A woman’s burger dreams came true on Friday, Oct. 12. Hermosa Beach resident Roxy Duffy, 30, campaigned on Twitter for more than two years, trying to persuade Red Robin to bring back its limited-edition Oktoberfest burger. She wooed the attention of the company’s CEO, Denny Marie Post. Hermosa Beach local, Roxy Duffy, left, made a…
A thunderstorm rolled into Southern California on Friday, Oct. 12 filling the sky with lightning and rain.
A man died after losing control of his vehicle and colliding with a big rig on the northbound 5 Freeway in Orange on Friday night, Oct. 12, authorities said. About 11:55 p.m., a California Highway Patrol officer heard a collision on the northbound side of the freeway near Chapman Avenue, the CHP reported. The officer located…
On a wet autumn morning in 1928, Huntington Beach police officers W.L. Evans and Leo Roy “LeRoy” Darst were responding to a car crash when they themselves became crash victims. While driving southbound on Main Street, Evans lost control of his vehicle in the pouring rain and swerved into oncoming traffic. Huntington Beach field training…
For many Corona City Council candidates, the issues are the run-of-the-mill stuff of local politics: improving traffic, better planning, a balanced budget. For Councilman Randy Fox, a pastor, the election “is a spiritual battle.” “There is a bent toward throwing off the rule of God,” he said recently…
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives are awaiting ballistic testing to determine whether a man who was carrying a rifle when he was arrested by investigators seeking a burglary suspect is connected to a series of shootings in the Malibu Creek State Park area that left a scientist dead. Authorities…
For years, the professor told the assistant dean that she was beautiful and greeted her with hugs and a kiss on each cheek. During their time together at UC Irvine, Francisco J. Ayala, 84, and Benedicte Shipley, 50, perceived their encounters in dramatically different ways. He said he believed…
With President Trump smiling from the podium, the crowd chanted a familiar slogan at a Republican rally in Iowa this week, but with a new target in mind. “Lock her up! Lock her up!” they roared of Sen. Dianne Feinstein after Trump had speculated that the California Democrat leaked a letter from…
A passerby misses the mark as he tries to throw money into the guitar case of Willam Campisano. The Dana Hills High student has been busking in the Salt Creek tunnel for the past year. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer) William Campisano, a Dana Hills High School student, has been singing and playing his…
LOS ANGELES – Thousands of Los Angeles Department of Water & Power and Southern California Edison customers were without power Saturday morning after a thunderstorm with lightning dumped nearly four-tenths of an inch of rain in parts of Southern California. DWP reported approximately 6,000 customers across Los Angeles were without power, down from 10,000 at…
