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TUSTIN – A 26-year-old transient was arrested early Monday morning on suspicion of fleeing from police by jumping along the roofs of several businesses before he was hospitalized with a deep cut on his buttocks, police said. Ramses Munoz was...

Shortly after the horrors of 9/11, a curious package landed on Dave Lochbaum’s desk.
It was flat but heavy. Inside the bubble pack was a battered steel plate, blasted with dents and holes from semiautomatic weapons fire. Each pockmark and...

Southern California is the nation’s hot spot for pay raises, according to one salary benchmark. The federal government’s Employment Cost Index shows private employers in the five-county Los Angeles region upping wages and salaries at a 3.7...

Former NFL punter and Los Alamitos High School graduate Chris Kluwe has sold his four-bedroom Huntington Beach house for $1.84 million.
The home in The Peninsula, a guard-gated community, was listed at $1.995 million last year.
Set on the 2nd fairway...

They’re calling it the concert of a lifetime and if you weren’t alive for Woodstock, well, they just may be right.Desert Trip will happen Oct. 7-9 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio with The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, The Who, Roger Waters,...

LAGUNA NIGUEL – Suzy Van der Karr rarely has felt as close to her five children as when they skateboard together.
At 49 years old, the San Diego resident doesn’t do many tricks anymore, but she still enjoys “shredding” on her board.
“These...

ALISO VIEJO – Kalen Patel recalls how he felt when, at age 5, he first saw someone who was homeless – a man near a Vons grocery store, holding a sign and asking for money for food.
It made him cry. He got his mother, Keena Patel, to make a...

Steve Jobs smiled.
Bill Murray smiled.
David Robinson, “The Admiral” of NBA fame, smiled, too. And last week, a homeless guy stood on a board and rode a wave and grinned from ear to ear.
It’s amazing how people react the first time they surf....

Less than 18 months after squeaking into office by a 43-vote margin, Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do will be tested again beginning this week as mail-in ballots start arriving in voters’ mailboxes.
With the presidential primaries largely...

I sit in a coffee shop and ask my 89-year-old mother if it’s okay to write a column about her struggles of the past five months. Some would consider them embarrassing. Others might call them private.
Yet bringing to light the sometimes rocky road...