The county has so much demand from residents getting official documents or wanting to tie the knot it needs to move its north Orange County satellite office into a bigger space. The move will take the Orange County Clerk-Recorder branch out of downtown Fullerton and move it to 222 S. Harbor Blvd., in Anaheim. The new…

By Christopher Rowland, The Washington Post The stock price of pharmaceutical and medical-products giant Johnson & Johnson plunged 10 percent Friday after a news report said the company knew for decades that raw ingredients used in its talcum powder sometimes contained small amounts of asbestos, which can cause cancer. The company strongly denied the report…

While a ruptured pipe in Mexico continues to spill sewage into the Tijuana River, federal officials said that as of Friday morning the effluent was being captured at the border and diverted to a wastewater treatment facility. Pumps that are part of a diversion system in the Tijuana River have been…

A 43-year-old Florida man who says he is Charles Manson’s grandson told a judge Friday he will not submit to a DNA test to determine the validity of his claim unless ordered to do so by the court. Jason Freeman said he would not voluntarily agree to the test sought by longtime Manson pen pal…

Environmentalists say the threatened western snowy plover is feeling ill effects from dogs frolicking in the surf at a de facto dog beach near the birds’ habitat at the mouth of the Santa Ana River — and that despite measures such as leash laws, government could be doing more to help. One conservationist…

On a night designed to make her feel like royalty, Donna Sallee compared herself to something far less glamorous. A human piece of trash. Those were the words used by the 62-year-old recovering meth addict to describe the self loathing caused by her personal failings and the disparaging treatment she’s endured over nearly two decades…

HOLLYWOOD — Eliza Dushku, an actress on the popular CBS show “Bull,” was paid $9.5 million to confidentially settle allegations that she was dismissed from the series after she complained about being harassed on set, it was reported Friday. Dushku was featured in the first season of the CBS procedural drama, playing a criminal defense…

By COLLEEN LONG and ASTRID GALVAN WASHINGTON — Immigration officials say an autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death of a 7-year-old migrant girl who suffered seizures in custody and later died. Officials say the girl was found Dec. 6 near Lordsburg, New Mexico, by U.S. Border Patrol agents. They say the…

Actress and director Sondra Locke, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her first film role in 1968’s “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” and went on to co-star in six films with Clint Eastwood, has died. Locked died Nov. 3 at her Los Angeles home of cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone…

When an artist met his critics on Thursday afternoon, the conversation was friendly. But it didn’t change the outcome for his artwork at a school in Koreatown. The days remain numbered for Beau Stanton’s mural of actress Ava Gardner at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex because local…