As workers dismantled California’s apple-green execution chamber Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s death penalty moratorium was criticized as a slap in the face to voters and praised as a strike for humanity. Newsom’s executive order, blocking execution for 737 prisoners on death row at San Quentin State Prison, came just as efforts to hasten executions were…
An indictment issued by a federal grand jury on Wednesday, March 13, charges a Long Beach Man with three more felonies related to the 2018 bombing of an Aliso Viejo day spa that killed his former girlfriend. Stephen Beal, 59, had been charged with malicious destruction of a building resulting in death after he was…
Between October 2012 and April 2013, Doug Hodge, then the chief executive officer at PIMCO, an Newport Beach-based international investment management group, paid at least $300,000 to a private soccer club controlled by USC coaches, a college prep company and a non-profit as part of a scheme to gain admission to USC for his daughter…
On paper, the Key Worldwide Foundation might bring tears to your eyes — teaching empowerment to underserved girls, schooling homeless kids in entrepreneurship, bringing the Crips and Bloods together to play basketball “and develop consensus building programs to stop gang violence.” But these feel-good, make-the-world-better initiatives — detailed in the nonprofit’s annual reports to the…
NEWPORT BEACH — An increase in the number of private jets flying out of John Wayne Airport — and how that could affect the quality of life for people living nearby — was the hot topic in a discussion about a proposed county plan to upgrade general aviation at the airport. The Newport Beach City…
Felicity Huffman has been released from federal custody while Lori Loughlin is expected to face charges Wednesday in a sweeping college admissions corruption scandal. The two actresses were among dozens swept up in what prosecutors called the largest college admissions fraud scheme they’d ever…
One person died early Wednesday, March 13, in a crash that snarled traffic on the southbound lanes of the 5 Freeway in Anaheim. Just after 2:50 a.m., a box truck was on its side, blocking the carpool lane near Euclid Street, according to the California Highway Patrol. A damaged red sedan was blocking another lane…
The federal investigation into a massive cheating scandal in which prominent actors and business leaders got their children into elite universities included seeking records from several prominent Southern California prep schools, according to two sources familiar with the probe. The sources did…
When it came to getting their daughters into college, actress Lori Loughlin and fashion designer J. Mossimo Giannulli were taking no chances. The wealthy, glamorous couple were determined their girls would attend USC, a highly competitive school that offers seats only to a fraction of the thousands…
Students and parents have long suspected that money and connections help win access to top-tier colleges. But the federal indictments unsealed Tuesday alleging a massive nationwide scam by wealthy parents — including corporate titans and Hollywood actresses — to get their children into prestigious…
