Santana: This Week’s Top News Across OC
A host of Orange County elected officials hovered around local and federal courthouses in Orange County this week, with county supervisors complaining about how little their former colleague, Andrew Do, was ordered to pay back (about $900K) after being found responsible for derailing with a bribe scandal more than...
Female Athletes File Class Action Against Concordia University Irvine for Elimination of Women’s Teams...
Female Athletes File Sex Discrimination Class Action Against Concordia University Irvine for Elimination of Women’s Teams and Violating Title IX. Nine female athletes at Concordia University Irvine (CUI) filed a sex discrimination class action against the school late yesterday for discriminating against its female...
Diana Ross Announced as Headline for Orange County Promises of Hope Gala
Iconic singer and actress Diana Ross will be the headliner for the 2025 Orange County Promises of Hope Gala
Man accused of stealing $100,000 in skin grafts, medical supplies from Rancho Mirage hospital
Deputies say Jason Brauner, 47, gained access to restricted areas of the facility while dressed as hospital staff.
Local wildlife center gets owl out of sticky situation
A local nonprofit that helps animals is speaking out against a popular pest control method, using the recent rehabilitation of a great horned owl as an example of devastating unintended consequences. The owl will have to spend months at the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach after getting caught in...
Photos of border patrol arresting a woman selling food and workers at an LA...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- U.S. border patrol agents made more arrests in Los Angeles and the surrounding area, arresting a woman selling food outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles and workers at a car wash
‘This ain’t no damn fish and chips’: OC pop-up brings Southern cuisine to SoCal
Asha Starks, owner of Hot Grease, is honoring a Black tradition on her home turf — the OC.
Healthcare CEO warns of a system on the brink
Jarrod McNaughton, who leads Inland Empire Health Plan, says the math points to a crisis California’s safety net can’t sustain. Jarrod McNaughton is nothing if not pragmatic. There’s no other way to run a health plan in Southern California that serves 1.5 million people — especially when nearly 95% of its members...
Orange County music exec gets 4 years for working with cartel-tied concert promoter
A Huntington Beach man was sentenced to four years in federal prison for working with a concert promoter in Mexico with ties to drug cartels. José Ángel Del Villar, 45, the CEO of Del Records and its related talent agency Del Entertainment Inc., was sentenced Friday to a jail term and fined $2 million, the […]
ON LIFE AND LOVE AFTER 50: Neil Diamond – ‘A Beautiful Noise’: So Good,...
The words “So good, So good” were sung by 3,000 ticket holders at The Neil Diamond Musical, A Beautiful Noise, at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa on Wednesday, Aug. 6. The musical was performed daily from July 29 through Aug. 10 at the Segerstrom.