Nineteen percent of students attending California’s community college system have experienced homelessness in the last year, while 60 percent have experienced recent housing insecurity and 50 percent have struggled with food insecurity, according to a report released Thursday, March 7. The study, conducted by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University’s…
Newport Beach Navy League expands support of NJROTC units Troy High School’s NJROTC unit in Fullerton is the most recent beneficiary of financial support provided by the Newport Beach Navy League Council. During a special drill ceremony, a $400 grant was presented for the cadet corps’ 325 members. Troy High School NJROTC Cadet Capt. Jessica…
The University of California has announced that it will not raise tuition for California students this fall — but expects increases for students from other states and countries. UC President Janet Napolitano, speaking at a Sacramento hearing on Wednesday, said she was optimistic that a “strong…
Los Angeles sheriff’s detectives are trying to unravel a horrific mystery that has garnered national attention. Who is the young girl whose body was found Tuesday at a Hacienda Heights park? How did she die? And how did her body, which was stuffed in a black duffel bag, get there? Here are some…
In 1959, 14-year-old Rick Walters went to Long Beach with his dad to get a tattoo. It wasn’t his first. At 10, he poked out “Born to Raise Hell” on his leg. He had already scrawled out so many hearts and crosses on himself and other neighborhood kids that Walters’ mother, he’d tell an interviewer…
Bill Gross, portfolio manager at Janus Henderson Investors, is selling his American stamp collection in a series of auctions. The 1847 Washington 10¢ stamp, shown on screen, was sold in a recent auction. He is pictured at his office in Newport Beach, CA on Wednesday, October 31, 2018. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)…
Despite new federal rules targeting seafood fraud, a study out Thursday found that one in five fish tested from U.S. restaurants and stores were sold as something different than what the customer received. Southern California cases included flounder being sold as the more expensive halibut, and toothfish, which is off-limits for fishing in some places,…
By ELLIOT SPAGAT SAN DIEGO — Border agents have been told to explicitly target Spanish speakers and migrants from Latin America in carrying out a Trump administration program requiring asylum seekers wait in Mexico, according to memos obtained by The Associated Press that reveal some inner workings of a top government priority to address the…
LOS ANGELES — This week’s storm, which drew added moisture from an atmospheric river out of Hawaii, doused L.A. County valley areas early Thursday but is on its way out of the region, forecasters said. “After the spectacular lightning show early Wednesday morning and the periods of heavy rain that lingered into Wednesday afternoon, the…
NORWALK — An ex-con — who left a shotgun in the back seat of a car where a 4-year-old boy found the weapon and accidentally shot his mother in Norwalk — pleaded no contest Wednesday to a felony gun charge. Brandon Gilbert Ambriz, 24, of Norwalk, was immediately sentenced to five years in state prison…
