Volunteers along the Southern California coastline pitched in to help spruce up the sand on Saturday between the storms, after major rainfall in recent weeks left area beaches looking like landfills. “That’s the beauty of this community, we all care,” said Steve Masoner, founder of Save Our Beach, a nonprofit in Seal Beach that has…
Lee Radziwill, who parlayed her cachet as the younger sister of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis into a varied career as a fashion tastemaker, interior decorator, actress, princess and grande dame of cafe society on two continents, died Feb. 15 in New York. She was 85. The death was…
As you’ve probably heard, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences can’t do anything right. At least that might be your impression if you believe the blitz of bad news that has jammed traditional and social media this year. As next Sunday’s 91st Academy Awards broadcast looms, we’re being reminded that the Oscars organization:…
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Saturday morning two miles from Belden, Calif., in the northern Sierra Nevada, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 11:04 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of -0.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 21 miles from…
A 27-year-old man was charged Friday in the killings of his parents and their housekeeper in a Newport Beach home. Richard Nicholson, 64, and Kim Nicholson, 61, both of Newport Beach, and Maria Morse, 57, of Anaheim were found dead Wednesday night in a home at 36 Palazzo, according to the Orange…
In December, Zhoie Perez, a YouTube personality known for testing the limits of the 1st Amendment, stood on a sidewalk outside a church in Northridge filming with her iPhone. When two young men approached to question her, Perez said, giggling, “We’re going to try the silent treatment.” “Sir. How’s…
Lifeguards and other lifesavers listen to a presentation at Cal State Long Beach’s Shark Lab in Long Beach, CA, on Friday, Feb 15, 2019. The Lab is teaching people about how to save a person who has been bit, and other need-to-know info on the species, as part of a public education effort that will…
When our mother died last month, after a bungled transfer from hospital to residential hospice care that caused her unnecessary pain and distress, my siblings and I briefly considered suing. It wasn’t about money. As my sister said at the time, it just didn’t seem right to let the hospice agency…
Two people were transported to the UCI Burn Center early Saturday after a fire in a bedroom in Santa Ana, fire officials said. The patients were described as a man and woman in their 40s. The fire displaced five people. The house is located in the 4100 block of W. 5th St, the Orange County…
For the 22 business days ending Jan. 17, Orange County home sales fell 31.4 percent in a year as prices rose 0.1 percent, CoreLogic reported. Countywide, 2,102 homes sold vs. 3,064 a year earlier. Of 83 Orange County ZIPs tracked, sales rose in 12. The overall median price was $700,000 — up $1,000 in 12…
