Helen Nguyen, right, fears her husband, Michael Phong Nguyen, 54, left, is being detained and possibly imprisoned in Vietnam. Nguyen is a U.S. citizen, and has been missing sine July 6, 2018. (Photo courtesy of the Nguyen family) Helen Nguyen becomes emotional during a press conference to speak about her missing husband Michael Phong Nguyen,…
A mobile needle exchange program universally opposed by the county and four affected cities was approved this week by the California Department of Public Health. State officials decided Monday to let the Orange County Needle Exchange Program operate for two years starting Monday, Aug. 6, according to an email and letter from the department. Supporters say…
Fundraising has started to include a bronze monument in Westminster’s Mendez Tribute Park, a small park breaking ground in January to memorialize to the 1947 ruling with local ties that banned the segregation of Mexican American children in California schools. The City Council approved the park project in March, committing the $160,000 it will cost to convert a…
CSUF graduate Thabat Dahdoul, far right, traveled to Peru in the summer of 2017 with other BOLD scholars, from left, Dinorah Ortiz from CSUF and Enas Jahangir from Smith College, plus Annie Cohen, site coordinator of the program at Smith. The BOLD Women’s Leadership Network is funded by the Pussycat Foundation, established by former Cosmopolitan…
LAGUNA NIGUEL — Maya Davis is a lot like most 9-year-old girls—she enjoys listening to Taylor Swift, playing Pokémon and going to the beach. However, most 9-year-old girls aren’t national reigning USAT taekwondo silver medalists in sparring. Maya competed in her first USAT National Championships July 2-9 in Salt Lake City and made quite the…
Elderly patients spent over two weeks in uncontrolled pain or respiratory distress. Acute care was rare on weekends. And recruiters went door to door pitching fraudulent schemes, luring healthy patients to sign up for hospice in exchange for free housecleaning and medicine. These details appear in a report on hospice released Monday by a government watchdog agency…
A 25-year-old Orange man was stabbed to death early Sunday near a bar where he’d been involved in a fight, police said. The victim and another man left The District Lounge, at 223 W. Chapman Ave., after a fight. Outside, near the bar, the people they’d been fighting with drove by in a vehicle, said…
SANTA ANA — A 38-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday and was immediately sentenced to time served in custody for throwing burning rags onto a sheriff’s patrol car in Stanton on New Year’s Day. Nicholas Lam of Stanton, arrested on Jan. 1, was also placed on five years of formal probation, said Deputy District Attorney Angela…
Come 2020, Mission Viejo voters will have an opportunity to cast ballots in a way that may be unique among local governments in California. A so-called “cumulative” voting system — in which a single registered voter can cast as many as five votes for a single candidate for city council — was approved last week…
For William “Will” Odell and the thousands of people he represents, a seat at the table is more than a symbolic gesture. It’s a chance to have a voice in making decisions that could change peoples’ lives. At least that’s the hope for the 54-year-old former high school teacher’s new role on the board of…
