The Coast Guard and Orange County Sheriff’s Department crews on Saturday night rescued three men from a boat taking on water near Seal Beach. At about 10 p.m., a worker on a nearby oil platform contacted the Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach about an 18-foot recreational boat taking on water with three men aboard,…
In 1972, more than 50,000 people crowded into Chicago’s Comiskey Park to see roller derby team the Los Angeles Thunderbirds compete against the Chicago Midwest Pioneers. The teams were made up of both men and women, the audience was enthusiastic and the match broke attendance records for roller derby at a time when the sport…
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will induct six new members Sunday, July 29, bringing the total to 323. The annual ceremony, started in 1939 when the museum opened, has an odd history. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., is where the history of the game is preserved…
Sandy Spiger stopped in her tracks when she saw the surfboards set up on the beach. The new mom from Newport Beach told her husband to keep exploring the beach festival with her 1-year-old while she checked out the unique yoga class – with participants trying to stay balanced while stretching on the boards set up…
A woman led police on a brief high-speed chase in Costa Mesa on Saturday morning, then lost control and collided with four other vehicles, authorities said. Five people suffered minor injuries in the crash about 10:50 a.m. at Harbor Boulevard and Harbor Center, said police Lt. Victor Bakkila. The pursuit began after police located a vehicle that had been…
Petaluma firefighter Shay Burke heads towards the mobile sleeper and shower area of the Cranston Fire camp about a mile south of Lake Hemet, on Saturday, July 28, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Water from Lake Hemet is dropped in an area across from the Cranston Fire camp, where some sleep in tents…
Breed: Domestic shorthair Age: 2 years old Gender: Neutered male Alfie’s story: Sweet, elegant Alfie has been waiting for a new home since March. People tend to overlook black cats like Alfie because of the stigma that they are associated with bad luck, but that’s certainly not true. These sweet felines have been given an unfair…
Danueal Drayton, 27, of Connecticut, who is suspected of killing a nurse and raping another women in New York, is facing charges of attempted murder, forcible rape, false imprisonment by violence and sexual penetration by a foreign object in connection with an attack on a North Hollywood woman. He has confessed to as many as…
The fires, one dubbed the Cranston Fire and the other the Ribbon Fire, has led to evacuations, road closures and several burned structures. • Continue reading: The latest on the Cranston fire near Idyllwild | Cranston fire expands to 13,118 acres but crews make progress on containment, aided by calmer winds | Cranston fire: What is…
At Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Entrepreneurship, experienced business owners have been giving advice to students for years. Now they have put that advice into a book. The center has published “Creating New Ventures: How To Shape Concepts Into Achievement.” The softcover book is a compilation of letters from 156 company founders, executives, advisers and…
