Funny Car winner J.R. Todd celebrates after winning the event title at the Toyota NHRA Las Vegas Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 28, 2018. Todd leads the Funny Car points standings over Robert Hight heading into the final race of the year at Pomona in…
Playwright, poet and author Ntozake Shange, whose most acclaimed theater piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” died Saturday, according to her daughter. She was 70. Shange’s “For Colored Girls” describes the racism,…
An 88-year-old woman with dementia was located hours after she went missing in La Mirada on Sunday, authorities said. The woman was found safe and receiving medical care from deputies less than two hours after the Norwalk sheriff’s station shared a missing alert with her photo and description on Twitter. She had wandered from her…
Los Angeles loves being the center of attention. And when it comes to sports, the next few hours are going to be about as good as it gets, with five of L.A.’s professional sports teams playing home games. Four of those events — including the Game 5 of the World Series — will occur in…
NEWPORT BEACH – Authorities are asking if there are more victims of a 32-year-old Trabuco Canyon man accused of exposing himself to 10 girls over a 5-month period earlier this year. Travis Benjamin Kaszynski has been charged with 10 counts of child annoyance and 11 counts of indecent exposure, all misdemeanors, and a felony count…
LONG BEACH – A woman was fatally struck in the predawn hours in Long Beach on Sunday, and the driver of a pickup truck sped away, authorities say. The victim has been identified only as a 22-year-old Anaheim resident. Police were dispatched at 1:30 a.m. to the 5500 block of East Second Street, and found…
By Avi Selk , Mark Berman and Joel Achenbach Authorities have named the 11 people killed Saturday when a man armed with three pistols and a semiautomatic assault-style rifle attacked a synagogue in Pittsburgh — the deadliest attack on Jews in the history of the United States. The dead include a 97-year-old woman, a husband and wife, and…
The biggest surf costume gathering in Orange County happened early Saturday morning on the north side of the Newport Beach Pier, with the decked-out wave riders turning soggy as soon as they hit the ocean. Colonel Sanders races across the face of a misty wave during the Blackies surf costume contest in Newport Beach Saturday,…
An elderly man was hospitalized after he was stabbed in the restroom of a Garden Grove fast food restaurant, authorities said Saturday, Oct. 27. Police were searching for the man’s attacker. Just before 11 a.m., Garden Grove police officers were sent to the 13900 block of Harbor Boulevard on a report of a man who…
Lori McCullouch’s 2018 paper downloaded ticket next to some of her old World Series and Opening Day tickets at her seats behind home plate before Game 3 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Friday, October 26, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG) Lori McCullouch, and her son Jeff,…
