A San Diego federal judge has expanded his authority and will now oversee the cases of potentially thousands of additional children who were separated from their families at the border during the Trump administration. Dana M. Sabraw ruled late Friday that his authority applies to any families that…
In response to the death of 21 horses since opening day Dec. 26, Santa Anita Park is imposing new rules that will increase its scrutiny of every horse that runs on the renowned venue’s tracks. Trainers will have to apply for permission to conduct certain high-intensity exercises at least 24 hours in advance. Those horses…
Seven years before James Alan Neal allegedly kidnapped, sexually assaulted and strangled 11-year-old Linda Ann O’Keefe in Newport Beach, he sat in an Orange County jail cell lamenting his miserable life and long rap sheet. “I want to make up for all the hurt I have caused myself and my parents, especially my mother,” Neal,…
Heather Repenning edged into second place Friday in the contest for a pivotal seat on the Los Angeles Board of Education. Second place matters because the top two finishers will be on the ballot in a May 14 runoff. Jackie Goldberg has already nailed down one spot by finishing far ahead of the other…
An Orange County Superior Court judge on Friday described the illegal recording of attorney-client phone calls from the jail as an “epic mishap,” but one that did not affect the attempted murder case against the son of a former “Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member. Judge Jonathan Fish declined to dismiss the charges against…
El Monte school officials had warning signs that Richard Paul Daniels was having inappropriate interactions with the girls in his high school classes — he even had a conviction for it — but they failed to take decisive action that would have prevented him from having sex with a student in 2015. …
Authorities are investigating after a man’s body was found lying atop rocks near Baby Beach in Dana Point on Friday, March 8. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department received a call just before 3 p.m. from a passerby who had seen what they believed was a body near a cliff side along the coast in the…
Marine biologist Nancy Caruso at Table Rock Beach in Laguna. She and a team of volunteers search for signs that the depleted snail-like abalone are reproducing again on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Ron Pedley, a pianist for singer Barry Manilow by trade, is a volunteer for biologist Nancy…
Jan-Michael Vincent, a golden boy of Hollywood action films in the 1970s who starred in the mid-1980s TV adventure series “Airwolf” but saw his career crater amid drug and alcohol addiction, has died in Asheville, N.C. The actor’s Feb. 10 death — which was not publicly announced at the time — was…
A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Friday afternoon one mile from Caldwell Pines, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 2:55 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 12 miles from Clearlake, Calif., 15 miles…
