Category: Southern California

Westminster Police Join Forces With Nonprofit to Create Mental Health Mobile Response Team

The Westminster Police Department has partnered with a local nonprofit to establish a mobile response team to provide mental health services to the community through a program that launched June 26. Be Well OC is the nonprofit which has taken over non-life-threatening mental health calls on behalf of the city’s police department. So far, the…


San Diego Man Sentenced to 32 Years to Life in Prison for Killing Girlfriend

SAN DIEGO—A San Diego man convicted of killing his girlfriend and dumping her body in Mexico was sentenced on July 17 to 32 years to life in state prison. Nery Roberto Garcia, 36, was found guilty by a San Diego jury on May 15 of first-degree murder in the slaying of 48-year-old Faviola Calderon. The…


‘The Sports Lodge’ a Comfortable Radio Hangout for Fans

Along with the voluminous other preparation necessary to make “The Sports Lodge” a go-to radio destination for fans in Orange County and beyond, there is the whole thing about high school nicknames. “I find myself during downtime searching and memorizing high schools,” Roger Lodge told The Epoch Times. Now in his 15th year as host…


Another California Teacher Confronts the Education Mafia

Commentary Increasingly, public school administrators and boards—controlled by unions—are pressing teachers to adopt woke and sexualized ideology. They threaten—and implement—punishments for anyone resisting, as teacher Sean Redmond is learning. Mr. Redmond, 34, teaches in California’s Garden Grove Unified School District. He and some other teachers were not keen to adopt grooming techniques being pushed by…


3 Killed in Suspected DUI Crash on 5 Freeway in Norwalk

The medical examiner’s office released, on July 17, the names of two of three people killed in a multiple-vehicle crash on the Santa Ana 5 Freeway in Norwalk. The crash was reported at 2:22 a.m. Sunday on the northbound Santa Ana Freeway south of Florence Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP). The chain…


3 Killed in Suspected DUI Crash in Norwalk

The medical examiner’s office released, on July 17, the names of two of three people killed in a multiple-vehicle crash on the Santa Ana 5 Freeway in Norwalk. The crash was reported at 2:22 a.m. on July 16 on the northbound Santa Ana Freeway south of Florence Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP)….


Man Gunned Down at Downtown LA Recording Studio

LOS ANGELES—A man was shot to death in the early morning on July 17 at a recording studio in downtown Los Angeles. The shooting was reported just after midnight at 924 S. San Pedro St., according to a dispatcher at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Operations Center. Arriving officers found the 25-year-old man suffering from…


Man Shot to Death at Downtown LA Recording Studio

LOS ANGELES—A man was shot to death in the early morning on July 17 at a recording studio in downtown Los Angeles. The shooting was reported just after midnight at 924 S. San Pedro St., according to a dispatcher at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Operations Center. Arriving officers found the 25-year-old man suffering from…


Pedestrian Struck, Killed on 405 Freeway Near LAX

LOS ANGELES—A pedestrian was struck by at least one vehicle and killed on the morning of July 17 on the San Diego 405 Freeway in the unincorporated Lennox area of Los Angeles County. The death was reported at 3:42 a.m. on the northbound San Diego Freeway at Lennox Boulevard near the Los Angeles International Airport…


$1.3 Billion UC Irvine Medical Campus Moves Toward 2025 Completion

IRVINE, Calif.—Hundreds of construction and architectural specialists paused for a catered barbeque lunch July 13 to celebrate progress on a “state of the art” all-electrical new University of California–Irvine (UCI) medical facility set to be completed by January of 2025. The $1.3 billion-dollar carbon neutral medical center, located at Jamboree Road and Birch Street, will…