The screen in a San Bernardino courtroom showed photos taken inside the Fallbrook home of Joseph and Summer McStay and their two boys after the family vanished in 2010. There were no signs of blood or violence, but trash was strewn on the dusty floor. Food was left on counters and furniture. It…
Clashes between attorneys Wednesday, May 29, punctuated final arguments in the trial of Charles Ray Merritt, who is accused of killing the four-member McStay family in 2010. “This is the case of the People versus Charles Merritt,” San Bernardino County Deputy District Attorney Melissa Rodriguez told the panel during an approximately 14-minute late-afternoon rebuttal that…
Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do offered a spending plan Wednesday for CalOptima, the county’s health insurance for the poor, saying the agency needs to do more to improve its outreach to homeless people — a group that he noted is dying at an alarming rate. Do, a CalOptima board member, also called for a special…
The family of a blind man fatally shot by Orange County sheriff’s deputies in his Laguna Woods home sued the department and officers Wednesday for his wrongful death. Deputies shot Paul Mono, a 65-year-old retired cartoonist and screenwriter, after responding to reports of him acting erratically…
Students from César Chavez High School, Lorin Griset Academy, REACH Academy, and the Independent Study Program in the Santa Ana Unified School District participated in the Educational Options Graduation, a joint commencement ceremony, on May 28, 2019 at the Santa Ana Public Schools Sports Complex. Students from César Chavez High School, Lorin Griset Academy, REACH Academy,…
More than 1.1 million chickens have been euthanized at 10 egg farms in Riverside and San Bernardino counties since December in a fierce effort to eradicate the virulent Newcastle disease outbreak that started a year ago, state officials say. Poultry owners in both Inland Empire counties are so outraged by the slaughter that they have…
Like many of their human counterparts, they are transplants to Los Angeles, trying to make it in a town of newcomers. For two weeks in late spring, they burst forth in their fancy best, shedding their leaves to make way for a dazzling display of unimpeded purple haze. A man walks under the blooming jacaranda…
As a massive widening project continues, portions of the 405 Freeway that run through Westminster are scheduled to fully close overnight Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1, near Westminster Boulevard. Another closure is planned the following weekend, the Orange County Transportation Authority announced. Starting at 10 p.m. Friday, northbound lanes between Westminster Boulevard and…
Artist Beau Stanton has agreed to make changes to a mural in Koreatown that’s attracted criticism from some activists but that also inspired many others opposed to political censorship to come to his defense. The mural at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools is dominated by an image of actress…
A former youth basketball coach who worked in Santa Clarita Valley schools pleaded no contest Wednesday to sexually assaulting nine teenage boys who either played on his teams or trained with him privately. Jeremy Andre Haggerty, 34, pleaded no contest to six counts of lewd acts on a child and…
