By LaTresa Pearson I feel as though I’ve just passed through a magical portal. One moment, I’m walking across a gravel parking lot for San Diego’s Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve, accompanied by the hum of traffic from the nearby roads and freeways. The next, I’m enveloped by western sycamore trees, coast live oaks and arroyo…
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Some 12 miles off the California coast near Ventura, the rugged volcanic ridges that form the spine of Anacapa Island, or more precisely its three closely connected islets, thrust upward from the Pacific. It’s an intimidating and austere environment, a cliff island, with only one small beach that can only be reached by boat and…
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As you drive through the gates into Pinecrest Retreat from Highway 79 — known as the “Firefighter Steven Rucker Memorial Highway” — about three miles south of Julian, you can sense the layers of everyday stress and anxiety starting to peel away. The entrance sign at Pinecrest Retreat off Highway 79, near Julian, CA. (Photo…
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By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza because it was not linked to the release of hostages. The resolution before the U.N.’s most powerful body also did not condemn Hamas’ deadly attack in Israel on…
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A Westminster man who already was in police custody on suspicion of vandalism was identified as a suspect in the death of a homeless man found outside the Westminster public library earlier this week, authorities said. Evidence found at the scene, on the 8200 block of 13th Street, led investigators to identify James Metcalf, 54,…
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN, JESSE BEDAYN and REBECCA SANTANA BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A federal judge issued an order Wednesday to prevent the deportation of the wife and five children of an Egyptian man charged in the firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado. U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher granted a request from the family of Mohamed Sabry…
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The first OC Sports Awards honored many of Orange County’s top athletes and others who have contributed to Orange County sports and philanthropy on Tuesday at Angel Stadium. The event was organized and managed by The Orange County Sports Commission. Sports broadcaster Matt Leinart, who played quarterback in the NFL, was a Heisman Trophy winner…
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BOSTON — Jorge Soler was in the middle of conducting an interview with the help of bullpen catcher Manny Del Campo, who serves at the team’s Spanish interpreter, when he suddenly gave a very simple answer in English. Asked how he felt at the plate lately, Soler said: “Bad.” The numbers tell the same story.…
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While Los Angeles bands like The Germs, The Go-Go’s, X, and Bad Religion drew the spotlight to Southern California’s punk rock scene, their iconic larger-than-life presence may have inadvertently cast a shadow on the suburbs of Orange County, whose teens were ready to prove that rebellion thrived outside of La La Land. In “Tearing Down The…
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By Lauren Schwahn, NerdWallet House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” on May 22. This meaty budget reconciliation bill includes a provision to increase the state and local tax, or SALT, deduction limit. If the changes make it through the Senate, certain taxpayers could see big tax breaks. What is the SALT…
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