The union that represents Orange County sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday announced an agreement with the department to address concerns raised in a lawsuit alleging that unsafe jail conditions and staff reductions led to the high-profile escape of three inmates in 2016. The Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs and department leaders have agreed to meet…
Los Angeles teachers and union staff returned to school Wednesday morning, hours after voting on a contract agreement with the Los Angeles Unified School District that put an end to a strike that spanned six school days. The tentative agreement, announced early Tuesday, followed an all-night negotiating…
This Google Earth image shows how close the expanded dry storage area for spent nuclear waste will be to the shoreline at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (Image courtesy of Google Earth) The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (File Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds The Holtec Hi-Storm…
Crews tackled a two-alarm fire in a strip mall in Westminster on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 23. Westminster- 70 Firefighters on scene; no injuries reported so far. Fire extended into attic space on roof. Main body of fire knocked down. Lateral spread stopped. pic.twitter.com/0GxI68DFzq — OCFA PIO (@OCFA_PIO) January 24, 2019 The fire at 9241 Bishop…
In the space of four hours that started before dawn on Wednesday, Jan. 23, volunteers armed with paper maps and data-collection apps downloaded on their cellphones or tablets managed to survey more than 1,500 homeless people sleeping outdoors or in vehicles around Orange County. That was only the beginning of the street census for the…
Oliver Mtukudzi, one of Africa’s most iconic musicians whose decades of rollicking, captivating performances won him devoted fans worldwide, has died at a hospital in Zimbabwe. “It is difficult to accept. I have no words,” said musician and poet Albert Nyathi, who joined several other mourners…
Jonas Mekas the Lithuanian-born director, critic, patron and poet widely regarded as the godfather of modern American avant-garde film and as an indispensable documenter of his adopted New York City, has died. He was 96. Mekas, who survived a Nazi labor camp and years as a refugee, died Wednesday…
As dramatic as king tides can be when they flood the streets of Seal Beach or the Peninsula in Long Beach, an aerial perspective of waves battering the coast takes the drama to another level. From 1000 feet above, you can see surf pounding long sequences of seawalls and riprap rocks protecting homes, the ocean…
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ERIC TUCKER NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani’s latest media blitz, which was filled with a dizzying array of misstatements and hurried clarifications, agitated President Donald Trump and some of his allies, who have raised the possibility that the outspoken presidential lawyer be at least temporarily sidelined from televised interviews. Trump was…
California again had more outs than ins via major moving companies last year, but that gap shrank 21 percent as departures fell faster than arrivals. My trusty spreadsheet — filled with annual state-by-state migration stats from United, Allied and Atlas van lines — shows a continuation of the long-running decline in people moving, in or…
