Authorities are on the lookout for a man suspected of committing sexual battery against several girls near Savanna High School. The Anaheim Police Department said in a press release that the sexual batteries started last week, with the most recent one happening Monday morning in the 2800 block of West Lincoln Avenue. In each incident,…
Charlotte Lonnee, 95, gets a birthday hug from her Santiago Canyon College art teacher, Eileen Clary, on Monday, January 14, 2019. She was recognized by the school with a lifelong learning award. Lonnee says she has been taking classes for the last 40 years — 10 at Santiago Canyon. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County…
Charges were filed Monday against a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in Santa Ana this month. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office said in a media release that Erick Alvarez Hernandez, a 27-year-old Santa Ana resident, was charged with one felony county of kidnapping to commit a sex offense, forcible oral sex, attempted…
Some students were bored in class. Some played hooky. Still others didn’t go to school at all on Monday, the first day of a Los Angeles Unified School District strike that left hundreds of schools without teachers. Los Angeles Animal Services figured some students would need a place to go this…
A state watchdog agency that investigates and disciplines California judges has charged an appellate justice in Los Angeles with nine counts of sexual harassment and misconduct, including an allegation that he squeezed the breasts of another jurist. The 17-page complaint filed Jan. 4 by the Commission on Judicial Performance accuses Second District Court of Appeal…
Former Long Beach State aquatics All-American and longtime UCLA swim and water polo coach Bob Horn died Friday after a long illness. He was 87. Coach Bob Horn in 1979. Photo: Courtesy UCLA athletics Whether it was his days as a player or as coach, Horn was a titan of the water polo and swimming…
Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday that he is disappointed the LAUSD strike wasn’t avoided, yet he remains hopeful an agreement can be reached by the end of the week or early next week. Speaking at a City Hall news conference on the first day of the strike, Garcetti told reporters he has played an…
A man dubbed the “Dine-and-Dash Dater” after walking out on checks while on first dates with women at Southern California restaurants surrendered Monday, Jan. 14, to serve the balance of his 120-day jail sentence. Paul Guadalupe Gonzales, 45, pleaded no contest in November to three counts of defrauding an innkeeper by non-payment and one count…
As LAUSD teachers went on strike Monday, they spoke of their hopes for change. More than 31,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles staged the walkout, the first since 1989 in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Los Angeles teachers braved cold, drizzly weather Monday morning as they walked off the job in their first strike in 30 years to demand smaller class sizes, more support staff at schools and better pay. Schools will be open but it’s unknown how many students will head to classes in the nation’s…
