When Horace Roberts Jr. was freed after 20 years in prison following his conviction for the murder of a Jurupa Valley woman he did not commit, he emerged into a changed world. Among the innovations occurring while Roberts was behind bars from 1998 to 2018 was the improvement of DNA technology that allows investigators to…
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Welcome to the Southern California News Group’s high school football score updates for Saturday, Dec. 14. We will have updates for all of the area teams playing in the CIF State championship games. When the games are over, we’ll have game stories, photos, score list and more online. Saturday’s CIF state championships scoreboard Scores will…
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By ALICIA RANCILIO, Associated Press It could be argued that 2024 wasn’t the best year for television. Highly anticipated shows like the final season of “Stranger Things,” “The Last of Us” and “The White Lotus” didn’t even make it on the calendar and will instead return in 2025. Streamers and networks tightened their budgets by…
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Here’s some free advice for politicians: Be sure to get the basics right when begging for attention on social media. Over the weekend, California’s Yale-educated Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is considering a run for governor, posted on X something that was designed to look tough toward incoming-President Donald Trump, but unfortunately just showed a…
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Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from Dec. 5 to Dec. 12. El Pollo Norteño, 13185 Harbor Blvd., Garden Grove Closed: Dec. 9 Reason: Sewage overflow Reopened: Dec. 9 Cancun Tacos Al Carbon, 7011 Warner Ave., Suite I, Huntington Beach Closed: Dec. 9 Reason:…
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There’s a lot of string to gather as prosecutors and journalists try to put together the life story of Luigi Mangione, the alleged assassin of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson in New York City this month. Insofar as there’s an ordinary shooter profile — not sure such a profile actually exists, but I think you know…
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In “Kitchen Garden Living” (Cool Springs Press, 2025), author Bailey Van Tassel invokes an easily memorized rhyme concerning crop rotation in the vegetable garden: “beans, roots, greens, fruits.” The idea here is to plant a leguminous crop such as beans that enriches the soil with nitrogen, followed by a light-feeding root crop such as carrots,…
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Q. What are microclimates and why are they important in gardening? Gardeners throughout the U.S. should be familiar with the USDA plant hardiness zones which are based on minimum winter temperatures. Most nursery stock and seeds sold in the U.S. are labeled with the USDA hardiness zone range for that plant. Since the USDA system…
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy want to cut $2 trillion and make the government more efficient. It’s a high priority since the United States is barreling toward a fiscal crisis. Yet despite the mounting evidence of unsustainable spending and deficits, lots of people seem to believe that the goals of the Department of Government Efficiency,…
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“What time is it?” Cheryl Miller asks her husband, John. He wants to answer, but his wife has already asked him that question three times in the last few minutes. Frustrated, John yells at her to stop asking. He instantly regrets it. “I’m going into the bedroom for a minute,” John tells his wife of…
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