Orange County is eyeing a 62,000-square-foot industrial building in an area south of Centennial Regional Park as the potential site of a 600-bed homeless shelter that would be a joint operation with the city of Santa Ana. The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Nov. 20, unanimously approved pursuing a $12.25 million purchase agreement with…
A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a motion by USA Gymnastics and its former board chairman Paul Parilla to move Olympic champion Aly Raisman’s lawsuit against USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic Committee and former Team USA doctor Larry Nassar to a federal court in Orange County. Judge Beth Labson Freeman of U.S. District Court’s…
The Orange County Board of Supervisors wants to see more inclusion of restaurants serving fresh-food options and better outreach to clients when the county broadens a program that lets homeless, elderly and disabled people use their food stamp benefits to buy hot meals. The five-member board on Tuesday, Nov. 20, approved a countywide expansion of…
PIH Health has opened another urgent care center, this one in La Habra at 1400 S. Harbor Blvd. The center will offer care for minor illnesses, such as earaches, persistent coughs or minor wounds that may need stitches. Sports physicals are also offered at this facility. The La Habra facility joins four other PIH Health…
Leigh Bailey, 54, was awakened not by her phone, warning her about an incoming fire that would soon destroy her town, but by a neighbor pounding on her door. Bailey had no idea how bad the fire was about to become. So she went back inside around 9:15 a.m., had a cup of tea and…
A man who was riding a bicycle was wounded in a shooting early Tuesday, Nov. 20, just after midnight, and police were searching for the gunman. The victim was found near Cedar Street and Edinger Avenue with a wound to his torso. He was taken to a hospital with injuries that did not appear to…
