination of hundreds of Orange County coroner records finds an alarming spike in fentanyl deaths. But for the first time ever, it also shows a dip in overall accidental opioid overdoses. Consider that 194 souls died last year of accidental opioid overdoses in Orange County, a drop of 17 deaths compared to two years…
LOS ANGELES — Fans headed to opening day at Dodger Stadium on Thursday, March 28, 2019, are being warned by the Los Angeles Police Department about temporary tow away and no-parking restrictions. Strict enforcement will be in effect. No parking signs will be at the following locations between 5 a.m. and 5 p.m.: — Avenue…
A fiery crash involving a tractor trailer and a second vehicle early Thursday morning shut down several lanes of the 91 Freeway near McKinley Street in Corona for nearly five hours. All lanes of the freeway had been reopened by 5:15 a.m., according to a Caltrans Twitter post, but significant slowing was expected to persist…
