LAGUNA WOODS — Laguna Woods Village Third Mutual board on Tuesday, Dec. 18, passed a resolution that would soften regulations within its care provider policy. Amendments included removing requirements for caregivers to obtain a physician’s certification or fill out a private caregiver application, allowing exemptions for home care agencies — which have already performed background…
A general aviation runway at John Wayne Airport was briefly closed after a small airplane having engine trouble landed Saturday, but two people aboard were not seriously hurt, authorities said. About 4:15 p.m., a four-seat Piper PA-28-140 landed. There was some discrepancy in official accounts as to whether it crash landed, made a hard landing or…
A 22-year-old resident of Westminster died Friday, Dec. 21, in a traffic collision on U.S. Highway 395, the San Bernardino County Coroner’s Office said. The crash happened about 7:20 p.m. south of Highway 58 in Kramer Junction, which is west of Barstow and north of Adelanto. Javier Calleja was ejected from his vehicle, which collided…
A plane drops fire retardant behind homes along McVicker Canyon Park Road in Lake Elsinore as the Holy fire burned near homes.. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) Hannah Shaw of Corona del Mar High School is a dance semi-finalist in the specialty of commercial dance. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/Orange County Register/SCNG) Sound The…
By LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and KEVIN FREKING The federal government was expected to remain partially shut down well into Christmas as the standoff deepened Saturday over President Donald Trump’s demand for funds to build a border wall with Mexico. With Trump’s insistence on $5 billion for the wall and negotiations with Democrats in Congress…
He was born in prison, to the best of his knowledge. He is 19, and found out a few years ago that he has biological siblings, but no blood relative is a part of his life. Dimitri Dunn devours In-N-Out burgers, and last week he got takeout from KFC, ate it and immediately went back…
Usually, before a big event, the nerves kick in. But the evening before the start of the Vans U.S. Open of Surfing last July, Kanoa Igarashi realized he was feeling a different emotion – excitement. “Years prior, I wouldn’t have been able to sleep because of the nerves,” said the 21-year-old surfer. “Having that change…
Victims of the wildfires that devastated parts of California last month will not have to add a government shutdown to their list of troubles, federal authorities said Friday. Even though lawmakers failed Friday to find a way to avert a partial shutdown before a midnight deadline, the Federal Emergency…
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Saturday morning two miles from Genesee, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:03 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 27 miles from Susanville, Calif., 43 miles from…
Santa Barbara County granted an emergency permit on Friday to a private group’s request to install 11 steel ring nets to hold back boulders in canyons above Montecito that led to January’s deadly debris flows. With the mountains still bare and a wet El Nino predicted for January, the group had…
