Alex Villanueva, a little-known lieutenant who mounted an improbable campaign to lead one of the nation’s largest policing agencies, will replace Jim McDonnell as Los Angeles County sheriff, marking a stunning upset for a seat that hasn’t seen an incumbent lose in more than a century. Trailing…
Police arrested four people in Los Angeles who were suspected in the theft of designer purses from a department store on Monday, Nov. 26. Suspects took an unspecified number of Louis Vuitton purses from the Neiman Marcus store at the Fashion Island shopping center, 601 Newport Center Dr., sometime before 4:20 p.m., said Newport Beach Police…
Police asked for the public’s help Monday in identifying suspects in the robbery of a Seal Beach cell phone store on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 21. Employees at the AT&T store at 12830 Seal Beach Blvd. said two people entered the store at about 5:30 p.m. and cut security cords attached to display items…
Long Beach-based Molina Healthcare has been accused of breaching its Medicaid contract in Illinois and failing to disclose it wasn’t providing required services to skilled nursing home patients in the Prairie State. The alleged cover-up lasted two years, the federal whistleblower lawsuit says. The case was filed under seal in September 2017 by the founder…
Each holiday season, Fountain Valley High School vocal music director Kevin Tison stages an elaborate musical concert, which this year will be held Tuesday, Dec. 11 at the Segerstrom Concert Hall. “Sounds of the Season – Past & Present,” will be presented at 6:45 p.m. on Segerstrom’s main stage. Tison says he came up with the…
New outlines for Santa Ana’s City Council wards should avoid a confusing 2020 election field the city was headed toward and will likely also level the playing field for the city’s Asian-American voters. City officials have finally selected the new boundaries for the city’s six wards, which will kick off Santa Ana’s transition to by-district…
A man was recovering at a hospital after he was shot in Santa Ana just after midnight on Monday, Nov. 26. A caller reported the shooting at 12:05 a.m. near the intersection of Evergreen Street and Warner Avenue, said Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. Responding paramedics found a 23-year-old man who had been shot,…
Despite all the talk about a regional labor shortage, Southern California pay raises remain stubbornly modest. Wages in the region rose at a 3 percent annual rate in the 12 months ended in September — down from 3.2 percent a year earlier, according to one federal yardstick. The Employment Cost Index tracks employee pay without…
On her bed, next to a teddy bear, was the pink-and-blue striped baby blanket she came home from the hospital with as a newborn, and always kept close by despite a few holes worn in over the years. She’d organized the clothes she planned to wear for her 6 a.m. shift at a Newport Beach coffee…
This Thanksgiving week, Honk is thankful for his readers, who are the smartest, prettiest, handsomest, funniest, most creative and happiest people, and the sharpest dressers, too. Because of their questions during the past year, he has learned: – A personalized license-plate number can be re-issued if the previous owner has given up the rights to…
