After he lost his green card following a felony conviction and was deported to Mexico, Sergio Angel Martinez Lopez thought he would never come back to the U.S. That changed this summer after his wife was killed in a spray of bullets in a drive-by shooting, according to news reports. Martinez decided…
Just after 3 a.m. on April 7, Matthew Gioia pressed the accelerator of his white Hyundai Elantra, leading Carlsbad police on a one-mile pursuit that reached speeds of 80 mph before the car crashed. Gioia’s arrest would have been an otherwise routine skirmish between police and a motorist if not…
The Los Angeles California Temple on Santa Monica Blvd. is the second largest Mormon temple in the world.
The theme for the 2019 Rose Parade, “The Melody of Life,” provided more than just visual inspiration for the floats. Grand marshal Chaka Khan opened the show and pop singer Anne-Marie closed it, but that was just the start (and end). Several of the floats had musicians performing live on them, adding an extra element…
The government shutdown over President Trump’s request for border wall funding is probably increasing the immigration court backlog. While cases for people in detention centers are going ahead as scheduled, those for people on the nondetained docket will get new dates once the government is funded…
A Costa Mesa man has pleaded not guilty to stealing a yacht in Newport Harbor on the last day of the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade. Theodore Liko Wilson, 24, entered not guilty pleas last week to felony burglary, felony unlawful taking of a vehicle and felony vandalism as well as six misdemeanor…
Oceanside resident Shelby Jacobs, 83, is responsible for one of the most iconic video images of NASA’s race to put a man on the moon in the 1960s. It’s the oft-seen, slow-motion color footage of a ringlike section of the Saturn V rocket separating from the Apollo 6 spacecraft and spinning slowly…
The dazzling colors, sights and sounds of the 2019 Rose Parade came to a discordant end Tuesday morning after one of the larger floats caught fire just before the procession was scheduled to conclude. The annual Pasadena march featured its usual array of fabulous floral floats and marching bands from all over the globe, all…
SANTA ANA — For a Vietnamese couple from Anaheim, life got a bit sweeter early on New Year’s Day. At 2:56 a.m. on Jan. 1, Thy Bich Tran, 27 and her husband, Tam Lee, 28, welcomed their first child, Eric Tran into the world. The newborn boy was 19 inches long and weighed 6 pounds…
President Donald Trump invited the top congressional leaders from both parties to a White House briefing on border security Wednesday and suggested he wants to “make a deal” to end the government shutdown. It’s the first sign of a possible opening for negotiations to break the stalemate that’s had parts of the government shut for…
