Some of next year’s freshmen showed up on the Cal State Fullerton campus the last week of June – along with their parents. They’re not unpacking yet. They were part of freshman orientation activities that included interactive activities, campus tours, and meetings with students and professors in the college they will be part of come…

Brenden Wells, left, and Alan Cerna, founders of Apprentice Builds, stand with lead mentor and mechanic Wil Diaz at the Garden Grove Car Show on Main Street on July 6. (Photo by Kyusung Gong, Contributing Photographer) “A lot of these troubled kids, from a very young age, they seem to grow a passion for vehicles,”…

REDDING — The deadly Northern California wildfire that has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes burned virtually unchecked Sunday as fire crews surveyed a small town that was reduced to an ashy moonscape of blackened trees and smoldering rubble. The death toll climbed to six, and authorities worried that another forecast…

In 1972, more than 50,000 people crowded into Chicago’s Comiskey Park to see roller derby team the Los Angeles Thunderbirds compete against the Chicago Midwest Pioneers. The teams were made up of both men and women, the audience was enthusiastic and the match broke attendance records for roller derby at a time when the sport…

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will induct six new members Sunday, July 29, bringing the total to 323. The annual ceremony, started in 1939 when the museum opened, has an odd history. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., is where the history of the game is preserved…

Sandy Spiger stopped in her tracks when she saw the surfboards set up on the beach. The new mom from Newport Beach told her husband to keep exploring the beach festival with her 1-year-old while she checked out the unique yoga class – with participants trying to stay balanced while stretching on the boards set up…