Garden-tenders Viet Tran, Jon Reiser and Angel Zaragoza. Photo by Federico Medina As Garden Grove Mayor Steve Jones walks the Garden Amp grounds, it’s obvious he’s just as excited as all of the ...

Frederal Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents escort a birth-tourism suspect. (All photos courtesy of HSI) Federal authorities were busy Thursday, arresting three alleged birth tourism ...

On July 4, 1982, 29-year-old Timothy Roy climbed to the top of a 15-foot wooden ladder and settled, unceremoniously and with little fanfare, into a 6-foot-by-8-foot treehouse perched above the eighth ...

As an 11-year-old kid in the summer of 1981, life was, by all discernible metrics, pretty cool. Even in the nascent months of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, very little seemed of consequence—or even ...

The Supreme Court of California today affirmed a death penalty punishment for a one-armed amputee and immigrant, who fled Egypt on religious persecution grounds and suffered severe mental illness ...

The small, circular island at the center of the iconic traffic circle at the heart of Old Towne Orange is one of the town’s most prominent celebrities (step aside, Amber Lynn). The Plaza or the Circle ...

“You’ve got 15 minutes,” Coleen Hansen warned me as I opened the door to her Westside Costa Mesa alterations shop at 6:45 on a recent weeknight. “Jeopardy‘s almost on, and it’s the Tournament of ...

Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s revolutionary dreams came to a scraggly end 50 years ago at a schoolhouse in La Higuera, Bolvia. The Bolivian army, with help from the CIA, captured Che leading a raggedy band ...

DEAR GABACHO: White supremacy invented these Americanisms, silly! Wetback came from the days when Americans thought Mexicans only came to el Norte by swimming across the Rio Grande—the earliest known ...

It’s no secret that heavy metal music can be a bit morbid and macabre. Heavy metal artists have never been afraid to musically confront mortality, pain, suffering and other grim topics by creating ...

“Isn’t the view great?!” Monique Powell quips, her pogo stick-esque persona masking fatigue. It’s late in the afternoon, and the Save Ferris singer sits at an outdoor table at Encino’s Lakeside ...

Every morning, Joe Gruppie makes himself a cup of coffee at his Buena Park home of five years before heading out to work. And when he opens the front door, he’s greeted by a drab wall with four ...