A bridge over the 405 Freeway came tumbling down early Sunday morning, Aug. 19. Fortunately, its collapse was deliberate. Rebar is removed after the McFadden bridge was demolished by heavy equipment. The McFadden bridge over the 405 freeway was demolished starting on Saturday evening into the early morning hours of Sunday. (Photo by Bill Alkofer,…
SANTA ANA — A 38-year-old Santa Ana man was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for a DUI crash that killed another man and his 6-year-old nephew in Santa Ana. Armando Edgar Duran Cruz pleaded guilty April 30 to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter and driving drunk causing injury, according to Senior Deputy…
Homebuying in Anaheim, Orange and Villa Park fell 4 percent this spring vs. a year ago. That’s what we found when we looked at Orange County house hunting patterns at the neighborhood level in 2018’s second quarter vs. the April-to-June period a year earlier. On tape! Lansner visits KABC’s McIntyre show CoreLogic found these 19…
A triple-murder case — involving two children missing since 2012 and presumed dead — could be affected by the improper recording of telephone calls between Orange County jail inmates and their attorneys. About 34 recorded calls by defendant Shazer Fernando Limas to his lawyer were accessed by law enforcement, attorney Joel Garson said Sunday. Garson’s…
When California voters passed a tax on high-income residents in 2004, backers said it would make good on the state’s “failed promise” to help counties pay for the treatment of the mentally ill. After nearly 15 years, Proposition 63 — the Mental Health Services Act — has steered billions of dollars…
Alicia Matias, 23, gets a congratulatory hug from her mom, Catarina Ramirez, after she graduates from the Marine Combat Training Battalion, the first time in history for females, within the School of Infantry in Camp Pendleton on Tuesday, July 24, 2018. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Pfc. Sara Durst, 26, is recognized as…
Cheryl Cox remembers as a child standing in front of the wall honoring her great-great-great-great-grandmother Biddy Mason, a former slave who became a wealthy landowner, a noted philanthropist and a key founder of the first African American Church in Los Angeles. On Saturday morning, Alicia Randall,…
April Ross and Alex Klineman win their quarterfinal match in the winner’s category against Emily Day and Betsi Flint in the AVP Tour’s Manhattan Beach Open on Saturday, August 18, 2018. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer) Kelly Claes and Brittany Hochevar win their quarterfinal match in the winner’s category against Kelly Larsen and Emily…
By Brooke Becher, contributing reporter A billboard in black hangs over Stanley Meston’s mid-century, Googie creation complete with red and white tile-trim and slant roofing hugged by two iconic 30-foot golden arches. It houses the world’s longest-operating McDonald’s, which opened in Downey on Aug. 18, 1953. Year-round in white text, the billboard warns “don’t let…
Mr. Foo likes dogs and most other cats, but he’d do best in an adults-only home. (Courtesy of DREAM Animal Rescue) Mustafa is a 6-year-old tuxedo-Turkish van mix. He’s 6 years old. (Courtesy of DREAM Animal Rescue) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Show Caption of Expand Breed: Domestic medium-hair tuxedo-Turkish Van mix Age: 6…
