WASHINGTON — Faced with biting public criticism from Republican Sen.-elect Mitt Romney, President Donald Trump pushed back Wednesday, reminding him that “I won big, and he didn’t.” Days away from joining the Senate’s Republican majority, Romney broadly criticized Trump’s policies and character in a newspaper column, arguing that the president “has not risen to the…
HUNTINGTON BEACH — A beachside bathroom at Huntington State Beach became well-involved in flames early Wednesday, authorities said. The fire was reported at 3:44 a.m. in the bathroom at Pacific Coast Highway and Brookhurst Street, a fire dispatcher at Metro Cities Dispatch said. The fire was out at 4:21 a.m., he said. The bathrooms are…
When Alex thinks about her childhood in Guerrero, Mexico, she remembers the abuse. There was the time her mother threatened to burn her hands on the stove because she had cried after being hit. And the time her mother didn’t get her medical treatment after she caught her finger in a steel gate….
After he lost his green card following a felony conviction and was deported to Mexico, Sergio Angel Martinez Lopez thought he would never come back to the U.S. That changed this summer after his wife was killed in a spray of bullets in a drive-by shooting, according to news reports. Martinez decided…
Just after 3 a.m. on April 7, Matthew Gioia pressed the accelerator of his white Hyundai Elantra, leading Carlsbad police on a one-mile pursuit that reached speeds of 80 mph before the car crashed. Gioia’s arrest would have been an otherwise routine skirmish between police and a motorist if not…
The Los Angeles California Temple on Santa Monica Blvd. is the second largest Mormon temple in the world.
The theme for the 2019 Rose Parade, “The Melody of Life,” provided more than just visual inspiration for the floats. Grand marshal Chaka Khan opened the show and pop singer Anne-Marie closed it, but that was just the start (and end). Several of the floats had musicians performing live on them, adding an extra element…
The government shutdown over President Trump’s request for border wall funding is probably increasing the immigration court backlog. While cases for people in detention centers are going ahead as scheduled, those for people on the nondetained docket will get new dates once the government is funded…
A Costa Mesa man has pleaded not guilty to stealing a yacht in Newport Harbor on the last day of the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade. Theodore Liko Wilson, 24, entered not guilty pleas last week to felony burglary, felony unlawful taking of a vehicle and felony vandalism as well as six misdemeanor…
Oceanside resident Shelby Jacobs, 83, is responsible for one of the most iconic video images of NASA’s race to put a man on the moon in the 1960s. It’s the oft-seen, slow-motion color footage of a ringlike section of the Saturn V rocket separating from the Apollo 6 spacecraft and spinning slowly…
