The college admissions cheating scandal is roiling some of Southern California’s most elite prep schools, leading to resignations and questions as federal prosecutors seek student records from the institutions. Douglas Hodge and Michelle Janavs, two of the parents charged in connection with the…
Finding enough food to feed your family can be stressful, but Denise Williams wants to lighten the mood just a little. Williams is the program manager for the Community Action Partnership of Orange County’s new mobile food bank, and when she arrives clanking Clementine the Trolley’s bell, waving her conductor’s hat, she wants folks to…
A Long Beach man is facing additional felony charges after a federal grand jury returned an indictment against him in connection with the bombing of an Orange County day spa that killed his ex-girlfriend last year. Stephen Beal, 59, had been charged with malicious destruction of a building resulting…
The ACLU has issued a scathing report on three Orange County temporary homeless shelters, documenting widespread allegations of sordid conditions and abuse.
Homeless people residing in three county-funded shelter programs are subjected to dangerous squalor, sexual and physical abuse by shelter workers, and fear of retaliation if they complain, the Orange County office of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California contends in a just-released investigative report. The ACLU spent nearly a year compiling a litany…
LOS ANGELES — A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Thursday for the 2.25-mile Automated People Mover at Los Angeles International Airport, which aims to cut down on auto traffic traveling in and out of the facility, officials said. The project has a targeted opening date of 2023. The groundbreaking ceremony will include Mayor Eric Garcetti,…
By DAN ELLIOTT and BOB MOEN LONGMONT, Colo.— National Guard troops used specialized vehicles with tank-like treads to rescue stranded drivers in Colorado in the wake of a massive late-winter storm that unleashed heavy rain and snow on parts of the Midwest plains early Thursday. South Dakota’s governor closed all state offices Thursday as the…
Sixteen years. It feels like forever. I had reddish hair then. Today, it’s almost totally gray. My twins were 7 years old then, still wrestling with their dad and fretting over wiggly teeth. Today, Alison and Dylan just turned 23, and we wrestle with income tax forms. My other son, Trey, hadn’t yet been born….
A year-long investigation found three of Orange County’s emergency homeless shelters riddled with problems including reports of physical and sexual abuse, neglect of residents with disabilities and mental illnesses, and filthy conditions, according to a report released Thursday by the American…
SANTA ANA — A man wearing a ski mask and using a gun robbed a hotel in Santa Ana, then attempted to rob a convenience store in Irvine, and authorities said Thursday morning that he may be connected to other robberies carried out in Orange County this week. About 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, the man walked…
