Arrests have been made in the kidnapping of a Costa Mesa woman in Uganda last week while she was on safari in Africa, authorities said on Tuesday. Tourist Kimberly Sue Endicott and her guide Jean-Paul Mirenge-Remezo were kidnapped April 2 after they were ambushed in Queen Elizabeth National Park, a protected area near the border…
LOS ANGELES — Powerful winds will whip across Southern California Tuesday, forecasters said. L.A. County’s strongest winds will blow across the San Gabriel Mountains, according to National Weather Service meteorologists, who forecast northwest winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour with gusts of between 40 and 50 mph through this afternoon, increasing to between…
In announcing that she would plead guilty in the college admissions scandal, Felicity Huffman said she “will accept the consequences that stem from those actions.” But what will those consequences be? Here is a breakdown: The crime Prosecutors said Huffman paid $15,000 for a 36-year-old Harvard…
Prosecutors moved the college admissions scandal into a new chapter Monday, announcing that actress Felicity Huffman and more than a dozen other wealthy parents charged with participating in the scam have agreed to plead guilty. The plea agreements, which come less than a month after the government…
An image of the patio of the Robert Freeman College Union at Occidental College was used in the 1955-56 Know Your City photography series.
NEW YORK — TV actress Allison Mack pleaded guilty Monday to charges she was involved in a scheme to turn women into sex slaves for the spiritual leader of a cult-like upstate New York group, a development that came on the same day jury selection began for a federal trial in the case. FILE –…
LOS ANGELES — An Orange County woman was sentenced Monday to nearly three years behind bars for her role in a real estate Ponzi scheme that bilked dozens of Southern California investors who collectively suffered millions of dollars in losses. Angel Bronsgeest, 55, of Lake Forest was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Cormac J….
Felicity Huffman and a dozen other wealthy parents swept up in the far-reaching college admissions scandal have agreed to plead guilty after being charged in the scheme, according to court records. The actress and 12 other parents, including Los Angeles marketing guru Jane Buckingham, will plead…
The Vietnamese-American community lost a folk hero Friday, April 5, with the death of Ly Tong – dubbed the “Vietnamese James Bond” for his audacious exploits combating communism. Tong’s derring-do included three renegade flights – two over his home country and one over Cuba – to drop political leaflets. The former fighter pilot died of…
Officers continued to search for a robbery suspect who pointed a gun at Tustin liquor store employee in March, and asked for the public’s help in identifying him on Monday, April 8. At least two male suspects walked into One Stop Liquor, 14252 Newport Ave., took cases of beer from the store and attempted to…
