Tim Hutchens performs the third movement of the Trombone Concerto by Rimsky-Korsakov with the Navy Band Southwest as the City of Torrance celebrates its 60h Annual Armed Forces Day with an annual military concert at the Armstrong Theater on Friday, May 17, 2019. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer) The Navy Band Southwest performs as…
Hundreds of parents opposed to California’s comprehensive sex education curriculum staged so-called “SeXXX Ed” rallies outside county education department offices across Southern California, Friday, May 17, demanding the state stop exposing their children to sexual content including conversations about homosexuality and gender fluidity. According to organizers of the statewide protest, parents in 46 out of…
A federal judge Friday slapped the Mongols motorcycle club with a sizable fine and probation as punishment in a racketeering case, but rebuffed another attempt by prosecutors to strip the notoriously violent group of trademarks it holds on its logo. At a sentencing hearing in Santa Ana, U.S. District…
A 2015 blowout at a natural gas well that led to the largest-known release of methane in U.S. history was the result of a corroded pipe casing and safety failures by a California utility, according to an investigation report released Friday. Southern California Gas Co. didn’t investigate previous…
Southern California was hit by the wettest winter in years. The snowpack, an important measurement of the state’s water supply, looks great. And in mid-May — two months after the official end of winter — the rain and snow just keep coming. California was clobbered this week by another storm, which…
Herman Wouk, the prolific and immensely popular writer who explored the moral fallout of World War II in the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Caine Mutiny” and other widely read books that gave Americans a raw look at the horrors and consequences of war, has died at his Palm Springs home, where he wrote…
The pilot of the F-16 that smashed Thursday afternoon into a warehouse near March Air Reserve Base is doing well and might have been already released from the hospital, an official said at a Friday morning press conference. He was able to eject from the fighter jet and deploy a parachute. Six responding officers and…
Erika I. Ritchie, military reporter for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group, has been named a winner of the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting in 2018. The 32nd annual awards, sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, honor “distinguished reporting on the presidency and national defense.” Judges…
MORRISTOWN, Ariz. — Grumpy Cat, whose sourpuss expression entertained millions on the internet, has died at age 7. Her owners wrote on social media Friday that she experienced complications from a urinary tract infection and “passed away peacefully” Tuesday “in the arms of her mommy.” Her owners said “Grumpy Cat has helped millions of people…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s Republican-led House is expected to pass a sweeping bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy on lawmakers’ final day in session Friday, joining Alabama and several other states that have moved recently to severely restrict the procedure. If enacted, the ban would be among the…
