A man and woman who died in a suspicious house fire in Santa Ana on Tuesday, Jan. 1, have been identified as husband and wife. Flames reported at about 10:34 a.m. scorched the first-floor of the two-story house on West Manly Avenue, according to Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. Residents Charlene Twee Nguyen, 57, and…
A pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle in Laguna Niguel died on Monday, Dec. 31, authorities said. The crash happened near near the intersection of Serenity Lane and Golden Lantern Street at about 7:30 a.m., said Lt. Ken Binning of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Joe Santos, 58, of Laguna Niguel, was found dead at…
A truck carrying an oversized load through Corona without a permit Thursday, Jan. 3, ripped down live power lines that fell on top of an occupied truck, but no one was reported hurt, authorities said. The incident closed Railroad Street between North Garfield Avenue and North Lincoln Avenue from about 2:15 p.m. to 4 p.m….
I recently had a visitor who lives in upstate New York and has a river near him. He was mentioning that sometimes the standing waves in one section of the river look almost rideable. Truth is, they probably are. Back in the early 1970s I lived in Ketchum, Idaho, for a few years. Ketchum is…
Duff McGrath, right, of Bonsall, nephew of former Orange County Superior Court Judge Betty Lou Lamoreaux, bows his head in prayer along with family, friends and supporters of the first female superior court judge in Orange County as they gather to walk three miles from the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange to the County of…
A music trailblazer celebrates 106th birthday Viola Smith, one of the first professional women drummers of the 20th century, recently celebrated her 106th birthday. The Costa Mesa resident is still going strong, teaching techniques to the drummer for Piecemakers Band. Smith started as a professional drummer at the age of 13 in an all-girl orchestra formed…
Rain and snow are expected to hit Southern California this weekend, according to the National Weather Service. “Over the weekend, a Pacific trough moving inland across California will bring clouds and a good chance for showers and mountain snow,” according to a statement from the NWS. The bulk of the precipitation is predicted to fall…
GARDEN GROVE — It took more than 50 firefighters about 30 minutes to extinguish a two-story apartment-complex fire that forced 12 people out of their homes and claimed the lives of six cats. When firefighters arrived at the complex, on the 13300 block of El Prado Avenue, at about 3 a.m. they learned that one man…
By KEN MORITSUGU BEIJING — China’s burgeoning space program achieved a first on Thursday: a landing on the so-called dark side of the moon. Three nations — the United States, the former Soviet Union and more recently China — have sent spacecraft to the near side of the moon, which faces Earth, but this landing…
ANAHEIM — A big rig lost its load Wednesday night when it struck the La Palma Avenue overcrossing on the eastbound Riverside (91) Freeway in Anaheim. The crash occurred just after 7 p.m. and prompted the closure of four lanes of the freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol. The driver said he was transporting…
