Roberta Weintraub emerged as a polemic figure in the anti-school busing movement that swept the San Fernando Valley in the late 1970s. Elected to the Los Angeles school board as an activist, she became a coalition builder, being elected president four times during her 14 years as a school board…
The new ice rink at Irvine’s Orange County Great Park was crowded on Wednesday, Jan. 2, with bundled-up kids holding the hand of a parent, laughing teens too cool to wear jackets, and junior hockey players zipping in and out among the slower, less experienced skaters. Great Park Ice, when finished, will host figure skating, youth…
The state agency that enforces workplace law has issued a warning to distribution facilities that they could be on the hook for future fines if they do business with trucking companies that violate wage laws. The warning, issued Jan. 2 by the California Department of Industrial Relations and based on a law that went into effect the…
A crash between a motorcycle and car in Santa Ana left two dead on Wednesday afternoon. Corporal Anthony Bertagna with the Santa Ana Police Department said the crash happened at around 1:30 p.m. on Raitt Street, between McFadden and Edinger avenues. “The man was driving the motorcycle south on Raitt Street, and the woman was…
The Holtec Hi-Storm Umax dry storage system for spent fuel at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (Courtesy of Southern California Edison) — This Google Earth image shows how close the expanded dry storage area for spent nuclear waste will be to the shoreline at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. (Image courtesy of Google Earth) As…
Daryl Dragon, a classically trained pianist who gained a share of fame as the “Captain” of Captain & Tennille, has died. Dragon died early Wednesday at a hospice in Prescott, Ariz. Spokesman Harlan Boll said he was 76 and suffered from renal failure. His former wife and musical partner, Toni Tennille,…
Emmy Award-winning writer Bob Einstein, who was best known as cocky stuntman Super Dave Osborne and Larry David’s newly devout friend, Marty Funkhouser, on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” has died. He was 76. Einstein died at home in Indian Wells, Calif., on Wednesday, shortly after being diagnosed…
The surgeon lost his hands. He couldn’t operate anymore. He lost his practice. Surgeon Jim Jackson, right, works out with MMA fighter John Mercurio in Westminster, CA, on Friday, Dec 21, 2018. Jackson lost his medical license after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. One day, he walked into a gym and began training with MMA…
By ZEKE MILLER and LISA MASCARO | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are expected to attend a briefing on border security at the White House as the government remains partially shut down and President Donald Trump asks in a tweet, “Let’s make a deal?” The partial government shutdown began on Dec….
California instituted several landmark environmental policies in 2018 and green activists are geared up to keep the momentum growing in 2019. “I think we will have challenge and opportunity,” said Environment California’s Dan Jacobson, one of Sacramento’s most prominent environmental lobbyists. “There’s a lot of challenge at the federal level while in California we have…
