An Anaheim Police Department employee was critically injured when her vehicle was struck by a driver suspected of driving under the influence of drugs Saturday afternoon, March 9, authorities said. The suspect earlier Saturday was involved in an unrelated incident in which his vehicle struck another vehicle and he fled the scene, police said. Jose…
DANA POINT — A life-sized orca, a fin whale, a minke whale, and a gray whale and her baby have received makeovers at Doheny State Beach’s famed Whale Walk. Volunteers help retouch a life-size Sperm Whale paintings on the boardwalk at Doheny State Beach on Saturday, March 9, 2019. (Photo By Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)…
LOS ANGELES — If this weekend seems unusually short, that’s because daylight saving time will begin at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9, 2019, meaning it’s time to “spring forward” and turn clocks ahead by one hour. So before you go to bed Saturday night, set all of your clocks and watches. As usual, firefighters urged…
Anaheim Police Department officers, with residents in hot pursuit, headed out of town on Saturday, March 9. They led a community bike ride down to Huntington Beach and back to raise awareness about bicycle safety and to honor the memory of Costa Mesa fire Capt. Mike Kreza, who was killed while riding his bike. He…
The man who was found dead in the trunk of a car in Stanton was identified Saturday as a 31-year-old Irvine resident. It also was announced that the car was registered under the victim’s name, Jeffrey Cheng. Deputies with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department found Cheng’s body on Friday morning inside the trunk of his…
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Saturday afternoon about 125 miles west of Eureka, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:09 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 6.2 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was about 113 miles from Capetown, Calif.,…
Echo Park resident Jackie Goldberg, a grandmother, great aunt and candidate for school board, says if she had school-age children, she would not send them to a charter school. Not even the one in her neighborhood that has been called one of the best in California. I might be a little biased here…
They were doing the line dance when what sounded like firecrackers split the air. Because the sound was to be expected at a Chinese lantern festival, no one immediately noticed the demise of a fig tree that for 144 years had watched skyscrapers built around it and a freeway carved out beside it;…
An immigration detention facility in Bakersfield that was expected to close later this month will remain open for another year, according to a federal contract made public this week. On Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement cited “unusual and compelling urgency” in a notice explaining its…
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…
