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,…
Emmy Award-winning writer Bob Einstein, who was best known as cocky stuntman Super Dave Osborne and Larry David’s newly devout friend, Marty Funkhouser, on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” has died. He was 76. Einstein died at home in Indian Wells, Calif., on Wednesday, shortly after being diagnosed…
The surgeon lost his hands. He couldn’t operate anymore. He lost his practice. Surgeon Jim Jackson, right, works out with MMA fighter John Mercurio in Westminster, CA, on Friday, Dec 21, 2018. Jackson lost his medical license after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. One day, he walked into a gym and began training with MMA…
By ZEKE MILLER and LISA MASCARO | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are expected to attend a briefing on border security at the White House as the government remains partially shut down and President Donald Trump asks in a tweet, “Let’s make a deal?” The partial government shutdown began on Dec….
California instituted several landmark environmental policies in 2018 and green activists are geared up to keep the momentum growing in 2019. “I think we will have challenge and opportunity,” said Environment California’s Dan Jacobson, one of Sacramento’s most prominent environmental lobbyists. “There’s a lot of challenge at the federal level while in California we have…
By JAN M. OLSEN | Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A Danish passenger train apparently hit falling cargo from a passing freight train Wednesday, an accident that killed six people and injured 16 others as it crossed a bridge linking the country’s islands, authorities said. The accident was the worst in Denmark in more than…
WASHINGTON — Faced with biting public criticism from Republican Sen.-elect Mitt Romney, President Donald Trump pushed back Wednesday, reminding him that “I won big, and he didn’t.” Days away from joining the Senate’s Republican majority, Romney broadly criticized Trump’s policies and character in a newspaper column, arguing that the president “has not risen to the…
HUNTINGTON BEACH — A beachside bathroom at Huntington State Beach became well-involved in flames early Wednesday, authorities said. The fire was reported at 3:44 a.m. in the bathroom at Pacific Coast Highway and Brookhurst Street, a fire dispatcher at Metro Cities Dispatch said. The fire was out at 4:21 a.m., he said. The bathrooms are…
When Alex thinks about her childhood in Guerrero, Mexico, she remembers the abuse. There was the time her mother threatened to burn her hands on the stove because she had cried after being hit. And the time her mother didn’t get her medical treatment after she caught her finger in a steel gate….
