Riders for Uber, Lyft and Wingz wait under a tent for their ride on the third floor of the A2 parking structure at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, CA on Wednesday, October 3, 2018. The airport recently added a pick-up area in the three structures in an effort to alleviate traffic congestion. (Photo by…
Members of the College Republicans club at UC Irvine are looking forward to another on-campus appearance by controversial speaker Milo Yiannopoulos – but they’ve hit some snags with the administration and say the school is using bureaucracy to squelch their First Amendment rights to free speech. Last month, UCI officials denied the group’s request to use a ballroom…
The 19th annual induction ceremony for the International Surfboard Builders Hall of Fame is set for Saturday, Oct. 13. This year’s event will fittingly be held at the International Surfing Museum, 411 Olive Ave., in Huntington Beach. Previous inductees include surfboard building legends such as Phil Edwards, Skip Frye, Mickey Munoz, Mike Doyle, Bill Holden…
Santa Ana Police arrested a youth pastor on Tuesday, Oct. 2 on suspicion of a violent sexual assault on a 13-year-old member of his congregation. Authorities allege that, sometime in March, Jonathan Lamont Jenkins, 57, of Riverside, hid in a women’s restroom at Starlight Baptist Church at 1201 W. Second St., lying in wait for a…
Authorities charged a man who was in custody after officers said he attempted to flee from law enforcement on Monday, Oct. 1 in a stolen vehicle linked to an earlier bank robbery, initiating a chase from Stanton to Garden Grove. Walter Glenn Bennett, 56, was arrested and held at the Theo Lacy jail in Orange…
With the Holy fire drawing closer, Julie Hamilton was preparing to leave her house when an air tanker dumped pink retardant all over her white pickup. It was officially time to go. For weeks in August and September, the fire prompted mandatory evacuations as it burned through canyons and mountainous…
In the national cacophony that arose after Christine Blasey Ford testified that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school, one refrain from his supporters has begun to drown out all others: Our country has abandoned its cherished ideal that a person is innocent…
A team of sheriff’s deputies patrolling the Grapevine in northern L.A. County disproportionately stops and searches Latino drivers compared with other motorists, a Times investigation has found.
The UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies poll that the Los Angeles Times is releasing Thursday uses a method that differs from our past surveys. Here’s an explanation of how it works, and why we’re doing it this way. Like many surveys, the Berkeley IGS Poll, directed by veteran pollster…
Republicans are at risk of a wipeout in California’s six most hotly contested congressional races, a new poll shows — a result that could radically reshape the state’s political map, with major consequences nationally. But the poll, conducted for the Los Angeles Times by UC Berkeley’s Institute…
