In a stunning reversal, an appellate court has given the city of Whittier a second chance at drilling for oil and gas in the Whittier-Puente Hills nature preserve by throwing out five years of court rulings that had left the project for dead. The 2nd District Appellate Court of Los Angeles ruled last week the…
An employee was struck in the head with a tire iron early Monday, July 30, 2018, during a robbery at the Jack-in-the-Box at 11501 Carson St. in Lakewood. (Google Street View) LAKEWOOD — An employee of a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant in Lakewood was struck on the head with a tire iron Monday during a robbery, authorities…
Chew-Li loves gardening! Although for him gardening is more akin to lying among the plants than doing anything to help them grow. (Courtesy of Alura Always & Forever Pekingese Rescue) Chew Li was left at a Los Angeles animal shelter after he was hit by a car and his owners feared they couldn’t to get…
Cal State Fullerton student Cassie Chang of Orange is one of 10 students to receive a $10,000 Nikon Storytellers Scholarship, a new program by Nikon Inc. designed to support future visual content creators. Cal State Fullerton student Cassie Chang of Orange is one of 10 students to receive a $10,000 Nikon Storytellers Scholarship. (Photo courtesy…
Some of next year’s freshmen showed up on the Cal State Fullerton campus the last week of June – along with their parents. They’re not unpacking yet. They were part of freshman orientation activities that included interactive activities, campus tours, and meetings with students and professors in the college they will be part of come…
Brenden Wells, left, and Alan Cerna, founders of Apprentice Builds, stand with lead mentor and mechanic Wil Diaz at the Garden Grove Car Show on Main Street on July 6. (Photo by Kyusung Gong, Contributing Photographer) “A lot of these troubled kids, from a very young age, they seem to grow a passion for vehicles,”…
REDDING — The deadly Northern California wildfire that has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes burned virtually unchecked Sunday as fire crews surveyed a small town that was reduced to an ashy moonscape of blackened trees and smoldering rubble. The death toll climbed to six, and authorities worried that another forecast…
The Cranston fire in the San Jacinto Mountains stood at 13,130 acres burned and 29 percent containment Sunday, firefighters reported. The acreage increased by only 12 acres from Saturday night, and the containment percentage was the same. #CranstonFire [update] off Highway 74 and Control Road, east of Hemet (Riverside County) is now 13,130 acres and…
The Coast Guard and Orange County Sheriff’s Department crews on Saturday night rescued three men from a boat taking on water near Seal Beach. At about 10 p.m., a worker on a nearby oil platform contacted the Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach about an 18-foot recreational boat taking on water with three men aboard,…
In 1972, more than 50,000 people crowded into Chicago’s Comiskey Park to see roller derby team the Los Angeles Thunderbirds compete against the Chicago Midwest Pioneers. The teams were made up of both men and women, the audience was enthusiastic and the match broke attendance records for roller derby at a time when the sport…
