Christ Cathedral sparkles with light during the blessing of the quatrefoils event Saturday. Quatrefoils are a unique interior lighting design element. The cathedral has thousands of these steel powder-coated reflectors. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Contributing Photographer) Bishop Kevin Vann takes a tour of the interior of Christ Cathedral before the first lighting and blessing of…
Orange County health officials barred ocean water-contact sports in Sunset Aquatic Marina and Portofino Cove in Huntington Beach due to a 1,000-gallon sewage spill on Sunday, Oct. 14. The contaminants originated from a sewer line blockage in Anaheim, according to a news release from the Orange County Health Care Agency’s Environmental Health division. It said…
Fall was in the air Sunday as Central Park in Huntington Beach turned shades of gold — about 500 shades of golden retriever. “This is like heaven!” exclaimed Laurie Zerbonia, owner of Henry, a 3-year-old golden. They drove from San Diego to be at the second annual Goldie Palooza gathering. She told her son he…
The day before game three of the National League Championship Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on Sunday, October 14, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. The day before game three of the National League Championship Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium…
LOS ANGELES — Southern California Edison officials said electric circuits in some high fire-risk areas might be shut off Sunday night or Monday, as the first big Santa Ana windstorm of the fall will bring wind gusts of up to 75 miles per hour to the area. A spokesman for SCE said neighborhoods in foothill…
“First Man,” a film about Neil Armstrong, is in theaters. Armstrong was the first of 12 men to walk on the moon in the 1960s and 1970s. NASA is planning a return to the moon. Let’s take a look. NASA is 60 years old this year. Formed July 29, 1958, the agency has trained hundreds…
Chris Toledo dreams of owning a house in Los Angeles. He’s been trying to save up money – probably for a starter home that needs a whole lot of work. Meanwhile, Toledo – as a hobby – has been building his dream house in miniature – and it turns out the little house may just…
Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series. “We were just 13 and 15 years old.” With those words, a teenager we will call Jane Doe starts to write her Victim Impact Statement about how a young man she met on the Internet stole “the most precious years of a girl’s life.” With…
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series. The mother of a 15-year-old assault victim stands in court, glances at the man her daughter met on the Internet and, knees shaking, begins to read. “I never thought it possible that my daughter would be a victim of any crime,” she says, “nor that…
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series. Nearly three years after a sexual assault, a teenage girl finally has her opportunity to give voice to thousands of others who have been similarly affected by Internet predators. “Because of you, my trust in others is broken. Because of you, I close everyone off…
