Day: June 25, 2024

Pony Bronco baseball 12-and-under sectional tournament begins Friday evening

Harvard Park, the home of the Pony Baseball tournament this weekend. (Photo: Tim Burt, OC Sports Zone). Five Orange County Pony Bronco baseball 12-and-under teams will compete in a double-elimination sectional tournament beginning Friday evening at Harvard Park in Irvine. Teams from Placentia, Santa Ana, Irvine, Los Alamitos and St. Read More

Fontana man arrested for burglary and drug possession in Irvine

Over the weekend, the Irvine Police Department’s Investigations Bureau Detectives patrolled neighborhoods recently impacted by residential burglaries. In Turtle Rock, they encountered an individual matching the description of a suspect from a recent attempted burglary. It appeared the man was scouting the neighborhood to burglarize a home. Yonatan Angel Laoeza, Read More

Actress Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer’s, says filmmaker son Nick Cassavetes

The celebrated actor and honorary Academy Award recipient Gena Rowlands is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, her son, the filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, has revealed. Cassavetes, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published Tuesday, said Rowlands has had Alzheimer’s for five years. In the 2004 film “The Notebook,” Cassavetes directed his mother, who played the older Read More

U.S. Rep. Correa secures a $25M grant for the Santa Ana Boulevard Grade Separation Project

WASHINGTON — Today, Representative Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) and Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua announced $25 million in federal funding for the City of Santa Ana for the Santa Ana Boulevard Grade Separation Project to improve pedestrian and bicycle user safety, enhance traffic operations, improve emergency response times, and reduce Read More

The O.C. Veterans Service Office awarded a $300K mental health services grant to help Veterans

SANTA ANA, Calif. (June 25, 2024) – Approved at today’s Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting, the Orange County Veterans Service Office (VSO) has been awarded a two-year $300,000 Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) grant from the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) to continue mental health outreach for California Read More