GARDEN GROVE — A 30-year-old man was behind bars Wednesday on suspicion of causing an alcohol-fueled, multiple-vehicle New Year’s Day crash on the Garden Grove (22) Freeway that killed a mother and her 9-year-old daughter. Melvin Cleveland Branch of Orange, who was being held on $100,000 bail, was arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter…
NORWALK — The coroner’s office Wednesday released the name of a man shot to death in Norwalk. Jose Soto Jr., 26, was a Norwalk resident, coroner’s Lt. Larry Dietz said. Deputies responded at 4:50 p.m. Monday to a call of a gunshot victim in the 14300 block of Carmenita Road and located the person, who…
A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Thursday morning four miles from Cahuilla, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake occurred at 7:32 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.2 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 17 miles from Valle Vista, 19 miles from Hemet…
A driver ran a red light, striking and fatally injuring a pedestrian in Fountain Valley on Sunday, Dec. 30, police said Wednesday. The motorist had driven into the intersection of Warner Avenue and Los Jardines West without the right of way, swerved in an attempt to avoid another vehicle, then traveled onto a curb, according…
Roberta Weintraub emerged as a polemic figure in the anti-school busing movement that swept the San Fernando Valley in the late 1970s. Elected to the Los Angeles school board as an activist, she became a coalition builder, being elected president four times during her 14 years as a school board…
The new ice rink at Irvine’s Orange County Great Park was crowded on Wednesday, Jan. 2, with bundled-up kids holding the hand of a parent, laughing teens too cool to wear jackets, and junior hockey players zipping in and out among the slower, less experienced skaters. Great Park Ice, when finished, will host figure skating, youth…
The state agency that enforces workplace law has issued a warning to distribution facilities that they could be on the hook for future fines if they do business with trucking companies that violate wage laws. The warning, issued Jan. 2 by the California Department of Industrial Relations and based on a law that went into effect the…
A crash between a motorcycle and car in Santa Ana left two dead on Wednesday afternoon. Corporal Anthony Bertagna with the Santa Ana Police Department said the crash happened at around 1:30 p.m. on Raitt Street, between McFadden and Edinger avenues. “The man was driving the motorcycle south on Raitt Street, and the woman was…
The Holtec Hi-Storm Umax dry storage system for spent fuel at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (Courtesy of Southern California Edison) — This Google Earth image shows how close the expanded dry storage area for spent nuclear waste will be to the shoreline at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (Image courtesy of Google Earth) As…
Daryl Dragon, a classically trained pianist who gained a share of fame as the “Captain” of Captain & Tennille, has died. Dragon died early Wednesday at a hospice in Prescott, Ariz. Spokesman Harlan Boll said he was 76 and suffered from renal failure. His former wife and musical partner, Toni Tennille,…
