The number of attorney-client telephone calls improperly recorded by the Orange County jail’s phone vendor is likely more than the 1,079 announced by the contractor, according to the Public Defender’s Office. The official list released by phone contractor GTL showed that jail inmates called public defenders seven times over the past three years, which attorneys…
Incentive deals that would have given Disney $267 million in hotel room taxes and prevented the city from adding a gate tax to Disneyland Resort park tickets for decades are officially dead. A week after Disney officials asked them to, Anaheim City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday, Aug. 28, to kill the agreements that Disneyland Resort…
LAGUNA BEACH — Kimberly and Clay Leeds were driving in heavy traffic along Laguna Canyon Road shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26 when they saw a flash of fur run toward the center of the road. “I saw a car swerve to the left and then I saw it was a baby bobcat,” said…
Dr. George Tyndall, the USC gynecologist accused of sexually assaulting hundreds of students, has given up his medical license temporarily as he confronts a police investigation and a barrage of lawsuits. The physician reached an agreement this week with the Medical Board of California that prohibits…
Police and first responders in Placentia treated and then rushed a young boy to the hospital, likely saving his life after he stopped breathing on the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 28, authorities said. The Placentia Police Department said in a statement it received word of a choking child and responded to the parking lot of…
Top from left, Jamie Bosworth and Christopher Ramirez. Bottom from left, Javier Armijo, Roberto Silva and Shadi Al-Abdual Razaq. The men were arrested on suspicion of trying to meet a minor for sexual acts. (Photo courtesy San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department) Investigators Tuesday named eight more men who are suspected of attempting to lure a…
All through the Catholic Church molestation scandals that rocked Los Angeles and Orange Counties, I checked in regularly with an ex-priest named Richard Sipe. From his home in La Jolla, Sipe would offer me scholarly breakdowns on what was happening in California and the rest of the world — on how…
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) and his wife Margaret were charged a week ago on 60 counts in a federal indictment alleging they improperly spent some $250,000 in campaign contributions on lavish vacations, meals and personal items. Hunter insists the corruption charges are politically motivated…
California’s nascent earthquake early-warning system had another successful run Tuesday night when a 4.4 magnitude temblor hit the La Verne area. The quake was too small to cause much damage but was felt over a wide area. Seismologist Lucy Jones told reporters at Caltech on Tuesday night that the…
By KEN THOMAS The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is tweeting that his White House counsel, Don McGahn, will be departing in the fall after the Senate confirmation vote for Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court. Trump praised his top White House lawyer on Wednesday, saying he has “worked with…
