A horse stuck in a dumpster was rescued by firefighters in Huntington Beach on Friday. The accident apparently happened when the horse climbed up onto a platform next to the dumpster at the Goldenwest Stables near the Huntington Central Park Equestrian Center and fell in, ABC7 reported. Huntington Beach Firefighters and the Orange County Fire…
TLAHUELILPAN, Mexico (AP) — Forensic experts attempted to separate and count charred heaps of corpses in central Mexico on Saturday after a massive fireball erupted at an illegal pipeline tap, killing at least 66 people. More than 85 other people on Saturday were listed as missing as relatives of the deceased and onlookers gathered around…
Homebuying in Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Laguna Niguel and San Clemente fell 16 percent from August through November vs. the same period in 2017 amid a steep countywide slowdown. Once primetime selling season ended in Orange County this summer, house hunters balked. That created the slowest-selling August-to-November period in seven years. Culprits were high prices…
Q. I am a retired firefighter of 34 years, and for 25 of those years I was on a paramedic unit and drove lights-and-siren as much or more than anyone at the time. I consider myself a cautious driver. On Christmas day we were driving down to San Diego on the I-5 Freeway. It was about…
Every day this week, Carly Towne, 25, has pulled herself out of bed in the morning dark to walk a 7 a.m. picket line at Venice High School for two hours before heading to work. The bespectacled staff member of left-wing activist organization Code Pink is not a teacher, a parent nor a former L.A….
A 28-year-old San Clemente man has been charged with murder and assault on a child in connection with the death of a young girl, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Friday. Christopher Recio was arrested on suspicion of killing the 17-month-old girl on Jan 5 in the city of Orange. Prosecutors said Recio killed…
Glen Wood, the stock car racing pride of Virginia, scored 99 NASCAR Cup wins in a career that started in 1950. He and his brother Leonard are considered among the pioneers in the sport and played major roles in popularizing the sport in Southern California, a continent away from their native Virginia. Following a lengthy…
A jury on Friday found that a former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy lied to FBI agents about the beating of a visitor to a county jail. The guilty verdict against Byron Dredd, which came nearly eight years after the 2011 assault, served as a capstone on the sweeping investigation federal authorities…
A 24-year-old Dana Point man accused of stabbing three Marines outside a bar in San Clemente in August, has been sentenced to four years in prison. Alexis Moreno Aguirre pleaded guilty on Monday, Jan. 14, in Orange County Superior Court to two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm, according…
If striking Los Angeles teachers needed an omen as they rallied in Grand Park downtown Friday, Mother Nature obliged. After four days of picketing in rain and chill and gloom, the sun burst forth. “Do you feel your power?” union President Alex Caputo-Pearl asked the masses, who stretched from the…
