San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon was sitting in the audience Wednesday during a joint meeting of the Major County Sheriffs of America and Major Cities Chief Association in Washington DC when the speaker surprised the sheriff by calling him to the front. “Where is John? Come up here, John,” the speaker said. That speaker was President…
A Brea firefighter climbs the ladder truck to straighten a wind-tangled flag during the memorial service for Garden Grove Fire Chief Tom Schultz in Fullerton on Wednesday, February 13, 2019. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Garden Grove Fire Chief Tom Schultz was honored in Fullerton during his Celebration of Life on Wednesday, February…
It was billed as the most ambitious public works project since the transcontinental railroad opened up the West. The high-speed rail network would transform California — cleaner air, less congested freeways and airports, and more limited suburban sprawl with a whole new style of housing around…
Orange County tech billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III was charged Wednesday, Feb. 13 with multiple drug possession and trafficking charges in connection with a 2018 arrest at a Las Vegas hotel room where police found suspected heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, mushrooms and ecstasy. Nicholas, co-founder of the chipmaker Broadcom, was arrested Aug. 7 along with a…
Five people suffered unspecified injuries when a Delta Airlines flight headed from Southern California to Seattle encountered severe turbulence and was forced to make an emergency landing in Reno. Crazy turbulence and injuries, but the @delta crew handled it perfectly, even the emergency landing. pic.twitter.com/NoJWLp5GUv — joe justice (@JoeJustice0) February 13, 2019 Reno-Tahoe International Airport…
Authorities voted Wednesday to disband a tiny water district in Compton that for years had been distributing discolored, putrid drinking water to its customers. L.A. County’s Local Agency Formation Commission, which oversees public water districts, unanimously decided that Sativa Los Angeles County…
Often described as an extremist crank and fringe figure, Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. cut a shadowy and alarming path through American politics for a half-century. He built a political organization often likened to a cult and ran for president eight times, once while in prison for mail fraud. In recent…
California grunion, the only known fish whose fertilized eggs incubate out of the water, are shown on Cabrillo beach, Tuesday night, July 1, 2003, in San Pedro during a program run by the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium. Grunion time their egg laying three or four days after the highest tide linked to a full or new…
Billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III was charged Wednesday in Las Vegas with multiple charges of narcotics trafficking six months after police discovered heroin and meth in the Broadcom co-founder’s massive suite at the Encore hotel. Based on the quantities of the narcotics found inside the suite…
California is having a very wet and cold winter, and atmospheric rivers are one of the reasons. These storms have caused mudslides in the Southland, snow along the West Coast, white-out conditions in the Sierra and rain totals well beyond normal. On Wednesday, a new atmospheric river was moving…
