Health officials on Monday, July 30, closed a stretch of the shoreline in Long Beach to beachgoers because of a spill over the weekend of 9,000 gallons of sewage. All swimming areas west of the Belmont Pier to the Los Angeles River were closed because of potential contamination caused by the 1 p.m. spill Sunday…
Kaleidoscope in Mission Viejo will host its annual Kaleido Kids Carnival on Tuesday, Aug. 7. The event will include inflatables, games, a juggler, a stilt walker, face painting, a balloon artist, kiddie train, DJ and more. Admission is free, but select activities require tickets, which are $1 each, $5 for six, or $10 for 15….
Target has agreed to stop selling two potty training products that attorneys say caused severe injury to the genitals of at least 15 toddlers, including a 3-year-old Riverside boy, as a trial on behalf of that child’s family prepares to start. The agreement, which was entered into court records July 20, settles a class action lawsuit on…
CERRITOS — The connector road from the southbound 605 Freeway to the eastbound 91 Freeway was shut down early Monday after an SUV driver fell asleep and damaged 50 to 70 feet of guardrail, authorities said. The crash was reported just before 2 a.m., and the driver of the silver Acura RDX told the California…
DANA POINT — Where other people see rocks along the harbor jetty — or don’t even bother noticing them at all as they sail, bike or walk by — a homeless man named Tommy Clifford sees possibilities. A few days ago, the 61-year-old stared at the rocks by the shore near his favorite spot just…
A 62-year-old Westminster man was killed after the truck he was traveling in crashed into a tree in Chino Hills early Monday morning, San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials said. Livier Ruvalcaba was a passenger in a Toyota Tundra that crashed just before 12:30 a.m. after the driver failed to stop on Rancho Hills Drive at…
Orange County got a trio of new hotels so far this year with 72 more in the works. And Orange County isn’t alone. Regionally, 11 hotels just opened and 472 are in some stage of development, according to Atlas Hospitality’s first-half summary of the hotel construction scene. Here are five Orange County hotel trends to…
In a stunning reversal, an appellate court has given the city of Whittier a second chance at drilling for oil and gas in the Whittier-Puente Hills nature preserve by throwing out five years of court rulings that had left the project for dead. The 2nd District Appellate Court of Los Angeles ruled last week the…
An employee was struck in the head with a tire iron early Monday, July 30, 2018, during a robbery at the Jack-in-the-Box at 11501 Carson St. in Lakewood. (Google Street View) LAKEWOOD — An employee of a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant in Lakewood was struck on the head with a tire iron Monday during a robbery, authorities…
Chew-Li loves gardening! Although for him gardening is more akin to lying among the plants than doing anything to help them grow. (Courtesy of Alura Always & Forever Pekingese Rescue) Chew Li was left at a Los Angeles animal shelter after he was hit by a car and his owners feared they couldn’t to get…
