A plane drops fire retardant behind homes along McVicker Canyon Park Road in Lake Elsinore as the Holy fire burned near homes.. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) Hannah Shaw of Corona del Mar High School is a dance semi-finalist in the specialty of commercial dance. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/Orange County Register/SCNG) Sound The…
By LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and KEVIN FREKING The federal government was expected to remain partially shut down well into Christmas as the standoff deepened Saturday over President Donald Trump’s demand for funds to build a border wall with Mexico. With Trump’s insistence on $5 billion for the wall and negotiations with Democrats in Congress…
He was born in prison, to the best of his knowledge. He is 19, and found out a few years ago that he has biological siblings, but no blood relative is a part of his life. Dimitri Dunn devours In-N-Out burgers, and last week he got takeout from KFC, ate it and immediately went back…
Usually, before a big event, the nerves kick in. But the evening before the start of the Vans U.S. Open of Surfing last July, Kanoa Igarashi realized he was feeling a different emotion – excitement. “Years prior, I wouldn’t have been able to sleep because of the nerves,” said the 21-year-old surfer. “Having that change…
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. Even though lawmakers failed Friday to find a way to avert a partial shutdown before a midnight deadline, the Federal Emergency…
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Saturday morning two miles from Genesee, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:03 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 27 miles from Susanville, Calif., 43 miles from…
Santa Barbara County granted an emergency permit on Friday to a private group’s request to install 11 steel ring nets to hold back boulders in canyons above Montecito that led to January’s deadly debris flows. With the mountains still bare and a wet El Nino predicted for January, the group had…
One man died after a crash involving a motorcycle and two other vehicles in Garden Grove on Thursday night. The Garden Grove Police Department said the accident happened at approximately 8:10 p.m., near the intersection of Euclid Street and Westminster Avenue. Officials said the 20-year-old motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene, and one of…
At least three people were secretly recorded in a Cal State Long Beach restroom on the cellphone of a preschool teacher arrested earlier this month after one of the victims, a 15-year-old boy, alerted police, according to court documents. The teen identified Ernesto Jason Higuera by his cellphone and shoes as the man who allegedly took…
How do you make another person disappear? For Edward Shin, faced with his friend and business partner lying in a pool of blood in their San Juan Capistrano office, it was a pressing question. For more than half a year, Shin found the answer: bold deceptions and brazen lies, taking over his dead friend’s emails…
