WESTMINSTER – About 25 people were arrested early Tuesday, March 5, after search warrants were served at two Westminster home suspected of illegal gambling. Shortly after midnight, West County SWAT and Buena Park SWAT descended upon two houses, said Cmdr. Cord Vandergrift of the Westminster Police Department. The homes were less than half-mile apart, with…
A pickup truck burning early Tuesday on the 405 Freeway in Costa Mesa prompted authorities to close two lanes of the roadway. The truck burning on the right shoulder of the southbound lanes of the 405 at Fairview Road, prompting the closure of the No. 6 and 7 lanes, according to the California Highway Patrol….
After the March 7, 1965, beating of civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala., by state troopers, protests broke out in Los Angeles.
The Disney Resort donated $5 million to a revitalized housing trust fund, kickstarting a business-backed campaign to raise cash for housing the homeless, Orange County business leaders said Monday, March 4. The low-key Orange County Housing Trust, incorporated in 2010 and operating on a small budget, will “rise as a Phoenix” under a partnership between…
Maya Benperlas stood in the middle of busy Vernon Avenue on a chilly Sunday night as a big rig hauling pigs slowed to a halt just outside the gates of Farmer John. Her hand shot into the air and she flashed a peace sign. “Two minutes!” Benperlas shouted. “Two minutes!” The 18-wheeler’s driver listlessly…
A woman who served as the assistant of a former dean at Loyola Marymount University filed a whistleblower lawsuit Monday alleging that he fired her when she refused to go along with his schemes to misspend university funds on porn, extravagant meals and first-class airfare. Shane Martin, who served…
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the Trump administration to resume processing the applications of more than 2,700 young Central Americans and family members who were left in limbo after the government abruptly ended a program designed to help them reunite with relatives in the United…
On Saturday night, Michael Maietta Weinberg, a Tustin high school senior, was visiting his cousin, Rachel Weinberg, at her home in Newport Beach. It was around 9 p.m. Rachel, a high school junior, was baking a cake with ube, a purple yam, when her social media feeds started pinging with photos…
In the weeks after Hurricane Harvey’s catastrophic sweep through the Houston area — which resulted in chemical spills, fires, flooded storage tanks and damaged industrial plants — rescue crews and residents complained of burning throats, nausea and dizziness Fifteen hundred miles west in the high…
A man was shot during an attempted robbery in Garden Grove, but was expected to survive on Monday, March 4. The man was shot at about 7:05 p.m. in the 11300 block of Dale Street, according to the Garden Grove Police Department. Related Articles Anaheim police investigate homicide; say it may be gang-related Woman found…
