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…
By MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ and SUDHIN THANAWALA The Associaed Press LAKEPORT, Calif. — Twin wildfires tearing through vineyards and brushy hills threatened some 10,000 homes in Northern California Tuesday — yet another front in the seemingly endless summer of wildfires that have ravaged some of the most scenic areas of the state. The two fires…
GARDEN GROVE — A man was shot in a leg inside a home in Garden Grove on Monday, prompting a search for two suspects. Officers responded to a report of a shooting about 5:30 p.m. in the 11000 block of Jerry Lane and found a 45-year-old man with a single gunshot wound to a leg,…
CAMP PENDLETON — A general – credited with an incredible work ethic and team leadership – relinquished command of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, and its some 50,000 Marines and sailors, during a change of command ceremony Monday, July 30, at this seaside base. Call it the passing of the baton from one combat-tried infantryman to…
Health officials on Monday, July 30, closed a stretch of the shoreline in Long Beach to beachgoers because of a spill over the weekend of 9,000 gallons of sewage. All swimming areas west of the Belmont Pier to the Los Angeles River were closed because of potential contamination caused by the 1 p.m. spill Sunday…
