HOLLYWOOD — Burt Reynolds was cremated shortly after his death on Sept. 6 at age 82, and his family is considering scattering his ashes at sea, but first he’ll be honored in a private service for family and friends Wednesday at a church in Palm Beach, Florida, the town where he spent almost his entire…
California’s poverty ranks were cut by 1.49 million people in five years — a 17 percent decline topped by only three states. New Census data shows California with 7.46 million living in poverty last year, according to the so-called “supplemental” poverty measure. It’s a relatively new income yardstick that adjusts poverty counts to include regional…
A longstanding plan to build a passenger rail system between Southern California and Las Vegas has a new financial backer, a company operating a privately funded rail project in Florida. Miami-based Brightline, whose rail service will connect Miami to Orlando by 2022, said Tuesday it had acquired…
Los Angeles, one of the world’s major fashion centers and long a symbol of glitz and glamour, is taking steps to ban the sale of new fur products, a move that would make it the largest city in the U.S. to do so. A proposal to ban the sale of fur products advanced in the…
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal announced Tuesday that he plans to step down at the end of the academic year.
An animal rights group is alleging that UC Irvine researchers failed to properly administer anesthesia and provide adequate veterinary care to six research animals last year, leading to the deaths of four rabbits, a pig and a sheep. Michael A. Budkie, executive director of Stop Animal Exploitation…
Dr. Grant William Robicheaux billed himself as an elite orthopedic surgeon catering to Newport Beach’s famous and wealthy. It was a lifestyle he pushed not only in his medical work but on realty TV, where he appeared on a Bravo dating show wearing his hospital scrubs and a wide smile. But Orange…
SANTA ANA — A 42-year-old Chino man was arrested Friday and charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting four girls in La Habra between 1999 and 2008. Wesley Gerardo Estrada was charged with five counts of lewd acts with a minor and single counts of forced oral copulation, rape of an unconscious person and forcible rape, all…
An Ohio-based animal welfare group has filed a complaint with a federal agency about UC Irvine’s treatment of research animals that includes allegations a university spokesman said are “flatly inaccurate.” Stop Animal Exploitation Now sent a Sept. 15 letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture suggesting the 2017 deaths of four rabbits, a sheep and a…
Eye contact. A smile. A hand extended for a shake. David Freeman is making contact with two homeless women at a busy street corner in Anaheim. A Nikon d500 camera hangs from his neck, but he won’t take their photographs without asking first. “Hi,” he says, “my name’s Dave.” When they share their names, Freeman…
