Tag: Local News

Newport-Mesa School Board Candidate: ‘I Can’t Turn the Other Way When Someone Needs Help’

Longtime Costa Mesa resident and community advocate Vicky Rodriguez is running for a seat on the Newport-Mesa Unified School Board in the Nov. 8 election as another way, she said, to support her community. “I can’t turn the other way when someone needs help,” Rodriguez told The Epoch Times. Newport-Mesa Unified School District Area 7…


Biden Campaigns With Hochul in Yonkers, New York

President Joe Biden is scheduled to join Gov. Kathy Hochul for a “Get Out the Vote” rally in Yonkers, New York, on Nov. 6. In recent weeks, Democrats have been pulling out the big names of the party to join the midterm rallies. Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Bill Clinton, and former Secretary of…


Large Rally in Beverly Hills in Solidarity with Iranian Women

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—What police described as a “large rally” was underway Nov. 5 afternoon in Beverly Hills in solidarity with Iranians protesting the death of a woman who refused to wear a hijab and died in the custody of Iran’s morality police. About 4 p.m., police reported the rally was expected to cause traffic delays…


Bomb Squad Deals with Suspicious Device in Long Beach

LONG BEACH, Calif.—The sheriff’s department’s bomb squad was deployed to Long Beach Nov. 5 to deal with a suspicious device in the Belmont Shore area. Long Beach police officers were called around 3:25 p.m. to the 6400 block of Marina Drive, the department’s Allison Gallagher told City News Service. A photo published on Twitter by…


Claremont Police Arrest 15 Suspected Johns, and Alleged Pimp

CLAREMONT, Calif.—An undercover operation by Claremont police netted 15 men for offering to pay officers posing as prostitutes for sex, along with an alleged pimp, who offered to teach them the trade, authorities said Nov. 5. The operation was undertaken Nov. 4 in the area of Indian Hill Boulevard and the San Bernardino (10) Freeway,…


Pilot Dies in Commuter Plane Crash in San Diego

SAN DIEGO—The pilot of a small commuter plane that crashed on takeoff at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport was pronounced dead, the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office said Nov. 6. The crash was reported at 11:56 a.m. Nov. 5. San Diego Fire-Rescue Department crews arrived at 12:06 p.m. at 8634 Gibbs Drive, near the northeast end…


Texas and Nevada Cities Are More Suitable Than California for Corporate Headquarters: Study

Migration out of California has continued in 2022 as people and businesses choose to leave the state. A new study released by The Boyd Company on Oct. 26 named certain cities in Texas and Nevada as the most ideal locations for corporate headquarters relocations. “Major corporations moving head office and major regional office operations out…


New Arizona Anti-Smuggling Law Quickly Lands 43 in Border County Jail

In the first three weeks of Arizona’s new anti-smuggling law, law enforcement officers in Cochise County arrested 43 alleged smugglers. One of them is an 18-year-old college student who used his parents’ vehicle, according to Carol Capas, spokeswomen for the Cochise County Sheriffs Office. “He lives at home with his parents and he just wanted…


Trump, Biden, Obama Converge in Pennsylvania to Rally Voters

Pennsylvania, a key state that will likely decide who controls the U.S. Senate, became a battleground for the titans on Nov. 5, when President Joe Biden teamed up with his former boss Barack Obama, and former President Donald Trump campaigned in dueling rallies in the Commonwealth. All three current and former presidents urged voters to…


Californians Gaining One Hour of Sleep as Daylight Saving Time Ends

Despite a majority of California voters’ approval in 2018 to end setting their clocks twice a year, the daylight saving time change returns this Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2 a.m. when clocks “fall back” to standard time across the United States. Daylight saving is the practice of setting clocks an hour ahead to take advantage…