Five months after a historic midterm that turned Orange County’s congressional delegation from mostly red to all blue — and nearly 11 months before California’s 2020 Presidential primary — no fewer than eight Republicans have officially launched campaigns to take those seats back in 2020. What’s more, several other well-known Republicans are considering running in…
Californians’ opinions are sharply divided about the death penalty and sanctuary-city policies, but they’re in broad agreement that climate change is a problem and President Trump’s threat to close the border with Mexico is a bad idea, according to a poll released Thursday, April 11. The Quinnipiac University Poll asked 1,005 California voters April 3-8…
The notice was emailed to parents of Pacific Grove Middle School students on March 27: In five days, outside educators from Planned Parenthood would be on campus, teaching sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders about sex. The notice did not sit well with a mother of two middle school students in Pacific…
A shallow magnitude-2.8 earthquake was reported Friday morning in West Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 4:29 a.m. PDT at a depth of 3.1 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was a mile from Beverly Hills, and three miles from Culver City and West…
Nipsey Hussle’s black Jaguar is still sitting outside his The Marathon Clothing store. As mourning fans payed final respects during a funeral procession that snaked through South-Central L.A. Thursday, the dozen-spot strip mall parking lot where the rapper and entrepreneur was gunned down last Sunday turned into a towering symbol of how much he meant…
Four people were shot in Watts on Thursday evening after the funeral procession for Nipsey Hussle had passed through the neighborhood, the latest in a recent uptick of violence in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said three men and one woman were shot near the intersection…
A man was awarded nearly $9 million Thursday by an arbitrator who ruled that former San Clemente-based drug treatment facility Sovereign Health negligently allowed him to overdose on medication, resulting in a seizure and significant brain injury. A provision in the award orders Sovereign to pay attorneys’ fees and legal costs borne by Zachary Peterson,…
Brenda Wallace had been traveling up to the Mt. Baldy Fire Station all week, hoping that she and her daughter, who had missing since Saturday in the mountains, soon would be reunited. Late Wednesday night, a relieved Wallace finally got her wish. Search crews found her daughter — Gabrielle Wallace, 31, of Rancho Cucamonga —…
A woman who may have been armed with a knife wounded three people at a Tustin gas station near Frontier Park on Thursday, April 11. The attack happened at the Arco service station on the corner of Red Hill and Mitchell Avenues at about 6 p.m., according to Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Tony Bommarito….
Orange County’s toll road agencies announced Thursday, April 11, an independent company has been hired to audit a contract with a public relations firm, after some board members questioned the costs. The audit of the Venture Strategic contract by Irvine-based Hall & Company began last week and will be done in a month or so,…
