By Jocelyn Wiener, California Healthline Tania Alvarado’s 13-year-old daughter doesn’t smile much anymore. She doesn’t want anyone to see her front teeth, which are so crowded they’re nearly growing atop one another. The crowding makes it painful to eat; it also embarrasses her. “Am I going to get those braces this year?” the Los Angeles eighth-grader…
By Phil Galewitz, California Healthline The percentage of people without health insurance continued to decline in California last year, according to a closely watched report from the Census Bureau, released this week. The state’s uninsured rate edged down even as Republicans in Washington, D.C. sought to roll back the Affordable Care Act. The rate of uninsurance dropped in just two other two states: New…
By Ben Christopher, CALmatters State Democratic registration has flatlined, Republicans are sinking, and the share of California voters registering no party affiliation is at an all-time high. Pundits and politicians speak of the “swamp,” use “politics” as a term of abuse and inveigh against the hacks and the insiders who make up the political establishment….
Local prosecutors say that GOP Assembly hopeful Tyler Diep acted legally when his campaign staffer helped a little-known candidate enter into Diep’s primary race – a move that rivals allege was employed to split the vote. Diep’s campaign said Thursday that the findings by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office absolve him of the “frivolous…
AVALON — A squid boat ran aground on Catalina Island, but no one aboard was injured, the U.S. Coast Guard reported Wednesday. The 33-foot vessel ran aground about 8:50 p.m. Monday near Rippers Cove on the island’s leeward side, Coast Guard officials in San Pedro said. The operator made it to shore, but the boat…
By CATHERINE LUCEY The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday rejected the official conclusion that nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico from last year’s Hurricane Maria, arguing without evidence that the number was wrong and calling it a plot by Democrats to make him “look as bad as possible.” As Hurricane…
COSTA MESA — A Costa Mesa police officer died Wednesday night, Sept. 12, after suffering a medical emergency at his home. Officer Oscar Reyes was a 13-year veteran of the department and served as a motor officer for the last 10. He is survived by his wife and three children. Earlier on Wednesday, Reyes participated…
By JEFFREY COLLINS The Associated Press MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — The outer bands of wind and rain from Hurricane Florence began lashing North Carolina on Thursday as the monster storm moved in for an extended stay along the Southeastern coast, promising to drench the properties of 10 million people with immense amounts of water. Florence’s…
Riverside County’s top social services official has left her job amid allegations that social workers in her department failed to report and adequately investigate child abuse and neglect claims. Susan von Zabern, director of the Department of Public Social Services, left county employment Monday…
