Tustin is a diverse city, where almost 40 percent of residents are Latino and voters who register as Democrats edge out Republican voters. Thus, the city has reacted with caution to the anti-sanctuary movement that has swept Orange County, starting with the Los Alamitos City Council vote in March to “opt out” of SB-54. The…
Flowers are laid at the feet of the statue of Ben Carlson, a Newport Beach lifeguard who died four years ago in big surf, on Friday, July 6, 2018 in Newport Beach. Carlson is the only lifeguard in the US who has died in the line of duty. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)…
A surfer rides a wave just after sunrise at The Wedge in Newport Beach early Friday morning, July 6, 2018. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) A body boarder gets some air off a large wave at The Wedge in Newport Beach early Friday morning, July 6, 2018. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County…
Family members, friends and co-workers gathered Thursday evening in Claremont to remember Mark Manlapaz, a Cal Poly Pomona campus security officer and Claremont park ranger who was killed last week in an attack at the university. Mark Manlapaz was a Claremont Park Ranger for three years and a sixteen year veteran of the Cal Poly Pomona Campus…
One man was killed and a juvenile was wounded Thursday, July 5, in a shooting at a park in La Habra. La Habra police responded to a report of shots fired near El Centro Lions Park about 2:50 p.m., a news release said. They found the victims, including the man in his 30s, in a…
A 39-year-old Irvine man was charged Thursday with setting several fires in Irvine this week. Imran Saaduddin Ahmad was charged with three counts of arson of an inhabited structure and single counts each of arson of a forest and use of a destructive device with the intent to injure, all felonies. He also faces sentencing…
Senior centers and public libraries may not be the first places that come to mind when you want to chill out. But in the kind of excessive heat expected this weekend, you can’t get much cooler. Those facilities make up the bulk of public cooling centers available for escaping temperatures predicted to hit triple digits….
Michele Villanueva of Anaheim Hills is reunited with Khloe at OC Animal Care in Tustin on Thursday, July 5. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG) A dog waits for its owner at OC Animal Care in Tustin on Thursday, July 5. The shelter gets dogs that run away because of fireworks. (Photo by Paul…
Homebuying in Irvine and Tustin rose 86 percent in 10 years. 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 start to any year in CoreLogic’s database that dates…
A former Cal State Fullerton police officer was charged Thursday with driving under the influence while on duty on the campus. Thomas Henry Higgs, 59, is facing misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a blood alcohol content of .08 percent or higher, court records show. Prosecutors allege that Higgs…
