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…
It took 55 firefighters an hour and a half to get a blaze under control at an Orange commercial building early Wednesday, Dec. 26. They had to fight the fire, which started shortly before 1:30 a.m., from the outside because the structure of the aluminum-products company was so engulfed that firefighters couldn’t go inside, said…
Here’s why the rent control issue won’t go away in California any year soon. We are talking real money. Southern Californians renters will pay landlords an estimated $47.8 billion in 2018 — up $2.6 billion in a year. A new study by apartment tracker HotPads shows total rents paid in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino…
The questions about Shohei Ohtani had been growing louder for years, ever since he began his climb toward baseball stardom in Japan. While he was a rare two-way phenom across the Pacific, the baseball world wondered if he could really succeed in the major leagues in the United States. Just over a year after Ohtani…
By NOMAAN MERCHANT HOUSTON — U.S. Customs and Border Protection have ordered medical checks on every child in its custody after an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died, marking the second death of an immigrant child in the agency’s care this month. The death came during an ongoing dispute over border security and with a partial…
