Animal advocates are calling for increased scrutiny of pet adopters and an end to low-cost adoptions in the wake of allegations that a dog was mistreated after being taken from OC Animal Care during a free event in July. “I want to make it so laws are changed,” said Breanna Dato, who volunteers with Live Love Animal Rescue…
Surprised by Disney’s decision to halt construction of a planned 700-room luxury hotel, Anaheim officials said Thursday they want to work things out with the company, which is the city’s largest employer and provides the bulk of the city’s tourism revenue. City leaders had promised, via a 2016 agreement, to let Disney keep 70 percent…
As the granddaddy of beach volleyball tournaments got underway Thursday, winners of last year’s AVP Manhattan Beach Open were honored with bronze plaques on the Manhattan Beach Pier’s Walk of Fame. Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena on the men’s side, and Brittany Hochevar and Emily Day on the women’s side were immortalized again, along with legends…
Long Beach’s loss of the long-time sponsor of its signature annual sporting event, the Toyota Grand Prix, was foreshadowed by the announcement in 2014 that the company intended to move its North American headquarters from Torrance to Texas by the end of 2017, taking about 3,000 highly paid jobs with it. Yet while the exit…
A man died Wednesday night after he was struck by a car in Fullerton in the 400 block of West Orangethorpe Avenue, police said. Fullerton Police Sgt. Jon Radus said officers responded at 8:06 p.m. to find a man, who appeared to be in his 50s, with significant injuries in the No. 1 lane of…
Aretha Franklin, the preacher’s daughter who became the “Queen of Soul” and forged the template of the larger-than-life pop diva with her exuberant, gospel-rooted singing, has died. She was 76. Franklin died Thursday of advanced pancreatic cancer, according to her publicist Gwendolyn Quinn. In…
Los Angeles schools Supt. Austin Beutner met Wednesday with the head of the teachers union and outlined a possible contract deal. But it’s not clear that the terms would be acceptable to the union, which has scheduled a strike authorization vote. The meeting is described in a follow-up letter,…
Garry “Twin” Dorton tried to keep young people in South Los Angeles from making the same mistakes he did when he was an active gang member. He helped them get jobs and stay out of trouble. After a killing, he talked them out of retaliating. He led his neighborhood in a softball league that aimed…
SANTA ANA — A 50-year-old man with a history of arrests for flashing and drug offenses, who pleaded guilty in July to indecent exposure and possessing drug paraphernalia in Fullerton, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison. Frank Xavier Vega pleaded guilty July 13 to a felony count of indecent exposure, a misdemeanor count…
In 2013, Veronica Pratt, a transgender woman, was arrested and booked into the Alternative Lifestyle Tank at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga. There, along with other gay, bisexual and transgender inmates, Pratt was kept in her cell for about 23 hours a day. She was not allowed…
