When Alinzia Davenport recalls her godbrother as a little boy, a vivid image comes to mind: a tiny Victor McElhaney in the middle of a drum circle led by older men, keeping up with the beat on his bongos. “I just knew one day he was going to be a famous old man and we’d…
Jordan Aaron was the president of a Carson City sushi restaurant who once ran for justice of the peace in Arizona. Antonio Pastini was the brash ex-Chicago cop who befriended a brothel mogul and spun yarns of a bare-knuckled youth in the Windy City that read like a cross between “Goodfellas” and…
One person was shot and transported to the hospital in an officer-involved shooting on Monday, March 11, 2019 in Santa Ana, CA. The shooting occurred near the intersection of Evergreen and Occidental streets. (OnScene.TV) One person was shot and transported to the hospital in an officer-involved shooting on Monday, March 11, 2019 in Santa Ana,…
HUNTINGTON BEACH — A 26-year-old Huntington Beach man involved in a solo-vehicle crash last week succumbed to his injuries over the weekend, police said Monday. Zachary John Gillespie died Saturday, police reported. Gillespie, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was driving a 2006 Nissan Titan pickup east on Yorktown Avenue from Magnolia Street when the…
The Pasadena City Council voted on Monday, March 11 to join with Tesla in building the largest fast-charging site for electric vehicles in the western United States. By a 7-0 vote, the Council authorized a five-year agreement with the Silicon Valley electric carmaker that creates 44 public-access fast-chargers on the roof level of the Marengo…
Forecasters are predicting more rainfall on Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by drier and warmer days through the rest of the week in Southern California. The National Weather Service in San Diego said there was between a 40 and 70 percent chance of rain throughout Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties on Tuesday, while the NWS…
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…
