Man convicted of firing gunshots in 99 Cents Only parking lot in Santa Ana - Anaheim news - NewsLocker (2024)

A driver who opened fire on the occupants in another vehicle after an apparent parking lot dispute outside a 99 Cents Only store in Santa Ana was convicted this week of attempted murder.
An Orange County Superior Court jury on Tuesday, June 4, found Johnell Jackson, 38, guilty of felony counts of attempted murder and discharging a firearm at an occupied vehicle for a Feb. 18, 2024, shooting in a parking lot at 1514 N. Main St.
The 9:45 p.m. shooting, on a Sunday, came immediately after what witn

NBA Finals: Celtics beat Mavericks to take 2-0 lead as series heads to Dallas

Boston Celtics guard Derrick White (9) holds back Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving while looking to pass during the second half of Game 2 of the NBA Finals basketball series, Sunday, June 9, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic tries to drive past Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum (0) during the first half of Game 2 of the NBA Finals basketball series, Sunday, June 9, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Sparks rally past Aces in 4th quarter, Curt Miller speaks out on Pride Night

LOS ANGELES — As the only openly gay male head coach in Division I men’s or women’s college basketball, the NBA, or WNBA for the past 22 years, Pride Night is important to Los Angeles Sparks head coach Curt Miller.
“It is really important to me to continue to provide visibility and representation to the coaches behind me,” Miller, 55, said. “I didn’t have a role model. I didn’t have someone that I could call and reach out to navigate as a gay male

Laguna Woods residents check out new pot shop

The aroma hits you the moment you open the door.
The distinctive sweet smell of marijuana permeates the bright, spacious showroom of The Artist Tree, a legal cannabis dispensary that opened May 31 in Laguna Woods, the first in south Orange County.
Shelves line the walls displaying all sorts of cannabis products – edibles such as gummies, lozenges, chocolates and gum, plus beverages, topicals, tinctures, lotions and potions, pre-rolls, vape pens and more.
Tables are filled with sensory pods

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Dodgers can’t sweep Yankees as Tyler Glasnow gives up costly home run

NEW YORK — Now that’s a Bronx cheer.
With their Yankees trailing by a run and on the verge of being swept by a National League team in Yankee Stadium for the first time in the history of interleague play, Yankees fans roused themselves in full throats as .082-hitting Trent Grisham came to the plate with runners at the corners and one out.
“We! Want! Soto!” they chanted, the call picking up steam around the stadium.
Juan Soto has not played during this series due to a fore

Thousands celebrate “Power in Pride” at 54th annual LA Pride Parade

Hollywood Boulevard was a sea of rainbow flags, signs, and outfits, as thousands converged on the streets for the 54th annual Los Angeles Pride Paradeon Sunday, June 9.
Parade producers from the nonprofit Christopher Street West said it was the largest number of contingents in L.A. Pride history, with 165 entries — including community groups and elected officials — marching to the theme “Power in Pride,” recognizing the LGBTQ+ community, achievement and representati

New clubs pop up in Laguna Woods for all sorts of interests

Village residents looking for connection with like-minded community members have given birth to several new clubs in recent months, focused on culture, musicals, glass art and singing.
Rachel Barnes founded the South African Springboks club. Barnes grew up in South Africa and moved from San Diego to the Village with husband Samy a year and a half ago.
“I asked around for a group of South Africans and found that there was none,” Barnes said. “So I thought, why not?”
She be

Dodgers’ Yohan Ramirez has turned things around since rough start

NEW YORK – Six of the first eight batters Yohan Ramirez faced as a Dodger reached base. He hit four of them with pitches, walked another and gave up a single as well.
Then Dodgers manager Dave Roberts came out to the mound in Cincinnati, put his arm around Ramrez’s shoulders and spoke into his ear, expressing his confidence in the pitcher and leaving him in the game with the bases loaded.
Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman was not in Cincinnati but was watching

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California’s proposed AI measures will only add to a bloated bureaucracy

This year, California has ramped up its efforts to regulate artificial intelligence, introducing dozens of proposals addressing many controversial aspects of AI. Artificial intelligence has brought with it concerns about privacy, bias, nonconsensual p*rnography generation, and once we begin to integrate AI into critical systems like our defense architecture, the possibility of errant AI causing catastrophic events.
Given that this technology is already in use in many industries and is wide

UConn’s Dan Hurley plans to decide on Lakers’ head coach job on Monday

UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley plans to decide whether to accept the Lakers’ offer to become the organization’s head coach or stay with the Huskies on Monday, he told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Sunday.
Hurley told ESPN that the Lakers made a “compelling case” and presented a “compelling vision” for him to become the team’s next coach.
He met with Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka and governor Jeanie Buss on Friday after reports ca

Logan O’Hoppe’s walk-off homer pushes Angels past Astros

ANAHEIM — The Angels didn’t hold a lead for long on Sunday afternoon, but they held one last
Logan O’Hoppe hit a walk-off two-run homer in the ninth inning to lift the Angels to a 9-7 win against the Houston Astros in the finale of their three-game series at Angel Stadium.
After Kevin Pillar delivered a one-out single off Houston closer Josh Hader (3- 4), O’Hoppe hit the first pitch just out of the reach of leaping left fielder Trey Cabbage and into the seats for the walk

Nothing special about unknown local districts

California doesn’t lack for an excess of bureaucracies and government agencies. At the state level, we have more than 200 agencies, which have wide-ranging regulatory authority. The state has more than 220,000 active, full-time employees, with hundreds of thousands of government employees at the municipal level. That doesn’t even count the 300,000 teachers plus administrators and support staff. Our state has a lot of government.
But there’s even more of it than many of us imagi

Scheffler edges Morikawa for 5th title of the year

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer
DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scottie Scheffler had more stress than he wanted Sunday at the Memorial and got the victory everyone has come to expect.
On a Muirfield Village course so demanding only six players broke par, Scheffler had his highest final round in nearly two years at 2-over 74, and it was just enough to hold off Collin Morikawa and win for the fifth time this year.
Scheffler, who started the final round four shots ahead, never lost the lead. He never fe

PGA Tour: Scheffler edges Morikawa for 5th title of the year

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer
DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scottie Scheffler had more stress than he wanted Sunday at the Memorial and got the victory everyone has come to expect.
On a Muirfield Village course so demanding only six players broke par, Scheffler had his highest final round in nearly two years at 2-over 74, and it was just enough to hold off Collin Morikawa and win for the fifth time this year.
Scheffler, who started the final round four shots ahead, never lost the lead. He never fe

Detmers expected to get more starts in Triple-A Salt Lake

ANAHEIM – Angels manager Ron Washington said before the series finale on Sunday against the Houston Astros that he expects left-hander Reid Detmers to make another handful of starts for Triple-A Salt Lake.
“That’s just me,” Washington said. “He may go out there the next time and do well, and the people above me may change their mind.”
Detmers, the 10th overall pick in the 2020 MLB Draft who threw a no-hitter for the Angels in 2022, was demoted on June 1 after

Car partially suspended in mid-air after crash in Lake Forest shears fire hydrant

Two people were hospitalized and a car was left partially suspended in mid-air Saturday, June 8 after a traffic collision at an intersection in Lake Forest sheared a fire hydrant, the Orange County Fire Authority said.Lake Forest – We’re going to chalk this up as something you don’t see everyday.Our emergency command center received a call for a traffic collision at Jeronimo Road and Heidi Avenue shortly before 6:30 PM. Based on caller information that there may be entrapment,

French Open: Alcaraz outlasts Zverev in 5 sets for title

PARIS (AP) —Carlos Alcarazcame back to defeatAlexander Zverev6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 on Sunday and win the French Open for his third Grand Slam title.
Alcaraz is a 21-year-old from Spain who grew up watching countryman Rafael Nadal win trophy after trophy at Roland Garros — a record 14 in all — and now has eclipsed Nadal to become the youngest man to collect major championships on three surfaces. Nadal was about 1½ years older when he did it.
Sund

Trisha R. Thomas, ‘Secret Keeper of Main Street,’ on the books she loves

Trisha R. Thomas’s debut novel, “Nappily Ever After,” was an NAACP Image Awardfor Outstanding Literary Work finalist and an Oprah Magazine Book That Made A Difference – and it was also adapted into a Netflixfilm starringSanaa Lathan. Her latest novel, “The Secret Keeper of Main Street,” is out this week. Ms. Thomas shares more about the book and her reading life in the Book Pages Q&A.
Q: Would you tell readers a little about your book, pl

Boxer Ryan Garcia arrested at Beverly Hills Waldorf

Boxer Ryan Garcia was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism for allegedly causing an estimated $15,000 worth of damage at a hotel in Beverly Hills, authorities said Sunday.
Garcia, 25, was arrested at 5:45 p.m. Saturday after a driver dropped him off at the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills at 9850 Wilshire Blvd., according to ESPN.
Hotel staff reportedly had contacted police, and decided to press charges once officers arrived. TMZ reported that Garcia allegedly caused unspecified damage to his

Boxer Ryan Garcia arrested at a Beverly Hills hotel in alleged vandalism

Former world champion boxer Ryan Garcia was arrested on suspicion of felony vandalism for allegedly causing an estimated $15,000 worth of damage at a hotel in Beverly Hills, authorities said Sunday.
Officers were dispatched at about 5:15 p.m. Saturday to the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills, 9850 Wilshire Blvd., for an “intoxicated person” call for service, according to Lt. Andrew Meyers of the Beverly Hills Police Department.
They determined that Garcia was the intoxicated person and a

10 questions and answers about drinking and alcohol use in older adults

Q. I have a concern about my 75-year-old mother. Since my father died two years ago, my mother is drinking a lot more wine than usual. It begins early afternoon with a few glasses, then a few more glasses at dinner and then the final glass of wine she takes to bed with her, indicating it helps her sleep. She keeps a plastic container of white wine in the refrigerator and pours it like orange juice. I know she misses my father daily. Any suggestions what to do? D.H.
The concern you raised reflect

What does romance and dating mean as you get older? Different things.

“Dating is different when you’re older,” I heard a woman say as she selected oranges at the market.
I have to admit to becoming a sometimes eavesdropper since I discovered supermarkets are full of interesting conversations floating about amid the groceries.
“In what way is dating different?” I wanted to ask a total stranger. And how should I do this? Tell her I’m a writer and collect conversations. Assure her that I would never use her name in print even if I

Central Basin’s auditor quits over missing records, ongoing ‘mismanagement’

An accounting firm hired to audit Central Basin Municipal Water District’s fiscal records threw in the towel last week, claiming it could not finish the job because missing records and “ongoing mismanagement” had undermined the review’s integrity.
Central Basin hired the firm, Harshwal & Co., in November 2022 to complete a routine end-of-the-year audit of the district’s finances for fiscal year 2021-22. Yet, a year-and-a-half later, the review is still incomplet

‘Toxic and hostile environment for Jewish students’ at UC Irvine, students claim

Daniel Levine (courtesy Levine)
For those unwilling to condemn Israel in the harshest terms, he said, the UC Irvinecampus has become a hostile and dangerous place.
“When Jewish students say something is hurtful or problematic, they’re told, ‘You’re crazy,’ ‘territorial,’ called ‘racist,’ ‘Islamophobic,’ ” said Rabbi Daniel Levine of Hillel in Orange County. “It’s not just here. This is part of a much wider

Study: Southern California is most disaster-prone region in U.S.

Southern California is a disaster.
Oh, you’ve heard?
Sure, but in this case “disaster” isn’t code for “too expensive” or “not as cool as when I was a kid” or “politically bananas.”
No, this time, disaster means disaster. In fact, according to a new national ranking of 3,200-plus U.S. counties, Southern California rates as the single most disaster-prone region in the country.
Quakes, fires, floods, droughts, rising seas, deadly surf, hea

San Bernardino County to release report central to secession talk

After more than a year of study, San Bernardino County is preparing to release a report on whether those who feel the state government overlooks the county – the basis for a November 2022 measure to potentially secede from California – have a point.
The report is expected to be presented to the Board of Supervisors in coming weeks, officials say.
In 2022, the question was posed to voters this way:
“Do the people of San Bernardino County want San Bernardino County elected repres

Double-Double California-Style sales tax

An In-N-Out Double-Double with fries and a drink now averages over $10 in California – before tax. The latest price increase is because of the state’s new $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast food workers. Concurrently, an increasing number of cities are considering raising their sales tax. So here’s what this icon of California tells us about the state of California.
A meal at In-N-Out is now $10.45 for a Double-Double, $8.65 for a cheeseburger, and $8.15 for a hamburger outside

Elder abuse: Resources and technology for protection and support

Our article series this month focuses on elder abuse, which is a distressing reality for many senior citizens, manifesting in various forms such as physical, emotional and financial abuse.
Past weeks columns have focused on the types of elder abuse and how to recognize these.
Today, we’re focusing on the resources available for victims and their families, and the role technology plays in preventing and addressing elder abuse.
Martha’s story
Martha, an 82-year-old widow, began experie

Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Sunday, June 9, 2024

The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Sunday, June 9, 2024.
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Stanley Cup Final: Bobrovsky makes 32 saves as Panthers shut out Oilers in Game 1

By STEPHEN WHYNO (AP Hockey Writer)
SUNRISE, Fla. — Sergei Bobrovsky turned the puck over on the first shift and recovered. He lost his stick for 30 seconds at one point and still made saves. Connor McDavid put six shots on net, and none of them went in.
Bobrovsky put on a masterclass against McDavid and every other player who dared test him and his teammates pounced when given the chance. As a result, theFlorida Panthersare off and rolling inthe Stanley Cup Final.
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