A first round of internal Orange County Sheriff’s Department records will be made public Wednesday, July 3, six months after the Southern California News Group and other media requested their release under a new police transparency law, SB 1421. In a Facebook post Tuesday, Sheriff Don Barnes announced the plan to post documents on the…
Attorneys representing homeless people want the judge in a south Orange County federal lawsuit to shut down a month-old outdoor shelter area in San Clemente that the city set up as a way to move people from other makeshift campsites in North Beach. In seeking a temporary restraining order from U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson,…
Lee A. Iacocca, an ambitious immigrant’s son and salesman extraordinaire whose blunt and swaggering persona dominated the automobile industry like nobody since Henry Ford, died Tuesday. He was 94. Iacocca, who spent his last years living in Los Angeles, died Tuesday morning at his Bel-Air home…
Across Orange County, residents will be at celebrating America’s independence with barbecues and block parties, playing at the beach or the local park and an evening of watching fireworks, either at home or at one of the many free community events planned. But if you are looking to knock some chores off your to-do list,…
Orange County sheriff’s officials will soon beef up restrictions on mail sent to jail inmates in a move meant to curb smuggled-in drugs. As of Aug. 1, all Orange County Jail facilities will no longer accept cardstock paper, greeting cards and colored paper sent to inmates. Only mail written on postcards, lined white paper or…
The packed dining room of the White Harte Pub broke into near-universal exclamation Tuesday when Christen Press scored the first goal of the Women’s World Cup Semi-Finals. It was a moment not to be missed: England vs. U.S. St. George’s Cross and the Stars and Stripes. This was no Valley Forge, but just a couple…
By MIKE SCHNEIDER and MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday started printing the questionnaire without the controversial query. Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits challenging the question that the printing of the hundreds…
Seal Beach is getting 30 new luxury single-family homes on a slab of land with a contentious history. Shea Homes has begun sales at Ocean Place, built on an 11-acre waterfront parcel of land that was once the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s power plant in Seal Beach. Ocean Place features homes ranging…
Fountain Valley’s annual Concerts in the Park series is a longstanding tradition. This year’s series will begin Thursday, July 11 and continue on July 18 and 25, as well as Aug. 1. If you like tribute bands, you should love this year’s lineup from the city’s Recreation and Community Services Department. You’ll hear the sounds…
President Trump took another swipe at California on Monday night, slamming Los Angeles and San Francisco’s homelessness problems and stating, “We may intercede. “We may do something to get that whole thing cleaned up. It’s inappropriate,” he told Fox News in an interview. Trump didn’t offer any…
