By Lauren Schwahn, NerdWallet Reducing debt is Americans’ top financial priority for 2025. That’s according to the CFP Board of Standard’s Debt and New Year’s Resolutions Report. It’s an understandable goal: Household debt is at an all-time high, delinquencies are rising and policy changes under a new presidential administration are adding to financial uncertainty for…
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A Los Angeles Superior Courtroom Monday, March 17, played host to a two-hour-long hearing where dozens of attorneys representing plaintiffs of Eaton fire-related lawsuits against Southern California Edison worked through the logistical challenge of handling the multitude of cases filed against the utility. Those cases allege that the Rosemead-based utility’s equipment ignited the catastrophic blaze.…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now The final Orange County girls basketball rankings for the 2024-25 season. Notable this week: Mater Dei, the top-ranked team in Orange County in the preseason, finishes No. 1. Under first coach Jody Wynn, the Monarchs went undefeated against county opponents for the third…
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Azusa Pacific University announced Monday that is has been approved to join the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) and will be bringing back its football program. APU dropped football in December of 2020 due to financial restructuring at the school and the shrinking number of small college football teams in California. APU was the…
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A 31-year-old woman has been charged with murder after a man who paid her to engage in fetish acts died after he’d had a bag on his head, secured with duct tape, during their encounter in an Escondido home. She recorded the interactions to use as content for her OnlyFans site, police allege in a court…
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Too often politicians give lip service to the First Amendment’s protection of free speech when it’s speech they like but ignore free speech rights when its speech they don’t like. The latest example of this hypocrisy is California’s “California Worker Freedom from Employer Intimidation Act,” which prohibits most employers from speaking to their employees about…
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By Meeghan Truelove | Bankrate.com One-fifth of aspiring homeowners believe they’ll never be able to save enough for a down payment, according to Bankrate’s Down Payment Survey. You don’t have to rely solely on savings to buy a home, however. There are many forms of down payment assistance, in varying amounts, that could help you…
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By Michael Sasso | Bloomberg Confidence among US homebuilders slid this month to the lowest level since August, dragged down by worry over tariffs, higher construction costs and economic uncertainty heading into the spring selling season. An index of housing market conditions from the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo fell 3 points…
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By Ari Natter | Bloomberg The Trump administration unveiled plans to build housing on federal land, a move it said could help address a shortfall of 7 million affordable homes in the US. The Interior Department and Department of Housing and Urban Development will partner to assess the nation’s housing needs and identify “underutilized” land…
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Crime appears to be running rampant on Laguna Canyon Road lately and it seems only century-old detectives can combat it. In 2023, the new management at Laguna Playhouse imported Hercule Poirot for its first show; Agatha Christie’s Belgian sleuth will return in June. Last summer, Sherlock Holmes unsnarled a dark-themed tangle with Dr. Watson at…
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