The “It’s a boy” sign, along with the white-frosted cake and the presents and the colored balloons all hinted at the same thing — a baby shower. And, soon enough last Monday, Christian pastors were surrounding a newborn, a boy wrapped in a blanket and his mother’s embrace, and placing their hands on both parents’…
Orange County is loaded with influencers, from people who are determined to end homelessness to billionaire philanthropists and perhaps the best two-way baseball player since Babe Ruth. The Orange County Register again has selected the 100 Most Influential People in Orange County, and some of the choices will be exactly who you’d expect. Others, however,…
In 2018 the musical world outside Orange County experienced something that local classical music patrons have been well acquainted with for decades: the strengths and passions of Pacific Symphony music director Carl St.Clair. In the space of less than a month, St.Clair and his musicians — the largest American orchestra formed in the last half-century…
Q. Hello Honk: I was shocked to see a handicapped person in a motorized wheelchair crossing the street at Euclid Street and La Palma Avenue in Anaheim, chatting on her cell phone. Isn’t that against the law? Don’t motorized wheelchairs have the same rules as automobiles? – Mario Luna, Anaheim A. No, that isn’t illegal under state law. “The short…
As the tourist economy grows and development spreads at Big Bear Lake, bald eagles find themselves cornered in what remains of their historic lakefront foraging grounds.
Everywhere Chris Persson goes, people are still talking about the Camp fire. While shopping for groceries, the Chico resident was told the store had hired fire survivors from Paradise. At lunch, she overheard a fire evacuee say she was given a free tank of gas to run errands. “You can’t go anywhere…
San Joaquin County’s experiments with collaborative courts and other justice reforms demonstrate how an area struggling with poverty and crime has adapted to California’s prison downsizing.
Over a 50-year span, Bob Hope entertained American troops overseas. Many of his USO tours were completed over Christmas with his departures and arrivals often covered by Los Angeles Times photographers.
A federal judge sentenced a Walnut man to nearly four years in prison for a scheme to smuggle rifle scopes and tactical gear into Syria and Turkey to supply rebel groups, federal prosecutors announced Thursday, Dec. 20. Prosecutors argued that Rasheed Al Jijakli, 57, of Walnut, had smuggled rifle scopes, night-vision rifle scopes, laser boresighters,…
Parents of students at St. James Catholic School — past and present — have visited the Torrance Police Department in recent days to hand over bank records for an investigation into alleged embezzlement by two longtime nuns. On Tuesday and Thursday, the Police Department increased staffing to process years of bank records for tuition, fees…
