L.A. Times - Orange County News

Ticket handouts by O.C. fair directors under review

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Despite state warning, thousands have been given away by the board. Deborah Carona took the most, 1,100.

Time and again, state regulators warned Orange County Fair officials that they were giving board members far too many free tickets to concerts and other events.

At the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana: China's terra cotta warriors

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Terra cotta statues from China, buried for 2,000 years, arrive at Santa Ana's Bowers Museum, which is handling them with care.

ON SUNDAY, an army of ancient Chinese soldiers who were buried for 2,000 years will march into Santa Ana's Bowers Museum, the result of the largest loan of terra cotta figures and artifacts to visit the United States since their astonishing 1974 discovery.

Plans for Orange County power plant shelved

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Ladera Ranch residents did not want the San Diego Gas & Electric Co.'s 46-megawatt 'peaker' facility so close to homes and schools.

A bid by a San Diego Gas & Electric contractor to build a controversial power plant in Ladera Ranch in south Orange County has been shelved, according to legal documents filed Friday.

Orange County Calendar

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

TODAY 5K walk: The fifth annual Empowerment Walk will benefit female cancer survivors. Register online. 8 a.m.-noon. $30. Huntington Beach Central Park, Central Park Drive at Edwards Street. (949) 951-3930 or www.healingodyssey.org

Wrong-way driver, 2 others die in crash on Interstate 5 in Commerce

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:45:00 -0700

The southbound lanes of the freeway were closed for more than 3 hours after a northbound driver got onto the southbound lanes and hit another car. Two other passengers were injured.

Three people were killed this morning and two injured in a head-on collision that shut down the southbound Santa Ana (I-5) Freeway in the City of Commerce for more than three hours, authorities said.

Suicide attempt disrupts morning train commute in Placentia

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:23:00 -0700

Authorities tried to negotiate with a despondent 18-year-old man for two hours before he jumped from the top of a train and injured himself.

Commuter train traffic was disrupted this morning when a despondent 18-year-old man lied down on railroad tracks in Placentia in a suicide attempt, then engaged in a standoff with police.

Tentative labor pact reached for Orange County janitors

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Orange County janitors would receive wage and benefit improvements under a tentative agreement reached late Thursday with cleaning contractors and building owners.

Orange County Calendar

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

TODAY Exhibit: French artist and surfer Celine Chat presents her abstract work in “Sharing Perspectives.” Museum hours. Free. International Surf Museum, 411 Olive Ave., Huntington Beach. (714) 960-3483 or www.surfingmuseum.org

Someone is torching homeowner U.S. flags in Mission Viejo

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:59:42 -0700

Another U.S. flag was torched outside a Mission Viejo home, the second time this week, and this time flames spread to a eucalyptus tree.

Martial arts instructor for ex-Sheriff Carona is convicted of threatening golfer

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Raymond Yi, sworn in as an Orange County reserve deputy in 2002, is cleared of all other charges, including assault with a firearm.

The longtime martial arts instructor for former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona was convicted Thursday of criminally threatening a golfer during a dispute that began with a wayward fairway shot.