Tag: Local News

Arizona Appeals Court Ruling Harmonizes Conflicting Arizona Abortion Laws

The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that doctors who perform abortions according to the state’s 15-week abortion ban can’t be prosecuted under a 1901 law that banned nearly all abortions. However, the court didn’t repeal the territory-era law which outright bans abortions unless the woman’s life is in danger, finding that law harmonized…


Small Fire Erupts in Frontierland at Disneyland

A small fire broke out and was quickly extinguished at Disneyland Dec. 29, Sgt. Jacob Gallacher with the Anaheim Police Department told The Epoch Times. The park was closed when the fire ignited at around 3:30 a.m. Thursday in a 12-by-12-foot structure next to the New Orleans Square train station in Frontierland. The structure that…


Small Fire Erupts at Disneyland, Damages Water Tower

A small fire broke out and was quickly extinguished at Disneyland Dec. 29, Sgt. Jacob Gallacher with the Anaheim Police Department told The Epoch Times. The park was closed when the fire ignited at around 3:30 a.m. Thursday in a 12-by-12-foot structure next to the New Orleans Square train station in Frontierland. The structure that…


New California Fire Hazard Map Shows Increase in ‘Very High’ Risk Areas

A proposed new fire hazard map from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) could soon designate more of the state’s rural and unincorporated areas as “very high” fire hazard severity zones—a nearly 15-percent increase since when the map was last updated in 2007. The growing fire hazard areas show how much more…


4 Vehicles In Drifting Sideshow Impounded in San Diego

OTAY MESA, Calif.—San Diego Police Department (SDPD) Dec. 30 impounded four vehicles involved in a drifting sideshow on Dec. 25 that damaged roadways and private businesses at the intersection of Kerns Street and Drucker Lane and also in the city of Chula Vista. The city of San Diego Transportation Department estimated the cost of repairing…


Irvine Stays with OCPA, For Now

The Irvine City Council voted 3–2 Dec. 29 to remain with the Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) following the Orange County Board of Supervisors’ decision to withdraw from the agency Dec. 20. The vote came in a special meeting agendized by councilmembers Mike Carroll, Larry Agran, and Kathleen Treseder. Agran and Carroll were the dissenting…


California Becomes More Blue, and Other Trends Heading into 2023

Commentary As 2022 is wrapping up, I thought I’d review some general trends in the news to see what California has in store for the new year. Becoming Bluer Democrats increased their single-party dominance over the state, picking up one seat each in the Assembly and state Senate. They did lose two seats from California…


8 Hospitalized, 3 Critical, in Alhambra Apartment Fire

ALHAMBRA, Calif.—As many as eight people were hospitalized, including three in critical condition, from a fire in a two-story apartment complex in Alhambra Friday. The fire was reported about 8:30 a.m. at 324 N. Electric Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, which assisted Alhambra’s department. Firefighters found multiple victims hanging from a…


Los Angeles Unified Staff Union Prepares for January Strike

A union representing thousands of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) staffers are gearing up for a strike in January, according to union officials. SEIU Local 99 represents 30,000 LAUSD staff including cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians, and special education assistants. A strike could disrupt transportation, breakfast and lunch schedules, and special education classes for…


California Man: Hormone Therapy ‘Almost Killed Me’

A man born with a heart defect says taking estrogen and testosterone-blocker pills in a desire to become female almost killed him. David Bacon of Monterey County, California, was told by his doctors in 2017 that he had two weeks to live if he didn’t quit the cross-sex hormones he started taking in 2014, he…