When California voters passed a tax on high-income residents in 2004, backers said it would make good on the state’s “failed promise” to help counties pay for the treatment of the mentally ill. After nearly 15 years, Proposition 63 — the Mental Health Services Act — has steered billions of dollars…
Alicia Matias, 23, gets a congratulatory hug from her mom, Catarina Ramirez, after she graduates from the Marine Combat Training Battalion, the first time in history for females, within the School of Infantry in Camp Pendleton on Tuesday, July 24, 2018. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Pfc. Sara Durst, 26, is recognized as…
Cheryl Cox remembers as a child standing in front of the wall honoring her great-great-great-great-grandmother Biddy Mason, a former slave who became a wealthy landowner, a noted philanthropist and a key founder of the first African American Church in Los Angeles. On Saturday morning, Alicia Randall,…
April Ross and Alex Klineman win their quarterfinal match in the winner’s category against Emily Day and Betsi Flint in the AVP Tour’s Manhattan Beach Open on Saturday, August 18, 2018. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer) Kelly Claes and Brittany Hochevar win their quarterfinal match in the winner’s category against Kelly Larsen and Emily…
By Brooke Becher, contributing reporter A billboard in black hangs over Stanley Meston’s mid-century, Googie creation complete with red and white tile-trim and slant roofing hugged by two iconic 30-foot golden arches. It houses the world’s longest-operating McDonald’s, which opened in Downey on Aug. 18, 1953. Year-round in white text, the billboard warns “don’t let…
Mr. Foo likes dogs and most other cats, but he’d do best in an adults-only home. (Courtesy of DREAM Animal Rescue) Mustafa is a 6-year-old tuxedo-Turkish van mix. He’s 6 years old. (Courtesy of DREAM Animal Rescue) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Show Caption of Expand Breed: Domestic medium-hair tuxedo-Turkish Van mix Age: 6…
Stitch was stressed. Not just a little, which is kind of typical for him, depending on the circumstance, but a lot. My Pekingese boy is, like most dogs, a creature of habit. He likes – no, he adores – his routines. But in January, his routines took a big hit. That’s when we brought the Aussie puppy…
A 19-year-old Costa Mesa man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the stabbing of a man who was out for a walk near Fairview Park, authorities said Saturday. Gavin C. Delgardo Jr. was arrested just past 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17 and was being held on $500,000 bail, Roxi Fyad of the Costa…
This is it. I’m going into retirement and wanted you to be the first to know. But I worked out a really sweet deal with my employer. I’m going to keep writing columns for five more years so that I can collect my regular pay and my retirement pay simultaneously. It’s a double-dip bonanza. All…
A single-vehicle crash on a freeway transition road in Irvine left one person dead and another in critical condition early Saturday morning, Aug. 18, authorities said. Just after 12:45 a.m., firefighters with the Orange County Fire Authority were called to assist the California Highway Patrol with the crash, which occurred on a transition road connecting…
