SANTA ANA — A wrong-way driver suspected of DUI plowed head-on into another car on the 5 Freeway early Saturday, injuring four people, the California Highway Patrol said. The car that caused the crash was traveling southbound in the northbound carpool lane near First Street around 1:32 a.m., CHP Sgt. Hope Maxson said. Four…
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Saturday morning six miles from Hollister, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 3:28 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 4.3 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 18 miles from Gilroy and 24 miles from Salinas. …
The college admissions scandal has shaken the country’s trust in higher education and corroborated a “national fear” that the process can be rigged to favor the rich, prosecutors wrote in arguing why a coach mired in the scandal should go to prison. In a sentencing memorandum filed Friday, prosecutors…
All he wanted to do was plug up a wasp nest because he’s allergic to bees and worried about being stung. It was a hot day. The rancher in the Northern California hamlet of Potter Valley walked into a bed of waist-high cured grassland, driving a stake into the ground. That created a spark that…
Whewww, what a week. I could give you a hundred breakdowns of what happened and what it all means, but it comes down to this: We’re in troubled waters on a ship without a captain, and though there might be a few pretenders on the bridge, nobody trusts them. We found out on Tuesday that…
Holy guacamole, it’s peak avocado season in California. Americans are eating more avocados than ever, especially the Hass variety, which was created in California. California’s own There are more than 1,000 varieties of avocados listed in the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources database. Here are some of the most common varieties grown commercially…
Planetary scientist Laurel Wilkening, UC Irvine’s third chancellor and the third woman chancellor in UC system history, died June 4 in Arizona, where she moved after her 1998 retirement. She was 74. Born in Washington state and raised in New Mexico, Wilkening also taught and held leadership posts at the University of Arizona and the…
Orange County’s transportation agencies have begun sending out sticker versions of FasTrak transponders to toll road drivers, in an effort to make the devices work across the nation and save on the cost of buying the hard-case version previously used. The Transportation Corridor Agencies, which operate the 73, 133, 241 and 261 toll roads, started…
Matthew Renteria stood on the ground level of Inglewood’s new stadium Friday, beaming with pride. The NFL’s next defining complex, the posh $5 billion home-to-be for the Rams and Chargers, is now 70 percent complete. It’s not ready for some football just yet. The field is still covered with gravel and giant cables sag loosely…
A judge will soon weigh whether to dismiss a murder case against a man accused of stabbing to death a bar patron in Laguna Niguel, following allegations that he was taken into custody after a sheriff’s deputy induced a drug-addicted informant into shooting up the homicide suspect with heroin. Craig Tanber Four years after Craig…
