• The latest hot spot for illegal border crossings is San Diego. But routes change quickly

    The latest hot spot for illegal border crossings is San Diego. But routes change quickly
    By ELLIOT SPAGAT
    JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. — On many nights, hundreds of migrants squeeze through poles in a border wall or climb over on metal ladders. They gather in a buffer zone between two walls with views of the night lights of Tijuana, Mexico, waiting hours for Border Patrol agents while volunteers deliver hot coffee, instant ramen and bandages for busted knees and swollen ankles.
    About an hour drive east, where the moon offers the only light, up to hundreds more navigate a boulde
  • Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (May 23-30)

    Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (May 23-30)
     
    Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from May 23 to May 30.
    Gina’s Pizza, 1100 S. Coast Highway, Suite 104, Laguna BeachClosed: May 29
    Reason: Cockroach infestation
    Reopened: May 30Tsun Scoops, 13137 Brookhurst St., Garden GroveClosed: May 28
    Reason: Rodent infestation
    Reopened: May 30Pho Lovers, 9892 Westminster Ave., Suite 315, Garden GroveClosed: May 28
    Reason: Rodent infestation
    Reopened: May 29Peking Gourme
  • Family of 14-year-old girl killed in Balboa Peninsula crash touts DUI reforms

    Family of 14-year-old girl killed in Balboa Peninsula crash touts DUI reforms
    By PAUL ANDERSON/City News Service
    Moments before his 14-year-old daughter was struck and killed by an alleged drunk driver, her father had one of those feelings of concern that parents get out of the blue.
    “I’d always want her to check in with me and to stay in touch, and it’s funny how we feel things, but right around 6:45 p.m. I sent her a message that I felt worried, how are you? Are you OK? And I didn’t hear back until a couple of hours later,” Fillmore Smiley
  • Alexander: In NCAA’s lawsuit settlement, the little guys get shafted

    Alexander: In NCAA’s lawsuit settlement, the little guys get shafted
    The recently proposed settlement involving three antitrust lawsuits against the NCAA, including $2.77 billion to settle the class-action “House v. NCAA” suit, seems to be a win-win for college sports at first glance.
    Athletes who missed out on the NIL revolution will receive back pay, the door will open for current athletes to share in college sports’ profits legally and honestly, and – assuming plaintiffs don’t object – the association is going to avoid what
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  • Longtime Laguna Hills High Principal Bill Hinds dies at 54

    Longtime Laguna Hills High Principal Bill Hinds dies at 54
    Laguna Hills High School Principal William “Bill” Herbert Hinds III was honored as an educational leader during the school’s graduation ceremony on Thursday evening, May 30.
    Nearly two weeks earlier, on May 18, the Trabuco Canyon resident died. He was 54.
    For the last 29 years, Hinds has served the Saddleback Valley Unified School District community. Throughout his tenure with the district, he worked as a middle school history teacher, activity director, assistant principal at
  • Palm trees: What you need to know about these varieties

    Palm trees: What you need to know about these varieties
    The subject of last week’s column was palm trees and that will be the subject for this column as well. 
    I recently learned that someone in Fountain Valley has a collection of 200 palm tree species around his home. I was astonished by this number. In more than 40 years of plant watching in the Los Angeles area, I have barely encountered 20 different palm tree species. It is enlightening to realize how many options there are when it comes to plant choices, even if we have to make do wit
  • Creamsicle craze grows to M&Ms, Sonic, IHOP, Arby’s – and kombucha

    Creamsicle craze grows to M&Ms, Sonic, IHOP, Arby’s – and kombucha
    It’s amazing how old-school flavors can ring up a dose of nostalgia and cash.
    Take the mix of orange and cream. Recently I wrote about a renewed culinary interest and marketing push for the creamsicle flavor, highlighted by fast food’s Wendy’s chain using the combo in its Frosty.
    This year’s creamsicle craze also hit fast food’s Baskin-Robbins, Carvel, and Wienerschnitzel, and yogurt maker Chobani — just to name a few brands.
    Well, that column sparked quite a
  • The IRS aims to topple a pillar of America’s economy

    The IRS aims to topple a pillar of America’s economy
    There are well over 4 million partnerships in America, a business configuration that makes it possible for the nearly 30 million partners who own them to provide consumers with goods and services, hire more workers and contribute to the prosperity of our nation. In fact, a new study from the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council shows that partnerships in the core living expenditures sector contributed $1.3 trillion to our nation’s GDP in 2023.
    But new IRS efforts targeting partner
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  • Know your rights or you will lose them

    Know your rights or you will lose them
    If America’s schools are to impart principles of freedom and democracy to future generations, they must start by respecting the constitutional rights of their students
    Take the case of Lucas Hudson.
    With all the negative press being written about today’s young people, it’s refreshing to meet a young person who not only knows his rights but is prepared to stand up for them.
    Lucas is a smart kid, a valedictorian of his graduating class at the Collegiate Academy at Armwood High Sc
  • Rats! How to keep them out of your home and garden after spring rains

    Rats! How to keep them out of your home and garden after spring rains
    Q. I have noticed a lot of rat activity in my garden this spring – more than I’ve ever seen! What can I do to at least keep them out of my house? 
    The heavier rains earlier this year have caused the local vegetation to thrive, including the weeds. As if that weren’t bad enough, now we have an explosion in the rat population.
    The biggest concern with rats is indeed keeping them out of your house. They are awful in the garden but can do far more damage to your home. They can
  • Crime victims may get fewer services as federal aid drops. States weigh how to help

    Crime victims may get fewer services as federal aid drops. States weigh how to help
    Amanda Hernández And Jennifer Shutt | Stateline.org (TNS)
    Groups that assist crime victims across the United States are bracing for significant financial pain after the amount available from a major federal victim services fund plunged $700 million this year.
    Congress recently lowered spending to $1.2 billion from the fund, which provides grants to nonprofit and local programs across the country.
    This latest round of cuts has sparked widespread concern among district attorney’s offi
  • Newsom’s tiny home promises remain empty

    Newsom’s tiny home promises remain empty
    One of the best ideas for quickly housing California’s homeless population is to build tiny homes on vacant lots in commercial and industrial areas. AP reported that the homes can be assembled in as little as 90 minutes – and can provide emergency housing more quickly than other options. It’s such a good idea that Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged $30 million in state funds to build 1,200 of them.
    “We need to focus more energy and precision on addressing encampments. There’
  • Moving back home to save for a house: How to make it work

    Moving back home to save for a house: How to make it work
    By Barbara Marquand | NerdWallet
    After starting a career in engineering in Boynton Beach, Florida, Moisey Abdurakhmanov was renting a home with friends when he decided he wanted his own place.
    “I realized I was basically paying somebody else’s mortgage every month,” he recalls.
    So when the lease was up, he moved back home with his parents, saved every dime he could and bought a house five months later in January 2021 — “easily one of the best decisions I’ve ma
  • What the land of Lincoln tells us about Southern California

    What the land of Lincoln tells us about Southern California
    My recent travels took my wife and I to the upper Midwest where we witnessed the nuptials of our dear friend’s daughter. We found ourselves in the land of Lincoln — Illinois and Wisconsin.
    You may be wondering what a trip to the Midwest has to do with Southern California commercial real estate. Please indulge me as I recap a few lessons learned.
    One of the most striking aspects of our visit was the strong sense of community and local support in the Midwest.
    Small towns thrive on mutu
  • Larry Wilson: RFK Jr.’s Jim Crow fetish for bad Dixie

    Larry Wilson: RFK Jr.’s Jim Crow fetish for bad Dixie
    Sometimes it’s harder to forgive a politician’s oddball, eccentric, merely mean-spirited positions, even when they are expressed offhand and are not the main plank in the platform, than it is their fundamental beliefs.
    Robert Kennedy Jr.’s fundamental belief, other than his past main plank of thinking that the tens of millions of lives saved by the miracle of medical vaccines in the last century are all part of some dangerous conspiratorial fraud.
    Whatever, would be the proper
  • Projections vs. scenarios, and why politicians should care

    Projections vs. scenarios, and why politicians should care
    Congressional Budget Office projections provide valuable insights into how a big chunk of your income is being spent and reveal the long-term consequences of our government’s current fiscal policies — you may endure them, and your children most certainly will. Yet, like most other projections looking into our future, these numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. So should claims that CBO projections validate anyone’s fiscal track record.
    So much can and likely will happen
  • Inflation hits California families hardest. It’s shaping their views on the economy

    Inflation hits California families hardest. It’s shaping their views on the economy
    On paper, the U.S. economy seems to be doing well with historically low unemployment. Yet most Americans have a sour view in recent polls, with stubborn inflation in living costs cited as the reason for that pessimism.
    “As the 2024 general election begins in earnest, voters’ assessment of the economy and of the candidates’ ability to manage it will, as usual, have a strong impact on the outcome of the race,” Brookings Institute stated in a recent analysis of economic atti
  • Dodgers never find their groove in loss to Rockies

    Dodgers never find their groove in loss to Rockies
    LOS ANGELES — It seemed like the right spot for the Dodgers to continue building the momentum they rediscovered at the end of a six-game road trip.
    Put Walker Buehler on the mound against the Colorado Rockies, an opponent they have owned at home in recent years, and start off the brief three-game homestand on the right foot before heading back out on the road.
    So much for that.
    Buehler gave up three earned runs, the Dodgers’ bats struggled for most of the night, and they limped to a
  • Angels lose to Mariners despite Jo Adell’s game-tying, pinch-hit grand slam

    Angels lose to Mariners despite Jo Adell’s game-tying, pinch-hit grand slam
    SEATTLE — While Angels fans wait for the team to “learn how to win,” as Manager Ron Washington says frequently, they are getting plenty of experience in finding new ways to lose.
    Left-hander Matt Moore gave up a tie-breaking home run to Ty France in the eighth inning of the Angels’ 5-4 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.
    That in itself would not have made for a unique script in this forgettable Angels season. The twist was that Moore gave up the homer to cost th
  • Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Saturday, June 1, 2024

    Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Saturday, June 1, 2024
    The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Saturday, June 1, 2024.
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  • Dodgers welcome back Evan Phillips, DFA struggling Elieser Hernandez

    Dodgers welcome back Evan Phillips, DFA struggling Elieser Hernandez
    LOS ANGELES — It wasn’t technically a present, but Dodgers manager Dave Roberts gladly welcomed back closer Evan Phillips on the skipper’s 52nd birthday.
    Phillips was activated off the injured list on Friday. He had not played since May 3 because of a strained right hamstring.
    “Evan worked really hard to get back,” Roberts said. “Having a guy at the back end that you trust, who was off to a really good season at this point, I’m just really excited.&rdquo
  • LAFC players credit club’s strong culture as an ‘oasis’ amid troubling times

    LAFC players credit club’s strong culture as an ‘oasis’ amid troubling times
    There’s a lot happening in the world and people have opinions.
    That’s why Los Angeles Football Club head coach Steve Cherundolo, a self-described news junkie, is surprised that the “very busy” events of the day, both home and abroad, haven’t come up more often in conversations between the organization’s players, coaches and staff.
    “And that’s the beauty of professional sports, and, more particular, LAFC,” Cherundolo said. “This is an oa
  • Angels rookie Nolan Schanuel says he’s getting more comfortable at the plate

    Angels rookie Nolan Schanuel says he’s getting more comfortable at the plate
    SEATTLE — Even though the numbers show that Nolan Schanuel is still riding something of a rollercoaster, the Angels’ rookie first baseman doesn’t feel that way.
    Schanuel was lugging a 3-for-27 slump into this weekend’s series in Seattle, but he had gone 11 for 33 just before that. Despite the vastly different results, Schanuel said he has felt good about his swing lately.
    “I feel like I got a little unlucky the last week,” Schanuel said Friday, before he was s
  • UC Irvine baseball walks off Nicholls State after blowing 8-run lead in NCAA regional opener

    UC Irvine baseball walks off Nicholls State after blowing 8-run lead in NCAA regional opener
    CORVALLIS, Oregon — Caden Kendle’s two-out, two-run single with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted UC Irvine to a wild, 13-12 victory over Nicholls State on Friday afternoon at the Corvallis Regional of the NCAA Tournament. Nicholls erased an early 9-1 deficit and then took a 12-11 lead in the top of the inning.
    The Colonels got their dramatic, three-run blast from first baseman Edgar Alvarez with one out in the ninth. But Nicholls State reliever Devin Desandro
  • Pelicans to defer Lakers’ 1st-round draft pick from Anthony Davis trade until 2025

    Pelicans to defer Lakers’ 1st-round draft pick from Anthony Davis trade until 2025
    The Lakers, as expected, will have the No. 17 overall pick in the upcoming NBA draft.
    The New Orleans Pelicans had the choice to use or defer the pick for one more year as part of the Anthony Davis trade in 2019. This is the last of three first-round picks the Lakers owe to the Pelicans in the deal. The Times-Picayune was the first to report the decision on Friday.
    Instead of having the Lakers’ first-round pick in the June 26-27 draft, the Pelicans will receive the Lakers’ first-roun
  • Corky: Three more to be added to the Surfers’ Hall of Fame

    Corky: Three more to be added to the Surfers’ Hall of Fame
    I was pleased to receive the announcement of the inductees into the Surfers’ Hall of Fame for 2024.
    This year the surfing greats who are getting the nod are Hawaiians Ilima Kalama and Jamie O’Brian, along with the excellent Huntington Beach local star Jeff Deffenbaugh.  A solid lineup for sure.
    The induction ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. on Aug. 2 in the plaza at the corner of Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway in front of Huntington Surf & Sport.   The event is op
  • First cannabis retail shop opens in Laguna Woods

    First cannabis retail shop opens in Laguna Woods
    The first legal cannabis retail shop in South Orange County has opened, adding Laguna Woods to the short list of cities in the region that have allowed local sales.
    Laguna Woods was the first city to pass an ordinance allowing medical marijuana dispensaries in 2008, but with pushback and few commercial storefronts even available or landlords interested in renting it would be years before serious conversation happened about a store opening.
    Guests check out the variety of cannabis products during
  • Florida deputy who shot Black airman has been fired

    Florida deputy who shot Black airman has been fired
    By Terry Spencer | Associated Press
    A Florida sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot a Black airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground, saying the deputy’s life was never in danger and he should not have fired his weapon.
    Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden fired Deputy Eddie Duran, who fatally shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson on May 3 after responding to a domestic violence call and being directed to Fortson’s apartment.
    Body camera video shows that w
  • Marian Robinson dies at 86; Michelle Obama’s mother lived with first family at White House

    Marian Robinson dies at 86; Michelle Obama’s mother lived with first family at White House
    By Darlene Superville | Associated Press
    WASHINGTON — Marian Shields Robinson, the mother of Michelle Obama who moved with the first family to the White House when son-in-law Barack Obama was elected president, has died. She was 86.
    Mrs. Robinson’s death was announced by Michelle Obama and other family members in a statement that said “there was and will be only one Marian Robinson. In our sadness, we are lifted up by the extraordinary gift of her life.”
    She was a widow a
  • Santa Margarita Catholic High 2024: Our best photos of the ceremony

    Santa Margarita Catholic High 2024: Our best photos of the ceremony
    The da Graca family from left: Kathy, Heather, graduate Haley, and Ralph, pose for photos, following the Santa Margarita Catholic High School commencement at the Honda Center in Anaheim on Friday, May 31, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
    Thanh Thai Nguyen, Auxiliary Bishop, Diocese of Orange, speaks during the commencement of Santa Margarita Catholic High School at the Honda Center in Anaheim on Friday, May 31, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SC

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