A mistrial was declared Thursday afternoon, Jan. 18, when the jury deadlocked on the charges against a former Los Angeles Police Department officer who fatally shot an intellectually disabled man and wounded his parents after the man slugged the off-duty officer at the Costco on Corona in 2019. The state Attorney General’s Office must now…
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An $89 million home under construction Newport Coast Newport Beach, CA, on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. The four-story, nearly15,000-square-foot residence sits on a three-quarter-acre lot with unobstructed ocean, golf course, and coastline views from Laguna Beach to Newport Beach. When completed in 2025, it will have five bedrooms, eight bathrooms and indoor and outdoor pools.…
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Un-obsessed with the border, the southern border, the one everyone is talking about, I clearly need to get with the zeitgeist: The border! The border! It’s like Conrad’s Kurtz in “Heart of Darkness”: “The horror! The horror!” It’s an existential dread. But when I do think of the border, I sometimes get, instead of the…
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Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from Jan. 4 to Jan. 11. El Carnaval, 2026 W. Fifth St., Santa Ana Closed: Jan. 10 Reason: Insufficient hot water Reopened: Jan. 10 Landers, 1814 N. El Camino Real, San Clemente Closed: Jan. 10 Reason: Rodent infestation…
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Imagine a future where plants are grown exclusively in biodegradable pots. That future is now for Bluestone Perennials. This mail-order nursery in Ohio now ships all of its plants in 3.5” x 4’ coir (coconut fiber) containers. The sides of the pots are breathable, allowing roots to grow through them instead of being confined and…
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The recent decisions in Colorado and Maine finding Donald Trump ineligible to run for the presidency have spawned a host of calls for the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. Rather than offer serious legal arguments, most opponents contend the decisions are anti-democratic and will have terrible consequences, such as by provoking red states to remove…
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Q. Last spring my peach tree had peach leaf curl. What can I do to prevent it from reappearing this year? Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that causes red, warty disfiguration of peach leaves. Mild cases, in which only a few leaves are affected, will not harm the tree. Sometimes the discoloration will…
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“How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market. The pain: Even California’s “bargain” rents look expensive on a national scale. The source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed 2023 average rent statistics from ApartmentList for 518 larger markets across the US – including 75 in California. ApartmentList’s figures combine pricing from landlord listings and Census…
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If the U.S. Supreme Court was hoping to stay out of election disputes, it’s too late now. This year, the justices are hearing four cases that could directly or indirectly affect the outcome of the 2024 presidential race. Back in December 2020, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Texas vs. Pennsylvania, in…
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As I pen this, we begin the second week of 2024. National Football playoff matchups are set, the first professional golf event is in the books. Washington vs. Michigan takes center stage for the NCAA football championship. (Go, Huskies!). It feels like winter in Southern California as temps dip into the 30s at night. The…
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