A week or so ago I put a post on my Facebook pages asking people to submit questions about surfing. Normally I have a pretty good stockpile of them, but the pile was starting to get low and I wanted to replenish. As a result, I got tons of great ones and am now stocked…
SANTA ANA — A Santa Ana-based psychiatrist who illegally gave out prescriptions for opioids and other drugs was sentenced Monday to 57 months in federal prison. Dr. Robert Tinoco Perez, 56, of Westminster, as part of a plea agreement admitted earlier this year to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Perez during his…
A drunken woman at a restaurant at Los Angeles International Airport was arrested Monday after tossing a chair at a police officer, authorities said. Officers were summoned to Terminal 1 at about 2 p.m. after bartenders refused to continue serving an intoxicated patron, Los Angeles Airport Police Department spokesman Robert Pedregon said. She became upset…
Homebuying in Anaheim, Orange and Villa Park fell 11% in what was Orange County’s slowest nine months of sales since 2012. For nine consecutive months through April, CoreLogic housing stats show countywide sales failing to top the year-ago period. We wanted to see how these lethargic sales trends played out at the neighborhood level knowing…
NEW YORK — Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the “poor little rich girl” of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and multiple marriages and reigned during the 1970s and ’80s as a designer jeans pioneer, died Monday at the age of 95. Vanderbilt was the great-great-granddaughter…
O.J. Simpson was a fugitive, and it seemed the whole world was looking for him. It was June 17, 1994, and Simpson was supposed to turn himself in to Los Angeles police in connection with the killing of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. Zoey Tur was piloting a helicopter…
Gloria Vanderbilt, the heiress and “poor little rich girl” in a sensational 1930s custody trial who survived a famously disjointed childhood to become an actress, artist, designer and author, has died. She was 95. Her death was announced Monday via a CNN report voiced by anchor Anderson Cooper,…
The high cost of living and long commutes seem to be taking a somewhat hidden toll on local worker bees. Office workers from Los Angeles and Orange counties are the nation’s most “burnt out” with half admitting they’re severely burnt out, according to a new study. The Robert Half temp agency surveyed the white-collar crowd…
Here is how the O.J. Simpson chase unfolded 25 years ago: MORNING 8:30 a.m.: Robert Shapiro, lawyer for O.J. Simpson, receives a call from Los Angeles Police Department officials telling him to surrender his client. 9:30 a.m.: Shapiro goes to an undisclosed home in the San Fernando Valley and informs…
By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days, the spokesman for the country’s atomic agency said Monday while also warning that Iran could enrich uranium up to 20% — just a step away from…
