It can’t be all work and no play for the big jolly man in the red suit. A number of Santas hit the snowy slopes at Mountain High on Sunday, a fun sight for visitors of the Wrightwood resort. Dozens of snowboarders and skiers decked out in costumes joined the fourth annual Santa Sunday, a…
The regional air-pollution watchdog will accept public comments for the next week on a series of proposed plans to monitor emissions at four South Bay refineries — including the Torrance Refinery — which the agency wants to implement by this time next year. The deadline to comment on the four proposals is 5:30 p.m. Friday,…
A crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian walking across the street in Rancho Santa Margarita led sheriff’s deputies to shut down an intersection near a busy shopping center for hours Sunday morning. An Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman said the collision happened at around 8:53 a.m., near the intersection of Santa Margarita Parkway and…
“We don’t want to burn to death.” That sentiment and demands for far more prudent wildland development, better firefighting equipment and tougher building codes ring loud and clear from readers after my column reporting that early half of Southern California burned in the last half-century. But instead of simply flipping to the next digital or…
Q. I have seen you say that new residents have 20 days to get a vehicle registered in California. What about a current California resident homeowner who retires, establishes a home in another state and stays in that other state every year for a little more than six months, so as to not be considered a…
Dozens of retired Los Angeles employees are collecting such generous retirement pay that they exceed pension fund limits set by the Internal Revenue Service, saddling taxpayers with additional costs, a Times data analysis has found. Their lavish pensions forced the city to establish an “Excess…
A Fullerton police officer, responding to a disturbance call, shot and killed a pit bull dog when the dog charged at him Saturday, Dec. 15, authorities said. Fullerton officers were responding to a family disturbance in the 100 block of South Turner Avenue about 12:45 p.m. Saturday, Sgt. Carin Wright said in a statement. When…
A small plane with two people on board made an emergency landing on Doheny State Beach in Dana Point Saturday, Dec. 15, but no one was injured, authorities said. Just before 2:15 p.m., Orange County firefighters were dispatched to the 25000 block of Dana Point Harbor Drive where a small plane landed in the sand,…
Some visitors to the Christmas Tree House in Costa Mesa on Saturday, Dec. 15, were prohibited by manager Kelly Corbin from purchasing trees off the lot. They weren’t prevented from taking them home, just from purchasing them. The surprise was made possible by Wescom Credit Union, which sponsored 16 Christmas tree lots around Southern California,…
By YURAS KARMANAU and EFREM LUKATSKY | Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian Orthodox leaders on Saturday approved the creation of a unified church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate and elected a leader to head that new church — a move that could exponentially raise tensions with neighboring Russia. The vote, held at a closed-door…
