Investigators sought the public’s help on Monday, Dec. 17 in determining the cause of a suspicious fire last week in Huntington Beach that displaced three residents. The blaze was reported at 7:13 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 13 and scorched a house located at 16692 Wanderer Ln., according to Huntington Beach Fire Department Battalion Chief Eric…
DANA POINT — More than 70 boat owners from across Orange County decked out their boats for the 44th annual Dana Point Boat Parade. The parade, themed a “Western Wonderland,” was held over two weekends — Dec. 7-8 and Dec. 14-15 — and drew 71 entries. Boaters decorated their boats with a western theme and…
With less than 24 hours before The Boring Company’s planned unveiling of its test tunnel under a Hawthorne city street on Dec. 18, the company has offered scant details about what to expect. That a publicity event was clouded in secrecy comes as no surprise for an enterprise headed by Elon Musk. What started out as a…
Some attorneys, landlords and other service providers in California are quietly taking equity stakes in cannabis startups in lieu of cash fees — a practice that many say comes with ethical and legal risks. Equity payouts can solve two problems at once. They can lower the initial costs and other barriers to entry for entrepreneurs…
Long before the Camp fire raced through Northern California, claiming at least 86 lives and all but erasing the Gold Rush town of Paradise, state law required the three big power monopolies to file detailed strategies to prevent wildfires. Under Senate Bill 1028, San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern…
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Monday morning 12 miles from Mono Mills, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 3:26 a.m. PST at a depth of 5.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 85 miles from South Lake Tahoe. In the last 10 days,…
SANTA ANA — A 25-year-old woman pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Friday and was immediately sentenced to six years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a fellow transient in Edison Park in Anaheim. Jessica Ventura. (File photo) As part of the plea deal, a charge of murder against Jessica Ventura was dismissed along with…
Police arrested a man suspected of assaulting his brother and prompting a six-hour standoff in Santa Ana on Sunday, Nov. 16. A man armed with a 12-inch sword, knife and pellet gun assaulted his sibling in their home at 2710 S. Rosewood Ave., said Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. He said the man’s brother…
If the Los Angeles school district moves forward with plans to paint over a controversial mural at a Koreatown campus, artist Shepard Fairey said he will insist on the removal of his large outdoor portrait of Robert F. Kennedy at the school named after him. In support of artist Beau Stanton, Fairey…
A woman was shot and a man was struck in the face during what sheriff’s deputies described as a domestic violence assault in La Mirada just past midnight on Sunday. The assault suspect was arrested, but posted bail Sunday, said Lt. Blanca Arevalo of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. His name and city of…
