An 84-year-old woman suffering from dementia was placed in a cab after treatment at a Long Beach hospital and then dumped in the middle of the night outside a locked Alzheimer’s treatment facility, according to a complaint filed with the state by the woman’s daughter. “I’m pretty outraged,” said Costanza Genoese Zerbi, 51, of Long Beach,…
There is something in every person’s life, a moment, an era, a relationship, that could make a best-selling book or a masterful movie. Our stories are rich with learning and wisdom. The plot might be a single mom who is now a doting grandmother, the husband who carried his family forward for years working three…
Homebuying in Anaheim, Orange and Villa Park fell 8 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 were high prices and expensive mortgages. Meanwhile,…
By SUDHIN THANAWALA SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. filed for bankruptcy Tuesday as the largest U.S. utility faces billions of dollars in potential damages stemming from wildfires in California. The utility filed documents in a U.S. court seeking Chapter 11 reorganization despite state investigators determining last week that its equipment was not…
DIAMOND BAR — Indoor and outdoor wood burning is prohibited Tuesday in most of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties because of weather conditions conducive to concentrated pollution, according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District. The agency issued a mandatory “no-burn” alert that will be in effect until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday…
The Los Angeles Board of Education is scheduled Tuesday to vote on the contract that ended this month’s six-day teachers’ strike. District officials also will consider a resolution calling on state officials to support a moratorium on charter schools. There could be drama attached to the board’s…
Fans of the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers celebrate before Super Bowl XIV at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Officials identified on Monday, Jan. 28, a pedestrian who was fatally struck by a vehicle in San Clemente on Friday. A vehicle headed north on Avenida Del Presidente collided with a woman just north of Avenida De Las Palmera at about 7 p.m., according to Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department….
Opening their public corruption case Monday against former Centinela Valley school Superintendent Jose Fernandez, prosecutors honed in on the $910,000 home loan he secured from the district and whether the school board was aware of it. On the first day of Fernandez’s preliminary hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court, an attorney for the school district consumed…
The official deadline to run for a vacant seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors ended Monday with at least five Republicans and one Democrat in the race, a lopsided field that county GOP leaders fear could help Democrats gain a second seat on the five-member board. The six-week sprint to the March 12…
