Nearly a week after images from a Nazi-themed party attended by teenagers in Orange County sparked outrage, school officials and the community have been working to turn the incident into a learning experience. Images from the party appearing on social media showed a group of students — arms outstretched…
Costa Mesa plans to spend nearly $7 million to buy a warehouse near John Wayne Airport to use as a homeless shelter. In the meantime, the city expects to open a temporary shelter within a month at the Lighthouse Church of the Nazarene to offer a nightly place for up to 50 people to stay….
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks fell Friday morning as signs piled up that the global economy is hitting the brakes, headlined by a surprisingly weak report on the U.S. job market. The S&P 500 was on track for its fifth straight decline, which would be its longest losing streak in nearly four months. It followed…
HAWTHORNE — The Crew Dragon capsule, built by Hawthorne-based SpaceX in an effort to re-start American astronaut launches, splashed down Friday morning in the Atlantic Ocean, about six hours after it successfully detached from the International Space Station. The capsule’s main parachutes deployed at 5:42 a.m., and the module landed in the Atlantic Ocean at…
By Elizabeth Castillo | CALmatters When police officers found Julie Hemingway bedded down on the asphalt of a Taco Bell parking lot, she wasn’t interested in moving to a homeless shelter. No way was she leaving her cat, Tammy. Caring for Tammy allows Hemingway, who said she suffers from major depressive disorder, to push past…
For an officially non-partisan special election, the March 12 vote to select a supervisor might say a lot about the future of partisan politics in Orange County. On the one hand, a win by one of the big-name Republicans on the ballot could assure the party faithful that the GOP brand isn’t as shaky, locally,…
Mallory Smith was a toddler in 1995 when doctors finally diagnosed her persistent cough and runny nose: cystic fibrosis. Life expectancy for the disease at the time was between 25 and 30 years. Upon hearing the news, her mother collapsed. “Our new normal: a child with an expiration date,” said…
The March 10, 1933, Long Beach earthquake killed 115 people and caused major damage throughout the Los Angeles Basin.
A bank robber got away on an electric bike with about $8,000 from a Newport Beach heist on Thursday, March 7. A man seen wearing sunglasses with a dark colored beanie and jacket entered the OneWest Bank, 3700 East Coast Highway, at about 3:48 p.m., according to a news release from the Newport Beach Police…
Philanthropist Eli Broad inserted himself into a pivotal Los Angeles school board race at the last second this week, making the largest individual donation to any candidate. Broad’s $100,000 didn’t go directly to a candidate for the open District 5 seat, but to a union running its own campaign…
