The lead-up to the Los Angeles teachers’ strike was loud and acrimonious — as was the start of the walkout. Now the labor dispute has entered a quiet phase, but it’s too early to tell if it is nearing an end. Bargaining teams for striking teachers and the Los Angeles Unified School District were…
Two years after millions of women flooded streets around the world to decry the election of President Donald Trump, a smaller but determined contingency shared messages of empowerment and equality during Women’s March events held Saturday from Santa Ana to London. Thousands of sign-carrying women, men and children hit the streets of Santa Ana for…
A man was dead after he was struck by a vehicle while standing in traffic in Santa Ana Friday night, Jan. 18, authorities said. Just before 10:45 p.m., Santa Ana officers received a call of an accident involving a vehicle and a pedestrian near the intersection of Warner Avenue and Wright Street, police said. When…
President Trump made a new offer Saturday to Democrats aimed at ending the 29-day partial government shutdown that would extend deportation protections for some immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion in border wall funding. Trump’s proposal is designed to ramp up pressure on Democrats by offering a reprieve on his attempts to end Deferred Action…
A man was hospitalized Friday night, Jan. 18, after he was found with a non life-threatening gunshot wound in La Habra near the border of Whittier, authorities said. About 11:20 p.m., La Habra officers were called to the 2400 block of West Whittier Boulevard on a report a man had been shot, police said in…
Activists celebrated recent victories and pushed for more change as the Orange County Women’s March got underway in Santa Ana on Saturday morning. “Two years ago, we were still reeling. We were still traumatized,” said Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Laguna Beach, referring to the election of President Donald Trump, which sparked the first Women’s March in…
Several times in the last few years my family headed up to the Bay Area thinking it would be the last chance to see my mother alive. She had a bum heart and kidney disease, and she’d get confused in the middle of a sentence, like a hiker lost in a heavy fog. She had…
A horse stuck in a dumpster was rescued by firefighters in Huntington Beach on Friday. The accident apparently happened when the horse climbed up onto a platform next to the dumpster at the Goldenwest Stables near the Huntington Central Park Equestrian Center and fell in, ABC7 reported. Huntington Beach Firefighters and the Orange County Fire…
TLAHUELILPAN, Mexico (AP) — Forensic experts attempted to separate and count charred heaps of corpses in central Mexico on Saturday after a massive fireball erupted at an illegal pipeline tap, killing at least 66 people. More than 85 other people on Saturday were listed as missing as relatives of the deceased and onlookers gathered around…
Homebuying in Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Laguna Niguel and San Clemente fell 16 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 period in seven years. Culprits were high prices…
