Cindy Borgeson was eating a cheeseburger at In-N-Out when she got a call from Newport Beach police that she thought would never come. It had been more than four decades since her 11-year-old sister, Linda Ann O’Keefe, was sexually assaulted and strangled. The killer had vanished after dumping the…
Homebuying in Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and Costa Mesa fell 8 percent in a year with the steepest countywide drop in sales in 11 years. Last year saw the fewest Orange County homes sold since 2014 and the 8.6 percent drop in sales vs. 2017 was the largest year-over-year percentage decline since 2007. Key culprits…
While Orange County cities are absent on the growing list of those banning plastic straws, the once-ubiquitous cylinders are getting harder to find at county schools. That’s thanks in good measure to 12-year-old Newport Beach SCUBA diver and ocean lover Chloe Mei Espinosa, who has good reason to celebrate National Skip the Straw Day on Friday,…
Every four years, aspiring presidential nominees leave behind families, jobs and, frequently, their dignity to prove they are worthy of the votes of everyday people. Senators, governors, million- or billionaires, they traipse through cornfields in Iowa, eat barbecue in South Carolina, get sand…
United States Immigration officials in 1935 use train to deport foreigners back to their countries.
Police sought witnesses to the 1973 killing of an 11-year-old girl and, on Thursday, Feb. 21, released an old photograph of a man who had been identified as a suspect and arrested with the aid of DNA evidence. The picture of James Alan Neal, 72, of Monument, Colorado, who is a defendant in the kidnapping…
The pilot whose plane crashed into a Yorba Linda neighborhood, killing him and four people on the ground, had been warned by an air traffic controller that he was headed into bad weather, investigators said in a report released Thursday. Antonio Pastini, of Gardnerville, Nev., died on Feb. 3 when…
People get out and enjoy the snow at the end of Silverado Canyon Road as an afternoon storm brought cold temperatures and snow to Silverado Canyon on Thursday, February 21, 2019. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) McKenna Rude, 18, of Lake Forest tries to catch snowflakes on her tongue in Silverado as an…
A real estate developer who touts herself as “California’s cannabis landlord” was arrested during a raid by San Bernardino police at her Pacific Palisades home, authorities confirmed Thursday. Stephanie Smith, 44, was taken into custody at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and booked into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, where she was being held on…
In 2017, the highest paid employee working for the city of Los Angeles collected a nearly $600,000 salary and $12,693 in health benefits, according to the state controller’s public pay database. Its lowest paid employee — reportedly earning only $1 that year — had a benefits package that also cost the city $12,693. In fact,…
