Category: Southern California OC News

Buena Park to Regularly Inspect Apartments to Combat ‘Bad Actor’ Landlords

May 2, 2023
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Buena Park is looking to crack down on what some city councilors call “bad actors,” who haven’t kept up with maintaining their rental properties. The Buena Park City Council voted 3–2 April 25 to require some multi-family apartment complexes to be inspected by city code-enforcement officers in a three-year cycle. Due to the split vote,…

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Orange County Leaders Garner Support for California Bills Against Fentanyl

May 2, 2023
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IRVINE, Calif.—Local law enforcement and government leaders stood by an enlarged photograph of colorful, candy-like pills within the City Hall to garner support for two state bills to address the surging fentanyl overdose deaths on April 28. “Every single day, more than 15 Californians will die because of fentanyl poisoning,” state Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Irvine)…

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Mallard Duck Shot With Mini Crossbow Gun Gets 2nd Chance at Life

May 1, 2023
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COSTA MESA, Calif.—Following its four-week recovery after being shot in the neck, a mallard duck was released back into the wild April 28 at TeWinkle Park by the wildlife rehabbers that saved its life. According to Newport Beach Police, the duck had been shot in the neck and cheek with a mini crossbow gun and…

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Man Who Killed Father in Laguna Niguel Committed to Mental Health Hospital

May 1, 2023
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SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 22-year-old man was committed indefinitely May 1 to a state mental health facility after he was found to have been insane when he killed his father on a Laguna Niguel trail the day after Thanksgiving in 2018. Maximilian Gregory Ludwig was convicted March 21 of murder with a special circumstances allegation of…

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Southern California to See Cooler Temps, Some Light Rain This Week

May 1, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—Cooler temperatures are on the way to the Southland this week, along with some rain, forecasters said May 1. Light showers and drizzle began falling early Monday morning, with wind and a 40 percent chance of rain in the forecast. An unseasonably cold storm system will move over the region between May 1–4, bringing…

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Landslide in San Clemente Continues to Interrupt Train Service

April 30, 2023
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Train service surrounding San Clemente, California, is still out of service, and the Casa Romantica Cultural Center and nearby residents have been evacuated due to a landslide that occurred on April 27. Metrolink’s railway transportation has been suspended from Laguna Niguel to San Juan Capistrano, San Clemente, and Oceanside, without any alternate transportation in place…

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California Bill to Ban School Boards From Abruptly Firing Administrators Advances

April 29, 2023
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California state senators advanced a bill last week that aims to discourage newly-elected school board majorities from terminating their head administrators—after two Southern California school boards recently opted to fire superintendents just weeks after they took office. State Senate Bill 494 would require board members to wait a minimum of 30 days after they are…

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University of California–Irvine to Construct Nation’s First All-Electric Hospital by 2025

April 28, 2023
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The University of California–Irvine is set to finish construction on a new health center—fully electric and solar-powered with diesel fuel generator backups—by 2025. It will be the first all-electric hospital in the country. “UCI Health is building the next chapter of healthcare in Orange County,” UCI Health CEO Chad. T. Lefteris said in a 2021…

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Surfers Hall of Fame to Add 3 Icons to Its Ranks in Huntington Beach

April 28, 2023
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—Just across from the Huntington Beach Pier several people walked April 27 over the hand and feet pressings of surfing legends. As part of the city’s “Surfers Hall of Fame,” the impressions have grown from their initial location in 1997 at the entryway to Huntington Beach Surf and Sport shop and now reach…

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San Clemente City Councilman Resigns, Moves to Wyoming

April 28, 2023
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San Clemente City Councilman Gene James announced his resignation from the council in an April 26 farewell letter. His last day was April 28. James, whose term was set to expire next November, said in the letter he plans to sell his home on Avenida Del Verdor in San Clemente and move to Wyoming where…

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