Milan Mathias Dostal, a former Newport Beach mayor, died June 27. He was 87. Dostal served on the City Council from 1970 to 1978 and was mayor from 1976 to '78. He, his first wife, Dorothy Olsen, and children Rick and Cindy moved in 1964 from Maryland to Newport Beach, where Dostal's third child,...
When a 9-foot-tall stainless-steel likeness of fallen Newport Beach lifeguard Ben Carlson is unveiled Wednesday night, it will culminate a two-year journey for his family and a community that was deeply affected by his loss on July 6, 2014. The Ben Carlson Memorial Statue, made of marine-grade...
Erwin Chemerinksy, dean of the UC Irvine School of Law, will discuss recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions during a Wake Up Newport event Thursday morning. After about 45 years with a conservative majority, the Supreme Court could soon be heading into a different era following the death of Justice...
Arrests during the Fourth of July holiday period declined in Newport Beach for the seventh consecutive year, marking continued progress in local law enforcement's effort to temper the Balboa Peninsula's reputation as an Independence Day party zone, police said Tuesday. Officers arrested 86 people...
A former member of Westminster’s planning commission was arraigned Tuesday on charges of soliciting and receiving a $15,000 bribe in exchange for helping a business owner get a liquor license, according to federal officials. Dave Phuong Dinh Vo of Westminster pleaded not guilty, but in a plea agreement made...
A 53-year-old man died early Saturday after being struck by a car while crossing Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa. Costa Mesa police and fire officials responded to reports of a collision at 2:55 a.m. along northbound Newport Boulevard, north of 17th Street. Patrick O'Gara, described as a transient,...
A quick-thinking bystander helped rescue a 3-year-old boy Saturday who had become buried in the sand in Newport Beach. Newport Beach lifeguard Chief Rob Williams said the boy had been digging a roughly 3-foot hole in the sand that connected to another hole, commonly called tunneling, when the sand...
In response to vocal complaints from residents, the Anaheim City Council voted to ban all future short-term rentals in residential areas of the city and gave existing rental operators 18 months to close up shop. Following a five-hour meeting that included testimony from short-term rental operators...
"The week that changed the world," as President Nixon called his historic 1972 trip to China, was a step in normalizing relations with the communist nation. The seven-day visit marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the People's Republic of China, and it ended 25 years of separation...
Officials have teamed with Festival of Arts and Sawdust representatives for a scavanger hunt-style activity.
In fact, make that 'Juliet and Romeo,' an update on the Shakespeare classic that is coming to the Segerstrom Center this month.
The horns and drums begin to play, and the recorded voice of David Bowie commands, "Let's Dance!" More than 20 dance students from Huntington Beach High School explode in a theatrical frenzy, nearly running into each other on purpose while performing synchronized movements of musical theater, 1980s...
Santa Ana Sites makes use of buildings around the downtown to stage its productions. This week is 'The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart,' and the particular venue might also be considered strange: the Empire Market Building.
Brotherhood. There’s a word glaringly absent from public mood and discourse. But brotherhood is integral to the work of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the company has the idea front and center in two pieces presented Thursday at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa. This multicultural,...
The students of sixth-grade teacher Natalie Hanenkrat took out blank sheets of paper and wrote the word "geometry" on the top. "Who can share one thing they know about geometry?" Hanenkrat asked her class Thursday Words spurt out from across the classroom. "Area!" "Perimeter!" "Shapes!" "Angles!"...