Costa Mesa police on Thursday arrested a youth soccer coach on suspicion of possessing pornographic images of minors. That arrest follows his earlier one a week ago on suspicion of sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl. Joshua Clever, 39, of Santa Ana, was initially arrested in that city on April 7. Police said he groomed…
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If there’s something to unite basketball in New York City it’s stomping on the stupid leprechaun. It was a great troll maneuver by Kyrie Irving because it fed into the irrational anger and pride the Boston fans feel about their beloved Celtics. That franchise, by the way, has captured just one championship in the last…
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A 28-year-old Huntington Beach man was sentenced Friday, April 15, to 35 years to life in prison for shooting at a Costa Mesa police officer and breaking into at least one homes before giving up after a 40-minute standoff. Korrell Santana Kybor Cole was convicted Feb. 6, 2020, of attempted murder of a police officer,…
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There’s a science lab in the middle of the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — and it’s all part of a massive art installation. As ambient sounds vibrate all around, a screen projects colorful moving images of what appears to be living cells onto a screen inside one of three tunnels that make…
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Josh Harrison was not in the starting lineup for the second straight game Friday as Chicago White Sox began a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays. But the second baseman said his back is feeling “a lot better,” and if he had his way he would be back Saturday. “A little unfortunate, but that’s…
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At no point Friday did coach Erik Spoelstra pull his players together during practice at FTX Arena for a chant of, “We’re No. 4!” And yet, that is where the Miami Heat stood at the time, fourth in Caesar’s Sportsbook’s NBA championship odds among the Eastern Conference playoff teams, even with their No. 1 seed,…
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By Jesse Bedayn | CalMatters Homeowners in wealthy, white neighborhoods in Oakland received thousands of dollars more in property tax breaks than their counterparts in neighborhoods with large Black, Asian and Latino populations, according to a new report based on a study by the Tax Fairness Project and the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and…
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By CARA ANNA and OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI VASYLKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The final hours before Passover found the chief rabbi for Kyiv and Ukraine in a cemetery. Before he could mark the Jewish people’s escape from slavery in Egypt thousands of years ago, he was burying a man who didn’t escape a Russian bullet. Rabbi Moshe…
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By Simone Jasper | The News & Observer The federal tax deadline is nearing, but there’s still time to file for an extension if you’re running behind. The IRS is giving taxpayers until Monday, April 18 to request extensions, which allow you to file your 2021 returns a few months late. Here’s what to know…
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By LAURA UNGAR Yet again, the U.S. is trudging into what could be another COVID-19 surge, with cases rising nationally and in most states after a two-month decline. One big unknown? “We don’t know how high that mountain’s gonna grow,” said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University. No one…
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