An Orange County Superior Court judge on Thursday, Aug. 2, ordered the state to delay the parole hearing of a man convicted of killing his friend by beating him and throwing him out of an airplane. The Board of Parole Hearings wanted to move up by a year the hearing for Lawrence Rayborn Cowell, who was convicted in…
A 21-year-old Newport Beach man charged with murder in the stabbing death of former high school classmate Blaze Bernstein will also face a hate crime sentencing enhancement, the Orange County district attorney announced Thursday. Orange County District Atty. Tony Rackauckas said prosecutors added…
By Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Thundering that the media is the “fake, fake disgusting news,” President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of grievances Thursday at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in which he cast journalists as his true political opponent. Trump barnstormed in a state that he swiped from the Democrats in…
In 1975, the KGB summoned Vladimir Voinovich to a meeting. The Russian novelist had just completed “The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin,” a World War II satire that the New York Times would later praise as “a masterpiece” and “the Soviet ‘Catch-22,’ as written by a latter-day…
Sister Maureen Paul Turlish, who risked retaliation from the Catholic Church hierarchy to become a tenacious advocate for victims of sexual abuse by the clergy, died July 18 at a rehabilitation clinic in Cincinnati. She was 79. The cause was viral encephalitis, said Paul Turlish, her brother and…
They each began with a blank canvas, but within an hour, paintings had started to take shape depicting life at the Orange County Fair: brown and cream calves lounging in a livestock pen, a profusion of nodding sunflowers, red and white barns, a colorful carnival ride. The plein air competition, in which artists set up…
It was Thursday evening when the Carr fire barreled out of the foothills and took aim at this city, with hot winds launching embers well ahead of the main blaze and engulfing neighborhoods along bends in the Sacramento River. When the flames approached western Redding, Shasta County officials issued…
Perris torture defendants David and Louise Turpin are due back in Riverside County Superior Court on Friday, Aug. 3, for a hearing at which they will be re-arraigned. One count of child endangerment was dropped at the preliminary hearing in June when Judge Bernard J. Schwartz ruled that the youngest of the Turpins’ 13 children,…
For several of the surf icons on the stage in Huntington Beach, it all started as a simple love story. An early passion for the saltwater sport. They had no idea they’d be paving the way for future generations, influencing fashion, art, style and athletics while inspiring others to pursue a life immersed in the…
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office has voiced its disapproval of a recent decision to grant parole eligibility to a man convicted in the 1975 rape and killing of his stepmother and another woman in San Juan Capistrano and Mira Loma. Prosecutors said Wednesday that they’ve sent a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown’s office urging…
