Summer has become the season of trolleys in much of south Orange County. Dana Point, San Juan Capistrano, San Clemente and Newport Beach have already kicked off their seasons giving free rides to folks who ditch their cars to get around the coastal communities. In a couple weeks, Laguna Beach’s year-round trolley will add weekdays…
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My sugar war began in January, when the third-grader arrived. Breakfast? Scrambled eggs are OK, but she would rather have one of those processed sugar-and-cinnamon confections masquerading as cereal. Or perhaps a waffle drowned in syrup. Lunch? How about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a chocolate…
SANTA ANA — A 21-year-old man has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a transient in Garden Grove two years ago. Daniel Robert Jones-Hoebel pleaded guilty on Friday to voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon, both felonies. Jones-Hoebel killed 20-year-old Genaro Diaz on June 9, 2017, according to evidence…
UCLA came under public scrutiny Monday over its handling of a former staff gynecologist who has been charged with sexual battery and exploitation during his treatment of two patients at a university facility. UCLA acknowledged first receiving a complaint against Dr. James Mason Heaps in 2017; he…
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was seriously wounded during an incident in Alhambra Monday night. Few details were available, but the the deputy was rushed to County-USC Medical Center. The shooting took place near a Jack in the Box on Valley Boulevard. Sheriff’s deputies and Alhambra police…
A bear that scuffled with a dog and its owner in Sierra Madre was tranquilized Monday afternoon, as was her cub. The dog’s owner suffered minor injuries during the incident with the adult bear and declined to be taken to a hospital. The dog’s condition wasn’t immediately clear. State wildlife officials…
SANTA ANA — A 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by two men while walking home from summer school in Santa Ana on Monday, and police were working to determine if the attack was related to an earlier break-in by a man who crawled into bed with a 15-year-old girl and groped her. The first attack…
The student government at UC Irvine declared food insecurity as a campus emergency last week, pledging $400,000 in one-time funds to help hungry students. The money from the Associated Students of UC Irvine’s reserves — unspent student fee dollars banked from previous years — will go to the FRESH…
A Vietnamese American man from Orange County who has been detained in Vietnam for almost a year is expected to face trial this month. Michael Nguyen, of Orange, will be tried in Ho Chi Minh City on June 25 (which falls on June 24 in the U.S.) His family is still unclear on the specific…
