A California middle school special education paraprofessional died this month while climbing in Yosemite National Park, authorities said. Originally from Detroit, Patricia “Trish” Stoops, 57, died June 8 in a rappelling accident at the Central Pillar of Frenzy, one of the popular rock-climbing…
ANAHEIM — Investigators from the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force on Monday circulated a photo of a YouTube rapper charged with pimping and pandering an 18-year-old woman and said they suspect there are additional victims. Angel Ortiz Diamond, 31, of Los Angeles — also known as Benjiboy Staccs — is being held in the…
Alan Brinkley, an influential historian and academic who traced the evolution of liberalism from the New Deal to the 21st century and was a popular commentator on culture and politics, has died. He was 70. Daughter Elly Brinkley says he died Sunday at his home in Manhattan of complications from…
Anaheim City Council members will vote on a $2 billion budget for 2019-20 on Tuesday, June 18. It’s a balanced budget proposal that would spend $355 million from the general fund, which covers basic services such as police and fire, parks and road repair. That’s a 9 percent increase over the current fiscal year, mainly…
Young adults who live in neighborhoods with a higher number of medical marijuana dispensaries use pot more frequently than their peers and have more positive views about the drug, according to a study released by the Rand Corp. The results were strongest among young adults who lived near dispensaries…
Overnight lane closures begin this week on the 5 Freeway from Oso to Alicia parkways in Mission Viejo, as construction starts to widen the road in south Orange County. The Orange County Transportation Authority’s $581 million project – expected to take until 2025 – will add a second carpool lane in each direction from El…
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…
