SANTA ANA — A 63-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to three years behind bars for fatally stabbing a homeless man in Santa Ana in 1984. John William Zelinski, 61, was extradited from Arizona and charged with the 1984 cold case murder of a transient man in Santa Ana. (2017 file photo) John William Zelinski pleaded…
SACRAMENTO — A former state senator convicted of lying about his residence and three refugees from Vietnam who could face deportation are among 38 people pardoned Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Brown’s pardons also include a man who just lost his Paradise home in a wildfire. The Democratic governor also…
A pedestrian in her 70s was killed in a hit-and-run incident in Norwalk on Wednesday night. Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel were called to the intersection of Pioneer Boulevard and Lindale Street in Norwalk at about 5:09 p.m. about a medical rescue, said Dispatch Supervisor Jeremy Stafford. A woman there was transported to a…
A motorist died after a vehicle flipped over on the 241 Toll Road in Orange on Wednesday, Nov. 21. Only one vehicle was involved in the rollover crash that was reported at 6:51 p.m. in southbound lanes of the freeway, just north of the Santiago Canyon Road off-ramp, according to California Highway Patrol Dispatcher Al…
Firefighters completed a line around the Woolsey fire burning in Los Angeles and Ventura counties Wednesday, Nov. 21, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said. The 100 percent containment was announced at 6:30 p.m. Containment, which had been at 98 percent Tuesday night, is reached when crews create a line around the fire and the flames…
A motorcyclist died Tuesday in a collision in Laguna Hills. The crash happened at 10:05 p.m. on Alicia Parkway, east of Aliso Hills, according to Orange County Sheriff’s Lt. Todd Russ. The rider died before he could be transported to a hospital and was later identified as Jeremy Lee Washington, 38, of Aliso Viejo, according…
Funny Car driver Tommy Johnson Jr. walks out of the sand trap after loosing to J.R. Todd in the finals in Pomona on Sunday, November 11, 2018 at the 54th annual NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG) Funny Car driver John Force explodes his engine resulting in…
Supervisor Lisa Bartlett has introduced a ninth option to a toll agency’s proposals for addressing traffic in south Orange County: Extending Los Patrones Parkway to Avenida La Pata, connecting south of the Prima Deshecha Landfill. “We looked into studying an alternative that has no impacts to existing homes, businesses and public infrastructure,” Bartlett’s Chief of…
San Clemente City Council member-elect Dan Bane listens to the City Council meeting in San Clemente on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG) San Clemente City Council member-elect Laura Ferguson listens to the City Council meeting in San Clemente on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County…
A new long-term deal Mayor Tom Tait called “very good for the people of Anaheim” will ensure the Ducks’ home remains at the Honda Center for years to come, and it will give the center’s management company a greater role in development around the arena. Anaheim Arena Management by Henry Samueli, which has run the…
