Nine months after voters scuttled the Irvine City Council’s scenario for building a veterans cemetery, supporters still can’t seem to agree on how – or where – to proceed. Irvine city leaders are now focused on a piece of land in the Orange County Great Park that was planned to be part of a golf…
Elisabeth Kimmel, the wealthy former San Diego media executive charged with paying bribes to get her children into USC and Georgetown, appeared briefly Monday in San Diego federal court, where she was ordered to give up her passport as part of a $500,000 no-cash deposit bond package. Kimmel was…
NEWPORT BEACH — Sea lions loitering, barking through the night, and crushing boat swim steps and private docks have prompted city officials to look at humane and effective ways of keeping the animals under control, particularly as their active season nears. The Newport Beach Harbor Commission held a public workshop last week to address sea…
UC Berkeley has launched an investigation into a former member of the men’s rowing team whose father was named in a federal indictment that exposed an elaborate college admissions scam. Jordan Sidoo’s father, David, is a Vancouver, Canada, businessman and former Canadian Football League player…
A man who allegedly stole this car crashed it into the Crunch Fitness gym in La Mirada early Tuesday, March 19, 2019. He was arrested by deputies. (Photo courtesy of the LA County Sheriff’s Department’s Norwalk Station) LA MIRADA — A man was in custody Tuesday morning on suspicion of stealing a car and crashing…
Noah McIntosh, 8, has been missing from his Corona home for about two weeks. His parents, Bryce McIntosh and Jillian Godfrey, were arrested March 13, 2019, on suspicion of willful child cruelty. (Courtesy of Doug Godfrey) Evidence was removed from the Corona apartment where a missing 8-year-old boy lived, but police did not give an…
Matt West had trouble falling asleep. He was in an unfamiliar place and trying to sleep under unusual circumstances. He tossed and turned on his narrow bed. It wasn’t just that a dozen men shared the same room with him last Thursday night at the Tustin Temporary Emergency Shelter. West, acting city manager for Tustin,…
One Los Angeles police officer had sex with a drug addict he met on foot patrol. A San Diego County sheriff’s deputy was linked to a Mexican drug cartel. That same deputy sold erectile dysfunction pills illegally to a colleague in a jail parking lot. A Brea police sergeant hawked official shoulder patches he took…
SANTA ANA — A suspect in a killing in Westminster nearly five years ago has been arrested and made his first appearance in court Monday. Roberto Rafael Saavedra Gallardo, who was arrested Friday, had his arraignment rescheduled for April 5 on a charge of special circumstances murder for financial gain that was filed in October…
A man climbed down from atop a crane in Koreatown after members of the Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team persuaded him to leave his post. The man, thought to be in his early 20s, spent more than three hours on top of the crane in the 3000 block of West 8th Street. Tony Im,…
