Prosecutors announced charges against a man accused of kidnapping a woman in September at Fullerton High School, and Wednesday asked additional potential victims to step forward. A woman in her mid-20s sat alone in a courtyard of the campus at about 2 a.m. on Sept. 29 when she was allegedly attacked by Camran Abbas Mohammed,…
By BERNARD McGHEE In a year filled with heightened political vitriol, two deaths brought the nation together to remember men who represented a seemingly bygone era of U.S. politics. George H.W. Bush was a president, vice president, congressman, CIA director and Navy pilot during World War II, where he flew 58 missions and was shot…
The burning of wood in fireplaces or outdoor pits and stoves will be prohibited in much of Southern California on Thursday, Dec. 27, the South Coast Air Quality Management District said. The ban includes manufactured logs such as those made from wax or paper. The order affects Orange County, Los Angeles and non-desert portions of…
Bruce Mulhearn, who started out in a small office in Bellflower 52 years ago and became a dominant figure in the Southern California real estate industry, died Wednesday, Dec. 26. Mulhearn, 80, president of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties, died at his home in Bay Harbor from complications from a pulmonary lung disease which he…
An investigator acknowledged Wednesday that he has reassessed the ignition point of the massive Holy fire – which burned through more than 23,000 acres in Orange and Riverside counties – but still believes the blaze was intentionally set by a resident of the rural canyon where it began. During a daylong hearing to determine whether…
A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Wednesday four miles from Cushenbury, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 5:15 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 10 miles from Big Bear City, 18 miles from Apple…
Longtime soccer coach Sigi Schmid, who played and coached soccer at Bishop Montgomery and coached the Galaxy on two separate occasions, died Tuesday night. Schmid, 65, had been hospitalized for a couple of weeks due to an undisclosed condition. The Schmid family released the following statement: “On Tuesday, December 25, Sigi Schmid passed away at…
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Image of the los Angeles County General Hospital used in the 1955-56 Know Your City photography series.
Sister Wendy Beckett, the cloistered nun who ventured out of seclusion to become a celebrity art critic and historian, died Wednesday at England’s Carmelite Monastery Quidenham in Norfolk, according to the BBC. She was 88. From the time she appeared in her first art appreciation program on BBC…
