Miles down the road The most serious accident in a U.S. power plant occurred 40 years ago, and even though the small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects, the emergency helped heighten awareness and oversight. A combination of equipment malfunctions, design-related problems and worker errors led to the Three Mile Island reactor’s partial meltdown…
LAGUNA BEACH — Kool-Aid, colorful hair ties and vintage rock ‘n’ roll bands helped bring back the “old-school vibe” during a celebration of history in this seaside town’s HIP District. The area, along South Coast Highway between Thalia Street and Bluebird Canyon Drive, is home to more than 50 vintage shops, restaurants and hotels. Buildings there…
The family of Lance Cpl. Riley Schultz, who died from a gunshot to the head while standing guard at his post during a training exercise at Camp Pendleton on March 15, continues to dispute the Marine Corps’ ruling of suicide. Schultz’s mother, Misty Schultz-McCoy, said their cause has been taken up by Military Families for…
A man wanted on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon was taken into custody nearly three hours after he barricaded himself inside a Mission Viejo home on Saturday, March 30, authorities said. Just after 3 p.m., Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies arrested the man in the backyard of the home on the 26700 block…
Traffic in the Westside of Los Angeles would be reduced by 24 percent if vehicles were charged a $4 fee during peak hours to travel the freeways and major roadways, according to a study released Thursday by the Southern California Association of Governments. This is the first study assigning fees to vehicle use that targets…
The Los Angeles school district has focused in recent years on boosting high-school graduation rates and sending more students to college. This month, it has taken a big step by having all juniors take the Scholastic Aptitude Test on a school day, for free. It’s not lost on district officials that…
Q. I am due to renew my license soon and am confused about the one answer I got wrong on the Department of Motor Vehicle’s practice tests: You are driving on a freeway posted for 65 mph, with traffic traveling at 70 mph – how fast should you drive? The correct answer was listed as:…
Like it has most 21st Century endeavors, digital technology has fundamentally altered the movie business. Photochemical film, which was the basic stuff of movies for more than the first 100 years of production and exhibition, has all but disappeared from sets and editing rooms. Just as significantly, though, movies are now shown digitally in some…
The city of Adelanto moved this week to sever ties with a controversial immigration detention center that bears the city’s name, but it’s unclear if that means the privately-run facility, which typically holds nearly 2,000 undocumented immigrants, will be shut down or expanded. Federal immigration officials said Friday that in the wake of the city’s…
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes has temporarily suspended his plan to automatically delete all department emails more than two years old, just as a judge on Friday ordered a halt to any erasures. The ruling by Superior Court Judge Gregg Prickett prevents the sheriff from destroying emails related to the improper recording of attorney-client phone…
