Birth dates and Social Security numbers for 1,000 Orange County Sanitation District retirees were accessed in a phishing scheme, the district confirmed Monday. District retirees, former employees and board members were being notified of the data breach in the utility’s deferred compensation plan, which occurred in December after a file at NFP Corp. was accessed…
They came singly or in pairs from different Southland communities. One brought a Bible. Two were accompanied by small children. Drawn to a memorial comprised of candles, balloons, flowers and stuffed toys, they paid their respects Monday to 9-year-old Trinity Love Jones, whose body was found partly inside a duffel bag dumped near a Hacienda…
Coroner investigators determined that an 18-year-old UC Irvine student found unresponsive after an off-campus party in January died of accidental alcohol poisoning, officials said on Monday, March 11. Noah Domingo had attended a party hosted by members of his fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, at a home in Irvine near the intersection of Turtle Rock and…
Since 2013, Irvine residents have expected to see as many as 9,500 homes built around the Great Park, under an agreement between the city and developer FivePoint Holdings. Now the upper limit could grow to 10,556 homes, after FivePoint affiliate Heritage Fields asked recently to change how some of the homes are counted – subtracting…
The death of a UC Irvine freshman after an off-campus party in January was caused by accidental alcohol poisoning, the Orange County coroner’s office said Monday. Noah Domingo, 18, of La Crescenta died around 3:30 a.m. Jan. 12, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. The results of…
Victor McElhaney was with friends at a liquor store Sunday morning when they were confronted by a group of armed robbers, police said Monday. The USC student, who was studying at the Thornton School of Music, had just exited the store when the suspect approached the group of nine friends. The robbers…
The longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine “The Snake” Persico, has died at age 85 while serving a 139-year prison sentence. Persico died Thursday at the Duke University Medical Center, said his attorney, Benson Weintraub. He had been serving what was effectively a life sentence…
Victor McElhaney was studying music at USC, but his mother said his heart was in his hometown of Oakland. “Victor was a son of Oakland,” Oakland Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney said in a statement. “He was a musician who drew his inspiration from the beat, soul, and sound of the Town and…
Two men who collided mid-air while paragliding in San Diego County on Saturday, March 9, were identified by the county Medical Examiner’s Office as residents of Carlsbad and Laguna Hills. Laguna Hills resident Raul Gonzalez Valerio, 61, and Carlsbad’s Glenn Johnny Peter Bengtsson, 43, both died after they crashed into each other above the Torrey…
The state and local tax burden for Californians is middle-of-the-pack nationally, when the analysts at WalletHub measured the tax collector’s take against comparative income levels. The financial information site’s data crunchers studied state-by-state spending on state and local sales, excise, property and income taxes and compared that cash flow to different income brackets. When I…
