Breed: Domestic shorthairs Age: 5 years Gender: Bella, spayed female; Romney, neutered male Bella and Romney’s story: These siblings are fairly big kitties who did not diet for swimsuit season this year. They entered rescue when their human lost her job and home. They are very sweet although a little shy at first. They aren’t…
San Bernardino resident Guadalupe Plascencia, an American citizen who last year was mistakenly detained as an unauthorized immigrant and threatened with deportation, will receive a $55,000 settlement. San Bernardino County will pay Plascencia $35,000 and the federal government will pay her $20,000 under an agreement to dismiss her lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Riverside,…
Two people died following a traffic collision Friday on State College Boulevard in Anaheim. At about 5:09 p.m., Anaheim police responded to an accident involving an overturned vehicle and a toppled motorcycle, Sgt. Daron Wyatt said. One man was pronounced dead at the scene, while Anaheim fire officials transported the other man to a local…
By David W. Hart, Ph.D. Contributing writer The children’s poet, Shel Silverstein, wondered in prose about the existence of happy endings. He opined: “There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part. So just give me a happy middle and a very happy start.” Silverstein’s poem mirrors many of the observations made by my…
Orange County would give San Juan Capistrano $6 million to continue filling the Prima Deshecha Landfill with trash for at least a few more decades under a proposed agreement that could be finalized Tuesday, Oct. 30. The city would also receive at least $800,000 annually for 10 years to continue hosting the landfill, with an option…
The Riverside County Coroner’s Officer confirmed that the body pulled from Lake Elsinore on Thursday, Oct. 25, is that of missing kayaker Samuel Selay, 34, of French Valley. His wife, Brittney Selay, announced her husband’s apparent death in a Facebook post on Thursday. They have four children, ages 17, 10, 7 and 3. Selay was believed to have…
On a bright Sunday morning, Don Han was in South Orange County staring at a garage door covered in swastikas. Same for the Buick, parked in front of the house. The family that lived there was Jewish. The grandmother was a survivor of the Holocaust, when more than six million Jews were killed by the…
Click for a larger image. LOS ANGELES — The Southland will bask in above-normal temperatures again Friday as a result of a strengthening ridge of high pressure and weak offshore winds, the National Weather Service said. Combined with humidity levels only in the teens, the conditions are creating an elevated fire danger but nothing critical,…
A man died after getting struck by a car in Santa Ana on the evening of Thursday, Oct. 25. At least one vehicle was speeding near the 1800 block of South Cedar Street when it collided with the pedestrian at about 7:30 p.m., said Santa Ana Cmdr. Richard Weber. The driver of a BMW sedan…
Prior to the Hobie Cat, invented by well-known surfboard maker Hobie Alter, sailing was for the elite. It was a sport reserved for members of yacht clubs who had the mega bucks it took to buy a big boat. But Alter’s design — the Hobie Cat 14, a small catamaran sailboat that became known as…
