By Sandee LaMotte | CNN Want to cook chicken in NyQuil? Overdose on antihistamines? Swallow laundry detergent pods? While most of us would recoil in…
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Orange police searching for suspects who stole $4,000 in phones from T-Mobile store
Orange police were searching for three men after two took cell phones from a T-Mobile store on Chapman Avenue and fled in an awaiting car…
How clever mechanics keep Bay Area’s 50-year-old BART trains running: Windows 98, eBay, and scraps
When BART first carried passengers, the country was sending astronauts to the moon. The Apollo-era trains were symbols of a generation barreling toward a space-age…
Housing slowdown continues despite brief interest rate reprieve
August might have given home buyers a brief respite in an otherwise cooling housing market, thanks to a one-month dip in mortgage interest rates. Home…
Man waiting at Santa Ana bus stop killed in hit-and-run collision
A man waiting at a Santa Ana bus stop was killed in a hit-and-run collision just before 5 p.m. Sunday, officials said. Several onlookers called…
Laguna Woods voters to decide on tax for potential future cannabis businesses
It’s the first proposed new tax the City Council has presented to Laguna Woods voters since it was founded. And it would be enacted on…
Check out these 16 photos of wildlife along the Santa Ana River
A great blue heron searches the edge of the Santa Ana River in Anaheim for something to eat as water from recent storms flows by…
MWD completes Colorado River pipeline repairs ahead of schedule — watering can resume
LOS ANGELES — Repairs to a water pipeline connecting the Colorado River to customers in Los Angeles County have been completed two days ahead of…
Do California last-place wage gains signal economic trouble?
The “Looking Glass” ponders economic and real estate trends through two distinct lenses: the optimist’s “glass half-full” and the pessimist’s “glass half-empty.” Buzz: California added the…
Riverside woman blames foster care system for torture death of brother she never knew
Amber Peterson was 12 years old when her mother told her about the half-brother she never knew. It was through a newspaper article her mother…
Senior living: The importance of vaccines for older adults
By Dr. Emad Mikhail, Contributing writer With increasing age, the body’s immune system gets weaker, making the chances of getting sick higher. Vaccines help your…
Long Beach woman, taken from her Indigenous mom, meets Canadian half-sister
Kimberly Elizabeth McCabe had no time to be nervous. She cleaned everything twice. She had the sofa in her Belmont Shore home professionally cleaned. She…
Hurricane Fiona nears Puerto Rico, whole island already without power as ‘historic’ rainfall looms
HAVANA — The eye of newly formed Hurricane Fiona neared Puerto Rico’s south coast Sunday — already causing an island-wide power blackout and threatening to…
Transportation ‘boondoggles’ cost billions, study says
These vanquished “boondoggles” appear in the “victory” column: The death of the proposed extension of the 241 “toll road to nowhere” through San Clemente, which…
Dispute erupts over homeowner’s fence sealing off public land above Newport’s Back Bay
A chain-link fence on a blufftop overlooking Newport Beach’s Back Bay is at the center of a war between environmentalists and a wealthy Republican donor.…