CAMP PENDLETON — Sgt. Devon Espinoza describes how he and five other Camp Pendleton Marines saved the life of a Riverside man severely injured in a motorcycle accident as being in “Marine mode.” The rider, Floyd McGuirk, 58, was sprawled in the roadway, his right leg partially severed, on SR 330 near Big Bear on…

In its 69 pages of demands to the school district, the union representing Los Angeles teachers barely touches on charter schools. But as they prepare for an announced strike on Jan. 10, union leaders are making the growth of these schools a focus to rally members and raise public awareness of what…

LAGUNA HILLS– About 90 patrons at the Florence Sylvester Memorial Senior Center in Laguna Hills were treated to a luncheon performance on Thursday, Dec. 20, by The King himself – or at least his doppelganger. “Elvis” — aka Scott Robertson — has been making the women at the senior center swoon for several years, and…

Anaheim Police Officer Kenny Edgar talks Titus Atuatasi at 6:00 am in the Maxwell Park homeless encampment. The Anaheim Police Department and other agencies cleared out two-block long homeless encampment in Maxwell Park in Anaheim on Friday, December 21, 2018. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer) Andrew Clark boards a bus that will take him…

Victims of the wildfires that devastated parts of California last month will not have to add a government shutdown to their list of troubles, federal authorities said Friday. As lawmakers scrambled Friday to find a way to avert a partial shutdown before a midnight deadline, the Federal Emergency…

The founder of Los Angeles charter school network Celerity Educational Group has agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to misappropriate and embezzle public funds, federal prosecutors said Friday. The felony charge stems from Vielka McFarlane’s years-long habit of using her charter…

With United States and Mexican authorities still dithering over policy, and no long-term solution in sight, many migrants are hunkering down for a months- or possibly years-long stay in a purgatory of makeshift accommodations and spotty services.

A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Friday afternoon one mile from Caldwell Pines, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:18 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.2 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 13 miles from Clearlake, Calif., 15 miles…

A nearly 6-acre, agrarian-themed commercial project, the River Street Marketplace, enters the approval process in San Juan Capistrano just as a couple of fresh faces join the City Council. The new council members have made favorable public comments about the project some residents fear could harm, with its size, the feel of the city’s historic downtown…

At a Huntington Harbour dock Thursday afternoon, 11 Edison High students clustered around a cooler filled with baby white seabass. The fish’s population in the wild has dwindled over the past half century. The kids used a scanner to check the tags embedded in the 8″ specimens, which they’d raised in a tank at their…