Alan Brinkley, an influential historian and academic who traced the evolution of liberalism from the New Deal to the 21st century and was a popular commentator on culture and politics, has died. He was 70. Daughter Elly Brinkley says he died Sunday at his home in Manhattan of complications from…
Anaheim City Council members will vote on a $2 billion budget for 2019-20 on Tuesday, June 18. It’s a balanced budget proposal that would spend $355 million from the general fund, which covers basic services such as police and fire, parks and road repair. That’s a 9 percent increase over the current fiscal year, mainly…
Young adults who live in neighborhoods with a higher number of medical marijuana dispensaries use pot more frequently than their peers and have more positive views about the drug, according to a study released by the Rand Corp. The results were strongest among young adults who lived near dispensaries…
Overnight lane closures begin this week on the 5 Freeway from Oso to Alicia parkways in Mission Viejo, as construction starts to widen the road in south Orange County. The Orange County Transportation Authority’s $581 million project – expected to take until 2025 – will add a second carpool lane in each direction from El…
A week or so ago I put a post on my Facebook pages asking people to submit questions about surfing. Normally I have a pretty good stockpile of them, but the pile was starting to get low and I wanted to replenish. As a result, I got tons of great ones and am now stocked…
SANTA ANA — A Santa Ana-based psychiatrist who illegally gave out prescriptions for opioids and other drugs was sentenced Monday to 57 months in federal prison. Dr. Robert Tinoco Perez, 56, of Westminster, as part of a plea agreement admitted earlier this year to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Perez during his…
A drunken woman at a restaurant at Los Angeles International Airport was arrested Monday after tossing a chair at a police officer, authorities said. Officers were summoned to Terminal 1 at about 2 p.m. after bartenders refused to continue serving an intoxicated patron, Los Angeles Airport Police Department spokesman Robert Pedregon said. She became upset…
Homebuying in Anaheim, Orange and Villa Park fell 11% in what was Orange County’s slowest nine months of sales since 2012. For nine consecutive months through April, CoreLogic housing stats show countywide sales failing to top the year-ago period. We wanted to see how these lethargic sales trends played out at the neighborhood level knowing…
NEW YORK — Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the “poor little rich girl” of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and multiple marriages and reigned during the 1970s and ’80s as a designer jeans pioneer, died Monday at the age of 95. Vanderbilt was the great-great-granddaughter…
O.J. Simpson was a fugitive, and it seemed the whole world was looking for him. It was June 17, 1994, and Simpson was supposed to turn himself in to Los Angeles police in connection with the killing of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. Zoey Tur was piloting a helicopter…
