10-year-old songwriter sings a happy tune in contest
To 10-year-old Delaney Miller, singing is just what she does. Take Thursday at school, for example. Instead of talking, she just sang all day, the Concordia Elementary School fifth-grader said with a...
View ArticleDodgers' Greinke finds a way to fit in
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Zack Greinke is not unique. He hates traffic as much as anyone transplanted to Southern California. In fact, after signing with the Dodgers as a free agent this winter, he wanted to...
View ArticleYorba Linda settles with residents over landscaping
YORBA LINDA – The city has settled with the Rancho Dominguez Community Association, which had contended that the city overcharged the owners of 218 homes for maintaining the landscaping around their...
View ArticleFocus on flying: Safest skies in decades
Advances give the airline industry its best record since the jet age dawned. But risks remain. See today's Focus on flying: Safest skies in decades.
View ArticleUSC baseball drops season opener
After a week of turmoil, USC baseball returned to some normalcy Friday night -- a game -- and nearly pulled an upset of 22nd-ranked Cal State Fullerton but lost 3-2 before a sellout crowd at Goodwin...
View Article5 questions with Teacher of the Year, Karin Porzuczek
Karin Porzuczek, a sixth-grade teacher at Vista del Mar Middle School and the school's 2012 teacher of the year, began her teaching career in 1979 in Texas. She moved on to teach special-education...
View ArticleWhat to watch for: Stanford
After a semi-embarrassing loss on the other side of the Bay, UCLA's Saturday matchup with Stanford may be one of the team's defining moments in the second half of the season, as the Bruins are slowly,...
View ArticleFeds see early signs of Pacific fishery recovery
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — After one of the West Coast's most valuable commercial fisheries was declared an economic disaster in 2000, California and other Pacific states saw more boats being sold...
View ArticleBright streak of light reported over Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A science institute in Northern California says it has received numerous reports of a bright streak of light over the San Francisco Bay area. The Chabot Space and Science Center in...
View ArticleFormer O.C. attorney suspected of murdering ex-wife
SANTA ANA – Nearly seven years after the body of former Orange County paralegal Micki Kanesaki was found in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the southwest coast of Italy, her former husband was arrested Friday...
View ArticleWhite-on-white art is easy to craft
White on white makes even simple designs look sophisticated if there is texture involved. In this easy-to-make wall art piece, just a couple of ingredients make it stand out: wood letters add the...
View ArticleCalling all home and garden tour planners
Attention, home and garden tour and show organizers: It's time to get our annual Spring Home and Garden Show and Tour package together to be published in March. We know you're wrapping up plans for...
View ArticleLetters: Apply both law and mercy to immigration
SANTA ANA, Rosemary ‘Rosie’ Avila, former Santa Ana School Board Member; Biola University Trustee: The recent article, “God and immigration” [News, Feb. 3], Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano...
View ArticleLetters: Activists bait Big Oil, and we foot the bill
SAN CLEMENTE, Jim Smith: The call for reducing tax breaks for oil companies by columnist Marshall Kaplan, adviser to Fuel Freedom Foundation, is based on pretty weak evidence [“Time to Squeeze Big...
View ArticleGallery: 55 Rick McKee cartoons
Cagle Cartoons' Rick McKee draws a year of chuckles on the postal service, Obama, foreign leaders and more
View ArticleFeb. 16 celebrity birthdays
These people of the present and past were born on this date: Financier Carl Icahn is 77. Actor Barry Primus ("Righteous Kill," "Absence of Malice") is 75. Actor Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett in "The Empire...
View ArticleAuthor pens a cross-cultural love story
When Alison Singh Gee decided to write a memoir about falling in love with an Indian and her passage to India that followed she saw it as a breezy tale of exploring the mysterious ways of the...
View ArticleConservation of a different stripe
There is nothing like building a business with something that is given freely by nature, but Janet Andrews in Orange Park Acres and Kelly Yrarrazaval in Santa Ana are also giving back to the bee...
View ArticleDucks' win in Detroit exorcises demons
DETROIT – There were shootout losses. Last-second losses. Blowout losses. However way they did it, the Ducks always found ways to lose to the Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena throughout their near...
View ArticleCreating vertical gardens with recycled pallets
No doubt that much of Orange County's best soils for growing things have been paved over. But for an avid gardener who likes to see some green among his asphalt, finding a spot to grow vegetables and...
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