IRVINE – City of Hope will invest more than $1 billion to develop and support a comprehensive cancer campus next to the Orange County Great Park, about $800 million more and four years sooner than what originally was planned for its Irvine health campus. City of Hope administrators announced they are purchasing 11 acres of…
Dr. Zahi Hawass has referred to himself as the real Indiana Jones. When asked about his signature wide-brimmed felt fedora, the same style worn by Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones character, Hawass says his is the authentic hate of an Egyptologist. Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass poses in front of one of the slides he showed when…
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti presented a profitability outlook of $1 billion for the 2028 Olympic Games on Monday, during a speech at the inaugural Los Angeles Sports Summit. Garcetti, speaking with reporters afterward, said that “there is no question we’ll be in the high hundreds of millions” in profit from the…
An Orange County Grand Jury report is asking the Board of Supervisors to justify its choice to run the county’s internal audit function differently than every other county in the state. For decades, the elected auditor-controller served as a check on county finances by overseeing spending and investigating policies and controls. To regain the trust…
The wooden lifeguard tower at the Wedge was replaced over the weekend with a temporary structure – complete with the iconic “W” on its siding. An early-morning blaze on June 20 had destroyed the tower, a perch that gives guards a place to watch over the wild waves that can reach upwards of 20 foot…
Grocery workers in Southern and Central California are voting Monday and Tuesday on whether they’ll authorize their union to call a strike at the region’s major supermarket chains. After months of fruitless contract negotiations with Albertsons, Vons, Pavilions and Ralphs, the seven locals of United Food and Commercial Workers are holding membership meetings where strike…
Northern California was a bit rattled this weekend when a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck off the Humboldt County coast. It was the biggest quake so far this year in California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Elizabeth Cochran, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena,…
Jurors on Monday recommended death for Charles “Chase” Merritt, convicted June 10 in the murders of the four-member McStay family, who disappeared from their Fallbrook home in February 2010 and were found buried in shallow desert graves nearly four years later. San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Michael A. Smith set Sept. 27 as the…
Throngs of mourners including law enforcement officers from across the state said their final goodbye to Joseph Gilbert Solano on Monday, two weeks after the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy was shot in a surprise attack that claimed his life. Solano’s funeral at the Cathedral of Our Lady of…
The parents who were critically wounded when an LAPD officer opened fire at a Costco earlier this month are beginning to recover and have been told that their son was killed in the shooting. “They do know about their son’s death,” their attorney, Dale K. Galipo, said Monday. “Of course they are…
