How this OC filmmaker created a neurodivergent film festival in Santa Ana
When he was a child, Alex Asrella thought he had spent time with a series of babysitters. He didn’t realize they were monitoring him for a different reason. “I thought…
Lizette Valles: Courage is needed to reshape education in California
I’ll be honest—I never planned to homeschool. My son was at a great private school. We loved his teachers. Then the pandemic hit, and suddenly my five years old was…
Job fair this week at Santa Ana College features dozens of employers
Santa Ana College Career Center and Santa Ana Unified School District are collaborating on a job fair taking place this week from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the college.…
The Onion launches new bid to take over Alex Jones’ Infowars and turn it into a parody platform
By DAVE COLLINS The satirical news outlet The Onion is back with a new plan to take over the Infowars platforms of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as his company faces…
Ex-NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran released on $300k bail while appealing Bronx manslaughter conviction
Former NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran was released from an upstate maximum-security prison on Monday after posting $300,000 bail, according to the state’s Department of Corrections. Duran, 38, was sentenced to…
Drug suspect, 51, falls ill in Brooklyn Central Booking, dies at hospital
A 51-year-old man busted in Brooklyn for fare evasion and crack possession fell ill as he was being processed and died, police said Monday. The cause of Hector Sierra’s death…
Trial begins for 87-year-old accused killer who went shopping with victim’s dismembered leg
Before bludgeoning his latest victim’s head and sawing apart her body, octogenarian serial killer Harvey Marcelin became so fixated on the victim that he created multiple Facebook accounts, all with…
CAPA students walked out to protest the school’s dress code enforcement
Listen to article • 0:00 minMore than 75 students walked out of the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts on Monday, protesting dress code enforcement last week…
John Keats’s stolen love letters, works of Joyce, Wilde, returned to Whitney family by Manhattan DA
Two centuries after John Keats first put pen to paper to proclaim his love for his fiancée Fanny Brawne, blotted notes of the famed 19th-century poet recovered from the black…
Wrong-way driver pleads guilty in 2022 crash that killed sheriff’s recruit, injured several others in South Whittier
A Diamond Bar man pleaded guilty Monday, April 20, to causing a crash that killed a sheriff’s recruit and seriously injured nine others after he fell asleep, drifted into opposing…