San Clemente officials’ hopes for legislation to block a proposed 241 toll road extension have been dashed, but they’re not giving up and in fact may open a new front in their battle with the agencies that operate toll roads in eastern and southern Orange County. A bill from Assemblyman Rocky Chávez, R-Oceanside, would have barred the Transportation…
A Fullerton drywall subcontractor for several of Southern California’s largest construction companies was assessed nearly $2 million for cheating 472 workers out of wages and rest periods, the state labor commissioner announced Tuesday. Fullerton Pacific Interiors shortchanged employees on 26 hotel, recreation and casino projects across Orange, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties from 2014…
A Lake Forest woman awoke to find a man inside her home Tuesday morning, July 24, with the suspect then fleeing and trying to elude deputies by entering other homes. It was about 7:45 a.m. when the woman reported that the suspect, who was carrying a bag, had broken into her home, said sheriff’s spokeswoman…
Southern Californians braced for the worst day of the region’s latest heat wave, with record-breaking temperatures and the ongoing severe fire threat expected to peak Wednesday, July 25 in a brutal run of heat this month that has contributed to at least seven deaths in two counties. Jim Pickett takes his afternoon walk in West Hills,…
If you didn’t take a “selfie,” were you ever really there? The art of the selfie is a difficult one if you don’t have access to the right angles, background or lights. The OC Fair has its visitors covered with a new exhibit, My Fair Selfie, which opened on Friday, July 20. Anna Blaho and…
Los Angeles police Chief Michel Moore said in a Tuesday morning news conference that the bullet that struck 27-year-old Melyda Corado, the assistant manager at the Silver Lake TraderJoe’s store, was fired by police. The suspect was expected to make his first court appearance today. She was killed Saturday during a tense, three-hour hostage situation…
Costa Mesa police were investigating a theft of the Apple store inside South Coast Plaza after five suspects made off with about $29,000 in iPhones and iPads, police said. The crime happened about 20 minutes before the 9 p.m. closing time on Monday, said Costa Mesa police Sgt. Mike Manson. The suspects, who didn’t show…
Homebuying in inland South County — including Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita and San Juan Capistrano — fell 3 percent in May vs. a year earlier May is traditionally a strong sales months for Orange County, as the prime spring selling season hits full stride. We decided to see how neighborhood housing markets…
LOS ANGELES — The Church of Scientology and one of its former members on Monday settled a lawsuit she filed nearly a decade ago alleging she was forced to work long hours as a pre-teen and was coerced to have an abortion at 17. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Mooney met privately with attorneys…
SANTA ANA — A 19-year-old Lake Forest man pleaded guilty Monday to setting fires at Mission Viejo High School and the Kaleidoscope shopping center. Jack Frye pleaded guilty to six counts of arson, two counts of attempted arson and one count of attempted second-degree burglary, all felonies, according to court records. Frye, a former Mission…
