The California bullet train project has cost state taxpayers an average $3.1 million a day over the last year — a construction spending rate higher than that for the Bay Bridge, Boston’s Big Dig or any U.S. transportation project in recent history But still it’s not enough, planners say. In order…
A man, woman and juvenile were arrested and $3,000 in stolen goods and cash were recovered from a Cerritos home after detectives witnessed a “knock-knock” burglary, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department announced on Saturday, Aug. 25. During their interrogation, the suspects admitted to the burglary and implicated themselves in recent La Palma and Buena Park-area…
NEW YORK — Playwright Neil Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as “The Odd Couple,” ″Barefoot in the Park” and his “Brighton Beach” trilogy dominated Broadway for decades, has died. He was 91. Simon died early Sunday of complications from pneumonia surrounded by family at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, said…
While California wages started the year rising at the nation’s fifth-fastest pace, according to one measure, Southern California pay hikes lag. The continued modest pay advances — as job growth stays strong with unemployment running at cyclical lows — is a bit of an economic puzzle. Are bosses still penny-pinching with salary or are most…
Officials reopened the waters of Huntington Beach on Saturday afternoon after a boy’s encounter with a shark a day earlier prompted an overnight closure. A 14-year-old boy was swimming about 25 yards offshore at about 8 p.m. Friday when he noticed a dorsal fin jutting out of the water, said Huntington…
Arizona Sen. John McCain, who survived 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to become one of the highest-profile, most confounding and pugnacious personalities in politics, succumbs to brain cancer.
LONG BEACH — The U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday confirmed a 44-foot boat that sunk off Long Beach was a threat to an environmentally sensitive site and called in an organization to contain the pollution, authorities said. The boat was reported taking on water at 1:40 p.m. Friday and Seal Beach lifeguards took six people…
Sam Rosa, 16-year-old son of fallen Long Beach Fire Capt. David Rosa – an avid Los Angeles Dodgers fan – paid tribute to his dad by firing off the first pitch before Saturday’s game at Dodger Stadium. Sixteen year-old Sam Rosa, right, son of fallen Long Beach Fire Capt. David Rosa, his mom Lynley, center,…
Leaders from across California turned to social media Saturday, Aug. 25 to share their thoughts shortly after the news broke that Sen. John McCain had died. The 81-year-old ran for president twice and was known for his strong presence in the Senate and was once a prisoner of war. He passed away more than a…
By Sean Sullivan John Sidney McCain III, the maverick Republican who twice sought the presidency and served in the Senate for more than three decades after surviving brutal captivity during the Vietnam War, died Saturday after battling brain cancer. He was 81. “Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28pm on August 25, 2018. With…
