The co-founder of an Irvine-based financial services and insurance company was sentenced Tuesday to more than 10 years in federal prison for his role in carrying out a multi-million dollar investment fraud scheme. Mehmet Faith Biyikoglu, of Palm Desert, was sentenced to 121 months behind bars and ordered to pay approximately $3.5 million in restitution…
A man died early Tuesday, March 10, after his sports car struck an SUV that had just crashed into a center divide along a rain-soaked portion of the 405 Freeway in Costa Mesa. The collision was reported at about 12:45 a.m., California Highway Patrol logs show. A 2005 BMW X5 that hit the median was…
A shooting at a crowded restaurant in Garden Grove left one man dead on Tuesday, March 10. Authorities received reports of gunfire at Cafe 368, 10947 Westminster Ave., at about 12:04 p.m., Garden Grove Police said in social media posts. Officers entered the business and encountered a man possibly in his 20s who had died…
A Long Beach man convicted of killing an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy by accidentally dropping a stolen stove onto a busy freeway has been released from prison. Cole Wilkins served 13 years of a 16-year-to-life sentence for the fatal accident in July 2006 on the 91 Freeway in Anaheim. He was driving with…
Several San Francisco Bay Area counties have implemented extraordinary measures for social distancing after the coronavirus spread in the community.
College officials say the students haven’t shown symptoms but attended a conference where two attendees tested positive for the coronavirus.
Sacramento shifts coronavirus strategy from containment to ‘community mitigation measures.’
L.A. schools Supt. Austin Beutner is expected to get “emergency powers” as needed to combat the coronavirus, including the authority to shut down the nation’s second-largest school system.
Santa Clara County, with 43 confirmed coronavirus cases and one death, has California’s largest number of confirmed infections.
A cybersecurity firm that did work for L.A. DWP alleges that its contract was terminated after the firm uncovered security problems at the utility.
