July can get busy in Fountain Valley, and before you know it, your calendar is packed. So I thought I’d mention several upcoming events that may not be on your radar. First off, the city’s Concerts in the Park series is underway every Thursday night in July at the Fountain Valley Sports Park. Desperado pays tribute to The…
Starbucks became the world’s largest food retailer to unveil a plan to stop using plastic straws, with Monday’s announcement applauded by environmentalists who’ve made eliminating plastic straws a priority. Starbucks, with 28,000 stores worldwide, said the global initiative would be phased in by 2020 and would get rid of more than 1 billion plastic straws…
WESTMINSTER — A man fleeing Santa Ana police Sunday night crashed a vehicle in Westminster and was shot and killed when he produced a gun, authorities said. The pursuit began about 10 p.m. in Santa Ana, Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. He did not know the exact location where it started and the…
Homebuying in Brea, Buena Park, Fullerton, La Habra, La Palma, Placentia and Yorba Linda rose 55 percent in a decade. In the first quarter of 2008, housing’s bubble was bursting and it was just months before the global financial collapse that led to the Great Recession. This three-month period still stands as Orange County’s slowest-selling…
The Valley fire that started near Forest Falls in the San Bernardino Mountains grew a bit overnight at 1,139 acres burned with 5 percent containment as it entered its third day on Sunday, July 9. The town remained under mandatory evacuation Sunday, and Highway 38 continued closed, agencies fighting the fire reported. The blaze broke…
Children look at “Silly Fish” by second grader Kalani Hogsett who won first place in the Junior Art Exhibit during the Festival of Arts Family Art Day Sunday, July 8, 2018 in Laguna Beach. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Members of Le Petite Cirque perform during the Festival of Arts Family Art Day Sunday,…
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon says the U.S. service member killed in an apparent insider attack in southern Afghanistan was an Army soldier from California. In a statement Sunday, the Pentagon identified the soldier as Cpl. Joseph Maciel of South Gate in Los Angeles County. He died Saturday in Tarin Kowt District, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan. Maciel…
A car fire slowed traffic briefly on the southbound 5 Freeway on Sunday morning in Irvine, according to the California Highway Patrol. The car burst into flames and was engulfed by the blaze after crashing on the freeway just north of Lake Forest Drive at around 10 a.m., according to a CHP log of the…
Newport Beach police this weekend released new sketches of a man wanted in the death of an 11-year-old homicide victim 45 years ago. The sketches, showing how he might have appeared in 1973 and could have aged, were revealed at the end of a series of tweets by police about Linda O’Keefe. They were written…
A heat wave that brought record-breaking temperatures to Southern California was expected to subside — gradually — bringing near-average temperatures to many locations by mid-week, the National Weather Service said Sunday, July 8. It’s still pretty hot, but temperatures will be on a gradual decrease the next few days, and we should approach near-average temperatures…
