Officials on Wednesday identified four family members who died in a home Sunday when a small plane crashed into a Yorba Linda neighborhood, also killing the pilot. Carrie Braun, public information manager for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, said the sheriff’s Coroner Division identified those killed in the house as the married couple who owned…
Has Orange’s Old Towne Plaza finally reached its caffeinated tipping point? A month after Urth Caffe debuted on the city’s historic traffic circle, Starbucks is shuttering one of its two cafes on opposite curves of Chapman Avenue. The Starbucks inside the Wells Fargo building in the Old Towne Plaza of Orange will pack up its…
Authorities on Wednesday released the names of the four people killed inside a Yorba Linda home Sunday when a plane crashed hours before the Super Bowl. Those killed include Roy Lee Anderson, 85, and his wife, Dahlia Marlies Leber Anderson, 68, as well as two relatives, Stacie Norene Leber, 48,…
San Juan Capistrano is looking to unload its water utility, as maintaining the system is expected to become costly for the community. The city is one of very few in south Orange County that manages its own water operations. After a 10-month review of the options, the City Council discussed on Tuesday, Feb. 5, which agency –…
Izzy Young, a businessman, political activist and founding patron of the Greenwich Village folk music scene who organized Bob Dylan’s first major concert and devoted decades to supporting other musicians, has died at age 90. Young’s daughter, Philomene Grandin, said her father died of natural causes…
Robert Haines, who spent most of his 92 years at sea aboard warships, research vessels, 8-foot dinghies and everything in between, died Jan. 26, ashore. This sailor’s last wish, jotted on a sticky note, will correct that oversight. Haines asked that his ashes’ final resting place be in the Pacific,…
It was a few hours before the Super Bowl on Sunday afternoon, and residents in one Yorba Linda neighborhood were preparing for parties. Shortly before 2 p.m., neighbors heard a horrifying noise. Seconds later, a plane plummeted to the ground, slamming into a home and killing everyone inside. Three…
The cameras were out and recording in several Inland Empire cities late Tuesday night when a cold-weather system brought snow flurries and hail to areas not accustomed to seeing such wintery weather. People posted photos and videos of light snow and heavy hail, too, falling in Yucaipa, Beaumont, Calimesa the High Desert and Redlands. Tuesday’s…
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…
