Veterans Administration officials failed to notify physicians in 2017 about Legionella bacteria found at the VA Medical Center in Loma Linda, posing a public health danger and possibly causing at least one doctor to contract potentially fatal Legionnaires’ disease, according to a federal report obtained by the Southern California News Group. The 26-page VA report…
Nicole Suydam, president and CEO of Goodwill of Orange County, high-fives Olivia Miranda, 5, at the Santa Ana store on Monday, May 6, 2019. Eddie Blancas, assistant store manager looks on during National Goodwill Industries Week. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Nicole Suydam, president and CEO of Goodwill of Orange County, gives rings…
Riverside leaders Monday condemned racist comments by a candidate for Riverside City Council that include a call to kill Muslims and 6 million people in the United States. John Dave Denilofs has said the comments, mostly made in Facebook videos leading up to the November 2016 election, don’t reflect his actual opinions. But he has…
About a month ago, Orange County and Santa Ana officials stood in a federal courtroom and told U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter they’d aim to open a homeless shelter with up to 600 beds by this fall. Now the project is on an indefinite hold, after Orange County First District Supervisor Andrew Do…
In 2004, then-mayor of Fountain Valley Guy Carrozzo dedicated his second term to the country’s veterans. He made the same commitment during his first term as mayor in 2000. Carrozzo’s vision of honoring veterans was fulfilled on Nov. 11, 2004 – Veterans Day – when a newly constructed Veterans Memorial was unveiled on what was…
Southern California weather this week will be book-ended with rain on Mother’s Day in some areas, with a chance for still more rain next week, while the familiar gray skies of May and June begin settling in from the coast to the inland valleys. Small amounts of rain fell throughout the area Monday and was…
Eighteen years ago, Mark Andersen lost both of his legs in a boating accident. On Monday, the lifelong baseball fan will walk to the mound and throw out the ceremonial first pitch at Dodger Stadium. Andersen grew up attending Dodgers games with his father and has remained a dedicated fan. A new…
John Lukacs, a Hungarian-born historian, has died at age 95. Lukacs was an iconoclast who brooded over the future of Western civilization, wrote a bestselling tribute to Winston Churchill, and produced a substantial and often despairing body of writings on the politics and culture of Europe and…
John Lukacs, a Hungarian-born historian, has died at age 95. Lukacs was an iconoclast who brooded over the future of Western civilization, wrote a bestselling tribute to Winston Churchill, and produced a substantial and often despairing body of writings on the politics and culture of Europe and…
Nevada Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson died early Saturday at the age of 51 while receiving “emergency care” in Carson City, according to Assembly Democrats. He was 51. Details about circumstances of the North Las Vegas Democrat’s death were not made public. Thompson joined the Assembly in 2013 and…
