Sitting in a jail cell in Vietnam, Michael Nguyen probably will hear from his kids on Monday, when their letters are read to him aloud. “My letter will say that I miss him,” says Evelynn, who, at 8 years old, is the the youngest of Nguyen’s four daughters. “And I can play the piano now.”…
LAGUNA NIGUEL — Hayden Nieznanski was looking down, writing Chinese characters in a letter to his father — a Marine deployed to the Middle East and around the Horn of Africa — when he caught a glimpse of Marine Corps camouflage and boots. He glanced up in his Marian Bergeson Elementary School classroom — and…
An Orange County Superior Court judge has rejected an attempt by the union representing sheriff’s deputies to block the release of disciplinary records under a new state police transparency law. Judge Nathan Scott ruled Thursday that public accountability trumped the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs’ fight to protect the privacy of its members. Scott,…
Nearly four months after California’s most devastating wildfire swept through Paradise and surrounding towns, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has acknowledged that its equipment probably sparked the blaze that destroyed nearly 14,000 homes and killed 85 people, most of them elderly. The official investigation…
After a decade spent fighting the Mongols motorcycle club and its violent members in court, federal prosecutors appeared poised last month to deliver a decisive blow when a jury voted to strip the notorious club of trademarks it holds on its coveted logo. But a federal judge in Santa Ana Thursday…
André Previn conquered L.A. with his artistic genius not once, but twice — first as a four-time Academy Award winning composer of Hollywood movie music, then as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. But Previn was also a man of mixed feelings about L.A., as he expressed in his last major…
The San Diego city attorney’s office on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against major manufacturers of prescription painkillers, alleging company officials knew they were stoking the country’s opioid crisis. “Opioid manufacturers have profited handsomely from the human suffering they intentionally…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL R. SISAK WASHINGTON — In a damning depiction of Donald Trump, the president’s former lawyer cast him as a racist and a con man who used his inner circle to cover up politically damaging allegations about sex and who lied throughout the 2016 election campaign about his…
Michael L. Petersen’s Mucho Gusto and jockey Joseph Talamo, right, race along Santa Anita’s muddy main track on Feb. 2, 2019. Nineteen horses have died at the track in the past two months. Park officials said late Wednesday that analysts conducting tests of the racing surface had declared it ready for reopening. Mick Peterson of…
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Thursday morning four miles from Scissors Crossing, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:57 a.m. PST at a depth of 3.1 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 20 miles from San Diego Country Estates,…
