The founder of Los Angeles charter school network Celerity Educational Group has agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to misappropriate and embezzle public funds, federal prosecutors said Friday. The felony charge stems from Vielka McFarlane’s years-long habit of using her charter…
With United States and Mexican authorities still dithering over policy, and no long-term solution in sight, many migrants are hunkering down for a months- or possibly years-long stay in a purgatory of makeshift accommodations and spotty services.
A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Friday afternoon one mile from Caldwell Pines, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:18 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.2 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 13 miles from Clearlake, Calif., 15 miles…
A nearly 6-acre, agrarian-themed commercial project, the River Street Marketplace, enters the approval process in San Juan Capistrano just as a couple of fresh faces join the City Council. The new council members have made favorable public comments about the project some residents fear could harm, with its size, the feel of the city’s historic downtown…
At a Huntington Harbour dock Thursday afternoon, 11 Edison High students clustered around a cooler filled with baby white seabass. The fish’s population in the wild has dwindled over the past half century. The kids used a scanner to check the tags embedded in the 8″ specimens, which they’d raised in a tank at their…
The “It’s a boy” sign, along with the white-frosted cake and the presents and the colored balloons all hinted at the same thing — a baby shower. And, soon enough last Monday, Christian pastors were surrounding a newborn, a boy wrapped in a blanket and his mother’s embrace, and placing their hands on both parents’…
Orange County is loaded with influencers, from people who are determined to end homelessness to billionaire philanthropists and perhaps the best two-way baseball player since Babe Ruth. The Orange County Register again has selected the 100 Most Influential People in Orange County, and some of the choices will be exactly who you’d expect. Others, however,…
In 2018 the musical world outside Orange County experienced something that local classical music patrons have been well acquainted with for decades: the strengths and passions of Pacific Symphony music director Carl St.Clair. In the space of less than a month, St.Clair and his musicians — the largest American orchestra formed in the last half-century…
Q. Hello Honk: I was shocked to see a handicapped person in a motorized wheelchair crossing the street at Euclid Street and La Palma Avenue in Anaheim, chatting on her cell phone. Isn’t that against the law? Don’t motorized wheelchairs have the same rules as automobiles? – Mario Luna, Anaheim A. No, that isn’t illegal under state law. “The short…
As the tourist economy grows and development spreads at Big Bear Lake, bald eagles find themselves cornered in what remains of their historic lakefront foraging grounds.
