Heather Repenning officially won the right Friday to face front-runner Jackie Goldberg in a May runoff for a pivotal seat on the Los Angeles Board of Education. Repenning made it on the ballot after finishing 31 votes over Graciela Ortiz, county officials announced. Ortiz has the right to challenge…
California Colonized Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Spanish-led ‘Sacred Expedition’ to establish forts and missions in what was then called Alta California headed north from the tip of Baja. The Russians are coming Spain had laid claim to territory in what would become California, Arizona and New Mexico more than 150 years before…
Special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report on the Russia investigation to Attorney General William Barr on Friday. What’s next? Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham expects that he and the panel’s top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, will be briefed “in the coming days” about special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. The Associated Press reported that…
Legenary Mt. San Antonio College baseball coach Art Mazmanian, who won an NCAA title as a player at USC and coached many years in the minor leagues and also was part of the coaching staff for Team USA during the 1984 Olympics, died on Friday in San Dimas. He was 91. During his playing days…
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom moved Friday to bypass environmental regulations to prepare for the next wildfire season, a move he said was necessary to prevent further loss of life even as it frustrated activists in a state viewed as a national environmental leader. “The increasing wildfire risks we face…
More than a dozen north Orange County cities are expected to contribute a combined $1.2 million toward building two homeless shelters in Buena Park and Placentia. Leaders of three cities – Fullerton, La Palma and Yorba Linda – this week approved the agreement that would fund the two 100-bed shelters. City councils in Los Alamitos,…
Poseidon officials, who’ve spent 21 years working toward approval of a controversial desalination plant in Huntington Beach, had a figurative bounce in their step as they emerged from yet another permitting agency meeting Friday. The Regional Water Quality Control Board remains months away from voting on one of the final two permits needed by Poseidon….
It was one of the biggest scandals ever to hit Hollywood: a private investigator using wiretaps to secretly gather the secrets of celebrities and entertainment titans. The case of Anthony Pellicano, “private eye to the stars,” captivated Hollywood for years and brought down some big names. Now…
The public is invited to join LOCA Arts Education on Sunday, March 24, at the Neighborhood Congregational Church for a fundraiser celebrating LOCA’s 26 years in Laguna Beach. There will be festive food and wines, interactive art activities, art auctions and the opportunity to purchase works by local artists. Tickets are $50 per person or…
Kidnapping suspects led authorities on a chase from Los Angeles to Orange counties that ended early Friday on a freeway in Irvine. No injuries were reported. The suspects, in a red Toyota Venza, fled at high speeds from authorities after Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies received a call of a woman being kidnapped just before…
