Jim Fowler, the towering wildlife enthusiast who brought pumas, anacondas and birds of prey to prime-time television in the long-running “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom,’ has died at his home in Connecticut. He was 89. Fowler dangled from helicopters, swam side by side with sharks and squirmed…
It was one of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s most dramatic pledges in his sweeping “Green New Deal” for Los Angeles: “We will have zero days of unhealthy air quality by 2025.” The goal, it turns out, was not as ambitious as it sounded. Rather than using current federal health standards, the mayor’s plan…
Four teachers and a principal have been placed on leave after a photo of the educators posing with what appears to be a noose circulated on email and social media. The circumstances around the origin of the noose at Summerwind Elementary School in Palmdale and the response afterward are under investigation. …
In 1985, a housekeeper entered the Studio City condo of TV director Barry Crane and came across a horrific scene. Crane’s body — bludgeoned and strangled — was wrapped in bedding on the garage floor. His wallet and late-model Cadillac were missing, but there were no signs of any additional burglary…
Homebuying in Irvine and Tustin fell 23% in what was Orange County homebuying’s slowest start to a year since 2009. CoreLogic stats show the lowest countywide sales count for any first three months of a year since the Great Recession. It also was the third-slowest-selling first quarter in the real estate tracker’s database that dates…
Soka University’s summer art show, “Natasha Shoro: Earth, Air, Fire & Water,” will run in its Founders Hall Art Gallery from Thursday, May 16 to Aug. 31. Shoro is a Southern California-based contemporary artist whose mediums range from abstract mixed media, mixed media collage paintings, to site-specific installations. “Earth, Air, Fire & Water” celebrates the…
One person was killed after being hit by a car while crossing PCH near Twin Dolphin Drive in Huntington Beach on Thursday, May 9, 2019. (OnScene.TV) An investigator takes photos where a man was killed after being hit by a car while crossing PCH near Twin Dolphin Drive in Huntington Beach on Thursday, May 9,…
He prayed. He endured years of pain. He fought hard against a body that too often betrayed him. He ate his vegetables and took the best pills his parents could find for him. Hawken Miller stayed alive. If you look back at the life of one 22-year-old man from Newport Beach who graduates from USC…
By DEB RIECHMANN WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that trade talks between China and the U.S. were continuing in a “very congenial manner” despite new tariffs the U.S. imposed Friday on $200 billion in Chinese imports and Beijing’s vow to retaliate. In a series of blustering morning tweets, Trump also claimed the new…
By ANDREW MELDRUM JOHANNESBURG — The ruling African National Congress is coasting to a comfortable lead in South Africa’s presidential and parliamentary elections with 83% of the vote counted, but the tally shows the party getting less support than five years ago amid deep anger over government corruption. The ANC, led by President Cyril Ramaphosa,…
