A suspect wanted in connection to a stalking case was shot by a Placentia police detective in Fullerton on Tuesday, officials said. The incident happened around 5:52 p.m. on the 3200 block of Yorba Linda Boulevard. Placentia Police Sgt. Joe Connell said detectives attempted to make contact and detain the suspect when the officer-involved shooting…
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Disneyland has opted to extinguish signature flamethrower effects from its nighttime fireworks and water shows in the wake of the stunning technical failure that led to the “Fantasmic” dragon bursting into a towering inferno. Disneyland has temporarily suspended fire effects in “Wondrous Journeys” and “World of Color — One” out of an abundance of caution…
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By Michael Kunzelman | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants went to the jury on Tuesday after dozens of witnesses over more than three months in one of the most serious cases to emerge from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.…
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Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Ginnie Newhart, who was married to comedy legend Bob Newhart for six decades and inspired the classic ending of his “Newhart” series, has died. She was 82. Publicist Jerry Digney said Newhart died Sunday in Los Angeles after a long illness. No further details were available. The couple recently celebrated…
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By JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON — They’re not quibbling about minor points. There are stark differences in how President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy want to shore up the government’s finances. The Democratic president primarily wants higher taxes on the wealthy to lower deficits; the GOP congressional leader favors sharp spending cuts. Staring down…
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By David Bauder | Associated Press NEW YORK — Before ousting Tucker Carlson, Fox News had twice fired wildly popular hosts – and both times the network recovered better than the stars it cut loose. Fox’s dismissals of Glenn Beck in 2011 and Bill O’Reilly in 2017 offer lessons in what the post-Carlson fallout might…
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By Spencer Soper and Matt Day | Bloomberg More than 80 contract drivers and dispatchers who handle deliveries for Amazon.com have joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The drivers work for one of many Amazon Delivery Service Partners, small businesses that rent vans, hire drivers and ferry packages for the e-commerce giant. The workers east…
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By Farnoush Amiri, Matthew Lee and Aamer Madhani, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Taliban have killed the senior Islamic State group leader behind the August 2021 suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport that left 13 U.S. service members and about 170 Afghans dead, according to the father of a Marine killed in the attack who…
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A Southern California man who photographed himself while helping to trash the Senate Parliamentarian’s office, stole a bottle of alcohol and then smoked marijuana in a Senator’s office during the Jan. 6 riot was sentenced Monday to four years in federal prison. Erik Herrera (Courtesy U.S. Department of Justice) Erik Herrera, a photographer from El…
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I would like to believe that well-intentioned people who see a problem but choose a worse solution can eventually change their minds. Senate Bill 274, authored by Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, would extend a ban on suspensions and expulsions for “willful defiance” in California’s public middle schools and high schools. Current law permanently bans these…
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