SANTA ANA — A 43-year-old Newport Beach man was charged Tuesday with hurling ammonia at several Newport Beach police officers who responded to a domestic violence call. Pedro Jesus Dominguez Mendez was charged with four counts of assault with caustic chemicals, five counts of assault with a weapon on a peace officer, and a count…
Detectives in Nevada began to investigate Tuesday the death of a man who may have died as a result of the July 4 earthquake near Ridgecrest in Southern California, authorities said. If confirmed as quake-related, it would be the first death from last week’s earthquakes. At about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, deputies with the Nye…
Rip Torn, the maverick actor who received a late-in-life career boost — and won an Emmy Award — playing the caustic talk-show producer on Garry Shandling’s 1990s hit HBO comedy series “The Larry Sanders Show,” has died, according to the Associated Press. He was 88. Torn died Tuesday afternoon at…
The Orange County Fire Authority on Tuesday showcased nighttime aerial firefighting equipment that will be tried out in Southern California over the next five months. The pilot program, which started this month, is funded by Southern California Edison and features two helicopters. One of them has the capacity of carrying 1,000 gallons and can fill…
The chief watchdog for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says Sheriff Alex Villanueva appears to have ignored key evidence in rehiring a deputy who was fired for domestic violence and dishonesty, and is calling into question numerous aspects of his handling of the case. The county Office…
A man was shot and injured Tuesday by an officer after Tustin police responded to reports of several people attempting to enter a building at the former U.S. Marine Corps Air Station, authorities said. Police responded to the base, in the area of Armstrong and Valencia Avenues about 8 a.m. and found one of the…
A UCLA employee who contracted measles may have exposed students and others to the highly contagious disease, according to campus officials. A university employee was diagnosed with measles on Monday. But health officials say he may have infected students when he ate lunch at the Court of Sciences…
The Ridgecrest earthquakes didn’t cause any notable damage in the Greater Los Angeles area. But the shaking did spur hundreds of thousands to ask that eternal question in earthquake country: How safe is my building? Major earthquakes in metropolitan areas of California have highlighted the vulnerabilities…
Recovery efforts continued Tuesday, July 9, in the communities of Trona and Ridgecrest, shaken last week by two major earthquakes. After Friday’s 7.1 temblor centered roughly 11 miles northeast of Ridgecrest and preceded by Thursday’s 6.4 magnitude quake, both followed by thousands of aftershocks, the communities have been cleaning up. Services have been coming back online…
A replica firearm that looked “identical” to a Beretta handgun was found next to a 17-year-old girl shot and killed by a Fullerton police officer on a busy freeway in Anaheim, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said on Tuesday. The DA’s office – tasked with investigating most police shootings in Orange County – released…
