San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy to stand trial on alleged Mongols affiliation, gun offenses - Anaheim news - NewsLocker (2024)

A San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy suspected of affiliating with the Mongols and possessing illegal weapons to benefit the outlaw motorcycle gang was ordered Wednesday, April 24, to stand trial.
Superior Court Judge Alexander R. Martinez acknowledged, however, that due to the complexity of the case against Christopher Bingham and the legal issues involved, he expects his ruling to be challenged.
“I am sure that whatever decision this court makes is going to be appealed by the o

Big Sur Highway 1 repair work hitting its stride

SALINAS – With its eye on a May 27 reopening of the roadway, Caltrans reports that it continues to advance on repairs to stabilize the edge of the roadway at the Rocky Creek slip-out which occurred nearly a month ago and has reduced access to Big Sur to locals and essential workers only.
“We’re definitely increasing our confidence, not only in the repair strategy, but hitting our stride in doing the work,” said Caltrans District 5 Emergency Manager Zeke Dellamas at the We

Israel-Hamas war: Has Hamas bet correctly?

What to say about the widespread pro-Hamas protests? Protesters block the highway leading to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Protesters stop traffic on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. A mob of protesters chanting “Senate can’t eat until Gaza eats” march in the Dirksen Senate Office Building and cause the cafeteria to shut down. Something like that used to be called “insurrection.” Pro-Hamas protesters in Dearborn, Michigan, chant not on

What does Orange County’s presidential primary data suggest about Biden and Trump’s chances?

More Orange County voters cast ballots for former President Donald Trump in the primary election than for President Joe Biden — but political experts say that doesn’t exactly spell trouble for the incumbent president.
Trump received the most votes in Orange County, 236,456, of the nearly 40 people on the presidential primary ballot, ahead of Biden only by about 18,500 votes.
But other factors contribute to success in a presidential general election — like higher turnout among y

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Biden or Trump? Check out this map to see who OC primary voters picked — and where

Want to know who Orange County voters picked for president in the 2024 presidential primary? You can use the map below to find out.
Tap or hover over a precinct to see how people there voted. Click or tap a candidate’s name to see where they received the most votes. You can also zoom into a specific region on the map using the feature on the bottom right.
Related: What does Orange County’s presidential primary data suggest about Biden and Trump’s chances?
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These are some of the oldest restaurants in Orange County

Owning and operating a restaurant isn’t for the weak.
Licenses. Labor. Permits. Taxes. Gentrification’s unyielding hom*ogenization. Food trend impermanence (remember molten chocolate cakes?). Myriad hurdles make breaking even during the first year cause for uncorking Champagne. But some lucky stalwarts have been around for decades, defining dining culture while weathering figurative and literal storms that keep people coming back for more.
While not as numerous as Los Angeles or San F

Endlessly’s trainer wants to skip the Kentucky Derby

ARCADIA – Almost all of America’s top thoroughbred trainers spend the winter and spring trying to get their best 3-year-olds into the Kentucky Derby, planning the way in like cat burglars casing the Louvre.
Michael McCarthy, this year, is different. He’s trying to keep his best young horse out of the Kentucky Derby.
The horse is Endlessly, one of two California colts who have qualified for the May 4 race, the other western hope being Santa Anita Derby winner Stronghold.
Endless

California charter school battles intensify as education finances get squeezed

California’s public schools, with nearly 6 million students, are feeling the financial impacts of a quintuple whammy.
Billions of federal dollars to cushion the impacts of COVID-19 have been exhausted, school closures during the pandemic magnified declines in enrollment, chronic absenteeism has worsened, inflation is increasing operating costs, and the state budget is plagued by a huge deficit.
Since the state largely finances schools based on their attendance, many local districts are see

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New approach has Angels’ Jo Adell primed for extended playing time

ANAHEIM — Back in the first week of the season, Jo Adell was at the plate in Miami, with an 0-and-2 count. There was one out, and a runner at third base.
Adell punched a fly ball into right field, making a routine out but driving in a run.
That snapshot illustrated the progress for a player who might, finally, be finding his footing in the majors.
“Absolutely,” Adell said, recalling that moment. “Just slow the game down, look at what the situation was. There was a chance

Shirley Dettloff, former Huntington Beach mayor and longtime civic leader, dies at 88

Former Huntington Beach mayor and longtime civic leader Shirley Dettloff, who successfully fought to preserve the Bolsa Chica wetlands and wrote the city’s 1996 statement on human dignity, died on Tuesday at age 88.
Her husband, Bob Dettloff, 91, said she died of a heart attack Tuesday morning. Dettloff had been engaged in Huntington Beach politics for decades and was most known for her work on environmental issues around the city.
“I love this town and I want the very best for it,&r

$5.6 million in refunds going to Ring customers in video privacy settlement

By Wyatte Grantham-Philps | The Associated Press
The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access.
In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contractors to access customers’ private videos. Ring allegedly used such footage to train algorithms wit

SURFscape trade show focusing on surf, outdoor adventure is beachfront in Huntington Beach

A beachfront trade show this weekend will bring brands big and small out to Huntington Beach to showcase the latest surf and outdoor products and experiences, a way for the growing number of surfers to test out and check out the latest offerings for their adventures.
SURFscape, a free consumer expo now in its second year and put on by the Surf Industry Members Association, is a two-day event kicking off Saturday, April 27, that will have everything from merchandise displays, demos, seminars, mus

California schools may be required to provide kosher and halal meals

California schools may soon need to provide halal and kosher meal options for students.
Dubbed the Halal and Kosher School Meals Act, a proposed bill in the California Legislature would require schools to provide kosher or halal meals if more than 5% of their students request such.
Both kosher and halal meals follow specific Jewish and Islamic dietary practices, respectively, for how food is prepared and served. For kosher meals, dairy and meat cannot be mixed, and only certain animals can be ea

Stop the ’emergency spending’ charade already

This week, Congress advanced four separate bills with $95 billion in funding for Ukraine, Israel, Indo-Pacific allies and the domestic submarine industrial base. This funding has been debated for months, with much of it intended for wars that have been going on — and likely will continue — for a while. In other words, it’s not new or surprising. Yet once again, it will be labeled “emergency spending,” a tool allowing legislators to double down on their fiscal irresp

Bad news for California renters: New apartment plans drop to 10-year low

The hopes of California tenants that a wave of apartment construction might provide more rent relief may be fizzling in early 2024.
Construction plans for multifamily housing plunged to a 10-year low, my trusty spreadsheet found after peeking at quarterly California building permit patterns from the Census Bureau complied by the St. Louis Fed. Multifamily housing is primarily apartments plus certain ownership condos or townhomes.
California permits approved for multifamily housing in the first q

New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial

By MICHAEL SISAK (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case.
“We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against p

Knott’s Berry Farm extends Boysenberry Festival for 2 more weekends

The Knott’s Berry Farm annual food festival that pays tribute to the little berry that started it all will stick around for a few extra weeks if you haven’t gotten your fill of boysenberry for this year just yet.
The final weekend of the 2024 Boysenberry Fest was set to wrap up on Friday, April 26 through Sunday, April 28 — but Knott’s will extend the seasonal event for two more weekends on May 3-5 and May 10-12.
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Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York appeals court

By MICHAEL SISAK
NEW YORK — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case.
“We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the co

Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 NY rape conviction overturned due to ‘egregious errors’

By MICHAEL SISAK
NEW YORK — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case.
“We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the co

Unemployment debt still plagues California budget

Four years after COVID-19 spiked joblessness, California still is finding it difficult to pay the now estimated $21 billion owed the federal government for what’s called Advances to State Unemployment Funds. The debt largely was run up during the unemployment spike during COVID-19 and was worsened by massive fraud.
According to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Fiscal Data site as of April 23, that was by far the highest debt among the states, with New York at $7.5 billion, Connecticut

Ferragamo Flag Football League is coming to Orange

Taking into account a shared goal of growing relationships within the community, Santiago Canyon College and former NFL quarterback Vince Ferragamo have partnered to establish a flag football league for youngsters, with the games being played at Santiago Canyon College.
The Ferragamo Flag Football League, a noncontact football league for boys and girls of all skill levels in grades 1 through 8, kicks off a four-week summer season starting July 19. An eight-week fall season will follow beginning

Home prices have topped inflation for 6 decades

Franklin Schneider | Wealth of Geeks
A new study from Clever Real Estate shows home prices have risen faster than inflation for the past six decades, locking many younger Americans out of homeownership.
Millennials have taken a lot of criticism for financially lagging behind previous generations, but it may not be their fault. After adjusting for income, homes are almost twice as expensive for millennials today than they were for baby boomers in their 30s, according to a 2024 analysis from Cleve

Murder victims’ families come together to grieve their losses at a vigil in Riverside

A woman whose son was fatally shot along with his date in a Corona movie theater in 2021 on Wednesday evening recalled during a remembrance ceremony her family’s grief and urged other family members of crime victims to honor their memories.
Catherine Barajas spoke during the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office’s annual National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Candlelight Vigil in front of the Riverside County Historic Courthouse.
“The grieving that we do, that fa

Anze Kopitar’s OT goal lifts Kings past Oilers in Game2, ties series

The Kings’ Drew Doughty (8) scores a goal on Edmonton Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner during the first period of Game 2 of their first-round playoff series on Wednesday night in Edmonton, Alberta. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
The Kings’ Drew Doughty celebrates his goal during the first period of Game 2 of their first-round playoff series against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night in Edmonton, Alberta. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
Kings defenseman Drew Dough

Anze Kopitar scores in OT as Kings beat Oilers in Game2 to tie series

EDMONTON, Alberta — In recent history, Game2’s haven’t been pleasant playoff experiences for the Kings against the Edmonton Oilers, but they were able to change that history on Wednesday night.
Anze Kopitar scored just 2:07 into overtime, firing a wrist shot past Stuart Skinner’s glove and into the top corner on a breakaway to give the Kings a 5-4 victory in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series at Rogers Place.
Kopitar picked up the puck near the Edmonton blue

Tesoro, Canyon capture softball league titles in dramatic fashion

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.Subscribe nowAs Loula-Rae McNamara induced a soft popup to third base, the Tesoro pitcher began to jump with excitement. Catcher Kennedy Proctor followed suit, and soon the rest of their teammates leaped for joy on the softball field at Mission Viejo on Wednesday.
One of most competitive league races in Orange County had been settled, and by a relatively new contender.
McNamara retired seven of the final eight batters

Newport Harbor sweeps Mater Dei in first round of CIF-SS boys volleyball playoffs

NEWPORT BEACH – It was the first match of the CIF Southern Section boys volleyball playoffs so of course every player was excited.
Maybe too excited.
“Early on there were some unforced errors by both sides,” said Newport Harbor coach Andrew Mabry. “Certainly by us.”
Newport Harbor settled down soon enough to beat Mater Dei in three sets, 25-21, 25-20, 25-23, at Newport Harbor High in the first round of CIF-SS Division 1 pool play.
The eight-team Division 1 playoffs

Man likely headed to state mental facility after admitting to killing his father in Westminster

SANTA ANA — A 38-year-old Westminster man pleaded guilty to killing his father, but because an Orange County Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday he was insane at the time he is expected to be committed to a state mental health facility.
Johnson Loc has been charged with one count of murder in the killing of 66-year-old Thinh Loc, according to Westminster police. But he accepted a plea deal to admit a felony count of voluntary manslaughter, according to court records.
Based on medical repo

59th Congressional Cup gets underway in Long Beach waters

The 59th Congressional Cup, considered the grandfather of match racing, kicked off its weeklong competition on Wednesday, April 24, with a record 12 crews trying to don the crimson blazer that goes to the winners.
The regatta, which begins with a single round-robin, takes place off the Long Beach coast, near Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier, with each crew sailing a Catalina 37 yacht.
After the round-robin, there will be a repechage – meaning those who didn’t qualify for the knockout r

Review: Pixar parade dancers outshine lackluster floats at Disneyland resort

The new Pixar parade at Disney California Adventure got me dancing and humming along with the energetic performers and contagious soundtrack even if the floats left me underwhelmed.
Pixar Fest kicks off on Friday, April 26 and runs through Aug. 4 with the returning “Together Forever” fireworks show at Disneyland, the new Better Together parade and Club Pixar dance party at Disney California Adventure and host of new themed food and drinks at both parks.
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