WASHINGTON — A top White House official warned Sunday that it’s “very possible” the partial government shutdown stretches into the new year and that how quickly numerous shuttered Cabinet departments and agencies resume doing the people’s business is up to Congress. “The ball is in the Senate’s court,” acting White House chief of staff Mick…
HAWTHORNE — Hawthorne-based SpaceX on Sunday successfully launched a U.S. Air Force GPS satellite into orbit from Cape Canaveral in Florida, after postponing several planned launches over the past few days due to weather and other issues. The launch of the GPS III SV01 satellite, nicknamed Vespucci in honor of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, had…
A shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Sunday morning two miles from Pinnacles, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 1:02 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.2 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 13 miles from Soledad, 17 miles from Greenfield…
On a rainy day in late November, the billionaire chairman of USC’s board of trustees sat in the front row of a classroom as one female student after another described how the university had failed women. “USC appears to be more concerned with protecting their brand or reputation than protecting…
Borderline Bar and Grill was a place you could go to dance away your worries. Even after what happened there last month, regulars still wanted to do that together — so they met up and danced in parking lots, in backyards, in a barn, at the mall. Borderline’s brown stucco building has been off limits…
For more than a month after the wildfire, Matt Miller and his wife slept on an air mattress at a friend’s house in the small town of Durham, west of Paradise. The evacuees shared the home with their displaced elderly neighbors, who also fled the Camp fire’s flames on Nov. 8. As the days dragged…
What’s more eye-grabbing than a host of shiny classic cars? A host of shiny classic cars decorated for Christmas. A running greyhound is the hood ornament on a 1932 3-window coupe as Gary’s Classic Car Fridays hosted its first Christmas car show at the Buena Park Elks Club Friday night. In Buena Park on Friday, December…
LAGUNA WOODS — Laguna Woods Village Third Mutual board on Tuesday, Dec. 18, passed a resolution that would soften regulations within its care provider policy. Amendments included removing requirements for caregivers to obtain a physician’s certification or fill out a private caregiver application, allowing exemptions for home care agencies — which have already performed background…
A general aviation runway at John Wayne Airport was briefly closed after a small airplane having engine trouble landed Saturday, but two people aboard were not seriously hurt, authorities said. About 4:15 p.m., a four-seat Piper PA-28-140 landed. There was some discrepancy in official accounts as to whether it crash landed, made a hard landing or…
A 22-year-old resident of Westminster died Friday, Dec. 21, in a traffic collision on U.S. Highway 395, the San Bernardino County Coroner’s Office said. The crash happened about 7:20 p.m. south of Highway 58 in Kramer Junction, which is west of Barstow and north of Adelanto. Javier Calleja was ejected from his vehicle, which collided…
