Los Alamitos High’s 2019 Spring Drumline hosts a magic show fundraiser on Sunday, Jan. 27 at 6 p.m. in the Los Alamitos High School Performing Arts Center. The show features comedy and magic performed by professional magicians, plus music by the drumline. Light dinner and snacks will be available for purchase prior to the show…
By ERIC TUCKER and CHAD DAY WASHINGTON — Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested in the special counsel’s Russia investigation in a pre-dawn raid at his Florida home on Friday and was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing the probe. The seven-count indictment against Stone, a self-proclaimed “dirty trickster,” is the first…
A police investigation into a body found on the 5 freeway shut down northbound lanes in Anaheim, backing traffic up for miles on Thursday, Jan. 24. Motorists spotted a person’s body on the highway near Magnolia Avenue just before 6 p.m., according to a California Highway Patrol Dispatcher. She said no major collisions were reported…
With the government shutdown now in its fifth week, and furloughed federal workers about to miss a second paycheck, Southern California is rallying to help. And the help, it seems, is limited only by imagination. Can’t pay the rent? An apartment company in Long Beach is letting federal workers slide a bit until the standoff…
Homebuying in Brea, Buena Park, Fullerton, La Habra, La Palma, Placentia and Yorba Linda fell 11 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…
About 20 people, including Councilman Jose Moreno, were arrested in Anaheim on Thursday, Jan. 24, as they blocked traffic during a protest for higher wages for the city’s hotel workers. Emma Jenson joins other protesters as they stop cars at the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Katella Avenue during a hotel workers protest in Anaheim,…
Rachel Lopez of La Puente spent up a storm on Christmas gifts before the bad news came: She’d be furloughed. A month later, with no end in sight to the federal government’s partial shutdown, she was afraid she could be evicted. Then she got a letter from her landlord. Don’t sweat the rent, it said. You…
Workers practice loading a canister into the Holtec dry storage system at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. 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) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds…
Jurors in the murder trial of Charles “Chase” Merritt on Thursday finished hearing the recording of a crucial 2010 law enforcement interview with the defendant that took place nearly two weeks after the four members of the McStay family disappeared from their Fallbrook home. Merritt, 62, has pleaded not guilty to the slayings of former business associate…
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Thursday afternoon six miles from Cantua Creek, Calif., in the San Joaquin Valley, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 5:30 p.m. PST at a depth of 3.7 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 20 miles from Coalinga,…
