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…
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will induct six new members Sunday, July 29, bringing the total to 323. The annual ceremony, started in 1939 when the museum opened, has an odd history. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., is where the history of the game is preserved…
Sandy Spiger stopped in her tracks when she saw the surfboards set up on the beach. The new mom from Newport Beach told her husband to keep exploring the beach festival with her 1-year-old while she checked out the unique yoga class – with participants trying to stay balanced while stretching on the boards set up…
A woman led police on a brief high-speed chase in Costa Mesa on Saturday morning, then lost control and collided with four other vehicles, authorities said. Five people suffered minor injuries in the crash about 10:50 a.m. at Harbor Boulevard and Harbor Center, said police Lt. Victor Bakkila. The pursuit began after police located a vehicle that had been…
Petaluma firefighter Shay Burke heads towards the mobile sleeper and shower area of the Cranston Fire camp about a mile south of Lake Hemet, on Saturday, July 28, 2018. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Water from Lake Hemet is dropped in an area across from the Cranston Fire camp, where some sleep in tents…
