If a disaster strikes Newport Beach and emergency workers can’t immediately respond to every neighborhood, it’s good to have a rocket scientist and a nurse nearby. After retiring, James Ward, 86, and Evalie “Evie” DuMars, 73, started volunteering for the Community Emergency Response Team through…
Civil rights leaders are demanding that the city of Inglewood rescind its decision to destroy case files for nearly 150 police shootings and other critical incidents ahead of a new law that would have made those records public for the first time. Until recently, Inglewood retained records related to officer-involved shootings for 25 years. Earlier…
It’ll be a snowy Christmas Day for some, a wet one for others and a cold one for all of Southern California. Snow is coming to the region’s mountains, forecasters say, and the valleys in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties will see showers. There is a 30 percent chance of showers in…
Seeing Santa Claus is exciting. But it doesn’t compare to winning that Disneyland Storytellers Café Chip ‘N Dale Critter Breakfast badge. At least for 9-year-old Leo Barrera, that is. He had won 10 of the badges by bowling over tiny Christmas trees, as he and his family strolled through the 10th annual holiday brunch hosted…
Thoughtfully join together a set of uniquely different notes and you can create a wonderful melody — and so it is with the seven young ladies of the 2019 Royal Court. Each uniquely accomplished in their own lives, together they bring smiles everywhere they go, and their actions and words inspire young and old alike….
The moniker “Orange County power couple” is typically reserved for pairs with a role in politics or big business, with a recognizable family name or billion-dollar fortune. But Michael and Nicole Suydam have earned that title by working behind the scenes to help make life better for the area’s least powerful residents. “It feels strange,…
By David W. Hart, Ph.D. Contributing writer How to age successfully? It’s the million dollar question. Baby Boomers around the country are searching for age-defying remedies that prolong life and add to overall health and well-being. Successful aging is not exactly a new idea. The hope that later life could be a period of vitality…
By NINIEK KARMINI TANJUNG LESUNG, Indonesia — Efforts to collect hundreds of bodies and save the injured were stepped up in Indonesia on Monday following the country’s latest tsunami, as scientists collected evidence on how a volcanic eruption triggered the weekend tragedy. Casualty figures from Saturday night’s disaster continued to rise, with at least 373…
Rain was falling as evacuees returned to their beloved town in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Traffic slowed as drivers beheld the devastation. Five weeks earlier, an inferno swept through these wooded neighborhoods, exacting a terrible toll. Of the 86 people killed in the Camp fire, most lived here….
Standing from a sidewalk, watching as cars streamed into a DUI checkpoint at the intersection of Holt Avenue and Union Avenue, Lt. Eddie Vazquez of the Pomona Police Department recalled previous checkpoints where drunken drivers would barrel through cones like bowling pins, at times slamming into other vehicles, or launching right past officers, prompting a…
