Category: Orange County News

Long Beach Homicide detectives arrest 2nd suspect in April 22, 2022 murder

Update 12/6/22: Homicide Detectives continued their investigation and identified the second suspect in the murder of Jimmy Ray Hawkins. On Dec. 5, 2022, Special Investigation Detectives arrested Brandon Tyler Shackelford, a 30-year-old resident of Riverside, for the murder of Hawkins. Shackelford was arrested near the 500 block of Palmyrita Drive Read More

Senator Dave Min releases statement on anti-Semitic attacks directed toward Local Democratic Party officials

Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) released the following statement in response to a barrage of anti-Semitic emails directed toward Orange County Democratic Party officials. “I recently learned of the hateful, anti-Semitic emails sent to officers of the Orange County Democratic Party. These attacks are disgusting and have no place in Orange Read More

Rep. Young Kim’s STEP Improvement Act to support small business trade passes House

The House passed the State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) Improvement Act of 2022 (H.R. 8844), a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. Reps. Young Kim (CA-39), Dwight Evans (PA-03), Mike Flood (NE-01) and Marie Newman (IL-03) that would improve the STEP program to support U.S. small business exports.   The STEP Improvement Read More

Rep. Young Kim’s SBA Cyber Awareness Act heads to President’s desk   

The House passed the Senate-amended SBA Cyber Awareness Act (H.R. 3462), a bipartisan bill by U.S. Reps. Young Kim (CA-39) and Jason Crow (CO-06) to strengthen the Small Business Administration (SBA)’s cybersecurity capabilities to handle and report cyber threats that impact small businesses. Reps. Kim and Crow serve as Ranking Read More

Winter Thoroughbred meet commences Friday; Starlet to be run December 10, Los Alamitos Futurity December 17

The six-day Winter thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos will begin Friday, Dec. 9. Racing will be conducted Friday-Sunday both weeks (Dec. 9-11 and 16-18). Post time will be 12:30 p.m. The Winter meet will be highlighted by a pair of graded events for 2-year-olds – the Grade I, $300,000-guaranteed Starlet Read More

Realism a Hallmark of South Coast Repertory’s Lavish ‘A Christmas Carol’

Richard Soto and Richard Doyle in South Coast Repertory’s 2022 production of “A Christmas Carol.” Photo by Jenny Graham/SCR. By Eric Marchese| Special to the NB Indy South Coast Repertory’s annual staging of “A Christmas Carol” that runs through December 24 is, in Orange County, the definition of a holiday Read More