Authorities are investigating after a man’s body was found lying atop rocks near Baby Beach in Dana Point on Friday, March 8. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department received a call just before 3 p.m. from a passerby who had seen what they believed was a body near a cliff side along the coast in the…
Marine biologist Nancy Caruso at Table Rock Beach in Laguna. She and a team of volunteers search for signs that the depleted snail-like abalone are reproducing again on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Ron Pedley, a pianist for singer Barry Manilow by trade, is a volunteer for biologist Nancy…
Jan-Michael Vincent, a golden boy of Hollywood action films in the 1970s who starred in the mid-1980s TV adventure series “Airwolf” but saw his career crater amid drug and alcohol addiction, has died in Asheville, N.C. The actor’s Feb. 10 death — which was not publicly announced at the time — was…
A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Friday afternoon one mile from Caldwell Pines, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 2:55 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 12 miles from Clearlake, Calif., 15 miles…
Nearly a week after images from a Nazi-themed party attended by teenagers in Orange County sparked outrage, school officials and the community have been working to turn the incident into a learning experience. Images from the party appearing on social media showed a group of students — arms outstretched…
Costa Mesa plans to spend nearly $7 million to buy a warehouse near John Wayne Airport to use as a homeless shelter. In the meantime, the city expects to open a temporary shelter within a month at the Lighthouse Church of the Nazarene to offer a nightly place for up to 50 people to stay….
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks fell Friday morning as signs piled up that the global economy is hitting the brakes, headlined by a surprisingly weak report on the U.S. job market. The S&P 500 was on track for its fifth straight decline, which would be its longest losing streak in nearly four months. It followed…
HAWTHORNE — The Crew Dragon capsule, built by Hawthorne-based SpaceX in an effort to re-start American astronaut launches, splashed down Friday morning in the Atlantic Ocean, about six hours after it successfully detached from the International Space Station. The capsule’s main parachutes deployed at 5:42 a.m., and the module landed in the Atlantic Ocean at…
By Elizabeth Castillo | CALmatters When police officers found Julie Hemingway bedded down on the asphalt of a Taco Bell parking lot, she wasn’t interested in moving to a homeless shelter. No way was she leaving her cat, Tammy. Caring for Tammy allows Hemingway, who said she suffers from major depressive disorder, to push past…
For an officially non-partisan special election, the March 12 vote to select a supervisor might say a lot about the future of partisan politics in Orange County. On the one hand, a win by one of the big-name Republicans on the ballot could assure the party faithful that the GOP brand isn’t as shaky, locally,…
