A former Fallbrook neighbor of the slain McStay family testified Wednesday, Jan. 9, that she reviewed hours of video from her front-yard surveillance cameras after the McStays disappeared in February 2010, looking for anything that might help investigators. Jennifer Mitchley, who has since moved out of state, took the stand in the trial of Charles “Chase” Merritt,…
Paramedics retrieved a man from the waters of Dana Point Harbor and pronounced him dead on Wednesday, Jan. 9. A man in his 50s had been fishing on the harbor’s East Jetty with a group of friends who lost sight of him sometime in the morning, according to Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the Orange…
A sewage spill has closed down a portion of Laguna Beach Wednesday, Jan. 9. The 300-gallon sewage spill prompted the closure of 250 feet up coast and 250 down coast from Upland Road. The spill was caused by a blockage at a sewer main in Laguna Beach. A sewage spill has closed a stretch of…
Big waves slammed the Southern California coastline on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. Strong surf is expected to continue through the week. A 40-foot boat washed up at Dockweiler State Beach. (Photo courtesy of Los Angeles County lifeguard spokesman Pono Barnes.) A surfer rides inside a wave just south of the Huntington Beach Pier in Huntington…
A veiw approaching the runway at the “airport in the sky” on Catalina Island. (Courtesy Catalina Island Conservancy) U.S. Marines and Navy personnel arrive at the airport on Catalina Island with 500 tons of equipment and tools to repair the main runway during the week of Dec. 17. (Courtesy Catalina Island Conservancy) Sound The gallery…
Residents of a two-story Laurel Avenue apartment complex in West Hollywood stood on the building’s front porch as dozens of protesters shouted at them. The residents were mostly white. The protesters were mostly black. What brought them together in a heated scene Monday night was the troubling,…
The man accused of being California’s Golden State Killer has been cleared of involvement in the 1975 murder of a 14-year-old girl in the Central Valley, prosecutors say. DNA testing excluded Joseph DeAngelo as a suspect in the murder of Donna Jo Richmond and — along with other evidence — indicates…
By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller and remains his most visible Justice Department protector, is expected to leave his position soon after William Barr is confirmed as attorney general, a person familiar with the plans said Wednesday. Barr, who served in the…
By CATHERINE LUCEY, JILL COLVIN and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump urged congressional Democrats to fund his long-promised border wall in a somber televised address that was heavy with dark immigration rhetoric but offered little in the way of concessions or new ideas to break the standoff that has left large swaths of…
Dave Min, a UC Irvine law professor who was endorsed by the California Democratic Party in his unsuccessful congressional bid last year, will challenge Orange County GOP state Sen. John Moorlach in the 2020 election. Min finished third in the June primary for the 45th Congressional District, missing the November runoff by 4,099 votes to…
