Anaheim Union High School District Superintendent Michael Matsuda wrote a letter of recommendation to the Duarte Unified School District on behalf of a Kennedy High School principal who police said failed to report sexual misconduct allegations to law enforcement or Child Protective Services as mandated by California law. A Kennedy water polo coach allegedly began…
The Fairview Developmental Center, with its 125-acre Costa Mesa campus sitting nearly empty, has repeatedly been suggested as a place to house homeless people. Now, two of Orange County’s state legislators are pushing bills that could determine the center’s future, at least in the short term, and both ideas could involve the homeless. The developmental…
For a generation of Southern California music fans, the phrase “Wolf & Rissmiller Presents” was synonymous with live performances by the cream of the crop of rock and pop music superstars, from the Rolling Stones to Elton John. As one of the region’s premier concert promoters, the team of Steve…
Dawn McKnight was out walking her two dogs along what’s left of the Capistrano Beach parking lot in Dana Point on Wednesday afternoon, April 3, when she stopped short of the construction work taking place on the sand. “Interesting,” she said of the massive sand cubes being set out like a makeshift wall. An estimated…
SANTA ANA – A last-second change of heart by a juror after a guilty verdict had already been read forced an Orange County Superior Court judge to declare a mistrial in the case of a Costa Mesa man charged with murder for a 2015 Irvine crash that left a woman and her granddaughter dead. Alec…
For the swarms of cameras, reporters and passersby stopping to gawk, what is about to unfold could be another red carpet appearance for Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. But the path, being cleared for them by police and Homeland Security agents, leads not to another awards show but to a courthouse…
A closely watched proposal that would allow apartment buildings to be built near public transportation hubs and job centers throughout California — regardless of local zoning rules — cleared its first hurdle late Tuesday afternoon. Senate Bill 50 marks the second attempt by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, to boost the state’s scarce housing…
Even by rappers’ standards, Fly Mac was full of braggadocio. His Instagram handle was “ima_god_in_da_streetz.” He sang of body bags, “38 gun blasts” and bloody homicides. On Tuesday, Fly Mac, whose legal name is Eric Holder, was arrested in connection with the shooting death of a far more famous…
Twenty Southern California hospitals have been named among the top 1,000 in the world, across 11 countries, in a list compiled for the first time by Newsweek in collaboration with Statista Inc., a global marketing research and consumer data company. Three of those area hospitals — Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and…
Inside the Back Bay Science Center in Newport Beach, Riley Roman, 17, left and Haley Wolf, 17, right, both students at Costa Mesa High School, search for various forms of sea life from water samples they collected in the Upper Newport Bay on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. It is the sixth and final time they…
