Occidental College President Jonathan Veitch, who weathered turbulent campus protests over sexual assault and racial inequity, will step down next year, the school’s board of trustees announced Sunday. Veitch, 59, said he is resigning voluntarily because he longs to return to teaching, research…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi rescinded the invitation to President Donald Trump to give the State of the Union address at the House of Representatives until the government shutdown was ended. The president announced Friday the shutdown would end, and the date of the State of the Union has not been set. It’s unclear…
The Orange County firefighting community reeled at the sudden loss of Garden Grove Fire Chief Tom Schultz on Sunday, Jan. 27, just weeks after he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Fullerton firefighter Rebecca Duran-Brown (L) wipes tears from her eyes after taking part in a funeral procession for Garden Grove Fire Chief Tom Schultz,…
Thousands of Los Angeles Rams fans stood in long lines winding around a high-profile construction site Sunday, waiting to give their their team a boisterous bon voyage in the shadow of their glitzy home-to-be in Inglewood. The Rams take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta a week from today. Team…
Authorities have identified a man who died in a fiery collision in Anaheim after making a U-turn and driving the wrong way on the 91 freeway on Sunday, Jan. 20. Efrain Figueroa, 42, of Riverside was the driver, according to the Orange County coroner’s office. He was the only person killed in the crash, and…
HUNTINGTON BEACH – A motorist was killed in Huntington Beach early Sunday, Jan. 27, police said. The driver was traveling eastbound on Warner Avenue when he apparently hit a curb and lost control of the car, said Sgt. Thoby Archer. Officers were dispatched to the area of Warner Avenue and Bridgewater Drive at 1:50 a.m. and…
By Ricardo Cano As Los Angeles teachers celebrate the end of their six-day strike against California’s largest school district, the issues underlying the union’s bitter walkout appear to be headed straight for the state Capitol. The Los Angeles Unified School District and United Teachers Los Angeles reached a deal Tuesday, ending nearly two years of…
The L.A. teachers’ strike of 2019 would have been tough enough to end with only two opposing protagonists: the school superintendent, trying to rein in spending, and the union chief, who was seeking expansive and expensive change. But the two had attacked each other’s stands so stridently for so…
They didn’t write the lesson plan or instruct Cristopher Bautista’s ninth-grade English class. But members of United Teachers Los Angeles were a powerful presence in the classroom where he works at Oakland Technical High School. UTLA had taken to the streets 370 miles south, striking for smaller…
Door-to-door and online Girl Scout cookie sales begin Sunday, Jan. 27, but the boxes don’t just get into the hands of Orange County’s scouting community by chance. That happened Saturday, when representatives from about 700 local Girl Scout troops stocked up on 1.4 million boxes of cookies at two area distribution locations – the Anaheim…
