A long-simmering, multi-million dollar dispute among coastal Orange County water and sewage districts took a major step toward resolution Wednesday, when a Superior Court judge issued a tentative ruling that Moulton Niguel Water District is obligated to pay outstanding bills to the South Orange County Wastewater Authority. Moulton Niguel wants to terminate funding obligations for…
A 30-year-old Sylmar man who was caught on video punching two women in the face last month at a downtown Los Angeles hot dog stand has been charged with five counts of battery, authorities said. City Atty. Mike Feuer’s office on Wednesday said Arka Sangbaran Oroojian was charged Friday and faces…
Atmospheric river storms pounding Northern California with rain have also brought epic snow to the Sierra. Meteorologist Jim Mathews says that since 1950 only six years have surpassed the total “snow water content” that California has right now. The state’s snowpack — measured using the snow’s…
Ira Gitler — who turned his childhood obsession with jazz into a career as a major behind-the-scenes figure as a critic, magazine editor, record producer and historian who documented the rise of modern jazz — died Saturday at a nursing center in Manhattan. He was 90. He had heart surgery five…
Veteran drummer Andy Anderson, who recorded and performed with the Cure and went on to do session work with Iggy Pop, Peter Gabriel and others, has died after battling cancer. He was 68. Anderson announced on Facebook last week that he was battling Stage 4 cancer, saying, “There is no way of returning…
Guerneville in Sonoma County became a virtual island Wednesday as the Russian River experienced the worst flooding in a quarter-century. The major roads in and out of the community are completely flooded. Officials said those who chose to stay in their homes could be stuck there for days. Here…
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, FOSTER KLUG and DEB RIECHMANN HANOI, Vietnam — U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, leaders of two nations with a long history of hostility, opened their second summit Wednesday with smiles, hopeful talk and a friendly dinner that will set the stage for the much more difficult talks…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL R. SISAK WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer told Congress on Wednesday that Trump knew ahead of time that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and he testified that Trump is a “racist,” a “conman” and a “cheat.” Michael Cohen suggested in…
FULLERTON — A car slammed into a building in Fullerton Wednesday morning, sparking a fire causing two women to be hospitalized. Officers responded about 2:30 a.m. to the 1000 block of Brookhurst Road near Orangethorpe Avenue and located the car through a wall of the building and on fire, according to the Fullerton Police Department….
The tide has turned, so to speak, in favor of those who have been fighting to get to the beach at Hollister Ranch on the spectacular Gaviota coast. Recently, a Santa Barbara County judge put the brakes on a bad deal favored by area landowners that would provide only limited public access. But the…
