Responding to a surge in homeless deaths, the governing board of Orange County’s health care plan for its poor allocated $1.6 million on Friday, Feb. 22, to start a mobile medical team to treat homeless people at shelters and other places they congregate. The action came at a special meeting three days after U.S. District Judge…
Garden Grove wasted no time in appointing a replacement for Police Chief Todd Elgin, who announced his retirement on Tuesday, Feb. 19. On Friday, City Manager Scott Stiles said in a statement that he has named Capt. Tom DaRé as the new chief of police. In an interview about Elgin’s retirement, Stiles hinted that an…
The buildings in the Dove Canyon Plaza are half-empty or empty. The businesses that are still there are thinking of leaving. Now, William Lyon Homes is proposing to build housing at the 8-acre site, which is by the entrance of the gated Dove Canyon community in Rancho Santa Margarita. The Dove Canyon Plaza is off…
Breed: Jack Russell mix Age: 10 years Gender: Spayed female Size: 12 pounds Jessie’s story: Jessie enjoys resting on the grass and riding in the car. She also likes to keep watch over the neighborhood from her favorite chair, but she’s not a guard dog. She’d probably hand a stranger the silver if they asked…
LAGUNA BEACH — Law enforcement officials are crediting greater visibility and innovative police programs for a record low in violent and property crimes in Laguna Beach. New data from the Laguna Beach Police Department shows the city’s overall crime rate in 2018 was the lowest since 1988, when the department began tracking the numbers. That…
Nashville producer Fred Foster, who produced some of Roy Orbison’s most popular records and was the first to spot the extraordinary talents of Kris Kristofferson and Dolly Parton, has died. He was 87. Foster died Wednesday in Nashville, according to Martha Moore, his publicist. Foster, who was…
KTLA News anchor Chris Burrous, who was found unresponsive in a Glendale motel room in December, died from methamphetamine toxicity, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Friday. The coroner said hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease were also factors in his death. The…
Guy Webster, a self-trained photographer who helped shape the late 1960s music scene with album covers that became as familiar as the songs they held, has died at his home in Ojai. In demand by musicians and celebrities throughout his life, Webster died Feb. 5 at the age of 79. His death was not…
The neighborhood kids in San Diego’s Logan Heights took one look at Armando Rodriguez’s dark skin and gave him a nickname: Shadow. Then he grew up to cast his own light as a pioneering educator and civil rights activist who served in the administrations of four U.S. presidents. Rodriguez died Sunday…
Los Angeles has a new water project in mind that could cost $8 billion, take 16 years to complete and provide as much as one-third of the city’s supply. Local officials aren’t talking about building a new dam or lining the coast with desalination plants or towing icebergs from the Arctic. They…
