Q. I am a retired firefighter of 34 years, and for 25 of those years I was on a paramedic unit and drove lights-and-siren as much or more than anyone at the time. I consider myself a cautious driver. On Christmas day we were driving down to San Diego on the I-5 Freeway. It was about…
Every day this week, Carly Towne, 25, has pulled herself out of bed in the morning dark to walk a 7 a.m. picket line at Venice High School for two hours before heading to work. The bespectacled staff member of left-wing activist organization Code Pink is not a teacher, a parent nor a former L.A….
A 28-year-old San Clemente man has been charged with murder and assault on a child in connection with the death of a young girl, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Friday. Christopher Recio was arrested on suspicion of killing the 17-month-old girl on Jan 5 in the city of Orange. Prosecutors said Recio killed…
Glen Wood, the stock car racing pride of Virginia, scored 99 NASCAR Cup wins in a career that started in 1950. He and his brother Leonard are considered among the pioneers in the sport and played major roles in popularizing the sport in Southern California, a continent away from their native Virginia. Following a lengthy…
A jury on Friday found that a former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy lied to FBI agents about the beating of a visitor to a county jail. The guilty verdict against Byron Dredd, which came nearly eight years after the 2011 assault, served as a capstone on the sweeping investigation federal authorities…
A 24-year-old Dana Point man accused of stabbing three Marines outside a bar in San Clemente in August, has been sentenced to four years in prison. Alexis Moreno Aguirre pleaded guilty on Monday, Jan. 14, in Orange County Superior Court to two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm, according…
If striking Los Angeles teachers needed an omen as they rallied in Grand Park downtown Friday, Mother Nature obliged. After four days of picketing in rain and chill and gloom, the sun burst forth. “Do you feel your power?” union President Alex Caputo-Pearl asked the masses, who stretched from the…
Santiago Creek in the foothills of Santa Ana Mountains turns into a small river after this week’s series of rains. (Photo by David Whiting) Rushing water and slippery boulders make for dangerous stream crossing in the Cleveland National Forest following rains this week. (Photo by David Whiting) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Before: Photo…
Southern California Edison — fighting dozens of legal claims related to the Montecito mudslides that followed the Thomas fire — is pointing the blame on Santa Barbara County and Caltrans for failing to prepare for deadly debris flows they knew were inevitable. More than 75 lawsuits have been filed…
An Orange County doctor accused of illegally prescribing drugs was indicted this week on a half-dozen felony counts. The federal indictment came a month after prosecutors alleged that medication prescribed by Dzung Ahn Pham was found in the system of a driver suspected of fatally striking a Costa Mesa fire captain and in the hands…
