I visited the new dusk.boutique last week, and was delighted. It has an on-trend selection of clothing, jewelry, shoes and accessories displayed thoughtfully and creatively. Lots of fall colors. And the staff is extra nice. I am planning to go back and get several sweaters (and a cool turquoise ring) as holiday gifts. It’s definitely…
Riverside County emergency management officials went door-to-door Friday, Sept. 28, in the area where the Holy fire burned in Lake Elsinore, warning residents that dangerous debris flows could result from storms arriving in the next few days. The edge of Hurricane Rosa, coming from the south, is expected to skirt that area before a second…
With more than 30 fellow immigrants lined up to vote, Bruno and Maria Lopez took turns and followed all the steps – they checked in with polling monitors, took a ballot, filled it out. When they were done, they even got a pair of “I voted” stickers. It was all a rehearsal for the real…
Anaheim resident Tracy DuMouchelle recently walked into a health clinic to get her son a dental check-up. She walked out a registered voter. At AltaMed Health Services’ 52 clinics in Los Angeles and Orange County, a voter registration drive is just part of an expanding get-out-the-vote campaign targeting Latinos and others who live in the…
Goats and sheep from B & T Cattle in Brea clear a hillside on city land in Irvine off of Concordia West just south of the Concordia University Irvine campus on Friday, September 28, 2018. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) With Concordia University Irvine campus as a backdrop, goats and sheep from B…
The Los Angeles school district began mediation with its teachers union Thursday and also celebrated a contract agreement — but it wasn’t with the teachers. The mediation is confidential, though first-day signs were not so promising. When it was over, United Teachers Los Angeles released a harsh…
When the first woman came forward to allege that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her decades earlier, Kathy Gosnell decided it was time to share a painful secret of her own. The retired Los Angeles Times copy editor, now living in DeKalb, Ill., made her story public…
Following a 1949 cutback in legal Mexican contract laborers allowed into California, illegal border crossings surged.
By STEPHEN WRIGHT JAKARTA, Indonesia — Powerful earthquakes jolted the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday and a triggered a tsunami that an official said swept away houses. Indonesia had declared a tsunami warning after the strongest quake, which registered magnitude 7.5, but lifted it about half an hour later. It was followed by numerous…
By NICK PERRY WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A passenger on a plane that crashed into a Pacific lagoon on Friday said the flight attendants were panicking and he saw water pouring through a hole in the side of the plane before he was able to escape. Local boats helped rescue all 47 passengers and crew…
