By CARRIE ANTLFINGER and AMANDA SEITZ AURORA, Ill. — A gunman opened fire at a manufacturing plant in suburban Chicago on Friday, killing five people and wounding five police officers before he was fatally shot, police said. Aurora, Illinois, Police Chief Kristen Ziman told a news conference that the gunman was 45-year-old Gary Martin and…
Robert Winter, the architectural historian who spent much of his life examining and explaining Los Angeles’ sprawling and complex cityscape to a generation of residents, students and tourists, has died. He was 94. Winter, a longtime professor at Occidental College who delighted in taking students,…
After years of drought conditions, 2019 is shaping up to be a winter to remember. Rain totals are well above normal, and this week’s storms brought some records. From Palm Springs to parts of San Diego County, communities recorded some of the wettest days in years, in some cases in decades. Downtown…
PHOTOS: Monster storm pummels California, prompting evacuations amid mudslides and flooding
Just days after Carol Kimmelman died of ovarian cancer in 2017, her husband Doug gathered his four children to brainstorm. He wanted to honor her with a legacy-making project that reflected her hobbies and her worldview. Kimmelman’s children knew their mother loved tennis, having been a member…
If you’ve driven Highway 1 near San Simeon in the past few years, chances are you’ve noticed the extraordinary northern elephant seal colony at Piedras Blancas Beach. Last spring, when I stopped in after a reporting trip to disaster-prone Big Sur, a docent told me that the very best time to see…
BACKYARD RAPTORS The 22nd annual Great Backyard Bird Count is underway and continues through Monday. To celebrate, we take a look at a few of the more prestigious raptors of California that have come dangerously close to extinction that you might find in your own backyard. BALD EAGLE The bald eagle has been the national…
1967 car bombing in Monterey Park injured two.
The Newport Beach city attorney has given the Newport Aquatic Center a March 8 deadline to respond to more than 40 allegations raised by community members that NAC executive director Billy Whitford and other employees and board members for the tax-exempt, non-profit organization used NAC funds to purchase automobiles and other items for personal use…
Sandra Banuelos, 18, takes a ride on a tire swing over the beginnings of Trabuco Creek at the end of Trabuco Oaks Dr. in Trabuco Canyon, CA on Thursday, February 14, 2019. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG) A visitors at Golden West College carries a Starry Night umbrella during the rain in Huntington…
