Orange County tech billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III was charged Wednesday, Feb. 13 with multiple drug possession and trafficking charges in connection with a 2018 arrest at a Las Vegas hotel room where police found suspected heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, mushrooms and ecstasy. Nicholas, co-founder of the chipmaker Broadcom, was arrested Aug. 7 along with a…
Five people suffered unspecified injuries when a Delta Airlines flight headed from Southern California to Seattle encountered severe turbulence and was forced to make an emergency landing in Reno. Crazy turbulence and injuries, but the @delta crew handled it perfectly, even the emergency landing. pic.twitter.com/NoJWLp5GUv — joe justice (@JoeJustice0) February 13, 2019 Reno-Tahoe International Airport…
Authorities voted Wednesday to disband a tiny water district in Compton that for years had been distributing discolored, putrid drinking water to its customers. L.A. County’s Local Agency Formation Commission, which oversees public water districts, unanimously decided that Sativa Los Angeles County…
Often described as an extremist crank and fringe figure, Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. cut a shadowy and alarming path through American politics for a half-century. He built a political organization often likened to a cult and ran for president eight times, once while in prison for mail fraud. In recent…
California grunion, the only known fish whose fertilized eggs incubate out of the water, are shown on Cabrillo beach, Tuesday night, July 1, 2003, in San Pedro during a program run by the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium. Grunion time their egg laying three or four days after the highest tide linked to a full or new…
Billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III was charged Wednesday in Las Vegas with multiple charges of narcotics trafficking six months after police discovered heroin and meth in the Broadcom co-founder’s massive suite at the Encore hotel. Based on the quantities of the narcotics found inside the suite…
California is having a very wet and cold winter, and atmospheric rivers are one of the reasons. These storms have caused mudslides in the Southland, snow along the West Coast, white-out conditions in the Sierra and rain totals well beyond normal. On Wednesday, a new atmospheric river was moving…
A fire broke out at a three-story commercial building Wednesday in Huntington Park, sending a heavy plume of smoke into the air that was visible across the city. The Los Angeles County Fire Department got the call around 10:40 a.m. and was on the scene 10 minutes later, spokesman Marvin Lin said. …
Kseniya Kozlovskaya and Martin Jackson like to search for sea glass and other treasures at North Beach in San Clemente, CA. Recent storms have brought many items to the surface. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG) Kseniya Kozlovskaya and Martin Jackson found a metal statue on the beach at North Beach in San Clemente,…
The Pasadena Rose Queen had a big high school physics project due Tuesday morning, so she hoped to get out of Monday night’s City Council meeting early. This did not happen. The debate about how fast to roll out a minimum wage increase in Pasadena drew an overflow crowd of dueling economists, local…
