Mary “Peg” Haapa spent 30 years keeping her neighbors up to date on the news in Newport Beach. Co-founder and publisher of the Newport Harbor Ensign weekly newspaper and longtime Corona del Mar resident, Haapa died at the age of 101 on Nov. 8 in Windsor, Calif. Haapa founded the Ensign in 1948 with her husband,…
A starting date for the trial of defendants David Allen Turpin. 57, and Louise Anne Turpin, 50, in the Perris torture case is expected to be set Friday, Nov. 30, in Superior Court in Riverside. The pair are accused of shackling, starving, neglecting and psychologically abusing 12 of their 13 children to the point where doctors say…
Hollywood screenwriter Gloria Katz — who co-wrote “American Graffiti” and helped give Princess Leia her power in “Star Wars” — has died. She was 76. Willard Huyck, Katz’s husband and longtime collaborator, told the Hollywood Reporter that she died Sunday, their 49th wedding anniversary, at Cedars-Sinai…
When L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez was told by L.A. Unified School District Supt. Austin Beutner that nearly a quarter of the students at the district’s Telfair Elementary School were homeless, he started spending time at the school to put a face to the statistic. Months later, Lopez wrote a…
There’s a 10 percent chance your new neighbors — the few that exist — moved to California from another state. My trusty spreadsheet, looking at new Census Bureau data, tells me California had the lowest nationwide share of residents who swapped states in 2017. And the Golden State’s well below the 16 percent national average….
No debris flows were seen in the Holy fire burn area in Riverside County early Thursday morning, Nov. 29, but authorities warned that the danger would only increase during the day. Light rain was falling in the Lake Elsinore and Temescal Valley areas as of 7 a.m. But Capt. Fernando Herrera, of the Cal Fire/Riverside…
As they style hair, do manicures and pedicures, or give someone a facial, salon professionals are close enough in proximity — and by relationship — to spot signs of domestic violence in their clients. They have an opportunity to become trusted confidants in a safe and comfortable environment, and, more importantly, could offer the moral…
By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, made a surprise appearance before a federal judge in New York on Thursday to plead guilty to lying to Congress about work he did on an aborted project to build a Trump Tower in Russia. Flanked by his lawyers, Cohen admitted making…
Driven by frustration with severe traffic congestion, new toll lanes on the 91 Freeway in Corona took in nearly $48 million — three times as much money as expected — in their first full year and are on pace to generate $50 million this fiscal year. The rosier-than-anticipated results, detailed this week in a report to a…
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE HONG KONG — China’s government ordered a halt Thursday to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies, as a group of leading scientists declared that it’s still too soon to try to make permanent changes to DNA that can be inherited by future…
