The L.A. teachers’ strike of 2019 would have been tough enough to end with only two opposing protagonists: the school superintendent, trying to rein in spending, and the union chief, who was seeking expansive and expensive change. But the two had attacked each other’s stands so stridently for so…
They didn’t write the lesson plan or instruct Cristopher Bautista’s ninth-grade English class. But members of United Teachers Los Angeles were a powerful presence in the classroom where he works at Oakland Technical High School. UTLA had taken to the streets 370 miles south, striking for smaller…
Door-to-door and online Girl Scout cookie sales begin Sunday, Jan. 27, but the boxes don’t just get into the hands of Orange County’s scouting community by chance. That happened Saturday, when representatives from about 700 local Girl Scout troops stocked up on 1.4 million boxes of cookies at two area distribution locations – the Anaheim…
A Santa Ana woman has been identified as one of two people who died in a traffic collision Jan. 21 in Vista in San Diego County. Maria del Carmen Rodriguez, 48, suffered several injuries upon impact in the 6:30 p.m. crash on Highway 76. She died shortly afterward, the San Diego County Coroner’s Office said….
Demonstrators prepare to begin their march after a rally against SB54 to protest the controversial state law that limits cooperation between local law authorities and federal immigration agents at the corner of Beach Blvd. and Edinger Avenue in Huntington Beach on Saturday, January 26, 2019. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG) Demonstrators begin a…
A woman died of her injuries after she was hit by a vehicle in south San Clemente on Friday night, Jan. 25, authorities said. About 7 p.m., Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies were called to Avenida Del Presidente just north of Avenida De Las Palmera on a report of a collision involving a pedestrian and…
Dodger Stadium Fanfest at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, January 26, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Former Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Fernando Valenzuela signs autographs during Dodger Stadium Fanfest at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, January 26, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) Angel Rodriguez shows off his art work on his…
ANAHEIM — Nearly 100 volunteers armed with acrylics and paint brushes dispersed throughout the Muzeo’s Carnegie Plaza early Saturday morning, Jan. 26, to paint “Hope” onto canvases as part of the museum and city of Anaheim’s first Community Art Day. City spokeswoman Erin Ryan said the event, a partnership with The Salvation Army, came out…
NEW ORLEANS >> Authorities in Louisiana say separate but related shootings in two different parishes have left five people dead. A suspect was at large and was being sought. Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre told a news conference that deputies were called to a trailer in the city of Gonzales for a “domestic incident” on…
Homebuying in inland South County — including Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita and San Juan Capistrano — fell 14 percent from August through November vs. the same period in 2017 amid a steep countywide slowdown. Once primetime selling season ended in Orange County this summer, house hunters balked. That created the slowest-selling August-to-November…
