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Can Southern California save its disappearing beaches?
Finding solutions for Southern California’s chronically disappearing beaches — and the money to pay for them — is no easy task. Catch up first This is the third story in a series looking at sand...
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An Orange County coastal town grapples with losing its beach
Editor’s note: This is the second story in a series looking at sand erosion issues in Southern California. Read the first story here. Railroad passenger service through San Clemente has been halted...
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Southern California coastal towns are losing valuable sand, putting some...
Editor’s note: This is the first story in a series looking at sand erosion issues in Southern California. Gone are the bonfires, the volleyball nets and the sunbathers from some sand-depleted beaches...
View ArticleMistakes taint murder case against Santa Ana homeless man, defense claims
On a warm August evening in 2021, 29-year-old Jesus Jimenez, holding a can of Bud Light, walked his bicycle along North Raitt Street in Santa Ana. A couple of steps behind him was a man in a black...
View ArticleKiller of Riverside County deputy had a history of violence, evading police
The gunman who killed Riverside County sheriff’s Deputy Isaiah Cordero this week had an extensive history of violent crime and repeated attempts to evade law enforcement, which one time resulted in the...
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Santa Anita Park cancels New Year’s Day program due to soaking by rainstorm
Heavy overnight rains have forced the soaked Santa Anita Park to cancel its New Year’s Day racing program today, Jan. 1. Among the races that were cancelled is the park’s annual and highly popular...
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New Year’s Eve storm floods streets, strands motorists, cancels horse races
The New Year of 2023 arrived in a deluge of rain that flooded streets throughout Southern California, stranding motorists, drenching celebrations and causing overnight havoc. And another heavier storm...
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Criticism of judge in the killing of a Riverside County deputy not so clear,...
It’s every judge’s nightmare: San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Cara D. Hutson reduced bail for a career criminal awaiting sentencing on a third strike, allowing him to secure his release and...
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Family of OC attorney disputes report that he was shooing noisy pigeons...
The family of Orange County lawyer Elliot Blair on Wednesday disputed reports from Mexican authorities that he was shooing away noisy pigeons outside his Rosarito Beach hotel room just before he died...
View ArticleBody of OC attorney embalmed in Mexico before independent blood test could be...
The body of Orange County lawyer Elliot Blair was embalmed in Mexico before his family could have his blood drawn for an independent toxicology test, an attorney said Thursday, Jan. 19. Case Barnett,...
View ArticleCould any law prevent the next Monterey Park mass shooting?
California has some of the toughest gun laws in the country, with rules on everything from the types of weapons and ammunition that can be legally owned, to who can and can’t own any weapon, to broad...
View ArticleMonterey Park massacre puts new LA County sheriff on global stage
Less than two months after he was sworn into office, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna faced baptism by fire in the Monterey Park shooting that claimed 11 lives and catapulted him onto a worldwide...
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OC attorney who died in Mexico remembered in night aglow with love
Mexico was Elliot Blair’s happy place. It’s where he proposed to wife Kimberly Williams. It’s where he held his bachelor party. And it’s where he died suddenly and mysteriously Jan. 14 while...
View ArticleRosarito police shook down OC lawyer Elliot Blair shortly before his death,...
Rosarito police extorted money from Orange County lawyer Elliot Blair and his wife less than two hours before his mysterious death at a Mexican beach resort, but the couple did not have the amount...
View ArticleMexican autopsy shows injuries to dead OC lawyer did not come from a fall,...
A Mexican autopsy revealed Orange County lawyer Elliot Blair suffered injuries suggesting he had possibly been dragged, conflicting with the official conclusion that he died in a drunken fall from a...
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Attorney Elliot Blair’s death in Baja raises troubling questions for American...
Mexico was supposed to be their “happy place,” where Orange County lawyer Elliot Blair and his wife, Kim Williams, went to celebrate their love on their one-year anniversary. Now his death and her...
View ArticleUncertified substance abuse staffers treated clients at Orange County-funded...
Telecare Corp.’s drug and alcohol program was supposed to be the “cream of the crop,” an important part of the much-heralded Be Well campus in Orange serving as a one-stop shop for mental health and...
View ArticleOC sheriff probes own crime lab at request of district attorney — and finds...
Last April, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer ordered a review into a star crime lab analyst accused by defense attorneys of altering her findings to support prosecutors. Spitzer then asked...
View ArticleTorrance pays $750,000 to owner of car allegedly painted with swastika by...
The city of Torrance has paid $750,000 to the owner of an impounded car that allegedly was spray-painted by police with a swastika in 2020. The payment settles a $6 million federal lawsuit by car owner...
View ArticlePreliminary hearing underway for ex-Torrance cops charged with painting...
A preliminary hearing is underway in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom for two former Torrance police officers accused of painting a swastika and other graffiti on a car impounded from a theft suspect...
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