Breed: Domestic shorthair Age: 2 years old Gender: Neutered male Alfie’s story: Sweet, elegant Alfie has been waiting for a new home since March. People tend to overlook black cats like Alfie because of the stigma that they are associated with bad luck, but that’s certainly not true. These sweet felines have been given an unfair…

Danueal Drayton, 27, of Connecticut, who is suspected of killing a nurse and raping another women in New York, is facing charges of attempted murder, forcible rape, false imprisonment by violence and sexual penetration by a foreign object in connection with an attack on a North Hollywood woman. He has confessed to as many as…

The fires, one dubbed the Cranston Fire and the other the Ribbon Fire, has led to evacuations, road closures and several burned structures. • Continue reading: The latest on the Cranston fire near Idyllwild | Cranston fire expands to 13,118 acres but crews make progress on containment, aided by calmer winds | Cranston fire: What is…

At Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Entrepreneurship, experienced business owners have been giving advice to students for years. Now they have put that advice into a book. The center has published “Creating New Ventures: How To Shape Concepts Into Achievement.” The softcover book is a compilation of letters from 156 company founders, executives, advisers and…

Q. I was traveling on the 91 freeway toward Newport Beach last week, and I saw a pickup truck hauling a camper trailer in the 91 Express Lanes. Is this legal, to be towing a camper trailer in those lanes? – Elizabeth M. Roberts, Garden Grove A. Hope that driver was off to have some fun,…

Homeownership in Los Angeles and Orange counties fell back from a post-recession high to the nation’s worst in the second quarter. One bad quarter is not a significantly ominous signal, but the falling ownership levels along with a rising number of empty homes suggests local house hunters are not jumping on 2018’s noteworthy surge in…

When a wildfire erupts, one of the first questions asked of fire officials is the containment percentage. What does that mean exactly? Containment is when a fire break is created around the perimeter of a blaze and firefighters have “mopped up” into the burn area, explained Marc Peebles, public information officer for the Cranston fire…

After 33 years investigating wildfire arson, one thing has become crystal clear to Los Angeles County sheriff’s Detective Ed Nordskog: “Wildfire arsonists are not like your average thug.” “They are cowards, sneaking away after doing something while no one is looking,” said Nordskog, a nationally known expert who has handled more than 2,100 arson cases. Nordskog hasn’t…