By MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON — In the panel’s first act since Democrats took the majority, the House intelligence committee is expected to vote Wednesday to send more than 50 interview transcripts from its now-closed Russia investigation to special counsel Robert Mueller. The panel’s new chairman, California Rep. Adam Schiff, has long said that sending…
By DEB RIECHMANN WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will hold a two-day summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un Feb. 27-28 in Vietnam to continue his efforts to persuade Kim to give up his nuclear weapons. Trump has said his outreach to Kim and their first meeting last June in Singapore opened a path…
Fire burned the Chua Viet Nam Buddhist temple in Garden Grove on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. Damage was estimated at $450,000. (OCHAWK) Fire burned the Chua Viet Nam Buddhist temple in Garden Grove on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. Damage was estimated at $450,000. (OCHAWK) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Fire burned the Chua Viet…
Snow-capped mountains are pretty typical in California — just not the peaks that got dusted this week. A series of storms has brought a rare wet winter to the state, sending snow levels plunging and creating some surreal scenes Californians won’t soon forget: Blankets of white covering vineyards…
Twenty years ago, Martin Quezada was told the end was nigh. The sun was setting on the typewriter. Computers were king. Twenty years later, Quezada’s shop, International Office Machines in San Gabriel, is still in business. The downturn happened. But it did not defeat Quezada, now 61, who kept…
By JULIE PACE and CATHERINE LUCEY WASHINGTON — Face to face with emboldened Democrats, President Donald Trump called on Washington to cast aside “revenge, resistance and retribution” and end “ridiculous partisan investigations” in a State of the Union address delivered at a vulnerable moment for his presidency. Trump appealed Tuesday night for bipartisanship but refused…
Some of you out there may recall that for many years, I was at war, and I was not winning. It got to where I was afraid to open my front door and see what new damage had been done overnight by four-legged trespassers. My yard in Silver Lake often looked like an archaeological dig….
Wilt Chamberlain appears to cover half the court as he stretches to save the ball from going out of bounds during Game 5 of the NBA Western Conference playoffs with the Milwaukee Bucks.
SANTA ANA — A convicted thief was behind bars Tuesday on charges of a swinging a knife at security guards who confronted the suspected shoplifter outside a Santa Ana department store. Ryan Quintin Hancock, 43, of Orange, was arrested on Monday, Feb. 4, on suspicion of brandishing a knife at employees during a robbery at…
A couple charged with killing a 4-year-old girl whose body was put in a bag and taken to Mexico paid a woman $100 on Aug. 9, 2016 to drive them to the border, a detective testified in court Tuesday. Details about how Mercy Becerra, 46, and her boyfriend, Johnny Hartley, 41, reached Mexico came out during…
