Richard Cole, the last of the 80 Doolittle raiders who carried out the daring U.S. attack on Japan during World War II, died Tuesday at a military hospital in Texas. He was 103. Cole was mission commander Jimmy Doolittle’s co-pilot in the attack less than five months after the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese…
Marilynn Smith, one of the founders of the LPGA Tour whose 21 victories, two majors and endless support of her tour led to her induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, has died at her home in Arizona. She was 89. Smith, who died Tuesday, was last seen in public March 24 at the…
A slew of posts slamming Muslims and undocumented Latino immigrants on Yucaipa Mayor Bobby Duncan’s Facebook wall triggered a harsh response Tuesday from civil rights groups and advocates. “These posts, if authentic — representing white nationalism and anti-Muslim bigotry — are morally incompatible with government service, and the city hopefully understands that and will launch…
LOS ANGELES — An Anaheim woman was sentenced Tuesday, April 9, to four and a half years in federal prison for defrauding the state’s unemployment insurance program out of more than $500,000 by using stolen identities to submit bogus claims for so-called employees who supposedly worked at sham companies. Rolanda Ashley, 49, pleaded guilty in…
A man brandished a gun during a Yorba Linda bank robbery on Tuesday, April 9, and fled with an unspecified amount of cash. The heist took place at the Opus Bank branch at 17672 Yorba Linda Blvd. at about 2:56 p.m., said Orange County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Wayne Rehnelt. He said a man carrying a…
Long Beach will play host to the California Democratic Party convention this November, almost certainly attracting candidates campaigning for the state’s presidential primary that will take place a little more than 100 days later, the city said Tuesday. Although the party hadn’t announced it yet, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia tweeted excitedly about the agreement…
Motorcyclists attempting to pass vehicles on the Ortega Highway resulted in two deaths on opposite sides of the highway on Sunday afternoon. The California Highway Patrol said the first crash happened at around 3 p.m., when a motorcyclist was driving his Kawasaki west on Highway 74, also called Ortega Highway, near the Riverside/Orange county border….
A former U.S. Army Reserve employee from Orange County pleaded guilty Tuesday, April 9, to stealing more than $400,000 by billing the government for phony expenses. Ramon Torry, 54, of Irvine, admitted to one count each of wire fraud and theft of government money during a court appearance Tuesday in San Jose, according to a…
Arrests have been made in the kidnapping of a Costa Mesa woman in Uganda last week while she was on safari in Africa, authorities said on Tuesday. Tourist Kimberly Sue Endicott and her guide Jean-Paul Mirenge-Remezo were kidnapped April 2 after they were ambushed in Queen Elizabeth National Park, a protected area near the border…
LOS ANGELES — Powerful winds will whip across Southern California Tuesday, forecasters said. L.A. County’s strongest winds will blow across the San Gabriel Mountains, according to National Weather Service meteorologists, who forecast northwest winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour with gusts of between 40 and 50 mph through this afternoon, increasing to between…
