The Rebel Challenge proved a little too challenging for Cal State Fullerton’s volleyball team over the weekend. The team, which had sustained a six-match winning streak, fell to Eastern Kentucky, Fordham and UNLV during the weekend tournament in Las Vegas. The Cal State Fullerton volleyball team battled in every set, but lost to tournament host…

It was supposed to be just a football game between Aliso Niguel and Santa Ana high schools, but turned controversial with allegations of racism and politicizing a sporting event. Tensions erupted on campus and spread to social media over the weekend after Santa Ana High School’s principal Jeff Bishop said he and his students —…

Hauntingly beautiful. Those were my first thoughts as I looked over the large photos on the wall at Santa Ana College’s SantoraSpace205 gallery in downtown Santa Ana. Glowing hillsides and fiery landscapes artfully composed and captured, often with a majestic night sky as a background, almost make the observer forget the destruction they represent. The serenity…

Even the most ardent marijuana lovers can’t deny it: The plant, at least to some noses, stinks. Marijuana odors have triggered lawsuits against cannabis companies. They’ve led residents to try to block commercial operations from coming to California and the other eight states where recreational cannabis is legal and, increasingly, big business. Odor even has…

New homes at Rancho Mission Viejo (File photo) Homes start selling in the $800,000s at Prado at Cadence Park in Irvine’s Great Park Neighborhoods. (Sketch courtesy: KB Home) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Zephyr, developers of South Cove in Dana Point, is starting work on Phase 4, which will bring 10 luxury condos to…

GARDEN GROVE — The Garden Grove fire chief notified the city manager of his decision to retire, effective Sept. 14, but at the city manager’s request, he will continue to serve until the end of the year while a decision is made on whether to retain the city fire department or transfer to the Orange…

Guatemalan asylum seeker Hermelindo Che Coc and his young son adjust to life in the U.S. after being separated at the border and kept apart for nearly two months.

Barbara Tillis isn’t sure when she’ll get to see her son, Corvain Cooper, again. Every few months for the past four years, Tillis, has driven five hours with her husband, daughter and Cooper’s oldest daughter, making the trip from Rialto to the federal prison in Atwater, near Merced. They’d spend the day visiting and chatting, and guards…

ANAHEIM – A man scaled a crane about 300 feet above a construction site Sunday night, Sept. 9, and rappelled down before being taken into custody. “He had climbed up above the crane and then was in the crane operating car,” said Battalion Chief Bob McClellan of Anaheim Fire & Rescue. The man was seen inside…

Jews will begin the observance of Rosh Hashana, the two-day holiday marking the Jewish New Year, at sundown Sunday, Sept. 9. Services ushering in the year 5779 on the Hebrew calendar will feature the blowing of the shofar, a ram’s horn mentioned in the Torah. Rosh Hashana is a time when Jews gather with family…